Chapter 246 Wei Guang Regrets
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Outside the city of Pingdu, the sound of fighting shook the sky.
Those Tatar cavalrymen had gone through great pains to cross the dangerous terrain and risked their lives. They were all ruthless people who disregarded life and death.
Winter is approaching, and they will suffer from a lack of food and clothing on the grassland, with countless casualties... The corrupt and cowardly Daxuan occupies the most vast mountains and rivers and enjoys the most extensive and fertile land, but refuses to share some of it with them.
Deserve to die!
Once they invade the Great Xuan Dynasty, they will divide up all their land, treasures, cattle, sheep, and women...
Of course, the premise of all this is to defeat Daxuan!
But now, they can't even break Pingdu City, and this is after they paid a huge price for the sneak attack.
Hate... kill...
However, no matter how agile a warhorse was, it could not climb the city wall, and the sharpest saber could not reach the city gate. They had limited arrows, and after the initial round of resistance, they were unable to launch a surprise attack and break into the city. Now they could only become sitting ducks for the Daxuan army.
The Tatar cavalry fought like crazy, but at this moment, the scouts in the rear sent news: an army appeared behind them and approached secretly.
Attack from both sides?
So, they are the ones who fell into the trap?
The Tatar cavalry leader was filled with grief and indignation, but he could not change the facts no matter what: this was inside the Great Xuan Dynasty, they were isolated and helpless, and once they lost the advantage of surprise attack, they would be at the mercy of others.
It was impossible to break through Pingdu City, and the pursuers behind were about to approach. Finally, the cavalry leader ordered a retreat in anger and despair.
The remaining people at least escaped back... The grasslands in winter were too harsh, and if they lost all of them, their tribe would become prey to others.
Even if they couldn't win and bring back treasures, cattle, sheep, and food for their tribe, at least they could go back to protect their own people...even if less than half of them could make it back.
On the wall of Pingdu City, seeing the aggressive Tatar cavalry retreating like a tide, Wei Guang immediately ordered his troops to pursue them.
No one knows how these Tartars crossed the Beimang Mountains, but it goes without saying that their number must have been small.
He had already been bullied by them, and if he let them go like this, Wei Guang would lose all face.
Soon, the army in Pingdu City opened the city gates and began to pursue the Tartars...
At the same time, the "pursuers" who were originally discovered by the scouts behind the Tatar cavalry had disappeared.
In fact, there were no pursuers at all.
Chen Ning was worried that Pingdu City was not prepared enough or that Wei Guang refused to believe Eryue and Wuyue, so they were caught off guard and caught off guard. So she came up with an idea to have the refugee caravan raise tree trunks and hang rags on them to pretend as flags, and drive the only dozens of horses in the team towards Pingdu City.
They openly hid themselves, acting as if they didn't want to be discovered, but were accidentally discovered by the Tatar scouts, and thus the Tatar cavalry were forced to turn around in a hurry.
At dawn, May and February returned with news: the defenders of Pingdu City chased the Tatar cavalry for more than thirty miles, almost wiped out the hastily fleeing Tatar cavalry, and forced them to reveal the mountain pass they had passed through.
Wei Guang had already reported the attack to the imperial court and sent people to block the mountain road.
At the same time, Pingdu City also received news that just last night, the Oirat side was also restless, and the Ningguang Guards were heavily guarding the city. It was not until dawn that the Oirat army retreated.
This time, even though Chen Ning was an outsider, he could smell some danger: If there had been trouble in Pingdu City last night, would the Wala have retreated obediently?
The Yuan Dynasty troops outside the Liaodong Pass were waiting on the border to welcome the bride... In addition to welcoming the bride, when those people learned that the Pingdu City inside the Liaodong Pass was breached by the Tatar cavalry, and the main road leading to the outside of the pass was blocked, would the Yuan Dynasty do something other than welcoming the bride?
Or, is it possible that they had already discussed it?
In the past, living in a stable place, far away from the border, it was hard to imagine how many times such undercurrents would happen year after year.
Fortunately, there was no harm.
After tossing and turning for most of the night, in the morning, Shen Ning asked the steward to take some food from the caravan to give to the prisoners as a snack.
Compared to when they first set out, the convoy now has quite a few empty cars... Those empty cars were originally filled with food, but over the past few days, they have become food in the hands of the prisoners.
Shen Ning would continue shopping when they came across towns along the way, but after all, there were so many people, so there were still more than a dozen empty cars left.
But it doesn’t matter, it will come in handy.
After breakfast, when everyone was ready to set off, the sound of horse hooves could be heard.
Chen Ning stood on the carriage and looked over there, and saw that the person leading the cavalry was Wei Guang, the commander of Pingdu City.
The second prince, Xiao Nanyong, was on a tour in disguise. Seeing this, he retreated to the back of the convoy and hid his figure without showing up.
As Shen Ning got out of the carriage, she saw Wei Guang dismounting, then strode up to her and saluted, "Wei Guang thanks Princess Yong'an for putting aside past grudges and sending warnings first, and then coordinating the plan to deter the Tatar cavalry... Pingdu City was safe and sound, thanks to the Princess's kindness."
Chen Ning gave him a false support: "Commander, you are too kind. This princess is the princess of the Great Xuan Dynasty. When foreign enemies invade, I will do my best..."
"I am a man, but I am not as magnanimous as a young lady like the princess. I am truly ashamed. If the princess does not bear a grudge, please go to Pingdu City..."
Wei Guang knew that Chen Ning had offended the Queen, and had received some hints from the Queen, so he did not care about Prince Ding's face and made Chen Ning lose face in Pingdu City.
Now that he saw that Chen Ning had not held any grudges or hatred, he could not help but feel ashamed and invited Chen Ning to go back to Pingdu City.
But it was rejected.
As the saying goes, business can be done anywhere. Shen Ning will not bear grudges because others do not allow her to do business at her doorstep, but she has been rejected without mercy, and she will not turn back because the other party regrets the invitation.
There is a city ahead, so why should she go back?
After politely declining Wei Guang's invitation, Shen Ning continued to move forward and arrived at Heilin City, the last city before Liaodong Pass, a day later.
She sent someone to inform the commander of Heilin City. The commander of Heilin City, Fang Buda, was a rough man and agreed without hesitation.
Doing business outside the city is not a big deal, and it can also provide goods to the people who are poor in resources. Why not do it?
Just like that, Shen Ning's convoy opened a market outside Heilin City and displayed all the goods they carried.
Beautiful silk, cotton that is pressed firmly but expands and becomes soft when spread out, the most basic moisturizing cream produced by Huayingxue, tea... and salt that is difficult to buy in Liaodong.
This place is surrounded by mountains, forests and grasslands in the north and adjacent to the sea in the south, but it is short of salt and cotton. Soon, the people of the entire Black Forest City became restless and rushed out of the city.
Just kidding, although animal skins are warm, ladies in the boudoir certainly prefer cotton. Not to mention that it gets dry and cold here very quickly after autumn, and dry and cracked skin is the norm. It is not easy to buy such moisturizing creams on a normal day.
Especially salt...
There were crowds of people in front of each stall, and the guys were shouting to maintain order.
"Don't rush, don't rush, anyone with money can buy it!"
"Hey, you, the one wearing the tiger skin, take your hands off our salt... Hey, hey, why did you dip your fingers and lick them?"
"Don't touch the silk with your body, it will get dirty. Hey, hey, hey, we don't sell this girl. This is our friend. We are not human traffickers..."
It was not until dusk fell and the city gates were about to close that the people of Black Forest City reluctantly left, looking back every few steps. Before leaving, they kept telling the servants, "Stay for another day."
The next morning, the news reached Pingdu City.
When the people of Pingdu City learned that a caravan carrying a large amount of supplies was opening a market in Heilin City, they became extremely anxious... It was too late to walk, so those who had the means hired cars or rode horses. But when they finally arrived in Heilin City in the afternoon, they found that the goods had almost been sold out.
Not for sale.
Soon after, the people of Pingdu City learned from those servants that the emotional caravan was originally going to open a business in Pingdu City, but was driven away by the commander of Pingdu City.
This is so fucking...
When they set up camp at night, Shen Ning politely asked the Second Prince Xiao Nanrong to go ahead, saying that her caravan would stay for another day to set up an office in Heilin City. At the same time, all the people who came from Pingdu City to do business also rushed back overnight.
While having dinner, Wei Guang discovered that his wife and daughter were looking at him coldly, especially his wife, who was slamming things on the table and was obviously upset.
Wei Guang is brave outside but a henpecked husband and daughter-slave at home. Seeing this, he smiled bitterly and asked the mother and daughter what crime they had committed.
As a result, he was scolded by his wife.
"I asked you to send someone from the capital to bring back Hua Yingxue's things for me and my daughter, but you refused. Now the caravan has delivered the things to our doorstep, and you've chased them away!"
"That's right, Daddy. Today, I was having dinner with friends at a restaurant and heard someone secretly scolding you. They said we don't get much salt in Pingdu City, and we're so stingy with it all day long when we cook. And then, after all the hard work, a caravan finally brought some salt here... and you chased them away, saying you might have eaten too much salt..."
After hearing this, Wei Guang smiled bitterly.
It's all his fault for being blinded by greed.
What did the affairs between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother and son have to do with him? He couldn't be transferred back to the capital anyway, so why bother getting involved in all that and getting a bad reputation for nothing?
Here, the majestic General Wei Guangwei was driven by his wife to sleep in the study late at night... On the other side, outside Heilin City, Chen Ning had someone send some gifts to the Second Prince who was about to leave tomorrow.
She also knew that it was a bit rude for her to let Xiao Nanyong go first under the pretext of having something to do, and her purpose was a bit obvious, but she really didn't want to travel with him all the time.
She had a lot of things to do along the way, and it was very inconvenient with Xiao Nanyong around.
If you are going to offend people anyway, it's better to do it sooner rather than later so that you can have peace of mind.
Xiao Nanyong asked the secretary to accept the gift, and then smiled and asked someone to present a return gift, without showing any resentment at all.
When Chen Ning took Wu Yue away, Yan Nu snorted coldly.
"She really has no idea of her own worth after soaring to such heights. Your Highness is doing her a great honor by traveling with her... and you're even using Qiao as a pretext for her."
The secretary glanced at his master and winked at Yan Nu, but Yan Nu was still indignant: "Am I not right? Princess Yong'an is clearly guarding against us... What a mean person! What a shameless person!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he met his master's calm gaze.
The Second Prince's expression was not overtly emotional, but when he met his calm, almost gentle gaze, Yan Nu's expression froze, and she quickly pleaded guilty: "This servant acknowledges his guilt."
However, this time, the Second Prince did not ignore her because she took the initiative to confess, as he had done in previous times, but continued to look at her quietly.
After a pause, Yan Nu bit her lip, raised her hand and slapped herself twice.
Beside him, the usually lively secretary fell silent, not daring to say another word...
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