The Rongdi people finally got the food they wanted, but after this defeat, King Rongdi and the soldiers no longer had the desire to continue fighting, and everyone was eager to return home.
It has been more than two months since King Chidi first encountered Ji Jie in hand-to-hand combat. The entire Rongdi tribe has sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers and reduced its number by more than one-third. They have managed to save a little wealth. It was almost empty again.
However, the casualties of Ji Jie and the Yan army led by him were less than one-fifth of the Rongdi people. The most unacceptable thing is that he has always been fighting with a group of new soldiers, and he has defeated the brave soldiers again and again. Rongdi people from the northern grasslands.
King Rong Di could not accept such a result no matter what. In the past, Yan State could only be beaten and bullied. As soon as Ji Jie came, the situation was immediately reversed. How could he, a young boy like him, be so virtuous?
King Rong Di attributed this failure to lack of internal unity. He sent people to the Xirong tribe, secretly found a son of the old King Xirong, turned him into his own puppet, and supported him on the throne. On the one hand, he desperately tried to win over Chi. King Di, he wants to complete the unification of the Rong Di tribe before next spring, and wait for the spring to take revenge when the flowers bloom.
A heavy snow blocked almost all possible military operations. King Rong Di led the remaining defeated soldiers back to the hinterland of the tribe and began to reorganize the army.
Ji Jie received accurate information and handed over the responsibility of city defense to Yan Shun. He returned to Jicheng, the capital of Yan, with 7,000 new soldiers, and returned in triumph.
Jicheng was bustling with activity. This was Yan's first victory against the northern nomads in decades. People were rejoicing and the streets were decorated with lights.
King Yan led his civil and military ministers thirty miles out of the city to greet the victorious soldiers.
The King of Yan bowed respectfully to Ji Jie on horseback and said, "My dear brother, you have worked hard all the way and have contributed a lot to our country of Yan. I must thank you well as a brother!"
"Brother, you're welcome!" Ji Jie turned over and dismounted, as did Ji Lin and Rou Yue behind him.
Ji Lin walked quickly to King Yan and whispered a few words to him. King Yan laughed loudly, took Ji Jie's hand and said, "Xian brother, it seems that I will call you brother-in-law from now on. Let's This is really a kiss!"
Ji Jie blushed, while Ji Lin blushed with embarrassment.
King Yan was still unfinished. He turned around and said to all the ministers: "Have you all heard that my good brother Zhaowen Jun is already my brother-in-law? Come and congratulate me!"
Congratulations are nothing, but every man is thinking about Ji Lin, a great beauty. Now that the beauty belongs to someone else, it’s too late to be sad. How can he think about congratulations?
"Who is this?" King Yan saw Rou Yue behind Ji Jie. Although he was shocked by her beauty, he still showed a very calm look.
"Friend!" Ji Jie did not intend to tell Rou Yue's true identity in front of everyone.
"Okay, okay, everyone will go back with me!" King Yan said happily: "Tonight we will have a big feast to reward the three armies, and then we will reward you based on your merits!"
In the evening, it was still the so-called highest level of courtesy. Ji Jie had already experienced it once, so he showed a very normal expression, which made Rou Yue frown.
"Haha, just get used to it!" Ji Jie said with a smile.
Ji Lin said angrily: "Just be content. If we hadn't been plundered by you all the year round, how could our life in the Yan country be so miserable?"
After three rounds of drinking, King Yan waved his hand, and the old eunuch stepped forward to unfold the royal edict and shouted in a high voice: "This time we defeated the Rongdi tribe and killed more than ten thousand people. Our great country of Yan is very lucky, and our people are very lucky! This battle The first creditors are Zhao Wenjun and the mighty general Ji Jie. He was specially awarded the title of first-class protector of the Yan Kingdom. He was also awarded the title of Grand Marshal of the Army and Horses. He was also rewarded with thousands of hectares of fertile land, thousands of cattle and sheep, and three thousand taels of gold and silver..."
The previous ones are all false names, and the fields, cattle and sheep are also just floating clouds. The most real thing is gold and silver, but this old man, King Yan, is stingy. He only has three thousand taels of gold and silver, and he must have less gold and more silver.
"The three brothers of the Xiong family were named brave pioneers and were rewarded with five hundred taels of gold and silver..."
"The rest of the soldiers will be rewarded based on their merits..."
After the old eunuch read the Wang Zhao, King Yan stood up with a toast and said: "I have another good news to tell the whole country, that is, the king's sister Ji Lin and the protector of the country are in love, and the widow will choose a good time and auspicious day for them to get married. Let's all drink together. One cup, bless the lovers!"
The civil and military ministers below raised their glasses reluctantly, and most of them just raised their glasses and put them down.
Fortunately, another beauty appeared here, a beauty with a more attractive appearance. Since Ji Lin has returned to Ji Jie, this beauty must have nothing to do with him. Everyone's attention has shifted to Rou Yue.
Rou Yue felt very uncomfortable with so many eager eyes scanning her body. If she hadn't been worried about being a guest, she would have turned against her a long time ago.
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Now that King Yan has announced their affairs, Ji Lin doesn't have to hide anything. She lives with Ji Jie openly, just like a young couple.
Recalling that she once showed off a pair of Wu hooks in front of Rou Yue, Ji Jie asked: "Are you used to using Wu hooks?"
"Yes!" Ji Lin nodded and said, "That is a unique weapon that I have practiced since I was a child, and I also evolved ordinary hook techniques into weapon moves!"
Ji Jie suddenly realized that in the first battle with Chi Di, she fought with a bearded man with a weapon that looked like a hook and sickle. No wonder at that time, she felt that her fighting style was a bit like a short weapon move. It turned out that she had figured it out by herself.
Let’s not talk about other things, just use Wu Hook.
Why is it right to use Wu Hook? One of the nine secret techniques of Yu Wangding is "Tian Wu Hook". He is worried about who to give such a good stunt to. It seems that no one he knows uses such a skill. The weapon is fine now, the owner has finally been found!
Weapons such as the Wu Hook are rarely used in the north, even in the Wu region where they originated. Who would have thought that the eldest princess of the Yan Kingdom in the far north would be interested in it.
"Teach you some powerful moves!" Ji Jie jumped up from the bed, stretched out his hand, and Wang Ding, who was engraved with "Tian Wu Hook", appeared out of thin air in the room, and then said to Ji Lin: "I read it, you remember it, can you How much you learn depends on your understanding!"
"Don't worry, my understanding is very good!" Ji Lin laid out the paper, picked up the brush and dipped it in ink.
Following Ji Jie's ups and downs voice, Ji Lin wrote quickly. The more she wrote, the more incredible she felt. It turned out that Wu Hook could still be used in this way. She thought she was learning the best hook method. Compared with what she is doing now, Totally rubbish!
Now Ji Lin finally understands why the women around Ji Jie are so good at martial arts. It turns out that they practice the superior martial arts recorded on King Yu's tripod!
Once you have mastered the moves of "Tian Wu Hook", you will challenge that annoying woman Rou Yue. She always thinks that her kung fu is better than mine, so her defeat must be ugly.
Ji Lin looked at Ji Jie more and more like the way a wife should look at her husband, and she felt more and more how correct her choice was.