"The Mongolian army came back, but it happened to be the moment when the king and Sheng Yong were fighting fiercely in Qingzhou." Lan Qiao said angrily, "This ghost Lichi is really poisonous."

"You asked Hu Zhi to report that we should go to Peking together first." Hua Yuxi glanced at him with a half-smile and said, "You didn't discuss it with the slave family before speaking. How did you know that the slave family was willing to go with you?"

"If you are really unwilling, I can't force you to follow me." Lan Qiao said with a bitter smile, "But no one knows what kind of difficulties you will encounter after arriving in Peking. I need you, that... hey..." He was embarrassed

He rubbed his hands on the ground, as if he didn't know what to say.

Hua Yuxi wanted to hear a heart-warming words of sympathy for herself, but seeing that Lan Qiao was too naive to say anything, she had no choice but to say: "Oh, that's all, who told me to owe you anything?"

She remembered that Lan Qiao had just told Lone Wolf that she was his woman, and her heart felt sweet again, and she laughed and cursed: "You can't even speak, you are such a stupid fish."

Lan Qiao smiled and said: "Okay, okay, I'm stupid, but you are the smartest."

"I still feel strange about the Tatar invasion." Hua Yuxi stopped bickering with him and said with a frown: "Let me think about it carefully, it seems that I didn't understand some of the joints originally, but now I have made up the most critical one.

ring."

Lan Qiao has been in contact with Hua Yuxi for a long time and has a tacit understanding with her. He immediately reminded: "Do you want to say Chu Shuijun?"

"Yes, that's it!" Hua Yuxi said in shock, "How do you know what I'm thinking?"

After saying that, she fell silent, as if to clear her thoughts first, and waited for a while before slowly speaking: "According to Sheng Yong's original arrangement, the Chu navy's position was to defend Magu Mountain to prevent King Yan from attacking this morning.

The reinforcements going to Qingzhou, while the fourth uncle and the Chinese army from Jiyang will serve as backup. Once the fight breaks out in Magushan, they will immediately outflank and support them from the left and right. Taking advantage of their strength, they can advance in three directions, and then they can calmly repel King Yan's reinforcements.

. Then go back and slowly clean up the isolated mountain city of Qingzhou. This tactic can be said to be flawless. What I still haven’t figured out is why Sheng Yong changed his strategy temporarily? "

Lan Qiao pondered and said: "Surrounding the area and calling for reinforcements is indeed the safest plan. As long as the king is driven out of Shandong, not to mention the five groups gathered together like today, He Fu and Chen Hui alone are enough to drive the mountain city away.

If we capture it, it won't help but we need to spend more time. Sheng Yong is not a fool. He must have his purpose in changing his tactics like this."

Hua Yuxi said in confusion: "But no matter from which angle you look at it, his tactics after changing his tactics are more risky. Not to mention the Chu Shui Army who was sacrificed in vain, even if the Chu Shui Army really helped him stop King Yan

, bought him time to occupy the mountain city. At most, he would start a confrontation with King Yan in Shandong. It is difficult to guarantee that he will take advantage, unless..."

Her eyes flashed, and she looked at Lan Qiao and said, "Unless his target was not Qingzhou Mountain City from the beginning, but King Yan himself."

Lan Qiao was a person who was very familiar with marching and fighting, so he knew the implication of Hua Yuxi's words as soon as he heard it: "You want to say that the reason why Sheng Yong changed his strategy was because he knew the news of the Tatars going south in advance, so he wanted to play a big game.

Yes, just leave the king in Qingzhou and never go back to Peiping."

"That's what I mean." Hua Yuxi slapped her thigh and said, "He may have learned the exact news yesterday, shortly before Zhang Zhongjie came to Magushan to find me. If the original plan is followed, the mountain city can be captured, but the Yan army

The core force was just blocked outside Shandong and would not suffer too much. Sheng Yong felt that this piece of fly meat was not enough to eat, so he simply used the mountain city as bait to lure King Yan deep into Shandong for a decisive battle. It was difficult to return north for a while. At this time, Peiping was empty.

, Gui Lichi took advantage of the opportunity and entered. If the base camp of Beiping is lost, wouldn't King Yan have no choice but to admit defeat?"

"Actually speaking, his most important goal is to invite the king to Shandong. As for Qingzhou Mountain City, it is not that important." Lan Qiao further elaborated: "Sheng Yong must have known that the king was suspicious and deliberately did not evacuate Chu.

The navy's position was just to prevent the king from becoming suspicious. His only miscalculation was that you, Sister Hua, betrayed him, which gave us the opportunity to capture his Jiyang camp first and relieve the siege of the mountain city in time."

"I didn't betray him, it was he who betrayed Chushui City first." Hua Yuxi said bitterly, "That's how I am. I will betray anyone who betrays me. If anyone treats me well, then I will treat him better."

."

At the end of her sentence, she glanced at Lanqiao with beautiful eyes, and then continued: "But the situation is not much better now. Although we have saved the mountain city, this only increases our bargaining chips in Shandong and Sheng Yong.

Sheng Yong will definitely try his best to hold back King Yan's army and prevent him from returning to rescue Peiping so easily."

"That's why I asked Hu Zhi to send me a message." Lan Qiao nodded and agreed with Hua Yuxi's judgment, and said in a solemn tone: "Before the king successfully withdraws his troops from Shandong, we must help the prince to defend Peiping. Once Peking is lost, the world will definitely be divided again.

, leading to endless war and loss of life."

"For Sheng Yong, this is a risky move, but the rewards are also extremely rich." Hua Yuxi pointedly said, "If Beiping really falls into the hands of Gui Lichi, the morale of the Yan army's officers and soldiers will be greatly reduced, and it is very likely that Sheng will be defeated.

Yong was defeated. Sheng Yong cleared up the feudal rebellion, which was his first great achievement. He then went north to drive out the Tartars, and became a national hero. The people of Peiping were saved by him from foreign rule, and they must be grateful. This became three birds with one stone.

At that time, in terms of his high reputation and popularity, I am afraid that no one in the world can match him."

Lan Qiao said in a deep voice: "Actually, there is one last doubt about this whole matter."

"You want to ask, how could Sheng Yong know the exact news of the Tatars going south in advance, which was at least a day and a half faster than Hu Zhi sent by Peiping." When Hua Yuxi said this, her heart suddenly moved, and she looked at Lan again.

Qiao Dao: "Yes, why did he know in advance? And there is that lone wolf. Why did he chase and kill a small signal soldier?"

The two of them didn't speak for a while. They looked at each other and saw the coldness in each other's eyes.

After a long time, Lan Qiao let out a sigh of relief and said in an passionate tone: "In any case, we have no way to retreat now. Under the premise that the king cannot return aid, help the prince to defend Beiping. This is to prevent the world from collapsing.

The only way is to decide whether the world will rise or fall, and who will rule the country will be in this battle!"

Hua Yuxi was so excited by what he said that she loudly said, "Young lady, please obey the Young Master's orders."

Lan Qiao smiled and "instructed": "The first task is to find a safe place to wash your body, then camp and rest, and wait until dawn before setting off. We have experienced too many things in the past two days, and we must adjust ourselves first.

, and then rush to the next battlefield."

They traveled about five or six miles north and found a river. They washed away the mud on their bodies in the river, and then made a fire and camped by the river.

Just when the rain stopped, Lan Qiao used his inner strength to help Hua Yuxi dry her clothes, and said with a smile: "Guess what I remembered?"

"Young master, I hate it!" Hua Yuxi turned her face away in embarrassment, "You must be talking about us camping in the misty mountains again. The slave family has been embarrassed, and you are still laughing."

The two lay down across the fire. Hua Yuxi took off her mask, and she and Lan Qiao looked at the bright starry sky after the rain stopped, and said quietly: "I've been living these days like a dream."

Lan Qiao actually hadn't seen her change back to Li Jingshu's appearance for a long time. Looking at her beautiful profile under the starry sky, he softly said: "Me too."

Hua Yuxi smiled and said nothing, only turning her face to look at him. For a moment, everything was silent, except for the subtle crackling sound of charcoal, and the light of the fire flashing in their eyes at the same time.

The silence speaks.

I don’t know how long it took, but the little spirit suddenly jumped out, sniffed Hua Yuxi, and then the Blue Bridge, and finally chose to lie down between the two of them, as if it thought that was the most reassuring place for it to have a rest.

Yawned, curled up and fell asleep.

Its furry body blocked the two people's gaze from each other. Lan Qiao had to retract his gaze and said softly: "Get some rest. After a while, it will be dawn."

Hua Yuxi sighed secretly and turned her gaze to the stars in the sky.

Snoring began gradually beside me, one big and one small, one after another.

Hua Yuxi felt both funny and a little regretful.
Chapter completed!