Chapter 1401: The side story is ready, click on the book introduction to get it

The side story is ready, click on the book introduction to get it

The side story is ready, click on the book introduction to get it

Thought for a long time, still decided to open a new book.

Wanting to water it, it can still be watered, but it makes no sense.

All the awards that should be taken have been taken, and it is impossible for Luo Bao to arrange emotional dramas. It is boring for everyone to watch daily writing.

So the author decided to open a new book. The heroine is still Luo Quan, but the name will have a small modification.

The setting is crossing into a game she made to be a female boss, persecuting the Fourth Natural Disaster.

The story background is similar to a space opera like *Honkai: Star Rail*. The protagonist is a female mechanic plus martial artist, mainly farming in the early stage.

Similar ideas were actually written in the previous plot, but it was just a shallow attempt at that time.

Everyone can treat the new book as a sequel to this book. The protagonist's personality and even name are not much different from Luo Quan.

If there is no accident, the title of the new book should be *She Seems a Bit Too Extreme*.

The old book will arrange an ending later.

That's all. ===== CHAPTER 1402 =====

"What is it?" Du Du frowned, sensing that the "Shun rebels" had come up with some new trick.

"Prince... you... you will know once you go up to the city wall and see for yourself..." The soldier, seeing the atmosphere, dared not speak plainly and could only hint.

"Oh? Prince, please excuse me!" Upon hearing this, Du Du couldn't help but signal to Dai Shan that he was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, seeing this, Dai Shan seemed to have gone mad, saying, "Exactly, let's go together, let's go together!"

"Well... alright then!" Du Du hesitated for a moment, then had no choice but to nod helplessly.

When the group climbed the city wall, Dai Shan saw the bare parapets, his eyelids twitched, and a sense of unease rose in his heart.

He knew the fighting on the walls was intense, but he never expected it to be this severe.

In just a few days, all the defensive facilities on the city walls had been completely destroyed by the "Shun rebels."

"Prince, Prince, look!" Just then, the soldier pointed outward.

Everyone followed his finger and saw that there were only a dozen or so cannons lined up outside the city today, and behind those cannons, several teams of men were digging something.

"Tunneling?" Dai Shan's first reaction was that the rebel army intended to dig tunnels into the city.

"This..." Du Du looked carefully for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that's not it."

"In my opinion, what the 'Shun rebels' are digging is not a tunnel, but a trench!"

"A trench?" Dai Shan was stunned. He watched carefully for a long time and saw that the direction the rebel army was digging was parallel to the west side of the city, running north-south, not perpendicular to it.

If it were perpendicular, it would mean the opponent was preparing to dig into the city, which would definitely be a tunnel.

But since it was parallel, it was highly likely to be the trench Du Du mentioned.

Dai Shan first gave a mocking laugh, but then his heart trembled.

Do you know why?

It turned out that the Later Jin had also used this method of digging trenches to attack cities.

Back in the day, when the Later Jin's military prowess was at its peak, they besieged Zu Dashou at Daling River. Unable to take it for a long time, they dug trenches to completely surround him.

When the food supplies were exhausted and all reinforcements were defeated, Zu Dashou had no choice but to lead his men to surrender.

Now that the "Shun rebels" are using the same tactic, what does this mean?

It means the "Shun rebels" have no intention of a quick victory, but are planning for a protracted war.

When Zu Dashou was besieged, the Later Jin also surrounded him for three or four months before forcing him to surrender.

If the "Shun rebels" follow this tactic and prepare to besiege Shengjing Shenyang for three or four months, this is definitely not a good sign for the Later Jin.

"Quickly send men to check the other gates and see what the situation is!" Dai Shan, thinking of this, ordered with a solemn face.

"Ah? Right!" Du Du didn't react for a moment, but he agreed readily nonetheless.

"Report, the 'Shun rebels' are digging trenches at the south gate!"

"Report, the 'Shun rebels' are also digging trenches at the north gate!"

"Report, signs of the 'Shun rebels' have appeared at the east gate as well!"

Before long, message after message arrived, confirming Dai Shan's judgment.

"This... are these 'Shun rebels' planning to starve us to death?" By this time, Prince Anping Du Du had also realized the situation.

"That's right, it looks like they have that intention!" Dai Shan said with a dark face.

"But... didn't they say the 'Shun rebels' traveled thousands of miles out of the pass and were short on food and pay?" Du Du couldn't help but ask weakly.

"When the Fourth Prince entered the pass, he also said the 'Shun rebels' had no more than a hundred thousand troops. And what was the result? What happened?" Dai Shan retorted.

"Nothing is one hundred percent certain. A few days ago, I asked several old Han scholars, and when Zhu Zhu Yuanzhang entered Liaodong, he supported an army of two hundred thousand relying solely on the sea route."

"Now, how are these 'Shun rebels' any worse than the 'Zhu rebels'?"

"What?" Du Du was shocked to hear this.

From the early Ming to the late Ming, too much had changed; they found it hard to imagine how the Han lands could have had such powerful logistical capabilities when the Ming dynasty was just beginning and everything was in ruins.

Even if the rebel army couldn't project that much power now, projecting just half of it would be enough to give them a hard time.

"Then... what should we do?" Du Du could already imagine the terrifying scene of Shengjing Shenyang being surrounded by three layers of trenches, and people in the city "eating each other," with human flesh being sold everywhere.

"You all stay steady; I will go to see His Majesty!" Dai Shan thought for a moment and instructed.

"The Prince of Li wants to see me? What for?" Just as Dai Shan returned to the "Imperial Palace" to pay his respects to Dodo, he found Dodo drinking with two women.

"He... he says there is military intelligence..." the eunuch reported hurriedly.

"Oh? Then... let him in!" Dodo hiccuped and ordered groggily.

"Yes!" The servant replied, and soon led an old man over fifty inside.

"Your Majesty?" After the old man, Dai Shan, finished his salute, he couldn't help but frown at the unsightly scene before him.

"Why, have the 'Shun rebels' left?" Dodo asked with a laugh.

"Drink, let's keep drinking. We just need to drink until the 'Shun rebels' run out of food and retreat!" Dodo stretched his neck and took another sip from the wine cup in the woman's hand beside him.

"Your Majesty!" Dai Shan could no longer hold back and shouted, "The 'Shun rebels' have not left; instead, they are digging trenches on the north, west, and south sides, intending to completely besiege our Shengjing city!"

"Oh?" Dodo was unconcerned and laughed instead, "So you mean the east side isn't surrounded?"

"Correct!" Dai Shan, not understanding, could only nod.

"Since the east side isn't surrounded, what are you afraid of, Prince of Li?" Dodo laughed, "If he wants this Shengjing Shenyang, let him have it. What else can he do?"

"Can his tens of thousands of troops stay here forever?"

"Once he transfers his troops south, I will emerge from Hetu Ala again, following my father's story. What can he do to me then?"

"Retreat to Hetu Ala again?" Dai Shan felt a surge of rage and wished he could strangle this fellow.

"Yes, since Shengjing is hard to defend, why don't we flee into the mountains and wait for an opportunity to rise again?" Dodo laughed, "I hear the Jianzhou area is full of high mountains and steep ridges, with difficult roads. If the 'Shun rebels' come, I will surely annihilate their army..."

"Your Majesty!" Dai Shan couldn't help but shout even louder, "What do you think the old land of Jianzhou is?"

"It is a place of desolate mountains and treacherous waters, a backwater, a land of jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards!"

"Your Highness was young then and didn't know the hardships. Ever since Father led us out, not a single person has wanted to go back, not one!"

"Do you think they will follow you just because you give an order?"

"No, they won't!"

"They have enjoyed wealth and glory and can no longer endure that suffering. They would rather defect to the 'Shun rebels,' be their beasts of burden, their dogs and chickens, than go back!"

"When that time comes, is Your Majesty prepared to restore the nation on your own?"