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"Will you give up fighting without reinforcements?" Tuoba Yuhai asked Mu Li, "If I tell you that no reinforcements will come to rescue you, are you planning to surrender to the group of wolf cubs outside the fort in exchange for vitality?"

"Please calm down, I don't mean that!" Mu Li hurriedly knelt down and begged Tuoba Yuhai for forgiveness, "Mu Li has never been afraid of death, but is just worried that if there were no reinforcements, Mu Li would not be able to help the king escape from danger even if he gave up his life, and he would regret it for life..."

"When is it your turn to worry about my life and death!" Tuoba Yuhai shouted sharply, pointing to Mu Li and said, "How can you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy for the general? Mu Li, you have been with me for twenty years, why have you forgotten such a simple truth? I tell you that you should do what you should do, and other things are not the issues you should consider!"

"Yes, king!"

Mu Li's entire head was almost pressed to the ground and responded respectfully.

Tuoba Yuhai breathed a lightly breath: "Okay, get up, hurry up and pack up some useful arrows. After that, hurry up and go into the house to roast the fire, and keep some horse meat for you..." Then, without waiting for Mu Li to reply, he strode into the fort.

"Ahem cough cough..."

In the broken and airy fortress, a cough sounded. Looking closely, I saw several Menglu soldiers who had just ended the war in front of the bonfire, all wrapped in a blanket and trembling as they looked at the fire.

Tuoba Yuhai thought about it, then came to them and sat down...

"king……"

When the god of war he respected arrived, these Menglu soldiers with worries still tried hard to pretend to be handsome and upright.

"Sit down, don't get up..." Tuoba Yuhai stopped and suppressed the Mengluo soldiers, then fiddled with the bonfire a few times, put his palms on it and roasted it. "I know that you all have high fevers now. If you don't want to die, then pay more attention to these fires and don't let yourself get frozen..."

Over the years, the personal guards in the Saint Gang Castle have lost more than 80 people, more than half of which were frozen to death by this bad weather.

To be precise, the cold wind hurts the lungs and delays the best time for treatment. The remaining ones who were lucky enough to be frozen to death, and dozens of people also frostbite the lungs, dragging their sick bodies to fight to the death with tens of thousands of Murong troops outside the fort.

"I hope tomorrow will be a good weather, so I won't be as cold as today..." Tuoba Yuhai prayed in his heart that tomorrow would be a good weather, and then tied a piece of horse meat with branches and put it on the fire and baked it.

"Wang, I'm back..."

When the meat was roasted until it was 70% or 80% cooked, Mu Li and his men each entered the fortress with a large bundle of wolf-toothed arrows.

"How many arrows have you collected in total?" Tuoba Yuhai glanced at the arrows in the hands of Mu Li and his two subordinates, and asked with a little confusion.

Mu Li put down the arrow branch and said, "King Qibing, there are a total of 1,200 wolf-toothed arrows here..."

Before Mu Li finished speaking, Tuoba Yuhai immediately said in a deep voice: "One thousand two hundred wolf-toothed arrows are not enough to be needed for tomorrow's battle. How many soldiers can be fought in less than three hundred, four or five arrows per person?"

But Mu Li said without caring: "Wang, it's okay. Tomorrow the group of wolf cubs will still send us the missing arrows into the castle."

Tuoba Yuhai's face was not as optimistic as Mu Li. He handed the roasted horse meat to a Menglu soldier beside the bonfire, got up and came to the entrance of the fort, looked at the sixteen corpses lying on the ground under the torch, and lightly saw them.

"How many people have been lost in total?"

"Report to the king, including these sixteen people, there are already ninety-eight people..."

Tuoba Yuhai nodded and waved to the subordinate who answered his words: "Send the remains of the warrior to the fortress next door. If we can go out alive, I will definitely not treat their family unfairly..."

Upon hearing this, the subordinate immediately followed Tuoba Yuhai's instructions and carried the bodies into the next room to put them together with the other eighty-two corpses.

Tuoba Yuhai walked up the city wall and looked at the brightly lit camp outside Shenggang Castle, and he sighed deeply, not knowing what he was thinking...

...

In the Murong army camp, five leading leaders were gathering in Murong Bao’s tent to calculate the losses of today’s battle.

"Today, the loss of the troops from all departments is coming soon, and a total of 1,200 slaves were lost. Including the 600 people yesterday, this time we have lost 2,000 slaves under the 100th Fortress. This has not included the 600 cavalry who died more than ten days ago..."

After Murong Shao finished reporting, he immediately picked up the hot horse milk wine and took a sip to warm his body.

The casualties are extremely heavy, so the atmosphere in Murong Bao’s tent is a bit dull. Seeing this, Murong Chong hurriedly smoothed out and said, "Why do you have to be so depressed? Don’t forget that those who died were just some dispensable slaves, and our main force did not suffer too many casualties!"

When everyone heard Murong Chong's words, they felt better. After thinking about it carefully, it was right. Their main force did not suffer much loss. What was the death of those slaves?

Seeing that the atmosphere became more harmonious, Murong Chong said to Murong Bao, who had been taciturn, "Brother Bao, are you still worried about Tuoba Yuhai's affairs?"

Murong Bao said: "The Holy Emperor cannot not know that the people in Shenggang Castle are the auxiliary kings, if he is..."

"Nothing happens!" Murong Chong said confidently, "Don't worry, brother Bao, no one in the entire grassland will come to save Tuoba Yuhai!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and looked at Murong Chong in one after another. Murong Chao asked, "Brother, what do you mean?"

Murong Chong explained with a smile: "After all, I have been in the rule of the prince-consort, and I have heard him talk about the court. In fact, the Holy Emperor has long been dissatisfied with Tuoba Yuhai and tried every means to get rid of him..."

Murong Shenyi was shocked: "This is what the prince consort told you? This is impossible. The Holy Emperor and Tuoba Yuhai are biological brothers, and Tuoba Yuhai has made great achievements in the rise of the Mengluo Empire!"

Murong Chong glanced at the corner of his mouth: "Actually, it is reasonable to think about it carefully. The Holy Emperor is the master of the Mengluo Empire, and Tuoba Yuhai is the God of War in the Mengluo Empire.

So the question is, do you think the people of the Monroe Empire respect more the Holy Emperor or more the God of War?

If the herdsmen worship the God of War, where will the Holy Emperor be put? Therefore, no one is in the position of the Holy Emperor, they cannot tolerate someone around them to share their own power and affect their prestige.

Even if this person is his own brother, killing each other for power is not uncommon in the world..."

When Murong Bao and the other four nodded slightly when they heard this, they agreed to Murong Chong's words.

"That means that even if we kill Tuoba Yuhai now, the Holy Emperor will not blame us?" Murong Shen said with a smile while gnawing on a piece of mutton.

Murong Chong nodded and said, "That's certain, but it's inevitable that we will be scolded. But with the Murong family as a backing, we don't have to worry too much about being settled by Qiu Hou..."

"Okay!" Murong Chao roared, "Since the Holy Emperor has acquiesced to us to massacre the god of war on the grassland, what else can we worry about? Tomorrow, we will strive to conquer the Shenggang Castle in one fell swoop, take off Tuoba Yuhai's head, and show the group of people who worship the god of war on the grassland. Their king is just like this in the eyes of our Murong tribe!"

"Hahaha……"

The entire tent immediately burst into laughter, and even Murong Bao calmed down.

Only Murong Chong smiled with a strange look, as if a conspiracy was about to be achieved...

...

At the same time, on the grassland 80 miles away from Shenggang Fort, Liu Ce's reinforcements have also begun to camp and rest, intending to continue marching and rescue at dawn...

After Chu Zijun arranged his subordinates and handed the horse to one of them, he walked to Liu Ce's location to report on his itinerary today.

When he came to Liu Ce, he saw Wei Dian, Jiao Luo and Zhang Dingbian sitting by the campfire, carefully studying the upcoming battle.

"Thirty thousand people? This number is quite large..." After Zhang Dingbian heard about the approximate number of enemies in the Shenggang Castle, he sighed and couldn't help but say, "Subject our infantry that has not arrived. I'm afraid that this is the number. Can you win? You must know that this is not as good as behind the city wall..."

"Nonsense!" Jiao Luo shouted loudly when he heard this, "Of course I can win. I really don't know what to worry about?"

"That's the Monroe army!" Zhang Dingbian reminded with concern, "Thousands of Monroe cavalry could break through the defense line of 200,000 troops in the Great Zhou Dynasty, we..."

When Wei Ding heard this, he said impatiently: "Why are you here to come if you are afraid? Let me tell you, there is no timid soldier in our Military Governor's Office. No matter how strong his enemy is, just say hello. Why do you want to do so much?"

Zhang Dingbian took a sip of the boiling hot tea and said, "I know, it's just the first time I went out with the army, so I can't help feeling a little nervous..."

"Okay, stop arguing..." Liu Ce stopped everyone from arguing in time, "Wei Dian, go and bring the food, rest early after eating, and continue on the road as soon as tomorrow morning..."

"Abide by the order!"

After hearing this, Wei Ding twisted his body like an iron tower, got up and went to his horse to look for food...

"Why don't you leave? Why did you stop?"

At this moment, Suquetai's anxious scolding came from far away.

"Call your commander over! I'm going to ask him why he stopped and left!"

Liu Ce frowned when he heard this. Chu Zijun happened to sit down. Seeing Liu Ce's appearance, he explained to him: "Mr. Military Governor, don't be surprised. He is like this. He has been anxious for a day and insisted on urging us to rush on the road day and night, and he can't listen to the explanation..."

Liu Ce nodded, ignored Sugaide and continued to fiddle with the bonfire to make it burn more vigorously.

But Sugaide never finished the quarrel. Finally, he came directly to Liu Ce's bonfire. When he saw Chu Zijun, he widened his eyes and asked, "Why don't you leave? How many roads have you done?"

Chu Zijun was about to answer, but Liu Ce said directly: "Stop quarrel, I know how to leave. General Suguide should calm down and eat something to rest early."

Suguide looked at Liu Ce and said anxiously: "The king has been besieged in Shenggang Fort for many days. Do you still have the intention to do your best?"

Liu Ce replied lightly: "Isn't your king the God of War in the minds of grassland herders? If he can't support the end at this time, then the name of this God of War is really unworthy of its name, and this military governor shouldn't have taken the risk to save him!"

Sughotai was speechless and didn't know how to speak to Liu Ce for a moment, but Liu Ce continued: "Murong army still surrounded Shenggang Castle without any sign of retreat. This shows that your king is at least safe now. Go to bed early and rush to the battlefield as soon as tomorrow dawn!"
Chapter completed!