The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 494: Soldiers Approaching the City (Part 1)

In the next few days, it was snowing all over the sky, and they were all trapped in the cave. Gu Jiao practiced bow and archery in the cave when she had nothing to do.

Ever since Tang Yueshan gave Gu Jiao a lesson last night, he regretted it when he woke up. This girl is an enemy of the Tang family, and he shouldn't teach her to anyone he teaches.

It was also a coincidence that Gu Chengfeng knew how to shoot arrows, and when he saw Gu Jiao drawing a bow in the cave, he came over to point her out.

He has no reservations about Gu Jiao, but he is not stingy with what he knows. He even made a simple target with a shield and dry wood and hung it on the rock wall for Gu Jiao to shoot.

Gu Chengfeng's archery skills are not bad. After all, he is the son of the Hou family. Even the weakest Gu Chenglin can ride and shoot since he was a child. However, Gu Chengfeng's level is only a high level among ordinary people. Let him stand among the archers of the Tang family , that's not enough.

It wasn't Tang Yueshan who could just take a soldier out of the Tang family's bow and arrow, and Gu Chengfeng's archery skills could be compared to nothing left.

The worst archers in the Tang family are all required to be able to penetrate Yang with a hundred steps.

As for Gu Chengfeng pointing Gu Jiao, Tang Yueshan really couldn't see it.

"You heard me right!" Gu Chengfeng said to Gu Jiao.

Tang Yueshan rolled his eyes in disgust, he must be right, it is clear that everything is wrong! Can the bow be pulled like that? Can the arrow aim like that?

This is simply more unbearable than Gu Jiao pulling the wrong bow.

Then Tang Yueshan became a donkey again.

Tang Yueshan works as a donkey every day.

Donkey has been until the snow stopped.

Old Hou Ye's postoperative infection disappeared. He is a bit older, but because of practicing martial arts all year round, his physique is not inferior to the young guy, and his wound heals well, let alone Tang Yueshan's.

Gu Jiao removed the stitches from the two wounds on Tang Yueshan's thigh.

They walked through the forest together and came to a small village on the edge of Lingguan City. Gu Jiao asked the villagers to buy an ox cart, and exchanged the ox for her two horses, and gave the other horse to Tang Yueshan.

Tang Yueshan got on his horse and said to the two: "You can go straight along this road and you will reach Yuegu City."

Gu Chengfeng led the horse, hesitated for a moment, looked at Tang Yueshan and said, "You...are you really going to Yecheng alone? How about——"

He wanted to say, why don't you go back to the ancient city of Yue with us first, and when my grandfather is settled, I will go to Yecheng with you.

Gu Chengfeng didn't have much interest in helping Tang Yueshan, but the people trapped in Yecheng were the imperial army after all. After all, he was not the young boy who came to the frontier fortress. The border war was raging, and the mountains and rivers were destroyed. As a son of Zhao Kingdom, he had already Can't stay out of it.

Gu Chengfeng did not say these words,

But Tang Yueshan understood what he was going to say, Tang Yueshan said: "If few people can solve it, I can solve it myself. If few people can't solve it, adding the two of you will not help, you better not follow to die."

There is a difference between the fighting power of one person and three people in the arena, but there is almost no difference in front of tens of thousands of troops on the battlefield.

Gu Chengfeng felt that what he said made sense, but he couldn't refute it.

Several people parted ways.

Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng took the old master back to Yuegu City, and Tang Yueshan hurried to Yecheng.

"Tell me, what will he do?" Gu Chengfeng asked worriedly.

Gu Jiao actually wanted to know what Tang Yueshan was thinking of. Tang Yueshan didn't seem like the kind of person who would die impulsively, he must have a plan in his heart.

Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng returned to Yuegu City.

The situation in Yuegu City was three points more tense than before they left. Almost all the shops on the street were closed, and the pedestrians on the road also disappeared.

"Isn't that the way it is going to be a war?" Gu Chengfeng said with a complicated mood.

Gu Jiao hummed lightly.

The battle of the three cities started first, and the people of Yuegu City were almost fully prepared. However, even so, it did not change the fact that it eventually became a purgatory on earth. It was the one with the most miserable ending among all the cities in the frontier fortress.

Chen Guo's army slaughtered the city here.

Men, women, young and old, women and children are weak, and even livestock are not spared.

The carriage arrived at the prefect's mansion.

It was still Master Hu who came out to greet them.

I haven't seen you for a few days, Master Hu is more haggard than before, he rushed out with his official hat on his face, and said excitedly and surprised: "Oh, the two adults are back! The two adults left without saying goodbye that night, frightening the little one. It's gone! I thought something happened to the two adults..."

Gu Chengfeng frowned impatiently: "Okay, don't talk about it, go to the mansion quickly."

It was windy outside, and they blew all the way, almost freezing to death!

"Yes, yes, yes!" Master Hu hurriedly responded, he led the way, and with a casual glance, he found a person lying on the temporary cart.

When the old Hou Ye came to the frontier, he and Tang Yueshan stayed in the prefect's mansion. Master Hu received the two of them. Master Hu quickly recognized the old Hou Ye, and he couldn't help being surprised: "Gu old Hou Ye! You... ...you went to Yecheng to save people?"

Everyone thought that Lord Hou was imprisoned in Yecheng.

Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng stayed for one night and then disappeared. Master Hu and the prefect once suspected their identities, guessing that they might not be sent by the imperial court, but just two pretenders who came to the prefect's mansion to inquire about news of.

Seeing them bring the old Hou Ye back now, it overturned the previous doubts.

Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng did not say that they rescued people in Lingguan City.

However, from Master Hu's reaction, it can be seen that at least the prefect's mansion, Chen Guo's army, and the remnants of the previous dynasty have not colluded for the time being.

The current prefect's mansion is fairly safe.

"Enter the mansion." Gu Chengfeng said to Master Hu in a deep voice.

"Ah, that's right! Let's enter the mansion now! The yard from last time is reserved for the two of you!" Master Hu broke into a cold sweat and brought him into the prefect's mansion.

It was impossible for the two of them to keep the courtyard, so Mr. Hu kept winking at the servants, but the servants were clever, and hurriedly drove the people out of the courtyard before the two of them.

"No one has lived in it for a few days, and there is dust in the house. I'll ask someone to clean it up first, and you guys go to the study first." Master Hu said with a smile.

Gu Jiao and Gu Chengfeng saw through it without telling the truth, first took out the stretcher, and asked the servants to carry the old master into the study.

The house was tidied up quickly, the innermost room was still lived by Gu Jiao, and Gu Chengfeng lived next door to Old Hou Ye, which was the room where Gu Chengfeng lived before.

This time, the prefect of Yuegu City was in the mansion, so he came to pay a visit to the two of them in person, and tried to find out their identities, but unfortunately they didn't say a word.

The eunuch couldn't figure out the details of the two of them, but seeing that the two rescued the old Hou Ye from the dangerous Yecheng, he knew that the two were not ordinary people, so he didn't dare to offend them for a while.

The prefect's surname is Cheng, and he is thirty-nine years old this year. I don't know if it's because of the hardships in the frontier. His face looks old compared to his actual age.

Taishou Cheng cupped his hands at the two sitting on the chair, and said: "With all due respect, Yuegu City is about to go to war. I wonder if the two adults will know when the imperial court's reinforcements will arrive?"

Gu Chengfeng said calmly: "The army of the imperial court is already on the way, and it will naturally arrive when it should arrive. How many defenders are there in Yuegu City?"

"Five thousand." The prefect said shyly.

"Only five thousand?" Gu Chengfeng said in amazement, "Why so little!"

The prefect said helplessly: "Yuegu City is just a small city, and there was no army stationed there before, and half of the 5,000 people were recruited temporarily."

Those recruited temporarily are basically sent to the battlefield to give away heads.

Gu Chengfeng was silent. He really didn't expect the situation in Yuegu City to be so difficult. With just such a small number of people, if the remnants of the previous dynasty and the army of Chen Guo attacked Yuegu City, Yuegu City would be defeated.

"Go down, we'll call you again if something happens." Gu Chengfeng said to Cheng Taishou.

Cheng Taishou cupped his hands: "Your Excellency, if you have anything to do, call me at any time."

After Cheng Taishou left, Gu Chengfeng said to the servants guarding the door: "You are no longer needed here, you should also step back."

"Yes." The servants left the yard one after another.

Gu Chengfeng poured a cup of hot tea for Gu Jiao naturally, and said, "Let's drink some water first."

Gu Jiao picked up the teacup and took a sip lightly.

Gu Chengfeng also poured himself a cup, and when he drank half of it, he put down the cup and said with a sigh: "I don't know when my elder brother's army will arrive, if they launch an attack on Yuegu City now, these 5,000 people may be the defenders. Can't live."

In the dream, Yuegu City was indeed lost, and the Gu family army arrived after Yuegu City was massacred.

The tragedy in Yuegu City is no wonder for the Gu family army. After receiving the order from the imperial court, Gu Zhangqing rushed back to the capital as quickly as possible, and integrated the Gu family army as quickly as possible, leading an army of 100,000 to the north.

It's a pity that not all the 100,000 troops are cavalry. Under the current road conditions and armament conditions in Zhao Kingdom, the speed of the infantry's rapid march cannot exceed a hundred miles a day, otherwise the combat power of the infantry may be affected. And due to the influence of the frontier climate, the closer to the north, the slower the marching speed, and it is not even ruled out that the mountains will be blocked by heavy snow.

Not to mention that the marching speed of the army is not determined by the fastest cavalry or the second fastest infantry, but by the slowest baggage.

Luggage includes grain, tents, weapons, and ordnance for siege.

An army without supplies is like an unarmed soldier, and it will fail if it fights.

Calculated in this way, it is already a miracle that Gu Changqing arrived with a large army in a few days.

"Five days." Gu Jiao said.

"What five days?" Gu Chengfeng said.

"Your elder brother." Gu Jiao said.

If she remembered correctly, Gu Changqing and the Gu family army would arrive five days later.

But two days later, Chen Guo's army was about to slaughter the city.

Today is also Fang Fangzai who wants a monthly pass!