I Became a Sugar Mama to an Ancient General during a Famine! - Chapter 18 Part 2

Everyone stood up, their faces smiling, filled with renewed passion!

Chen Kui and Chen Wu went to recruit soldiers.

Song Duo went to forge weapons.

Mao Yangbo increased manpower for patrols, with orders to immediately arrest anyone approaching the city walls.

The rest went to repair the city walls!

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As darkness fell, Zhan Chengyin saw several dishes and boxes of rice on the table. His thin lips revealed a faint smile.

The god had come to feed him again.

Last night it was braised fish. Today it was steamed pork ribs, braised beef, stir-fried vegetables, and tomato egg drop soup.

She really spared no effort in providing food.

He opened the meal boxes and invited Xu Ming and Tian Qin to eat together.

The two waved their hands in refusal: “General, we’ve already eaten with the troops.”

“Today we had steamed rice, a dish of stir-fried pork, a dish of stir-fried cabbage, and winter melon soup… It was truly delicious.”

“Yes, so this is what steamed rice tastes like. Very fragrant, not at all rough on the throat, the rice flavor is delicate, and there’s even a hint of sweetness when chewed.”

Zhan Chengyin only ate the steamed pork ribs and soup. He gave the remaining dishes and rice to Tian Qin to take back for Uncle Li.

Tian Qin accepted.

After finishing the meal, Zhan Chengyin studied the sand table.

The barbarians were gathered within a thirty-li radius, with their main force concentrated at the center of the city gate.

Behind them were fifty thousand barbarian troops, cutting off communication between the Zhan family army and the Great Qi Kingdom.

If the barbarians committed all their forces to the main gate, how long could they hold out?

They might break through in just one day.

Now that everyone could eat their fill, the Khan of the Northern Barbarians would likely receive news soon.

In a few days, they might gather for an all-out attack…

Raising the city walls and forging weapons was already too late..

Thinking of this, Zhan Chengyin stood up, one hand behind his back, frowning as he paced back and forth.

At this moment, another white paper floated down.

「Classmate Zhan Chengyin, have you rested?」

‘Is she calling me a classmate now?’ he mused.

The god addressing him as a classmate was interesting…

「Not yet. Has the god rested?」

「No, I’ve been exhausted from transferring so many items today. I just got home and ate, but I can’t sleep, so let’s chat!」

「Alright, what would the god like to discuss?」

Ye Mumu saw that he wrote on the paper she sent down, not using a new sheet.

This young general was very frugal.

「Let’s talk about how to break through the defenses at Zhen Guan .」

If the Zhan family army continued to be trapped, he would die!

Old Mu had mentioned before how the Great Qi Kingdom fell.

Once Zhan Chengyin died, the Great Qi Kingdom would lose its pillar, and would quickly be crushed by the barbarians along with several other countries!

At the age of twenty, like the young general Huo Qubing, Zhan Chengyin would die too young!

It would be such a pity if he died!

If he could survive, he would surely leave a brilliant mark in history.

Zhan Chengyin took a long time to send back a reply.

「There’s food in the city, but it can’t be kept secret. I’m still thinking of ways to break out of this situation.」

「Today we recruited civilians in the city to join the army. Out of eighty thousand people in the city, we can recruit at most twenty thousand new soldiers.」

The Zhan family army plus the newly recruited twenty thousand would total forty thousand troops.

Forty thousand versus three hundred thousand – the difference in numbers was too great.

「I’ll help you think of a way. Since you’ve recruited new soldiers, do you have military equipment?」

「For example, swords, spears, shields, armor, bows and arrows… Do you have weapons?」

「If only you had guns, that would be great! Modern weapons against cold steel would be a total massacre!」

Ye Mumu suddenly realized something and jumped to her feet, excited.

How had she not thought of it before? If they had guns, twenty thousand men could definitely break through three hundred thousand.

But firearms were prohibited domestically.

If she bought them, she would be arrested and jailed, unable to send any more supplies to the Zhan family army. The whole city would starve!

Should she fly to America to purchase them?

She wasn’t sure if the money in her account was enough for tens of thousands of guns and ammunition.

At this moment, Ye Mumu really wanted to buy them modern weapons.

As long as they could break out and survive, it would be worth it.

She opened her phone and saw armor for sale on shopping sites, over six thousand yuan each. For forty thousand people it would cost 240 hundred million yuan!

She wasn’t sure if modern armor could withstand the barbarians’ swords and arrows.

There were also bulletproof vests for sale, cheap ones for a few hundred yuan, better ones for a few thousand… with ceramic or steel plates.

They could protect against gunshots, sword cuts, and arrows.

But bulletproof vests couldn’t protect the arms and legs.