The more Xu Fu listened, the more strange it became.

Draw rune paper? Could it be that he wants to draw a talisman to invite the gods and scatter beans into a soldier?

How is this possible?

Xu Fu couldn't figure out how to think about it, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Then how many days has he ...... Did you ask for beans? ”

"Beans?" The soldier thought for a while and said, "I don't have beans, but I asked for some perilla pickles, saying that I haven't tasted them for a long time, and I miss this taste very much." ”

Xu Fu held his forehead and thought for a long time.

What kind of perilla pickles are you interested in eating? What the hell is going on?

On the evening of the third day, Xu Fu finally couldn't hold back and found an excuse to step into Su Xiaochen's tent without letting the soldiers outside the tent report.

"Master Su, haven't you slept so late?" Xu Fu said politely, and seeing that Su Xiaochen was busy painting as the soldier said, he squinted his eyes and glanced at the table in front of Su Xiaochen.

"Oh, it's General Xu, you're just in time, I'm painting something, General Xu, let's take a look, how is the painting?" Su Xiaochen seemed to expect him to come, and also saw through his suspicious thoughts, and did not hide what he was doing at all, but invited him to take a closer look.

When Xu Fu saw him say this, where would he be polite, and immediately approached the lamp.

I saw dozens of pieces of drawing paper on the table, and there were some strange patterns on the paper. Some of the patterns look intricate, like ancient paintings, and some of them have simple strokes, like naughty graffiti, in short, the styles are very different, and they are different, no wonder the soldiers around them will see them as Taoist paintings.

"What the hell is this......?" Xu Fu was confused, but still didn't understand.

"General Xu might as well take a closer look at these pictures, if there are any familiar ones."

When Xu Fu heard this, he took a closer look at the past one by one.

After looking at seven or eight of them, his gaze suddenly stopped on one of the monster drawings that looked like a sheep's horn snake body.

Su Xiaochen said with a smile on the side: "If I remember correctly, General Xu should have gone to the southwest with the Taishi in the past, at that time it was the new monarch of the Tho Yang Kingdom who first ascended the throne, and he didn't know that the sky and the earth were thick enough to invade my realm, and the Taishi only brought three generals and used 6,000 light cavalry to defeat the enemy's 20,000 troops, and General Xu was one of them, right?" ”

In a few words, Xu Fu was excited.

He is not a high-ranking general, and calling him a general is a false promotion. When the Tho Yang Kingdom invaded, it was not a difficult task to repel the enemy army, but Taishi deliberately only mobilized the dispensable 6,000 light cavalry in the army, plus the three unknown tooth generals, just to kill the chicken and the monkey to show other neighboring small countries.

For Taishi, it was just a battle at hand, but it became the brightest moment in Xu Fu's life.

He has always been low-key, and he doesn't dare to mention his exploits back then, but the battle with the Tho Yang Army has long been unforgettable and proud. The picture of the sheep's horn snake in front of him is the emblem of the Tho Yang Kingdom, which was tattooed on the king's flag back then, and he also cut off the flagpole with his own hands and carried it back to the camp, but now just a glance at it is enough to make him feel uneasy, not to mention that Su Xiaochen clearly pointed out the most proud achievement in his life.

"It was twenty years ago that the Great War, how would you know at your age?"

"I am a student of the right Taishi, and when I was taught the art of war by the Taishi, the Taishi used this battle as an example, and naturally mentioned General Xu."

"It turns out that the Taishi still remembers...... It turned out that he remembered ...... "Xu Fu has lost the momentum he had when he first entered the account, and his eyes were red when he was said."

"Taishi said that every general who went with him remembered his life, and he also remembered that you always had the habit of patrolling the camp in person before going to bed, saying that you are thick and fine, and you are a rare calm character among generals......"

Xu Fu finally couldn't hold it anymore, turned his back and sighed, then turned around and said, "Master Su, Master Tai praises, Xu can only be ashamed." However, Xu came tonight, not to reminisce about the past, but to ask, it has been three days since he did not advance or retreat, and Master Su is just painting every day in the camp, what is his plan. ”

"These paintings are my intentions."

"Xu is stupid, and I ask Master Su to speak clearly."

Su Xiaochen pointed to Fang Cai's painting and said, "This one General Xu has already recognized, it is the emblem of the Tho Yang Kingdom." In fact, each of the rest of the pictures is also the emblem of a different country, such as these ones. ”

Su Xiaochen said and picked up a few other pictures and said: "This is the emblem of Wuqiong Kingdom, this is the emblem of Yuexi Kingdom, and these, namely: Dengyan, Shilang, Mengshe, Fengqi, Zhuli, Changyun, Fufeng, Sunyang, Xili, Hun Rong, Jingwu, Wuzhi, Chili, Laiqiu, Dasha, a total of eighteen countries. Some of these eighteen countries are subject countries bordering our country, and some are friendly countries bordering subject countries. ”

The more Xu Fu listened, the more surprised he became, and the more he watched, the more dumbfounded he became.

He had only heard some of the names of those countries, while others had never heard of them. But no matter which country it is, Su Xiaochen is like a treasure, and there is no stagnation between his words, obviously he has long been familiar with it.

"This ...... Bachelor Su is worthy of being a bachelor in front of the palace, and he is really well-informed. But even if you know the names of these countries, what is the use of drawing these emblems? ”

"I have borrowed from the Holy Lord two hundred tailors and craftsmen who accompany the army, and I will give them these patterns and let them sew them according to my command, or sew them on their uniforms or on their banners......"

Xu Fu seemed to have reacted a little, he frowned and said, "Could it be that Master Su wants to use the four thousand soldiers outside wearing foreign uniforms to carry the military flags of foreign races, and then pretend to be reinforcements who come to the aid in the name of the saint?" IMHO, this ploy is a little, a little ......"

He wanted to say the word "clumsy", but after all, he didn't say it to Su Xiaochen.

Su Xiaochen laughed: "General Xu, what's the use of wearing a battle uniform and holding a military flag?" There are a total of 4,000 soldiers, at most they can only hide in the bushes and shake the flag a few times to scare and scare people, if we are the defending side, we can still have a little doubtful effect, but we are the besieging side this time, can we rely on such a deception to make the rebels open the city and surrender? ”

"Then Master Su wants ......?"

"General Xu, I really want to make the rebels defending the city mistakenly think that these reinforcements from the eighteen countries have arrived in the city, but I don't do what you said. In fact, even if the reinforcements of these eighteen countries really arrived in the city, it would be impossible to capture the Wanhua Imperial Capital head-on. ”

"What the hell is that...... Alas, Mr. Su is trying to kill my old Xu in a hurry! ”

Su Xiaochen patted Xu Fu on the shoulder and said, "Old Xu, the most important thing for us to march and fight is timing. The time is not yet ripe, don't worry, I have finished these paintings. Don't worry, in less than two days, I will let you do it, please forgive me for not saying more today. But the most important thing now is to have the tailors sew the patterns in turn, and hear clearly, in turn! I will arrange the order of the drawings, and this order must not be messed up! ”

"This ......" Xu Fu thought to himself, what kind of difficult thing is this, it is worth your repeated advice. He looked at Su Xiaochen's solemn face, and immediately agreed: "Okay, I will personally supervise this matter, and it will not be called wrong." ”

Xu Fu thought to himself, since it was a fake battle uniform and military flag, it must be a suspicious tactic and would not fight. As long as there is no fighting, there is no risk of losing troops, so it is better to see how he behaves for the time being.

However, he was just about to receive the order to come out of the account, and he was finally a little uneasy, so he couldn't help but turn his head and ask, "Master Su, but I still feel that something is wrong when I think about it." ”

"General Xu, please speak."

"The emblems of these eighteen countries are even half unrecognizable to the people in my army, can they recognize them if they use such insignia to confuse the rebels in the imperial capital? If you don't recognize it, how can you confuse the enemy? ”

"General Xu doesn't have to worry, in fact, the emblems of these eighteen countries can be recognized by all emperors, and they can be counted on both hands. But I don't care if other people recognize me or not, as long as one of them recognizes it, and coincidentally, this person can be called the first person who is most proficient in foreign affairs in the entire imperial capital. ”

"Who is it?"

"Cangwu National Rite Department Shangshu." Su Xiaochen sighed lightly: "It's also my uncle." ”

******

The patrol of the city in the imperial capital is two times a day, one in the morning and one in the evening.

Originally, according to Ye Zhiqiu's meaning, Chen Qi and Zheng Lun patrolled once respectively, which was more secure. But Chen Qi said that it was better to change it to one person a day, so as to save the trouble of coming out every day.

To be honest, although Chen Qi was convinced by Ye Zhiqiu's resourcefulness, when it came to leading soldiers in the battalion, he was a little self-serving. How can you say that you have also led soldiers for decades, do you have to do such a thing as patrolling the city according to the will of a civilian official?

Ye Zhiqiu could sense Chen Qi's little emotion, he thought about it, after all, it was not a big deal, and it was up to Chen Qi.

So on the odd-numbered days of the first, third, and fifth days of the new year, Chen Qi patrolled the city, and the even-numbered days of the second, fourth, and sixth days of the first year were handed over to Zheng Lun.

This day coincided with the eighteenth, which coincided with Zheng Lun's duty. It was just dawn in the morning, and Zheng Lun had already led a team of men and horses to start patrolling from the south of the city.

The south of the city is the market of the imperial capital, and when Zheng Lun arrived near the market, the morning market was almost over, and there were still a lot of rotten vegetable leaves that had been picked down on the ground, and the mud was trampled on messily and dirty.

The market has always been a place of mixed fish and dragons, and it is also the most frequent place to go. Zheng Lun rode on his horse and looked around, but did not find any suspicious movements.

Suddenly, he felt his gaze sweep over the street of the bazaar, as if he had seen something familiar and unusual at the same time.

He looked intently, only to see what appeared to be a part of the suit hidden in the corner.

Zheng Lun turned his horse's head, and when he reached the corner, a small cart carrying vegetables stopped there, which seemed to be loaded with a lot of things, and covered with a thick layer of oilcloth. The suit he saw peeked out of the corner of the tarpaulin cover, and there were still some blood stains on it.

"Go, uncover the tarpaulin!"

The soldier immediately stepped forward and lifted it.

A truckload of Chinese cabbage, neatly arranged, looks very fresh and watery.