When the king of Nanyang learned that he was only defending and not attacking, he was very puzzled and had been waiting on the city wall for a few days. No matter how they shouted and cursed, or drove them away with weapons, Su Jingye's army always guarded the door, did not come in, and refused to let the people inside out.

"Lord Wang, it's not good, the grain and grass have not arrived for a long time, and the grain and grass in the city can't support it for a few days." Hearing the grain official's report, King Nanyang knew that Su Jingye's purpose was not him in the first place.

Su Jingye's army under the city also had a cavalry running quickly.

"Your Highness, the grain and grass have arrived."

Su Jingye was overjoyed, stood on the stone and raised his arms and shouted: "Soldiers, the plan has been successful, follow me to annihilate this group of traitors in one fell swoop!" ”

The voice was too loud, which made Su Jingye's voice a little hoarse.

Tens of thousands of soldiers were suddenly excited, removed their shields, raised their swords, and rushed to the city together. The defenders of Nanyang City were terrified, and although the city gate had not yet been captured, their morale had already suffered a great blow.

He led his troops back triumphantly, and when the army returned to the camp, Captain Chen came over with joy to report the results of the battle.

"Your Highness, Daxi, we have brought back at least 300,000 stones of grain and grass from this battle."

When Su Jingye heard this, he only walked a few steps, and then saw dozens of trucks of grain and grass behind the tent. Each car was wrapped in oiled paper and was not damaged at all.

"With so much grain and grass, I'm afraid that Nanyang City's supplies for several months are here." Vice Admiral Li had some schadenfreude.

"That's fine, we grain transporters in the province will have a meeting again." Jiang Liuyu happily took Su Jingye's hand, mainly doing this, he could slap Liu Jian Jun and Nanyang Wang in the face fiercely.

Su Jingye was also joyful, beyond words. "From today on, besiege Nanyang City, and not let anyone go, we will quietly wait for the King of Nanyang to retreat and take the initiative to surrender."

"Yes." The surrounding generals, big and small, were already convinced by Su Jingye at this moment.

After a few days, the spies sent to Nanyang City to inquire about the news, each of them came back, saying that the grain and grass in the city had been exhausted. The next thing to do is to ask the emperor for advice before he can decide whether to attack the city or negotiate peace. But many days have passed, and there has not been the slightest movement in the capital.

"It stands to reason that the command of the capital should have arrived yesterday at the latest, why is there no news?" Su Jingye stood under the tent now, looking up at the city tower in the distance. On the castle tower, except for the flags that were still flying, it was difficult to see the figures of the defenders.

"How did you get the news from us in the palace, is it a letter you wrote specifically?" Jiang Liuyu walked to him with his hands behind his back, looking old.

These words reminded Su Jingye, and Su Jingye frowned slightly, "Come on, go and call Liu Jianjun to me." The little soldier heard his hidden anger and ran away in a hurry. Jiang Liuyu saw his big reaction, and guessed seven or eight times out of ten.

Liu Jianjun walked over, still with that somewhat thief-eyed expression. "I don't know what happened to the prince, call the officials."

Su Jingye didn't want to pay attention to him, so Jiang Liuyu spoke for him. "Liu Jianjun, we are new here, and we don't know what your job is."

Liu Jianjun saw that it was Jiang Liuyu who spoke, so he didn't take the couple seriously. "Returning to the princess, the duty of the lower officials is to record everything that happened on the march and send it to the palace."

"Oh, that's a very objective evaluation." Jiang Liuyu nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly smiled, "But Liu Jianjun's work, I'm afraid it can't be done properly." ”

"Why did the princess say this?" Liu Jianjun raised his eyes and glanced at Jiang Liuyu with disdain.

"The prospect was ambushed at night, fought hard, and sacrificed 10,000 brothers, Liu Jianjun remembered at the time, but it was quite objective and even mean." Jiang Liuyu said, his eyes became sharp, full of distress for Su Jingye, "This Jingye plan was successful, but Liu Jianjun didn't report it to the sky for several days. ”

"The princess forgives the sin, this is a delay in the past few days, and the lower officials will report it immediately after they finish writing." Liu Jianjun sneered in his heart when he heard this, and he didn't think about it at all.

"The military supervisor of Liu didn't say it, he was only responsible for recording, how could there be other things, could it be that these tens of thousands of brothers in the army still need an elderly and weak literati in the army to pull horses and move goods?" Jiang Liuyu hates such a two-faced person the most in his life, so he doesn't show much mercy when he speaks.

"The princess of the boudoir woman, how do you know about our man's affairs, in addition to working hard, the lower officials still have a lot of things to do, how can the princess know." Liu Jianjun dared to raise his chin in front of Su Jingye.

Listening to Liu Jianjun's words, which were about to develop in an outrageous direction, Su Jingye couldn't sit still at that time, and directly took the case. The huge sound of the case startled Jiang Liuyu and Liu Jianjun who were present.

Realizing that he was a little out of shape, Su Jingye held his breath and concentrated, trying to make his expression as normal as possible. "Liu Jianjun, you are too presumptuous."

"If the lower official loses his word, the princess will definitely not worry about the lower official."

Jiang Liuyu snorted coldly, "Also, people shouldn't be like beasts." ”

Liu Jianjun still wanted to take advantage of his tongue, but Su Jingye glared at him and asked him to swallow his words back. "Liu Jianjun, you concealed it and didn't report it, but you just wanted to suppress the king's achievements, so that all the ministers in the court would think that I was not up to the task, right?"

"Xiaguan ......" Liu Jianjun wanted to speak again, but he was blocked back by Su Jingye, "The prison army may have forgotten, Your Majesty, he wants to know about the front line, but it is not only the prison army." ”

Seeing that Liu Jianjun's face gradually revealed a frightened color, Su Jingye felt relieved, "Do you think why Your Majesty has not spoken for so long, and has not dealt with you, is just waiting for you to plan to live the rest of your life." ”

"The subordinates, the subordinates, will go and report the situation of the war. The lower official retired. Liu Jian Jun wiped the sweat from his forehead and ran to his tent without touching the ground.

The letter that had been delayed for a long time was finally sent away by the messenger, and Liu Jianjun was relieved. After nightfall, Su Jingye's army sent three groups of men and horses to search for ambushes in different directions according to the usual duty plan. Originally, it was calm for a few days, but I didn't expect to catch a few fish that slipped through the net today.

"Report, Your Highness, in the woods to the southeast, signs of enemy activity have been found."

The little soldier came to report, Su Jingye hurriedly returned to the front of the case, there was a drawing on the case, which was the latest map drawn by the search soldiers sent out in the past few days through the survey of the terrain.

After determining the specific location, Su Jingye couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth. "Hehe, it's really a reincarnation in heaven."

As he spoke, he spread out the drawings on the table, and Captain Chen and Vice General Li both came over to look at them. "The woods here are small and dense, and the key is the terrain preference on both sides, which is slightly valley-like."

"The wind blows from the west, and it will not be difficult for us to camp at all." Su Jingye's smile couldn't be hidden. "They probably want to escape, and this is just our chance to retaliate."

Vice General Li and Captain Chen clenched their fists, and the fire in the mountains and forests a few days ago was still vivid in the minds of all the soldiers.

In Su Jingye's tent, a group of cavalry galloped out, each with bows and arrows and fire oil in their hands.

Jiang Liuyu came back from patrolling outside, and Su Jingye hurriedly asked her to sit down. "It's safe now, you don't have to go out of your way to patrol again."

"It's called being prepared." In fact, Jiang Liuyu went out, mainly to dissipate the anger provoked by Liu Jianjun during the day. "By the way, I just heard that you sent a team out, what are you doing?"

Su Jingye didn't want to hide it from her, but this kind of thing was not suitable for her to know. Jiang Liuyu saw that he wanted to speak and stopped, and suddenly his heart softened, "Forget it, if you don't want to say it, don't say it, I believe you won't do anything bad." ”

Jiang Liuyu smiled at him, Su Jingye rubbed her head with relief, and was extremely glad to be able to marry her.

The team sent by Nanyang City was killed and wounded. There is a shortage of food and grass in the city, and it is inevitable that the people will be cannibalistic. In the end, the people in the city could not stand it anymore and coerced the guards to open the city gates and agree to surrender.

Su Jingye rode a horse and walked with Jiang Liuyu on the streets of Nanyang City. The houses in the city are still alive, but the people are all yellow and thin, and they look so pitiful. Even the soldiers defending the city were so hungry that they couldn't even walk.

Jiang Liuyu couldn't bear to see it, and turned her head to ask Su Jingye, but who knew that Su Jingye had already called the grain officer.

"Let's see how much more grain and grass we have, and give some to the people of the city."

Jiang Liuyu breathed a sigh of relief and frowned again, "These princes and officials who have nothing to do to rebel are really evil, you said that if the monarch is really unkind, and they oppose it, it is called an uprising, but now these people are living well, he has to stir up a muddy water, why bother, harm others and himself." ”

"It's really hard for us to understand this kind of thinking like theirs," Su Jingye got off the horse and hugged Jiang Liuyu down with him.

"What we can do is try to prevent as many people as possible."

After walking a few steps along the street, the more Jiang Liuyu felt sad. The two walked hand in hand to the city wall, which was empty except for the waste paper littered on the ground.

Su Jingye picked up a few pieces of paper with words on them, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously. The soldiers searched the whole city, but they still didn't see the figure of the king of Nanyang.

"Your Highness, the king of Nanyang is missing, and the search for him everywhere in the city has been fruitless."

"Do you still need to look for it," the little soldier was stunned, not knowing how to reply. Jiang Liuyu glanced at him, only to see Su Jingye throw the paper away, "They have already found another way and escaped." "Yesterday's team, I'm afraid it wasn't for the tiger to leave the mountain, so that we ignored the investigation of Nanyang City, so that the king of Nanyang himself could escape smoothly.

"Also, if it weren't for the absence of the king of Nanyang, these people might not be able to coerce the guards to open the city gate to welcome us in."