Jiang Moyan composed himself and looked at Li Zhu, whose face was pale, and questioned him.
"Li Zhu, did you do this on purpose...?"
"Young Master Jiang, watch your tone. I am the Crown Prince Regent, and I have military merits. Even if I kill you, no one will do anything to me. At most, I might take pity on you and report you as having died in battle. In that case, you will only be considered to have sacrificed yourself for the country and receive some death benefits, but you will definitely be gone..."
Jiang Moyan's chest heaved violently. Was this something a human could say? Could he be any more shameless? However, Jiang Moyan dared not say it aloud, and he knew Li Zhu wasn't bluffing him…
"Your Highness...you must give me a larger share of this military merit. It wasn't easy for me to earn this honor. You have no idea how much effort I put in to gain the trust of the Liao Kingdom..."
Jiang Moyan thought to himself, "Since you have no shame, why should I have any?" Anyway, he's already on the blacklist, so why not go with the flow and get some military merit to back him up?
Li Zhu was also shocked by Jiang Moyan's shamelessness. He clicked his tongue, feeling that he had dug his own grave...
"This... cough cough... don't worry, you'll definitely get your share of military merits..."
Li Zhu said somewhat reluctantly, and seeing Li Zhu's embarrassed look, Jiang Moyan felt an indescribable sense of relief...
On the grassland!
Three figures descended from the sky and crashed heavily to the ground. Upon landing, Xiao Meiren immediately coughed up a mouthful of blood, her face turning as pale as paper...
"My beauty, what's wrong with you?"
Yelü Bei, who was about to scold Consort Xiao for being so rude, panicked when he saw her vomiting blood. He rushed to her side clumsily, grabbed her shoulder, and asked in a panic.
"I...I'm fine..."
Xiao Meiren wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, indicating that she was fine...
"He's vomiting blood, how can he be alright? Is he injured somewhere? I'm going back right now to fight the New Tang soldiers to the death..."
As he spoke, Yelü Bei was about to stand up and rush back to fight the New Tang soldiers to the death...
Xiao Meiren grabbed him, knowing he was faking it, but she was still somewhat touched. She coughed twice in a mocking manner, and then spoke in a strained tone.
"I'm fine... it's just that when I was escaping with you two, my blood and energy reversed, which injured my heart meridian..."
"What? Your heart meridian is injured? This is a minor matter? I'll go back to the palace right now to find miraculous medicines and cure your injury..."
Yelü Bei said with extreme anxiety!
"Enough, Your Highness, wake up! She did it on purpose. Because of her arbitrarily acting, 50,000 of our Liao army have been wiped out outside Yunzhou City, and we've even lost Yunzhou itself. It's all because of this woman; she's a scourge..."
Yan Yan couldn't bear to see Yelü Bei acting like a sycophant for Xiao Meiren. She had given everything for Yelü Bei, but no matter what she did, she couldn't get even a little bit of his love!
Snap!
Yelü Bei slapped her across the face, then looked at Yan Yan and said fiercely.
"Enough, you wicked woman! Look at what you've done! If it weren't for you, would we have stepped into Li Zhu's trap?"
The beauty was so tolerant of me, and even warned me it was a trap before I made my move, but I chose to trust you. How did you repay my trust?
If it weren't for the beauty's intervention, not only me, but you would have died on the battlefield long ago. And yet you're still slandering the beauty. How can you do this to repay the beauty for saving your life?
You ungrateful, wicked woman, how dare you say it's the beauty's fault? How could you be so shameless?
Yelü Bei was truly furious. He hadn't wanted Meiren to rescue Yan Yan in the first place, since the current situation was all due to the other party's misjudgment and overconfidence. However, he was powerless to resist at the time and could only let Meiren rescue her. He never expected that Yan Yan would be such an ungrateful wretch...
"Your Highness, how dare you hit me? You hit me for this vixen? She personally caused the deaths of our 50,000-strong army, and you're still protecting her..."
Yan Yan roared like a madwoman!
"This is clearly your mistake, yet you're still trying to smear the beauty. Do you know that I refused her offer to save you, and she risked getting hurt to do so? How can you be so ungrateful?"
Yelü Bei retorted angrily!
"Your Highness, he deliberately took us all away. Without our leadership, the remaining cavalry are leaderless; they don't even know where to escape to. If even one of us were there, we could have led a portion of the Liao cavalry back to Liao alive, instead of being completely annihilated..."
Yan Yan roared loudly!
"Enough! These are all just excuses for you to shirk responsibility. I was involved from beginning to end. I know every detail of what happened better than you do. Do you think I wouldn't know what really went on? You've really disappointed me. Since you think the beauty shouldn't have saved you, then you can stay here by yourself..."
After Yelü Bei finished speaking, he helped Consort Xiao away, leaving Yan Yan alone, weeping by herself…
Xiao Meiren glanced at Yelü Bei, whose eyes were now filled with the relief of surviving a calamity. Moreover, judging from his behavior just now, Yelü Bei's feelings for her had transformed from infatuation to absolute trust and adoration without any reason. This was exactly the result she wanted...
Seeing that the two were truly ignoring her, Yan Yan became frightened and quickly chased after them. After all, this was the border of the Liao Kingdom, where the people were known for their fierce nature, and anything could happen...
Yunzhou City!
Li Zhu stood atop the city wall, his heart surprisingly calm. Ever since leaving Luoyang, he felt his luck was getting better and better; he seemed to get whatever he wanted…
Now that Yunzhou is his, all he needs to do is find coal mines near Yunzhou and figure out how to start mining...
Mining not only increases employment opportunities for the people and generates revenue for the imperial court, but most importantly, it solves the heating problem—a win-win situation…
Faced with such great benefits, Li Zhu lost interest in continuing the fight and stopped directly in Yunzhou...
But his stopping was a problem; Shi Chonggui in Yanjing was nearly scared out of his wits…
When he heard the news that Li Zhu had annihilated 50,000 Liao cavalry in one fell swoop, he was completely stunned. His first reaction was that it was impossible...
His second reaction was to repeatedly confirm the authenticity of the news, and ultimately he could only helplessly believe that the news was true...
But it was precisely because it was true that he was even more terrified. Why had he acknowledged the Liao emperor as his grandfather? Wasn't it because the Liao cavalry was formidable and their fighting power was formidable? Yet, even such an army had suffered a annihilation of 50,000 men…
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