Book 42 - Chapter 9 – Sinister and Deceitful Hear (1/2)
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Kou Zhong was puzzled, “How could it be Han Chao’an? Isn’t he specializing in robbing traveling oods on land?” he asked
Du Xing smiled and said, “It wasn’t Huyan Jin, that kid who revealed the information to me, rather, it was Ma Ji who leaked it out to me, so it uess, other than ,” Xu Ziling replied, “He is the middleman; only he knew clearly the tioods, thereby he had a good grasp of the route that she took to transport the goods back to Shanhai Pass”
Du Xing cheerfully raised his thu! Just a bit uessed it head-on”
Ke Dazhi did not understand, “Didn’t Dage say it was Han Chao’an who did it?” he asked, “How co cannot escape responsibility as well by saying just a bitspoke indifferently, “You were able to guess Bai Ziting; although it did not hit the mark, it was not far Han Chao’an has become Funantuo’s believer Kaishan told me this”
Stunned, Ke Dazhi asked, “Is that true? This is the first time I heard it A man like Han Chao’an, how could he believe a de said, “Which man does not like pretty face? Funantuo has a book ‘Kaood way between man and woman Han Chao’an wanted to learn ‘Ka Ha! I a The real reason is that Han Chao’an wanted to draw close to the Wu Dao Ba [five saber overbearing] Gesuwen, and Funantuo has already colluded with Gesuwen, hence from time to ti running dogs]”
Astonished, Kou Zhong said, “Unexpectedly it’s that guy who has five sabers hanging on his body without feeling that they are cu, Du Xing changed the subject, he said with a sigh, “Were it not for Xieli and Tuli’s reconciliation, how could we chat without the slightest bit of ill-feeling today?”
“Why did Funantuo want to rob Da Xiaojie’s eighty thousand sheets of sheepskin? Did all infor thisasked
Du Xing did not answer hi to convert eneuys, there is another reason”
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling exchanged eye signal, they spoke together, “Please bestow instructions”
Du Xing said, “Three days ago, we received new infor defeated Li Yuanji first, forcing hi moved his ar’s attack The Tang Ared in battle several ti Finally Li shi+min adopted the fortify defenses and raze the fields [idio for the invader/scorched earth policy] strategy, he closed his ca’s elite cavalry He had seen accurately JinGang’s weak point in that he did not have enough ared war”
Inwardly Kou Zhong was shaken violently; the le in the Central Earth, which he had not heard for a long ti’swas an astute commander-in-chief, of course he understood that rapid movement to the south was unfavorable to him The problem was that part of his arined that it was difficult for hienerals’ advice, and had no choice but to comply with Tujue people’s habit of swift battle and rapid victory, using battle to raise battle tactics Therefore, as soon as he encountered Li shi+ loss
Du Xing continued, “In the end Song JinGang’s provisions exhausted, he withdrew back to the north Li shi+ at Luzhou first, and then followed up a victory and pressed hoht hethe eneht toward Qiao Shu Gu [lit freckledblow to JinGang, capturing and killing tens of thousands of hisretreated to Jiezhou, he lined up his troops disposition west of the city, with the city behind him, north-south distance was seven li Li shi+ to be defeated and withdrew When JinGang pursued and attack, shi+ fro was no match for the”
Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling suddenly saw the light They grasped the ’s speech
If the one defeated was Li shi+, then Xieli would disregard everything and et rid of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, so that there would not be any powerful adversary in the Central Plains Unfortunately, things turned out contrary to the way he wished, the victor was Li shi+y Not only he had to establish friendly relations with Tuli, he even had to release Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling to go back to the Central Earth to control Li shi+min; it would be best if both sides suffer Otherwise, if he let Li shi+h butter, the next one he was going to deal ould definitely be hi Xieli had in his hands right noas a terribleJinGang – had ed their vitality The bigger headache was that because he becaan to stir, the situation became chaotic Therefore, Xieli’s current top priority was, to the greatest extend, to act with urgency to unify the prairie first, before he could conspire against the Central Plains Under this kind of situation, naturally he was unwilling to take the risk to offend Tuli by dealing with Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling
Jinyang was the Li Clan’s home base of operations Further If it fell, the Tujueat any rain to Guanzhong; its survival was the lifeblood of the Li Clan Pingyao was precisely the economic hub of this area; its i spoke heavily, “Is Li shi+?”
Ke Dazhi shook his head and said, “Li shi+uard the frontier, while he hi’an”
Kou Zhong sighed and said, “Luoyang is in danger!”
Du Xing spoke heavily, “What’s Shaoshuai’s plan?”
Kou Zhong shot a glance toward Xu Ziling, he sighed and said, “What can be planned? Who would think that the brilliant divine- would be defeated that quickly, that tragically? Presently we could only take one step at a tirees, Xiaodi can ether and talk properly”
“What?” Kou Zhong was stunned
He looked at Xu Ziling, but then quickly he shook his head and said, “This is not ’s style of work; if I want to win, I should rely on ful Thank you very hed aloud and said, “Good man! The fact is that Xieli already knehat kind of man Shaoshuai is But if we all could sit down to use wine to rinse our , would it?”
S said, “Let’s talk about that later, shall we? Presently, the et rid of Shen Mohuan and Huyan Jin, two kids, other things can wait till to Shao’s question just now”
Xu Ziling sighed inwardly Kou Zhong’s judg without ai, or other great generals with enough weight to guard Taiyuan, but only let Li Zhonghose fame and position [or official rank] was not clear to stay behind to take care things, it was precisely because he wanted to concentrate his entire force to attack Luoyang, one of the three est fortified cities in the world, but also because he saw accurately that for the ti Xieli was unable to personally take part in o down south He hurriedly returned to Chang’an, it was to arrange preparation for the attack against Luoyang The key to victory or defeat hether Kou Zhong could help wang shi+chong defending Luoyang and made Li shi+min, who triumphed in every battle, to suffer defeat or not
The one thing that Xu Ziling wasin on his eyelashes [idio was able to survive, Li shi+min would definitely pursue him relentlessly to strike him, and would not stop until this forerous and inferior situation Kou Zhong still flatly refused Xieli’s so-called with-neither-peace-nor-kindness assistance, it showed that Kou Zhong was a man able to persevere with national virtuous cause
“Good ain