Nine Hundred and Forty Third: Win 3 Cities (1)

The second prince rode a tall horse, enjoying himself.

"This is Nanshan County in Shangyu County? It doesn't look like much... It's not as prosperous as the small tribes in Northern Xinjiang."

The houses on both sides of the street are desolate and dilapidated, and there are almost no traces of merchants.

"It is said that Shangyu County was also a good place back then, and merchants and trade flourished, but now things have changed."

The second prince's staff stepped back on horseback, looking around with emotion.

"Hahaha—it's just a small frontier town, no matter how prosperous it is, where can it prosper?"

The second prince laughed disdainfully. The 20,000 private soldiers he brought were stationed outside the city, while he brought thousands of elite soldiers into the city.

The 20,000 elites were cultivated by him after he lost his entire family, and he loves them like eyeballs on weekdays.

In order to monopolize the benefits, he gritted his teeth and pulled out all his belongings directly.

He took the initiative to ask the King of Northern Xinjiang to take over the three cities of Shangyu, and the original guards were sent to other places.

The second prince took his seat with a golden knife, and the head secretary of Nanshan County stood in front of him tremblingly, waiting for orders.

"Report how many soldiers are left in the city"

The Master Book trembled and said, "There are 6,700 guards in the city."

The second prince turned his head and sneered at his staff, "Nanshan County only has 6,700 people, what can such a small number of guards do? Chongzhou Liuxi is also useless... The lonely king heard that those sour Confucian scholars in Dongqing said all day To take back their territory. Nanshan County is so weakly defended, why Liu Xi didn't send troops to fight back? It seems that these bastards like Dongqing, taking back their territory is nothing more than shouting slogans."

The staff laughed and flattered the second prince with a lot of good words, which made the second prince feel at ease.

The second prince slammed Fang Qiu and gave Jiangshan a confident look, and talked with eloquence, "Although Liu Xi is a bit of a coward, she is a daughter after all, and it is normal for her courage to be inferior to that of a man. Although Nanshan County only has 6,700 guards People, but all of them are the elite of Northern Xinjiang, they can be ten on the battlefield. No matter how much Liu Xi is praised by the outside world, he is still a timid daughter, and it is difficult to become a master."

The smile on the staff's face seemed a bit awkward, but on the surface they still catered to the second prince and praised him comfortably.

Compared with the second prince's blind arrogance, the staff members are still somewhat sober.

Among other things, he could understand why Jiang Pengji didn't mobilize troops to recover the three cities of Shangyu.

Come on, fighting a war is not something that can be fought just by fighting.

No matter how resentful the people of Dongqing are, the three cities of Shangyu have been ceded to Beijiang by Dongqing. This is the territory of Beijiang!

If he rashly sends troops to fight back, it means that he will completely tear his skin off with Beijiang and formally declare war on Beijiang.

Secondly, the consumption of fighting is too high, and the preliminary preparations are also extremely long.

What is the difference between going to war without any preparation and committing suicide?

Thirdly, anyway, the three cities of Shangyu have been ruined by Northern Xinjiang. It doesn't make much difference if they were recovered two years earlier or two years later.

He didn't dare to say these words to the second prince, lest he spoil the other party's interest.

"The Second Highness said so."

The second prince laughed loudly, and said to his staff, "You still know the lonely king's heart best."

Overjoyed, the second prince feasted for two days, and made friends with the local nobles.

Don't look at these northern Xinjiang nobles staying in the three cities of Shangyu, as if they were exiled, but they are also local snakes who have been operating for many years.

The three cities of Shangyu can be regarded as a buffer zone between the borders of Northern Xinjiang and Dongqing, and they are also areas where smuggling of many items is the most rampant.

Most of these items are war resources, and the profits are huge. Even the second prince can't help being greedy when he sees them.

However, the happy time didn't last long, and an urgent message came to his ears.

"Report--"

The high-pitched and hurried voice of the messenger soldier came from outside the house.

The second prince was holding a wine bottle to drink with someone, when he heard this voice, his two sword eyebrows furrowed in displeasure.

"What happened, dare to disturb Gu's interest?"

The messenger soldier was short of breath, and spoke with a bit of uneasiness and nervousness.

"Reporting to the Second Highness, the patrolling cavalry found the corpses of our soldiers outside Nanshan County,

A total of twenty-five people. "

"what?"

The strong smell of wine gushed out from his nostrils, and the second prince slammed the wine bottle on the wine table, making a deafening bang.

The staff next to him restrained their smiles, and asked the messenger before the second prince got angry.

"Who killed it? How did the twenty-five people die?"

The messenger soldier came fifty days later.

When the patrol was handed over last night, it was discovered that the cavalry had not returned.

On the second day, the patrol cavalry found the body of the missing person not far from the post, and there were signs of struggle near the body.

When the staff heard this, their hearts skipped a beat—it's not good!

"Where is the body now?"

"It's outside the hall."

"Bring it up!" The second prince felt violent in his chest, and kicked the wine table over, "I just want to see, who would dare to do that."

There was a loud noise, so startled that the singers and dancers in the hall did not dare to move, trembling like quails.

After a burst of footsteps, soldiers from Beijiang carried the corpse into the hall.

In addition to these corpses, there are many clues found at the scene, the most important of which is a token.

This token is nothing but the token of Chongzhou soldiers.

The leftover murder weapon and the inscriptions on the murder weapon all point to Chongzhou.

After seeing these irrefutable evidences, the second prince clenched his fists angrily and gritted his teeth.

"Liu Xi, the lonely king hasn't troubled her yet, but she came to provoke her first."

The second prince's anger soared, and the staff next to him secretly complained.

"Second Highness, further investigation is needed at this time. So hastily concluded that it was Liu Xi of Chongzhou who provoked, if not..."

Before the staff could finish speaking, the second prince interrupted him, "What's so hasty? Who else could have done this except Liu Xi? Besides, even if Liu Xi didn't do it, then what's the matter?" How? Gu and Liu Xi, sooner or later, there will always be a battle."

The second prince volunteered to come to the Three Cities of Shangyu, and originally wanted to use the Three Cities of Shangyu as a springboard to sneak attack Jiang Pengji's granary.

Originally, I wanted to cultivate for two days before doing anything, but now Chongzhou can't sit still and test them, how can the second prince tolerate it?

The staff were speechless.

For some reason, he felt that this matter was very unreliable.

The second prince said, "If Liu Xi kills twenty-five orphans, the orphans will be returned ten times as much."

The staff's eyelids twitched violently, watching helplessly as the second prince sent someone to invite the soldiers to discuss military matters.

"When the orphan takes her granary, Liu Xi will have no food at that time, let's see how arrogant she is!"

According to the map, there are three granaries.

The second prince has already sent people to confirm these three places, and almost every place stores two million shi of military rations.

What is this concept?

300,000 shi are enough to feed a 100,000 army for more than a month.

The military rations that Liu Xi had hoarded over the years were enough for an army of 100,000 to fight for two years!

It's a pity that Liu Xi's employer has a bad eye and leaked such an important distribution map of grain depots.

Once there is no food, she will die!

The second prince looked in the direction of Chongzhou and gritted his teeth fiercely.

"If Gu can't transport the food away, Gu won't leave you millet either!"

Those that can be moved are moved away, and those that cannot be moved are directly burned!