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(22) Persuasion

When Bai Qi woke up, Su Xiangyun was no longer by his side. It was too late last night. Bai Qi actually slept until noon, which was a rare sleep in this period.

"I love Yun!" Bai Qi, who sat up, called out habitually. If Bai Qi was sleeping late on weekdays, he would have been late for Su Xiangyun. As long as he got up and shouted, Su Xiangyun would appear in time. But today was an exception. Bai Qi shouted without movement, and then shouted a few more but still did not answer.

Bai Qi climbed up in confusion. When he got up, he reached out and pressed Su Xiangyun's pillow. He felt a sense of dampness on his hands. Bai Qi felt a tightness in his heart. He picked up the neatly folded clothes on the table beside the bed and put them on, and found a letter on the table. Judging from the handwriting, it was from Su Xiangyun's handwriting.

When I opened the letter, Su Xiangyun's beautiful handwriting appeared on the paper, "Farewell to you for a while, it is not my wish. I will go there this time, but Liang Wang can turn swords into jade and silk. If I cannot let go of my wish, I will have a fate with you. I will be in a hurry to leave and I don't know what to say. I want to go to the clouds."

Bai Qi couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw the letter, and cursed Su Xiangyun in his heart. At present, Su Yuncheng was a dog who was forced to the corner of the wall, and even colluded with Zhang Chu to sell the country. Can Su Xiangyun persuade him to surrender in just a few words?

Bai Qi didn't care about washing the wall and rushed to the city gate like a whirlwind. As a result, the soldiers guarding the gate reported that Su Xiangyun had gone out when he opened the city gate early in the morning. Even if he was making a ox cart, he could still get to the place now. When Bai Qi returned to his residence helplessly, there was a servant who had already come to report to Xie Donghai for a visit, and had been waiting here for a while.

Jie Donghai is someone Bai Qi values. There are many tricks in this guy's head. I wonder if he has made some new tricks to offer Bai Qi. Although Bai Qi was not in a good mood, he still met Donghai in the study.

"Donghai! I'm so anxious to find me, what's wrong?" Bai Qi adjusted his mood and faced Xie Donghai with a smile on his face.

"Master, I actually made a thing when I was in Jiezhou, but it was too big. I was busy for a long time after I shipped it in bulk. I didn't want to get it done today. I'm not here to ask you to take a look."

What is it? Bai Qi's mind was full of Su Xiangyun's affairs at this time. He was not in much mood to see it, but when he looked at Jie Donghai's expression of hope, he couldn't bear to hurt his enthusiasm, so he clicked and followed Jie Donghai to the playground.

Jie Donghai was indeed right. This thing is big enough, it should be said to be huge. It is about ten meters long and six or seven meters wide. There are two rows of iron-cast wheels below. If the long poles are vertically facing up, the height is at least fifteen meters. What is this? After careful and careful examination of Bai Qi finally confirmed that this is an extremely large catapult, which looks a bit like the giant catapult in the computer game Empire 2 in his previous life.

"Takeup?" Bai Qi turned his head and asked Jie Donghai who had been following him. Jie Donghai rubbed his hands with excitement and said, "That's right, my master is wise. This is the giant catapult carefully created by his subordinates."

What exactly does Jie Donghai want to do with such a big catapult? This thing really needs to be useful. Its power is indeed huge, but where did Bai Qi find such a lot of big stones to throw it away? Bai Qi's first feeling is that this thing is not very practical.

Bai Qi asked Xie Donghai patiently: "How to use this thing, and how big a stone should be used?"

When Xie Donghai saw Bai Qi asking the main point, he waved his hand proudly at the person beside him and said, "Push it up."

There are indeed many strange things in Donghai's mind. In a short while, a dozen men came in each of them with a wheelbarrow, each with a big black iron ball on it.

Jie Donghai led Bai Qi to the front of the car and said, "Of course, this giant catapult car does not use stones, but uses this kind of watermelon that I specially made."

Bai Qi looked carefully and understood that these were just big bombs, with leads on them. In order to protect the leads, bamboo tubes were used. The leads were all from the bamboo tubes and wrapped with beeswax on the outside, which was to prevent moisture.

Before Bai Qi could speak, Jie Donghai was already proudly introducing it: "Master, I have tried this catapult car in Jiezhou. It can be at least three miles away. It is best to use our special watermelon to use it to blow up the city wall."

Bai Qiyi thought to himself that there were at least dozens of kilograms of explosives in the iron watermelon. With the weight of iron, the whole thing was at least 150 kilograms. It was not a big hole when it hit. It was just that the city wall of Duliang City was built with hundreds of thousands of kilograms of bluestone. Can dozens of kilograms of explosives work? Think about the history of the previous life that the Hunan Army used thousands of kilograms of explosives to explode the city wall when it attacked Nanjing. If he placed his hope of breaking the city wall on this thing, it would probably be unrealistic.

Although it cannot explode the city wall, Bai Qi still thinks that this thing should be of use value, but he just didn't think of a solution for a while. No matter what, let's try it first and see how powerful it is.

"I think this thing is good, so I'll pull it out and throw a few of them first and see how it works." After Bai Qi gave the order, Jie Donghai, who was determined to show off in front of Bai Qi, immediately asked someone to start removing the main lever and main support, otherwise, let alone bombing the city gate of Duliang City, even the Yulong Pass would not even think about going out.

Xie Donghai and his men probably were skilled and had a short time to dismantle them, and then they found a horse to lead the big guy out of the city.

An hour later, under the protection of thousands of cavalry, this giant catapulted cart stood outside the city of Liang, which immediately attracted the attention of the soldiers in the city. After gaining the experience of being bombed for the first time, the defenders had now smelled the danger. Some went to report it, and some began to find a place to hide.

When Su Yuncheng saw Su Xiangyun suddenly come back, he was also surprised. He hadn't received any information from Su Xiangyun for a long time. He was wondering if Su Xiangyun had discovered what Su Xiangyun did, and Bai Qi controlled Su Xiangyun. Early in the morning, soldiers came to report that a woman outside the city asked to enter the city, and said that it was Su Yuncheng's daughter.

Su Yuncheng went to the city in person to take a look. It was Su Xiangyun. Seeing that there was no ambush around him, he put down the suspension bridge and let Su Xiangyun come in.

Although the son-in-law is now at the opposite side of her husband, Li Liping is still very happy when she heard that her daughter is back. She went to the door to answer. After Su Xiangyun got home, she immediately pulled Su Xiangyun and kept talking, making Su Yun, who had been trying to ask her daughter, had no chance in Chengdu.

After finally having lunch, Su Yuncheng had the opportunity to talk to his daughter alone.

"Why didn't the information come recently? Why did you come back suddenly?" Su Yuncheng asked very stiffly, obviously very dissatisfied with Su Xiangyun's recent performance. Now it is a life-and-death moment for Su Yuncheng. When Su Xiangyun comes back at this time, Su Yuncheng is equivalent to losing a spy arranged by Bai Qi. This is called how Su Yuncheng is not angry.

Facing Su Yuncheng's questioning, Su Xiangyun seemed very calm, with a calm expression and a tepid tone, and said: "My father, I have always lived according to your arrangements. Now I want to live my own life, so I'm back."

"What? Is it time to show my credit in front of me?" Su Yuncheng's face sank and his tone became cold.

"I'm telling the truth. Since I was fifteen years old, I have been making friends with scholars in the capital for you and organizing various gatherings. Who else in the capital has often appeared in public besides me? Not to mention that I helped you catch other people's handles and made many senior officials in the capital surrender to you?" Although Su Xiangyun was still using respect, his tone was not very polite. This was the first time in his life that Su Xiangyun talked to Su Yuncheng in such a tone.

Su Yuncheng's face changed a few times, and finally suppressed his emotions and said with a cold face: "I think you are completely in love with that boy Bai Qi, right? That's why he ran back and went against me."

Su Xiangyun smiled miserably after hearing this, and looked at Su Yuncheng and said, "Father, you are right. Actually, I have always loved him. But I came back this time not to help him, but to save you. Maybe you don't know that Su An and the Hun princess have fallen into the hands of my husband Bai Qi. You colluded with Zhang Chu and the plot to stolen the country have been exposed. Can't you calmly think about it, even if it was not for me and my mother, for yourself. Do you think this battle is still necessary to continue to grow?"

Su Yuncheng finally couldn't help it and slammed the table and said, "A husband, do you still have me as a father in your eyes? How much hard work I have put in for today over the years? For a man, you can ignore your father and brother and come back to be a lobbyist for Bai Qi. It's really my good daughter."

Su Xiangyun listened calmly to Su Yuncheng's words, and the expression on his face never changed. Su Xiangyun had thought about what to face when he came back. If he didn't even have a peaceful mindset, how could he convince Su Yuncheng to give up resisting?

"Father, you are so excited. I think we will talk about this today." Su Xiangyun stood up, turned around and left. Su Yun was furious when he saw Su Xiangyun like this, and waved his hand excitedly and shouted: "Come here!"

Several soldiers rushed in outside the door. Su Yuncheng pointed at Su Xiangyun and said, "This unfilial daughter is locked up for me." The soldiers did not dare to take action after hearing this. After all, Su Xiangyun is Su Yuncheng's daughter. The soldiers hesitated to look at Su Yuncheng. Su Yuncheng was even more angry and shouted with a dark face: "Do you still want me to do it yourself?"

The soldiers surrounded Su Xiangyun, but they didn't expect that Su Xiangyun was not panicked at all: "No need to worry too much, tell me, where to go? I'll just go by myself."

At this moment, he suddenly heard a loud noise in the city, and the huge vibration made the dust on the beams whizz down. Su Yuncheng was shocked and was about to ask what was going on below. Someone was already reporting outside in panic: "Oh no, Prime Minister, Bai Qi's Jiezhou Army made a huge monster outside the city and was smashing something inside."
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