As the minutes ticked by, the night finally came, and the all-pervasive darkness enveloped the entire land.

Under the inner walls of Chencheng, many Chu soldiers had fallen asleep with their weapons in their arms.

Gentle snoring came and went in the hot summer air, because the siege had been so long, many soldiers looked like they were full of vegetables, and some even slept with saliva in their mouths, muttering something in their mouths, as if scolding the children who ate the roast chicken and didn't know how to chew the chicken bones together and swallow them into their stomachs.

All in all, Chen Cheng looked very peaceful this night.

But even so, there were still some soldiers on duty of the Chu army walking by from time to time on the top of the city, they were carrying torches, and as they walked, they watched the darkness outside the city vigilantly, and listened to all unusual sounds with their ears pricked up, so as not to be seized by the Zhao people.

Suddenly, the silence of the night was broken by the sound of horses' hooves, and the passing patrolmen immediately became vigilant, and looked into the distance, only to see a few points of light rapidly approaching on the plain outside the city.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The sharp sound of cymbals sounded immediately, and the soldiers of the Chu State under the city suddenly woke up, and they all clenched their weapons and rushed to the city.

"What's going on?" A sleepy-eyed general of the Chu State grabbed the patrol squad leader and shouted, "Where did the enemy attack come from? ”

A moment later, the thousands of Chu troops on the head of the city bent their bows and arrows, aiming at those points of light that were hurrying in the darkness.

The sound of hooves was getting closer, and there was a faint shouting in the night, and there seemed to be the sound of bowstrings pulling and arrows flying.

The general of Chu snorted and said, "These people of Zhao also want to come and die in the middle of the night?" The second and third sons are slow, wait for my order, let these Zhao people know that they look good! ”

Suddenly, a hoarse voice came from the darkness: "I am the messenger of Yue County, I am being chased and killed by the Zhao people, help me quickly!" ”

The shout was breathless, apparently coming from the mouth of some knight.

The standard Chu Guoyue accent.

The soldiers of the Chu State above the city all heard this sentence clearly.

Someone whispered to the general and asked, "General, do you want to put down the hanging basket?" ”

The general of Chu sneered, seeing that the firelight was gradually approaching, and the cavalry of the Zhao army in the firelight could already see the outline, and immediately issued an order without hesitation: "Shoot arrows!" ”

A dense volley of arrows, the light of the fire in the darkness is the best guiding target.

After a few screams, the cavalry of Zhao State obviously did not dare to chase anymore, and they all turned their horses and retreated, and once again disappeared into the darkness.

And the voice that shouted just now was never heard again.

The general's face was cloudy and uncertain as he stared at the place where the voice had just come from the darkness, and after a quarter of an hour, he waved his hand vigorously and gave the order.

"Come on, put down the hanging basket and send a few people down to take a look!"

Half an hour later, the yawning Chu Wang Yuan saw Huang Xie and Jingyang who were asking to see him at the same time in the main hall.

"Good news, good news, good news!"

"Good news?" When he heard this word, Chu Wangyuan was directly stunned.

The next moment, all the anger that had arisen because of the disturbance of sleep was swept away in an instant, and Chu Wang Yuan almost stepped in front of these two important ministers of the Chu State.

"What kind of good news, don't you give it to the widow soon!"

After being besieged by the Zhao people for so long, Chu Wangyuan was in urgent need of good news at this moment.

"It's such a king, only six messengers broke through to Chen Yingcheng at the risk of death, five were chased and killed by the Zhao army, and one was seriously injured. This is the information that these messengers bring! ”

A secret report was presented to the king of Chu.

Chu Wangyuan took this secret report, and then showed a slightly surprised look on his face.

It turned out to be a blood-stained secret report, and not only that, but this secret report was made up of three different small secret reports.

"Yin Book?" Chu Wangyuan looked at the information in front of him and couldn't help but look a little surprised.

This is the top secret means used to transmit intelligence in the Chu State and even in the entire Warring States Period.

The Yin Book is divided into three, and only when you gather the three Yin Books can you know what is written in the Yin Book, and you can't do without any of them.

Since you can use the Yin Book to transmit information, needless to say, there must be extremely important information in it that may even change the situation of the battle!

Chu Wangyuan read it very excitedly.

I saw that the first paragraph on this yin book reads: "Chenyue County is too guarded by the king of Zhaohai Qiyu, the Qin army has sent troops to attack Zhao, Hedong and Hangu are all owned by the Qin people, and now Bai Qi leads the army into the party, Ju Xin and Pang Xuan can not be stopped, and the victory of the Qin army can be expected!" ”

When Chu Wangyuan saw this, he was immediately overjoyed.

Did the Qin people send troops?

And how did you win so much?

In this way, Zhao Guo will be under great pressure if he is attacked by the enemy!

This is definitely an out-and-out good news for the Chu State!

Chu Wangyuan continued to watch.

"When Yan heard of the defeat of Zhao, he had now sent troops to attack Qi, and Qi was forced to retreat. Han and Wei also hesitated and hesitated. In addition, according to the information obtained by the minister a few days ago, Lian Po had secretly led a large number of Zhao troops to the north, and now the number of Zhao troops outside the city was no more than 50,000 or 60,000. The minister asked the king to send troops from the city and break the Zhao army with the minister! ”

Chu Wangyuan read this information in its entirety, and the whole person's heart was happy and worried.

The good news is that if everything said in this Yin Book is true, then in the nearly two months that Chen Ying was besieged, the outside world has undergone such a major change that is so beneficial to the Chu State.

It seems that Qin, an ally, is indeed not in vain!

And the worry is-

Chu Wang Yuan raised his head and said to the two important ministers of the Chu State in front of him: "Where is the Yin Fu?" ”

Yin talisman and yin book can be said to be matching things.

The Yin Book is used to convey information, while the Yin Charm is used to prove the authenticity of the Yin Book.

After all, all countries used Yin scripts in these days, so in order to prevent the enemy from forgery, it is common to carry a Yin charm in one of the three messengers.

This yin charm does not have to be a soldier talisman, but can also be any token agreed upon in advance.

Three Yin Books and one Yin Talisman, with four messengers departing at the same time, is almost impossible to intercept completely in most cases.

Hearing this, Jingyang hurriedly took out a thing from his arms, which was a half-cut bronze hairpin, and the tail of the hairpin looked like the tail of some kind of bird, which was carved into many feathers.

"King, please check the Yin Talisman!"

Chu Wangyuan nodded, and called a person from the palace who was close to his body and mind: "You go and get the Yuejun Yin Talisman!" ”

After a while, the two bronze hairpins were combined into a lifelike bronze phoenix hairpin.

The monarchs and ministers of the Chu State glanced at each other, and they all saw the expressions of excitement and joy on the faces of the others.

"This yin charm is real!"

Chu Wang Yuan laughed and said loudly: "Come on, quickly gather Zhu Qing, and the widow will discuss with Zhu Qing about counterattacking the Zhao army!" ”