Chapter Twenty-Eight: All Plants and Trees Are Soldiers
King Karl said: "I thought that the troops were enough, and with the help of the Extreme Crossbow, I didn't want to mobilize the army too much, so I didn't inform Aiqing in advance." I don't blame you for this, but now, Aiqing, please lead the army to leave immediately. β
Xu Wentian hurriedly said: "But the king, according to the old minister, at this time, it is the time when the moon soldiers of the Mingyue County Lord are weak, if you don't save the king at this time and capture the Mingyue County Lord, I am afraid that there will be no chance in the future." β
King Karl hesitated, but the Lord of Mingyue didn't intend to give him time to think about it, and pulled out his sleeve fan, "Who told you that this is the only one who will be the commander of the Moon Army?"
The sleeve fan opened, "Lanyue!"
A signal flare flew from the tent camp used for healing to the sky, and suddenly bloomed with an incomparable brilliance, as if showing off, like the sun in the sky!
After a while, seeing that there was no movement, he smiled at the sky, "You must know that this is Tianlong City, how can you gather so many people in a short period of time? Even if it is Lanyue, how many people can mix into the city? Could it be that there are still 300 people? There are few elite soldiers like Lanyue, and it is already very good to have 300, the old man doesn't believe that you can find another 300 Lanyue elite soldiers." β
The light of the flare shone on the confident face of the Bright Moon County Lord, and the corners of her mouth gently opened an arc, "You think there are only three hundred people?"
"Reportβ" A scout ran over in a panic.
"What's the matter? so flustered, what kind of system!" General Xuan reprimanded angrily, at this time he was already in turmoil, and when he saw the scouts coming to add to the blockage, he naturally became irritable.
"Outside the northwest city, there is an army rapidly approaching!" the scout did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said.
"How many troops are there?"
"The fog outside the city is thick, only a large number of horses' hooves can be heard, although it is not clear, but it will not be less, and the shaking flags can be seen vaguely in the distance, the number of about 30 flags......"
"More than 30 flags?" General Xuan sat on the ground paralyzed, "30,000 Lanyue soldiers?" What are you kidding, each Lanyue soldier is a hundred, although there are 30,000, but it is really comparable to a million army, such a force is matched with a commander like the Lord of Mingyue, not to mention a principality, even an empire may not be able to compete head-on!
"How long will it take to get here?" asked the Void General, grabbing the scout by the collar, if he didn't believe the walls would do anything to the madmen.
"About ...... About two pillars of incense......" the scout stammered back.
"Withdraw to General Ben! Withdraw all to General Ben!" "Ask the sky to turn around and say loudly, "Inform other deployments, bring three days of dry food, no, one day's dry food, leave from the East City Gate, be sure to leave Tianlong City in the shortest possible time!"
Xu Wentian kowtowed to King Karl again and said, "Your Majesty, please try to live, as long as you are in one day, the old minister will definitely try to save you!"
The two sword saints in white and black saw that the overall situation had been decided, so they left as soon as possible, and the other armor soldiers and archers also evacuated one after another, they never figured out why the virtual general they admired was so frightened and depressed, looking at the Mingyue County Lord above the high pavilion from a distance, they couldn't help but be filled with an inexplicable sense of awe.
"Lord Mingyue, I didn't expect you to have such strength! This king has lost!" King Carl has seen the strength of Lanyue's generals with his own eyes, and the thousands of elite soldiers he has worked so hard to pull up are like tofu blocks in front of Lanyue's blade, and there is no resistance at all, and there are more than 30,000 such troops!
Seeing that Xu Wentian led the troops away for a long time, Zheng Xianyue's face was pale and she almost collapsed to the ground, but fortunately, Wu Ming helped her first, so that she would not be too embarrassed. The side effects of using the natal spell were evident at this time, and although she had been enduring it, it was almost the limit of her endurance until now.
After two pillars of incense, the sound of a large number of horses' hooves came from afar, when he could see it, Wu Ming was surprised to find that where there were 30,000 horses of the county lord of Mingyue, it was clear that a few servants were waving long whips to drive a large number of horses, every dozen horses, there was always a flag tied to the body, and the back of each horse was tied to a scarecrow wrapped in black cloth, but there was a fog to obstruct it, looking at it from a distance, I really thought that it was a real person sitting on it, and it was about 3,000 horses.
King Karl looked at these "moon elite soldiers", and the whole person looked bad, with various expressions on his face, which looked colorful, but in the end it turned into a long sigh.
"Lord of the county!" said a servant who was driving horses, "we have bought the horses from several nearby horse farms, and according to your orders, we have tied them up to scarecrows, planted flags for every ten, and drove the horses over when we saw the flares." β
Zheng Xianyue said in prostration: "Well, I sent the signal flare because it's time to eat, except for the sturdy mounts, all the other horses will be killed, the warriors now need to replenish a lot of meat, eat if they can, bury what they can't eat, I need them to recover their strength as soon as possible!"
Zheng Xianyue rested for two days in the ruins of the Neon Yunshang in Tianlong City to ensure that the generals of Lanyue recovered, and then got up and returned to the imperial capital, although there were a small number of troops harassing along the way, but in front of Lanyue's iron hooves, these unorganized harassments turned into moths to fight the fire, and did not play any substantial role in rescuing King Karl.
After more than 30 days, the imperial capital of Wanmos - Chiba City.
King Yuexian, Princess Shu received a message from Lord Mingyue two days earlier, saying that he would escort King Karl back to the imperial capital today.
After a few lines, King Yuexian and Princess Shu let go of the hearts that had been hanging, and they came to the city gate early to greet them. I don't know where the news leaked, but after a moment's effort, I heard the hearty laughter of Emperor Kaiqin in the distance.
Emperor Kaiqin led his ministers to the gate of the city, and when Kaiqin saw King Yuexian and Princess Shu, his eyes couldn't help but light up, "Brother Xian, Princess Shu, you are really, my niece is coming back, such a big event, you don't even tell me, I toss and turn every day, and it is difficult to sleep peacefully." β
King Yuexian's expression was no longer as serious as before, and there was a hint of joy hidden between his eyebrows, but he was trying his best to restrain himself at this time, God knows how this month passed, since he knew that the Lord of Mingyue County was in danger, the couple had hardly slept with their eyes closed, and no matter how they pretended to be calm at this time, it was just self-deception.
King Yuexian's face that refused to be cold for thousands of miles finally melted, "Brother Huang, why is the younger brother of the courtiers so temperamental, the unworthy girl rushed back so late, it is really unfilial, the younger brother is waiting here, and she will be punished heavily, where do you dare to greet the imperial brother in person?"