"Good sister, since you don't want anything to happen to the Regent, I will definitely protect him!" Zhao Zhilan comforted her.
"Really?" Huo Churan was skeptical.
"Of course it's true! I am the Princess of Great Xia, and my word is law!" Zhao Zhilan said. "Let's not talk about this for now, let's chat about something else, hehe!"
The two then chatted about personal matters until nightfall before parting ways.
Afterwards, Zhao Zhilan immediately left the palace to discuss the matter with Yao Guangxiao.
After finishing his account, the bald man's face darkened. "Things are much more complicated than I imagined!" he said. "These traitors, they might really be plotting a rebellion!"
"Mr. Yao, we need to inform the Regent as soon as possible and prepare for defense!"
"There are many eyes and ears in the palace now. If we act rashly like this, we may be dead before we even leave the capital!"
Zhao Zhilan frowned. "What should we do then? They won't fully trust me in a short time, and this matter can't be delayed!" She asked, "Let's go find Lord He; the people of Xuanhua Palace can handle it!"
"The disciples of Xuanhua Palace are highly skilled; they can definitely evade detection," Zhao Zhilan thought.
Before he could finish speaking, Yao Guangxiao sternly refused, "No, we can't go to them!"
"Huh? Why?" Zhao Zhilan asked, puzzled.
“He Xiao has been acting strangely these past few days!” Yao Guangxiao explained. “Although he appears normal on the surface, I can tell he’s hiding something! Something that could be detrimental to His Highness!”
"No way!" Zhao Zhilan exclaimed in surprise. "Lord He always listens to Lin Mo's every word, how could this be?"
"I can't say for sure either, but I'm absolutely certain I'm not mistaken!" Yao Guangxiao said. "This person will most likely betray Your Highness!"
Zhao Zhilan was completely stunned.
"First it was my mother's Wei family, then the Huo family of Xiliang, and now... is Lord He also going to betray Lin Mo?"
That's right, the person Zhao Zhilan and He Xiao captured earlier was the one Wei sent out to secretly contact the Dongpan Ge people.
Meanwhile, under He Xiao's torture, the man also confessed that Huo Minggao harbored malicious intentions and planned to harm Lin Mo.
Now, even Yao Guangxiao has seen through He Xiao's "rebellious intentions"!
"What exactly is going on?"
"Your Highness, please don't panic," Yao Guangxiao advised. "I have a solution!"
Although he said that, Yao Guangxiao was inwardly troubled.
For some unknown reason, the Imperial Guards stationed in the capital suddenly vanished without a trace.
Losing these powerful figures undoubtedly greatly weakened Lin Mo's strength in the capital.
This makes it so difficult to find a suitable person to deliver a letter.
Suddenly, Yao Guangxiao's eyes flashed. "Your Highness, perhaps we could use coded messages?"
"Encrypted letter?"
Yao Guangxiao leaned forward and whispered his plan in Zhao Zhilan's ear!
"Your Highness, I will trouble you to persuade the Princess to send this letter!"
"Definitely!" Zhao Zhilan's expression changed after she finished speaking.
~~~
On Beirui Mountain.
In the camp of Dongpango's head coach, Uesugi Kenshin.
Ryu Echizen sat in the middle, carefully reading the letter in his hand, his face occasionally showing a smile, and occasionally frowning.
"General Uesugi, what exactly did the letter say?" asked his chief strategist, Naoe Kagemasa.
Uesugi Kenkatsu stood up and then handed the letter to Naoe Kagemasa.
The latter took it and read it aloud. "They want us to hold Lin Mo back? Not attack?" He was increasingly confused as he read on. "What does this mean?"
Uesugi Kenkatsu took a deep breath. "This is His Majesty the Emperor's will!"
“But our army has the absolute advantage!” Naoe Kagemasa said. “Whether it’s terrain, troop strength, or formation deployment, we have the superiority in every aspect. Why should we hold our camp and not allow any troops to attack?”
"His Majesty the Emperor forbids us from forgetting the lesson of the Doss people!" Uesugi Kenkatsu said. "That was a bloody lesson!"
“General Uesugi, how can our current situation be compared to that of the Dos?” Naoe Kagemasa said. “I analyzed that battle. The Great Xia army held Tianyue Mountain and, despite having the advantage of being the defender, was still defeated by the Dos.”
The soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty are nothing special!
The reason the Doss people lost was simply because they were too impatient.
They could simply surround the Xia people without attacking, effectively trapping them to death on Tianyue Mountain!
It should be noted that the Empress was still alive at the time, and Xichuan City only had 30,000 garrison troops, which was not enough to send troops to rescue it.
Another point is that the Dos people are a nomadic people, natural warriors.
However, they know very little about military strategy, and probably don't even know the basic formations!
Finally, there is one more important point.
No one expected Lin Mo to be so ruthless, using his tens of thousands of troops as bait to lure the Dos people into the Heavenly Rift to be eaten! That's why they fell into Lin Mo's trap!
There's another point that Jiang Jingzheng didn't mention: no one knows how he caused the flash flood!
Uesugi Kenshin frowned. "Our mission is to seize the land east of Ji in Great Xia," he said. "It's not about fighting Lin Mo. As long as we can successfully complete this mission, what's wrong with letting Lin Mo live a few more days?"
That being said, isn't that too cowardly?
Will Kato Hiroaki's grudge not be avenged? Will the shame of the Dongpan warriors not be washed away?
Uesugi Kenkatsu was fifty-three years old at the time. His life of military service had naturally worn away his sharp edges.
In a country like Dongpango, he knew the importance of preserving his strength, and there was no need for him to suffer losses for the sake of so-called warrior honor.
"My mind is made up, no further words are needed!" Uesugi Kenkatsu announced.
Two days passed in this way, and the troops on both sides formed their formations, but neither side showed any intention of launching an attack.
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