Chapter 220: Infiltrating Yanrong
Bai Xining had never experienced the spring of Beiyang, but found that the unexpected vegetation was lush and the flowers were smiling in the spring breeze.
She stepped on the green grass and wore embroidered crane clothes, Beiyang was rich, if a hundred years ago, the people here were still wearing black clothes, for no other reason, but there was no money to dye better colors, and even the royal palace was much inferior to other countries.
In the past, the first kings of Beiyang routinely changed the law, attracting famous people from other countries to try to revitalize the country, and finally became the overlord of many countries. The accumulated treasures are actually hidden in the palace and mansion, which are not much worse than those of Great Xia. The cloth worn by Bai Xining was from the attacks of other countries in the past.
If there was no war ten years ago, Beiyang would have been stronger than it should have been then, and it may have had the strength to completely destroy a big country, but because of this, it was feared, and in the past, Beiyang also burned and tortured in other countries in the name of leading troops to fight chaos, which caused a lot of public anger, so the catastrophe ten years ago was inevitable.
Ten years, gradually recovering its vitality, Beiyang is also looking forward to a war to wash away the shame.
However, Gu Zi'an still has doubts about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, there is no doubt that the Beiyang soldiers are iron-clad and never bend their waists, but in the twenty-year-long war he has prepared with Yan Rong, he has too little information about the enemy country. Fortunately, Wei Yong has been training the new army in secret since the war, and now he is the ironclad warrior of Beiyang, coupled with the weapon Meng Yining found in the copper mine.
There are not many soldiers, but they are fine and expensive.
It may be slightly inferior to resist the 200,000 army with Great Xia, after all, a hundred warriors can't resist the number of multipliers, and they can only win miserably, which is the last thing Gu Zi'an wants to see, Beiyang's first war since his accession to the throne must be won by a big victory. He discussed the countermeasures with General Wei Yong, and attacked the periphery of Baiyue along the road, and the city of the birthplace of Yueshui, used the gunpowder prepared by Bai Xining, blew up the mountain and opened the road, and led the water into Baiyue City, flooding Baiyue.
General Wei Yong had already hit the road, and the soldiers went out day and night, passing through canyons and cave entrances along the winding mountain road, and no Yan Rong spies found it.
Bai Xining also said goodbye to Gu Zi'an, she secretly hid her identity as the queen, and General Wei Yong only called her a white girl. Gu Zi'an was originally unwilling, Bai Xining had no martial arts, and it would be a very painful thing if someone found out or caught, but it was Bai Xining's mother country, and she went to Baiyue to spread the news that Beiyang was going to attack Baiyue closely.
First, spreading the news can shake the hearts of the Yan Rong army who have infiltrated Great Xia, but as for whether to believe it or not, it is another matter. Judging from the current intelligence, the Yanrong people know very little about Beiyang, and they do not believe that Beiyang can experience civil strife, killing, and respite in a short period of time after being attacked into Yangshang by the Five Nations Alliance ten years ago. Besides, Baiyue is the country of Yanrong, where you can destroy it.
Second, Bai Xining wanted to persuade his former three or five friends to leave here. She couldn't bear it, and at that time, her father rarely took her to play with the court, thinking that they were too calculating and conspiring, and she only often played with some businessmen.
Now because of the war in Beiyang, many of the former merchants have been evacuated from Yangshang and never returned, if Yangshang wants to become one of the prosperous capitals of the country, it must start from commerce.
Bai Xining packed up his simple luggage and didn't leave too many words, only one sentence, "Wait for me to come back." ”
Gu Zi'an equipped Bai Xining with two shadow guards with good martial arts skills to protect him.
Bai Xining and Wei Yong parted ways, and she only had three days.
After three, Wei Yong led the sharp soldiers to attack.
And Zhang Ji was not in good health after the long journey to escort Gu Zi'an back to China, but he still held the news of the continuous spread of attacks in Baiyue in his hand, paving the way for Bai Xining.
Baiyue, the national capital of Yanrong.
Crows landed on colorful flags, black, white and brown yurts slowly surrounded the royal capital, the common people wore linen clothes with white or red paint painted with square and round totems, and children's faces were smeared with several charms to bless peace and health.
The people here are not mixed, most of them are the children of the original tribe merger, and they are all descendants of the nobility. For example, Bai Xining's father, Bai Yan, who came here to survive because of the war when he was a child, is too rare, and his beliefs and lifestyles are different, which gives people a feeling of Wen Zou Zou, so he is also excluded. The Central Plains people feel that they are elegant, and the Yanrong people feel that the Central Plains people are pretending.
The royal palace of Baiyue is also half similar to other countries.
The dark black enclosure resembles a copper wall made of cast iron, and the huge eagle falcon totem is painted with gold dust, which is the symbol of the original barbarian tribe. A hundred years ago, the barbarian tribes fought and unified, and the unification was today's Yanrong, and those who did not accept the unification were scattered into dozens of tribes, scattered living on the grassland, living on nomadism and looting, which was the predecessor of the steppe tribe that Salib had just unified.
The palace of Baiyue Palace is blue-gray stone, the roof is combed with colorful tribal flags, the wall of the palace is engraved with a relief sun pattern, in the eyes of the people, the Yanrong monarch is the sun that rises on the grassland, more like a religious leader who can communicate with the world and the gods than the king of a country.
The Yanrong people worship crows and falcons, and they feel that they are all birds of death, and all those who can transcend the hands of death and bring back to life are gods.
And Yan Rong is also the only country among the countries with a female monarch, and the one who led the unification of the tribe in the past was a woman with a relatively large body, riding a black horse, and eyes like electricity.
Bai Xining shuttled through the familiar and unfamiliar capital, everything here was actually no different from the memory, people shuttled and walked, the smell of spices on the male witches and witches swayed between the swaying copper bells. The girls babbled in the vernacular, and the adults ate the wild fruits of the mountains on the side of the street.
Mountains and rivers in the distance, go and stay.
The sun shines like glass illuminating this vast grassland place, Bai Xining sat in a restaurant where he used to sneak out to eat with Meng Yining when he was a child, and ordered a bowl of crispy and sour soup cakes, charcoal-grilled mutton and wild vegetable and fish soup. The shopkeeper was talking to the people at the counter about what he had been listening to recently.
"Listen, Beiyang wants to beat me Yan Rong?"
"Yo, why didn't I hear that? If we really fight, we can't leave quickly! How powerful the Beiyang army is! ”
"I don't know, but if I really fight, I have to run, who can kill me!"
"yes, hurry up!"