The next day.

The military camp conducted a headcount.

Of the 26,000 soldiers, 22,000 remained.

Four thousand soldiers died on the battlefield and will never wake up again.

This is war.

"Your Highness, General Meng has been wounded." A general reported, looking somewhat troubled. "He kept it from you and told us not to tell you, but I think General Meng's injury is not suitable for him to go to the battlefield."

General Meng was already covered in wounds when Gu Mu arrived at the frontier.

But this time, judging from the situation, it seems to be quite serious.

"Take me to see it," Gu Mu said, frowning.

On General Meng's right leg, there was a huge bloody hole, with the white bone visible to the naked eye.

Walking was already very difficult.

He was sitting in a chair, having his bandages applied by the doctor.

Upon seeing Gu Mu enter, she instinctively tried to shield herself.

Besides the shocking wound on his right leg, he also had various wounds on his shoulder, arm, and abdomen.

In yesterday's battle, hundreds died at the hands of General Meng.

It's already remarkable that General Meng led the charge and returned alive.

"Your Highness, I can still fight." General Meng said with a pale face, "The Southern Dynasty is already short of men. As a general, I have a duty to be at the forefront of the soldiers."

General Meng was not simply showing off; he had his reasons.

With him in front relieving the pressure, the soldiers behind him have a better environment for attacking.

After all, offense is the best defense.

If he falls, no one will be able to break through the enemy's defenses, and the enemy will be the first to break through their defenses, resulting in even greater casualties among the soldiers.

Gu Mu patted him on the shoulder: "Keep your life, the Southern Dynasty still needs you."

"But Your Highness..." General Meng was deeply worried.

"The Southern Dynasty is in a desperate situation, like a cornered beast. We can only hold on and have no hope of defeating the enemy," General Meng said. "If I can use my life to hold out until the enemy runs out of food and withdraws on their own, I think it will be worth it."

I don't expect to win.

We just hope to stall until the enemy runs out of supplies.

“I’ve considered burning down the enemy’s granaries, but we can’t get deep enough into their territory. Even if we find the granaries, we don’t have anyone suitable to burn them,” Shen Ci said calmly from the side.

He was also injured, but slightly better than General Meng, and could still walk upright.

Gu Mu also thought of this aspect.

Burning the granaries is the fastest way to force the enemy to retreat.

But the enemy attacked fiercely yesterday, and if he didn't lead the charge, even more Southern Dynasty soldiers would have died.

But... because Gu Mu killed many enemy experts yesterday and took the head of one of their generals.

The enemy suffered heavy losses.

"If I'm not here, can you withstand the enemy's attack? You don't need to go out to fight; just hold the camp," Gu Mu asked.

"If we don't go out to fight, we can hold out for five or six days without any problem," Shen Ci said. The location of the military camp itself has a geographical advantage, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

“But if we only defend the camp, the enemy will inevitably break into the camp in five or six days, and then…” Shen Ci said.

That would be tantamount to defeat.

Six days is simply not enough time to hold out until the enemy runs out of food.

However, if they go out to fight and rely on the terrain to create distance, they might be able to drag the game out longer.

They traded soldiers' lives for time.

"You just need to guard the camp. I'll take care of burning the granary," Gu Mu said.

...

Even though the soldiers knew it was very dangerous.

But this is an order.

No one dared to dissuade His Highness.

Originally, in the eyes of the soldiers, His Highness only possessed supreme power because of the support of his cronies and his royal bloodline.

But they were wrong.

If His Highness succeeds in burning the grain and returns alive, they too will have survived this war.

They will always support Your Highness.

forever.

Because this person, who held the highest position, did not hide behind others out of fear of death, and his personal command of troops was not a show, nor did he send ordinary soldiers to be cannon fodder.

Instead, they rushed to the forefront, to the most dangerous places, to fight for their survival.

If they are still alive, their lives were given to them by His Highness.

If the border can be defended, it is because His Highness risked his life to achieve it.

"Your Highness, please take care!"

The soldiers knelt on the ground to see Gu Mu off.

Their mission was to defend the military camp.

Gu Mu, on the other hand, infiltrated the enemy's encampment.

Gu Mu clasped his hands in a fist salute and led his assassins away from the military camp through the side wall.

The reason for using the side wall was to prevent being watched.

The reason those soldiers were thinking so exaggeratedly was because they had no idea what Gu Mu's trump card was.

Gu Mu currently has 312 points.

Such large-scale wars are extremely rare, but they're also too easy to rack up points.

That's enough for him to exchange for 10 Resurrection Pills.

That's equivalent to him having ten extra lives.

Furthermore, items taken from the system inventory can appear anywhere within a certain range around his body.

He only needed to put the resurrection pill in his mouth and swallow it directly.

The original fatal wound will be healed.

His body was enhanced, making him virtually impossible to kill instantly in the era of cold weapons.

The burning of grain was not as dangerous as the Southern Dynasty soldiers had imagined.

Moreover, he has assassins who can hide and are invisible to everyone.

As long as we use the suicide squad to find the location of the granary, and even the burning of the granary can be done by the suicide squad.

Although these assassins aren't good at fighting, they're practically unbeatable when it comes to petty theft.

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