Pan Zhuo twirled his goatee and replied with a smile, "Your Highness doesn't like these things, so naturally there won't be any dancers at your banquets."
Gong Xu and Zuo Yue looked at each other, both a little surprised.
They didn't expect that someone who was so experienced in Quanxianglou didn't like to use beautiful women to liven up the atmosphere.
Ever since Ji Wan recruited Zuo Yue and Gong Xu, the relationship between the two has gradually improved. There is less open and secret fighting as before in the Cui family, and more friendship as a colleague.
After Pan Zhuo came over to chat with them, it naturally broke the unfamiliarity they had felt when they first arrived.
For a moment, everyone in the room was chatting animatedly.
Outside the brightly lit inn, there was a sudden sound of galloping horses, accompanied by the anxious shouts of soldiers and the long sound of trumpets coming from the city.
The room was instantly silent, and many people looked in astonishment at the soldiers who rushed in with a "thump".
"Your Highness! There is an enemy attack at the east gate!" The soldier was holding the manifesto sent by the enemy in both hands and shouting anxiously.
Reacting quickly, Ji Wan slammed the table, shaking off the drunkenness of his subordinates: "Bring it here for me to see!"
The soldier tumbled and crawled over to deliver the letter in his hand. The advisors gradually regained consciousness. Among them, Jin Lie knelt on the ground and said, "Your Highness, I am willing to go!"
Ji Wan ignored Jin Lie, put down his wine glass and read the manifesto attentively.
This manifesto was delivered to Ji Wan by the new Grand Commandant of Fanzhou. It shamelessly condemned Ji Wan's behavior of attacking cities and seizing territories, and then shamelessly asked Ji Wan whether he wanted to surrender directly, etc.
The Grand Commandant was the military chief of Fanzhou, and his rank was equal to that of the Chief Clerk Wu Run.
"Jin Lie, take 10,000 men with you to temporarily fight and find out how many enemies there are! Ah Feng, you come with us!"
“Yes!” “Yes!”
The two men clasped their fists at the same time, went out, led two horses and galloped towards the east city gate.
inside the house.
After comforting his worried mother, he prepared to pack up and head to the east gate.
Before leaving, Ji Wan temporarily instructed Zuo Yue and Gong Xu, "Zhong Yang, Wei Xiao, please leave immediately and go to the west and south gates to guard them! We're afraid someone might attack from there!"
After saying that, Ji Wan took out two tiger talismans from the storage ring in his sleeve, which could mobilize five thousand soldiers, and threw them to Zuo Yue and Gong Xu.
There are only 10,000 people on the front line now, and we don’t know how many enemies there are. What if we can’t hold on?
Ji Wan acted as if he had never been drunk before. He gave orders one by one, and the people below didn't have to think much, they just had to follow the orders.
As he galloped, Cui Min took the initiative to analyze the other party's intentions. "I've heard about this Fanzhou Grand Commandant while I was at the Cui family. He's said to be very difficult to deal with. He's not tempted by the Cui family's offers. Because of this, if he receives favors from the Cui family, with his military achievements, he could easily become a cavalry general in the court."
Not moved by profit? So... "Is this person an upright person?" Ji Wan was very curious. In this kind of world, how could such a noble and pure white lotus appear?
"No, this person is just like Min, they both have a grudge against the Cui family."
Ji Wan: “…”
"Rucheng, why didn't I realize you were such a good chatterbox before? It was a mistake to assign you as a military advisor. I should have let you use your eloquence to go to the battlefield and spit at the enemies to death."
Cui Min wore a mysterious smile. "Your Highness, you are too kind. This man's mother was said to have worked for the Cui family before, but was beaten to death for no reason. His mother was beaten to death, and died in the Cui family. Naturally, this blame was put on the Cui family."
After rushing to the east city wall, Ji Wan tightened his cloak and moved forward at a rapid speed with the support of Yang Guan.
Gazing far into the distance, I almost gasped for breath! All I saw in the distance was a sea of heads! The warhorse beneath me was strong, the spear was cold, and the reflected moonlight was clearly visible in the darkness.
What was even more unbearable was that the cold wind from the stone city was blowing on his face, and the wind on the city wall was even stronger, so strong that Ji Wan couldn't even open his eyes.
"How many of them are here?" Ji Wan covered her cheeks, which had turned red from the cold since she left the house.
The scout panted as he followed Ji Wan and said timidly, "About 100,000 people..."
"One hundred thousand people?" His steps suddenly stopped, and cold sweat instantly spread to Ji Wan's back.
One hundred thousand men against twenty thousand, how could they possibly fight?! These were not the starving refugees who hadn't undergone systematic training. This time, they were armed with countless massive siege engines, acting as a defender. They had leadership, order, discipline, method, a rhythm of attack, and were evenly matched soldiers!
"Your Highness, do you want to transfer troops from Qingshizhou?" Tuoba Feng's face was gloomy.
If the remaining 20,000 people were transferred from Qingshi Province, a total of 40,000 people, with Ji Wan's harsh training methods and the cooperation of these immortal cultivators, they could still barely put up a fight.
Cui Min's face was also quite ugly at this time. In his expectation, as long as Shicheng was captured in a flash, the support of soldiers from the entire Fanzhou and Chuzhou should not be many, at least not more than 50,000!
But I didn't expect that this time there would be 100,000! What on earth is going on?
"No, Afeng! The whole world knows about my battle! If all the soldiers in Qingshi Province are transferred to Shicheng, Qingshi Province's combat power will be empty. If Beirong Kingdom raises an army at this time, we will be attacked from all sides!" Ji Wan's face was solemn. "Even if I lose Shicheng, I must defend Qingshi Province! If I let the iron cavalry of Beirong Kingdom trample over the mountains and rivers because of my selfish desires, I will never do that!"
There are 100,000 people. If Ji Wan chooses to use 20,000 people to confront them head-on, all the food, money and people will be exhausted.
By then, the Northern Rong Kingdom will seize the opportunity to know that the border defense line is empty, and what awaits Ji Wan will surely be news of the Northern Rong Kingdom sending troops.
Besides, Qingshizhou was Ji Wan's base. If she abandoned the defense of Qingshizhou and simply handed it over to Beirong State, the losses would be extremely serious. She would also lose money, food, people, and everything else she had worked so hard to develop and accumulate.
In the face of foreign enemies, Ji Wan would never continue to fight a life-and-death battle with Fanzhou and take the opportunity to allow others to wipe out the entire northern border of Donglin Kingdom.
Coincidentally, the enemy thought the same.
Yao Cheng also thought so. He wanted to use the same strategy as Ji Wan before to quickly capture Shicheng, which had already experienced a battle.
If Ji Wan cared about the border of Qingshi State, she would definitely not fight to the death and would only be forced to retreat to defend.
If Ji Wan didn't care about the border of Qingshi State, then the 40,000 Qingshi State soldiers in her hands would not be a threat to the 100,000 Fanzhou Army and Chuzhou Army. As long as they worked hard to grind them down and consumed all of Ji Wan's troops, they could not only pull out all her minions.
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