When the materials and troops in Wengcheng became more and more difficult, and it was difficult for reinforcements to break through the enemy siege and reach the battlefield, they didn't know that in fact, the atmosphere in the Beiliang military camp was not much better.

Bad news came one after another.

"There are no reinforcements."

Long before the attack on Wengcheng, he had asked the empress to send reinforcements, but it has been delayed until now, and there is no news of any reinforcements.

"The food and grass will be exhausted."

There were no reinforcements, and naturally there was no food and grass to supply.

The Empress of Northern Liang seems to be very opposed to Lian Yin taking the third city of Sui Realm again, and she has nothing to ask for.

In addition, in addition to the above two items, Lian Yin also received a secret letter, which was news from the imperial city.

The content is: "The eldest princess He Ruoyuan Jia returns to the dynasty." ”

Although it is only a few words, it already contains countless contents.

Lian Yin twisted a thin piece of paper and fell into deep thought.

Around, several generals are waiting for her to make an idea, how to fight the next battle, whether the urn city will be attacked or not?

There was silence in the tent.

When the waiting time was getting longer and longer, and the main general had not yet returned to God, several generals looked at each other, without exception, and they all saw anxiety in each other's eyes.

After a while, it was the public representative Shen Fang who spoke up first: "General, what should I do now?" ”

Lian Yin finally came back to his senses.

Putting away the tissue paper in his hand, Lian Yin's gaze first swept over the people standing around.

Said slowly: "Urn City must be taken!" ”

"But ......, grain and grass and reinforcements?" There are generals who are worried.

Unlike several generals with melancholy faces, Lian Yin didn't look worried at all.

Under the faint complexion, there was a momentum in the strategizing: "Transfer another garrison from the border land and Wacheng, and as for the grain and grass, collect it in the two places first, and then send a letter to General Cai, asking General Cai to quickly dispatch a group of elite soldiers to guard the pass and come overnight." ”

After saying this, she stood up, took two steps in the direction of the door of the big tent, and emphasized: "Urn City, I am determined to win." Moreover, it must be taken as quickly as possible! ”

Although several generals were suspicious, Lian Yin said it so strongly, they had nothing else to say.

The soldiers are outside, everything is up to the boss!

After talking about the military situation, Lian Yin waved everyone away, and the generals quickly went to work according to Lian Yin's instructions, and Shen Fang was left behind by Lian Yin.

After there were only two people left in the big tent, Lian Yin handed him the secret letter he had received.

Shen Fang was stunned for a moment, and then he was flattered to take the secret letter and opened it hesitantly.

After reading the contents of the secret letter, Shen Fang folded the tissue paper again, returned it to Lienyin as it was, and waited for Ligain's instructions.

Lian Yin retracted the secret letter: "I want you to send a letter to the Shen family in the Imperial City, no matter what means you use, before we have no class master to return to the court, we are optimistic about He Ruoyuanjia." ”

Shen Fang clasped his fists with both hands, and lowered his eyebrows: "Yes!" ”

There is no unusual complexion, but my heart is moving.

She just said "we".

Lian Yin didn't pay attention to Shen Fang's thoughts, her thoughts were on He Ruoyuanjia who suddenly returned to the court.

She knew that the empress loved He Ruoyuanjia, the eldest princess, even if He Ruoyuanjia had left all her identities behind, she had to chase love, and the empress was angry and reluctant to mention this person again, but it was only a long time before the empress agreed that the other party would return to Beiliang.

This shows that without anyone knowing, the eldest princess has already obtained the empress's forgiveness, and the empress has agreed to her return.

It may not only be the return of people, but also the return of identity.

If you put it elsewhere, it doesn't matter, but in the task of legato, there is the position of the empress.

In any case, she could not easily give up this position.

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When the Northern Liang army was secretly busy with the deployment of troops, it did not relax its attack on the urn city at all.

The two support armies were still blocked on the left and right, and after several rounds could not get past the roadblock, the commanders of the two roads finally considered changing the method, preparing to divide into wholes, and the two armies converged and chose one road together.

After the Northern Liang army knew the plans of the Sui army on the two routes, Lian Yin also withdrew one of them, and transferred the other road to rush to the necessary place of the Sui army to set up a card again, this time mainly to make trouble and delay time.

On the other hand, the reinforcements of Wacheng came first with grain and grass to join the army.

Lian Yin took the opportunity to rest for a day, and then redeployed his manpower to storm the city at night.

At noon of the next day, reinforcements from the border areas also arrived, and they directly joined the attacking army.

At midnight, the urn city was finally broken.

As soon as the urn city was broken, Lian Yinhuo led the army to occupy all the walls of the urn city, and while cleaning the city, he increased his troops to deal with the two reinforcements of the Sui army.

Five days later, the defenders of the Beiliang border pass also arrived.

Only then did the Sui reinforcements retreat and go back, not daring to rush forward again.

Seeing that the line of defense had been formed, Lian Yin breathed a sigh of relief.

Next, it's time for the defense deployment.

The military intelligence here is handed to the courts of the two countries, and naturally there are two styles of painting.

It is reported that Emperor Sui almost smashed the imperial study.

And on the side of Beiliang, the empress didn't look too happy. After saying something that was not salty or light, he brought the matter to light.

Of course, the matter of the three cities in the Sui Realm has also reached the ears of the surrounding countries, and compared with the two countries concerned, most of the other countries have a wait-and-see attitude towards this situation.

The only thing that didn't take a wait-and-see attitude was about Chengguo.

The reason for this is only because He Ruoyuanjia came from Chengguo this time, and he still has the covenant of the king of Chengguo in his hand.

Cheng Guo wanted to form an alliance with Northern Liang, but there was also a subordinate relationship in this alliance.

The main ally is naturally a Cheng country.

He Ruoyuanjia's sweetheart is in Chengguo, and he is the noble son of a Chengguo family. Now he is an important minister of the Cheng Dynasty.

For the sake of his sweetheart and love, He Ruoyuanjia can abandon his national identity, or he can come back to persuade the empress to accept the covenant for the sake of his sweetheart and a better life in the future.

And the empress, although she was not satisfied with the subordination required by the Cheng Kingdom, was moved by the alliance.

Armed warfare is not the empress's favor, building diplomatic relations, the peace of the country, and the happiness of the people are what she wants.

The empress is also inexplicably confident, and by doing so, she can go down in history.

In the future, she can also become a generation of Mingjun empresses in the mouth of civil officials, on a par with Emperor Taizu Taizong.

He Ruoyuanjia came with the envoys of the Cheng Kingdom.

In order to give He Ruoyuanjia face, the empress specially set up a banquet to entertain the envoys, and at the banquet, almost all the important ministers and families in the Northern Liang Dynasty attended.

At the banquet, the empress didn't care about talking happily with the eldest princess, and she also treated the envoys of the kingdom differently.

This made the court officials and families who supported He Ruoyuanjia in the past revive their minds again, if the eldest princess rejoins the ranks of heirs, then their interests will have hope again.

Those who strongly supported He Ruolian were silent throughout the whole process, and in the eyes of the other party, there was a great meaning of being a man with his tail between his legs.

This made the officials of the opposing camp smile slightly.