After Wang Er left the yamen, Niu Wen directly found Zhang Shumo, and when Zhang Shumo saw Niu Wen, he hurriedly asked, "Is the matter done?"

Niu Wen nodded: "There is something unclear below, since you know that Wang Er is a spy, why didn't you directly tell him the wrong information, but instead gave him clues for him to guess?"

Zhang Shumo smiled: "You may doubt the answer that others tell you, but if it is something that you find out through the investigation, it will be different, it is estimated that Wang Er will be eager to pass on the information to Xu Liang after finding out."

Niu Wen frowned: "But isn't the clue you asked me to reveal to him just our action time?" Don't? Niu Wen suddenly figured out that the news that Zhang Shumo said to everyone that day was fake.

Zhang Shumo smiled slightly: "Look, are you very sure of the answer you came up with?" You can guess if the news I leaked to Wang Er is true. ”

Niu Wen also smiled: "So what I think of is not necessarily right?" I still don't guess, I'm not good at this kind of thing. In the next retirement. After speaking, Niu Wen bowed and retired.

Liu on the side couldn't help but ask: "I'm very curious now, what do you want to do?" Also, Lu Li was sent out by you for so long and didn't come back, I'm afraid he didn't go to cultivate Wuzhi, right? ”

Zhang Shumo said with a smile: "You can guess if you like, Xiu Wuzhi is so big, how can Lu Li come back without running a lap?"

Liu naturally pouted and scratched his head, and after thinking for a long time, he finally said: "Forget it, I still don't guess, it's too troublesome."

Wang Er left the county government and returned to his hut under the pretext of packing his things. As soon as he entered the house, he took out the letter, carefully scraped off the fire paint, and peeked at the letter.

Although the contents of the letters were disorganized, the scouts who had all the letters explained must inquire about the city defense situation on the first day of the new year in Xiuwuzhi and Mengzhou City. Coupled with what Niu Wen said, Wang Er immediately guessed that Zhang Shumo was planning to attack the two cities on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

After figuring it out, Wang Er immediately sealed the letter, and sent the information he had found back to Xu Liang while going out to deliver the letter.

In the next few days, Zhang Shumo asked Lin Xiu to take the recruits to start cutting firewood on the mountain, and the firewood prepared was much more than the daily needs, and Zhang Yan and others even thought that Zhang Shumo was going to attack the city with fire.

In a blink of an eye, it has reached the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month. Early in the morning, Lu Li finally returned to Thanh Hoa. As soon as he returned to the city, he found Zhang Shumo, and the two talked for a long time, and then Zhang Shumo suddenly summoned Zhang Yan, Shang Lei and Niu Zheng to discuss the matter together.

"There is an important thing to say about calling everyone here this time, I am going to gather a large army this afternoon and attack Xiu Wuzhi!" Zhang Shumo said to everyone.

After listening to it, everyone didn't have any opinions, it must have been said a long time ago, but it was just a little earlier.

Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Zhang Shumo continued: "Liu Ye must have planted spies in our team, I don't know how many people there are, so everyone must keep this matter a secret."

Seeing that everyone nodded, Zhang Shumo said to Zhang Yan again: "General Zhang, please pick out two hundred people from your one thousand elite soldiers, divide them into groups of ten, and set off now to blend in with Xiuwuzhi." Hu Kun will meet them in the city, and when the time comes, we should cooperate with the outside and lay down Xiuwuzhi in one fell swoop. ”

After speaking, he said to Shang Lei and Niu Zheng: "Lord Niu and Brother Shang stay to defend the city, I will leave five thousand people and enough food, if someone attacks the city, you must defend it for at least two days."

The three of them nodded, and went back to arrange the relevant matters.

The two hundred men of Lu Li and Zhang Yan's troops were the first to leave Qinghua City. After lunch, Zhang Shumo and Zhang Yancai gathered a large army and marched towards Xiuwuzhi.

What was different this time was that there were several hundred more troops escorting grain and grass, and they set off with the firewood that the soldiers had chopped.

Zhang Yan looked at the long baggage procession and couldn't help but ask, "Zhang Gongzi, are you planning to attack the city with fire?"

Zhang Shumo asked rhetorically: "If I want to attack with fire, why do I borrow 200 people from General Zhang?"

Zhang Yan thought about it, and there were already troops sneaking into the city, so he didn't need fire to attack at all, so he asked puzzledly: "Could it be that these firewood are just for heating?" But we don't need that much! ”

Zhang Shumo continued to ask rhetorically: "General Zhang, so many of us went to attack Xiu Wuzhi, wouldn't Liu Ye know any news at all?" So much firewood was prepared for beating Liu Ye. ”

Zhang Yan thought about it, but he didn't have a clue. At this time, Liu Zimeng suddenly realized: "Oh, I understand, you want to fight a war of attrition with Liu Ye's people and freeze their soldiers to death!"

Seeing that Zhang Yan still looked puzzled, Liu naturally explained: "General Zhang may not know that Zhang Shumo deliberately released news to Liu Ye, telling Liu Ye that we will attack the city on the first day of the Lunar New Year. If everything goes well, we will be able to lay down the cultivation of Wuchen in the Chinese New Year's Eve. When Liu Ye's people arrived the next day, we would not be able to hold out, fight a war of attrition with them, and freeze them to death! ”

Zhang Shumo smiled mysteriously: "You'll know when the time comes!"

In Qinghua City, Wang Er was very anxious after knowing that Zhang Shumo had sent troops in advance, but even if he set off to Xu Liang immediately to deliver the news, it would take a day. And according to the original plan, Liu Ye would also send troops to repair Wuzhi one day later, so Wang Er could only do it in a hurry, and there was no way at all.

Just when Wang Er was in a hurry, Niu Wen came to his room with a group of soldiers, and Wang Er hurriedly put on a smile when he saw it: "Lord Niu, why are you here, what's the urgency of bringing such a person?"

Niu Wen smiled: "It's nothing urgent, it's just that Lord Zhang asked me to express my gratitude to you, thank you for helping Lord Zhang deliver the message to Xu Liang!"

When Wang Er heard this, his head buzzed, and he hurriedly said, "Lord Niu, what do you mean by this?" I'm Brother Lu's person, you can't wronged me! ”

Although he said so, Wang Er figured it out in his heart, he should have been exposed a long time ago, Zhang Shumo deliberately made himself think that they were planning to attack Xiu Wuzhi on the first day of the new year!

Thinking of this Wang Ermeng's agitation: Zhang Shumo is sending troops now, and he will arrive at Xiuwuchen tomorrow, which means that the time he really wants to attack the city is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve. If he wants to avoid Liu Ye, he can make up a date to deceive himself, why does he say that it is the first day of the Lunar New Year? It was only one day later than the time when he was going to attack the city, and this thing was definitely strange!

Niu Wen stopped talking nonsense with him, and said directly: "Have I wronged you, you know it in your heart!" Come on, put Wang Er in prison! ”

At this time, Wang Er suddenly burst out, cleanly solved the two soldiers who came up to tie him up, and rushed out violently while everyone didn't react.