Chapter 238 As long as His Royal Highness Prince Jin is here, there is no battle that cannot be won
Li Cheng said without hesitation: "It is to protect our Da'an territory and benefit the people."
His eyes were firm when he spoke, but when they met Song Yanxi's gaze, he looked away as if he was instantly burned and dared not look at her.
That look clearly shows that he is guilty.
If it was before, even just a day ago, Song Yanxi would have waited patiently until he was willing to speak up.
But now, she couldn't wait even a quarter of an hour.
Song Yanxi walked quickly to the bedside, took down some clothes from the rack beside her and handed them to Li Cheng. She said with a serious face, "Put on your clothes, I'll take you somewhere."
"I can not..."
"Can't."
"good."
Li Cheng's eyes flickered, and he reached out to take the clothes reluctantly. His slow movements clearly showed that he was stalling for time.
Song Yanxi's eyebrows twitched and she gradually lost her patience.
She coldly warned him, "Besides following me obediently, you have another choice. I'll have someone tie your hands and feet and carry you along."
Li Cheng hurriedly said, "No need."
*
Half an hour later, on the city wall.
Li Cheng, who had climbed up the steps one by one using his hands and feet, was soaked in sweat. He sat limply on the ground and looked at Song Yanxi with his dark eyes filled with anger.
There was a hint of resentment in his eyes, and it was clear that he felt that she was deliberately humiliating him.
It sounds really insane to let a child who had just been to the gates of hell and had not yet recovered climb up the city wall alone.
Song Yanxi held the lantern and stretched out her hand towards him.
Li Cheng turned his face away, gasping for breath and said, "I don't need you, I can do it myself."
Song Yanxi arched her eyebrows and couldn't help but praise: "Very good, you have backbone."
Li Cheng's ears twitched, but before he could speak, he heard her say, "It's a pity that it's not used in the right place."
"What did you say..." Before Li Cheng could finish his words, Song Yanxi pulled him up from the ground.
His vision suddenly opened up, and he saw a red light on the horizon, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.
Song Yanxi asked coldly, "Do you know what that is?"
Li Cheng shook his head, his eyes full of confusion.
The soldier on duty nearby blurted out: "This kid is not from the border town, right? If he were a kid from our border town, he wouldn't be able to see that the two armies have started fighting."
"Start a war?" Li Cheng's face became even uglier.
"The red light in the north is so strong. General Qiu must be using rockets to deal with the Liang army's cavalry."
The soldier who had spoken sighed and muttered to himself, "The army's arrow reserves are limited. I wonder how long General Qiu and his men can hold out."
The general next to him scolded, "Don't talk nonsense in front of the princess. If the general hears you, he will give you a beating."
“Even if I have to be beaten, I will still speak out.
When our brothers encountered the Liang army's cavalry, they always suffered losses and were trampled to death by the enemy's horses.
The soil and water in Liang State were fertile and the vegetation was lush, so the horses raised there were fat and strong. The carefully selected war horses were much stronger than ordinary war horses, and even looked a head taller from a distance.
Even though they were reluctant, they had to admit that the other side had an absolute advantage in cavalry.
Song Yanxi clearly saw that with every word they spoke, Li Cheng's face became uglier.
He opened his mouth and asked hesitantly, "Aren't there tripwires in the barracks?"
"I was saying this guy wasn't from a border town. If he had seen a Liang State horse from afar, he wouldn't have said such ridiculous things without any hesitation."
The soldier gestured with his hand and said with lingering fear, "When the horse stands up, its legs are taller than my shoulders, and its hooves are almost as big as a person's feet. If we really hit it head-on, it will easily jump over the tripwire with one step of its long legs.
It was used a few times in the past few years, and a few horses were tripped, and then they were used to trip their own people.”
Li Cheng asked with a pale face: "Can we win?"
The two said in unison: "You are not talking nonsense, of course you can!
As long as His Royal Highness Prince Jin is here, there is no battle that cannot be won."
On the way back to the tent, Li Cheng kept repeating this sentence.
"With His Royal Highness Prince Jin here, there is no battle that cannot be won."
Just when Song Yanxi couldn't stand it any longer and wanted to ask him directly how much he remembered, she suddenly heard him collapse and say, "But His Royal Highness Prince Jin is dead!"
She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Who told you that the prince was dead?"
Li Cheng wiped the tears from his eyes and choked up, "Everyone said that the prince was stabbed to death by an assassin."
Song Yanxi laughed and asked, "Did anyone see it with their own eyes?"
Li Cheng shook his head.
Song Yanxi asked again, "Since you've been to school, have you ever heard the saying that seeing is believing, hearing is not?"
Li Cheng nodded and shook his head, looking somewhat frustrated, "How can I have the chance to meet His Royal Highness Prince Jin?"
"Want to see him?"
"certainly!"
"Then draw the diagram from your memory."
"You!" Li Cheng's eyes suddenly became panic-stricken.
Song Yanxi looked at him intently and said frankly, "His Majesty has already informed His Royal Highness Prince Jin of what your Bai family did in secret.
The border town is facing urgent internal and external troubles, and it is time for your Bai family to share your worries with the emperor."
"I……"
"You don't have to trust me and hand the blueprints over to General Xu or General Cheng from the capital, but I can't give you much time to consider. The soldiers outside the city can't wait too long.
If the prince is defeated, when the city is broken, countless families will be destroyed, just like the Bai family three years ago."
Song Yanxi spoke each word slowly, feeling extremely heavy-hearted.
She only hated that she couldn't do both. She only had two hands, and if she could take care of one, she couldn't take care of the other.
I can only keep comforting myself in my heart that His Royal Highness Prince Jin is blessed with great fortune and a long life, and good things will come to those who are blessed by heaven.
Since God didn't take him away two years ago, he will not do so now.
Li Zhi's fingers tightly grasped the corner of his clothes, and he felt extremely tormented and struggling in his heart.
Even though three years had passed, every time he woke up in the middle of the night he felt that everything he had experienced before was just a dream, and he was still the carefree young master of the Bai family.
When I woke up, nothing had changed.
He couldn't understand why the Bai family, who had always lived in seclusion and had never made enemies with anyone, would suffer such a tragic disaster.
It was not until he heard Song Yanxi's words just now, that it was time for his Bai family to share the emperor's worries, that he suddenly realized the root of everything.
It turned out that the mechanical diagram that made my father work so hard that he forgot to eat and sleep and even took care of his birthday was actually used to restrain the war horses of the Liang army.
Was the Bai family tragically wiped out because of this mechanism diagram?
Although Li Cheng is a steady person, he is still young and cannot remain calm when it comes to the tragic death of his family members.
His eyes were red as he angrily questioned, "Did our family suffer such an unprovoked disaster just because of those diagrams of the mechanism?"
Song Yanxi's face was heavy. "From the current perspective, this possibility is very high."
Tears fell uncontrollably, Li Cheng reached out to wipe them away hurriedly, but the more he wiped, the more tears came.
He finally couldn't hold it in any longer, and slowly squatted down, covering his face with his hands and crying silently.
Song Yanxi handed over a handkerchief, feeling somewhat reluctant but still speaking, "Although the Bai family suffered misfortune because of the mechanical plan, I think if your father knew about this in the afterlife, he would definitely not regret the decision he made in the first place.
The fact that the people of Liang could be so ruthless and murderous, even wanting to kill you completely for three years, can only prove one thing."
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