12dz Chapter 305 Riverside Barbecue
Chapter 305 Riverside Barbecue
After the Battle of Jiangxi Plain, Xifenglie's army withdrew to the border. The Tiansheng and Dayong dynasties also reached a consensus to form an allied army to jointly resist the Liao army and force them back to the Western Continent.
After Xi Fenglie's army retreated, Tian Sheng's crisis was temporarily relieved. After a short rest and reorganization, Si Kongjin's army planned to temporarily withdraw to Hangu Pass and join forces with the soldiers of the Second Army of Hangu Wangzhou to resist the attack from Ge Su, the most valiant general of the Liao Dynasty.
However, just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief and prepared for the next battle, two pieces of news arrived, shocking everyone like a bolt from the blue—
His Highness King Yonglie, Xing Yilie, fell to his death from the city tower of Tashe City!
The Fourth Prince of Tiansheng, Tuoba Kang, was assassinated while hunting!
The events happened on the same day, July 14th, 468th year of the Red Moon Calendar!
Xing Yilie climbed the city wall at night to look into the distance, but unexpectedly fell off the wall and died on the spot. Tuoba Kang was killed by a group of men in black cloaks on his way back from hunting.
These two pieces of news reached the ears of Tuoba Yu and Sikong Jin, who were in Yingzhou City, almost simultaneously!
When she received the news, Sikong Jin was stunned for a long time and couldn't recover.
Xing Yilie was originally the most likely candidate to inherit the throne of Dayong. After the incident between Xing Yiming and Liu Xianxian, he was practically deposed. Xing Yilie was the only candidate to become the Crown Prince. Unexpectedly, such a thing has happened!
Three days after Xing Yilie's death, the Liao army suddenly launched an attack on Tashe City. Tashe City was leaderless and was quickly captured. Almost all of Xing Yilie's tens of thousands of soldiers were killed in action. The rest either fled or surrendered. The more than 100,000 troops that Xing Yilie had brought out were wiped out just like that!
The court and the people of the Great Yong Dynasty were greatly shocked and could hardly accept this terrible news!
However, this wasn't the worst of it; something even more horrifying was yet to come—
After capturing Tashe City, the Liao army's morale soared, and their advance pressed straight towards Malan City. They successively destroyed several passes near Malan City, and with the 50,000 elite troops led by Sikong Jin, the garrison of Malan City was practically deserted. Therefore, Malan City fell in just a few days. The defending general, Li Ji, was seriously wounded, while the strategist, Zhu Si, happened to be attending a council meeting at Hangu Pass and escaped the attack. Sikong Jin's personal guard captain, Berger, mysteriously disappeared!
The right flank of Hangu Pass has been breached, and Hangu Pass is in grave danger! The Xingqi Tianbu guarding Hangu Pass is likely in peril!
When Sikong Jin received the news, her expression immediately changed, and she became gloomy and murderous.
Meanwhile, Tuoba Yu's situation seemed no better. Emperor Tiansheng ordered him to return to the capital immediately and instructed the generals and soldiers of the Jiangxi Fortress to be ready to fight at any time and to guard against the Xifenglie army returning in force!
Nighttime, the Sikong Jin Legion's encampment outside Yingzhou City.
Torches lit up the entire landscape, the tents had been taken down, and countless fluttering flags danced slowly in the desolate night wind under the lonely starry sky. The soldiers were ready and waiting for their commander, Lord Sikong, to give the order for the main force to set off immediately.
On the city wall of Yingzhou, Tuoba Yu leaned against the cold city wall, looking down at the busy Sikong Jin army. His expression was somewhat desolate and solemn, his eyes were deep and complicated, and he stared unblinkingly at the brilliant lights. His whole body was shrouded in an inexplicable coldness and melancholy.
"Your Highness, Lord Sikong's army is about to set off. He has sent a letter to Your Highness through a messenger."
Black Mountain's voice suddenly rang out from behind.
Tuoba Yu turned around and, sure enough, saw a letter presented to him by Heishan.
He stared at the letter for a long time before finally reaching out to take it. He silently opened it and read it by the firelight. Inside, only one sentence was written in a long, flowing hand by Sikong Jin—
Good luck, thank you, goodbye!
The signature was naturally her domineering name, Sikong Jin.
He does have beautiful handwriting.
Tuoba Yu's gentle gaze dimmed as he stared silently at the line of words before him, remaining motionless for a long time.
A strange feeling suddenly surged into his heart, making him inexplicably uncomfortable, lost, lonely, and desolate...
"Your Highness?"
Seeing that Tuoba Yu's expression was very strange, Heishan called out to him worriedly.
Tuoba Yu gripped the letter tightly with his fingers, his deep eyes flashing with a myriad of emotions. After a moment's thought, he finally couldn't help but turn around abruptly and stride down the city wall.
"Your Highness, where are you going!"
Black Mountain was startled and quickly followed.
"I will leave the city; I hereby order them not to come with me!"
After saying this, Tuoba Yu's azure figure disappeared down the steps. A moment later, the sound of rapid hoofbeats came from the city gate below. Looking up, one could see Tuoba Yu hurriedly galloping out of the city.
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"Greetings, Your Highness the Third Prince!"
Mei Ruhua looked at Tuoba Yu, who was walking over in a hurry, with some surprise, and bowed respectfully.
Where are your parents?
Tuoba Yu asked directly, without slowing down his pace at all.
The army has been fully organized, and all the brothers have assembled on the training ground. Mei Ruhua has only just gone over to inform Sikong Jin that the army can set off.
"The adults are having a barbecue by the river."
Thinking of this, Mei Ruhua was filled with anger. Even at this point, he still had such leisure time. The situation at Hangu Pass could not get any worse. General Li Ji was seriously injured and was still unconscious. Malan City had fallen and was in a mess. The situation was urgent!
As it turned out, this is what Sikong Jin said to her when she arrived—
"Oh dear, what's the rush? Let me finish this barbecue first!"
"My lord, the Emperor has already issued many imperial edicts ordering you to return to Dayong immediately to support Hangu Pass. If you don't hurry, it may be too late! You must know how tense the situation at Hangu Pass is. How can you be so leisurely here, taking a bath, eating barbecue, and even taking a nap... My lord, what are you going to do now?"
"I ate too much barbecue, oh dear... my stomach hurts so much. I need to use the restroom first. Did you bring any toilet paper, Ah Hua?"
"Damn it! You didn't bring any! Using a rock to clean it, what a vulgar thing to do!"
"What? What does excrement have to do with being vulgar? Oh dear, I can't take it anymore, I'll be right back—"
As a result, he would go and come back in a flash, and it would take half an hour!