The general guarding the city looked far into the distance.
"That's not the flag of the Qi army." The general asked suspiciously, "Is it like the flag of our army?"
"Qi people are approaching us disguised as our army?" asked his general.
The tone of the general and the generals below were filled with uncertainty.
After all...which enemy army would dare to attack a city with only a thousand light cavalry?
Siege is a strenuous job.
Siege equipment, heavy cavalry, and infantry are all essential.
A thousand light cavalry came to attack the city? There is no difference between that and death.
A few waves of random arrows can make them unable to come back.
"Could it be the 'ghost regiment' behind the Qi army that has been causing trouble for them?" the young general asked.
The guard's expression was shocked and he said, "Hurry and report to the general!"
General Wei Yang just received the army from Kyoto yesterday.
Because this army is the army that the emperor "conquers personally".
Therefore, he brought along all the generals, big and small, who were not on duty at the time.
Their formation was quite large. They set out from the city yesterday and traveled dozens of miles to meet them.
Such a big battle... but they failed to receive the emperor himself.
Wei Yang was a little dumbfounded - what about the promised imperial chariot to conquer in person?
Is this just a little trick played by the emperor? A gimmick?
He also thought that the emperor was here and could lead them to reverse their decline... Unexpectedly, the emperor didn't come?
The general leading the army was Guo Jin.
Guo Jin's face was calm and his voice was low, "The emperor has sent me a message. He will arrive tomorrow. Let's go back to the city first."
Wei Yang was even more surprised, "Aren't you waiting here for the Emperor?"
Guo Jin said, "Go back to the city and wait."
Wei Yang was speechless for a while... Why not wait here?
He used such a large array to pick up the emperor, but in the end he picked up Guo Jin, who was his equal? !
"We, the generals, are all here to pick up the emperor!" Wei Yang emphasized.
He hoped that Guo Jin could be more sensible. They were not here to pick him up!
Why does he, Guo Jin, act so grandly?
Guo Jin, however, was quite "indulgent".
"Yes, I know." Guo Jin nodded, "So let's go back quickly, organize the army, and get up early tomorrow to welcome the Holy Emperor."
Wei Yang took a slow breath and held it in his chest.
This Guo Jin is so annoying!
If they don't go out of the city to welcome him, how can they show their respect as ministers?
However, Guo Jin pretended to be confused...
Wei Yang glared at him.
Guo Jin was so thick-skinned that he let him glare at him and acted as if it was a matter of course.
"Go back!"
In fact, Guo Jin's arrangement makes sense.
After all, he brought an army of 100,000 people.
When we return to the city today, we can also station the army.
If we stop here today and the army is stationed on the spot, we will have to break camp and set off tomorrow. The one-day journey will be divided into two days, which will be even more troublesome.
Wei Yang couldn't hold it in anymore and asked Guo Jin privately, "Why didn't the emperor march with the army? Why did he have to wait until tomorrow?"
Guo Jin glanced at him and said mysteriously, "General Wei will understand tomorrow."
Wei Yang: "..."
You will understand tomorrow, so why should I ask you today? Don’t I just want you to tell me in advance?
As soon as they met, Wei Yang already disliked this general from Kyoto.
No wonder people say that people who stay in Kyoto for a long time will have infected intestines to twist and turn! This is so true!
Wei Yang led his generals to take back Guo Jin and his army.
Arrange the army and simply take the lead from Guo Jin.
Wei Yang left him and went about his own business.
As for Guo Jin's statement that he would get up early the next day to greet the Holy Master... he didn't believe it at all.
I'm afraid it's another gimmick, right?
Therefore, when a message was sent to the other side of the city gate, a light cavalry regiment of a thousand men was coming from the direction of Qi State.
Moreover, what they were flying was not Qi's military flag, but their Daliang flag, and there was another flag they didn't recognize.
Wei Yang didn't even think of it, that was the "holy driver" he wanted to welcome.
Guo Jin got up early in the morning and hurried up to the city gate tower.
"Don't shoot the arrow! That's the Emperor!"
When Guo Jin saw the general guarding the city, he had already asked the soldiers to draw their bows and strings, and shouted quickly.
The guard was startled, "Who?"
Guo Jin said, "Your Majesty, it's your Majesty!
"Where is General Wei? I told him yesterday that the emperor will come in person today and asked him to come to the city gate early to pick him up! Where are the others?"
The guard looked at Guo Jin and thought he was crazy.
The guard pointed at the cavalry in the distance, "That is the direction of Qi State. How could the emperor... come from the direction of Qi State?"
Guo Jin snorted, "Didn't you receive the news? There is a light cavalry regiment that is killing all parties in Qi State, disturbing the Qi State army and making it difficult for them to live in peace.
"Other than my emperor, who has such courage and ability? Dare to go deep into the enemy's hinterland with just a light cavalry?"
The guard was even more confused.
No, no, this general from Kyoto, is he speaking Daliang Mandarin?
Why do I seem to understand it, but yet I don’t seem to understand it at all?
"Hurry up and open the city gate and come out of the city to welcome him!" Guo Jin said.
The guard general shook his head and said, "Without the general's order, the city gate cannot be opened."
"Where's Wei Yang?" Guo Jin couldn't afford to compete with a general guarding the city gate.
He quickly went to find Wei Yang.
The emperor had sent a message to him the night before yesterday, and he warned him again last night...
Although he didn't know how the emperor did it, he just heard the emperor's decree!
That was the emperor's voice, he couldn't hear it wrong!
The emperor confessed twice that if he couldn't even do this well, he would let his own soldiers shoot arrows at him...
Then he would have no shame to see the emperor, so he would have to die to apologize.
"General Wei! The Emperor is here! Open the city gate quickly!"
Guo Jin saw Wei Yang being invited from the general's mansion and shouted to him quickly.
Wei Yang was a little confused when he heard this.
It was impossible for him to open the city gate just by hearing Guo Jin's words.
He climbed the city wall, and now the team of light cavalry was only a stone's throw away from the city gate.
Xiao Yuchen's banner can be seen clearly.
The bright "huang" character and the golden "xiao" character reflected the sunlight, almost blinding him.
"No...impossible?" Wei Yang murmured, "That is the direction of Qi State. How could the emperor come from that direction?"
"Open the city gate quickly!" Guo Jin shouted anxiously under the city wall. If he wasn't afraid of conflicts among his family, he would have wanted to open the city gate himself.
Wei Yang nodded, "Open...open the city gate!"
You won’t admit your mistake!
He could already see Xiao Yuchen's face clearly!
If his face could be faked, his royal demeanor, the kind of fierceness that made people dare not stare...if they made eye contact with him, they wanted to quickly lower their heads - it was him, there was no way he was wrong!
"General... General Guo said that the light cavalry led by the emperor is what we call the 'ghost regiment'." The guard said to General Wei, whose soul seemed to be floating outside his body.
General Wei looked at him blankly.
"General, let's go and greet the Holy Master, too?" the guard said again.
Guo Jin had already led the others and rode out of the city gate.
Before they arrived, the group of people got off their horses and greeted the holy driver respectfully.
Wei Yang only hated himself for being slow because he was the last one to arrive.
When he dismounted, Xiao Yuchen was already there.
He still found it incredible to see the emperor himself at such a close distance.
how could be?
How could anyone care less about the throne of Kyoto?
Risking your life and taking a thousand light cavalry to charge into the enemy's hinterland?
