Vol 2 Chapter 2486: Waiting for Li Mu to take the initiative to open the city and surrender.

Chapter 2486 Waiting for Li Mu to take the initiative to open the city and surrender

Chapter 2482: Wait until Li Mu takes the initiative to surrender.

Jiang Shang knew that Tu Xingsun was unreliable, but he still had to rely on Tu Xingsun. After all, there was no other way to send him out of the city except his earth magic.

In order to make Tu Xingsun obedient, Jiang Shang had to use some despicable means and put a poison in Tu Xingsun's food. He used this as a threat and promised that not only would he let him go free after leaving the city, but he would also Detoxify it.

　　　Tu Xingsun was so speechless that he was about to cry. He never thought that he would be poisoned again before the curse mark on his body was removed.

In order to save his life, Tu Xingsun had no choice but to listen to Jiang Shang and use earth magic to send Jiang Shang out of the city.

Before Jiang Shang left, he also called for Li Mu, Yang Jian, Yang Ren and Wu Ji, and told them not to leave the city.

“Uncle Master, Junior Brother Tu Xingsun is not honest, so why don’t you let your disciple go with you?”

Yang Ren said worriedly.

Jiang Shang smiled calmly and said: "Don't worry, I have my own means to make Tu Xingsun obedient."

Hearing this, Yang Ren stopped trying to persuade him. After all, Jiang Shang couldn't think of something that even he could think of. And since he dared to go out of the city alone with Tu Xingsun, he must have some perfect plan.

Before leaving, Jiang Shang winked at Wuji, and Wuji immediately understood. The master was telling him not to be brave. If he really couldn't hold on anymore, he would just surrender. Survival was the most important thing.

Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Shang put on clothes that were easy for walking on the ground and a helmet with a weird shape that made it easier to breathe underground, and then he was carried by Tu Xingsun and escaped into the mud.

This is the first time Jiang Shang has experienced escaping from the ground in all his life.

To be honest, Tu Xingsun's escape speed was not very fast, and Jiang Shang was not used to the darkness and humidity underground.

Even though Jiang Shang had put on protective gear and Tu Xingsun had used inner energy gauze clothing to protect his whole body, he still grimaced in pain under the squeeze of the sand and rocks coming from him.

After a full night of digging, Tu Xingsun finally took Jiang Shang from inside Baling City to outside the city, and also crossed the Qin army's encirclement.

By the time Jiang Shang returned to the ground, his face was already pale, but because of the dirt, it was completely black. His body was covered with dirt, and he still had no trace of the demeanor of a Taoist master.

 The middle of the night underground was extremely torturous for Jiang Shang.

I won’t go into details about the dark and humid environment underground and how painful the topography process is. The most important thing is that the air underground is extremely thin.

Jiang Shang thought more than once that his old bones would be unable to hold on, but he managed to survive.

Jiang Shang was in a very bad state at this time. Earth Element Sun Yungong helped him soothe him, and his complexion improved a lot.

“Uncle Master, Master Nephew, I have taken you out of Baling City as agreed. Shouldn’t you also keep your promise?”

Tu Xingsun rubbed his fingers and asked shamelessly. After all, this was a matter of his own life.

 “Take it.”

 Jiang Shang didn't waste any time. He took out a jade bottle from his arms and threw it to Tu Xing. He received it and said, "This is the antidote. Just swallow it."

After Tu Xingsun took it, he immediately swallowed the pills in the bottle and at the same time used his energy to drive away the poison.

When he felt that the poison in his body was gone, Tu Xingsun's face suddenly showed a fierce light, and he sneered at Jiang Shang and said: "Uncle Jiang, let me go to the Qin camp with my nephew."

Hearing this, Jiang Shang smiled and asked, "What, you want to trade me for military honors?"

“Because of your intervention, my disciple failed to kill Li Mu. The governor of Wu Qi will definitely suspect that my disciple is pretending to surrender. I can only trouble my uncle to explain to my disciple.”

With that said, Tu Xingsun was about to take action and help Jiang Shang forcibly, but before he touched Jiang Shang, he felt an unbearable pain in his abdomen. The pain was so painful that he couldn't stand up and kept beating on the ground. Get up.

Jiang Shang walked to Tu Xingsun with a smile and said: "Master Nephew Tu Xingsun, don't you think about me, why do you dare to give you the antidote?"

Tu Xingsun endured the abdominal pain and asked with difficulty: "Is the antidote poisonous?"

"There is no poison in the antidote, but there is a poison. Have you heard of the mother-child poison?"

 You have already eaten the child vood, but the mother voodoo is here with me. As long as I activate the mother voodoo, the child voodoo will bite inside your body until it devours all your internal organs. "

Hearing this, Tu Xingsun was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat and even wanted to die.

Both Wu Qi and Jiang Shang are all good guys, and these two old silver coins are really counting him out.

Tu Xingsun endured the pain in his abdomen, knelt down and begged: "Uncle, please spare my life. I will never dare to do it again. Just now, I was blinded by lard, so I offended my uncle. I really will never do it again." Dare you..."

Seeing this, Jiang Shang smiled slightly and stopped activating the mother Gu, and the pain in Tu Xingsun's abdomen gradually disappeared.

　　"Please ask my nephew to be my guard for two days."

Jiang Shang squinted his eyes and said with a smile. To Tu Xingsun, this expression was simply more terrifying than the devil.

 At the same time, Wu set up camp.

"Your Majesty, the fifty patrol teams sent out have all returned one after another, but no trace of Jiang Shang and Tu Xingsun has been found." Zhang Xiu said solemnly.

“As expected, Jiang Shang ran away.” Wu Qi sighed.

 “That fellow Tu Xingsun dares to betray the Qin Dynasty. I will definitely kill him next time I meet him.” Huang Tianxiang said angrily.

Wu Qi shook his head and said: "It's not betrayal. He didn't dare. He was probably controlled by Jiang Shang and had to cooperate with Jiang Shang."

 “What should we do now?”

“Send cavalry to pursue him on the road from Ba Ling to Chang’an. The news of Jiang Shang’s escape from Ba Ling will be reported to Deputy Governor Wang Jian via a flying pigeon.”

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Whether Jiang Shang is in Ba Ling or not, his influence on Wu Qi is not great anymore, because he has already found a way to defeat the enemy.

The news of Hao Jing's defeat, the riots in Chang'an, and the extermination of Yangfu, the defenders in the Bading City should not know.

Li Shimin would never dare to reveal the information, and would definitely try every means to block it.

 So, Wu Qi could completely use this information to undermine the morale of the defenders in the city and kill people.

 He did not believe that Yang Jian could remain indifferent after learning the news that the Yang family had been destroyed.

 Early the next morning, a large number of Qin troops gathered under Baling City. The defenders on the city thought that the Qin army was coming to attack the city, but they did not expect that they were just scolding and fighting outside the city.

“Don’t you know about the garrison in the city? Just yesterday, your Tang Gong Li Shimin’s 60,000-strong army was defeated by 30,000 infantry and cavalry of the Governor Wang Jian in Haojing. They lost miserably..."

“And the day before yesterday, in order to suppress the rebellion of several families, the Tang army killed all the aristocratic families in the city, including the Yang family, killing hundreds of thousands of people in total..."

“Yang Jian, you worked **** the front line for Li Shimin, but your family was exterminated by your own people. Don’t you think you are ridiculous...”

 …

Thousands of Qin soldiers have been shouting outside Baling City all morning. In summary, there are only three things.

 1, Li Shimin lost the battle at Haojing.

  2, a riot broke out in Chang'an, killing more than 100,000 people;

  3, the Yang family of the Fourth Generation and Three Dukes was exterminated.

Regarding these three news, the bottom soldiers were scoffed, and I felt that the Qin Jun's separation was too fake and out of charge.

In the Battle of Haojing, Li Shimin personally led 60,000 Tang troops, but lost to Wang Jian's 30,000 Qin troops?

How can this be.

My lord Li Shimin is a world-famous general, but Wang Jian is just an unknown old man. How could he lose between 60,000 and 30,000?

As for the riot in Chang'an, hundreds of thousands of people died? Even the Yang family was exterminated?

 This is even more impossible.

 In short, the soldiers at the bottom did not believe any of these three pieces of news.

  But it is completely different when it reaches the ears of high-level generals. After all, any one of these three pieces of news is a bolt from the blue.

Li Mu, Yang Jian, Li Zuoche, Wu Ji and other high-ranking generals all knew the news that Li Shimin urgently summoned Jiang Shang to meet in Chang'an. When combined with the news spread by the Qin army, the authenticity can be greatly improved.

If the defeat of Haojing is true, then the military strength in Chang'an City will definitely be greatly reduced, and it is obvious that they will not be able to hold on for long. Then what is the point of their persistence in Ba Ling?

If a riot really breaks out and hundreds of thousands of people die, will their family members be among them?

 For a time, all the generals in Baling, including Li Mu, were in chaos because of the news about the Qin army.

Many generals from aristocratic families organized groups to break into the city lord's palace, hoping that Li Mu would give them an explanation.

 What can Li Mu do about this? It can only be said that the Qin army deliberately spread the message and tried their best to appease these generals.

It is easy to deceive others, but difficult to deceive yourself.

Li Mu could not deceive himself and others, and was full of pessimism about whether Ba Ling could be defended.

The story of several generals forming a group to forcefully break into the city lord's palace was spread quickly in Baling City by the Qin Army's spies.

The soldiers who originally scoffed at the three pieces of news could not help but begin to waver. They began to talk to each other in the army, and the morale of the army also showed signs of instability.

After Li Mu learned about it, he killed dozens of chatty soldiers. While announcing that this was false news, he ordered the soldiers not to discuss it in private, and then he barely controlled the situation.

 It is better to defend the people than to defend the river.

The more Li Mu prevented the soldiers from talking, the more he was suspected of being a guilty conscience. Although the soldiers did not dare to say anything, they were clear in their hearts.

 The morale of the Ba Ling defenders was gradually collapsing in this silence.

"Master Governor, your heart-breaking plan has no effect. In my opinion, it's better to attack directly." Sun Lingming said.

Wu Qi smiled and said, "I don't think so. Our army no longer needs to attack Ba Ling."

“If we don’t attack the city, do we still have to wait for Li Mu to take the initiative to open the city and surrender?” Sun Lingming asked in confusion.

“That’s right, Li Mu will surrender in Kaicheng soon. He has no other choice.” Wu Qi sneered.

Sun Lingming and other generals looked at each other in shock when they heard this, obviously not believing that Li Mu would surrender.

Wu Qi did not explain too much about this, and everyone would naturally know it by then. Facts speak louder than words.

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 In a cellar somewhere in Chang'an, Ban Chao, Yu Huatian, and Li Si, the three main culprits who disrupted Chang'an, gathered together again.

"General Wang Jian intercepted Li Shimin's message. Li Shimin wanted to summon Jiang Shang back to Chang'an to help him solve this mess." Yuhuatian said solemnly.

After hearing this, Ban Chao and Li Si looked at each other, with a sneer flashing at the corners of their mouths.

 Under their scourge, Chang'an is now a broken ship with so many holes that it cannot be repaired no matter how hard it is repaired.

Li Shimin wanted to rely on an outsider like Jiang Shang to solve a problem that he couldn't solve by himself? You don't need to think about it to know that this is absolutely impossible. It is obvious that Li Shimin has been seriously ill and has sought medical treatment.

“The message from Governor Wang Jian told me to remind you to start an incident when necessary,” Ban Chao said.

Li Si looked surprised and said: "Plan in advance? It's a bit early."

Their original plan was to launch a mutiny within Chang'an after the main force of the Qin army surrounded Chang'an, seize the city gate, let the Qin army enter the city, attack from inside and outside, seize Chang'an city in one fell swoop, and secure the Ding Guanzhong.

Although the Qin army's war in Guanzhong is going smoothly now, Li Tang was defeated by only two cities in just half a month, and Li Shimin was defeated in Baling. However, the main force of 100,000 Sizhou troops only arrived at Baling after all. We haven't arrived at Chang'an City yet.

If you launch a mutiny at this time, although you can still succeed, there may be certain hidden dangers and you will not be able to do your best.

“It’s getting late, Haojing was defeated this time, and the Tang army’s strength was greatly reduced.

Now there are only 15,000 defeated troops left in Chang'an City, 20,000 defenders in the four gates and four battalions, 10,000 elite troops, and 5,000 new soldiers recruited at zero hours, totaling more than 50,000 defenders, and most of them have low morale.

 With the power in our hands, it is enough to subvert Chang'an, and there is no need for the main army to arrive.

Of course, to be on the safe side, if we can proceed as planned, there is no need to prepare in advance, but if Li Shimin notices it, we cannot make any advance preparations. Ban Chao said with a serious face.

 (End of this chapter)