Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1074 The longer the time, the better it is for us

"Something's wrong?"

Shen Tutai looked at him with some confusion: "Your Highness, what do you think is wrong?"

Yuwen Ye said: "It seems that Shi Yuxin is not on the other side."

Hearing Shi Yuxin's name, Shentu Tai's eyes flickered slightly. In fact, when he went down to help in the battle just now, he was also a little bit expectant. He wanted to see whether the female hero who was so powerful in Hebei was really as heroic as the legend said. However, the one who came to help Shi Yutao was not her, but Hua Ziying.

But he only said: "Didn't Xiao Yuansui only have an advance force of 40,000 to 50,000 people this time? I guess Shi Yuxin is behind."

Yuwen Ye shook his head: "If that's the case, then they shouldn't have dismantled the Yellow River Floating Bridge."

Speaking of this, Shentu Tai also remembered that yesterday when they went to the north bank to graze horses, they saw that the pontoon bridge for crossing the river had been dismantled. Yuwen Ye was very surprised at the time. In fact, he couldn't help but have some suspicion in his heart. After all, the Yellow River pontoon bridge is not so easy to build. Since there were still teams behind them that hadn't arrived, Xiao Yuansui had no reason to have the pontoon bridge dismantled.

unless--

Shentu Tai said: "Perhaps, they are worried that we will go to the north bank and sneak across the river to attack them?"

Yuwen Ye glanced at him and said, "It's not impossible, but I still think it's a bit strange that they just dismantled the Yellow River Floating Bridge like this."

"..."

"Besides, they have been crossing the river for so many days, why haven't they seen the troops behind them?"

Hearing this, Shen Tutai also felt something strange. He thought for a moment and said, "Your Highness means that Shi Yuxin and the other tens of thousands of troops may not come to Hulao Pass?"

Yuwen Ye turned to him and said, "If she doesn't come, where will she go?"

He asked this question, obviously he was doubting that Shi Yuxin would not cross the river. Shen Tutai thought about it and said, "Could it be that she also wants to lead the troops to attack Hulao Pass from behind us? In this way, she and Xiao Yuansui will attack us from both sides?"

Yuwen Ye's brows furrowed slightly.

He said: "It's not impossible, but Hulao Pass is easy to defend but difficult to attack. We used a trick to capture Shan Shiyu first, and then we successfully captured Hulao Pass. If she insists on attacking, it won't be that easy."

Shentu Tai said: "If she doesn't come to Hulao Pass, where will she lead the army of tens of thousands of people?"

At this point, his voice suddenly stopped, as if he had thought of something. He raised his head and looked at Yuwen Ye, only to see a flash of light in the other's cold and calm eyes. The two said at the same time: "Luoyang!"

As soon as these two words came out, a gust of wind suddenly blew, and I felt a chill running through my bones.

Now, Yuwen Cheng is leading his troops to attack Luoyang together with Mu Xian and Cheng Qiao's troops. Once Shi Yuxin captures Cijian, which has few troops stationed there, and then leads tens of thousands of troops to Luoyang, she can almost immediately rescue Liang Shide. If Liang Shide takes this opportunity to break out of Luoyang, he can also attack Yuwen Cheng from both inside and outside with her.

Not only that, as the elder brother of the King of Qi, Yuwen Ye could not really sit idly by and watch his brother fall into danger. He had to withdraw his troops to rescue him. In this way, once Xiao Yuansui took action, he would be able to take over Hulao Pass.

Then their battle results in Dongdu would be almost half lost.

Previously, they used the method of besieging a point and attacking its reinforcements to lure Xiao Yuansui to send troops. Now, Shi Yuxin used the method of besieging Wei to save Zhao to force them to choose between Luoyang and Hulao Pass.

Of course, all this is based on the premise that Shi Yuxin really attacks Yuwen Cheng.

Thinking of this, Yuwen Ye said: "Send troops to Luoyang immediately to see what's going on there!" "Yes!"

Shentu Tai did not dare to delay and immediately went down to give orders.

Soon, a team of cavalrymen who were gathering information left Hulao Pass and headed quickly towards Luoyang.

As the horses' hooves faded away in the fiery red light of the setting sun, Shi Yutao had already returned to the camp. He did not go to see Xiao Yuansui, but returned to his tent in a huff and asked someone to treat the wounds on his hands. The military doctor carefully applied medicine to him, bandaged them, and carefully reminded him not to let the wound come into contact with water for the next two days. Then he retreated with the medicine box.

As soon as I walked to the door of the tent, I saw Xiao Yuansui and Hua Ziying walking in.

The military doctor saluted and left immediately. Xiao Yuansui slowly walked into the tent, looked at Shi Yutao's livid face, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that you haven't fought enough?"

Shi Yutao looked at him, and then saw Hua Ziying behind him, and knew that he was the one who went to "complain", so he said coldly: "I just learned that there is no need to decide the winner in battle."

Xiao Yuansui slowly walked up to him and sat down: "Under Shentutai's hands, there is no victory or defeat, only life and death."

"..."

This was neither soft nor hard, but it was very choking. Shi Yutao gritted his teeth and thought for a long time but couldn't say anything. He just snorted coldly. Xiao Yuansui saw that he was not convinced. He had known for a long time that this man was wild and difficult to tame, so he said, "Don't forget what your sister said before she left."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yutao's brows twisted into a knot.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Xiao Yuansui shook his head and said, "What we need to do now is to hold back the people at Hulao Pass so that they have no time to worry about other things and don't cause any trouble."

Hua Ziying also took the opportunity to nod and said, "Yes, looking at their situation, I'm afraid they are really running low on food and grass. As long as we don't care about winning or losing these few days and keep harassing them, they will be overwhelmed and unable to take care of each other. Once the morale of the army is disrupted, we will have a chance to defeat them."

Shi Yutao asked, "How do you know that they are short of food and grass?"

Xiao Yuansui and Hua Ziying looked at each other, and the latter said, "Yesterday we saw the people at Hulao Pass driving their horses to the north bank to graze. We suspected that they were short of food and grass, so they crossed the river to challenge today. In today's battle, Yuwen Ye never sent cavalry to charge. If they go to the north bank to graze after today, it can basically be concluded that Hulao Pass is short of food and grass."

"..."

"In this case, towing is best."

"..."

"Besides, you know that the longer it takes, the better it is for us."

Shi Yutao looked at them for a while, then suddenly fell on the bed, closed his eyes and said, "I want to rest."

Xiao Yuansui glanced at him and said nothing more. He just waved to Hua Ziying, and the two of them left his tent together.

As soon as they left, the tent became quiet. However, the quieter it was, the more the anger in Shi Yutao's chest swelled, almost bursting him. He carefully recalled the battle in front of Hulao Pass today, and the more he thought about it, the more unconvinced he felt - he had been clearly suppressing that unknown man named Xue Lin, but it was Shen Tutai who broke the rules and came down to help, and he underestimated the enemy and was almost defeated.

Yes, I did not lose.

Thinking of this, he suddenly sat up and asked, "Yuwen Ye went to the north bank to herd horses..."