General, the lady escaped again

Chapter 1123: Trading Candy for Life (1)

"If we treat them like this, will they sell to us?" The Fourth Prince raised his head and looked at the general, frowning.

"Master, there's no harm in trying. I have no other choice now." The general sighed. One hundred thousand elite soldiers would consume tens of thousands of grains every day. Now that food is in short supply, any place that can produce grain is the greatest wealth.

"I'll leave this matter to you." The Fourth Prince said with a headache. He waved his hand and asked the generals to withdraw. He looked at the mess and felt that everything was going against his wishes.

Tie Lao San was discussing with Xu Feng what to do next when Hood ran in and said to the two of them, "Sir, for some unknown reason, they suddenly beat the drum and retreated!"

"Retreat?" Tie Laosan and Xu Feng looked at each other and immediately came to the top of the city wall. They saw that the Fourth Prince's elite troops had all retreated. Tie Laosan frowned.

"What does he want to do by retreating at this time?" Tie Lao San looked at Xu Feng. Xu Feng frowned and looked at the location of the Fourth Prince's camp in the distance, then shook his head.

He also didn't know whether they were really withdrawing their troops or it was a strategy of retreating to advance.

Just when the two were at a loss, the Fourth Prince actually sent an envoy and asked to meet with them.

"Third brother, go and meet them and see what they want?" Xu Feng looked at Tie Laosan. Tie Laosan raised his eyebrows and nodded. He had the envoy brought in and met the envoy in person.

"Greetings, Lord Tie." The messenger was an old acquaintance of Tie Lao San. They had drunk together and fought on the battlefield together before. However, since they had to make their own livings, he ran to his master, while Tie Lao became a servant of the Lin family.

"Just call me Laotie! I prefer you to call me that name." Tie Laosan asked him to sit down.

"Lao Zhang, how are you?" Tie Laosan called the visitor's name and motioned him to relax and sit down.

Zhang Da glanced at Tie Lao San, and seeing that he really wanted him to sit down and treated him with the same attitude as before, he sat down with mixed feelings. "How are you doing now that you have taken refuge with the Fourth Prince?"

"Living under someone else's roof." Zhang Da sighed. Seeing Tie Lao San, he couldn't help but feel emotional. "In today's world, if you want to survive, you have to seek refuge with your master. I took my family and went to seek refuge with the Fourth Prince. I thought I could get a good job, but in the end, I could barely even eat."

"I told you at the beginning that the Fourth Prince is not a good ruler." Tie Lao San glanced at Zhang Da and patted him on the shoulder.

"He wants to take over Heyang City. This is his first dream." Tie Laosan is not afraid that Zhang Da will go back and tell the Fourth Prince. With the elite troops the Fourth Prince currently has, he can still hold on a few more times.

They have food and people with backing, but they are different. They have known for a long time that they are short of food. If they cannot feed these soldiers, their soldiers will tear them apart.

"Why did you come here to see me?" Tie Lao San looked at Zhang Da and confessed. "I'm not afraid to tell you that we can only save this defeat, not lose it. You guys should just give up on Heyang City."

"In that case, how about we make peace?" Zhang Da nodded and suggested. "We can sign a ceasefire agreement and not attack Heyang City, but you must sell us some food."

Tie Lao San chuckled and looked at Zhang Da with a smile. "Are you okay? Did you get hit in the head just now? Otherwise, how could you say such stupid things?"

"I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. We really don't have any food at all now..." Zhang Da said with a wry smile.