latelenovela Chapter 554 Anzhi City
Chapter 554 Anzhi City
Ye Qing'an's fingers twitched slightly when she heard Liu Enze say that.
Since Liu Enze said he had a solution, she would wait and see what he planned to do.
Ye Qing'an thought for a moment, then slightly opened her mouth, and gently bit her lip, as if she had made a great decision: "Then I'll leave it to you, sir..."
Ye Qing'an's eyes were slightly red: "I really don't know what to do anymore. There's really no one in this camp that I can trust or dare to trust."
Liu Enze glanced at Ye Qing'an, a half-smile on his face: "Then why are you willing to believe me? It seems we haven't met more than a few times, have we?"
Ye Qing'an turned her head slightly to look at the other side, then quickly wiped her eyes: "I have heard many rumors about you before, and I know that you are a very affectionate person. People who are affectionate are often loyal and righteous. I have also heard that in the ten years or so after my mother passed away, you once left Wangjing City and lived in seclusion to heal your wounds alone."
"Sir, you are the Grand Tutor, a man of high rank and great power, yet you chose to give up everything and travel the world. This shows that you are indifferent to fame and fortune."
"Firstly, I value relationships and am indifferent to fame and fortune. Secondly, I really had no other choice. I had to give it a try, didn't I?"
Liu Enze nodded thoughtfully: "Speaking of rumors, I've heard quite a few rumors about you before. Although we've only met three times, I've noticed that you seem somewhat different from the rumors. Are the rumors wrong, or were you just pretending to be weak before?"
"The rumors are true, and I am not wrong now either. It's just that those rumors are from a few years ago. Back then, I was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and I was ignorant about many things. I went down the wrong path and fell into other people's traps and schemes."
"That time I was fooled, it almost brought me devastating blows and changed my life completely. I will never fall for the same trick a second or third time."
"No one knows what kind of life I lived in the years after I was kicked out of the Ye family. No one knows what I thought during those days when I was almost on the verge of collapse."
"Although I don't want to gain power and status by depending on others, I also hope that I will have enough ability in the future to protect myself and protect Eleven."
Liu Enze nodded, looked up at the sky, and said, "No pain, no gain. Heaven is fair. What it takes from you will surely be returned to you in other ways."
Ye Qing'an chuckled, her expression incredibly gentle: "I hope so."
……
Although the Crown Prince was injured earlier and is now somewhat inconvenient, unable to ride a horse and having to travel by carriage, which slowed down the journey.
However, just as Liu Enze had said, they still arrived at the camp before midnight on the second day.
It was very late when we arrived at the camp.
The Crown Prince ordered the general who came to greet Ye Qing'an to arrange for someone to take her to the camp.
The soldiers walked in front, carrying torches, with Ye Qing'an following behind. Looking up, she could see the city in the distance, its silhouettes barely visible in the darkness.
"Is that Anzhi City?"
"Yes." The soldier had already heard many rumors about Ye Qing'an. As he answered, he turned his head to steal a glance at Ye Qing'an before quickly turning his head away again.
The city gate of Anzhi stands tall, flanked by continuous city walls. In the darkness, it looks like a crouching giant beast, which is quite frightening.
"This is my first time on the battlefield, so I don't understand some things. Since you got here, have you fought any rebels? How strong are they?"
The soldier raised the torch slightly behind him: "I've fought with them before. Actually... I'm a garrison soldier from Qian'an City. I escaped from Qian'an City and was chased all the way here by the rebels."
"The rebels..." the soldier lowered his voice, "Those rebels are criminals exiled from Qian'an City. They are all vicious and ruthless people, so they are naturally very powerful."
"The number of criminals exiled to Qian'an City was only a few thousand. Back then, the Emperor dispatched 80,000 troops to guard Qian'an City, and the generals stationed there were all extremely capable. This is enough to show how vicious those exiled criminals were."
Ye Qing'an nodded; she had heard about this matter before: "Since the city's garrison numbered 80,000, and the generals were all exceptionally capable, how were the rebels able to breach Qian'an City and fight their way out?"
"Turning them to defect." The soldier sighed. "We city guards have been in Qian'an for at least six years."
Six years.
Ye Qing'an narrowed her long eyes slightly. That was exactly the person Yi Moxu was sent when he was exiled to Qian'an.
"Six years is enough time to change a lot of things. Those exiled prisoners were not only fierce in terms of strength, but some of them were also very shrewd. They spent their days mingling with the city guards, and over time, they became familiar with them."
"Before the rebels rose up, many of the city's soldiers and generals had already secretly defected to the enemy. They were just very well hidden..."
The soldier lowered his head, his voice tinged with disappointment: "A soldier who had been with me day and night also defected to those rebels, and I didn't even notice."
Ye Qing'an nodded and glanced at the soldier.
If many of the city's defenders defected to the enemy and hid themselves well, how can we guarantee that there are no spies planted by the rebels among the city's defenders left in Qian'an?
Do Yi Yun Kui and his men still dare to trust these former city guards?
Or were they placed in the camp simply for their own purposes?
Ye Qing'an pondered for a while before continuing to ask, "Have the two armies been locked in a stalemate for a long time here in Anzhi City, one mile away and the other outside?"
"Hmm." The soldier leading the way nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "It seems that the standoff started after Liu Taifu arrived. I heard from other people in the camp that Liu Taifu is very powerful, so the rebels are a little afraid of him and dare not launch an attack rashly."
"is it?"
“Yes.” The soldier leading the way nodded. “Grand Tutor Liu is really amazing. Once, the rebels were planning a surprise attack, but Grand Tutor Liu just looked at the situation on the city wall from a short distance outside the city gate every day, looking at the sky and the ground, and then he guessed that the rebels were planning a surprise attack that day. Then we caught them red-handed. That time, the rebels suffered considerable losses.”
Ye Qing'an raised an eyebrow: "That's really impressive."
"Indeed." The soldier turned his head again: "There's a drainage ditch here, Miss Ye, watch your step."
Ye Qing'an glanced at the distant city and suddenly realized why Liu Enze had said earlier that the rebels seemed rather strange...