Chapter 692 Plan

Besieged in the forest for at least half a month, the food consumed by tens of thousands of people is not a small number. The supplies brought by the army before will soon be exhausted. In order to last longer, earlier A rationing system was implemented, and at the same time, some mutant beasts were hunted in the forest to supplement.

But it still didn't last long, and the supplies they brought were eaten up, and the beasts in this small forest were also hunted to death.

In the past few days, bark and grass roots have become the staple food, except for the eldest prince and his personal guards, everyone else has disheveled faces.

Wu Mei and the others can only rely on the temporary plant fruits cultivated by buds to make ends meet, but it is not a long-term solution to always eat fruits and not meat.

"If it drags on any longer, the entire army will lose its combat effectiveness. At that time, they may not even have the strength to walk. If the totem beastmen attack, we will have no power to resist." Charming said worriedly.

Gong Beiwang's expression was heavy, he naturally knew what would happen if this situation continued.

When he realized that food was about to become a problem, he went to the eldest prince to explain the situation, hoping that Gong Tian could order the army to organize a breakout, but it was rejected, and he was kicked out without even saying the reason.

"That guy really can enjoy himself under any circumstances, and he even ordered the food he hunted to be given priority to him. It's extremely embarrassing. He doesn't look like a marshal of the army." Wen said angrily.

The prey in the forest is getting less and less, sometimes less than two or three can be hunted a day, but Gong Tian takes all the prey away and enjoys them as a marshal, and leaves nothing for the soldiers. The 60,000 people are just him and him. His personal guard can eat enough, while others can only gnaw bark and grass roots to fill their stomachs, and every time he is full, he will pull his personal guard to do multiplayer sports. The dissatisfaction of everyone outside Wei.

"Leave him alone."

Mei Mei doesn't want to bring up any topic about Gong Tian, ​​so talking about him at this time is just a waste of time.

"Uncle Gong, you can't hesitate any longer. While the soldiers still have some strength, let's make one last fight. It's better than continuing to wait here to die." Charming said.

"I want to give it a go too, but I'm no longer a marshal, so I can't command the army." Gong Beiwang said awkwardly.

You Mei sighed in her heart, Gong Beiwang was too pedantic, and obeyed the imperial court's order no matter what the situation was.

"Uncle Gong, with your appeal in the army, even if you don't have the position of marshal, I believe you can still command the army."

"The current situation is life and death, you can't just watch the army being dragged to death here, so stop worrying about this and that." Charming persuaded.

Others, including Gong Beiwang's subordinates, also persuaded him.

Gong Bei saw that everyone felt that he should fight with all his strength, and after a fierce psychological battle, he gritted his teeth and decided: "Okay, I will call all the officers and soldiers to make a final breakout, but you need a strategy to die, and you can't die in vain. What do you think? No?"

Many people fell silent. During the time they were trapped, it was not that they hadn't thought about how to break through the totem beastman's defense line, but they couldn't get along with each other.

When everyone was silent, Jimo said, "I have two plans."

Everyone turned their attention to Jimo, waiting for her to speak.

"I know about your previous breakouts. All the soldiers gathered to break out in one direction, and were finally repelled by the assembled totem beastmen, resulting in the failure of the breakout."

"I think the totem beastman must have some way to keep an eye on the movement of the army," Jimo said.

"Indeed, the previous few breakouts were all in different directions. Every time when we were about to reach the outskirts of the forest, we would be repulsed by tens of thousands of totem beastmen. One time may be due to bad luck, but two or three times cannot be related to luck. , You don’t need to think about it to know that they know our army’s movements like the back of their hands.”

Gong Beiwang nodded, and then said:

"After I thought about this, I asked the soldiers to pay attention to clearing all the animals that appeared in the surrounding environment. After all, the totem beasts can only use their totem beasts to monitor our movements, but it seems to have no effect, and I don't know why."

Whether it was the mutant beasts in the sky, on the ground or underground, they were all cleaned up by the soldiers, but they were still blocked by the army of totem beasts in the next few breakouts.

"I think maybe the totem beasts of the Totem Beast Man are not just animals." Jimo reminded.

"You mean..."

Jimo pointed to a seemingly ordinary plant not far away and said, "That plant is called Cordyceps pregnanta. As far as I know, this plant will not appear in places other than the western region."

Cordyceps pregnanta, gray as a whole, three-leaf tall tuber, with a hole in the middle of the leaf, the stem is hollow like a straw, and the tuber is empty. It belongs to the wilderness of the west and cannot survive for too long in places other than the wilderness.

Because Cordyceps pregnanta is in a symbiotic relationship with a tiny insect called Cyclops that lives in the cavity of its roots.

Although Cordyceps pregnanta is a plant, it cannot absorb nutrients from the soil. All the nutrition comes from the dead body of the cyclops fly.

The food source of the Cyclops is the pollen of plants that are very common in the Great Wasteland but not found in other places. Once there is no food source, the Cyclops will die quickly, and the pregnant Cordyceps that loses the Cyclops will not last long before dying.

"After I noticed this plant, I went to look for it. I found that there were many withered Cordyceps spp. in the place where the army was located. Unsurprisingly, the totem beastmen should use Cordyceps spp. and some other special plants as surveillance methods. " Jimo said.

"It's so amazing that plants can also be used as a means of surveillance."

Everyone was surprised.

"Sister, then how do they use this pregnant caterpillar fungus to spy on us? Could it be the eyes of some kind of one-eyed fly?" Wen Ren asked.

Jimo shook his head, "I don't know how the totem wild beasts use Cordyceps pregnanta to monitor our movements, their methods are very weird."

"Having said so much, what do you want to say?"

One of Gong Beiwang's subordinates was getting impatient. What he wanted to hear was how to break out of the siege, not the science popularization here.

"If we have a way to remove these plants that they use to monitor the army, so that they can't know our movements, and can't concentrate in one place to encircle them like before, then our success rate of breaking through with superior forces will be greatly improved. " Jimo said.

"But it's easier said than done. We didn't know that they used several plants to monitor us."

Charming shook her head, wanting to tell whether a plant is a surveillance object of the totem tribe in the forest, not only a test of knowledge, but also it is not easy to find out in this forest full of vegetation, unless it is burned, but let's not talk about the wet one Whether the environment can be set on fire, even if it burns, they will suffer first.

"What's the other plan?" Gong Beiwang asked.

"Divide the troops."

Jimo spits out two words lightly

"Divide the troops?"

"Yes, divide the troops. Divide the army into four or more troops, and break through from all sides at the same time. In this way, the totem beasts will have to divide their troops to encircle them. It will depend on luck and strength."

"Or sacrifice most of the soldiers to break out from one direction, and hold down the totem beastmen in a deadly battle, so that the other part of the troops can break out from the opposite direction. My suggestion is the latter." Jimo said slowly.

"this……"

Everyone fell silent.

The chance of successfully breaking through the former is not high, and the possibility of success is very high if the latter is executed, but...

"No, we can't do that."

Gong Beiwang directly vetoed it, he would not do the matter of giving up the soldiers.

"Okay, just do it."

A voice interjected, and everyone turned their heads to see Gong Tian walking over with his personal guards.

"Order the whole army to assemble." Gong Tian said to Gong Beiwang indifferently.