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Chapter 293 Gao Qiong
"Leave him a whole body." Gao Qiong sighed.

His eyes fell on Gao Junjin's corpse in front of him, his eyes were sad and restrained.

Over the years, his relatives had died too many times, and he was already used to it.

"Alright...Xu Balpiao, don't chop off his head."

Li Xia didn't pay much attention to what happened at the prison gate, turned her head, and continued talking to Gao Qiong.

"Where did you just say that?"

"If you ask for my opinion, Feiyu can keep me in Tongya City."

Gao Qiong was lying on a stretcher, very weak, and explained: "When Muru arrives in Wumeng, someone needs to provide him with supplies... I agree with your idea of ​​'official merchants'... Dali is too dilapidated now , but I can sell goods from the Song Dynasty to Tianzhu for you...provide horses, information...these things are better for me than others."

"That's what I planned at the beginning." Li Xia said, "But your identity has been exposed."

"I'm still the city lord of Meng Gefeng." Gao Qiong said: "Duan Shi is not qualified to strip me of my rank or dismiss me."

"How much evidence does Duan really have?"

"Gao Junjin's witness is dead, and Duan Shi only has a letter from me to the relic. But I actually wrote that letter with my left hand. If I confronted him in front of the monk, he would not be able to defeat me. "

Li Xia pondered: "It's still too risky."

Gao Qiong said: "It's a risk, and Mongolian people will continue to trust me. Duan Shi exposed me. I should have left with you, but if I don't leave, I can gain trust instead."

"You still have another choice. After arriving in Wumeng, you can contact the old department to smuggle secretly. It is not necessary to stay."

"It is necessary." Gao Qiong said: "The Dali family is afraid of Mongolian people like tigers, and most of them are willing to run dogs for Mongolian people like the Duan brothers. If it were someone else, there is no guarantee that they will not betray again... I can do it myself so I can feel at ease."

"You have basically been completely dismantled, it is very difficult to get back."

"I have an old branch, which is hidden in Longhua Temple in the north of Tongya City. My wife and children are also there." Gao Qiong said: "When Feiyu is gone, I just let them come to 'recover' Tongya City. trust me."

"Okay." Li Xia said: "I will consider this matter and see if I can deny a seamless plan."

"How does Feiyu plan to go back to Wuchi Road through Shanchan City?"

"Don't go to Shanchan City. Go to the territory of Quanbu and Luopobu."

"No." Gao Qiong shook her head, turned to look at Gao Mingyue who had been standing behind Li Xia, and asked, "You and Feiyu?"

"Yes." Gao Mingyue replied.

"I'm afraid you don't know yet. The leader of the Luo Po tribe, Yige, has sincerely surrendered to Mongolia. It was just decided at the beginning of the year that the establishment of the Luo Po Wanhu Mansion will be established. Yige was granted the title of Marquis of Wanhu and the golden talisman. It is precisely because he wants to make contributions to Mongolia Now... you must never dare to go east again."

Gao Mingyue was taken aback, and looked up at Li Xia with apologetic eyes.

"It's okay." Li Xia whispered: "The situation is unpredictable, you can't know it right away."

"But where are we going?"

"If there is enough food and grass, it's okay to detour through the mountains and forests."

Gao Qiong coughed, and said: "Tongshi City still has some food and grass, but the food and grass of nearly ten thousand soldiers and horses were spent on it a while ago, I'm afraid there will not be much left."

"Not many, most of them were burned by Duan Shi tonight."

"Come here with your ear, I know where there is food."

After hearing this, Li Xia seemed to think of something, she put her ear to Gao Qiong's mouth, and sure enough, she heard him say something softly.

"There is food in the temple..."

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Although more than half of the granary in Tongya City was burned, the Qingfu Army still got supplies. At the same time, there were still some wound medicines, arrows, and armor in the city.

Li Xia rested overnight and day in Tongya City, allowing the soldiers to recover their strength.

He has no intention of standing here for a long time, with only this little force under his command, tens of thousands of Dali soldiers may surround him at any time.

If you want a site, you should rely on a site that can rely on the defense of the Song Dynasty, not an isolated city that is deeply trapped in the enemy's territory, without supplies, support, and no possibility of development at all.

After resting, Li Xia began to think about how to be "repulsed" by Gao Qiong.

……

"Feiyu trusts my cousin too much." Gao Changshou said, "I don't think he doesn't want to go with us, maybe he doesn't want to continue to belong to Mongolia."

Li Xia could tell before that Gao Changshou didn't trust Gao Qiong too much.For example, Gao Mingyue called him "Second Brother" and Gao Qiong "Big Brother", while Gao Changshou always called Gao Qiong "Cousin" with a little alienation in his tone.

Seeing that Li Xia smiled but did not answer, Gao Changshou said again: "My cousin's eldest son is in Mongolia as a hostage. He is unwilling to turn his back on the dark and turn to the bright. He is afraid that he will use some words to deceive us. If we follow what he said, we will pretend to be defeated by him." , Withdrew from Tongya City. He took this credit to claim credit in front of the Mongols, and continued to be his Tongya City Lord, so he may not be willing to sincerely resist the Mongols in the future."

"I think what you said makes sense."

Gao Changshou smiled wryly, and said, "It's true that I'm narrow-minded when I mutter about my cousin behind my back. But this matter..."

In the middle of his speech, he sighed and murmured: "It is true that my father, uncles and brothers died in battle, but there are also many people from the Gao family who returned to Mongolia, but they are all greedy for life and afraid of death. My cousin, is it not forgiving?" The one who goes out."

Li Xia waved his hand and said, "I know."

"If you think about it, you still promise him?"

"His hands and feet are all useless." Li Xia said: "You said he couldn't fight it out, but he has become like this, and he doesn't even frown. Rather than saying that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, it's better to say that... he can see the situation clearly."

"Can……"

"We are going to withdraw from Tongya City after all. What's the difference between withdrawing voluntarily or being repelled by him?"

When Li Xia said this, he said again: "As for your cousin, if he really has the heart to continue to belong to Mongolia, maybe it will be better, and it will be easier to live."

Gao Changshou said: "Are you really planning to leave the wounded, women and children in the city and hand them over to your cousin for protection?"

"Ah."

"He can't even protect himself. Look at what Duan Shi has done to him."

Li Xia didn't answer, but said, "We can't continue marching like this with all the women and children. There is no other way. I believe your cousin can take care of them."

……

Regarding Gao Qiong, Li Xia has a different view from Gao Changshou.

But only when facing Gao Mingyue, Li Xia would speak his mind.

"It's not that your cousin is incapable of protecting himself. He is what he is now, precisely because he is protecting others. Assuming... I mean assuming, he betrayed Mu Ru or Sari Seng at that time, and Duan Shi couldn't catch him at all. handle, take him down.

When he sent his wife and children away, he had a chance to leave, but he didn't. He planned to reverse the case for himself from the beginning.He knew what to do, firm and restrained.He saw it very clearly, Duan Shi didn't dare to really touch him.The only thing he didn't count was probably Gao Junjin's betrayal. "

Gao Mingyue thought for a while, and asked, "Do you trust Big Brother?"

"Well, I trust him." Li Xia said, "Not only do I trust his character, but also his ability. After all, even I didn't expect that he would dare to stay in such a situation."

"But I also think it will not be easy for eldest brother to continue to gain people's trust."

Li Xia said: "It's okay, I will help him..."

(End of this chapter)