Chapter 317: Each has its own plan
Hearing Guo Yu's words, Liu He was stunned at first, and then hugged his fists and responded: "The last general will not be dishonored." ”
"Okay, three days later, you will lead the Zhenbei army to open and attack Baitai to the east."
"In addition, Baitai is close to Dongwu, since our army is here to help the northern Xinjiang royal family quell the rebellion, how can King Youxian sit idly by?"
Saying that, Guo Yu looked at Cheng Qixue, "I also ask His Royal Highness to repair a letter and send it to Dongwu, and invite His Royal Highness King Xian to send troops together. ”
When Cheng Qixue heard this, her face couldn't help but be surprised.
She originally thought that Guo Yu's division of troops was to occupy more cities in order to take the opportunity to weaken the northern frontier, but she didn't think that this person actually took the initiative to ask for a joint army.
You must know that according to the agreement, only the city that the Song army fought alone will be cut out, and if there are Xinjiang people to help, then even if the city is won, it will not count.
Guo Yu's move did not seem to be calculating, but seemed to be showing goodwill with them.
“… Good. ”
Cheng Qixue glanced at the man deeply and nodded slowly.
"In order to avoid misunderstanding, I hope Your Highness can come up with a token that can prove your identity, so as to avoid unnecessary friction between the two armies."
"If General Guo is worried about this, when the troops are divided, I will follow General Liu all the way."
"That's not going to work."
Guo Yu grinned and said: "Your Highness is such a beauty, this general should take it with him, how can he be willing to let others take it away?" ”
Just kidding, if Cheng Qixue was allowed to follow Liu He, how could Wang Minghua let her stay in the Song army, and then he had to find ways to rescue her? If there were no hostages, wouldn't he be busy in vain?
Thinking of this, Guo Yu glanced at Liu He.
He really didn't think that this simple-looking general of Zhengbei could be the opponent of the right virtuous king.
"In short, there are still tokens like His Royal Highness Lao."
“……”
Cheng Qixue lowered her eyes and was silent, and after being silent for a long time, she reached into her arms and took out a piece of round jade.
"This is the day jade, it is the exclusive thing of the king of my Xinjiang clan, seeing the jade is like seeing the king, and there is no second copy in the entire northern Xinjiang."
She got up and walked in front of Guo Yu and handed out the round jade in her hand, "With this thing, Uncle Wang will not embarrass your army." ”
Taking the jade bi, Guo Yu raised his eyebrows.
He had heard Huang Qing talk about this sun and moon, and he had seen Yueyu in Cheng Qiyang's hands before, but he didn't want to see another sunjade from Cheng Qixue today.
But...
Guo Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and his fingers stroked back and forth on the warm jade.
This was supposed to be the moon jade held by the queen, but now it is on the prince of Xinjiang, and the day jade that can represent the king of Xinjiang is in the hands of Cheng Qixue, the princess.
While touching the jade, he thought about what was wrong, but just as he had some eyebrows, he was interrupted by the woman in front of him.
"How long are you going to touch it?"
Cheng Qixueqiao's face was slightly red, and she said a little angrily.
That jade bi had been placed on her chest before, and now being touched by Guo Yu like this, this couldn't help but make her feel weird, plus some shameful memories, how could she not be embarrassed?
“… Yes. ”
Guo Yu came back to his senses and smiled apologetically at the woman, "Your jade is too comfortable to touch, and you accidentally fell into it, sorry, sorry." ”
“……”
The woman with hot cheeks brushed her sleeves away.
Guo Yu did not react to Cheng Qixue's departure. He didn't hand over the jade to Liu He, he just held it himself.
"Anyway, that's it, three days later. Until then, rest well. ”
Guo Yu smiled at everyone, "General Lu stays for a while, and the rest of the people will go back first." ”
"Yes."
The generals stood up one after another, saluted Guo Yu, and then left one after another.
After a while, there were only three people left in the hall. Lu Bo glanced at a woman sitting calmly on a chair, and after hesitating slightly, he finally asked Guo Yu: "I don't know if General Guo will stay in order to..."
"This time to divide the troops, you and General Liu all the way."
Guo Yu handed over the round jade to Lu Bo, "You don't have to wait for three days, tomorrow morning you will lead the eagle of the headquarters to ride straight to Baitai and order Wuhu to surrender." ”
"If he doesn't comply, you will show this jade, and say that the princess asked you to bring him a message, as long as he can surrender to the Song army, he will be guaranteed to be prosperous and rich for the rest of his life."
"If he still doesn't follow, you tell him again, saying that the army is behind, Dongwu has also sent troops, if he doesn't surrender, after the city is broken, birds and beasts will not stay, especially he, the city lord, first ride a wooden donkey, then hot iron, then a thousand knives, and finally five horses are divided... In short, it's those big punishments, you can say whatever it is scary. ”
Guo Yu looked at Lu Bo, who was already stunned, and continued: "Also, before you say this, you show him your archery skills, remember not to shoot him to death." You also bring this Yan Bo's head, I still have a Coller stone waist card here, hold it together, and I will use it when the time comes. Okay, it's okay, you can go back too. ”
In this way, Lu Bo held the jade in his right hand, his head in his left hand, and a sign around his waist, and walked out with a confused face.
After he left, Huang Qing chuckled lightly and said, "General Guo's actions are getting better and better. Thanks to the princess, she looked at you with gratitude on her face. If I taught her to hear what you just said, I don't know how she would feel. ”
"There's no way around it."
Guo Yu smiled.
For the sake of his plan, he had to temporarily say sorry to Her Royal Highness.
"According to General Guo's calculations, it is not surprising that Baitai should be nine out of ten."
Huang Qing looked sideways at Guo Yu, "What about Ning Wan?" As far as Qing'er knew, there were about 20,000 barbarian troops in the city. With 10,000 white-robed troops, General Guo thought what were the odds of victory? ”
"Twenty thousand?"
The man didn't answer, just shook his head and said, "In a few days, Hu Yanting's army and horses will probably be more than 30,000." ”
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Ning Wan, City Lord's Mansion.
The old man sat up abruptly from the bed, his expression frightened, panting, and some cold sweat remaining on his forehead, apparently awakened from a nightmare.
After a while, he stiffly turned his head to look around, and after confirming that he was staying in his bedroom, the old man breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat from his forehead.
Days like this... How long has it been going on?
The old man asked himself while wiping his sweat.
Decade? Twenty years?
He doesn't remember much.
As I get older, I can't remember many things. It's like Chun Yulie's death, it's obvious that he planned everything, and it was a few years ago, so he can't even remember a detail now.
and that Yiqu disease, whether it was his calculation or the calculation of the girl of the Zhuge family, he also forgot.
But even if he forgets many things, he will still remember the battle of that year.
For no other reason, since the end of the war, he has had the same dream every night.
It was snowing heavily in my dream, just like the one a few days before; The snow was full of the defeated army fleeing for their lives, their expressions panicked, and their embarrassed appearance was the same as his talent.
Hundreds of thousands of people are so embarrassed that they can't care about anything, they only know one thing, and that is to escape.
And he, too, is one of them.
Even if he is the wolf master, he still can't do anything, he can only hide in the crowd and run for his life with the defeated army.
Hundreds of thousands of people, all the way to the north, fleeing, fleeing, frantically fleeing. But what's the use? Among them, some starved to death on the road, some froze to death on the road, some died at their own hands, and many more were poked to death by the pursuers in the rear.
Along the way, nearly 200,000 people died, and he couldn't do anything about what was happening in front of him.
This is true in dreams, and so it is in reality.
The old man scratched his already messy silver hair twice, and fiddled with his clothes for a long time, and when everything was in order, he turned his head to look out the window at the still spontaneously dark sky.
Over the years, the night had become a torment for him.
Endless torture.
The dream haunted him for decades, the falling snow, the crimson blood, the frozen corpses, the desperate wails, and the sound of horses' hooves that seemed to permeate his dreams every night. The twisted faces had been rebuking him for his incompetence, reminding him that 200,000 people had fallen in the snow because of him.
In fact, it is.
He couldn't change anything at the beginning, and he still can't change anything now.
Even if he is the great wolf lord of Northern Xinjiang, even if he has truly achieved one person above ten thousand people, even if he is very likely to be crowned King Xian after Cheng Xiaoya's great achievements, this torture will continue.
Till death rests.
If he could, he would rather give up all of the above and seek a chance at liberation.
But no.
He didn't stand a chance.
However, that doesn't mean he will never get a chance.
"Knock knock..."
There was a knock on the door in the quiet bedroom, and the old man withdrew his gaze from the window and said in a slightly tired voice, "Come in." ”
The door was opened from the outside, and one of his guards came in.
"Lord Wolf."
The man bowed his head and said: "A large number of military horses appeared outside the East City Gate, the number is about 10,000, they claim to have come from the south of Xinjiang, and they have come to take refuge, dare to ask the wolf lord what to do?" ”
"Jiangnan?"
The old man repeated.
"Yes."
Then he examined them carefully, and if he confirmed that they were from the south of Xinjiang, he put them into the city. In addition, bring the leader of them to the house, and the old man has something to ask. ”
"Yes."
The man answered, and then turned away, while the old man who remained in the house turned his head again to look out the window.
He knew the news of the Song Army's Northern Expedition.
Southern Xinjiang is the territory of that reckless man, and at the moment when the Song army invaded the territory, his people did not stay there to resist the Song army, but came to Ning Wan, which undoubtedly shows one thing.
"It seems that there is only one old man left in the wolf lord of the northern frontier."
The old man stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, and his tone was quite exclamational.
"It seems..."
His cloudy eyes glowed with coldness, and his hands behind his back clenched quietly.
"This opportunity, which has been waiting for many years, has finally arrived."
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