The prince kissed her seven times in one night, and the abandoned woman was scared!

The Queen Mother suddenly thought, "Oh no! Three months ago, the eldest prince Fenglin, who was stationed at the western border, wrote to me asking for permission to pass through. I was afraid that Fenglin would take the opportunity to send spies into Xijing, so I decisively refused.

At this time, Fenglin has won consecutive victories, and there is no guarantee that they will not send troops to attack Xijing to avenge the rejection."

The civil and military officials were also panicked, "What should we do..."

"quiet!"

The Grand Tutor roared sternly, "Are you all frightened by the maple forest? Where are you still maintaining the composure of a loyal official of Xijing?"

All the civil and military officials then stopped making noise and looked at the empress dowager.

The Grand Tutor analyzed the current pros and cons. "Queen Dowager, in my opinion, Fenglin will not be detrimental to Xijing in the short term. Although Canglan and Beiming have suffered consecutive defeats, they will never give up..."

"Report!"

At this moment, an urgent battle report suddenly came from outside the hall. A wounded vanguard was carried in by two guards, causing a commotion in the hall. "Oh no! Something happened."

"What exactly happened?" The Queen Mother was no longer calm. She stood up from the chair again, walked down the hall, and came to the vanguard on the stretcher.

The situation of the vanguard army is very bad. "Report...Report to the Queen Mother...Prince Fenglin came to ask for passage again, but was rejected by our general and attacked directly. They...

They had terrible gunpowder bombs, just one of which killed many of us and tore a huge hole in our army, allowing the army to march straight into the gorge we were guarding.

The great general came to intercept us, and the two sides fought for only half a cup of tea before our entire army at the gorge was wiped out. If the great general had not ordered his deputy to lead his men to escort me out of the gorge before he died, I'm afraid no one would have known that the gorge had been lost, and we...ah..."

At this point, the vanguard soldier died. The Grand Tutor lifted up the vanguard soldier's armor and took a look. His eyes widened with fear and anger. "What kind of gunpowder bomb can blow a person's abdomen into a bloody mess?"

The Minister of War closed the eyes of the vanguard and said, "Queen Dowager, the situation is not optimistic. Fenglin will not miss the opportunity to pursue the victory and will strike back fiercely against Canglan and Beiming.

Likewise, we in Xijing will not be spared!"

The Grand Tutor's confidence vanished, and he immediately changed his words, "Her Majesty, I suggest abandoning the gorge. Originally, the gorge was only to prevent Fenglin from entering Xijing. They took the initiative to attack this time, only because they were anxious to borrow the passage. Otherwise, the battle report has already been received from the border city behind our gorge.

The most important thing right now is to defend the border towns and prevent Fenglin from invading. Secondly, send more troops to reinforce all the border towns bordering Fenglin."

The Queen Mother looked at the civil and military officials and asked, "What do you think of what the Grand Tutor has said?"

"The Grand Tutor is absolutely right." Everyone agreed.

The Queen Mother nodded, "It is approved! I wonder if you, my dear ministers, have any good generals to recommend..."

At the same time, the eldest prince Si Jingcheng took a shortcut and led his army to catch up with the 300,000 troops withdrawn from Bei Ming. After receiving the news of defeat, they immediately broke camp and rushed to the nearest border city.

It was night time and they were setting up camp to rest, but they didn't know that their patrol had been killed two miles away, and Si Jingcheng was leading a large force and approaching quietly on foot.

After receiving Si Yanzhuo's letter, he immediately made arrangements and led his troops to set off.

There are not many soldiers left in the city defense area. If Bei Ming's 300,000 soldiers attack the city defense area at this time, they might succeed.

Unfortunately, they were originally a reserve force that was secretly separated, and their order was to immediately return to the nearest border city in Beiming if they were defeated.

They never dreamed that they could not go back.

They traveled very quickly on foot. A quarter of an hour later, when the 300,000-strong Bei Ming army had just successfully set up camp and were sitting in their tents eating and chatting, the sound of killing suddenly rang out all around them.

Immediately afterwards, a circle of torches lit up around the tent and continued to shrink. When the soldiers reacted, a sudden gunpowder bomb fell in the center of their tent.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, all their tents were overturned, the earth shook, and earth and rocks were scattered everywhere. The flying stones were faster than sharpened swords, piercing people's bodies and causing countless people to fall down.

They watched helplessly as the general walked out of the tent and was knocked down by one of the stones, never to get up again, and the army was in chaos.

Soon, Fenglin’s commander, a handsome young prince, came before them and said, “I am Si Jingcheng, commander-in-chief of the western garrison of Fenglin, and also the eldest prince of the Fenglin Dynasty. Your commander has been killed in battle.

This prince assures you once again that anyone who lays down their weapons and surrenders will not be killed!

Moreover, as long as you are truly loyal to Fenglin, we will treat you all equally.

Otherwise, this will be your burial place tonight."

The commander was dead, and the soldiers had been stunned and frightened by the iron egg. How could they resist? They threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground, "We surrender."

Si Jingcheng was satisfied with the actions of these people and raised his hand, "Immediately count the number of people, all soldiers above the rank step out..."

That night, Fenglin won another battle.

At daybreak, the captives became the vanguard and arrived outside the border city of Beiming. Si Jingcheng raised his hand, and the soldiers with good voices began to shout: "Listen, Beiming defenders, this is our Fenglin commander. The current crown prince gives you two choices.

1. Open the city gates and surrender immediately. We in Fenglin are not your Beiming. We promise not to kill any civilians in the city.

Second, we will start the war immediately, but you will definitely regret it. There will be no chance for you to surrender. We will blow up your city gates and walls, and our army will march straight in.

Start making your choices now. Our coach will only give you a cup of tea.

After all, we killed several of your generals along the way and captured the remaining 25 of your troops.

Yes, you read that right. Those standing in front of us are all your Beiming prisoners of war. Sorry, their surname is Fenglin now."

"This is too much!" On the high city wall, the defenders of Beiming were furious.

Si Jingcheng was sitting in the chariot eating some delicious dried meat and raised his hand, "Keep shouting, whoever calls out the commander inside will be credited with a merit."

"Yes, Commander." The soldiers were very happy. This was considered a meritorious service. Who wouldn't like it? They all raised their voices to cheer.

For a moment, the defenders in front of the opposite city wall were extremely anxious, and they all asked to go into battle, completely ignoring Si Jingcheng's words, "Only give them the power of a cup of tea."

These people had only heard that Fenglin had developed a new weapon, the gunpowder bullet, but had never seen it, so when the time came, Si Jingcheng raised his hand and said, "Explode!"

"Yes, I obey your command." At the front of the team, the vanguard led by carefully selected grenadiers immediately made a gesture after receiving the flag of war.

"Whoosh!" An iron egg flew towards the heavy city gate like a bird.

The next second: "Bang!"

The gate of the border town was blown to pieces.

Si Jingcheng curled his lips: "Tiedan is really useful, the Queen's aunt is so powerful."

Although he had never met her, Si Jingcheng had already accepted Yun Suyue in his heart.