Chapter 409: No War in the North
Xue Cheng was so worried that he didn't sleep well all night, and finally arrived the next day.
In the morning, Xue Cheng was accompanying Xia Yu and Wan'er to dine, when a close attendant suddenly walked in with a cat on his waist and whispered in Xue Cheng's ear: "My lord, something is wrong!"
When Xue Cheng heard this, his face immediately changed. He first glanced at Xia Yu and Wan'er, and saw that their brother and sister were still eating slowly, ignoring him, so he asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
In fact, Xia Yu and Wan'er had already heard the words of the servant, the dining table was so big, how could they not hear it, they just didn't bother to pay attention to it.
The attendant said: "My lord, General Liu from the West City Gate came to report, just now, a general from the Northwest Army came, saying that the whole army surrendered to us on the order of Wang Xueding of the Northwest!"
"What are you talking about?!" The news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and Xue Cheng jumped up in shock. "The Northwest Army is going to surrender to us?!"
Attendant: "Exactly. ”
In addition to being shocked, Xue Cheng was stunned for a moment, he stared at a pair of old eyes, and was stunned for a long time before he suddenly remembered Xia Yu's words yesterday, "I asked Xue Ding to hand over the military power, and then go back to the northwest by myself." "Do you mean...... Xue Cheng turned his head to look at Xia Yu, only to see that Xia Yu was also looking at him.
"Go and take a look, Yukishosuke. Xia Yu said.
Even if Xia Yu didn't say it, Xue Cheng would definitely go to the West City Gate in person, "Yes, the old man is out of company for the time being." Then, Xue Cheng immediately rushed out of the dining room in a hurry. "Hurry up, come on, prepare the car!"
Xue Cheng hurried to the west city gate, standing on the towering city wall, only to see that under the city wall, the 400,000 Northwest Army was neatly arranged into several square formations, densely packed with human heads, which looked very scary at first glance. Those who don't know think that the Northwest Army is going to attack the city, but if you look closely, you will find many strange things.
Not a single one of the 400,000 soldiers had a weapon in his hand, and not a single one of them was wearing armor, weapons, armor, and some other military materiel, and hundreds of wagons. They lined up neatly at the back of the army, and the cavalry and officers dismounted, without siege equipment or drums.
On the city wall, General Liu, who was guarding the west gate, followed Xue Cheng, and he asked Xue Cheng: "Lord Shoufu, what kind of tricks are the Northwest Army playing? ”
Xue Cheng was overjoyed, patted the city wall and laughed: "What else can there be? The Northwest Army has really surrendered, hurry up and open the city gate." Let them surrender!"
General Liu was also stupid when he heard it, he was thirty out of fifty this year, and he had fought a battle for most of his life, and he had never encountered such a miraculous situation as today. In wars, the weak side has always surrendered to the strong side, and it is probably the first time in military history that a strong side like the Northwest Army surrenders to the weak side.
However, although General Liu was strange in his heart, he did not dare to disobey Xue Cheng's order. So he opened the city gate and let the Northwest Army enter the city and surrender. So far. This snowy civil strife ended in such an absurd form.
A few days later, Xue Cheng convened the clan meeting of the Snow Clan, and at the meeting, Xue Cheng solemnly launched Wan'er, and suddenly one stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the whole clan was shocked! Because of Xue Cheng's high morality, after Xue recognized Wan'er, many of the Snow Clan's clansmen also recognized it. However, there were still a few juniors who were not convinced and openly provoked Wan'er at the conference. Wan'er doesn't talk nonsense with them. made a casual move, and taught these jumping clowns a little lesson, and they settled down. So, Wan'er's accession to the throne was decided in this way.
However, because Wan'er is not a half-immortal now, she can only be called the Snow King, not the Snow Emperor. Wan'er didn't care about this title at all, she knew Xia Yu's strategic purpose, as long as she could control the Snow Country and stabilize the rear of the Han Kingdom, it didn't matter what it was called.
Xia Yu did not attend this very important meeting, he didn't want Wan'er to live under his shadow all the time, he hoped that Wan'er could establish her prestige. Therefore, Xia Yu did not participate. And even without Xia Yu, Wan'er did a very good job.
A few months later, the time was ripe, and Wan'er was officially enthroned as the Snow King.
During this time, Bai Pengfei led the Northern Army to attack Zheng State, and Li Chunfeng and Li Yu led the Han-Chinese coalition army to the south to regain the lost territory, and both armies continued to receive good news. In the latest war report, Bai Pengfei captured the last city of Zheng State, and since then, the Northern Campaign has ended, the Han army occupied the entire territory of Zheng State, and Han State completely annexed Zheng State, and Zheng State has since withdrawn from the stage of history.
After this war, the territory of the Han Kingdom expanded unprecedentedly. Originally, there were five countries in the Central Plains, known as the Five Kingdoms of the Central Plains, namely Wei, Zheng, Li, Yue, and Hua, and Yue was Lu Yue's mother country, which was annexed by Zheng a few years ago. After Xia Yu established the Han State and replaced the mediocre Wei State, he annexed the Li State and the Zheng State one after another. Now, except for the country of Hua that was annexed by the hundred ghosts, the other three countries were all incorporated into the territory of the Han Kingdom, and the frontier of the Han Kingdom stretched to the Thunder Kingdom in the west, the Snow Country in the north, the Hua Kingdom in the south, and the sea in the east, and the Han Kingdom suddenly became a super empire with the largest territory in the world!
When the news of Zheng Guo's destruction reached the Snow Country and the Thunder Kingdom, Xue Cheng and Thunder Emperor Meng Tian reacted differently.
Xue Cheng was overjoyed in his heart, he was now completely tied to Xia Yu, so naturally he was both glorious and shameful. Xue Chengzhen was happy about his original vision, and he chose Xia Yu now.
On the Thunder Country's side, Thunder Emperor Meng Tian sighed after getting the news, and shook his head helplessly: "Alas, a behemoth has been formed, it seems that in the future, my dignified Thunder Empire will also look at the face of this kid Xia Yu." ”
However, thinking that his daughter Meng Siqi had a very good personal relationship with Xia Yu, Meng Tian couldn't help but ponder: "My girl seems to have a good relationship with Xia Yu, and her age is the same, if the two of them can get married, it will be a beautiful thing." The more Meng Tian thought about it, the more he felt that it was feasible, and he couldn't help but laugh happily. "Haha! ”
After the Northern Campaign, Bai Pengfei only rested for a few days, and then led his troops south, intending to join forces with Li Chunfeng and attack Huaguo together!
Although the record on the front line is very gratifying, Xia Yu is very sober in his heart, and he has not defeated Baining, no matter how much land you have conquered, it is meaningless. In the past few months, Xia Yu has also been inquiring about the situation on the side of the hundred ghosts, but the strange thing is that the hundred ghosts have been very quiet. Xia Yu didn't believe it, when he annexed Zheng Guo and controlled Snow Country, the Hundred Ghost Kingdom didn't know. However, the Hundred Ghost Kingdom just watched his two allies being swallowed by Xia Yu one and the other collapsed, but they did nothing. This is very abnormal, Xia Yu has a very bad premonition, he feels that the hundred ghosts seem to be waiting for something, and the smoothness of this time is probably just the calm before the storm.
After some time, a man came to Snow Country and brought very, very bad news for Summer Rain.
This person is Zhang Ziliang, after saying goodbye to Xia Yu three years ago, Zhang Ziliang has been lurking in the country of the hundred ghosts, and then the war broke out, Zhang Ziliang couldn't contact Xia Yu, so he got in touch with Xia Xue, he stole a large number of military secrets of the hundred ghost countries, and saved the lives of the Hanhua coalition army several times.
Before, he relied on black carrier pigeons to contact Xia Xue, but Zhang Ziliang acted rigorously and has not been discovered. This time, he rushed back from the Hundred Ghost Country in person for the first time, which shows that something big has happened!
Sure enough, after Zhang Ziliang saw Xia Yu, his first sentence was: "Xia Yu, the big thing is not good, Baining is out of the customs!" (to be continued......)