Eight-year-old Princess: Phoenix Reborn

The people in the gazebo seemed to be in a daze, standing in the gazebo in a daze, as if a thunderbolt exploded in their minds, just now Luo Qingyan said what did the dark guard say? It is said that the prince and the military division are leading an army of four tens of thousands, and they are coming towards Jingyang?

Shouldn't the prince and the military division attack Kangyang? The heart that came from last night still said so. The 400,000 army is almost all of the prince's army. Did they abandon Kangyang to attack Jingyang?

Numerous questions flashed in his mind, mixed with Cai Luo Qingyan's eyes with a bit of anger and disappointment, flashing back and forth in Hua Guogong's mind. Hua Guogong watched King Jing's figure get farther and farther away, and gradually came to the foot of the mountain, and then he came back to his senses. No, the prince must have known Luo Qingyan's true identity, and knew that Luo Qingyan was in Jingyang City. , That's why he dared to take such a big risk. Thinking of this, Hua Guogong hurried out of the gazebo, led the horse with some staggering steps, and got on the horse. Although he was anxious, he also sat upright on the horse, whipped a whip hard, and ran down the mountain .

On the way back to the camp, the dark guard had already told King Jing the details of what happened in Kangyang City. King Jing secretly calculated the time in his mind. Yinfeng's army will be able to reach the outside of Jingyang City within an hour.

"My concubine is rushing here with about 100,000 people. Apart from the tens of thousands of soldiers stationed in Kangyang, they will also be divided into several groups to come to support." The dark guard said again without waiting for Prince Jing to ask.

Prince Jing nodded, feeling a little bit bitter in his heart, Xia Houyan and Liu Yinfeng would rather sacrifice the lives of 100,000 soldiers to use this trick, there must be a major change. Moreover, the strategic position of the city of Jingyang is much worse than that of Kangyang. Taking Jingyang may not be of any benefit to Xia Jun. From this point of view, I am afraid that Xia Jun will come here this time. for his life.

It seems that his true identity can no longer be concealed.

Although he was a little embarrassed by the sudden news, King Jing didn't show anything on his face. After entering the camp outside Jingyang City, he threw the reins of the horse to the guards beside him, and hurried into the camp.

Zhang Qi and a group of generals in the camp must have known about this, and they were all standing in front of the sand table discussing something. King Jing heard someone say, "There are only 200,000 people in our camp. Including the original 250,000 on the opposite side, we have a total of 450,000 more, even if we have the art of reaching the sky, I am afraid that this time is also dangerous."

Zhang Qi was the first to notice that Prince Jing had entered the tent, so she quickly stood up straight and looked at King Jing, saying, "The lord is here."

Prince Jing nodded and stepped forward, and everyone backed away, letting Prince Jing walk to the center. Prince Jing has long been very familiar with the situation around Jingyang City, even if he doesn't look at the sand table, he actually understands it very well in his heart.

"The Xia army came down along the Jing River, and the marching route was on the south bank of the Jing River. We retreated to the south bank of the Jing River." Prince Jing pointed his finger to the other side of the Jing River.

"Isn't that going to abandon Jingyang City? What about the people in the city? Besides, the Jing River has already dried up, so it doesn't mean anything to the enemy." A grey-haired general frowned and said in a low voice.

Prince Jing squinted his eyes, but he felt a little rejoiced, "I'm afraid there is water in the Jing River now, so Zhang Qi sent troops to take a look. Last night, Wang Hao had someone blow up a pole above the source of the Jing River. In such a large lake, one hundred thousand people of the Xia army have already died at the bottom of the river. Although I don’t know how long the water in the lake can last, I have to use the Jing River as a barrier to resist for a while before making any plans. Jingyang The city must be abandoned. We only have 200,000 people. If the enemy invades the city, I’m afraid it won’t last long. The people will all move to the north of the Jing River. Destroy everything that can be used as a ship."

After thinking for a while, he shook his head and said, "No, set fire to the city. Everything in the city cannot be left to Xia Jun."

Everyone's face turned pale when they heard the words. They have been stationed in Jingyang City for some years, and they have some feelings for Jingyang City. Such a big city can be burned as soon as it is said...

"My lord..." Someone still wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Zhang Qi, "This is the only plan for the present, follow the lord's order, and the key is to save the lives of the people in the city, and make arrangements quickly."

The rest of the generals were silent for a moment when they heard the words, but they also knew that Prince Jing's method was the only one that could be used, so they slowly withdrew from the camp.

Prince Jing didn't dare to procrastinate. Although he had thought about how he should respond if someone exposed this matter one day when he knew his life experience, he never thought about it. of. After pondering in his heart for a while, he took a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, quickly wrote a letter, and called the hidden guard, "Send this letter to the imperial city quickly."

Although the imperial city was still some distance away from the border, the news might not reach Emperor Ning's ears quickly, but he didn't dare to bet, otherwise, the world would really be in chaos.

The secret guard sent the letter away, and King Jing left the camp and entered Jingyang City. There was a sound of crying and rushing to the ground in Jingyang City. Standing on the gate of the city, King Jing looked at the people who were running around in a panic, and his heart gradually became infected. Feeling a little sad, he has been on the battlefield for so many years, he is used to seeing life and death, he thought that his heart was already as hard as iron, but now seeing so many people leave their homes and be displaced, it is only because of him, but it is still very difficult Turn a blind eye.

"My lord, all the soldiers in the battalion outside the city have entered the city, and they are leading the people to retreat to the other side of the river. The Jing River is indeed flooded..." Zhang Qi said softly, "Xia Houyan and Liu Yinfeng's army is still there." In an hour, you can go outside the city."

King Jing nodded his head, "Let them evacuate faster." After speaking, he raised his head to look at the sky that was about to darken, smiled slightly and said, "Today, this king will sing a song to Xia Jun too." Get out of the empty city and plan."

Seeing Prince Jing's confident appearance, Zhang Qi felt a little relieved, everything will be fine with Prince Jing around.

King Jing turned around and called the hidden guards out, and said with a smile, "Go, bring me the jade flute."

Zhang Qi didn't know why, but she didn't say a word. She just watched the dark guards leave in a hurry. After a while, she took the jade flute. King Jing stroked the jade flute and smiled softly, "Let's go, let's go to the east wall to meet the Xia Jun is going."

When Xia's army arrived, the city was almost evacuated by King Jing, only a few dark guards with higher martial arts stood on the city wall wearing the armor of the guards.

Xia Houyan looked at the pitch-black city wall, smiled and said, "Military Master, we have finally reached Jingyang City." But there was no trace of joy in his eyes, and he looked at the big characters in Jingyang City with a frown, "It's just, Although we have deceived Qi Lang by blindfolding, Qi Lang should have received the news that we are coming to Jingyang. King Jing is a general who has won countless battles. He has his own means. It shouldn't be unaware of our whereabouts, but why doesn't Jingyang City show any signs of preparing to meet the enemy?"

Liu Yinfeng also looked at Jingyang City, without any emotion in his eyes, "I'm afraid this is Prince Jing's plan."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of a flute floating over from the city wall, faintly, vaguely, like a sobbing sound, which sounded a bit strange.

"What is this?" Xia Houyan's eyes widened, and he looked at the dark city tower with only two lanterns hanging on the city gate.

Liu Yinfeng pondered for a moment before saying, "I think of a story I saw in the art of war. The name of the story is called "Empty City Strategies". In the city, I took a qin, went up to the tower, burned incense and played the qin, sang loudly, and deceived the enemy guards."

As soon as Liu Yinfeng finished speaking, he saw a lantern suddenly lit on the city wall. From a distance, he saw a person standing on the city wall. He couldn't see his appearance clearly, only a black shadow with hands He lifted it up and placed it beside his face, as if he was blowing a flute, presumably the faint sound of the flute came from there.

"Empty city plan?" Xia Houyan bit his lips and snorted coldly, "This man is so bold, he dared to play the flute on the wall alone in front of an army of 400,000. The prince was just talking about it. It is impossible for Prince Jing not to know. We came, but we didn't know that Prince Jing had arranged such a wonderful event. Since it was an empty city plan, the prince must go and have a look, playing tricks. When the prince leveled the Jingyang city, he took Take Naluo Qingyan's order."

But Liu Yinfeng shook his head and said to stop him, "Your Highness absolutely must not."

Xia Houyan didn't understand, so he turned his head and said in doubt, "Didn't the military master say that there are no soldiers in this city long ago, so what are we afraid of?"

"Your Highness, this empty city plan is just a strategy in the book. If Prince Jing just uses the empty city plan to lure us into the depths, so what? I don't know whether there are people in this city or not." Liu Yinfeng frowned and said softly .

Xia Houyan never thought of this level. After hearing the words and thinking about it, he raised his voice and said, "Afraid of what he will do? This little Jingyang has only 200,000 Ning troops. Even if he is not an empty city plan, the prince will not believe it. His 200,000 can still beat the prince's 400,000. Besides, the prince has sent a letter to General Lin Yu's camp who originally attacked Jingyang City, asking him to find a way to attack from the south gate. We will attack from here, attacking from both sides. , he couldn’t run away even if he wanted to.”

Liu Yinfeng was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head, "Your Majesty can't do it, Prince Jing is cunning, even if we have 400,000 people, I'm afraid we can't fight recklessly, if we have General Lin's 250,000 people, we can be safe , but Prince, now Duke Hua is in the camp over there, and Lin Yu is originally the old department of Duke Hua, so the 250,000 people may not come. "

"Does Lin Yu dare to rebel? He doesn't even obey the prince's order? Why doesn't Duke Hua let Lin Yu send troops?" Xia Houyan snorted coldly, but he was a little unconvinced.

Liu Yinfeng sighed, "Your Highness, why did we attack Jingyang?"

"It's to kill Naluo Qingyan." Xia Houyan said without thinking.

Liu Yinfeng nodded, "Yes, in order to kill Luo Qingyan, but, Your Highness, have you ever thought about the relationship between Luo Qingyan and Hua Guogong?"

"Duke Hua?" Xia Houyan frowned and thought for a while before he remembered, "Oh, the former queen is the daughter of Duke Hua, and Luo Qingyan is the grandson of Duke Hua!" After finishing speaking , and his brows frowned even more, "We finally rushed to this Jingyang City in a hurry, just to preemptively kill Luo Qingyan before the Ning Army's reinforcements arrived, and now we are waiting in this city What's the matter outside? If you don't fight, what will the prince do here?"

Liu Yinfeng pondered for a moment before saying, "It's not that we won't fight, it's just the situation in the city. I'm afraid it's better to find out. Don't worry, Your Highness, the Ning army's reinforcements haven't arrived so soon."

Xia Houyan didn't care anymore, waved his hand casually and said, "You can arrange it, the prince believes you. However, the prince's patience is limited, one hour, at most one hour, the prince will attack by force."

"Yes." Liu Yinfeng responded, and hurriedly retreated on his horse. Xia Houyan waved his hand when he saw him leave to make arrangements, "The army rests on the spot."

Perhaps it was because Xia Houyan felt that the disparity in military strength was too great. Xia Houyan did not let the soldiers set up camp, but only wanted to make a quick decision. After Xia Houjing was quickly dealt with, he returned to the carbine and took advantage of the emptiness of the defense in Kangyang City. Going to Kangyang, that would be the best.

Liu Yinfeng ordered dozens of archers, and while the night was getting dark, they approached Jingyang City little by little, "Everyone just point and shoot at the man on the city wall, that's King Jing, Shoot him, there will be a lot of rewards!"

Liu Yinfeng's voice was not loud, but it was bewitching, which made the eyes of the dozens of archers behind him a little excited. Liu Yinfeng smiled coldly and said, "Use the cover of the night to step forward Go within the range where you can shoot, don't act without authorization, wait for your captain to shout one, two, three, and then attack together, while beating grass to scare the snake.

Everyone responded again and again, and hurried forward for a certain distance, bowed and pulled the string, just waiting for the captain to give the order. It's just that they haven't heard the captain's order yet, but only heard a voice coming through the air.

"No, there's an ambush." ​​Someone raised his voice, but just as the words fell, a group of thirty or forty people fell down.

Xia Houyan, who was in the army behind, didn't see what happened in front of him, but Liu Yinfeng saw it very clearly, so he hurriedly turned around and rode to Xia Houyan's side, and said, "Your Highness, the minister brought more than thirty people. All the archers were wiped out..."

Xia Houyan was stunned for a moment before saying, "You just wanted to shoot Luo Qingyan?"

Liu Yinfeng nodded, "I just want to test whether he is really the only one on the city wall."

"Isn't he alone? Is it really a trick to deceive the enemy? In this way, the 200,000 soldiers are waiting in full force in Jingyang City? There is no empty city plan?" Xia Houyan asked several questions in succession.

Liu Yinfeng pondered for a moment, but said, "The minister thinks, on the contrary, it is indeed an empty city plan. Prince Jing is just trying to make us think that there are people in the city. It's just that the minister can see clearly, and the opponent's arrow skills are very good. Accurate, it can almost be regarded as an arrow that never fails, so it can be seen that they are definitely not ordinary soldiers. I heard that Prince Jing has trained a group of hidden guards, and I am afraid that they are hidden guards."

Xia Houyan trusted Liu Yinfeng very much. Hearing what Liu Yinfeng said, he said, "Then what are you waiting for? The generals will send an order to attack the city."

It's just that Xia Jun was not ready yet, but he saw the city of Jingyang suddenly lit up, and it seemed to be brightly lit. Xia Houyan's complexion changed slightly, "Didn't the military adviser say that there was no one? This light?"

Liu Yinfeng was also a little strange, but not long after, he saw that the city of Jingyang was brighter and brighter, and there seemed to be thick smoke rising, and the wind with the smell of burnt faintly floated over, Liu Yinfeng's expression changed , "Prince, I am afraid that the Ning army set fire to the city."

"What?" Xia Houyan was taken aback when he heard the words, and fixed his eyes firmly on the seemingly brightly lit city. He also saw some clues, and quickly said, "The army quickly assembled and set off immediately."

He wants Luo Qingyan's name, but he also wants to take down Jingyang City. Although Jingyang City doesn't seem to be that dominant, but if he takes it down, if he fights Kangyang in the future, Jingyang can do it too. A little more care would make it easier for reinforcements. Moreover, although Jingyang is a small city, there are at least some supplies in the city, at least enough to feed the hundreds of thousands of troops for a period of time. If Luo Qingyan burned the city, it would not be of much use to bring such a dilapidated city by himself.

The fire in the city was getting brighter and more likely to spread. Seeing this, Xia Houyan was anxious, so he turned around and said, "The vanguard quickly followed the prince to attack the city."

There was a neat reply from behind, Xia Houyan quickly got on his horse, and waited for the generals of the vanguard to lead the troops in front, and when almost half of the soldiers were gone, he followed them to Jingyang City.

When the forward team was about to reach the city, there was a rain of arrows flying in, and the sound of arrows being shot was heard continuously, and the team became a little scattered. Xia Houyan yelled suddenly, "Scatter! Hurry up!" Speed ​​up and go down to the city gate."

After speaking, he turned around and took a look, and saw that Liu Yinfeng was also leading a team of people to catch up, Xia Houyan felt a little more at ease, the rain of arrows kept falling, and people kept falling, but they also Getting closer and closer to the city wall.

After walking for a while, suddenly there was no sound of arrows being released. Xia Houyan raised his head to look around, and saw that there was indeed no one on the city wall.

"Siege!" Xia Houyan yelled, and everyone built a ladder to prepare the siege equipment, but just approached the city wall, but felt a heat wave, making it almost difficult for everyone to approach.

"Prepare the battering ram." Xia Houyan raised his voice, and then some people brought the battering ram over in a carriage, and they lifted the big wooden mallet and smashed it down towards the city gate.

There was only a "bang" sound, and the city gate did not move at all. The crowd smashed it several times in a row, only to faintly hear signs that the city gate was loose, so they slammed hard and hard, only to hear a rumbling sound, and the city gate slowly fell backwards in front of everyone...\u003c