Chapter Fifty-Six: The Yan Clan Attacked

And the reason why Master Yuanqing acquiesced to her to come back to visit her family at any time was also to be able to exercise her light skills and running ability. You must know that from the beginning, there was no way to go back on time to the present free to come and go, and now with the current rain or shine, she can already get used to this kind of daily life of shuttling freely in the mountains and dense forests. This made Master Yuan Qing not without comfort, because in the days to come, she would have to face all kinds of unspeakable hardships and dangers, and there was no skill comparable to the speed of escaping. Only when you can evade the pursuit of the enemy at any time can you turn around and attack them while they are unprepared, if you can't even protect yourself, how can you attack others?

Master Yuanqing also cares for her because of her identity, and she is not allowed to deal with any complicated things in the temple, in addition to the fixed tricks and routines every day, she also teaches her some offensive and defensive skills and the essentials of combat in her free time. Fortunately, Brother Yu is smart and clever, and Master Yuanqing is very handy in teaching. I am also glad that I met such a highly perceptive apprentice in my later years, and I finally taught my life's learning!

The only regret is that she is a daughter, otherwise, Master Yuanqing even wants to hand over his presiding position to her, so that she can carry forward the future of Linggu Temple!

It's just that Master Yuanqing also understands that she is carrying a more important mission than the future of Linggu Temple, and it is impossible for her to stay in Linggu Temple for life to be a monk who has no quarrel with the world.

Sooner or later, one day she will leave Linggu Temple, leave Fengqi Mountain, and go to the vast world to find her ultimate destiny! It's just a starting point for her.

In order to allow her to have a stunt that is enough to establish her life, Master Yuan Qing taught her the most proud swordsmanship, hoping that she can sweep the martial arts with the help of that short sword, and finally be able to slash the enemy!

Originally, I thought that Brother Yu's studies in Linggu Temple would continue for a few more years, and only when she had fully mastered the knack of that set of swordsmanship and could rely on her own skills to fight against so many unforeseen dangers in the mortal world would she return home and officially become a teacher. Unexpectedly, several major events have happened in the imperial court now, which has made Master Yuanqing's plan have to be put on hold.

The words have to start with the official war between the Yan clan and the Lan Zhao kingdom.

The Yan Clan, which had been recuperating for several years, had finally found Lan Zhaoguo's weakness at this moment, and after they had just engaged in a time-consuming and laborious tug-of-war with several small surrounding countries, they launched a thunderous attack on them while they were a little confused by their victory.

In less than half a month, the once impregnable Xihai City was taken down by the vanguard of the Yan Clan!

The defender of Xihai City died on the spot!

The rest of the soldiers bravely retreated to the mouth of the Min River to wait for the enemy.

There was chaos in the DPRK and China.

The emperor had not yet woken up from the joy of celebrating the victory when he received the urgent report that Xihai City had been captured, and he was furious at that time, and ordered to send troops to the mouth of the Minhe River as soon as possible, and after joining up with the defenders stationed at the mouth of the Minhe River, he would attack Xihai City with all his might, and he must regain the lost territory as quickly as possible!

It's just that it backfired, and the reinforcements sent by the imperial court were intercepted and killed halfway by a group of soldiers from the Yan clan who had entered the Lan Zhao Kingdom in disguise before they arrived at the mouth of the Minhe River.

Then the soldiers of the Yan Clan Kingdom disappeared into the land of Lan Zhao Kingdom out of nowhere!

This made the emperor furious! Not only did he strictly order a thorough investigation of the ins and outs of the soldiers of the Yan Clan, but he also demanded that the whole country recruit troops and recapture the lost Xihai City in a short period of time!

However, it seems that there are no more generals left in the DPRK.

This made Xu Yingcheng very annoyed, because when he heard that Xihai City was occupied, several military generals who were tepid in the court asked for resignation and leave one after another, and some even pretended to be sick and said that they were incompetent.

Just because the last battle made those soldiers who went out to fight tired, no general was willing to ask for troops to fight at this moment. As a last resort, Xu Yingcheng had to send his eldest son, Xu Zekun, the commander of the Imperial City Imperial Forest Army, who had already been officially crowned a first-class product, to personally take command of the expedition and go to the mouth of the Minhe River to reinforce the defenders!

It's just that they never expected that when their army marched less than a hundred miles away from the mouth of the Min River, they were ambushed by an unknown enemy army, although the whole army was not wiped out like last time, and Xu Zekun's vitality was greatly damaged!

He led the rest of his troops and fled in panic to the mouth of the Min River.

Not to mention attacking Xihai City to regain lost territory, their military morale has been greatly hit, so it is difficult to fight the enemy army of the Yan Kingdom in a short period of time!

The emperor directly flew into a rage this time, because the Yan family, which was once worthless in his eyes, would be so arrogant? Not to mention the occupation of his city, it is still wreaking havoc on his territory!

They all ran under his nose to intercept his army, how could they not let him burn his heart?

It's just that no matter how angry he is, it won't help, Lan Zhaoguo is facing an unprecedented crisis for all to see!

The soldiers of the Yan Kingdom can cross into the territory of the Lan Zhao Kingdom to intercept and kill the army, and they will also appear in Jinling City to kill!

This made the emperor worry all day long, afraid that one day he would wake up and have a knife on his neck!

It's terrifying to think about!

And the same panic is Xu Yingcheng, an old fritter, now not only his eldest son is in danger on the front line, but he is also struggling in Jinling. None of the generals who had been officials in the same dynasty as him stood up and said that they were willing to command the three armies to go to the mouth of the Minhe River to solve the difficulties of Xihai City, and no one proposed how to solve the ambush of the reinforcements on the way.

Just when the emperor was furious, someone proposed a solution. It is said that since the soldiers of the Yan clan can intercept the reinforcements on the territory of the Lan Zhao Kingdom, it must be because they have a stronghold in the territory of the Lan Zhao Kingdom, and no matter where that stronghold is, they should show clues where the reinforcements are ambushed.

Judging from the locations of the first two ambushes, their camp should be not far from the mouth of the Minhe River, even if the location of the two ambushes is not in one place, but they are far away from the inhabited villages and towns, so their residence should also be somewhere uninhabited.

First, it is conducive to concealment, second, it can send troops at any time without any restrictions, and third, the most important point is that they are so well-trained, they cannot be scattered everywhere, they should live in a certain place and act in unison!

So the emperor ordered people to draw a circle within a hundred miles of the mouth of the Min River, and carried out a careful search in various places, so that they could find the army that gave them a headache in the shortest possible time!

Here, Xu Yingcheng also made another proposal to the emperor, saying that the war at the mouth of the Min River will break out at any time, but the reinforcements cannot easily rush to the mouth of the Minhe River, and the army that went to reinforce and the defenders of the mouth of the Min River are very depressed at the moment, not to mention the discouragement of the army, and they have an inexplicable fear of the army of the Yan country, and always feel that they can actually lay down the city defense system as solid as Xihai City in a very short time, a small mouth of the Minhe River, plus these remnants of the defeated generals, it seems that they cannot resist their attack. Therefore, Xu Yingcheng hoped that the emperor would send a prince or a prince to personally march to lift the hearts of the defenders at the mouth of the Minhe River.

But who will he send? Several princes are idle people, and they can spend all their time drinking, and leading troops to fight is simply nonsense.

Among the princes, except for the eldest prince and the second prince, who have reached adulthood, the other princes are either young or in poor health. And the eldest prince has always only been familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and he has no actual combat experience at all except for quoting scriptures.

Not to mention the second prince, he still doesn't know how to write a few words mature and steady.

All day long, in addition to messing with flowers and grass, recruiting bees to do some bad things like climbing the wall and slipping the root of the wall, it is really not good to let him lead the troops to fight.

As for others? Only the deposed former prince Yun Yixuan has a little appearance, but because of his mother, he is still separated from the emperor, and he has been trapped in the palace all day long and does not come out, either refining medicine or reading medical books, and I don't know when he became obsessed with the business of curing diseases and saving people, and he has no appearance of being a prince at all!

Only then did the emperor realize that among all the princes, there was no one who could really take on the heavy responsibility for him!