"What prestige do I have?" Gao Changgong laughed and said: "I am idle by nature, I love to spread joy more than fighting before the battle, if General Xiang can raise his noble hand and avoid this military disaster, it will be really a great joy, just a rare trip to the Mo family, I can also lead the children of Jing Wu to take a good look at the scenery of the Central Plains, and have a long insight." ”

Xiang Chu said indifferently: "Is it? General Gao is so elegant, but it's a pity that I am a rough person, I don't like to study literature since I was a child, and I haven't read all the four books and five classics...... Naturally, I don't understand what the general means by 'raising your noble hand'?"

"The Tang army retreated four hundred miles and returned the three counties that had occupied the Mo family, which is what it means. Gao Changgong smiled, the expression on his face was as sincere as he was.

"Four hundred miles? and return the three counties?" Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry heard such a request, and immediately became agitated, and the general of Xiang Chu's personal guard on the side even bowed his hand and said angrily: "General, don't mess with him here, the last general is willing to be the vanguard, in order to show the prestige of my Tang Kingdom, the debt owed by the ghost cavalry of Qingzhou back then, it is time to pay it back!"

Naturally, the voice of the guards was echoed by many people, who raised their swords in their hands and shouted for battle.

But no matter how they shouted, they couldn't get the slightest response from Xiang Chu.

The tall black horse in front of the crowd, and the mighty Wuzi sitting on the horse, were like a solid wall, reflecting all their noise.

Xiang Chu slowly turned his head to look at the general, the light in his eyes was as sharp as a knife, just a glance, the general immediately shuddered as if he had been blown into his heart by a cold wind.

"I'm talking to General Gao, what are you talking about?" Xiang Chu said coldly: "Could it be that you have forgotten the rules in the army?"

"Will ...... General ......" The general of the personal guard lowered his head, did not dare to refute a word, and stammered: "The last general knows that he is wrong......

Xiang Chu's big hand rubbed the long pole of the halberd, and he still said like a bell: "Four hundred miles? Is General Gao too much? My sons of the Tang Kingdom fought bloodily to win a few square inches of the Mo family, if it is returned, how will I, Xiang Chu, face the fathers and villagers of the Tang Kingdom? Moreover, I made a military order to the lord of the country before I set out on the expedition, and now I am defeated and return empty-handed...... Shall I not have to cut myself on the banks of this boiling dry river?"

Gao Changgong answered unhurriedly: "Then General Xiang said this, because he thinks that he will definitely win this battle and can keep the three counties? Not to mention that with my Jing Wu army, you may not be able to do so, even if you now take all the cities and counties in the northeast of the Mo family, what is the use? The main force of the Mo family is still there, and if you report it in the future, it will be as difficult for the Tang Kingdom to bear, isn't it? This time, you killed more than 100,000 soldiers and soldiers of the Mo family, and looted the volume of wealth trucks, is this not considered the result of the war? In fact, you are not afraid that you will not be able to explain to the lord of the country when you go back, and you are not afraid of the noble concubine who has real power, you just like to kill, and you like this kind of battlefield where the knife licks blood......"

"General Gao is clever and eloquent, I am ashamed of myself, but you don't want to fool someone of my Xiang for a fool. You just want to say that you Jing Wu have the certainty of winning this battle, but in my eyes, the Jing Wu army has come from afar, and has lost the geographical advantage of the terrain in the south of the Yangtze River, and now the three counties are in my hands, and Xingzhou will soon fall, and most of the vast territory in the northeast of the Mo family will be under the control of my Tang Kingdom, you have no geographical advantages, and you are not the master of the Mo family, how can you conclude that you can match my Tang Kingdom?"

Gao Changgong said: "Then how can you conclude that you can successfully take Xingzhou?"

Xiang Chu's face suddenly became gloomy: "What do you mean?"

"It's not interesting. Gao Changgong smiled: "I just want to express my gratitude to you...... I heard that this dry river in the previous dynasty once had the reputation of 'a thousand sails', after the destruction of the earthquake, that prosperous scene is difficult to see, now General Xiang let this river rejuvenate, the future from Xingzhou to Jicheng can be greatly shortened, but also to do a good thing that has been passed down through the ages, benefiting the country and the people. ”

Xiang Chu stared at Gao Changgong deeply, he didn't expect him to be able to say what he was thinking, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

That's right, restoring the waterway passage of the dry river was a plan he came up with after studying the topography of the Mo family for many years, if it weren't for this, even if he was a master of the Great Grandmaster realm, it would be impossible for him to open the mountain and crack the rocks with his bare hands and inject surging water into the dry river.

Since the Tang army entered the Mo family, he has been secretly paving this matter, and now his hard work has finally paid off, and his plan for many years has finally had a result - if the Tang State is stationed troops in the upper reaches of this river, it only takes a suitable time, and the big ship can go all the way down to Jicheng, and the sword soldiers will go straight to the capital of the Mo family......

As for the use of it as a barrier to intercept Wang Xuanwei today, it is just a matter of taking advantage of the situation.

Now it seems that maybe he is still a little too conceited.

Gao Changgong continued: "I feel very surprised? I am also surprised, after all, although I have traveled to famous mountains and rivers, I am far less clear about the terrain of the Mo family than General Xiang. ”

"Hide it, the tall general simply finished talking in one go. Xiang Chu's tone was contemptuous, still holding his head high.

Gao Changgong nodded, and said with a pretended regret on his face: "I, Jingwu, is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and my shipbuilding skills may be able to surpass today's Jishang Palace." Of course, if it is compared to the Jishang Palace of the previous dynasty, Gao does not dare to hold it up, after all, the Jishang Palace at that time has thousands of drawings, and if he wants to find a ship design that is stronger than Jing Wu, he will naturally be able to capture it. ”

"What the hell do you want to say?" Xiang Chu's five fingers holding the halberd turned slightly white, and the unhappiness in his expression became more and more obvious.

Gao Changgong listened to the gurgling sound in his ears, and the smile on his face became stronger and stronger: "I just have a little regret that I can't bring all those big ships of my Jingwu to the Mo family, but fortunately, with Wang Xuanwei here, this time it has become something after all." If I'm not mistaken, when the sun rises tomorrow, the two counties of Binru and Tonghe will plant the battle flag of my Jingwu naval army and go to the state...... I still ask General Xiang not to covet it anymore. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was already an uproar in the array on Xiang Chu's side, although many people were still a little skeptical of what Gao Changgong said, but some generals who had a deep understanding of the Mo family's topography and water vein trend gradually turned pale.

"How is that possible...... How can it be...... Even if they expected that the wadi would restore the waterway, and even if Wang Xuanwei had delayed them a lot of time before, how easy would it be to build a large ship that could transport enough troops in these days alone?"

Xiang Chu's eyes flashed with coldness, of course he knew the key to this matter, sighed deeply, and asked, "It's Jinzhou, right?"

Public loser.

Perhaps only the skill of the Gong Loser, who was barely weaker than that of Momen, could build a large enough ship and enough ships to carry Jing Wu's soldiers down the river and capture the two counties by surprise......

"It's a miscalculation here...... Xiang Chu muttered to himself, "Wang Xuanwei ...... It turns out that you chose Jinzhou, and there is this consideration. ”

Thinking of this, Xiang Chu inserted the halberd into the ground and clapped his hands gently.

The clapping was followed by his unbridled laughter, which made people feel as if what Jing Wujun had taken away was not the city he had taken down, but the wild dog kennel that he picked up casually on the side of the road.

"Good. Xiang Chu said: "I can actually think of using this newly opened dry river to use a makeshift ship to transport troops and rob the two counties...... And the water of this dry river happened to let Xingzhou relieve the siege of water shortage. It seems that both my vision and my attainments in the art of war are indeed far inferior to you and Wang Xuanwei. ”

Gao Changgong hurriedly waved his hand, and said with an innocent expression: "Don't dare, this is all the strategy of the general of the Mo family, where do I have such a good brain, if you want to retaliate in the future, don't look for me, look for him." ”

"General Gao!" Xiang Chu shouted suddenly, his voice was like thunder, and he was shocked that the building, Zhang Mingqi and the others were all suffocated, "The matter has come to this, I, Xiang Chu, should have backed down, but ...... I'd like to make another bet with you, how about it?"

Gao Changgong sighed: "At this time, why does General Xiang still think about gambling, shouldn't he think about staying in the green mountains and not afraid of running out of firewood?"

"What's the matter? General Gao would rather live up to Wang Xuanwei's expectations for the sake of not losing his own troops?"

"Huh, is he dead?" Gao Changgong asked, holding his arms together.

"Nope. Xiang Chu shook his head, and there was a bit of desolation in his tone: "But he took that step, and his cultivation has been forced to a dead end, and if he can't continue to move forward in the future, he will not be able to escape death after all." ”

"That's it......" Gao Changgong didn't know how many times he sighed, the playful smile on his face disappeared suddenly, this time the sigh was still real and sad, for Wang Xuanwei, no matter from the personality or from the standpoint, they could not become close friends, but at this moment he felt that it seemed that the two were no longer enemies.

Is this a kind of sympathy?

He knew very well how difficult and dangerous that desperate road was, cultivation was like climbing a mountain, one step at a time, and when he reached the realm of the Great Grandmaster, the cultivator had already climbed to the top of the mountain, and it was as if he could touch the vast sky with a slight hand.

That Lingyun Peak...... In a sense, it actually means that there is no way to go, and in front of them, there is only an endless sky and an abyss under the cliff.

After a pause, Gao Changgong's voice was calm, and he said: "After all, I am the general of Jing Wu, if I can make General Xiang back down without losing the generals, it will naturally be the best result." What exactly do we Jing Wu want, General Xiang should also know very well. ”

Of course, Xiang Chu knew that Jing Wu didn't want the Mo family to collapse, because if there was no ally of the Mo family, or without the Mo family, a barrier that could shelter the wind and rain, with Jing Wu's current national strength, how could he confront the Tang State and Canghai?

Although the Tang State has been declining over the years, and it is no longer prosperous and powerful, but the military strength of Canghai has been on the rise, and after the two countries join forces to wipe out the Mo family, Jing Wu will undoubtedly become the next piece of fat on the chopping block.

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