Chapter 132: No Way Back
Yuanzi took his guards and walked through the dense forest filled with morning mist. [No pop-ups. 】
The idea of going to Jingzhong has been going to Jingzhong for a long time, and the war will not last, and he has been thinking about how to open this breakthrough.
It is said in the book of war that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will win all battles.
Over the years, in order to take Jingzhong, Li Guo has made sufficient preparations, and it is really not easy to pull Jingzhong from a powerful country to the current point.
But it is far from enough, and it takes an opportunity to completely eat Jingzhong.
He thought about it for a long time, repeatedly looked at the history of the countries north of Jingzhong and Tiebeiling, and finally came up with this idea.
The book was carefully compiled by him, and it recorded all his thoughts and intentions over the past few years.
He knew that his father and the emperor would definitely agree, because both father and son were ambitious people, and they didn't want to be trapped in the mountains south of the Iron Tablet Forest.
As for death and misfortune, he thought about it, but since he was the prince, his fate had already been decided, and he would die if he didn't fight!
"Your Highness, there is a team ahead, like our people." The guards who were scouting the way ahead ran back to report.
Yuanzi said lightly: "It's Gu Shuai who is here." ”
It didn't take long for him and Gu Xuan to meet in an open area in the middle of the jungle.
After a brief conversation, he handed over the talisman to Gu Xuan, and Gu Xuan handed him the secret letter of His Majesty the Emperor and the letter from the Empress Mother.
"Your Highness, may you have good luck and wait for your good news." Gu Xuan patted Yuanzi's shoulder vigorously, his eyes full of approval and admiration.
Yuanzi came to the front line and received a lot of guidance and support from Gu Xuan, and the two were also teachers and friends, and their relationship was unusual.
He stretched out his arms for the first time, hugged Gu Xuan vigorously, and said solemnly, "Gu Shuai, I handed over the Iron Tablet Ridge to you." ”
Gu Xuan's eyes were slightly hot, and he bumped his fists with him: "The liver and brain are smeared on the ground, and then he is dead!" ”
The two teams briefly intersected and then quickly separated.
Gu Xuan went to the front line, and Yuanzi secretly gathered his guards together and announced: "There is another task to be carried out, those who are willing to follow me will stand on the left, and those who do not want to follow will stay put." ”
Many of these guards were carefully selected when he was a child and grew up with him. When he was young, he was a playmate, and when he grew up, he was a personal guard, and they were like his brothers, loyal and faithful.
Hearing Yuanzi's words, everyone prepared to stand on the left side of the queue without asking for the reason.
Yuanzi raised his hand and pressed down gently: "Don't be impatient, I haven't finished my words yet, this time, go incognito, change your face, and you may die in a foreign land without a name, and your family doesn't know that it is possible to achieve immortal achievements and leave our names in the history books of the Kingdom of Li!" ”
He spoke eloquently and impassionedly, arousing the deepest desires and wildness of the guards, and they raised their arms and shouted: "Swear to follow Your Highness to the death!" Swear to be loyal to the country! ”
Of the 100 guards, not a single one flinched in fear.
Yuanzi was very pleased.
He made arrangements for forty guards to lead the rest of the ordinary soldiers to Longcheng, and these people would follow the emperor and queen back to Jiujun and become a living sign that he had returned.
The remaining sixty guards followed him and quietly left, and in the years to come, their fates were closely linked, becoming each other's solid support and backing.
For the sixty guards who did not return home, those who returned will tell their families that they stayed at the front and made great achievements.
Everything is arranged and each sets off.
After three days of travel, the Jingzhong Plain appeared in front of me.
Yuanzi watched the plain and motioned for the guards to stop.
This will be where he fought and lived afterwards, and possibly where his bones were buried.
Chonghua's secret letter to him made it very clear that respecting his thoughts, the position of prince would be reserved for him for a while.
But if he can't achieve the effect for a long time, or can't go back, then the crown prince is not his.
He had only two choices, move forward and succeed, or fail and become a ghost in a foreign land.
"I will succeed, He Miao, you must wait for me." Matsuko withdrew her gaze and untied her hair.
His guards followed his example, and according to the custom of the Jingzhong people, they put down their hair, braid it in the center of the back of the head, and then grabbed it at the top of the hair and twisted it into a bun.
They took off the costumes of the Liguo people, put on Jingzhong-style robes, hid their weapons, and infiltrated in batches.
Yuanzi became a rich landlord from the border of Jingzhong, and had just inherited the family business, taking advantage of the country's large military expenditure to fight the war, and bought a knighthood.
I feel very good, I look good when I'm young, I've read books for a few years, I'm full of local dialects, I want to go to Rongjing to try my luck, and I hope to marry a noble girl with a good family background.
He grew a beard and walked on the road in a high-profile manner, and the carriage he sat in was glittering with gold, but it was very rustic and ridiculous, and it made people think that this was a big fat sheep to be slaughtered.
The guards were disguised as his family members and hired guards.
They are drunk, gamble, cheating, foul-mouthed, very rude, without any organizational discipline, and very despised.
Things in the world are so strange, the more secretive they are, the easier it is to attract people's attention, and the more high-profile and domineering, the more no one pays attention.
They entered Rongjing smoothly, except for a few money extorted by the soldiers at the checkpoint on the road, they did not encounter any difficulties and doubts at all.
At this time, the first team sent by the emperor to Rongjing had been destroyed.
Because they could not find the whereabouts of He Miao, they chose to assassinate Xiao Yang, but they were unlucky, and they happened to meet Emperor Jingzhong returning from a hunting trip, so they died without a body.
After that, Rongjing was even more heavily guarded, causing the second team to take a long time to get in, but they were also trapped hand and foot and did not dare to move.
The arrival of Yuanzi brought new hope to these people, and they mobilized all the forces accumulated by Shen and Li over the years to build momentum for him.
The gorgeously dressed tyrant appeared like a whirlwind among the dignitaries and nobles in Rongjing, feasting everywhere, begging people to be a matchmaker for him, and revealing his thoughts and faces that he wanted to climb into a good family.
It's a pity that the title he bought is too low, and he is a third-class viscount without any real power, plus that border accent that is so dirty that he has to get rid of scum, people don't look down on him at all.
Everyone treats him as a joke, as a reliever under the pressure of a harsh life, and he can eat and drink for nothing, so why not?
This is what Yuanzi wants, he listens to these people's false compliments, looks at their implicit sarcastic faces, and silently does what he wants to do.
At a lively dinner party, he finally met the person he wanted to meet.