Listening to Zhou Jin's eloquent words, Xiao Jiu felt that Zhou Jin's plan had a certain degree of feasibility, but he still asked out loud.

"Lu Yaoliang has resisted and disobeyed the order before, will they really stop here?"

Listening to Xiao Jiu's slightly skeptical tone, Zhou Jin's eyes were full of determination.

"The world is different from what it used to be, and the princes and the court are powerless."

"The holy decree we issued is not for Lu Yaoliang to see, but for those soldiers in various counties of Qingzhou."

"This time, Qingzhou was already unknown, and today I was frightened by Lord Xiao's cannons."

"Even if Lu Yaoliang still insists on going his own way, the soldiers and generals under his command will definitely be powerless."

Speaking of Xiao Jiu's cannon, Zhou Jin's eyes were full of yearning.

Before the start of the war, just looking at the determination of the people of Lingshui County to resist to the death, Zhou Jin firmly believed that the battle would be won.

Now that Xiao Jiu has such a sharp weapon, it has added more bargaining chips to persuade these Qingzhou soldiers who have no intention of fighting again.

He had seen with his own eyes what kind of lethality the shells fired by more than a dozen cannons were.

For Xiao Jiu to have such a big killing weapon, Zhou Jin was also surprised.

Watching Zhou Jin say his reasons conclusively, Xiao Jiu decided to give it a try.

Even if it is unsuccessful, it can shake the military spirit of the Qingzhou Army, and it will also add a lot of help to the follow-up defense.

And now that the imperial court is weak, even if he knows that he has issued an edict to force the Qingzhou soldiers to retreat, he must not ask more.

Having made up his mind, Xiao Jiu continued to discuss with Zhou Jin how to issue this edict.

The only question now is the form and content of the decree, which would certainly not be an oracle.

But with Zhou Jin's hehehe, all the problems were solved.

Zhou Jin had already entered the court as an official, and his position was that of the secretary of the ministry, and he knew very well the format of the holy decree and the appearance of the imperial seal, and it was easy for him to make an edict.

So before he made a statement to Xiao Jiu, he had already prepared a copy and took it out of his arms lightly.

Early in the morning of the second day, Xiao Jiu sent a cavalry of the Xiao Zi Battalion to the Qingzhou Army camp dozens of miles away with the prepared Jiao Zhao fast horse.

The cavalry hurried all the way and stopped outside the Qingzhou army camp and shouted outside.

"The holy decree has arrived, and all the officers and men of the Qingzhou Army have received the decree."

The Qingzhou sergeants who were patrolling outside the barracks were first startled when they saw a cavalry coming from the direction of Lingshui County, and then heard the other party's shouting.

When the panicked soldiers heard the word "holy decree", although they did not know whether it was true or not, they still left two people to guard it again and went back to inform their commander.

After Lu Yaoliang heard the report of his subordinates, although he didn't know what Xiao Jiu was doing, he still went to the front of the barracks with several Qingzhou generals.

Before Lu Yaoliang and his entourage arrived at the gate of the camp, they saw a group of Qingzhou soldiers all gathered in one place.

And the soldier of the Xiao Zi battalion who "passed the decree" did not wait for him to arrive, and had already begun to read the so-called holy decree in a big way.

Lu Yaoliang's face changed slightly after stopping and listening to a few words, and the accompanying officers also had different faces.

Especially after hearing the word "retirement", Lu Yaoliang and the generals knew that this holy decree was likely to be an edict.

But at this time, they were already war-weary, but they wished that the holy decree was true, because they really had no courage to face Xiao Jiu's kind of demon magic again.

Looking at his subordinates with different faces, Lu Yao's conscience was slightly angry.

"Where did the thieves come from, who dare to speak the holy decree."

With Lu Yaoliang's angry shouting, all the soldiers in the Qingzhou military camp looked sideways, and the scene was quiet for a while.

Wen Jie, who had been following him silently, stepped forward at this time, took the holy decree from the herald's hand and looked at it.

Lu Yaoliang saw Wen Jie's appearance of taking the holy decree and looking at it carefully, and stepped forward curiously.

I saw that the imperial seal on the holy decree was no different from the official seal on the holy decree that I had received before.

"Could it be true?"

Lu Yaoliang secretly wondered in his heart.

Just as the Qingzhou Army officials carefully studied the holy decree, the soldiers present began to talk in a whisper.

They didn't want to fight at all, and they didn't want to go to a place far from home to fight for these princes.

With the commotion of the Qingzhou Army, Lu Yaoliang's gaze withdrew from the holy decree and said in a deep voice.

"This is an edict, don't talk about it."

As soon as Lu Yaoliang's words fell, the discussion on the scene gradually stopped, but the expressions on the faces of the soldiers were different.

"This imperial seal seems to be real."

An inaudible voice whispered from the mouth of a Qingzhou official, attracting Lu Yaoliang's attention.

When the official who spoke up saw Lu Yaoliang looking over, he immediately shrunk his neck like a quail.

But his words stirred up a thousand waves with one stone, and many people nodded in agreement.

Lu Yaoliang looked around, knowing that the psychological defense line of his group of subordinates had been collapsed by this inexplicable holy decree, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Damn Xiao Jiu."

Lu Yaoliang looked at the disheartened Qingzhou Army, and scolded Xiao Jiuyi angrily in his heart.

……

Kyoto, the Imperial City.

Qin Yu stood at the head of the city, the corpse of a forbidden soldier collapsed in a pool of blood, and even the air was filled with a strong fishy smell.

"Emperor, go back and rest."

Qin Yu looked sideways, only to see that Yun Bi had come up to him at some point, hunched over and whispered to himself.

The Wanzhou army has been attacking the city for three consecutive days, and the forbidden defenders of the entire Kyoto city defense have suffered heavy casualties in these three days.

Even the young people in the city were temporarily captured, and they all gathered on the tower to defend against the enemy.

Thanks to the three days since Qin Yu ate and lived with the soldiers on the battlefield on the front line, he ensured that the morale of the army did not collapse.

Those princes and ministers also stood at the head of the city with a disgraced face at this time, worried about their lives that would be lost at any time.

There's no way, even the emperor has personally gone to the battlefield to supervise the battle, is your life more precious than the emperor?

But although the city gate was temporarily guarded, in the face of the menacing Wanzhou army, if you can't wait for reinforcements, the city will only be broken in a few days.

The scorching battle situation in Kyoto is stalemate, and the Wanzhou army outside the city is also having a hard time, and now they are alone in the depths, if Jizhou or Yuzhou raise troops to attack, I am afraid that it will be difficult to even retreat.

But there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and Zhang Wei, the governor of Wanzhou, knew very well the fate of his failure to raise troops.

Just like Lu Yaoliang, who was blocked outside Lingshui County, Zhang Wei, the governor of Anhui Prefecture at this time, was also difficult to ride a tiger.

After several days of siege, thousands of soldiers from Anhui Prefecture had died, and he couldn't imagine why there were not many defenders in Kyoto, and they could block his surprise attack of 40,000 troops.

Zhang Wei, who was puzzled, looked at the tall city tower, like an insurmountable moat, blocking his steps to turn into a dragon.

He also wanted to retreat from it, but now he couldn't turn back, so he just waited to continue walking.