Yasuhara asked, "Zhao Dutong, the vigilance and patrol tasks have been deployed?" ”

"There is a generous reward from the commander, of course the brothers are willing, the vigilance and patrol tasks have been deployed, and they have already begun to be carried out, and take over the vigilance and patrol tasks of the town garrison army and the right guard army!" Zhao Junsheng replied with a fist.

He guessed that Yasuhara must have something else to do with him this time, and this matter should not be simple.

An Yuan pondered, raised his head and asked: "Ben Shuai heard that you once led people to infiltrate Shengle City to explore the news of the Rouran army, presumably you should be very familiar with the terrain around Shengle City, now we don't know anything about the situation of the Rouran army, the detective horse sent out by the Right Guard Army has not returned, we have never been able to get the relevant news of the Rouran army, Ben Shuai wants you to go to Shengle City again, bring back the news of the Rouran army, I don't know what you think?" ”

Zhao Junsheng was about to refuse, but before he could speak, Tuoba Jian walked in with several generals in turn, including Liu Jizong, who Zhao Junsheng was more familiar with.

"The last general will meet the commander!" Tuoba Jian led his generals to greet Yasuhara.

"Excuse me!" An Yuan raised his hand and said to Zhao Junsheng: "Zhao Dutong, let's continue what we just said, I don't know what you think?" ”

Zhao Junsheng's gaze swept over Liu Jizong's face, and his heart suddenly moved, so he hugged his fist and said to An Yuan: "Dashuai, although I have been to Shengle City, I didn't carefully observe the terrain around Shengle City at that time, and the situation at that time was definitely very different from this time!" If you really want to send someone to investigate the military situation of the Rouran army in Shengle City, the lowly recommended right guard general Liu Jizong, General Liu is proficient in the art of espionage, and this time he has fought with the Rouran people, and the familiarity with the Rouran people is higher than that of the lowly position, and he will be able to perfectly complete the task assigned to him by the marshal! Moreover, General Liu is the son of Liu Shangshuling, and the Liu family has been favored for generations and should serve the country. Brother Liu, you won't refuse, will you? ”

An Yuan was quite surprised, looked at Liu Jizong and asked, "It turns out that Liu Jian will be proficient in the art of espionage, are you willing to sneak into Shengle City to spy on the reality of the Rouran army?" ”

Liu Jizong was still a little confused, but he also knew that this was to let him take risks, he had just returned from the front line, where was he willing to take such a risk? But he couldn't say that he didn't want to go, and he wasn't proficient in any espionage at all, but he had no reason to refuse, and he couldn't speak for a while.

His brother Du Gui went home to mourn, Xi Yan was dismissed and stayed in the camp and was not allowed to walk around at will, and there was no one to stand up and speak for him.

Tuoba Jian heard the clue from Zhao Junsheng's words, looked at Liu Jizong and said in surprise: "It turns out that General Liu is proficient in the art of espionage, General Liu, you hide deep enough, you can't be so modest, those civil officials are prosperous, our military generals can't be prosperous, if you are modest, others will think that you are timid!" ”

"It's not······ Marshal, prince, the last general is really not cowardly, and the last general doesn't know the art of espionage at all! Liu Jizong hurriedly defended.

Zhao Junsheng immediately said: "General Liu, this is your mistake!" That day, I obviously heard you tell Du Gui that you are proficient in the method of espionage, but unfortunately there is no place to use it! Now your opportunity has come, your talent has a chance to be displayed, but you have retreated, what are you if you are not timid? Your Liu family has been deeply favored by three generations of emperors for many years, and now is the time for you to be loyal to the country! ”

Liu Jizong was furious: "The surname is Zhao, you are so poisonous, I am inseparable from you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng hugged An Yuan with an innocent look: "Dashuai, the humble position is just to recommend talents for you, but you have ended up with a complaint, and you are mistaken for sinister intentions, how unjust is the lowly position!" ”

An Yuan looked at Zhao Junsheng, and then at Liu Jizong, he shouted to Liu Jizong with a cold face: "General Liu, since you have this ability, you should have the courage to assume the responsibility of spying on the enemy, if you don't want to go because you are greedy for life and afraid of death, this will only make your Liu family humiliated!" ”

After An Yuan scolded Liu Jizong, he said to Tuoba Jian: "Lord Wang, this commander intends to let Liu Jizong go to Shengle City to spy on the military situation of the Rouran army, you are the general of the Right Guard, what do you mean?" ”

Tuoba Jian was worried that An Yuan would tell the emperor about his black state because of the bad luck in this battle, so of course he had to follow An Yuan at this time and immediately said: "Since it is the meaning of the big handsome, how can this king not obey?" ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Liu Jizong and shouted: "Jizong, this general ordered you to sneak into Shengle City to spy on the military situation of the Rouran army, you can take a few people and horses to go, set off before dusk today, now you go back to the camp to prepare!" ”

Liu Jizong shouted: "General, the last general doesn't know how to spy on it!" ”

Tuoba Jian stared at him coldly and shouted: "Liu Jizong, this is a military order, do you dare to disobey?" ”

Liu Jizong was so frightened that he was forced to take the order: "Yes, the last general······ Command! ”

When Liu Jizong left, he turned to look at Zhao Junsheng with resentment in his eyes, Zhao Junsheng stretched out his middle finger and gestured at him, he understood what this meant, but he also knew that this was definitely not a friendly move, and he was even more jealous of Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng and Tuoba Jian arrived at the camp of the Right Guard, and only half of the remaining Right Guards remained, including nearly 2,000 wounded, only 3,000 were still intact, and wails were heard everywhere in the camp, and some people had one arm cut off at the shoulder, the arm was gone, the sleeve was gone, and it was only wrapped in white gauze; Some people have lost both legs, and some people are wrapped like rice dumplings, and the original snow-white gauze is soaked with red blood stains everywhere, which is very miserable!

When he arrived at the tooth tent, Zhao Junsheng couldn't help but ask: "Lord Wang, why is this battle so fierce?" ”

Tuoba Jian was not in a good mental state, and shook his head and didn't want to talk about the war.

It was the staff member Yu Ji who explained to Zhao Junsheng: "The army camped in the north of Tunqi Mountain for a night, because we did not know the reality of the Rouran people, we did not rush to Shengle City, and sent several exploration horses to the direction of Shengle City to investigate the enemy's situation for two consecutive days, but I didn't expect that these exploration horses were all gone, during this period, our vigilant men and horses also hunted and killed several Rouran exploration posts who tried to spy on our military situation!" ”

"Until the third day, the prince was worried about delaying the fighter, so he ordered the army to approach in the direction of Shengle City, but he didn't expect to suddenly encounter the Rouran army after only half a day! To this day, we still believe that this encounter was definitely an accident, because at that time, the Rouran army was five miles away from the west side of our army, and our army was five miles away from the east side of the Rouran army. ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded and said, "In this way, it does look like an accidental encounter with Ou!" Both sides must not be prepared, they must have rushed to fight, right? ”

Tuoba Jian sighed: "Hey, who said it wasn't? Since it was a chance encounter, there must be no preparation, and whoever takes the lead will have a much greater chance of winning, so they all rush to battle! The Rouran people are very tenacious, they fought with us for two hours, both sides suffered heavy casualties, but no one showed signs of retreat, at this moment a strong wind suddenly blew in the sky, blowing so that people's eyes could not open, and when the wind stopped, the sky was dark, and both sides could only retreat with their own troops! ”

Zhao Junsheng didn't know how much water Tuoba Jian and Yu Ji's words were, but the general situation should be true, this can't be hidden, there are so many people left in the Right Guard, and it is inevitable that there will be a lot of mouth, and if you want to hide the truth of the war, you can't hide it.

In the afternoon, Zhao Junsheng sent away Mulan and her 300 subordinates.

In the next three days, the defense line of Da'e Mountain, Tunqi Mountain, and Nantianbao was calm, but the will of the imperial court came down, and Anyuan was on standby, and five thousand men and horses rushed over to reinforce within five days at the latest, which reassured An Yuan and others, and in the eyes of An Yuan and Tuoba Jian and others, five days could still be held.

"Dutong, Team Master Cao asked the villain to come and report to Dutong, we found an extremely suspicious person in the bazaar!" A security officer reported to Zhao Junsheng, who was practicing martial arts.

Zhao Junsheng paused and gasped slightly, put away his spear and asked, "Oh, what's so suspicious?" ”

"If you go back to the capital, this person asked the commander of the battalion, the generals of the various armies, the deputy generals, and the generals of each building in the bazaar, who their surnames were, how old they are, and what their specialties and abilities are, and they inquired very carefully! In addition, this person is also observing the situation inside the camp outside the walls of the camp! ”

Zhao Junsheng felt the seriousness of this matter, he immediately threw the spear to Li Bao, took a towel to wipe off the sweat, and immediately followed the security guards who reported the news to the market.

In the tea shop opposite an inn in the market outside the camp, Cao Jiao was sitting in the tea shop with a few soldiers in civilian clothes drinking tea, and when he saw Zhao Junsheng coming over with Li Bao and others, he immediately got up and hugged his fists: "Dutong!" ”

Zhao Junsheng pressed his hand, walked to the table and sat down and asked, "Tell me about the other party!" ”

"Yes!" Cao Jiao Daying, said: "The subordinates bought the shop Xiao Er of the inn opposite, let him report to his subordinates if he finds a suspicious person, and give him a little money every time, this morning he went to the security team to report to his subordinates that their inn came to a guest at dusk yesterday, this person always intentionally or unintentionally asked him about the news of the commanders and generals in the camp, and the subordinates immediately sent someone to track this person, but I didn't expect this person to wander around outside the camp all morning, and often lie outside the wall to observe, The subordinates suspected that this person might be a fine work sent by the Rouran people! ”

Zhao Junsheng asked, "This person is in the inn now?" ”

"Yes, it's in the third room on the second floor, the window is facing the market street, you look up, count from right to left, the third window is!"

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and ordered: "Arrest immediately, I will take someone to guard here, as long as this person jumps from the window, it will be difficult for him to escape, you take someone into the inn and go upstairs, and capture Pontus alive!" ”