Chapter 270 Hard Times

 They all felt that this was not an option, that we had to get out of this situation quickly.

I lazily lean on the wall: "that you have method?"

Li Ding said, "There is no other way. I always think digging a tunnel is our only way. Let's dig a tunnel into the woods as before and go around to the beach and burn their grain."

"You are naive to think. The places where the grain is stored will be heavily guarded. Fewer of us go. We all die. If you go too many, the tribe can't hold." I pointed inside the tribe. "Once we lose this, we'll have nothing at all."

"Chief, is it really all we can do?" Wu Wa asked in frustration.

"At least for the time being." I sat up. "Let me do some analysis with you. There are still more than thirty thousand of us on the Island of Brass?"

"Yes, but they're not going to help us." Li ding said.

I continued, "And where do you think all those 10,000 people got their food and drink?"

"Brass Island, of course." "They will definitely not carry grain from their own island," Said Li Ding.

"That's right." I spread out my hand: "How long can more than 30,000 people support more than 10,000 people? Bullied too severe, that thirty thousand people really won't have a little resistance?"

Li Ding nodded. "You mean, as long as we stick to it. It's only a matter of time before chaos breaks out on the Island of Brass. Then the five Kings will send their armies back to calm the chaos?"

"Is there any doubt about that? As soon as that day comes, we'll be out of trouble. Maybe we can kill another batch of them." I put a hand: "line, all go back to continue to guard, tonight have a good rest, but alert or don't relax ah."

All three of them nodded goodbye and left together.

Just like I expected, another night of peace. The negotiators arrived punctually the next afternoon. Ask me for a result.

"Chief Lu Fei, how are you thinking about it?"

"I promise." I shouted back, "But we can't just go there. It's the rainy season. How can we survive without food and water?"

"When will that be?"

"See if this is all right. You pull out first. As soon as you withdraw, I will send my men to the island to inspect the situation, and then we will begin to build houses and cultivate land on the island. When we're done building that side, we'll all go there. Then you can have The island of Cuckoo."

The other party laughed and said, "Chief Lu Fei, you are really joking. Do you think we are fools?"

"Don't you think I'm stupid, too?" I sneered.

The other side no longer words, turn around and then back.

In less than an hour they launched a heavy attack, and after two hours of offensive and defensive fighting they withdrew.

Every time we're done fighting, they come out late at night to collect bodies, and I'll leave my own people alone. It's bad for us if we don't clean the body up quickly.

After that day alone, the Allies would launch a few small siege battles at a time, waste a few bows and arrows and then go back. There were few casualties on either side. The brutal battle gradually turned into a game. The two sides entered a real protracted war.

Such a day, as long as a month. Our meals were almost down to the main course, except for a big bowl of broth at lunch. The defenders of the city were generally thin.

This day to send us a meal, was about to leave, Li Wanxue fell to the ground. I ran to pick her up and saw that her face was white.

"Wan Xue, are you sick?"

Li Wanxue shook her head feebly: "Let me sit down."

After leaning her against the wall, she told me she was just a little anaemic.

"Is it malnutrition?"

"Well." Li Wanxue encouraged smile once: "nothing, while I eat more sweet potato is, soon to come over."

"I'd better send you home to rest."

After greeting NAT, I carried Li Wanxue home. After putting her on the bed, he held her hand tightly and didn't know what else to do. It's been over a month, and brass Island doesn't seem to be the riot we were hoping for.

More than an hour later, Li Yunna walked in. With a listless hello, she also lost a lot of weight. Sitting down on the bed, she said sadly, "Oba, we're all going to be malnourished. Maybe we can kill the alpaca and eat it."

"No livestock left?"

"And some." Li Wanxue opened her eyes and said, "Alpacas can't be killed. If we don't have alpacas, there will be no mobile troops."

"How many farm animals are there? I, as leader, cannot stand by and watch them all suffer.

"Ten sheep, five pigs, and a dozen rabbits." "It seems like a lot, but there are more than 900 of us," Said Li yunna. "It's hard to make soup."

I put Li Wanxue's hand back in the quilt and stared at her and asked, "Did your sister ever faint?"

Li Yunna shook his head: "no ah, wan Snow elder sister did not eat too much suffering, her body than we are weak a lot. She'll be the first to break down at this rate."

"Don't talk nonsense, I won't." Li Wanxue retorted.

"At this time of year, you are not strong." Li Yunna can not see the past: "Rain tong and Lu Qijie are not in, if you also did not, you let ba how to do?"

"Now, don't talk nonsense. Go back to your house and rest. You're tired, too."

Li Yunna HMMM 1, swing swing little hand walked away.

After giving Li Wanxue more rest, I left the house and went straight to a barn where we had more than 100 alpacas. Probably a sturdy alpaca. Ten of them served on the wall.

When I got home, I gently pushed open Li Yunna's door and asked quietly, "Are you asleep?"

She turned around and shook her head lazily. "No, what's wrong, Oba?"

"An alpaca, is it enough to feed everyone?"

Li Yunna shook her head. "Not enough. At least two. If it was our own alpacas, maybe three."

"Then from tonight on, kill two or three alpacas every day, starting with our own alpacas, and then kill the healthy ones." If the coalition had pulled out earlier, we could have saved more of our strong alpacas for military operations.

"Do you really want to kill an alpaca? What about when you need it in the future?"

"Don't care so much, let everyone eat their full stomach first." "By the way, everyone in the tribe must have the same standard of food," I said.

"All right, then." Li Yunna grinned.

"In a short while you take a few people to kill, need not say with Li Wanxue."

Li Yunna nodded.

After saying goodbye, I went straight back to the wall.

After this arrangement, the food in the evening was immediately improved, everyone can eat some shredded meat fried with dried vegetables, bone soup is to drink as much as you want to drink, as long as the time is long enough, the soup boiled more, the same will have meat flavor.

The improvement in diet soon became apparent. Everyone's spirits are much better.

After lunch that day, Li Yunna came to the city wall alone and said she had something to talk to me about.

I looked at the gloomy sky and beckoned her into the canopy.

"What's the matter?

Li yunna whispered, "Oba, I don't think going on like this is an option. I have an idea. Send some men and send me out quietly to the Island of Brass."

"Do you want to find Uncle Cheng?"

"How did you guess that? She blinked her eyes.

"This still use guess ah, you go over there to look for cheng Shu to return what ability."

"I think this is a way out. They can't help it if Uncle Cheng surrenders. I'll fight for it. Uncle Cheng will definitely come back to our side. If he mobilizes his followers to help us, the allied forces will leave here."

"Don't think of that. The outer walls are all securely encircled by the enemy, and our two ships at sea must have been found long ago. It's impossible to get out."

"Give it a try."

"Don't mention it. I don't want you to get killed."

Before he finished, a blast of thunder rang out.

I told her to get back, or she wouldn't be able to leave.

"Really not at all?"

"No."

See my attitude firm, Li Yunna had to get up and walk away.

It never occurred to me to ask Cheng for help, or I would have sent someone to contact him when we went to the Brass Island to "lure the enemy."