Du Ru's sudden silence made Mu Qing's eyelids jump. "How?" She stopped, turned her head and tried to see the expression on his face clearly through the moonlight, but she only saw an indifference, "But what news is coming from Jincheng?" ”

Du Ruhui put his arm around her shoulder, and exerted some force on his arm, driving her to pause and continue to walk forward, "Not yet." In the midst of the chaos, no news is the best news. Don't worry too much, I think Brother Yu is also a shrewd person, and he will definitely think of ways to protect himself and Ye Na. ”

Mu Qing lowered his head and said nothing, walking forward step by step with his drive, and after taking a few steps, he looked up at him in disbelief.

"Every day you are with the soldiers, have you heard any complaints?" Du Ruhui suddenly asked.

This question really worked, and soon took her mind away, she turned her head and thought for a while, and said with a low smile: "There are complaints and praises, which one do you want to hear first?" ”

"Listen to the complaint first."

"Xu doesn't need me to say, what you should have known was nothing more than those words that could not be followed, and they all complained about dragging off their sharpness." Mu Qing pursed his lips and recounted the eagerness of those Xuanjia Langs, then turned the conversation and talked about those praises, and bent his eyes with a smile at the end, "Daddy's professor, do you still remember." ”

Du Ruhui sighed softly: "'Soldiers are not bloody, and victory without fighting is the best policy; Losing troops and losing generals, winning more and less, is the middle policy, injuring the enemy by 1,000, and injuring yourself by 800 is the next policy. 'I never dare to forget what my teacher taught. ”

As he spoke, he had already walked to the front of the tent door, and just as he was about to open the tent door, there was a sound of footsteps in the darkness, running very quickly, and in an instant, a heavy and rapid gasp also followed, Du Ruhui stood still, and subconsciously protected Mu Qing behind him.

"Mr. Du? Is it Mr. Du in front? A man who came from the direction of the big tent asked as he ran and gasped as he ran.

Du Ruhui put down the arm that was guarding in front of Mu Qing, and raised his voice slightly, "It's down." ”

The person who came had already run to him, holding his waist, gasping for breath, and said without a word: "Fold, fold the city, Xue Ju, and die violently." ”

Mu Qing suppressed his throat and let out an "ah" in surprise, Du Ruhui turned around, raised his eyebrows, and raised his hand to the man, "Calm down, let's talk carefully." ”

"Please Mr. Du, go to, go to, speak in the big tent." The soldier who reported the news was still panting heavily, bending over, supporting his knees with one hand and pointing to the big tent with the other.

Du Ruhui didn't say a word, picked up his robe and strode towards the big tent, Mu Qing hesitated, didn't enter the tent anymore, and went with him, but his steps were wide, and she had to trot all the way to keep up.

The atmosphere in the tent of King Qin was not surprising at all, and the generals of Lang rose up with enthusiasm, rubbing their hands, and they couldn't wait to immediately put on their armor and rush to the city to attack the city. It was Li Shimin, and there was a bit of uncontrollable joy in his eyes.

Mu Qing saw that all the generals in the tent were there, but it was inconvenient to enter, so he turned around and was about to leave, but Li Shimin in the tent saw her figure earlier, and called her in a loud voice, "Qi Niang might as well come along." She had to turn around and enter the account, first bent her knees to Li Shimin, and then saluted the generals.

The generals in the tent all recognized her, some of them were courteous, and some of them had always disliked and disdained the woman's involvement, because the King of Qin valued her, and bluntly turned sideways to return the salute, Mu Qing didn't care about this, smiled slightly, and retreated to Du Ruhui's back.

Before Du Ruhui entered the account, Li Shimin was asking why Xue Ju's funeral was a few days late. Now that they have sat down, they will get down to business. A soldier dressed as a scout was replying in the tent, "Xue Ju's violent illness came out earlier, but the news of his death was tightly sealed by Xue Dalang, Xu is afraid that the army's heart will change." After a few days of suppression, Xue Dalang showed up to inherit the unification, and our eyes and ears in the city knew that Xue Ju had died violently. ”

"Can you find out how the generals who followed Xue Ju in the Central Plains of the city reacted?" Du Ruhui asked.

"I saw grief and indignation, but I didn't see any changes in the side." The scout said.

Du Ruyan was silent and nodded to himself.

The scout seemed to remember something important, and hurriedly said: "On the day Xue Dalang ascended, there was indeed a lot of noise, but it was not for whether Xue Dalang was justified or not, but I heard that several old generals questioned him why he did not allocate grain and grass, and somehow, the trouble arose, and he cut down a Lang general in public, so that the rest of the generals were speechless. ”

Du Ruhui's face moved slightly, the corners of his lips were hooked, and a steady smile came to his eyes, and at the same time, Li Shimin, who was in the first seat, laughed loudly, "Keming is wonderful, Xue Jun is really going to run out of food." ”

"It is estimated that if there is another month, there should be Xue Jun to descend. They were all reckless, but they followed the Xue family for a full meal, but now they can't meet the second meal, and Xue Dalang has no benevolence, so he won't last long. Within three months, unless Xue Rengao's temperament changes greatly and he treats people generously, Erlang can sit and receive less than 100,000 Xue Jun. Du Ruhui smiled at Li Shimin: "Erlang will give some kindness again, which will make Xue Rengao more and more ruthless, so that the generals will be grateful to Dade, isn't it a good thing sent by Xue Dalang himself?" ”

The generals burst into laughter. "Okay." With a satisfied smile on his face, King Qin slowly stood up from his seat, "General Liang listens to the order. Tomorrow another fortification will be added, and it will be secure. Anyone who dares to lead an army out of the camp to fight without authorization shall be immediately decided. ”

Liang Shi, the head of the march, got up and took the order.

Du Ruhan smiled and nodded, "That's exactly the truth." It is important to keep in mind that no matter how the Xue army provokes and calls for battle, he only sticks to the camp and never meets the attack. ”

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Two months later, late autumn and October. Autumn has already hung high on the branches, and the sour dates are hanging from the branches from ripe to shriveled. The leaves of the tree fell, and the speed of the leaves falling in this late autumn was the speed at which the soldiers in the Xue army camp on the opposite side of the hill fled to the Tang army camp.

In the morning, the ground of the camp was covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost. Mu Qing held a stack of dried biscuits, carefully picked the frost and walked, several hungry Xue Jun at the square table in front of the camp were staring at her from far and near, that look looked as if she was going to swallow her alive, Mu Qing didn't care, she saw too much hunger and hopelessness after seeing the look when eating, but tired of the two Xuanjia Lang behind her, had to tighten the strings in her head, and firmly held the saber on her waist.

She walked to the table unhurriedly, and distributed the dry cakes one by one, Xue Jun, who had not seen the dry food for a few days, didn't care to thank him, grabbed the dry cakes and gnawed them, without accident, all of them choked on the dry cakes and stretched their necks, Mu Qing turned around and entered the account familiarly, brought a few bowls of thin vegetable soup, and placed them in front of these people.

For more than a month, she had to do these things almost every morning, most of the deserters took advantage of the night to cross the hill, and the soldiers who temporarily taught the night patrol were detained, and as soon as the morning dawned, Mu Qing could see a few soldiers who were so hungry that they couldn't speak.

Although the deserters were already so hungry that they only had food in their eyes, and they didn't have much strength to make trouble, Du Ruhui was still worried that she would get along with these fleeing Xue Jun every day, and it was difficult to guarantee that something would happen, so she ignored her obstruction and asked the King of Qin for two Xuanjia Lang, who followed her closely behind her at all times.

After more than ten consecutive days of stragglers coming and falling at night, it seems that Xue Jun's military camp has slackened a lot, and the stragglers who sneak in at night continue, and people gradually come during the day, but they are no longer a few sporadic soldiers. At first, the team was leading fifty people, and then there were lower-level generals who brought one or two hundred people.

On this day, after Mu Qing gave food, a soldier at the table suddenly put down most of the dry cakes in his hand, took out a letter from his arms, and stuffed it into Mu Qing's hand, "Please deliver it to His Royal Highness King Qin quickly, don't dare to delay." ”

Mu Qing took the letter and glanced at it, only to see the words "Foolish General Liang Hulang Presents His Royal Highness the King of Tang Qin" in the book, Mu Qing knew that this thing was important, and turned around to hand it over to Xuanjialang, but he felt that it was inappropriate, and withdrew his hand, "You guys settle them in this good life." Then he took the letter in his arms, took a horse, and sent it to the big tent in person.

Li Shimin wrinkled his brows and read the letter, and handed it to Du Ruhui casually, these two people were in a state of affairs after reading it, and they couldn't tell whether they were surprised or happy, it was said that the enemy lord would come to surrender, which was a good thing, but it made people suspicious.

The letter turned around in Du Ruhui's hand, and then returned to Li Shimin's hand, his fingers flicked a few times on the yellowish letterhead, and Xue Dalang, who was full of the details in the letter, tortured the people and beat the leading generals and strategists, and muttered: "This is not against Xue Rengao's consistent behavior. ”

Mu Qing wandered around outside the big tent for a few laps, and wanted to go back to the gang's camp, but after taking a few steps, his mind moved, and he slowly walked back to the big tent. Looking at this situation, the main general of the Xue army is going to lead the troops to surrender, Xue Rengao must be angry, no matter whether the Tang army can stand it or not, Xue Dajun will definitely follow. If the Tang army is not accepted, the Xue army exterminated Liang Hulang on the spot, and provoked the Tang army, if the Tang army is surrendered, go out of the camp to meet Liang Hulang, and the Tang army and Liang Hulang join forces to attack the Xue army, or they can be broken in one fell swoop. This is certainly good, but there is still another possibility, that is, Liang Hulang surrendered by fraud, led out the Tang army, and annihilated the Xue army.

After discussing for a long time, seeing that the day was in the middle of the day, and the time of Liang Hulang's letter was approaching, there was a commotion in the big tent, Mu Qing approached the big tent, and the guards did not stop her, she walked to the door of the tent, the commotion had subsided, and a familiar and thick voice sounded, "General Liang Shi led 10,000 troops out of the camp to meet Liang Hulang in the shallow water plain, to find out if he really wanted to surrender." Erlang led 10,000 troops to hide in the north of the shallow water plain, if he faked his surrender and attracted the Xue army to attack, he would surprise the Xue army from the side and help General Liang Shi destroy the enemy. If he really surrenders, the three armies will be combined, and the enemy will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and the city will be directly captured. ”

Mu Qing stood in front of the big tent door, for a moment or two, blank. Is that today? After waiting for April, it was suddenly going to end today. The first thought that flashed in her mind was that she would soon be able to return to Chang'an to see Shiro, who she had been thinking about day and night, and the second thought that followed taught her a chill in her heart, that is, today, her husband and sister were going to fight with the army and fight to the death with her son-in-law of the Yuhang Gu clan.

Mu Qing quietly turned around and walked towards her and Du Ruhui's tent, no matter what, she should also prepare his robe and armor for him. Along the way, there were soldiers who saw her greeting her, but she didn't hear anything, and blindly walked with her head down, and as she walked, she couldn't help but smile bitterly in her heart. R1152