Chapter 59: All parties appear
I'm still late.
The Rongdi came with great force this time, as if they were determined to bite off a piece of meat from the Great Zhou.
Yuan Kang had already used the fastest speed from organizing the army to setting off, and marching from the border town to Huangsha City, but unfortunately he still arrived too late.
He led his army to chase the Rongdi people for dozens of miles. Altai was worthy of being one of the generals of the Rongdi tribe. He was very cunning and did not care about the lives of his subordinates. As a result, he was able to break off the pursuit and escape several times.
Don't chase a desperate enemy. This trip was not without gain. Almost two-thirds of the Altai tribe were killed.
The terrain becomes steeper as we go further ahead, and there is a valley in front with towering mountains on both sides.
Yuan Kang raised his hand to signal to return to the city.
...
It was almost evening when we returned to the city, and the setting sun was blood-red.
Perhaps it was the strong wind and sand in Huangsha City that made Wang Qingyun a little blinded. He wiped his face and said to Yuan Kang, "There are only about a hundred people left in the city. I took my brothers to collect the remains..."
The Rongdi people mostly used circular knives, and many soldiers had their faces chopped beyond recognition.
Yuan Kang lowered his head. The ground was covered with dark yellow soil stained by blood. He walked forward a few steps and saw armor scattered on the ground. These armors were left for the soldiers of Huangsha City when he came to Huangsha City, and now they were in his hands again.
There must be a conspiracy behind the sudden invasion of Rongdi. This time the invading enemies are numerous, which is completely different from the previous harassment of the border by the Turks. If the soldiers of Huangsha City had not risked their lives to delay the enemy, this city of Da Zhou might have fallen into the hands of others.
What is certain is that Rongdi will not stop because of this time. They really want to bite off a piece of meat from the Great Zhou.
Yuan Kang was walking and thinking, when he suddenly saw something, so he quickly walked over, pushed aside the bushes and picked it up.
"What is this?" Wang Qingyun followed.
Yuan Kang looked at it carefully and found that it was a piece of red velvet, with traces of being cut by an arrow at the bottom.
Yuan Kang didn't answer Wang Qingyun. He stroked the object in his hand that symbolized Rongdi's status and asked another question: "Do you remember the soldier named Wan Heyu I told you about?"
Of course Wang Qingyun remembered that Yuan Kang was very optimistic about that man and said that he would appoint him as the deputy general of Huangsha City in a while.
He was stunned for a moment, then said, "He's dead. I heard from the soldiers in Huangsha City that he was the one who led the defense."
Even Wang Qingyun was shocked. Just when they all thought that Huangsha City was leaderless, a soldier stood up.
And as Yuan Kang said, he is very capable.
...
It is particularly cold today, and the icy wind blows into people's bones.
Nie Baocheng, the former commander who was imprisoned in Huangsha City, heard the noise outside, stood up and walked over to ask the jailer who was guarding him.
After hearing what the jailer said, he laughed out loud as if he had heard a huge joke. His hoarse laughter echoed throughout the prison. He seemed to have heard the funniest joke.
Plus, he looked disheveled and like a madman.
However, the jailer did not say anything more to him, put down the food in his hand and locked the cell door again.
Every time Nie Baocheng moved, the shackles on his body made a sharp sound. He simply sat on the ground and began to eat the rice in the bowl with his dirty hands. Nie Baocheng laughed as he ate, muttering to himself: "This is bullshit, I don't know about those soldiers? Will they risk their lives to defend the city? They would have pissed their pants by now."
He wished he could drink the blood and eat the flesh of the soldiers in Huangsha City who rebelled against him. If it weren't for them, how could they have ended up like this?
But the action of stuffing rice into his mouth slowed down. He smacked his lips, not knowing what he was thinking about, with annoyance on his face. He raised his hand to overturn the bowl, found a corner and pretended to take a nap with his head down.
...
The news of the Rongdi invasion was reported to the capital of the Great Zhou. At the same time, Yuan Kang's actions in the surrounding cities of the Great Zhou were discovered by Jiang Xiang and his party. Wen Yongwang accused Yuan Kang of not abiding by the laws of the Great Zhou, raising private soldiers, and intending to rebel.
Several ministers in the court jointly wrote a letter listing Yuan Kang's crimes, and also mentioned that Yuan Kang had imprisoned Nie Baocheng, who was also the main general.
"Your Majesty, please don't be angry!" Wen Yongwang looked terrified.
Yan Xuanyu collapsed on the dragon throne, panting with anger: "Good, good... What a Yuan Kang!"
On this day, the Emperor of the Great Zhou issued three edicts in succession, summoning Yuan Kang back to the capital to be punished!
...
Yan Xuanyu was in Chengtian Palace, looking at the scene outside Huangsha City that day described in Yuan Kang's secret letter. His heart tightened and he even found it difficult to breathe for a moment.
In just a few words, the events of that day were fully described.
Yuan Kang also mentioned a soldier named Wan Heyu, saying he was a skilled soldier from a military background. Yuan Kang had originally intended him to be the deputy commander of Huangsha City, but he had now died outside the city. Yan Xuanyu also saw Wan Heyu leading the charge and repeatedly boosting morale in the Huangsha City defense. He was even the soldier who joined Yuan Kang's army after rebelling against the city's main general, Nie Baocheng.
Yan Xuanyu closed his eyes. Was it a pity? He really felt it was a pity.
Yuan Kang simply let the soldiers of Huangsha City have enough food to eat, wear armor, and did not look down on them, so that they could express their gratitude with their lives.
Just like what Yan Xuanyu discovered after coming to this world, he just fed some low-class people, and they praised and thanked him...
This is a simple era, but also a cruel era.
The secret letter contained real human lives, something Yan Xuanyu had experienced before—but now the feeling was extremely strong, so strong that it seemed to burst out of his body—he wanted to change this place, he had to change it.
He slowly waited for this intense emotion to finally calm down before he let out a breath and leaned back in his chair.
There was another time when the system's card draw times were useless, so Yan Xuanyu called up the system.
Ever since it knew that Yan Xuanyu could bring it enormous energy, the system gradually became an invisible system, almost driven by Yan Xuanyu.
Yan Xuanyu reached out and clicked the glowing button in the void.
After a burst of light, the turntable gradually stopped and a dazzling orange light flowed.
Yan Xuanyu heard the system report in his mind——
[Congratulations to the host for drawing an A-level card—Traitor and Incompetent Detector. Note: This card is reusable and its functionality upgrades with each use.]
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Jiang Mansion.
"Given Yuan Kang's personality, he will definitely return to the capital." Jiang Yuanhua said calmly.
Wen Yongwang laughed and said, "Prime Minister Jiang is indeed a master of prediction. This time, Yuan Kang will surely die without a burial place."
Let Yuan Kang die without a burial place?
Maybe.
Judging by the date, the envoys from the Southern Kingdom should be arriving in the capital soon, right?
Jiang Yuanhua just smiled without saying anything, his eyes showing fatigue.
Wen Yongwang was very smart. Seeing Prime Minister Jiang's expression, he tactfully said goodbye. After all, today's conversation was only about the affairs of the court.
"Brother Jiang, I wish you all your wishes come true in advance." A man in a bamboo hat came over quietly.
Jiang Yuanhua laughed and said, "I should congratulate you. I hope you can return to Turkestan soon."
The man in the bamboo hat laughed enough. "Go back to Turkic? After seeing the Great Zhou, why would I go back to Turkic?"
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Rongdi tribe.
"The Wuguha clan has been dealt with by the king." Hari, the father of Altai and Alxi, whispered.
They had intended to use this first battle in the Central Plains to eliminate Wuguha, and now it was indeed as they thought, but...
Hari's voice was exhausted: "Altai, you should also go and apologize."
Altai's pupils shrank, "Yes, father."
His own brother, Alxi, was killed by the weak Central Plains people they had always looked down upon. The Rongdi noble Wuguha also died in the chaos of swords. This was a great humiliation for the Rongdi tribe! Their cooperation with the Turks was almost terminated because of this, but fortunately the Turks provided a large number of horses and sheep as an apology... In other words, the Turks stayed completely out of the matter. The Turkish envoys' words were full of complaints that the Rongdi tribe's strength was not worthy of the title of "Eagle of the Steppe".
Fortunately, all the blame has been borne by the deceased Wuguha.
The Rongdi and the Turks are respectively the eagles and wolves of the grasslands. Their cooperation can already reveal a little bit of their ambitions.
At this time, the King of Rongdi was talking with the Turkic envoys.
"After Yuan Kang's death, it will be a good opportunity to attack the Central Plains." The Turkic envoy said after saluting.
King Rongdi's eyes fell on the Turkic envoy. He was silent for a long time before he finally said, "I hope so."
After returning to Turkic territory, the Turkish envoy reported the discussion to the Turkish king. The Turkish king scoffed, "Sir, you said before that the Rongdi tribe should not be underestimated. Now it seems that they are just so-so. They couldn't even capture a small city in the Central Plains, and were forced to flee in panic by the Central Plains people."
"Are these still the Central Plains people I've seen?" The Turkic king laughed heartily. "They describe the Central Plains people as divine soldiers, but they're just trying to cover up the fact that their own tribe is weak."
The contempt is obvious.
He once led the Turks into the border cities of the Great Zhou, looting, burning and killing at will. The soldiers of the Central Plains fled in all directions and were vulnerable. Now the emperor of the Great Zhou was incompetent, and it was only a matter of time before he took control of the Central Plains.
The Turkic king imitated the "staff" recruited by the Central Plains people. After leaving the royal tent, he wrote a letter and sent it out secretly without anyone knowing.
Ten days later, the letter was opened by a pair of bony hands across thousands of miles.
The man chuckled after reading the letter: "Stupid."
It was clearly according to his idea, but it was still so stupid that it was unbearable.
He then threw the letter into the brazier, wiped his fingers one by one with a handkerchief, and stroked the jade Buddha beside him.
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