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"Bold, my King of Qi and the Queen of Tang Dynasty come to Jincheng, you dare to stop him!" Seeing someone stopping, a Tang general in front immediately stood up and roared. The man's name is Xu Dong, a powerful general borrowed by Li Yan from Zhang Jian. Xu Dong has been stationed in Pyongyang for many years and is very clear about the inferior combat power of Silla and Baekje. Therefore, when facing the people of these two countries, they have always been very arrogant. Even in the capital of Silla, they are also very arrogant.

The young scar general naturally knew who was in the team in front of him, but today he was ordered to come here just to give the other party a warning, so he shouted without giving in: "Your Highness the Queen can naturally enter the city, but this is our capital of Silla, not Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. If the King of Qi wants to enter the city, it is fine, but please station the generals outside the city!"

When Xu Dong heard General Scar's words, he was angry at the bullfighting and did not ask for instructions from the above. He shouted loudly and rushed over with a team of cavalry under his command. The General Scar obviously did not expect these Tang troops to be so arrogant, but since the other party was planning to take action, he naturally would not show weakness, and he took off his weapons and hedged them.

"Hao!" Xu Dong is worthy of being a famous general under Zhang Jian. When he and General Scar were in conflict, he suddenly shouted, waved the horse spear in his hand to break the opponent's weapon. Then the tip of the spear drilled into the opponent's arm like a poisonous snake, and pierced the Scar's chest with a "puff~" sound, and then he competed with his arms and actually picked up the man from the horse.

Seeing that his general was so mighty, the soldiers behind Xu Dong were all full of morale. With a roar, they rushed into the city gate with Xu Dong. However, the Silla soldiers who came out with General Scar were all frightened. They had a sense of fear of the Tang Dynasty, but now they saw Xu Dong so fiercely that they killed the famous brave general of Silla. Naturally, they were even more afraid to stop them. They watched the Tang army in front of them rush into the city gate.

By the time Li Yan got the news, Xu Dong and the others had already controlled the entire city gate. They met a few people who had the courage to resist, but they were all killed by these brave madmen. However, this bloody and cruel method had excellent results. When Li Yan entered the city, the people of Silla stood up when they saw them, and they didn't even dare to look at them.

"Hmph! Your Highness is so powerful. He killed our famous brave general in Silla without even asking!" When entering the city gate, Jin Shengman couldn't help but snorted coldly when he saw this situation. Although she also knew that the scar general was probably sent by Jin Gengxin to test Li Yan, but as the Queen of Silla, he was still a little dissatisfied with the general who killed his country by Li Yan's subordinates without authorization.

However, Li Yan seemed very calm and tasted the tea served by Wen'er and smiled: "That Xu Dong was the one I borrowed from Zhang Duhu. He was not obeying the discipline. And you saw it just now. I have punished him. Can't this show my sincerity?"

What Li Yan said was indeed the truth. Just now, after he learned that Xu Dong had committed suicide by Silla general without authorization, he immediately called him over and criticized him "severely" and then punished him to guard the city gate. Without Li Yan's order, no one was allowed to enter and exit without authorization.

Jin Shengman was naturally dissatisfied with Li Yan's "punishment" that was not painful, but she had no choice. Moreover, the other party was a hostile force after all, so she snorted coldly, then turned her head and ignored Li Yan. However, if she knew that Li Yan secretly sent someone a hundred guan reward to Xu Dong, she would probably be even more angry with Li Yan.

Seeing that Jin Shengman ignored him, Li Yan smiled and opened the car window and looked at it. He found that although Jincheng was more lively than Jinmen City, there were still very few pedestrians on the street. In fact, this is understandable. The residents in the city are not even full of food now, and the weather is so cold, so if there is no need, naturally no one will run around the street.

Looking at the few pedestrians, Li Yan felt a little bored. He put down the window and turned his head to Jin Shengman and said, "You queen is not doing a good job. When you return to Jincheng, there is no one to greet me. And someone wanted to stop me outside the city just now. Don't you even have a subordinate who dares to come out to greet us?"

Hearing Li Yan's ridicule, Jin Shengman didn't agree at all, and still turned his head aside, not even looking at Li Yan. However, she was actually a little confused. No matter how much she said she was the leader of a country, and there were many people in the court who supported her marriage with Li Yan, so if she came back this time, there should be many people coming out to greet her, but there was not one outside the city gate just now, which was really strange.

The urban layout of Jincheng was also built in Chang'an. The palace was located on the central axis corresponding to the main entrance. Li Yan and his carriage entered from the main entrance and walked along the relatively wide road. He soon arrived in front of the palace gate. However, to Li Yan's surprise, there were many people standing in front of the palace gate, and judging from their clothes, they should be all noble ministers of Silla.

When these Silla nobles saw Li Yan and Jin Shengman's carriage, they immediately ran up to pay homage. They spoke Chinese in a unified manner, and most of them even spoke very standard. It seems that the Silla nobles are indeed proud of learning Chinese.

Li Yan was naturally very welcome to these people who came up to greet them. After all, if he wanted to control Silla, he still needed some effort. Therefore, Li Yan showed the style of a prince of a great country, greeted everyone, and then said a few more gossips before entering the palace together.

The palace had already prepared a banquet for reception. Lee Yeon and Kim Seung-man sat in the main seat and drank with these Silla nobles. Kim Seung-man also introduced these Silla nobles to Lee Yeon. However, because there were many people, Li Yeon could not remember much. The most important ones were two, one was Li Weigong, who was the most important civil servant under Kim Seung-man, and the other was Jin Tie-soo, who was a military general who was in charge of half of the Silla army in Jincheng. These two people were both literary and military, and they happened to be Kim Seung-man's right-hand man.

"Your Highness, Prince, we have long heard that you are going back to Jincheng today. We were originally going to leave the city to welcome him, but Jin Chunqiu and Jin Gengxin deceived us too much and threatened us with force, so that we could not leave the city to welcome him. Please don't blame your highness and Prince!" After three rounds of wine, Li Weigong suddenly stood up to report the report.

"That's right, Jin Gengxin and others are really brave. With the help of Huadaolang's strength, they will launch an air strike in three days and snatch the three thousand troops in their hands, which will lead us to the inability to resist today. This is the dereliction of duty of the general. Please ask the queen to punish him!" At this time, Jin Tiexue also stood up with a red face and said. He is in his fifties and is also a veteran who has been leading troops for many years. However, he was unaware of it for a while, but he was successfully attacked by Jin Gengxin. The reputation he accumulated in the first half of his life was completely ruined. It was extremely frustrating.

Hearing these two people's words, Li Yan and Jin Shengman looked at each other. No wonder they hadn't come outside the city gate to greet them before. It turned out that they were forced by Jin Gengxin. The other party had arranged for the attack before, but unfortunately Xu Dong was killed at once. However, Jin Gengxin was really bold and actually took all the six thousand troops in Jincheng. Does he really want to fight to the death?

Jin Shengman also calculated in her mind: the six thousand soldiers and three thousand Hana Daolang in Jincheng, in this way, Jin Gengxin has nine thousand people in his hands. Although it is more than twice as much as Li Yan's more than 20,000 people, she also has a little resistance. Although it is likely to end in failure in the end, she is worried that if Jin Gengxin's resistance causes Li Yan to suffer too much loss, Li Yan will pass on his anger to the people of Silla, which will be bad at that time.

However, Li Yan didn't seem to care much, and just asked Jin Tiexue and Li Weigong about Jin Gengxin's current situation. According to them, after seizing all the guardian forces of Jincheng, Jin Gengxin and Jin Chunqiu immediately reduced all their troops and occupied the southeast corner of Jincheng, which was also the residence of their two people. In addition, they did not come to pay a visit to Li Yan and Jin Shengman this time, and it seemed that they wanted to resist stubbornly.

After the reception banquet, Li Yan deliberately kept Jin Tiexue and Li Weigong, and then called Hu Li, Zhou Long, Lu Hong and Wang An who came with him. Among them, Jin Tiexue took Hu Li and Zhou Long to take over Jincheng's city defense, while Lu Hong and Wang An listened to Li Weigong's introduction to various government affairs in Silla.

Jin Tiexue and the others were a little resistant to Li Yan's blatant overpowering power at the beginning, but under the suppression of Kim Seung-man and the current situation could not help them resist, so they had to surrender in the end.

Li Yan was not idle either. After Hu Li and Jiang Most of the Jincheng area were controlled, Li Yan immediately asked them to lead people to surround the place where Jin Chunqiu and the others were. However, what everyone did not expect was that they actually lost. Whether it was Jin Chunqiu or Jin Gengxin, they had already escaped, and even took their families away. According to insiders, as soon as Li Yan entered the city, Jin Chunqiu and others left from another city gate.

Li Yan and Jin Shengman were both a little stunned when it came to this result. They didn't expect that the other party would not even dare to see them, and they just fled with people. However, Li Yan did not intend to let the other party go like this. After all, Jin Gengxin was a soldier-minded person, and he had nine thousand people in his hands. If the other party seized the opportunity, it would be time to turn over.

"Chasing, I want to see people alive today, and die with corpses!" Li Yan made a decision immediately. Hu Li had already assembled all the cavalry, including two thousand cavalry borrowed from Zhang Jian, plus all the guards of the royal palace in Li Yan's hands, and there were exactly three thousand people. The three thousand cavalry gathered into a torrent of steel and chased along the route of Jin Chunqiu and the others' escape.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter completed!