Li Xingzai looked at Mu Baishi with satisfaction and said, "If we can win this battle, General Mu should be the first to take credit."
Mu Baishi held up his fists with both hands: "Your Majesty deserves the award. It's all because of His command. If His Majesty hadn't taken the lead, how could his men have fought bravely to kill the enemy?"
"I asked General Mu not to take it to heart because of the disagreement the day before yesterday. I would like to apologize to General Mu for the offense I offended."
"Ah, ah, you really offended the villain. It is the villain who should apologize to the prince."
The two looked at each other and laughed loudly at the same time.
The two people stood side by side in front of the wooden building window, gazing at the Liuping Lake after the battle. Today's battle was particularly difficult. But precisely because the victory was not easy, they felt honored at this moment.
He could still smell the smell of blood and the burnt smell of burning food and grass. Mu Baishi let out a light breath, but felt that he and Li Xingzai had some sympathy for each other.
He is not very old, and he also dreams of fighting on the battlefield and establishing eternal achievements. He will not take it seriously if he has a small grudge with Li Xingzai. In fact, he also admires Li Xingzai's character.
Putting yourself in the context of others, if you put yourself in Li Xingzai's position, would you be able to risk your own life and take risks like him?
We are all young people. Li Xingzai is worthy of admiration for being able to do things that he cannot do.
"Your Majesty, if I can be useful in the future, that's just what I ask you to do?"
This sentence means loyalty, and Li Xingzai's performance today was enough to impress him.
Li Xingzai nodded, but then shook his head and said: "What a pity, what a pity..."
Mu Baishi raised his head and asked puzzledly: "What regrets, Your Majesty?"
Li Xingzai didn't say a word and passed by Mu Baishi. Mu Baishi turned around in confusion, only to see a short knife piercing his throat.
His body died silently, and Li Xingzai silently pulled out the knife and wiped the blood on his body.
Mu Baishi's father, Mu Changchun, died at the hands of Li Xingzai. Mu Baishi did not know about this for the time being. And no matter how much he admired Li Xingzai at the moment, the revenge of his father's murder could neither be concealed nor wiped away.
So Li Xingzai had long wanted to kill Mu Baishi, and if he killed him, it would be over. Mu Baishi only thought that a bloody battle would help him establish a comrade-like relationship with Li Xingzai, but Li Xingzai would never feel sympathy for him.
Even if Mu Baishi was killed and said that he was hit by a hidden arrow and died on the battlefield, no one would be able to hold him accountable.
Not only Mu Baishi is going to die, but none of the close relatives of the Mu family on Baiyu Island will be able to escape.
How can a power purge be conducted with gentleness and without blood on its hands?
At this time, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open. Li Xingzai had just wiped the blood off the knife and before he could stand up, he heard the sound and raised his head suddenly.
Yu Wushuang was stunned at the door, his whole body was restrained in place, unable to speak.
She didn't know what to think. After cleaning the battlefield, she found that Li Xingzai was nowhere to be seen, so she searched here.
Unexpectedly, she happened to see Li Xingzai killing someone. She couldn't understand why Li Xingzai would kill someone. But Li Xingzai could kill Mu Baishi, why couldn't he kill himself?
The gentle young man disappeared, and the man staring at her now was an iron-blooded man. It wasn't that she didn't want to move, but she didn't dare to move under the intense gaze. It seemed that as long as she tried to leave his sight, he would kill her immediately.
own.
Li Xingzai stood up at this time and approached Yu Wushuang step by step. Yu Wushuang's heart seemed to be clenched and his breathing seemed to have stopped. Li Xingzai got closer and closer to her, and the expression on his face became softer and softer. Finally, the two stood face to face.
, breathing and smelling each other.
Li Xingzai smiled, patted a piece of dead grass on her shoulder, and passed her by.
At this moment, Yu Wushuang almost collapsed to the ground, only to realize that his back was wet with cold sweat.
She turned around and saw that Li Xingzai was still graceful, but behind that smile, there seemed to be an abyss that could not be seen to the end.
"Your Majesty, I just got the news." Xu Wentian came over to report: "Li Xing is leading an army to kill here."
"I understand." Li Xingzai nodded: "Assemble your troops and prepare to fight."
Mu Baishi could relax, enjoy the honor after the victory, and have a relationship with Li Xingzai. But Li Xingzai never had this leisurely mood, because he knew that victory was far from victory.
The real battle has just begun.
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When the battle at Liuping Lake started last night, Li Xing had already received the battle report. One question that he couldn't figure out despite racking his brains was: where did the soldiers and horses that unexpectedly attacked Liuping Lake come from.
In the current chess game, Li Xingzai had absolutely no chance of winning. Unexpectedly, he actually attracted foreign aid and turned this dead game into a living game.
Li Xing summoned troops and horses overnight to prepare to rush to Liuping Lake. The distance between the two places was not far. What really wasted time was ordering troops and calling generals.
"Your Majesty, you must not do it." Hong Liao stopped Li Xing, who was furious, and said: "Now that our army is supporting Liuping Lake, the people from Luofeng City will definitely pursue us. When the time comes, Jiangnan soldiers will be attacked from both sides, but it is a taboo for military strategists. I will follow my instructions.
See, we should attack the city quickly, leave Liuping Lake alone, and attack Luofeng City by force. As long as we can capture Luofeng City, the troops who sneak attacked Liuping Lake are just a group of lonely ghosts, and there is nothing to worry about."
Li Xing suppressed his anger and said, "Can we defeat Fengcheng?"
"If the soldiers work hard and do not care about the cost, they may not be unable to defeat them." Hong Liao affirmed.
"I understand what the military advisor means." Li Xing said: "But once we fail to capture Fengcheng, we will be in despair. The daily food and grass for a hundred thousand horses is an astronomical figure. If we eat horse chews, we can be eaten to death. Now we can only
Attack Liuping Lake to make our army advance and retreat, so that we can be in an invincible position."
Hong Liao was speechless, but he suddenly realized. On the battlefield, nothing is fixedly right or wrong. Everything is right or wrong based on the consequences.
The current situation is that no matter how the Jiangnan Army chooses, they need to take risks. After all, they are no longer as sure of victory as they were at the beginning.
Under the command of Li Xing, an army of 100,000 people began to mobilize, divided into forward, main formation, and rear ranks to cull Liuping Lake.
In Luofeng City, the sword in Chu Yunsheng's hand was unsheathed at this moment, the city gate opened, and all 30,000 horses came out of the city and rushed towards Li Xing.
This was the strategy he and Li Xingzai had set up from the beginning. Liuping Lake was the only chance. If Li Xingzai succeeded in borrowing troops, he had to attack the opponent's important grain and grass land.
Cooperating inside and outside, Li Xing was attacked from both sides, and only then did Li Xingzai have a chance.
As expected, Li Xing fell into a situation where he was surrounded by enemies from both sides. He started encounters with Li Xingzai in dense forests, on river beaches, and in canyons.
In this case, Li Xing finally showed what he is beyond ordinary people: