Looking at Chang Ge, who had accompanied him in the battle for half his life, King Tang had no expression on his face and remained silent for a long time.
At this time, Eunuch Ma, the general manager of the palace, appeared beside him: "Your Majesty, His Highness the Ninth Highness wishes to see you."
"Yes." King Tang did not raise his head.
After a while, Li Qiong, the king of Lianhe County, appeared in the imperial study: "My son, I will see my father."
"What's the matter?" King Tang was still looking at Chang Ge, the blade shining brightly and reflecting light, reflecting his face.
"My father ordered my eldest brother to go to the Northern Qi Dynasty to protect him?" Li Qiong asked.
In this life, the most rude moment he faced the King of Tang was probably today.
The king of Tang Dynasty was not angry.
He just didn't answer and asked: "Do you want to exchange with him?"
Li Qiong asked: "As long as I think about it, can it come true?"
"You have no joke." King Tang gently wiped the Chang Ge blade.
Li Qiong fell into silence.
After a long time, he spoke again: "My son... I don't want to change!"
The King of Tang finally put down his Chang Ge, stood up, and faced his son.
Li Qiong's eyes were slightly red and his breathing was rapid: "My father will only give me this one chance in my life, and I don't want to give up!"
He looked at the King of Tang and said, "I want to fight!"
"If you don't stay calm, why should you fight?" King Tang said expressionlessly.
Li Qiong took a few deep breaths to calm down his mood.
Seeing that the other party calmed down quickly, King Tang finally nodded: "Okay, I will give you this opportunity."
He walked slowly, passed Li Qiong, came to the window, and looked at the sky in the distance:
"If the battle with Chang'an fails and I lose my country, Hong'er will be the only surviving bloodline of the Wang family.
If it comes to pass, as long as you are still alive, you will be my crown prince; if I die and the country is still there, you will be the new monarch of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Qiong took a deep breath and knelt down to King Tang: "My son, thank you father for your grace!"
"Get up."
King Tang's tone was slightly softer: "I have seen everything you have done since you were young. This country will ultimately be in the hands of the best people. Hong'er has had a chance. Now let me see your performance.
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"Yes, Father!" Li Qiong's expression was excited, but soon became solemn: "Father, please forgive me for speaking frankly... What you said before seems to be unlucky."
Tang Wang said calmly: "Of course, unless we lay many traps, mobilize many experts, and prepare carefully, I can be sure to capture Hong Xiao and so many people, and not let any of them escape.
In other words, the strength of Chang'an City is at least similar to that of the Tang Dynasty, if not more.
Therefore, I am not absolutely sure, and it is a matter of course.”
On that day, although Ange found out about Dahelongmen's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain by water, but actually escaped by land, it did not find out that the leader of Dahelongmen, Li Jie, had broken through to the ninth realm, so the king of Tang made a mistake in his plan, and Li Jie finally escaped.
A large number of survivors in Longmen also escaped.
"As the old saying goes, expect the enemy to be strict." The king of Tang said: "I have been going smoothly in the past few years, but I have also been a little slack. The great river Longmen and Chang'an have made me alert again. If I want to break the city of Chang'an, I can't do it alone.
Even if we all unite, we may not be able to win."
"My son, I will obey my father's teachings." Li Qiong said.
"Go down and be prepared, a war may break out anytime and anywhere." King Tang waved his hand.
Li Qiong immediately retreated.
His eldest brother, Li Hong, the crown prince of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, began to prepare to go to the Northern Qi Dynasty as an envoy.
King Qi, the long-cherished ally of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, is also summoning a group of officials.
"Not only His Highness the Sixth, but now His Highness the Second is also trapped in Chang'an. Chang'an City has no intention of peacefully coexisting with our great Qi."
The Prime Minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty came out and said: "I beg your Majesty to issue an order to join forces with the Eastern Tang Dynasty to destroy Chang'an City and rescue your two highnesses."
"His Second Highness and Vice President Yan fell into Chang'an. No wonder Prime Minister Qin is anxious."
The Grand Master of the Northern Qi Dynasty next to him said calmly: "But Prime Minister Qin still needs to calm down and don't talk about swords and weapons lightly."
The Prime Minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty looked at the other party coldly: "It concerns the state of Qi, so why should we act rashly?"
"Your Majesty, so far, Chang'an City has never invaded our Daqi. There is not even a Chang'an garrison on the border between Longbei County of the Eastern Tang Dynasty and us."
The grand master ignored the prime minister and said directly to King Qi: "You may wish to recall that so far, the people who have been embarrassed by Chang'an are all those who took the initiative to go to Chang'an City. Apart from this, Chang'an has nothing to do with me.
connection."
Everyone in the hall frowned slightly, looking thoughtful.
Qin Bo'an, the Prime Minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty, had a solemn expression. He knew what the other party was going to say.
Sure enough, the Grand Master then said: "There is no news from Chang'an. The situation is unclear at the moment. We don't know what happened, but there are various signs that the people detained in Chang'an may have behaved inappropriately and angered the other party."
"It's all conjecture." Prime Minister Qin said coldly: "But it is a real thing that Chang'an tramples on our country, Da Qi. If we don't deal with this matter, how can we, Da Qi, continue to gain a foothold on the land of Eastern Xinjiang?"
"Hong Xiao of the Eastern Tang Dynasty is gone." At this time, someone suddenly said quietly.
Everyone took a breath for a moment.
The Grand Master of the Northern Qi Dynasty smiled slightly: "If it is said to be insulting to the national system, it must first be done to the Eastern Tang Dynasty."
"The lips are dead and the teeth are cold." Prime Minister Qin responded tit for tat.
"Then please, Prime Minister Qin, please ask the dean of your academy to come out and help the King of Tang." The Grand Master was still unhurried.
Prime Minister Qin was about to retort when a voice suddenly sounded: "I'll go to the Eastern Tang Dynasty."
Everyone in the hall fell silent and looked at the middle-aged man in the front row.
"If Master Lin is willing to take action, success will be achieved immediately." Prime Minister Qin breathed a sigh of relief.
Others had complicated expressions.
Most of the people in the hall were wearing Northern Qi court uniforms.
The middle-aged man was wearing eye-catching burlap clothes.
But everyone present, except King Qi, was in awe of him.
Because this is one of the six giants of the Northern Qi Dynasty, the head of Wutian Peak, "Tianwu Sword" Lin Ying, who is also a ninth-level martial arts master like King Qi.
Taking the name of the Shimen Tianwu Fourteen Swordsman, he is already one of the few masters in Wutian Peak in the history of swordsmanship. Even if the master of the Shimen is resurrected, he may not be able to defeat him.
Lin Ying opened her mouth and immediately made the final decision.
"There is Master Laolin." King Qi finally spoke at this time.
Lin Ying nodded and walked out of the hall.
He first went back to Wutian Peak Mountain Gate.
When they heard that Lin Ying was going to the Eastern Tang Dynasty, other elders in the sect were shocked.
"Brother, headmaster, this is obviously a ploy by Gao Tiankai to kill someone with a knife!" Someone quickly tried to persuade him.
"I know." Lin Ying nodded lightly: "But I have to go. Junior Brother Chen, Senior Brother Wang, Yu Lin, including Gao Jun, and other disciples are all in Chang'an."
"However, there is news that Hong Xiao from White Horse Academy in the Eastern Tang Dynasty has also left and never returned."
People around me were worried: "The bastards in the Eastern Tang Dynasty are still suppressing the news, just like deceiving others to go to Chang'an and be their vanguard!"
Lin Yingyan said: "Although I have never fought against him, I have heard of Hong Xiao's name, and I am not sure I can beat him. Since he was defeated in Chang'an City, it is useless for me to go alone.
Since Dongtang wants to bring people to join him in the disaster, I will help them, but everyone must share in the difficulty."
He looked at his fellow disciples who were still a little worried: "I will be careful and will not take risks easily. You don't have to worry about me. I know that I am carrying a heavy burden.
But after I left the mountain, you kept a low profile and were on guard against the royal family in case King Qi took the opportunity to launch an attack."
Seeing that he had made up his mind, everyone could only promise: "Please take care of yourself, Master."
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The Eastern Tang Dynasty wanted to suppress the news that Hong Xiao, the dean of Baima Academy, had fallen into Chang'an, but the incident was too explosive and could not be contained, so it finally spread.
While the royal family of the Eastern Tang Dynasty was upset, Zhang Dongyun in Chang'an City was also unhappy.
After knowing what happened to Hong Xiao, others will definitely be wary.
And there are only a few people like Hong Xiao who know that there are tigers in the mountains and prefer to travel to the tiger mountains.
Therefore, City Lord Zhang couldn't help but feel a little worried when he looked at his guard task experience points and the difference of 4,300 points.
After thinking for a while, he shook his head and temporarily cleared his mind of the troubles.
The good news is of course not without it.
Several armies of our own have advanced together and have basically captured Yunzhong County and Longnan County.
Hong Xiao, Li Xuannian and others were all wiped out, which greatly shocked the Eastern Tang Dynasty.
The Eastern Tang Dynasty was never able to organize a defensive counterattack similar to that in Hexi County.
The defenders of the Eastern Tang Dynasty in Yunzhong County and Longnan County were almost defeated at the first touch.
The problem left to Hu Yinghua, Gu Hechuan and others was not to capture the city, but how to follow Mr. Wu Yun's instructions and capture a large number of Tang army prisoners.
Of course, this may also be a plan of the Eastern Tang Dynasty.
Take your fist back temporarily so that you can hit it more powerfully next time.
Zhang Dongyun collected information and made a rough judgment on the temperament of the Tang king.
I am alone, ambitious, and unwilling to be inferior to others.
This destined him to be unable to retreat safely or surrender to Chang'an.
It is more likely that he would rather die together.
In this case, the current reaction is weak, and there must be a bigger plan to gain the greatest control. If we don't take action, we must solve the threat to Chang'an City once we take action.
Regarding these, Zhang Dongyun, a target, wants to say:
Please be more vigorous!
A certain city lord named Zhang prayed in his heart.
Dong Tang is not here for the time being, so he will first be busy improving his personal cultivation level and building Chang'an City.
After capturing Longnan County, Gu Hechuan brought him a nice gift.
A local force in Longnan named Tianfengshan.
In terms of level, it is better than the Hanshan Sect and the Pili Sect, which could only operate in Qinzhou Prefecture and Tongzhou Prefecture.
Of course, at the earliest, the Hanshan Sect could not even monopolize the Qinzhou Prefecture, and had to face competition from the Shanhu Hall.
As for Tianfeng Mountain, the family occupies several mansions in the southeast of Longnan County.
Its leader has a cultivation level of the sixth level, which is stronger than the earliest leaders of the Hanshan Sect, Guo Zi, and the Perak Sect leader, Wu Qiong, who were in the fourth level.
There are also many masters among the disciples.
But these are not the reasons that attracted Zhang Dongyun's attention.
What made Zhang Dongyun fall in love with them was that the entire sect in Tianfeng Mountain was very good at smelting weapons.