"In the hands of the prince, plus the gathered remnants of the previous dynasty, he has almost 200,000 troops."

Ruan Qingcheng was shocked.

"so much?"

The key is that Jiangnan is not far from Kyoto. With 200,000 troops, Kyoto can be captured easily.

The soldiers and horses of Kyoto plus the imperial guards could not exceed 30,000 even if they were killed.

When General An at the border comes back for reinforcements, Kyoto may have fallen for several days.

Ruan Qingcheng said anxiously: "What should I do, An Ning? Is it possible to watch the prince attack Kyoto so unscrupulously and ascend the throne as emperor? The most important thing is that there are too many big shots in Kyoto. If you are pinched by people outside,

I don’t dare to act rashly. An Ning, otherwise you can take my aunt away."

"If you leave, General An will support Kyoto without any worries."

An Ning shook his head, his brows also stained with a little burnt color.

"I sent a message to my father a month ago. He sent a troop of troops back to Kyoto secretly. They should be arriving soon."

Ruan Qingcheng was secretly shocked that An Ning had planned something to happen to Dongdu a month ago.

"How many soldiers and horses does General An have?"

An Ning covered her eyes.

"No more than 20,000 at most."

Any more and it will be noticeable.

And if nothing happens, the general will be charged with treason.

His father believed in her, but he also had his own sense of proportion.

Ruan Qingcheng's eyes suddenly dimmed.

"Twenty thousand soldiers and horses, the total does not exceed 50,000, how can we resist 200,000 soldiers and horses."

"Don't worry, Qingcheng. It has been half a month since Canglan left for Jiangnan. Although the journey to Jiangnan is not far, it is not close either. The Holy Spirit should have plans during this period. Let's wait and see."

With Gu Qingzhao here, how could Kyoto lose?

When they guessed that the prince and Xiang Xu were going to rebel, they began to make preparations separately.

If she guessed correctly, Gu Qingzhao should still have a trump card in his hand.

What a coincidence, Gu Qingzhao's voice just sounded outside the door.

An Ning's face changed.

Gu Qingzhao said with heavy eyes: "The prince launched an attack on Kyoto and has now reached ."

Ruan Qingcheng's expression changed drastically.

An Ning said calmly: "How is the battle going?"

"The blue waves are as powerful as breaking bamboo."

Gu Qingzhao paused and continued: "But the Black Cloud Cavalry also came, and they stopped people outside , using Henghe as the boundary."

The Black Cloud Cavalry, the Black Cloud Cavalry is here.

The Black Cloud Cavalry is the most elite soldier under An Ning's father. Each one of them can stop a hundred with one blow.

"But there are too many people who can't defeat Canglan."

After all, it's not a long-term solution.

"Qingzhao, if my guess is correct, is General Qi Hu from the south already on the way?"

Gu Qingzhao nodded.

"General Qi Hu is now encircling Jiangnan from the rear."

The corners of An Ning's lips curled up slightly, as expected.

She wrote a letter to her father a month ago, and Gu Qingzhao wrote a letter to his friend General Qi Hu.

These two soldiers form the last hope of rescuing Daye.

As long as the Black Cloud Cavalry can support General Qi Hu, when reinforcements arrive and the two sides encircle him from the front and back, they will be able to annihilate the enemy.

Ruan Qingcheng said worriedly: "But it is too late to send troops now."

Gu Qingzhao said with a cold expression: "General Qi Hu, we started preparations a month ago. We will definitely arrive within half a month."

Ruan Qingcheng was suddenly shocked.

The two people in front of me had been planning this matter a month ago.

The key is that they made such bold predictions without thinking about the consequences if things did not develop in the direction they thought.

If the prince did not commit rebellion or escaped from Kyoto, then the behavior of these two people would be a crime of treason if discovered.

Ruan Qingcheng was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat.

Gu Qingzhao walked to An Ning and stroked her hair extra gently.

He whispered: "Don't be afraid, the prince cannot enter Kyoto."

An Ning nodded.

Of course she's not afraid.

The current situation seems to be that the prince has the advantage, but they will not be weaker than the prince invisibly.

The prince and Prime Minister Xu, who had never led troops into battle, wanted to step over Heiyunqi in a short time.

They don't have this strength.

And a very important card is still left in Kyoto.

An Ning and Gu Qingzhao looked at each other. They had the same mind and understood what the other was thinking.

An Ning said warmly: "The queen is a very useful card. The prince and Xu Xiangtie are determined to capture Kyoto, so threatening the queen will be useless. But using the queen's sacrificial flag before the battle will disturb the morale of the army."

It is definitely impossible to use the queen to threaten the prince to surrender.

But if the Queen is used to sow discord before the battle, how many people's minds can withstand being shaken?

After all, the queen is the biological mother of the prince. How can people believe that he will treat his subordinates well when he doesn't even want to take care of his biological mother?

"It's just that over there with the Holy Spirit..."

Although the queen has been deposed now, she still served as a queen for decades.

Openly taking the Queen's flag to sacrifice, to put it bluntly.

If it spreads to enemy countries, it will inevitably affect Daye's image.

Gu Qingzhao took An Ning's hand and said softly: "Leave it to me, Your Majesty. As for the rest, in troubled times, the most indispensable thing is the verbal and written criticism of the literati."

"good."

On the second day, Gu Qingzhao raised the issue of using the abolished queen sacrificial flag in the court hall.

It immediately caused an uproar in the court.

There is anything to say.

There are those who oppose it, and there are those who support it.

The opposition simply believed that flag sacrifice was something done by prisoners, and no matter how big a mistake they made after being deposed, it still represented the face of Daye.

Even if the abolition of the Queen's Sacrifice Flag affects the enemy's army, it will only hurt the enemy by one thousand and cause eight hundred damage to oneself.

The supporting side feels that it is urgent at this time.

Without thinking of any countermeasures, Kyoto was penetrated, and the eggs were still intact under the overturned nest.

Emperor Xuan sat on the dragon chair and closed his eyes.

Finally, he sighed and issued an imperial edict to abolish the Queen's Sacrificial Flag.

At this time, preserving Kyoto is the top priority.

The deposed queen was escorted to , where Gu Qingzhao led the people.

At the city gate when he was about to leave the city, Gu Qingzhao saw An Ning standing next to him.

He walked forward, looked at the bundle she had packed and a horse beside her, and sighed.

"Aning, how about you just wait for me in Kyoto? There are many dangers in here, you..."

An Ning interrupted him.

"Master Gu! I didn't go because of you, I went for the people of the world."

She was telling the truth. She would go today whether there was Gu Qingzhao or not.

The main reason she went wasn't because of him.

Gu Qingzhao was silent for a while after hearing this.

He knew that the girl in front of him was just like when she was a child, she would do whatever she decided to do.

He didn't have the right to stop her.

"Feel sorry."

An Ning's tone softened, "I know you are worried about me, there is no need to apologize."

The corners of Gu Qingzhao's lips curved slightly.
Chapter completed!