Yang Qiong led the troops to rescue Cheng Fengyi, and after careful consideration, she still wrote a letter to Xuanzhou to explain the ins and outs of the matter one by one.

When Cui Yi received the letter, he was first so angry by his younger brother's stupid behavior that he almost burst his blood vessels, and then when he saw the letter sent by Nayang, his heart sank suddenly, and he thought that Bo Muer had been silent for more than a year, and now he was going to pry the corner of the wall while he was busy fighting the world. When he had read the letter in its entirety, he let out a long breath and leaned back in the lap chair, touching his chin without making a sound.

Shan Jian saw that his expression had changed in less than a quarter of an hour, and then he didn't say anything, so he took the initiative to ask, "Something happened in Yanzhou?" Madame has already settled? Is it Beidi? ”

"Bomur asked Hai Dongqing to send a letter, saying that Hu'er Hana had an appointment with people from Babian Chacha and other countries to talk secretly about the ruins of Maquanguan, and discussed how to take advantage of the situation, and Mrs. Cheng also accompanied her, and let Gongqi take 2,000 people to save her." In a letter of more than 1,000 words, Cui Yi concisely distilled the most critical part.

Shan Jian was surprised: "Two thousand? Will it be too little? ”

Cui Yimo rubbed the stubble under his chin and said: "It's Gongqi's own intention, I'm afraid that I can't hold it if I take too many people." ――What do you think? ”

Shan Jian took a step and stood directly opposite him, arching his hand and saying, "If what Bomur said is true, this is a good opportunity from heaven!" Killing Hu'er Hana and snatching back Mrs. Cheng, no matter whether Beidi can be defeated in one fell swoop in the end, it is a great thing for the prince! ”

Cui Yi seemed to have his own thoughts, but he didn't say it clearly, only asked, "Why do you say that?" ”

"Lord Wang, you think, Cui Jie signed a peace treaty with Beidi on the grounds that the treasury was empty and not suitable for war, and also sent the married daughters of the old ministers of the two dynasties to the peace family. If the prince can kill the king of Beidi and rescue Mrs. Cheng, he will undoubtedly win the banner of righteousness in the world. Shan Jian said solemnly and solemnly.

Cui Yi nodded silently, noncommittal, Shan Jian couldn't figure out what he was thinking, so he asked, "The prince has other ideas?" ”

"No," Cui Yi glanced at him, "You're right, but have you ever thought about what would happen if the things in the letter were fake, a scam set up by Bomur, or the letter wasn't written by him at all?" ”

Shan Jian pondered for a moment and said: "Since Bomur is willing to return the golden crow, he is not such a person, Lord Wang, although he is arrogant and does not know what to do, but he is sincere to his wife, even if he harms General Yang at this time, it will not do him any good, I don't think he will be stupid enough to do this kind of self-digging thing." ”

Cui Yi still insisted: "What if the letter was not written by him?" Zhiying only saw the letter on Hai Dongqing and Eagle's feet, and didn't see either Bo Muer or Sangduo, the Guo Ziyi next to the imperial brother, has always liked to invite you into the urn the most, isn't it? What if this time it was them and Hu'er Hanali who joined forces and ambushed a large group of men and horses at Maquanguan, specifically to put Gongqi to death and break my arm, what should I do? ”

Shan Jian lowered his head and pondered, Cui Yi took a sip of tea, smacked his tongue, and his eyes seemed to be a little melancholy: "Of course, this is just a little guess made by this king after listening to your words, it can't be true, we have the right to believe that it is true, what will happen after Gongqi and Bo Muer meet, have you thought about it?" ”

"The prince is saying—"

"Bo Mu'er is a person who knows the inside story, if he tells Gongqi that we deliberately didn't save Mrs. Cheng at the beginning......" Cui Yi tapped his finger on the table, "This is what this king is most worried about after reading the letter." ”

Shan Jian nodded slowly and said: "The prince has thought it through, once General Yang knows the truth of the year, I am afraid that if he does not say that he will defect to Cui Jie, he will definitely defect, and at that time, not only will our side not be able to fight for the banner of righteousness, but the morale will be sharply reduced, which is really dangerous." ”

Cui Yi looked at him steadily: "So, this king wants you to think of a strategy that can not only stabilize the three states, but also prevent Gongqi from knowing the truth of the year." ”

To stabilize Sanzhou, Zhong Yuanshan, Cui Yi, and Cao Qian must be guarded like a rock, Yang Qiong has rushed to Maquanguan, even if Xu Cheng is allowed to take people to chase after him overnight, it may not be able to stop Bo Mu'er from going his own way, Xuanzhou is the forefront of the confrontation with the imperial court, tens of thousands of pairs of eyes are staring day and night, and a fly will be detected if it flies away, let alone get rid of a general, once Cui Jie learns about it, he will definitely attack Xuanzhou at all costs, cutting off the connection between Jiangzhou and Yanzhou, and then it will be easy to break them individually.

But if you sit idly by and ignore it, Yang Qiong will leave with Cheng Fengyi, and the losses caused to the Martial King camp will be immeasurable.

"Lord Wang, let me go back and think about it." Shan Jian bowed and retired.

After a full day, when Shan Jian stood in front of Cui Yi again, he gave the most effective method at present.

His eyes were red, his eyes were dark, and he seemed to have stayed up all night, and when he came, he was carrying a roll of paper with messy drawings in his arms.

"The best defense when attacking, if you want the three states to be stable, you can't sit still, even if there is no matter of General Yang, create an opportunity to lure the imperial court to attack."

Shan Jian rubbed his face with cold tea, yawned and spread out the paper full of various weird lines on the table one by one: "Lord Wang, please look." ”

The matter is big, Cui Yi specially called Xu Cheng here, and it is easy to discuss. Xu Cheng also went up to take a look, only to see that the white paper was crooked, and there was no Chinese character annotation, so he could see it in the clouds.

Cui Yi asked, "How does Yuan Ke look?" ”

The corners of Xu Cheng's mouth twitched, and he replied: "This one is like a centipede, this one is ...... Like spiders, and this, like a person dancing. ”

"What a mess!" When Shan Jian came up with something that he had worked hard all night to come up with, he almost vomited blood, and said angrily, "What spider centipede, should you have spent the Dragon Boat Festival to remove the five poisons?" This is a schematic diagram of the sand table I deduced last night! ”

The two turtles who had no artistic cells suddenly realized, nodded hurriedly, and asked him to speak carefully.

Shan Jian smoothed the "the one that looks like a centipede" paper, and said angrily: "This is a canyon in the north of Xuanzhou, the road is forked, the prince led people to ambush in this valley, and then found a small soldier with a similar size to the prince, put on the prince's armor, rode the golden crow, pretended to take a team of people to hurry north, and when the pursuers came, they were killed on this road. ”

Xu Cheng wondered: "Where did the pursuers come from?" ”

Shan Jian said frantically: "I didn't let you ask!" Xu Cheng hurriedly shut up.

Then Shan Jian pointed to the spider-like one again, and said: "Since the prince is not there, Xuanzhou is only guarded by General Xu, Xuanzhou Mansion is located in the central and western part of Xuanzhou, if you wait for the enemy to attack, there is not much way to retreat, so General Xu decided to take people to Shuangchang - that is, Xuanzhou Mansion is a hundred miles west of the throat to garrison, so that once the imperial court comes, the rear will have enough time to react." ”

Xu Cheng's eyes moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he was afraid of annoying Shan Jian, so he didn't dare to say it.

Shan Jian drew six or seven pieces of paper, estimating in detail how the enemy would act, what kind of timing he would act, how the enemy would react when he encountered an ambush, and how he should respond according to different reactions.

The core of the whole plan is to create the illusion that Cui Yi is leaving, induce Shi Bang to attack, and then devour the last bit of strength of the rebel army in one fell swoop.

However, one of the most crucial links in this plan is to let Shi Bangze and Cui Jie know about Yang Qiong's killing of Hu'er Hana separately - they can't let each other know, but they must know separately, otherwise the plan will not work.

"Since this is the most critical step, what is the gentleman going to do?" Cui Yi asked.

Shan Jian smiled pitifully, and Xu Cheng was so frightened that he took a step back to the side.

"It's not difficult for Shi Bang to leave here, the prince will transfer troops to leave, they will definitely be aware of it, there must be their meticulous work in the Xuanzhou army, the news is not difficult to pass on, Shi Bang is eager to make meritorious contributions, and he will definitely cut it first and then play," Shan Jian propped up the case with one hand, and with the other hand, he pointed to the northeast corner of the whole map of Da Chu hanging behind the general, and smiled confidently, "On the court side, as long as you write a whistleblower letter in the name of Prince Jing, Cui Jie will definitely believe it." ”

Cui Yi frowned slightly, obviously he didn't like this kind of betrayal of his brother, but he could still accept it, so he said: "Just do it, Yuan Ke, go and order 8,000 people, and this king will set off." ”

Xu Cheng was still not at ease, and took the spider to look at it repeatedly, his thick eyebrows furrowed.

Shan Jian looked at him defiantly: "General Xu doesn't seem to be able to trust me." ”

Xu Cheng immediately shook his head: "No, no, there is no such thing!" Mr. is too careful, I'm just worried that if Shi Bang doesn't attack, or doesn't send someone to chase the prince, won't Sir's arrangement be in vain? After all, people's hearts are unpredictable! ”

The corners of Shan Jian's mouth hooked, and he smiled contemptuously: "People's hearts are unpredictable? There is nothing in this world that is easier to understand than the human heart, and if you can't see through it, it only proves that you are not dirty enough. ”

"Not dirty enough?" Xu Cheng was confused, but Shan Jian had already yawned and went back to sleep.

After lunch, Cui Yi hurried on the road with 8,000 people, and Xu Cheng will also lead 10,000 people to Shuangchang to garrison, and there are only more than 20,000 troops left in the huge Xuanzhou Mansion, and Shanjian is a strategist.

"It's okay for you to defend the city alone, right?" Xu Cheng asked very uncomfortably before leaving.

Shan Jian caged his hands sleepily: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, the court has dragged us can't delay, we missed this opportunity, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for the prince to win again." ”

Xu Cheng silently tugged at the tassel under his chin, took the weapon handed by his own soldier and turned over to the horse: "Then take care of yourself, once Shi Bang enters the trap, I will rush back as quickly as possible." ”

Shanjian smiled lazily and nodded: "Got it, go ahead." ”

After the two main generals left Xuanzhou Mansion, Shan Jian made his most important two moves.

First, he released the news that he had defected to Cui Yi and would defend Xuanzhou Mansion alone, forcing Shi Bang to attack the city.

Second, someone quickly sent a letter to Yanzhou to Bailizan.

At the cost of running and killing two horses, the letter took only three days to reach Bailizan, who was awakened in the middle of the night by the arrival of the messenger and ran barefoot to open the letter.

The heart of the letter is only three words.

"Empty City Scheme?!" Zhong Luhuan was stunned and shouted, "How can this work!" In case something goes wrong, how can I explain it to the prince! ”

Holding her son who was still sleeping in her arms, her eyes were lowered and she was undecided.

The room was lit with dim light, and the night was dark outside the window, the darkest hour before dawn.

Bailizan shook the letterhead in his hand vigorously: "The war should be short rather than long, Yanzhou is not a place to stay for a long time, and the prince will have to return to the capital sooner or later!" What's more, Huerhana is not in Changyao, Beidi may not come to fight, as long as the emperor is killed, the prince sits on the dragon chair, and there will be no worries! ”

Zhong Luhuan's heart was shocked, and she shook her head again and again: "No! No, no, no! It's too dangerous, sir, you're gambling with the lives of your sister and the prince's children! ”

"Don't talk about it!" Zhiying stopped them from continuing to quarrel in time, "Mr. go back first, this matter is not trivial, let me think about it seriously." ”

Is it conservative and allows Yang Qiong and Bomur to be martyred in the encirclement and suppression of Cui Jie's army, for Hu'er Hana and other kings of the frontier regime, or is it to wave troops south in one go, and completely put Cui Jie to death with a three-sided attack?