In our traditional concept, a man who has a family always gives people a sense of being down-to-earth and credible. Zhao Qian was no exception, and after he became engaged, he gradually began to make strategic arrangements for military operations in Gyeonggi. Gyeonggi is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. The army has been surrounded under Gyeonggi City for a long time, and those who can escape have already fled without a trace when they heard the news, and the rest are basically some old, weak, sick and disabled merchants who are inextricably linked to the royal family. The people were panicked, but this was the case, Xu Yuan personally put on the battle in any autumn, and Zhaoqian supervised the army in front of the battle, and attacked the city in an all-round way.

In the palace, His Majesty the Emperor's condition continued to worsen with the siege horns again and again, and the imperial doctor just couldn't stop trembling when he saw it, and he didn't dare to say a word. And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can only accompany his father day and night, only hoping that his father's condition can improve. For a child, there have been too many changes in him over the past year. He watched his mother walk into the enemy camp under his gaze, just to buy himself and his father a little time; He watched his father, who had been so wise and martial, fall ill overnight; He watched with his own eyes that the palace people who had worked so hard to get close to him became alienated overnight, and even looked at him with scrutiny.

Liu Huizu, the secretary of the military department, had to come every day to routinely report urgent military affairs to His Majesty the Emperor, and both of them looked at each other with pity. When he went out, Liu Huizu put on a resolute look. "Liu Shangshu." He heard someone calling to him, stopped his steps and looked back, it was Tianjiao. "His Royal Highness the Prince." Liu Huizu hurriedly saluted. "Liu Shangshu doesn't have to be polite, I saw that Liu Shangshu was busy here, so I thought to ask, I don't know what the battle situation is ahead?" "Everything is fine in the battle ahead, the soldiers are one for ten, please rest assured Your Highness." "Liu Shangshu, what you said is not quite the same as what I know." Tianjiao looked into his eyes. "Your Highness, rest assured, everything is fine." Liu Huizu's face turned cold, and he bowed and retired.

Back in his dormitory, Tianjiao asked his companion Master, "Sir, why does Liu Huizu say that everything is fine?" But that's not the case. The master shook his head and put down the book in his hand: "Your Highness, why do you still tell you that everything is fine, even though the war is tight?" "It's just that he thinks I'm young and foolish, and he dares to hide it from my father like this? This is Gyeonggi! "Maybe Your Majesty has other arrangements, and you don't want His Highness to be involved in the government too early, you are still young and easy to be bewitched, and when you reach your age, Your Majesty will naturally let you know about these things in the government." "Sir, just because I'm too young, my father doesn't feel at ease with me? But I don't think there's any difference between me and adults. "Your Highness, when you say this, it just proves that you need to go through it." "Why? I don't understand. "You don't have to be angry about this, it's just because you haven't read enough books and seen enough long-term that you're confused." Tianjiao angrily picked up the book in his hand, shook his head again, and forced himself to read it with frowns.

In fact, although the forbidden army suffered some casualties, the army did not take much advantage when it attacked the city. Overseer Zhaoqian stood there, like a statue, and did not move for a long time, Xu Yuan and Ren Qiu led the iron cavalry to break through the city tower three times, and each time they were beaten back. This time the war seems to have entered a stalemate, and Zhao Qian is not in a hurry, after all, now he is not short of food or water, no matter how he thinks about it, the royal brother in the city is even more anxious. He stood in front of the Overseer's carriage and gazed at the castle towers of Gyeonggi for a long time. What a majestic city this is, and its tower should be the hardest tower in the entire Great Zhou. So how can such a hard one be broken?

Xu Yuan and Ren Qiu are very confident, after all, the army wants to have a military heart, and if it wants food, it will always fight after a long attack. But Zhao Qian expressed his resolute opposition to this idea, after all, the world is still his family, and now that Gyeonggi has been broken, it will be difficult to recover from such a hundred years of vitality. "The city is very strong, we once came with an army of more than 100,000 people, and they despised us and didn't take us to heart, we didn't attack it, and we didn't really put the main force in the siege, because we had to preserve our strength at that time. Now we have 400,000 soldiers, and now we want to attack the city, we can take it down, but the forbidden army will inevitably fight us to the death, there is no need for this. If Gyeonggi is demolished, then I, Chai Zhaoqian, will still be homeless. Xu Yuan and Ren Qiu lowered their heads, silent, silent. General Xu, you seem to be quite obedient on the surface. Behind the scenes, I still secretly resisted. Xu Yuan shook his head again and again with an embarrassed smile on his face: "Your Highness, what you said must be what we heard." Where is there disobedience to military orders? "Yes, you dare not listen to military orders, you have been getting more and more arrogant recently."

In fact, it doesn't have a lot to do with Xu Yuan, and now Xu Yuan has not disobeyed any military orders, but Zhao Qian knows that the main battle radicals in the army have been talking a lot recently, and Xu Yuan knows that he just borrowed himself to kill the prestige of those generals, so he kept his head down and didn't speak, which was a silent confession. After taking Xu Yuan to kill Wei, and then looking at those radical generals, they all lowered their heads and did not speak, wilting. "Actually, it's not that we can't fight, and I didn't say that our dead brothers will go in vain, of course we have to fight, but it's just a main attack and a feint. Then tear down the gates, right? If you can tear it down, the credit is all yours, right? ”

There were bursts of cheers among the generals, and after the meeting was disbanded, Xu Yuan was left behind. "Your Highness, is there anything wrong with you?" "You know I'm not actually targeting you." Zhao Qian had some apology in his eyes. "I understand this, but His Highness deliberately left me, there must be something to explain." Zhao Qian nodded: "I have read a lot of ancient books, and the books record that in ancient times, those wars, those strongest fortresses, were generally not broken from the front, so the casualties were too large and not cost-effective." Xu Yuan said: "But we don't have an internal response in the city." "If people's hearts are consumed, they will not be there, and if they are not now, it does not mean that they will not be in the future." My Imperial Brother's body will not last long, and as soon as he leaves, the city will collapse. Can that kid really hold up anything? ”