When the army was ready to start early in the morning, Yan Ning asked people to invite Chu Zhaoye to the tent. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When Chu Zhaoye walked into the tent, several generals in the army were there. The two main generals of the two battalions on the outskirts of Beijing, Xu Yang and Zeng Cheng, and the deputy generals Li Jing and Liu Cen, were all there.

The other is Xia Zhongtian, the commander of the Gyeonggi Province West Battalion, who has just arrived at the confluence.

As soon as Yan Ning saw Chu Zhaoye, he asked with concern, "Third Highness, I heard that someone poisoned you there last night?" ”

"yes."

"I specially asked someone to remind you last night to beware of spies, why is there such a thing?" Yan Ning said complainingly.

"Or I'm careless, except for one guard, I'm fine." Chu Zhaoye said with a good temper, "Why did you call everyone here so early?" ”

Several other generals listened to Yan Ning and Chu Zhaoye's questions and answers, and felt that these two people were really concerned.

"Oh, in order to speed up the march, I plan to let Vice General Li and Captain Liu lead the troops to open the road first, in case there is something along the way, it is better to prepare early. What do you think? ”

Xia Zhongtian has been in the western camp all the year round, and he has only heard of Chu Zhaoye and Yan Ning, but when he saw it today, he didn't expect the third prince to obey Yan Ning's words of the prince's faction.

When Liu Cen heard that he wanted to let himself go first with Li Jing, he was a little dissatisfied. His military rank is lower than Li Jing's, so don't you have to obey him along the way? But Chu Zhaoye had already agreed, and no matter how dissatisfied he was, he had to endure it.

When he first left the capital, he still wanted to choke with Yan Ning, but Yan Ning directly took the order flag and told him that if he dared not to follow military law. The Third Highness did not plead, he was a person who knew the times, since the Third Highness did not want to be a pioneer himself, he would shrink and not move.

After everyone left the tent, Chu Zhaoye smiled at Yan Ning and said, "Ning'er, I thought you hated An Guogong's family very much, but I didn't expect that you still want to protect Li Jing?" ”

"No, no. The people of the Third Highness, what if they say that I murdered Li Jing in the capital? ”

"How come, Ning'er, even if I have calculated a lot of people, but, for you, I don't want you to be my enemy, I want you to live well." Chu Zhaoye said in a low voice.

Yan Ning was stunned, "Thank you, Your Highness, I also want to live well." She didn't want to have a relationship with Chu Zhaoye anymore, so she directly asked people to pack up their things and prepare to go.

Chu Zhaoye looked at her cold gaze for a moment, and smiled a little bitterly, he really hoped that Yan Ning would not be his enemy.

When the army was marching out, twelve of the three princes' personal soldiers died, and ten were Li Jing's personal soldiers, all of whom died of poisoning. The other two were transferred from Liu Cen and died by slitting their throats.

Yan Ning felt that this kind of news would shake the morale of the army, and ordered that anyone who was talking about killing without mercy would not be pardoned.

She suppressed it directly like this, and there were many drawbacks. Fortunately, this ban did not receive attention for long, and soon, they met some displaced people who fled outside the customs to the customs area. Obviously, the battle at Yuyang Pass is unsettling.

When Chu Zhaoye saw the displaced people, he was also stunned in his heart, could it be that it was more difficult to hold Yuyang Pass than he estimated?

Hurry up, four days later, Yan Ning led the army to Jizhou first. This way, Li Jing and Liu Cen led people first, and the speed was much faster.

Li Jing has done a good job of being loyal to his duties.

Here in Jizhou, the veteran Huang Qi has been waiting with the soldiers and horses in the north, and he camped outside the city.

Huang Qi is also a famous general in the Northland, who joined the army as a teenager and rose all the way. Later, he was arranged in the Jizhou area, with the Yan family army guarding the Yuyang Pass, and the Northern Yan people could not fight in the pass, so he stopped at the second grade, one step away from the first rank general, but he could not rise. Therefore, he admired the Yan family, but he was also unconvinced, thinking that if Yan Mingde didn't rely on the identity of the Yan family to guard Yuyang Pass, he would be able to defend it by himself.

Therefore, although the etiquette came to greet him, in his heart, he didn't think so, and felt that Yan Ning was just relying on the Yan family's ancestral yin, his father and brother Yu Wei, and the power of His Royal Highness the Prince.

When the governor of Jizhou heard that the daughter of the third prince and General Yan had arrived, he asked him to pack up the governor's mansion and give the two of them a rest.

Yan Ning felt that staying with the army made her feel at ease, and she didn't want the generals to think that she was squeamish and didn't want to stay. Chu Zhaoye even refused, and followed the army to camp outside the city.

"Third Highness, Miss Yan, General Yan sent someone from Yuyang Pass to respond, and now he is in the State Governor's Mansion." Seeing that the two of them were reluctant to go to the state pastor's mansion, the governor of Jizhou said.

Hearing this, Yan Ning immediately remembered what Li Jing had said and glanced at Chu Zhaoye.

Chu Zhaoye calmly looked at Yan Ning's eyes and said to the state pastor, "Who is the person who came?" Why don't you come and meet, and we can also understand the situation in Yuyang Pass. ”

The governor of Nazhou hurriedly sent people to invite people to the camp of the army outside the city.

The person who came was Meng Liang.

Yan Ning sat in the tent, Huang Qi, Xia Zhongtian and other generals were under the tent, and Chu Zhaoye set up a chair next to Yan Ning and sat down.

Meng Liang strode in, and as soon as he saw Yan Ning, he had an anxious look.

However, he saw that there were other generals present, so he suppressed his anxiety and stepped forward to see him.

"What's going on at Yuyang Pass? Say it. Yan Ning was anxious about the news of her father and two elder brothers, and seeing the homeless people along the way made her feel uneasy.

Meng Liang stood up and said, "Outside Yuyang Pass, there are now 800,000 troops of Northern Yan, and they have enough food and grass. And, recently, we recently lost a cottage outside the gate. The military situation is urgent, and the heavy snow on the side of Yuyang Pass is heavier than that on the Jizhou side, and it is buried to the knees, and it is very inconvenient to transport grain and grass. ”

Meng Liang didn't need to say more, everyone here knew how urgent the situation was.

Outside Yuyang Pass, there are two auxiliary villages on the left and right, divided into the main city of Yuyang Pass, if there is an enemy attacking the city, as long as the strength is not several times their own, they can form a pincer attack.

Now that the Northern Yan people are coming, they will capture a cottage, and the strength of the auxiliary guards of Yuyang Pass is a little worse.

"What about the guards?"

"Most of them, they're back."

It's gratifying to be able to rush out when the enemy is besieging you.

The area from Yuyang Pass to Jizhou is a plain. If Yuyang Pass is lost, only when you go to the side of the mountain can you have a natural danger to defend.

And the heavy snow in the northland, even if it is as deep as one person, has also passed.

In this kind of weather, it takes several times more manpower and time to transport grain and grass to Yuyang Pass. In case of freezing snow, it is even more difficult to open the road.

On the Jizhou side, 300,000 troops have now been gathered, and counting the Yizhou soldiers and horses who will arrive, there are only 400,000.