Rebirth of the Phoenix Princess novel Chapter 1464

Luo Qingyan paced back and forth in the hall for a long time. "It's not easy to break this trap."

Yun Shang nodded, "When I came out of Qian Yin's house and stood at the entrance of the alley, looking at the people coming and going on the street, I wondered how many real civilians are on the street, and how many are disguised by others?

Just thinking about it makes my hair stand on end." Yun Shang pursed her lips, "Even I feel it creep, let alone the ordinary people who live with them day and night"

Luo Qingyan sat down on the chair, tapped his fingers on the table and said, "Let the secret spies continue to gather information first, and let them pay more attention to the ordinary civilians around them to see how many civilians have been replaced, and the proportion of civilians who have been replaced."

Then he looked up at Yun Shang, "I heard from the secret guard that the Wu Er'he City has been taken over?"

Yun Shang nodded, "Yes. Before I left the city, our army had already occupied the city and caught the concubine of Cangjue Qingsu. But my secret guards and I have been on our way day and night. The news of the battle is probably still on the way."

Luo Qingyan nodded and asked, "Is Cangjue Qingsu poisoned too?"

"He must have been poisoned." Yun Shang thought for a while, "When I was about to leave, I tried to talk with Wu Duona. From her reaction, I can tell that Cangjue Qingsu has been very irritable recently. He must have been poisoned. I've also left a few secret guards to go north with the people of the State of Yelang who are fleeing from the war. I'll ask them to contact the secret guards in the imperial capital city of the State of Yelang and carefully investigate the situation. There should be news soon."

Luo Qingyan nodded, "Cangjue Qingsu is poisoned, and the Wu Er'he City is occupied. There should be no way for the State of Yelang to make trouble for the time being. I can take the opportunity to secretly call back a group of soldiers. The news that Cangjue Qingsu was poisoned hasn't spread out yet. I can pretend to chase after the enemy. No one will expect that I will call my troops back at this time."

Yun Shang nodded, "Now there are a large number of troops in the Wu Er'he City. There are deserts on all sides of the city, so we can pretend to chase after them. Then we can pretend that the troops we sent out are destroyed by the army of the State of Yelang, or devoured by the desert. Then we can send them back to the Jin City in batches."

A murderous look flashed across Luo Qingyan's eyes. "Xia Houjing wants to replace all the civilians in the city with his people, and then trap us in this palace. Then we will surround this city and his people."

This was a solution.

But...

"Even if the army can travel day and night, I'm afraid it will take about a month for them to arrive in the Jin City. I'm afraid we don't know what will happen in the city in a month.

And if we besiege the Jin City, the real civilians in the city will probably..."

Yun Shang smiled bitterly, "If that's the case, then what we are doing now is no different from the way Cangjue Qingsu lured our army with all the people in the Wu Er'he City as bait."

Hearing this, Luo Qingyan glanced at Yun Shang, still frowning and saying nothing.

Luo Qingyan looked at Yun Shang with a smile, "What are you talking about? I've never had any relationship with a woman in the temporary imperial palace and on my way back. Don't accuse me of this. My wife is really a mean and jealous woman. If she hears it, she will skin you alive."

Yun Shang lowered her eyes and smiled, "Since Your Majesty doesn't want to do so, now that I'm back in the palace, I'm afraid Xia Houjing is going to make a move."

The smile on Yun Shang's face faded away. "How many soldiers are there around the Jin City? How many soldiers and horses are there nearby?"

Luo Qingyan thought for a moment and said, "All the guards add up to only eight thousand.

However, in order to train the navy some time ago, I dispatched about five thousand soldiers to secretly train in a lake in a deep mountain outside the city. We can dispatch them if we want to."

Yun Shang thought for a moment and said "Thirteen thousand. There are a total of one hundred and twenty thousand civilians in the city, including about ten thousand children. So there are about one hundred thousand civilians. And if half of the people have been replaced by Xia Housing's people, there are about fifty thousand civilians. In my opinion, there should be less than a half of civilians who have been replaced. So there are about thirty thousand or forty thousand civilians. This may seem like a lot of people, but they don't have real weapons, and we have about fifty thousand elite soldiers..." Yun Shang smiled, "If the battle breaks out now, we can probably have a try."

Luo Qingyan nodded, "Yes."

Yun Shang's eyes lit up. "If we want to win the battle with these thirteen thousand soldiers, we can't put the initiative in their hands. We have to take back the initiative..."