In the years of famine, I was well versed in history and pampered the Northern Army

It hadn't been long before Lu Yan and the Zhenbei Army had all become serious and on alert.

The witch has already given them such an important thing. Now if Lu Yan and the Zhenbei Army cannot kill the barbarians in one blow, they will be disappointed in themselves.

Before the march, Lu Yan and the Zhenbei Army carefully calculated their food reserves.

Since fruits are not easy to store, all the fruits brought by Chu Qingyin were eaten in the first week, and other food and items were also placed here.

This march will be over in half a month at most, and the success or failure will all depend on this one move.

So they didn't need to bring too much food and fodder. Everyone brought some rice balls that had been pressed hard. They put the bamboo raft into the river and prepared to set off.

"Your Highness, I'm not saying anything, but this bamboo raft the witch brought is truly extraordinary! Our usual boats are more complicated than this, but this is exactly what we need for a march!"

"Yes, Your Highness, why didn't we think of it before?"

"What's the point of thinking about it? If the witch hadn't sent it to us, could you really have sent these bamboo rafts worth over ten thousand to the border?"

The letter sent by Chu Qingyin is still here, and before leaving, everyone is still trying hard to learn the message that Chu Qingyin brought to them.

If the battle is successful this time, then the promises made to them by the witch will come true!

She said she wanted them to live happily for the remaining ten months at the border.

These things are something that these border guards have never dared to hope for.

Now, the witch really gave these people a bright hope.

These people whose lives are worthless yet they struggle to live.

When Lu Yan and the Zhenbei Army arrived near the barbarians, they clearly saw the ashes and defeat of the barbarians.

Their border defenses are very tight, probably because they know that it is better for the Zhenbei Army to attack them now.

So they all hid, but they still didn't think that this time they would take the water route.

Lu Yan knew that the barbarians had been experiencing internal turmoil recently and were planning a generational change, but the two new kings, Mogo and Tukar, had been arguing with each other.

They both have soldiers of equal strength.

Lu Yan was thinking about this matter. Now they were sure to win this time, but now he suddenly had something else to think about.

Perhaps, exterminating the barbarians is not his only option.

He knew what the emperor's attitude towards him was now. Although he knew that he was not the crown prince, he understood that he had to fight for the throne.

Yu Gong, the two brothers that the imperial concubine gave birth to are either playboys or two-faced and cruel. If the country is handed over to such people, and the emperor is in such a state now, I am afraid Yun Jin will be in trouble soon.

Personally, if I wasn't the emperor, what would happen to his mother? And... Duke Xu and Empress Xu, who had always been so kind to me.

He doesn't want to fight, he also wants to be a loyal minister.

Even if he is the only legitimate son.

But he had to fight, for the people he cared about and for the entire Yunjin.

"Your Highness, we're here! After all these days, the barbarians must have completely run out of food and supplies that haven't been burned!"

"Yes, they have caused us so much trouble these days. We finally have this opportunity. We must kill them in one blow!"

But Lu Yan remained silent.

For such a long time, Yunjin has been fighting with the barbarians on the border for generations, simply because Yunjin is not strong enough.

Now that we have this opportunity, it is certainly a good thing to be happy about.

But if they exterminated all these hundreds of thousands of barbarian soldiers, would that really be the best option at the moment?

While Lu Yan was thinking about this, the barbarians had already noticed them and began to be on alert.

Lu Yan and his men were in the middle of the river, close to the other bank. This place was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and was extremely dangerous for the Yunjin soldiers on the opposite side.

The one leading the troops this time is Tukar. The civil war between Mogo and Tukar some time ago resulted in both of them suffering losses.

Tukar looked at the tens of thousands of bamboo rafts and the high-spirited Yunjin soldiers on the other side of the river, and he knew that this time he would definitely not be able to win.

The good days of their barbarians are over.

"It's so bizarre! My poor father has worked hard for half his life to raise nearly 200,000 elite soldiers, but the current emperor of Yunjin is incompetent and can only get 50,000 old and weak soldiers to beat us back!"

Tukar now has the upper hand over Mogo and enjoys higher prestige among the barbarians.

But he knew that the army now had no food or fodder, and so many cattle and sheep had been robbed. There were no prisoners as hostages, and now they were like lambs to be slaughtered in front of Yunjin's Zhenbei Army.

"Your Highness, please don't give up! We've been struggling for so many years, are we really going to be defeated by those weak Yunjin soldiers?"

"Hey."

Tukar, who had always been heroic, could only sigh.

How could he not know his own situation? As the most capable king of the Nanxiang tribe, he also wanted to defeat the Yunjin Kingdom and trample these old, weak and disabled soldiers under his feet!

But now, they, Nan Xiang, are the old, weak and disabled soldiers.

He had to consider the lives of his clan's soldiers and the lives of hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen.

So many barbarians are still lying in bed.

Tukar faced the river and looked at Lu Yan.

He saw complicated emotions in Lu Yan's eyes.

There is the pleasure of revenge, and also the tenderness of sympathy.

There was only a little bit of tenderness, but Tukar still saw it. This little bit of tenderness ignited his hope.

It ignited the hope of survival for so many barbarians.

"I've long heard that the people of your Yunjin Kingdom are intelligent. Now it seems that it is indeed so, and not only that."

"Your young master is so talented and has been blessed by heaven. It is truly fate that has brought our Great Nanxiang to this state."

In fact, everyone knows that if it weren't for Lu Yan, Yunjin would have been razed to the ground long ago.

Of course, there’s more than just Lu Yan.

"You barbarians have repeatedly invaded our borders, burning, killing, looting, and committing all sorts of atrocities. You deserve to be doomed today!"

General Xiao Li's eyes were red.

Countless people on the border were burned and killed by these bearded creatures, and their women were kidnapped. They were capable of doing anything.

"How do you know the principle that the victors are kings and the losers are bandits? What have you, Yunjin, done to us Nanxiang? How many of us Nanxiang have died? You are so foolish and unjust, yet you still ask us to pay such a high tribute. If we don't rob them, I'm afraid the people will starve to death!"

Lu Yan just listened quietly without saying anything.

The feud between the barbarians and the Yunjin Kingdom has lasted for hundreds of years, and the hatred between them has only grown deeper and deeper, but all of this was caused by war.