There's something wrong with this assassin

Chapter 724
Hearing He Ping's words, Yan Yu couldn't help taking a step back, then looked into the distance and smiled.

"Yeah, I still have my own place."

"Even if you can leave everything behind and find a quiet place to live your own life, I can't."

He Ping looked at Yan Yu quietly: "Your Highness, we have come to this point, and there is no room for retreat."

"Yes, there is no room for retreat." Yan Yu nodded: "This is something I should have known when I made an oath with him."

"Then get ready to go." He Ping stood up.

Yan Yu stood up quietly: "Get ready to go."

"I hope to see you in Seoul next time."

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The fall of Seoul was almost everyone's expectation.

Perhaps it was not what Li Song expected. From his point of view, he had already left [-] defenders in Seoul with enough food and grass. No problem.

But in the end, the answer left to him by the Seoul defenders was three days.

After the official assembly of the Japanese army, the defenders of Seoul dared to go out of the city to try to compete with the Japanese army on the first day, but even after being defeated, the defenders of Seoul, who had almost lost their courage, began to stay behind closed doors. , but found that the Japanese army began to slowly push out the iron cannons from the camp.

The iron cannons of this era are not as powerful as later generations, and the cannons are open to blast his mother. Although the Hongyi cannons have begun to be equipped on warships, the transportation of that kind of iron cannons is inconvenient, so the Japanese army sent The small iron cannons that came ashore were not capable of directly blasting the city wall, but even so, it was enough to deal a dimensionality reduction blow to the defenders in Seoul.

And even if those iron cannons can't blast the city wall, it is still a breeze for the Japanese army, which has gone through the baptism of war for a long time, to use these iron cannons to directly kill the defenders on the city wall and attack the interior of Seoul through curved shots.

Therefore, under the double pressure of being unable to go out of the city to meet the enemy, continuing to defend the city and being hit by artillery fire one after another, in the end, the defenders of Seoul finally announced their surrender cleanly.

After all, even the king has already run away, so what's the use of holding on?

On the other hand, Li Song, who had just arrived in Rangping, soon got the news that Seoul had fallen in three days.

While being angry, Li Song also felt scared for a moment.

He has already learned from the battle report that the total number of the Japanese army that surrounded almost the entire Seoul might not be less than [-].

Although the number of 20 is much less than the [-] that Fang Bie made alarmist before, but considering that this is only the number of vanguards attacking Seoul, this [-] becomes very scary again.

The entire Koryo army is really facing the Japanese army, and it is almost impossible to form a strong resistance. Although some subordinates have reported that in some places in the south, rebels have been raised in time to resist these invading Japanese troops. The Koryo army is still slightly stronger, but the number is too small.

"I heard that His Majesty has received the news?" Just when Li Song was feeling endless panic and anger, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

Li Song turned his head and found Fang Bie standing behind him.

This young man with extremely high martial arts was elusive, and now Li Song has left Seoul like a bereaved dog, and at this time he has already regarded Fang Bie as a life-saving straw.

"What news?" Li Song retorted.

At this moment, subconsciously, he still didn't want to tell Fang Bie the news.

Fang Bie sighed: "Let Pingcheng's defeated army from Seoul already come, they gesticulated with their hands and feet, blowing those Japanese troops into green-faced and long-fanged monsters who do evil, wishing to say that they can breathe fire, stamp their feet and fly into the sky, after all, they lost their Seoul, you can't say that you are incompetent, you have to have an extremely powerful enemy to save yourself some face."

Li Song saw that Fang Bie said it in one mouthful, and couldn't help but look at the boy: "So, tell me what to do."

"I didn't expect that I, Li Song, worked hard for the people all my life, but in the end I was a king of subjugation."

After learning that Seoul fell so quickly, Li Song's original enthusiasm turned into a heartbroken ashes in an instant.

The strength of Seoul can only be resisted for three days, so Pingcheng and Seoul are only three to five days away. When the Japanese army comes, how many days can Pingcheng hold?

Abandoning Rangping, the next step is to go to the border of Dazhou, and then only to be attached to it. The king of Koryo, who is still a generation of virtuous kings, has become the king of subjugation in a blink of an eye. Such a gap, How can Li Song accept it.

"Your Majesty." Fang Bie looked at Li Song calmly and said, "Didn't it be agreed before?"

"If Korea can defend the country and the people on its own, then of course everything will be safe."

"But if Goryeo can't do it, it can only ask for strong help from outside, and we will go to the national calamity together."

"Strong support?" Li Song murmured.

"Yes, strong support." Fang Bie looked at Li Song: "No matter how powerful the Dongying Kingdom is, how is it compared to Dazhou?"

"But it's easy to ask God to send God to God. If the army of the Great Zhou really came from the east, not to mention that our Koryo country is small and weak, and it is difficult to supply the army's food and materials. Da Zhou will follow suit and annex Koryo completely, and by that time, won’t I also be the king of subjugation?” Li Song said in a deep voice.

The reason why he didn't want to ask Da Zhou for help, in fact, to put it bluntly, was this kind of concern.

Fang Bie looked at Li Song: "I know you have read poetry and books since childhood, and you have memorized Confucian classics by heart, but have you read the Nanhua Jing?"

Li Song nodded: "As long as it is a classic written by the ancient sages of China, I have a little bit of it."

"Isn't that the end?" Fang Bie looked at Li Song: "There is a story in the South China Classic called "Hui Zi Xiang Liang"."

"It is said in the story that Huizi became the minister of the state of Liang. He had a good friend Zhuangzi who wanted to visit him, but someone told Huizi that Zhuangzi was more capable than you. He came to Liang, probably because he wanted You take his place."

"So Huizi was terrified when he heard that, so he looked for Zhuangzi everywhere and tried to arrest him in advance."

"However, it never occurred to me that instead of running away, Zhuangzi ran over to meet Huizi and told him that there is a bird in the south, and its name is 鹓鶵."

"It originates in the South China Sea and flies over the North Sea. It doesn't stop unless it's a phoenix tree. It doesn't eat it unless it's practiced. It doesn't drink it unless it's a sweet spring."

"But at this time, an owl found a dead mouse, and when he was about to eat it, he suddenly saw such a pheasant flying by his side."

"So the owl was very frightened, looked at the owl and threatened and said: Scared!"

"So Zhuangzi looked at Huizi and said: Are you planning to use your Liang kingdom to frighten me?"

Fang Bie quietly told Li Song this story that he may have read, but had forgotten.

Li Song was silent for a moment.

Of course he understood what Fang Bie meant.

The Koryo country that he never forgets and refuses to give up, perhaps in the eyes of Da Zhou, is like a rotten mouse that has no interest.

But even so, he still didn't want to take the risk of letting Da Zhou come in front of this rotten rat, even if another bird had already come from the east, intending to snatch the rotten rat from him.

"Goryo is a country that was not conquered by the Great Zhou for generations. When the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, it did not really annex it, but let Silla Baekje inherit its territory and continue to thrive here. It has been nearly a thousand years now. " Fang Bie looked at Li Song and advised: "At the beginning of the founding of the Great Zhou Taizu, he chased death and chased the north, and the military front was prosperous, but in the end he didn't move the idea of ​​Koryo. Now that Koryo is in danger, he is worried. Da Zhou has the heart to replace him, so it is too much to judge the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

Li Song was gradually persuaded by Fang Bie, he looked at the other party: "So..."

"So, I am willing to plead for the king." Fang Bie looked at Li Song and said, "I know that the king has sent an urgent mission before."

"But emergency is not enough."

"If Your Majesty is willing to write a letter to ask for help, I am willing to travel all over the world to send the Great Zhou Yanjing to Your Majesty."

"Bring the heavenly soldiers early."

"I don't know what the king wants?"

Li Song looked at Fang Bie for a while, and finally lowered his head helplessly.

"promise."

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The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, so soon, Li Song wrote a sincere and humble letter for help and handed it to Fang Bie. Of course, it was not really putting all eggs in one basket. They transcribed five letters and handed them over to different missions to act separately. In this way, even if they were intercepted along the way, others could still rush to Dazhou with the letter of distress and send a distress letter to the court of Dazhou.

Fang Bie didn't take Li Song's little thoughts seriously at all, because from the beginning to the end, he hoped that Li Song would ask Da Zhou for help, so he ran to Seoul to let Li Song run quickly at all costs. Don't really get caught.

Just like the three stages that Fang Bie and Yan Yu discussed secretly before, the first stage is to allow the Japanese army to break through the capital Seoul of Korea. Only in this way can there be an urgency to ask Dazhou for help.

At present, this stage is over, and Fang Bie has successfully obtained Li Song's request letter for help. Next, as long as the letter is sent to Yanjing, Fang Bie's work will be considered complete.

Because even that majesty, it is impossible to watch Goryeo fall and be conquered and occupied by Japan.

So in the future, there is only one way for Dazhou to go, and that is to support Goryeo with all its strength, and send a large army to confront the expeditionary army of Japan head-on.

And there is a huge trap in this, that is, the current grassroots rule of Goryeo is on the verge of collapse. With the attack of the Dongying army, Li Song has lost control of the whole country. When the Dazhou army arrives, not only Li Song Song had no way to supply the Da Zhou army through Goryeo. Instead, Li Song himself needed to rely on the rewards from the Emperor Da Zhou to be able to distribute salaries to his civil and military officials and reward his officials.

Therefore, once the Battle of Koryo starts this time, Dazhou will not only have to deal with the 20 troops in Japan head-on, but also prepare and transport the food and grass needed by the army from all over the country. The chaos is several times bigger.

If there is really any benefit, then the advantage is that before the Wang Zhi Rebellion, the land of war was in the southeast region. It will undoubtedly hurt your vitality.

But now if the country of Yue is far away, although the transportation consumption will be much higher, if it is transported by sea, there may be unexpected benefits. The most important thing is to fight in other countries, and you don’t need to worry about your own land being destroyed. This is also a great benefit in the chaos of war.

In short, everything is on the line and has to be launched.

Fang bid farewell to Li Song, and then embarked on the slow journey back to the country. From Korea to Dazhou, there are two routes: sea route and land route. All the way to Pingjin Port, and then directly to Yanjing, and handing over the request for help to the Ministry of Rites, it is considered that everything is done.

However, there is a risk of drifting at sea. This kind of drifting is really a kind of metaphysics. Why Dazhou finally gave up shipping in the early years and chose water transport to supply food to Yanjing and other northern cities, because the drifting of shipping is a huge problem. The officials in charge of transportation can easily fill their pockets with a single swipe of supplies. After all, no one can go to the sea to ask for these supplies as long as they report their disappearance.

Therefore, Li Song's five envoys for help originally traveled by land.

But Fang Bie boarded a fishing boat after leaving Pyongyang.

This fishing boat was also set up long ago, with the best sailors and the fastest boat.

They didn't want to fish, but sailed westward with Fang Bie all the way. It took only three days, with the help of the wind, they crossed the bay and finally came to Pingjin Port.

Looking at the familiar buildings in Pingjin Port, Fang Bie was deeply moved.

Yes, after going around and going around, I finally returned to this country, but after returning this time, everything may be different.

Immediately the young man bid farewell to the fishing boat and continued on his way to Yanjing City alone.

A few years ago, he and He Ping left this land of right and wrong in a carriage in a snowstorm, and went straight to Los Angeles to open the Xiaohun Inn there.

But now, he returned alone, with only a letter that could determine the fate of a country.

The young man took a deep breath, and then walked into Yanjing City.

Outside the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, there was the sound of rumbling drums.

"This is not the place to file a complaint. You went to the wrong place to complain."

"This is what I was looking for." The boy raised his head and smiled.

"I came from Koryo, and I have a distress letter from the king of Koryo, Li Song, in my hand."

(End of this chapter)