Chapter 224: Behind the Scenes
What kind of psychological changes Yin Xuan is Nie Qingwan didn't know, and she wasn't interested in caring about his psychological changes, seeing him sitting in the carriage and reading carefully, she didn't care about him, she talked to Nie Yin and Ren Ji.
The wounds of the soldiers were coated with painkillers, pharmacologically bandaged, and rested in place for a day.
During this day's rest, Nie Qingwan led the six young generals to the ambush woods and looked at them from beginning to end.
Including the thousand archers who died in the woods, including those where the beasts were trapped.
The archers were dead, and some of their clothes were torn, revealing their armor inside.
Nie Qingwan asked Ren Ji to take a battle armor to see, and by the way, he also took a bow and an arrow.
There is nothing special about that armor, the texture is very poor, the weight is also quite heavy, it belongs to the original construction method, it is not easy to move in this kind of armor, it is used for close defense.
Nie Qingwan finished reading the battle armor, handed it to Ren Ji again, and then looked at the bow, and then at the arrow.
After reading these two things, she turned and got into the carriage.
When the soldiers were almost rested, she called out to Qi.
Even though there was an ambush halfway through, the itinerary remained the same.
Nie Qingwan was going to Fengqiu, a small country in the south, and the route was heading south.
Yin Xuan sat there reading a book, and Nie Qingwan talked to Ren Ji and Nie Yin about the battle armor and the bow and arrow.
Nie Qingwan had seen the armor and bow and arrows. Ren Ji and Nie Yin have also read it, and Yin Xuanzi has also seen it, so when the three of them were discussing, even if he was concentrating on reading, he would glance over from time to time.
Nie Qingwan said: "This place has just come out of the boundary of the Great Yin Territory, there are no small countries around it, and the woods here have passed the range of the guards of the Great Yin soldiers, so it is really hard to say where these thousand archers came from." “
Ren Ji said: "Look at the rough practice of the armor and bow and arrow, it is not like the behavior of a capable small country. “
Nie Yin said: "Can't bear it, dare to set up an ambush like this?" “
Yin Xuan pursed his lips, thinking to himself, this thousand archers came unexpectedly, but they must have lurked very early.
Maybe he was still wandering in Huaicheng, the imperial capital of the Great Yin Empire.
Although the Queen Mother had the intention of destroying other small countries, she never closed the trade and movement of the imperial capital Huaicheng with the outside world.
Outsiders can enter the imperial capital Huaicheng after passing the normal inspection, and it is possible that these thousand people are not from a small country, but several small countries.
However, people are dead, and they can't ask if they want to.
It's not easy to tell which country they're from by looking at their clothes and faces, and you might be able to tell if you listen to the accent.
However, the Queen Mother doesn't seem to care who these people are or where they come from.
Also, Yin Xuan thought, she has always done things neatly. She had already planned to destroy all the small countries, so no matter where they came from, no matter where they came from, they couldn't stop her.
But the enemy is in the dark, and our side is in the light, so we will have to suffer some hardships in the future.
Yin Xuan thought for a while and said, "There are one and there are two, I'm worried that the secret attack behind me can't be prevented, do you have to prepare in advance?" “
Nie Qingwan looked at him and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?" “
Yin Xuan said: "No." “
Nie Qingwan said to Ren Ji: "Go and call a few generals in Fengchang, let's discuss." “
Ren Ji snorted and lifted the curtain. Open the door of the carriage, go out, shout to stop the carriage, and then go down and say the Queen Mother to a few young generals who are riding in front.
So the team was all on standby.
The five small generals led by Feng Chang entered the carriage.
Yin Xuan glanced up at Chen Wen, then silently lowered his position, moved his position, and closed the statecraft he was looking at.
The carriage was not big, but it was not small, but it was still a bit crowded to accommodate so many people at once.
Fortunately, I can still sit down if I squeeze it.
As soon as Chen Wenshu came in, he unceremoniously sat down next to Nie Qingwan, Yin Xuan also sat next to Nie Qingwan, and then lined up at one time Nie Xifeng, Nie Buwei, Feng Chang and Yin Tianye, Ren Ji and Nie Yin sat on the couch in the back, waiting at any time.
A few people nestled in the carriage, discussing how to prepare for a secret attack.
Feng Chang, who is the most experienced, said: "Secret attacks during the day are easy to guard, but not very easy to guard against at night, I think we have to arrange troops to deal with possible sneak attacks at night." “
Nie Qingwan said: "We marched at night to send troops, and the people in Huaicheng didn't know, but these people knew, it can be seen that they are monitoring us day and night, maybe today in addition to these thousand archers, there is another group of people who are secretly peeping, if you want to cut off the sneak attack stakes that appear from time to time, you have to pull out these secret eyes first." “
Nie Xifeng said: "I'll take someone there." “
Nie Buwei said, "I'll go too." “
Yin Tianye sat there silently, just raised his head and glanced at Yin Xuan.
Yin Xuan didn't respond.
Chen Wen said: "I'm good at plucking eyeballs, I'll go, I'm familiar with this thing." “
Two years ago, when the Jing Kingdom and the Baichuan Kingdom were destroyed, Chen Wenqi did this kind of eye-catching thing, he was really good at it, and his temperament was also very suitable for doing this.
Nie Qingwan said: "Then you go, bring a few people, be careful." “
Chen Wen grinned and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Queen Mother, if I can't complete the task, I won't have the face to lead the troops, you wait for the good news." “
With that, he bent down and got out of the carriage first.
Others continued to deploy in the wagon, not so much for combat, but for how to respond to a sneak attack that could arise at any time.
An hour later, the four generals came out of the carriage, and the procession continued on its way.
Chen Wenchu left the big team with a few people, and no one knew where they went.
In the evening, when the team went to the south and turned in, at the direction of the intersection, they saw a dense crowd of soldiers, covered from head to toe with armor, and at a glance the vastness was boundless, and the dark armor was imprinted under the shadow of the moon, which was very terrifying.
Feng Chang and Nie Xifeng rode in front, followed by about fifty soldiers, then Nie Qingwan's carriage, followed by Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye, and then behind by a large army of soldiers, and several grain carts in the middle.
Those people appeared at the corner, Feng Chang and Nie Xifeng were startled as soon as they turned around, and hurriedly shouted to stop, took arrows from the soldiers behind them, and shot them with bows.
Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye led the troops and were about to launch an attack, but they found out. Those people were motionless, and they didn't know how to hide when they were shot, although they looked dense and majestic, but they had no intention of attacking them.
Nie Xifeng squinted, immediately grabbed the horse's belly, and rushed over.
Feng Chang shouted at him: "Be careful of deception!" “
Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye also rushed over.
They want to see what the hell these people are up to.
The three men rode forward one after the other, and when they met someone, they slashed down with a sword, and as a result, the person was split in half by the sword, and his clothes were torn, revealing his true face inside.
Not the flesh, but haystacks.
Nie Xifeng had a cold face, dragged the reins of the horse and ran to Nie Qingwan's carriage, and through the window, he said to her: "The front is full of soldiers disguised by haystacks. “
Nie Qingwan said: "The fire is burned, give them a signal." “
Nie Xifeng raised his eyebrows, not understanding for a while.
Nie Qingwan said: "You lead the troops to the three intersections of the east, west and north to see, there must be the same haystacks there." “
Nie Xifeng sank his eyebrows fiercely, turned around and called Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye, and asked them to lead the troops to the other two intersections, and he took people to the east intersections to see the situation.
After reading the situation, the three people reported and said: "Indeed, as the Queen Mother expected, there are exactly the same haystacks at the three intersections." “
Yin Xuan frowned, and suddenly understood why Nie Qingwan said to light the fire and give them a signal.
These small countries camouflaged soldiers at every intersection, just to ensure that they had a correct grasp of the Queen Mother's whereabouts, and the people who were secretly planning it seemed to know the Queen Mother quite well.
That's right, when the Queen Mother is studying them, they may also be secretly studying the Queen Mother.
With a thousand archers to take the lead, test the depth of the water of the Da Yin soldiers, and at the same time make the Tai soldiers vigilant, the people in the dark may also know that the Queen Mother will secretly send people to find the surrounding eyeliner, and then destroy it, so, in order to grasp the dynamics of the Queen Mother's march, they set up such a checkpoint at each intersection.
haystacks.
I really thought of it.
Yin Xuan bent down and got out of the carriage and glanced at the fake soldiers densely packed in front of him, how much time and manpower would it take to make such a huge formation.
Yin Xuan sneered, pretending to be a ghost, but it was also a good plan.
But the Queen Mother knew the intentions of these people, so why did she give them a signal?
Yin Xuan entered the carriage again and asked Nie Qingwan: "Does the Queen Mother want to plan the plan, tell them the itinerary, and bring out the people who are behind the scenes?" “
Nie Qingwan said: "We are going to Fengqiu, Fengqiu is located in the south, if the person behind the scenes is the king of the south, he will definitely continue to set up a secret attack checkpoint, if it is not the king of the south, here they will stop the operation, there will be no secret attack, but they will conspire with the kings of the southern land, I want it, I just want them to come to the door by themselves." “
Yin Xuan said: "Fengqiu is very small, if we are surrounded, it will be very passive and dangerous. “
Nie Qingwan said: "We didn't come out to bring much military rations, and we occupied Fengqiu because Fengqiu is actually a fertile land, and it is only affected by locust labor and waterlogging that it will be poor and weak, and we have to raise soldiers." There must be food first, as long as there is food to eat, you are not afraid of besieging the city, and sending troops and facing the battle are two concepts, Fengqiu that place, not suitable for sending troops, only suitable for fighting, we march to go, speed up, half a month can reach Fengqiu, and then take three days to occupy Fengqiu, at most twenty days. And if the small countries come to besiege, it will have to be a month later, and a month later will be when the Fengqiu locust outbreak is rampant, and soon after the locust outbreak, the flood will also come, which is a natural disaster, but it can become our best weapon to defeat the enemy. “
She looked at Yin Xuan and said, "Fighting a war pays attention to adapting measures to local conditions, this is practice. “
Yin Xuan said: "It sounds good, but if it is not implemented well, it will face a crisis surrounded by all sides." “
Nie Qingwan said: "I know that there will be danger if the implementation is not good, so we must implement it well." “
Yin Xuan pursed his lips and stopped talking.
Nie Qingwan said: "You go too, let them burn all the haystacks, these fires are not only a signal to the enemy, but also a signal to Chen Wencho, I believe that after the haystacks are burned, Chen Wencho will also come back, and then speed up and go to Fengqiu, if I guess correctly, the next road will be very smooth." “
Yin Xuan hummed in a low voice and went out again.
He personally took the lead, took Feng Chang and Yin Tianye, Nie Xifeng and Nie Buwei and another 10,000 soldiers, and went to burn those haystacks, and when they were almost finished, Chen Wen came back, carrying several heads in his hands.
As soon as Yin Xuan saw those heads, he immediately came over and said to him: "Take it farther, and take such a bloody thing to the Queen Mother." “
Chen Wen pouted: "I have to let her take a look." “
Yin Xuan said: "Don't look at it. “
He pointed to the fire in the distance: "Throw it in and burn it." “
Chen Wen paused, he didn't hear Nie Qingwan's voice from inside, he had to follow Yin Xuan's words, and threw those heads into the fire pit and burned them.
Returning again, Nie Qingwan had already come out, she stood at the front of the carriage, looking at the fire in the distance, her eyes were calm, her small body was illuminated by the moonlight, pulling out an extremely long shadow, and the shadow was refracted from the carriage all the way to the ground, folding out a strange arc. Just like the phoenix pattern outside her eyebrows at the moment.
Several generals all stood around the carriage and watched her.
Nie Qingwan retracted her gaze and asked Chen Wen, "All eyes have been removed?" “
Chen Wenqi said: "Get rid of it." “
Nie Qingwan turned around and drilled into the carriage and said, "Let's go, go to Fengqiu, we must arrive within half a month." “
A few people responded and watched her go in, Yin Xuan followed in, and the other people got back on their horses, and then sped up their journey and went to Fengqiu.
When the fire burned, Nan Linfeng got the news, and Huatu got the news, Meng Gang. Yao Zhao and He Zhen also got the news, in addition to these five people, there was another person, sitting in his throne, quietly listening to the report of the spies, this person is not one of the five alliances, but he is also one of the small countries around Dayin, but he has a hidden strength.
When Yin Xuan took the sword of the Son of Heaven, he was the one who sent someone to assassinate Yin Xuan.
Yin Xuan and Nie Qingwan were ambushed on the path, and he was the mastermind behind the swordsmen and swordsmen blocking the way.
Including the 1,000 archers before, the haystackers in the four directions of east, west, north and south, are all his handiwork.
The man listened to the report of the people below and whispered, "Did you go to the south?" “
The subordinate replied, "Yes." “
The king nodded and said: "Then it depends on what Nan Linfeng does, let's play a side game, if we can take advantage of the chaos to rob the queen mother, it will be the best." “
The subordinate said, "Do you want to withdraw the people we have sent in all four directions?" “
The king said: "Give it to the left wing, convey what I mean, what I want is the little queen mother, don't hurt her, such a beautiful and smart woman, death is the loss of all men, if the queen mother of Da Yin becomes the queen of our country, what do you say Da Yin should do." Do they raise troops to commit crimes, or do they not raise troops to commit crimes? “
The subordinates were silent and did not dare to answer.
The king didn't need his subordinates to answer, so he just waved his hand and let him go down.
It lasted half a month, hurried and hurried, and finally arrived at Fengqiu in mid-June.
The Queen Mother led 120,000 soldiers all the way, how could Fengqiu not hear the wind.
When I heard it, I had already made preparations for war.
But it's a pity, Fengqiu raised the total number of people in the whole country to support 5,000 people, even if they borrowed troops, only a few borrowed them, and the maximum number of them was 10,000, how could they resist the 120,000 army?
The 10,000 soldiers who blocked the road were easily subdued, Nie Qingwan didn't let Yin Xuan kill them, and left them into the city.
Entered the city and went straight to the Fengqiu Palace.
The people of the city shut up and locked their doors, and did not dare to come out.
The people of Fengqiu Palace are panicked, the city gate has been occupied by the soldiers of Dayin, the people guarding the city gate are Nie Buwei and Yin Tianye, the people who lead the troops stationed in every corner of the street are Nie Xifeng and Chen Wenqi, and the people who enter the palace with Nie Qingwan are Yin Xuan and Feng Chang, as well as the 40,000 elite soldiers led by Yin Xuan and Feng Chang.
Of course, there are also Ren Ji and Nie Yin.
King Toyooka knelt at the gate of the palace to greet him, and next to him knelt in a large area were the ministers of Toyooka and the ladies of the palace.
Nie Qingwan's carriage drove all the way to the door. Yin Xuan had already gotten off the carriage, and Gan Cheng was on the left side of the carriage, Feng Chang was on the right side of the carriage, and behind him were 40,000 elite soldiers.
The carriage did not stop when it passed the palace gate, and went all the way in, and waited for 40,000 elite soldiers to line up along the city gate until the streets and alleys, and then the carriage stopped in the depths of the palace inner garden.
Nie Yin and Ren Ji lifted the curtain left and right, escorting Nie Qingwan out.
The monarch of Fengqiu immediately led the courtiers and concubines to pay their respects.
The monarch of Fengqiu Kingdom is surnamed Ren, with a single name and a Teng character, he has never seen the Queen Mother of the Great Yin Empire, and he has never been to the Great Yin Empire.
Even though he is the king of a country, he has never seen any big scenes.
Fengqiu will be ravaged by locust infestation every year, and there will be sudden flooding, although there is an imitation of Dayin to expand the water conservancy, but there will still be waterlogging every now and then, and I don't know what is going on.
As soon as Ren Teng arrived in June, he was very worried and asked every household to prepare for locusts.
The Queen Mother wants to destroy the heart of the small country, Ren Teng knows, but he knows it, but he can't do anything.
Now that the countries are panicking, the stronger countries can still form an alliance and resist together, but he is weak and small, with whom will he form an alliance?
No one formed an alliance, so as soon as the Queen Mother came, he knew that he was finished.
Ren Teng knelt there, his head hanging, his hands raised high, and presented the jade seal of Fengqiu Kingdom.
Nie Qingwan looked at the jade seal and said to Yin Xuan, "Destroy it." “
Yin Xuan immediately drew his sword, and the sword body was only one finger long, and a cold sword qi swooped down, slashing at the jade seal that Ren Teng held high, and with Yin Xuan's thumb buttoning, the moment the sword entered the sheath, the intact jade seal shattered into powder.
Ren Teng was startled, his face turned white in an instant, and his hand holding the tray trembled.
The ministers all knelt behind and shivered.
The palace concubines, princes and princesses also knelt there trembling.
Nie Qingwan said: "If I don't kill you, get up, talk to the palace about the local locust situation and the waterlogging situation, and make some preparations as soon as possible." “
It's hot in June, even in the south, and the sun is scorching.
Nie Yin held up an umbrella and blocked it above Nie Qingwan's head.
It doesn't look hot, but standing outside like this, it should be sweaty and wet in a while.
Nie Yin whispered to Nie Qingwan: "Go to the palace and talk about it, the locust service and waterlogging are the stubborn diseases of Fengqiu, and you can't finish talking about it for a while, come all the way." The soldiers are also tired, let them rest, take a cool, and you will also rest. “
Nie Qingwan turned her head to look at Yin Xuan, then at Feng Chang, and at the Great Yin soldiers lined up on both sides.
Seeing that the sweat on their foreheads was running down their cheeks, and they looked really hot, she nodded: "According to Auntie's meaning." “
Nie Qingwan turned her head and got into the carriage.
Nie Yin conveyed Nie Qingwan's words and said to go into the palace to talk about this matter.
Ren Teng naturally didn't dare to reply, got up and followed into the palace.
Nie Qingwan didn't kill a single person from Fengqiu outside the city gate, and Ren Teng knew that the Queen Mother was not here to slaughter them, they wanted to save them. can only cooperate with the Queen Mother.
The jade seal is ruined, that is, Fengqiu Country is gone.
Fengqiu will be like the Jingguo and Baichuan countries two years ago, and become a county under the territory of Dayin, Fengqiu County.
And he, the king, if he behaves well, he will be crowned a county guard, and if he does not do well, then he will be a commoner.
In fact, it doesn't matter what he does, as long as Fengqiu can not be ravaged by locusts, he can do anything.
After Nie Qingwan sat down, Nie Yin and Ren Ji waited for her to eat and drink, and Yin Xuan and Feng Chang were by their sides with swords on the left and right.
Nie Qingwan took a sip of water. After quenching his thirst, he called Yin Xuan to sit down.
Yin Xuan glanced at her and sat down obediently.
Nie Qingwan looked at the sweat on his forehead and the sides of his cheeks, and asked, "Is it hot?" “
Yin Xuan said: "It's not hot. “
Nie Qingwan asked Ren Ji to pour a glass of water for Yin Xuan, Yin Xuan took it and drank it, and after drinking, he looked at Ren Teng who was standing in front of the main hall, the ministers and palace concubines, and the princes and princesses who followed behind.
After sweeping around, Yin Xuan asked Nie Qingwan, "Do you want to take a break first?" “
Nie Qingwan said, "No. “
She called Ren Teng over and said to him: "First cure the locusts, and then prevent flooding, from today on, everyone in Fengqiu will obey the orders of this palace." In addition, from today onwards, the city will be closed, all the people are not allowed to go out, and those who enter the city will have their own soldiers of my Dayin to pass the inspection, your task is to appease the people, convey the goodwill of the palace, and let the people cooperate, so that they do not panic and have negative emotions. “
Ren Teng raised his eyes, and only then did he dare to look at the little queen mother of Da Yin seriously.
Just outside, didn't dare to look.
After looking at it, I realized that the little queen mother was so good-looking, if she hadn't been sitting here and saying such things, he would have regarded her as a noble lady in the boudoir.
Such a delicate girl has such ruthless ambitions to annex all the small countries around her.
Also, the queen chosen by the old ghost of Emperor Yin Zu, can she be a soft persimmon!
Ren Teng lowered his eyes and responded: "It's all up to the Queen Mother to decide, if the Queen Mother has any orders, I can do ten points, and I will definitely not be lazy to do nine points." “
Nie Qingwan said: "Send some people to appease the people, and leave some experienced people to talk about locust service." “
Ren Teng responded, turned around and called some ministers, asking them to quickly appease the people, and called a few humerus ministers to come over and discuss with the queen mother how to solve the locust service.
As for those palace concubines, princes and princesses, Nie Qingwan let Ren Teng send them away.
After discussing for an afternoon, but no result was discussed, Nie Qingwan was a little tired, so she let Ren Teng and them go.
Ren Teng is a king and lives in the palace, but now that Nie Qingwan is here, then Ren Teng can't live in the palace.
But if he doesn't live in the palace, where will he live?
He still has so many concubines and children.
Nie Qingwan couldn't live in his place, so she cleaned up another palace and lived in it with Yin Xuan.
Feng Chang and they are at will, there are many houses in this palace, just find a place to live, a place to eat and a place to sleep.
The rapid marching army, not to mention that Nie Qingwan was tired, even Feng Chang and the other soldiers were no better.
But at night, the city gate was still on duty in turns.
Nie Xifeng and Nie Buwei, as well as Chen Wenqi and Yin Tianye, rotated their duties day and night, and Feng Chang and Yin Xuan rotated their duties in the palace.
But in the middle of the night, the palace suddenly went on fire.