Nalanyu looked at him and said, "If you eat part of it, you can eat it all at the latest."
"Then what should we eat for lunch?" Mu Mu looked at Nalan Yu and thought to herself that she had gotten up early and walked across the river without eating anything.
Nalan Yu looked at her and smiled: "Of course we have been prepared here for a long time, just waiting for the Generalissimo to come."
Li Ye glanced at him and said: "How did you do with the burial? I thought that after I finish solving the problem in White Jade City, I have to come back here and erect a stone tablet to swear to future generations."
Tang Qiuyu looked at him and sighed: "It's no wonder they are the ones to blame. It's the restless masters in the imperial city who let these soldiers live as cannon fodder."
The eldest prince was unwilling to continue discussing these details simply because he knew that Li Ye was unwilling to do so either.
He raised his head and looked at the big tent carefully, and said with a smile: "Linghu Zhen enjoys it more than the National Preceptor Association. Even when he goes out, he never forgets to bring his animal skin quilt."
Li Ye was startled, looked back, and said with a smile: "I really didn't pay attention. It's true that you said it like this. It seems that the generals in the imperial city are all masters who can't bear the hardships."
He said this very simply, but he forgot that all of them were generals coming out of the imperial city, including the eldest prince and Tang Qiuyu.
The fire in the brazier in the big tent was raging, and it was full of people. The winter snowflakes occasionally drifted in with the cold wind, and it didn't feel as cold as before.
Li Ye looked at Nalan Yu and smiled and said, "Let someone bring the food to you. We will do it ourselves tonight."
Xia Wutong touched his belly and said, "I was in a hurry to cross the river with you this morning. I didn't even have a few bites of food, and I was already starving."
...
In the white jade city, the city lord's mansion.
The Lord of Baiyu City is Jiang Daofeng, Linghu Zhen's good friend, who also sent powerful officials from outside the imperial city.
Looking at Linghu Zhen who was out of breath, Jiang Daofeng frowned and asked, "Don't you have fifty thousand troops in your hands? And you have also pulled all the ships on the other side over."
"So what?" Linghu Zhen looked at him and smiled bitterly: "Not to mention they cut down trees to build rafts, but their tens of thousands of troops came out of nowhere and caught us by surprise."
"And they used mind-attack tactics to shoot arrows at us for three days in a row, with warning letters tied to them. Twenty thousand people escaped before the war started!" Linghu Zhen said bitterly.
"Are the Grand Marshal and the Imperial Master so powerful?" Jiang Daofeng asked in disbelief. Because he was also a soldier, in his opinion, how could there be such a powerful person in the dynasty.
Linghuzhen looked up at him and said with a wry smile: "Won't you know soon whether he's powerful or not? After he beats us, Bai Jade City will be next!"
"The city walls here are high, the terrain is high, and the people and horses are strong. Will I be afraid of them?" Jiang Daofeng laughed.
Linghuzhen looked at him and shook his head, thinking that he was a master who did not believe in evil. It seemed that he had to sneak away quietly and return to the imperial city.
"If you have anything to eat, give it to me. I almost died this way."
"Don't worry, I'll have someone prepare it right now."
"You must immediately order the army to close the city gate to prevent them from chasing all the way and taking the White Jade City!" Linghu Zhen looked at him and suddenly remembered this matter.
"Well, this is business, I'll go right away!" Although Jiang Daofeng was joking with Linghu Zhen, he also knew that the war was about to get tight and he couldn't afford to be careless.
...
The wind is blowing across the north bank.
Tang Qiuyu took a few girls to rest, and only the eldest prince and Jiang Huo were left in the tent.
The fire in the brazier was burning brightly, and the generals were excitedly discussing how to capture the White Jade City. Xia Yunlan looked at a few people and said calmly: "The lord of the White Jade City, Jiang Daofeng, is Linghu's real friend and a member of the second prince."
Li Ye glanced at him with a smile and said, "I have already guessed where Linghu Zhen escaped from. It seems that they are waiting for me there."
Nalan Yu looked at him and shook his head, and said with a sad face: "According to what the Imperial Master said, Hua Xiaoniu is also a member of the Second Prince, so she shouldn't be treated the same as them, right?"
Li Ye was thinking about some details of White Jade City, but Nalan Yu was thinking about the flower world filled with flowers.
Li Ye looked at him and sighed, and said softly: "We are discussing matters in White Jade City here, but your mind is thinking about Sister Hua in the Imperial City. Do I want to give you a holiday?"
Nalanyu was stunned, looked at him blankly and said, "I didn't think much about it. I just thought about how to face that mess when I return to the imperial city."
He was a little hesitant when he said this, because he couldn't figure out how the eldest prince would treat the people in Huamanlou once he overthrew the second prince after returning to the imperial city.
"General Nalan, didn't we already make an agreement in Nanyun City? I don't care about this matter. I'll leave it all to the imperial advisor." The eldest prince looked at him and smiled lightly.
He had already heard from Li Ye about Nalan Yu and Hua Tianxia.
And Hua Manlou was the second prince's spy, and he learned about it from the prince's mouth.
But seeing that Huamanlou was only responsible for collecting intelligence and had not done anything to harm the dynasty, the emperor left this matter to him before leaving and asked him to hand it over to Guo Li Ye as a favor to the imperial master.
Looking at Nalan Yu who had a depressed look on his face, Li Ye shook his head helplessly, looked at him and said, "I've told you this before, and now you mention it again, don't you find it annoying?"
Nalan Yu looked at him and the eldest prince, then turned to look at Jiang Yan and Xia Yunlan who were snickering, shook his head and said, "So you are all here waiting to see my joke?"
Li Ye didn't care about his nervous look. What he cared about was how the 80,000-strong army should attack the White Jade City, both to capture it and to reduce casualties. The best result would be if Linghu could really convince the city lord to escape back to the imperial city with him.
But after learning from Xia Yunlan that the city lord was the second prince's son, he knew that this idea was too naive.
The only way at the moment was to attack by force. Even if he wanted to attack by force, he would have to choose the simplest method and the weather suitable for the attack.
The tricks that have been used here are not suitable for use in White Jade City, because the city wall there is high enough and the food and grass are enough for them to support the arrival of the imperial army's assistance.
What he wanted was a quick victory, and he wanted to capture the White Jade City before the imperial army had time to reinforce it. From the time of attack to the destruction of the city, it could not take more than half a day.
"Master, tell me, how should we attack and capture White Jade City?" The eldest prince looked at Li Ye with a solemn expression and asked softly.
Li Ye looked at the blazing flames in the brazier and said with a smile, "You can't be like them and attack with fire, right?"
"Fire attacks are useless against White Jade City. How can we break through such a high city wall and the terrain is high?" Nalan Yu shook his head and rejected the move using fire.
The eldest prince also thought it was impossible. Seeing Li Ye's silence, he couldn't help but said, "Could it be that we are going to go on a killing spree again?"
Li Ye waved his hands and did not object to the two people's opinions. He just said quietly: "Twenty thousand people have died in Feng Lingdu, so what if there are more? At most, it's just a few more holes dug outside White Jade City."
Nalan Yu was stunned, thinking that he had just wiped out an army of 20,000 people in Fenglingdu, and seeing that Bai Jade City had to come again, he probably had to find another group of people to dig the hole.
The eldest prince frowned and asked softly: "Is there no other way?"
Li Ye held a cup of hot tea in his hand, looked at his frown and said, "If you want to be an emperor but are afraid of death, how can there be such a simple thing in this world?"
Only then did the eldest prince realize that his thoughts were indeed too naive. He lowered his head in shame and took a sip of tea while holding the cup.
Li Ye looked at the two of them and shook his head, no longer thinking about these things. He reached out and picked up a handful of melon seeds left by Mu Mu from the table, and started to eat them carefully.
He doesn't want much, as long as he can open the gate of White Jade City.
But he estimated that neither the soldiers guarding the city nor the city lord, including Linghu Zhen, would let him easily capture the White Jade City.
"But they never expected that I have a powerful weapon to attack the city!"
Looking at the few people in a daze, Li Ye murmured.
...
The next day, it was another windy and snowy weather. Fortunately, Linghuzhen left a lot of food and supplies, so that the 80,000 troops could keep out the cold without setting up many tents.
Wang Tianhua and Wei Qingyu finished breakfast early in the morning, but were called into the tent by Li Yerang's guards.
Before entering the big tent, the chirping sounds of Mu Mu and Yelu Yan could be heard inside. Wei Qingyu was so happy that he opened the tent door and walked in.
Li Ye looked at the red-faced Wei Qingyu, smiled, and asked gently: "Have you had breakfast? We still have some more."
Wei Qingyu shook her head and said, "I had already eaten when I came here."
Wang Tianhua walked in and sat across from Li Ye, looked at him and said, "I wonder what the Imperial Master's instructions are for calling us here?"
Li Ye picked up the teapot and poured hot tea for the two of them. He looked at him and asked, "How many siege slaves did you bring from Nanyun City this time?"
"I'm taking them all with me. I think there is no war in southern Xinjiang right now, so I will only leave them two hundred heavy slaves." Wang Tianhua took a sip of hot tea while holding the cup.
"how many?"
"It takes one thousand heavy slaves to attack the city, and five thousand heavy slaves, no more than one." Wu Tianhua said to him like several family treasures.
Looking at him, Li Ye smiled with satisfaction and said, "Do the heavy soldiers have enough arrows to attack the city?"
Wang Tianhua nodded, thought for a while and replied: "Almost ten thousand, should it be enough?"
Li Ye's eyes lit up, he patted the table and said with a smile, "That's enough!"
"Well, this thing is not easy to damage and can be reused!" Wang Tianhua looked at him and smiled.
When Yeluyan, who was sitting next to him, heard this, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "It can be reused? It's really amazing."
"Our master craftsmen are very serious, and they are all made of fine iron." Wang Tianhua looked at the people in the room and said with a smile.
When the eldest prince, who was lying on a chair to recuperate, heard this, he couldn't help opening his eyes, looking at him, smiling slightly, and said: "The reusable arrows are indeed amazing!"
Although he guessed that Li Ye might use heavy siege arrows to deal with the defenders of White Jade City, the eldest prince did not expect that the heavy siege arrows forged in Nanyun City could be reused like ordinary feather arrows.
This increased his confidence in Li Ye a lot, and it seemed that he was already standing at the top of White Jade City.
Mu Mu thought of the Huamanlou that she went to in White Jade City. She looked at the two people and asked, "If there is a war, will it affect the people in the city? Will the house collapse?"
The eldest prince shook his head slightly, indicating that he was unclear.
Li Ye looked at her and smiled and said, "We are only attacking the city gate, how come it affects all the people in the city?"
Looking at Mu Mu's worried look, I felt that she was pure in heart after all. Even though she followed him into the world, she was not stained by the filth of the world.
"Since we need to rest, let everyone eat and drink what they need in the past two days. Don't have any worries. It's the guys from Bai Jade City who should worry, not us."
Looking at Nalan Yu and Ma Feihu, Li Ye said quietly.
His tone was calm and gentle, but it was hard to refuse. This was an aura he had only developed during his year in southern Xinjiang. It's Mu Mu. Now she no longer argues with him about anything.
Nalan Yu glanced at Ma Feihu and said with a smile: "Kill all the seriously injured horses to the soldiers. They can't be saved anyway, and they are not as good as our horses."
Hearing Nalan Yu talk about this, Li Ye looked at him and asked, "Have the casualties I asked you to ask about been calculated?"
Upon hearing this, Nalanyu turned to look at Ma Feihu.
Ma Feihu looked up at Li Ye and replied softly: "Thirty were seriously injured, two hundred were slightly injured, and five were killed."
