After my rebirth, I became the white moonlight in the Beijing circle

After watching Lu Linchu leave the city, Fu Guiyun immediately summoned Hong Qian and warned him in a deep voice: "These days, you must strictly instruct the soldiers to be smart and maintain order in the city."

"Don't worry, Princess. As long as I am still alive, I will never allow any trouble to occur in the city," Hong Qian promised solemnly.

Only then did Fu Guiyun feel relieved and led his people back to Chuxian Palace.

She chatted with her mother-in-law for a while. After she left, she thought silently for a long time. Now, she had already made arrangements for several armies and all the countermeasures she could think of. She could only wait and see what the result would be.

What she could still do was to defend Liyang City for the men of the Lu family.

The Lu family army marched northward, and just as they passed the city wall, Lu Linfeng noticed something was wrong.

Spies from various places reported that when passing through Dongyi, the several roads heading north were completely silent with no birds singing, it was eerily quiet. After checking the map, he deduced where the King of Dongyi and the King of Jiurong had hidden their troops.

After making some secret arrangements, he was the first to rest in the tent.

After setting up camp that night, Cui Ying, Song Xiang, and the Wang couple had just finished dinner when they felt unwell and had a serious illness. They were so uncomfortable that they could not get out of bed.

Lu Chen didn't care about the lives of the Marquis of Changping and his wife, but since Cui Ying was the future virtuous concubine, he was worried that something might go wrong, so he had to bring a doctor to check on her in person.

They kept on working until very late and were already exhausted when they returned to the camp. After drinking a bowl of calming soup prepared by the lieutenant general, they fell onto the couch and fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up the next day, he heard that Lu Linfeng had put on his armor, rode his warhorse, and led his personal guards to break camp early.

Lu Chen suddenly felt something was wrong and angrily scolded his lieutenant generals: "Why didn't you stop the eldest master?"

All the generals had bitter faces. Although they knew that this was against military orders, no one was willing to watch the prince die in person.

"I'll settle this account with you when I get back."

Lu Chen pointed at everyone and tried to convince himself to calm down.

If his cousin went deep into the tiger's den instead of himself, he would naturally attract an ambush.

In this way, even if he completely breaks off relations with the imperial court, his cousin's life will be in danger.

Fortunately, he already knew the emperor's conspiracy, so he could make some plans in advance.

Looking at the map behind him, he hurriedly ordered: "The Lu family army has now entered the city. After being ambushed, they can only survive by breaking out from the original route. Otherwise, they will face General Chen Lin's 350,000 imperial army head-on. This prince will personally lead 50,000 troops to support them and stop the Dongyi King and Jiurong King from encircling their troops on both wings."

After he finished speaking, he pointed to the general in front of him and said, "Lu Bing, you lead the remaining 30,000 people to immediately capture the city wall, escort Concubine Xian and the Song family couple into the city wall, and open a retreat route for the Lu family army."

But just as he finished explaining, a soldier came hurriedly to report: "Your Majesty, the governor of Wengcheng wants to see you."

"Yin Cang?"

Not knowing why this person suddenly came, Lu Chen said suspiciously: "Pass it quickly."

Not long after, Yin Cang walked in holding a box.

"I am here on the orders of the Fourth Young Master to take the head of the Grand Commander of Wengcheng and come to see His Majesty."

Yin Cang raised the box in his hand and said, "Your Majesty, please go north without any worries. The eight thousand defenders of Wengcheng have been taken over by me."

"What, you killed the governor of Wengcheng?"

Lu Chen looked surprised: "When did this happen? Why didn't you report it when I entered the city?"

This was a plan that Yin Cang had made with Lu Linzhi when they entered Liyang City. Yin Cang did not dare to tell the truth and could only evade the question: "Your Majesty, the Fourth Young Master and the Liren Gang have captured my family members. I have no choice but to follow your orders. There are many eyes and ears in Wengcheng, so I can only wait until Your Majesty passes through Wengcheng before I dare to report to you."

Lu Chen frowned angrily.

That brat is getting more and more daring.

However, he arranged everything so tightly that by the time King Dongyi could react, the city wall would already be in the hands of Lu's army.

Avoiding a tough battle is always a happy thing. Lu Chen did not care about it anymore and immediately ordered: "Lu Bing, you lead 30,000 people to escort Concubine Xian and follow Governor Yin to Wengcheng. The rest of the soldiers will follow me to quickly meet the eldest son."

Not daring to delay any longer, he strode out of the tent and led the army northward.

After Lu Chen left, Yin Cang approached Lu Bing and continued, "General, the Fourth Young Master has another instruction. You don't need to fight the imperial army in this battle. You just need to deploy more decoy troops to escort the prince back to Wengcheng. Then someone will help us deal with the imperial army."

Lu Bing is an old veteran who has followed the prince for many years and has already seen through everything.

The imperial court pushed all the garrison troops in the capital to the southern border, and it only took a moment for Song Weizhao to enter Yundu.

As long as they occupied the city wall, they could advance or retreat.

On the contrary, the 550,000 troops of the imperial court had to either choose to march north to defend the king or surrender to the Lu family army.

"Lin Zhi is really good at calculating."

After complimenting himself secretly, Lu Bing looked at the map and immediately said, "Lu Jin, you will lead 5,000 men to guard Wengcheng with Governor Yin, and the rest of the soldiers will follow me to Dongyi to set up an ambush at the border of Wengcheng to help the prince retreat."

At this time, at the border of Wengcheng and Dongyi, Lu Linfeng had led King Liyang's 20,000 personal soldiers into the canyon.

The soldiers were arranged in a row of four, with shield soldiers on both sides and archers in the middle. They walked in an orderly manner on the rugged official road. The team of 20,000 people was like a long dragon, with no end in sight.

Under the hazy moonlight, King Dongyi and King Jiurong, who were hiding in the canyon, looked out at the scene below, feeling very puzzled.

"What kind of marching method is this, Lu Chen?"

The King of Dongyi was puzzled and asked, "The troops on the official roads are usually marched in columns of eight. Why did he reduce the number of soldiers in each column by half?"

King Jiurong was staring down at the brightly colored banner in the darkness.

"Lu Chen has always been a strange man in deploying his troops. Brother Wang, the leading general must be Lu Chen. We cannot let him out of the canyon. If the credit for killing Lu Chen is taken away by General Chen Lin, then we have stayed in the valley for so long in vain."

Although King Dongyi still had doubts in his heart, what King Jiurong said made sense.

Besides, the army formation at the foot of the mountain was too long, and it was impossible to see the front and rear of the Lu family army clearly. Judging from the situation, there were probably 70,000 to 80,000 people entering the canyon.

"Release the arrows, kill Lu Chen immediately and make merit for the court."

A shout tore through the night sky, and rockets were seen all over the mountains rushing towards the valley bottom.

Lu Linfeng was quick to jump off his horse and shouted, "Get off your horse and raise your shield."

Afterwards, the long team quickly formed into a square formation, with sentries as units to gather the team in an orderly manner, with shields held up on the outside and archers hidden behind the shields. The neat square formations were firmly established in the canyon in clusters.

Lu Linfeng hid under the shield house and continued to shout orders behind him: "The court slandered loyal officials. Those who were killed today are warriors, and those who fell are also martyrs. Each sentry leader orders the soldiers to resist with all their strength. Anyone who is afraid of fighting will be executed immediately without mercy."

The sentry commander in front passed his orders to the rear in sequence, and even though boulders were falling like a torrent and thousands of arrows were fired at him, there was no panic in the entire canyon.

The boulders hit the thick shields, and those with less strength had their arms broken. Others immediately took their places and firmly protected the shield house of each post.

The rockets landed on the shields, burning fiercely and making the iron shields hot. The soldiers holding the shields did not dare to put them down easily and still held on tightly.

It was unknown how long it took until the ambush troops on the mountain had fired all their arrows and the valley became unusually quiet. King Dongyi and King Jiurong smiled at each other and ordered their generals, "Go and kill the generals. Completely wipe out the Lu family army."

In an instant, a large number of troops rushed down the valley quickly.