Chapter 392
The Shengman army was defeated so quickly and miserably, which was too unexpected to Long Tianxiang and others. They didn't know how to deal with the current crisis for a while.
Before this, they had a good plan to make the various villages rely on geographical benefits to hold back and consume the Dingxi Army, and then the main force of the Long family attacked from the side, thus defeating the enemy in one fell swoop and establishing the entire victory.
But the final result was that they had not had time to send troops. There was news that the Shengman army had been defeated and fled in front of them. Then, before they could come back from this shock, there were another series of bad news, and many cities ahead were also lost one after another, pressing step by step. The Dingxi Army was only one or two days away from Xunyang City.
When Long Tianxiang gathered the soldiers in the city and decided to defend to the end, he thought of his father. In this case, perhaps only Long Sihai, a generation of heroes who made the family prosperous, could save the Long family.
So in the afternoon that day, he entered Feilong Tower again and met his father who was leisurely looking at the booklets. After seeing him, Long Sihai just pretended not to see him and continued to flip through the booklets in his hand.
"Babe..." Long Tianxiang couldn't help but speak first.
Long Sihai just raised his eyes and said slowly: "Why, are you in trouble? But has Dingxi Hou led his army to fight?"
"You... already know?" Long Tianxiang said in surprise, wondering if there were guards here who were passing messages to him.
No one knows his son, and his father, he can see through his thoughts at once, and then smiled: "If you hadn't encountered big trouble, you wouldn't have come here deliberately today. After all, you told me that day that even if I didn't have me, you could really make the Long family rise. And you are like this today, but you don't have the joy of the Long family rising."
Long Tianxiang smiled bitterly. At this time, he no longer cared about quarrel with his father, so he could only honestly say: "Dad, I really underestimated Dingxi Hou. Now he has led his army to pounce on my Xunyang City. Even the coalition forces of the villages that I finally asked for were easily defeated by them. My Xunyang City is already in danger, so..."
"So you thought of me coming forward to encourage the morale of the army, hoping to use this city to block their offensive?" Long Sihai immediately snatched out his thoughts. While Long Tianxiang nodded and admitted, he shook his head gently, "It's too late. At this time, even if I am willing to help you without grudges, I will never be able to defend my Xunyang City. In a few days, my Long family, a city that has been operating for a hundred years, will be destroyed by you!"
"This is impossible! There are still 50,000 elite soldiers in my city and tens of thousands of people in the Long family. Even if you are unwilling to help, I have the confidence to defend the city!" Long Tianxiang's face changed drastically at this time, and he started to scream, looking angry.
"Is that so? Then why do you still want to come to see me? Isn't it because you actually have an answer in your heart?" The father's understatement made Long Tianxiang's aura vent, and he sat dejectedly on the chair, opening his mouth, but he couldn't refute it.
After a long silence, he stared at Long Sihai with red eyes: "Dad, this is the foundation of my Long family. Do you really want to watch it ruin it?"
"It's not that I want to see my Long family's foundation being destroyed for many years, it's you, it's you who destroyed my Long family's foundation being destroyed!" Long Sihai's face finally became serious, and he looked at his son firmly, "From the fight that you did those things because of your ambitions, it means that you have sent the Long family to a path of failure.
"Your ambition is so great that you have to be so rebellious and colluded with Luotian Sect and Huntian Army, inciting the Shengman in Qianzhou to confront the government, and also want to annex southern Yunnan and assassinate the Marquis of Dingxi... Your ambition is so great that you have never thought of letting my Long family enter the Central Plains and become the lord of this world?
"It is not a problem for a person to have ambition. The question is whether you have the intelligence power that carries your ambitions. If there is, it is a hero of a lifetime. If there is no, it will only implicate the people around you, and let the entire family be destroyed by you. And you are obviously the latter. Although there are some conspiracy methods, in the end, they are more ambitious and lack talent. The greater the ambition, the greater the harm it brings to my Long family!"
This ruthless criticism made Long Tianxiang feel angry again, but it confirmed the current situation. He could not expel the fire after all, so he could only stare at his father. Then he sighed and said, "Do you know why I have always suppressed you over the years and prevent you from really interfering in the big affairs of the family?"
"It's not because I really have any prejudice against your appearance, but because I realized that you have unrealistic ambitions in the morning. You were unwilling to be mediocre since childhood, thinking of gaining more real power, and even fought with your brothers for this. This is something that my Long family cannot have. That's why I have been neglecting you and suppressing you, just to get rid of your hostility and let you accept the ordinary.
"It's a pity that you have not been changed after all. On the contrary, I relaxed my attention to you because of your deliberate low-key in recent years, and this was the drastic change a few months ago. Perhaps this is fate. From that moment on, I knew that everything was irreversible and the Long family would probably be destroyed in your hands!"
The fat on Long Tianxiang's face was trembling again, and his hands were clenched into fists. He really didn't expect that his experience over the years would be due to this serious reason. But is what his father said now true? Or is it just an excuse?
But no matter what it is, it doesn't matter now. He just stared at his father: "So dad, you would rather destroy my Long family completely than help me?"
"First, even if I help you, this game is irreversible. Do you think my Long family has dominated Qianzhou for many years, and it is because of the military ability of the Dingxi Army? No, it is because of the situation in the southwest, and it is because the court's usual detention strategy for our southwest has given us such an opportunity. If we really start a war head-on with the Dingxi Army, we will have no power to fight in Qianzhou.
"Second, the Long family will not be destroyed. Aren't there two sects there? As long as the court still needs someone to restrain the forces of all parties in Qianzhou, our Long family is the best choice, and the two sects will replace us and become the new lord of Qianzhou!"
Although Long Sihai was old, he was not dizzy and his eyes were not blurred, and he hit the key point in a flash. He was shocked and finally he was unable to refute it. Because he knew very well that this was the fact. And now, not only two sects are there, but three sects. It can be said that half of the Long family has turned to the court. Even if Xunyang City is broken, the Long family still has a considerable influence and strength in Qianzhou. He was angry and helpless. He could only stand up in a little sad and walk out of the room. Although he was dissatisfied with his father's refusal to save him, he still didn't want to do anything that was inconsistent with the laws of nature.
Seeing this, Long Sihai was also in a tragedy and suddenly shouted: "Tianxiang..."
Long Tianxiang shook and turned around quickly. Did his father change his mind?
As a result, Long Sihai was persuaded: "Give up, now you can surrender to the city and your family, otherwise..."
"Hahahaha..." Long Tianxiang suddenly smiled upwards, "Since I have come to this point, I will die if I fail, and I have never thought of surrendering. I don't think I will lose. I still have Xunyang Jiancheng, tens of thousands of troops, and two alliances! Whoever wins and loses is not sure!"
After leaving this sentence, Long Tianxiang walked forward step by step without looking back. Although the guard guard in front of the door was nervous, he still followed the previous order and quickly closed Long Sihai's door, and continued to put him in house arrest.
Looking at the door of the room that cut off his last connection with his son, Long Sihai sighed again, then slowly closed his eyes, but two lines of turbid tears flowed out of it. Even though he was so calm just now, when he knew what the Long family would end up with, the despair and heartache still made the old man feel extremely painful.
Long Tianxiang hurried out of the Feilong Tower, forcibly cheered up, and kept telling himself that he had not fought, so how could he be desperate, and then decided to discuss with Mo Li and the others again to see if there were any countermeasures to defeat the enemy. He believed that with his and Mo Li's mind, he might be able to make another surprise plan to break the crisis.
As a result, when he returned to the hall that specialized in discussing affairs, the two of them were no longer among them. Long Tianxiang asked someone to go to their residence and invite several important allies.
Then, soon, his subordinates brought him even more uneasy: "Mr. Mo, Master Hao and others are not in the courtyard, and the young men have already gone to other places to search for their whereabouts."
Could it be... an extremely terrifying guess quickly rose from Long Tianxiang's heart, but was then forced to suppress it by him: "No, things are far from that point, how could they do something to escape in the last battle?"
Long Tianxiang, who forcibly convinced himself, felt increasingly uneasy and began to pace in the hall, hoping to distract himself by doing so, but obviously the effect was almost gone. Instead, the more he left, the more he felt anxious.
Then for another half an hour, the people below kept reporting, but no one found whereabouts of several people. Finally, the most terrible result came: "Two hours ago, Mr. Mo and his team suddenly left the city. They said that they wanted to check the terrain nearby so as to prepare for the next battle. The defenders at the city gate had no doubts and let them go out, and they had not come back until now."
After hearing this, Long Tianxiang's body suddenly froze, then softened, and fell to the chair. The most terrible thing happened after all. When the disaster was about to come and the general situation was over, the allies who had been united with him and called for the great cause to work together to escape at the first time and abandoned him and the entire Long family!
Chapter completed!