I had no choice but to take the edict and take a look at it.
"The Duke of Yue?"
"That's right!" Wanyan Jing said with a faint smile on her face: "His Royal Highness has promised that after the general recovers from his injuries, he can lead his army eastward and destroy Baiyue!"
Jing Cui's hands couldn't help but tremble, and the emotions in her eyes were extremely complicated.
The reason why the Jing family can become a powerful family alongside the royal family named Mi is because of their outstanding military exploits.
When Nanchu was founded, there was only a small area. The Jing family was indispensable for its development to its current scale.
In hundreds of years of foreign wars, the Jing family has sacrificed countless people. It can be said that their status and fame are accumulated from the bones of their ancestors for generations.
The most serious casualties occurred when the three kingdoms of Baiyue, Jingjiang, and Yongxu joined forces to attack Chu!
Seventy years ago, Bo Wu, the general of the Hundred Kingdoms, led two million troops from the Three Kingdoms. They advanced by land and water, and with overwhelming force, they directly invaded the capital of Ying and almost destroyed Southern Chu.
The three major families, Qu, Jing, and Zhao, responded immediately and recruited soldiers from all over to join King Qin in the capital of Ying.
Among them, the Jing family was the most important. They brought an army of 400,000 soldiers to defend Yancheng, blocking Bowu's millions of soldiers.
Unfortunately, how could a 400,000-strong army temporarily recruited be able to defeat a million well-equipped soldiers?
In the end, the entire 40,000-strong army was wiped out, and the 3,000 disciples of the Jing family were slaughtered, leaving only Jing Cui's lineage.
However, it was because of the desperate resistance of the Jing family that Nanchu received a glimmer of hope.
The armies of King Qin from all walks of life arrived at Yancheng and Yingdu, and finally defeated the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms.
After the war, in terms of merit and rewards, Jing Cui's lineage brought the glory of the entire Jing family into one body, with a transcendent status, but the number of people has become the weakest among several major families.
Later, when the political stability of Southern Chu was stable, the Jing family repeatedly requested to lead troops to attack Baiyue to avenge the genocide, but the Southern Chu royal family always used various excuses.
So much so that this feud was put on hold for more than seventy years!
Now King Zhao of Dashang not only gave him soldiers and horses to destroy Baiyue, but also made him Duke of Yue. Such favor made him have mixed emotions and he didn't know what to do.
Do you really want to betray Nanchu for the sake of family hatred?
Wanyan Jing didn't care so much and slowly took a step back.
"General Jing, His Royal Highness King Zhao is commanding the army. He should have arrived in Yingdu now. If you are interested, you can go with me!"
Jing Cui was suddenly in a daze. After just a short sleep, Nan Chu was about to perish!
"May I ask, Princess, how long have I slept?"
Wanyanjing looked at the light coming in from the window.
"It's been three days!"
Jingcui is as gray as ashes. Yancheng is less than sixty miles away from Yingdu, and it is also the last barrier in the east of Yingdu.
The city of Yan was breached, and the capital of Ying was not far from falling. Even though there were beings like Mi Yan and Jian Ping guarding it, the commander-in-chief of the Shang army was King Zhao, who had swept away most of the world!
No matter how powerful Mi Yan is, she may not be Zhao Rui's opponent.
In three days, anything can happen. Besides, Yingdu had already run out of food five days ago. How long can it hold on!
Exhaling slightly, Jing Cui got out of bed with great difficulty.
"Excuse me, Princess, and take me to Yingdu!"
Wanyanjing didn't say anything more and immediately asked someone to prepare the carriage.
The moment Jing Cui walked out of the city lord's mansion, his body trembled suddenly. The streets of Yancheng were much more lively than before he fell into coma.
Shops that had been silent for a long time reopened in the streets and alleys, and the faces of the people were filled with long-lost smiles!