C17 (2/2)

Time passed by day by day, the cold wind blew incessantly, the food in the Phoenix City Pass had already been used up. The soldiers were all leaning against the city wall, not wanting to move at all, they were hungry and not lazy. The heavy armor s of the Fire Phoenix Army had long since been worn out, and really did not have the strength to carry that thing on their shoulders and wander around. In Kong Sheng's arms was a water sac that was filled with hot water. This thing had recently become something good, so he could keep it warm in his arms.

Right now, the entire Fire Phoenix Army had almost become the public enemy of the Phoenix City Pass, because they refused to kill the warhorses no matter what. Every day, other than the regular patrols, the Fire Phoenix Army would always send people to guard the entrance of the camp to prevent anyone from entering. There were even rumors in the people's militia that they had long killed their horses and shared their meat. It was just that they did not want everyone to get into contact with some meat.

Every time he heard these rumors, Kong Sheng would laugh bitterly and shake his head. He understood Fire Phoenix Army too well, they would probably cut off a piece of his flesh rather than touch a single hair on his horse.

These horses were all genuine horses from the Northwest Highlands of the Empire. The first thing these Knights came into contact with, ever since they had become Apprentice Knight as teenagers, was to stay with the horses and feed them, bathe them, and eat and sleep with their own war horses. When the horses turned three to five years old, the Apprentice Knight had also become a knight. Thus, one man and one horse took off the Apprentice Knight's soft armour, donned the knight's heavy armor, and became a pair of life and death partners on the battlefield. The Northwest Horse could live up to forty years. If nothing went wrong, this horse and this man would live and die together. Someone said that the Knights of Red Camp can have no wives, but they cannot have no horses. If you let them choose between a wife and a horse, they will probably choose a majority of the horses.

Since that was the case, what kind of knights with Fire Phoenix Army would kill their warhorses?

But things often went so far as that, and the horses in the Red Camp encampment had all lost their looks due to hunger as well. Outsiders thought that horses ate grass, but only those who had truly fed their war horses knew that their war horses ate bean cakes and oats. How many times had he hoped that catching a handful of grass would allow these riders, who weighed hundreds of kilograms, to advance on the battlefield? That was a fantasy story!

Kong Sheng did not reprimand the Knights of Fire Phoenix Army, nor did he stop the discussions of the people's militia. Things should come to an end. Suppressing them and trying to reason with them would not solve it. He could only hope that before it happened, these comrades who had put their lives in the hands of humans would suffer a little less.

Kong Sheng raised his head and looked at the Moqiu Army camp in the distance. In this period of time, the Moqiu Army had not launched an attack on anyone, so they just stayed there. Kong Sheng had sent a few squads of scouts, but they all returned empty-handed. Zhao Handong guessed that since a long time ago, Moqiu Army had reached an agreement with the Demonic Beast, and both sides were determined to starve them to death so that they could obtain Phoenix City Pass without spending any effort at all. It might even be possible that at this stage, the Moqiu Army Battalion did not even have fifty thousand soldiers.

Kong Sheng laughed bitterly, even if there were only ten thousand soldiers, so what? He couldn't even eat, yet he still had the strength to hit him?

Zhao Handong helplessly shook his head, he had already left with his men after ten odd days with his empty pipe in his mouth. He heard that some of the trees on the mountains nearby could still be eaten, so he had to go and find them.

Before leaving, Zhao Handong secretly stuffed a paper bag into Kong Sheng's hands, containing half of a cooked pigeon. Kong Sheng laughed, and then handed the pigeon back to Child Ming. This child was only sixteen; he was currently growing up. On the other hand, he could still carry one on his shoulder. Unexpectedly, not only did Child Ming not accept it, he even took out half a pigeon from his bosom. This caused Kong Sheng to laugh out loud, he never thought that Zhao Handong would really take care of this child.

Kong Sheng laid on the roof of the Castellan Mansion, his head resting on the claws of the Divine Bird Phoenix, slowly tearing off the pigeon meat, while looking towards the south. Based on the time, it should have been quite some time since he had arrived at the imperial capital. The imperial capital's reinforcements should be on their way as well. Once the army arrived, the Demonic Beast would definitely not be able to hold on and there would be hope. But why aren't reinforcements here yet?

The pigeon that was not even half the size of his palm was eaten by Kong Sheng for half an hour, and even his bones made cracking noises as he chewed. Just as Kong Sheng was about to lick the fat off his fingers, a soldier suddenly shouted, ”Lord Kong! Lord Kong! Look! Food team! The food brigade is here! ”

Kong Sheng jumped up, without caring about the danger of falling from the roof, he grabbed the telescope that the soldier threw, and looked towards the south carefully. Sure enough, on the distant horizon, a small group of silhouettes appeared.

His silhouette became clearer and clearer through the binoculars. It was a group of people's militia. Each of them was pushing a wheelbarrow filled with food as they slowly walked along the main road. Although there were only a dozen or so food carts, for the current Phoenix City Pass, these were life-saving food!

Kong Sheng ordered the soldiers to immediately send scouts to meet them, at the same time, he continued to stare at the group of people. Food! The food was here! With food, there was hope! With this first team, the second and third teams wouldn't be far away! Furthermore, this also meant that the Demonic Beast had been forced back! The reinforcements were about to arrive! Phoenix City Pass saved!

Kong Sheng's tears silently fell. He looked through the telescope at the group of people, each of them arched with an incomparably handsome spine, and every bag of food had a faint holy radiance radiating from it.

When he saw that there was only one last person in the line, Kong Sheng was stunned. It was a woman, a woman wearing a fiery red, snow-white cloak.