Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Upon hearing the news, Qin Ming and Guan Yue's expressions suddenly changed.

"How come you're here so quickly?"

"They came suddenly, and seemed a little anxious. It seems that the court is putting pressure on them again."

The subordinate spoke hesitantly.

They also had some doubts in their hearts.

Although they came quickly, Qin Ming was not worried.

He took Guan Yue with him and walked towards the city wall. Thousands of southern barbarian troops were already standing outside the wall.

Seeing this number, Qin Ming and Guan Yue looked at each other, both of them were a little surprised.

"Why are there only so few people here?"

"It's a little."

Guan Yue also frowned slightly and spoke in surprise.

Qin Ming stood on the city wall and said to them with a smile:

"Everyone, how can you break through our strategic position with just such a small number of people?"

The main general who attacked this time was named Chu Hongzhang.

He is the leader of the Lianshan tribe.

When attacking, his face was full of reluctance, and he clasped his hands towards Qin Ming and said:

"Your Highness, Prince Qin, we are also following orders. You cannot defeat the imperial court, so you should surrender as soon as possible."

"How do you know I can't win? You've said so much here, but it just means you don't want to fight."

Qin Ming smiled and waved his hand, then told this guy the purpose.

"I guess you're here just to report to the court. As for the court's supplies, they haven't even been delivered to you yet."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone present changed instantly.

Even Chu Hongzhang's expression began to look a little unnatural.

They had no choice but to send troops on this trip simply because Prince Yu and Prince Liang pressed them too hard.

It looked like the other party was about to fight to the death.

The people of the hundreds of tribes in the south finally sent out troops under the advice of the great elder Lan Chongshan.

However, they are very particular about sending troops.

Because they did not receive supplies, each of the hundreds of ethnic groups in the south basically only sent out a few dozen people.

This was the biggest concession they could make.

Finally, they pieced together this strange force.

The composition of soldiers in this army is now complex.

Some of them were not even under Chu Hongzhang's command.

This also gave Chu Hongzhang a headache.

With such a group of soldiers with different minds and ulterior motives, he had little confidence in conquering Qin Ming.

What's more, this time Qin Ming came here in person to guard the entrance to the Southern Barbarians.

It means that he must have been prepared.

When Chu Hongzhang thought of this, he felt overwhelmed.

At that moment, Qin Ming directly expressed their thoughts.

This further demoralized the soldiers in the army.

“This has nothing to do with you!”

"Everyone, don't listen to his lies. We will definitely win!"

In order to stop him from continuing to speak and disrupt the morale of the army, Chu Hongzhang immediately shouted loudly and interrupted his speech.

"The Nanman simply wants to deploy a group of soldiers to fight me while looking for an opportunity to seize supplies from the imperial court. Only then can you send troops."

Qin Ming ignored his shouting, but continued to use his internal strength and spoke loudly to everyone, his voice spreading far away.

He had seen through everything a long time ago!

"Without Lingnan's support, the day of running out of water and food is imminent. How can you be so confident that you can definitely obtain supplies from the court?"

"Even if you get this resource, how can you be confident in defeating me?"

Everyone was silent.

Even Chu Hongzhang who had been shouting below.

At this moment, I felt cold sweat on my back.

Qin Ming is really terrifying.

When they were fighting each other.

It has been realized that Qin Ming has achieved all-round suppression not only in the military but also in economic strength.

After losing Qin Ming's support, they have been having a very hard time these days.

Soon even the granaries will be empty.

This is mainly because they lived too well in the past few years.

This led to a rapid population growth in the tribe. With so many mouths to feed, everyone would definitely be able to eat their fill with Qin Ming's support.

But after losing Qin Ming's support, such a large population posed a huge crisis to them.

There was only one acre and three mu of land.

The food produced was not enough to eat.

Now that there are more people, it is even more difficult for them to get enough to eat.

These situations have already appeared in some small tribes.

Even those large tribes with large granaries are now struggling.

And it seems that Qin Ming will continue to sanction them.

"Everyone, since you dare to bring soldiers here today, we must fight this battle."

"I promise here that from today on, if the Nanman do not surrender, our war will continue, and our economic blockade of you will also continue."

Hearing this, everyone felt a chill down their spine.

They knew that what Qin Ming said was true, and in such a situation, they had no way to resist.

"Leave the city to meet the enemy!"

Qin Ming, however, directly shouted out his momentum.

At this time, he even took the initiative to open the city gate.

He brought his own army and prepared to attack Chu Hongzhang.

Seeing that Qin Ming had a strong army, and hundreds of crossbows and dozens of giant heavy crossbows had been set up on the city wall.

At this time they were all extremely frightened, and Chu Hongzhang didn't even dare to fight.

"Retreat first!"

"We don't have enough people!"

Turning around, he was the first to run away.

"what!?"

Seeing Chu Hongzhang leaving, his soldiers began to shout and curse.

After seeing their commander leave, they lost their backbone and had no choice but to disperse on the spot.

Faced with their evacuation, Qin Ming simply stood on the city wall and waved his hand, asking the soldiers leaving the city to stop.

He did not pursue.

This time I came out just to sow the seeds of fear among the southern barbarians.

As long as this seed finds an opportunity to take root and sprout.

This defensive battle will be easy for me to fight.

If their threat can be eradicated.

Qin Ming can then devote all his energy to attacking the Changhe River Basin.

In this way, all the wars in the north and the south can be resolved.

However, there is still a long way to go to achieve this goal.

After Chu Hongzhang left, he quickly took his soldiers back to the mountains and forests in the south.

After seeing his actions, many of his soldiers were unhappy.

They all felt that it was humiliating to evacuate without even fighting a battle.

But after thinking about it, they all ran away too.

The people in the army had no way to find Chu Hongzhang to argue.

So their army continued to retreat in such a deadly atmosphere.

Finally, a group of elders led by Lan Chongshan met them more than ten miles away.

After seeing them return covered in dust and dirt, Lan Chongshan said in surprise:

"Why did you come back so soon? How did the battle go?"