Although the five great families did not form an alliance, they first established a goal, which was to eliminate Kangle. This goal is not of great significance to the Heavenly Dao Clan, the Shinto Clan, and the Humanist Clan, but it is very important for Ba Niu and Lu Xinghe. It was only now that Lu Xinghe understood that the ultimate goal of this conference was to make way for Ba Niu.

Before that, he had every reason to jam Ba Niu's neck and prevent him from passing through Dragonstone. But now it's very different. He is an old minister of the Mai family, and he is also a native of Dongduo, no matter from which point of view, he has no reason to stop him at this moment. Therefore, after he returned to Dragonstone, his first action was to inform all parties that as long as it was Ba Niu's army, it could be unimpeded within his control.

This move made Ma Xudong amazed, he never imagined that he could use such a roundabout way to make Lu Xinghe succumb, but Ba Niu had already expected it.

"The Chief of the Guard is not intellectually inferior, I believe he had anticipated the final outcome before he came here, but he had to come." He looked at Ma Xudong with a smile, like that, like a fox with great ambitions, so that Ma Xudong felt that he was cunning.

"In their generation, the most unavoidable thing is the great truth." As he paced slowly, he said happily: "There is always a truth in their hearts, and no matter how distorted this truth is, they must insist on it. The great reason of the chief of the guard is the Dongduo and the Mai dynasty. He is a Dondor, so as long as it is beneficial to Dordor, he will definitely do it. He is also an old minister of the Mai family, and he has no reason to oppose things that the Mai family does not oppose. I took advantage of that, which cannot be said to be his weakness, but it is the part that can be exploited. As for me, you can't say that I am despicable, and I can only be said to be wise by using the rules reasonably to achieve the goals I want to achieve!"

"It's the first time I've seen someone so brazenly talk about calculating others as a rational use of the rules, and I believe that if there is a second person like this in the world, it must be another Tai Lieutenant!"

Listening to Ma Xudong's words, Ba Niu couldn't help laughing, and Ma Xudong also laughed. After laughing, Ma Xudong said seriously: "The chief guard is a smart man, these little tricks of yours can hide from him for a while, and after a long time, he will soon wake up." Of course he won't bother with you about these little things, but I still don't think he's going to be entirely on our side. In addition, it is also worth noting that although he did not oppose the three proposals we put forward, he was only forced by the situation and did not really obey them. I think he'll contact the chief guard afterwards. If we dare to attack Changtu and Dadu directly through Dragonstone Fort, they are very likely to attack us and intercept our retreat, so that we will have nothing to base our advance on, no place to retreat, and we will be controlled by others in front and behind, not only will it be difficult to capture Changtu, but retreat will become a problem, and you can't think too much about this."

Ba Niu smiled and nodded: "So, we have to take Dragonstone Fort first."

"You mean ......"?

"Who else can threaten us today but the chief of the guard? No! Since he is the only threat, the only task now is to eliminate this threat!" He suddenly sighed, and said with a gloomy expression: "The chief of the guard is a good person, and I can't bear to be so cruel to him, but military and politics are different, politics can have buffer room, but military only has the difference between victory and defeat." If I don't destroy him, he will destroy me, there is no choice here".

Of course, Ma Xudong can understand this, Tu Su's death and the fall of the Mai dynasty are all extremely cruel facts, but it can't be changed, and no one will sympathize with it, this is the rule of the game, only the winner's game.

Ba Niu's men and horses on this expedition were 200,000. This level of army made Lu Xinghe feel a little worried, but he still didn't take precautions against it. He believes that Ba Niu's purpose is still Dadu, after all, the unification of Kyushu is his ultimate goal. However, he still made extremely perfect city defense measures, just in case, and also to protect the safety of the Mai family. -- At this time, the Mai family had already lived in Dragonstone Castle.

When the Ba Niu soldiers approached the city, it happened to be dusk that day, so his 200,000 horses were naturally stationed outside the city. As a member of the alliance, Lu Xinghe also rewarded the 200,000 people, and set up a family banquet in his mansion and invited Ba Niu to come.

Ba Niu happily went, and with him were Liu Xilie and Ma Xudong, as well as twenty-four personal soldiers. There were not many of them, and there were no more elite guards.

This banquet lasted from dusk to midnight, Lu Xinghe tried his best to flatter Ba Niu, and Ba Niu was also unceremoniously, completely devoid of the majesty of the past, almost to the point of wine, and he devoured the food.

"Lord Taiwei, there is a new batch of female dancers, Lu someone got it by chance, and I want to give it to the adult, I don't know if the adult is ridiculous or not"? Lu Xinghe looked at the ugly Ba Niu, and couldn't help but be disappointed, although he didn't think he was a legendary character, and he couldn't believe that he was like this: almost no dignity at all, he laughed like a lewd stick, and his words were vague, even in the usual etiquette, he couldn't do Zhou Xiang.

"Of course, of course". The lewd smile immediately appeared on his face again, and the lewd laughter sounded again: "Whether it's a woman or something, I want everything, I want it!" He deliberately emphasized the last two words.

Lu Xinghe smiled contemptuously, then clapped his hands, and then, with a loud song, twelve fairy-like women came to the hall flutteringly. These people are all carefully selected dancing girls by Lu Xinghe, needless to say, their faces and figures, just with that smile and gestures, they all have infinite style, which makes Ba Niu dance with his hands and eyes. However, Liu Xilie and Ma Xudong still maintain their original appearance, Ma Xudong was originally a gentleman, and in Liu Xilie's eyes, except for Tang Jiafeng, there was no one else at all.

In the end, Ba Niu collapsed on the feast due to lack of wine, and this is the end of the feast. Several subordinates helped Ba Niu, accompanied by Liu Xilie and Ma Xudong, to the residence arranged by Lu Xinghe, Lu Xinghe saw that he fell asleep on the bed, and then sent Ma Xudong and Liu Xilie back to the house before returning to his residence.

METRO was already waiting there, and as soon as he saw Lu Xinghe, he couldn't wait to ask, "How is it, have they stayed?"

"Staying is staying, but I always feel that something is wrong." Lu Xinghe said very cautiously: "I still hope that His Royal Highness the Prince can think about it carefully, although this plan is feasible, it is not perfect, even if we can kill Li Jiuyuan, what about his 200,000 army?" We only have more than 20,000 people, and the level of elite is far inferior to theirs. Once we kill Li Jiuyuan, these 200,000 people will attack at the same time, and I am afraid it will be difficult for us to resist."

"So, are you scared"? METRO spoke so arrogantly, which made Graphitra on the side sound very uncomfortable, and he just wanted to speak, Lu Xinghe immediately stopped him, and then said to Metro: "If you fight to the death in front of the two armies, who has Lu been afraid of?" It's just that this kind of conspiracy and trickery is really not what Lu is good at, I'm afraid that if he is not careless for a while, it will be self-defeating, wouldn't it harm others and himself? Therefore, I still hope that His Royal Highness the Prince will think twice."

METRO is young and vigorous, and has never taken Ba Niu in his eyes, but today I saw his performance at the banquet, and I was even more contemptuous, so I was very dissatisfied with Lu Xinghe's kind words and persuasion, he snorted coldly from his nose, glanced at Lu Xinghe arrogantly, and then turned around and walked out of the house.

There were already hundreds of people waiting for him there, and these people were the last strength of the Mai family. They planned everything in advance and waited for METRO to arrive. METRO looked at these people meaningfully, and suddenly there was an inexplicable emotion in his heart, which was neither excitement nor joy, neither safety nor fear. This kind of emotion is like the calmness before death, the calm when the catastrophe comes. He's never felt this way, he can't say it. The only thing he could do now was wave his hand firmly, and a few hundred people walked through the swarthy door right in front of his eyes.