Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

The group fought their way to the gate of the pass and found that there were also flashes of swords and flying shadows of knives on this side. Our army and the enemy were fighting in chaos. Everyone was covered in blood, some of their own and some of the enemy's.

With a quick glance, the worst thing at the moment was that the city gate was wide open. If the enemy troops in the city were not eliminated and the city gate was not closed in time, subsequent enemy troops would continue to pour in, and the Guyan Pass would surely fall.

The prince made a prompt decision upon seeing this, and shouted loudly to the elite troops beside him and the soldiers nearby, "Concentrate our forces and wipe out the enemy forces in the city first!"

Upon hearing this, everyone raised their weapons and joined the battle. For a moment, flames shot up into the sky and the shouts of killing were deafening.

Lin Xiaoyue's team was divided into groups of three or four, forming a defensive formation, cooperating with each other and being both offensive and defensive.

She led the charge, rushing towards the enemy at lightning speed, with every punch and kick carrying a resolute momentum, and wherever she passed, she quickly harvested the enemy with a devastating force. The guards followed closely beside her, cooperating with her tacitly, and together they killed the enemy.

The flames shot up into the sky, illuminating the dark night like day. The air was filled with smoke and the pungent smell of gunpowder. The shouts of killing and the sound of weapons clashing intertwined, covering the entire Gutang Pass.

During the fierce battle, Lin Xiaoyue kept observing the direction of the city gate. Seeing that there were still sporadic enemy troops pouring in from the city gate, she guessed that there were no large numbers of enemy troops outside the city. While directing the battle, she was thinking about how to close the city gate.

Suddenly, his eyes flashed, and he saw the long stones piled at the base of the wall, and hurriedly shouted to the guards around him: "Block the city gate with heavy objects!"

The guards immediately took action and followed the princess quickly towards the stone slab.

However, the long stone bars used to build the city wall were too heavy. Apart from Lin Xiaoyue who could carry a thousand-pound stone by himself, the rest of the soldiers needed the combined efforts of at least four or five people and the help of tools to move the stone bars.

There was no other way. The guards could only stay close to Lin Xiaoyue, protecting her as she moved forward step by step, defending against the enemy, and moving forward again, slowly moving the stone bars to the city gate to block the gate that was violently broken open by the enemy.

The prince and generals who were fighting desperately with the enemy in the rear saw Princess Le'an carrying the stone slabs for building the city wall slowly and piling them up at the city gate by herself. They were shocked by her extraordinary and incredible strength, and at the same time, they accelerated their men's actions to kill the enemy.

Finally, the long night receded, and the gap in the city gate was firmly blocked by countless stone slabs. Before dawn, with the concerted efforts of everyone, the enemy troops in the city were gradually eliminated, and there was no sign of enemy reinforcements outside the city. The battle came to a temporary end.

The prince had just arrived and did not give orders to the generals defending the city because of his identity and status, but left the home court to the defenders.

This made the defenders feel relieved, and they immediately began to arrange a series of post-war matters, such as strengthening defenses, dealing with the bodies of the enemies in the city, counting the number of casualties, organizing rescue, searching for lost relatives, and sending scouts outside the city to inquire about enemy reinforcements.

Seeing that the prince was not putting on airs, but was methodical and dispatched his personal guards to deal with the post-war affairs in the city, the guards could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. They were most afraid that the prince knew nothing and would put on airs as soon as he arrived, acting superior and giving orders to the important border defense areas.

Fortunately, they saw the prince, and he was indeed an enlightened and wise ruler who loved his people like his own children, just as the Seventh Uncle had commented.

His sight turned to the gate, where Princess Le'an sat rudely, not looking like a lady from a noble family, wiping sweat from her face with her sleeves, her movements were just as rough as those rough guys. Thinking back to the previous time, when she swept through the enemy like a killing god, bravely killing the enemy and eliminating the biggest crisis at the gate, the guard felt like he was going to die.

I really don't know whether to say that the princess is too strong, or that the defenders under his command are too weak.

No, no, we must intensify the training of soldiers after this. Otherwise, if word gets out that these men are not as good as a woman, will they still have any face?

Fortunately, according to the information obtained by the scouts, there were no enemy reinforcements within a hundred miles of the pass, which showed that last night was just a tentative sneak attack, not a large army approaching. This gave the remaining defenders more time to clean up the battlefield and deal with all post-war matters.

Time passed quickly and the cleaning process lasted until the evening, taking almost the entire day.

The wounded soldiers were all taken to the military doctor. At the same time, the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle were found one by one and placed in the parade ground. As for the bodies of the enemy soldiers, they were taken to the mass grave outside the city and piled up, waiting to be burned together afterwards.

During this period, Lin Xiaoyue, in the spirit of making rational use of all resources, had the guards strip off all the items that could be used from the enemy's corpses, including armor, weapons, and other items. Even the weapons with curled blades were not spared and all were kept. After all, as a blacksmith with her own skills, she could fully and effectively recycle these wastes.

Even if we are on the battlefield now, it doesn't matter. At most, when we have time or have collected a certain amount, we can arrange a few guards to transport this pile of discarded weapons with curved blades or broken holes back to the Xianyu Villa, and let the carpenters and ironworkers in the Salted Fish Villa put them back into the furnace to disassemble and make them again. Isn't this a simple thing? It can also save costs, how great.

That night, the lights in the commander's tent were always on, and the first secret talk was held between the Crown Prince, his think tank, Lin Xiaoyue, and Captain Ge stationed at the Guzhen Pass.

Originally, Lin Xiaoyue did not want to get involved in the secret meeting of the management, but the prince invited her again and again and asked her to attend.

Lin Xiaoyue thought about it and decided that since she was here and was asked by the Seventh Uncle to assist the Crown Prince, it would be good for her to know a few things about the upper-level affairs, so as not to be blind and not understand anything.

Lin Xiaoyue pursed her lips and thought about it. It was indeed the case. Then she quietly followed the Prince's think tank into the office of Qianhu and found a seat at the edge and sat down.

The attitude of just listening and not participating in decision-making could not be more obvious.

Prince:......

The think tank whose position was taken away from them: …

Captain Ge, who had not paid any attention to the seating arrangement, rubbed his brows and reported to the prince the statistics that his soldiers had just handed over to him. "Your Highness, this time the Guzhen Pass was attacked by the enemy at night. Including the 5000 elite soldiers that the prince led yesterday, a total of 829 people were killed, 531 were seriously injured, and not counting the minor injuries, a total of 1213 casualties among military families and exiles, and a total of 3823 enemies were killed..."

Reporting the casualties of our army, Captain Ge couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, and the tough guy, nearly 40 years old, had a choked voice.