The Savage Lady Wants to Kill Me! Reborn on the Path of Cultivation

"Princess, perhaps we can try to avoid Jinling Town and advance to Jinzhou?" There was a hint of temptation in Feng Sheng's voice.

Before Yi Shuirou could respond, Wen Daozun repeatedly shook his head and firmly opposed: "This is absolutely not allowed! If our army bypasses Jinling Town, the 100,000 enemy troops entrenched there will be like a sharp blade hanging behind our backs, and they may give us a fatal blow at any time. By then, not only will our army be unable to launch a surprise attack behind the enemy, but we will be in a situation where we will be attacked by the enemy!"

"Mr. Wen is absolutely right!" Zheng Guang took over the conversation at the right time. "If we bypass Jinling Town, our army will be like a tree without roots. Our logistics supply will be cut off, and our retreat route will also be cut off. If there is any setback in the war, we may be wiped out!"

"Are we going to be dragged down and defeated by the 100,000 enemy troops in Jinling Town?" Feng Sheng spread his hands, glanced eagerly at everyone, and asked in a hurry.

Yi Shuirou stroked her chin gently, revealing deep worry in her silence.

The lengthy battle of Jinling Town undoubtedly resulted in a missed opportunity to participate in the frontal battlefield.

But if we abandon this town and go through Jinzhou, as Wen Daozun and Zheng Guang said, we will be trapped in a desperate situation with supplies cut off and isolated and helpless.

If the 100,000-strong army cannot successfully join forces with the princess' army, the consequences will be unpredictable when food and aid are exhausted.

She turned her gaze to Duan Tianyang, her voice filled with anxiety: "Sir Duan, you raided Jinling Town. Can you confirm that all the food and grass in the city have been burned?"

"Well..." Duan Tianyang recalled the raid. Admittedly, they burned a large amount of food and grass in the city, but he was not sure whether that was the entire reserve of the Jin army.

He shook his head slightly, his tone cautious: "I can't guarantee that all the food and grass in the city have been burned. After all, time was tight. However, the military rations we burned were at least millions of stones. I don't think there are more food and grass hidden in the city."

"In that case, the enemy troops in the city should have run out of food and grass long ago..." Before she finished her words, a soldier rushed in from outside the door, saluted to Yi Shuirou and Duan Tianyang, and reported urgently: "Princess, sir, we have just intercepted a group of Jin soldiers who have fled from Jinling Town in a panic."

As soon as these words were spoken, a bright light suddenly flashed in everyone's eyes. They were worried about the unclear situation in the city, but this was an unexpected surprise, like a blessing from heaven.

Duan Tianyang asked hurriedly: "How many people were caught in total?"

"Reporting to the Lord, there are no less than a hundred people."

"Bring them here immediately!"

"Yes, sir!" the soldier responded and left.

After he left, Duan Tianyang raised a faint smile and said leisurely: "We will soon know whether the enemy troops in the city have run out of food."

Soon, more than a hundred Jin army prisoners arrived at the central military camp under the escort of soldiers.

They looked haggard, pale and thin, their clothes were tattered, and their armor was loose, as if it could be blown down by a gust of wind. Their miserable appearance was unbearable to look at.

Yi Shuirou, Duan Tianyang and others walked out of the tent and saw this scene, and they couldn't help but be surprised.

These Jin soldiers are like displaced refugees. How can they look like soldiers at all?

Worse still, some could not stand steadily and collapsed to the ground. Only after being roughly driven away by the soldiers did they struggle to get up, their legs trembling like candles in the wind.

After examining these Jin soldiers, Duan Tianyang asked in a deep voice: "Which Jin army corps are you from?"

"I am a member of the Eighth Legion."

"I am the Fourteenth Legion!" The Jin soldiers answered one after another, with panic in their voices.

"You left the city late at night. Are you planning to attack our military camp?"

"No... I dare not. Your Excellency, please understand. We came here to escape from the sea of ​​suffering... We came here to beg for surrender..." A Jin soldier who seemed to be the leader had a trembling voice and his words were full of panic.

"Begging for surrender? Why?" Duan Tianyang approached slowly, his hands behind his back, a faint smile on his face, and asked, "Did something happen in the city?"

"Your Excellency, you don't know... Life in the city has reached a desperate situation. We haven't had a grain of rice for two days!" After saying this, he suddenly knelt on the ground, crying, "I beg your Excellency to have mercy on us and give us a bite of food and a way to survive. We are willing to swear allegiance to you until our death, even if it means sacrificing our lives!"

"Please have mercy on us, sir, and give us food to survive..." The rest of the Jin soldiers also knelt down, kowtowed and begged. The scene was tragic.

Duan Tianyang exchanged glances with Yi Shuirou, then he squatted down, patted the leader's shoulder, and said in a gentle tone: "Food is not a problem, and I can also not kill you, but you have to answer a few questions for me."

"Your Excellency, please feel free to ask me anything. I will tell you everything I know!"

"Very good! Then let me ask you, have all the food in the city been eaten up?"

"We have indeed been out of food for more than two days. At first, we could barely survive with three meals a day, but then it was reduced to two meals a day, and then one meal. Until today, we have not eaten a grain of rice. We are so hungry that we have to risk our lives and escape..." When he said this, he burst into tears, and the soldiers behind him also burst into tears.

Duan Tianyang frowned slightly and asked again: "How could there not be even a grain of military rations left in such a big city?"

"Sir, the city was originally well-stocked, but unfortunately something happened and all the food and grass was burned. Even the mice couldn't find a single grain of food in the granary."

After saying this, Duan Tianyang couldn't help but raise his lips slightly, and then he ordered the Hongxing Army soldiers beside him: "Go get some dry food and distribute it to them."

The soldiers responded and soon two soldiers returned carrying a large basket of dry food.

This dry food is specially made by the army. It has been dried in the sun and wind and is dehydrated. Although it tastes rough, it is enough to fill the stomach.

The Jin soldiers knelt on the ground and witnessed this scene, with green light flashing in their eyes, swallowing saliva in their throats, and their eyes full of desire and eagerness.

Duan Tianyang looked at this scene and chuckled, "What are you waiting for? Go eat."

As soon as he finished speaking, the hundred or so Jin soldiers rushed towards the dry food baskets like hungry tigers, and stuffed the dry food into their mouths with both hands without hesitation.

Duan Tianyang stared at the group of Jin soldiers who were eating voraciously, thinking to himself, and then ordered the soldiers around him: "Bring a few more baskets, let them eat until they are full."

He knew very well that these Jin soldiers were so hungry that if they did not exercise restraint, their stomachs would burst.

But this move was actually intentional, intended to test the authenticity of their hunger and to verify whether the food in the city was really exhausted.

Just as the Jin soldiers were greedily scrambling for the dry food and wolfing it down, Duan Tianyang calmly walked into the group, suddenly picked up a burly Jin soldier, and said in a deep voice: "Eat later."

The Jin soldier was stunned, with food still in his mouth, his eyes dull, and he pleaded incoherently: "Sir, why...why..."

Duan Tianyang called to the thin soldier beside him and ordered, "Give him a spear, and you two can fight immediately."

As soon as these words came out, the Jin soldiers' faces suddenly changed, they were terrified, and begged for mercy again and again: "Sir, please spare my life, sir, please spare my life!"