In October of the eighth year of Zhengyu, a fierce battle had just ended, and Yuan Hao was clearing the battlefield with his soldiers.
They have already hit Mupingzhou in the country of Chen.
Compared with Qi State and the original Wu State, Chen State’s geographical location is not good. Most of the land is unable to grow food and can only grow pastures to raise horses, cattle and sheep. Therefore, most of the people in Chen State are good at riding and shooting at once. This is one of the reasons why Chen Guo's cavalry is strong, and one of the reasons why Chen Guo's labor force is so lethal after the rebellion. After all, most of those servants are good at riding and shooting at once, and they have a lot of labor all year round. After the reverse, the horses that snatched the officers and soldiers ran around and looted. The ordinary Chen Guo soldiers did not catch them quickly. Those Chen Guo who had no power to restrain the chicken. The nobles could not resist.
When attacking several cities in Mupingzhou, most of the soldiers they encountered were cavalry. They fought very hard. Fortunately, the effectiveness of the armor and gunpowder was strong enough. They fought hard for several days and nights. Finally captured the last city in Mupingzhou.
But this Mupingzhou is only a small part of Chen Guoruo's big land. Qi Guo has a long way to go before he wants to completely swallow Chen Guo.
It was a bit cold in October, and withered yellow appeared on the few trees on the battlefield, and it was beginning to fall.
Yuan Hao squatted down in front of a dead soldier. He raised his hand and stroked the soldier's open eyes. After closing his eyes, he drew a dagger from his body and cut off a few strands of hair from the deceased. Together with the identity plate on the deceased, put it in a small bamboo tube. This is to be taken back to the family of the deceased.
He looked at the young face of the dead soldier, and thought in his heart: He looks less than twenty years old, and he does not know whether he has a wife or children in his family? Are the parents alive
Beside Yuan Hao, there were countless soldiers who followed him to clean up the battlefield. They were doing the same thing as him. They cut off their hair and identity plates from their sacrificed comrades, put them in small bamboo tubes, and put them in The broken armor was taken off, and the body was finally buried.
Qi country is now very short of money. Although these armors are damaged, they can be taken down and shipped back to the country to rebuild. They can create new armors. They believe that these armors are left with the blessings of their dead colleagues and can protect them on the battlefield. There are fewer injuries on the side.
The messenger stopped by Yuan Hao and respectfully presented a sealed slender wooden tube in front of him. Yuan Hao carefully checked it and saw that the wooden tube was indeed an agreed standard and had not been unpacked. He also touched the bottom of the wooden tube lightly with his hand to make sure that there was a hidden symbol, then opened the wooden tube and took out the brocade inside.
This was an order from the Marshal to rectify his troops and attack Licheng, the closest city to Mupingzhou in two days, and he had to take it within three days.
The Marshal is the Feng Yuan. Yuan Hao never knew that the right prime minister who always held his beard and smiled, had the ability to lead soldiers before his majesty ordered him to be the general marshal of soldiers and horses and command the whole army.
Seeing the time limit indicated above, Yuan Hao understood that this action was related to the Marshal's next strategy. So after accepting the wooden tube, he immediately returned to the camp and discussed the next action with his subordinates.
Three days later, Yuan Hao ordered all soldiers and horses and came under Licheng.
The laws of Chen Kingdom were so strict that even the city walls could see some clues. They fought all the way, and the farther in, the higher the city walls, especially those small county towns. It is clear that the city wall is much lower and a few people can turn over, but they just follow the law carefully. Fa didn't dare to build more, if their walls were also built to be as high as Wucheng, I'm afraid that just siege the city, it would consume most of Qi's troops.
However, the speed of capturing Le City this time was much faster than he expected, just because it wasn't long before the battle started that the inside of Le City was in chaos on its own.
Yuan Hao was surprised, and suddenly a spy came to report that an unidentified army had outflanked the back of Li City and had already breached the gate to the north of Li City.
Yuan Hao frowned slightly, but soon stretched out and ordered his subordinates to step up and attack the city.
There were wolves in front and tigers behind. Li Cheng couldn’t hold on for a long time. The city gate was breached. Qi’s army was violent. Li Cheng’s guards saw that they were invincible. He simply gathered his subordinates neatly and planned to burn the granary first. Let those Qi State soldiers not profit, and then take the remaining men to escape from the west gate.
However, before he could escape from the West City Gate, he was stopped by the bandit army that broke through the North City Gate. At the same time, the men he sent to burn the granary were also captured by them and threw them in front of his horse.
Li Cheng looked at the leader who was riding on a horse with a look of gangsterism and nondescript armor on his body, and a drop of sweat fell on his forehead...
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Yuan Hao led the men and horses all the way to kill and rushed into Licheng. The most surprising thing was that the granary in the city didn't even catch fire.
When Chen Guo’s army captured Wu State before, they used the strategy of raising the war through war. Therefore, whenever a city was captured by Qi’s army, the defending general would quickly burn down the city’s granary regardless of whether he could escape or not. Give the Qi army a bit of advantage, so every time Yuan Hao and others broke through the city gate, it was no surprise to see a fire somewhere in the city. They didn't expect that the granary was not burned this time.
Yuan Hao raised his eyebrows, this is not like Chen Guoren's style!
But soon, he knew the reason.
An army composed of Chen Guo rebels appeared in front of him, up and down, from the leader to the soldiers pulling the cart, they were not dressed in a decent dress, and the weapons in their hands did not have a uniform standard, as if they were picked up temporarily. Just pieced it together. But Yuan Hao noticed that among these people, most of them were burly men with muscular knots, and the one who was leading the horse on the horse had a fierce aura on his face, and was definitely not a kind person.
"I'm in Xia Shizhuang!" Yuan Hao saw that the leader lifted the head of Li Cheng's guard, and heard him say: "I will offer Li Cheng's head and Mancheng's grain and grass."
Yuan Hao looked at him quietly. Waiting for him to make a request, he saw the man grinning and showing white teeth, "My brothers and I have a total of five thousand three hundred and twenty-one people. You Qi Guo can’t accept it. Close?"
Qi State, the imperial palace.
When Chen Guo just entered autumn, Qi State had already entered winter.
The maids hung thick curtains in front of the gate of Yong'an Palace to prevent the cold wind from entering the hall.
Yao Yanyan was sitting at the low table, looking at the account book sent by Zhou Wanxiang, and sighed from time to time that it was like running water.
Yuan Xiao was sitting on a high chair in the study, leaning against the case and carefully tracing words, looking up from time to time, through the open study door, looking at the abacus and Zhou Zhou who were sitting on the ground and playing.
His Majesty the Emperor came in under such a scene. There was a little sadness between his brows and eyes, and his brows were stretched slightly when he saw his wife and children under the warm yellow candlelight.
Yao Yanyan raised her head and said to him: "There is no charcoal basin in the room. It is a little hot. Take off your cloak!"
His Majesty the Emperor Yiyan took off his cloak and handed it to Gao Zhuzi, who had eagerly gathered up, walked up to Yao Yanyan and sat down.
Yao Yanyan put away the account book, and was about to ask someone to arrange food, when she suddenly realized that her Majesty was a little bit distressed.
Yao Yanyan asked him what happened.
His Majesty the Emperor sighed and said: "I just received the letter, saying that in the past few months, more than 25,000 soldiers have been sacrificed."
Yao Yanyan was taken aback and fell silent.
His Majesty the Emperor was very sad, and continued: "The first batch of relics of soldiers who died in war have been sent back. Many of them were born in Tongzhou and Jingcheng. I went to see it. The elderly parents, the young woman with the youngest son, have already The young girl who made the appointment... They held the little bamboo tube and a set of deceased's clothes, crying to tears."
He didn't want to be heard by the Lantern Festival, so he deliberately lowered his voice, "On the way back, I kept thinking, did I do something wrong? If I didn't order the attack on Chen Guo, if I didn't want to dominate the world, I would just keep quiet. In today’s Qi country, don’t you have to sacrifice so many people?"
Yao Yanyan took her Majesty’s hand, touched it comfortingly, and said, "Your Majesty, don’t blame yourself, it’s not your fault. Even if you guard Qi State in peace and security, even if you didn’t order Chen Guo to attack Chen Guo. You will not let it go, sooner or later, someone will have to sacrifice. You have tried everything possible to avoid more deaths, and you have done a great job!"
In order to have money to create more armors of the gods, in order to save the lives of more soldiers, the couple took the lead in saving food.
Yao Yanyan is reluctant to buy new clothes and jewelry, and has been using the old models from previous years. When the clothes on the body are old, the better parts are cut off and made into small clothes for abacus and weekly wear.
However, compared with Yao Yanyan's frugality in not buying new things, His Majesty the Emperor can simply use the word "stingy" to describe it. He was reluctant to replace his socks with new ones, but he secretly found a needle to stick it up. The clothes on his body were short and he was reluctant to make new ones. The dragon robe was really old and not suitable for wearing. Seeing the ministers on the body, they were cut into pieces and used to wipe their hands and feet. Anyway, they would be thrown away when they were used until they were really useless.
His Majesty also has a salary. Every year the national treasury gives him money, he donates most of it to the Weapon Shop, leaving a small portion to buy some clothes for Yao Yanyan and the three small ones, and he himself, anyway It is that a single coin has not been saved.
Occasionally, Yao Yanyan would find that His Majesty the Emperor found out and touched the dress that she had embroidered with the words "Zhanxinglou", and then folded it and put it back...
There are too many examples to cite. Anyway, Yao Yanyan looks at her majesty like this, how pitiful you look.
Now seeing your Majesty blame yourself for the sacrificed soldiers, she looked a little sad, and she could only touch His Majesty’s face and said to him, "Your Majesty, think about it, after Wu State’s return, will the people of Wu State resent you? "
His Majesty the Emperor shook his head.
Yao Yanyan smiled and said: "That's right, they are all grateful to your majesty. It was your majesty who rescued them from the deep and fierce place. Everyone is getting better and better. Therefore, your majesty, you have to believe in yourself and your courtiers. We. We must be on the right path now. Only by doing this can we avoid more sacrifices in the future. Your Majesty, only if you dominate the world will more people lead a good life. Your decision is not wrong. , Those soldiers who sacrificed in the Spirit of Heaven must also be blessing Daqi and your Majesty."
Listening to Yao Yanyan's words, His Majesty's brows finally stretched out completely. He took her hand that stroked his face and put it to his lips to kiss.
At this moment, there was a sharp cry belonging to a young child.
The two were taken aback, and quickly looked over. They saw that Abacus and Zhou Zhou, who had played well before, started to fight again for some reason, and yelled angrily while they were doing it. The little doll's usual scream was soft and soft. The human heart was so warm, and once the howling was sharp and harsh.
The two hurriedly got up and walked over, only to find that Abacus and Zhou Zhou were playing with and grabbed the toy. The two dolls grabbed a doll, and there were so many dolls next to them, but they did not know why they were facing each other. This puppet has a soft spot.
Seeing that the Abacus who had grabbed the puppet laughed happily, Zhou Zhou robbed him the next moment. Abacus howled, and then reached out to grab it, but Zhou and Monday raised his hand and held his head.
Abacus didn't even know that Zhou Zhou's hand was going to be pushed away. He only flopped with his two little hands to catch the puppet, but he couldn't touch it. He was so anxious that he tears.
But his unscrupulous parents stood on the side and leaned forward with a smile.
While having fun, Qing Hu suddenly came over to report: "Your Majesty, Niang Niang, Princess Fengyang, please see me."
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