63 Chapter 63 Tower Master Zhou, there's no need for courtesy_1

Lu Chen stared at the parchment in his hands, remaining silent for almost a quarter of an hour.

This was the real crisis he had faced since arriving in North City.

In fact, if he could not withstand the Barbarian Tribe's attack when the time came and simply abandoned his fief to return to the Capital, he would at most be punished, but not to the point of death.

However, once he actively abandoned his fief and fled alone to the Capital, his reputation as a Prince would genuinely plummet, to the point of being irrecoverable.

A prince who abandons his people and his territory would be nailed to the pillar of historical shame.

But if he didn't leave, he would have to face a very real problem.

Thirty thousand against three hundred thousand, how would he fight!

And it was infantry against cavalry, no less!

North City had thirteen counties, exactly thirteen fortresses, which thirty thousand soldiers could not possibly defend.