"Ying Yi, why are you in such a hurry?
What’s the matter? Do you also want to join us in discussing this challenging math problem?"
Seeing Ying Yi so anxious, Lin Yi couldn’t help but tease her.
However, after saying this, he was met with a roll of the eyes from two women.
When Lin Yi saw the Emperor’s resentful gaze, he chuckled and did not continue to speak.
Instead, Ying Yi, who didn’t take it seriously at all, walked straight up to the Emperor.
Afterwards, she saluted the young Emperor and said:
"Your Majesty, news from the front lines, the barbarians have amassed an army of 300,000 and are marching straight towards our border. In three days, they should reach the outskirts of Yumen Pass."
Upon hearing this, both Lin Yi and the young Emperor were stunned.
Neither of them had expected the enemy to arrive so swiftly.
According to their estimates, it should have taken at least a month before the barbarians would act.
But unexpectedly, in just a few days, they had already assembled their forces and were heading their way.
This only meant one thing: they were well-prepared and ready to invade the Central Plains.
This realization made both of them exchange a look, seeing the cold murderous intent in each other’s eyes.
Without thinking, they both had the same thought: to annihilate these barbaric dogs completely.
Of course, if this was before, they might not have been so confident.
After all, the barbarians had an extremely large army of 300,000, which wasn’t something their side could easily stop.
Moreover, with You Country facing both external and internal problems, the likelihood of any Vassal King sending troops to assist was nil.
For this reason, if the 300,000 armies were to attack, they might have previously only been able to take a beating, possibly even losing the throne and the glorious empire.
However, now the young Emperor was very excited, solely because Lin Yi was here.
Because Nanshan City was here.
It can be said that Nanshan City had created one miracle after another.
After observing for a long time, the young Emperor had gained confidence.
Nowadays, every soldier of the Nanshan Guards was equipped with firearms and each had no less than thirty hand grenades, plus countless large bombs.
Of course, what gave the young Emperor the most confidence was the Divine Power Qiankun Cannon that had been test-fired a few days ago.
This cannon’s power was not something ordinary people could withstand.
And now, they had even managed to produce as many as ten of these cannons.
These ten cannons might not seem many on the entire battlefield, but let’s not forget, the battlefields of today are not as scattered as in later times.
They advance from city to city.
Just by positioning the cannon on Yumen Pass, hah, those barbarians would definitely not be able to advance an inch.
Of course, this idea was good, but one point that couldn’t be ignored was that it was impossible to transport these cannons to Yumen Pass in a short time.
It was reported that the barbarians could reach Yumen Pass in three days at the earliest. Whether there was any discrepancy in this transmission time, or whether they had already reached Yunan Pass, was debatable.
And whether the Yumen Pass garrison could hold them back was another matter.
After all, the Eighth Prince had his eyes firmly on the throne under the young Emperor’s behind. With this motive, they might just open the gates and let the enemy in.
Then, the barbarians could possibly march straight into the Central Plains.
At that point, where to deploy the big cannons would be an issue.
This matter was clearly discussed between Lin Yi and the young Emperor, and they chose a very strategic location, the Hangu Pass.
Hangu Pass can be said to be the boundary between the Central Plains and outside territories. Within Hangu Pass lies the land of the Central Plains, and although the outer area is still part of the great You Country, it often faces bandits and other disturbances.
For this reason, with the pass being highly strategic and easy to defend but difficult to attack, stationing all ten cannons there could surely cause serious trouble for the invaders.
An even more important point is the distance between Hangu Pass and Yumen Pass is not particularly far.
It could be said there are only two cities in between and together with the garrison of Yumen Pass, they will inevitably buy some time.
According to Lin Yi and the Emperor’s plan, even if the Eighth Prince is greedy for the throne, he couldn’t act so overtly, and this period should be enough to deploy the firearms and troops.
Thinking up to this point, the young Emperor then looked towards Lin Yi:
"Scoundrel, what do you think about proceeding according to our previous deployment?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Yi simply nodded:
"It is inevitable. Now, these folks have already arrived outside Yumen Pass, and the Yumen official Garrison certainly won’t delay more than five days.
I believe within less than five days’ time, a military report from Yumen Pass will arrive.
It will definitely inform us here of the pressing situation, and they simply wouldn’t have the resources to deal with these barbarians, or perhaps the barbarians will have already fiercely breached Yumen Pass."