Country and Beauty

Just a moment ago, they still had some doubts, and thought that using the profound arts to cut through the battlefield would be somewhat ethereal. Now, they finally realised it, and then, thinking about how she had led more than a thousand soldiers to set up a formation to block the close to a hundred thousand fresh troops, heavily defeating the Xianbei army, they couldn't help but admire and admire the Queen even more.

I will not hide the truth from you all. Right now in the Qin State, other than the eight thousand troops and horses that I have led, there are only the imperial guards, the imperial guards and the Luan Guards that remain behind. Li Xiong was originally a official of the Ba Shu Clan, but he did not think about repaying the Emperor's grace and openly rebelled against the Emperor, instead, he ordered his son, Li Qi, to invade my Qin State. However, Li Qi is not a mediocre person, and can tell that his schemes, courage and methods are all up to choice. And also send an elite army to ambush this Elite Armament at the Heavenly Eagle Mountain's exit canyon. "

"I will follow the queen's arrangements!" The generals stood up and said in unison.

Zhuge Mingyue nodded slightly. After discovering the enemy army's Elite Armament, that Elite Armament became a dead soldier, and was no longer a threat anymore, she just needed to wait for the enemy to enter the urn. However, for some reason, she still felt a sense of crisis, and felt a sense of unease in her heart.

At the same time, the Qin Army in Mingyang Pass City had allocated two thousand people to defend the city and the other seven thousand people to build the nine palaces and eight trigrams array s according to Zhuge Mingyue's blueprints.

In the dead of night, Zhuge Mingyue was in the middle of the night, dozing off beside a table in the main hall.

, who was the commander, did not fall asleep either. He had fought fiercely in the Mingyang Pass for ten days and suffered twenty thousand casualties, of which over nine thousand were killed, but only three thousand were killed in the battle. The number of casualties would not exceed two thousand.

Li Qi swept his eyes over the tens of generals of Academy Officer s and above in the tent and immediately said: "This time, it's all my fault, I greatly underestimated the fighting strength of the Qin Army. This time, it caused such a huge number of casualties, I never expected that the Qin Army would actually be so fearless, and resist so fiercely. Even though our army has attacked the city for ten days and we haven't even built a single fruit yet, it's not everyone's fault.

When the generals heard this, they all felt upset and said in unison with a tinge of guilt, "First Prince, I wasn't successful in my battle, please punish me!"

Li Qi waved his left hand, and laughed: "This has nothing to do with you guys, it's all because of how powerful Qin Army is, but facing such an enemy, defeating him, isn't that the greatest blessing in life? However, I do not want to continue to fight like this. I must think of a way to defeat Qin Army in battle and let him escape to the west of the Qin State.

Just then, a slender man amongst the crowd whose face was as white as jade cupped his hands and said: "If it's just to let Qin Army leave the Mingyang Pass, I do have a plan, but this plan will take a while to execute."

Everyone in the army recognized this person. He was the Prime Minister of the land, the Grand Tutor of the land. Fan Qin, son of the Marquis of Western Mountain, Fan Changsheng. In the Western Jin Dynasty (306 AD), Li Xiong proclaimed himself Emperor, changed the name of the Emperor, and achieved great success. Fan Changsheng who was 88 years old seemed to see the light of hope from Zhenguo County, and went to Chengdu to look for Li Xiong. Li Xiong led a hundred officials to welcome him personally. They took him as their Prime Minister and added him with the title "Great Tutor of the World", Feng Xishan. Fan Changsheng's "Knowledge and Ability" (the language of "General Administration") was a profound calligraphy skill. Its brush strokes were bold and unrestrained, 'plump and generous, as famous as Murong Bei and Wang Meng. There is also "Shu Dai Yi" 10 volumes, is known as the famous scholar Yang Sheng Nun, "Xishan Shu Dai". In the middle of Daxing in the East Jin Dynasty (318 AD), Fan Changsheng died at the age of a hundred.

Fan Xianzi was a man of his father's will and resourceful. Whether it was military strategy or political rule, he was an all-round talent.

Li Qi immediately replied: As long as Qin Army can withdraw from Mingyang Pass, and not harm our fighting strength, even if it takes a month of time, I can keep on wasting time with Qin Army!

Fan Qin laughed. "It won't take that long. Ten days is enough." Fan Qin continued, "The young master of the Qin Army s, he will not easily come out to fight. This way, our army can use the past few days to continuously attack the Mingyang Pass, and create the pretense of a siege. The various tribes will take turns to rest, and will do so day and night, acting as if we are attacking Yang Le. This way, I believe that within a few days, the Qin Army will retreat in fear. "

After Li Qi heard this, he carefully thought back to it and suddenly laughed out loud. He thought to himself, when Liu Bei and Cao Cao were fighting against each other in the Hanzhong back in the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang had used a tactic that would force Cao Cao Cao to retreat, day and night. This plan was not bad.

Deep into the night, just as Zhuge Mingyue was about to sleep, she heard the faint rumbling of a drum, and anxiously shouted out: "Where do you want to beat the drum?"

Just then, a guard ran in and shouted, "Reporting to the queen, the army is here! The army is starting to attack the city! "

At this moment, Shui Ruyan stood up when she heard that the army was going to attack the city late at night, and asked loudly, "Is what you said true?" Shui Ruyan's current appearance was like a tigress eating people. She did not have the slightest bit of elegance as a lady.

The guard replied, "It is absolutely true. The southern gate's flames are rising and the drums are rumbling. The cheers are even resounding across the horizon. I don't know how many people have come."

Shui Ruyan said, "Follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!" Zhuge Mingyue felt that something was amiss, but she didn't know what was amiss right now, so she followed Shui Ruyan to the city wall. The flames outside the city were flickering, and a huge drum sound was resounding in her ears, mixed with a heaven-shaking roar. She didn't know how many troops had arrived, but when Shui Ruyan was about to charge out of the city, the flames suddenly disappeared, and even the shouts and drums had disappeared at the same time.

When Shui Ruyan saw this scene, she felt that it was extremely strange. She hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"

The sudden suspension of the army made Shui Ruyan and the Qin soldiers in the city confused. Everyone had a question mark in their hearts. Zhuge Mingyue thought for a while, then leisurely laughed: "Doing all sorts of things, you're just an insignificant skill, what is there to worry about? "It seems like Cheng Jun is planning on using harassment to keep our troops busy. He shouldn't really be attacking the city!"

Zhuge Mingyue said coldly: "Command everyone to return, those who should sleep continue to sleep, and the construction of the construction diagram will continue. A thousand people will be left to guard the city walls. "

After Zhuge Mingyue returned, she did not go to sleep. Instead, she thought for a long time before coming up with a plan to confuse the enemy.

Teams of troops were being pushed into the rope pond, the troops were clanging their armor, the army of thirty thousand soldiers was forming an army of thirty thousand people, which included the Archer's Arm, the Axe's Arm, the Gunner's Array, the Shield's Hand Array, the Cloudstep Hand Formation and the vast cavalry army. They were arranged outside the city, ready to attack, as though the entire world was covered in black.

As the troops drew closer, the soldiers in front of them found it strange. The atmosphere in the city was a little unusual. When they looked closely, they were shocked to see that there were no guards at the top of the city gate.

Vanguard of the army said, "Great General, quickly look, there are no enemy troops on the city walls. The city gates are open, could it be that the Qin Army has abandoned the city and escaped?"

Li Qi watched from the sidelines, and said, "That's not right, there are three enemy commanders at the top of the city. There seems to be the sound of a zither. "

At this time, they were just one hundred steps away from the walls of the Mingyang Pass, and within the range of the bows and arrows that had already entered, they could clearly see each other's faces. Li Qi stared fixedly at the beautiful lady sitting on the zither on the wall, Shui Ruyan and Zhuge Mingyue were dressed in tight armour, her eyes and teeth were white, as though an immortal had descended to the world, causing Li Qi to be stunned for a moment.

Shui Ruyan's heart accelerated. She didn't even dare to breathe too loudly, afraid that she would attract the attention of the entire army. She immediately launched an attack, under such circumstances, who wouldn't tremble in fear? Wang Meng also forced himself to calm down.

Left and Right Vanguard were confused. "Who are the three people up there?"

Li Qi then said in a stunned voice, "The three above are the Prime Minister of the Qin State, Wang Meng, Queen Zhuge Mingyue, and Royal Concubine Shui Ruyan." This was the portrait Wang Dun had given to the main figures of the Qin State, indicating the price. Wang Meng had obtained five thousand taels of gold, while Zhuge Mingyue and Shui Ruyan had each gotten ten thousand taels of gold. There was an indescribable strangeness to the city wall. Li Qi quickly ordered, "Stop!"

Li Qi's order was like an urgent talisman, causing all the soldiers to stop in their tracks. Their iron armoured weapons clashed with each other, giving off clanging sounds, and their war horses roared non-stop, showing their unease in the air. "Clangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclangclang"

However, Zhuge Mingyue still maintained a leisurely manner, both her hands playing with the zither strings. Shui Ruyan and Wang Meng were feeling extremely tense, the heat in their bodies was boiling, they thought, if Li Qi gave the order, how could the city defend itself?

Zhuge Mingyue said: "Prime Minister Wang, do you still remember the 'Ocean Flower's Overbearing Hero' written by the Qin Wang?"

In fact, this song was Xie Fei's shameless plagiarism from the Ming Dynasty Yang Zhen's "Linjiang Xian"

Zhuge Mingyue's fingers flicked continuously, forming a rhythm on the strings of the zither. Her fingers moved as if it was casual and carefree, as if she was playing tai chi with it, her entire body swaying rhythmically along with the strings, giving off a melody. The zither music immediately clanged and sped up like the wind and rain. It was like a gushing spring current, like flying waves moving on the waves. It was mighty and vigorous, causing people to become excited.

Wang Meng sang: "The rolling has passed away, the waves have wiped out the heroes, whether it is success or failure turn to nothingness. Teng Qingshan was still there, and the sun had risen high in the sky … White hair on the river, used to see the autumn wind; a pot of turbid wine. "No matter how many things that have happened in the past and present, they are always talked about with laughter..."

Although Li Qi, Fan Lie and a few other high-ranking officers below the city could not understand the rules of speech, they could still sense the boldness and grandeur of words, including the sense of loss and loneliness after a great hero's success, and the contempt and contempt of a hermit from the mountains for fame and fortune. The loss of the heroic career of Ying Shi along the river was like a surging river that flowed to the east, unstoppable, and left nothing but the vicissitudes of glory and disgrace. The war itself was cruel, and the successes and failures of the war had turned into nothing. However, the countries had never stopped fighting with each other, leaving behind only the dignity and honor of the soldiers, as well as the broken walls and piles of bones.

After the song ended, Zhuge Mingyue released a laugh that sounded like silver bells, and said: "General Li Qi, I have been waiting for you, please attack the city."

It was not that he believed that Li Qi would retreat. In fact, back then when Zhuge Liang resorted to using an empty fortress to retreat, Sima Yi was a story that everyone was already familiar with, but Wang Meng was still calm and composed like a mountain. He couldn't help but admire Zhuge Mingyue's demeanor and feel intoxicated, even if he died today, he would have no regrets.

Seeing that, the vanguard general snatched the horse away, cupped his hands, and asked Li Qi: "General, please allow me to lead the troops to attack the city, to test myself and take the risk to lead the charge!"

Li Qi thought to himself, didn't the Zhuge family only have Zhuge Liang, who liked to sing 'empty city stratagem'? Hehe, if you want to repeat the same trick, you can consider it your misfortune to meet me, Li Qi. Li Qi was preparing to agree to the vanguard general's request to submit to him and attack the city. "First Prince, no, although Zhuge Liang's name was spread throughout the world due to the empty city plan, but now, it is not the same. Zhuge Mingyue is the Queen of Qin State now, so there is no need to risk her life to take the risk, furthermore, she had been fighting the Mingyang Pass fiercely ten days ago, so it is obvious that Zhuge Mingyue did not come. Now that she has appeared, at least she can see that the First Prince is here, and seeing how quiet the city is, he did not even have a single wisp of smoke or flame, and he must have set up an ambush.

Li Qi took the book and looked through it. In his deep thought, he found a large group of Huns outside the Chen Cang Cheng, rushing towards Chen Cang. Not good, it was definitely because the Qin Army and the Huns had reached an agreement in this area, and the Qin Army wanted to cut off the army's grain path. If there was an ambush within the Mingyang Pass, then he would definitely lose to the Qin Army's attack.

Fan Qin saw the commander-in-chief's expression changed, and he asked, "First Prince, what happened?"

Li Qi looked at Zhuge Mingyue who was sitting leisurely at the top of the city wall, he could not figure out his opponent's intentions, and sent troops to attack the city, if the enemy army was injured, he would not have the chance to turn the situation around, it would be better to believe that there was someone that could deal with Zhuge Mingyue, it should not be that, when the Xianbei army was surrounding and attacking the Luoyang, Zhuge Mingyue would use her thousand mounts to force back a hundred thousand of the Xianbei army. Clearly, her ability was extraordinary. If she wasn't careful, she might even be completely annihilated. She had no choice but to be on guard!

Zhuge Mingyue laughed: "If we don't attack now, when will we attack? This is a chance we will have to be careful not to run out of time. We will regret our actions in the future!"

Li Qi felt that Zhuge Mingyue was trying to goad him into action, and believed even more that there must be an ambush force within the Mingyang Pass to deal with the incoming army. Furthermore, when Li Qi saw how calm and confident he was, he did not dare to give the order to attack the city, and instead thought of a strategy to save Chen Cang. Li Qi cupped his hands towards Zhuge Mingyue and said: "Since I already know that the descendants of the marquis are in this city, I will not bring the army to bother you. Wait until I get rid of Chen Cang, then I will fight to the death with the descendant of the Marquis, the Duke of Qin! "

Zhuge Mingyue's expression was still as steady as Mt. Tai, and did not forget to tease Li Yue: "General Li is indeed sensible, otherwise, your hundred thousand men would not have been able to advance!" Li Qi snorted, and ordered the entire army to retreat, to return to Chen Cang Cheng, and to maintain silence. He turned his head in an orderly fashion, following the order of the square formation, and retreated back to the Chen Cang Cheng's Lake.