Grassland wolves would not reason with their prey. Sometimes, they did not even know how to reason with their prey. Only by following the most basic and primitive rules of survival could they survive, live, and become strong.
Therefore, Liu Xi knew that he had no possibility of rejecting this appointment.
Therefore, he accepted the appointment and was determined to send Lalik to his death.
In fact, everything he had done and said before was his own plan. He did not intend to let La Like enter Taiyuan City so easily. All eight city gates of Taiyuan City had barbicles. There was a door on the outside and a door on the inside. Once you entered the door on the outside, the door on the inside would be closed. What could you do?
It was not impossible to launch a sneak attack, but the success rate was too low. Even Liu Xi felt that it was impossible. He felt that he was taking it for granted. However, La Like did not know! This was the first time he had entered a Daming Place. He needed someone to lead the way and explain to him. What the hell did he know?
Therefore, Liu Xi could fool him and put on a good show, making him think that this matter could be successful. Then, while he and the Ming Army were fighting and attracting everyone's attention, Liu Xi could take advantage of the chaos to escape. He could sneak into Taiyuan City through a tunnel that no one knew about, bring his family out, and disappear from the face of the earth.
As for whether the Liu family could be killed or not, that was not his first consideration. It would be best if Valik could break in. If not, then so be it. If he could kill both the Liu family and Valik in one go, that would only happen if he was extremely lucky. Liu Xi was a businessman, so he would not gamble on something that had a low probability of happening.
However, at the same time, he was a businessman. He dared to bet on something that seemed to him to have a high probability of happening.
This tunnel had been around for a long time.
As a military fortress, it was impossible for Taiyuan City to have a tunnel. Even if there was, it was impossible for others to know. However, Liu Xi knew.
This tunnel naturally belonged to the King Of Jin Residence. It was said that when the King Of Jin Residence was first built 200 years ago, the first King Of Jin built it for his descendants to take refuge. He thought that Taiyuan City was important and might be attacked by soldiers. If things went wrong, it would be convenient to have a tunnel to escape.
As a top secret, this was passed down from generation to generation of King Of Jin. However, Liu Xi's dead father had been doing business for the previous King Of Jin. They had a personal relationship. At that time, when there were frequent invasions, Liu Xi's father had a drink with the previous King Of Jin.
Liu Xi's father was drunk and lamented that the country was not stable. He did not know when Taiyuan City would be attacked by the Northern Barbarians. When that happened, the King Of Jin was drunk. He laughed for a while and mysteriously told Liu Xi about this. However, when he woke up, he had no memory of it.
Liu Xi's father had received a huge secret for no reason. He was so scared that he sobered up on the spot. He kept this secret in his heart and did not dare to tell anyone. It was only before he died of illness that he asked his family to leave and told Liu Xi about this. He wanted to give Liu Xi a way out.
This tunnel was the location of the ancestral shrine of the King Of Jin Residence. Liu Xi's father knew about it, but he did not dare to confirm it. He had no way to confirm it. He only told Liu Xi about it and told him that when the time came, he should not care about anything else. His life was more important.
However, Liu Xi knew exactly where the outside of the tunnel was.
At this moment, for the sake of not dying in vain outside Sourcepeak City, Liu Xi had no choice but to take out his trump card. However, if he did this, he would truly be in trouble if he used his trump card. He would not know how to kill Liu Xi, nor would he know how to escape. His previous plans could be said to have been completely ruined.
Clenching his teeth and stomping his feet, Liu Xi was ready to throw caution to the wind. "Who cares if you are the King Of Jin or the Prince of Qing? You only know how to fish money out of my family. This time, I will wipe you all out and let you continue to fish money out!"
On the other side, Xiao Ruxun led his troops forward at full speed from Wutai to Xinzhou. Along the way, he saw a few batches of Ming Army heading north. He knew that their destination was either Pingxing Pass or Yanmen Pass. Although Xiao Ruxun felt that it was inappropriate to send troops north like this, he had no evidence to prove that it was inappropriate.
Wang Shiyang himself was also suspicious of the movements of the Northern Barbarians. That was why he had suppressed the troops from heading north for a few days. In the end, when he could no longer suppress it, he agreed to go north. It could be imagined that he also did not find any evidence to prove that the Northern Barbarians were still within the borders of Shanxi.
This was very bad. They clearly knew that a group of tens of thousands of Northern Barbarians had gone missing. However, they had no choice but to prepare a counterattack according to the development of the war. They had to take back Pingxing Pass and lift the siege of Yanmen Pass. They had to fight a decisive battle with the tens of thousands of Northern Barbarians over there before attacking Datong.
There were still a few cities in Datong in the hands of the Ming Army. This was all information from two months ago. He did not know if there were still cities in Datong that were still in the hands of the Ming Army. He did not know how Ma Gui and Mei Guozhen were doing.
Xiao Ruxun was very worried about them, but he was even more worried about the situation in Shanxi.
He needed to rush to Wang Shiyang's side as soon as possible to understand all the information before making a judgment.
On the eleventh day of the first month of the 26th year of Wanli, Xiao Ruxun led his troops to Xinzhou.
Wang Shiyang personally came out of the city to welcome him. He did not put on the airs of a governor to oppress Xiao Ruxun. Personal cultivation was important, but in reality, Wang Shiyang was about to go crazy from all kinds of suspicions and speculations. He had marched into Xinzhou because he could not suppress the rising desire for battle of the generals under him.
Now the troops from Yulin Town had basically all rushed to Yanmen Pass. They wanted to gain military merits.
Many of the troops from Taiyuan Town also wanted to charge forward. They also wanted to gain military merits.
The one he controlled the most was the forty thousand soldiers in Taiyuan. Twenty thousand were left to guard Taiyuan, and the other twenty thousand were in Xinzhou. Even so, even though his trusted aides were here to control the soldiers, these forty thousand soldiers were still quite eager to fight, and there were many who resented Wang Shiyang for favoring one and discriminating against the other.
When he learned that Xiao Ruxun and Li Rusong had rushed over with troops, he let out a long sigh of relief.
Daming's two most capable generals had arrived. He could finally relax.
"Ji Xin, it's great that you could come!"
When Wang Shiyang saw Xiao Ruxun, he immediately stepped forward and shook Xiao Ruxun's hand. This kind of enthusiastic attitude made Xiao Ruxun a little uncomfortable, because he and Wang Shiyang had never met before. How could he be so enthusiastic as soon as he arrived?
"I greet Governor-General Wang!"
Xiao Ruxun still greeted him according to the rules.
"Ji Xin, you don't need to care about these kinds of rules. This old man is now badly battered and at his wit's end. Now that you've come, this old man can finally relax a little. Come, come, come, Commander Li, you come too. Let's go together."
As he spoke, Wang Shiyang pulled Xiao Ruxun and Li Rusong into Xinzhou City, causing Xiao Ruxun and Li Rusong to look at each other in dismay, not knowing what to do.
Along the way, Wang Shiyang poured out his grievances. When they arrived at the Governor-General's Mansion to rest, only then did Xiao Ruxun and Li Rusong understand why he had lost his composure.
Initially, they were a bunch of cowards, but when they saw that someone had achieved military exploits and that the Northern Invaders were easy targets to bully, all of them transformed into heroic and invincible generals. They kept requesting to be sent to the North and asked to be sent to the North.
At first, Wang Shiyang could still sternly rebuke them and suppress them, but as time passed, the dissatisfaction in the army rapidly increased, and Wang Shiyang gradually became unable to suppress these arrogant generals. Because he could not come up with a reasonable reason to ask the army not to act rashly, he soon lost control of his generals.
This was especially true for Yulin Town's assisting army. As Governor-General Xuan, he could not govern Yulin Town, and the Yulin Army was not worried about what would happen to him. They unyieldingly demanded to go to battle, and Wang Shiyang could not do anything about it. Seeing that the hearts of the people were in their favor, if he continued to suppress them, there might be a mutiny. Helpless, he could only compromise.
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