Chapter 759: The Narrow Road (3)
Disarm the defenders of the administrative center, except for Wang Lingshi and other military attachΓ©s, the rest of the people were escorted to the camp for custody. Bao Rui transferred troops into the palace and quickly took over the administrative office, and escorted Qin Han and Gao Heng into the lobby.
Seeing Wang Lingshi and Li Jian, Qin Han still did not forget to resist stubbornly:
"Wang Lingshi, Li Jian and Bao Rui rebelled, you must not trust them."
Wang Lingshi smiled bitterly, lowered his head and said:
"The Heavenly King of Yin is also reversed, if the Holy Envoy Zhao doesn't want to hit the stone with an egg?"
"Hugh listens to the nonsense of the two of them, how can the king of heaven rebel, it must be the two of them who conspire to rebel in the name of the king of heaven!"
While Qin Han was quibbling, a sneer came from behind him:
"I'm dying, and I'm still hard-mouthed."
When Qin Han heard the Xianguo accent, he was busy looking back, and was shocked when he saw the appearance of the person who came:
"Hah... It's you! β
"Yes, it's Ben Shuai. Qin Caidong, I haven't seen you for more than ten years, don't come to harm! β
"Okay, you Wei Xian, no, you are Qi Shizi Bailiyan. I really didn't expect it to be planted in your hands in the end! β
"Qin Caidong's words are wrong, it should be said that cause and effect are reincarnated, good is rewarded, and evil is evil, not that there is no retribution, but that the time has not come. Qin Caidong walked chicly back then, shouldn't he have thought that there would be today. β
"What do you want!"
"Qin Caidong did a lot of evil back then, and Ben Shuai killed you with dirty hands, and now he gives you two roads, one, and you will break it yourself. Second, escort back Guangxin to my father-in-law's disposal, presumably Guangxin will definitely catch up with Qin Caidong. β
"You, as long as you don't kill me, I, Qin Han, can help you with my merits, what's the matter."
Qin Han pleaded, and Bai Liyan dismissed it:
"Help me, burned Xuandi's millions of stone grain and grass, is this how you helped Ben Shuai!"
"Now that I'm a prisoner of yours, it's useless for you to kill me. If you leave me alive, I will help you retreat from the Thunder King's soldiers. In any case, the thunder will arrive at the end of the month at the latest, and the war will continue to stalemate, which will not be beneficial to the Xianguo. β
"So, Thunder placed you here just to watch Xuan Di and Ye Feng's granary, right?"
"Yes, exactly." Qin Han affirmed, but saw Bai Liyan's face change dramatically: "What are you looking at me like this!" β
"Qin Caidong, Qin Caidong, now that the King of Yin Heaven has descended, even if the Thunder Army arrives, its grain and grass will be exhausted, how can it be the opponent of our army."
"No, if the thunder soldiers and horses are defeated, Shengyan will also be defeated and flee south, and the Changsun army will immediately go south, and then the Ganfu, Shangguan, and Wanchuan east of the Sishui River will all be owned by the eldest grandson, and Dekang will become an enclave and hang outside the Xianguo, which is not good for your Xianguo. But if the Thunder holds out on the northern front for two months, you have plenty of time to cross the river and seize Ganfu, Shangguan, and Wanchuan.
Anyway, I'll help you get rid of the thunderous soldiers and horses, and you let me live. β
Qin Han has been in the officialdom of the shopping mall for many years, and he is very cunning and cunning, he knows very well that after the thunder goes south and the troops and horses are scattered, the thunder will not be able to maintain the battle line in Fangling and Suichang. After Shengyan was cut off from the west, there were no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and there were only two ways to go.
The first is to go south to Ganfu, Shangguan, and Wanchuan, and continue to resist stubbornly to the end with the Shentong army, and the second is also the last choice of the first road to the black, choosing to sacrifice the three counties and surrender to the eldest grandson in exchange for food supplies, which is obviously very unfavorable to the Xian army.
The only way to avoid this situation is to convince the Thunder that the crisis in Dekang County has been resolved, and let them return to the northern front to continue to hold on, which will consume half a month.
At the same time, taking advantage of the poor transmission of information in the theater, the Xian army transferred troops across the river to attack Ganfu, and launched a full-line attack from Changyin County to the north, consuming supernatural grain and grass on the one hand, and forcing it to shrink the battle line on the other hand, and gain a firm foothold in Ganfu and Shangguan counties before the grain and grass on the northern front were cut off and collapsed.
And the only one who can do this is Thunder's henchman Qin Han.
Bailiyan weighed it again and again and decided to give it a try. At this moment, there is no threat to the Thunder to move south. For the Xian army, time is undoubtedly the most precious resource, and Qin Han's move can at least give the Xian army at least fifteen to twenty days, and fifteen days is enough to make room for the deployment.
After a little thought, Bai Liyan said:
"How is Qin Caidong going to retreat from the thunderous soldiers and horses?"
"I can repair a book and send it to the Thunder Army as soon as possible, and the Thunder will definitely accept it."
"That's good, if Thunder retreats, Qin Caidong and others will be able to survive half a year later, if Thunder retreats from the army, this commander will not be spared. Someone came, put Qin Han, Gao Heng and others in prison, and after hearing it, they were sent down! β
"You're going to talk and count!" Qin Han said loudly.
"At the beginning, Guangxin kept his promise, and today he is still full of promises. Hold on! β
The left and right guards stepped forward to escort Qin Han and Gao Heng out of the prison, and then Li Jian hurriedly asked:
"The deputy marshal has had a holiday with these two?"
"Thunder attacked Beihai County that year, these two people were friends with my father-in-law, but they secretly colluded with the rebels to harm Guangxin, and Ben Shuai was ordered to go to Beihai for reinforcements and saw through the treacherous plot of the two of them. The two of them escaped by chance, but they never thought that now they encountered it in Peicheng, and they almost broke the big thing. Now that he is captured, he still wants to be stingy and escape with his life, which is really despicable. β
"What is the lieutenant going to do with the two of them?"
"Since Ben Shuai has promised him a way to live, he naturally can't go back on his word. But it won't make him live comfortably, and it looks like he won't be able to return north for the rest of his life when he goes to Qianyue Mountain. β
It is not that Baili Yan is soft-hearted and does not kill Qin Han, Qin Han should have killed, it is worth killing him at the cost of dishonesty, but he should not be killed.
The Xianjun army marched all the way west, largely thanks to the lenient envelopment policy, and those who should be killed can be let go, and there is no shortage of Qin Han's head.
But the advantages of not killing Qin Han outweigh the disadvantages, not to mention the close, Qin Han knows a lot of secrets, and he knows the intelligence network of the Foolish Theory Sect in Xianguo very well, leaving him alive, and there will be intelligence value in the future. The infiltration of the Central Plains by the Wei Guo will still need to rely on the intelligence system of the remnants of the black scarf in the future to dig out the underground network of the Xian State, and Qin Han's cooperation is indispensable.
The newly attached rebels such as Li Jian and Bao Rui urgently need to be appeased, even if there are 10,000 reasons for dishonesty, they will not deeply feel the passivity and sinister of the crisis of Guangxin, and they will not show it on the face of dishonesty and kill Qin Han, but it is difficult to say that they have buried a shadow in their hearts, which is not good. If you want to use them in the future, you must first reassure them, and when you use them, you can reassure them.
It is not so much that not killing Qin Han is for intelligence, but that Baili Yan will inevitably go to the ultimate fate of the ministers, and in order to achieve the goal, he will do whatever it takes to win people's hearts.
The soldiers took Peicheng without blood, Bai Liyan did not dare to slack off, appeased Wang Lingshi and others, and immediately asked them to learn more about the situation in Peicheng in the past two months, and mastered some special situations that had not been grasped before.
In the afternoon, Bai Liyan personally interrogated Qin Han and Gao Heng, and ordered Qin Han to repair a book to report his safety, and at the same time, Bai Liyan personally drafted a letter, combined with Qin Han's letter, and after recompiling it, he asked Qin Han to write another one in his own tone.
In order to prevent his fraud, after the envelope was sealed, Bai Liyan took it to Qin Han's cronies to identify the seals one by one, and confirmed that there was nothing unusual, so he found a reliable person from the Peicheng Holy Orders Division to detain his family, gave him a heavy amount of money, and sent it to the Thunder Army with a secret letter.
Two days later, Gongsun Yue's 20,000 infantry troops arrived at Peicheng to garrison, and Bailiyan took Wang Lingshi and other guards to Xuandi, and ordered Bao Rui to continue to guard Peicheng, and at the same time ordered him to divide his troops to Lin Taocheng City.
Gongsun Yue's army still stayed on the south bank of the Biqing River for reorganization, due to the lag in supply, in order to facilitate the operation, Gongsun Yue's army continued to retain black scarf equipment, and divided 50,000 or 60,000 troops to the south, stationed in various cities to take over the defense.
Affected by the news blockade and the lag in the transmission of information on the battlefield, Gongsun Yue's stationing in various places in the name of the King of Yin Heaven was extremely smooth.
At the same time, Gongliangxiu continued to carry grain and grass in Taiqin, and Dekang's calm had always puzzled him, and the sudden increase in troops in Beique and Nuoxiang at this time was even more strange.
On this day, Gongliangsong couldn't bear it anymore and asked Zhao Anling:
"Mr. Zhao, does the Marquis of Yongxing have any news delivered?"
"Not yet." Zhao Anling denied that Bai Liyan did not send the news.
"Then Mr. Zhao hasn't noticed anything unusual in the last half month?"
"What does Doctor Gongliang mean?"
"I just came to report today, Langcheng north of Taiqin, Nuoxiang in the south, and Beique in the south have thousands of rebels stationed in succession, Mr. Zhao doesn't think it's abnormal?"
"It's a bit of an anomaly." Zhao Anling stood up, came to the side of the boat and looked at the west bank and said: "The vanguard of the rebel army suddenly retreated westward, and in half a month, the troops were successively divided into various places, unless the thunder reinforcements arrived, and the Hou Ye was surrounded, and at the same time, in order to prevent our army from sweeping the city, the King of Yin Heaven divided his troops and stationed them in various places.
But it is difficult to make sense of this, Thunder will never rush to Dekang time at this time, and the Yin Tianwang will march from south to north, if you want to take Xuandi and Ye Feng, there is the Biqing River to block, and there is no possibility of crossing the river for a while.
However, the Yin Tianwang has limited grain and grass, and he should have run out of food a long time ago, and now he can still divide his troops into various places, which shows that his grain and grass are sufficient, and it is not like dividing troops to raise food. But to say that he defeated Hou Ye and seized Xuandi's grain and grass, it doesn't seem to be very similar, Hou Ye should always have news to send it.
But to this day, there is no news, which is indeed a bit puzzling. β
Gongliangxiu was highly suspicious of Zhao Anling's statement, and he didn't believe that Bai Liyan didn't secretly send the news.
"Mr. Zhao, Bai Liyan won't have other plans."
"Figure what?"
Zhao Anling asked rhetorically, Gongliang Xiu found that he didn't know how to deal with it for a while.
It is true that he doesn't know what Bailiyan is planning, but he subconsciously thinks that Bailiyan has other plans.
Consciously taking care of the loss, Gongliang Xiu changed the topic and diverted the topic:
"The matter of gold and silver stones, Bai Liyan will not let you say it so easily, with his city government, there must be other purposes, right?"
"Isn't it clear enough below, gold and silver stones can only be used to refine cannons, and you have no other use for using them."
"Bai Liyan's nonsense is a lot, I don't believe he has no plans. In addition, I have found out the news, you have found a large tomb in Zhaocheng, intercepted countless gold, silver and jewelry, why did Mr. Zhao never mention this matter before, there will be no other cave in the mountains of Zhaocheng. β
"Alas......" Zhao Anling sighed and shook his head, looking helpless: "There is indeed a tomb in Zhaocheng Mountain, but the gold, silver and jewelry were all looted by the rebels. Besides, there is no gold mine in the mountain, and the Hou Ye asked for Zhaocheng, just to make cannons. β
"Since Mr. Zhao doesn't say it, Dr. Ben doesn't make it difficult for others, so Mr. Zhao is at his own convenience."
Gongliang Xiu trail departed, got off the boat and came to the shore to supervise the transfer of grain and grass.