Others are fleeing famine, but I am a salted fish

After getting Lin Xiaoyue's promise, the usually gentle and elegant prince suddenly curved his eyebrows slightly, his face full of joy and excitement.

While the two were talking, the gate of Loge City opened.

Some soldiers guarding the city were hesitant, but were quickly pulled aside by their family members or acquaintances to avoid arousing the anger of the people and being beaten into human meat buns.

There were no soldiers to stop them. The common people spontaneously opened the city gates and poured out to welcome Dayuan's army.

Except for a few deaths at the beginning, this battle was almost a one-sided and bloodless victory without suspense.

The flag of the Dayuan Dynasty was hoisted on the top of the city wall of Loge City. The generals arrested those who should be arrested and imprisoned those who should be imprisoned. Soon, Loge City was completely taken over and controlled by Dayuan.

The prince, surrounded by his think tank, went all the way to the city lord's mansion. Along the way, the think tanks were still muttering that this battle was too easy and seemed unreal like a dream.

Not to mention the think tank staff were in disbelief, even the prince was in a daze.

Is it so easy to get in?

Why does it feel fake?

Compared to the Crown Prince who took over Loge City without any effort, the Third Prince's battle at the White Tiger Pass was much more difficult.

Previously, gunpowder weapons helped him successfully defend the pass under the attack of the coalition forces, but how could the prince's ambition be satisfied simply by defending the city?

After driving the Jin army out of the border during the war, he pursued them relentlessly all the way and captured three major cities of the Jin Dynasty within a month.

Such a record is certainly eye-catching, but it is also because the Jin Kingdom, which had lost three cities, was unwilling to accept such a huge loss in vain.

Those are three big cities, not three small towns or just a few dozen or hundreds of miles.

The King of Jin was so angry that his eyes were bulging with fire, and he immediately ordered his men to organize a counterattack. After a month, he never saw the other side use gunpowder weapons, and he figured out that the powerful weapons were not endless.

At least for now, the big source cannot be found.

What does this mean?

This shows that the other party is also in a tight spot.

What are you waiting for? Counterattack, fuck him, fight him back.

So, after the third prince showed off his power briefly, he started a tense tug-of-war with the Kingdom of Jin.

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As for the third prince, after his gunpowder weapons were used up, he lost the suppression of force and was defeated step by step when facing the crazy counterattack of the Jin Kingdom which mobilized almost half of its troops.

Finally, after one of the three cities was taken back by the enemy, the third prince hurriedly led his troops back to the second city. Afterwards, he used the city of Heguan as a base and fought a tug-of-war with the Jin army for more than a month.

The walls of Heguan City are tall and impregnable, but the atmosphere in the city is extremely solemn and desperate at this moment.

The third prince and his army were trapped in Heguan City and had been out of food for more than ten days.

The soldiers were so hungry that their faces were pale and their bodies were thin. Their eyes were filled with fatigue and hunger. The food in the city had already run out. Both the soldiers and the people in the city could only rely on pickled vegetables and tree bark to fill their stomachs.

However, the most desperate thing is that not only is there very little food, but in recent days, even the water supply has become very tight, and the soldiers have to distribute every drop of water carefully.

The third prince looked at the 100,000 soldiers he had borrowed from his uncle, who were about to be completely cut off from food and water. He recalled how he had been high-spirited and led a mighty army of 100,000 to chase the soldiers of the Jin Kingdom and capture three cities in one breath.

Now they were forced to abandon one city and retreat to the second one, closing the city gates and taking the strategy of defense as offense.

Then he thought that the prince, with a small number of elite troops, could easily capture the new emperor of Tiansheng.

The two of them both led troops to guard the pass, but the results were worlds apart. The third prince was filled with resentment when he thought about what kind of storm would be stirred up in the court after the battle results of both sides were reported back to the imperial city.

The third prince who was trapped in Heguan City thought that he had led his army to capture at least two cities of the Jin Kingdom. Little did he know that during his entrapment, the Jin Kingdom had already taken back all the recovered cities.

However, the third prince's current situation is that he is trapped in the territory of the Jin Kingdom. He has become a trapped beast in the cage of the Jin Kingdom and cannot escape.

In the cold and silent Heguan City, the Third Prince gathered his haggard generals and asked in a deep voice, "Everyone, we are now in a desperate situation. Our food and grass are about to be cut off, and the enemy is surrounding us. Do you have any good plan?"

An old general sighed, "Your Highness, our soldiers have been cut in half, more than half of them have been killed or wounded, and now morale is low. The enemy's strength is at least four times ours, so it is really difficult to break through."

Another middle-aged general gritted his teeth and said, "Your Highness, there are only two options before us. Either we go out and fight the enemy to the death, and never surrender. Or we can only wait for reinforcements from within the country to discover our predicament and come to our aid. However, because we have pursued the enemy too deep, the news cannot be delivered. By the time the Seventh Uncle or the general discovers our predicament and sends troops to help, it will take at least five days at the fastest speed."

Hearing this, the Third Prince's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot. He wanted to scold the general in front of him for being a coward. After all, he had fought on the battlefield for many years, but now he couldn't even break out of a small Heguan City. He was simply a good-for-nothing.

However, just when the Third Prince wanted to get angry, he was held back by the aides around him, who shook their heads and hinted to him not to offend all the generals in front of him at this critical juncture, otherwise he would be truly isolated and helpless.

Thinking of this, the Third Prince's eyes flickered, his face gloomily bit the tip of his tongue, shook off his staff's hand, and swallowed all his resentment back into his stomach.

As the days passed, the situation became more and more serious. Even though the Jin army surrounded the city but did not attack, soldiers and civilians continued to fall in the city.

At some point, malaria gradually spread throughout the city, invisibly adding a heavy haze and pressure to the heads of the third prince and his soldiers.

Everyone was extremely anxious, but they were powerless. Just when everyone was on the verge of despair, a riot suddenly broke out outside the city.

The third prince and a group of generals climbed up to the city wall and looked out. They saw that the enemy could no longer hold back and was waving their battle flags impatiently and issuing battle instructions.

The hearts of the Third Prince and his soldiers sank again and again. The Jin Kingdom could not wait to trap them to death in the city and was about to launch an attack.

Soon, the enemy army rushed towards the city like a black tsunami. Their footsteps were like thousands of horses galloping, shaking the earth.

Every time the huge battering ram hit the city gate, it made a deafening thud, as if a ferocious beast was roaring madly.