Liu Mingzhi and his wife climbed up the Yingzhou City Wall in a gondola lowered on the city wall. After getting down on the ground, Liu Mingzhi casually glanced at the situation on the city wall and turned to look at Yunyang, who had complicated eyes.
"City Tower Symbol?"
Yunyang nodded silently and took the lead to rush towards the tower. He was not worried that the three masters Liu Mingzhi and his wife might play a trick on him on the tower to capture the thief first.
A group of four people climbed onto the tower with a wide view.
Yunyang silently walked to the fence outside the city tower and leaned down to look at the city wall.
"Soldiers, go to the Duke Protector's Mansion to get two taels of good tea!"
"have to.........."
"Old man, there is no need to trouble the brothers. I have two liang of the best Jinshan Yunwu, and the juniors are bringing them with me!"
Yunyang was startled, then turned to look at Liu Mingzhi who was smiling slightly and waved his hand to the soldiers: "Bring me two pots of boiling water!"
"Got the order!"
In the blink of an eye, the soldiers carried two pots of boiling water to the tower. Yunyang signaled the soldiers to put down the tea and leave the tower.
The soldiers hesitated for a while and then silently exited the tower.
"Shu'er, make some tea for my husband and Mr. Yun!"
Wenren Yunshu nodded obediently, took off the baggage from behind, placed a series of tea sets and Jinshan Yunwu in a clay pot and started making tea.
"The fence of the city tower has a wide view. How about a game of hand-to-hand talk between the junior and the old man?"
Yunyang looked at Liu Mingzhi blankly for a moment, nodded with a slight frown, and raised his hand to signal: "Please!"
Liu Mingzhi chuckled and followed Yunyang towards the corridor outside the tower.
"Sister Ya, chessboard!"
"Yes, husband!"
Not worthy of a quarter of an hour's work.
Liu Mingzhi and Yunyang were sitting on their knees on a futon, with a chessboard and a black-and-white chess box placed in front of them.
Wenren Yunshu placed two cups of misty and fragrant tea in front of the two of them. Then, like her sister Qi Ya, she knelt down beside her husband and slowly adjusted the temperature of the tea.
Liu Mingzhi closed his eyes and sniffed the fragrance of the Jinshan clouds. He opened his eyes slightly and leaned over to grab the box niche containing the chess pieces.
"Odd? Even?"
"Good things come in pairs, pairs!"
There was a clanking sound, and Liu Mingzhi carefully assigned the chess pieces, and smiled softly when he looked at the remaining single piece.
"I'm sorry, junior will go first!"
After taking back the chess pieces, Liu Mingzhi picked up a chess piece and moved it gently towards the lower corner of the chessboard.
Yunyang looked at the position of Liu Mingzhi's black chess in astonishment: "I heard before that you started playing chess with Tianyuan and your chess skills were superb. Why did you change your rules today and end up in such a helpless position?"
"People will change, and so will the situation. The game of chess will naturally change as well.
Change will lead to success, otherwise insisting on one's own opinion will lead to death, what do you say, old man?"
Yunyang glanced lightly at Liu Mingzhi, whose eyes were full of meaning, and dropped his hand to Tianyuan's position.
"I don't think so. If he lets him force himself, I can only guard the chess game if I remain unmoved!"
Liu Mingzhi smiled slightly and placed a chess piece in another corner.
"So, you sent the troops of the Flying Eagle Guard, the Tiger Guard, and the Tiger Guard to secretly leave Northern Xinjiang and secretly enter the capital at Fenglei Stream on the official road of Yunzhou, Luoxian Gorge on the official road of Suzhou, and Fenglin Town on the official road of Fuzhou.
Li family orthodoxy!
Is this what you call Tianyuan that you insist on?"
Yunyang's tiger body trembled, and the chess piece in his hand did not fall for a long time. He looked at Liu Mingzhi who was smiling slightly in panic. He was silent for a moment, and then the chess piece in his hand silently fell on the chessboard.
"You...how did you know?"
Liu Mingzhi dropped a chess piece on the chessboard without hesitation, picked up the tea cup and took a sip, showing an expression of endless aftertaste.
"With my experience and experience, I can definitely tell the number of soldiers and horses outside the city at a glance.
How about the younger generation testing the old man's eyesight?"
Yunyang didn't have Liu Mingzhi's composure at all. He hurriedly sat up and leaned forward to look around at the camp outside the city.
While drinking tea, Yunyang looked at Liu Mingzhi in surprise.
"Twenty...about 200,000 soldiers and horses. Where are the remaining 100,000 or so soldiers and horses?"
"What do you think, old man? Play chess! Play chess!"
Yunyang looked at the smiling Liu Mingzhi, and nervously dropped the chess piece on the chessboard.
"Do you know what I want to do?"
Liu Mingzhi held the chess piece and played with it for a while, then gently dropped it.
"The old man has never led his troops to the capital to rescue King Qin. Is it because he has never received the order from Emperor Cheng Qin to rescue him?"
"You...you intercepted the imperial decree that His Majesty sent to me?"
"No, this junior did not intercept Emperor Cheng's decree, but he didn't have time to send you the decree to King Qin to rescue him, and the capital had already fallen. The old man must have learned about this from General Dongfang Ming of Ganlianghou.
Bar!
The younger generation guessed that the old man must have had the idea that he would rather give up Northern Xinjiang and go to Beijing to rescue King Qin.
But the old man still doesn't know what the situation in the capital is.
Therefore, they had no choice but to take risks and sent two groups of troops into Beijing under the noses of hundreds of thousands of unidentified troops outside the city.
Yes or no?"
Yunyang held up the teacup for a moment, his arms felt slightly sore before he put the tea into his mouth.
Liu Mingzhi drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, paused in his mouth and savored it for a while before swallowing.
"Shu'er, pour some tea!"
"Good husband!"
Liu Mingzhi dropped the chess piece in his hand and sighed softly.
"After General Nangong and General Dongfang, old man, you were afraid of changes, so you secretly transferred some troops.
However, before the soldiers and horses rescued by King Qin left the territory of Northern Xinjiang, the old man received a message from General Dongfang, and learned that I had secretly entered the capital and captured the capital, and that Emperor Cheng committed suicide by drinking poisonous wine.
You understand that it is too late to continue leading troops into Beijing at this time, and the best way is to retreat and do the next best thing.
Old man, you probably thought that Li Ye died at the hands of this junior.
So you had no choice but to take back the third batch of soldiers and horses that came to the capital to rescue King Qin, and returned them to the six cities in northern Xinjiang to station them.
General Dongfang Ming has not attacked the city and continued fighting outside the city. He must have received instructions from the old man!"
Listening to Liu Mingzhi's eloquent words, Yunyang dropped the chess piece in his hand with slightly trembling arms.
"Since you know everything, why did you lead the troops to leave the capital in person?"
"Haha... If I don't leave the capital, how can the old man send troops like the capital to support orthodoxy?
The news I told the world was that Li Ye committed suicide, but I knew not many people would believe the news.
Even the old man, you don’t believe it. You must think that I was the one who poisoned Li Ye to prevent him from counterattacking in the future. I just said this.
Therefore, you took back the troops and horses that King Qin saved on the third route.
Because in your opinion, I dare to kill even Li Ye, let alone the rest of the Li clan.
Once you forcefully send troops to the capital to support orthodoxy, I, who would dare to attack Li Ye, will naturally not spare Li's clan members so easily.
In order to stabilize the country that you have captured, you must eradicate all the Li clan members who can support the orthodoxy.
Especially King Zhao Li Tao who is most suitable to stand up!
So you don't dare to bet, because once you do so, not only will you not be able to lead the troops to support orthodoxy, but you will harm those Li clan members who are not in danger of their lives for the time being.
Secondly, you are still hesitating whether the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses outside the city who do not know their true identities will break into the city after you lead your troops into Beijing.
So you just have to wait.
Wait until I leave the capital and go north."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Yunyang's trembling appearance and turned to look at Wenren Yunshu.
"Shu'er, pour some tea for the old man and let him calm down!"
"Yes, husband!"
"Old man, drink tea!"
Liu Mingzhi chewed the tea leaves in his mouth: "I have led all the troops and horses to leave the capital, and now is your chance to help orthodoxy.
With the capital being empty of troops, it was impossible to stop the elite Six Guards from Northern Xinjiang from attacking the clan mansion in the city and rescuing the Li clan.
Therefore, the moment I led my troops to leave the capital, part of the Tiger Guards, Flying Eagle Guards, and Tiger Guards had already secretly rushed to the capital from the official roads of other states to support the orthodoxy.
Is it right?"
"You...since you know everything, why do you continue to rush to Northern Xinjiang instead of returning to the capital?"
"Of course I want to quickly stabilize the dragon and make you convinced that I lost!"
"what do you mean?"
"The old man might as well take out the telescope from his waist and take a closer look. Is there anything different about the 200,000 troops outside the city?"