Defend the city.
Jiang Wenhuan looked around. With so many Rong People suddenly appearing, the soldiers were trembling with fear.
Li City's walls were not particularly tall or imposing. Whether they could hold back the enemy remained an open question.
Li Yu had a point, too.
Blade in hand, Jiang Wenhuan was itching for action. He looked at the enemy below the walls and uttered three words: "Defend the city."
The gate commander quickly organized the defenses, and the soldiers hurried up onto the walls.
Civilians were still running about in panic inside the city. Watching soldier after soldier climb the walls, they were utterly shocked.
The Rong People had really come, and unlike before, they had even advanced right up to the city walls.
Countless people felt a chill down their backs. They had all moved here from the villages outside. Without that move, without the walls to shelter them, would they already be dead?
Fortifying the walls and clearing the countryside-thank goodness Lord Li Yu had proposed it!
As expected, it was still Marquis Li's descendant who kept common folk like them in his heart. Every soldier and civilian throughout Li Territory had entered the city. Without the fortified walls and cleared countryside, by now they would probably...
The women in their homes would have been violated, the grain they had painstakingly saved would have been plundered, and their homes would have been left in ruins.
Even if Jiang Wenhuan could hold Li City, countless people in the villages and towns outside would probably already be dead with nowhere to bury them, while untold stores of grain would have become provisions for the Rong People!
All at once, their eyes shone as they turned toward Li Yu, toward that slightly plump figure.
Li Yu smiled. This was exactly