Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

When Mu Lingxuan returned to the capital, Yang Rong and others were discussing the second attack outside Tongcheng.

On the day after the Winter Solstice, the appearance of the people from Yunzhou and Wuzhou did shake the morale of the soldiers guarding the city walls.

But King Annan's prestige in Nanyue was comparable to that of Mu Jingfeng, so he just said a few words and the soldiers suppressed their previous doubts.

The soldiers on both sides cursed at each other before the battle.

The uncle and nephew of the King of Annan were not fools. When they retreated to Hancheng, they had already issued a gag order to their soldiers.

The unified rhetoric they gave to the outside world turned into their intention to retake Yunzhou and Wuzhou. However, Dongsheng was too despicable and even took the people as hostages, which led to their repeated defeat.

Although this statement was full of loopholes, since the soldiers all said so, everyone believed it.

With the people of Hancheng adding fuel to the fire, Dongsheng turned from an avenger into a revenger.

The King of Annan's ability to turn the tables is truly admirable.

Yang Rong knew that it was useless to say more, so he finally planned to launch a feint attack.

But the ending is predictable.

They had bombs and the other side had explosives.

More importantly, Nanyue’s catapults have also been improved. They throw from high to low, so the distance of the throw is much greater.

In the end, five bomb-dropping vehicles were destroyed, and ten bombs were wasted... Five bombs failed to hit the city gate because of the distance. Five bombs were hit by the enemy's explosive packs and exploded on the spot.

For this, Dongsheng sacrificed dozens of soldiers in vain.

Seeing this, Yang Rong had to order a temporary withdrawal and make long-term plans.

Tongcheng is also known as Fengcheng because there are many phoenix trees planted in Tongcheng, and it has produced one queen and two concubines, which means that the phoenix lives in the phoenix trees. Even in the previous dynasty, there was a concubine who came from here.

The geographical location of Tongcheng is somewhat similar to that of Yuezhou City, except that there are mountains on one side and the sea on the other.

The side close to the sea is still a cliff. The mountains, Tongcheng, and the sea cliff are in the shape of a chair.

If they attack by force, many soldiers will be sacrificed.

The sea cliff on that side is not like the one on the side of Wuzhou City where you can climb up. The sea cliff on Tongcheng looks like it was cut by a knife. If you want to climb it, the difficulty and danger factor are extremely high.

Last night, some people from Yunzhou suggested that they could bypass the mountains that Tongcheng relies on and attack Nanyue from elsewhere.

Yang Rong did not agree.

If too many people go, they will not be able to stop Nanyue's counterattack. If the retreat is blocked, the consequences for the army can be imagined.

You're not going too far. Even if you go around and sing all the way to the outside of the imperial city, do you think Emperor Nanyue would be so stupid as not to leave a garrison for himself?

By then, they might not even need to send troops from Tongcheng to support you, and could just destroy you directly.

If they want to attack the Nanyue Imperial City and destroy the Nanyue royal family, Tongcheng must be destroyed.

Several key generals murmured for half the night before they came up with a new strategy.

A head-on attack is the worst option, so they will not adopt it for the time being.

The best way is to let them collapse from within.

At this time, the soldiers who joined from Wuzhou and Yunzhou received a notice brought by Prince Yi himself.

They don't have to train today. Everyone can write or draw down what Nan Yiheng did to them, as well as the situation in the two cities before Dongsheng arrived.

Of course, this is not mandatory. If they really don't want to recall those sad experiences, they can choose to go for training.

If you are willing to keep it, it doesn’t need to be well written or drawn, it just needs to be real and detailed.

As a member of the Dongsheng royal family, Xiao Kai came in person to ask for their opinions and promised that it didn't matter if they didn't write, because in the future they would all be Dongsheng's citizens and soldiers.

Dongsheng will not give up any of its people easily.

After that, no one stayed for long. The writing brush was placed on the table. Those who wanted to take it could take it, and those who didn’t want to could just go and practice.

Before sunset, the generals in charge of these people came forward to report, and behind them were representatives nominated by the soldiers of Yunzhou or Wuzhou from each camp.

According to them, we

The reason why we asked them to write is that although the two countries have the same writing system, Nanyue has its own dialect and the way of speaking is different.

When these things were passed to the people and soldiers in the city, the people of Nanyue might not necessarily believe them when they were written by the people of Dongsheng, but since they were told by their own people, even if the King of Annan was good at brainwashing, there would always be people who would be suspicious.

Whenever someone becomes suspicious, they will investigate it themselves.

And those soldiers who were silenced will surely panic when these things appear, and that will give those who are investigating a case a chance!

The end of the year of Chou and the beginning of the year of Yin are the times when people are most sleepy.

Balls of fire slowly rose in front of Dongsheng’s camp.

Xiao Kai never thought that one day he would use this thing to fight a war...

As one sky lantern after another rose up, the alert Nanyue soldier on the city wall noticed them and quickly woke up his companions.

"Hey, wake up, there's movement!"

The companion was startled and was about to stand up to meet the enemy, but was held down by the previous soldier. "Look, what is Dongsheng doing?"

The person who woke up looked carefully and asked, "What day is today?"

"What day?"

"People in Dongsheng are so particular? They light lanterns and pray for blessings on Laba Festival?" the man asked and answered himself.

"You said these people were praying in the middle of the night?" the soldier who first discovered it said in disbelief.

"Why light lanterns if not for praying? Go to sleep!" After saying this, the man closed his eyes again.

The man who first discovered it scratched his head and looked outside the city again.

Apart from these "prayer lanterns", there was nothing unusual, so he closed his eyes and rested.

The wind started to blow, and the sky lanterns carrying the papers slowly flew towards Tongcheng.

After daybreak, a lot of papers inexplicably appeared in the streets, courtyards and even military camps of Tongcheng.

No one cared at first, and some people even prepared to use it to wipe their butts. But after seeing the content on it, the people and the soldiers were shocked.

The soldiers who fled back from Yunzhou and Wuzhou looked at the horrific scenes on the simple drawings and listened to their literate companions reading the words on other papers...

Soon, the soldiers who had some conscience began to cry out, and gradually, those with poor psychological quality began to say words like "I'm sorry" and "We deserve to die".

When the soldiers who were unaware of the situation saw this, they were confused.

This noise quickly attracted the attention of Nanyue's generals, but when they hurried over and wanted to clear the papers, the military camp had already begun to fall into chaos...

The generals transferred from the imperial city by Emperor Nanyue were also shocked after reading the contents of the paper.

"Don't look at it, this is Dongsheng's trick!"

"These are all fake, a conspiracy by Dongsheng! Get rid of these rumors immediately!"

King Annan and Nan Yiheng brought back the generals and scolded them loudly.

However, it was too late.

"We've all been deceived!" a soldier shouted with red eyes.

"How can your Highness treat your own people like this!" another soldier roared angrily.

Xiao Kai and his men had not expected that the first place to be in chaos would be the military camp.

Gradually, the news spread in the city. At first, the people did not believe it, but as more and more different people wrote and drew equally tragic things with different contents, everyone began to waver.

Until a heart-wrenching cry was heard from a house, "Mom! I am pregnant!"

The chaos in the entire Tongcheng began.

When King Annan and Nan Yiheng learned of this, they were furious and ordered the immediate removal of the papers and severe punishment of the soldiers who spread them.

But at this time, the morale of the army was in chaos, and some soldiers even surrounded the returning generals and asked them about the truth.

There were roars in the Nanyue military camp.

After hearing the report from the spies that the cursing of the guards on the city wall was gradually dying down, Yang Rong and his men knew the time had come and ordered another attack on Tongcheng.

The morale of the Dongsheng Army, which had been sharpening its swords for a long time, was suddenly high, and the roar of bombs rang out again.

Nanyue’s road to destruction officially began.