The atmosphere at the palace banquet was pretty good, but what did it have to do with Chu Yu? Chu Yu drank one cup after another.

The maids beside her were shocked. She had never seen the prince drinking before, but she didn't pretend to behave at the banquet and kept drinking in front of the emperor. His Highness Ning seemed to be the first one.

The emperor cared about Chu Xun and Luo Yinsong's unborn children, praised Chu Muming and Chu Mujun, and arranged the marriage between Chu Ping and Ling Munan.

Although the remaining princes were not noticed by the emperor, they had their own mothers who were concerned about each other from time to time, but what about him, Chu Yu?

Chu Yu now knows that the New Year is the most sad time, and only then will he realize how lonely he is. When he gets busy, he may not have the energy to think about other things.

The same feeling as Chu Yu was Mu Siyu. Since she was in the palace now, the emperor would not let her return to the East during the New Year, and she could not be cold. But Mu Siyu understood that the excitement in the palace had nothing to do with her, and there were no people from their Mu family here, so she declined as an illness.

Mu Siyu stood outside the bedroom and looked to the east. Will her father be thinking about her at this time?

Xiu'er walked out of the house and put a cloak on Mu Siyu's body, "Princess, it's cold, be careful."

"Xiu'er, do you miss your family?"

Xiu'er nodded, "I think, but I can't go back."

Everything now is the choice Xiu'er made at the beginning. Although she misses her family, she never regrets it.

"You go back and rest too. It's getting late, and you don't have so many rules between you and me."

After Mu Siyu finished speaking, she went back to the bedroom. She still remembered that she didn't like to stay up to the New Year in previous years. It was too late at that time and she was very tired, but her father had to pull her and prevent her from going to bed. If she didn't stay up to the New Year this year, she was a little uncomfortable and couldn't sleep.

Seeing Mu Siyu getting on the couch, Xiu'er helped her close the door and returned to the room.

Li Quan walked to the emperor with an imperial edict, "Your Majesty, it's almost time to have lunch. Will you give vegetables according to the original order this year?"

The emperor looked at Shen Luoyu, then looked at Chu Xun, "Please add one to the Marquis of Jian'an."

"Xun'er, what kind of dish should you tell me."

As soon as the emperor said this, Chu Yu, who had drunk a lot, did not respond as if he had not heard this. Even Chu Heng paused for picking up the wine glass.

The gift of vegetables has always been ordered by His Majesty. Suddenly, the dishes were added to the Marquis of Jian'an Mansion, and Chu Xun decided that the emperor's bias is so obvious now?

The sudden errand made Chu Xun a little at a loss. Chu Xun stood up and bowed and refused, "It's enough for the father to decide, but it's inappropriate for the son to make the decision."

Chu Xun couldn't understand what his father meant. If it was to show his favor and attention to him, it would not only not have any substantial benefits for him, but would also make other princes more afraid of him.

Seeing that Chu Xun refused, the emperor added a dish to the Marquis of Jian'an Mansion.

Chu Heng didn't know what the emperor meant. He added food to the Marquis of Jian'an to let them all know that he valued the Marquis of Jian'an. Did he call Chu Xun to let them know that he already belonged to Chu Xun's succession?

Chu Heng still remembers that the last time the emperor added dishes was on his first year of becoming emperor. He added a dish to the Lin family, but what happened to the Lin family later?

No matter who did the Lin family's affairs, Chu Heng could guess that it was unrelated to the emperor. He had privately investigated the cause of the Lin family's fire, but he always felt that someone was secretly increasing resistance to him, so he had not found out the real reason for so many years.

Beixiao

Xiao Jingyu is now the real ruler of Beixiao, so even if he did not attend the palace banquet where the royal family was pretending to be, no one dared to do anything to him.

Xiao Jingyu has almost mobilized his troops during this period. He wants to give Nan Chu a big gift on the first day of the New Year.

Xiao Jingyu led a large army to face the border and tore up the border covenant in front of all the soldiers of Beixiao.

Beixiao's national strength has been much stronger than before after Xiao Jingyu took power in recent years. Many people in Beixiao have long been dissatisfied with Nanchu for suppressing them. Why do they have to pay tribute to Nanchu every year to seek peace? Now they have to prove to Nanchu people that Beixiao has the strength to fight against Nanchu.

Xiao Jingyu chose the time very well. Who would have thought that they would suddenly launch a large-scale attack during the New Year. At this time, the guards of Nanchu were loose, and the soldiers guarding the city were drowsy, and they didn't even realize that the army was in a cusp.

The sudden sound of horse hooves and drums made the soldiers on the city wall appear wrong. They saw the Beixiao army outside the city. A soldier had just picked up the drum stick, but he didn't even have time to beat it, and he died with one arrow.

Xiao Jingyu's bow-pulling posture had not been retracted, and several soldiers who wanted to beat the drum were all shot and killed by him.

Xiao Jingyu threw the bow aside, pulled out his sword, held it up, and shouted, "Run!"

When the soldiers of Beixiao heard the commander's order, they charged.

Nan Chu was not at all prepared. He was captured by Bei Xiao in succession, and they didn't even have the chance to send messages to the outside world for help.

Xiao Jingyu led his army to capture five cities on the border of Southern Chu within seven days. When facing Jicheng, Xiao Jingyu's offensive slowed down.

Although the five cities were able to be captured so smoothly, it was related to Xiao Jingyu's opportunity to send troops and using troops as if they were gods, but more importantly, the guards of those cities were loose, but this Jicheng was different.

Ji Lin, the guard general of Jicheng, was the deputy general of Prince Zhong Yun Qingfeng back to his hometown, after Prince Zhong died in the battlefield, he returned to his hometown Jicheng to become the guard general. Ji Lin's army was quite like Prince Zhong's demeanor, so it was not easy to capture Jicheng.

Xiao Jingyu looked at the two big characters Ji Cheng and Ji Lin who had been waiting on the city wall for a long time.

The deputy general on the side rode a horse to Xiao Jingyu, "Your Highness, do you want to attack the city?"

"Retreat five miles, station in the military camp, and rest for three days to wait for subsequent reinforcements."

The deputy general understood that everything on the battlefield had to follow the commander's military orders, so after Xiao Jingyu's military orders, the deputy general ordered the withdrawal.

In order to capture the five cities in the shortest time, Xiao Jingyu only brought 10,000 vanguard troops, and the Jicheng defenders were about 20,000. His troops were not as many as Jicheng's soldiers now. In addition, the past few days of travel and continuous combat are completely incomparable to the Jicheng defenders' condition, so now is not the best time.

Wait a few more days and when his large army arrives, it is the best time to attack Jicheng.

Seeing that Xiao Jingyu withdrew his troops, Ji Lin dared to return to the city to discuss the next action.

He had a bad premonition these days, so he sent some people to Licheng. As soon as Xiao Jingyu's troops arrived at Licheng, his subordinates knew that Licheng could not be defended, so they hurried back to report to him, and he also sent people to report the war to the capital as soon as possible.

It takes seven days to get from Jicheng to the capital, and it takes about four days to go on a fast horse day and night, but he doesn't know when Xiao Jingyu would choose to attack Jicheng.

Now there are only 20,000 defenders in Jicheng. If Xiao Jingyu starts to overwhelm the city, with Jicheng's current food and water sources, he can only guard for seven days at most. I hope the reinforcements can arrive as soon as possible.

"General, why don't you transfer some people from Yicheng next to you first?"

Ji Lin shook his head. Yicheng army must not move. If Jicheng is broken, Yicheng will be the last line of defense for Nanchu. Yicheng has more troops than Jicheng. However, facing Xiao Jingyu, it is not clear whether he can hold on until reinforcements arrive. Therefore, if they borrowed the defenders of Yicheng, Yicheng would be even more unable to resist Xiao Jingyu's army by then.

Moreover, General Xia from Yicheng is from the Marquis of Jian'an. He was once the deputy general of Prince Zhong. He would definitely not be able to borrow troops from Yicheng. Now he can only rely on them to guard it.

Xiao Jingyu was too fast. Even when he just captured the first border town, Yun Wange's people had already sent her messages. It has been a few days since then, and Yun Wange didn't know how many cities it had fallen into.

But Yun Wange thought about this at the beginning. Xiao Jingyu could capture at most five within a few days. Ji Cheng would be the first challenge he encountered when attacking Nan Chu.

Ji Lin, Yun Wange still remembers him. He is the most trusted general of the seven cities on Yun Wange's border. Every one of the people under King Zhong can stand alone.

"Liuli, pass this letter to Yingluo."

Yun Wange handed the letter he had just written to Liuli, and she was going to visit the Ning Prince's Mansion now. Since the matter had been born, she would seek the greatest benefit for Chu Yu in it.

Liuli saw Yun Wange's expression very serious, and she didn't dare to ask what was written in the letter. She quickly passed it on to Yingluo. If Yun Wange's major event was delayed, she would not be able to take responsibility.

The matter was urgent, and Yun Wange did not walk to Ningwang Mansion as usual or took a carriage. She directly got a horse and rode to Ningwang Mansion by herself.

Chu Yu was already idle these days of the New Year. He could have taken advantage of the past few days to enter the palace to accompany Yun Qingyan, but now Yun Qingyan is no longer there, and Chu Yu can only drink alone in the room.

Yun Wange suddenly came to Ning Wang Mansion. Chu Yu didn't expect it, and Mingyue wouldn't expect it.

"Why is Miss Yun coming?"

"Where is Your Highness?"

Mingyue didn't say anything, and Yun Wange didn't have time to wait for her to say that she went straight into the study, but there was no one in the study, and then she went straight to Chu Yu's room.

Yun Wange tried to push open Chu Yu's door, but couldn't open it at all. She knocked on her a few times, but no one paid attention to her. She was anxious, took a few steps back, and kicked the door open with all her strength.

Mingyue saw Yun Lingge's actions, before she could speak, she saw the broken door.

Yun Wange walked in directly and saw Chu Yu who was already drunk. Mingyue followed Yun Wange in. Seeing that Chu Yu was drunk, she hurried over and tried to wake Chu Yu up.

Yun Wange looked at the wine pots next to Chu Yu, walked out without saying a word and found a servant, "Can you get a basin of water?"

Although the servant didn't know Yun Wange, she should be a guest of His Highness Ning. Anyway, he must not be able to provoke him, so he quickly went to get a basin of water to Chu Yu's room.

Mingyue saw Yun Wange taking the man's water, and thought Yun Wange wanted to wake up Chu Yu and then help him clean it.

"Mingyue, please get out of the way, I will wake up your highness."

Mingyue didn't go against Yun Liange this time, so she was far away just a little bit away. She felt something was wrong when she just walked away a little bit. What does it have to do with where she was?

As soon as she realized, she saw Yun Wange pouring a basin of cold water on Chu Yu.

Sinking cold water was the method Chu Yu used when he was Shen Meier. He never thought that one day he would be poured cold water.

It is deep winter now, and the weather is very cold. After this basin of cold water, Chu Yu's wine woke up instantly. Chu Yu woke up and shouted, "Don't you want to live anymore?"

When Mingyue saw Chu Yu angry, she quickly knelt on the ground, "Your Highness calmed down, it was my servant who didn't stop Miss Yun."

When Chu Yu heard Yun Wange's name, he saw Yun Wange holding an empty basin with a serious face. It seemed that all the water in her basin was poured on him.

"Elder has met Your Highness," Yun Liange gave a symbolic greeting, "Your Highness is best to change your clothes. Elder has very important things to tell Your Highness, Elder goes to the study to wait for you."

Yun Wange didn't expect that she would see Chu Yu like this. Although she was disappointed, she couldn't just leave like this.

Mingyue quickly found a piece of clothing for Chu Yu and helped Chu Yu change it.

When Yun Wange saw Chu Yu coming, he poured Chu Yu a cup of tea and went straight to the point, "Bei Xiao has captured several cities in the northern border of southern Chu."

Before Chu Yu swallowed the tea, he vomited it out and quickly put the tea cup on the table, "What's going on?"

Yun Wange said this and was dark and calm. Chu Yu didn't know that she had known about it for a long time, so she was not surprised at all. It was like him when he first heard the news, and now he has calmed down.

"Some time ago, I sent someone to investigate the movements of Beixiao, Xiqin and Dongling. The news I got at that time was that Xiao Jingyu seemed to be secretly mobilizing troops and had made appointments with Xiqin and Dongling's people one after another."

Even if the previous sentences Yun Wange said were normal, then there would be a problem with meeting with people from Xi Qin and Dong Ling in the end. Why didn’t people from Nan Chu?

"In the morning, I received a message from the people from the border city. Xiao Jingyu led his troops to attack the border city on New Year's Eve. If the Lyon guessed correctly, he is now in Jicheng."

Chu Yu fought several battles in the northern border. There were seven cities in the northern border defense line, and Jicheng was the sixth. If Jicheng was broken, there would be only one Yicheng left. If Beixiao even broke through Yicheng, he would go directly into the southern Chu. The Western Qin in the west would definitely take this opportunity to attack Nan Chu, and there would be no way out at that time.

If Chu Yu remembers correctly, the last time Beixiao attacked Nan Chu was ten years ago, and almost broke through Yicheng's defense line. At that time, Dongling thought Beixiao would succeed and began to invade the eastern territory of Nan Chu. Fortunately, Prince Mu defended the eastern territory of Nan Chu.

The one who led troops to support Yicheng ten years ago was Prince Zhong from the West. It was also that stop that made Prince Zhong completely become the hero in the hearts of the people of Southern Chu. But now Prince Zhong has already died in the battlefield, so who will go this time?

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Finally got to the point, I actually look forward to the hero and heroine recognizing each other soon

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