roccoschili Chapter 144 Everyone has their own agenda
Chapter 144 Everyone has their own agenda
The two people, each with their own ulterior motives, started what they had just done next to the dragon bed. At this time, Emperor Beichen, who was lying on the dragon bed, clenched his hands under the brocade quilt into fists.
No one knew what Ye Li had done to him. He could hear the sounds from the outside world, but he couldn't open his eyes. Even the imperial physician couldn't find any cause and could only give him some medicine to maintain his body every day.
Emperor Beichen is like this. He has no princes but only two princesses. Therefore, the only person in the royal family who is qualified to be the emperor is the youngest son of the late emperor, Prince Yong'an.
Therefore, there were voices in the court that after Emperor Beichen died, the throne would be inherited by Prince Yong'an. However, because Prince Yong'an had a bad reputation before, many court officials opposed it.
But if Emperor Beichen was bewitched by the Dongli spy and delayed the delivery of military supplies, Yanlang City would be lost. At this time, Prince Yong'an not only captured the Dongli spy, but also sent troops to retake Yanlang City. I think there would be no opposition in the court at that time.
On the other hand, Dongli learned that all the people he arranged to intercept in Shaoyang Mountain were killed by Nangong Yuan, and Nangong Yuan had also sent people to prepare military supplies. He was worried that if they waited any longer, Beichen would have food supplies and they would completely lose this opportunity, so he ordered an attack on the city without thinking.
Although the Beichen soldiers had to eat rice soup for many days, they still fought bravely under the leadership of Nangong Yuan.
On the city wall, soldiers shot arrows with all their might, and boulders fell like rain.
However, the Dongli Kingdom almost exhausted all its troops this time. Although the Beichen soldiers fought bravely, they had not eaten for many days and their physical strength was a little insufficient, so their defense line was gradually broken.
At this time, Nangong Yuan led a group of soldiers out of the city gate and fought with the Dongli people. His swordsmanship was sharp, and wherever he went, the Dongli soldiers fell one after another.
During the battle, Nangong Yuan watched the soldiers around him fall one by one, and the morale of the Beichen soldiers became increasingly weak. His eyes turned bloodshot and he couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Soldiers, hold on! We can't let the Dongli Kingdom succeed. We can't let the Dongli beasts trample on our homes and bully our parents, wives and children. We must protect them..."
Nangong Yuan's voice was firm, like a magical power that filled the hearts of every Beichen soldier. Thinking of their wives and children at home, and remembering that if Yanlang City was captured, the people in the city would become slaves of a conquered nation, everyone's fighting spirit was rekindled...
In the end, the soldiers of Beichen Kingdom repelled the attack of Dongli Kingdom with their tenacious will and indomitable spirit, but Beichen also suffered heavy losses this time.
On the battlefield, smoke filled the air and corpses were scattered everywhere. Nangong Yuan looked into the distance, his eyes dark...
He knew that this time, they had only won by a narrow margin. If the food and supplies did not arrive, and Dongli attacked the city again, they would not be able to hold Yanlang City...
Even if he didn't go out of the city to see the scene, Han Yiyi was already horrified just by hearing the sounds of fighting outside the city.
Watching the soldiers covered in blood being carried into the city one by one, some had their arms chopped off, some had lost their legs, and some were even no longer breathing.
At this time, Han Yiyi felt the cruelty of war for the first time.
Even in this age of cold weapons, people's lives have become so fragile in the face of war.
The passing of every life means a family being torn apart. Listening to their painful cries, Han Yiyi's eyes were also bloodshot.
During the past few days, Han Yiyi naturally knew that they were seriously short of food, and thought that if they could have enough to eat, there would be fewer casualties.
When they first arrived in Yanlang City, Han Yiyi wanted to exchange the remaining points for food and give it to them.
But he was also worried that the problems in his system would be exposed, causing trouble for himself and his two children.
But now seeing these wounded soldiers, Han Yiyi no longer hesitated and turned to walk towards the granary.
In the past, the granary must have been heavily guarded, but now it is empty. The reason is not for anything else, but because the last bit of rice has been put into the pot, so that the soldiers can eat more and have more strength to fight.
This made things convenient for Han Yiyi. After entering the granary and looking at the empty sack, Han Yiyi no longer hesitated and started to exchange with the system directly.
Because she had cheated Nangong Yuan out of a jade pendant before. No, that’s not right. It can’t be called cheating. It was the reward Nangong Yuan gave her. Well, it was a reward.
The reward jade pendant was exchanged for 100,000 points, but later she was drugged with an aphrodisiac by Han's mother, and in order to buy an antidote for the system, she used up 30,000 points. Thinking of this, Han Yiyi still felt a pang of pain. Therefore, the remaining points in the system, plus the remaining points before, and some mushrooms exchanged later, still had 80,000 to 90,000 points.
According to the price of rice in the system, ten points per kilogram, he exchanged for almost nine thousand kilograms of rice.
Although nine thousand kilograms of grain is not a lot, I think it can solve the urgent problem.
Han Yiyi was thinking about exchanging some eggs, meat and the like, but now, it was good enough to be able to eat enough, and he could not consider anything else.
After exchanging the rice, Han Yiyi quietly left the granary, but did not notice Nangong Yuan not far away.
As soon as Nangong Yuan returned to the city, he saw Han Yiyi with a pale face. At this time, he regretted bringing the three of them to Yanlang City, so he decided to send someone to send the three of them out of the city and back to Zhushan Village.
Just as I was about to go up to her and tell her something, I saw that person had left. When I followed her, I saw that Han Yiyi was actually heading towards the granary.
Nangong Yuan thought that Han Yiyi was hungry. In the past few days, even Nangong Yuan had been eating rice soup with only a few grains of rice.
Although Han Yiyi and the two children had more rice served to them after Nangong Yuan's special instructions to the barracks, it was rice soup after all, so even if there was more, it wouldn't have much effect.
Therefore, when Nangong Yuan saw Han Yiyi heading towards the granary, he thought that the two children were hungry and she was going to find rice.
However, he did not follow them. Instead, he wanted to wait for them to come out before sending someone to escort the three of them away...
The people in the barracks were very anxious when they saw Nangong Yuan exhausted and the soldiers lying on the ground. They didn't want the soldiers to die of starvation, but they had no other choice.
So a few people ran there again, and went to the granary countless times, thinking of going there again to have a look. Maybe there was some rice that was accidentally dropped before, which could prevent these people from going on the road hungry.
In fact, they knew that all the granaries had been searched countless times by them, but now they still wanted to check, just in case there was something accidentally left behind...