“Kill the sharpness, how dare you offend this imperial prince!”
“All whipped for thirty! And then… One more year of hard labour!”
At this time, Zhao Mier’s face suddenly looked slightly better, and she even glanced towards Hu Hei one more time.
Hu Hai instantly revealed a bright smile, and also unconsciously snapped his head.
It looked as silly as it could be, but that was it, Zhao Mier couldn’t help but be amused.
In a flash, Hu Hei smiled even more brightly, thinking in his heart that
She reminded me before, she was concerned about me.
She smiles at me now, is liking me.
Hahaha, what should we name our child?
It’s just that Hu Hei didn’t notice, but Zhao Lang’s face looked like he had seen a ghost!
His original plan was that Hu Hai said to raze the three clans, and then he would ask Zhao Tuo to plead for mercy.
Shun Bing forgives and absolves the other party of some of his sins, killing only the head man.
Use this to establish authority.
However, Hu Hai’s this time, but let him have no way to start.
Giving an enquiring look to Nu, who was beside him, the
You really didn’t give this one mushrooms?
Nu was also baffled, and even a little unsure of himself, could it be that he didn’t pay attention one day and really put mushrooms in it?
Zhao Tuo reacted extremely quickly, and said in a loud voice.
“Yes! Honour the Imperial Prince’s order!”
“Men! Escort them down!”
Upon hearing this disposal plan, the headman of the Lone Wolf Mountain Stronghold also instantly came to life and directly knelt down to thank the emperor.
Hu Hai just waved his hand proudly, showing off his royal demeanour.
Zhao Tuo at this time even said.
“Please invite His Highness the Crown Prince to enter the city.”
Zhao Lang no longer cared about these people at this time and directly followed Zhao Tuo into the city, but did not go to the mansion.
Instead, he went to the city walls.
Looking at this unusual move, Zhao Tuo’s expression changed slightly, but he could only follow.
Nu and Big Dog also realised something was wrong and gave the others a coded signal.
Everyone surrounded Zhao Lang and Zhao Tuo, dividing Zhao Tuo and his personal soldiers behind him.
Only this fell in the eyes of the Qin soldiers as a sign of trust and favour.
They were still extremely excited about Zhao Lang’s arrival, which represented that Great Qin had not forgotten them!
Although Zhao Mier felt a little strange, she was pestered by Hu Hei, but she couldn’t focus her attention.
Without the hypocritical politeness between the kings and ministers, Zhao Lang walked on the city wall, but instead of looking at Zhao Tuo, he looked at this modest little dirt city and directly said.
“These Baiyue hillbillies, why are they so rampant?”
Looking at the manner of these people, it wasn’t the first time they had entered the city on horseback.
Of course, Zhao Lang was more concerned about the relationship between these people and Zhao Tuo.
Zhao Tuo looked at Zhao Lang’s arrangement, his complexion slightly moved, and he slightly pondered for a while before he returned and said.
“Your Highness, although our army has set up counties here, we can’t control all the places.”
“Mainly between these cities, these headmen are extremely difficult to subdue, so they are inevitably unruly.”
“His Majesty is also aware of these things, so when he pacified the Chu land, he didn’t allow us to support him, please forgive me, Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
Zhao Tuo quickly explained the situation, and of course, slightly exaggerated the power of these mountain strongholds.
“Of course, Your Highness the Crown Prince don’t worry, this time, these headmen came into the city to celebrate your pacification of the Chu land and send gifts of tribute.”
“There are eight mountain fortresses in this place, and seven of them, all sent gifts.”
Zhao Tuo added at this time.
Zhao Lang’s mind, however, was not focused on the gifts at all, because the other party’s words were clearly saying that the
Look, seven of the eight mountain fortresses follow orders, and there’s one that doesn’t.
The situation wasn’t stable right now, and only he could calm these people down!
In other words, Zhao Tuo is warning him!
Even if he’s the Crown Prince of Qin, he can’t go too far when he’s in the land of Baiyue!
Zhao Lang’s mouth couldn’t help but reveal a smile.
There were two types of great generals in Great Qin, one was like Meng and Wang, who were loyal to the king and loved the country.
The other kind was the likes of Zhao Tuo, who had his own petty thoughts.
This wasn’t unusual, the further away from the emperor, the more minds one naturally had.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away, that’s exactly what it means.
Just for people like this, Zhao Lang didn’t mind giving the other party some warning and said directly.
“Oh? Which mountain fortress is it that doesn’t listen to General’s control?”
Zhao Tuo froze slightly, then said.
“It’s the Elephant Valley mountain fortress, it’s not far from here, this mountain fortress is in the middle of a valley, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the people are extremely tough.”
“What’s more, they also raised some elephants, Your Highness the Crown Prince may not know about elephants, these giant beasts are huge and powerful!”
“It’s simply hard to match!”
“I sent nearly ten thousand troops at the time, but they were helpless.”
Although Zhao Tuo had slightly exaggerated, this was indeed the case.
Zhao Lang, however, just nodded bashfully, the elephant he certainly knew.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that the people here would actually be able to tame elephants and drive them into battle.
Zhao Lang quickly said.
“This is Great Qin’s territory, all people are Great Qin’s subjects, and since they dared to refuse to submit, then they should be taught some lessons.”
“No harm done, early tomorrow morning, our army will conquer the Elephant Valley!”
Hearing this, Zhao Tuo was directly dumbfounded, he only wanted to warn Zhao Lang.
But he didn’t expect the other party to not follow common sense at all.
What kind of person just arrived and wants to go on an expedition?
Gritting his teeth, he said.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, our army is exhausted, and there are only thousands of soldiers in the city now, to transfer troops over, it would also need to be ten days.”
“Besides, this Elephant Valley is extremely difficult to attack, Your Highness the Crown Prince…”
Without waiting for the other party to finish, Zhao Lang blandly replied back, the
“There’s no need to mobilise troops, tomorrow you’ll have enough with the city’s soldiers.”
Zhao Tuo was even more confused, he had sent nearly 10,000 people in the first place, but he didn’t take it down!
Still wanting to persuade again, but Zhao Lang blandly said.
“This matter is settled.”
“I’m also a bit tired today, so go back and rest.”
Zhao Tuo could only nod his head and responded that
“Then please also ask the Crown Prince to accompany me back to my residence.”
Zhao Lang, however, shook his head and directly turned to the local Qin troops following them and said.
“I’ll be staying inside the military camp today, are you willing to escort me!”
Hearing this, all the Qin troops’ eyes instantly lit up and they exclaimed.
“Swear to guard His Highness the Crown Prince to the death!”
This action of the Crown Prince represented absolute trust!
It was just that Zhao Tuo’s complexion became more and more subtle.
After descending the city wall, Zhao Lang didn’t make much of a stop and went directly inside the military camp.
Zhao Tuo sighed slightly when he looked at his men, who had surrounded the entire military camp with a look of pride and excitement.
After saluting, he left the place.
Zhao Lang was in the tent at this time, and Hu Hai said with a few complaints that
“Brother Long, it’s still so early, what are we doing resting?”
“And why not go to General Zhao’s residence?”
“I haven’t even had a chance to talk to…”
Realising something, Hu Hei stopped at this point.
But Zhao Lang had already realised what was going on, but instead of pointing it out, he blandly said that
“Zhao Tuo has a different heart.”
After the trial and error just now, Zhao Tuo could not be called a pure and loyal minister by any means.
Hearing this, Hu Hai directly changed his face and said.
“What!”
“Brother Wave, this can’t be a joke!”
Not to mention the matter between him and Zhao Mier, they could be in someone else’s ministry’s barracks right now!
If the other party had a different mind, it would be questionable if they could escape.
Zhao Lang saw that Hu Hai had returned to his senses, and only then did he continue to say.
“As long as Great Qin is around, his dissent will not come out.”
Only then did Hu Hai breathe a sigh of relief and
“Wave brother, don’t breathe heavily when you speak, humph, there are many such things, which of these border generals is not like this?”
“But they also have to have the guts to do so.”
Zhao Lang smiled and nodded.
Hu Hai asked, with a few more moments of curiosity.
“Brother Long, you’re really going to lead troops to fight Elephant Valley tomorrow?”
“But we’re not familiar with the area, and what you said about the right place, right time, right people, and right place, we don’t have any of it.”
“Can this battle be fought?”
Zhao Lang directly wanted to go to war, and this was indeed shocking to him.
They were just a dozen people and didn’t know the situation well, so this battle couldn’t be fought.
Zhao Lang, however, nodded his head extremely calmly and said.
“I know, but we’ll know after the fight.”
He fought this time, but he didn’t care about winning or losing at all, because he hadn’t even thought about how to fight the Elephant Valley cottage.
Nor was he concerned about the Elephant Valley cottage.
He simply wanted to find a place to show Zhao Tuo the power of the ‘Justice’ brand grenade, plus the bow and arrow!
He couldn’t stay here for too long, he could only be giving Zhao Tuo and a signal as much as possible.
Even if the roads of Baiyue were treacherous, he had the ability, to push straight across!
I just hope that Zhao Tuo’s mind is not too wild is all.
At this time, in the county official residence, Zhao Tuo was looking coldly at the head of the Lone Wolf Cottage, who had already received the whip, and
“This time it was the Crown Prince who wanted to beat you, not this General who pleaded for you, you are already a dead man!”
“Next time, don’t be so cocky!”
Although the head man had resentment in his heart, he could only swallow it at this time, and said with a taut face, and
“General, you and I have a covenant, I don’t want to go into labour.”
Zhao Tuo said with a few moments of impatience, and
“You still need to make a show of it for a few days, it’s not too late to wait for the people to leave!”
Only then did the head of the Lone Wolf Cottage nod his head.
Zhao Tuo pondered slightly at this time and said.
“Have someone send a message to the group in Elephant Valley, and say that someone will come to attack them tomorrow!”
The head of the Lone Wolf Cottage froze for a moment this time and said.
“General, this Elephant Valley’s people are at odds with us.”
Zhao Tuo, however, just waved his hand and said.
“Just do as I say.”
Then he directly told the other party to go and do his job.
Only after he left did Zhao Tuo sigh slightly.
He now seemed to have some idea why Zhao Lang was able to pacify the Chu land so quickly.
This was a person who acted completely out of character!
On the contrary, every time he made a move, it landed on the key.
It makes one feel extremely uncomfortable.
But this time, no matter what, he would make the other party suffer.
He was actually a bit conflicted inside, both feeling that Great Qin didn’t care about them and didn’t pay any attention to them.
But now Zhao Lang had come.
He also felt that he had led his army to fight in Baiyue for so many years, you can’t just come over and have to pick the fruit!
Just as he was troubled, Zhao Mier walked in, Zhao Tuo barely managed to squeeze out a smile and said.
“Mier, what’s the matter?”
Zhao Mier was curious at this time, and
“Father, are those people really the Crown Prince and Imperial Prince of Great Qin?”
“Not bad, there are tokens to prove it, what’s wrong?”
Zhao Mier said with a smile.
“I just think that Emperor Hu Hei looks a bit silly and fun.”
Looking at his daughter’s smile, a thought suddenly flashed through Zhao Tuo’s mind that
His daughter seemed to have reached the age to marry now.
Only he didn’t say anything more, but continued to chat with the other party about family matters.
At this moment, a fast horse was already heading in the direction of Elephant Valley.