Chapter 276: Entering the Net
When King Huainan said that he had nothing to do with Bao Wenqin and was just a transaction, Pan He's eyes suddenly froze.
"That's right, I and the King of Huainan are just playing on the spot, King Yue thought that he could use me to control the King of Huainan by sending me into the Huainan Kingdom, but he didn't know that I would have my own ideas when I thought I was just a tool!" Bao Wenqin also walked out of the crowd at this time and said with a light smile.
"It turns out that you already had two hearts for King Yue before you married into Huainan Kingdom?" Although Pan He's ultimate goal is to pull King Yue down from the throne, this does not mean that he is willing to see Bao Wenqin betray King Yue.
After all, all his plans were based on the war between Yue and Huainan. Originally, his plan was close to success, but he didn't expect that Bao Wenqin, who he thought was the least likely to have a problem, had a problem.
"I didn't expect that I had been planning for so long and it would fail, this is not my fault, it is the will of God!" Pan He sighed, and the momentum in his body quickly subsided like a tide.
"Even so, Pan's head is here, you can come and get it!" As soon as he said this, Mei Buyu next to him began to panic.
"King Huainan, you have to think clearly, I am a person from Nansi, if you kill me, you may not be able to afford the consequences!" Seeing that the people who were ruthless just now and inspected the affairs hall and whose lives were nothing, now they have begun to use threatening tricks to save their lives.
Seeing that he was so unbearable, everyone couldn't help but show a look of disdain.
"Mei Buyu, I should have considered the result that I said I would bear before calculating King Huainan, and now that I have failed, why should I be greedy for life and afraid of death!" Yao Junheng couldn't stand it anymore, he snorted coldly and said.
"Why is a gentleman afraid of death!" As he spoke, Yao Junheng directly snatched a long knife from the hands of the rebels on the side, and then slashed at his neck.
Seeing that Yao Junheng was about to kill himself, another long knife suddenly blocked the long knife in Yao Junheng's hand.
Everyone looked at it, but found that it was Huang Budo who blocked the knife.
"Master Yao, why are you in such a hurry? Is it because you're worried that you'll reveal something you shouldn't be divulging? "Huang Budo, as a former black-faced soldier and then wandered the rivers and lakes for several years, and finally sat down as the hall master of the Freedom Hall, and his understanding of human nature is far stronger than that of others.
Although Yao Junheng seemed unwilling to die in the hands of King Huainan and others, Huang Budo thought that Yao Junheng must have some concerns about dying in such a hurry.
A person's worries that can be dispelled by death are only more important than life. And in the eyes of him, a great Confucian, what could be more important than his own life?
The answer is already on the horizon, and that is the survival of Confucianism. Obviously, Yao Junheng must have known something that could completely shake the foundation of Confucianism.
Once he was caught by the king of Huainan and couldn't stand the torture and said it, he would be a Confucian sinner at that time.
So instead of that, he should just cut himself.
"Hmph, the gentleman is frank and the villain is a relative, Yao has nothing that cannot be revealed, but Yao is unwilling to be humiliated in the hands of you people, so he begs for death." Yao Junheng said anxiously as he touched his neck with a long knife again.
"Master Yao is so open-minded, why should he be in such a hurry!" Huang Budo once again blocked Yao Junheng's long knife with his long knife.
"Take them all!" Seeing this, King Huainan immediately commanded. So the few people behind him immediately drew their long knives and killed them in the direction of Pan He.
And although the rebels on Pan He's side knew that they might not be the opponents of the guards of the King of Huainan, but now they knew that their people would definitely die, so they no longer had any scruples, so they also drew their long knives and prepared to give it a go.
However, Li Yi at the head of the city did not want to get involved in the battle between the king of Huainan and the rebels. So he immediately led the people on his side to retreat, and soon opened up the distance between him and them.
"Li Gongzi, now the rebels and the Huainan King's side are fighting each other, although the Huainan King's side of the guards is strong in martial arts, but the number is smaller, although in the end the Huainan King's side will definitely win, but it may not be able to take it for a while, at this time, if you help him take down these rebels, then the Huainan King will definitely have a heavy reward!" Bao Wenqin, who was on the side, suddenly came over at this time and saluted Li Yiyi and said.
But before Li Yi could speak, a figure had already flashed and stood in front of Li Yi. This person is the only woman in Li Yi's group: Qi Ning.
"Humph! The princess of Huainan and I are just travelers passing through your Shouzhou City, and we don't want to get involved in the affairs between your Huainan Kingdom and the rebels. Qi Ning's tone was very cold, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he had a feeling of rejection from thousands of miles away.
"This little sister, you must know that this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it is indeed too risky to let you help you, but now that you are only a gesture against the rebels, you can't miss this kind of good thing of beating the reservoir dogs." Although Bao Wenqin seemed to be talking to Qi Ning, her gaze always stayed on Li Yi.
Because from the very beginning, she found out that although Li Yi was not very old in Li Yi's group, the others were all under Li Yi's arrangement.
"Since you have already said that the rebels will be defeated this time, why do you need us grass people to take action, isn't this disturbing the Yaxing of the King of Huainan and stealing his limelight!" Li Yi also smiled slightly and said.
In fact, the reason why Li Yi didn't want to make a move was not because he had any intersection with the rebels, nor because he had any suspicions with the King of Huainan.
On the contrary, he was almost killed by the rebels on several occasions, so he also hated these people who planned the entire rebel operation.
If it weren't for King Huainan this time, he would definitely kill all these people in person.
But now that the king of Huainan has made a move, he has decided not to get involved. There are three reasons for this. The first point is that the charming Bao Wenqin in front of him is too much for Li Yi to be afraid of.
The mature beauty in front of her is like a poisonous snake. His scheming is so deep, even King Yue and Pan He, these old rivers and lakes, have been played around.
What's more critical is that this woman is really ruthless enough, in order to take revenge on the king of Yue who failed her, she actually pretended to marry into Huainan at the cost of her own name, and joined forces with the king of Yue to arrange the shocking situation, and directly trapped all the rebels sent by the king of Yue in Shouzhou City.
Even she abandoned her sister and family. In the face of such a woman, Li Yi felt a chill down his spine, and he had the feeling of being targeted by a poisonous snake.
Therefore, treating this kind of woman with respect is the best way to deal with it. The second point is because Li Yi doesn't have much of a good impression of King Huainan.
After all, a vassal king who faked his death and let the people of the city endure the ravages of the rebels is not a good bird.
People like him and Bao Wenqin simply complement each other and smell the same. If Bao Wenqin is a poisonous snake, then this King of Huainan is an ambitious and ferocious hungry wolf.
Therefore, helping the king of Huainan to kill the rebels is tantamount to conspiring with the tiger. And the third point is because Li Yi realized that the forces in the rebels this time were complicated, including Confucianism, Nansi, and Zongzheng Temple.
These forces are extremely huge, once he participates in this war, then he will offend Tho Confucianism, Nansi and Zongzheng Temple at once, so it will definitely outweigh the losses.
"But Li Gongzi 、、、、、、" This time, before Bao Wenqin could persuade Li Yi again, he had already stepped back again and aimed in the direction of Xuanwu Avenue.
At this time, it had been a quarter of an hour since Nan Ye entered the city with two thousand water bandits. According to Li Yi's calculations, they should have arrived at the place where Mu Qingyun was at this time.
Sure enough, when he looked up in the direction of Xuanwu Avenue, he happened to see two thousand rebels wielding the weapons in their hands and killing in the direction where Mu Qingyun was.
At the same time, the Huainan army, which was single-mindedly resisting the rebels in the alley, suddenly scattered in formation under the sudden impact of the rebels.
At the same time, the mouth of the alley, which had been tightly blocked, was rushed away, and the rebels in the alley immediately rushed out of the alley when they found an opportunity.
"Although I don't know what kind of backhand King Huainan will leave, if this time King Huainan doesn't arrange for his backhand in advance, Mu Qingyun will definitely die." Jingzi was looking at the rebels in the distance, and then turned his head to look at Pan He and the others who were fighting.
"Since ancient times, people have often said that people are not as good as heaven, this time Pan He, although they have exhausted their calculations, they still miscalculated Bao Wenqin's hearts, which will eventually lead to a complete collapse of the entire layout and complete failure!" Mr. Shangyang also shook his head with a wry smile.
"Then tell me what kind of backhand King Huainan left for Mu Qingyun this time?" Qi Chao suddenly looked at the people around him curiously and said.
"Didn't King Huainan say just now, Pan He and the four of them are actually calculating with each other, so I guess that some of the rebels will definitely turn against each other at a critical time!" Yu Guangqing said with a smile.
"I think that the King of Huainan must have arranged a large number of Huainan troops to ambush them in the surrounding areas and act at any time." Wu Zhongxiao also began to shout at this time.
"I think that in fact, the king of Huainan did not leave any help at all, and his purpose was only to eradicate the entire rebel army, so he must first ensure that the rebels are concentrated." Hai Yin said slowly at this time.
His statement made everyone look at him in amazement. Hae Yin saw that everyone was looking at him, so he immediately explained.
"In fact, everyone has always thought that the king of Huainan said that the rebels will be defeated this time because the king of Huainan left a back hand, but in fact, all this is imagined by ourselves, and from the beginning to the present, the king of Huainan has not said that he left a back hand."
"I think what Haijun said makes sense!" Li Yi couldn't help but nod after listening to Hai Yin's words.
"You must know that this time the grassland tribe chose to attack the Yellow Dragon after breaking the border pass, Emperor Shengheng has ordered all the vassals in the world to go to the rescue, and the Huainan army of Huainan has been transferred most of it, so the entire Huainan country is now in a state of shortage." Hae-in continued to carefully analyze it for everyone.
"But that doesn't mean that the King of Huainan didn't leave a part of the Huainan army in ambush?" Qi Chao still retorted unrelentingly.
"Do you think King Huainan would be stupid enough to give Emperor Shengheng a chance?" Although Hai Yin has not followed Li Yi for a long time, in this short period of time, he has a clear understanding of the intrigue between the imperial court.
At this time, everyone felt that what Hai Yin said was very reasonable. You must know that the Huainan Wang's lineage is the Beiyu royal family, and Emperor Shengheng's fear and vigilance of the Huainan Wang's lineage are much stronger than other vassal kings.
Therefore, once Emperor Shengheng knew that the King of Huainan did not send a large army to defend the imperial capital according to the requirements of the imperial court, then Emperor Shengheng would definitely take advantage of this to be furious and send troops to exterminate the Huainan army.
Therefore, the scheming King Huainan will definitely not give the court a chance to seize this excuse.
"But if the King of Huainan didn't arrange another Huainan army, then how would Mu Qingyun escape and ascend to heaven?" This time, even Jun Keyi really couldn't figure out what the King of Huainan should do in order to completely solve the hidden danger of the rebels.
At this moment, Li Yi showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"In fact, everyone has walked into a misunderstanding, that is, we have always thought that the strength of the rebels is stronger than that of the Huainan army!" Everyone frowned as soon as these words came out, and they didn't understand what Li Yi meant.
From the very beginning, the Huainan army was surrounded by the rebels, and even surrounded it for a day and a night.
Later, although Li Yi successfully broke free from the encirclement, it was also because of the problem of the rebels' encirclement.
Faced with such a situation, everyone's first reaction must be that the Huainan army is much weaker than the rebels. In addition, the rebels later ambushed the Huainan Army on Xuanwu Avenue, and the Huainan Army could only barely maintain the situation of holding each other in the case of numerical superiority, so everyone's mind formed the perception that the Huainan Army could not defeat the rebels.
"But Childe, it's an indisputable fact that the rebels are stronger than the Huainan Army!" Ansu did not understand why Li Yi said that the rebels were stronger than the Huainan army, which was a misunderstanding.
"The performance of the Huainan Army was so stretched before, I also think that although the Huainan Army has an absolute advantage in numbers, its strength is not as good as the rebels, but since I know that the King of Huainan is still alive, I have begun to feel that this is very abnormal!" Li Yi said as he looked at the chaotic battlefield in the distance.
"What's wrong?" Wu Zhongxiao also frowned and asked puzzled.
"If you think about it carefully, although many of the rebels are soldiers of the city guard battalion, most of them are water bandits who have been integrated and integrated, and on the Huainan army's side, he is basically all veterans who have experienced battlefield battles, even if some of them are from the city guard battalion, then at least their strength should be comparable to the strength of the soldiers in the city guard battalion in the rebel army." Li Yi analyzed them by himself.
After hearing Li Yi's analysis, everyone was stunned.
"That's right, these soldiers of the city guard battalion are simply different from the Huainan army that has been on the battlefield, and it can even be said unceremoniously that the Huainan army can completely crush the rebels, not to mention those water bandits!" Chu Tianming also discovered the reasonableness of this after Li Yi's reminder.
"Li Gongzi, do you mean that from the very beginning, Mu Qingyun and they were deliberately showing weakness, in order to attract all the rebels and then exterminate them all at once?" Quan Xianzhi finally understood what Li Yi meant at this time.
That's right, if the Huainan Army showed unrivaled strength from the beginning, then the rebels would inevitably choose to disperse and find a way to slowly consume the Huainan Army.
But now they simply showed weakness, and the rebels gathered like leeches that smelled blood.
Originally, they didn't understand why the Huainan Army didn't let some rebels in and then break them one by one when they blocked the alley mouth of Xuanwu Avenue, but now they finally understood.
It turned out that this was the Huainan Army casting a long line to catch a big fish. Only by forcing the rebels to the point of holding each other will the rebels concentrate all their last strength on the Xuanwu Avenue.
Now it seems that Mu Qingyun's plan is very successful, and now that the big fish and small shrimp have entered the net, the next time is for Mu Qingyun or Mu Yiying, the king of Huainan, to close the net.