Chapter 63: The Beginning of the War
The next day, Jingyuan set off for Beijing. Yun Jing didn't come to see him off, because she was helping the Spirit Realm to organize the local forces and prepare for the attack of the Jin soldiers. Defending the fortress of Yancheng is also guarding the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty. Even if the emperor sent a large army to support, the soldiers defending the city would hold out until they arrived.
At the same time, the remaining six border cities should also strengthen their defenses, and it is not impossible for the Jin soldiers to attack by a detour.
When Jing Yuan and a few Wenchen were resting on the way back to the capital, Qi Jing shouted at him and pleaded for mercy. Qi Xiang, who had no one in his eyes in the past, is now decadent, still tied up, leaning on the side of a carriage.
Jing Yuan looked at him, but his thoughts were not on him at all.
"I'll never be with you." Here's what Cloudscape said. But why?
She was overjoyed when she helped her. Xu Duchen helped her, and she was grateful to Dade. Even that Chen Yu taught her some art of war, and the two were also affectionate. Why is he the only one who doesn't appreciate it like this?
She didn't remember everything that happened in her previous life, so why did she still have a grudge against him? Her pride was as good as ever, she had gone from a god to a mortal, but she hadn't changed at all.
It was he who courted her too late, later than he left. He won her heart again so easily, and he, from the beginning, was on the opposite side of her, so it was only natural that she would disdain him.
Jing Yuan smiled bitterly, he used to laugh at his brother's infatuation for being too stupid, and it seemed that he was no better.
He shook his head, as if he wanted to throw Yun Jing out with the hurtful words she said, and he heard Qi Xiang shouting there.
"Your Highness, you have to take pity on the person in front of you, my daughter is infatuated with you, you always speak coldly on weekdays, this Li Yunjing clearly has a sweetheart, why should His Highness miss her!"
Jing Yuan said unhappily: "When have you ever seen her have a sweetheart?" ”
"Wasn't it her sweetheart who came to save her that day! That person was absolutely extraordinary, as if a god had descended from heaven, as soon as he came, Li Yunjing's eyes lit up! ”
Jing Yuan couldn't help but be upset: "Don't meddle in your affairs, worry about your fate first!" ”
Qi Xiang shouted worriedly: "Your Highness, the rabbit is dead and the dog is cooking, you are careful not to be used by that Li Yunjing." Her daughter of Li Zhenggang and Xu Duchen's apprentice. Both of them are thinking about war with the Jin Kingdom, and they are both greedy and vain. Now Li Yunjing has bewitched you to lobby Your Majesty to go to war, not for the sake of her father and master, this matter will not benefit you at all! ”
"How do you know it's not good for me?"
"If you win the battle, everything is okay, if you are defeated, we will be slaves to the country, and you don't know who will leave the throne at your fingertips!"
An envoy next to him shouted: "Bold and fanatical, you have said such an unlucky thing!" ”
"Loyalty is good for action, Your Highness, what the minister said is true, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should think twice!"
It's not that Jingyuan didn't think about this possibility. But what he was worried about was not the throne, but that Yunjing had made war exploits as he wished, and it was even more impossible for him to be with her after he became an immortal.
If she doesn't start the war for a long time, under Chi Ling's pressure step by step, if she follows him, she will still have her own life.
But she was so resolute that she blocked her path. Whoever calls himself amorous.
His mind turned back and forth, but he finally made up his mind to help her as much as he could. In today's situation, both public and private, this war has to be fought.
Jingyuan returned to the palace, went straight to the Daqing Palace, and just arrived in front of the Xuande Gate, only to see a group of civil and military officials kneeling under the pressure of Wu.
Jing Yuan came to a minister and asked him what was going on. The minister replied that it had been known inside and outside the court that the crown prince had humiliated the prince of the Jin Kingdom in Yancheng, and asked for support to be sent quickly to guard Yancheng. Most of the ministers felt very happy, and they almost lost their shame on this, but Zhang Yan and other capitulation factions still controlled the government and tried in vain to prevent His Majesty from sending troops.
Li Zhenggang led the civil and military officials of the main battle faction to kneel in front of this Xuande Gate and asked to repel Zhang Yan and other scourges of the country. When he retreated from the dynasty today, the crowd pointed at Zhang Yan and scolded him, and wanted to beat him, but Zhang Yan hurriedly fled to escape. Everyone continued to kneel, waiting for His Majesty's order to send troops.
After listening to the minister's narration, Jing Yuan's heart was at ease, and he saved his strength.
He walked a few steps to the Daqing Palace, and the emperor was still discussing with several ministers about sending troops. Seeing that Jingyuan came back safely, the emperor breathed a sigh of relief, and then shouted angrily: "Yuan'er, you follow the negotiation without saying a word, do you know how dangerous it is?" How can you be so reckless as a prince? ”
Jing Yuan finished saluting and said, "If I hadn't gone, I wouldn't have known the wolf ambitions of the Jin Kingdom!" ”
The emperor glanced at several ministers and said, "The barbarians have never been civilized. Since you've come back from the front, tell us what's going on? How could a negotiation that would have been good suddenly start a war? ”
Jing Yuan told the whole story, only saying that when Jin Guo saw the crown prince of Song Guo going in person, he immediately started a ghost idea, and omitted the matter of Yunjing's prison robbery.
"Father, don't believe that the Jin Kingdom swears, their want of the three cities in the north is just the beginning, we will never be able to satisfy their appetite!"
Several ministers present also chimed in: "Your Majesty, the current confrontation against Jin Guo is the desire of the group, look at these ministers kneeling outside!" ”
"The Jin Kingdom has to make inches, and you can't back down again and again, Your Majesty!"
The emperor frowned, and finally decided: "Send troops!" ”
Jingyuan smiled, and said in his heart, Yunjing, I am finally worthy of you.
In order to appease the ministers, the emperor ordered Zhang Yan and others to be temporarily placed under house arrest and not allowed to participate in court politics.
Chen Yu led 5,000 soldiers and took the lead in the expedition. The rest of the soldiers were divided into several routes and stationed in various border cities to prevent the Jin soldiers from making a detour into Beijing.
And Yunjing's side has ushered in the first wave of attacks from the Jin Kingdom. When the spirit realm was stationed, he brought some flint cannons and bed crossbows. These are all magic weapons to restrain cavalry, and since Jing Yuan left, Yun Jing led the soldiers and people in the city to hurry up to produce a batch of such weapons, which came in handy when the Jin State was attacking on a large scale.
Although the troops led by the Yunjing Spirit Realm were pitifully small compared to the Jin soldiers, their formation was not lost to the Jin soldiers in the slightest.
Yunjing uses a ballista as the formation gate, and a bed crossbow is placed on it, the arrow is as big as a chisel, one arrow can shoot several people, and three arrows can be hundreds of steps; Then put the artillery cart in the formation and hit the Jin soldiers with flint cannons, which could be fired 200 paces away, effectively blocking the Jin soldiers.
After several battles, Jin Bing's morale was greatly defeated. The Jin Emperor believed that the Song State had been prepared for a long time and had already deployed a huge number of troops at the time of negotiations, so he was inclined to sue for peace.
Only the second prince of the Jin Kingdom insisted on fighting hard, wanting to be ashamed.
On this day, the second prince of Jin Guo came to the front of the battle and named him to fight alone with Yunjing. Lingjing said to Yunjing: "By all means, we are gaining the upper hand right now, you don't take this risk, if you want to go, I will go." ”
Yunjing smiled: "You don't know my relationship with him. A few days ago, I kicked him into the moat from the top of this tower, but he didn't fight me, and he didn't want to go. Although we have won a few battles, we have won in formations and weapons. Jin Bing has learned a lesson, we have lost firepower again, and we will lose if we continue to consume it. I'll send this prince away first, and I can delay for some time and wait for help. ”
Lingjing felt that what Yunjing said was reasonable, and also believed that her skills were above the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, but the sword had no eyes, who knew if the Jin Kingdom was cheating, in case something happened to Yunjing...... He didn't dare to imagine it, just shook his head vigorously.
Yun Jing chanted the spell, transformed the Canglong Sword he carried with him into a green dragon halberd, made a few leaps, and came to the front of the formation, the spirit realm wanted to catch her, but he didn't even reach the corner of his clothes.
"Yunjing, be careful!" He shouted at her.
Yunjing looked back and smiled, with bright eyes and bright teeth, dressed in military uniform, and heroic.
Such a woman is rare in the world. Only then did Lingjing believe that what Master had said to him was that Yunjing was different from others.
"Why, I fell too lightly last time, and His Royal Highness didn't learn a lesson at all." Yun Jing raised his eyebrows at the second prince of the Jin Kingdom.
"Hmph, don't talk nonsense, I have to tell you to come and go back today!" The second prince turned over and dismounted, raised the spear in his hand, and stabbed at Yunjing.
How could he be Yunjing's opponent, after dozens of rounds, the second prince was panting and could hardly parry. And Yunjing was still calm, as if he hadn't exerted any strength.
"You have such power? Who taught you? ”
"My master is a master of the Tao, Xu Duchen, if you are willing to change your mind and become a new person, I can say that I can say that I will let my master accept you as an apprentice again!"
At the end of the sentence, Yun Jing picked up the spear in the hand of the second prince, and with a "bang", the spear fell to the ground, and the second prince was unarmed and defeated.
Yunjing sighed: "You, you're not suitable for war, let's do something else in the future." With that, he walked back with the green dragon halberd in hand.
"You ......" The second prince was angry for a while, and before he could say anything, a cold arrow shot out of nowhere and stabbed straight at Yunjing's back!
The second prince suddenly wanted to block the arrow for some reason, but it was too late, he only shouted: "Be careful! ”
Yunjing didn't have time to dodge, and watched the cold arrow fly over. At this time, she was swept away by a strong force, and the familiar fragrance came to her face, it was her brother who left her.
Ju Li stood still with Yunjing in his arms, and glared angrily at the second prince of the Jin Kingdom: "I hate the villain who releases dark arrows the most in my life!" ”
With a wave of his sleeves, the two princes flew a few feet away, and then fell heavily to the ground, spitting blood. Yun Jing followed Jue Li to the direction of the city gate, she glanced back, and a group of soldiers surrounded the second prince of the Jin Kingdom, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
"The god of war is refreshing." Yunjing said to Jue Li with a smile.
"You're being careless. How can you just go out and compete with others? If I don't come, you'll be hurt again!" There was a bit of blame in his tone, and more of a worry.
"I'm afraid of getting hurt, so I won't cry and go to war. Don't worry about me, when a large number of troops arrive, I can easily deal with the Jin soldiers. ”
"It's such an easy battle, the emperor doesn't dare to fight, and you also fought. I don't think it won't be long before you can go back to the Heavenly Realm. ”