The phoenix flower lantern is a specialty of the Yun Kingdom. It has a complex structure and a large size. The petals are like the feathers of a phoenix. When it is lit and lifted into the sky, a phoenix silhouette will fly on the wall of the lantern, hence its name.
Every New Year's Eve, Yuncheng's Lantern Festival attracts many people to come and watch, not only the locals of the Yun Kingdom, but also people from other countries.
The Lantern Festival not only offers beautiful scenery, but also the trading of treasures. The scale of transactions is not as large as that of Yunhe Shopping Mall, but there are many things that are not usually seen. Both practitioners and ordinary people in the Yun Kingdom are accustomed to buying some beloved things for themselves on this day to welcome the New Year.
When the Yunhe Fair started on the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, when they were still in Chiyun Mountain, Ye Qingyu said that the Lantern Festival should not be missed again.
The round-faced Senior Sister Xiao Wang is a master at weaving phoenix lanterns. In the entire secret land of Lingxiao, her phoenix lanterns are the most beautiful. Jiang Anan has been pestering her all day long.
Dozens of ready-made phoenix lanterns have been placed on the platform in the center of the Lingxiao Secret Land. They just need to be lit to fly high into the sky.
Senior Sister Xiao Wang flew her fingers in front of the half-finished lamp, manipulating the translucent silk thread with dexterous movements. Jiang Anan moved a small wooden stool and sat next to it, staring at it with her big eyes flickering.
"Senior Sister Xiao Wang, the phoenix flowers you weave are so beautiful." Jiang Anan said with envy.
Senior Sister Xiao Wang smiled proudly: "Of course, Senior Sister has liked phoenix lanterns since she was a child."
As she spoke, she took out her hand and gently pressed Jiang Anan's little face.
Turning his gaze slightly, he met Jiang Wang's clear and calm eyes.
My heart suddenly stopped.
"Brother Jiang is looking at me, Brother Jiang is looking at me!" she shouted in her heart.
"His eyes are so serious..."
"He smiled at me!"
Her heart was turbulent, but her face was very reserved. She only touched her slightly rounded chin, showing some careless tenderness, then turned back and knitted the phoenix flowers forcefully and calmly. But the roots of his ears were instantly red.
At that time, under the tall cloud platform, a group of disciples from Lingxiao Pavilion were coming and going, preparing for the night lantern festival. Jiang Wang stood in the crowd and looked here quietly.
Facing Senior Sister Xiao Wang's gaze, Jiang Wang smiled politely as a greeting.
Of course he was looking at An An.
Little An'an looked at the phoenix flower for a while, then turned to look for her brother. When she saw Jiang Wang, she smiled sweetly and turned back to look at the phoenix flower lantern.
She was very curious as to why the shadow of this phoenix lantern could turn into a phoenix. Senior Sister Xiao Wang said that nine hundred and ninety-nine phoenix lanterns will be put out tonight. They will be more beautiful than the stars when they fly in the night sky.
She likes to look at the stars very much, and she doesn’t know what scenery is more beautiful than the stars. So she's looking forward to it.
Children are always prone to being obsessed with the things they like. She looked carefully and did not notice that her brother had disappeared into the crowd.
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On New Year's Eve in the year 3918 of the Dao calendar, the Western Region was not peaceful.
This is especially true for the Yong people who were invaded by foreign enemies.
No one in the entire Yong Kingdom, from the ruler and officials to the common people, had ever imagined that one day the weak Zhuang Kingdom would come knocking on their door.
Many Yong people firmly believe that Zhuang is just a small branch of their country that broke away and will be brought back sooner or later. When to take it back depends on when Yong Ting makes up his mind. Even though Zhuang State has been established for more than three hundred years, many Yong people still do not recognize Zhuang State as an independent country.
So when Zhuang Guo brazenly launched a national war, many people did not believe it was true and thought it was a rumor.
However, the fact is that in the early morning of the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhuang's forward troops had already defeated the Yong's frontier troops stationed in the Qichang Mountains and entered Lingbei Prefecture.
That night, New Year's Eve of the year 3918 in the Dao calendar, the entire defense network of Lingbei Prefecture had been broken, and the army marched into Yiyang Prefecture. It’s overwhelming!
Yongguo's British Gongbei Gongyu took command and went out to attack the Zhuang army head-on, driving the Zhuang army back to the south of the Qichang Mountains. But the leader turned around halfway.
Because the army of the Luo Kingdom came west and joined forces with the Qingjiang Water Mansion of the Zhuang Kingdom, the Lanhe Water Mansion was immediately in danger!
Zhuang Guo had already secretly reached an agreement with Luo Guo, and even persuaded Qingjiang Water Mansion to join forces with Luo Guo's navy, which was notorious among the Shui Tribe.
What's even more frightening is that the Jing Kingdom in the northern region, which Yong Kingdom has always been most vigilant about, has also taken action. The Red Horse Guards, ranked seventh among the top ten cavalry armies in the world, have come north!
Zhuang's army defeated Lingbei Prefecture, an important town in the southern part of Yong State. As if it had announced some kind of signal, a war broke out across the entire front, and Jing and Luo sent troops one after another.
One day ago, Yong State was still an established power in the western region, and it once went north to compete with Jing State for hegemony. Although it cannot be compared with countries such as Qin and Jing now, small countries such as Weilingzhuang and Chen are still commonplace.
But in just one day, the situation changed suddenly, and the country was in danger of overthrow!
At this time, Han Yin, the Supreme Emperor of the Yong Kingdom, broke through the barrier, put on his armor personally, and left the Tianming Mansion alone. He wanted to see the king as a king, and the war village was envied by Yiyang Mansion.
Everyone knows that Han Yan, the current leader of Yong Kingdom, is a puppet in name only. The supreme power of the entire Yong Kingdom has always been in the hands of the Supreme Emperor Han Yin.
Qi Maoxian, the Prime Minister of Yong State, personally sat in Jing'an Mansion to welcome the possible military front from Jing State.
Jing'an Prefecture is an important military town in the northern part of Yong State, and it has always been a defense line built with Jing State as the imaginary enemy. Although Chimawei is famous all over the world. Qi Maoxian relies on the heavily fortified city of Jing'an Prefecture and is definitely capable of fighting.
The Yong Kingdom has a profound foundation. The Prime Minister Qi Maoxian resisted the Red Horse Guards in the north, the British Gong Beigong Yuchi aided the Lanhe Water Mansion, and the west defeated the combined naval forces of the Luo Kingdom and Qingjiang Water Mansion.
Both Jing and Luo sent only one army. Only Zhuang Guo fought with all his strength.
The key to the victory or defeat of this national war suddenly fell on Yiyang Mansion.
Han Yin, the Supreme Emperor of the Yong Kingdom, was a figure of the same era as Zhuang Chengqian, the ancestor of the Tongzhuang Kingdom.
More than three hundred years ago, Han Zhou, the heroic leader of the Yong Kingdom, died in battle, and the prince died mysteriously in the East Palace. What followed was the "three kings seizing the throne." A war broke out between the three kings, and the Yong Kingdom, which was already severely weakened, was even more devastated by the chaos. But it was not any of the three kings who finally ascended the throne.
It is said that the subjects of the Yong Kingdom felt that the three kings attacked each other, ignored the people's livelihood, and caused great chaos in the Yong Kingdom. They believed that they were not the masters of the Ming Dynasty, so they supported Han Zhou's younger brother to succeed to the throne, that is, Han Yin.
Han Yin sat on the dragon throne in the Tianming Mansion and personally led the troops. In just one year, he defeated the three kings one by one, completely took control of the military and political power of Yong State, and stabilized the precarious situation of Yong State.
He even repelled the invasion of Jing Kingdom!
He is regarded as the wise king who can turn the tide, and his popularity is on par with that of Han Zhou, the hero of the generation.
Then, bringing the power of Dingding to the world, he came south to Pingzhuang to rebel.
In that battle, Zhuang Chengqian personally guarded the Qichang Mountains and refused to give in, resisting Yong's attack. Qingjiang Water Mansion, which had made an alliance with Zhuang Chengqian, under the leadership of Song Hengjiang, fought with all their clans and killed Lanhe dye red, opening up a front line for Zhuang country.
Later, Zhuang Guo joined the Dao Kingdom, received a certain degree of protection, and became a nail in the west for Jing Guo.
The failure to "pacify" the Zhuang land and allow the continuation of Zhuang's country was also an important reason why Han Yin failed to surpass Han Zhou in the hearts of many people. After all, Zhuang Chengqian was just a general under Han Zhou. When Han Zhou was alive, he was honest and hardworking. Han Yin failed to defeat Zhuang Chengqian.
It can be said that Zhuang Guo is the nail that drives the deepest into Han Yin's heart.
But this time, it was Han Yin who pulled out the thorn in his eye and the nail in his flesh, or Zhuang Gaoxian inherited Taizu's ambition and succeeded in counterattacking Qiang Yong.
It's all in the battle of Yiyang Mansion.
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ps: The war between Zhuang and Yong has begun. To make it easier for everyone to understand the plot. Specifically in), a hand-drawn situation map of the Western Territory and an overview of the Yong Kingdom map were released. Readers can go and take a look.
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