As the capital of the Great Zhao Empire, Zhaodu's city screen is certainly very strong, but it takes a long time to open each time... When Chu Tianxiao and others arrived, it was only in a state of "about to open" and could be easily closed.
If we attack at this moment, we will likely find ourselves in a dilemma.
Therefore, Chu Tianxiao did not do so. Instead, he threw Zhao Hai aside and handed him to Feng Luoer to tie him up tightly. After that, he ordered the entire army to rest.
"Xueyan, in your opinion, how long will it take to break this restriction?"
Xue Yan heard the voice and carefully looked at the majestic city in front of him. After an unknown amount of time, he pondered and said, "Even if the defeated army exerts all its strength, it will take at least seven days to break through this city barrier. The subsequent siege will probably take some time as well..."
“…What if we add the surrendered soldiers?”
"Surrendered soldiers? Young Master, the surrendered soldiers here are not reliable!"
"Oh, that depends on the means. Just make bold guesses."
“… In this case, it will probably take nine days and nine nights to break through this city, and the defeated army will be quite weak by then… The situation will become quite dangerous at that time!” Xue Yan looked at Chu Tianxiao and said with regret, “Young Master, in the final analysis, it is because the three thousand defeated armors are still growing. We can now complete the conversion of swords, bows, crossbows, guns, cavalry and other arms, but we are still unable to handle the special arms you conceived before. Otherwise… As long as we use ‘that’ arm you mentioned, the capital of Dazhao will be nothing!”
"Yes... The defeated army still has a long way to go... Therefore, it is not a good idea to attack at this time." Chu Tianxiao nodded, "Even if we can win, we can't sit back and relax - we still have to withstand the extremely likely counterattack of the Zhao army on all sides and hold on until the reinforcements arrive at the front line... Therefore, it is unwise to fight the enemy in the city to the death during the previous siege."
Chu Tianxiao slowly sorted out his thoughts: "In war, attacking the city is inferior, attacking the heart is superior."
"According to intelligence, there are probably more than 10,000 people in the city. Together with the common people, the children of noble families, and the servants, they are also a considerable force. If we can use them, together with the surrendered soldiers... In the next battle to defend the city, our strength will not be too weak, at least we will not be unable to even fill the city wall..."
Xueyan nodded heavily: "Young Master, what you said makes sense, but... how can we turn the enemy army into our side?"
Hearing this, Chu Tianxiao did not answer, but quietly took out a sachet...
A complicated look also appeared in his eyes...
But after thinking about it, he held the sachet tightly but did not open it.
"If I'm not mistaken..." Chu Tianxiao looked into the distance and murmured, "We... should have similar views."
This was a bit unclear, but before Xue Yan could ask, Chu Tianxiao waved his hand and changed the subject, saying, "Where is the good card we prepared some time ago? It's time to use it!"
Hearing this, Xue Yan's eyes lit up, as if he had vaguely guessed Chu Tianxiao's intention. He nodded quickly and gave the order directly...
Not long after, a gorgeous carriage slowly moved forward and appeared in Chu Tianxiao's eyes.
"… Are you used to traveling all the time?"
Chu Tianxiao lifted the car curtain and smiled at the bright-eyed beauty who was looking uneasy inside.
"Jade Beauty..."
"It's your turn to perform."
After a bumpy ride here and seeing several storms, the beautiful jade lady named "Yu Miaomiao" was no longer as calm as she was before. Upon hearing the sound, she huddled up in the carriage in panic, looking at Chu Tianxiao with pitiful eyes.
But this final act of pity is still of no use at all.
Yu Miaomiao is a scheming person who has seen countless people. She can vaguely feel that Chu Tianxiao has a tender and gentle heart, but that tender feeling will never be opened to her.
All he could see in Chu Tianxiao's eyes was coldness, as if he was looking at a piece of merchandise.
She didn't know that this was Chu Tianxiao's principle of treating women differently, and she thought she had done something wrong to lead to the current situation, and she couldn't help but become more and more panicked...
"Beautiful Jade Lady, why don't you go and perform?"
When Chu Tianxiao's "repetitive" words fell, Yu Miaomiao trembled all over. After listening to Chu Tianxiao's story, her eyes suddenly widened and she said in shock: "This... this, the sisters are all good people, this kind of thing... How can Miaomiao do it..."
"Oh, at this point, you still want to bet on both sides?" Chu Tianxiao saw through her intention at a glance, looked at her with a playful smile, and said, "I advise Lady Yu to recognize the current situation... You have been captured for so many days, do you still think you can return to Emperor Zhao? But I heard that this gentleman's possessiveness is so strong that he would rather kill the wrong person than let him go..."
"If you go back, you will only have Bai Ling. So now, you have no other choice but to work for me wholeheartedly..."
Hearing this, Yu Miaomiao sobbed, "Young Master, you have such a cruel heart. What did Miaomiao do wrong? I am so sincere..."
"Okay, stop being so disgusting. You can say this to anyone, right?" Chu Tianxiao said with a hint of impatience, "Your only value now is to do that thing. If you don't want to... then I have no choice but to..."
"No, no, sir, Miaomiao is willing!" Even ants try to survive, let alone this scheming woman. She quickly bowed down, then raised her head slightly, and said with difficulty, "But sir, Miaomiao has no cultivation. How can I let those sisters hear me through the screen? Also, the sisters are all smart people. How can they believe Miaomiao's one-sided words..."
"It's okay, I have my own arrangements."
Chu Tianxiao said as he took off the sachet and handed it to Yu Miaomiao: "Hold this thing and don't let go for even a moment. Then, show your best and finish your speech at the foot of the city. Then, open the sachet and you don't need to worry about anything else."
Holding the sachet in her hand, Yu Miaomiao knew she couldn't escape. She gritted her teeth and said, "Miaomiao understands... In that case, I'll go!"
She was also a decisive person. Since there was no way out, she did not hesitate and got off the carriage and walked quickly towards the city of Zhaodu...
Not long after, she stood at a place only "an arrow's distance" from Zhaodu, then raised her head slightly and said loudly to the sky: "Is that sister Si on the city wall? Sister, do you still remember Yu Miaomiao by the Daming Lake?"
As soon as she said this, the sachet in her hand slowly emitted a golden light. As the golden light spread, it easily passed through Zhao Ping and invisibly brought Yu Miaomiao's voice into Zhaodu, resounding throughout the city.
Hearing this, not only were the people in the city stunned, but even Yu Miaomiao herself was shocked, and she couldn't help but become even more terrified of Chu Tianxiao's methods...
As a result, Yu Miaomiao became more determined to get things done, and she continued to shout, "Sister Si, now that you have become the queen, don't you even want to see your old friends?"
Hearing the sound, Concubine Si, who was about to turn around and leave on the city wall, stopped in her tracks.
As the saying goes, a scheming woman knows her own scheming woman. How could she not hear the hidden meaning in Yu Miaomiao's words? She and Yu Miaomiao had known each other since childhood, and they had shared many "secrets". If she let Yu Miaomiao tell the whole city about it...
Her thoughts changed, and she showed a perfect smile on her face. She turned around and said to Yu Miaomiao who was under the city: "It turned out to be Miaomiao. I have been looking forward to seeing you day and night. How could I not want to see you? Hey... I haven't seen you for many days. Sister has become thinner."
"Thank you for your concern..." Yu Miaomiao also smiled, but before she could continue speaking, Concubine Si changed her face faster than turning a page of a book, and quickly said coldly: "As a sister, I should care about my younger sister, but Miaomiao, why did you come out of the enemy camp and shout under the city? I heard that my younger sister had been active in the Xiaxia City for a period of time and has been missing since then... Haha, is my younger sister an enemy or a friend now? What is your purpose for coming here?"
There was a sharp edge in the words, but Yu Miaomiao bowed and grasped the key point, and said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "To be honest, Miaomiao came here to save Sister Si, Sister Da, Sister Wu, and you..."
"Hehe..." Relying on the protection of the city screen and the army, Concubine Si became more confident. She looked at Yu Miaomiao and snorted with disdain, "Miaomiao, I haven't seen you for a long time. Not only have you lost weight, but your mind has also become shallower! You betrayed His Majesty yourself and came here to persuade him to surrender, but you even spoke so high-soundingly!"
With just one sentence, she labeled Yu Miaomiao a "traitor" and put her in the opposing camp, which immediately aroused the hatred of the people in the city and also prevented future troubles... She was indeed scheming.
However, Yu Miaomiao was not annoyed at all. She had no intention of using Concubine Si's absurd deeds as an excuse. She was just bluffing. At that moment, she sighed softly, showing a perfect "contradictory look" on her face, but she said slowly, "Sister Si, everything I said was for your own good... Now you can surrender the city and still be safe. Otherwise, once the capital of Zhao is broken, I'm afraid it will be too late for you to regret it! The capital of Zhao is already in turmoil, can't you see that?"
Hearing this, Concubine Si sneered, "Miao Miao, you are exaggerating, aren't you? Although Zhaodu is now empty, there are still more than 10,000 soldiers, civilians, the great Zhao family, city screens, moats, suspension bridges... I won't say it is as stable as Mount Tai, but it is not something that can be broken by the few thousand people behind you!"
"Everyone knows that siege warfare is different from field warfare! Could it be that you don't know, Yu Miaomiao?"
"Oh... I understand. It's because the person you're with is helpless, right? He doesn't dare to attack the city, so he sends you, a weak woman, to undermine Zhaodu's morale? Humph, he uses such means, it shows that he is just that capable!"
"Does he think there are no brave men in our Great Zhao? He can't even protect your Majesty's wife and daughter?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the morale in the city suddenly rose. There was a deafening shouting sound, most of which were curses and insults directed at Yu Miaomiao. The eyes of each soldier were burning with fighting spirit!
"Don't worry, Madam Queen. With us here, the capital will be safe!"
"Don't worry, Madam Queen. With us here, the capital will be safe!"
"… "
Hearing the shouts and looking at the brave soldiers in front of her who shared the same hatred for the enemy, Concubine Si was very satisfied - if it wasn't for boosting morale, she wouldn't have wasted her breath talking so much to Yu Miaomiao!
But the weird thing is...
Yu Miaomiao's face subconsciously flashed a trace of fear, and then quickly withdrew. She looked up at the people on the city wall with a complex expression, but she sighed and said something that stunned everyone in the city...
"Even the entire Great Zhao is on the verge of death. Its survival is in the hands of our young master. Sister, you are still living in a dream..."
These words shocked the whole city. Concubine Si's beautiful eyes widened immediately, and she subconsciously shouted in a cold voice: "You are talking nonsense!"
"Nonsense?" Yu Miaomiao shook her head and sighed, "Sister, aren't you curious about why the Great Zhou dared to go to war with the Great Zhao at this time? Why was the gate to the southeast border opened so easily? Why were three thousand strong troops able to attack the Zhao capital directly? And, why am I here?"
With every sentence she said, the faces of the people on the city wall grew heavier. Finally, Concubine Si thought of a possibility. She trembled and pointed at Yu Miaomiao and said, "Could it be...?"
"Sister Si is smart, she really guessed it." Yu Miaomiao said faintly, and the "hidden meaning" in her words "confirmed" Concubine Si's guess...
Suddenly, she showed a look of fear and anger on her face, and shouted: "Your Majesty treated Yu Xiu well! He entrusted most of the military affairs to him, but he actually... dared, dared to do such a traitorous act?"
"Not only that." Yu Miaomiao smiled sweetly when she heard that, but in Concubine Si's eyes, this smile was like a witch's teasing!
Then she continued, "The Young Emperor Zhao has lost his moral integrity! This time, it's not just my brother who can't stand it... Wang Chu, Yi Le, Xiao Cunli..."
Every name she mentioned was one of the most famous generals in the Great Zhao State, and most of them were the top generals of the Zhao State, promoted by Yu Xiu himself. At the very least, they were close friends...
Therefore, if Yu Xiu really betrayed, then considering his popularity, it would be reasonable for these people to continue to follow him!
Hearing these prestigious names, Concubine Si and the others were so frightened that their faces turned pale, but there were still many skeptics in the field. At that moment, a questioning voice was heard from the city: "General Yu Xiu is already below several people and above ten thousand people. It is impossible for him to betray the Great Zhao and defect to the Great Zhou! This doesn't make sense. The Great Zhou can't give him more!"
"Alas... If my brother had not been forced into a desperate situation, how could he betray his master?" Yu Miaomiao sighed softly, looking at the doubter on the city wall with sympathy, "I think, Master Xian, you should feel the same way... Back then, your daughter-in-law was taken away, and my brother remembered it vividly, but he didn't expect that the same thing would happen to him one day..."
"My nephew was loyal to the emperor. He was humiliated by this and could not resist or avenge himself. He had no choice but to commit suicide! How could my brother still work for Emperor Zhao, who was so cold and indifferent?"
These words spread throughout the city. Although there were many "weird" things in them that were worth pondering, most people believed them!
The reason is simple, because this kind of thing... really happened!
(4000 chapters, two chapters in one, updated today.)