"Your Highness!" General Wu, who was in charge of the marriage, dismounted, knelt on one knee, raised his hand to increase his forehead, and said, "It's getting late, if the brigade turns back, it will definitely not be able to return to Qingyuan County, which is ninety miles away, before dark." Ahead is Zhantian City, it is better for His Royal Highness and Princess Anping to go to Zhantian Palace to rest first, and then set off to return to the court early tomorrow morning. ”

Zhan Tian City! There is the implication of looking at the capital of heaven and wealth. The largest city in the north of Tianyu is four hundred miles away from Tianyu Capital. An ordinary march is no more than 40 miles a day, and a rapid march is no more than 100 miles. And this team of relatives has only been out of the capital for three days, and it is a snowy march, and it has already arrived in Zhantian City.

Looking at the team, three hundred soldiers guarded, and twenty carriages to marry, it was even more shabby than the daughters of the big families in the capital.

Tianyuguo is poor, but no matter how poor it is, it is the largest piece of land in the continent, even if you can't get mountains of gold, silver and jewelry, but Tianyuguo porcelain, silk, and tea are all not available in the Northern Desert. A ceramic vase can be exchanged for a handsome horse, a silk horse, and two felt tents in the Northern Desert, and the tea is the same price as gold.

There are only twenty cars of dowry, except for the clothes, jewelry, wooden furniture, and ornaments necessary for a woman to get married, I am afraid that even the antiques, calligraphy and paintings, screens, and carvings I gave to Mu Yu have not been brought out.

As for the maid slaves, except for the two maids who have been serving by Mu Yu's side, plus the two aunts in charge of the palace, six fourteen or fifteen-year-old palace maids, and a group of rough eunuchs who have come out after I dismissed the East Palace, there is nothing else.

What is this like kissing? It's like fleeing!

The palace of Zhantian City was built when the emperor was called the emperor, but in just 20 years, it seems to have been abandoned for a hundred years, overgrown with weeds and dust. Several old palace people knelt at the palace gate, their eyes cloudy and their movements slow. is like those helpless, old and disabled people in the cold palace, counting the days and waiting for death. If it weren't for the fact that there was a patrol of soldiers outside the palace, I would have thought this place would have been abandoned a long time ago.

As soon as they entered the palace, the two aunts in charge immediately commanded the tidying up. Soon I cleaned up two courtyards, one for Mu Yu to live in, and the other for me to live in.

When I was in the East Palace, Mu Yu and I were inseparable and slept in the same bed, but when I got outside, I had to avoid and pay attention to so much, and I couldn't even live in a courtyard.

That night, Master Jinmian, Xiao Ye, and Mo Qian all chased after Wangtian Palace. He also told me that my father had sent Su Chonghua to send 2,000 soldiers from the capital to the north to take me back to the palace.

From their narratives, I learned that Xiao Ye did hand over the letter I wrote to Hu Yanzhuo intact to Hu Yanzhuo himself, but Hu Yanzhuo still insisted on asking Mu Yu for marriage, and threatened to welcome Mu Yu into the Northern Desert Palace on the eighth day of the lunar month.

His father explained to Hu Yanzhuo more than once that it was not Princess Anping who had made a private agreement with him for life, but the crown prince Gu Tianba, who disguised himself as a man and left the palace under the name of Princess Anping, and attached portraits of the two. The responses that can be received are: The person who Beimo wants to marry is Princess Anping.

My father wanted to discuss with me, but he couldn't find me, and seeing that the deadline required by Hu Yanzhuo was approaching day by day, my father had no choice but to send Mu Yu to the Northern Desert.

No wonder, the team traveled 400 miles in a hurry on the third day, because today is already November 27, and only by traveling lightly day and night can the team rush to the capital of the Northern Desert before Laba.

Zhantian City is still more than 1,500 miles away from the capital of the Northern Desert, and now the road is closed by heavy snow, ten days, 1,500 miles, even if it is a sunny day and a rapid march on the road, it is a fool's dream!

It is even more safe to pass the Zhantian City, and further north, there are heavy mountains and peaks, and the rivers are magnificent, not to mention a delicate lady, even if she is a tough guy in the army, she is so rushing, I am afraid she will not be able to hold it!

More than ten years ago, there was a noble daughter in the Tianyu clan who was canonized as a princess, and the pro-Northern Desert tribe, Yangchun set off from the capital of Tianyu in March, and arrived at the destination at the end of May, and the road took more than two months.

Even if Hu Yanzhuo always thought that I was Mu Yu, it would only take a month and a half from proposing to welcoming people into the palace, and no one would welcome them, which was really incredible.

In addition, he already knew that I was not Mu Yu, but he insisted on marrying a woman who had only met once and was the princess of another country, which was even more unreasonable and arrogant.

Everyone said that Hu Yanzhuo changed his mind because he saw my illness. can be analyzed from his aggressive and tough attitude alone, which is how he is courting, it is clearly provoking and causing trouble. After that, it is to send troops to level the Tianyu country!

But the Hu Yanzhuo I know is a man who stands up to the sky, he once broke into the palace alone in order to see me, and Xiao Ye, who has a huge disparity in strength, he will carefully remember all my preferences and habits, he will arrange everything with my heart because of my jokes, and when I retreat, he is not even willing to blame me......

But the way I got sick did scare him......

My mind was so confused that I didn't know whether to trust my instincts or to trust what everyone was saying and what I saw with my eyes.

In the month since I quit taking drugs, I haven't slept a single restful night, and as soon as I left the secret room, I had to travel for so long. I thought I was going to sleep soundly. Who knows, I just slept for two or three hours, and as soon as the sky was bright, I couldn't sleep anymore, got up and dressed up, and prepared to go to Mu Yu to talk about it again.

As soon as he left the door, he saw General Wu walking from outside the door with a soldier. The soldier had a layer of snow-white frost on his forehead and eyebrows, and it seemed that he had just arrived at the palace after a night's journey.

The two of them saluted me at the same time, and the soldier did not have time for me to shout for peace, so he hurriedly reported: "Your Highness! The 200,000 troops of the Northern Desert have arrived at the border of my Tianyu! ”

"Two hundred thousand?" So many people! I would never be naïve to think that those 200,000 troops were a guard of honor to welcome relatives. Taking a deep breath, I asked, "Are they camped on the border, or have they already set foot on my Tianyu land?" ”

"Hurry up! In the last tense, Meiling has passed! ”

Meiling! The northernmost mountain of Tianyu country, the terrain is mostly cliffs, which is a natural danger for Tianyu country to defend the northern desert. If you want to enter Meiling from the Northern Desert, there is only one road in Meiling Pass, and the Northern Desert army has passed Meiling, to put it bluntly, Meiling Pass has been lost, and the 200,000 troops in the Northern Desert are now trampling on my Tianyu land.

"Map, map!" I didn't care if I was outside, and I was anxious for General Wu to spread the map on the stone table. This map is simply drawn, but the important towns, passes, mountains and rivers are more clear at a glance.

I found the location of Meiling, after the Meiling Pass, there are not many garrisons in each pass, if the Northern Desert wants to come to Tianyu to rob some money and grain, or occupy a few cities, there is no need to labor 200,000 troops. As I said before, Tianyuguo is so weak, and the reason why it has survived until now is that other countries disdain to fight.

And the entire Tianyu Kingdom except for the camp in the northern suburbs of the capital, where 50,000 soldiers are stationed. In other pass fortresses, the garrison is no more than 5,000. Not to mention the 200,000 Northern Desert army, even if there are only 20,000 troops, one by one they can only disarm and surrender.

To put it mildly, the court of Tianyuguo has always known that if the enemy comes to attack, this little soldier of Tianyuguo will definitely be defeated, and it is better to focus on defense than to be divided and destroyed. It doesn't matter whether his Tianyu land is big or small, how much it has been invaded, and how much it has occupied, but the capital is not broken, Tianyu is still there, and the family surnamed Gu is still a royal nobleman.

You can't grab much of anything, and the city is not of much value, but Beimo dispatched an army of 200,000, obviously going to Tianyu Capital.

Because only by taking the capital and destroying the royal family can he logically take over the entire Tianyu, and those cities that have been captured or have not yet been attacked must be put on the banner of his northern desert and pay tribute to his northern desert.

Only by taking the entire Tianyu Kingdom in one fell swoop will Beimo's dispatch of troops make sense. Otherwise, the gains outweigh the losses.

It seems that before the Northern Desert is expected to be in Laba, Mu Yu will not be able to catch up with the capital of the Northern Desert. So, I couldn't wait to send troops to Tianyuguo.

I have to admire Hu Yanzhuo's courage, although Tianyu is easy to attack, but in addition to the Northern Desert, this continent also has Southern Xinjiang, Nanzhao, Dachi, and Xiyue, all of which border Tianyu.

In recent years, the Northern Desert has grown stronger and stronger, eyeing other countries, and West Vietnam borders the Northern Desert, and the Northern Desert is strictly guarded. The southern Xinjiang is south of Tianyu, and the great blaze is south of Xiyue, one faces Tianyu across the North Desert, and the other faces Xiyue across the North Desert. But once Tianyu falls, Dachi and Southern Xinjiang will directly face the Northern Desert Iron Cavalry, and Xiyue will be surrounded by the Northern Desert on three sides. These three countries may be flattened by the Northern Desert at any time. It is precisely because of this that if the Northern Desert is prosperous, the three kingdoms will not stand idly by.

The Northern Desert army invaded Tianyu, even if they had signed a non-aggression pact with the other three countries before, but the other three countries really dared to believe the promise of the infamous and the youngest and most courageous emperor on this continent, the Northern Desert Hu Yanzhuo?

However, I am willing to believe in him, and there is no reason, just believe in him! Even if his Northern Desert Iron Cavalry is coming at me! I still believe that he loves me, and I even fantasize that his 200,000 troops came to Tianyu Kingdom to rob my relatives, and in the most primitive, barbaric, and non-refusable way, he snatched me back to the Northern Desert and stayed by his side.

I forced myself not to fantasize, the facts were already in front of me, the person he wanted was Mu Yu, the deadline he gave Tianyu had not yet arrived, and the army had already set foot on the land of Tianyu. If he robs his relatives, he can break into the palace again and take me away. I love him so much, maybe when my mind is hot, I will drop everything and go with him?

I forcibly suppressed my illusions about Hu Yanzhuo and discussed with General Wu the strategy of resisting the Northern Desert.

The Northern Desert army that went out to Tianyu this time was all cavalry, and the speed was extremely fast, from Meiling to Tianyu Capital, although there were several dangerous fortresses, the soldiers and horses were pitiful, and there were even no soldiers stationed there.

To defend against the Northern Desert, we must first deploy defenses on the way they must go. And the deployment of defense, it is necessary to deploy troops, but where do the troops come from? Moreover, there is not only one passage from Meiling to Tianyu Capital, so how can I determine where this fortification is located.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration occurred in my mind, and I pointed to the map and said, "Wangyong Pass, twenty miles north of Zhantian City!" ”