God seemed to hear Feng Shu's thoughts. Just after the first lunar month, good news came urgently from 800 miles away from Ningzhou.
Great victory in Ningzhou!
Xie Zhang, the eldest son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, shot and killed the Northern Barbarian King Dugu Zonglie. An arrow pierced the throat of the entire army. The morale of the army was greatly shaken. The Zhenbei Iron Cavalry rode in victorious pursuit and forced the Northern Barbarian army to retreat to the other side of the Shaling River.
Between Ningzhou and Beiman, there is a natural moat of Shaling Snow Mountain. Behind the snow mountain is the territory of Beiman. This is a natural barrier that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is almost impossible for an iron cavalry to cross the snow mountain. It would have to pile up the corpses of countless soldiers to cross it.
Snow Mountain. In front of the Snow Mountain is the Shaling River and the Gobi Desert. After years of fighting, there is no grass growing on the front line. The northern barbarians are pressing forward step by step, relying on the natural chasm. The army has crossed the Shaling River for more than a year.
The Northern Barbarian King Dugu Zonglie and Zhenbei Hou Xie Yuan are both known as the two gods of war in the world. They are like gods with soldiers, resolute and good at fighting on sand. They are old rivals for decades. The Northern Barbarian army is strong, arrogant, and physically fit.
Their physical strength is better than that of Yanyang's soldiers. There is also a natural chasm, which will be particularly difficult for the general's military strategy.
Xie Yuan and Dugu Zonglie have been fighting for decades and are mortal enemies. The Northern Barbarians have a vast territory but are barren and desolate, and the environment is harsh. They want to cross the snowy mountains and invade Yanyang in order to snatch the land and resources for their people to live and work in peace and contentment. The Northern Barbarians king finally
Throughout his life, he wanted to lead his people to live a peaceful and prosperous life.
The decades-long rivalry between the two war gods has finally come to an end.
Ningzhou's great victory made everyone from Emperor Jianming to the common people happy. Emperor Jianming was once the vassal king of Ningzhou, and he knew the current situation in Ningzhou even more. After he ascended the throne, he was afraid of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion and thought,
It would have been nice if the Zhenbei Iron Cavalry had been defeated. However, when he heard that the Northern Barbarian King had been killed, Emperor Jianming almost offered a general amnesty and could not hide his joy.
No matter how worried he was about the Marquis Mansion, he still hoped that Ningzhou would win. The former Northern Barbarian King led his army across the Shaling River, rushed through the Ningzhou city defenses in one day, killed, burned, looted, and massacred the city. In that year, he was still the prince of the feudal lord.
Hidden in the cellar by his father, he watched the Northern Barbarian army break into the palace, kill his followers, wet nurses, and rape the women in the palace. It was a nightmare scene in Emperor Jianming's heart.
That year, the old Zhenbeihou came like a god from heaven and rushed to Ningzhou from the battlefield in the south of the Yangtze River to drive away the Northern Barbarian army. That year, the Northern Barbarian king was young and powerful, ambitious and invincible. He continuously killed the old Zhenbeihou and Zhenbei
The eight sons of Beihou all died under his scimitar, and only Xie Yuan was left in the entire Zhenbeihou Mansion.
Everyone thought that Yanyang was doomed, that Dugu Zonglie would definitely come back after regrouping, and that Ningzhou was in danger. The people fled south, leaving nine houses empty.
However, the vassal prince's palace could not be evacuated, and the vassal prince was not allowed to leave the fiefdom without an edict. The young Emperor Jianming felt that he would definitely die in Ningzhou, and the royal family would be cut off from his descendants.
But Xie Yuan is here!
Xie Yuanshang, the Marquis of Zhenbei, has eight brave and capable brothers. He was raised in Jinxiu Nest in Kyoto since he was a child. He is a famous dandy. However, after his father and brother passed away one after another, he shouldered the heavy burden of reorganizing the army and led only ten men.
The tens of thousands of Zhenbei cavalry and Dugu Zonglie fought to the death.
That battle was very tragic. More than half of the 100,000-strong army was lost, and the Northern Barbarian King was seriously injured. The crisis in Ningzhou was relieved. From then on, he and Dugu Zonglie started a fight to the death.
One hundred thousand cavalry gradually grew into 400,000. Chen soldiers at the border of Ningzhou strongly blocked Dugu Zonglie's footsteps, but also made him die with hatred.
If Xie Yuan and Dugu Zonglie were not born, how could they be bright? Without Xie Yuan, Dugu Zonglie would have broken through Ningzhou long ago, and half of Yanyang's land would be under his control.
But in the end, he could only die with hatred and never rest in peace.
When Dugu Zonglie died, the morale of the Northern Barbarians plummeted. Despite the strength of the Northern Barbarians' army, there were serious internal factional conflicts. The eleven sons of the Northern Barbarians King were not from the same mother, both civil and military. The second son, Xie Jue, went deep into the enemy's camp for two years.
To drive a wedge between the princes, once the Northern Barbarian King dies, there will be an internal melee. Attacked from both inside and outside, it is only a matter of time before the Northern Barbarians surrender.
When Feng Shu was in Ningzhou, she heard Xie Zhang say that they could win the battle before the spring. Feng Shu was still worried, thinking that Xie Zhang was appeasing her, but she didn't expect that they would actually win.
The Northern Barbarian King is a nightmare in the hearts of many Ningzhou people.
When Feng Shu was happy, she was rewarded with a big reward in the mansion, with the monthly silver doubled, and she was given two days off. Feng Yu lay in front of the window sill, watching the servants in the mansion come to receive the reward, and everyone looked happy. Feng Shu smiled from ear to ear, and some of her mouth was sweet.
Yes, if you praise Xie Zhang for his bravery and prowess in battle, Feng Shu will give him an extra two taels of silver.
The slaves followed suit and the monthly silver distributed was twice as much as expected.
Feng Yu knocked on the window sill and said in a strange tone, "Sister, you are so happy."
Feng Shu gently tickled her nose and said, "Little jealous jar."
"Brother-in-law is so awesome and brave. I also praised him." Feng Yu stretched out her hand and said, "You must reward me too!"
Feng Shu held a piece of broken silver and placed it in her palm, "Sister, I'll buy you some candy."
After the great victory in Ningzhou, the Yanyang Dynasty was full of joy from top to bottom. When people in the Hou Mansion in Zhenbei went out to buy goods, merchants gave them money or discounts, and some people even sent all kinds of food to the door of the Hou Mansion.
After the great victory of Zhenbei Hou Mansion, Xie Xun became more and more low-key in the court. Recently, Gong Shangshu did not dare to default on his money, and would rather default on the Imperial Army than the Kyoto Guard.
Xie Zhang became famous and praised by everyone. Some courtiers would deliberately praise Xie Zhang and show pity for Xie Xun. His brother was brilliant on the battlefield, but he was abandoned to the Kyoto Guard. It was a world of difference.
I sneered at this clumsy attempt to sow discord.
The direct descendants of Anyuanhou and Zhenbeihou Mansion praised Xie Xun sincerely. The prince looked at the group of people surrounding Xie Xun and congratulated him with a smile on his face.
He has a handsome and upright appearance. Although he is not tall, he has been the prince for ten years and has accumulated a lot of prestige. Others dare not look directly at him, but he does not look like anything. He has a pair of smiling eyes with deep eye sockets and long eyeliner. He smiles.
It looks like a scholar's elegance.
He walked towards Xie Xun and heard Anyuan Hou praising Xie Zhang for his unparalleled bravery as a young hero. He was comparable to Xie Xun riding the savior alone. Xie Xun repeatedly waved his hands and said that compared with his two brothers, he was like dust and not worth anything.
Wait.
When several people saw the prince coming, they all saluted. Marquis Anyuan knew that they had something to say, so he left after saluting. The prince said, "The war report of the marquis said that if you can return to the court with a big victory before the spring begins, you will know that you can conquer the northern barbarians."
, he must be a good son of Zhenbei Hou Mansion. The eldest young master is a young hero, Gu Da admires him in his heart."
Xie Xun said with a smile, "Big Brother's shooting of the Northern Barbarian King was not the result of one person, but the concerted efforts of an army of 400,000. The prince's words are serious."
"I have admired the eldest son for a long time, but unfortunately I have never had a close friendship with him. When the eldest son returns to court, I will definitely have a drink with him."
The prince and the Xie brothers did not have much close friendship. He was the same age as Xie Zhang and grew up in Ningzhou. Xie Zhang was born and raised in the capital. After Emperor Jianming ascended the throne, the prince came to Kyoto, and Xie Zhang happened to go to Ningzhou to kill the enemy.
Even when they returned to Beijing, the three brothers from the Zhenbei Houfu had relatively little contact with the children of powerful people in Beijing. They liked to go to Zhuangzi to go horse racing with the three of them.