I started as an exile, and I relied on space to support my family of loyal heroes.

"But didn't the Xiao family's father and son all die four years ago?"

The military advisor looked at the signature on the letter and became even more confused.

"At that time, we suddenly received a verbal order from the empress, asking us to raid Shuitian City that day."

"Who knew that it was a trap set by the incompetent ruler of Daliang to get rid of the Xiao family father and son?"

"Fortunately, we discovered it in time and retreated quickly, so the soldiers were not affected by the rain of arrows."

"But the four people of the Xiao family, father and son, are not so lucky..."

"The news from Daliang State is that all four of them, father and son, are dead, so who is this Xiao Yunhao now?"

After the military advisor said this, Cong Chongqiu suddenly remembered this matter and his expression suddenly became solemn.

He had just dealt with Shi Qiang and the old patriarch, and he didn't react for a moment. The four members of the Xiao family, father and son, had died four years ago.

If it was indeed Xiao Yunhao who was guarding Shuitian City, he would still be very happy.

He trusts Xiao Yunhao's character.

However, the fact that this man came back to life made him somewhat confused. Did Daliang State spread such news just to confuse them?

That is too good of a secret. The key point is that Daliang has not made any move against Xiliang in the past four years.

"Well, send a letter and ask Xiao Yunhao to meet me outside the city gate. He should come alone..."

He wanted to see whether the person coming was Xiao Yunhao.

.......

As the letter was sent, the sky gradually darkened.

At the foot of the Dark Mountains, a pale hand slowly stretched out from a pile of corpses.

After a while, the pile of corpses shook a few times, and a faint groan came from the pile of corpses.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody head rose from the pile of corpses.

The frozen corpses surrounding him rolled down with a thud.

"Hiss~Ah~"

He crawled out of the pile of corpses with a trembling body. Every movement was accompanied by severe pain, as if countless sharp blades were scraping his body.

Moans kept coming out of his mouth.

After a while, his upper body emerged from the pile of corpses, and he sat slumped on top of them.

He opened his cracked lips and gasped for air.

"Fuck Cong Chongqiu, I will make you live a life worse than death!!!"

Shi Qiang looked in the direction of the camp, his eyes full of murderous intent.

He raised his hand and touched the dagger stuck in his left chest, feeling a little scared.

Fortunately, he never told anyone that his heart was the opposite of a normal person's, otherwise he would be a corpse now.

Shi Qiang glanced at the corpses in the pit one by one.

Looking at the familiar assassins around the old patriarch, he knew that the old patriarch was doomed to be dead.

Fortunately, it was freezing cold and the ground was frozen hard. The soldiers couldn't bury the bodies even if they wanted to, so they could only throw all the bodies into a large pit at the foot of the mountain.

Otherwise, even if he didn't die, he wouldn't be able to survive if buried in the pit.

It took Shi Qiang a long time to feel that his body had recovered some strength.

He staggered down from the pile of corpses cursing and carefully searched the body of the old patriarch.

After finding the old patriarch's body, he struggled to drag the old patriarch to one side of the pile of corpses.

Then he took off the seal representing the Wu Ma family from the old patriarch's body, and left behind the divination items that the old patriarch often used to facilitate the identification of the corpse.

His injuries were too severe and he had to get to the next city for treatment as soon as possible, which required the use of the Wu Ma family's seal.

Half of the better medical clinics in Xiliang Kingdom are owned by the Wu Ma family.

Only with the seal of the Wu Ma family could he reach the imperial city safely.

When he found the Wu Ma family's clinic in the next city, he immediately sent a message to the imperial city - the Cong family had rebelled!!!

After doing all this, Shi Qiang took advantage of the night, bypassed the camp from a distance, and stumbled towards the imperial city...

........

Cong Chongqiu had no idea that Shi Qiang had a heart attack and had quietly escaped, ready to give him a critical hit.

He was still sending letters back and forth with Shuitian City.

Bringing an army of more than 100,000 to join the enemy is a big deal, and it is not easy to reach an agreement.

Cong Chongqiu asked Xiao Yunhao to come and pick him up alone.

He had to make sure that the other party was Xiao Yunhao before he would agree to enter the city to discuss the next steps.

How could Xiao Yunhao possibly depend on Cong Chongqiu in everything? It was the other party who relied on him, not him who relied on the other party.

It was already a big concession that he promised not to harm the people of Xiliang and Cong Chongqiu's soldiers.

Without even this little bit of trust, he can't possibly prove whatever Cong Chongqiu suspects.

At the beginning, letters between the two sides were communicated very quickly, almost always delivered in the morning and replied in the evening.

Later, the two sides began to engage in psychological warfare, receiving a letter today and replying the next day.

The main point is that you are not in a hurry, and I am not in a hurry either.

Cong Chongqiu was calculating that once the imperial city discovered what had happened to Shi Qiang and the Wu Ma family, it would take at least two or three months before they could send someone to capture him.

After all, there were so many people who saw him besieging Shi Qiang’s tent that night, so it was impossible to keep silent.

He trusted his men, but he could not trust the tens of thousands of remnant soldiers brought by Shi Qiang.

Trying to silence tens of thousands of soldiers would take too much energy, and such a thing could not be kept secret for long anyway.

If it weren't for the fact that it's winter now and drought is raging everywhere, it would be difficult for the carrier pigeon to fly to the imperial city alive. The imperial city would know about this in a few days.

It is not easy to have these two or three months.

Then he can make preparations for both scenarios in these three months.

He sent out the more skilled martial artists in the army to explore whether the Dark Mountains were suitable for the soldiers to live in.

The other side is still negotiating with Shuitian City. If both sides can reach an agreement, it will be a happy situation for everyone.

He had no other requests, just to keep his soldiers alive and well.

In a blink of an eye, half a month has passed...

The two armies negotiated back and forth for half a month.

"General." The military advisor opened the tent and walked in with a look of shock on his face.

"I just received news that General Xiao Yunhao was named King of Zhenbei!"

Cong Chongqiu just raised his eyelids to look at the military advisor, and his eyes flickered in shock.

"King of Zhenbei!?"

"Is Emperor Wu of Liang crazy?"

"What did Xiao Yunhao do to be named the King of the Opposite Sex?"

Cong Chongqiu looked at the military advisor in disbelief, "Could this be news that the enemy deliberately released to confuse us?"

Just when his negotiations with Xiao Yunhao were reaching a climax, news came that Xiao Yunhao had been named King of Zhenbei.

He couldn't help but doubt the truth of the news.

Emperor Wu of Liang was such a suspicious and petty person, and it was not just the people of Daliang who knew about it.

When four members of the Xiao family were killed, Emperor Wu of Liang was definitely involved.

Afterwards, he did not comfort the Xiao family or appoint the fourth son, the only one left in the Xiao family, as a king of a different surname.

Moreover, Emperor Wu of Liang was so unethical that he continued to let Xiao Yunzhan guard the border.

It was obvious that he wanted to make the Xiao family extinct. Anyone with a little bit of common sense could see that Emperor Wu of Liang could not tolerate the Xiao family.