Chapter One Hundred and Sixty One: One Word and Two Words
When Huang Yuanwu heard this, he frowned slightly, looked at the soldier in front of him, and asked in a deep voice: "Why do you say this? Tell me in detail."
The sergeant said yes, stood up straight and told the story.
That day, Ye Guan and Liu Yuan led 30 centurions and two thousand soldiers from Dongxuan City to the enclave along the Black Stone Bridge.
Holding up the flags, the teams were arranged neatly. At the end of the bridge, there was the defensive wall of the enclave forces. At this moment, he saw Ye Guan leading a large army to face the shore and was about to fight back.
Ye Guan suddenly showed his wind fighting spirit, and the wind blew everywhere around him, swept Ye Guan's words and flew towards the city. Ye Guan raised the order of surrender in the East Prince's Mansion to let the people on the city see clearly.
In this way, the people in the enclave understood Ye Guan’s purpose. They had already received the order that soon, people from the Eastern Prince’s Mansion would arrive and let them open the door and let them go.
As the city gate opened and released, at the city gate, a horse ran away, quickly headed to the Enclave Lord City to inform the leader. Ye Guan, with a large group of people, entered one after another, and followed the continent in the Enclave, heading straight to the Enclave Lord City.
The enclave has a special landform, facing the Canglan River in the west and the Nishui River in the east. It is blocked by these two rushing rivers, making it a natural danger, easy to defend and difficult to attack. The ground is active and large. Judging from the area alone, there are about four Eastern Palaces under the jurisdiction of the area, but there are many steep mountains and ridges in the Songshan Mountains and poor fields, which also leads to the restriction of the population of the enclave and insufficient supply of food and grass.
It is rumored that there are many strange people here, and for a long time, it has been a hidden place for many masters. The scenery here is magnificent, with beautiful mountains and rivers, steep mountains and fog surrounding it, like a fairyland on earth.
Such an easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack place would not have forced the enclave to surrender if the Eastern Prince's Mansion had not been constantly strategizing for a long time and constantly consuming the enclave's power, and the continuous battles within the enclave, it would have not been forced to surrender in the end.
After a day of march, he passed by three cities but did not enter. Each city seemed to be facing a great enemy, and the gates were closed. Ye Guan led his troops to bypass the city and headed straight to the Enclave Lord City.
There was nothing to say along the way, Ye Guan led the army and marched straight forward for three days and nights, camping in the wilderness at night and rushing during the day, so that their itinerary could be clearly displayed in the eyes of the people in the enclave. They were here to talk about surrender, not to fight.
On the evening of the fourth day, I passed through several mountains and finally, from afar, I saw the main city of the enclave, Wufeng City.
This city is surrounded by mountains on three sides and close to the cliffs. From a distance, it looks like a castle, standing on the cliff. The wall is extremely high, about a hundred feet away. If you are still far away, you can feel the majestic momentum brought by the wall.
Wufeng City has a history of hundreds of years and is known as a place that will never fall. No matter how wars and chaos in the enclaves are, it has never been conquered.
The leader of the enclave is the lord of Wufeng City. The enclaves are in battle, the lords are divided, and there are few exchanges between the cities, and they all call themselves the country. After several generations of efforts, the entire enclave country was taken into consideration and surrendered. Speaking of which, the lord of Wufeng City is also considered a talent for the world.
However, during the confrontation stage of the Eastern Prince's Mansion, it suffered endless blows. The Eastern Prince's Mansion was constantly planning, which almost caused the newly unified enclave to fall into war again. The combat power of the enclave is absolutely impossible to compare with the Eastern Prince's Mansion.
The Eastern Palace has a regular army of 250,000, each of which is carefully selected and can only be enlisted after long-term training. It has strong combat effectiveness and is against the Qitian Empire and the Eastern King.
, extremely loyal. The Eastern King ruled several million people and selected an army of 250,000.
The enclave has only 100,000 regular troops. With the natural danger of the two rivers, it explores and defends the attack of the empire. Although it has a population of millions, it is too scattered. The people in the enclave live and work in peace and self-sufficient. There are already few people who enlist in the enclave. Moreover, there are many steep mountains in the enclave. Most of the naturally formed villages and towns have their own arms and do not obey the orders of the enclave leaders. This also makes the enclave power, although there are 100,000 mercenaries, but the comprehensive combat power is not as good as the tiger and wolf army of the Eastern Palace. Although there are many strange people, most of these people hide in the mountains and forests, not caring about the world, let alone help the enclave leaders increase their national strength. Most of them came here to avoid troubled times.
A wide official road leads directly to Wufeng City. Ye Guan led his army to slowly move forward on the road. When he arrived, he saw the gate of Wufeng City wide open. The outside of the officials and soldiers were waiting quietly. At the front, a man was wearing a luxurious robe and smiling, looking at Ye Guan.
After a brief negotiation, Ye Guan ordered two thousand soldiers to stay at the city gate, one thousand entered the city, and one thousand stayed outside the city to guard the city gate. He took Liu Yuan and thirty centurions to enter the city with the leader of Wufeng City.
The sergeant who returned to report the news was the sergeant camp who was left behind outside. After Ye Guan and Liu Yuan entered the city, no news came to the two days after all the sergeants felt that it was not so good, a centurion came out of the city, holding the black jade box in his hand, and brought Ye Guan's order, asking the scout camp to quickly convey the order back.
Good news: The enclave leader has agreed to surrender. In order to show sincerity, he specially presented a seal from the enclave leader and asked the young prince to quickly send troops to the enclave to complete the surrender.
At the same time, the soldiers guarding the city gate were ordered to perform their duties and wait for the subsequent troops to enter and take over Wufeng City. During this period, they must not interfere with the people or leave the camp without authorization.
The scout sergeant received the order and immediately rushed back the news.
Huang Yuanwu frowned slightly after hearing what happened these days. He held the black jade box in his hand, paused for a moment, smiled, looked at the soldier in front of him, and said, "Brother, I have worked hard all the way, go and rest. If this matter is successful, you will be the only one of your achievements."
"Thank you little prince!" The soldier was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down to thank him, then stood up and quickly retreated.
The soldier retreated, Huang Yuanwu's face was as deep as water, his mind flew around. He thought for a while, and then stood up. He ignored the soldiers on duty around him and quickly returned to the Eastern Prince's Mansion.
The headquarters of the Dongwang Mansion was not too far from the city wall. It took not much time before Huang Yuanwu returned to the Dongwang Mansion. He entered the study directly, and in a hidden corner of the study, pressing the mechanism, a light sound came, and a brocade box suddenly popped up on the wall next to him.
Huang Yuanwu quickly picked up the brocade box and opened it, and took out a chapter of bright red paper from it. The paper was a little bright red, which must not be an ordinary thing.
He moved the Dou Qi, and the light red Dou Qi came out of his body and quickly gathered on his palm. Without hesitation, Huang Yuanwu straightened his palm and slapped it on the paper. After a moment, he lifted his palm away. A more red and complicated mark appeared on the paper, with red mist slightly dispersed.
"Formation." Huang Yuan general picked up the paper and said a word softly.
The surrounding aura moved slightly, and a figure appeared in the emperor without any sound
Yuan Wu knelt on one knee beside him.
The man's whole body was shrouded under the black clothes, which were tightly dressed, outlining the man's burly figure. The man was hidden in the darkness, with only one pair of eyes, shining with light.
The Emperor Yuan general handed the bright red paper to the man and said softly: "Focus on the rest of his life and handed this thing to him, so that he could come to the city lord's mansion as soon as possible!"
The man in black raised his hand and took the red paper handed over by Huang Yuanwu. Without saying a word, his figure floated and disappeared in an instant.
The doors and windows had not moved, and the man had disappeared, and the surroundings were silent. I don’t know where he appeared or where he disappeared.
Seeing the man in black disappear, Huang Yuanwu let out a light breath, closed the brocade box, and put it back into the dark wall again.
This man in black is the secret guard of the Eastern Prince's Mansion. There are nine people in total. They all practice strange body techniques and sect secret techniques. They are good at hiding, and their body techniques are erratic, and they never show them to others. Their mission is not to protect one person, but to protect the Eastern Prince's Mansion, which is the most hidden guard of the Eastern Prince's Mansion.
Except for the East King, only Huang Yuanwu knew about the existence of these nine people. Even his younger brothers, including Huang Yuchen, were not aware of them.
This bright red paper, called the Flying Sign Fire Ticket, will only be issued if there is a 100,000 urgent matter. Anyone under the command of the Eastern Prince's Mansion must immediately put aside all matters and obey the orders when receiving this fire ticket.
The reason why Huang Yuanwu was so anxious to transfer Yu Sheng back when he signed a flying sign and signed a hot ticket was nothing more than that he discovered that the hot ticket was urgent.
Ye Guan and Liu Yuan entered the Enclave Lord City for two days without any news. Finally, they conveyed the order, but they did not show up. What happened in the past two days is the top priority.
According to Huang Yuanwu's analysis, Ye Guan must have encountered some difficult problems. If it weren't for this, he would not have arranged someone to convey such news.
There are several doubts in this news.
1: Why just send a scout with such an important thing to report the message? Why don’t you send the entire scout camp or Liu Yuan lead the team back to report? Thinking of this, Ye Guanying cannot live without Liu Yuan at the moment, I am afraid there are even more difficult things.
2: The leader of the enclave had already wanted to surrender. Since he had agreed to surrender, why didn’t he come to the Black Stone Bridge in person to meet the people from the East Prince’s Mansion, but handed over the seal and asked someone to send it out, saying that it was to show sincerity? Isn’t this scratching the surface?
3: There was something strange about the news sent back by Ye Guan, and Huang Yuanwu quickly sent troops to hand over. Ye Guan knew that most of the troops in the East Prince's Mansion were taken to the front line by the old prince. They were being collected by Huang Yanghui at this moment. Even if they had returned to the East Prince's Mansion, it would take time to repair and it would be impossible to send troops immediately. In the East Prince's Mansion, except for the 40,000 soldiers who protected the frontiers, the remaining defenders of various cities were the minimum escorts. How could there be troops to hand over such a large enclave?
To sum up, Huang Yuanwu felt that Ye Guan was in trouble.
But he would not be in danger if he could bring the seal from the enclave leader. When the scout left, the gate of Wufeng City was still under his own garrison, so there should not be too much risk.
The fundamental meaning of Ye Guan’s message is: Come quickly, you’ll be in a hurry.
Chapter completed!