Occupying these small countries is not the same as conquering these small countries, Wang Tianlun spent another five years to transform and digest these fifteen small countries, so that these small countries smoothly became the fifteen counties of Lilan Kingdom, and the counties are equal to the current provinces.

In 5526 years of Lilan, that is, the twelfth year of Wang Tianlun's appointment as the auxiliary prince, Queen Shun Meilin officially abdicated, and the throne Chan was given to Wang Tianlun.

In 5528, in the third year of Tianlun, Wang Tianlun gathered three million troops and launched a campaign against the ten surrounding countries in ten ways, and it took only ten days to destroy the ten countries.

But he did not stop fighting to transform and digest the ten destroyed countries like the previous conquest of the fifteen countries, but continued to launch another campaign to the next ten countries, this time there was the Wutu country among the ten countries, Wang Tianlun went to the Wutu country, because the Wutu country gave him great trauma, and he wanted revenge.

He personally led an army of 300,000 to launch an extremely ferocious attack on the country of Wutu.

Swept all the way, the momentum was like a bamboo, and twenty-five cities were taken in a few days, and then they attacked the capital of Wutu State, and then set up camp in a situation of encirclement in ten miles of the capital of Wutu State.

The spies quickly reported the military situation of the army of Lilan Kingdom around the capital of Wutu Kingdom to the current young king of Wutu Kingdom, and the young King of Wutu was so panicked that he didn't even sit on the dragon anymore, and ran towards the harem on his two legs, and a large group of guards chased after him to protect him.

The young king stood in front of a palace with a plaque of the Hall of Mercy and, without waiting for an announcement, broke in.

In front of a huge bookcase in the main hall stood a beautiful middle-aged woman who was looking at a map, although her hair was gray and the corners of her eyes were wrinkled, she could still recognize from her face, this middle-aged woman was the Aisaline who had gone out to find her husband.

As soon as the young king entered the door, he shouted to Asaline, "Queen Mother, it is not good, the army of Lilan has surrounded our capital. ”

It turned out that the young king of the country of Utu turned out to be the son of Aisaline, and what about her husband? It stands to reason that this king should be her husband, and her husband should be the same age as hers, is there something wrong with the hiccups?

Hearing this, Aisaline turned her head in shock and said, "What, so fast!" ”

The young king anxiously asked Asaline, "What shall we do, Queen Mother?" ”

Aisaline hurriedly comforted him: "Don't panic, king. ”

After that, he asked him, "How many troops do we still have in the capital?" ”

The young king was stunned: "How many troops, I don't know ------." ”

Aisaline frowned and said, "How did you become a king, you don't even know how many troops there are in the capital. ”

The young king argued: "I knew before, there are 150,000, but the military situation in various places is urgent, and the military department has drawn out a lot of foreign troops, so I don't know how many troops there are now." ”

Aisalin said angrily: "Even if the Ministry of War has transferred a lot of troops, but it was also approved by you, and this number should be clear." ”

The young king was embarrassed: "I ------ I forgot." ”

Aisaline couldn't help but shake her head and sigh softly, then raised her head and shouted, "Someone." ”

A little eunuch ran in and asked, "What is the will of the Queen Mother?" ”

Aisaline instructed him: "Go quickly to the head of the military department, and the commander of the Kyoto Praetorian Guard will come to the palace to meet me." ”

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "The Queen Mother, Lord Zhou, the chief officer of the military department, and General Zhang, the commander of the Kyoto Guards, have been waiting in the conference hall for a long time. ”

Hearing this, Aisaline was stunned: "They have arrived a long time ago, when did they arrive, why didn't they report to me?" ”

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "The queen mother, the slave has reported it, but the queen mother was bathing in the bath at that time, maybe she forgot it." ”

Aisaline remembered that there was indeed something wrong, and that she was bathing in the bath and was thinking about something else, and did not pay any attention to the little eunuch's report, and then forgot about it.

She hurriedly ordered, "Hurry up and invite the two adults to come over." ”

The little eunuch replied, "Obey." ”

Instead, he ran away.

After a while, he took two middle-aged men about forty years old in military uniforms to the Ci'en Palace, and then stood at the door and shouted inside: "Lord Zhou, the commander of the military department, General Zhang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, has arrived." ”

Aisaline hurriedly said outside, "Please come in, two adults." ”

Zhou and Zhang walked in from outside, knelt down to the young king and Aisaline, and bowed: "The minister knocks to see Your Majesty, and knocks to see the Queen Mother!" ”

Aisaline waved her hand to the two, "Hurry up, two adults. ”

Zhou and Zhang hurriedly got up from the ground and stood aside.

Asaline asked the two, "Do you have anything to report when you two adults come to the palace?" ”

Zhou Dadao, the chief officer of the Ministry of War, said: "Queen Mother, the army of Lilan Kingdom has captured the twenty-five cities of our Wutu Kingdom in less than four days, and now it has come to my Kyoto City, the situation is extremely critical, please Your Majesty and the Queen Mother quickly find a way." ”

As soon as Lord Zhou's words landed, General Zhang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, took the call: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, the guards of our garrison in Kyoto were originally 150,000 people, but after several successive rescues, more than 70,000 people have been transferred, and now there are less than 80,000 people left in the city, there are too few people. I beg Your Majesty to order that all the Janissaries who have been transferred abroad be transferred back to defend Kyoto. ”

Hearing this, Ai Salin was shocked: "What, the Praetorian Guards guarding Kyoto are less than 80,000 people, so few!" Master Zhou, why are there so many external transfers? ”

Zhou Dadao: "Queen Mother, several cities around Kyoto were attacked by the Lilan army, they came to Kyoto to ask for help, I reported to Your Majesty, and Your Majesty ordered the Janissaries of the capital to be sent out to rescue." ”

Aisaline turned to the young king and asked, "Why didn't Your Majesty send the troops stationed outside to the rescue, but the Praetorian Guards in Kyoto to the rescue?" ”

The young king said: "I asked Lord Zhou, the garrison outside is too far away, and the time is too late, so I ordered the Praetorian Guards in the capital to be dispatched." ”

Aisaline asked, "Lord Zhou, which of our troops stationed abroad is closest to Kyoto?" ”

Lord Zhou pondered for a moment and said, "The closest armies to Kyoto are the Flying Eagle Army and the Lion Army, both of which are within seven hundred kilometers of Kyoto.

Aisaline exclaimed: "The closest army to Kyoto is actually seven hundred kilometers, my God! According to the fastest marching speed of 40 kilometers per day, it will take more than half a month to reach Kyoto at the earliest, which is too long and too late. ”

Zhou Dadao: "The army of Lilan Kingdom suddenly started a war against our Wutu Kingdom, and before we had time to react, their army had already hit our capital directly under the twenty-five cities of our country, no way, their advance speed was too fast." ”

Aisaline said lightly: "It's not that their march is too fast, it's that we are too paralyzed, Lilan Kingdom annexed the Ten Kingdoms a few years ago, at that time, because it was very far away from us, we looked at this matter with the mentality that it didn't matter to us, but it didn't cause us enough vigilance, so far today's disaster has happened." If we had prepared for an alliance with the surrounding countries, no matter how strong the Lilan Kingdom was, it would not dare to send troops to us. ”

General Zhang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, hurriedly asked: "Queen Mother, what should we do?" ”

Aisaline said: "With the little Praetorian Guards we have left now, we can't hold the capital, and we only have one way to go now, that is, to temporarily abandon the capital and take the remaining 80,000 guards to move closer to the second army of Flying Eagle and Lion closest to us." ”

"Then, the Flying Pigeon ordered the Flying Leopard Army and the Blood Wolf Army stationed on the eastern and northern borders to join us and build a defensive line to block the advance of the Lilan army, and then send an envoy to form an alliance with the five countries to the east and north of us, and fight against the Lilan army together."

Lord Zhou, the chief officer of the Ministry of War, said in a skeptical tone: "Queen Mother, as far as the lower officials know, the five countries in our east and north have very good diplomatic relations with Lilan Kingdom, and they have sent envoys to Beijing with Lilan Kingdom, can they ally with us?" ”

Aisaline said lightly: "Didn't our Wutu country also have a good diplomatic relationship with Lilan country before, and didn't we also send envoys to Beijing with Lilan country, but what about now, didn't the army of Lilan country invade our Wutu country and occupy a large part of our Wutu country." ”

"This is a trick for Lilan to paralyze us, there is a name for what, oh, I remember, it's called 'long-distance and close-range attack'. If the country of Wutu is destroyed by the country of Lilan, the next country to be destroyed is the five countries of them, if we don't even understand the simple truth of this minimum 'cold lips and teeth', then we have nothing to say, just leave it to fate. ”

General Zhang of the Praetorian Guard hurriedly asked: "Queen Mother, how can we withdraw the law?" ”

What General Zhang meant was whether all the property reserves of the Wutu Kingdom in the past thousand years had been taken away, and whether the hundreds of officials in the DPRK and the central government and their huge family groups, as well as the people of the whole city, would also be withdrawn with them.

Aisaline thought for a moment, and then waved her hand: "The 80,000 guards left 10,000 to continue to defend the city and paralyze the enemy army, and the remaining 70,000 janissaries did not bring anything, only brought enough food and weapons for a few days, and quietly withdrew from the east gate and the north gate in batches." ”

After that, he paused, and then said: "Immediately notify the officials of all ministries to come to the palace, and say that Your Majesty will summon them for an emergency meeting, and then leave them in the palace and wait for them to retreat together, and their families should not be brought, otherwise the news of our retreat will be leaked and the whole city will be panicked." ”

Don't let the family members of course include the head of the military department in front of him, Lord Zhou, and the commander of the Praetorian Guard, General Zhang, the faces of the two turned white, and their mouths moved to say something, but they didn't say it.

Seeing this, Aisaline smiled faintly and said, "I know what you are worried about, you are worried about whether your family members will be in danger if they stay in the city, and whether they will be killed by the army of Lilan Country." Don't worry, they won't do this, as far as I know, the military discipline of the Lilan army is very strict, and they have no offense against the common people and the families of officials in the places they occupy. ”

In other words, it is safe for them to stay in their homes in the city, but not necessarily to be safe. If they retreat with our army, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not encounter the army of Lilan Kingdom on the road, once they do, they will inevitably go to war, and the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, even if they don't kill them intentionally, accidental injuries are inevitable. ”

Hearing this, the two of them thought about it, so they were relieved.

Zhou Dadao, the chief officer of the military department, said: "Okay, I will send someone to the homes of the officials of the various ministries to inform them to come to the palace." ”

General Zhang, the commander of the Praetorian Guard, said: "I'll go to the Praetorian Guard camp to make arrangements." ”

After that, the two of them walked out, but as soon as they took a few steps, Aisaline suddenly seemed to remember something again, and hurriedly stopped General Zhang: "General Zhang, wait a minute." ”

Hearing this, General Zhang stopped.

Lord Zhou walked out alone.

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