A mere volume of inferior horse skins can not only conclude a covenant of life and death, but also become a war book! The Great Khan of Chaolu gave the right to choose to his allies who had repeatedly consulted with him.

Looking at the Huayu Road, there are not too many people who are worthy of the Chaolu Great Khan to make a covenant to kill horses; And limited to the third acre of land on Youbei Third Road, there are even fewer candidates with enough identity. This person is the governor of Dongyou Road, the contemporary head of the Li family, Li Zilin!

Regarding the matter of Chaolu Khan persuading Li Zilin to surrender, only from the surface, no matter how you think about it, you can't touch the slightest vein!

The relationship between Shen Gui and Li Le'an has long become a well-known thing. Although the two of them did not make it clear when and where they would get married; But the people of the entire Huayu Continent, except for Yan Shuqing, who gritted his teeth, already regarded Li Le'an as the genuine Mrs. Shen. Judging from this level of relationship, there is a hardcore ally of Emperor Xingping as the aunt of the Li family, and the Li family's Dongyou Road has actually become something in Shen's pocket!

From this point of view alone, whether it is coercion or inducement, Li Zilin is definitely not a good choice!

But since Guo Xing led the army to arrive at the foot of Fuyu City, looking at the mixed river that separates Dongyou and Zhongshan, you can also understand the real reason for Sardi's trip. As for if Li Zilin really led the army to surrender, how much would be true or false, Guo Xing, who has always been very defensive about it, didn't pay attention to it this time.

Because for the current Shenshi tribe, even if Li Zilin's surrender is true, it is just the icing on the cake; And if he surrenders to the truth, his little strength alone will not play any role at all.

But for Li Zilin, Shenshijun is already the only life-saving straw he can grasp!

Since the friction between the Shenshi Army and the Youbei Army, the Xingping Emperor assigned the Dongyoulu Road, which also borders the Mobei grassland, to guard the northern border with the Zhongshan Governor's Army. On the surface, Li Zilin inherited all the power of Li Deng, but he had to be the Li family first, and then he could be the feudal official of Youbei Third Road! Not only him, Li Zilin, but all the Li family members are well aware of this iron law. If he dares to change priorities, then the old prime minister, who has guarded a dry grave for nearly two years, can let him die at any time.

What is the point of being such a governor of Dongyoulu and such a head of the Li family?

What's more, judging from Li Zilin's achievements in the past two years, whether it is his true skills or those shady methods, there is a world of difference between him and Li Deng! The reason for this gap is not only that he was constrained by Lee Teng Yuwei; To borrow a sentence that the Li family hangs on his lips every day: Zilin, this kid is not bad, but he hasn't learned Qi Yuan's ability!

Although his intelligence and means cannot be said to be the same, Li Deng's characteristics of picking the door have been perfectly inherited by Li Zilin. As early as the place where the war began, Yan Qinghong issued a clear decree, ordering him to lead the Qi Yuan army north to resist the enemy; But he sent a group of old and weak soldiers to be stationed on the bank of the Mingtong River to deal with errands. After that, Taining County was defeated and burned, and the remnants of the people in the city died tragically!

There is no doubt that Ding Shuo, the general of Taining, of course, will put the main responsibility for the defeat in the first battle on the head of the Qi Yuan army who are watching from the sidelines. Yan Qinghong was also furious when he learned about it, and he actually sent twelve holy decrees to the Great Wilderness City one after another.

At the beginning, it was only in the name of Zhongzhi, and the words and sentences were mainly based on good words and persuasion, and ordered Li Zilin to lead the Qi Yuan army to quickly cross the river and attack the incoming enemy in Ding Shuo. But what a delicate person Li Zilin is! After he received the order, he pulled out all the Qi Yuan troops and placed them on the east bank of the Tongtong River; Moreover, they also practice three times a day, and the slogan of preparing for the war is even louder!

But even if it is a war knife or a big gun, as long as it falls into the mixed river, Qi Yuanjun will regard it as a "battle damage", and he doesn't even have the idea of taking a hook and a hook to catch it, lest the Shenshi Army misunderstand and cause trouble to Dongyoulu!

As early as this time, Chaolu successively sent six groups of envoys, three Ming and three Dark; In various ways and means, Li Zilin's tone was repeatedly tested. Although these six groups of envoys all returned in vain, just from the fact that they were treated differently, many interesting details were revealed.

Those envoys who were sent to the past for peace talks were all reprimanded by Li Zilin in front of the court, and then drew their swords and beheaded them to the capital, so as to express their loyalty to Emperor Xingping; However, the three secret envoys secretly sent by him were only placed under house arrest in one of his own outer mansions; Good wine, good food and good hospitality every day, but I have never been summoned. As soon as the day came, he sent people back to the Mobei grassland secretly.

Moreover, the first secret envoy only lived in Li Zilin's outer house for one day; the second secret envoy stayed for three days; And the treatment of the last secret envoy was even more strange, Li Liang, the old steward of the Governor's Mansion Outer Mansion, only arranged a place for him to live and subordinates, but did not arrange a single soldier to monitor him, and let him move freely in the Great Wilderness City for seven full days!

The fundamental reason that prompted King Chaolu Khan to make the "Horse Killing Covenant" was closely related to the last clear decree of Emperor Xingping.

The twelfth edict of Emperor Xingping is a general metaphor, and the words and tone have become extremely harsh! He not only sent an imperial prince surnamed Yan to personally send it to the camp on the east bank of the mixed river; He also instructed the officials to copy 3,000 copies of this edict, and everyone in the city where the imperial court post road was still smooth.

In this way, Li Zilin's charge of disobedience has been confirmed; Even if he wakes up now and crosses the river to participate in the war, and Yan Qinghong wants to kill his head afterwards, no one can say a word!

In Chaolu's view, this matter is purely Yan Qinghong's. At present, the war in Youbei is unfavorable, and it is normal for the feudal officials to have some fluctuations in their hearts, how can a monarch not be able to stand this grievance? Now that such a hand is here, isn't it clearly pushing Li Zilin to a dead end?

Due to Li Zilin's deliberate delay, the siege of Buyeo City was still completed. In the current situation, even if Li Zilin wants to follow the order, he will no longer have the opportunity to lead the army to cross the river.

And the Zhongshan Governor's Army, which stationed all its troops near Qingshancheng, was not unintentional to rush to the aid of Fuyu City; But with Ding Shuo's overstretched troops, there is only one chance to bet. If this time he poured all his strength into the north and galloped north to help the Fuyu battlefield; Only those 400 miles of long-distance march will be twisted into a flesh and blood passage leading to the Yama Hall by the fast horse scimitar of the Mobei cavalry!

This is one of the reasons why Guo Xing chose a conservative marching strategy. He gradually encroached on the enemy's territory in a steady and steady manner, and there was an invincible cavalry ready to send reinforcements at any time; They only need to follow the map and win step by step, and they will never leave any chance for Youbei Sanlu to turn around.

Looking at the sky, it is now the end of spring and the beginning of summer, and there is still more than half a year before the cold winter season when the army cannot be stationed in the field; Exploring the land, and the logistics provided by Diting, can be used as a support, even if it is a stupid way to besiege but not attack, this impregnable Buyeo City will sooner or later fall into the hands of its own side.

So whether it is Guo Xing or Chaolu, they are actually not in a hurry to take this city. Even the only expected reinforcement in Buyeo City, the Dongyou Qi Yuan Army, could not withstand the pressure exerted by Yan Qinghong and was forced to cross the river to join the Buyeo battlefield; So even if he Li Zilin poured out all the available troops in Dongyou, and got the help of the magic power of the Dragon King of the Mixed River, the whole army crossed the river safely, but it was just an extra 80,000 foot soldiers, so why be afraid?

So at the moment, whether Li Zilin is anti-water and sincere, in fact, it doesn't matter to the Shenshi Army at all; It can also be said that he Li Zilin has been sold by businessmen at a price that he is accustomed to, and he has been forced to this desperate road in front of him!

There is a way to be the icing on the cake, it is better to send charcoal in the snow; Chaolu guessed that Li Zilin's situation was extremely embarrassing, so he sent his wife to convey the last kindness of the Shenshi tribe to the other party. He killed his beloved horse and skinned it, wanting to conclude a life and death pact with Li Zilin.

If this plan can be realized, the time, place, and people are all in the hands of the Shenshi Army.

Although Guo Xing had no way to guess Chaolu's thoughts, Li Zilin's attitude was insignificant, and it was not worth bothering about at all. Ask yourself, if he Guo Xing and Li Zilin change places, in addition to kicking Yan Qinghong away and declaring the self-reliance and autonomy of Dongyou Road; There is only one way to surrender to oneself, but it is only a matter of time.

If he is interested, then he might as well treat him and the tens of thousands of wastes under his command as another group of Huashen cultists who don't want silver; If Li Zilin is shameless, then after Qingshan City is defeated, the two roads of Guanbei and Dongyou will be completely separated! The whole army can go north and take his head, but it is just a flick of a finger.

Guo Xing thought about this scroll for a long time, thinking that King Chaolu Khan was just taking this opportunity to show his heroism to the people of the world, and he might have complicated things.

"Ahem, dare to ask when the master mother came, did the Khan King give instructions on the battle situation in Buyeo City? As you have seen, in the early hours of this morning, our army has begun to attack the city; And the main mother wants to cross the river to lobby the enemy army on this trip, and the battlefield is dangerous and inconvenient...... Do you need me to wait for a truce? Escorting the main mother? ”

Saldi patted Guo Xing's increasingly thin face, and said lovingly:

"It's still Qinbari's thoughtfulness, and he knows how to care about Ehe! Hey, if you don't say it, you can guess that King Khan sent Lao Batu away, and he has always been in a bad mood. When I came, he didn't say anything but what he told him to the east. Qin Ba Ri, long before the army started, the Khan King entrusted the victory and defeat of this battle to your back. If we win the war, the king of Khan and Ekh will borrow the light of your brothers, and go to the palace to stay for a few days; If you defeat it, it doesn't matter. It's a big deal that our family returns to the ASEAN grassland and grazes horses and sheep every day, and it's not a big deal! ”

Guo Xing is not very old, but his experience has been extremely bumpy. He has experienced ups and downs, and has struggled on the edge of life and death countless times; He has seen the yin and yang strange eyes of his colleagues in Beiyan, and he has also been treated coldly by the exclusion and humiliation of the Mobei people; Even those old brothers of the Pingbei Army, many of them abandoned him at the most critical moment; A proud son of the sky, the young master of Houmen, prematurely felt the warmth and coldness of human affection and the cold of the world. In addition, he is already very thoughtful, and he has long lost the ability to fully trust others.

But Guo Xing has never had any doubts about Saldi's words; Even if this ugly woman with an unbearable appearance ordered herself to jump into the furnace freezer, he would not hesitate to go for it!