Graceful spring color

Chapter 324 Little Tail

It took more than half a month for Wu Qian'an to hear that more than half of the 50,000 to 60,000 people were captured alive.

He is now busy fighting with Wei Ning, and the two of them are in chaos over a fight for a city.

He began to unite with the State of Yue to put pressure on the Wang family, and he had two plans.

If he could force Wang to take a stand and stand on the side of Wu, he would gain something. If this fails, he can also keep an eye on Qian'an's most capable person who will compete for that position.

As long as the Wang family of Langya does not fall, Wu Qian'an will be the one with the best chance of ascending the throne.

But he never expected that while he was busy inside and outside, he failed to invite Prime Minister Wang and instead lost tens of thousands of people.

When the princes started the chaos, tens of thousands of people were not a small number.

He no longer had the confidence to continue besieging Fuzhou City, which he had thought was almost certain to capture.

Since the Wang family had taken action, he had to consider whether they would take advantage of his absence from Wu and directly attack his capital city of Wu via the route of Zhao.

How could he dare to gamble at such a critical moment?

Wu Qian'an's retreat made Wei Ning breathe a sigh of relief.

As soon as he captured the city, he was blocked by Wu Qian'an who came following the smell of the enemy. He had been besieged in Fuzhou for more than a month. If Wu Qian'an did not withdraw his troops, he would really have to hand over the city he had captured with great difficulty.

Wei Ning was a cautious person. He was afraid that retreating was just Wu Qian'an's strategy, so he stayed in Fuzhou for half a month before opening the city gate.

He is now like a paper tiger. His army follows the same strategy as the Northern Plains barbarians, relying on fighting to support fighting. The truce of several months has almost made him despair.

But he had to pretend to be sure of victory. Apart from a few generals trained by the Wei family and recruited by him, the rest were all greedy people. Once he showed signs of fatigue, those greedy people would take the opportunity to bite his throat and suck his blood.

There were at least eight princes who were in the same situation as Wei Ning, if not ten.

He racked his brains to find a way out of the situation.

Finally, after much thought, he came up with a solution that he thought would work - killing the barbarians.

The so-called killing of the barbarians means that now the area north of Shengjing is occupied by the barbarians headed by Yi Beiyuan. The remaining area of ​​Qian'an is very small, and each fiefdom has already had a king, who have been here for generations. If it were not for the thorough implementation of the style of the Zhou royal family, it would not be difficult to conquer them.

Just like Fuzhou, which he had just conquered, was originally part of the Zhao State's territory. If it had not been the worst hit by the disaster before, and several of King Zhao's sons had fallen ill or become disabled due to the disaster relief work, he would not have thought of taking over this place. After all, King Zhao was truly a good king.

But it would be different if they went to the north to kill the barbarians. They were all people who relied on fighting to support themselves. Those barbarians were brave on the grasslands, but there were many hills to the north of Shengjing. Wei Ning was very good at such complex terrain.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible. He summoned several generals to discuss this idea, and they immediately agreed.

Anyway, they were all taking advantage of the chaos to grab territory, and it was better to grab someone from outside than from one's own people. If you think about it in a big way, the territory originally belonged to Qian'an. If you think about it in a small way, if your master really becomes powerful in the future, at least there will be less feuds.

Once he made up his mind, Wei Ning simply abandoned Fuzhou, which he had just captured. He took away everything he could, and burned anything he couldn't take away.

Wei Ning was not the only one who had this idea. Xie Fengyue also had an idea.

Xie Fengyue did not act according to Gongzi Yan's idea. When he was impatient to clear out the trash blocking the door and prepared to pick up Xie Fengyue, he found nothing.

Only the crying Zhezhi was left in the tent watching Xie Rong playing.

Upon asking, I learned that Xie Fengyue, who knew where he got the courage from, had led his men to attack a small town nearby.

The small town was originally rioted by bandits who took advantage of the siege on Huai'an, when there was no time to reorganize it. There were only one or two thousand people in total.

When Xie Fengyue challenged them at the city gate, the group saw that she was a woman with less than a thousand people, and they started to utter vulgar words. In response to her sarcasm, they all came to fight with wooden sticks.

Li Xiaobao beat them like a father beating his sons. He didn't even draw his long sword, and even picked all six of them. Just when they opened the city gate to change people, Xie Fengyue gave an order without any martial ethics and rushed into the city.

The result is naturally the same: the father beats his son, and the son keeps silent.

When Xie Fengyue entered the city, he found that this group of people didn't seem to be bad to the core.

After they moved into the county magistrate's mansion, in addition to placing the county magistrate's family under house arrest, they also demanded that they be given meat to eat every day. They also ignored the common people, as if they had captured the city just to eat meat.

Xie Fengyue was convinced.

After she untied the rope of the crying county magistrate with an expressionless face, she threw the seven leaders into the cell.

At the end, someone even cursed at her, saying that she was a member of a noble family and did not follow the rules. Wasn't it agreed that the first thing to do when two armies faced off was to challenge each other?

Xie Fengyue just sneered and didn’t even bother to reply to them.

The rules were indeed like this in the past. Among the sixteen vassal states of Qian'an, who dared to say that their ancestors had no friendship? Therefore, if a war broke out between two countries, the first thing the two armies would do when fighting was to challenge each other, agree on the time, place, and number of people, and engage in various games.

But now, Qian'an is gone.

The newly-crowned king of Qi hadn't even decided on a new name for his country when he was already in disgrace.

Still sticking to those red tapes is simply asking for death.

As soon as Xie Fengyue settled down, Gongzi Yan came with Zhezhi after he had settled Xie Rong.

Her enthusiasm after conquering a city was dampened by seven points, and the remaining three points were because Gongzi Yan did not speak up to stop her.

Gongzi Yan did not try to stop her, he had long discovered what the girl wanted to do, and now that she had won her first battle, it was not appropriate to pour cold water on her, so he naturally kept his mouth shut and followed silently.

When he follows, he really follows.

Follow closely.

He was unwilling to stop Miss Yue's little idea, but was also worried that she would get hurt, so he had no choice but to resort to this last resort.

On the third day after he followed her, when Xie Fengyue's army was a hundred or eighty miles away from the town, she finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Why don't you go back to Huai'an?" She glared at him with her cheeks puffed up with anger.

Gongzi Yan's smile was extremely gentle, and he didn't look like the evil spirit he had on the battlefield. "Of course, I will go wherever my wife goes."

Xie Fengyue snorted coldly: "You don't understand, I'm holding my clothes and going to take a bath!?"

Gongzi Yan continued to laugh: "Of course I understand."

Xie Fengyue was so angry that she was almost incoherent.

She gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, then follow me."

After she finished speaking, she slapped open the curtain of the tent and went in without looking back.

Gongzi Yan's eyebrows were curved again and again, and he clearly saw that his ears were turning red.

Thanks to Qinglu for the monthly ticket~ Thanks to Buliang for the monthly ticket~
I have written before that when envoys from the disaster-stricken State of Zhao came to Beijing to ask for help, the princes of Zhao went to provide disaster relief as soon as possible.

The inspiration for the "kill the barbarians" here comes from Ran Min's order to kill the barbarians during the Five Barbarians Invasion of China.