The fifth prince pointed to the map and said to Hou Ye Cao: "Hou Ye, look, this is Huacheng and Laocheng, and the news I got is that the Ghost King soldiers are divided into two roads, and the soldiers have come to the two cities." Although the ghost king didn't know where to transfer 50,000 horses, she now has a total of 110,000, but she dared to divide the army into two ways, she was really looking for death. ”

Hou Ye Cao frowned and said, "This ghost king is not a simple person, and the five princes can't underestimate the enemy. She only has this little bit of people, so she dares to divide into two ways, for fear that she has a plan. Thinking that the Moyun Country is small and weak, its troops, food, grass and other supplies will inevitably be insufficient, and it will not be able to support them to fight for a long time, so what they have to do now is to fight quickly. The two cities of the Ghost King sent troops at the same time, which must also be out of this consideration. And she has always been scheming, and she must have a plan to take down two cities. I only hope that the defenders of these two cities will not act rashly, and just defend the city. Now we should rush over at once, as long as we can slow down the Ghost King's advance, and when they are short of armaments, we will be defeated without a fight. ”

The fifth prince nodded and said: "What Marquis Cao said is extremely true, but just blindly defending Mo Yun is still afraid of us, which will inevitably affect our military prestige." I suggested that the troops be divided into three places, Huacheng and Laocheng each send a general with 50,000 horses to assist, and these 50,000 people, plus the 100,000 horses defending the city, will definitely be able to destroy the two Moyun armies. As long as we take Kuicheng, it will be equivalent to imprisoning the ghost king of Moyun Country and the 110,000 army in Yuxue, and I will let them fight hard to escape. ”

Cao Hou Ye hurriedly said: "Don't do it, the strength of the Ghost King Army should not be underestimated, even if there are only 50,000 horses, but they are all elite soldiers, once you miss, I am afraid it will not be good." Moreover, in this way, the forces are too scattered, and it is easy for people to take advantage of them. "The ghost king is not a fool, your soldiers are divided into three places, won't she join forces to break them one by one, you just said that the soldiers are divided into two places to find death, and now you dare to divide them into three places, what is this head thinking.

What the five princes thought, soon Marquis Cao understood. The fifth prince smiled lightly: "How can Hou Ye Cao become more and more timid as he lives, the ghost king soldiers are also people, they are not gods, don't worry, Hou Ye, I have a plan." I have ordered Zhang Weiping and Qian Kui to send 50,000 troops each to Huacheng and Laocheng, and they will set off tomorrow. I told them that I couldn't bring Mo Yunjun to see him, so Master Hou could rest assured. ”

Hou Ye Cao opened his mouth, but didn't say anything in the end, the fifth prince didn't discuss with him, he just told him. Of course, the fifth prince is the main general, he is only the deputy general, so naturally he has to listen to the five princes. It's just that he understands the meaning of the five princes. Who are Zhang Weiping and Qian Kui, one is Zhang Xiangye's distant nephew and the cousin of the fifth prince; One is the elder brother of the five princesses, and they are all the closest people to the five princes. None of them had stayed in the barracks for a few days, and they had always been nominal petty officials in the imperial city, but this time they were hand-picked by the five princes to go out with the army. The five princes saw that they had great military exploits in front of them, so it was too risky to "cultivate" these two people, just to push them to the position of leading the army at once.

Of course, Cao Houye still thought about what his Cao family army would do under the leadership of such two generals, but he still had some luck mentality, the ghost king army was powerful, and his Cao family army was not a vegetarian, so he should not be easily affected by the ghost king army. If these two parties win, he should give a favor to the five princes. If he loses, let the five princes learn a lesson, and he will naturally listen to him without saying anything at that time. The emperor's favor for the five princes is well known, and he doesn't stand in line, but he can't offend him either.

Hou Ye Cao didn't speak, the fifth prince nodded with satisfaction, turned around and went back to rest.

On the second day, the two armies set out early in the morning. However, the fifth prince was not in a hurry to leave, and his statement was to let the army rest for two days before setting off. General Cao persuaded a few words, but the fifth prince did not listen, but decided to stay for two more days, which made Marquis Cao so angry that he had nothing to say. In the afternoon, Hou Ye Cao led the people and the generals of the Wangcheng garrison to inspect the Wangcheng defense again, strengthened some city walls, and adjusted the arrangements for the next round of defense. And then they learned a shocking news.

In the hall of the barracks, the fifth prince was so angry that he smashed the teacup in his hand. Laocheng was broken by the Ghost King Army overnight, how did it break through, I don't know, anyway, most of the people were arrested by the Ghost King Army, and the Ghost King Army suddenly appeared in Laocheng. Cao Houye and all the generals thought this was incredible. And even more bizarre is Hwaseong.

Hwaseong was flooded, and the ghost king got the help of heaven, and there was a flood in this cold winter season, and Hwaseong was taken almost without blood. The specific statement is: The Hwaseong defenders just started to win a few battles, and then suddenly one night, the ghost king attracted a flood and flooded Hwaseong, and the Hwaseong defenders were all washed away, so Hwaseong fell into the hands of the ghost king. Is this a war, and how did it become a myth? Cao Hou Ye heard that his forehead was full of ink lines, and he felt that he had really seen a ghost, and looked at the five princes whose faces were as black as the bottom of a black pot, Cao Hou Ye said: "The five princes are angry, and the top priority is to quickly call the two people back, let's think about it in the long run." ”

The fifth prince thought for a while and said, "No, there is no turning back when you open the bow, I don't believe that her ghost king is a fairy." Let them besiege the two cities first. Send someone out to inquire about the news, and remember, don't say any more of these nonsense. ”

The soldier who lowered his head and reported the message said in his heart: This is a lie to confuse the public? I haven't said anything really deceiving the people, of course, I don't dare to say it, but in two days it will reach your ears, and you will know how evil this is.

The streets of Hwaseong were full of people, and after cleaning up the traces of the flood, they began to live a normal life, as if nothing had happened. Mr. Ning, who is new to manage Hwaseong, is Ning Xiang's eldest son, a young champion and a genius prodigy. He was as good to the people as his father Ning Xiangye, never allowed the soldiers to disturb the people, and also let people open warehouses to release grain to help the poor people, and those who had no place to live lived in the government office, and those who did not eat lined up to receive rice, and those who did bad things were all arrested.

Of course, there are also some different places, not only Mr. Ning came to the city, but also the famous Tianshu Daoist, one of the three strange people in the world, also came. Moreover, as soon as the Tianshu Dao Commander came, he overtook the souls of those who died in battle, and also exorcised ghosts and puzzles for the people. According to the Taoist chief, this flood was caused by the ghost king, but the ghost king was not aimed at the people of Hwaseong, but to comply with the will of heaven. It turned out that God saw that the people's lives were too hard, so he sent the ghost king to change the fate of the people of Yuxue. It's just that the defenders of Hwaseong are too ferocious, and the ghost king's army has no choice for a while, so God let the ghost king borrow the power of driving the water, make the river change course, and send a big flood to rush the Hwaseong defenders. So, do you see that the dead are all the defenders of Hwaseong, and there are people who are swept away by the flood?

This thing is really strange here, a flood drowned many people, but not a single one of the people drowned. Some of the houses also fell, but some of them were too dilapidated for no one to live in, some of them were outside and did not come back, only two of them were in the house, but one of them fell and hid under the table and did not hit it. One was washed out by the water but hung by a branch, and none of them died. How can this be such a coincidence, it is simply providential, and people can't believe it.

Yuxue has imposed a lot of taxes and miscellaneous taxes in recent years, which has made the people miserable, and the family has forcibly expropriated land, which has displaced many people, and the difficulty of life has made many people sell their children and daughters, but they also live like a year. It's just that the Yuxue Army is strong, and no one dares to resist. Now, since the Heavenly Pivot Daoist said that it was the will of heaven, the people were naturally willing to accept it. In fact, who becomes the emperor has little to do with the people, and the people don't care much, what they really care about is who is good to them and who can make them live a good life.

Mr. Ning, who was pulled by Wang Lekai to help manage Huacheng and calm things down, was so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, although he was a little dissatisfied with Lao Dao's practice of "bewitching the public", but Lao Dao was also doing his best to help him calm down the incident, and not to mention, the people really listened to his nonsense, so he didn't care about him anymore, and let Lao Dao take a few children to the streets and alleys every day to establish the image of the ghost king's "glorious justice", and he and General Gao began to arrange the deployment, Yuxue's reinforcements are coming, this will definitely be a difficult battle.

General Gao felt that he was about to face the most difficult battle in his life, so he was ready to defend to the death, and when it came to defending the city, General Gao was still very confident in himself. Mo Yun's generals have been mainly defensive for generations, and have accumulated rich experience, and General Gao dared to pat his chest and say that even if the enemy has an army of 100,000 troops, twice as many as his own troops, he is confident that he will defend him for a year and a half. It's just that when General Gao made all the preparations, he found that the other party only came with 50,000 horses, and the leader of the troops was not a famous general, General Gao was not calm, did he continue to defend or did he change his strategy and take the initiative to attack?

In Laocheng, Yun Yuhong also received the news that Yuxue's reinforcements were divided into two ways, and only 50,000 horses came, this shouldn't be, although the leader of the troops was the fifth prince, but this was the Cao family's army, and the Marquis of Cao would not be so useless, and send his hard-trained soldiers to death like this. So what's the conspiracy? But no matter how you inquire about the news, it is certain that there are only 50,000 horses, and the other 100,000 reinforcements have not left Wangcheng. Yun Yuhong was stunned for a full hour, and she still didn't understand the key to this, but she has always been a bold, since they all came to die, how could she not fulfill them. Immediately ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses, ready to come here before the 50,000 Yuxue army came here to come to a "welcome salute".