Chapter 71 Princess Wan'an(1/2)
After understanding the reason, no one will question Zhao Xin's actions. The prefect abandoned the city and fled, and Princess Luohe took over Yangcheng in danger. Otherwise, people's hearts would be in chaos and no one would take charge of the overall situation. Yangcheng would be like opening the city gate to the Di people and letting the Di people plunder and massacre the people.
Princess Luohe is in charge of Yangcheng, and will ensure safety for at least a while. Just wait for the border guards to arrive as soon as possible to relieve the danger of Yangcheng.
Zhao Jin was both appreciating the emperor's actions of defending the city and worrying about her safety. He knew very well that the garrison in Yangcheng was only 2,000 at most, and it was just a drop in the bucket for the tens of thousands of Di people who detoured south to raid. Moreover, the Di people who were vicious against the border were cruel. The soldiers of Yangcheng had not been in battle for a long time, so it was too difficult to defend the city.
In the end, the concerns overwhelmed the praise, and in view of the suggestion of the two ministers of the cabinet, the order was ordered by the border guards Qi Lin and Quan Sheng to lead 20,000 troops to Yangcheng to protect the guards.
And give the Luohe Princess the ability to mobilize the troops below the throne.
Even the censors did not object because they knew very well that Princess Luohe might not be able to wait for the army to rescue the lord safely.
Yangcheng,
Perhaps because of the noble person like Princess Luohe who was surrounded by the cruel Di people, the officials in the government office felt much more at ease. Moreover, Princess Luohe did not show that she was not ignorant of the military guarding the city, but was much more competent than their previous prefects.
There has been no war on the border for a long time, and Yangcheng is not a military city. It is mainly famous for its business journey, so the prefect was appointed as the prefect to get a position that seemed bad but was actually lacking in wealth due to its family background.
The money was collected quickly and the exotic beauties he had raised were also abandoned.
Although time was urgent, Zhao Xin did not forget to clean up the Yangcheng Prefecture Office, eliminated all the officials who were mediocre and inaction, and even allowed people to watch, saving her trouble.
She also had people watching the Di caravan, but the staff was already nervous, and it was not clear whether other tribes and countries joined forces with the Di people. She simply asked the people of Yangcheng to watch all the caravans and personally came forward to comfort them.
There was nothing unusual in the caravan. Princess Daxi personally asked their little businessman that as long as she still wanted to do business with Daxi, she would not resist.
In terms of defending the city, Zhao Xin also built Yangcheng into a turtle shell in a short time. If the city wall is thin, it will be piled with sandbags and rice bags. It is not enough, and there is also a large amount of goods. Yangcheng is not short of this thing.
The guards of the important whistle were replaced with her guards, and the spears and spears of the Yangcheng Armory were also moved out, and they were urgently made into simple giants, placed on the city wall, and ordered people to collect iron tools in the city and remade weapons.
After having no worries for the time being, Zhao Xin summoned the officials who were kept by her.
"The Di people detoured south and had captured one city and three counties. Now that the troops are coming to my Yangcheng, do you have any suggestions?"
Zhao Xin asked the officials of Yangcheng to gather ideas because they were more familiar with Yangcheng and borders than Zhao Xin, and they were more or less useful.
Some people proposed to defend Yangcheng to the death and wait for the arrival of the border troops, and there were many more people agreeing, especially because the strictness of the Luohe Princess defending the city made them feel at ease.
Zhao Xin's expression was light and he didn't say anything.
A young man in a small flag soldier uniform came out and bowed his head and said, "I have a plan to relieve the danger of Yangcheng."
Some people frowned, not understanding how to get a soldier to get married.
Zhao Xin looked at him with his jaw on his right hand, "You said."
When the young man finished his plan, everyone present was shocked. This plan was really vicious and hurt the enemy by one thousand and hurting himself by eight hundred.
Due to her identity, Cheng Yue did not dare to look directly at the princess's sage, but he hoped that the princess would agree to this plan, otherwise he would not have tried his best to get in. Princess Luohe's short-term measures to manage Yangcheng proved that she was definitely a person like Huang Taishou who was greedy for life and feared death and was not knowledgeable. On the contrary, she would know people and take responsibility for it, and would definitely pay attention to the safety of Yangcheng.
Although his strategy is risky, he can break the deadlock.
"This idea is good, but..." Hearing the pause in her tone, Cheng Yuexin also trembled slightly, couldn't help but raise her head and face the smiling face of Princess Luohe, "I think it can be done better."
Although there is not the heat of the desert, Hu Yan's mood is not much better, with a gloomy face.
I thought I could attack directly like Taicheng, but I didn't expect that Yangcheng suddenly became as solid as a rock, with tight defense. I had to attack several times but failed. It was five days before they entered Daxi. If they could not capture it, they would have to withdraw quickly according to the king's order to avoid Daxi's army coming. It would be difficult to retreat to the desert when the time came.
But Hu Yan was really unwilling to give up now. Moreover, because he knew that Princess Daxi was in Yangcheng, Hu Yan had given up on the idea of looting other cities. The value of a Princess Daxi is more than that of looting several cities, and the significance is greater.
When Hu Yan thought of the rewards and titles he would receive, his heart was very excited and he had to conquer Yangcheng. He said firmly in his heart.
Suddenly his subordinates came to report, "Captain, we caught a man."
***
The war drums sounded,
When Zhao Xin arrived on the city wall, some people were worried about the safety of the princess. However, Zhao Xin now takes over Yangcheng, where she has the highest status, and no one can violate her orders.
She looked at the Di people in the distance and wanted to see what they wanted to do if they didn't siege the city.
Huyan whispered in the bad Daxi language, "You are Daxi's princess."
Zhao Xin was not surprised that the other party revealed her identity. Although she blocked her closely, there were many people in the city after all, and there was no airtight wall. It was not surprising that Di people knew about it.
"You are the barbarians who plundered my Daxi and destroyed the diplomatic relations between the two countries. This day, my Daxi will definitely be rewarded."
What shocked everyone was that Zhao Xin spoke the Dadi language.
In this regard, Zhao Xin said, is it strange to learn more languages from several major countries in his spare time?
Hu Yan and his people were also stunned. They thought they were just a delicate princess raised in the deep palace. Isn’t this kind of woman the one who Daxi sent to marry in the past?
But the matter is important. Hu Yan's expression slightly condensed, and he asked his subordinates to take someone up and sneered, "Then you must recognize him."
Looking at the person tied up like a pig, Zhao Xin picked up the pick and asked the people around him, "Who is he?"
The officials who worked in the government office replied tremblingly, "Your Highness, he is the prefect of Yangcheng."
The prefect Huang who had abandoned the city and fled, actually fell into the hands of the Di people. I wonder if it should be said that he should be retribution.
Hu Yan didn't expect to send a few spies out and actually arrested a Daxi official. He knew that the prefect has a good official position in Daxi. Don't Daxi pay attention to face the most? And he wouldn't watch a prefect die at their hands, otherwise it would be difficult to report to their emperor after returning.
Hu Yan sneered and let go of Huang Taishou's blocked mouth, allowing him to cry loudly, "Princess save me, I am loyal to Daxi, I am from the Huang family."
Zhao Xin said leisurely, "You kill him, I will remember that he sacrificed his life for the country."
He should have died when the people of Yangcheng abandoned the city and fled. Zhao Xin didn't remember that he was not worth mentioning than Yangcheng's current safety, and was now being used to threaten her, haha.
As for the Huang family, they have some power in the court, but she is not in office and is not afraid of impeachment by the censor. The censor said that no matter how much she said, it would not affect her.
If it weren't for their Dadi language, Hu Yan would almost feel that he had heard it wrong.
However, when the knife fell, there was no sign of any wavering on the city wall. Some timid officials were frightened by the head of the prefect Huang rolled to the ground. Zhao Xin looked at him without blinking. If it weren't for the anger at this moment, Hu Yan might have admired the royal princess of Daxi.
Zhao Xin whispered softly, as if it wasn't for tens of thousands of Di soldiers to come to the city at this time, "Daxi will remember you to kill my official Daxi."
"Okay." Hu Yan gritted his teeth,
Hu Yan felt humiliated and looked down upon, and several Di people raised something else, including several flagpoles and the flagpoles of the Di people.
But there were still things hanging on it, including heads, old people, children, men and women, all the people of Daxi. The Di people had this habit of killing prisoners, taking off their heads, removing their flesh and blood, drying them into skulls, and drinking them as a show of flaunting.
And these were some of them left behind when they robbed Taicheng, three counties and countless villages. Before they could take them back to the desert, Daxi people were all corrupt. They were afraid they would be frightened when they saw this thing.
Just like Hu Yan thought, on the city wall, seeing these shocking flagpoles, let alone some weak officials, even the soldiers guarding the city couldn't help but bent down and vomited.
Although I knew that there were very few places that were robbed by the Di people, I didn't expect to see Di people so cruelly.
Hu Yan and the Di people behind him saw that Daxi was so timid and cowardly, but a few heads were so scared that they could not help but laugh, with contempt in their eyes.
They were born on horseback and were born to despise the weak. In their opinion, the people of Daxi who were unable to resist were weak, like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, who were slaughtered by them.
However, Hu Yan did not expect that the Princess Daxi, whom he most wanted to scare, did not show any fear he deserved, but just looked calmly and said something,
After hearing this, Hu Yan was slightly stunned. Her words were, "I think the Buddha born will not bless you anymore."
The natural Buddha was a god who was worshipped by the Dadi people for generations.
***
Zhao Xin was angry, really angry.
Even 9526 didn't dare to say anything this time, but Zhao Xin spoke, only 9526 could hear her voice.
"The so-called heroes who advocate warriors are just bullying the weak in the end. Do you guess they dare to face Daxi's army? They dare not bully the unarmed civilians and use them as a show-off."
She whispered, "This makes me feel very uncomfortable."
Cheng Yue also knew what happened outside the city. After hearing the tragic situation, even though he had been in the border town for so long, his face turned pale, but he was even more worried that Princess Luohe would make an act of impulse and miss the plan to break the situation that she had set before.
However, after rushing to the city wall, I saw the princess standing alone, looking at the flagpole of the people still left to protest in the distance, and her expression seemed to be like I couldn't tell what I was thinking.
Cheng Yue's worries disappeared without a trace.
He would not have misunderstood the princess's cold-blooded behavior. She would never have been the kind of royal family who looked up to the people's life and death as she was willing to stay and stay in Yangcheng and defend the city.
The setting sun is like blood,
Cheng Yue walked to the princess and lowered her head and whispered, "Princess, it's our incompetence that made the princess frightened. Qiu Daxi will definitely avenge this."
No matter what the result of defending the city, the Dadi people dared to go south to bypass the border army and raid the Daxi city. The king of the Dadi tribe would definitely give an explanation.
Zhao Xin's eyes were quiet, "They can't scare me, but..."
"I think the previous plan is not enough, it only hurts more than a thousand people, too few,"
"...I have to keep them all."
The final voice was too light, as if Zhao Xin was saying to him. Cheng Yue's pupils shrank slightly, and he was a little scared for some reason.
***
On the sixth day, Hu Yan led the Di troops to conduct the last attack on Yangcheng, because all the scattered teams were gathered, with tens of thousands of people. Hu Yan looked at Yangcheng and showed a grim smile.
Qi Lin, the border guard who was still rushing to rescue the road, almost lost his eyes when he heard the news.
Princess Luohe finally defended Yangcheng for six days. If something happened because of his failure to rescue him in time, he would be criticized by His Majesty.
General Qi calmed down and said without hesitation, "Tell the entire army to speed up the journey and rush to Yangcheng."
Quan Hao and his army rushed to Yangcheng from the other side were the same. Just when General Qi was unable to fly to Yangcheng and killed the group of Di people and successfully rescued the horse, news came again less than an hour.
"Yangcheng is saved." The soldier who sent the message didn't even have time to breathe and immediately reported it.
To be continued...