Chapter 252 Loss

  “.”

  The words fell silent.

  Looking at the killing intent in Li Qingyan’s eyes, Xu Yuan felt that he should be moved.

  After all, for his fiancé, he is murdering his own brother.

  But I don’t know why, Xu Yuan is very calm now, so calm that he even feels that Li Qingyan is playing him.

  If Da Bingtuozi wanted to raise his sword to chop Li Zhaoyuan, he would never doubt it, but Li Qingyan, well, let her forget it.

  Although the two have met each other honestly now, even if Li Qingyan is willing to have a more in-depth exchange with him on the big red bed, Xu Yuan should believe her or not.

  So for this question, Xu Yuan did not answer directly.

  Glanced at the direction of the main entrance of the barracks, he asked with a smile:

   “The news of Deputy General Cang spread so quickly? The war just ended, and the Second Highness brought me here?”

  Deputy General Cang’s speed should not be as fast as Li Zhaoyuan’s. Even if Li Zhaoyuan said that he borrowed external force to use the Dao Domain, it is at least a fake.

   “It doesn’t matter how Vice General Cang informed me.”

  Li Qingyan shook his head slightly, staring at Xu Yuan, without any intention of skipping the topic: “The important thing is, does my second brother really want to kill you?”

  “.”

  Looking at the persistence in Li Qingyan’s eyes, Xu Yuan pondered for a moment, and the smile on his face remained unchanged:

   “If I say yes, Qing Yan, are you going to kill my relatives for my sake?”

  Li Qingyan frowned slightly when she heard the words, she seemed dissatisfied with Xu Yuan’s ambiguous answer, she smiled slightly, and her answer was also ambiguous:

   “It’s not uncommon in the history of my Li family.”

  “not so much”

  Xu Yuan sighed quietly, his voice stopped word by word: “Qing Yan, our relationship should not have reached this point yet.”

   “The relationship is not yet?”

  Hearing this, Li Qingyan glanced at himself, and asked with a smile: “What does the son-in-law think of this palace as a proper relationship?”

  Xu Yuan met her gaze and smiled, but did not speak.

  Li Qingyan was really kind to him, so good that he was so teased that he couldn’t control it.

  But the relationship between the two is not in place yet,

  At least, it’s not to the point where he can kill her brother.

  But the longest lesson those bad women taught him in his previous life is not to trust the acting skills of bad women, especially when you don’t know what the bad women are planning for you.

   Seeing Xu Yuan’s dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, the smile on Li Qingyan’s face restrained, and her eyes seemed to have crossed the walls, and saw Li Zhaoyuan standing at the door of the barracks:

   “My son-in-law. I want to kill my second brother, but it’s really not because my second brother wants to kill me.”

  “.”

  Xu Yuan’s cheeks twitched.

  Kill the second brother

   Can you say this directly?

   After a moment of silence, Xu Yuan chuckled and stared at Li Qingyan with great interest:

   “You are straightforward.”

  Li Qingyan glanced at Xu Yuan with his crimson eyes, and his ambiguous voice was as cold as in an army formation:

  ”If you tell a lie, with your intelligence, you probably wouldn’t believe me.”

   Xu Yuan asked curiously:

   “If that’s the case, why are you angry, Qing Yan, because of this?”

   “My son-in-law, what do you think will be the consequences of your death in Beifeng City?” Li Qingyan asked without answering.

   “Huh?”

  Xu Yuan doubted, thought for a while, and replied with a smile: “If I die in Beifeng City, my father will be very sad, and many people will die when he is sad.”

  Li Qingyan’s pair of red pupils carried a touch of coldness:

  ”It is true that many people will die, but this is not important. The important thing is that there will be a crack in the cooperation between the father and Mr. Xu.”

  Pause for a moment,

  Li Qingyan stared at Xu Yuan, a dangerous light flashed in his eyes:

   “My son-in-law, who do you think would want you to die in Beifeng City?”

  Xu Yuan was quiet for a few breaths, and spit out two words:

   “Zongmen.”

   “Yes, Zongmen.”

  Li Qingyan smiled, but the smile on his red lips was as piercing as ice for thousands of years:

  ”So, my second brother must not have the intention of killing you. If he wants to kill you, it means that he wants to destroy the cooperation between the father and Duke Xu. leaning towards those sects.”

  “.”

  After the voice fell, Xu Yuan’s mood began to spread.

  Li Zhaoyuan wanted to kill him, but he had only thought about the heir of the Xiangguo Mansion before, but he hadn’t thought about it so deeply.

  If he really died in Beifeng, no matter whether it is found out or not, whether Li Zhaoyuan did it or not, the blame will be on the royal family.

  It was you, Li Yaoxuan, who wanted to promise at the beginning that I, Xu Yinhe, would send his son to your army in exchange for the trust of both parties, but now he is dead, under your nose, can you give me an explanation?

  And this cannot be explained.

  The father may be able to speculate that someone may be obstructing it, but he is not sure.

  Because the Zongmen is indeed a thorn in the eyes of the royal family, but why not the Xiangguo Mansion now?

  The two parties themselves are an alliance of mutual trust that is as fragile as glass, and his death, Xu Yuan, will become a pebble that smashes this glass.

  Thinking of this,

  Xu Yuan raised his eyes, looking at the stunning red dress in front of him with a slightly strange look.

  Li Qingyan should not have as much information as him, and the time to know it is shorter than him.

  Hiss.

  Why is this woman not only highly cultivated, but also so smart?

  How will he revive his husband in the future?

   “Consort.”

  Li Qingyan’s murmur interrupted Xu Yuan’s thoughts.

  He raised his eyes.

   Her crimson eyes are shining with stunning beauty:

  ”After the big marriage, I’m Wu Yuan outside, and I’m just Qing Yan at home. You don’t have to think about revitalizing your husband.”

  “.”

  Xu Yuan’s heart trembled slightly when he heard the words, and when a strange feeling gradually spread, he suddenly came back to his senses.

   Staring at her soft eyes, Xu Yuan felt a little apprehensive.

  Made, the game of kings.

  This bad woman is too dangerous.

  He felt that those bad women who had experienced the information explosion in his previous life were not as high as Wu Yuan.

  Wait, the way she was suffering from pain and excitement before was also pretending, right?

  If yes.

  Su Jinxuan, you are so shameful.

  Concentrate your mind,

  Xu Yuan raised his legs and said with a leisurely smile:

  ”Qingyan, I don’t really believe in promises. A promise that cannot be fulfilled can only be a shackle.”

  Translate, come to something practical, don’t write a blank check, buddy doesn’t believe it.

  Li Qingyan snorted:

   “Whether it can be realized, you will know after marriage.”

   is broken.

  Xu Yuan realized that as soon as she said this, he began to look forward to this political marriage in his heart.

  This is not a good sign.

  Missing the good woman Da Bingtuozi twice, Xu Yuan suppressed the ripples in his heart, stared at her and smiled without saying a word.

  Seeing this, Li Qingyan brought the topic back on track:

   “So, son-in-law, my second brother really wants to kill you?”

   “It can only be said that it is somewhat similar, but there is no evidence.” Xu Yuan replied truthfully this time.

   “Really?”

   “Of course.”

  Xu Yuan spread his hands in a very bachelor.

  He really has no evidence, except for a small amount of information, the previous inferences are all from behavioral logic.

  Zongmen warehouse was bombed by Qin Weijiu’s people, but Su Jinxuan did not find out that Qin Weijiu had a connection with Li Zhaoyuan.

  And Li Zhaoyuan went to Dongcheng, which can also be explained by recruiting the morale of the army.

  All actions are impeccable.

  Li Qingyan thought for a while, then suddenly asked:

   “My son-in-law, you should have some information that I don’t know?”

  Xu Yuan denied without hesitation:

  ”No, Lou Ji has all the information. He only gave me a few ways to escape.”

  He does not intend to participate in this battle for the heir apparent.

   It’s not that he’s not interested, it’s simply because the prime minister’s father may have his own plans, and blindly participating in it without knowing it may destroy the other party’s plans.

  Before chatting with Li Yunqing’s sixth son, it was considered a fire, and it was also a way out.

  If the third prince really believes it, that promise will most likely become a blank check, and the old Liukeng’s underpants will have to be sold.

  Li Qingyan took a deep look at Xu Yuan and sighed:

   “Okay, I probably understand, I will not go out of the city again, you stay by my side, Li Zhaoyuan can’t hurt you.”

  Xu Yuan smiled slightly upon seeing this.

  If the second prince Li Zhaoyuan really wanted to kill him, he could only take advantage of Li Qingyan’s opportunity to leave the city, but unfortunately his best chance has already been missed.

  After putting on the standard commander’s armor, Li Qingyan took Xu Yuan to the barracks outside and called Li Zhaoyuan in.

  Xu Yuan was wearing personal guard armor, standing behind Li Qingyan as the door god, watching the two talking.

  The way Li Zhaoyuan and Li Qingyan get along with each other doesn’t look like siblings at all, but rather resembles superiors and subordinates.

  Li Qingyan expressed his thanks, Li Zhaoyuan humbly declined, and then arranged for Li Zhaoyuan the next series of defense matters.

  The two talked about city defense and military affairs for half an hour, and Li Zhaoyuan cupped his hands and went back to the government office.

  After Li Zhaoyuan left, only Xu Yuan and Xu Yuan were left in the barracks again.

  Li Qingyan was dressed in armor, sitting on the back of the chair, looking like a queen.

  Xu Yuan stood behind her and looked at her, looking down in thought.

  Beautiful people are indeed pleasing to the eye no matter how long they look at them.

  About two quarters of an hour later, after being notified, several school lieutenants entered the barracks one after another and handed over several files to Li Qingyan.

  A very thick stack.

  Li Qingyan didn’t shy away from Xu Yuan who was standing behind her, and flipped through the pages openly.

  The contents of the dossier are some statistics about Beifeng City.

  As an important frontier army town, Beifeng City is not as prosperous as those prefectural cities in Dayan. Families in the army, as well as some merchant families who came here to do business.

  Combining the private chivalrous regiment and martial artists like bodyguards, the proportion of cultivators among the common people in the city is frighteningly high.

  One third.

  In other words, in the early 100,000s.

  Of course, this part is basically cannon fodder that has just entered or is about ninth grade.

   Xu Yuan was looking at these statistics when he suddenly heard Li Qingyan’s cold voice:

   “Lieutenant Jin, come in.”

   Waited for a few breaths,

  A young man in school captain’s armor trotted into the barracks, knelt down on one knee under the hall, clasped his fists in both hands, and said respectfully with his head down:

   “Your Highness.”

  Li Qingyan glanced at the data on the file, and said casually without raising his head:

   “Go and send all the cultivators and apprentices in the city to the city wall to defend the city.”

  “.”Xu Yuan

  Jin Xiaowei was obviously taken aback when he heard the words, raised his eyes, and said tentatively:

   “Your Highness, if you act like this, I’m afraid it will provoke those people to rebel.”

  Low-level warriors who don’t understand the military formation are cannon fodder on the battlefield. Against those barbarians, the battle loss ratio of ten to one is already considered high.

  People who live in Beifeng City all the year round will not understand this.

  Li Qingyan raised his eyes and glanced at the other party, without any emotion in his eyes:

   “Rebellion? You go tell those frontier generals that the palace allows them to “hire” warriors in the city to help defend the city, and they will find a way to solve it.”

  Lieutenant Jin hesitated a little, but did not speak again, and cupped his hands:

  ”Yes, the subordinates will do it immediately.”

  “.”

  Watching this Captain Jin leave, Xu Yuan suddenly asked:

   “Won’t this kind of captured strong man run away?”

  Li Qingyan showed a touch of warmth on his indifferent face, looking back and sighing:

   “Yes, but we must do it, otherwise we will not be able to defend the northern city.”

  Speaking,

  She handed the next few files to Xu Yuan:

   “Let’s take a look.”

  Xu Yuan took these files and asked:

   “Don’t you watch it?”

  Li Qingyan smiled slightly:

   “The spirit of this palace is not a decoration.”

   “.” Xu Yuan.

  Well, just now she pretended to turn over the file just to show him.

  When a bad woman does something, she will always let you know inadvertently.

  Then add up.

  Xu Yuan rolled his eyes, took it with a calm heart, and started to read, but as he browsed, he no longer had the heart to think about these messy things.

  The previous ones were the statistics of various items in the city, but what Li Qingyan handed him was the losses in Beifeng City today.

  Since the dawn of today, the war started and ended in less than two hours, and 300,000 people in the city died or injured 50,000.

  In order to concentrate energy to protect the city wall, Li Zhaoyuan withdrew the sky above the city, and the catapults of the barbarians threw countless boulders, ice picks and other equipment into the city without hindrance.

  Buildings were destroyed, ruins piled up like mountains, and countless people who had just fallen asleep with anxiety were buried directly in the rubble.

   And these are basically the casualties of ordinary people.

  Those throwing objects of the barbarians, as long as the vision is not obstructed, as long as they don’t get confused, it is not too difficult for a cultivator, even a cultivator of the ninth rank, to avoid it.

  However, the casualties of the people in the city were only small, and the majority were among the current defenders of Beifeng City.

  About 23,000 died, about 37,000 were missing, about 13,000 were slightly injured, and about 7,000 were seriously injured.

  Looking at the word “missing” marked at the bottom, Xu Yuan opened his mouth, feeling a little ridiculous.

  This missing. Refers to those soldiers who were directly beaten to pieces on the east wall?

  If no bones can be found, it is naturally considered missing

  Xu Yuan silently read all kinds of statistics, and handed the files back to Li Qingyan.

  More than half of the 130,000 Beifeng defenders were killed in less than two hours

  For a while,

  Xu Yuan asked:

   “What about the losses on the barbarian side?”

  Heard the words,

  Li Qingyan slowly stood up from the chair, leaned against the table, with red eyes sideways, slender fingertips gently stroking the loose long hair, and said softly :

  ”The barbarians suffered even greater losses, but the barbarian king will soon receive the news of the ‘cloud energy bomb’, we must immediately let the escorts of the knights in the city go up to consume their vital strength, so that we can fight back before the elites of the sect return to the defense. Defend this northern city.”

   Ask for a monthly pass

   or?

  

  

  (end of this chapter)