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After all, this is also a way of depleting the enemy's national power.

The beef leg bone in Li Mu's hand has been gnawed clean, but he did not throw away the bone, but took out his own dagger and made a hole in the bone, sucking the bone marrow with gusto , there was a sound in the mouth.

After hearing Yi Qusheng's words, Li Mu raised his head and gave Yi Qusheng a strange look: "How could you ask such a stupid question?"

Yi Qusheng laughed twice, and said: "Well, after all, we are in the heartland of Qin State, and we just burned Jingyang City a few days ago, so" Li Mu said lightly, "It's not just Jingyang City that was burned, There are also six other cities to the east and north of Jingyang, and 37 villages along the way."

The corner of Yi Qusheng's mouth twitched visibly, and he said, "General Li Mu, we have offended the people of Qin to death this time. If they have the chance, they will definitely not let us go."

What Yi Qusheng said was the truth. In normal wars between the two countries, killing and looting after occupying a city is inevitable, but it is extremely rare for Li Mu to burn it to nothing like Li Mu.

Li Mu asked: "King Yiqu, do you know why other countries seldom burn their cities directly when they are fighting?"

Yi Qusheng thought for a while, and said: "It's because they also want to continue to occupy the city and rule the people in this city."

Li Mu smiled and said, "Yes, but after we occupy the cities this time, do you think we can continue to rule those cities?"

Yi Qusheng shook his head and said: "Of course not, this is the core area of ​​Qin State, and the people of Qin State will not allow us to occupy any Qin State city."

Li Mu nodded, casually threw the cow leg bone that had been completely sucked into the fire.

"So, if we don't burn these cities, why don't we leave it to the people of Qin to restore their vitality?"

Yi Qusheng opened his mouth and found himself speechless.

After eating and drinking, Li Mu stood up and smiled at Yiqu Sheng: "King Yiqu, rest well, tomorrow is the time for us to show our talents."

Yi Qusheng was slightly startled, and said, "Where are we going tomorrow?"

Li Mu pointed to the east, and said with a smile: "Isn't there a city called Gaoling in front?"

Yi Qusheng was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes almost popped out: "Gao Ling?"

Chapter 450 What is Li Mu?

Gaoling City is also a big city.

Based on Yiqu Sheng's knowledge, if Gaoling City can really be captured, it will undoubtedly cause another earthquake in Guanzhong like the one when Jingyang City was captured.

But "That's impossible!"

Yiqu wins the way.

Li Mu glanced at Yi Qusheng, and said very seriously: "There is nothing impossible in this world."

Yiqu Sheng said: "The population of Gaoling City is tens of thousands. Now that Jingyang City has been conquered, Gaoling City must have been closed and guarded strictly. It is impossible for us to conquer Gaoling City under such circumstances."

Li Mu said indifferently: "You should know that the Qin people have sent a 3-strong army to trouble us, right?"

Yi Qu Sheng said: "Yes, this is also a reason.

That is the garrison army of the Qin State, and it is very powerful.

If we stay outside Gaoling City for too long, they will definitely arrive and give us a pincer attack from inside and outside. "

Li Mu sighed: "Do you think this so-called Qin State garrison will be able to defeat our Chi You army?"

Yi Qusheng didn't speak, but his expression actually said it all.

On one side is the garrison of Qin State, which once became the most powerful country in the world, and on the other side is just a private army of Zhao Guojun.

Even though the master of Chi You's army is the No.1 general Wu Xinjun, Yi Qusheng still doesn't think he can fight against the garrison.

It is a joke for a prince's mansion to confront a country.

Li Mu shook his head and stood up: "After the Gaoling City is captured tomorrow, all your questions will be answered."

On the same night, about 70 li to the south of Li Mu's location, a Qin army had just set up camp.

The commander of this army is called Wei Liao.

Wei Liao is a native of Qi, but he has no ambitions in Qi, so he made a decision that many scholars in this era would make to travel around the world to see which country's lord would appoint him.

At that time, the Battle of Changping had not yet broken out, and Qin State was the most powerful country in the world, so Wei Liao took Qin State as his first target as a matter of course.

Everything that followed was logical. With his talent, Wei Liao won the appreciation of King Qin Zhao and directly joined the Qin Army. After several years of hard work, he became the general of Qin's current garrison army.

It sounds like such a promotion seems quite unbelievable in Qin State, which pays attention to the military merit system, but people who know the inside story actually think it is normal.

Wei Liao's wife is called Mengshi, and Mengshi's biological father is Meng Ao who is currently besieging Zhiyi with a large army.

While Zhao Jun's chief general Li Mu was talking with his deputy Yi Qusheng, Wei Liao was also talking with Qin Jun's deputy Meng Wu.

Meng Wu was the eldest son of Meng Ao, and his son's name was Meng Tian.

The successive defeats led to the death of a large number of the backbone generals of the Qin army, which allowed the young Wei Liao and Meng Wu to take the position, and they, like other ambitious young people, wanted to make some achievements to show the world voila.

Meng Wu said to Wei Liao: "Brother-in-law, then Li Mu has been coming and going in Guanzhong like the wind these few days, it's really hard to judge his whereabouts."

Wei Liao kept tapping the map on the table in front of him with his fingers, and his expression was rather ugly.

As early as five days ago, Wei Liao and Meng Wu had already led the [-] garrison to attack, but the garrison was mainly infantry, so naturally it couldn't compare with Li Muchiyou's army who could easily travel hundreds of miles a day in terms of speed.

After five days of pursuit, Wei Liao didn't even see a single Zhao Jun cavalryman, but helped put out the fires in several small cities of Qin State along the way.

Seeing hundreds of Qin people crying and shouting all the way, Wei Liao and Meng Wu were extremely moved even if they were not from Qin, and they wanted to eliminate Li Mu as soon as possible.

Wei Liao thought for a while, then said in a deep voice, "It's okay.

There are actually traces of Li Mu's activities.

You see, he has been trying to capture some small cities these days. Obviously, he wants to use these actions of burning the cities to destabilize the people in Guanzhong, and force the king to let your father withdraw his troops from Zhiyi, so as to serve Li Mu's lord Wu Xin Jun Zhao Kuo made a rescue. "

Meng Wu nodded and said: "It is indeed like this, then how can we defeat Li Mu?"

Wei Liao drew a circle with his finger on the map: "Look, most of the burnt cities are located in the west and north, while the south is where we are.

Li Mu, a coward, would definitely not dare to confront us head-on, so he had no choice but to head east.

East, look here. "

Meng Wu looked along Wei Liao's fingers, and saw the name of a city: "Gaoling City?"

Wei Liao nodded and said, "That's right, it's Gaoling City.

If you want to go east, Gaoling City is the only way to go. We will set off for Gaoling City tomorrow. "

Meng Wudao: "Li Mu has 1 cavalry in his hands, so he shouldn't dare to attack Gaoling City?"

Wei Liao snorted and said: "That's true, if that's the case, we'll just keep driving him east.

I really hope that he can attack Gaoling City, so that we can have a decisive battle with him. "

Meng Wu said worriedly: "What if Li Mu takes down Gaoling City?"

Wei Liao was stunned, then couldn't help laughing out loud: "What nonsense are you talking about?

In Jingyang City, it was only because Jingyang made Lin Ying too stupid to relax his vigilance. In Gaoling City, with only 1 cavalry, let alone this little-known Li Mu, even Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo would not be able to break through Gaoling City! "

Meng Wu was still worried: "Even if we can't break through Gaoling City, then Li Mu is the number one general under Wu Xinjun Zhao Kuo, can we really defeat him?"

Wei Liao snorted heavily, and said, "That's all for Mr. Wu Xin, Li Mu is in front of you and me, what is Li Mu?"

At noon the next day, Gaoling City.

Coincidentally, Gaoling City, like Jingyang City, is also the territory of a prince of Qin.

This Gaoling Lord Ying Kui is the younger brother of the Jingyang Lord Yingfu, who also belonged to the "Four Nobles of Qin" who were once prominent at that time, and were also eliminated by their elder brother Qin Zhaoxiang King Yingji together.

Thanks to the lessons learned from Jingyang City, even in broad daylight, the gates of Gaoling City are still closed, and there are obvious guards on the city walls, and a fully armed patrol can be seen passing by from time to time.

Suddenly, smoke and dust billowed in the distance, and a cavalry of hundreds of people galloped towards it.

This scene immediately aroused the vigilance of the defenders of Gaoling City, and many crossbowmen began to prepare, aiming at the direction where the cavalry came.

As the cavalry gradually approached, the previously tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed again.

"Look at their armor, they are cavalry from our Great Qin!"

The cavalry stopped at a distance of about a hundred steps from the city gate, and a knight who looked like an officer rode his horse to the city gate alone, and said loudly: "Look at the gate, we are envoys from Xianyang, come here Convey the order of the Prince's Mansion!"

Chapter 451 Plan to Break Gaoling City

The reason why Gaoling City got its name is not because the city is very tall, nor is it because of someone's tomb near the city, but because there is a stretch of land about five or six miles outside Gaoling City, and it is quite high hills.

The 1 Zhao Army cavalry led by Li Mu and Yi Qusheng arrived here quietly by taking advantage of the darkness of last night, and hid in the hilly forest.

At this moment, Yiqu Sheng in the hills was looking at the distant city gate anxiously.

Yi Qusheng felt that Li Mu's strategy was naive.

Let a Zhao Jun officer with a fluent Qin voice bring a hundred elite knights wearing Qin cavalry leather armor to deceive the gate of Gaoling City?

It's fine if it's normal, now that it's such a sensitive time, don't others know how to check their identities?

Where did you, Li Mu, go to get the certificate that the Crown Prince's Mansion of Qin State has a seal?

Question marks hovered in Yi Qusheng's mind, and finally he couldn't help but whisper: "General Li Mu, can we really succeed?"

Li Mu smiled slightly, and said calmly, "Will you find out later?"

At the city gate, the figure of a Qin general appeared.

This Qin general was the highest general in Gaoling City, and he rushed over as fast as he heard the report.

The general turned to the officer of the Qin Army under the city and said, "You said you were the messenger of the Prince's Mansion, why did the Prince's Mansion let you come at this time?"

There was obvious suspicion in the general's eyes.

The officer hurriedly said: "General Haojiao learned that I was only ordered to convey an order from the Crown Prince to the Gaoling Ling, and I don't know the Crown Prince's deep meaning."

The general froze for a moment, then asked again: "What is the order of the crown prince?"

The officer under the city became more and more helpless, and took out a sealed scroll from the saddle bag: "The prince's order is here, but the prince said in advance that this order must be dismantled by the Gaoling order, and the subordinates cannot know the content of the order. "

The general on the wall was a little speechless.

Indeed, how could the order of the majestic Prince Qin be known by a guy in charge of delivering the letter?

This general is Gao Lingling's confidant, so he also knows very well that Gao Lingling has indeed joined the prince some time ago, and now he is already a member of the prince's faction.

The crown prince also sent messengers to Gaoling several times before, and everything seemed reasonable.

But the general was still a little worried, and said, "Take out your identity token and proof."

Every time the prince's messenger comes, there must be an identity token and a certificate with the seal of the prince's mansion.

Without any hesitation, the officers under the city wall immediately took out their identity tokens and certificates from the saddle bag, and put them on the hanging basket hanging from the city wall.

After a while, the general looked at the identity token and proof in his hand, and confirmed that both of these things were real.

The general thought for a while and said to the officer, "I'll put down the hanging basket later. You come up to the city alone, and everyone else stays outside the city."

Although everything was fine, for some reason the general always felt that something was wrong, so he was unwilling to let this cavalry enter the city.

The officer's complexion changed, and he hurriedly said: "General, these subordinates of mine escorted me all the way from Xianyang to this place, can't they even go to the city to rest?"

The general waved his hand and said coldly: "Now is a special period, it would be nice to let you enter the city alone, stop talking nonsense!"

At this time, someone suddenly shouted on the city wall: "Look over there, it's Zhao Jun's cavalry!"

This sentence immediately attracted the general's attention, and he looked around.

Sure enough, an astonishing number of Zhao Jun cavalry, at least several thousand, were sweeping out from the corner of the hill and heading straight for Gaoling City.

Outside the city wall, the officer who claimed to be the messenger of the Prince's Mansion changed his expression greatly and shouted: "General, quickly open the city gate and let us enter the city to take refuge!"

The general took a deep breath and hesitated for a moment.

If the city gate is opened now, there will definitely be time for the cavalry of the Qin Army who are delivering letters outside the city to enter the city, and then close the gate to deal with the cavalry of the large army of Zhao Army.

But the question is, is it really necessary for this cavalry of the Qin army of unknown origin to enter the city?

While the general was hesitating, the cavalry of Zhao Jun's brigade in the rear had already rolled in.

In the center of the cavalry of Zhao Jun's brigade, Yi Qusheng looked ugly and shouted at Li Mu: "General Li Mu, they were not fooled, we failed!"

Li Mu snorted heavily, and said in a deep voice, "Go ahead!"

Outside the city, the Qin army messenger officer was completely anxious, and he roared regardless: "We are from the Prince's Mansion! If we all die here today, I will see how you will explain to the Prince in the future, open the door quickly!!!"

After yelling these words, General Qin's expression on the city wall changed, and he finally made up his mind: "Quickly, open the city gate and let them in!"

Of course, a mere military officer of the Qin State does not matter, but if the messenger of the Prince's Mansion dies outside the city because he refused to save him, then the general and even Gao Lingling behind the general will be in big trouble.