They had originally thought that once the reinforcements arrived, they would be able to start counterattacking. After all, with the help of the outside forces, even if they were outnumbered, as long as they attacked from a narrow city gate, Beiping Lu's soldiers would not have the advantage in numbers. In that case, as long as they attacked, they would be able to catch Beiping Lu off guard. But now...
"My Lord, what should we do now?"
Jun Yumo narrowed his eyes slightly, he didn't expect the desperate situation to come so quickly.
The reinforcements and military supplies were hijacked halfway. There was only one possibility: there were spies in the Cangnan Dynasty who leaked the route of the reinforcements and the route of those escorting the food and grass.
But now is not the time to find the spy. Now is the time to solve the problem.
"Mo Qi, you will personally lead 5,000 men to Liangyue County and see how much military rations you can get. Then you can get as much as you can."
"Your Highness, there is no food left in this northern county. There has been drought for two of the past three years, and the granaries in the surrounding counties have long been looted by refugees. Even if we are lucky, if these 5,000 brothers go out, they may be ambushed by the spies that have not been found, and 5,000 brothers will be lost in vain."
Jun Yumo had just put forward this proposal when he was met with opposition. After listening to General Ming's analysis, Jun Yumo, who had not slept for several days, also felt a sense of despair!
Indeed, he seemed to need to take a break before he could make the most correct judgment. He did not even consider such an obvious loophole.
"Yes, where is the stored food? We have to fight our way out first. We don't know when the next batch of reinforcements will arrive. Even if the news of the food being robbed reaches the capital, it will take at least ten days for the emperor to order the next batch of food to be transported. Now we have no choice but to fight our way out and rob the food from Xiling and Beipinglu. Although this is very risky, the soldiers are not hungry yet and can still fight. If we wait until the food in the city is eaten up, everyone will be too hungry to have the strength, and the soldiers from Beipinglu and Xiling will attack again. At that time, our army will not even have the confidence to fight."
Jun Yumo didn't want to take this step. After all, with such a huge disparity in numbers, they would suffer a great loss. But the time had come when he had no choice but to take this step.
"Your Majesty, why don't you bring out the Queen of Xiling Kingdom and threaten them to withdraw their troops. This is the most reliable method at the moment. Maybe Xiling Kingdom will be a little wary when they see this. Besides, His Majesty asked someone to bring Queen Rong here for this very purpose."
After listening to Jun Yumo's decision, General Li hesitated for a while, but still expressed his thoughts.
After General Li finished speaking, several generals around him nodded in agreement.
After all, they knew that if they followed Jun Yumo's method, they still had a chance of surviving death. Or if they continued to waste time, the remaining 400,000 troops would all be killed in battle!
Just as General Li made this suggestion and everyone agreed, waiting for Jun Yumo's nod, a hint of sarcasm appeared in Jun Yumo's frosty eyes.
"Xuanyuan Haocang left Rong Ranhua in Cangnan Dynasty. Do you think they will care whether Rong Ranhua is dead or alive?"
"But, Your Majesty, no matter what, we can still vent our anger, right?!"
General Li was not convinced, and Jun Yumo's face became more and more gloomy.
In Jun Yumo's eyes, Rong Ranhua at this time was a good queen. For the sake of the people's livelihood in Xiling Kingdom, she traveled thousands of miles to Cangnan Dynasty in person, bringing so many historians to communicate and learn from each other, in order to give back to the people after returning.
Asking him to use a woman as a bargaining chip is something that a proud and arrogant person like Jun Yumo simply cannot do.
"My Lord, this is bad!"
Just when the atmosphere in the tent was extremely cold, Mo Yan rushed in, his face grim and his eyes red!
Following Mo Yan was Tao Yue, Jun Yumo's guard who had not been seen for many years.
Tao Yue was the bodyguard that Jun Yumo personally assigned to his eldest sister when her elder sister got married. Now that Tao Yue appeared here, coupled with Mo Yan's red eyes, Jun Yumo's heart skipped a beat and he didn't dare to think about some things at all.
"How can you be so flustered? Tao Yue, why are you here? Aren't you with the princess?"
"Tao Yue pays respect to the Regent. Your subordinate is here to announce the death of the Regent..."
Jun Yumo!
"What do you mean? What happened to my sister?!"
Hearing Tao Yue's words, Jun Yumo's legs subconsciously went weak, but in front of everyone, he still pretended to be calm.
"No, not the princess, it's, it's the Toffee, the Toffee, the Toffee..."
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
When Tao Yue finished speaking, Jun Yumo felt a black screen in front of his eyes and he lost consciousness!
When Jun Yumo woke up again, it was already the next morning. The personal guards standing by looked at each other, and finally Mo Qi stepped forward.
"Master, please eat something first."
"No need, what is the situation outside now?"
Jun Yumo lifted the quilt and got out of bed. His expression was so cold that even the air in the room suddenly dropped by more than ten degrees.
Seeing Jun Yumo like this made the guards around him even more worried.
"My lord, according to the spies, there seemed to be a short dispute in Xiling last night. We don't know what happened exactly. The enemy army has still besieged Gaofeng City. Now there are their people on all four sides of the city wall. Even if our army wants to retreat now, it is impossible."
"Because of the drought, our army has no way to retreat. The only thing we can do is to break out of the encirclement and seize the enemy's food and grass. This way we still have a chance to counterattack. Even if we retreat another 500 miles, hundreds of thousands of our soldiers will starve to death if we can't find food. It's better to fight to the death than to do that."
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