Chapter Seventy-Eight: Shocking

Due to the need for military information transmission, he could only learn about some of what was happening now through Peng Detian and Min Yue, although Xunshan Pass and Yicheng were almost the extreme west and east of Dongping, and the military affairs in Xunshan Pass and the surrounding areas would not directly affect Yicheng. Although Dongping's current national strength, especially military strength, is not superior to Xiling, it is absolutely impossible for Xiling to fight in a decisive battle. However, due to the limited content of this kind of military intelligence communication to various places, and because it was a military aircraft, it was impossible for either Peng Detian or Min Yue to tell Ye Tao too many things. Further news came from those friends and business partners who had a good relationship in Danyang. Lu Dan's family would also send a detailed letter every other day, but in the absence of the military's fastest post system and Eagle Station, the news arrived in Yicheng with a delay of several days.

This sudden war made everyone's mood soar because of the completion of the bell tower and suddenly fell to the bottom.

The Xiling army could not maintain a continuous flowering attack for too long, but before they stopped, they had conquered many towns, forming a large piece of land from Xunshan Pass to Miancheng, and then, as the main force, the 120,000 army stopped under Ningshi City. And sent an envoy to contact the Dongping military.

In these days, there has been no cessation of discussions between the DPRK and China about whether and how to fight. As in any war, there will always be some capitulation faction, and this time is no exception. Although Dongping's national strength is thriving, many people still advocate that this time we should make a concerted effort to promote collegiality and tolerate it, so as to win time for Dongping's sustainable development and future revenge. And the military is indeed facing the fact that although the total military strength is quite large on the way from Xunshan Pass to Danyang, it is scattered in different towns and cities, and there are too few troops that can be concentrated in a short time. Moreover, once the Xiling army crossed the line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, this road was the main grain production area and cash crop area in Dongping. The damage caused by a Pawn can be very staggering.

At this time, although the envoys sent by Xiling were extremely arrogant, it was indeed the right time. Regardless of whether the collegial agreement can be achieved or not, at least there will be time for the mobilization of the Dongping army.

After preliminary mediation, the day before Xiling's envoys set off for Danyang. The unbelievable thing happened again. The 20,000 well-trained infantry and 5,000 cavalry mobilized from Liyang hurried to the Tiger Leaping Gorge, which was only more than 30 miles away from Ningshi City, and camped in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, preparing to enter Ningshi City the next day to strengthen Ningshi City's military strength. But on the night of the same day, 20,000 Xiling troops sneaked out of the first line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, and went straight to Tiger Leaping Gorge. Rushed to the exhausted Dongping barracks. After the 25,000-man battle, less than 9,000 men finally entered Ningshi City. After the Xiling army succeeded, it immediately retreated back to the Line of Actual Control. He also pretended to send another group of envoys, and very provocatively asked the defenders of Ning Shicheng whether they were going to fight or let their envoys set off normally.

The main general of the defenders of Ningshi City is named Zhuo Zhixing, and he is the nephew of the great general Zhuo Mang, so he naturally understands this. Buffer time is more important. He gritted his teeth and asked the Xiling delegation to set off as usual, in order to avoid any trouble on the road. Even 200 sergeants were transferred to accompany them to protect and monitor.

The itinerary of the army from Liyang was informed to the military department and Ning Shicheng, and there was only one explanation why the Xiling army was able to take action so accurately, and that was that there was a more serious leak within Dongping. However, Tan Xiaopei was helpless. Except for another order to investigate thoroughly, he could only admit it. The present time does not allow him to manipulate the entire intelligence system and the internal affairs of the military department. Coupled with the troops that Danyang can draw, Tan Xiaopei can only piece together an army of 100,000 in a short period of time, and he may not suffer much in the face of the 120,000 troops of Xiling Zhongjun as the main force. But Xiling still has troops stationed in various places, and their total number of troops dispatched this time is definitely more than 250,000. These 100,000 people may be able to stabilize the front, but they are unable to expel the Xiling army back. The work of transferring troops from various localities is underway, but it will still be ...... when the troops arrive in the theater one after another

If the Xiling army could not be allowed to stop, once it crossed the line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, even if Dongping finally won the war, it would take several years or even longer to recover.

Chief Envoy of the Xiling Mission. It is Zhu Qi, a famous Hanlin scholar who is famous in Xiling and is deeply favored by the lord of Xiling. The deputy envoy is Chen Ban, a rude fourth-rank general in Xiling. No one expected that Zhu Qi came to Danyang and only offered one condition: Prince Xiling wanted to marry the princess of Dongping. As long as Dongping can agree, the two ** teams will maintain the current situation, when the princess Luan set off to arrive in the capital of Xiling State, the Chinese army withdrew from the first line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, retreated to Xunshan Pass, and waited for the marriage ceremony of the two countries to be completed. Xiling returned the original items of Xunshan Pass. Even the army has searched and captured in these days. All of them will be sealed and waiting for the Dongping army to receive them.

The conditions are too good to be true. But it's not incomprehensible. Xiling can't eat Dongping now. However, long-term combat is easy to cause a large number of troop losses and huge military expenditures, and it is not easy for Xiling to bear it at present. What Xiling wants most now is to take Yunzhou under his name, and then accumulate strength, so that in the future, he can first solve the one in the middle of Dongping or Chunnan. Relatively speaking, it seems to be a better choice to rely on Dongping's Chunnan Kingdom. The so-called Prince Dixi Ling's marriage to Princess Dongping will naturally not be the beginning of a happy marriage. But this kind of name can make Dongping have a lot of reasons to shirk when helping Chunnan resist Xiling's attack, and there are many scruples, everyone knows that the Tan family has a tradition of pampering children. And Chunnan will also have a lot of scruples when accepting Dongping's help. Even, Yunzhou is the same, no matter under what circumstances the marriage between Dongping and Xiling happened, as long as the facts are formed, will Yunzhou dare to accept Dongping's protection? Does the Dai family dare to fully trust the Dongping royal family? These are all questions.

With so many strategic benefits, you don't have to worry too much about the results of this well-arranged army raid. Originally, in Xiling's deployment, the conquest of Dongping was put last, and Dongping's current strength and momentum made them dare not underestimate it. Even the surprise attack of this army was not a decision made by the court, but a decision made by the lord of the country in private, otherwise, it would be impossible for the ministers to reach a consensus.

Such conditions were completely acceptable in the minds of many ministers in Dongping. Clans and clans can also break up a pair of lovers for greater power and more commercial interests, and carefully arrange marriages between families. When the interests are not so huge and obvious, they will give up the alliance formed by such a marriage without care, and even kick the original in-laws without hesitation...... This kind of thing happens too much. It's so much that everyone is accustomed to it, and thinks it's a matter of course.

In such an environment, the opinions of the two princesses themselves seem so insignificant. In a wave of approval and facilitation, the opposition of Zhuo Mang and Huang Xuping seemed so weak.

While waiting for Dongping's decision, Zhu Qi and Chen Ban didn't seem to be worried at all that Dongping would refuse such an offer. They wander around Danyang City every day. They carefully observed the new urban area that did not match the original Danyang style, watched the appearance of the Danyang Bell Tower, which was already nearly 100 feet high, and even soaked in the Yizhan Tower for several days in a row. Both Zhu Qi and Chen Ban were fascinated by marching chess, especially grand strategy gameplay. Although there were hostile stares all around, they never thought it was for "personal reasons". If it weren't for the consideration of national affairs, the employees of the Ye family, who were active in the Yi Zhan Building, and the probationary officers and regular officers of the two armies would want to do it.

Perhaps, the envoy of Xiling does not have to worry. When the third group of messengers passed on the progress of Xiling's army to Zhu Qi and Chen Ban, Ye Tao got the news that Min Yue had violated military secrecy regulations and revealed to him: Tan Weixin agreed and was pro-Xiling.

Under what circumstances would a woman from modern times make such a decision and make such a sacrifice. Has his harm to Tan Weixin reached this point? Or is misunderstanding and impulsiveness intertwined, making Tan Weixin feel that this will be a choice?

No matter what the relationship with Tan Weixin is now, no matter what kind of image he has in Tan Weixin's mind now, Ye Tao wrote a long letter and sent it to the princess by the fastest messenger he could mobilize, FedEx. A few hours after the messenger left, Ye Tao received a letter from Tan Weixin. When it comes to writing letters to each other, they still have such a tacit understanding. There is only one sentence in Tan Weixin's letter: "If life is only as it is first seen." ”

This poem, which is not original, brings Ye Tao back to the time when he met Tan Weixin in Yicheng a few years ago. At that moment, Tan Weixin asked him jokingly: "Why don't you call it B&Q, don't call it Jinhaima, don't call it Yazan, don't call it Yundian, don't call it Da Vinci, don't call it Nordic style, don't call it Jisheng Weibang, don't call it Ling Fangyuan, don't call it home decoration, but call it IKEA?" At that moment, every word was like a thunderous shock in his heart, and the indescribably complex surging emotions that followed are still lingering in his heart. Tan Weixin is probably the most cherished and cherished person he can meet in this world. This emotion led the two of them to tacitly take it for granted to organize a family and participate in each other's lives. Without any hesitation or doubt.