The words fell into silence.
Seeing the killing intent in Li Qingyan's eyes, Xu Yuan felt that he should be moved.
After all, people are murdering their own brother because of his fiancé.
But for some reason, Xu Yuan feels very calm now, so calm that he even feels that Li Qingyan is playing him.
If it was Da Bingtuozi who wanted to kill Li Zhaoyuan with his sword, he would never doubt it, but Li Qingyan, well, she might as well forget it.
Although the two of them have been honest with each other now, even if Li Qingyan is willing to have a more in-depth communication with him on the red bed, Xu Yuan will not believe her whether he believes it or not.
Therefore, Xu Yuan did not answer this question directly.
Glancing in the direction of the main entrance of the barracks, he smiled and asked:
"The news about Lieutenant General Cang spread so quickly? The war has just ended, and His Highness brought me here?"
Lieutenant General Cang's speed shouldn't be as fast as Li Zhaoyuan's. Even if Li Zhaoyuan said that he borrowed external force to display his Dao domain, that would be at least a first-class lie.
"It doesn't matter how Vice Admiral Cang informed me."
Li Qingyan shook his head slightly and stared at Xu Yuan without any intention of skipping this topic: "The important thing is, does my second brother really want to kill you, my consort?"
Seeing the persistence in Li Qingyan's eyes, Xu Yuan considered for a moment, and the smile on his face remained unchanged:
"If I say yes, Qingyan, are you going to kill your family for my righteousness?"
Li Qingyan frowned slightly when she heard this. She seemed dissatisfied with Xu Yuan's ambiguous answer. She smiled slightly and her answer was also ambiguous:
"Killing relatives for justice is not uncommon in the history of our Li family."
“not to the point”
Xu Yuan sighed quietly and said every word in his voice: "Qing Yan, our relationship should not have reached this stage yet."
"Not enough of a relationship?"
When Li Qingyan heard this, he glanced at himself and asked with a smile: "Then what does the consort think I need to have a good relationship?"
Xu Yuan met her gaze and smiled, but said nothing.
Li Qingyan was indeed very kind to him, so much so that he was almost unable to control himself.
But the relationship between the two is just not there yet.
At least, not to the point where he would kill her brother because of him.
But the longest lesson those bad women in his previous life taught him was not to trust a bad woman's acting skills, especially when you don't know what the bad woman is planning on you.
Seeing Xu Yuan's appearance of not being afraid of being scalded by boiling water, Li Qingyan's smile faded. Her sight seemed to go beyond the walls and saw Li Zhaoyuan standing at the door of the barracks:
"Husband-in-law, I am not murderous towards my second brother because he wants to kill you."
Xu Yuan's cheeks twitched.
Kill the second brother
Can this be said directly?
After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan chuckled and stared at Li Qingyan with interest:
"You could just be more direct."
Li Qingyan's red eyes glanced at Xu Yuan, without any ambiguity as before, and his voice was as cold as in a military formation:
"If it's a lie, even with your intelligence, my consort, you won't believe me."
Xu Yuan asked slightly curiously:
"If that's the case, then why are you angry, Qingyan, because of this?"
"Consort, what do you think will be the consequences of your death in Beifeng City?" Li Qingyan asked without answering.
"Um?"
Xu Yuan hesitated, thought for a moment, and replied with a smile: "If I die in Beifeng City, my father will be very sad, and many people will die if he is sad."
There was a hint of coldness in Li Qingyan's red eyes:
"It is true that many people will die, but that is not important. What is important is that the cooperation between my father and Mr. Xu will instantly crack."
After a moment's pause,
Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan, with a dangerous light flashing in his eyes:
"Consort, who do you think would want you to die in Beifeng City?"
Xu Yuan was quiet for a few breaths and uttered two words:
"Zongmen."
"Yes, sect."
Li Qingyan smiled, but the smile between his red lips was as piercing as ten thousand years of ice:
"So, my second brother must not have any intention of killing you. If he wants to kill you, it means that he wants to destroy the cooperation between my father and Duke Xu. It means that he has chosen to lean towards those sects at all costs in order to compete for the throne."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Yuan's emotions began to spread.
Li Zhaoyuan wanted to kill him. He had only thought about the heir to the Prime Minister's Mansion before, but he hadn't thought about it so deeply.
If he really died in Beifeng, whether he could be found out or not, whether it was Li Zhaoyuan's hand or not, the blame would have to be placed on the royal family.
It was you, Li Yaoxuan, who wanted to promise that I would allow Yinhe to send his heir to your army in exchange for the trust of both parties. But now that he is dead, he died under your noses. Can you give me an explanation?
And there is no explanation for this.
The father might be able to deduce that someone might be causing trouble, but he couldn't be sure.
Because the sect is indeed a thorn in the royal family's side, but now why is the Prime Minister's Mansion the same?
The two sides themselves are a mutual trust alliance as fragile as glass, and Xu Yuan's death will become the pebble that breaks the glass.
Thinking of this,
Xu Yuan raised his eyes and looked at the stunning woman in red in front of him with a slightly strange look.
Li Qingyan probably doesn't have as much information as him, and his time to know is shorter than him.
hiss
Why is this woman not only highly cultivated, but also so smart?
How will this make him regain his husband in the future?
"Consort."
Li Qingyan's murmur interrupted Xu Yuan's thoughts.
He raised his eyes.
Her red eyes sparkled with stunning beauty:
"After the wedding, I will be Wu Yuan outside and Qing Yan at home. You don't have to think about reviving Husband Gang."
Xu Yuan's heart trembled slightly when he heard this, and when a strange feeling gradually spread, he suddenly came back to his senses.
Staring at her soft eyes, Xu Yuan felt a little frightened.
Mader, the king's bureau.
This bad woman is too dangerous.
He felt that the bad women who had experienced the information explosion in his previous life were not as high as Wu Yuan.
Wait, the way she was in pain and excited before was just an act, right?
If so
Su Jinxuan, you are so shameful.
calm down
Xu Yuan crossed his legs and smiled unhurriedly:
"Qing Yan, I don't really believe in promises. Promises that cannot be fulfilled can only be shackles."
Translate, be practical, don’t write a blank check, I don’t believe you.
Li Qingyan chuckled:
"Whether it can be realized, my consort, you will naturally know after you get married."
broken.
Xu Yuan found that as soon as she said these words, he began to look forward to this political marriage.
This is not a good sign.
Missing the good woman Da Bingtuozi twice, Xu Yuan suppressed the ripples in his heart and stared at her without saying a word.
Upon seeing this, Li Qingyan brought the topic back on track:
"So, Prince Consort, my second brother really wants to kill you?"
"I can only say that it is somewhat similar, but there is no evidence." Xu Yuan replied truthfully this time.
"real?"
"certainly."
Xu Yuan spread his hands in a bachelor manner.
He really has no evidence, except for a small amount of information, and previous inferences are based on behavioral logic.
The sect's warehouse was bombed by people from Qin Weijiu's side, but Su Jinxuan did not find out that Qin Weijiu was connected to Li Zhaoyuan.
Li Zhaoyuan's visit to Dongcheng can also be explained by winning military morale.
All conduct is impeccable.
Li Qingyan thought for a moment and suddenly asked:
"Consort, you must have some information that I don't know, right?"
Xu Yuan denied it without hesitation:
"No, the information is all with Lou Ji. He only gave me a few ways to escape."
He has no intention of participating in this battle for the right to inherit the throne.
It's not that I'm not interested, it's simply because the prime minister may have his own plans, and blindly participating in it without knowing it may ruin the other party's plan.
The small talk I had with Li Yunqing, the sixth man, was a way of igniting a fire, but also of laying a way out.
If the third prince really believed it, that promise would most likely turn into a bad check, and the old man would have to sell all his underwear.
Li Qingyan took a deep look at Xu Yuan and sighed:
"Okay, I probably understand. I won't leave the city again. If you stay with me, Li Zhaoyuan can't hurt you."
Xu Yuan smiled slightly when he saw this.
If the second prince Li Zhaoyuan really wanted to kill him, he could only take advantage of Li Qingyan's opportunity to leave the city, but unfortunately his best opportunity had been missed.
After putting on the standard commander's armor, Li Qingyan took Xu Yuan to the barracks outside and called Li Zhaoyuan in.
Xu Yuan was wearing bodyguard armor and stood behind Li Qingyan as a doorkeeper, watching the two people talking.
The way Li Zhaoyuan and Li Qingyan get along doesn't look like siblings at all, but rather like superiors and subordinates.
Li Qingyan expressed his thanks, and Li Zhaoyuan declined humbly, and then arranged the next series of city defense matters for Li Zhaoyuan.
The two of them talked about city defense and military affairs for half a quarter of an hour, and then Li Zhaoyuan handed over his hands and returned to the government office.
After Li Zhaoyuan left, Xu Yuan was once again the only two people left in the barracks.
Li Qingyan was wearing armor and leaning back on the chair, looking like a queen.
Xu Yuan stood beside and behind her, looking at her with his eyes lowered in thought.
Beautiful people are indeed pleasing to the eye no matter how long you look at them.
About two-quarters of an hour later, after the briefing, several captains entered the barracks one after another and handed several files to Li Qingyan.
A very thick stack.
Li Qingyan did not shy away from Xu Yuan who was standing behind her, flipping through the pages openly.
The content of the file is about some statistics in Beifeng City.
As an important border military town, Beifeng City is not as prosperous as those in Dayan. Most of the areas are military camps. There are only about 300,000 non-soldiers inside, most of whom are family members of the army, and Some family members of businessmen who come here to do business.
Counting private chivalrous groups and martial arts such as escort agencies, the proportion of cultivators among the people in the city is frighteningly high.
one third.
In other words, just over one hundred thousand.
Of course, these people are basically cannon fodder who have just entered the first grade, or are around the ninth grade.
Xu Yuanzheng was looking at these statistics when he suddenly heard Li Qingyan's cold voice:
"Captain Jin, come in."
After waiting for several breaths,
A young man in captain's armor trotted into the barracks, knelt on one knee in the hall, clasped his hands in his fists, lowered his head and said respectfully:
"Your Highness."
Li Qingyan glanced at the data on the file and said casually without raising his head:
"Go and send all the cultivators and warriors in the city to the city wall to defend the city."
"."Xu Yuan
Captain Jin was obviously taken aback when he heard this, raised his eyes, and said tentatively:
"Your Highness, acting like this may provoke those people to rebel."
Low-level warriors who don't understand military formations are cannon fodder on the battlefield. Against those barbarians, the battle loss ratio of ten to one is already high.
People who have lived in Beifeng City all year round will not understand this.
Li Qingyan raised his eyes and glanced at the other party, without any emotion in his eyes:
"Rebellious? Go and tell the border generals that I allow them to "hire" warriors in the city to help defend the city, and they will find a way to solve it."
Lieutenant Jin hesitated slightly, but did not speak any more and cupped his hands:
"Yes, my subordinates will do it immediately."
Seeing Captain Jin leave, Xu Yuan suddenly asked:
"Won't such a captured young man escape from battle?"
Li Qingyan's cold face showed a touch of warmth, he looked back and sighed:
"Yes, but it must be done, otherwise we will not be able to defend Beifeng City."
Saying,
She handed the next few files to Xu Yuan:
"Take a look."
Xu Yuan took these files and asked:
"Don't you want to see it?"
Li Qingyan smiled slightly:
"The soul of this palace is not a decoration."
"."Xu Yuan.
Yes, she was pretending to look through the files just now just to show him.
A bad woman will always let you know inadvertently when she does something.
Then add up.
Xu Yuan rolled his eyes, took it calmly, and began to read through it, but as he browsed, he no longer had the intention to think about these messy things.
The previous ones were the statistics of various items in the city, and what Li Qingyan handed him was the losses in Beifeng City today.
From the dawn of this day, it only took two hours from the beginning of the war to the end. There were 300,000 civilians in the city and 50,000 civilians were killed or injured.
In order to concentrate energy to protect the city wall, Li Zhaoyuan withdrew the canopy over the entire city. The powerful catapults of the barbarians threw countless boulders, ice picks and other equipment into the city without any hindrance.
Buildings were destroyed, ruins piled up like mountains, and countless people who had just fallen asleep with anxiety were directly buried in the rubble.
And these are basically casualties of ordinary people.
Those thrown by the barbarians are not too difficult for a cultivator, even a ninth-grade cultivator, to dodge as long as their vision is not blocked, as long as they don't lose their position.
However, the casualties among the people in the city were only a small number, and the majority were among the current defenders of Beifeng City.
About 23,000 people died, about 37,000 were missing, about 13,000 were slightly injured, and about 7,000 were seriously injured.
Looking at the word "missing" marked at the bottom, Xu Yuan opened his mouth, feeling a little ridiculous.
This missing person refers to the soldiers who were directly beaten to pulp on the east wall?
If the body cannot be found, it is naturally considered missing.
Xu Yuan silently read all the statistics and handed the file back to Li Qingyan.
More than half of the 130,000 Beifeng defenders were killed in less than two hours.
For a long time,
Xu Yuan asked:
"What about the losses on the barbarian side?"
Hearing this,
Li Qingyan slowly stood up from the chair, leaned on the table, turned his red eyes, gently twirled his long hair with his slender fingertips, and whispered:
"The Barbarians have suffered greater losses, but the Barbarian King will soon receive the news of the 'Yunqi Bomb'. We must immediately let the knights and bodyguards in the city go up and consume their vitality in order to defend this city before the elites of the sect return to defend." Beifeng City."
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