Chapter 182

In the twinkling of an eye, another month has passed. The time has come to June. There has been a summer heat between heaven and earth. Many things have happened in this month.

First of all, the government of Qinglin County received a report from the mountain people who went into the mountain to collect medicine. Thousands of corpses were found in a village deep in the mountain. The government of Qinglin County immediately sent people to check them. It was confirmed that these corpses belonged to you and Cai people who were involved in the attack on Lu que, and there were no scars on these corpses. All of them died of poisoning, What's more strange is that the death of each corpse is not ferocious, and it looks peaceful.

Because it's summer now, the corpse can't be preserved for a long time, and the emperor's capital is too far away from Qinglin county. It's too late to send doctors to see what kind of poison the two families died of. We can only let it go.

However, Yao Shenxing, the son of Yao Yian and the current head of the medical family, was asked by the Panshi Legion to solve some problems for the military medical officers in Jiashan fortress. When he heard the news, he immediately went to Qinglin county. According to his judgment, the people of you and CAI should have died of a poison whose configuration method had been lost, called sanduan Anle powder.

Sanduan Anle powder is the unique secret medicine of Huang you, a poison disperser thousands of years ago. This poison is silent, colorless and tasteless, and can make people unconsciously poisoned. Moreover, this poison has a three-month incubation period. Once the heart, life and essence are broken, even the most powerful person who is proficient in medicine will not be able to save his life, The process of the attack of poison can make people in bliss, and the dead often die unconsciously with a smile.

However, this kind of poison has been lost after the death of Dusan people. For thousands of years, no one has ever heard of using this poison. Even Yao family, a medical family, has only a rough record, and does not know its specific formula.

As soon as this happened, the only clue about the person behind the scenes was also cut off. However, Lu que had already guessed that the person behind the scenes could poison the remaining evils of Qingyang who attacked and killed himself, and the time was just right. It was obvious that he was an expert in using drugs, or he had a good command of using drugs around him. Instead of taking time and effort to move you and Cai out of the village, he had to do something about it, After all, no one is more strict than a dead man's mouth.

The second big event happened in May was that the two armies of Huxiao and Gaofeng captured xuan'an Prefecture. The leiying army surrendered, and Ke Yu, the commander of leiying battle, killed himself with a sword after ordering the surrender.

Xuanan county is three feet high, which is the strongest city to the south of the kingdom to the north of Ning'an river. There are three peaks outside the county. On each peak, there is a stone fortress, which can garrison 20000 people. This is the reason why Ke Yu shrinks most of his troops here to defend the city.

Ke Yu knew very well that if he fought with the army of Da Qian in the field, his cavalry would not be the opponent of the fast wind light riding, but the infantry who lost the cavalry guard was just wheat grain on the stone mill, which would be crushed by the fast wind light riding sooner or later. This is the Beining county will take the initiative to give up, the forces are gathered to xuanan county.

But what Ke Yu didn't expect was that the three stone cities on the mountain, which he had high hopes for, were defeated one after another overnight. He didn't even have a time to dispatch troops to support him.

Gu Huairen, who went south with Yu Yuanpu, the king of Zhongyang, didn't readjust the defense of the two armies after he came to zhennanguan to announce the imperial edict and took over the military power of Yulin and benlei. The first thing he did was to look for Bai Xia, the white wolf king, who was left in southern Xinjiang by Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng. This is what Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng specially ordered before he left Beijing. There are the wolves of the white wolf king, Whether it's camping at night or fighting in the field, it will be very convenient.

What Gu Huairen didn't expect was that when he found the white wolf king, he saw a huge pack of wolves, including black wolf, gray wolf, mountain wolf, wild wolf, even shadow wolf and fierce wolf. Standing around the white wolf king, there was a team of about 50 or 60 spirit beast level moon wolves, The total number of wolves is more than 10000.

When Gu Huairen saw the wolf pack, he was a bit silly. Even when he was young, he was also a valiant general in the army. In recent years, he was in a high position, and he thought he had seen countless people. When he saw the wolf pack, he felt cold in his heart, and the guards of the government around him were all shaking. If the wolf king, who is not the leader of the wolf pack, is the white wolf king of his eldest daughter, and Gu Huairen is around, they will surely turn around and run as far as they can.

But fortunately, the white wolf king recognized Gu Huairen and did not order the wolves to attack him. He once lived in Dingguo mansion for a period of time. Gu Qingcheng's father also prepared food for him himself, which he remembers.

The reason why Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng let Gu Huairen come to find the white wolf king is that they know that the intelligence of the white wolf king is no different from that of human beings, even higher than that of ordinary people. The only difference is his knowledge and experience, but his instinct as a spirit beast can make up for this. And although the white wolf king can't speak yet, he has been able to communicate with the spirit without any obstacles.

When Gu Huairen takes out the keepsake of Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng and asks for the help of the white wolf king, the white wolf king agrees without even thinking about it. Gu Huairen knows that there will be no war on the side of Tianxing for the time being, so he takes the wolves of 20000 running thunder and White Wolf to Nanli battlefield, and the Sanshan stone city outside xuanan county city is destroyed overnight, which is the work of the white wolf king and his wolves.

Even characters like Gu Huairen are scared when they see such a large scale of wolves. What's more, when the soldiers of Shicheng are attacked at night, facing the seemingly endless wolves and the huge white wolf who is bigger than the buffalo and commands behind the wolves, the morale of the leiying garrison in Shicheng collapses at the moment when the city gate is smashed by the wolves.

If a stone city relies on these elite soldiers who are also in Nanli, they can still defend the city. However, when the gate of the city has been smashed by wolves, no one dares to fight with so many wolves at night. It's just looking for death. As elite soldiers in Nanli, they have long been indifferent to their life and death, but they can't just die in the mouth of wolves.

When a young soldier threw away his weapon and crawled to the ground shivering, others found that the wolves galloped past him and didn't attack him. All of them threw away their weapons and knelt down. In this way, when commander Lei Ying got the news, the three mountain fortresses outside the city changed their owners overnight. They didn't play their role. On the contrary, they became the fulcrum of Da Qian's army besieging xuanan Prefecture.

On the second day of the fall of the Sanshan fortress, hundreds of catapults were transported to the battlefield. When Ke Yu saw that one boulder after another did not hit the city wall, but blocked the gate of the county city one layer after another, his face was very solemn. He is very clear that there are more than 700000 soldiers and civilians in xuanan county. Although there are Nanli Kingdom and Wangdu Guancang in the city, they are only enough for the 700000 soldiers and civilians to hold on for two to three months. In his opinion, Daqian wants to encircle the city. When it collapses, he can only pray for the domestic reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.

But when the third day came, when Ke Yu saw barrels of hot oil being pushed onto the catapult, and seemingly endless barrels of oil being pushed out of the camp by Da Qian's soldiers, he finally understood Da Qian's plan. For a moment, his eyes split. He didn't expect Da Qian to dare to attack the city, You know, there are more than 700000 people in xuanan Prefecture.

Although there have been acts of slaughtering a city in history, there is no precedent of burning a big city and burying 700000 people with it. You can't help standing on the wall and questioning Yu Yuanpu, the king of Zhongyang. He couldn't believe that Prince Daqian had to use such crazy means.

But Yu Yuanpu's reply made Ke Yu silent. As Yu Yuanpu said, the army of xuan'an Prefecture is the army of Nanli, the people of xuan'an Prefecture are the people of Nanli, and guarding the land and protecting the people is his consideration. What matters to Daqian? As the pro king of Daqian, Yu Yuanpu should consider how to capture the city while avoiding losses, It doesn't matter what means are used to wipe out the forces north of the Ning'an river. As long as the final victory belongs to Daqian, it doesn't matter. The history books are written by the winners.

Ke Yu looks at the most prosperous and solid city in the South and North, and knows that nothing can be done. He can't let these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians die for his loyalty, and he can't let these fresh lives burn like charcoal in the fierce fire. In desperation, he ordered the army to lay down their weapons and surrender to the city. But when the army of Da Qian moved the huge stone into the city, Ke Yu, who was standing on the city wall, drew out his sword and faced the direction of Nanli capital to kill himself.

It's not that Ke Yu didn't think that when Daqian's army moved away from the boulders at the gate of the city, he would lead the army to kill them. But this did not change the final result. Daqian brought so many catapults and so many barrels of kerosene. Obviously, he had made up his mind to take xuanan Prefecture in a short time. For this reason, Daqian was even willing to bear the reputation of burning the city in historical books, If so, why add more casualties.

After Ke Yu committed suicide, their personal guards committed suicide one after another and followed the commander. Even many generals in Lei Ying army chose to end their lives. Although they lost two counties of Nanli and Beibei in this battle, they can be said to be the culprits of Nanli, but they lived in Nanli and died in Nanli.

Besides, their commander-in-chief Ke Yu's strategy is not wrong. He shrinks his forces and takes xuanan Prefecture as bait to drag Daqian's army here. Only when the domestic army moves northward can they encircle Daqian's two main armies, the gale and Huxiao. The reason why they lose is that Daqian's national strength is much stronger than that of Nanli, and that one is carefully built, The catapult that can be quickly assembled has both Dagan and Nanli signs of fierce fire oil. Dagan can be transported to the place in such a short time, which shows the prosperity of its national strength.

If the mad lion army was annihilated last year, and Qiu lie, the commander of the mad Lion War, died in xiyuanze, which marked the end of the reign of Tianxing kingdom to the north of Huangyanjiang River, then the surrender of leiying army and the suicide of Ke Yu, the commander, represented the end of the reign of Nanli kingdom to the north of Ningan river. It also means that the most important first step in the land shortage strategy has been completed. The rest depends on when Fengxiang army can land in Tianxing Nanhai county.

After the end of the battle in xuan'an County, Gu Huairen returned to zhennanguan with 20000 wolves from leichongqi and the white wolf king, because he knew that there would be no big war in Nanli in the next few months, and that both Daqian and Nanli were in the stage of confrontation across the river in the past year. And he would return to zhennanguan to wait for the news of Fengxiang army. As long as Fengxiang army landed in Nanhai County, the thunder army and the badminton army would go south to attack Tianxing kingdom with Fengxiang army.

When the news of xuanan county's great victory came back to the imperial capital, Lu que, Zhuge Yan, Lin Qingyu, Duanmu ye, Qian Emperor Yu Yuanxu, Princess Yu Chuqing and Duke Lu Chun, who had been waiting for the news of Nanli battlefield, were all relieved. Although they had discussed the chance to force Ke Yu to surrender before, they were not sure.

If Ke Yu vowed to die, Daqian would have to resort to fire attack, but that would be too tragic. 700000 people were burned to death, and no one really wanted to bear such a reputation. Yu Yuanxu, the emperor of Qian, did not want to. Lu Chun and Yu Chuqing, who would not stay in Daqian for long, did not want to. Lu que, the strategist, did not want to either. Although he had some admiration and regret for Ke Yu's death, But now the result is undoubtedly the best.

Yu Yuanxu, the emperor of Qian Dynasty, ordered that Ke Yu be buried in the mountains outside xuanan Prefecture with the courtesy of the great Qians, civil and military marquis.

And the third thing that happened in May was the death of the star king who was struggling on his sickbed, and the four sons who had been robbed by him before his death were claustrophobic in the palace together, because they didn't want the father to set up the prince at this time, and the later things would depend on their own means.

However, they didn't expect that the father who was in his deathbed left an edict to make Yan Tuohai, the king's younger brother, king of Wucheng, king. In Tianxing's heart, none of his four sons could save his ancestral country at this time. Only the younger brother Wang, who had been in the army, could stop Daqian's soldiers. So, younger brother Wang's succession to the throne was undoubtedly Tianxing's best choice.

Between Jiangshan and his son, the star king finally chose Jiangshan, but before the imperial edict was sent out, the four princes who were watching the palace city closely learned that the star king had no choice.

You should know that Yan Tuohai, the Duke of Wucheng, who is now stationed on the South Bank of Huangyan River, has one of the last two armies of Tianxing Kingdom, xiyuanze Legion. If Wang Shu, the Duke of Wucheng, gets the news, no one can compete with him for the throne.

For the first time in their adult life, the four heavenly princes, who have always been incompatible with each other, gather together to invite the Duke of Wucheng to return to the capital in the name of mourning for his father, hoping to get rid of it first and then quickly. It's just that Yan Tuohai, the Duke of Wucheng, was aware of this incident in advance, and he returned to the capital with 100000 soldiers who were originally stationed in xiyuanze.

Naturally, the four heavenly princes are not willing to give up and lead the army of Wangdu to fight against Yan Tuohai, but they have never experienced the battle. How can they be Yan Tuohai's opponents? Fifteen days later, all the heavenly princes are defeated by Yan Tuohai, and Yan Tuohai ascends to the throne with the imperial edict

After learning the news, the four princes who fled back to the fiefdom raised their troops to stand on their own. They did not recognize Yan Tuohai's throne and called him the thief of usurping the country. They sent their confidants to Daqian to fight for Daqian's support. From then on, Tianxing was in chaos.

When it came to the capital of Daqian, neither Yu Yuanxu, the emperor of Qian, nor the two pavilions inside and outside, expected that the political situation of Tianxing would turn out like this. Now Tianxing kingdom is divided into five parts. Originally, there were sixteen counties in Tianxing Kingdom, one and a half counties in the north of Huangyan river had been owned by Daqian, and each of the four princes owned two counties, Yan Tuohai, who is now the king of Tianxing, controls the six counties around the capital.

In addition, Tianxing's Wangdu army lost a lot in the previous battle of Wangdu. As the Sieger, xiyuanze army also lost more than 30000 people, and it had to guard against Daqian army north of Huangyanjiang river. For a moment, it was unable to go south to fight the rebellion.

However, this situation is the most favorable for Da Qian, even more favorable than previously expected. Emperor Yu Yuanxu of Qian even immediately ordered the badminton army and the thunder army to go south, but Lu Chun and Yu Chuqing stopped them in time.

Although Tianxing's military strength has been greatly reduced, xiyuanze's army of Yan Tuohai, the new king of Tianxing, still has one more stop. At this time, even if the strong attack can win, it will lose a lot.

In addition, Fengxiang and Jinghai legions are going south by sea now. It is known by Tianxing kingdom in advance that they will bypass the deep sea to Nanhai County, which will take about a month. It's better to shrink the army north of Huangyan River in this month, and give Yan Tuohai space to go south to fight the rebellion. He must build up his prestige before he ascends the throne, The four princes will fight to the death for their own lives. At that time, there will be wars everywhere in Tianxing, and it will be decided when Fengxiang army lands.

Thinking about the news from southern Xinjiang in the past month, Lu que could not help shaking his head and grinning bitterly. He felt that Qiu lie was not worth fighting for the mad lion. Originally, Qiu lie supported the four princes of Tianxing, and even his daughter married him as his concubine. Lu que thought that the four princes were something extraordinary, and they would be valued by people like Qiu lie, I didn't expect that in the end, they were just those who were greedy for profits. In particular, the four of them actually joined hands to imprison the heavenly star king in the palace, which made Lu que particularly unhappy.

Lu Que's fingers kept sliding on the map, but he didn't take a look at the place that belonged to Tianxing and Nanli. In his opinion, Nanli's leiying army surrendered and lost the land of Ningan River, which was occupied by two counties. He was seriously injured, and Tianxing's civil strife happened. If there was no accident, The time to pacify the two countries is earlier than expected.

What Lu que is looking at now is the area that represents the vast sea territory. He constantly calculates Gu Qingcheng's position at this time. Gu Qingcheng has been away for more than a month. To be honest, Lu que really misses her.

"If only I could go south with sister Qingcheng."