At this time, the generals and soldiers standing behind Gao Chong, when they saw that the boss had knelt down, they should kneel down again, and in order to express themselves, they all said loudly: I am willing to rush into battle with Gao Shuai.

Cheng Mingci looked at Gao Chong, who was already full of white hair, and those soldiers were very moved, and just as he was about to agree, Shangguan Jie, the right ruler of the empire who was standing on the side, stepped forward and said: Your Majesty can't.

Cheng Mingci turned his head and looked at Shangguan Jie suspiciously, and Gao Chong asked with a beard: Why did you prevent me from leading my troops out of the city to charge into battle.

This Shangguan is one of the top ten nobles in Xiangzhou, and as the head of the Wenchen, the right ruler, although they are all high-ranking officials, but because the Xia Yuan Empire emphasizes literature and light on martial arts, the status of the right ruler is so higher than that of the left.

Moreover, the imperial ruler Chu Kai was born in Wenchen, so Shangguan Jie's status is a little higher and more lofty.

But today he saw Gao Chong asking for merit in front of the emperor, and the right ruler of the empire was in a hurry, so he stepped forward to stop it.

But when the emperor and Gao Chong asked the reason, Shangguan Jie didn't know how to answer.

However, at this time, Cheng Xiuyi, who was standing aside, stepped forward and said: Father, Lord Gao, I also think that it is not suitable to send cavalry to charge now.

At this time, Cheng Mingci asked suspiciously: Emperor, why did you stop Gao Aiqing from leading the cavalry to charge?

Cheng Xiuyi didn't dare to say anything when she spoke, because whether it was in terms of status, personal strength, or Cheng Xiuyi's performance just now, Gao Chong didn't dare to directly refute Cheng Xiuyi.

But he was as puzzled as the emperor, and saw Cheng Xiuyi brushing his slightly messy hair with his hand.

Her feminine action made the eyes of the people around her feel bright, and only then did everyone notice that the brave eldest princess of the prison country just now was a beautiful half-elf girl.

Because when Cheng Xiuyi first appeared, she was in the sky, too far away from everyone, and she lived in a simple house, even when she was in the court, she was behind the curtain.

Therefore, even those important ministers of the empire can rarely clearly see Cheng Xiuyi's true face of Lushan, plus she is a very strong person, so people ignore her feminine side.

Now that Cheng Xiuyi is standing beside everyone, everyone really feels the beauty of this half-elf princess, which is a kind of beauty in the deep mountains and valleys, a kind of beauty in the empty valleys, and a kind of beauty that is unreal but makes people want to fall into it forever.

Even the Imperial Ministers, who had a lot of opinions about her in the past, even felt that they had to oppose the policies implemented by this beautiful woman in the first place, the moment they saw Cheng Xiuyi, it was simply a sin.

So when Cheng Xiuyi objected to Gao Chong leading the troops out of the city to charge into battle, Gao Chong had nothing to say, but he still felt very puzzled, even Shangguan Jie thought that now that morale is high, there should be a general who dares to fight to lead the cavalry to charge the battle, and the reason why he opposes it is just that he doesn't want Gao Chong to get this great achievement easily.

Cheng Xiuyi tidied up her hair and said softly: "Father, all the ministers, I think it is not suitable to send troops to charge the battle for the following reasons.

The first point is that from the comparison of the cavalry on both sides, our cavalry combat effectiveness is difficult to compare with the other party, whether it is heavy cavalry or light cavalry, you must know that a wolf demon light cavalry can deal with our three to five ordinary light cavalry, and the opponent's bear demon heavy cavalry can deal with our more than ten heavy cavalry, as for the light cavalry, it is impossible to compete with their bear demon heavy cavalry.

The second point is that although our cavalry did not fight, the opponent's cavalry is also recuperating, and once our cavalry is dispatched, then the opponent will definitely be ready to inflict heavy damage on our cavalry.

The third and most important point is that we lack air power, we used to have a large team of Pegasus air cavalry, but now this cavalry team has existed in name only, Pegasi are very difficult to raise, and Pegasus knights are also difficult to cultivate, we can't afford to lose, the few Pegasus knights must wait until the most critical time to use.

(It's like a fact that pilots are harder to train than tank drivers)

So I don't think it's a good time.

Cheng Mingci and the people around him nodded after listening, and then a general asked: Then may I ask Her Royal Highness the princess, when should we fight back?

Cheng Xiuyi walked to the head of the city, frowned and looked at the continuous joint camp of the beast and demon alliance, bowed his head and pondered for a while, and then said: We have no ability to fight back now, and the combat effectiveness of our soldiers cannot be compared with the other party, and the number of people is not as large as the other party.

What we can rely on now is the tall walls of the capital city and the perfect defense system, we can only wait, wait until the other party is tired to give the other party a fatal blow.

Our biggest task now is to organize the people in the city, evacuate the old, young, women and children from Shangjing, and move all of them to the area south of Meiling.

Then use the environment in the south of the empire to stop the beast demon alliance, and finally try to fight back, but it takes time, and what we lack most now is time.

After finishing speaking, Cheng Xiuyi pointed to the distance with her hand and continued: I think now the beast demon alliance may also have thought of our way out, everyone look, the beast demon is increasing its troops again.

Everyone followed Cheng Xiuyi's fingers to watch, and sure enough, in the distance, a group of troops with a size of about tens of thousands entered the camp of the coalition army, and then the camp of the coalition army increased by 10,000.

While Cheng Xiuyi and the others were thinking about how to counterattack, Namur Dozhen and his chieftains were also thinking about how to attack the capital.

In fact, the strength of the beast and demon alliance is in field warfare, and they are very unfamiliar with this kind of large-scale siege warfare.

Although they broke through all the way and attacked the upper capital, the real siege battle was not fought once, not using stratagems to deceive the city, such as attacking the Eagle Sorrow Pass.

Either the defenders will not have the confidence to withdraw on their own initiative, or the other side will surrender on their own initiative, so Namur Dozhen and his chiefs feel very embarrassed in a siege like this.

This is also the reason why the beast demon side suddenly withdrew its troops, but for Namur Duozhen, he felt even more distressed, because of the climate of the Xia Yuan Empire.

The climate here is very different from the climate of the grassland and desert where they live, although they also live in the north of the Zhongzhou continent, but there is still a certain difference between the climate inside and outside the Yingchou Pass.

The climate in the tube has four distinct seasons, the climate outside the Guanxi is less rainy, dry and windy sand, especially there are many water systems near Shangjing City.

Therefore, the water vapor is relatively more abundant, and now the weather is getting hotter day by day, for the beast demon clan living outside the pass, they feel very uncomfortable with this humid climate.

Many soldiers of the Beast Demon Empire have already fallen ill because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, and the rainy season of the Xia Yuan Empire will come after a while, and the soldiers will be even more uncomfortable when the rainy season comes.

In addition, the grain and grass have also begun to be a little tight, although the human servant army has stepped up transportation day and night, but because the distance is too far, it is difficult to quench the thirst of the distant water, and Namurdo really strictly forbids his soldiers to loot, and sometimes even has to help some of the poor people around, which makes the food and grass even more unsustainable.

So Namurdo really thought of a way that was not a solution, that is, to constantly let his soldiers attack the city, although there was not much food and grass in the barracks, but the siege equipment was very complete.

So after a short rest, Namur Dozhen decided to attack the city again, but this time the siege was different from the previous one, the last time it was filled with people, and this time Namur Dozhen sent a siege force of the Beamon Trolls.

These Beamon monsters, who are more than 100 meters tall, weigh thousands of catties of stone bullets they throw, and the light ones are hundreds of catties.

It turned out that the Beamon Monster sent out a thousand warriors from the clan, but as the war progressed, these 1,000 Monsters were no longer enough, so Namur Dozhen ordered another 1,000 more Beamon Monsters.

This attack on the capital Namur Dozhen brought these two thousand Beamon Monsters, so Namur Dorzhen ordered the two thousand Beamon Monsters to divide into four waves and take turns to attack the gates of the capital with huge stone projectiles.

And in order to increase the power of the stone projectile, Namur Dozhen also sent all the shamans except the main priest to unleash various positive magic techniques for these Beamon trolls, such as physical recovery, calm, long-range vision, aiming, and so on.

So another siege battle began, and at the same time, he ordered the beast demon's air cavalry troops to carry out harassing attacks every day, but asked them not to fly below three thousand meters, because he was afraid that these precious air cavalry troops would be shot down by Xia Yuan's anti-aircraft crossbows and warlocks.

That would be more than worth the loss, and he ordered his heavy archers to cover the soldiers on the walls from a distance.

Not only that, Namur Duozhen also let the soldiers beat gongs and drums outside the city, day and night, using this method to affect the rest of Xia Yuan's soldiers.

Such harassing attacks are nothing to veterans, and some veterans sleep and eat when they should eat.

However, there are not many such veterans in the entire capital, and most of these soldiers are new soldiers, and these recruits do not have the psychological quality of veterans.

The soldiers were exhausted by the harassing assaults, and although they could change their guards, the sound of gongs and drums outside the city was too loud.

Because Namur Duozhen also let those shamans use amplification techniques to amplify these sounds several times, even Cheng Mingci, who returned to the palace, was made to sleep badly every day by these nasty sounds.

Of course, the Shangjing side was not idle, and in the past few days when the beast and demon alliance army did not attack the city, the people in the Shangjing City left the Shangjing City one after another under the escort of the soldiers.

Because Cheng Mingci and Cheng Xiuyi felt that they should still move the capital after discussion, and the father and daughter thought that due to the loss of the natural barrier of Yingchou Pass, and the plains along the way, although the city wall of Shangjing City was tall, and various defensive measures were also complete.

However, due to the mutual constraints between the ministers and the lack of military equipment, it was no longer suitable for Shangjing to continue to defend.

Although many ministers opposed the relocation of the capital, Cheng Mingci's father and daughter withstood all kinds of pressure and resolutely decided to move the capital to Nanjing, the capital of the city.