Just when the defenders of Nanyun City were plowing the ground again to sow seeds in order to cope with the imperial city's poisonous move, Li Ye waited outside Xichun City on the seventh day he had limited to Yeluqi.
The sky still holds a scorching sun, shining on the land of southern Xinjiang.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of water outside the three towns, and the newly planted seeds sprouted. The soldiers who were not rotated every day were running around on the land outside the city. They also understood the painstaking efforts of the national division.
Only when you are full can you have the strength to fight.
Now that the Imperial City wants to break the will of the southern Xinjiang army, how can these bloody soldiers bow to the dignitaries of the Imperial City?
Li Ye, who was walking in the fields with Nalan Yu, seemed to have seen the scene of these soldiers who were holding back their breath as they fought back to the imperial city.
This is what the saying goes.
It's a pity that the adults in the imperial city don't know.
He thought that by cutting off the food and fodder for the southern Xinjiang army, he could force the generalissimo and the national advisor to bow their heads.
"Last night, I asked Xia Yunlan to kill Long Potian." Looking at Nalan Yu beside him, Li Ye said softly.
With a sound of "plop!", Nalanyu fell into the ditch beside the newly cultivated field.
"What did you say? I didn't hear clearly just now!" He was extremely shocked, taking off his clothes and looking up blankly at Li Ye standing above.
"Long Potian is dead. I killed him just last night!" Li Ye looked down at him and said coldly.
"How...how could this happen?" Even Nalan Yu, who was known to be desperate for money and could kill without batting an eyelid, was stunned when he heard the news of Long Potian's death.
"Isn't it possible?" Li Ye thought about how the right minister in the imperial city actually forced his son to betray the eldest prince who had been following him for many years. Even if he let him go, it would still be a disaster.
Because Li Ye couldn't stay in the imperial city all the time, he had to go up the mountain to practice, and he couldn't leave hidden dangers around the eldest prince.
This is his promise to the emperor.
Nothing is good or bad, but there are enemies.
If it was because the killer came to assassinate him, he would let Long Potian go, but with the eldest prince involved, he would not be soft-hearted.
He once told many people that my life is very tough. If you want my life, you have to keep yours.
After standing in the ditch for a long time, Nalan Yu climbed up, looked at Li Ye and asked softly: "Is this true?"
"Do you think I'm lying?" With internal and external troubles at hand, Li Ye put aside his compassionate heart.
Following Li Ye, Nalan Yu didn't speak a word along the way. The two of them walked around several newly opened lands and returned to the bamboo shed outside the big tent.
After changing into clean clothes, Nalanyu walked out of the big tent, lay on the bamboo mat on the ground, looked up to the sky and sighed.
Then he looked at Li Ye gloomily and asked, "Today is the seventh day!"
Li Ye sat aside and looked at him quietly, looking at the top of Xichun City, and said lightly: "What next?"
"You're not really going to start a war with them when ten days are over, are you?" Nalan Yu frowned and looked at him. "Didn't you say don't be in a hurry and play with them slowly?"
Li Ye stared blankly at the top of Xichun City and murmured: "Originally, I would have endured them again, but now that someone wants to endure us, I can't spend more effort to endure the prairie cavalry in the third level! "
"Can't those people in the imperial city wait any longer?" Nalan Yu also frowned.
"There is news from Nanyun City. The imperial city has stopped the supply of food and grass to the southern Xinjiang army, but the new food has not been collected yet. Let us overcome the difficulties first." Li Ye thought about Yun Lan's letter to him, and suddenly felt that he also had When angry.
Although there is no shortage of grain and grass in Nanyun City, summer grain has even been planted in the wasteland outside the three towns, and it can be harvested before it snows.
Coupled with the thousands of acres of land outside the city in the south, how could he be afraid of the imperial city's supply being cut off?
But what he didn't expect was that the ministers of the imperial city and the new emperor would dare to suddenly show off their cards at the critical juncture between him and the prairie cavalry.
This was something that neither he nor the eldest prince expected.
Therefore, he decided to resolve the war in southern Xinjiang quickly and not delay it until the winter of this year at the earliest.
Because, I decided to spend this winter in the imperial city of the Five Regions.
And he hasn't said these words to Nalan Yu yet.
"Send a message to the eldest prince, saying that we are ready to take action, and ask him to return to Kaiyang from Nanyun City. In addition, send someone to deliver a message to Kaiyang to let them prepare for the attack."
Li Ye made up his mind and didn't want to endure it any longer. He was waiting.
Wait for Yeluqi to reply to him.
Wait for the ten days deadline to arrive.
Wait for a rainy day.
Since there was no need for a fire attack, he naturally had to choose a rainy day to launch an attack on Kaiyang City.
Suddenly hearing Li Ye's words, Nalan Yu raised his eyebrows, raised his handsome face, looked at Li Ye and said, "I said, are you serious this time?"
"You know there are no jokes in the army. I have endured it for too long. You also know that we have a hard time every day!" Li Ye looked at him and said.
If you hurt others, why don't you hurt yourself? The difference is that everyone is competing with each other's patience and courage.
Li Ye also naturally believed that although the second prince sitting in the golden palace of the imperial city was struggling with himself and the eldest prince, he and the ministers around him would definitely be more miserable than himself.
The hundreds of thousands of troops from Southern Xinjiang are like a sharp sword hanging over their heads, and they don't know which day they will be cut off.
No mercy.
Nalanyu looked up at the roof of the bamboo shed and said gloomily, "I haven't seen Hua Xiaoniu for a long time."
When Li Ye heard this, he rolled his eyes at him.
Although both of them knew that Nalan Yu and Hua Tianxia had different positions, neither of them pointed out the other's position. Both of them were carefully avoiding this unsolvable problem.
Now when the war was about to start, Nalan Yu's mention of Hua Xiaoniu really made Li Ye very angry.
Want to reunite with Hua Tianxia? What you think is so beautiful!
Li Ye's face gradually darkened, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of Nanyun City, and said calmly: "When we take the imperial city, I will take back Huamanlou and let you take care of it. Sister Hua will naturally be yours."
Nalan Yu looked at him and smiled, explaining: "I really can't help it because I like her so much."
Li Ye stretched out his left hand, put it under his neck, made a beheading gesture, and said slowly: "Then you have to work hard to win this war for me first."
"Don't worry, I will try my best." Nalanyu replied.
After Li Ye was silent for a moment, he looked at him and said with a smile: "How about we let the eldest prince come and visit Xichun City, and we two brothers go to Kaiyang to fight with them? Maybe this war will end faster."
Nalanyu raised his eyebrows, clapped his hands and said, "The east wind blows, and the war drums beat!"
"Brothers, who are you afraid of in a fight?" This is what Li Ye taught Nalan Yu. I didn't expect him to say it now.
The two burst into laughter.
Nalanyu pointed at the top of Xichun City and said with a smile, "When will that guy come out?"
Li Ye was stunned, turned to look in the direction of Xichun, and said coldly: "This guy is really interesting, come back and beat me!"
Nalan Yu shook his head and said, "He is just a general, not a king of Khan."
Li Ye lowered his head and thought for a while, and said with relief: "Even if those Khan kings become angry with shame and are so crazy that they go out of the city to fight us to the death, it is impossible to tell him in advance and let him send a message to us."
Different ways, everyone is on guard against each other and will not speak out their innermost thoughts until the last moment.
...
Li Ye's judgment was correct. In Xichun City, the four kings were saddened by Hai Dongqing's news and decision.
In the Lord's Mansion of Xichun City, Yelu Chucai was looking at Lan Tianqi, who was sitting opposite him. His brows were furrowed and there was a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth, but the emotion in his heart could not be seen.
"According to General Yelu, we still have three days?" Lan Tianqi looked at him and said in a deep voice.
Yelu Chucai looked at him and nodded, pointing to Yelu Qi who was sitting next to him and said: "After today, we have the last two days. From King Yilan's point of view, should we go out of the city to fight them decisively, or should we continue to be besieged by them?"
Lan Tianqi said in a concentrated voice: "Is there no possibility of peace talks? We still have hundreds of thousands of troops. Even if we go out of the city to fight them, we still have a chance to fight."
"What you said makes sense." Yelu Chucai glanced at Yelu, then looked at Lan Tianqi and said, "It's just that our troops have been divided into three groups for more than ten days."
Lan Tianqi scratched his head and let out a long sigh: "This was our original mistake. Now it seems that the situation is really over."
Yelu Chucai sighed: "If we let the remaining hundreds of thousands of troops fight with them, even if we win this battle, there will not be many men left in our grassland. We cannot afford this price."
Yeluqi stepped forward and clasped hands with the two Khan kings and said, "I'm afraid they will attack Kaiyang first. After all, they have an absolute advantage in Kaiyang, and we can't reinforce them."
Lan Tianqi sighed, stared into his eyes and said: "What you said makes sense. Our four Khans are closely related to each other. If King Jiankun and King Zesuogu are killed in battle, we will have no shame in going back to see his parents." Wife and children.”
After hearing what the two said, Yelu Chucai was silent for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "Are we really going to withdraw from the three towns without fighting a single battle?"
Looking at his father's ugly face, Yeluqi lowered his head and thought for a while and said softly: "How about we set up a ring in the city, and each army picks three people to fight, and whoever wins will decide. ?”
This seemed to be a very ordinary statement, but it made the two Khan kings breathe a sigh of relief. Each side sent its own elites to fight with the other side in the ring. This seemed to be the only way to solve the problem at the moment.
After all, even if there were casualties, it would only be three people, and neither side would be harmed. After the fight, they could still sit down and negotiate terms and requirements.
After all, the grassland tribes came to southern Xinjiang not just to get some land, but more to survive on resource issues.
Yeluqi himself also found it a bit interesting. He looked at the two Khans and smiled and said: "This is just the personal opinion of the general. Whether it can be carried out in the end depends on whether the opinions of the four Khans can be unified, and on the other hand, the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom Master, are you willing to accept this condition?"
"Let's decide this first." Yelu Chucai said: "Release Hai Dongqing to contact Xiaguan Kaiyang. Tomorrow, Qi'er, you go talk to their national master."
Yeluqi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his father's serious expression.
For him, solving the current problem without fighting is the best way.
He had even expected that Li Ye might have prepared an order to launch an siege in Kaiyang by now, and he was waiting for the ten days to come before rejecting his proposal.
At the moment, it seems that he has convinced at least two Khan kings.
Lan Tianqi looked into his eyes and said helplessly: "Now that we are forced to a dangerous juncture, we can only trouble Your Highness to talk to the Imperial Preceptor in Southern Xinjiang and let them accept our proposal. This will be beneficial to everyone."
Yeluqi replied softly: "I'll try."
Yelu Chucai looked at his son and said, "Contact the two Khans first and see their decision before you leave the city."
"I will arrange for Hai Dongqing's release." Yeluqi looked at the two Khans and replied in a deep voice.
Yelu Chucai waved his hand and said: "Go quickly."
