Ningcheng's food supplies were destroyed, and Huo Yan took the opportunity to launch a strong attack.
When the news came, Huo Pingchang flew into a rage in the big tent. He overturned the table with a palm, and the maps and military orders were scattered all over the floor.
His eyes were bloodshot and he stared at the crumbling Ningcheng. A deep anger and anxiety rolled in his chest.
Which step went wrong?!
With food supplies cut off and morale low, he repeatedly urged Xiaoyue City to ask for help, but each letter for help seemed to fall into a bottomless abyss and fell into oblivion.
He waited and waited, but what he got was the bad news that the wall of Ningcheng was about to be breached.
He finally realized... Dota had completely given up on him.
This city has become his prison. Huo Yan outside the city is closing in step by step, ready to swallow him up at any time!
Huo Yan did not give him a chance to breathe and launched another fierce attack at night.
Ningcheng is already in danger!
Inside the big tent, Huo Yan stood calmly while his deputy generals sat around the table, discussing the battle situation intensely.
"Huo Pingchang is a traitor! He's nothing but a coward! A coward!"
"The food supply has been cut off. He can't hide for much longer!"
"But what will he do next?"
"Either defend Ningcheng to the death or abandon the city and flee. These are the only two options he has."
"Defend Ningcheng to the death? If he really can defend it to the death, I will stand on my head!"
"But Ning City has already been surrounded by us, and he can't escape at all..."
While everyone was discussing, Huo Yan remained silent, his gaze fixed on the map.
After a while, he finally spoke——
"Then give him a way to escape."
As soon as these words were spoken, silence fell in the tent, and everyone looked at him.
A deputy general immediately reacted and whispered in surprise, "General, are you referring to... Swift Wind Valley?"
Huo Yan nodded slowly and tapped the hidden canyon road on the map.
"But...will that old fox Huo Pingchang realize that this is a trap?" someone questioned.
Huo Yan sneered, his eyes deep, and slowly spoke -
"The Swift Wind Valley is not only the junction of Dacheng and Beiqiang, but there is also another way around the Swift Wind Valley."
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and the next moment, their expressions suddenly changed.
"South Vietnam!" The deputy generals suddenly reacted and their faces darkened.
Huo Yan's eyes were cold as he slowly told the secret report from Xiaoyue City that he had received two days ago.
"Bei Qiang's second prince, Duoming, was poisoned by a Gu before his death. News indicates that this Gu was most likely placed by Helian Chang."
“Bang!”
A deputy general angrily slammed the table and said with gritted teeth, "That bastard Huo Pingchang is actually colluding with South Vietnam?!"
Huo Yan's eyes were as cold as frost as he glanced at everyone.
"Huo Pingchang has reached a dead end. He can't possibly return to Northern Qiang. If he were to abandon the city and flee, he would most likely seek refuge in Nanyue."
His gaze fell back on the map, and he paused, "Open the path to the Wind Valley."
The deputy generals looked stern and nodded one after another.
But one of them hesitated for a moment, then suddenly asked tentatively, "General...would you like to place a bait?"
Everyone looked at him, only to hear him slowly make a suggestion -
"Isn't Huo Pingchang's son in Beiqiang still in our hands?"
There was a sudden silence in the tent.
Everyone looked at each other knowingly.
But Huo Yan just frowned slightly and did not agree immediately. He just said,
"Let me think about it."
"Go down and prepare first!"
The lieutenants responded "Yes!" and withdrew one by one.
When I came out of the tent, I found Yuan Musheng waiting outside.
When the lieutenants saw him, they saluted him slightly and then left in twos and threes.
Yuan Musheng heard their conversation as they left.
"How could you possibly suggest using a child as bait?"
"A child? He's from Northern Qiang! He's a bastard born to Huo Pingchang outside! You feel sorry for him, but have you considered the rest of the Huo family?"
"But in the final analysis... he didn't know what Huo Pingchang had done, and he was innocent..."
"Tsk! Isn't General Huo innocent? Aren't those hundreds of people who died in the Huo family army innocent?"
"If you want to blame someone, blame him for being born in the wrong family! This is what he and his traitorous father owe the Huo family and Dacheng!"
…
Yuan Musheng came in from outside only when Huo Yan was left in the tent.
He walked to Huo Yan, glanced at the markings on the map, and already had an idea in his mind.
I opened my mouth, wanting to ask something, but found it difficult.
Huo Yan didn't say anything, knowing that he had heard everything outside.
After a while, Huo Yan asked, "How is he?"
Yuan Musheng knew that he was asking about Helian Yu.
Since following them to the front line, Helian Yu has been under house arrest.
After all, it is a military stronghold, and he is from Northern Qiang, so he is naturally not allowed to move around freely.
Every day, only Yuan Musheng could visit him and talk to him.
Yuan Musheng moved his lips before answering, "It's still the same."
He was taciturn and had dull eyes.
Huo Yan stared at a sword in the corner of the tent for a long time without saying a word.
That was his father's sword.
He brought it back from the sea of blood and mountains of corpses in the Wind Valley.
There were still traces of dried blood on the sword.
He placed it where he could see it clearly to remind himself every day.
"I think..." Yuan Musheng sighed softly and finally said, "Ayu is willing."
…
The small tent in the northwest corner stood quietly in the cold night, the firelight shining on the tent, casting swaying light and shadows.
Yuan Musheng walked over with heavy steps, his feet seemed to be bound by huge rocks weighing thousands of pounds, and every step seemed to be stepping on his heart.
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