Chapter 178 The Ancient Emperor's Last Wish 9
After daybreak, Chang'an fell asleep on the back of the silver wolf. Gu Laoliu wiped his face. Is this going to be the stage where he doesn't sleep at night and doesn't get up during the day?
He called his deputy general and said, "You take two teams of people and follow Dabai to find the silver mine. Once you find it, just mine it directly. I will ask the capital to send people to support you."
Then he told Dabai to take them to find the silver mine and catch up with the main force, and there was no need for them to stay there with the people digging.
"Yes," the deputy general knelt on one knee to accept the task, then ordered a team of people to follow him away.
Gu Laoliu led the army to continue according to the original plan. On the third day, they caught up with the Emperor of Yue Kingdom and his entourage. The emperor was really lucky. All four arrows hit his vital parts, but he still survived.
However, this also slowed down the journey, and people from both sides stood there staring at each other.
"..."
"..."
Chang'an pushed herself out of her father's arms and saw a group of more than a dozen weak and helpless people opposite her.
"General Yan, what a coincidence, are you also going to the Moon Country?"
"..."
you guess?
"Is the emperor uncle here? Oh, probably not. He rides in a carriage, which is so comfortable. My father and I can only ride horses."
"..."
Is it that he doesn't want to ride a horse?
When Gu Laoliu saw Chang'an wake up, he put her back on his shoulder. He always felt that this little ball would fall off when he held her in his arms, but he could feel the weight of her on his shoulders and he felt more at ease.
He asked General Yan in a cheeky tone, "Do you want to surrender? Even if I let you go back, you won't be able to win."
The Moon Emperor, who was lying in the carriage, was so excited that the wounds on his body burst open and blood gushed out. Excessive blood loss made him dizzy and he fell into coma soon.
Don't get me wrong, he was not happy, he was angry. He felt that Gu Laoliu was deliberately humiliating him and he would rather die than surrender.
General Yan is a general of the Yue Kingdom. He receives salary from the emperor and is loyal to the emperor. The only way for him to be loyal to the emperor is to die on the battlefield. There is no reason for him to be a deserter.
"A good man would rather die in battle than surrender and live."
Chang'an clapped his chubby hands and said, "You are awesome, let's meet in the next city, or in the capital?"
"General Yan, please." Gu Laoliu made a gesture of invitation and thought for a moment that they were walking really slowly. "How about we go first?"
General Yan: ...
The people who were beating them reached the next city before them, and it always felt like something was wrong?
The soldiers behind Gu Laoliu said, "General Yan, see you later."
Killing people is nothing more than that.
Your Majesty, there is no need to go back, your home will soon be gone.
It took Gu Laoliu and his large army two more days to arrive. The defenders of this city called Youyun City were all cowards. As it was close to the capital, most of the defenders were second-generation rich people who were just trying to gain experience.
The most ridiculous thing is that the captain of the city gate was a playboy. When he learned that the Daye army was approaching, he ran away with his men. Now Youyun City is unguarded, the city gates are wide open, and the streets are empty. The people should have hidden themselves.
Chang'an: "I guess the emperor is the only stubborn person in this Yue Kingdom."
The father and daughter stood on the city wall and watched General Li and his men replace all the flags on the wall with those of Daye and throw away all the symbols related to the Kingdom of Yue.
Chang'an asked her sixth father to put her on the wall. She leaned on her chubby waist and waited for General Yan and the Emperor of Yue Kingdom to come behind her.
"Don't wait, they took a detour, the Emperor of the Moon is dead."
Gu Laoliu carried Chang'an down and turned to go down the city wall.
Perhaps because Youyun City is closer to the capital, its infrastructure is quite good, with wide streets and smooth and clean roads.
He rode through the street with Chang'an on horseback, and someone was watching them through windows or cracks in doors.
The army is disciplined and orderly. They will not disturb street vendors, and some will even step forward to help prop up a collapsed stall.
The owner of the teahouse tentatively walked out of the shop and stood outside for a long time without doing anything.
Gu Laoliu had already issued an order that the army should not disturb the people when passing through the city.
Seeing that the teahouse owner was fine, the others tentatively opened half of the door. Seeing that no one was trying to break into things, they opened all the doors with confidence.
The common people stood on the side of the street, looking curiously at the two people, one big and one small, in the front. They had all heard that it was Emperor Daye who was leading the army to attack the Kingdom of Yue.
They thought that anyone who could initiate a war must be a bloodthirsty tyrant. Before he entered the city, the people prayed every day, hoping that Daye would withdraw its troops and not attack again.
What the people feared most was that after the Yue Kingdom was defeated, the newly entered army would burn, kill and loot the people. However, the reality was the opposite. They did not touch the people at all and just passed through the city silently.
The young emperor was dressed in red, which was particularly dazzling among the thousands of armors, like the scorching sun, and seemed to be the only color under the gray and white sky.
They did not stay in the city, but set up camp ten miles outside the city and will continue to head towards the capital of the Moon Kingdom tomorrow.
After the fall of Youyun City, everyone in the capital fled, including high-ranking officials, wealthy businessmen and common people. Anyone who had a place to go and the ability to flee left the city with their families and property.
Although the capital has been heavily guarded, they do not trust these people. If they were capable, they would not have been defeated again and again.
The army of Daye slowly arrived at the capital of Yue Kingdom seven days later. All the military forces of Yue Kingdom were concentrated in the suburbs of the capital, forming a huge crowd.
From this perspective, the 80,000 people in Daye seem a little insufficient.
In the final battle, Gu Laoliu will also join the battlefield. Of course, even if he joins, he will only play a supporting role. He cannot act recklessly this time. He must combine the formation to achieve victory with fewer troops.
What about the pre-war challenge? Gu Laoliu said that it was not necessary, just start the fight directly, no need to waste time.
One of the leaders of the Yue Kingdom was General Yan. He was truly prepared to die on the battlefield and would not retreat at all.
Gu Laoliu pointed his sword at the sky, and the soldiers below immediately understood, and the 80,000 soldiers ran in a well-trained manner.
General Yan gathered his energy and shouted, "Accept the challenge."
Gu Laoliu and Chang'an were the core of the formation, with 30,000 soldiers scattered in all directions and the four wolves also scattered in four directions. When the Yue Kingdom soldiers responded to the battle, they fell into their formation.
Drums and horns sounded, and the sounds of fighting outside the city spread into the inner city. Those who had not escaped in the capital were all in panic.
There was a fierce killing outside the city, with blood flowing like a river. The 80,000 soldiers of Daye did not seem to be at a disadvantage against the 150,000 troops of the Yue Kingdom. Instead, they had the upper hand.
General Yan realized that in order to break the formation, he had to kill Gu Laoliu and his daughter, as they were the key to the formation.
He rushed towards Gu Laoliu and Chang'an without hesitation, but he couldn't reach them. He found that this formation was like a maze, and no matter how he walked, he couldn't get close to the father and daughter.
It’s not that no one was approaching the center of the formation. Gu Laoliu and Chang’an were just waiting for people to come to them, just like playing Candy Crush, one by one.
Chang'an took out his bow and arrow, aimed at the military flag of the Yue Kingdom, and fired three arrows at once, shooting down the flag that was flying in the wind.
The military flag fell to the ground, and the Yue Kingdom army, which was fighting, became panicked and their morale dropped a lot.
General Yan also took out a bow and arrow, wanting to shoot down Daye's high-flying military flag, but Chang'an shot an arrow and directly knocked down his arrow.
Gu Laoliu didn't use a bow, he threw arrows with his bare hands, and the arrows shot straight at General Yan with the sound of cutting through the air.
The deputy general beside him was shocked when he saw this, "General, be careful!" He rushed forward regardless of anything and stood in front of General Yan.
The arrow was so powerful that it hit the deputy general's back accurately. The impact knocked him off his horse and onto the blood-stained ground.