Within two days after Changshiro left, frost suddenly hit the mountains outside Chengdu. Even sitting in the palace, Xu Mu still felt cold.
"My Lord, it was not so cold in Shuzhou in previous years." Sun Xun hurriedly moved the stove and filled it with firewood.
Holding Xu Qiao in his arms, Xu Mu heated up the fire for a while, and then his body gradually warmed up.
"Wenlong, what do you think about that letter?"
"The Liang King's people have entered the inner city. There is no doubt that this time, they want to attach themselves to the Yuzhou King. If they succeed, then the Yuzhou King's power will become hostile to Xishu. After all, no matter it is Ancient sects like the Liang King, or the big and small families in the inner city, are all hostile to Xi Shu. The King of Yuzhou... seems to have no way out."
Xu Mu was silent for a moment. He already understood that Chang Shiro's visit to Chengdu this time was not as simple as reminiscing about old times. To put it bluntly, with the support of the Grain King in the Ten States, there is a high possibility that it will become a whale that engulfs the Central Plains.
However, there are also disadvantages. Once used by ancient clans such as Liangwang, they will have the power to lose their power. If the benefits are not equal, the benefits will be unequal. The food kings and other powerful families will cause great chaos.
For example, the Demon Queen of Cangzhou was tricked by the King of Food when she was destroyed.
"I think...the King of Yuzhou doesn't want to cooperate with the King of Grain. Moreover, if he comes to Chengdu at this time, his whereabouts will definitely be discovered."
"I remember, there was another sentence at the end of the letter." Xu Mu suddenly understood something.
"He said that a while ago, he and I went up to the mountains to hunt roe deer, and together we killed a group of mountain wolves."
"Is there such a thing?"
Xu Mu shook his head, "No, I have never gone hunting with him in the mountains."
"I understand." Jia Zhou spat out.
"I got intelligence earlier. The march speed of King Yuzhou seems to be getting slower and slower. Until now, it has just left Yuguan. In addition, I guess that there should be aristocratic families from the inner city staying with King Yuzhou. Eyeliner."
Jia Zhou raised his head, "For the past two days, my lord and I have been thinking about the content of this letter. The matter of Wang Xinmo's hunting in Yuzhou is the most important thing... My lord is also a smart man, so he should have figured it out." Among the things.”
They went hunting in the mountains and the two of them worked together to kill a pack of wolves.
"Wenlong, I will send troops immediately to hunt down Chang Silang." Xu Mu said calmly.
"My lord is wise."
Jia Zhou didn't know that Xu Mu felt a sense of astringency in his heart at this moment.
If Chang Shiro dies, the Inner City Family and the Liang King will push out another Chang family puppet to control the country behind the scenes. After next year, the first target these people will attack must be Western Shu. Coupled with Zuo Shiren, when the time comes, Xi Shu will fall into a two-front war situation. Even if it can be blocked, Xi Shu will not have another chance to rise within ten years.
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For more than two days, a group of people from Yuzhou, leaving Shu, marched slowly on the road outside Yuguan.
"Master, why is this carriage so slow?" Sitting in the carriage, Chang Wei asked doubtfully while nibbling snacks.
"The wind is strong." Changshiro said calmly.
"Master, I know the way. If we don't go far, we will be out of Shu. But Master, why don't you take the waterway of Bailu County?"
"If you ask me again, I'll beat you up." Chang Shiro cursed.
Chang Wei hurriedly shrank his head and continued to nibble on the snacks aggrievedly.
Outside the carriage, you can still hear the "whirring" of the wind, and the hooves of the horses accompanying the army are trampling across the mud.
"My lord, my lord!" At this moment, a figure on horseback came galloping outside the carriage.
"What's the matter?" Chang Shiro opened the car curtain and wiped his face before speaking.
"The previous escort camp in Xishu has fallen behind. Even the horses they sent have not caught up. Lord, will something happen..."
"What do you want to say?" Chang Shiro looked angry, "Don't forget that King Xishu and I are old friends. If you say one more thing, I will throw you on the mountain and freeze you into a stick."
The scout was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped talking.
"Go tell Song Yu and ask him to send someone to find out what's going on." Chang Silang said coldly.
In front of the guard of more than a thousand people, a middle-aged general, his face became uncertain after accepting the order. It didn't take long before a few horsemen and horses were separated and went back to explore.
"My lord, I don't know why. Military Advisor Liu persuaded him at first, saying that Xi Shu would probably intercept and kill him...What kind of old friendship? In these troubled times, who doesn't want to be the emperor? That Xu Buyi, at first glance, doesn't care about old friendship. Traitor." Next to General Song Yu, another captain spoke cautiously.
"General Song, what should we do now?"
Song Yu hesitated, "Could something happen when my lord enters the palace of the King of Shu?"
"No. But if General Song thought that Xu Buyi was a traitor, how could he kill someone openly? Maybe——"
Before he finished his words, suddenly, many war horses among the more than a thousand people began to neigh. Immediately afterwards, dense crowds of people suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests on both sides of the road.
"What's going on... No, it's Fu Gong!"
The bandits, all with pockmarked faces and strong bodies, seemed to be commanded by someone, and they all dropped their flying arrows into the ranks of the Yuzhou army.
In the first encounter alone, nearly a hundred Yuzhou soldiers fell from their horses and fell to the ground.
Thump thump thump.
Many flying arrows landed on the wooden walls of the carriage.
After closing the car curtain, Changshiro raised his head and smiled lightly.
"Master, I'll fight them!"
"If you're hurt, sit down." Without any panic, Chang Shiro lay on the car seat, wondering what he was thinking.
"Master, could this... could the young master want to kill us?"
Changshiro turned around, his eyes widened with an unbelievable look on his face, "Xiao Changwei, this can't be true? I and Xiaodong's family are old friends."
"Why isn't the young master angry?"
"Who said that? I'm very angry now." Chang Shiro wiped his face again, and his whole person finally became angry. He grabbed the pear-shaped silver gun he carried with him, opened the door curtain, and jumped out cursing.
Under the head, another wave of flying arrows fell. The soldiers who could not escape fell one after another.
"Shield, raise your shield!"
"Quick, protect the lord!"
Countless people gathered around Changshiro and guarded him tightly.
Several scouts sent out by the cavalry also hurried back at this time.
"My lord, General Song, the people from Shu who were accompanying him suddenly disappeared!"
"Where's the foal?"
"Also gone."
"Lord." Song Yu, the general on horseback, came with a hint of anxiety in his voice, "Though these bows cover their pockmarked faces, they are not mountain bandits! They must have taken a shortcut to intercept and kill us!" "
"It's winter, and there are few merchants. How can there be any mountain bandits coming down the mountain to rob? Besides, the Shu people have been suppressing bandits for many years, so it is impossible for them to still occupy such a large mountain forest force."
Tsuneshiro's face finally showed a hint of panic.
"That King of Western Shu, when we had just left Yuguan, he hurriedly asked people to pretend to be bandits and come over to intercept and kill us. He is the most traitorous person in the world."
"As Military Advisor Liu said, Xu Mu, the king of Western Shu, has an ambition to dominate. Deep down in his heart, there is no lordship or old friendship!"
boom--
In front of everyone, Changshiro roared angrily, used his spear as a weapon, and smashed a huge boulder in front of him.
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