After Zhang Yu left, Huang Fu Ke immediately summoned Feng Tang to his side.

"You went to Hedong City overnight and handed over this secret letter to Qin Envoy Jun in person. ”

Huang Fu Ke's face was rarely gloomy and solemn, and Feng Tang immediately realized that the matter explained by his general was by no means a simple letter delivery, otherwise he would not have to use him to go out in person.

"Please rest assured that the last general will definitely hand over the letter to the Qin envoy. ”

"Very well, the old man can only rest assured if he leaves this errand to you. Huang Fu Ke had no intention of hiding Zhang Yu's matter from Feng Tang, "You also know about Sun Xiaozhe sending people to surrender, right?"

"The last general has indeed heard of it, but the general has not been explicitly told about it, and I don't know whether it is true or not. ”

"It's true!"

Huangfu Ke easily spit out three words, but Feng Tang's face turned red, and he said hurriedly: "The general must not be involved with the Sun thief, this thief must not have a good heart." ”

Feng Tang's persuasion caused Huang Fu Ke to burst into laughter.

"Sun Thief didn't have a good heart, could it be that the old man had a good heart for Sun Thief? Do you know what is in the letter sent to Qin Envoy?"

"I don't know!"

"The old man wants to make a plan for Sun Xiaozhe this time, maybe this plan will be successful, but he can take Xia County lightly, and destroy the enemy is not counted, you say, how can you let go of such a rare opportunity for former thieves?"

Feng Tang was overjoyed when he heard this.

"The general is wise and powerful, and the last general admires it!"

In the face of the compliments of the generals, Huangfu Ke scolded with a smile:

"You don't need to pat the old man's ass, the errand handed over to you is done, and there is a heavy reward!"

Feng Tang knew that Huangfu Ke never made promises easily, but as long as he promised, he would definitely fulfill his promises, so he returned to the army happily, and immediately picked up more than a hundred followers to leave Anyi City and run all the way west. Around sunset, the group finally saw the majestic city wall of the east of the river in the afterglow.

"Envoy, the general under the command of Huangfu Ke, Feng Tang asks to see you!"

Feng Tang?

Qin Jindeng's heart moved, knowing that Feng Tang was a close confidant of Huangfu Ke, and this person was following him in the Anyi army, confronting the rebels entrenched in Xia County, so he hurried back to Hedong City to deliver the letter, something big must have happened.

The facts were exactly the same as Qin Jin expected, and after reading the letterhead that Feng Tang handed over with body temperature, he couldn't help laughing. Sun Xiaozhe was so scheming, but unexpectedly stepped into the pit he dug himself, since this person was in a hurry to send it to the door, if he didn't give some color to see, wouldn't he be sorry for his stupidity?

"Feng Tang, you have made a great contribution, there is a heavy reward!"

Feng Tang gritted his teeth, "Envoy, you don't need to reward you heavily, the general of my family has already promised, as long as this letter is handed over to the envoy himself, he will reward me again." ”

This Feng Tang is a straight man, he doesn't have Du Qianyun or Yan Lun's twists and turns in his stomach, he only feels that after receiving the reward from Huangfu Ke, he can't receive the reward from Qin Jin anymore, so he can't stop rejecting it.

It was the first time Qin Jin had seen this kind of person who pushed him out last time, but the more he wanted to resign, the more Qin Jin wanted to reward him.

"You don't have to retreat, the reward of the old general Huangfu does not conflict with the reward of someone Qin. ”

Unexpectedly, Feng Tang had a lot of words.

"The last general has just completed an errand to deliver a letter, and he is already ashamed to receive the reward of the general Huangfu, how dare he accept the envoy again......"

Qin Jin only then discovered that the more amiable he was to this kind of person with a single brain, the more stubborn the other party became. So, his face suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice:

"This is a military order, do you dare to refuse?"

Once the person in charge of the superior sank his face, even if he didn't speak loudly, he was still not angry and arrogant, and the same was true for Qin Jin. Feng Tang didn't think that Qin Envoy, who was still kind and pleasant at the last moment, actually said that he would change his face, and he shrank his neck in fright, and he didn't dare to refuse.

"The last general will not dare!"

The corners of Qin Jin's mouth rose slightly, and his face still did not change.

"Qin doesn't reward you with gold and silver, and allows you to choose a batch of high-quality Hexi good horses in the stable!"

If Qin Jin rewarded him with gold and silver, Feng Tang was not interested, but when he heard that Qin Jin actually wanted to reward him with a batch of good horses from Hexi, his heart immediately burst into joy.

"What the envoy said, should he be serious?"

Feng Tang was in such a period of time, and Qin Jin knew that this reward had scratched the itch of this person. However, he still deliberately asked with a straight face:

"How, do you want to excuse yourself?"

"The last general will not dare to ...... You can't go back on what you said......"

Feng Tang not only no longer shirked, but was afraid that Qin Jin would regret it.

Seeing this person's attitude before and after, Qin Jin felt funny, and finally burst out laughing.

"Go, go to the stables and pick your favorite horse!"

After Feng Tang left happily, the smile on Qin Jin's face gradually faded. Although Huang Fuke's plan is a bit risky, the temptation is indeed difficult to refuse.

After reading Huang Fu Ke's handwritten letter, he had already made a decision, the opportunity that God rushed to send him must not be ignored, and he couldn't do anything to destroy the heavens. It's a risky thing to do, but if you want to achieve great things, how can you have a safe and worry-free road?

The brief silence was soon broken by the retinue.

"Envoy, General Pei's army has reported!"

Due to the extremely important military plan against Jiangzhou this time, Qin Jin asked Pei Jing and Lu Qi to send back the military information at that time to Hedong City every half day.

The military report sent by Pei Jing showed that the rear army led by him had successfully crossed the Lonely Mountain, and at this time it had reached Wanquan.

Qin Jin took this detailed military report of thousands of words sent by Pei Jing, and deduced it one by one in front of the map, compared to Pei Jing's cautious advance, Lu Qi was obviously more aggressive, and the front army he led had already crossed Jishan at this time, and it was less than thirty miles away from Wenxi County.

However, they still did not have a large-scale fierce battle with Wen Xi's Shi Siming Division, and except for the expulsion and fighting between the Tanma rangers, the two armies maintained great restraint most of the time.

Lu Qi's plan was not to attack Wenxi directly, but to attack Baibi more than 30 miles northeast of Wenxi first, and then attack Zhengping, which was more than 40 miles north of Wenxi, in order to disturb the morale of Wenxi's rebels, and then move with the camera.

Therefore, although Lu Qi was very aggressive in his army, his attitude towards the Wenxi rebels was still very stable and he would not act rashly. Qin Jin also felt that this kind of temptation was more in line with the current situation of the Shenwu Army, after all, the family background of the Shenwu Army was the 10,000 people under Lu Qi, but he could not withstand unnecessary consumption, and he must not fight to the death until he was forced to do so.

The rear army led by Pei Jing and Lu Qi's front army are roughly more than 20 miles apart, once one side has police, the other side can be reinforced in time, so the front and rear two armies are each other's horns, echoing each other from afar, and if the idlers want to easily bargain, it is not even to think about it.

After about half an hour of deducing in front of the map, the sun had completely set, it was pitch black outside, and two large sticks of butter wax were lit indoors, perhaps because of the remaining heat, the candles made of butter had faintly smelled, and once they burned, the whole room was filled with an inexplicable smell of burning.

Qin Jin rubbed his ravaged nose, he had also tried to use candles made of beeswax, although the candle light was more stable and the taste was lighter, but the price was so high that even the Tang Dynasty official office could not afford it. After all, Qin Jin often worked all night, and it was very terrifying to consume dozens of beeswax candles overnight.

Previously, when he was in Feng Yijun, Du Fu had specifically advised him not to waste so much about the use of candles. In fact, Qin Jin also felt that it was a waste, so he was as good as flowing, but he really couldn't stand the dim light of the bean-sized oil lamp, so he had to let his nose endure the torture.

Qin Jin leaned on the soft couch tiredly, rubbed his tight temples, and closed his eyes to recuperate. After a while, Qin Jin opened his eyes and felt that he was full of energy, which caused him to sigh for a while, a young body is the biggest capital, if it weren't for the age of his early twenties, I am afraid he would not be able to sustain such a high-intensity official disposition.

After thinking for a while, Qin Jin ordered someone to recruit Du Qianyun, who was stranded in Hedong City, to the county court in the middle hall.

"The trade routes of Dugi Province can come in handy, the situation in Ruicheng, Pinglu and other places, you send someone to investigate. ”

Du Qianyun had already been gearing up, seeing that everyone had a heavy responsibility on their bodies, and they had nothing to do alone, so they were already anxious to eat and tea.

"There are not many rebels in Ruicheng and Pinglu, and it seems that Sun Xiaozhe's arrangement is a bit strange. ”

Qin Jin was quite surprised by Du Qianyun's crisp and neat answer, this person is actually using it more and more smoothly now, and he can already think of his front.

"When did this information?"

Du Qianyun was quite proud.

"When I came to Hedong, I knew that sooner or later it would be used by the envoy, so I had already sent people to inquire about the news on both sides of the Yellow River in a few days. Not only did Ruicheng and Pinglu not have many rebel soldiers, but even Shaanzhou on the south bank of the Yellow River was less than 10,000. ”

This news surprised Qin Jin even more, Sun Xiaozhe's way of arranging troops is indeed strange, this person is by no means a fool, there will not be such a big flaw, then there can only be one explanation, the rebels must have other plans.

However, Qin Jin had no intention of crossing the Yellow River, and he did not even plan to attack Ruicheng and Pinglu on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Keep these two county seats, keep a certain distance from Sun Xiaozhe's headquarters along the Yellow River, and then focus on Jiangzhou.

"You have only one task, that is, to keep an eye on the Yellow River from Ruicheng to Shaanzhou, and if there is any change in the rebels, you must report it immediately. ”

There is Shouyang Mountain in the south of Hedong City, and the water flows through the southeast of Hedong City, if in previous years, this is an excellent natural defense zone, but this year's drought has been dry for several months, and the water has dried up in a large area, and it can not play the role of blocking the enemy at all. Therefore, the movements of the rebels in the area of Ruicheng and Pinglu are extremely important.

"Envoy, but please rest assured, the humble will do his best, and dare not relax for a moment. ”

……

Under the cover of night, a group of men and horses were quietly rushing westward along the northern foot of Jishan Mountain.