The two people, each with their own ulterior motives, resumed what they had been doing by the dragon bed. Meanwhile, Emperor Beichen, lying on the dragon bed, clenched his fist tightly under the brocade quilt.
No one knows what Ye Li did to him. He could hear the sounds of the outside world, but he just couldn't open his eyes. Even the imperial physicians couldn't find any reason and could only give him some medicine to maintain his body every day.
Emperor Beichen has no sons and only two princesses. Therefore, the only person in the royal family who is qualified to be the emperor is the youngest son of the late emperor, Prince Yong'an.
Therefore, there were calls in the court for the throne to be inherited by Prince Yong'an after Emperor Beichen's death. However, because Prince Yong'an had a bad reputation, many court officials opposed this.
However, if Emperor Beichen is misled by spies from Dongli and delays the delivery of military supplies, causing Yanlang City to fall, and then Prince Yong'an not only captures the spies from Dongli but also sends troops to retake Yanlang City, then there will likely be no more dissenting voices in the court.
Meanwhile, Dong Li learned that all the people he had arranged to intercept them at Shaoyang Mountain had been wiped out by Nangong Yuan, and that Nangong Yuan had also sent people to prepare military rations. Fearing that if they waited any longer, Beichen would have food supplies and they would completely lose this opportunity, Dong Li ordered an attack on the city without hesitation.
Although the Beichen soldiers had been subsisting on rice gruel for several days, they still fought bravely under the leadership of Nangong Yuan.
On the city wall, soldiers fired arrows with all their might, and rolling stones fell like rain.
However, Dongli Kingdom had almost exhausted all its forces this time. Although the Beichen soldiers fought bravely against the enemy, they had not eaten for many days and their strength was not keeping up. Therefore, their defense line was gradually breached.
At this moment, Nangong Yuan took the lead, directly leading a group of soldiers out of the city gate to fight the Dongli people. His swordsmanship was fierce, and wherever he went, Dongli soldiers fell one after another.
During the battle, Nangong Yuan watched as the soldiers around him fell one by one, and as the morale of the Beichen soldiers grew increasingly low. His eyes turned bloodshot, and he couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Soldiers, hold on! We cannot let Dongli Kingdom succeed, we cannot let the beasts of Dongli trample our homes and humiliate our parents, wives and children. We must protect them..."
Nangong Yuan's voice was firm, as if it possessed a magical power that filled the hearts of every Beichen soldier. They thought of their wives, children, and elderly parents at home, and of how if Yanlang City were to fall, the people inside would become slaves of a conquered nation. Their fighting spirit was rekindled...
In the end, the soldiers of Beichen Kingdom, with their tenacious will and indomitable spirit, repelled the attack of Dongli Kingdom, but Beichen also suffered heavy losses this time.
On the battlefield, smoke filled the air, and corpses littered the ground. Nangong Yuan gazed into the distance, his eyes dark and troubled…
He knew that this victory was only a narrow one, and if the supplies didn't arrive soon, and Dongli attacked the city again, Yanlang City would be lost...
Even without leaving the city to see the scene, just hearing the sounds of fighting outside the city filled Han Yiyi with horror.
Watching the soldiers covered in blood being carried into the city one by one, some with their arms cut off, some having lost both legs, and some even no longer breathing.
At this moment, Han Yiyi experienced the cruelty of war for the first time.
Even in this era of cold weapons, people's lives become so fragile in the face of war.
The loss of each life means the tearing apart of a family. Hearing their painful cries, Han Yiyi's eyes turned bloodshot.
During the past few days, Han Yiyi naturally knew that they were severely short of food, and thought that if they could have enough to eat, there would be fewer casualties.
When Han Yiyi first arrived in Yanlang City, she intended to exchange her remaining points for food to give to them.
But she was also worried that this would expose the secrets of her system and cause trouble for herself and her two children.
But now that he saw these wounded soldiers, Han Yiyi no longer hesitated and turned to walk towards the granary.
In the past, granaries were always heavily guarded, but now they are empty. This is not for any other reason than that the last bit of rice has already been cooked, and the soldiers are hoping to eat more so that they will have more strength to fight.
This made things convenient for Han Yiyi. Upon entering the granary and seeing the empty sack containing only one person, Han Yiyi no longer hesitated and immediately began exchanging with the system.
Because she had previously tricked Nangong Yuan out of a jade pendant—no, that can't be called tricking, it was Nangong Yuan's reward to her, well, that's what reward was.
The reward jade pendant was exchanged for 100,000 points, but later she was drugged by Han's mother with aphrodisiacs, and in order to exchange for the antidote for the system, she used 30,000 points. Thinking of this, Han Yiyi still felt a pang of heartache. Therefore, the remaining points in the system, plus what she had left before, and some mushrooms and the like that she exchanged later, left her with 80,000 to 90,000 points.
According to the system's rice price of 10 points per kilogram, I redeemed approximately 9,000 kilograms of rice.
Nine thousand catties of grain may not seem like much, but it should be enough to solve our immediate crisis.
Han Yi had been thinking of exchanging for some more eggs and meat, but now, being able to eat his fill was good enough, and he couldn't consider anything else.
After exchanging the rice, Han Yiyi quietly left the granary, unaware of Nangong Yuan not far away.
As soon as Nangong Yuan returned to the city, he saw Han Yiyi, who was deathly pale. He regretted bringing the three of them to Yanlang City and decided to send someone to take them out of the city and back to Zhushan Village.
Just as I was about to go up and tell her, I saw her leave. When I followed her, I saw that Han Yiyi was heading in the direction of the granary.
Nangong Yuan assumed that Han Yiyi was hungry. In the past few days, even Nangong Yuan himself had been eating rice porridge with only a few grains of rice.
Although Nangong Yuan had specifically instructed the barracks to provide extra rice for Han Yiyi and the two children, it was still just rice porridge, so even with extra rice, it wouldn't make much difference.
Therefore, when Nangong Yuan saw Han Yiyi heading in the direction of the granary, he assumed that the two children were hungry and she was going to find rice.
However, he did not follow them. Instead, he planned to wait for them to come out and then send someone to escort the three away...
Seeing Nangong Yuan's exhaustion and the soldiers lying on the ground, the people in the barracks were extremely anxious. They didn't want their soldiers to die of starvation, but there was nothing they could do.
So some people went back and visited the granary countless times, thinking that if they could find some rice that had been accidentally left behind, it might prevent these people from going on their journey hungry.
In fact, they knew that all the granaries had already been searched countless times, but they still wanted to take a look, just in case they had accidentally missed a single grain...
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