This opportunity still has to be found on the battlefield of Qi State.

Apart from the quarrel, there should be no other results in Cangyang City.

Unless Yang Yuan is willing to end in person, all the officials who oppose him will be flattened.

This is not a particularly difficult thing for him.

But Yang Yuan still didn't intend to do it himself.

He has long understood one thing, a monarch must learn to be a referee, not a player.

Once the referee is off, it proves that Yang Yuan, the monarch, has failed.

When the Qinglong Army fought fiercely with the Qi Army in Xiaoqingshan, the debate in Cangyang City on whether to support the Qinglong Army and the Xuanwu Army also reached its peak.

One night, Gong Yi received another letter, an unsigned letter.

Gong Yi was not surprised when he saw the letter, obviously he knew who gave him the letter.

He took the letter back to the study silently, sat on the chair and opened the letter to read.

The content of the letter was not much, very simple, less than one page, but Gong Yi read it for a long time.

He had read the contents of the letter a long time ago, and holding the letter was just thinking about how to do well what he had been told in the letter.

From the word "confession", we can infer who gave the letter to Gong Yi.

Gong Yi also had no choice, Yang Yuan had to let him do some things, on the one hand because he was the general Yang Yuan summoned, and on the other hand because the military was more suitable to take the blame.

Especially in Qianguo, Yang Yuan attaches great importance to the separation of military and government, and no one can cross the border.

The military of Qianguo is also relatively closed. Only the Governor's Mansion of the Fifth Army and Yang Yuan can handle military affairs.

This time, it must be that Yang Yuan needs the military to help him with one thing, or should be said to take the blame.

Gong Yi couldn't refuse Yang Yuan, so he could only think on his own how to complete the task assigned by the king while reducing the military's guilt as much as possible.

The pot must be recited, of course you have to choose a smaller, whiter one.

Yang Yuan was lying on the big bed made of golden nanmu, his eyes were looking up at the sky, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and his breathing gradually became short of Gong Yi's thoughts. He tried his best to let himself go.

But in the end he let out a long sigh of relief, "Huh..."

Not long after, a snow-white figure came out from under the quilt. Seeing this, the two maids immediately stepped forward to help, and brought ginseng tea and a spittoon.

After the soft and greasy body returned to his side and fell into a deep sleep due to exhaustion, Yang Yuan regained his senses and had time to think about the affairs of Qi.

He didn't stay in Cangyang City for a long time, but he was getting tired of it.

Do you have a lot of government affairs?

many!

There are so many that even if he handles it every day, he can't finish it.

So will Yang Yuan's departure from Cangyang City at this time make the court of Qian Kingdom into chaos?

Basically not.

In the past two lifetimes, Yang Yuan has heard of too many monarchs who were exhausted because they were busy with political affairs. Some of them made the country better because of diligence, but a large part of them were unable to change the status quo of the country even if they were diligent.

So whether a monarch is diligent or not is not a necessary factor to make a country strong.

The key lies in the employment and establishment of systems and the control over the military.

Yang Yuan has been working hard in this direction.

So even if Yang Yuan is not in Cangyang City, it will not plunge Qianguo into chaos.

It's just that 90% of the officials think that staying in the capital can make the country more stable.

So there is no big problem for Yang Yuan to leave Cangyang City.

All Yang Yuan needs to do is to give Baiguan a reason why he must leave Cangyang City.

He gave this task to Gong Yi.

Who told him to be Yang Yuan's most trusted general!

 …

Qi State, Xiaoqingshan.

The Qi army finally captured the No. 1 hillside defended by the Qinglong army.

Dong Huan's doubts were also answered.

It was unbelievable that the Azure Dragon Army had built so many forts. When the Qi army broke through the hillside, they discovered that more than half of the inconceivably many fortresses were fake.

And the fake ones are so realistic and bold!

There are several fake forts on the second line of defense. The key is that when the Qi army attacked, they didn't find out that these forts were fake.

They only think that these forts function differently from other forts.

The Qinglong Army used the first line of defense and the second line of defense to fight against the Qi army, causing a large number of casualties to the Qi army.

The casualties of the Qinglong Army itself were extremely small.

After all, relying on forts, trenches, and low walls, at least 60% of the Qi army's attack was blocked by the fortifications on the defense line, while the Qinglong army's attack fell 100% on the Qi army.

Moreover, the Qinglong army's attack was very sharp, and they brought more soldiers across the river than the Xuanwu army.

Not only did they bring over 300 long-armed crossbows, but also 5,000 hand crossbows.

There are also thousands of strong bows, and some small ballistas.

These long-range weapons alone are enough for Qi Jun to drink a pot.

What's more, the most powerful Qinglong army is spearmen, not archers.

In order to capture the hillside, the Qi army paid a huge price.

Of the more than 90,000 Qi troops who captured the hillside, less than 70,000 were able to continue fighting.

Dong Huan looked at the number of casualties in his hands, his hands were shaking.

"How could there be such a large number of casualties!"

"How could this be!"

Dong Huan knew that there must be a lot of casualties in the past few days, but he didn't expect it to be so big!

One fifth!

Only one hillside was captured, and one-fifth of the casualties were lost. Will the next one be fought?

Although the Azure Dragon Army lost this hillside, their casualties will certainly not be greater than their own!

Thinking of this, Dong Huan's mood became heavy again.

Will his strength become smaller than that of the Azure Dragon Army if the fight continues?

When the Azure Dragon Army retreated, they took away all the corpses of the wounded and dead soldiers. In the fierce battle, the Qi Army did not have the energy to count the casualties of the Azure Dragon Army~lightnovelpub.net~ and did not have the energy to take away the dead Azure Dragon Army Corpses of soldiers.

So Dong Huan doesn't know the casualties of the Qinglong Army now, so he can only infer based on the approximate data collected by the army every day.

A "probably" is enough to show how unreliable the numbers Dong Huan knows are!

What are the real casualties of the Qinglong Army?

Cao Meng is very clear about this problem, and it is not difficult to accept, but it still makes him very sad.

Every soldier of the Azure Dragon Army is his lifeline, even if he was prepared to suffer huge casualties before the battle.

But when he saw the Azure Dragon Army soldiers fell on the battlefield, he couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

"So many good fighters have fallen, and they will never go home. I did not protect them!"

In the dead of night, Cao Meng was lying on the bed alone, thinking silently.

As a commander, Cao Meng must be able to bear the pressure and pain brought about by huge casualties, and he must have a "cold" heart!

But he must not ignore death!

"The casualties of the Qi army are at least five times that of ours. I still have four mountains for them to attack. I wonder if they can hold on to the end?"

Cao Meng was not worried that the Qi army could drive them out of Xiaoqingshan.

The Qinglong army built a large number of fortifications on two of the five peaks, including forts, ditches and low stone walls.

There is not enough time, so we can only build so many. Give the Azure Dragon Army a few more months, and Cao Meng will surely turn the five peaks into permanent fortresses!

Now only some real and fake fortresses can be built in the two peaks, and a large number of traps have been set up in the other three peaks, which have become the wild battlefields of the Azure Dragon Army.

The front line of the fortress can pull the Qi army and cause them huge casualties, and the traps in the wild are not bad at all.

Cao Meng is confident that the remaining four peaks can make Qi Jun regret for a lifetime!