Two days later, Yun Zheng met Jia Yao at the edge of the hill.
When Jia Yao was brought in, Yun Zheng was roasting some fragrant sweet potatoes there.
As soon as Jia Yao came in, she smelled the fragrance of sweet potatoes.
In an instant, Yun Zheng felt a knife-like gaze shooting towards him.
"Your Highness, Princess Jiayao has arrived."
Tong Gang bowed.
"What Princess Jiayao?"
Yun Zheng raised his head and glared at Tong Gang, "Call her Madam Jiayao!"
"yes!"
Tong Gang obeyed the order and immediately changed his address to "Madam Jiayao."
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Madam Jiayao?
Hearing this name, Jia Yao felt extremely ironic, but helpless.
She knew in her heart that Yun Zheng and Tong Gang were deliberately acting this out in front of her.
The purpose is to remind yourself and pay attention to your identity.
"Be more careful next time!"
Yun Zheng glanced at Tong Gang, then waved his hand and said, "You can leave first!"
Tong Gang accepted the order and bowed to take his leave.
"Sit down, don't stand there."
Yun Zheng smiled at Jia Yao and said, "We are all family. Do you still want me to ask you to sit down?"
"I dare not trouble the prince." Jia Yao replied unhappily, and walked over to sit down opposite Yun Zheng. "Are you deliberately disgusting me, or are you warning me?"
She seriously suspected that this was Yun Zheng's knock.
Yun Zheng couldn't possibly be unaware of how much she valued sweet potatoes.
Yun Zheng would rather roast and eat such a large potato than give it to her to take back for breeding.
If this isn’t knocking, then what is it?
"Look at what you said."
Yun Zheng shook his head and smiled, "I went to see them a few days ago. Our potatoes are growing very well. A rough estimate is that we can produce 1,500 kilograms per mu. Knowing you were coming, I dug some potatoes specially to share the joy of the harvest with you! Although these potatoes are very valuable, we don't lack them anymore."
"You don't lack it, but I do!"
Jia Yao was secretly angry, but there was nothing he could do.
"Okay, don't hold such a grudge. How could I forget what I promised you?"
Yun Zheng looked at Jia Yao with amusement, "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
As Yun Zheng spoke, he dug out a roasted sweet potato from under the ashes of the charcoal fire and handed it to Jia Yao.
Jiayao took the potato.
It was clearly just a sweet potato, but when she held it in her hand, it felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds.
So much so that her hands were shaking as she took the potatoes.
Looking at Jia Yao's appearance, Yun Zheng couldn't help but laugh secretly.
This woman!
He is smart, but a little too stubborn.
In other words, she still didn't trust herself.
Of course, given the grudge between him and Jia Yao, there was no reason for Jia Yao to trust him unconditionally.
Under Yun Zheng's gaze, Jia Yao slowly peeled off the slightly burnt potato skin and gently took a bite of the soft and glutinous potato flesh.
Very fragrant and slightly sweet.
But when Jiayao put the food in his mouth, he felt it was bitter.
When I swallowed it, I felt a blockage in my throat.
Jia Yao swallowed the sweet potato with difficulty, then slowly said: "The ghost party sent someone to have a secret talk with me..."
Yun Zheng raised his lips and asked, "Gui Fang wants to invite you to join forces to fight against me?"
"Did you guess it?"
Jia Yao's eyelids twitched and she looked at Yun Zheng in surprise.
“That’s about right!”
Yun Zheng nodded slightly. "I guess the ghosts are planning to launch a surprise attack while I am concentrating my main forces in the pastureland area, and then go around to our rear and attack us from behind, right?"
As Yun Zheng's voice fell, Jia Yao's face suddenly changed, and the hand holding the sweet potato began to tremble.
Yun Zheng actually guessed it!
He even guessed that the Guifang wanted to launch a surprise attack on their rear from the Modong Corridor!
How did he guess?
Or did he place spies around him?
There is no reason!
Even in Beihuan, few people knew about this.
And the few people who knew about this were all people she absolutely trusted.
There is absolutely no way those people could be spies for Yun Zheng.
After a long moment of shock, Jia Yao asked solemnly, "How did you guess that?"
"Do you find this hard to guess?"
Yun Zheng stared at Jia Yao with a smile on his face. "Qiuchi and Dayue are now gathering troops on the border between the two countries under the pretext of a conflict. If they don't start a war, they are just acting..."
The purpose of Qiuchi and Dayue Kingdom's acting was naturally to jointly send troops to raid Beimoduo.
After they launch a lightning-fast surprise attack on Beimotu, their troops will be able to threaten the horse-grazing grassland.
The people of Qiuchi and Dayue are not fools either.
It is almost impossible to defeat the Northern Army relying solely on the military strength of their two countries.
They knew it was impossible, but still wanted to do it, which would only tie down the Northern Army head-on.
Since they want to contain the Northern Army, someone has to attack, right?
If Guifang does not attack Beihuan, then they will have to attack Dagan.
If they attack head-on, even if the Northern Army is defeated, they can still retreat to defend.
Once the Northern Army did this, the benefits that the three countries could gain from making such a big fuss would definitely be extremely limited, and the loss would outweigh the gain.
Only by sending troops to attack their rear and cut off their retreat can we complete the encirclement of them.
As long as the main force of the Northern Palace Army is eliminated, the strength of the Northern Palace Army can be slowly eroded later.
Once the cold winter comes, they might be able to invade Shuobei and plunder.
Even if they did not attack into Shuobei, the Beifu Army, whose main force had been almost completely destroyed, would not pose a threat to them.
This is the situation that best suits the common interests of the three or even four parties.
Otherwise, why would Qiuchi and Dayue Kingdom join in the fun?
Which country doesn't do anything without benefits?
He and Dugu Ce had guessed this when they were in the military academy.
However, they didn't tell the students.
Afterwards, none of the students thought of this, which made them a little disappointed.
Looking at Yun Zheng who was talking so eloquently, Jia Yao felt shocked and relieved.
Fortunately, I made the right choice and was not bewitched by the Guifang people.
Otherwise, after the beginning of next spring, Yun Zheng will probably start to destroy Beihuan.
Jia Yao was sweating all over. He tried hard to calm down and spoke again, "The Guifang's intention is for us to send a small number of temporarily recruited warriors to pretend to go to war with them, while they and our main force will march out from the Modong Corridor and quickly launch a surprise attack to cut off your retreat and surround your main force in the pastureland. Then, use your main force to continuously attract your reinforcements, and finally, completely defeat the Northern Army..."
Is that so?
Do you still want to play the tactic of surrounding a point and attacking its reinforcements with them?
"Who came up with this plan?"
Yun Zheng asked curiously.
Jia Yao frowned and said, "I heard that it was the plan of Lou Yi, the fourth prince of Dayue. However, I am not sure whether it is true or not! I only know that Lou Yi is highly regarded by the King of Dayue, and almost all the military power of Dayue is in his hands..."
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