The guards who escorted the grain, grass and artillery arrived at the border seven days earlier than the Xi Dynasty and his party, and some of the grain, grass and artillery had been transported to a purchased house in Suizhou City to be guarded, and the rest of the grain and grass were delivered to the military camp after two days of rest.

Seeing that it was the grain and grass escorted by the Winged King's personal guards, Chang Ping personally met with the leader to find out when the Winged King would arrive at the border pass, and prepared to make a good impression in front of the Winged King.

The guards didn't say anything, and left directly without leaving a meal after explaining their business in the sense of haha, avoiding the behavior of General Chang Ping asking questions.

Under the condition of not knowing the itinerary of the Wing King, Chang Ping and the other generals were all worried, lest the Wing King would come by a surprise attack and catch everyone off guard.

Although it is better to say that there is not much grain and grass, it is better than nothing, and Chang Ping, who arranged the grain and grass, convened the generals to discuss the remaining events, and the results were much the same.

The Xichao group arrived at Suizhou City unhurriedly, settled down in the purchased house, and relaxed for two days before remembering to go to the barracks.

Yan Suyi followed the Wing King, with a human skin mask on his face that he was not afraid of being recognized by others, and half of the people around him were left in the house to prevent sudden accidents, and went to the barracks with half of the Wing King's personal guards.

The small soldiers guarding the gate of the barracks came to report that the Wing King had arrived outside the camp, and Chang Ping hurriedly called all the people out of the camp to greet the big Buddha in Beijing.

Entering the big tent, Xi Chao chose the chair on the right side of the main seat and sat down, signaling Changping to take a seat.

Seeing this, Chang Ping did not shirk it, and walked to the place where he had been sitting for a long time and sat down. The other generals then took their seats, and the atmosphere was immediately tense and severe.

Xichao opened his mouth and first asked if the grain and grass were enough. Prepare more prepared, not enough to buy some storage, don't worry about the problem of silver, how can you have spare time to buy grain during the war, and the people of Suizhou City also want to eat, and you must not pass it on to the people to levy grain or something, so that you will complain.

After that, he asked about the current information of the foreign people. How many tribes are gathered, about how many people and horses, mainly the number of cavalry, weapons and so on.

Chang Ping will be able to answer. He knew very little, and the foreign tribe hid very deeply, so it was inconvenient to get close to the situation that was not probed, and he was deeply ashamed of the Winged King's question.

The Xi Dynasty has never been at the point where it is about to go to war, and it knows very little about the enemy, and it doesn't know anything about it. There is a deep worry between the eyebrows.

The carefully observed generals under the wing king frowned and couldn't stop their hearts from beating faster. for fear that the Winged King would condemn everyone because of this.

"Where's the caravan?" In the past, there were bold caravans trading with some foreign tribes, and the Xi Dynasty wanted to inquire about the situation from this aspect.

"No one in the caravan wants to take that risk." Chang Ping didn't think about other methods, "The caravan went to the foreign settlements and could not go deep into the surrounding activities, once the life and death were unpredictable once they crossed the border, no one would necessarily say anything about the news, and they had to buy them with their property, and this trip was a carload of goods for nothing." "And he could not force the merchant to go, so he had to abandon the road.

"Is there human trafficking?" Xi Chao suddenly asked. "Slave or woman?"

"This ......," Chang Ping couldn't answer for a while, turning his gaze to the generals seated.

"Why, isn't it. Or is there something else? "The Xi Dynasty learned from the news that there was a similar transaction of secretly buying and selling human beings, which had not been destroyed for a long time.

"It's not at all." Chang Ping didn't know where the Wing King got the news, and he even knew the business he was doing.

"Find the connector informant, and send a few clever ones to disguise themselves as slaves." Xi Chao didn't want to listen to Chang Ping's too many explanations, so he directly ordered, "Most of the people who bought it were powerful and wealthy families, and the sources were more reliable." ”

"Okay." Chang Ping had no choice but to respond, not because he didn't think of this method, but because no one was willing to take a risk, and now that the Wing King said that he had to go if he didn't go.

"That's it, the rest will be done." Xi Chao was very disappointed with the generals, obviously there was a convenient way but he didn't use it, he dragged it out until now, he didn't know anything and still didn't know how to reflect, he wanted to make his own efforts, and the abacus was really loud.

"But the prince wants to go back to Suizhou City?" Chang Ping asked, "The army has prepared a camp tent, what is there to discuss when the prince lives in the army?" ”

"No need, General Chang has always been in charge of the army, and this king is only interfering with one or two, and has no right to interfere with General Chang's decision." Xichao was unhappy and unwilling to stay in the army to watch people act.

The Wing King didn't wait for Chang Ping to open his mouth and strode away with the people, the generals, you look at me, I see that you don't know why.

The Wing King doesn't care, it's good or bad. Fortunately, the power in Chang Ping's hands was guaranteed, and he breathed a sigh of relief. The bad thing is that in case this war is not conducive to the court, hundreds of officials will ask for the guilt, and there will be no way to explain to the emperor.

"General." The general opened his mouth to ask what to do next, beating people and pretending to be slaves to sneak into foreign lands, this person is not easy to find, knowing that there may be no return, and there are very few people who are willing to sacrifice their lives to die.

"Spend a lot of money." Money can make ghosts grind, there must be brave men under heavy rewards, Chang Ping is not the time to care about personal gains and losses, the winged king does not do anything obviously, and the consequences do not need to be thought of, and there will be no good results.

Generals obey orders, they can't drag their ignorance, and wait until the foreign clan fights to the doorstep of the fiasco or a miserable victory, the cost is too great, and the explanations are so pale and powerless, and what awaits them will be the end of condemnation.

"Grandpa." Chang Shuo glanced at the scattered generals and came to his grandfather's side.

"Go in and say." Chang Ping led his grandson into the big tent.

"Something new?" Chang Ping looked up at his grandson and motioned for him to sit down.

"Yes, there is an unfamiliar face among the people brought by the Wing King this time, who looks quite ordinary and doesn't look like an ordinary person." Chang Shuo originally went to arrange for the people brought by the Wing King to live in the barracks, but he didn't expect that those people had no intention of staying in the slightest, and it was inconvenient to ask more for fear of causing unnecessary suspicion, so he led everyone around and did not go deep into the army.

"Imperial Physician Xu is also here." Chang Shuo heard that the Wing King always had a imperial doctor by his side, and when he learned about the situation afterwards, he recognized it at a glance when he saw it today.

"The Xu family?" Chang Ping scrolled out a list of names in his mind, all of whom were people who had contact with the Wing King.

"It's not like a businessman." Chang Shuo has been in contact with businessmen. It can't hide the atmosphere of the philistines all over the body, and the smell of copper can be smelled from afar.

"Didn't you say that Xu Chen's appearance was handsome and extraordinary?" The person I saw this time was obviously mediocre in appearance, and there was too much difference, and Chang Shuo suspected that he was a person who had no way of knowing.

"There must be a reason why the Winged King brought people here." Chang Ping didn't believe that Wang Ping brought an irrelevant person to the army for no reason.

"Do you want to check?" Chang Shuo was a little unsure. "What if it's discovered?" At that time, it was difficult to say why it was necessary to investigate the people around the Winged King, and a single suspicion was not enough to convince the Winged King.

"No, wait for the Winged King to come and see again." Chang Ping didn't want to provoke the Wing King for no reason, and the events of that year were still fresh in his memory, and he was shocked every time he thought about it.

"If the Winged King still has this person with him, then this person must be someone the Winged King trusts." Chang Shuo understood the implication in his grandfather's words.

"Hmm." Chang Ping nodded, but he was thinking about other things. It will take time to spy on foreign tribes back and forth, and it is not a way to wait, do you have to take measures?

"Grandpa. The Wing King is not in the army, why is he here? "It's coming from afar and coming to face the battle, so it's not going to be lively, right? Chang Shuo's heart was churning.

"I can't guess, and there is no decree from above." Chang Ping listened to many rumors about the Wing King, and it was difficult to analyze the correct conjecture from them.

Here, the tide and the group returned to Suizhou City. Yan Suyi was keenly aware of the displeasure in the Wing King's heart. So he blurted out, "Got a problem?" ”

"Time has changed, including people's hearts." Xi Chao sighed and had a new understanding of the contact with Chang Ping again.

"The Chang family has two hearts?" Xu Mian was very surprised, "Didn't you say that you had beaten it last time?" "Sounds like something is happening.

"That was three years ago." Hongrui continued, "People's hearts cannot always be static, and ambition will breed delusions that should not be there. ”

"It's okay not to look at it?" Xu Mian was worried, "It's better to put it under your nose than to let it develop, and it's hard to turn things around if something happens." ”

"The master's call is to put a long line to catch a big fish, it depends on how far the Chang family has achieved. Whether or not we grasp a certain degree, the consequences of crossing the line are not borne by ordinary people. "Hongrui solves Xu Mian's doubts." If the Chang family can keep it, it depends on whether they are rational or not. ”

"The big war is coming, how many innocent soldiers will die in this way?" Xu Mian disagrees with this biased approach.

"The barracks here have not been rectified, and because the Chang family has been in charge for many years, the rotten things in it should have been removed a long time ago." The plan drawn up by the Xichao has never changed.

"What's more, the Chang family has never shown loyalty and is still in a neutral state." Hongrui felt great irony at the Chang family's apparently evasive behavior.

"A big mess left over from the First World War of the Patriotic Republic of China had to be solved, and the three border passes were rectified in order, and they couldn't take out their hands to deal with the Chang family, and they have dragged on until now, and the Chang family is embarrassed to do nothing, as if they are nothing." Hongrui has a very bad impression of the Chang family, and she knew that she should have won it at the beginning today, but now she is causing trouble.

"The power in your hands is difficult to give up, and you are deceiving yourself when you look forward and back, and you think that you can get through the tricks." Yan Suyi made the final summary, and the Chang family didn't know how to lift it, no wonder the Wing King took action to clean it up.

"The affairs of the foreign clan are in vain by those people of the Chang family, can the master go and find out in person?" Hongrui asked, but in fact, she was very yearning for the beauty of the prairie.

"I'll leave in three days." Xi Chao thought that he should go, in addition to the secret guards sent, plus the actions of Chang Ping's side, it was better to take a multi-pronged approach than to sit back and wait to be killed.

"Okay." Hongrui smiled happily, her mind was full of turquoise grassland, how happy it should be to gallop on horseback.

"I'll go with me." Yan Suyi followed the King of Dingyi, where the King of Wings goes, where he goes, and there are many dangers in the grassland, one more help, and one more guarantee.

"I'll go too." Xu Mian was unwilling, "I will prepare some more medicines to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants." "Everyone is gone, leaving yourself alone in the city, it's boring, even if you don't know martial arts, you have medicine on your body, and you're not afraid of someone with bad intentions attacking, a pack of medicine is scattered out, and the medicine is poured.

Xi Chao originally intended to take Xu Mian there, after all, he didn't know much about the grassland, and there was a doctor to make sure that it happened.

"Slave maid go and get the horses ready." Hong Rui rushed and said, "Maybe you can find a herd of wild horses, a horse king or something." "How beautiful it should be.

"Wild horses are common in deep mountains and valleys, and if you want to find them all at once, you have to stay on the grassland for a few more days, and the king of horses should not think about it." Xu Mian smiled and poured cold water on Hongrui, "Foreigners are good at raising horses and taming horses, maybe they have already let people use them to reproduce the next generation." ”

"That's not necessarily, the master is born with good luck, maybe he can meet it when he goes." Hongrui pushed back unconvinced.

"You're the most reasonable." Xu Mian smiled and stopped continuing the topic.

"Go and prepare, camping on the grassland is more risky, pay more attention to preparation." Xi Chao instructed Hongrui to do it, and prepare in advance so as not to miss it.

"Yes." Hongrui had to order the guards to be called to prepare, and the guards had to bring at least half of them on this trip, in case of emergencies, it would be easier for people to do things.

"In what name, shouldn't it be in the name of a rich son's grassland safari?" Xu Mian opened his mouth to ask, so strange about the identity of this disguise.

"Jianghu people." Xi Chao has already figured out the identity he pretends to be, "Jianghu people are casual and arbitrary, and they can be explained with guards." ”

"Suffering foreigners, those barbarians don't care whether you are from the rivers and lakes or not." Xu Mian had to plan ahead for possible accidents.

"Jianghu people have a characteristic." Yan Suyi smiled, "Killing people casually without blinking and strong in martial arts, outsiders only have kung fu on their fists and feet, and they have heard more about the method of flying eaves than they have seen." ”

"Do you want to see the real chapter according to your wishes?" Xu Mian was not very comfortable with the indiscriminate killing.

"Sooner or later, there will be a war, either you die or I live." Yan Suyi saw that Xu Mian's eyebrows were unbearable.

"That being said." It is inevitable that Xu Mian has seen too much death as a doctor, most of which is helpless, and he hates goodbye blood.

"It's not easy to say more before it happens." When the current situation happens, what should be done will be done, and the tide will not turn back for what happened.

"That's it, I talk too much and think more, and I add more worries to my heart." Xu Mian sighed that he was worrying about it, the Winged King and Yan Su were intended, and the ability of the two of them was not sure who would suffer, as for the result, let him go, his compassion should be used in the right place.

Two days later, Chang Ping sent people to search for the traces of the Wing King in Suizhou City, it is strange that he forgot to ask the Wing King's whereabouts, and now it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack to find someone.

When Xi Chao learned that Chang Ping had sent people to Suizhou City, he insinuated that Chang Ping was getting older and more careless, and his brain was afraid that he was rusty.

Just when Chang Ping was annoyed, the Xi Dynasty came to the door, relieved Chang Ping's urgent need, and invited the Wing King to enter the account to discuss the follow-up to send someone to infiltrate the incident.

This time, the Shuai Zhong came to the Xi Dynasty and had already planned, and after solving the matter on Changping's side, they turned directly to the grassland, set off one day in advance, and there was no big problem one day earlier and one day in the evening.

Yan Suyi followed the Wing King into the big tent, because he wanted to see what the generals at the border pass of Mu Country looked like, so it was not because he was bold and self-assertive, but because Xu Mian followed the Wing King one step in advance, how could he stay and wait outside.

Xi Chao didn't say anything, he was used to Xu Mian accompanying him, and he was trustworthy by himself, as for Yan Suyi, who was not left behind, as long as he didn't have a crooked heart, he could do it at will.

Seeing this scene, Chang Ping's heart turned upside down, his thoughts erupted, and many doubts emerged, Xu Mian followed up understandably, it is rumored that Xu Mian often follows the wing king when he is outside, but what reason does this inexplicable man next to him have to come in?

"Who is this?" Chang Ping's eyes swept slightly and looked at the Wing King to ask.

Xi Chao turned around and glanced at Yan Suyi and replied, "A person who joins in the fun, don't care." "There is no intention to explain his identity at all.

Chang Ping's heart was blocked, and he didn't get to the bottom of the identity issue, and the Winged King deliberately didn't say anything and asked again, which made the Winged King unhappy, so he just did it.

Entering the big tent, there were two generals except Chang Ping's father and son, and everyone was sitting in the empty seat.

Chang Ping saw that the Winged King and others were seated, talking about business, the person dressed as a slave had already arrived, and it was not known how much news could be found, how to deploy during this period, and put out his plan and discernment, so as to ask the Winged King to give an accurate word, whether to do it or not for fear of making a mistake.

Xi Chao listened carefully, thinking about other things in his mind, and when Chang Ping's words fell, he nodded directly in agreement with his thoughts, and left with someone first if he had nothing else to say. (To be continued......)