Chapter Seventy-Four: Difficult to Help

Taishou and the great prince of Nanzhao are both dead!

How do they get it?

Everyone hurriedly went to invite Han Zheng, the governor of Yaozhou who was in charge of military affairs.

When Han Zheng came over, what he saw was the corpses of Zhang Qiantuo and Ge Luo.

He was suddenly shocked, in this way, didn't he want to cause a turmoil in diplomatic relations between the two countries?

Han Zheng immediately asked people to detain all the people in the Taishou Mansion, and he hurriedly returned to the Governor's Mansion to order his subordinates to raise their spirits to strictly guard the frontier.

Which Cheng thought, this order has just been down for half a day, and the news that Yaocheng County has been captured by Nanzhao came out, and the person who led the troops was Luo Yan, the second prince of Nanzhao.

He originally came with the eldest prince to pay homage to the Taishou Zhang Qiantuo, but who expected that when he arrived in Yaozhou City, he angered the eldest prince Geluo for some reason.

Ge Luo scolded him, and he couldn't bear to follow him again, so he asked him to turn back to Nanzhao.

The second prince Luo Yan was so disgraced, so he naturally didn't want to go with him anymore, so he left with his close attendants and guards.

When I arrived in Yaocheng County, I stopped for a while because it was inconvenient to travel after dark.

He is the second prince of Nanzhao, and he came to pay tribute together, and now he has turned to Yaocheng County halfway, and the county order is naturally not lazy, so he specially set up a banquet to entertain him.

Unexpectedly, when the banquet was in full swing, Luo Yan suddenly dropped the cup, drew a big knife and cut off the head of the county commander.

The bloody head rolled to the ground and spun, which immediately shocked everyone present.

The guards behind Luo Yan also drew their swords and killed wantonly, and for a while, screams rang out.

How could the people in the county have thought that Prince Nanzhao, who was originally paying tribute, would suddenly burst out and kill people?

By the time the reinforcements arrived, the county government had already been occupied by Luo Yan and his people, and the relatives of the county commander and other officials who were with the banquet were taken hostage.

At this time, at the city gate, countless Nanzhao soldiers suddenly attacked.

The gates of the city, which had been closed, were secretly opened.

The Nanzhao soldiers rushed into the city, and they were burned again.

The firelight reflected the weeping faces of the people, how miserable!

Yaocheng County, which is only dozens of miles away from the Nanzhao territory, was attacked overnight.

There were only 3,000 people in Yaocheng County, and after Luo Yan occupied Yaocheng County, he allowed the soldiers to burn and loot on a large scale, and most of them went for a while.

Thinking of this, the anger in He Lingjiang's heart couldn't help but churn.

She watched the Yinsheng County Lord enter the City Lord's big palm, lowered her eyes and clenched her palm.

After Luo Yan occupied Yaocheng, he led the army of Nanzhao to continue to move forward, raising his arms and shouting, saying that the Great Zhou had deceived people too much, and he wanted to avenge the death of the great prince Geluo.

Today, this Nanzhao army is stationed outside the city of Yaozhou.

He Ling Jiang sneered in his heart, the eldest prince Ge Luo Youshi died, but the second prince Luo Yan had already cut the Yaocheng County Order during the banquet at Wu Shi, and he raised his arms and shouted, wanting to avenge Ge Luo.

Yaocheng County is nearly 100 miles away from Yaozhou, and the governor Han Zheng also blocked the news of the death of Prince Nanzhao for the first time.

He received this news too quickly.

This battle was obviously planned by the second prince Luo Yan a long time ago.

The death of the eldest prince not only eliminated a rival for the throne, but also made him famous in this war, and pushed the fault on Da Zhou.

The county lord of Yinsheng naturally knew this, so when he talked to He Lingjiang about the cause and effect of this matter, he was cautious, lest if he accidentally angered her, his little life would be lost.

In this raid on Yaozhou, the court of Nanzhao secretly sent 50,000 troops.

In addition, the 20,000 people brought by the Yinsheng City Lord and the recruits from the Aning Tribe, totaling more than 70,000 people.

As far as she knew, there should only be 30,000 garrisons in Yaozhou, and if she wants to deal with these 70,000 people, she is afraid that it will be difficult.

What's more, after Luo Yan captured Yaocheng County, he ordered people to tie up the surviving people, and use them as hostages, and when besieging Yaozhou City, he slaughtered the people in front of the battle, so as to disturb the hearts of the Great Zhou army.

Now, Luo Yan has besieged Yaozhou for a whole day, and on this day alone, hundreds of innocent people have died innocently.

The soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty wanted to go out of the city to save the people countless times.

However, when the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty went out of the city to fight, the Nanzhao army led people to retreat immediately, avoiding the battle.

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.

If you go on like this, if you want to defend this Yaozhou City, it will be difficult.

He Ling Jiang raised his eyes and looked at the big tent of the Yinsheng City Lord.

Nanzhao had previously used 50,000 troops against the Great Zhou Army, but he had no chance of victory, so he disturbed the morale of the army by slaughtering the people of the Great Zhou.

Now, the Yinsheng City Lord has arrived with people, and with 70,000 against 30,000, he has a lot more chances of winning.

The attack on Yaozhou cannot be delayed, if it is only besieged and not attacked, and the reinforcements of the Great Zhou Dynasty arrive, Nanzhao will plan in vain this trip.

Therefore, after the soldiers of Yinsheng City repaired overnight, Nanzhao would inevitably begin to storm this place.

Sure enough, after the county lord of Yinsheng took He Lingjiang and the others back to her tent for a while, he spoke: "Daddy said, early tomorrow morning, we will send troops to attack Yaozhou, and we must take Yaozhou as soon as possible." ”

He Lingjiang's eyes were slightly cold: "Although Nanzhao now has 70,000 troops, it is the attacker after all. The city of Yaozhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, why is Luo Yan sure that he will definitely capture Yaozhou before the arrival of reinforcements from the Great Zhou Dynasty? ”

Lord Yinsheng hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "The closest reinforcements to Yaozhou are Rongzhou and Quzhou. Now, there should be civil unrest in the two places, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to draw a large number of troops to support Yaozhou. ”

"If we wait for other states and counties that are farther away to come to support, I'm afraid it will take a long time."

"Civil unrest?" He Lingjiang couldn't help frowning.

The county lord of Yinsheng said in a low voice: "It seems to be a folk sect called the Taiping Sect, which gathered the people and united with many green forest bandits. ”

He Lingjiang was suddenly shocked in his heart: "It's actually the Taiping Sect!" ”

When she came to Nanzhao, she passed through Shaoyang County, during which there were Taiping people who took advantage of the spring drought to deceive and deceive the people.

I thought it was just gathering in the Shaoyang area to confuse the people.

Breaking his so-called momentum of praying for rain before, it can be regarded as breaking his prestige, and coupled with the operation of Shaoyang County, there should be no big chaos.

I never thought that there were Taiping sects in Rongzhou and Quzhou, and now they have joined forces to make a rebellion.

Nanzhao set off a war here and wanted to attack Yaozhou, and Rongqu Erzhou, which was close to Yaozhou, was led by this people's rebellion and it was difficult to make a big move.

He Lingjiang narrowed his eyes, is there a connection between the two?

When she came all the way from Linchuan before, she had never heard that there was a civil unrest caused by the Taiping Sect in the Great Zhou.

Calculating, this civil unrest should have started when she entered the Nanzhao territory at the earliest.

At that time, it is only twenty days away.

If it was just that Nanzhao saw that there was chaos in the two states of Rongqu, and there would be a trend of burning the plains, the two states of Rongqu would not dare to make a big move, so they planned early in the morning and raided Yaozhou at this time.

That's her, and I have to sigh, Nanzhao has calculated the trend accurately, and she has found a good time.

But if it's somewhere in between, someone did it on purpose......

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a pang in her heart.

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