955 Li Mu Talks Freely (1/2)

Chapter 955 – Li Mu Talks Freely

10th month, 12th day, noon, Chuanbei Province Tongren Prefecture.

Chuanbei Province was located on the highlands on the southwest region of China. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was a part of the southern barbarians. Its geography was high in the west and low in the east, with most of its land being high mountains. As a result, it was said to have 80% mountain, 10% water, and 10% paddy.

The civilians living in Chuanbei Province, apart from the Han Race, were people of the Miao Race and the mountain barbarian race.

The province had rich resources, and it had massive coal storage with many different types of high quality of coal. Hence, it was called the southwest coal ocean.

There were five prefectures in Chuanbei Province. From north to south, they were Tongren Prefecture, Guiyang Prefecture, Xingyi Prefecture, Duyun Prefecture, and Guzhou Prefecture. The leader of Chuanbei City-State was West Gate Big Official, and his territory Fenggang City was located in Tongren Prefecture.

At noon, West Gate Big Official personally led his 70 thousand troops toward the east to the border of his territory. Any further and he would enter Changde Prefecture of Xiangnan Province.

Talking about Changde Prefecture, one had to mention one Lord - Gu Hengxiao. Although he was not really famous, he had a God General under him - Li Mu.

Using the strength of Li Mu, Gu Hengxiao occupied 3/5th of the houses in the prefecture. The land connected to Tongren Prefecture, which was Zhu Hengxiao's territory - Laifeng City.

The arrival of the Fenggang City Army made the Laifeng City troops really nervous.

A day ago, the two War Fighting Legions of Pill Sun City went down south to attack Xiangnan Province. They chose to first attack Changsha Prefecture before attacking Changde Prefecture. As a result, the current Changde Prefecture had not been wrapped up in the flames of war.

Even then, it was really jittery within Changde Prefecture.

For the Fenggang City Army to suddenly arrive here at the border, it obviously raised doubts in their hearts.

Weirdly, West Gate Big Official did not directly a start war. Instead, he simply smiled at the Laifeng City General and said, ”I am the Lord of Fenggang City, West Gate Big Official. I'm under Great Xia now and have something to discuss with your Lord. Please report it to him swiftly.”

When the general heard this, he did not dare to take matters into his own hands and sent someone to inform his Lord.

Very quickly, Gu Hengxiao received the news. He was astonished, and he immediately called Li Mu over to discuss. He asked, ”General, what do you think they are up to?”

In the morning, out of the Lords that pledged their allegiance to Great Xia, Laifeng City was not one of them. Due to the Guilin battle from before, Li Mu had some problems with Great Xia.

With this thorn in his heart, Gu Hengxiao was naturally not going to stay too close to Great Xia.

However, the changes in these two days had messed up his mind. First, there was Caiyun City ditching them and revealing their plan to swallow up the City-State. Next, there was the pledging of loyalty in the morning, which buried the two City-States.

Furthermore, the Pill Sun City Army could attack at any moment. Being in such a spiral, with his ability, he had lost control of his own fate.

He was an ordinary Lord, and he had only summoned Li Mu because of his good luck. However, based on the current climate of the wilderness, even Li Mu would not be able to save Laifeng City.

When Li Mu saw that, he did not directly reply. Instead, he only asked, ”In your eyes, without Great Xia interfering, can we stop Caiyun City and Pill Sun City?”

”No.”

Due to setting up the City-State really early, there was very little internal conflict, which was why there were 13 territories left in the province.

Out of them, there were some that were allies of Great Xia and some that were pawns of the Yanhuang Alliance. Aside from that, there were some neutral powers, and the three sides bit at one another.

With that, how would they be able to fend off the attacks of Pill Sun City and Caiyun City? If Great Xia did not come out to interfere, it was only a matter of time before Caiyun City unified the entire Xiangnan Province.

Li Mu said, ”Since that's the case, you only have two roads to choose. You either join Caiyun City or you join Great Xia. Which side are you ready to choose?”

Li Mu's words were true. Along with the Yanhuang Alliance and Great Xia Dynasty showing off their strength, there was no more living space for small and medium-sized territories like themselves.

To them, it was either they joined a side or get totally thrown out of the game.

”This....”

Gu Hengxiao was put on the spot.

Logically speaking, he was naturally unwilling to join Great Xia. However, to ask him to join Caiyun City, he naturally could not do that either. Who was Caiyun Zinan? He was just a person who was a little stronger than him, so why would he be willing?

”If general chooses, who would you choose?” Gu Hengxiao asked.

Li Mu answered simply, ”I would choose Great Xia.”

”Oh?”

This surprised Gu Hengxiao, as he knew that Li Mu had problems with Great Xia. It was not only because of the Battle of Guilin, but it was also because the person who destroyed Zhao was Baiqi, who was in Great Xia.

”Has general let go of it?” Gu Hengxiao asked.