Chapter 304: Secret Talks in the Creek and Forest
Dugu Yunliu is well versed in big things, so he didn't take the previous things to heart at all. What's more, now that he and Li Yuanxiao are still allies, it's not time to tear their faces, since that's the case, why don't you lower your face and face him with kind words, and wait until you defeat Xiao Guo, and then go back to settle accounts with them Yuan Xia slowly. At that time, a mere Yuan Xia will not be a climate at all, and it will not be able to threaten their beams.
Thinking of this, Dugu Yunliu continued to ask Li Yuanxiao: "Brother Yuanxiao, if we can't take Yuncheng in one fell swoop this time and defeat Xiao Jingcong, once we wait for Xiao Jun to catch his breath, our coalition army will be more than lucky." Da Liang and Yuan Xia are dependent on each other, if Da Liang is dead, how can Yuan Xia survive alone? ”
Dugu Yunliu glanced at Li Yuanxiao meaningfully after speaking, waiting for Li Yuanxiao's reply.
Li Yuanxiao remained silent, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said lightly: "His Royal Highness the Second Prince, in your opinion, can you also say that if Da Xiao forgets, I Yuanxia can't exist alone?" ”
Yan Zixi on the side heard this, his body shook suddenly, he didn't expect Li Yuanxiao to be so rigid and dare to say this in front of Dugu Yunliu, isn't this a slap in the face on the spot, so that he can't get off the stage? Yan Zixi immediately cast the corner of his eyes on Dugu Yunliu's body, wanting to see how he responded.
Dugu Yunliu was stunned for a moment, leaned less, and the corners of his mouth slowly showed a sneer, looking at Li Yuanxiao in front of him and responding: "Brother Yuanxiao, how can you have such an idea?" My Daliang and you Yuan Xia are allies like fish and water, how could they do such a thing? Brother Yuan Xiao can rest assured, as long as this prince is here, he will never let such a thing happen. At present, our common enemy is Xiao Guo, as long as Xiao Guo is defeated, there will be a place for us! ”
This Dugu Yunliu is really eloquent, it is clear that Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by, and he can still speak so high-sounding. When the Xiao Kingdom is really destroyed, at that time, you only need to say that the order of your father cannot be violated, and you can overthrow everything today, tear up the covenant "justifiably", and it will be easy to attack Yuanxia.
Hey, I just don't know if Li Yuanxiao will listen to Dugu Yunliu's lies and fall for him. Destroying Xiao Guo will definitely not be the best solution for Yuan Xia now, what Yuan Xia has to do now is to mediate between the two big countries, maintain a weak balance, and slowly develop in the cracks, in order to grow.
It's definitely not like Dugu Yunliu said, join forces to destroy Xiao Guo. Because once the Xiao State is destroyed, the fragile balance between the three kingdoms will immediately collapse, and in a short period of time, the power of the Great Liang will gather and grow, and Yuan Xia will definitely have no power to parry, and at that time it will also fall to the tragic end of being annexed.
"Li Yuanxiao, you must not agree!"
Yan Zixi secretly saved up her strength in her heart, praying that Li Yuanxiao could see through Dugu Yunliu's tricks and not be used by others.
After hearing this, Li Yuanxiao did not reply in a hurry, but was silent for a while without speaking.
"Brother Yuan Xiao, what else do you have to scruple about? Time is running out! Once we miss this opportunity, when Xiao Jun recovers, it will be difficult for us to capture Cloud City! Dugu Yunliu saw that Li Yuanxiao didn't agree for a long time, so he couldn't help urging there.
Li Yuanxiao sneered, and then slowly replied: "Why should the second prince be in a hurry, Xiao Jingcong is already a turtle in the urn, and this Cloud City will be yours sooner or later." ”
"Oh?!" When Dugu Yunliu heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked tentatively: "So, is Brother Yuan Xiao willing to help me?" ”
"I need to look at the situation and the military situation first." Li Yuanxiao responded.
When Dugu Yunliu heard this, he immediately asked his guards to prepare a separate camp tent for Li Yuanxiao, and Li Yuanxiao took Yan Zixi to retire to Lonely Yunliu and came to his camp.
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As soon as he returned to the camp, Yan Zixi walked in front of Li Yuanxiao with her cheeks puffed out, pointed at Li Yuanxiao who was sitting at the table and scolded.
"Li Yuanxiao, I really misjudged you! Originally, I thought you would be a backbone Prince Yuanxia, but I didn't expect to be so submissive in front of the second prince of Daliang, and I also agreed to help him deal with Xiao Jun...... Li Yuanxiao, don't you understand until now, once Xiao Guo forgets, the next target of Daliang's attack will undoubtedly be your Yuanxia! ”
"Zixi, be quiet, be careful that the wall has ears." Li Yuanxiao motioned for Yan Zixi to sit down, but Yan Zixi stood up straight, refusing to sit next to Li Yuanxiao, still angry with him.
Li Yuanxiao smiled helplessly, and then said: "Zixi, in fact, I have long seen the ambition of His Royal Highness the Second Prince, defeating Xiao Jingcong and taking Cloud City is only his first step. Once he succeeds, he will inevitably unite with the small countries around him to encircle Xiao Guo, eat away Xiao Guo bit by bit, and finally replace it. After the Xiao Kingdom is destroyed, the remaining small countries, including my Yuan Xia, will not be taken seriously at all, and they will be wiped out in a snap of their fingers......"
"Li Yuanxiao, since you know the ambitions and tricks of the second prince, then why do you still agree to him, why do you still want to act for the tiger, don't you even care about your own country?" Yan Zixi tilted her head and stared at Li Yuanxiao with a puzzled face, she really didn't know what he thought.
Knowing that the situation in the world is in the eyes of the whole world, he will even promise to help Dugu Yunliu, isn't this self-defeating?
Li Yuanxiao chuckled, poured a cup of fragrant tea for himself, and then poured another cup for Yan Zixi, "Zixi, sit down and drink tea first, I will tell you in detail." ”
Although Yan Zixi didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Li Yuanxiao's gourd, she heard that he had just carefully analyzed the situation and knew that he was not confused, and the anger in her heart dropped slightly, so she slowly sat down. Let's play
"Now you can talk to me, right?" Yan Zixi looked at Li Yuanxiao with big watery eyes and said.
Li Yuanxiao smiled slightly, and explained to Yan Zixi.
It turned out that Li Yuanxiao was planning to give Dugu Yunliu advice, but he didn't really want him to take Cloud City. On the contrary, he wished that Dugu Yunliu's army and Xiao Jingcong's army would fight to the death and be exhausted, so that he could reap the benefits of the fisherman.
This time, Yuanxia did not send many people, although nominally it was the Liangxia coalition army, in fact, Li Yuanxiao only sent 5,000 old, weak, sick and disabled logistics troops to help Dugu Yunliu transport grain and grass, so in the two battles before and after, he Yuanxia almost did not lose a single soldier.
All the elite troops of Yuan Xia were ambushed near the Prince's Mansion, with a total of about 15,000 people. Don't underestimate these 15,000 troops, you must know that the available troops in Xiao Jingcong's hands are only 20,000 or 30,000, and this still resists the threat of Dugu Yunliu's nearly 100,000 troops.
If they really waited until the forces of both of them were exhausted, the fifteen thousand soldiers and horses in Li Yuanxiao's hands would probably become a surprise army to harvest the battlefield.
This is also the real purpose of Li Yuanxiao's hiding the Prince's Mansion, who would have thought that he had already ambushed his troops somewhere in northern Xinjiang?
When Yan Zixi heard this, her face changed greatly, she was speechless, and she looked at Li Yuanxiao in front of her and couldn't speak. Li Yuanxiao is really a man with a deep city, it is really terrifying...... Fortunately, he is not his enemy, otherwise he would not know how he died, right?
"Wait, now that you have revealed all these military secrets to me, the princess of Da Xiao, aren't you afraid that I will secretly go to Xiao Jingcong to tell the truth?" After being silent for a long time, Yan Zixi, who had come to her senses, realized something, looked at Li Yuanxiao, who was confident in front of her, and asked the doubts in her heart.
Li Yuanxiao took a sip of tea, slowly put down the teacup, hooked the corners of his lips, raised his eyes and stared at Yan Zixi, and said lightly with a hint of different feelings.
"The Princess Xiao I know is not such a villain! I'm sure you won't betray me. ”
"Why do you trust me so much? We've only been together for a few days......" Yan Zixi became more and more curious, always feeling that this Li Yuanxiao was too relieved of herself. and all the actions he had done to himself before, Yan Zixi always felt that something was not right with Li Yuanxiao.
"Nothing, just intuition. Besides, do you still want to find Xiao Jingcong, the negative man? ”
"I ......" Yan Zixi was speechless for a while, yes, Xiao Jingcong is so to herself, is it necessary for me to be cheeky to see him?
Yan Zixi's heart was also shaken.
Li Yuanxiao stood up and walked out of the account, Yan Zixi saw that Li Yuanxiao was leaving, so he hurriedly turned around and stopped him, "Yuanxiao, where are you going?" ”
"Just go for a walk." Li Yuanxiao lightly dropped a few words and walked straight out of the tent.
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After leaving the camp, Li Yuanxiao was about to go out to explore the nearby terrain, but he didn't want the eldest princess of Daliang, Dugu Xuerou, to rush here from Baiyue City.
Li Yuanxiao didn't expect Dugu Xuerou to come to the barracks in person, so even if she greeted her, she hugged her fists and saluted, "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, don't come unharmed!" ”
"His Royal Highness the Prince, you are indeed here." Dugu Xuerou pursed her lips lightly, smiled, and then continued: "I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince can take a step to speak?" ”
Li Yuanxiao hesitated for a moment and nodded, "The eldest princess is in charge." ”
Dugu Xuerou didn't say much when she heard this, so she led Li Yuanxiao out of the camp and stopped when she came to a stream next to the mountain. Dugu Xuerou instructed her cronies to guard the nearby roads, and she had a secret conversation with Li Yuanxiao alone.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know how the things I entrusted you to do a few days ago are going?"
Li Yuanxiao's face was expressionless, and he responded lightly to Dugu Xuerou, "I have already handed over the brocade box to Princess Xiao according to the instructions of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess......