The eldest princess asked for help from the army and gave him wine. The eldest princess said that if you don't get drunk after drinking today, you won't be able to return home. Tomorrow you will kill the enemy, crush their bones and spread their ashes.
These men, who had endured hard work on the frontier for so long, drank wine, some sang happily, and some cried.
What makes them feel that they are valued is not their Dongbo people, but the eldest princess of Dayu.
In their opinion, what kind of person that was, that he could travel thousands of miles to visit them in this bitter and cold place.
Dayu is the main country of winter, Dayu has not given up winter.
From this day on, the men in the border army have been holding back their energy. If they don't go to the battlefield to release this energy, they will feel unwilling to do so.
So now, Lin Ye is even considering whether to take the initiative to fight.
He was thinking about this, and so was Ning Haitang.
What prevented the two of them from doing this was that the troops on the wind outlet side were indeed a bit insufficient.
Lin Ye's cowardly army was still halfway there, a little later than Xie Yunxi's departure from Yunzhou.
It wasn't just a few horses running north in one breath, it was a large army going out to fight, with a scale of 100,000 horses, and it couldn't be moving fast.
Lin Ye expected that at least the Cowardly Army would have ten days to come to the forefront.
Hong Wuding, who could come as soon as possible, still hasn't arrived. He probably has no intention of leading troops, even though Lin Ye has sent people to Caoshu City to deliver orders.
It wasn't that Hong Wu was hesitant, he just couldn't see the situation clearly.
Or, he was deliberately stalling for time, waiting for Lou Fan to break through the outlet first.
For those behind Hong Wuding, the best situation is for the Loufan people to occupy Dongbo.
The next best thing, they also hope that the Loufan people can take over half of Dongbo.
The Loufan people control everything from Caoshu City to the north, so the situation becomes more and more favorable to them.
The current situation is that Xumi Pianruo is still investigating the case in Yunzhou, and more and more people will be uncovered and more and more families will be implicated.
If the Loufan people take over half of Dongbo, with the arrogance of Emperor Jade, the national power of Dayu, and the pride of Jade people, this battle will definitely be fought with all their strength.
Regardless of victory or defeat, Dayu's national power will be seriously damaged.
By that time, the emperor would no longer be able to easily touch these noble and old clans.
Dayu was already weak and needed to take a breath. If he moved them again, Dayu might not be able to catch his breath.
Fighting such a large-scale war, in the end, both Lou Fan and Yu were depleted of their treasury, and both emperors were exhausted mentally and physically.
At that time, how dare the emperor dare to mess with Chao Gang again?
Now they have to compromise with the emperor, even if it means sacrificing a Cui family member, they can take this opportunity to let the emperor see their surrender.
However, when Dayu's national power was really damaged in this battle, it was the emperor's turn to compromise with them.
Because by that time, not only will there be huge losses in material and financial resources, but there will also be huge losses in manpower.
The troops loyal to the emperor will be exhausted in this war. Even if they are not exhausted, there will probably be very few left.
It doesn't matter what the emperor wants, so he still dares to be domineering with them?
When the time comes, I'm afraid the emperor will ask them to do their best to help the helpless Dayu.
Putting internal problems to solve externally can also make the emperor change from strong to weak.
This abacus was so loud in Geling City that even the people of Loufan heard it.
Just because Zong Zheng Shiquan heard it, he also speculated that Emperor Jade did not dare to really use his national power to fight Lou Fan to death.
The financial and material resources held by the major families in Dayu are enough to affect the stability of Dayu, especially at a time like that.
One generation of powerful ministers is terrifying enough, not to mention that these families have been ministers for generations.
Many people still remember that more than seventy years ago, Emperor Dayu Jiading passed away, and a new emperor came to the throne and changed the name of the country to Longyu.
The corrupt official Yao Zongshu, who had been favored by Emperor Jiading for thirty years, was taken into custody by Emperor Longyu. The amount of property confiscated from Yao Zongshu's home was unimaginable.
Ten years later, some officials calculated that the total revenue of Dayu's treasury in the past ten years was just equal to the money Yao Zongshu had embezzled. This is not an exaggeration. Emperor Longyu did not have much ability, but it gave Dayu the potential to revive just because he established a Yao Zongshu.
However, the drawbacks of this incident were quickly exposed. After Yao Zongshu died, the corrupt officials of all sizes who were suppressed by him not only lost their backbone, but also lost their controllers.
So that they became even more frenzied. After more than ten years of being honest because of Yao Zongshu's death, they began to make money crazily, digging the Dayu court like an empty tomb.
Yao Zongshu's disciples who didn't dare to be too presumptuous at first turned Dayu into a dangerous tree in just a few years.
Emperor Longyu's sword had already been cut down. If it had been more severe at that time, it had cut down Yao Zongshu, and also cut down all the disciples and grandsons of Yao Zongshu, from the imperial court to every place.
Then the outcome may be different. Of course, no one dares to say for sure.
Maybe there will be peace in the world, and maybe someone will rise up and rebel at that time.
This period of history was not only known to Emperor Yu, but also to Emperor Loufan Zong Zhengshiquan.
That's why he had some admiration for Emperor Yu, who did things he didn't dare to do.
The Loufan Empire arose out of nomadism. The leaders of the major tribes at the beginning are still the princes of the empire, and they are hereditary.
Every year these big tribes would have new children, and every year more than one family would come to him to ask for rewards.
Just like this, rewards and rewards continued, and now a small half of Loufan's territory did not belong to the imperial court or the royal family.
The enfeoffed lands of the major tribes have expanded year after year, and are now one-third the size of Lou Fan.
Among the nomadic tribes that supported Zong Zhengli at the beginning, the Nine Banners and Eighteen Tribes were not weak in strength.
Among these big tribes, which one's fiefdom is getting smaller every year?
What Zong Zheng Shiquan wanted to do was exactly the same as what Emperor Yu wanted to do, but he couldn't do it and didn't dare to do it.
After he failed in the last personal expedition, the princes and princes of the Nine Banners and Eighteen Divisions asked him in public in the court how the result was.
Although those people did not dare to be too presumptuous, they had already exposed their dissatisfaction with Zong Zheng Shiquan.
At that time, Zong Zheng Shiquan really wanted to chop up all these people one by one.
Why he wanted to invite the old general Yelu Ling out of the army was because the Yelu family was one of the few families that Zong Zheng Shiquan could still completely trust.
The longer an empire exists, the more likely it is that its seeming power is just an illusion.
If a resurgence king cannot emerge, then the downhill road will go faster and faster.
However, Zong Zheng Shiquan and Yu Tianzi chose different paths. Their goals were the same, but their methods of solving problems were completely different.
Zong Zhengshiquan felt that this contradiction could be resolved only by making every effort to invade the Central Plains and occupy a larger territory.
As long as the Central Plains is captured, the princes of the major tribes can share more benefits, and they can always remain loyal.
Now, Zong Zhengshiquan is somewhat unable to do what he wants.
At this moment, on the city wall at the outlet of the wind, Lin Ye looked at the distance outside the city with his clairvoyance.
He saw a general wearing iron armor on a high slope, looking towards him with his clairvoyance.
After both people discovered each other, they unanimously put down their clairvoyance.
When Yelu Mingjing put down his clairvoyance, he clenched his hands tightly and the veins on the back of his hands stretched.
When Lin Ye put down his clairvoyance, he smiled a little more, because he saw that the flag behind the general was also the flag of the Yelu family.
"A loyal family."
Lin Ye muttered to himself.
Hearing his words, Ning Haitang, who was standing not far from him, also smiled.
"Are you planning to bring trouble to the whole family?"
Ning Haitang asked.
Lin Ye said: "This is Zong Zheng Shiquan's problem and has nothing to do with me."
Ning Haitang said: "If Zong Zheng Shiquan has others who are trustworthy and available, they will not only use people from Yelu's family."
Lin Ye nodded.
Ning Haitang said that he could cause trouble for the whole family, but didn't Zong Zheng Shiquan first cause trouble for the whole family? Yes, who doesn't know that leading the troops here means that both Yelvling and Yelvminglou who are captured will die.
Therefore, the most suitable candidate is definitely not someone from the Yelu family.
"That's a good thing."
Ning Haitang raised his clairvoyance to look at it, then raised his arms and waved a few times towards the high slope in the distance.
"Lou Fan is also suffering from internal and external troubles."
she says.
Lin Ye looked at Ning Haitang: "Yeah?"
Ning Haitang was slightly startled, and then said to Lin Ye: "Swallow this word, I don't admit that I said it."
Lin Ye didn't bother to pay attention. Women were born to be rogues.
The more coquettish a woman is, the greater her qualifications will be.
Ning Haitang doesn't know how to act coquettishly.
"Brother."
Ning Haitang walked to Lin Ye and naturally put his arm on Lin Ye's shoulders.
Although compared with Lin Ye's height, she had to put her arms on Lin Ye's shoulders, which was not a very comfortable position.
But she's used to it.
"Are you thinking about going out and doing it?"
Lin Ye shook his head: "No, no, I don't admit it."
Ning Haitang laughed.
"If there were 50,000 soldiers here at the wind outlet, I would dare to go out and fight, but now there are not even 20,000 soldiers."
Ning Haitang felt a little regretful.
Lin Ye said: "If you insist on going, I can pretend you don't know. I won't stop you or participate."
Ning Haitang: "Then you can take the opportunity to play one of my songs to His Majesty?"
Lin Ye: "No, no, I don't admit it."
Ning Haitang glanced at him.
"You probably saw it too."
Ning Haitang pointed outside the city: "The layout of the Loufan people's camp has changed. Although the guy leading the army deliberately suppressed the change very little, how could he know that I have a pair of piercing eyes?"
Lin Ye also saw it. In the past few days, when he observed the Loufan camp outside the city, there were indeed some changes.
If nothing else goes wrong, General Lou Fan, who is leading the army, is also waiting for the Yu army to go out and fight.
He has already set up an ambush in the camp. As long as the Jade Army attacks, his soldiers and horses will immediately form an encirclement.
"Now that our military is so united and our morale is so strong, it would be really hard not to go out and fight."
Ning Haitang looked at Lin Ye: "Is there any way?"
Lin Ye: "No."
Ning Haitang: "I don't believe it."
Lin Ye said: "There is no way to go out and fight, but it is not impossible to do harm to the whole family."
Ning Haitang's eyes lit up: "What bad trick did you come up with again?"
Lin Ye said: "I met Yeluminglou last night. I told him that the people leading the troops outside the city were members of his family. They had sent people here secretly and asked to see me in a very secretive way."
"I also told him that the Yelu family were willing to use 10,000 war horses and 100,000 taels of gold in exchange for Yelu Ling and Yelu Minglou and his son to return."
"But I told Yelv Minglou that I could only agree to exchange it for another one, but I couldn't give Yelv Ling back, so I had no choice but to him."
Ning Haitang's eyes brightened even more.
Lin Ye looked back and saw that a cavalry group was gathering in the city. It was the personal camp led by Pang Panghai.
"Pang Panghai will send Yeluming Tower back in a while."
Lin Ye looked outside the city: "I was waiting specifically for the general to come out of the camp to observe the enemy's situation before letting him go. This seems to be a good cooperation."
He exhaled slowly.
"The general leading the army of the Yelu family doesn't dare and can't send people to negotiate with me, so it doesn't matter. I'll treat it as if I've negotiated the terms and give it to him for free. He should be happy."
When he said this, Pang Panghai gave an order, and his soldiers sent Yeluming Tower out with drums and gongs.
Ning Haitang had to sigh when he saw this scene.
She said: "To be insidious, you are really insidious."
