"General, you see, this alliance was initiated by General Yun who wrote to you. Without this letter, you wouldn't have formed an alliance with General Yun, who is so far away in the capital. General Yun was probably just feigning an alliance with us, and the story of his second daughter being sent to a brothel by the Emperor of Beichen was most likely a staged act to make us believe it."
"But in reality, they just wanted to use this to attack our Western Zhou! First, they misled us, and then, after we formed an alliance with them, they took the opportunity to pass on some false information to us, making it easier for Rong Chengxuan to attack the city. Otherwise, General, why didn't General Yun mention a single word about the thunder in Beichen? If he was truly sincere in forming an alliance with us, he would have told us in advance."
"I think Beichen is no longer satisfied with just keeping Xizhou as a foreign country. They want to occupy our area and take Xizhou into their own hands. But..."
He said this in a sorrowful tone, "But even so, what can we do? We can only watch them attack us now. They have thunder bombs in their hands. Once they explode, no matter how many people we have, we won't be able to stop them."
When the deputy general spoke, he obviously forgot that the reason why this war was provoked was because of the Western Zhou Dynasty's first attack, and Beichen was just defending himself. It was not worth mentioning at all compared with the Western Zhou Dynasty's premeditated plan.
"Could it be that they have an endless supply of thunder?" Jiang Younan was so angry that he jumped up and down. "I don't believe they really have an endless supply of thunder! As long as the thunder is gone, the chances of Xi Zhou winning against Bei Chen in this desert will be much greater."
As he spoke, he pushed aside the deputy general beside him and walked towards the other end of the training ground. As he walked, he said, "Didn't you say you have practiced a new formation recently? I will go and take a look."
Jiang Younan had just said this, before he even took a step, when he heard a sudden "bang" from the direction of the city gate! Jiang Younan was shocked. He could tell that the sound came from the thing that made the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty tremble with fear - thunder!
Without a trace of suspense, the walls and gates of the second city in the northern part of the Western Zhou Dynasty were flattened by Beichen's thunder. When Jiang Younan led his troops to the north gate, he saw the gate with a large hole in the middle and the city wall collapsed in half. He almost fainted from suffocation.
You've been beaten like this, so it seems that there is not much use for me to bring people here. If I come now, I will just be giving Beichen heads.
Through the round hole in the city gate, he saw a man and a woman sitting on two white-haired camels standing side by side in front of the Beichen team opposite. The man was wearing a purple robe and was the familiar Beichen Prince An Rong Chengxuan.
The woman in the white dress beside him was not unfamiliar. Although he had never seen her before, he had seen her portrait many times. She was none other than Prince An's wife, Princess Yun Wanwan.
When they sent envoys to Beichen, they even proposed to ask the deceased second prince to marry Yun Wanwan as his princess, but was later rejected by Rong Chengxuan.
Jiang Younan hated the two of them so much that his teeth were itching, especially when he received the news from Yu Jingzhong that the heavenly thunder that made the people of the Western Zhou Dynasty tremble in fear was developed by Yun Wanwan. Jiang Younan now hated Yun Wanwan even more than he hated Rong Chengxuan. He wished he could skin Yun Wanwan alive and drink her blood.
He couldn't understand why Yun Wanwan, a woman, wouldn't stay home embroidering, but would actually follow a man into battle in the middle of the night, and even inflict such a heavy defeat on the Western Zhou. Losing to Rong Chengxuan wasn't shameful, but losing to a husband and wife team, especially one whose weapon Yun Wanwan had developed, would be a far more embarrassing experience.
Yun Wanwan's appearance on the battlefield was a humiliation for all the soldiers of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Losing to Rong Chengxuan was one thing, but losing to a woman like Yun Wanwan was simply a shame, a sheer shame!
But faced with this humiliation, they didn't dare to confront them head-on. Especially when the Xi Zhou people saw Yun Wanwan holding a strange object in her hand, their desire to resist retreated even further.
They all remembered that the Beichen people used something similar to that to blow a hole in their city wall, and also used something similar to that to blow their brothers up into the sky one by one.
The city gate was blown open by the soldiers of the Divine Fire Camp, leaving a huge hole that revealed the two worlds inside and outside. The people in the city were trembling with fear. No matter how General Jiang Younan shouted for resistance, no one was willing to take another step forward.
Outside the city, Rong Chengxuan's army was in high spirits. The soldiers on their side didn't care whether it was embarrassing for women to go to the battlefield. They had been looking forward to Yun Wanwan going to the battlefield for a long time. Even the weapons they could show off in their hands were provided by her.
Moreover, could a princess be treated like an ordinary woman? In the minds of these soldiers, she was their prince's wife! Could their prince marry an ordinary woman back home for them? Of course not.
So now Yun Wanwan's status in the hearts of those soldiers is almost the same as Rong Chengxuan's. In the hearts of the soldiers of the Divine Fire Camp, Yun Wanwan's status is far ahead of Rong Chengxuan.
Rong Chengxuan pointed at the city gate with a big hole in it and said to his wife beside him, "Later, have Ge Zichen blast the center a couple more times to make it bigger, and then we can rush in. It won't be like drilling through a hole, which is awkward."
Ge Zichen, who was standing aside: "..."
Apparently, their prince had regarded this attack on Western Zhou as a trip to Western Zhou, and now he was complaining that the city gate they had blown up was not big enough, making it awkward to enter.
Ge Zichen thought their princess would definitely stop their prince's behavior, but Yun Wanwan actually nodded and agreed, "Let's just blow up the gate! Forget about the city wall, don't blow it up, so we don't have to go through the trouble of repairing it. Daxing City is far away, and it's not easy for us to transport blue bricks from Shizhou. Rong Chengxuan, I know you have money, but there are still some things we should save money on. We should spend less money that shouldn't be spent."
Ge Zichen gasped when he heard Yun Wanwan's words. "Look at how frugal our princess is!" Unlike that prodigal prince, who only cares about making things as comfortable as possible, he's already built no fewer than ten cities along the way.
He was the one who took the initiative to blow up the city, so naturally he should have paid for the expenses and manpower. If it weren't for the considerable wealth of Prince An's Mansion, his prince's extravagant way of doing things would have ruined the family long ago.
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