From eunuch to emperor

"Tell me slowly, how is the situation at Yanmen Pass? How many troops did Jing Tianlie dispatch, and how many troops did the barbarians dispatch?"

Long Chen asked Zhang Qian to pour a bowl of water over.

The messenger suddenly poured it into his mouth, choking and coughing again and again.

"Drink slowly, no one will grab you."

Gongsun Linglong patted the back, and the messenger almost vomited blood.

"Your hands are too heavy, don't shoot."

Bai Tingting stopped Gongsun Linglong.

"The Red Flame Army has more than 3 people, and the barbarians sent 20 troops. Jing Feng knew the defensive layout of the city and launched a surprise attack. The east wall was breached, and we suffered heavy casualties."

The messenger spoke very anxiously, and took out a sweaty battle report from his arms.

Long Chen opened it, and the handwriting inside was already blurred.

Zhang Qian scolded: "Jingfeng really became the leader, he should have killed them in the first place!"

Long Chen sighed: "It's all our fault that we marched too slowly and delayed the trip. The third princess only has [-] soldiers and horses, and now there are many casualties. The barbarians and Sedum are powerful, so we only brought [-] cavalry..."

Zhang Qian's group was very hesitant, 23 versus [-], the difference in strength was too great.

"What are you afraid of, just fight, you are a first-rank dragon general!"

Gongsun Linglong's fighting spirit was off the charts, and she wished she could kill him immediately.

"General, I beg you to save Yanmen Pass, we can't stand it anymore!"

Seeing Long Chen hesitate, the messenger hurriedly begged for reinforcements.

"When did I ever get scared? It doesn't matter if there are too many people. You go back and tell the third princess that I will choose the elite troops to march for reinforcements and let her guard the pass!"

Long Chen's tone was resolute, and he had the spirit of seeing death as home.

The messenger said: "General Long must be quick, the little one will reply to the princess right away!"

After speaking, the messenger rode on his horse and galloped back to Yanmen Pass.

"Everyone, throw away the luggage, only bring weapons, and the whole army marches quickly!"

Zhang Qian immediately ordered the heavy equipment to be discarded, and rushed to rescue Yanmen Pass with light equipment.

"and many more!"

Long Chen called to stop.

Zhang Qian asked strangely: "Still waiting?"

Seeing that the messenger had gone far away, Long Chen sat down slowly, poured a cup of tea, and said with a sneer, "It's fine to lie to others, but I want to lie to me..."

Zhang Qian didn't understand, and asked, "Cheating?"

The others were also surprised, not understanding what Long Chen meant.

"Yanmen Pass must be under siege, but it's hard to say whether the third princess suffered heavy casualties or whether she couldn't hold it anymore."

Jing Tianlie sent troops to the north, this news cannot be concealed, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty will definitely reinforce, Jing Tianlie can also guess.

The wise choice is to capture Yanmen Pass before the reinforcements from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty arrive.

Therefore, the news that Yanmen Pass was under siege should be true.

But Long Chen believed that Di Lingyi would still be able to hold on until Long Chen reinforced him.

"What do you mean? Didn't you understand?"

Gongsun Linglong's head was hammering iron, but she didn't understand what it meant.

"I mean, there was something wrong with the messenger just now, and the information he gave was false."

Gongsun Linglong asked: "No, how could the third princess' messenger be fake?"

Long Chen asked: "Who is the general?"

Gongsun Linglong blurted out: "What kind of bullshit general, a traitor!"

Long Chen chuckled and said: "We all say that Jing Tianlie is a traitor, but the messenger just now called him 'General', so the messenger is fake."

Gongsun Linglong thought for a while and said, "Why don't I remember?"

Wu Chuchu recalled carefully, and said: "Yes, he said 'the general and the barbarians besieged Yanmen Pass'."

Others also remembered that it was indeed the wrong name.

Zhang Qian said: "Jing Tianlie sent a fake messenger to deliberately mislead us? The third princess didn't send a messenger to ask for help?"

Long Chen shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, maybe the third princess didn't send a messenger, or maybe the messenger she sent was killed, and then sent a fake one."

The battle report was drenched in sweat, and the handwriting could not be discerned, whether it was Di Lingyi's handwriting or not.

Moreover, no one here has seen Di Lingyi's handwriting, even if it is fake, no one will know.

"What's his purpose? To lure us to light reinforcements, and then ambush us halfway?"

Wu Xiangyun remembered the ambush of Jing Feng in the Jade Buddha Guanfeng Valley.

"Yes, we set off from the capital and have been walking for several days. If we march lightly and quickly, we will be exhausted."

"When the time comes, Jing Tianlie will learn from us to fight an ambush, and our army will be finished!"

Long Chen threw the battle report aside, opened the map to check, pointed to a canyon 20 miles away from Yanmen Pass, and said: "A quick march must pass through here, Jing Tianlie can ambush here."

Emperor Lingyi's soldiers and horses are guarding the pass, and Jing Tianlie can lead his troops across the Yanmen Pass and enter the canyon to ambush.

Zhang Qian asked: "Then what should we do? Yanmen Pass is indeed under siege, if we don't reinforce, the princess really can't hold it..."

With a disparity in military strength, Di Lingyi must be fighting hard.

"There can't be too many ambushing people. If we block Yanmen Pass, Jing Tianlie won't be able to go back. When the time comes, close the gate and beat the dogs!"

Long Chen pointed to the map and saw that Yanmen Pass was the only place where the army could pass through. If the besieged army was defeated and Yanmen Pass was re-blocked, then Jing Tianlie would be the turtle in the urn.

"However, this canyon is the only way to go. We have to pass through here no matter what."

Dugu Jiali looked at the map carefully. If she wanted to reach Yanmen Pass, she had to go through the canyon, and it was impossible to go around.

"We don't have to go through here."

Long Chen closed the map, and Zhang Qian asked: "Don't go through here? We don't have a second way."

Long Chen said: "You, Wu Chuchu, and Wu Xiangyun will lead the troops to move forward and station ten miles south of the canyon, waiting for my news."

Zhang Qian didn't understand even more, and asked: "You don't want to break through the level alone, do you? Jing Tianlie has at least tens of thousands of people in ambushes, how can you fight alone?"

She thought that Long Chen was going to be a lonely hero and cross the canyon single-handedly.

Long Chen laughed and said: "What are you thinking, am I that arrogant?"

Against an army of tens of thousands, no matter how high his cultivation level is, he will sometimes die from exhaustion.

Even if the Empress was trained as Emperor Zun and faced tens of thousands of troops alone, she would not be able to kill them all.

"Then how do you reinforce?"

Wu Chuchu didn't understand what Long Chen meant.

"Apart from us, there are [-] soldiers from Jade Buddha Pass as reinforcements. They set out first. According to the schedule, they should be arriving soon."

"Linglong, Jiali, and Tingting and I took the trail, met the reinforcements from Yufo Pass west of Yanmen Pass, and then raided the barbarians besieging Yanmen Pass."

At the beginning, soldiers and horses were transferred from Jade Buddha Pass only because the capital's troops were not strong enough, but I didn't expect it to be of great help now.

"Then hurry up! Don't give Jing Tianlie time to react."

Zhang Qian thinks this strategy is very good, but Jing Tianlie is not stupid, once found out, the plan will be ruined.

"Prepare eight horses and take the path to Yanmen Pass."

Zhang Qian immediately prepared, Long Chen took his weapons and rushed to Yanmen Pass immediately.

Zhang Qian speeded up, pretending to march in a hurry and rushed to the canyon.

The messenger left the army, rode his horse and galloped northward, and ran until the sun set before reaching the mouth of the canyon.

A man with sword eyebrows, high cheekbones, a fleshless face, and a pair of eagle eyes came out next to him. This man was none other than Jing Feng.

"Major General! Long Chengen has been tricked!"

The messenger almost cried with joy.

Jing Feng didn't show any excitement, and said coldly, "Come with me!"

The two entered the nearby woods, a simple tent was hidden in the woods, and guards in red flame armor stood outside.

The curtain was lifted, and the two entered the tent.

Jing Tianlie sat in the middle, beside Chen Yuxin, Jiang Lin, and Lu Gan, three generals.

"How about it?"

Jing Tianlie's voice was low and his eyes were cold and stern.