mtl008 Chapter 424: Defeating the Enemy Country to Surrender
Chapter 424: Defeating the Enemy Country to Surrender
Shangguan Tang wanted to send someone to find out about the situation at the border, but the weather was too cold and the roads were covered with snow, so they couldn't go to the border and had to give up for the time being.
Shangguan Tang looked at the thick white snow outside and murmured, "Wait a few more days. If the weather doesn't warm up, let everyone use that thing."
After a few more days, the snow melted away, and all the streams, rivers, and lakes in Tianan Prefecture were filled with surging water. Fortunately, the water conservancy facilities in Tianan Prefecture were particularly complete and had been reinforced before winter. The flood brought by the melting snow could not break through the dam, and there would be no flood.
The day after the snow melted, Shangguan Tang went to the provincial capital and met Yan Xiao and his group.
Yan Xiao had just returned from another city. He looked a little disheveled and his face did not look very good.
He said to Shangguan Tang, "Madam, the situation outside is very bad. On my way back, I saw many places where people had frozen to death. After the snow melted, some places suffered small-scale floods. Although the disaster has been well controlled, the people are still very panicked. The severe winter has not passed yet, and they are afraid of another heavy snowfall."
There have been two heavy snowfalls, each more severe than the last. I don’t know how severe the third one will be.
If the third snowstorm is even heavier than the first, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Yan Xiao continued, "Before I came back, I asked someone to inquire about the situation at the border. The specific situation is not very clear, but what is certain is that the heavy snow at the border is not as severe as here, and the climate over there seems to be better than here. As for the war, we have to wait a little longer to know the situation."
Shangguan Tang let out a long sigh of relief: "I understand, Yan Xiao, go inform everyone in Baixiao Tower to keep abreast of the situation at the border. If there is any change, send the news to me immediately."
"I obey my orders!"
Yan Xiao left Tianan Prefecture again. Before leaving, he entrusted his wife and children to Shangguan Tang. Shangguan Tang took them to Qingquan Village. Although Qingquan Village was geographically remote, it was the safest place. Even if it was covered with snow, uncontrollable avalanches would not occur.
On the third day after Yan Xiao left, heavy snow fell in Tianan Prefecture again. This snowstorm was more terrible than the second one. Not only was it snowing in Tianan Prefecture, but it was also snowing in many places in the Yuan Dynasty. The white snow dyed the whole world white and blocked all roads.
Although the roads in all the prosperous cities of the Yuan Dynasty were blocked, fortunately, the third heavy snowfall had not yet arrived at the border. After the snow melted, Nangong Jingxuan, Mo Cong, Han Wenbin and his party led an army of 400,000 and marched forward, forcing the Beiyi Kingdom to cry for peace.
"You come to ask for peace now, what were you doing before?" Nangong Jingxuan sneered at the North Wing's negotiating envoy.
The Northern Wing envoy lowered his head, his body trembling constantly: "Our dynasty was also forced to do so, if not..."
Nangong Jingxuan kicked him to the ground and stepped on the envoy’s head: “If not for what? Do you want to say that my dynasty planted spies to kill the princes and princesses of your northern wing? Do you still want to continue the war? All right, I will accompany you to the end. Come on, take him away and behead him!”
"No, don't kill me!" The envoy was terrified. "Our dynasty wants peace. We don't want to fight anymore. We are wrong. There is no spy. Our dynasty slandered the Yuan Dynasty. The spy is fake. The prince was not killed by the spy, but poisoned by the emperor."
Nangong Jingxuan spat at him: "Disgusting thing, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, but your emperor actually killed his own son to frame our dynasty, he is simply insane!"
Han Wenbin said angrily: "Since it is slander, then you Beiyi must compensate our dynasty for its losses, and release all the Yuan Dynasty citizens in Beiyi."
Nangong Jingxuan looked at the envoy with a cold gaze: "I warn you, Northern Wing, that you must not only release the people of my Yuan Dynasty and clear their name, but also escort them to my Yuan Dynasty army intact. If any of them are injured, sick or die, my 400,000-strong army will crush your Northern Wing at any time!"
The envoys from the Northern Wing were so frightened by these words that they dared not even fart.
At the same time, in Fuso, the Fuso bandits were also killed by Shangguan Peng, Wei Chi and General Mo, and they cried out for peace.
The attitude of Shangguan Peng and his companions was the same as that of Nangong Jingxuan. They not only wanted Fuso to admit their crime of false accusation to the world, but also wanted Fuso to escort the people of the Yuan Dynasty back to the Yuan Dynasty intact.
The Fuso Kingdom was frightened by the defeat, and due to the heavy snow, it was hungry and cold. It just wanted to stop the war as soon as possible, so it dared not refuse the Yuan Dynasty's request and immediately did as it was asked.
So, after suffering many days of torture, the people of the Yuan Dynasty who were detained in Fuso and Beiyi suddenly received thoughtful care from Fuso and Beiyi. They asked doctors to treat their illnesses, were given the best food, and wore the warmest clothes.
All Yuan Dynasty people who held symbols of their Yuan Dynasty citizenship were properly resettled and sent to the escort teams arranged by Fuso and Beiyi.
The escort team not only had horse-drawn carriages, but also military doctors. Whenever people from the Yuan Dynasty had a headache or a fever, the military doctors would go up and serve them.
Being in the group of Yuan Dynasty people who were part of the North Wing Escort Team, Xiao Qing was completely confused.
Hearing that there were many mines in Beiyi, which was the birthplace of jade, he did the jade business without telling his family. At the beginning, the business was good and the people of Beiyi were very enthusiastic. But suddenly one day, the people of Beiyi arrested him, saying that he was a spy from the Yuan Dynasty. They tortured him and beat him until he was covered with bruises.
During the days he was locked up in the cell, he thought he was dead.
But now, he was sitting in a carriage carefully arranged by the Northern Wing Army. In this carriage, there were not only beauties serving him, but also good wine and delicious food. He felt as if he was in the clouds, dreaming a sweet dream before death.
"What does Beiyi mean? Why is he suddenly so nice to us?" There were two other Yuan Dynasty men in the carriage, who also came to Beiyi to do business. They were also nervous at the moment.
The man with a long mustache paused and began to sound worried: "Where is the northern army sending us? Are they going to torture us in another vicious way?"
Another square-faced man leaned on the beauty, enjoying her massage: "Who knows? No matter what, let's just leave it to fate. Instead of thinking too much, we might as well enjoy the present moment."
The mustache-faced man rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are really ruthless. If the Northern Wing people still want to torture me, I will die with them."
Xiao Qing glanced at him and said, "What are you capable of doing to die with them?"
The mustache man looked embarrassed: "No matter what, I will not sit still and wait for death."
Xiao Qing's eyes turned and he guessed, "The people of Beiyi are arrogant and look down on us Yuan Dynasty people from the bottom of their hearts. They seemed to be very nice to us this time, but their eyes were forbearing, as if they were threatened by something and had to be nice to us."
The man with the mustache snorted coldly: "What kind of threat can they be unless I attack the army, otherwise..."
As he spoke, his tone suddenly paused.
Xiao Qing's eyes lit up and he said, "You are right. Only when our army attacks us will the people of the North Wing behave themselves, so..."
He opened the car curtain and looked outside. The cold wind blew on his face and he was particularly sober: "So we may be on our way home now."