The Queen's Engineering Army

Chapter 194
Dacheng, Zhang Tianyuan Mansion.

"Madam, I heard from the servant that you were injured. Where is the injury? Are you okay?" Zhang Tianyuan sat down on the bed as soon as he entered the room and asked with concern.

Ji Feng was injured in that place, so he had the nerve to say so, so he could only coyly say: "It's okay, I just got a stomachache because of that."

"Oh."

Zhang Tianyuan nodded, thinking it was just his wife's irregular menstruation, so he didn't take it to heart.

Seeing that his wife was fine, and thinking of the riots in the city, he sat by the bed and sighed.

Seeing him sigh, Ji Feng asked curiously, "What's wrong, so anxious?"

"Hey, you don't know that the people in the city rioted. General Xiong sent troops to suppress it, and many people died. The city is in chaos and you should not go out these few days." Zhang Tianyuan sighed.

"It's so serious? If that's the case, don't go out. It's better to hide here for a while." Ji Feng cared.

"As the deputy general of Dacheng, I have the responsibility to protect the safety of Dacheng. I asked for leave and came here just to check on your condition. If you are fine now, I will go back first." Zhang Tianyuan said.

"Don't go out if it's so dangerous now. Don't worry, I'm here. Xiong Hui won't dare to cause trouble for you."

Ji Feng's cousin is the princess of Ba, so she dared to say this.

Zhang Tianyuan smiled wryly, women are so willful.

dong dong dong.

Someone knocked on the door outside.

"Come in." Zhang Tianyuan took a look and said.

Xiong Hui's messenger came in, cupped his hands at Zhang Tianyuan and said, "General, there are enemy troops besieging the city outside the city. General Xiong invites you to go there."

"what?"

Zhang Tianyuan was shocked, this was a matter of great urgency, the enemy was approaching the city, and he was still at home, if he was really pursued, he would be held accountable.

"Madam, I have to leave now, so you can stay at home and wait for me to come back."

Zhang Tianyuan gave some instructions, and then left in a hurry.

"Hey."

Ji Feng wanted to say something else, but Zhang Tianyuan had already left the house.

The enemy's siege and the riots of the people are not a level of alarm. As long as the internal turmoil is suppressed properly, it should be fine.

If the enemy attacked the city and lost it, the city would be destroyed.

On the way, Zhang Tianyuan asked the messengers about the basic situation of the enemy.

Soon rode to the general's mansion.

Zhang Tianyuan jumped off his horse and walked quickly into the mansion.

"General Xiong, have you figured out who is attacking?" Zhang Tianyuan asked anxiously.

Xiong Hui glanced at him and shook his head, "I only know that there are about 1 enemy troops outside the city, and a flag with the character 'Chinese' is flying, and I don't know anything about other information."

"Chinese character flag?" Zhang Tianyuan frowned slightly, as if thinking of something, then widened his eyes and said tremblingly: "Dahan Town? Is that rumor true?"

"Dahan Town? Do you know that force?" Xiong Hui didn't know much about Dahan Town and had never heard of it.

It is no longer called Dahan Town, but has been upgraded to Dahan City.

It's just that the transmission of information in this era is relatively slow, and it may take a long time to update.

"I don't know how many people there are in Dahan Town. It is said that they defeated the [-] coalition forces of Qin and Chu. It is very terrifying. The general thought it was a rumor, so it seems that it is definitely not groundless." Zhang Tianyuan said solemnly.

He felt a little uneasy, it wouldn't be because of those food matters, he came to take revenge, right?
He didn't dare to speak out about this matter, lest Xiong Hui hand him over to appease the anger of Dahan Town.

"Qin and Chu's [-] coalition forces? Still defeated?" Xiong Hui's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

Qin State and Chu State, one with the strongest military strength and the other with the largest land area, are the two most powerful countries in the world, and the coalition forces failed to win when they attacked a small village.

Xiong Hui would rather believe that his ears had misheard.

I can't believe it anyway.

"Well, that's what I said. I also asked many business travelers who came and went, and they all said this, so the credibility is very high."

After Zhang Tianyuan snatched the grain carts, he really sent someone to ask about the business trip, and the more he asked, the more frightened he became.

How could there be such a powerful force suddenly jumping up.

It's unbelievable.

"They came to attack us, why? Did we offend them?" Xiong Hui walked back and forth, wondering to himself.

The soldiers next to him cupped their hands and said, "General, why don't you send an envoy to inquire, if it's a misunderstanding, let them retreat."

Xiong Hui glared at him, "They are here to mobilize the masses, how could they withdraw so easily."

But then I thought, "Maybe there is some misunderstanding, just send someone to ask, if you can't fight, don't fight."

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle. Xiong Hui didn't know the invading enemy at all.

After hearing this terrible rumor again, it was not because I was afraid, but because I was inexplicably afraid of being beaten.

Zhang Tianyuan didn't dare to speak at the side, thinking in his heart that the robbed grain cart had been left in a village outside the city, so it should not have been found.

I can only pray that way.

To the outside of the city, the Han army camp.

In the military tent in the middle, Su Lin was having a meal. The food was very simple, a piece of grilled lamb chops, and a bowl of porridge.

Dai Li stood aside and reported: "The spies from the intelligence station sent out the information this morning, and the spies from the Dacheng intelligence station burned all the civilian granaries in the city. According to their estimates, if there is no food from outside, the city can only maintain ten thousand grains. the bread of the sky."

"Ten days?" Su Lin grabbed the bone with his hand, took a bite of the sheep's mouth, shook his head slightly and said, "We also consumed a lot of food in these ten days."

Dai Li lowered his head and said nothing. There was nothing he could do about it. It was impossible to burn down the army's granary.

The Dacheng Intelligence Station does not yet have that capability.

At this time, a militiaman walked in from outside the tent, cupped his hands and said: "My lord, Dacheng sent an envoy."

"Oh, it's finally here, let him in." Su Lin rubbed his hands on Dai Li's clothes to wipe off the oil on his hands.

"..." Dai Li's mouth twitched,
Xiong Hui's personal soldier acted as an envoy. He was dressed in black, and after entering the tent, he glanced left and right.

He found a very beautiful woman sitting in the middle, and thought it was the woman of the leader of the bandit army, so he tentatively asked, "Is the leader here?"

"Leader?" Su Lin chuckled and said, "If you say this army is the leader, then I will be the leader." After speaking, he pointed to himself.

The messenger widened his eyes, what?A woman turned out to be the leader of this gang of vicious thieves.

What a joke, it can't be a lie.

But seeing the layout of the bandit army's tent, it should be the commander's tent here.

No matter what conspiracy this thief has, let this woman be the leader.

"Dare to ask the leader, why did you lead your troops to besiege our city?" the envoy clasped his hands.

"You Dacheng Deputy General Zhang Tianyuan led troops to rob and kill the grain carts in our big Seoul. I brought troops here to seek justice. The reason why I didn't send troops to attack was to wait for you to come." Su Lin said in a deep voice.

"What? Is there such a thing?"

The emissary was slightly surprised, but he didn't expect that it was Deputy General Zhang who robbed and killed the opponent's grain truck first.

"I will go back and report this matter to the general, but I would like to ask the leader, what conditions are required before he is willing to retreat?" the envoy clasped his hands.

"It's very simple. Hand over Zhang Tianyuan and the people who participated in the robbery, plus a hundred carts of food and grass, and I will retreat." Su Lin said with a smile.

"What? This is the lion's big mouth." The envoy frowned and didn't need to report at all, because the general's temper would not agree.

"It's up to you. If you don't agree to my conditions, I will continue to garrison here and surround Dacheng to death. Otherwise, you will go out of the city to fight." Su Lin didn't care, and didn't expect the other party to agree.

"Okay, this envoy will pass on the leader's words to General Xiong and take my leave." The envoy flicked his sleeves and turned to leave the camp.

Su Lin chuckled and said: "None of these messengers seem to be afraid of death. What will happen if one of them is killed?"

Dai Li shook his head, "If the two armies go to war, if they don't kill their envoys, if this precedent is set, no one will be willing to send envoys to reconcile. They can only fight to the end. In the long run, it will not be a good thing."

"Haha, that's what I said."

Su Lin chuckled, and didn't intend to kill anyone, unless it was someone who wanted to kill very much.

(End of this chapter)