Dressed as the prince's substitute? I took the throne

Chapter 187 Regrouping

As soon as these words were spoken, all the generals lowered their heads immediately, but they still looked at the Liao army that was gradually moving away with reluctance, thinking that if they attacked at this moment, they would surely win a great victory.

He Jian quietly approached Zhou Chuxuan and whispered, "Your Highness, now that you've killed the Liao army's commander, they must be in disarray and leaderless. If we pursue them now, perhaps we can directly defeat their 600,000-man army?"

Zhou Chuxuan chuckled and pulled He Jian down from the city wall. "General He, when did you become so eager for quick success? Think about it carefully. The Liao army has 600,000 soldiers. That's basically all of them! With so many people, how could there not be a brave and capable general among them?"

"As long as these generals gather the defeated troops, they will turn around and immediately catch our troops and make it impossible for us to escape. If we open the city gates to welcome the troops back to the city, the Liao army will take advantage of the opportunity to enter!"

"If we don't open the city gates, the Liao army will eat up all the soldiers we chased out, and then turn around and besiege the city!"

After Zhou Chuxuan's explanation, He Jian finally reacted: "Your Highness, I was inconsiderate!"

Zhou Chuxuan waved his hand gently: "General He, I have an errand that I would like you to take on. Are you willing?"

"Errand?"

He Jian scratched his head and said, "I will obey your Highness' orders. Even if it means going through fire and water, I will do it without regrets!"

Zhou Chuxuan pondered for a moment: "This time, for you, it is really no less than walking on a mountain of swords and diving into a sea of ​​fire! But, as long as you can honestly do what I say, I guarantee that you can come back alive!"

"As your highness commands!"

Zhou Chuxuan took out a thick stack of booklets and said with a smile, "I want you to go as an envoy to Liang State and ask them not to send troops to attack Wu Dynasty!"

"what?"

He Jian was bewildered: "But, Your Highness, I am a military commander. If you want me to fight in battle, that's fine, but I really can't handle talking!"

What Zhou Chuxuan said was absolutely correct. For him, this matter was no less than walking through fire and water.

"Your Highness, you should choose a civil official to handle this kind of verbal battle. I will definitely mess it up if I go!"

Zhou Chuxuan smiled and waved his hand, handing over the booklet in his hand: "I took some time to write this. It contains what you need to say when you go to Liang Kingdom. You just need to memorize it!"

"what?"

Facing He Jian's bewildered face, Zhou Chuxuan didn't explain too much: "You can do it, you can definitely do it! Memorize all the words above, and you will definitely come back alive!"

"Remember, if Liang insists on sending troops..."

Zhou Chuxuan suddenly stopped talking halfway, but the sad look in his eyes made He Jian's heart skip a beat, and he slowly understood what Zhou Chuxuan meant.

"Your Highness, I understand!"

At the same time, the Liao army retreated thirty miles and set up camp. The entire camp was covered with white silk, and the wailing sounds could be heard for hundreds of miles.

Salem Yuan looked at his brother's body without shedding a single tear. Instead, his eyes flashed with endless murderous intent.

Hearing the crying next to him, Salem Yuan suddenly stood up and shouted, "Why are you all crying? What's there to cry about?"

His words immediately made the generals present look up at Salem Yuan in confusion.

Salem Yuan looked at the Liao generals and said, "Generals, Salem Xun is your king and my brother! You are heartbroken, and I am even more heartbroken than you, but now is not the time to be heartbroken!"

"We are standing on the territory of the Wu Dynasty. If we delay here for a while longer, we will attract countless Wu Dynasty troops. Even if we have 600,000 troops, we will not be able to stop the encirclement from all sides!"

"So, there are only two options before us now. The first is to retreat to the Liao Kingdom and mourn my brother. However, if we do so, it means that all our plans for hundreds of years in the Wu Dynasty will be wasted!"

"The second way is that we will do our utmost to invade the capital of the Wu Dynasty and completely take down and destroy this so-called Wu Dynasty!"

"Soldiers, which path do you choose?"

It has to be said that Salem Yuan pays more attention to inciting people's emotions than Salem Xun. Just a few simple words can bring scattered people's hearts together again.

"The second way, we choose the second way!"

The ancestors of the Liao Dynasty had already begun to lay out their plans for the Wu Dynasty since its founding. They had been laying out their plans for hundreds of years in order to one day break the Wu Dynasty apart so that their descendants could completely defeat it.

This is the last wish left by their ancestors, and they naturally have to abide by it.

"very good!"

Salem Yuan, having regained his morale, sat at the main seat, looked at the generals arrayed below, and asked in a deep voice, "How many troops were lost this time?"

The generals below looked at each other, and no one dared to speak.

Salem Yuan sighed. "Everyone, I'm not here to hold you accountable, but to discuss the situation with you! We're here to summarize our experience. What other concerns do you have?"

Finally, a general stepped forward and said, "Sir, we have lost a full 30,000 soldiers this time, and another 50,000 to 60,000 have been seriously injured."

"Thousands were killed on the spot by the weapons of the Wu Dynasty soldiers, and the rest were trampled to death by horses in the chaos."

Salem Yuan was silent for a while. He didn't expect that just a single encounter would cause them to lose countless men.

"It seems that Zhou Chuxuan is really a terrifying person!"

Salem Yuan's knuckles tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair. "They've already created a fire lance, which has extremely powerful killing power, and now they've come up with an unknown weapon!"

"I really don't know what my sister found out. Why didn't she report this to me?"

"Never mind, you guys go down and rest first! Let me study the battle strategy, then we'll send out the troops!"

When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Salem Yuan came to a small hill outside the military camp, sat alone under a dead tree, closed his eyes and dozed off.

Soon, a rustling sound was heard in the bushes in the distance.

"Sister, now that you're here, why hide? Come out!"

"Humph! Good boy, you have quite a good hearing!"

A graceful figure emerged from the bushes, it was Salem Meng.

"Sister, why didn't you tell us about Zhou Chuxuan's terrifying weapon? Now my brother has..."

Facing Salem Yuan's accusations, Salem Meng remained silent for a long time: "I didn't tell you that I was trapped in the city and just got out!"

"What? Sister, are you trapped?"