Liu Yujue opened the tent and entered, and Ugly Xia Xun was still scratching on the ground, so he called: Big brother! …

"Oh! Yu Jue came, sit. What's the takeaway today? Xia Xun saw him and hurriedly patted the felt carpet beside him.

Liu Yujue was originally a member of the circus, according to his rhetoric, and Xia Xun has the friendship and brotherhood of master and servant, and often comes to see him, which is reasonable, Guo Yixuan does not doubt this.

Liu Yujue sat down cross-legged on the felt carpet and sighed listlessly: "I haven't heard any useful news, we are close to Timur now, but it is difficult to make any further progress, it is really discouraged to think about it." ”

Xia Xun smiled and said: "Don't worry, there is always a way, any clue may be used by us, but it doesn't necessarily have to be directly related to our purpose." I've taught you this truth a long time ago, why have you forgotten it? Tell me what you learned today? ”

Liu Yujue told Xia Xun the news he heard and saw in the sky, and said it to Xia Xun without missing anything.

Xia Xun poured him a cup of tea, while slowly sipping tea, while listening to him, hearing him mention the situation that military discipline was not left when drinking was allowed in the army, his eyes suddenly lit up, he only raised his hand, Liu Yujue knew what he had in mind, immediately closed his mouth, and stared at him quietly.

Xia Xun tilted his head slightly, his eyes staring at the corner of the tent, where Tang Sai'er was practicing. Tang Sai'er was sitting in the corner of the tent at the moment, holding a teacup in her hand, which sometimes danced between her fingers and danced, sometimes disappearing, and then magically appeared.

Xia Xun seemed to be staring at her, but gradually his eyes lost focus, as if through Tang Sai'er's body, looking into nothingness. Liu Yujue looked at Xia Xun seriously, only to see that he nodded sometimes, sometimes shook his head, sometimes frowned and pondered, and sometimes the leader smiled.

To Yu Jue, he couldn't help but think: "Big brother has to take advantage of this matter?" However, even when the army was drinking and disorderly, it was impossible for Timur's pro-army guard battalion to be scattered, let alone allow people to approach Timuni, let alone get close to him, let alone assassinate him.

Moreover, if you want to make the army ban on alcohol, unless something big happens that can make Timur extremely happy, what can the eldest brother do to make Timur ecstatic and ban alcoholism?

With the power of the state, I am afraid that unless it is to defeat our army, so that Timur's army will fight a great victory.

However, in the first battle of the collision of the two great powers of the East and the West, the morale of the army is very important, if it surrenders, only the generals can know, and it is impossible to tell the soldiers that the morale is depressed to the extreme, and they are afraid that it will be self-defeating, and it will really bury the victory of the entire war. What's more, now that Guogong is in the enemy camp, how can it be possible to contact the army of the Ming Dynasty and ask General Song Sheng to act according to his ideas? ”

"Big brother, how is it, have you figured out a way?" After a long time, Liu Yujue couldn't help but ask. Xia Xun shook his head and said, "I need to think about this matter." ”

Liu Yujue sighed and said: "Big brother, it is really difficult to fight Timur's idea, especially when time is tight, we can't afford to think about it carefully, big brother, if it really doesn't work, let's implement the next policy, whether it is successful or not, just do the assassination, leave evidence pointing to Hari Sultan at a critical time, and force Timur's right army to rebel, this is also a miracle!" ”

Xia Xun shook his head and said: "If it is really impossible to assassinate, you can make this decision, but if there is a chance, you must try to kill Timur." The Timurid Empire is too huge, and such a huge country, it is Timur who maintains it, if Timur does not die, Hari Sultan can't take too many people, and it can't cause civil strife in the Timurid Empire. ”

"Such a powerful force requires great sacrifices to conquer it from the outside, but it can do more with less if you start from within. We finally have Hari Sultan as an internal response, how can we give up so easily? What's more, I have already had several cases of assassination of Timur, and the success rate is more than 30%! ”

Xia Xun took a deep breath and said, "Assassinating a king, there is a possibility, it is worth the risk, let alone three percent?" However, none of my abdominal cases can kill people invisibly.

Yu Jue, an assassin of the highest level, is not a one-hit kill, nor is it someone who no one knows is you killed. ”

Liu Yujue exclaimed: "One hit will be hit, he is already a master, he will go to his clothes, he will not leave his body and his name, he is a super-first-class master, this is not enough, so how can he be the highest realm?" ”

Xia Xun said: "The highest state is to make the dead die not like being killed, only in this way is the most successful assassination, in order to obtain the greatest benefits!" I'm in a dilemma, and that's why I can't think of a more appropriate way within a day, I'll take one of the several plans I've already found out to carry it out. ”

Speaking of this, Xia Xun unexpectedly remembered that he got rid of the four secret agents of Jinyiwei in Qingzhou, Zhang Shisan was ruthless, Feng Xihui had high martial arts, Liu Xusheng was cautious, and An Litong was cunning and suspicious, but he got rid of these stumbling blocks one by one, and the method he used at that time had already achieved the realm of "leaving his clothes and leaving no body and name", everyone knew that they were killed, but they couldn't find out who killed them!

One hit kills, that is a clever killer, and it is also the realm that many killers pursue in their lives, but killing people without a name is a more clever realm. A killer, if he has a reputation in the killer world, or even ranks first or second, this person is not far from death.

A truly clever killer is one who knows you are so clever. And this is not the highest realm, the more intelligent realm, which is to kill people, but make everyone think that the killed person is just a natural death. This requires wisdom, extremely clever wisdom, a careful mind and rigorous logical reasoning.

Since leaving Qingzhou, Xia Xun has fought with the sky and people, full of wisdom, courage and strategy, every pass, every hurdle, he has broken through. And this time, he still needs to fight himself, and only by surpassing himself can he devise a flawless murder plan.

He needs to go through the thick and thin to assassinate a king!

He needs to kill this king, who is under tight protection!

He needs to disguise this assassination as a natural death!

He needs to try to make sure that his people get out of the murder scene!

In the end, he needs to get rid of his "allies" and return to Daming safely with men and women, big and small, seven or eight people!

The plan he designed must try to ensure that he can pass five levels in a row, and any of these levels is an almost insurmountable peak!

Timur was in good spirits today, and the sixty-nine-year-old man sat quietly in his white bearskin chair, leaning sideways, his cheek pressed against the soft fur, listening carefully to the opinions of his subordinates.

Shaharu's Left Army, belatedly arrived, and finally arrived at the assembly point. Timur did not give too much harsh criticism to this. He was a cold-blooded, iron-fisted king, but he was also the head of a large family, a father. The eldest son, the eldest grandson, was always especially loved by the elders, and Timur, the emperor, was no exception.

There are only two of his own sons left, the third is frail and sickly, and has been staying in Marham for many years, and his brilliant achievements are all created by him or his other descendants, and he does not like this third child who has nothing to achieve, and the fourth is brave and good at fighting, and the youngest of his sons, and he is the most favored by him.

Besides, his plan had been planned in advance, and he chose to march in winter because crossing the desert in summer was an almost impossible task, and the heat was so hot that even birds did not dare to fly over the desert. But he didn't want to choose winter warfare, which would obviously be more disadvantageous to the attacking side and would add a lot of unnecessary trouble to him. Now is the right time, when the spring is warm, the glaciers are thawing, and the climate is just right.

Another point is that the commander of the Right Army, his grandson Ban Hari Sultan, has been seized of military power by him, and if he punishes the commander of the Left Army at this time, then he needs to completely redeploy the army, and time does not allow him to do so.

The generals are arguing, and there is only one point left on their list: the direction of attack.

Some generals insisted that they should cross the Pamir Plateau, attack Gaomi and occupy Shazhou, and use this as a base to forcibly seize Jiayu Pass and enter Shaanxi, take the land of Guanzhong, and look at the hinterland of the Central Plains in the east.

Those who insisted on this opinion included Qasu Yaddin, who had rushed to take over the Sultan of Hari's military power, and who were members of the princes' faction.

Another part of the generals believed that the Right Route Army, commanded by Gaisuyaddin, seized Hami and Shazhou, and stormed Jiayu Pass, while the main force of the Chinese Army cooperated with the Left Route Army to detour north of the Tianshan Mountains and attack the northern Korean line of the Ming Empire from the northwest of the mountain. This part of the generals was mainly people who were inclined to the fourth son of the emperor, Shaharu.

Those who support the route of taking Jiayuguan as the main tomb believe that Qin Shi Huang used Guanzhong, which can be attacked and defended, as a base to destroy the six eastern countries and gain the whole world. The army of the Timurid Empire could follow the example of Qin Shi Huang, and with the strength of their force, as long as they included the pass in their own pockets, they had the ability to obtain the entire Ming Dynasty.

The fourth son of the emperor, Shaharu, tried his best to oppose it, they said that the distance between Hami and the sandbar was too far, and it was Shalou, and it was not suitable for transporting the weight in the barren land, and once the Jiayu Pass could not be quickly conquered, hundreds of thousands of troops would be stationed outside the Jiayu Pass, and an embarrassing dilemma would be formed.

In the battle of Yongle Emperor's Jingjing, the Ming army in the direction of Shaanxi and Jiayuguan basically did not participate in the civil war, if this powerful frontier army relied on the terrain and passes to resist the Timurid army, as long as it held out for a few months, the Timurid Emperor's ** team, which was difficult to support the army, would collapse without a fight, because it was obvious that the Ming army would definitely clear the sandbar and they would not get enough supplies from the local area.

The last point is: if the main attack on Jiayuguan is carried out, then the Right Route Army will have to undertake the main attack task, and the commander of the Right Route Army, Gaisuyadin, has just taken over the men and horses of Hari Sultan, and most of the generals in the army are Harry's old troops, so I am afraid that the transfer is not so handy.

The Four Princes faction believed that they should enter the Central Plains from Shanxi. Because this road is a vast grassland, the war horses and their cattle and sheep can have enough to eat, they do not need to carry a lot of pasture, and the water on the grassland is more abundant than in the desert. In addition, the north has been ruled by the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty has only ruled the north for forty years, and the northern Han people are not loyal enough to the Central Plains Dynasty, and their resistance to foreign races is not so strong.

The princelings raised two objections to this, one was that the road was relatively long, and the other was that Timur Khan greeted the shoe target and the tile thorn before sending his army, and expressed friendship to them, but the tile thorn's attitude was very ambiguous. If you want to go through Shanxi to break the Yanmen Pass, you have to pass through the territory of the tile thorns, if the tile thorns make a hindrance from it, or even make peace with the Ming army, and attack them from behind, the warriors of the empire will fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy.

Speaking from the heart, although the purpose of the two factions is to fight for merit and attack each other's main line of attack, the advantages and shortcomings they talk about are all real situations, and in front of Timur, the wise emperor, if you want to suppress your political opponents, you have to show some real skills.

In Timur's original plan, Jiayuguan was the main direction of attack, but to attack Jiayuguan, he had to use the sandbar as a springboard, and Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince of the Ming Dynasty, made a drastic rectification in the sandbank, and eliminated many wealthy families inclined to the Timurid Empire by bloody means, which has already influenced the local forces of the sandbank. Now the sandbar outside Jiayu Pass has changed significantly from what he knew before.

In the original situation, because the Ming Dynasty was worried that the forces outside Jiayu Pass would be too tough and more people would fall to Timur, they adopted gentle measures against the local forces in Shazhou. At that time, as long as the Timurid Empire fought for and suppressed on the one hand, it would definitely be able to get the support of the local forces in Shazhou, and at least it could get their supplies, whether it was to take advantage of it or force it to contribute.

But Yang Xu's stinky fish is a pot of soup, and now as long as the army here moves, there will definitely be a strong wall and a clear field, and the army and civilians will all withdraw into the pass. The desert is long, it is their best protection, they can calmly withdraw, and the sandbar is like a dog gnawed bone, and there is nothing left.

When the two factions were arguing, Timur was already thinking nervously, and when the two factions stopped arguing and turned their eyes to him, Timur coughed and said categorically in his old and powerful voice: "According to the previous discussion, the main attack is still at Jiayu Pass, and the left army is on standby."

When marching and fighting, even if you are sure of victory, you should also think about its defeat first. Once Jiayuguan cannot be taken strongly, the actions of the left army can contain the main force of the Ming army and make it unable to reinforce Jiayuguan, and the right army will be coordinated by the Chinese army and retreat to Beishi Bali to stand by.

If Jiayu Pass is successfully opened, then the left army will take Shanxi Yanmen Pass, one south and one north, and the two roads will attack together. Timur slowly stood up with the handrail, and ordered in a deep voice: "The whole army is ready for battle, and the war will officially start in fifteen days!" Tell Harry, handover the army quickly! Send someone to the tile spur and his party to make a final diplomatic effort! ”！。