Chapter 1660: Gao Yang's personal letter, killing a return shot

Inside the Imperial Study.

When Li Long's voice suddenly sounded, Wu Zhao was stunned.

"The Prime Minister's personal letter?"

According to Great Qian's military system and her understanding of Gao Yang, logically speaking, Gao Yang should return to Changancheng very soon.

Why send a personal letter suddenly at this time?

And he ordered ten Black Armor knights to escort it, ordering her to open it personally. This clearly meant the letter was extremely important, for fear of leaking the contents of the secret letter.

This instantly aroused Wu Zhao's interest.

"Commander Li, you personally bring the messenger to see me!"

"No one is allowed to get close, and do not leak a single word of this matter."

"Those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

Wu Zhao ordered seriously.

"Yes!"

Li Long clasped his fists and accepted the order.

"Wan'er, what do you think Gao Yang wrote in this letter? He actually used ten Black Armor soldiers to send it, and he also required me to open it personally?"

Wu Zhao stood with her hands behind her back and asked.

Shangguan Wan'er shook her head, "I am stupid, and I am also extremely strange in my heart."

Her beautiful eyes flickered, and a trace of unease flashed in her heart for no reason.

With Gao Yang's personality, having won a great victory and successfully avenging Gao Linyuan, why not rush back to Changancheng, but send a letter for no reason?

Could the news of the great victory be fake?

But that's impossible...

Or...

Shangguan Wan'er seemed to think of something, her beautiful eyes suddenly changed, and a shock of horror emerged in her heart.

But she tried her best to deny it in her heart.

"Impossible!"

"This is absolutely impossible!"

Very soon.

A burst of hurried footsteps came from outside the Imperial Study.

"General Zhao Da pays respects to Your Majesty!"

Zhao Da, in black armor, knelt on one knee toward Wu Zhao to salute.

"Zhao Da, it is actually you who came to deliver the letter personally."

Wu Zhao's pupils constricted, and she said with some shock.

She naturally knew Zhao Da; he was a guard of the Duke of Ding's residence and one of Gao Yang's personal guards, whose loyalty was absolutely unquestionable.

For Zhao Da to come and deliver the letter personally, the significance was not ordinary.

"The Prime Minister specifically instructed that this letter is too important, so he ordered me to deliver it personally." Zhao Da explained, then took a letter out of his bosom very solemnly.

He raised his hands high and handed it toward where Wu Zhao was.

Shangguan Wan'er stepped forward and took the letter.

Since the letter said it was for Wu Zhao to open personally, Shangguan Wan'er did not dare to make her own decisions and presented it to Wu Zhao.

Wu Zhao glanced at the letter and opened it.

She raised her phoenix eyes and said to herself, "I have confirmed the handwriting; this is the Prime Minister's personal letter."

"Let alone the entire Great Qian, even in the entire world, there is no one else who can write such ugly characters."

Shangguan Wan'er: "..."

Wu Zhao scanned down.

Originally, she was very worried, fearing that the great victory from the front line was heavily watered down. Once such a thing was exposed, the consequences would be extremely serious.

But this was clearly her overthinking.

The beginning of Gao Yang's letter was a simple report about the battle, including the results of the battle, and that the Prince of Langya's wife and children were on the way back.

This made Wu Zhao's heart settle, and the expression on her face gradually relaxed, her tightly locked brows... gradually loosening.

But when Wu Zhao continued to look down, her face quietly changed.

That noble face, full of majesty, became visibly serious, and even showed endless horror by the end.

At this very moment, a cool breeze blew from outside the Imperial Study, blowing away the increasingly hot summer heat in Changancheng, but a monstrous wave rose in Wu Zhao's heart.

She clenched the letter, trying her best to suppress the rolling emotions in her heart.

Shangguan Wan'er's beautiful eyes had been staring at Wu Zhao, so the expression on Wu Zhao's face fell into her eyes, making her extremely nervous.

But Shangguan Wan'er did not dare to speak.

"General Zhao, you have worked hard all the way; go down and have a good rest."

"Someone!"

"Reward!"

Wu Zhao looked at Zhao Da, took a deep breath, and said.

Zhao Da clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wu Zhao then said expressionlessly to the others, "Except for Wan'er, everyone else go down."

"Yes!"

Following Wu Zhao's order.

Very soon.

The massive Imperial Study was left with only Wu Zhao and Shangguan Wan'er.

"Wan'er, do you know what the Prime Minister wrote in this letter?"

Wu Zhao stood with her hands behind her back and asked slowly, her tone without any fluctuation.

"What?"

Shangguan Wan'er's heartbeat accelerated involuntarily, and she hurriedly asked.

Wu Zhao's phoenix eyes remained unchanged, staring at Shangguan Wan'er, and she took a deep breath and said, "The Prime Minister gave me three strategies—upper, middle, and lower—to contain the Xiongnu."

"The lower strategy is for the Prime Minister to return to Changancheng, strengthen the country with the economy, and wait for the flintlock gun test to be successful, then put it into the battlefield, and use light cavalry to raid the Xiongnu royal court with firearms, but the time is uncertain."

"The middle strategy is for the Prime Minister to return to Changancheng, send envoys to sow discord among the Xiongnu tribes, raise the price of goat skin at a high price, and launch a plan to exterminate the households, but just killing to the Prince of Langya's royal court and only beheading tens of thousands of Xiongnu is far from enough to deter the Xiongnu, making it extremely difficult to push this plan."

"As for the upper strategy..." Wu Zhao paused here before saying: "The upper strategy is for the Prime Minister to ask me to mobilize troops, using multiple armies as support, and give him another 10,000 elites to join forces at Yanmen Pass. He wants to kill a return shot and completely kill through the Hexi Corridor!"

Once these words were spoken.

Boom!

Shangguan Wan'er's brain seemed to explode, her face full of horror.

"What?"

"Kill through Hexi again?"

Shangguan Wan'er's face changed, and she said extremely shocked.

She even doubted her own ears at this moment!

Wu Zhao was also full of shock, and she continued, "The Prime Minister said that the army just killed through Hexi, and the Xiongnu in Hexi will never think that our Great Qian's elites will kill their way in again in a short time, and the Prime Minister's name for caution has spread throughout the world."

"That Xiongnu Great Chanyu must also think that the Prime Minister has returned to the capital; let alone now, he won't move troops in this lifetime. This is the inherent impression of human nature, and the Prime Minister can just use this to do the opposite and catch the Xiongnu off guard."

"10,000 elites are to break the formation, and 20,000 elites are to behead the Prince of Zhenyue and the Prince of Langya, so that the Hexi land will completely change hands!"

Shangguan Wan'er's red lips parted slightly, her face full of astonishment; she never expected that Gao Yang was still playing this game.

But precisely, this battle theoretically had a great possibility.

After all, as Gao Yang said, Gao Yang just led the army from Canglan Mountain into the Hexi land and fought to the Prince of Langya's city; the Xiongnu would not think that Gao Yang would kill a return shot again.

Secondly, Gao Yang's caution and his preciousness for his own life were known to the whole world. Helian Cha recognized this from the bottom of his heart; otherwise, why would he go to such great lengths to come up with four great gifts, desperately humiliating Gao Yang, hoping he would be enraged and request to send troops?

Gao Yang was already a high-ranking official; why would he need to risk his life?

This was the Xiongnu's inherent impression of Gao Yang, and also the world's inherent impression of Gao Yang, but now, Gao Yang wanted to use this to launch a killing trap against the Xiongnu! ===== CHAPTER 1662 =====