General Ming was enjoying the sight with his clairvoyant glasses when he heard a commotion on the east side of the city wall.

"What's going on? The Dongshan Hundred Households Office is a bit overwhelmed."

"No way, they have two guards over there."

"That Shi Feng and Lao Xia seemed to have underestimated the enemy."

"These two bastards are giving me a lot of trouble." General Ming thought of the brilliant battle fought by the West Mountain Hundred Households, and he was disgusted with Shi Feng and Lao Xia. "They are incompetent at everything they do and never get enough to eat. After this battle, I will definitely teach them a lesson to stop them from embarrassing me."

Although General Ming cursed, he prepared to send troops for support.

Finally, with the desperate resistance of the Dongshan Hundred Households and the Qianshan Hundred Households, they were able to repel the attack of the northern barbarians.

The northern barbarians retreated, but the personnel of the two centurions also suffered heavy losses.

General Ming watched them carrying the people back and suppressed his anger without cursing.

However, he felt much more relieved when he thought that there seemed to be only injuries and no deaths at the Xishan Hundred Households Office.

As a general leading troops, the last thing he wanted was for his soldiers to suffer casualties.

Alas, just in this battle, I don’t know how many households in those two centurions hung up white flags.

General Ming hated the northern barbarians, but the court was like this, and he only had so many troops, so he had no ability to kill the northern barbarians in their lair.

Thinking of this, he raised his clairvoyance again, looked at the imposing Ye Zhanyang, and couldn't help but sigh for the Ye family.

As a military commander of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he had long admired General Ye. However, he never imagined that the Ye family would end up in exile.

From the Ye family, I thought of their Ming family, wondering if I had offended anyone.

After the incident at the Ye family, he became even more cautious, fearing that one wrong step would ruin the entire clan.

But he also knew that the Ye family had done nothing wrong, and they were just trying to find excuses to accuse them.

Alas! He tried his best to send the Ye family to the Xishan Hundred Households Office, which was also a way to show his respect for General Ye.

He had a large family to protect, so he didn't dare get too close to the Ye family. He also didn't know who among his entourage was a spy for the imperial court, so he couldn't give them any reason to attack him.

General Ming was daydreaming while holding his clairvoyance when he saw someone walking on the ridge on the west side of the mountain.

General Ming quickly collected his thoughts and looked from a different angle, only to find that the people coming were all wearing coarse linen clothes, including two young women.

After taking a few glances, General Ming guessed that these people were military households based on their attire.

Thinking of those people carrying backpacks, General Ming suddenly had an idea that he himself did not quite believe, that is, these military households were probably delivering meals to the soldiers of the Xishan Hundred Households Office.

After this thought came to his mind, General Ming wanted to see if his analysis was correct.

He didn't say much, and slowly walked west along the horse path on the city wall.

With Guan leading the way, the Ye family and Jiang Yan realized that there was a small path leading out of the city.

...

Looking at the retreating northern barbarians, Captain Dong ordered all the remaining war horses to be gathered together first.

"We'll keep the horses that are healthy or have minor injuries and ride them. We'll also take the seriously injured ones back and kill them to share the meat."

"Ouch."

When they heard the captain say that the meat should be divided among the dead, everyone cheered again.

After shouting, everyone sat down on the ground.

Zhou Dasheng touched his chest, then touched the lunch bag at his waist, then muttered dejectedly, "I have nothing left here. Do you have anything to eat?"

"Me neither."

"Me neither."

"I'm starving to death."

Seeing Zhou Dasheng kept shouting that he was hungry, Ye Zhanyang took out the remaining half of the pancake from his pocket and handed it to him.

Zhou Dasheng was about to take it, but when he saw clearly that the person giving him the cake was Ye Zhanyang, he retracted his hand.

Ye Zhanyang: "Aren't you hungry? Let me fill your stomach first."

Zhou Dasheng waved his hands quickly, "General Ye, you've killed more enemies than me, so you must need this cake more than me. You should keep it for yourself. I can still bear it for a while."

"I'm no longer a general. You should just call me by my name."

"Eh."

Just as everyone was staring at the half piece of cake in Ye Zhanyang's hand and swallowing their saliva, Ye Zhanyang caught a glimpse of branches shaking on the mountain behind him.

"There's someone on the mountain."

"Where?" Captain Dong immediately stood up to check.

“…I am very familiar with these footsteps. They should be my father and his men.” Ye Zhanyang said, and went over in the direction of the swaying branches.

Everyone turned around and looked in that direction. When Guan's figure appeared in everyone's sight, Zhang Xiaoqi stood up from the ground.

"Daughter-in-law, why are you here?"

Seeing her husband speak with such vigor, Guan finally felt relieved. She patted the basket on her back and said with a smile, "We are here to bring you some food."

When Zhou Dasheng heard Guan say that she was sending food, he shouted and rushed over.

The people from the Thirteen Banners followed closely and rushed forward.

Captain Dong didn't care about anything else and ran quickly with his big knife.

Mr. Guo, Lao Wan and others also followed with shouts.

Only the soldiers of other flags looked at their own flags and wondered whether they should go or not.

The other twelve flags spoke almost simultaneously, "The captain has already gone, what are we waiting for?"

Everyone rushed towards Guan like a swarm of bees. Guan waved her hand and said, "Don't rush. Stand still. First come, first served."

Everyone answered in unison: "Yes."

Captain Dong: "You are more effective than me."

Everyone: It would be helpful if you could take out something to eat now.

"Everyone stand still, I'm going to distribute the buns."

When everyone heard Guan talk about distributing the buns, they became excited again.

Especially when Guan lifted the cotton pad covering it, a steaming big bun appeared in front of everyone.

The people in the back became even more anxious, but no one dared to break the rules that Guan had just said.

"Two buns and two steamed buns per person. No more than allowed."

"Eh."

The responses of more than a hundred people shocked the mountain birds that had just returned and made them fly up again with flutters.

General Ming, standing on the city wall, was also hungry after seeing this scene. He didn't care whether his subordinates would talk about him behind his back after seeing it, so he loudly asked Captain Dong for the money.

"Dong Qianli, bring me a portion of your food."

"hold head high?"

Captain Dong was busy stuffing buns into his mouth. When he heard the sound, he looked up and saw General Ming on the city wall.

Seeing General Ming's eyes, Captain Dong really wanted to say, "I'll give you one, what if we don't have enough?"

But at this moment, his head was still on his neck, and he didn't say anything.

Guan quickly grabbed four buns, wrapped them in a towel and handed them to Captain Dong.

Captain Dong was very reluctant to leave, and kept muttering, "I haven't even eaten four buns yet."

Zhang Xiaoqi quickly leaned over to his ear and tried to persuade him, "Boss, for the sake of preventing all of us from being bullied by Captain Wei, let alone four buns, we'd be willing to give up even eight."

Captain Dong relied on Zhang Xiaoqi's words to reach the city wall. He looked at the bun in his hand again, gritted his teeth, and threw the bun wrapped in the handkerchief into the wall.

General Ming caught it, opened the towel and saw four big chubby buns.

"Wow, this is my favorite." General Ming muttered and then took a big bite.

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