Du Du looked harmless to humans and animals, looked at Yan Huaishui and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the third prince, I won't hurt you, let alone let others hurt, you are absolutely safe here...... But I want to ask, have you figured out the way out in the future? After all, it's never okay to live on the run all the time. ”

"Of course I thought about it." Yan Huaishui said: "On the way to escape, I thought of three ways, the first is to go to Shamengguo, which is the ancestor of my mother. My grandfather is the emperor, and it should be a good idea for me to go to him, but the distance is too far, and I have so many soldiers with me, they are not willing to follow me on a long journey, so this method is abandoned...... The second way is to surrender like my eldest brother, but later I learned that even though my eldest brother surrendered, he was still under house arrest for life by his second brother and had no freedom at all, and I didn't want to live like that...... This third way is to let me stay here and be the master of one side, I don't want to compete with my second brother for any world, I prefer to be in a corner here......"

After listening to Yan Huaishui's words, Du Du roughly understood Yan Huaishui's plan, the feasibility of the first two methods is very small, but the third is debatable, Yan Huaishui was originally the prince, and there is naturally no problem for him to be the city lord of Tianxingguan.

But the key now is whether Yan Huaishui, the city lord, can get the approval of the imperial court, if the emperor does not agree, Yan Huaishui will be regarded as the city lord here, and if there is no protection from the imperial court in the future, anyone can come and bully him.

"General Dudu, what do you think?" Seeing that he didn't speak, Yan Huaishui asked again.

Only then did Du Du react. He smiled slightly and said, "The last general also thinks it's good to be a city lord." But this matter must be reported to the court to see what their opinion is. ”

"What if they don't agree?" Yan Huaishui asked.

"Nope. They will agree. Du Du said with certainty: "We now have 300,000 troops in our hands, as long as we defeat the 200,000 enemy troops of Xiangxiang Country, we will be meritorious heroes, I heard that Yan Huaiyu is a person with clear rewards and punishments, he will definitely not treat you and me badly, as long as there is merit, there is no problem in asking for a city lord." ”

"Is that true?" Yan Huaishui was still a little skeptical.

"Seriously." Du Du nodded quite affirmatively, and said, "I can write a letter right now to let the imperial court know our loyalty and our current plans." I'm sure they'll have our back. ”

Immediately, Du Du ordered someone to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote this letter in front of the third prince Yan Huaishui, Yan Huaishui also read it carefully, and found that Du Du's letter did not mention words that were unfavorable to him, so he was relieved.

Then Dudu handed it over to the messenger in front of Yan Huaishui, and asked the messenger to send it to the capital city of Liecheng immediately.

At this moment, Yan Huaishui completely believed in Dudu, and believed that Dudu would definitely not harm him.

"Your Royal Highness. Since you want to be the lord of the city in peace, you have to build merit. Du Du said with a smile.

"How?" Yan Huaishui asked.

Du Du said again: "The current situation is still very favorable to us, just yesterday, I led an army of 200,000 to capture Tianxing Pass. The enemy fled to Gucheng and Xingcheng, and according to the spies, Gucheng was stationed in Le Shitong, the former generalissimo of Xiangxiang Kingdom. And the new generalissimo Wen Xiu is stationed in Star City, but Wen Xiu is just a thirteen-year-old girl. There is nothing to be afraid of, but there is a man named Lin Tian who has entered Star City. At this time, the strength of Star City may have been mastered by him. ”

Yan Huaishui nodded clearly, "I see, as long as we capture Gucheng and Star City and drive the enemies of Xiangxiang Country out of the country, we will be meritorious heroes, and the second brother will not take me for the knife." ”

"Yes, but we still have to take it step by step, although there are only two cities, but the enemy has 200,000 troops, we must not be negligent." Du Du nodded and said, he didn't tell Yan Huaishui about the 50,000 horses he sent to be annihilated, so as not to let Yan Huaishui fall into a panic, after all, this prince is usually pampered, and he can still scare him when he mentions the death of so many people.

"General Dudu is right, we must fight steadily." Yan Huaishui was still very convinced of Dudu, and asked, "I don't know which city General Dudu is going to attack?" Is it Valley City, or Star City? ”

Dudu said: "In terms of the location of the city, Star City is too far away from us, which is not conducive to fighting, but Gu City is the first to attack...... The person stationed in Gucheng is Le Shitong, I still know this woman very well, she is very arrogant, even if the entire Gucheng is surrounded by us, she will never ask for reinforcements, we can take her first. ”

Dudu can be regarded as having fought with Le Shitong many times, he admires Le Shitong's shrewd command ability, Xiangxiang Country has her, and it has been safe and sound for thousands of years, and other countries want to invade Xiangxiang Country in vain.

But a very powerful person often has the problem of arrogance, Le Shitong is no exception, she always feels that the forces in her hands can defeat any powerful enemy, just like the previous battle between Nangong Ao and Le Shitong, obviously the troops are insufficient, but they still have to fight to the death, and the result is a big rout.

This time, Du Du also wanted to take advantage of Le Shitong's weakness to clean her up.

"That's what General Dudu said." Yan Huaishui nodded approvingly and asked, "I wonder when we will attack Gu City?" ”

"Tonight." Du Du said without hesitation.

"So fast?" Yan Huaishui said with some surprise: "The soldiers I brought came to Tianxing Pass after a long journey, and they didn't rest enough, how can I send them out to fight now?" And it's still a siege war, which is even worse. ”

Compared with the enemy's frontal fighting, siege warfare consumes the soldiers' bodies more, and if you don't do it, you are so tired that you fall directly from the ladder before you can climb the city wall.

Du Du patted Yan Huaishui on the shoulder and comforted: "Your Royal Highness don't be nervous, you don't need your men and horses to attack tonight's siege, and the final general only needs to lead my 150,000 Du family army to go." ”

Du Du was thinking just now, who was ambushing the pursuers he sent out, Lin Tian just came to the straw man to borrow arrows, it was impossible for him to bring more than 10,000 troops from Star City, so only Le Shitong would ambush his army.

Since it is a good thing that Le Shitong did, things are even simpler, because just after a battle, Le Shitong's soldiers must be very tired, and he must be able to achieve the best results when he goes to attack the city, and the 150,000 troops are enough to take Gucheng. (To be continued......)