The king behind the empress

Chapter 397 Situ Yao Goes Out of Guizhou
Qianjiang County, in the study of the Sheriff's Mansion.

Situ Yao was holding a book of The Essentials of War, but he couldn't read it. For some reason, he always felt restless these days, as if something bad had happened.

"Could it be that there is an accident tomorrow?"

Thinking of this, Situ Yao took out the map of Yuanling County, and after carefully deducing it in his mind for a long time, he stood up slightly relieved.

Yining City is high and deep, and there is no terrain to use nearby. With Hu Ming's strength, as long as he can't hold on, then there will be no problems in Yining City, and even if there are any accidents, with Hu Ming The team of elite soldiers brought over has no problem getting out.

"Looks like I'm overthinking it."

Situ Yao laughed at himself, feeling that he might be really old, and he would be inexplicably suspicious.

But then again, I have only accepted three students in my life, and these three were taught by him hand in hand. They are said to be teachers and students, but in fact they are like father and son. It is understandable that I am a little nervous.

Situ Yao, who dispelled a little bit of irritability, walked directly to the map of Dazhou, looked at it carefully for a while, and drew a line on the map with a pen.

"Nanjun, Bingjun, and Pingzhou, these three counties are now completely under the control of the imperial court."

The line drawn by Situ Yao happened to pass through these three counties, and it was almost able to divide Dazhou into two, and the difference was that it happened to be Yuanling County. If the imperial court wins it, then the entire north, except for the northern border, will all fall under the imperial court's control."

After standing in front of the map and meditating for a while, Situ Yao drew a big cross on the Yuanling County on the map, "If there is a loss in Yuanling County, if you leave it alone, maybe the court will develop again."

Thinking of this, Situ Yao couldn't help but shook his head. Anyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty can win power, but he cannot accept the revival of the court's glory, because the plot to kill Tang Shuyu has already made him have a great enmity with the court. If the imperial court regains power, I am afraid that his whole family will not end well.

"Jiangnan County, Luanshan County..."

Situ Yao glanced across the south of the Da Zhou map, looked at those counties, and whispered to himself: "These old foxes are all masters who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles. If you want them to take the initiative to send troops, I'm afraid it's not that simple."

"It seems that we have to find a way to add fire to them."

Situ Yao half leaned back on his chair, and began to think in his mind how to force these aristocratic families to take the initiative to send troops. As for the victory or defeat of Yuanling County, it was not important to him.

In Yuanling County, if the imperial court is defeated, these aristocratic families will be encouraged to carve up the imperial court.

And if the court wins, then the court will directly threaten these aristocratic families, and there is a reason for them to send troops.

However, these reasons are only on the surface. If you want them to take the initiative to send troops, you still have to use some means.

Just when Situ Yao was thinking about how to use his secrets in those aristocratic families, there was a sudden rush of footsteps outside the study. For some reason, upon hearing the footsteps, Situ Yao suddenly felt ominous. premonition.

"Tu Yu, why are you in such a hurry?"

The only ones who could enter his study room without notification were his three students. Among the three, Bai Changqiu went to Jiangnan to be a lobbyist, and Hu Ming fought against the court in Yuanling County. After these two people were eliminated, The rest is his biggest student Tu Yu.

Therefore, he knew who the person was without even opening his eyes. "Is something wrong?"

Tu Yu looked like a middle-aged man, with a burly figure, and there was a faint murderous aura on his body. It can be seen from the steps that he was born in the army.

Tu Yu, who hurried over, looked at Situ Yao with his eyes closed, thinking about the information he had received, and suddenly he didn't know how to speak.

"Ok?"

Situ Yao, who hadn't asked Tu Yu to respond for a long time, opened his eyes fiercely, and looked at Tu Yu, "Did something happen to Yining City?"

Tu Yu lowered his head and didn't dare to look into Situ Yao's eyes. After a moment of silence, he replied in a low voice, "Yes, teacher."

Seeing Tu Yu's appearance, Situ Yao vaguely guessed something in his heart. He took a deep breath and forcibly calmed down, "Is... something happened tomorrow?"

Hearing Situ Yao's question, Tu Yu's head drooped even lower. After a long while, he sorted out his language and replied with difficulty: "Mo Zizai sent elites to dig a river outside Yining City, intending to flood the river. Yining City."

"The younger brother was forced to have no choice but to take the initiative to go out of the city to fight with Mo Zizai. In the end...finally defeated...death..."

"Death...death..."

Situ Yao didn't seem to be able to react, and murmured twice softly. After a while, he suddenly covered his chest, "It hurts me too!"

After finishing speaking, Situ Yao felt his eyes go dark, and he fell off the chair directly.

"Teacher, teacher..."

Seeing Situ Yao fall down, Tu Yu didn't care about anything else, and directly reached out to support Situ Yao, and then shouted loudly: "Come on, come on, call the doctor!"

……

After an unknown amount of time, Situ Yao woke up leisurely. At this time, he was already lying on the bed, and Tu Yu was waiting beside him.

"Teacher, you're awake."

Tu Yu, who was always paying attention to Situ Yao, saw Situ Yao waking up, stepped forward quickly, and said, "I have asked the doctor to look at it just now, and he said he was just in a hurry, there is nothing serious, as long as he has a good rest." .”

"Um……"

Situ Yao nodded weakly, he didn't care about his condition, but asked, "Ming'er, how is it now?"

Tu Yu looked at Situ Yao who asked Hu Ming just after waking up, and was determined not to talk about this topic with Situ Yao again, but looking at Situ Yao's firm eyes, he knew that even if he didn't talk about it, the teacher would ask Someone else's, so he was silent for a moment, and still opened his mouth to answer: "Because the aristocratic family in Yining City was beheaded by Mo Zizai, and all of our people were also uprooted, so no one collected the body for the younger brother. The bodies of Yining City were buried together in the mass grave."

Seeing that Situ Yao was a little excited again, Tu Yu hurriedly continued: "But don't worry, teacher, I have already sent someone to find the body of the younger brother, and I will definitely bring him back."

"Ming'er is also a city guard, and he is thrown directly into the mass grave like this. What Mo Zizai did is really amazing!"

Situ Yao struggled and sat up from the bed, then looked at Tu Yu, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me the details of what happened in Yining City. Mo Zizai only has those 2 people under his command. Even if he takes the initiative to leave the city for a decisive battle tomorrow , and it will never end up like this, what happened, he didn't even have a chance to escape?"

"It's the Red Flame Dragon Knight."

Without hesitation, Tu Yu directly told Situ Yao the information about Yining City in detail, and finally he concluded: "According to my guess, at least half of the cavalry under Mo Zizai's command are bone-forging level, otherwise the younger brother would not There will be no chance of escaping back."

"Bone Forging Realm? Five thousand?"

Situ Yao leaned against the wall with his eyes closed, and slowly digested the news that Tu Yu said. Although the news was outrageous, Situ Yao believed that Tu Yu would not lie to him, and believed that his intelligence system would not have any problems, so These five thousand bone forging knights are basically certain.

"It seems that our royal family of Great Zhou still left a lot of inheritance to the younger generation."

This cavalry appeared too abruptly, so with Situ Yao's intelligence, he couldn't guess how this cavalry was raised. We can only attribute him to the treasures left by the royal family of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Although this statement is far-fetched, But apart from this, he couldn't think of any other possibility.

"Heavy armored cavalry, red-blooded dragons on the grassland..."

Now Situ Yao finally understood why Mo Zizai had to pay such a high price to buy back so many red blood dragons from the grassland. If he had such strong soldiers under his command, he would definitely make the same choice as Mo Zizai.

"I thought this guy was an idiot, but I didn't expect his city to be so deep that he deceived everyone in the world."

Thinking of Mo Zizai, Situ Yao's expression became gloomy. Originally, he didn't care about the court at all, let alone Mo Zizai. , even beheaded his own disciple directly.

It seems that he can no longer be underestimated like before.

Situ Yao closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then suddenly he said to Tu Yu, "Tu Yu, I'm going to the south of the Yangtze River. You prepare your army for battle, and you are ready to lead the army out of Qianjiang to fight at any time."

"Teacher, are you going out?"

Hearing what Situ Yao said, Tu Yu couldn't help but turn pale with shock, "Teacher, this is absolutely impossible, and I'm also very sad about my junior brother, but if we leave Qianjiang at this time, then our plan will be in vain."

Tu Yu thought that Situ Yao's reason was influenced by hatred, so he quickly dissuaded him. They have been planning for so many years to seize the world. Now that the world is about to fall into chaos, sending troops at this time is tantamount to marrying others clothes.

"To conquer the world, in addition to strategy, you also need courage."

Situ Yao raised his hand to stop Tu Yu's persuasion, and said, "Although I also regret Ming'er's death in battle, it's not that I've lost my position because of it."

Looking at the puzzled Tu Yu, Situ Yao sighed, and then explained: "Tu Yu, Mo Zizai's five thousand red flame dragonriders, if they are really as powerful as you said, do you think those wine bags and rice bags in Jiangnan can What's wrong with the court?"

"This……"

Hearing Situ Yao's question, Tu Yu couldn't help hesitating. Although Jiangnan has a lot of money and food, he can gather a large number of troops, but if there is a real fight, without a top commander, he will not be able to take advantage of the large number of people. It is very likely that he will be beaten by the court.

As for the commander, as far as Tu Yu knew, there seemed to be no particularly top-notch people in Jiangnan, at least a commander who could command more than 10 people, and Jiangnan definitely didn't have one.

Seeing that Tu Yu fell silent, Situ Yao continued: "Over there, there is Wei Huang, Han Qu, and Yang Yanzhang who doesn't know the details."

"If we let them defeat the counties in the south of the Yangtze River and gather a general trend, then even if we want to send troops, it will be too late."

The imperial court occupies great righteousness. If they defeat the forces in the south of the Yangtze River again, they will firmly control the world of the Great Zhou. At that time, even if they send troops to win the imperial court once, twice, or even ten times or eight times, there will be nothing. usefulness.

Because at that time, the imperial court is sitting in the world and can recruit soldiers at any time. No matter how many times they lose, they can afford to lose.

Contrary to the imperial court, only they in Qianjiang County, at that time, I am afraid that if they lose once, they will lose the whole game. Situ Yao absolutely cannot accept this situation.

So even if he knew that sending troops at this time would greatly deplete his own strength, he couldn't continue to wait like this.

"Mo Zizai's Chiyan Dragon Rider is so strong, the counties in the south of the Yangtze River must have received the news, and everyone in those aristocratic families must be in danger, so Changqiu's alliance in the south of the Yangtze River is probably over."

"However, in order to achieve success, there must be a leader. Since we have decided to send troops, the leader must be me."

There was a trace of domineering in Situ Yao's eyes, "Isn't Mo Zizai relying on the cavalry whose strength is at the bone-forging level?"

"Since no one is invincible to this cavalry, then I will use people to kill him. If ten thousand is not enough, it will be one hundred thousand, and if one hundred thousand is not enough, it will be one million!"

"There is enough food and grass in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is not a problem to supply a million troops. If this is the case, I will pull out a million troops. I would like to see what he can fight me with!"

"The teacher is wise."

Tu Yu thought for a while, and felt that what Situ Yao said made sense, so he nodded and said: "If the teacher is the leader of the alliance, he can also take advantage of the situation to attract those soldiers. As long as he masters these troops, when Mo Zizai is solved, This world is naturally ours.”

With the method of the teacher, after becoming the leader, it is not difficult at all to control those troops. At that time, they can even use these troops as the foundation to directly sweep the world. This result does not seem to be much worse than their previous plan.

"We'll discuss this matter again."

Situ Yao shook his head, and didn't say much about this matter. The people in charge of those aristocratic families are all old foxes. They may not be good at fighting, but they are very good at fighting among themselves. If you want to take the source of troops from them, it's not so Easy.

But it's just not that easy. If he really wants to become the leader of the alliance and slowly infiltrate their army, Situ Yao is still somewhat sure.

It's just that they can't be idle in the northern border, Situ Yao thought silently in his heart, it would be ridiculous if Mo Yuanji, who was watching the excitement, picked peaches in the end when they were fighting against the imperial court.

Therefore, he must find a way to bring in the Northern Territory, and it must not be too early, otherwise, Mo Yuanji, as a prince, would be in trouble to compete for the position of the leader.

Situ Yao, who had made up his mind, did not delay too much. He cultivated in the residence for a few days, and when his body was almost recovered, he went directly out of Qianjiang River and entered Jiangnan County.

As his most stable student, Tu Yu stayed in Qianjiang County, and gathered all the wealth they had accumulated over the years. Nearly [-] elite troops were ready to fight on the border of Qianjiang. Situ Yao only needed an order to start Can go straight to battle.

(End of this chapter)