"According to Vina, spies the Heaven Dou Empire planted in the Sun Moon Empire sent word back that Xu Tianran's decision to lead his own troops as Crown Prince and leave the court had several princes itching to make a move."
"Right now, those princes also hold posts in the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Works. One controls provisions and military supplies, one controls reinforcement deployments, and one controls engineering equipment. Although they haven't openly opposed him, they've tripped him up plenty behind the scenes."
"If we can drag things out a little longer, given how the Sun Moon Border Army's collection of provisions and military supplies keeps getting delayed, we might be able to hold out longer..."
At this point, Long Ao Tian rubbed his face hard. He had memorized all this a day earlier at Vina's instruction. Vina couldn't get away at the moment, so naturally, she could only send him to relay the message.
"So that's how it is."
Hearing this, Chen Ping knitted his brows tightly. The Heaven Dou Empire's situation was even worse than he had imagined.
Even with reinforcements from the Dou Ling Empire, they still couldn't withstand the Sun Moon Empire's holy F2A-all troops, all in. Clearly, the gap in raw stats was simply too great. They couldn't take a beating at all.
With the three princes each clinging to one of Xu Tianran's arms or a leg, dragging him back with all their might, his army was still advancing at an appalling speed. There really was no cure for this.
No, wait. The Sun Moon Empire hadn't brought a supply train along on this invasion. Food for a month of forced marches could be stuffed into Storage Soul Tools, but surely the shells the army burned