After traveling through time, I thrived in ancient times

Chapter 359 Shameless

In a word, the soldiers behind him obeyed the orders and prepared for battle.

At this moment, shouts came from the city wall not far away.

Everyone immediately frowned and listened.

"Traitor Shen Chenli, your Majesty has shown great kindness and has not yet killed you, yet you dared to attack Da Sheng! You are unworthy of your Majesty's tolerance and generosity towards you, and unworthy of your Majesty's expectations of you!"

This sentence instantly angered everyone, and Zhou Yan was even more furious, shouting:

"You are talking bullshit! That damn emperor poisoned Prince Chen and directly slandered our prince, destroying his reputation. How dare you say that here? Our prince has never done anything wrong to Da Sheng, but this damn emperor wants to kill our prince. You are the ones who are sorry for Da Sheng, sorry for the prince, and sorry for the soldiers who protect the people of Da Sheng!"

After saying that, Zhou Yan was about to ride his horse forward.

"Damn it, I'm going to kill the bastard who said that!"

For a moment, everyone responded and wanted to step forward to vent the anger for the prince, but Shen Chenli was not angry. He just thought it was ridiculous. There was no need to waste time talking to such a villain.

"General Zhou leads 10,000 troops to break through the city gate!"

Hearing this, Zhou Yan immediately led his men forward with great momentum, and took the time to reply: "I obey your command!"

They had long understood that, because Shen Chenli had led soldiers to guard the border, the enemy had never invaded, so the city closest to the border became vulnerable, and there were no more than 10,000 soldiers stationed in a county.

Before the county governor was replaced, the soldiers here were quite decent. The previous county governor and garrison commanders would occasionally ask the prince for advice on how to better train the soldiers in the city.

But since the change of county governor, the morals of these soldiers have become worse and worse, and they have gradually become notorious, so naturally they don’t have many strategies to deal with the enemy.

Therefore, when Zhou Yan really brought 10,000 troops with him, even if the number of people was the same as theirs, even if they were still defending the city, they still felt that they could not win.

The momentum of the group of people led by Zhou Yan standing under the city wall was enough to scare away some people.

Zhou Yan even shouted directly: "I'm counting to three now, you grandson, quickly open the city gate, otherwise I'm going to attack the city!"

"one!"

For a moment, there was an uproar on the city wall. The garrison general Zhen Wuneng, who was hiding behind the crowd, was forced to walk out of the crowd and continued to shout in a timid manner while standing on the city wall.

"How dare you! Zhou Yan, I tell you, it's not too late for you to retreat now. I will not tell the capital that you killed the county magistrate. Otherwise, I will definitely sue the court!"

Phew~bang!

The sound of an arrow breaking through the air was heard. When Zhen Wuneng reacted, he looked at the arrow on the wooden stake beside him, only a finger's distance away from him, and instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

A female voice came from not far away, but her tone was a little impatient:

"You're such a nag!"

Zhen Wu Neng looked into the distance and saw a petite figure riding on a horse. He belatedly remembered that he had heard that the wife of Prince Chen, no, the wife of the traitor, was a martial arts expert...

No matter how stupid he was, he knew that this arrow definitely did not miss!

"Hahahaha, you are really Wu Neng. If the princess thinks you are too long-winded, then I will not be polite!"

After saying that, Zhou Yan waved his hand and said in a cold voice: "Attack the city!"

"Yes!"

In an instant, fighting broke out below and above the city wall, and Zhou Yan ordered his men to break down the city gate.

On the tower, looking at the aggressive soldiers below, Zhen Wu Neng trembled all over and rushed down the tower like a fly, shouting as he ran:

"Fight for me! You must defend the city wall. I will go and call for reinforcements!"

At this point, the Luyang County garrison troops who had been resisting were dumbfounded.

What do you mean?

Their general escaped?

With a loud bang, dust flew up instantly under the city wall.

The garrison on the city wall looked down and saw that the city gate had collapsed!

"Please spare our lives, we surrender, we surrender!"

A soldier trembled all over as he looked at the aggressive soldiers below. Seeing the city gate tower broken and his own general's escape became the last straw that broke the camel's back. He finally couldn't help shouting and threw the weapon in his hand off the city wall.

Once there is a problem, there will be a second one. This group of soldiers who were trained by Liu Mian to be lazy and bully the people in the past two years finally got the result they deserved.

Seeing that the city gate in front had been broken, Shen Chenli waved his hand and said:

"Twenty thousand people enter the city, and the rest of you stay here to rest. After entering the city, you must not harm the people in the city, you must not attack the women and children in the city, and you must not destroy the buildings in the city at will. Those who disobey this order will be executed!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Shen Chenli glanced at Yu Tingwan who was standing beside him, nodded at her, and then went into the city together.

Even Yu Tingwan did not expect that this first battle would be so surprisingly smooth, but this might also be because the county governor and garrison troops in this city were not in good condition.

If they had trained regularly, with the same number of people and were inside the city, they would not have been defeated so quickly.

After entering the city, something happened that Yu Tingwan did not expect.

Originally they thought it would be a desolate scene, but when they entered the city, within a quarter of an hour, a group of civilians suddenly ran out of the city, and all of them ran to them excitedly. If there were not infantry soldiers blocking the way in front, they would have crashed into the horses directly.

Yu Tingwan looked at them in surprise. Shouldn't they hurry back home now?

How come they all came out?

Unexpectedly, at this moment, groups of people knelt down, looked at them and shouted loudly:

"Thank you, my Lord and Princess, and thank you to all the soldiers for saving us from danger!"

"Thank you!"

Yu Tingwan and Shen Chenli were both shocked and quickly dismounted to help them up one by one.

"Hurry up, everyone, hurry up, what are you doing?"

The woman who was supported by Yu Tingwan pulled her hand excitedly, and couldn't help crying when she heard the words:

"Princess, you saved the people of our city! Do you know that if you hadn't arrived in time, we would have burned the city down!"

After listening to this, Yu Tingwan couldn't help but ask, "What happened?"

At this time, everyone stood up, and the woman wiped her tears again and continued:

“Princess, you don’t know that the garrison commanders and the county governor of Luyang County have joined forces to oppress the people in our city and make us pay more taxes than the imperial court has issued. If we don’t pay, they will send people to our homes to do all kinds of chores.

That would be fine, but they, they actually, actually..."

At this point, the woman couldn't help sobbing.

Seeing this, the people nearby hurriedly comforted her and continued talking to Yu Tingwan and the others after she finished her words.

"Your Highness, Princess, this county governor is simply a local tyrant. He not only oppresses us, but he even asked us to pay tribute to him with innocent girls some time ago! Not to mention girls who have reached the age of marriage, even those who have not reached the age of marriage, as long as they are girls, he wants them all!"