I struggled to wake up from my dream on New Year's Day.
The little bean-eyed boy blinked blankly, instinctively reaching under the pillow, only to touch the cold blankets.
She had forgotten that Xiao Changqi had already gone to Tongzhou.
Yuan Dan sighed softly, tugged at the blanket a couple of times, and slowly rolled into the blanket.
Close your eyes and go back to sleep.
On the fifth day, Xiao Changqi and his party finally arrived in Tongzhou.
Luo Ying, the deputy general guarding Tongzhou, opened the city gate to greet Xiao Changqi. Upon seeing Xiao Changqi, he immediately knelt down and clasped his hands in greeting: "Your Highness, you have finally arrived. The Li Dan barbarians have challenged us outside the city several times, but Your Highness has not yet arrived. I dared not act rashly and have not opened the city gate to meet you in battle."
Li Danren was savage and cruel by nature. When he saw that the soldiers defending the city did not come out to fight, he thought that the Tongzhou army was afraid of them. He arrogantly shouted outside the city for several days. In the end, he even dragged out the slaves he had plundered from Daying and killed them. He also raped some women in front of the soldiers defending the city.
The soldiers had been itching to get out of control these past few days, and they just wanted to open the city gates immediately and cut off the heads of the Li Dan soldiers and hang them on the gates.
But the army has its discipline. No matter how angry they were, the soldiers remembered their orders and did not open the city gates to meet the enemy without authorization.
Now that Xiao Changqi has arrived, all the soldiers are restless, and their anger has turned into the flames of war.
"How is the situation?" Xiao Changqi handed the horse, which had been traveling day and night for several days and nights, to the soldiers and asked in a cold voice as he walked towards the city wall.
"Li Dan's commander this time is Hu Yanlun, who is also our old rival. He brought 50,000 elite troops this time. Before you came, he led his men to launch several strong attacks, but we repelled them all."
Climbing the city wall and looking into the distance, we could indeed see that the camps of the Li Dan were stretching for more than ten miles outside the city.
Who else is accompanying the army?
"And there's also the third prince of Lidan, Huyan Ye."
In fact, Huyan Lun was Huyan Ye's uncle.
However, the royal family of Lidan has always been ruled by the strong, and Huyan Ye was an incompetent fool. The reason why Huyan Lun agreed to let Huyan Ye follow him to lead troops into battle was because he looked down on this nephew.
"Huyan Ye was thrown here by his brothers. They thought that swords and spears had no eyes, and it would be best if this good-for-nothing died on the battlefield," Luo Ying continued. "But Huyan Ye is not stupid. He has been hiding in his tent since the start of the war. Huyan Lun looks down on him and does not let him lead troops to fight."
Therefore, it can be seen that the third prince is not actually a fool.
Perhaps they're just pretending to be weak while actually being strong.
"We'll talk about it when we get back." After observing for a while, Xiao Changqi turned and left the city wall.
Xiao Changqi had his own residence in Tongzhou, while Xiao Yan, as the military supervisor, naturally lived in the government office in Tongzhou.
"Seventh Brother, is there anything I can do for you?" Xiao Yan suddenly asked before they parted.
Before Xiao Changqi could express his opinion, Sun Jianchou spoke up first: "Fifth Prince, your injuries have not yet healed, and you have been traveling for several days. You should rest as soon as possible."
Xiao Yan was a smart man and realized that they had something to discuss, but it was inconvenient for him to know.
He didn't press the matter further and nodded in agreement, "Alright then."
Xiao Changqi's residence in Tongzhou was not a prince's mansion, but a general's mansion. Soldiers usually addressed Xiao Changqi as Marshal, not Prince.
"Did you cause any trouble for the Prince in the capital?" Luo Ying patted his younger brother Luo Feng on the shoulder and asked.
That's right.
Luo Ying and Luo Feng are brothers.
He was also Xiao Changqi's right-hand man.
Luo Feng raised an eyebrow: "Of course not."
"I heard that the prince kept a bird. Is it still alive?" Luo Ying asked again.
Upon hearing this, Sun Jianchou turned around and glanced at Luo Ying, then laughed and said, "Little Yuanyuan is doing better than you."
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