Chapter 286 285 Ownership of the Mine
An Xin watched as she and Long Yi were surrounded. She threw Liao Angkuo, who had been knocked unconscious, to Long Yi, who was holding a long sword and fighting bravely. "Charge out. I'll cover you."
Long Yi hurriedly caught the man and saw that An Xin was just as good as himself in killing the enemy, and even more efficient than him.
Knowing that she was more powerful than himself, he did not hesitate any longer, laid Liao Angkuo horizontally on the horse, and with the sword tightly gripped in his hand, he cut his way through the blood.
The long-handled red-flame knife in An Xin's hand swept across the area, killing anyone who was touched and injuring anyone who was touched. Blood splattered everywhere. He broke out of the enemy's encirclement amid the flash of swords and shadows. Under the trampling of horses' hooves, dull groans and howls were heard incessantly.
She did not linger in the battle but fought while retreating, protecting Long Yi as he headed towards the city gate. The enemy troops behind her chased An Xin and the other man relentlessly, regardless of the risk of trampling on their own injured people lying on the ground.
An Xin and Long Yi retreated into the city through the half-open city gate, and the chasing Bei Ming soldiers also rushed in.
At this time, several generals of Chen Zhiyang who were lying in ambush in the city saw the opportunity and quickly led their men to block the enemy troops that were chasing into the city gate, but several thousand people still poured in.
The archers on the city wall cooperated and shot arrows, and the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately stepped forward and closed the city gate.
At this time, seeing the city gate closing with a bang, the Bei Ming soldiers who had lost their commander discovered that there was an ambush in the city, but it was too late.
Suddenly, shouts and screams were heard everywhere.
At this time, the soldiers from northern Hebei who were hiding at various gates of the city rushed out with an unstoppable momentum. The dust they raised rolled like a tide, which was daunting and creepy.
The ear-piercing sound of swords clashing and the deafening sound waves were mixed with cries and howls, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.
By the time the enemy troops that had chased into the city were wiped out, it was already afternoon.
Corpses were scattered all over the ground, and blood covered the ground, dyeing the land inside the city gate red.
When An Xin and others interrogated Liao Angkuo after he woke up, they found out the specific location of the mine that he had mined privately.
Everyone finally understood why the soldiers from Bei Ming came to harass the northern border every year.
It turned out that the mine was located in a remote mountain at the border between the two countries.
The reason why Liao Angkuo often sent troops to harass and provoke was because he did not want the soldiers from northern Hebei to leave the city, so that no one would discover the mine that he had privately occupied.
It is at the junction, in a mountain closer to the territory of the Daqian Dynasty. It should actually be a mine belonging to the Daqian Dynasty.
An Xin thought that if Emperor Sheng An knew about this, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.
It is like letting others dig a mountain of coal on your own territory for so many years.
An Xin guessed correctly. When Emperor Sheng An received the news passed back by Long Yi, he felt that his decision to agree with her to seize a border town in Bei Ming was absolutely correct.
Conquering a city in Beiming made him feel that it was a good thing for the king of Beiming who could not have a son.
The border between Jibei and Beiming Cangcheng is also divided into two countries' territories.
In this way, the mine that Liao Angkuo mined privately belonged to the Daqian Dynasty, which means that his own things had been stolen by others for many years.
You know your own family's affairs. Although Emperor Sheng An has no shortage of coal for heating, he is not an ignorant emperor. He knows that just because he has no shortage of coal, it does not mean that his people do not have a shortage of coal.
So Emperor Sheng An finally found a good reason for his unprovoked military action. A letter was sent directly to the Emperor of Bei Ming, who had just received the battle report at the border, catching him off guard.
Emperor Bei Ming, who was originally furious about Da Qian's sudden attack on Cangbei City, felt like sending people to dismember Liao Angkuo, who had caused the war, and execute him by slow slicing after knowing the reason.
In the past, Emperor Bei Ming might not have been afraid of war, but now he had only one daughter but no son for many years, and he was over forty years old, so if he wanted to have a son, it all depended on God's will.
Under such circumstances, both the ministers of Bei Ming and the royal family had some small thoughts.
The Emperor has no heir to inherit the throne, and the Beiming court has become unstable. The Beiming Emperor does not want to go to war now.
Emperor Bei Ming, who had no intention of going to war for the time being, hurriedly summoned his trusted ministers to discuss the matter.
After sending envoys to Daqian and wrangling for some time, they finally got the consent of that old fox Emperor Sheng'an, and negotiated the compensation terms and the ownership of the coal mine.
Yuchi Yi received the imperial edict and finally led his troops out of Cangbei City.
From then on, the entire border between the two countries belonged to Daqian's territory.
The commander, Yuchi Yi, buried a boundary marker engraved with the word "Daqian" there and set up a sentry post. From now on, soldiers from Beiming would be considered to be going abroad if they entered here.
When Bei Ming sent envoys to Da Qian for negotiations, An Xin and Long Yi had already brought Ma Boteng and Cangbei's chief general Liao Angkuo back to the capital.
As expected, Ma Boteng was handed over to the Ministry of Justice for trial, and the ending that awaits him will not be a good one.
Liao Angkuo, a general from Beiming, was taken back to Beiming by his own country's envoys after the negotiations between the two countries ended. His ending was probably even worse than Ma Boteng's.
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However, when the envoys left, An Xin discovered something interesting and curious.
When the envoy from Bei Ming saw the eldest prince Si Han in the farewell team, he was so surprised that he almost fell down.
Although he said at the time that he was not paying attention, the sharp-minded An Xin still noticed that there was great astonishment in his eyes when he looked at the eldest prince Si Han.
Because the day of going to Nanyu for the competition was approaching, An Xin soon had no time to think about this matter.
The old emperor even said that he would reward her based on her merits when she returned from Nanyu. An Xin almost rolled her eyes to the sky.
Forget about the other things. This time, Bei Ming had to pay Daqian a lot of good things because his own generals secretly mined the minerals in Daqian’s territory.
She didn't complain about anything. After all, she had contributed to these things. The stingy people didn't give her anything and instead painted a huge pie for her.
"!!" This is what humans do.
Emperor Sheng An looked at An Xin's resentful eyes and couldn't help but smile complacently.
Although An Xin always obtained his consent when promoting talented people regardless of their relationship with her, her students were also actually promoted in the process.
Since she is working for the benefit of her students, there is no reason for her not to feel wronged.
This was also the most aggrieved thing for An Xin. Emperor Sheng An's smile was so irritating, how could she not understand the reason behind it.
When An Xin came back this time, he was almost killed by Prime Minister Xiao's eyes.
Originally, he was planning to stop talking about marriage after taking advantage of that idiot Ma Boteng, but for some unknown reason, Emperor Sheng An issued an imperial decree to tie the two families' relationship to death.
And all this happened without him noticing or expecting it. He stopped General Chen but missed this person.
Leng Xiangbai and Jiang Zhou were not close enough to their own little mountain chief. Two days after returning, An Xin (End of this chapter)