The Northern Huan royal court.
Jia Yao walked out of the king's tent with a heavy heart.
When you get outside and look into the distance, you can see people working on the land surrounding the royal court.
Over the years, many tribes behind Beihuan have changed from living by the water to settling down. However, when the water and grass are abundant, each tribe will send people out to graze.
Before the cold winter comes, those who went out to graze their livestock will drive them back.
Those who stayed in the tribe learned how to farm.
It’s just because the time suitable for farming in Beihuan is very short, so only one crop of grain can be grown every year.
Moreover, the types of food are very limited.
But this season's food is the food of many Beihuan tribes.
Previously, they were unable to organize a large army because they did not have enough food.
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Jia Yao never wants to experience such a predicament again.
Now, except for a very few necessary guards and servants, almost everyone in the royal court was driven away by Jia Yao to work.
Before today, Jiayao worked in the fields by herself.
Even if they could harvest one more bushel of grain, it would be beneficial to them.
She had received news that all the livestock in the remote tribes in the east had been eaten up, and many people had to rely on wild vegetables to fill their stomachs. Some had even starved to death.
The situation in Wang Ting is better.
But, it's just better.
The tribes on the royal court side do have a lot of livestock.
But no matter how many livestock there are, they cannot withstand the food that people eat.
The livestock have been almost completely eaten up this year, and it will take at least ten years for their livestock numbers to recover.
But we cannot not eat livestock, otherwise, even people in the royal court will starve to death.
Of course, this is not the most important thing!
If the big work stops now, they can hold on until the autumn harvest.
Unfortunately, she knew that Yun Zheng would never stop fighting!
Now is the time when Beihuan is the weakest, and Yun Zheng will never miss such an attack opportunity.
Now, in addition to the two thousand guards of the royal court, they also maintain a standing force of 20,000.
This is the limit of the limit!
What she is thinking now is, should she disband some more troops or retreat further?
However, if they retreat further, their living space will be further compressed.
Without military defense, their living space will be compressed.
Once their living space is compressed to a certain range, they will be blocked and attacked by Yun Zheng’s army!
Given their current situation, there is almost no chance of winning.
This seems to be a dead end, a dead end that cannot be broken no matter what!
"well……"
Jia Yao let out a long breath, rubbed his aching head vigorously, and laughed at himself bitterly: "It's not even a year! Beihuan has fallen to this point..."
Last autumn, Beihuan threatened Dagan to go to the border to beg for food.
Now, Beihuan has reached the brink of collapse.
There is not even a chance to make peace!
Just when Jia Yao was having a headache, a guard came hurriedly to report: "Princess, Lord Budu and his men have arrived."
"good!"
Jia Yao rubbed his head again and walked out of the king's tent.
When they returned to the king's tent, Budu, Guiyou and Fang Yunshi were already waiting there.
Seeing Jia Yao, the three of them immediately bowed: "Greetings..."
"Okay, no need to be polite!"
Jia Yao waved his hand tiredly, motioning the three to sit down, "Let's cut to the chase. I want to bring back all the people on both wings of the Yellow Sand Sea. After everyone has withdrawn to the Yellow Sand Sea, Wulian Mountain and Cangyun Ridge, the people on both wings will be stationed in the Desert East and Desert West corridors respectively..."
After listening to Jia Yao's words, the three of them couldn't help but look at each other.
However, none of the three spoke.
Although they were unwilling, they knew in their hearts that there was nothing they could do about it.
The Beihuan now has to avoid war as much as possible, recuperate and try to get through the most difficult time.
The ancestors of Beihuan were forced to retreat to this line hundreds of years ago.
Although their current situation is better than that of their ancestors, it is not much better.
A complete retreat is indeed a wise move.
Bu Du pondered for a moment, frowned and said: "I have no objection to retreating, but what I am worried about now is that even if we retreat, the enemy will not stop fighting!"
They want to retreat now, but the enemy is at the forefront.
The fear is that they retreat and the enemy continues to pursue them.
In that case, their space for transfer will become smaller and smaller.
"I see."
Jia Yao smiled bitterly and said, "We have to retreat now! After we retreat, even if the enemy wants to attack us, the battle line will be very long. Even if they choose the shortest route, it will take at least 40 to 50 days to go back and forth. As long as we let them miss once, we can buy more time."
“That’s true.”
Bu Du nodded slightly and said, "But if we retreat, we won't have much grazing space. By then, a lot of livestock will starve to death!"
Without adequate pasture, the livestock would surely starve to death.
They have no food to eat, so how can they expect to feed their livestock?
“There’s no chance our livestock will starve!”
Jia Yao said calmly: "We have to hold out until the autumn harvest, so we have to kill a lot of livestock!"
starve?
Overthinking!
Only when there are many livestock can some of them starve to death!
The livestock were all eaten by people, so how could so many livestock starve to death?
They have lost too many livestock since the beginning of last winter.
Where are so many livestock starving to death?
After hearing what Jia Yao said, everyone fell silent.
Because what Jia Yao said was true.
Just as they were talking, a guard hurried in and whispered in Jia Yao's ear.
"asshole!"
Jia Yao was instantly furious. "What on earth are those 10,000 troops in the west doing? They allow such a small group of enemies to attack our tribe right under our noses all day long?"
Budu frowned, "Another tribe was attacked?"
"Um."
Jia Yao nodded with a frosty face, and said through gritted teeth: "Last night, a tribe in the west was attacked by that small group of enemies again, and more than 50 people were killed..."
This kind of thing has happened six times during this period.
Some are aimed at herders and livestock, while others are targeted at individual tribes.
Including this time last night, this is the seventh time!
Seven times!
They lost four or five hundred people!
Although the number of casualties is not large, it is still disgusting!
This enemy didn't even spare the livestock!
Just a few days ago, several herders were killed, and all of their hundreds of sheep were killed.
Even the lambs were not spared!
However, they didn't even know how many people there were in that small group of enemies.
Now, all the tribes in the west are in panic, and some tribes even say that those people are evil ghosts who are seeking to take their lives.
But Jia Yao knew that this small group of enemies must have been sent by Yun Zheng!
Yun Zheng wanted to use this method to continuously consume their strength.
It’s not like she didn’t assign people to deal with that small group of enemies.
But that small group of enemies came and went like the wind, appearing and disappearing like ghosts, and could not be found at all.
She had previously sent all the wolves she had tamed to Heasu!
But still couldn't find the enemy.
Now, many tribes in the west are becoming suspicious.
The small pursuit force sent by Heasu was almost shot and killed by the people of those tribes as enemies.
Looking at Jia Yao's livid face, Bu Du couldn't help but sigh softly, then gritted his teeth and said: "Since the princess is planning to retreat again, let the tribes start to retreat! I will personally lead people to find these people! I don't believe that they are really evil ghosts who come and go without a trace!"
"good!"
Jia Yao nodded heavily, "Master, please be careful, this enemy must be no simple force!"
"Yes! I'll take people there now!"
No need to say anything, he quickly exited.
Looking at Budu's figure, Jia Yao couldn't help but think secretly.
Should I also train a small group of elite soldiers to do the same thing over there?
After thinking for a moment, Jia Yao looked up at the two of them and said, "I will draft a letter of peace later. The two of you will go to the Dagan Imperial City as envoys to ask for peace from the Dagan Emperor..."
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