20demayo Chapter 1595 Escape from battle
Chapter 1595 Escape from battle
The Eighth Prince did not answer, but observed the situation with a serious expression. When he was sure that his people could not resist for long, he thought of escaping.
However, he could not express his intention to escape clearly in front of everyone, otherwise everyone would lose confidence and give up resistance, allowing the Ninth Prince to rush in with his men.
"Old Nine is attacking aggressively, and I don't have any capable generals under my command. It seems that I can only let Chen Changli come to guard the outer city."
"Han Yi, I'll leave the matter here to you. You lead them to resist Lao Jiu. I'll go find Chen Changli."
The eighth prince handed over the command to Han Yi, spoke two sentences at a rapid speed, and left in a hurry.
"Do you trust me so much?" Han Yi was shocked when he heard the eighth prince's words.
Before he could finish his words, the Eighth Prince was about to disappear.
Watching the Eighth Prince disappear in front of him, Han Yi couldn't help but twitch his lips: "Why are you running so fast? It's not like the outer city will be breached in the next moment."
After saying this rather helplessly, Han Yi quickly adjusted his strategy, then took some soldiers to the city wall and shot arrows outwards to block the enemy's offensive.
Yongzhou City was a place chosen by the emperor before, so everything here is very complete.
The Eighth Prince did not arrange everything well, which made the Ninth Prince's attack seem very fierce, and Yongzhou City could hardly resist.
Han Yi made use of everything at this time, and since he had explored many places in Yongzhou City before, he naturally knew some things that the Eighth Prince had overlooked.
In order to defend Yongzhou City at this moment, he directly exposed these things and asked the soldiers to cooperate with him.
So Li Keyi led his soldiers to attack Yongzhou City, but he soon found himself blocked.
Li Keyi was shocked: "Is there such a powerful person around the Eighth Prince?"
When his loyal staff heard this, they thought for a moment and said, "That person might be Chen Changli."
Li Keyi lowered his eyes, his tone extremely cold: "The Eighth Prince is really able to bend and stretch!"
"But I don't think Chen Changli would do that. After all, he is the prince's man."
"Someone, go ahead and check the situation."
Li Keyi frowned slightly and sent someone to investigate the situation.
After a while, the man came back.
"General, the person standing on the city wall commanding the soldiers is not Chen Changli, but an unknown person. Who is he? I don't know. Those soldiers all listen to him. I think he is the confidant of the Eighth Prince."
Upon hearing this, Li Keyi felt a surge of anger in his heart.
"Didn't they say that the Eighth Prince doesn't have any generals who can fight? What's with this person who suddenly appeared? Could it be that Wen Baicao spread false information?"
He felt that Wen Baicao was not trustworthy, but who could make Wen Baicao provide food and fodder to the Ninth Prince?
If food and grass were not in short supply, the Ninth Prince would not have been fixated on Yongzhou City. He would have expanded his territory long ago.
"Can we still contact Wen Baicao now?" Li Keyi suppressed his anger and subconsciously glanced left and right.
The others looked at each other, as if they didn't know how to contact Wen Baicao. After all, it was Wen Baicao who took the initiative to spread the news before.
"I think Wen Baicao has already received the news of our attack on Yongzhou City, so if he is interested, he will take the initiative to contact us."
The aide looked around and saw the hesitation on everyone's faces. His brows unconsciously twisted into knots, and he immediately told Li Keyi his thoughts.
"If he wants to have the best of both worlds, he will try to persuade the Eighth Prince and get more benefits from him."
Li Keyi's face looked very ugly: "He still wants benefits? I think he doesn't want to live anymore."
The staff heard him being murderous and worried that he might do something bad, so they quickly advised him, "General, Wen Baicao is a businessman, and businessmen are profit-driven."
Li Keyi said in an inexplicable tone: "He is not an ordinary businessman, but some of the characteristics of a businessman can be applied to him. After all, he is cunning and sly, like a loach, and it is difficult for people to catch him."
"General, Wen Baicao is indeed cunning, but if the army attacks the city, he will have no choice but to die." The staff understood Li Keyi's mood and immediately said something nice to him.
Li Keyi laughed loudly upon hearing this: "You are right. Haha, no matter whether the person guarding the city gate is Chen Changli or not, I must take Yongzhou City today. If he doesn't know what's good for him, then go to hell!"
After finishing his words, Li Keyi rearranged his forces and launched a more fierce offensive.
"Are they crazy?" Han Yi's heart sank suddenly when he noticed that the attack was getting fiercer.
"Sir, why hasn't General Chen come yet?" Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more urgent, someone couldn't help but come to Han Yi and ask.
Han Yi let out a barely audible sigh: "The Eighth Prince has gone to look for him. I think he will be here soon."
"But the enemy is outnumbered and their attack is swift. No matter how powerful Chen Changli is, he is just an ordinary person, not a god. He can't turn the tide."
Hanyi didn't want these people to have hope, lest they get disappointed and turn against Chen Changli, so he decided to say the ugly words in advance.
"Your Excellency is right. We really shouldn't think like that, but the Eighth Prince has been gone for two quarters of an hour."
"If he wanted to find General Chen, he would have brought him here half an hour ago. Why didn't we see even a single person?"
The man dressed as a soldier clenched his fingers tightly, as if to suppress the bad guesses in his heart.
Han Yi was stunned when he heard this, and then he realized that the Eighth Prince left the matter after handing it over to him, and there was a high possibility that he wanted to escape from the battlefield.
"He is a prince, and he has declared himself king. Yongzhou City is his territory. No matter how critical the current situation is, as a vassal king who wants to conquer the world, how can he ignore you?"
Han Yi's heart skipped a beat but he didn't dare to think too much about it and could only comfort the person.
But his words were full of questions, so they didn't have much of a soothing effect, and instead made people more uneasy.
"Our families are all in the city. What will they do if the city gates are breached?" The soldier's voice was choked with sobs, but he tried hard to hold back his tears.
Seeing this, Han Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Go find Chen Changli and ask about the situation in the city. If the Eighth Prince... Anyway, don't worry about him. Find Chen Changli first, and then make plans."
Han Yi was already certain about what the Eighth Prince was going to do and was unwilling to make any more assumptions.
The soldier understood what he meant, clenched his fist, then unclenched it and said, "I know what to do, sir, please rest assured."
After saying that, he turned and left. Han Yi followed his figure for a while, then shouted, "After you find Chen Changli, tell him our guess and ask him to prepare. By the way, ask him if there is any way to arrange for the people in the city?"
"I understand, sir, thank you." The soldier didn't even turn his head, but his voice came quickly.
Han Yi touched his neck and sighed: "Eighth Prince, please don't run away from the battlefield, otherwise the people of Yongzhou will lose their morale."