dognovel Chapter 257 Foolish Princes
Chapter 257 Foolish Princes
As soon as I arrived at the mansion, the head of the intelligence department came in person.
Ning Yi brought him to the main hall in the central courtyard. Zeng Rou poured tea for Ning Yi and stood quietly beside him.
As for the shopkeeper, he had only the right to stand there and forget about asking Zeng Rou, the Sixth Prince's personal maid, to pour him tea.
Ning Yi took a sip of tea slowly and asked, "Tell me, what happened?"
Generally speaking, unless it is a big deal, the head of the Intelligence Department will not come in person. He will just ask a servant to tell His Highness the news.
The shopkeeper bowed and said, "Your Highness, I just received news that something happened at the border."
"Hmm?" Ning Yi frowned and put down his teacup. "It's the border again. Didn't we just send over a hundred thousand elite troops from the vassal states? What happened?"
The shopkeeper didn't answer, but took out an opened letter from his sleeve.
Zeng Rou walked over, took it and handed it to Ning Yi.
Ning Yi knew after a quick look that this was a sign that the shopkeeper had seen it first, but this was normal.
A lot of important information needs to be filtered by him as the intelligence chief first.
Ning Yi opened the letter and read it carefully, frowning: "Are these a bunch of losers? They are so brainless."
The letter said that just the day before yesterday, 30,000 soldiers from the vassal king's army who had just set out were ordered to go to Lianzhou to assist in defending the city and obey the command of the Lianzhou general.
This kind of thing is very common and formal.
After all, hundreds of thousands of vassal soldiers were heading to the northern border, and Han Dingtian also received the emperor's order to disperse them.
Just station them all in the border fortresses. It would be great to have them withstand the barbarian army's attack.
Lianzhou City is the front line. The city is relatively tall and has been attacked by barbarians many times but failed to be taken down.
The generals defending the city are also the emperor's direct subordinates. Except for military resistance, they must obey Han Dingtian. The real orders must be obeyed by the old emperor.
But these 30,000 vassal kings’ soldiers had just arrived in Lianzhou.
The generals defending the city used the excuse that the city was too small to accommodate so many elite troops.
They were stationed outside the city to assist in defending the city. As for military rations, they were not withheld. After all, the generals defending the city were not fools.
He was still counting on these vassal soldiers to help defend the city. If these vassal soldiers turned around and left because they were not full, he would be in trouble.
Originally, the princes' soldiers didn't take the matter seriously. They had all arrived at the border and were there to fight.
Of course, everyone is thinking about how to preserve their strength.
It is not impossible to station outside the city. Make good use of the locations, build a fortress, and then start asking for food from the city.
Seeing how well they cooperate, the generals defending the city are naturally satisfied. If you want rations, that’s no problem. As long as you are obedient, you won’t starve.
But when the barbarian army came again and attacked the city by force again.
The general defending the city also urged the army outside the city to cooperate and attack the siege troops from the side.
After all, the barbarians this time brought not only cavalry, but also many surrendered and captured cannon fodder from the former soldiers of the Dawu Kingdom.
On the contrary, there were only tens of thousands of cavalry, while the rest of the troops reached 40,000.
The generals defending the city originally thought that with the support of these vassal kings' soldiers, Lianzhou would be able to hold on no matter what, and it would definitely be stable this time.
Who would have known that this group of vassal soldiers only sent a small number of troops out of the camp, fought a little with the barbarians, and then retreated quickly.
They watched helplessly as large numbers of cannon fodder continuously produced a large number of siege weapons to attack Lianzhou City.
The Lianzhou defender was so angry that he gritted his teeth and sent letters to the army outside the city several times, forcing them to attack from the flank.
However, the soldiers of the vassal kings outside the city refused to join the battle on the grounds that they had suffered heavy casualties and the enemy was too powerful.
As a result, Lianzhou City, which had already suffered several attacks, had even the civilians joining in the defense this time.
Still, it took five days for the cannon fodder army, which had transformed from sheep into an absolutely ferocious force, to break through.
The Lianzhou defender was eventually killed and the city was destroyed, and the people in the city were massacred.
Although Lianzhou fell, the casualties among the vassal kings' soldiers outside the city were not heavy, and they wandered back.
This happened not long ago.
Ning Yi felt disgusted: "These vassal kings' soldiers must have done this on purpose."
"They are not prepared for a decisive battle with the barbarians at all."
Although he knew that each of the vassal kings' soldiers was trying to preserve their strength.
But we can't do that. We can only watch Lianzhou being breached without any rush to rescue it.
Ning Yi was surprised and asked, "How could the barbarians allow these vassal kings' soldiers to leave?"
The shopkeeper immediately said, "Your Highness, according to the intelligence we have."
"At first, the barbarian army also attacked the vassal king's soldiers, but found that the vassal king's soldiers were not easy to defeat."
"But if they didn't attack the vassal king's soldiers, they wouldn't pay any attention to them. It was as if they had a tacit understanding, just watching and not taking action."
Ning Yi was speechless and remained silent.
He found it funny that he thought he could send a group of vassal soldiers across the border and force them to fight a decisive battle with the barbarians.
Regardless of whether the vassal kings' soldiers want to preserve their strength, once you reach the border, can you still avoid fighting with the barbarians?
In the end, they just couldn't start a fight.
The barbarians did not want to fight these vassal soldiers who were just watching the fun, and suffer heavy losses.
Similarly, the vassal kings' soldiers did not want to fight to the death with the barbarians.
Your capture of the city has nothing to do with us. We are just here to help and watch the show. As long as you don't attack us, we won't attack you either.
The shopkeeper even smiled bitterly: "According to the information sent by our people, some vassal leaders and soldiers have actually taken the initiative to do business with the barbarians."
"The barbarians looted large quantities of various materials and sold them to them at low prices."
Ning Yi tapped the table with his fingers, his face calm. Everyone present knew that this was what His Highness was considering.
When Ning Yi stopped tapping his fingers, he looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Keep having our people monitor the borders. For now, we can't do anything about these vassal kings' soldiers."
"I'll take care of them later." Ning Yi sneered.
A group of guys who just eat and watch the fun, and even betray their own people.
Do you really think you will have a good ending?
Qin Haifeng snorted coldly, "Are they all stupid? If the barbarians break through the border, the entire Dawu Kingdom will be in trouble, and their vassal kings will still be the targets of the barbarians."
Ning Yi laughed and said, "They wouldn't think that way."
"To those damned princes, the borders belong to the emperor, the cities also belong to the emperor, and the Great Wu Kingdom also belongs to the emperor. They are not the emperor, and they only need to take care of their own little piece of land. Going to the border to fight is the biggest loss. How could they be willing to risk their lives for the court?"
“Until the barbarian army really reaches their doorstep, they will understand what it means to be anxious.”
"They are all parasites of the Great Wu Nation." Ning Yi said with a cold look in his eyes, "Sooner or later, this prince will deal with them one by one and make them regret what they did today."
Although he said this, Ning Yi was helpless. He was not the emperor now and there was nothing he could do.
All we can do is wait patiently for news. I believe this problem will be exposed soon.