Food is the foundation of everything, whether it is the will of the people or the army, sufficient food can hold them in the palm of the hand, especially in this thousands of miles of desolate desert city, food is particularly precious.

I have to say that Cao Yu grasped the point.

It's not difficult to deal with Li Su, it's just a teenage baby, and it's not difficult to deal with the cavalry camp, without food, the cavalry camp is a toothless tiger, and it can't jump up. It has been recorded in countless historical facts that no matter how loyal and invincible an army is, as long as it runs out of food, they will become the most terrible demons.

Li Su's arrogant and domineering capital is all on the thousand-man cavalry camp he brought, if the cavalry camp collapses internally due to food, why should Li Su worry?

Cao Yu's abacus is very fine, and from common sense, it is indeed feasible.

"Order the large and small shops in the city, who dares to sell grain to the cavalry camp outside the city, don't blame the official for being polite!" Cao Yu said in a deep voice.

Xiang Tian nodded: "The soldiers of the Zhichong Mansion will also pay attention, if someone does not sell food to the cavalry camp for a long time, the last general will chop up his entire family first." ”

Cao Yu squinted his eyes and smiled: "In three days at most, this official estimates that Li Su will come to the door of my assassination mansion to intercede, in the desert city of thousands of miles, it is not easy to feed a thousand people, if the official does not nod, they will starve to death." ”

Xiang Tian said with a smile: "When the time comes, I can also teach Li Su to see whose world this Xizhou City is." ”

Cao Yu was suddenly silent for a long time, and sighed: "Xizhou...... It is His Majesty's world, but His Majesty seems to have forgotten Xizhou, the emperor's grace and rain have fallen, but Xizhou has never touched half a drop. ”

This sentence somewhat carried a bit of resentment towards Li Shimin, Xiang Tian's lips snorted a few times, but he didn't dare to respond after all.

"In short, Li Su must go, Xizhou can't tolerate him, if he establishes himself in Xizhou. Sooner or later, your and my heads will be hung high on the tower of Chang'an City......" A complicated look flashed in Cao Yu's eyes, like fear and helplessness.

Xiang Tian's face was not good-looking: "What the assassin said is very true, Xizhou can't tolerate Li Su, there are too many secrets in Xizhou, if you are an outsider." In particular, those who can directly contact His Majesty the Emperor know that many people in the entire city will be beheaded......"

Before the words fell, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the inner courtyard of the Assassin's Mansion.

The two people in the wing room glanced at each other, and their hearts sank at the same time.

Early in the morning, such a hurried pace is never a good thing.

A middle-aged man in an official robe walked over sweating profusely, and he didn't care about etiquette, and after seeing Cao Yu and Xiang Tian, the middle-aged man opened his mouth and said, "Cao Tingshi, it's not good." Feng Sima is gone! ”

"What?" The two people in the room were taken aback, and then their faces turned pale.

The middle-aged man said in a panic: "Last night, Feng Sima slept in the concubine's room in his own mansion, and in the middle of the night, someone sneaked into the mansion, and the concubine was knocked unconscious, but Feng Sima didn't know where to go...... Now the family members of the Feng family are kneeling outside the door of the Thorn Mansion, and ask Cao Thorn Shi to make the decision for them. ”

There was silence in the wing, and after a long time......

"It must have been Li Su's doing!" Xiang Tian slapped the case and said angrily.

Cao Yu's face was gloomy, and his eyes showed a fierce light of fear and anger.

Xiang Tian's rugged face flushed twice. I don't know if I'm scared or angry, and my big mouth seems to want to say something. In a blink of an eye, he saw that the middle-aged man who reported the news was still standing aside, Xiang Tian pointed at him and said, "You, go out!" ”

The middle-aged man hurriedly nodded and retreated.

There were only Cao Yu and Xiang Tian left in the room, and Xiang Tian leaned into Cao Yu's ear and lowered his voice and said, "Cao Thorn History." Li Su did it! ”

Cao Yu glanced at him, he didn't squeak, his face was like a peaceful lake, but there was thunder in his heart.

It's just a teenage baby, in this unfamiliar place. He dared to take the initiative, did he underestimate him, or was he simply a madman?

"Cao Tingshi, this baby...... It's not easy! Xiang Tian's face was full of shock: "It's not strange that he took the initiative to make a move, but the last general is strange, why did he take the key point as soon as he made a move?" The case of the daughter of the Zhao family in the north of the city is full of Feng Sima Jing's hands inside and out, where did Li Su come from this ability to reach the sky, and he took him as soon as he made a move? ”

Cao Yu's face was ugly and said: "It must be that one of the killers in the city secretly fell to the side, and secretly communicated with Li Su!" ”

Xiang Tian said with a bitter face: "Feng Sima was taken, what should we do?" That fat man is by no means a person who regards death as his home, and he will inevitably be punished casually......"

Cao Yu was silent for a long time, and suddenly sneered: "What if you recruit it?" It's just one person's words, but there is still no evidence, even if Feng Sima is escorted to the official to confront him, and the official says that there is no such thing, then there is no such thing! ”

Xiang Tian thought about it, his face suddenly eased a lot, and after a moment of silence, Xiang Tian looked at Cao Yu and said tentatively: "Lord Assassin Shi, this Li Su is not simple, he does things quite a little way, he doesn't know where he learned the Tao at a young age, if he doesn't make a move, he will be thunderous as soon as he makes a move, and now it seems that he only cuts off his food and grass, I am afraid that he will not be able to do it, it is better to take a two-pronged approach, and finish his work in one battle......"

The words were very vague, but Cao Yu understood, his cheeks twitched a few times, and then he glanced at Xiang Tian silently.

Xiang Tian saw that Cao Yu's attitude was unclear, and couldn't help but be anxious: "Cao Tingshi, it's too much to do!" Aren't you clear how many lives are involved in the secrets of Western State? If Li Su really stood up, it was impossible to keep the secret, and then Long Yan would be furious, the lives of you and me, the lives of the family, and the lives of the rest of the officials...... Aren't these worth our deal? Lord Thorn Shi, when the judgment continues, it will be chaotic, and at this point, it is time for you to make a decision! ”

Cao Yu's eyebrows jumped violently, twisted his eyebrows and pondered for a long time, and finally turned his head and glanced at Xiang Tian gloomily.

Xiang Tian quickly understood the meaning of this glance, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "The last general will definitely live up to the expectations of the assassin history!" ”

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Li Su didn't know what secrets Xizhou had to see, he only knew that there was about to be a storm in Xizhou, and the person who started this storm was himself.

Zheng Xiaolou, Wang Zhuan, and Jiang Quan got Feng Sima back overnight, Zheng Xiaolou was really careless about human life, and he couldn't get out of the city with this fat man, so he simply threw it everywhere. When the three of them re-entered the city to look for it, Zheng Xiaolou didn't remember where he threw the fat man, and he sweated profusely and looked for half an hour before finally finding Feng Sima in a dark alley in the city.

Thanks to Zheng Xiaolou's attack, when he found him again, he still hadn't woken up, and the three of them worked together to get Feng Sima back to the camp.

This night was definitely the darkest night in Feng Sima's life. Inexplicably knocked unconscious, carried out of the house and ruthlessly abandoned, and then finally picked up, after entering the cavalry camp outside the city, the first thing I saw when I woke up was a few well-made torture instruments, and a few hideous and hateful faces under the dim light of the torches......

did not exceed Li Su's expectations, Feng Sima was really not a hero, and such a high-level word as "treating death as home" could not even touch the edge, and the first torture instrument had not yet touched his body. The dead fat man let out a terrible scream like killing a pig, and then he was about to make a move.

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"Li Beijia, although this fat man surnamed Feng has been recruited, he can ...... It's useless," Jiang Quan's expression was still a little depressed, obviously not holding out much hope for Feng Sima's confession: "...... After all, it's just one person's words, and there is no other evidence, even if he confronts Cao Yu's old miscellaneous in court. People don't admit that the matter is small, if they bite back and say that we will lynch the court officials. and bent into a trick to frame Shangguan, we can't afford this crime. ”

Li Su glanced at him lightly and said with a smile: "I can't see that General Jiang is actually a well-behaved and reasonable person, but I underestimated you before......"

Jiang Quan was stunned: "Everything must be reasonable, any place in Datang is a place to be reasonable." You can't condemn someone without evidence, right? What's more, the person who convicted is still your Shangguan, the chief official of Xizhou......"

Li Su patiently explained: "As for the reasoning, it depends on the scope, not everywhere is suitable for reasoning, of course." It also depends on the mood, not always in the mood to be reasonable, what to do when you are in a bad mood occasionally? Then don't be reasonable, everything has to fight for the merits, it's too boring to live for a lifetime......"

Jiang Quan was a little confused by Li Su's series of "truths", and it took a while to understand these words, his lips spurted a few times, and he couldn't help but say: "Li Beijia, your words themselves are very unreasonable." ”

Li Su blinked: "Didn't you understand what I said for a long time just now?" To be a man, you don't have to be reasonable, especially for the kind of person who hasn't been reasonable to us in the first place, let alone be too reasonable, if he comes all the way, I will go all the way. ”

Jiang Quan looked at him with some apprehension: "Li Beijia, how are you doing?" ”

A gust of hot wind lifted the curtain of the handsome tent, and outside the curtain was the vast desert as far as the eye could see, and there was a round of hot sun overhead.

Staring at the vast desert for a long time, Li Su said lightly: "General Jiang, we have thousands of people riding across thousands of miles of desert and come to this desert lonely city. ”

Jiang Quan seemed to be aware of this, and his heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably by a few beats.

"Li Biejia means ......"

Li Su turned his head to stare at him, and said word by word: "General Jiang, assemble the cavalry battalion, tomorrow, I will lead the troops into the city and teach the officials and people of Xizhou City a good lesson!" ”

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Late at night, a small oasis a hundred miles north of Xizhou City.

The oasis was small, with only a mile of low trees and poplar trees, growing softly on the mixed earth of sand and dust, and on the west side of the oasis was a row of shabby and dilapidated houses, which were now brightly lit inside and out, with figures and camels neighing.

Half an hour later, a force of about 500 soldiers and horses was quickly assembled, and the first burly man in a black shirt and a black robe rode on the back of a camel, suddenly drew his waist knife, and pointed silently to the south.

The procession moved at the same time as if it had heard the horn of an attack, and five hundred horsemen urged the camels to march due south without hurry.

The camel's hooves stepped on the sand, raising a burst of yellow sand, and a fierce murderous aura gradually rose and spread during the walk.

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Early in the morning, at the hour of the hour.

The sun had just risen from the east, and the fiery red ball hung lazily on the horizon east of the desert with a bit of laziness, rising slowly and unwillingly.

Xizhou North City.

The dilapidated and rotting city gate slowly opened with a tooth-inducing creak, and the two crumbling gates gradually opened like bird's wings in the golden morning sun, and the dozen or so soldiers stationed at the city gate yawned, each holding the halberd and spear in their hands, and began to line up listlessly with a look of not waking up.

One of the sergeants looked at the silent passage of the city gate, muttered a few curses, and then opened his mouth, and another yawn was about to erupt.

While yawning, he turned his head and looked out of the gate, and then the sergeant's eyes were wide open, his mouth still wide open, and the yawn stopped abruptly halfway, and his eyes showed extreme horror, and he looked in shock at the endless sand outside the gate. The rest of the sergeants were no better than him, and each of them opened their mouths wide and stared blankly at the otherwise empty sand.

On the sand, a cavalry stood quietly, a team of more than 1,000 people lined up in the shape of an awl, a typical battlefield offensive formation, and the huge cone tip was pointing impartially in the direction of the city gate in the north of Xizhou.

More than a dozen sergeants guarding the city gate were stunned. It's not that they haven't seen the picture of the foreign enemy attacking the city, and they have also participated in the tragic battle of thousands of people riding camels to attack the city gate, but today is different, because at this moment, the cavalry with a siege posture on the sand outside the city is a serious Tang cavalry!

The Tang cavalry attacked the city of the Tang Dynasty...... Are these people crazy?

The two sides confronted each other silently, and the clever guy in the garrison quietly took a few steps back, hiding in the back of the robe, and ran away while people were not paying attention, running in the direction of the assassin's mansion.

I don't know how long it took, the top of the huge awl outside the city slowly walked out, and the city defender looked at it intently, and found that the person was actually the newly appointed Xizhou Don't Drive Li Su!

Li Su was dressed very formally today, wearing a silver winged helmet, wearing silver soft armor, and a snowy long sword in his hand emitted a dazzling golden light under the light of the morning sun.

After a long time, Li Su slowly raised the sword in his hand, pointed at the stunned soldiers defending the city, and shouted: "You, go and gather the people of the whole city, no one is missing, all of them will be gathered for me, and also, go and tell Xiang Tian, the commander of Guoyi in Zhichong Mansion, Qinfeng Jingyang County, Xizhou Don't drive, Dingyuan General Li Su, he will lead troops into the city today, if he wants to fight, then fight!" (To be continued......)