The five guards under Li An, and the eight guards under Muyang Guo, didn't know what was going on inside, and when they heard the movement, they rushed in directly, and glared at each other with weapons in their hands, and the air was suddenly filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, and a fight was about to break out.

Muyang Guo overestimated his own judgment, he didn't expect Ang Lee to suddenly turn his face, he thought he understood human nature, but underestimated Ang Lee's loyalty to the Tang Empire, as well as a strong sense of Chinese national pride.

In Li An's heart, the Tang Dynasty is his motherland, the most powerful and civilized super empire in the world, and Tubo is just a barbarian tribe in remote mountainous areas.

Tubo's military strength is indeed relatively strong, but its technology, culture, and historical heritage are far from being compared with the Tang Empire, which is a backward barbarian tribe.

Muyang Guo knew that Li An was strong in force, even if he had more guards under his command, he would never be Li An's opponent, besides, this was the queen city of the Eastern Women's Kingdom, once he started, it might be difficult to end, and Li Ang seemed to have the same worries.

"Presumptuous, who let you in."

Mu Yang Guo angrily reprimanded his guard, and grinned: "Captain Li, I am just a businessman, not a lobbyist, what I said just now is just a personal idea, there is indeed something inappropriate, please don't take it to heart." ”

Li An nodded lightly: "Okay, then I will treat Mu Langjun as if I drank too much, I was confused for a while, and if I want to betray Datang, I must not say it again, otherwise, the horizontal knife on my waist will not be long-sighted." ”

"Haha, be speechless in the next moment, forgive your sins, forgive your sins."

Mu Yang Guo smiled all over his face, and waved his hand, signaling his eight guards to retreat.

Li An also waved his hand, asked the five guards to guard outside, and said with a smile: "Mu Langjun invited me to drink, and brought so many guards, isn't it a Hongmen banquet!" ”

"Hongmen Banquet, haha! Captain Li is really good at laughing, there is a saying in Datang that 'a gentleman is innocent and guilty' is a businessman and has a lot of money, if he doesn't have enough guards, I'm afraid that he would have buried his body in the wilderness long ago, besides, with Captain Li's bravery, my eight guards are no opponents. ”

Muyang Guo smiled faintly, looking quite sincere, and continued: "Captain Li escorted the king of the Dongnu Kingdom all the way to the queen city, the journey is tiring, I think it is necessary to stay in the queen city for a little longer, so that you can see Captain Li from time to time in the future." ”

Li An grinned: "Why don't you stay for a little longer, in addition to escorting King Guichang back to the Queen City, there is also a task in the next trip, which is to escort the officials of my Tang Dynasty Rite Department, go to inspect all parts of the Eastern Women's Country, and promote the national prestige of my Tang Dynasty. ”

After speaking, observing Mu Yang Guo's expression, this task has been launched, but it doesn't take three or five months at all, just find some important places to promote the prestige of the Tang Dynasty, and the people of Dongnu Country will also spread it by word of mouth, and the reason why Li An said this is to use this as a cloak to hide his true purpose of eradicating the spies in Dongnuguo.

When Muyang Guo heard this, his face sank slightly, then returned to normal, and invited Li An to a banquet.

The wine and food in the daughter's house are the best in the East Female Country, but compared with the restaurants in Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty, it is too much worse, besides, the cooking level of this era is very limited, for this reason, Li An does not think that these foods are delicious, just to cope with the enthusiasm of Muyang Guo.

Li An has affirmed that Muyang Guo is related to Tubo, but he can't be sure who Muyang Guo is from Tubo, and he is in the daughter's building with Muyang Guo Xu and Wei Snake, but also to test the other party's bottom line, of course, Muyang Guo's purpose is the same, both of them know each other's purpose, but they don't want to break it, the struggle between wise men is so interesting.

After eating and drinking, Li Ang said goodbye and left, and Mu Xiangguo pretended to watch Li Ang leave, and did not return to the room until Li An's figure was far away from his daughter's building.

"It seems that Da Yan guessed wrong, Ang Li will not betray Datang for the sake of high-ranking officials."

The middle-aged man, accompanied by Hamigo, walked out of the secret door.

Obviously, the middle-aged man who claimed to be the merchant of Nanzhao Muyang Guo was the Tubo Great Argument and Wuyan Guo, who was bent on persuading Li An to take refuge in Tubo, but was ruthlessly defeated.

The corners of Guo's mouth sneered slightly, stared at the direction of Li An's departure, and said leisurely: "It seems that I still underestimate this Li An, this person is not moved by high-ranking officials and Houlu, and is a very terrible opponent, but it is also a happy thing to have a long talk with an excellent rising star like Li An today, although I failed to persuade him to join my Tubo Empire, but there is also a lot of gain." ”

"What does the big talk mean is that the officials of the Tang State have stayed in my Dongnu Country for a long time? But this is not a good thing for us, now, the officials of our Dongnu country have their hearts to the Tang Dynasty, if the officials of the Tang State are allowed to show grace to the people for a long time, then I am afraid that the people of our Dongnu country are also interested in the Tang Dynasty, so that the plan of the big talk will be over. ”

The middle-aged man looked worried.

He is now tied to the warship of Tubo, and the interests of Tubo are his interests, and seeing that the development of the situation is becoming more and more favorable to Datang, he is naturally very anxious in his heart.

The corners of Guo's mouth twitched, and a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, causing the air in the entire room to freeze.

"The enemy has been trying, how can we sit idly by."

The middle-aged man was overjoyed: "In this way, Da Tan already has a way to deal with Li An." ”

Wu Yanguo beckoned, let the middle-aged man approach, and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Anyway, isn't this too ruthless, in case of the East Window incident, the consequences will be unimaginable."

A grim smile appeared on the corner of the middle-aged man's mouth: "I can't bear the child to catch the wolf, what is the death of a few ordinary people, and those who do great things can't have the kindness of a woman." ”

The middle-aged man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, nodded and said, "For our common goal, it seems that this can only be done, I hope that God will be able to forgive our sins."

The corners of Guo's eyes showed a trace of disdain, and he clenched his fists and said, "Don't worry!" As long as you finally ascend to a high position, do your best to govern the country, and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, who will know what you have done? ”

The middle-aged man nodded again and again, agreeing very much with Wu Yanguo's words.

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Since leaving the daughter's building, Li An has been thinking about the identity of Muyang Guo, he always feels that this Muyang Guo is quite atmospheric, and he is by no means an ordinary character, as for what kind of character he is in Tubo, Li An can't be sure.

After returning to his residence, Ang Lee walked into the study, picked up a pen and paper and painted the portrait of Muyang Guo on paper, although he had never learned to paint in his life, but with his understanding of painting knowledge in his previous life, he was still able to draw portraits of people without leaving ten, which Ang Lee himself was surprised.

After painting the portrait, Ang Lee wrote the three characters Muyang Guo on the lower right side of the portrait, and then walked out of the study.

"Captain Li, Captain Zhang is back."

As soon as he walked out of the study, Li An saw Zhang Erniu walking over, needless to say, he must have almost touched the situation of Dongnu's troops at home and abroad.

"Erniu, follow me."

Li An strode to his room, before listening to Zhang Erniu's report, he had to get the map first, and only by looking at the map could he understand the situation around Dongnuguo more intuitively.

Back in the room, Li An immediately spread the map on the case, and beckoned: "Erniu, come here, look at this map, and tell me what you have discovered." ”

Zhang Erniu nodded, pointed to the map, and reported: "Captain Li, I have almost touched the situation, the Dongnu Kingdom does have 10,000 elite soldiers, each led by the five foreign ministers of 2,000 men and horses, of which the big minister and the four-phase men and horses are deployed in the west, the two-phase men and horses are deployed in the north, the three-phase men and horses are deployed in the south, and the five-phase men and horses are deployed in the east, however, the five foreign ministers each left three hundred soldiers to be deployed near the queen city to protect the safety of the queen city, and there are only 1,700 men and horses deployed on the border, in addition, There were more than 500 soldiers and horses under the direct jurisdiction of King Guichang, which was an additional army. ”

"The soldiers and horses of the Eastern Woman Kingdom are all deployed in the west, and it seems that they are focusing on the Tibetan Empire."

Hearing this, Li An smiled and nodded slightly.

Zhang Erniu pointed to the map and continued: "Captain Li, this is the western border of the Dongnu Kingdom, and the 10,000 troops of Tubo are deployed here. ”

Li An frowned: "This place is only less than five miles away from the border of the Eastern Female Country, and the main army of Tubo is deployed so close to the Eastern Female Country, it is obviously ill-intentioned, if the Tibetan army launches an attack, wouldn't it be dangerous for the three or four thousand soldiers and horses of the Great Prime Minister and the Fourth Minister." ”

Zhang Erniu shook his head and said: "Captain Li doesn't have to worry at all, as long as the soldiers and horses of the Dongnu Kingdom launch resistance, not to mention the 10,000 Tubo army, even the main force of 100,000 Tubo, it may not be easy to break through the defense line of the Dongnu Kingdom." ”

"Oh, the western defense line of the East Woman Country is strong?"

Ang Lee was intrigued.

Zhang Erniu nodded and said: "Not only is it solid, it is simply solid, they not only have strong and tall watchtowers, but also take advantage of the geographical advantages of mountains and rivers, and after so many years of painstaking management, there are no loopholes in the defense at all, and the Tubo army will not pay the price of tens of thousands of deaths, and it will never be able to break through the defense line of the East Female Kingdom." ”

When Li An heard this, he nodded again and again in approval, Dongnu is only a small country, with only 10,000 troops in the territory, if it does not occupy the advantage of mountains and rivers, how can it exist under the nose of Tubo for so many years, you must know that the Tuyuhun Empire, which has hundreds of thousands of troops, has been destroyed by Tubo, and even, the powerful Tang Empire has been defeated by Tubo many times. (To be continued.) )