When Baili Qianhan heard the news, he was so frightened that he sat up from the bed and asked in disbelief.
"How many of them are here? How dare they attack directly?"
"Your Highness, they have arrived in three groups, numbering approximately 150,000 to 160,000 men, and the warhorses they are riding appear to be the same ones we lost!"
Baili Qianhan angrily slammed the bed, "No wonder, I was wondering why the war horses and food were lost for no reason.
"It turns out that all this was done by Xiao Shujin? Knowing that we were out of food and horses, you dared to attack us directly!"
Baili Qianhan thought for a moment and said, "Go and bring General Huo over quickly, prepare the carriage, and we'll leave right away."
The soldier said in embarrassment: "Your Highness, we don't have any horses now, and we can't pull the carriage!"
"If there's no horse, we'll use people to pull it. Hurry up and go."
The soldiers were feeling miserable. They hadn't eaten for two days. Who had the strength to pull the cart? There was nothing they could do.
I had no choice but to go down and implement what His Highness had arranged, find a few strong men to pull it, and also carry General Huo over.
Baili Qianhan was also feeling miserable. Yesterday, he sent people to borrow food from the third prince at Chaoyang Pass, but unexpectedly, the people sent by both parties met halfway.
When they asked about the situation, they found out that it was all over. Not even a grain of rice was left. What else could they do? They had to return to the camp.
Baili Qianhan has been eating wild animals these past two days. There is not a single grain of food in the barracks, so the soldiers have to go up the mountain and hunt some pheasants and rabbits to fill their stomachs.
He has been eating all meat these two days and has a sore throat. Can’t you see that his face is covered with pimples?
You asked why they don’t go to the people on the border to steal food. Haha, they don’t dare!
Remember that Commander Han? No one of them ever came back after they left, not even their bodies were found!
A quarter of an hour later, General Huo was carried outside the eldest prince's tent, and the eldest prince was carried out as well. Both of them were lifted onto the roofless carriage.
Six soldiers pulled the carriage quickly in front, and the soldiers behind followed closely behind.
Some soldiers only brought some water and didn't take anything else. There was no food, so what else could they take? They just had to follow and run.
A large group of people and horses were running in the direction they came from. Less than two cups of tea later, they heard the deafening sound of horse hooves behind them.
The eldest prince became anxious and hit the people pulling the carriage with the whip in his hand.
"Hurry up and run, you useless bastards! Can't you see the enemy is almost catching up? We just need to run into Ur City and we'll be fine."
The six of them hadn't eaten for two days, and their legs were weak from hunger.
He had used all his strength to run such a long distance, and now he was being whipped by the eldest prince with a horsewhip, and he fell to the ground.
The carriage also overturned to the ground, and the eldest prince cursed, "You are useless things, I am going to kill you."
The injured leg was also crushed by the carriage. The eldest prince's face turned pale with pain. "Hurry up and help me up!"
Two soldiers stepped forward and lifted the carriage, and the other two soldiers helped the eldest prince sit up. General Huo, who had fallen down with the eldest prince, had fainted from the pain.
The wheels of the carriage were broken, and the sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer. The eldest prince pointed at a stronger soldier.
"Come here and carry me on your back."
The soldier who was pointed at squatted down, carried the eldest prince on his back and walked away, while General Huo just lay on the ground.
No one cared about him. The soldiers behind him who were fleeing for their lives swarmed over General Huo.
When Xiao Shujin and the others arrived, there were many people abandoned on the roadside with their legs broken.
General Huo was so badly crushed that even his brain was stepped on. It was such a miserable sight.
In less than two quarters of an hour, the fleeing people were surrounded by the people brought by Xiao Shujin. Xiao Shujin rode on the back of Heifeng and looked down at the eldest prince lying on the ground.
"My dear prince, how are you?"
"Bah, you despicable villain, you used all kinds of despicable means to steal our war horses and food. You Nanli people are so insidious and cunning!"
"Hahaha, Your Highness, I don't like what you're saying. Did I ask you to attack Nanli? What does the loss of your warhorse have to do with me?"
"You are shameless! How dare you say that you didn't send someone to steal the warhorse?"
"When did I send someone to steal? Show me the evidence. Besides, if two countries are at war and you lose your war horses and food, you're incompetent. If you can even lose food and war horses, what else can you do?"
Xiao Shujin looked at the eldest prince lying on the ground and said, "Oh, I forgot. The eldest prince can do many things. For example, he can wear women's clothes and pretend to be a woman. Would you like to wear one for me now?"
The Nanli soldiers who heard it all laughed out loud, "Come, try one on for me to see. I have a few copper coins in my pocket. If it looks good, I'll give it to you."
There are still more than 100,000 people left on the eldest prince's side, but they have no weapons. Some of the smarter soldiers have already run into the mountains, and those who are obedient have followed the commander.
Now they have all been wiped out, and the same is true at Chaoyang Pass, but Baili Hongyu is much smarter.
Knowing that the Nanli soldiers were coming, he didn't run away, but waited in the main tent. Why bother?
Now that I don't even have a horse, where can I run to? I might as well wait here.
On the other side, in the court of the Northern Territory, the ministers stood silently. Baili Xuance looked at the ministers standing below with a gloomy face.
"How come you are all silent? Now things have come to this point, and you still don't know what the situation is on the front line."
The Emperor of the North was getting angry in the court when a guard came to report.
Your Majesty, the eldest prince and the third prince have sent people.
Baili Xuance: "Hurry up and call someone in."
The person who came was the young eunuch beside the eldest prince. He knelt down as soon as he entered the hall.
"Your Majesty, please send troops to rescue His Royal Highness the First and Third Princes!"
"What happened? Didn't you say a few days ago that you had found a way to deal with that powerful weapon?"
"Your Majesty, the army's food and horses have disappeared, and the generals have all had their legs broken.
Even the Imperial Master's leg was broken, and we didn't see a single person. Everything was gone, and now the army has no food to eat."
Baili Xuance spat out a mouthful of blood, and the eunuch standing nearby hurriedly shouted, "Call the imperial physician quickly."
Baili Xuance covered his heart with his left hand and his face turned pale.
The courtiers below were also frightened, "Your Majesty, please take care of yourself!"
Two days ago, news came from the front line that Nanli suddenly had two very powerful weapons.
One is a weapon that can penetrate the human body, and the other is a weapon that is louder than thunder and explodes when it hits the ground.
The Northern soldiers suffered countless casualties and were no match for Nanli.
The eldest prince said that he had found a solution and asked the imperial teacher to use thunder to blow up their weapons. However, no news has been received in the past two days.
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