Minglang felt that it was too inappropriate for him to wake up, especially when his own prince looked at him with cold eyes.

Could it be that he disturbed the prince and ......

"Clear."

"Yes!"

Hearing Xuanyuan Ye's voice, he subconsciously wanted to straighten his back, but the wound on his chest directly cut off his thoughts, and as soon as he moved, it hurt so much.

Even so, he tried to look decent.

"If you move again, the bleeding won't stop, and tomorrow the Tai Hospital will estimate that there will be one more corpse."

Shangguan Li's voice was also very cold, completely different from when she was treating herself.

"The county lord is right, what is strong, when the time comes, she will be scolded by the emperor, lie down."

Minglang: "......"

He felt more and more that it was not time to wake up.

Shangguan Li asked while taking out the wound medicine and retreating the wound for Minglang.

"The prince is now in the Tai Hospital, is there any arrangement?"

That's right.

Minglang was stunned for a moment before he thought of the right thing, it was really Xuanyuan Ye's sense of stability was too strong, and he had been carrying the heart until he fell asleep, but at this moment, he let go of a lot, so he forgot about the business.

"Lord Wang, General Shen, they are in a critical situation now, if He Beicheng does not have the support of troops, without your command, the border is in danger."

Speaking of business, the remnants of Xuanyuan Ye's eyes disappeared with the gentleness that Shangguan Li had, and was replaced by the fog of the clouds and mountains that others could not see through at all.

He said lightly.

"Three days have passed since you arrived in the capital from Hebei. Shen Huai and I are very clear about the city defense of Hebei City, at least until noon tomorrow, it will be able to hold on. ”

"At noon?"

When Ming Lang heard this, instead of being reassured, his dark face turned even paler.

Wouldn't that be half a day?

Hebeicheng is far away from the capital, and it's too late to do anything!

Shangguan Li gave Minglang's gauze hand a slap and said slowly.

"There is only one way to let the people of He Beicheng see the news within half a day."

Minglang stared at her blankly.

"Beacon."

"Beacon, beacon?"

Minglang's mood that had just jumped up dimmed again, and he said with a bitter face.

"The county lord doesn't know, although the beacon fire wolf smoke is fast, but Hebei is too far away, how can there be such a long beacon tower?"

Shangguan Li let out an "oh" and did not excuse himself.

"Yes."

Xuanyuan Ye suddenly spoke.

"Huh?"

Bright and dumbfounded, he turned his gaze to his own prince.

"Three hundred years ago, the battle of Kwailu, the war burned the entire northern border, and almost entered the capital, that time the usual post station and flying pigeons could not be used, so Emperor Heng ordered to secretly build a beacon tower from the capital to the north."

When he talked about these things from a long time ago, his voice was a little more thick and more attractive. Shangguan Li's ears moved, and he listened a little more seriously.

Xuanyuan caught a glimpse of her expression in the afterglow of the night, smiled slightly, and continued.

But the difficulty of building is much more difficult than imagined, although the Hengdi people are quite persistent as their name suggests, and have never given up on this idea. But by the time the beacon tower called Zhulu was actually completed, the Battle of Aoi Lu was over. ”

Minglang was already dumbfounded.

"None of my subordinates have heard of it."

"It's normal for ordinary people not to know, Zhulu has not been used once since it was built, but because Emperor Heng built the beacon tower too hard for the people and money, there was a lot of public resentment at that time, so Emperor Heng erased the existence of Zhulu from the history books that were passed down to future generations."

"In the following hundreds of years, there was no such tragic war in the Great Zhou, so the existence of Zhulu was gradually forgotten with the passage of time."

"But hundreds of years of fortifications, no matter how well preserved, are not easy to use now."

Compared with Mingming's shock, Shangguan Li raised questions.

"Hmm."

Xuanyuan Ye nodded.

"But I just renovated it a few years ago, and it won't be a problem."

Shangguan Li: "......"

Really well prepared.

A few years ago, he should have just taken control of the Zhenbei Army, and he dared to spend so much military money to repair a military fortification that might never be used.

In addition to the courage, it is probably due to the intuition of war.

Just as he occupied Hebei City as a pass early, so did Zhulu.

"But the matter of chasing deer is already a secret in today's Great Zhou, and only the emperor and the generals in the north know about it in the past dynasties, and what the county lord said just now seems to have guessed in advance."

Xuanyuan Ye suddenly changed his words and led the topic to Shangguan Li.

"I'm just guessing, I don't know about the deer."

"Oh, I see."

He nodded, but the expression on his face was full of words: I don't believe in four words.

Shangguan Li silently complained in his heart.

Could it be that she said that because she believed in Xuanyuan Ye, she must have thought of a retreat in this regard in advance, so she just guessed in the most reasonable direction?

If it were a normal day, it would not be impossible to say such words.

But after the incident just now, if she asks her to say this, even if she is as thick-skinned as her, she is too awkward.

So she frowned and simply changed the subject.

"Even if there is a chase of deer, but the beacon tower is not a letter after all, it can only deliver the simplest news, how can the prince use the chase to solve the crisis in He Beicheng at this moment?"

Xuanyuan Ye no longer continued to dig into the roots, and said casually when he heard the words.

"Blue wolf smoke, the signal to retreat, Shen Huai understands it very well."

"Retreat?!"

Minglang couldn't sit still.

"Do you want us to give up He Beicheng?"

Xuanyuan Ye's voice sank, obviously his expression did not change, but it made people feel that the momentum on his body suddenly became unbearable.

Minglang's face immediately changed, and he hurriedly bowed his head.

"It's a subordinate who has trespassed, please punish the prince."

Xuanyuan Ye has never liked to explain what decisions he made under the rule of Xuanyuan Ye, he has hills and valleys in his chest, and he can hold thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, but he actually has no desire to share with others in the splendor.

But as soon as I lowered my head, I saw Shangguan Li's gaze, and it seemed to be a little curious.

His eyes blinked, and he suddenly wanted to say more.

"Behind Hebei City, there is an endless ice field, and in the absence of reinforcements, it is useless to continue to stay except for the destruction of the city."

"There are no people for dozens of miles behind Hebei City, and the barbarians can't get the food they need, so they will rely more on the river crossing, and paying attention to it is a weakness."

Shangguan Li's eyes flickered quickly, so fast that even Xuanyuan Ye, who had been staring at her, didn't notice it.

Minglang seems to understand.

"What does the prince mean, showing weakness and luring the enemy deep?"

Xuanyuan Ye didn't nod or shake his head, but looked at Shangguan Li, with a bright smile begging for attention.