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Because Prince Ning and his men had received news from Liaocheng before, and Zhang Junliang could almost memorize the map of the entire Dayong, the group of four quickly found the camp of Prince Ning's mansion.

Upon hearing that Prince Ning was coming in person, the commander-in-chief Kuang Wucai had to go out to greet him with a pout.

This person's face showed unhappiness and displeasure.

What's going on? !

Does Prince Ning look down on General Kuang, or does he have doubts about him?

Although, I have been here for half a month and there has been no progress at all.

but!

Didn’t the King of Qi and his men make any progress?

What does it mean that no one is making any progress?

It seems that General Kuang is not a bad representative.

To be more specific, Kuang Wu felt that although he had lost a prime minister, at least he had not lost the Prince of Ning, right? !

Putting aside the fact that Prince Ning bought Liaocheng in the first place, the trouble he caused is much smaller than that caused by Qiu Sheng at the hands of Prince Qi, right?

So as for the arrival of Prince Ning, Kuang Wucai really felt that... it was unnecessary.

However, Kuang Wucai still had to put in some superficial effort, "Your Highness, it is really a pity that you came in person~~~"

Although Prince Ning was somewhat dissatisfied with Kuang Wucai's delay in taking over Liaocheng, this was not the time to fall out with him.

So he nodded slightly to his brother-in-law and said, "General Kuang, you have worked hard. It's been a long time since we last met..."

Why are you still fat?!

The mouth is fragrant.

Is this guy really fighting a good battle?!

What kind of good guy can get fat in a war?!

But now is the time to use people.

In addition, Prince Ning's greatest support now is his father-in-law, so he did not directly question Kuang Wucai how the war turned out like this.

Kuang Wucai smiled and said that he was not tired, then led King Ning into his tent.

After several people sat down in the tent, King Ning asked about the current situation in Liaocheng.

It was clearly agreed before that after ten days of siege, Liaocheng would be in chaos.

How come it's been more than half a month now, but there is no movement in the city at all?

Kuang Wucai shrugged, "It's hard to say. Maybe they have enough food stored in the city, or the people are under surveillance. It's also possible that... they have a secret passage to deliver food into the city!"

“Basically every royal palace has a secret passage leading to the outside of the city. Don’t tell me that you haven’t found the exit of this secret passage yet!” King Ning leaned forward, almost unable to contain his anger.

Fortunately, Kuang Wu replied, "I found it. I found it a long time ago."

This happened a long time ago~~~actually just two days ago.

The key point is that it was not found by the Ning Wang army, but was accidentally found by the Qi Wang army next door during an inspection fifty miles outside the city.

Fifty miles away from the city!

What kind of good person would dig such a long tunnel? !

Kuang Wu then realized that it was not entirely his people’s fault for not discovering the secret passage.

But that doesn't matter anymore.

“No matter how the people of Liaocheng transported grain into the city before, they will definitely not be able to use the secret passage of the palace to transport grain. The secret passage has been destroyed.” Kuang Wu explained to King Ning.

King Ning was shocked, "Are you guys stupid? Why don't you go through the secret passage and directly enter the city?"

".......Prince, we didn't destroy the secret passage," Kuang Wucai said with a sullen face, "Although I am not as experienced as my father, I have fought in the southeast battlefield for so many years. It's not that I can't think of this."

Also.

King Ning raised his eyebrows and said, "I am also anxious, uncle, please don't worry about it."

Zhang Junliang also hurriedly tried to help Prince Ning, saying, "General Kuang, please forgive me. The wind direction in the court changes every day, so the prince is anxious to take Liaocheng first and seize the initiative, so he is a little anxious. General Kuang should be able to understand, right?"

"Well," Kuang Wu hummed, "I know that Your Highness is anxious, but being anxious is useless. We have tried to attack the city gate before.

However, no one knows where Prince Kang's palace got the gunpowder from. The explosive power is much greater than that of ordinary gunpowder, and even cannons are not needed. It can be thrown out by catapults.

Just two days ago, we organized an attack with the people from Prince Qi's Palace, but we didn't even reach the city gate, and we lost hundreds of people in vain."

"What kind of gunpowder is so powerful?" Zhang Junliang asked hurriedly.

Kuang Wu shook his head, "I'm afraid it was collected by Prince Kang's men themselves. If it was made by someone else in the army, we wouldn't know about it, but how could Qiu Sheng not know about it? Isn't his father-in-law the Minister of War?"

"Gunpowder will eventually run out," Prince Ning frowned and said, "Could it be possible that Liaocheng still has an endless supply of gunpowder raw materials?"

"The problem is that we don't know how much gunpowder they have left.

Your Majesty, you must know that siege warfare requires human lives, and there is an unknown amount of gunpowder in their city. How many people will have to die to fill the gunpowder pit?"

Prince Ning remained silent.

Although he was unhappy in his heart, he could not say anything like "the lives of the untouchables are not as important as the throne."

After all, the main force of Prince Ning’s army was brought by Kuang Wucai, and he is really... someone you can’t afford to offend.

So he could only change the subject and ask Kuang Wucai, "On the way here, I met many young men who said they wanted to join the army. But why don't we see any soldiers being recruited here?"

"Recruiting soldiers?" Kuang Wucai looked puzzled, "We don't have any... Oh~~~~~ I understand!! It must be Qiu Sheng who is recruiting the suicide squad!

I was wondering why that guy hadn’t made any moves in the past few days. It turns out he was secretly recruiting people! No, if he’s recruiting people, we have to recruit too!”

"General Kuang, don't get excited," Zhang Junliang stopped Kuang Wu when he saw him getting up to leave the tent, "As you said, we don't know how much gunpowder there is in the city. In this situation, acting rashly will only result in wasting lives.

Besides, we can’t verify the identity of the people we recruited for a while. What if there are spies among them? Wouldn’t that be bad? "

"Spies?" Kuang Wucai looked at Zhang Junliang and asked, "What kind of spies could there be? If the Qi Wang Mansion really wanted to use some means, they should have used them long ago. As for the Kang Wang Mansion inside...could they send someone out to spy on us? What do they want?"

"This is not a question of what to aim for or not," Zhang Junliang was almost led into a trap by Kuang Wucai, "As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy will ensure victory in every battle. It's not necessarily that he aims for anything, but just to understand our movements.

But let’s not discuss this for now. The main reason why the prince came this time was to quickly capture Liaocheng and gain the upper hand! "

"Could it be..." Kuang Wu looked at Prince Ning, "Your Highness is in the capital, and no one supports you?"

"........" Prince Ning's nostrils flared, and he was furious. "Kuang Wucai!! Don't think that you can be so arrogant just because I call you uncle! I......"

Before Prince Ning could vent his anger, he heard a sudden commotion outside.

"Go and have a look, what happened!" Prince Ning shouted to the guards beside him.

Kuang Wucai, however, had already rushed out of the tent with his sword in hand...

............

After a while.

Zhang Junliang returned to the tent.

Prince Ning, who was pacing back and forth in the tent, asked hurriedly, "Who is causing trouble?"

"Your Highness, don't be nervous. It's just some refugees who wanted to steal food and fodder from the military camp, and they were caught red-handed by the people guarding the food and fodder." Zhang Junliang replied.

Prince Ning said without comment: "We should still be careful. What if it is a spy from the city?"

"Yes, Your Majesty is right." Zhang Junliang bowed and said, "General Kuang is already questioning him.

I have seen that the young general is interrogating people ruthlessly, and I think it won’t take long for him to find out where those people came from.”

Prince Ning nodded and finally let out a breath.

Really, he was scared to death.