Chapter 78: Shocked

Due to the need for military information transmission, Yaoying could no longer bring news about Danyang to Ye Tao regularly. He could only learn about what is happening now through Peng Detian and Min Yue. Although Xunshan Pass and Yicheng are almost the extreme west and extreme east of Dongping, the military affairs in Xunshan Pass and the surrounding areas will not directly affect Yicheng. Although Dongping is now not superior to the national strength, especially the military strength, it is absolutely impossible for Xiling to decide on the battle. However, due to the limited content of this kind of military information transmission in various places, and since it is a military aircraft, neither Peng Detian nor Min Yue could tell Ye Tao too much. Further news comes from those friends and business partners who have good relationships in Danyang. Lu Dan's family will also send a detailed letter the next day, but if the military's fastest post transmission system and Eagle Station cannot be used, the news will be delayed by several days after the news arrives at Yicheng.

This sudden war caused everyone's mood to soar because of the completion of the bell tower.

The Xiling army could not maintain a long-term and continuous flower-like attack, but before they stopped, they had conquered many towns and formed a large piece of land from Xunshan Pass to Miancheng. Subsequently, the 120,000 troops, as the main force, stopped at Ningshi City and sent envoys to contact the Dongping army.

During these days, the debate between the court has never stopped whether to fight or how to fight. Just like in the face of any war, there will always be some surrender factions, and this time is no exception. Although Dongping's national strength is booming, many people still advocate that this time we should promote the congress and tolerate it, and win time for the sustainable development of Dongping and future revenge. The military is indeed facing the problem of a lot of military strength from Xunshanguan to Danyang, although there are a lot of military strength, it is scattered in different towns and too few troops can be concentrated in a short period of time. Moreover, once the Xiling army crosses the line of Baishicheng, the road is the main grain-producing areas and economic crop areas in Dongping. The land losses caused by war disasters will be very amazing.

At this time, although the envoys sent by Xiling were extremely arrogant, they were indeed the time to come. Regardless of whether the collegial agreement could be successful, at least the mobilization of the Dongping army had time.

After preliminary mediation, the day before the envoy of Xiling set out for Danyang, something incredible happened again. The 20,000 well-trained infantry and 5,000 cavalry mobilized from Li Yang hurried to the Tiger Leap Gorge, which was only more than 30 miles away from Ningshi City, to camp, and prepared to enter Ningshi City the next day to strengthen the military strength of Ningshi City. But that night, the 20,000 Xiling army sneaked out of the line of Baishi City in Ningshi City, heading straight to the Tiger Leap Gorge. The exhausted Dongping Barracks were attacked. After the 25,000 people fought, less than 9,000 people finally entered Ningshi City. After the Xiling army succeeded, it immediately retracted its actual control line. It also sent another group of envoys to ask Ningshi City with a provocative question whether the guards of Ningshi City were preparing to fight or let their delegation set out normally.

The commander of the Ningshi City defender was named Zhuo Zhixing. He was considered to be the nephew who was raised by General Zhuomang. Naturally, he understood that at this time, buffering time was more important. He gritted his teeth and asked the Xiling delegation to set off as usual. In order to avoid any trouble on the road, he even transferred two hundred soldiers to accompany him to protect and monitor him.

The itinerary of the army from Liyang was reported to the Ministry of War and Ningshicheng. There is only one explanation for the Xiling army to take targeting actions so accurately, that is, there was a more serious leak within Dongping. However, Tan Xiaopei was helpless. In addition to issuing another thorough investigation order, he could only admit it. The local time does not allow him to tamper with the entire intelligence system and the Ministry of War. With the troops that Danyang can draw, Tan Xiaopei can only piece together a hundred thousand troops in a short time. Facing the 120,000 Xiling Central Army as the main force, it may not be too disadvantageous. However, Xiling also has troops stationed in various places. The total number of troops they dispatched in this time is definitely more than 250,000. These 100,000 people may be able to stabilize the front line, but they are unable to expel the Xiling army back. The work of drawing troops from various places is underway, but when the troops arrive in the war zone one after another, it is still time...

If the Xiling army cannot stop, once it crosses the line of Baishicheng, even if Dongping finally wins the war, its vitality will take several years or even longer to recover.

The commander of the Xiling delegation was Zhu Qi, a Hanlin scholar who was famous and eloquent in Xiling, who was favored by Xiling. The deputy envoy was Chen Ban, a fourth-rank general who was rude in Xiling. No one expected that Zhu Qi came to Danyang and only offered one condition: Prince Xiling would marry the princess of Dongping. As long as Dongping could agree, the two teams would maintain their current situation. After the princess set out to arrive at the capital of Xiling, the central army withdrew from the line of Baishicheng, Ningshicheng, retreated to defend Xunshan Pass, and waited for the marriage ceremony of the two countries to 10%. Xiling returned the original items of Xunshan Pass. Even the army's searches and seized during these days. All of them would be sealed and waited for the Dongping army to receive them.

This condition is incredibly good, but it is not incomprehensible. Xiling cannot afford Dongping now. Long-term combat can easily cause a large amount of military losses and huge military expenditures, so Xiling is not easy to bear it at present. What Xiling wants most now is to take Yunzhou under the name, then accumulate strength, and solve the problem of Dongping or the middle of Chunnan in the future. Relatively speaking, relying on Dongping, Chunnan Kingdom, seems to be a better choice. The so-called Prince Xiling will naturally not be a happy marriage to marry Princess Dongping.

The land began. But this name can give Dongping many reasons to shirk and scruple when helping Chunnan resist Xiling's attack. Everyone knows that the Tan family has a tradition of pampering their children. Chunnan will also have many concerns when accepting Dongping's help. Even Yunzhou is the same. No matter what the marriage between Dongping and Xiling happened, as long as the facts are formed, will Yunzhou dare to accept Dongping's protection? Do the Dai family dare to fully trust the Dongping royal family? These are all problems.

With so many strategic benefits, there is no need to pay too much attention to the results of this carefully arranged army raid. Originally, in Xiling's deployment, conquering Dongping was put to the last place. Dongping's current strength and momentum made them dare not underestimate it. Even this army's raid was not a decision made by the court, but a decision made by the king in private, otherwise it would be impossible for the ministers to reach a consensus at all.

Such conditions are completely acceptable in the minds of many ministers in Dongping. For greater power and more commercial interests, a couple of lovers can be broken up and the marriage between families can be carefully arranged. When the interests are not so huge and obvious, they will give up the alliance formed by such marriages without hesitation, and even kick the original in-laws without hesitation... There are too many such things that have happened. It is so common that everyone is accustomed to it and thinks it is natural.

In such an environment, the opinions of the two princesses seem so irrelevant. In a wave of approval and promotion, the opposition of Zhuomang, Huang Xuping and others seems so powerless.

While waiting for Dongping's decision, Zhu Qi and Chen Ban seemed to be not worried that Dongping would refuse such a proposal. They wandered around Danyang City leisurely every day. They carefully observed the new city area that did not match the original Danyang style, and looked at the appearance of the Danyang Bell Tower, which was almost 100 feet high, and even spent several days in the Yi Zhan Tower. Zhu Qi and Chen Ban were both fascinated by the marching chess, especially the grand strategy gameplay. Although there were hostile eyes around, they never thought it was because of "private reasons". If it weren't for the national affairs, the employees of the Ye family who were active in the Yi Zhan Tower, and the trainees and formal officers who had visited the palace from the two armies, would have wanted to do it.

Perhaps, the envoys of Xiling did not have to worry. When the third batch of messengers passed the progress of Xiling's army to Zhu Qi and Chen Ban, Ye Tao received the news that Min Yue revealed to him in violation of the Military Confidentiality Regulations: Tan Weixin agreed to marry Xiling.

Under what circumstances would a woman from modern times make such a decision and sacrifice? Is her harm to Tan Weixin at this point? Or is it that misunderstanding and impulse intertwined, making Tan Weixin feel that this would be a choice?

No matter what his relationship with Tan Weixin is now, no matter what image he looks like in Tan Weixin's mind, Ye Tao picked up a pen and wrote a long letter, which allowed him to mobilize the fastest messenger - FedEx - to deliver to the princess. A few hours after the messenger left, Ye Tao received a letter from Tan Weixin. They still had such a tacit understanding when writing letters to the other party. Tan Weixin's letter only had one sentence: "If life was just like the first meeting."
Chapter completed!