The guards from the General's Mansion carried Miss Mu's dowry in and out of the gates of the Prince Yun's Mansion.
The news that Princess Yun had divorced Prince Yun quickly spread throughout the streets and alleys of the capital, and countless people gathered at Prince Yun's mansion to watch the spectacle.
The people couldn't help but recall the grand wedding procession of Prince Yun a few years ago, with its ten-mile-long red bridal procession, which stretched from one end of the street to the other, just like today. Seeing this, the people on the street couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The people never expected that Princess Yun, who was so in love with Prince Yun, would one day come to Prince Yun's mansion with the Emperor's decree to divorce him.
What they didn't know was that from the day Mu Jin transmigrated, it foreshadowed the ending for Mu Jin and Su Yuntian.
Inside the general's mansion, the unloading of the cargo carts was not completed until midnight. Meanwhile, far away in the northernmost part of Dongyue Kingdom, Mu Yan and his deputy Ye Qing were lying prone on the snow, watching the camp of Beiqi Kingdom in the distance.
The heavy snow came early this year and has been falling continuously. Much of the grain in neighboring counties outside the pass has been destroyed by the snow, and the people of Zhou County are already suffering. Where can we send grain to them?
Two months earlier, Marquis Muwei had already petitioned the court to send people to increase grain supplies, but he had not received a reply from the court. According to intelligence, a plague had broken out in the border counties of the capital, so the court probably couldn't take care of him.
I originally thought that if we used the grain sparingly, it could last for a month for the army, and we could borrow more grain from the Southern Palace Imperial Guard to get through the spring planting season.
Two days ago, the people of Beiqi Kingdom launched a surprise attack on their granary, looting most of the grain and setting it on fire. Fortunately, they were rescued in time, otherwise half a month's worth of grain would have been burned to ashes. Mu Yan immediately wanted to give chase, but was stopped by Mu Wei's roar.
With the army's supplies running low, Mu Yan, not one to remain calm, secretly sent scouts to follow the retreating troops of the Northern Qi Kingdom to gather intelligence, without informing Mu Weihou.
Mu Yan received a report from his scouts via a flying eagle, informing him that Bei Qi's troops were encamped at Langya Slope in the north, but were secretly moving their food supplies to another camp in the north under cover of darkness.
Without consulting Marquis Muwei tonight, he ordered his deputy general and a thousand elite soldiers to sneak towards the camp of the Northern Qi Kingdom.
Lying behind Mu Yan and Ye Qing were a thousand elite soldiers they had carefully selected. The cold wind howled sharply, carrying icy snow that pierced the soldiers' skin.
At the end of the hour of Chou (1-3 AM), when people are sleeping most soundly, the two looked at each other, and Mu Yan made a hand gesture behind his back.
The Kitasaki soldier on night patrol was panting and stamping his feet, completely unaware of what was happening, when someone covered his mouth and twisted his neck, killing him before he could even utter a sound.
The elite troops brought by Mu Yan followed the same method everywhere they went. The soldiers, who were talking in their sleep, would silently meet their demise.
A soldier from Kitasaki was getting up to urinate when Mu Yan kicked him from behind, causing him to kneel on the urine-splattered ground. Mu Yan cleanly dislocated his jaw and asked in a low voice, "Where are the provisions?"
The Kitasaki soldier was probably a green recruit. In his fright, he instinctively pointed to a place to the north. After he pointed, his death was imminent.
Mu Yan and Ye Qing quickly moved towards the granary the soldier had pointed out. When they arrived, they found two Beiqi soldiers chatting in front of the tent.
“I heard that the whole of Dongyue Kingdom is plagued by an epidemic, and many people have died. Let alone food, it’s difficult for them to even survive. Last night we cut off their food supply. In a few days, when they are almost starving, we will catch Muwei Hou off guard.”
"That's right. Not to mention the few cities we took back, the entire Dongyue Kingdom is ours."
After listening to the conversation between the two soldiers, the two men exchanged a glance, slowly crept forward from behind the granary, snapped the necks of the two northern soldiers, and dragged the two corpses to a dark place to cover them up.
Mu Yan and Ye Qing walked to the granary door curtain. Mu Yan raised his hand to signal them to stop, and he asked Ye Qing to lie behind the tent and keep watch for him.
Mu Yan twisted his body and hid behind the tent, where a full granary of grain came into view!
Mu Yan quickly ran out of the tent and said to Ye Qing, "We've found the granary. First, find a hundred men to wait in the camp to burn it down. The rest of you, come and move as much grain as you can. Burn the rest with a fire."
Upon receiving the order, Ye Qing instructed the elite soldiers who had followed him to act in turn.
Half an hour later, two eagle cries suddenly came from the dark night. By the time the people waiting to burn the camp found out, Mu Yan's side had already loaded the grain onto the carts.
Fires quickly broke out throughout the Kitasaki military camp, and chaos erupted inside the tents.
The sounds of enemy troops and the burning granary rose and fell.
The Beiqi people never expected that two days ago, after they seized Muwei Hou's grain and retreated to Langya Po in the west to set up camp, they secretly moved the grain to the east at night, using a feint attack to the east while attacking the west.
They have already deployed 10,000 elite troops in the west, just waiting to capture the people of Dongyue alive in the next few nights.
At dawn, soldiers in the tower of the Dongyue army camp suddenly blew their horns and shouted, "A force is approaching!"
Mu Yan led a thousand elite soldiers without losing a single one. They had marched through the night, and their clothes were already frozen through by the biting wind and snow. But looking at the hundreds of grain carts weighed down by the grain, the soldiers felt a warm fire burning in their hearts.
The border was windy and dusty, and the morning fog was thick. It wasn't until Mu Yan and his team got closer that the sentries in the tower realized they were their own men.
"It's General Xuanwei's elite cavalry! They've returned with provisions!" a soldier shouted excitedly from the tower.
"Open the door!"
When Mu Weihou and his generals came out, they saw Mu Yan and the soldiers who had left the camp the night before being tossed around and cheered on by the soldiers in the camp.
Mu Yan brought back not only food, but also their lives. This food was enough for them to last another month or so. Otherwise, without food in the army, they wouldn't be able to hold out if the people of Beiqi really attacked.
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