Chapter 525: The mysterious Yi Xiaochuan is planning to play tricks under the lamp!
Now the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan decisively abandoned the original plan to fight Gao Yao in the city defense and positional warfare, and chose to fight him in the form of guerrilla warfare. The acquisition of this intelligence also gave Gao Yao a headache.
Putting aside other factors, in terms of military talent alone, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan is undoubtedly the most difficult and most difficult opponent to deal with. If one day in the future, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan really led 100,000 elite cavalry to the south to fight against us, and as long as they do not attack the city, but instead use those villages and other places as strongholds and use the tactics of besieging and attacking reinforcements to continue to launch attacks, then Gao Yao will find it difficult to find an effective way to resolve this crisis.
Therefore, we really have to be on guard against this matter and must think carefully about a good solution to this problem. After all, cavalry has extremely strong mobility, which is really hard to guard against.
In addition, there is another problem that cannot be ignored: the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan and Yi Xiaochuan are almost two different people. The difference in experience has made the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan no longer care about many things. Now he even trades with the Xiongnu in order to fight with him. In this way, he may not use the power of the Xiongnu to deal with him in the future. Thinking of this, Gao Yao's heart became heavier.
At the same time, it cannot be ignored that once the Xiongnu mastered and improved the smelting technology, their strength would probably surpass many stages in history. Imagine that when stirrups, saddles, horseshoes and other equipment are combined with the Xiongnu, it is simply a match made in heaven! For a long time, smelting technology has always been a significant shortcoming of the Xiongnu, but now this mysterious Yi Xiaochuan is very likely to be cultivating an extremely terrifying rival for his own short-term personal interests.
Therefore, Gao Yao had to think carefully. He not only needed to win the battle against the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan, but also could not let him escape again. After all, if the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan could cooperate with the Xiongnu in the name of Liu Bang today, then tomorrow he might turn to seek support from other princes, or go to a more remote area to hide, and wait for the right time to return and defeat Gao Yao in one fell swoop. Gao Yao was powerless to do anything about this before, after all, he was facing an army of 300,000 imperial troops.
After half a year of fierce fighting, although they finally won, the price of this victory was extremely heavy. On the surface, it seemed to be a great victory, but in reality, it was a great loss. Almost the entire Xiang County suffered the baptism of the imperial army, and the damage caused was simply innumerable.
To make matters worse, several difficult battles were fought in Xiangjun, and there were countless places that needed to be repaired and rebuilt. In addition, wherever the imperial army passed, no village along the way was spared. Even the Zhentuo area was deeply affected, and the impact should not be underestimated. When Wang Li led his army to attack, he did not hesitate to set fire to many facilities such as villages that were under construction in order to prevent enemy soldiers from hiding in them.
It can be said that at that time, the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan was in an all-round advantageous position. However, things are different now. The offensive and defensive situation has been reversed, and Gao Yao has become the one who holds almost absolute initiative. Therefore, launching a war is only one aspect, and the other is that the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan cannot escape no matter what. After all, immortality does not mean immortality. This time Gao Yao is determined to put the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan to death.
At the same time, the news about the real Yi Xiaochuan flew to Gao Yao's ears as fast as wings. When he learned a series of key information such as the underground palace of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the stars, and the tiger-shaped jade pendant, memories flooded in his mind, almost one by one corresponding to what he heard. This news put Gao Yao in a rather embarrassing situation.
The crucial tiger-shaped jade pendant had long been destroyed by Gao Yao himself. At the beginning, the system gave him a very generous reward in exchange. Even if time could go back and return to that moment of decision, Gao Yao still firmly believed that he would choose to obtain those tempting rewards immediately without hesitation. After all, if he had not seized that opportunity at that time, it would be unknown whether he could have the current status and achievements.
But now, due to the lack of the key to open the underground palace - the tiger-shaped jade pendant, they can't smoothly enter the underground palace to explore. As a result, it is not only difficult to deeply understand the mysterious stars, but also difficult to effectively use them.
This is undoubtedly a blow to Gao Yao. Although he does not intend to take the elixir of immortality directly, it does not mean that he does not want to realize his dream of immortality through other means, such as using the power of the stars to achieve immortality without side effects. Now this makes Gao Yao a little cautious, it really explodes, it is a bit of a pity,
Through this series of situations, Gao Yao also understood from another perspective why the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan could leave so peacefully. He only sent a small number of people to guard here, and their tasks were indeed limited to surveillance.
After all, this underground palace is not only tightly locked, but also protected by a large amount of mercury on the outside. If a rough explosion is really adopted, it is difficult to determine whether the underground palace can be completely destroyed. But one thing is certain, if the underground palace is completely flooded with mercury in all entrances, it will become extremely difficult to enter it again.
However, even in this situation, Gao Yao did not give up easily. On the contrary, he decisively sent more people to the Lishan area to continue searching for possible secret passages. Although he had only fought the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan a few times, in fact, the two sides had already fought countless times in secret.
With his understanding of the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan, Gao Yao knew that this person would never leave himself a way out. In other words, it cannot be ruled out that the mysterious Yi Xiaochuan's actions were intentional, and it is possible that his purpose was to make people give up.
As Gao Yao began to think carefully about the development of the matter, his doubts grew deeper and deeper. He couldn't help but start to suspect that everything that happened was actually just a carefully designed scheme. Was this scheme aimed at Yi Xiaochuan or himself? Perhaps it was both!
After careful consideration, Gao Yao realized that there were some clues. Although everything seemed to be true on the surface, there was only one thing that seemed particularly suspicious - that is, there was another secret passage. And this secret passage was most likely a secret passage leading directly to the interior of the underground palace.