The beginning is the emperor

Chapter 340: One arrow of book is worth a million soldiers!

"The ones guarding Hengniu Pass should be a small country called Leading Kingdom, or soldiers and generals of Song Kingdom. In short, they are not soldiers of Lie Kingdom."

Chen Tang's eyes flashed: "Mr. Lu, I remember hearing you say before that you have a plan to break the city?"

"That's right, these small countries are vassals of the Lie Nation, but they are also unwilling. What's more, they are still forced to help the Lie Nation defend the city? There is no need to attack this city. I have a clever plan to let them retreat directly."

"What do you need sir?"

"It's very simple, paper and pen, I need to write a letter."

Chen Tang looked up at the rest of the soldiers, only to see that the soldiers were all looking at each other.

Who would bring such a thing during a surprise attack?
"Find some people, go to the nearby villages, and ask them to find some paper and pens, especially paper, and ask for more."

"Yes."

Not long after, the paper and pen were coming, and Lu Zhonglian began to write quickly.

"After writing it, let someone extract it, then make the paper into an envelope, and send someone to shoot it into the city with an arrow at night."

Chen Tang looked at it, and said yes one after another, let the soldiers start to transcribe.

There are not many soldiers who can read, but there are still some. With many people transcribing, the efficiency is not bad, but in a short period of time, hundreds of letters have been produced.

The guard at Hengniu Pass, as Lu Zhonglian said, was not a soldier of the strong country, but a general who led the country. There were not many soldiers guarding Hengniu Pass, about 3000.

However, the terrain of Hengniuguan is dangerous, and more than [-] people are enough to guard this pass.

In the evening, General Mei began to patrol as usual, cheering up many soldiers.

"Be careful, you must be vigilant when standing guard."

"General Mei, this is Hengniu Pass, no one will attack us."

"Don't be afraid of [-], just be afraid of what happens."

A school lieutenant who was following him sighed: "General Mei, we are the people who lead the country, but now we are guarding the territory for the strong country. Is this appropriate?"

General Mei frowned: "Whether it is suitable or not is not something we can discuss, we just follow orders, and we need to obey the order given by the monarch."

"Yes."

The captain was a little helpless, and General Mei continued to patrol, but there was also an imperceptible sigh on his face.

At this moment, there was a sound of piercing through the air, and with a whoosh, an arrow fiercely pierced into the city wall beside it.

"who?!"

The school lieutenant next to General Mei suddenly yelled, and all the soldiers on the top of the wall became vigilant, and someone even shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

A group of personal soldiers surrounded General Mei even more. General Mei looked vigilantly towards the side facing the mountain, and saw only darkness.

"Everyone be alert."

Whoosh whoosh!
The sound of piercing the sky came again, but these arrows were all heading towards the city wall.

At this moment, a soldier nearby said, "General Mei, there seems to be a letter on this arrow."

a letter?

"General Mei, there are letters on these arrows."

"Bring me to have a look."

A soldier took down the letter and handed it to General Mei, who read it carefully.

Seeing this, he frowned.

"General, we are the soldiers of the New Kingdom in the south of the Lie Kingdom. We have been ordered to make a surprise attack on the Imperial Capital of the Lie Kingdom. Facing the guard of Hengniuguan, if we attack by force, we will suffer heavy casualties on both you and me. I also heard that the general is leading the country. The soldiers are not the generals of the Lie Kingdom, so they hesitated again and again, even at the risk of being exposed, they still wanted to write this letter to the general.

General, in Pingyuan County, wars are raging everywhere. I heard that the Lie Kingdom was famous for its brutality. It attacked the surrounding countries aggressively and annexed and expanded them by force. Presumably the same is true for leading a country. If you don’t surrender, you will face the oppression of a powerful country. If you use the power of the whole country to win the favor of a powerful country, and consume your country’s treasury, what is the dignity of a country just to survive by the side of a powerful country?
Lieguo is brutal and ruthless, not a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, but our Majesty Xinguo is benevolent and loves the people, and the territory of Xinguo is prosperous. More importantly, His Majesty Xinguo follows the way of saints, loves the people, and treats the surrounding small countries with great respect. Act like a big country, do not force payment of tribute, prefer to adopt commercial trade, and jointly prosper and prosper on the basis of peace between the two countries.

It can be seen from this that the strong country is really a brutal lord, and my new country is a rare wise king.

Therefore, my new country's march to the north to fight against the fierce is in accordance with the way of heaven, and it is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness.

General, since you are the general who leads the country, you don’t throw your head and blood for the country, but now you are guarding the country for the brutal and fierce country. This is unwise; It is unfaithful to be dispatched by a strong country; to guard Hengniuguan here, if you die during the siege, no one will know where you died, your wife and daughter will not know, no one in the country will erect a monument, and your corpse will be exposed in the wilderness, this is not brave.General, in order to defend the city of Lie Nation, do you really want to be this unwise, unfaithful, and uncouth person?

Of course, I also know that the general is very difficult, but now that the new country is conquering the innocent and violent, the choice of the general is very important.Now the Lie Kingdom is facing our Xin Kingdom soldiers in the south, controlling more than [-] people, and facing the Wan Kingdom in the west. The power of the whole country is persecuting the Lie Kingdom. Guan, let me wait to enter the range of the Lie Nation and surprise the imperial capital of the Lie Nation, then the death of the Lie Nation will intensify, and with the help of our new country's famous generals to send troops to the north, the death of the Lie Nation must be a matter of time.

General, if you stick to the Hengniu Pass, even though you are sticking to the integrity in your heart, you think you have obeyed the emperor's order, but you don't know that this is just a small matter, and because of small things, big things will be ruined. Our new country will retreat, and the strong country will continue to wreak havoc. Leading the country is miserable, is this the general who really wants to see it with his own eyes?

Although it seems like a disgraceful act to switch and abandon the city, it will make a lifetime of merit because of a small shame, and a lifelong reputation for abandoning a small section.

Whether it is public or private, it is the best choice for the general to abandon Hengniu Pass.

General, please think twice, I will wait outside the city, if the general is willing to surrender, he can throw a torch from the top of the city.

Xin Guo Lu Zhonglian, Yours sincerely. "

This is the content of the entire letter. General Mei stood there with the letter in his hand, his face changing wildly, and he seemed to be thinking.

Some soldiers not far away also took the envelope and looked at it. After seeing it, many soldiers also wanted to go home.

"General, what is said in this letter is correct, we should withdraw our troops later."

"That's right, General, I'm not willing to do this for the sake of the Lie Kingdom, and to help them guard the country. I want to lead the country back."

"General, let them come in and surprise the Lie Nation. If the Lie Nation dies, they will not be able to threaten the Lie Nation."

The voices of those soldiers came one after another, and General Mei raised his head: "Don't make any noise."

The city was quiet. General Mei was still thinking while holding the envelope.

"General, I also think this letter is justified. We are not from the strong country, and there is no need to sacrifice our lives for the strong country. It is good for us to lead the country when the new country competes with the strong country."

The captain also spoke.

General Mei didn't say anything, just stood there, standing on the top of the wall, motionless.

At this moment, his heart is really at war between heaven and man. This letter has touched his heart, but is he really going to give up Hengniu Pass and let those soldiers from the Xin Kingdom come in?
No matter which option you choose, it is a very risky choice. If you give up defending the city, Xinguo has not defeated Lieguo. country's anger.

But if the facts are as stated in the letter, this is indeed the best chance to destroy Lie Nation.

How to choose?

The top of the city seemed to have quieted down, and the soldiers also looked at General Mei, the torches on the top of the city were a little crooked under the wind.

After a while, General Mei looked at all the soldiers around him.

"Wait, you all want me to give up Hengniu Pass and let them enter?"

"Yes, General."

The soldiers said in unison.

"That being the case, I'll wait for the switch and let them in."

There were cheers from the top of the city. General Mei personally took a torch and threw it down from the top of the city.

Not far away, Chen Tang and Lu Zhonglian were shocked when they saw this scene.

"Sir is really a genius!"

Chen Tang's words were full of excitement, my God, it didn't cost a single soldier, it was just a letter, and the other party was willing to open the checkpoint, this letter was worth thousands of gold!
This is also Lu Zhonglian's skill, the arrow book retreats the enemy.

Arrow Book to Retreat the Enemy: Active skill. When your own army encounters a neutral army, and the neutral army is not in your own country, you can use this active skill to directly make the army retreat or abandon the garrison in the city.The cooldown time of this skill is one month.

Lu Zhonglian stroked his beard and smiled: "General, hurry up and enter the city. Only when you conquer the imperial capital of the Lie Kingdom can you be considered a real success. I can only play these roles. In the end, I am useless in the siege of the Lie Kingdom's imperial capital."

"That's enough. Thank you sir. If the surprise attack is successful, sir, you should be credited with the first credit."

Soon, Chen Tang led all the soldiers and entered the Hengniu Pass. The pass was opened, and General Mei also saw Chen Tang and the others, holding his fists together.

"General Gaoyi, I'd like to thank you, but I still have something to ask for help from the general. May I ask the general where you can find horses? It's still some distance from Lie County. If you use horses, you can get there in half a day."

General Mei took out a map, pointed to a horse farm not far away and said, "There is a horse farm here with a lot of horses. In addition, there are [-] horses in Hengniu Pass, which can also be used by you."

"Thank you, General."

Chen Tang gave the order immediately, and selected [-] soldiers to get on their horses, and then went straight to the horse farm, preparing to bring some horses back.

At the same time, let Lu Zhonglian stay here, and together with the rest of the soldiers, prepare some siege equipment, bring them there at that time, and then assemble them to make the siege more convenient.

According to Chen Tang's speculation, there are absolutely not many soldiers in the imperial capital of the Lie Kingdom, because the territory of the Lie Kingdom is too large, and a large number of troops are almost all placed on the border. If the county is in chaos, it will definitely break the city.

(End of this chapter)