si-mexico Chapter 448 The News Brought by Liu Fugui
Chapter 448 The News Brought by Liu Fugui
Two days later, the cavalry passed by a place dozens of miles west of Linzi and continued to pursue quickly to the south.
Their speed was so fast that the spies from Linzi only brought the news back to Linzi after they had chased them for dozens of miles.
The Queen has been very busy these days.
She took off her palace clothes and the heavy phoenix crown, and simply tied up her hair, put on armor, put on a helmet, and held a sword, and patrolled the city wall.
The city walls were greatly reinforced and many defensive weapons were prepared.
Many huge rocks were also pulled back from the mountains in the east.
The boulders were not used to smash the enemy, but to block the city gates.
Based on previous battle reports, Yu Ziling understood that the Yan army broke into the city mainly by relying on artillery to smash the city gates and then charge in.
She simply blocked the city gate with huge rocks until it was as thick as a city wall. Let’s see how you can blast it open.
When the spy reported, the Queen was directing the soldiers to strengthen the city's defenses.
When she heard that the Yan army had sent 100,000 Zhennan cavalrymen to pursue the Emperor of Qi, her pretty face turned pale with fear and she immediately shouted,
"Hurry, send a pigeon to the Emperor, telling them to evacuate immediately, the enemy cavalry is chasing us!
If all else fails, have him immediately flee south with his cavalry escort, leaving the main army behind to intercept the enemy."
A flying pigeon took off with a flutter and flew towards the south.
The bird flew very fast with the wind, and after half a day, it landed among the marching troops two hundred miles to the south.
The Emperor of Qi was sitting in his carriage feeling melancholy when he received an alert from his queen.
The Emperor of Qi was so frightened that he quickly summoned his guards and asked the guards on horseback to take him away from the main force and flee south as quickly as possible.
At the same time, he also informed other officials.
When the officials heard the news, they were also terrified.
He immediately summoned the guards with horses and fled south with his carriage.
At this time, no one cared about the huge amount of gold, silver and food.
Whether it was the money and grain from the national treasury or their own money and grain, they were all loaded into many horse-drawn carriages, crammed to the brim. But the price was that the horses could no longer run.
I can only walk slowly.
After all, pack horses are not war horses and cannot run fast.
They could only reluctantly leave these things behind and had no time to take them with them.
Leave them all to the Yan army.
Including the hundreds of thousands of troops, they were also left to the Yan army.
The emperor gave them orders to fight the Yan army with all their might.
Soon, the Emperor of Qi fled at the gallop of his warhorse and headed straight for Xuzhou.
At this speed, the Zhennan Army has no chance of catching up.
Among those officials who fled, one official quietly left the team, took his family and guards, and after making a circle, he actually headed north.
When everyone was fleeing south, he was heading north alone.
Really weird.
In the evening, this cavalry arrived at the place where the Zhennan Army was resting.
"Who? What do you do?"
The scout quickly stopped the cavalry.
The cavalry stopped and a fat official, still wearing the official uniform of Qi, walked down.
"Damn it, it's Qi Gou, kill them!"
The scout captain immediately drew his bow and arrow.
"Ah, ah, ah, no, no, no, we are all family."
Liu Fugui screamed in fear.
"I'm friends with your Lanling Prince Shen. I'm Yan's hidden pawn in Qi!"
"A friend of Lanling King?"
The scout looked at the dozens of people in the cavalry and thought that they would not cause any trouble, so he said,
"Come here and meet our coach."
"Good good."
The Zhennan Army did not bring any tents with them. They all built bonfires on the spot, boiled some water and ate some dry food.
The same is true for Zhang Han.
"General Zhang, there's an official from Qi who wants to see you. He claims to be a friend of King Shen."
"King Shen's friend?"
Zhang Han, who was sitting on the ground, turned his head and saw Liu Fugui getting out of the car, his fat body trotting towards him.
"General, General Zhang, do you remember me? We've met before."
Liu Fugui said with a smile.
"Hey, isn't this Lao Liu? Why didn't you tell me your name earlier? Come and sit down."
Zhang Han patted the ground around him.
He met Liu Fugui twice.
One time was when Liu Fugui was still in the homeland of Yan State and he escorted him for a while on his first diplomatic mission.
The second time was when the capital had already been moved to Shengjing. Liu Fugui went on another diplomatic mission, rested for a night at the residence, and spoke a few words.
"Old Liu, I told you to run away long ago, but you refused. You had to wait until Qi was about to fall before you ran away. What's wrong? Are you reluctant to leave your old master?"
"No, no, I'm just an ordinary official in Yan State. I can only be effective in Qi State. I have obtained a lot of good intelligence for our Skynet brothers."
"Okay, okay, I know you've made great contributions. Take a rest for a night and go find the prince tomorrow."
Zhang Han nodded.
Liu Fugui shook his head and said,
"I'm here to tell you something important."
"What's the big deal?"
"The Emperor of Qi already knew you were chasing him, so he took the ministers and ran away first, heading south. He ran so fast that his horses' legs almost broke."
"What? The Emperor Qi ran away?"
Zhang Han's eyes widened instantly, he stood up immediately and said,
"Damn it, chase him now."
His mission this time was to capture the Emperor of Qi alive. If he ran away, his mission would fail.
"Oh, stop chasing me."
Liu Fugui said,
"It's already a hundred miles to the south. They ran south, and I ran north. Now you run south again, and they've already run hundreds of miles away. By the time you catch up, they'll have already run to Xuzhou.
What are you still chasing after?"
"That...that..."
Zhang Han sighed heavily.
Liu Fugui then laughed and said,
"However, there is still a wealth of wealth to come, so don't worry. When the Emperor of Qi came out this time, he brought out all the gold, silver and jewelry in the national treasury, as well as half of the food and grass, and an army of more than 100,000.
If you defeat those armies and capture them alive, wouldn't that be ready-made corvee labor?
If you bring back the money and food, wouldn't that solve the army's food problem?
Our Yan army has to eat, and the Emperor of Qi can't be eaten, don't you think?"
"Hmm... never mind. Let's go out and wipe them out tomorrow. We can't catch up anyway."
"Someone, come back as fast as you can and report this to the two princes."
"As ordered!"
The guards beside him who heard the whole process immediately jumped on their horses and headed quickly to the north.
Liu Fugui also sat on the ground and said with a smile,
"General Zhang, among those hundreds of thousands of people, 100,000 are elite troops and 50,000 are local troops.
"They already know you're going to raid them, so they'll definitely set up camp and prepare fortifications. By tomorrow, they'll probably be ready and hiding in their camp. How can you fight them? Won't our Yan army brothers be in for a bloody fight?"