Ye Xuemei thought for a long time, and said to the moon prisoner: "The only way to do this is to contact all the civil and military officials who are on our side, and jointly put pressure on them, hoping to force Your Majesty to increase troops." ”

"I'll go now." After the moon prisoner left, Rong Xiang stepped forward and closed the door, worried: "If you lose this battle, Your Majesty will definitely use this as an excuse to deal with the prince." ”

"I won't let the prince lose." Ye Xuemei knew that now, she had to study a set of formations that could be used in a short period of time to help Gongliang Yuzhi.

As soon as Gongliang Yanqing received the news from the moon prisoner, he immediately went to visit the various prefectures one by one. Wan Jin, Yang Nan, Wu Ming, Meng Tang and others were among his visits, and even those who didn't have any friendship on weekdays went with shy faces. The more people who support them, the more hope there is for the increase in troops.

The next morning, a total of 12 ministers jointly played, asking Gongliang Rongruo to increase the army, but he refused on the grounds that there was insufficient food and grass and could not maintain the loss of nearly 300,000 troops. The issue of the increase in troops has reached an impasse.

Blessings are incomparable, and disasters are not singular.

When Gongliang stopped suffering several defeats in a row because of the combined forces of Xia and Wu, a group of black-clothed men with strange skills and ruthless shots attacked the Song State military camp at night, wanting to take his life. Fortunately, there were a group of people from the Dark Night Camp such as the Shadow Prisoner, and after a fierce battle, those black-clothed people saw that they couldn't get a bargain, so they immediately retreated and disappeared into the darkness.

In this thrilling battle, in addition to the soldiers of the Song Kingdom, there was also a gray-clothed man who also saw it, he was ordered to monitor Gongliang's words, but he unexpectedly saw this one.

Under the cover of night, he quickly came to a small hill where six or seven men in the same clothes as him stood. This group of people is none other than the people in the Lyra Pavilion.

A leader-looking person, after listening to his story, wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "You said that King Ning has a master guard by his side?" ”

The man in gray nodded, "Yes, and there are quite a few of them." ”

"How are martial arts compared to you?"

The man in gray pondered for a moment and replied: "If you fight, within fifty moves, you will definitely lose." ”

That person's pupils shrank suddenly under the moonlight, how could there be such a master by King Ning's side?

"Do you recognize their martial arts paths?"

"The subordinates of the various major sects in the rivers and lakes know a little about it, but the tricks they use are completely unrecognizable to the subordinates, and the only thing that can be seen is that they are ruthless and kill them."

"This is really strange, where did King Ning recruit such a group of strongmen that he has never seen before?" Just when he was full of doubts, a person next to him said, "Chief, I have something in mind. ”

"Say."

"In order to rescue Ye Cairen, King Ning once bribed outlaws in the territory of Xia Kingdom, are they those people?"

Before the leader could speak, the man in gray said categorically, "No." ”

The leader was surprised, "Why are you so sure?" ”

"Not to mention that when King Ning returned to the Song Kingdom, the group of outlaws had already dispersed, even if they were still there, it was impossible to advance and retreat in an orderly manner like the group of people tonight, and cooperate tacitly. This tacit understanding is by no means achieved overnight. ”

The man pondered, "What you said also makes sense, but apart from that group of outlaws, I can't think of any other master who will obey King Ning's orders." With his little family background, it is barely enough to invite one or two masters, let alone so many people, unless the other party does not want silver, but this is impossible. ”

He was originally unintentional, but it made the leader have a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said thoughtfully: "Maybe you really don't need silver." ”

As soon as he heard this, the man immediately said: "How is it possible, if you don't talk about others, just say that those offerings in our building, which one doesn't take tens of thousands of taels of silver every year." If you don't have money, you won't be able to move them. ”

The leader looked in the direction of the Song State military camp from afar, and said slowly: "You forgot the dark night camp? ”

"Of course the subordinates remember, the dark night camp ......" In the middle of speaking, the man suddenly stopped speaking, stared at the side face of the leader, and said in disbelief: "The leader is saying that the dark night camp is in the hands of King Ning?" ”

The leader said with a gloomy gaze, "This is the only reasonable explanation. ”

"Impossible, impossible!" The man shook his head again and again, "When the first emperor was alive, the most unpopular person was King Ning, how could he pass on the Dark Night Camp to him. ”

The leader said indifferently: "But King Xin, King Yan and King Mu, we have all carefully traced them, and none of them can be connected with the Dark Night Camp." ”

His words made everyone speechless, could it be that the Dark Night Camp was really in the hands of King Ning?

The gray-clothed man said with a solemn expression: "If it is really as the leader said, then King Ning is His Majesty's biggest threat!" ”

The leader narrowed his eyes and said to him, "You immediately go back to Kaifeng, tell the girl Yingyi about this matter, and ask her to tell Your Majesty." ”

"My subordinates will go." The man in gray knew that the stakes were high, and immediately left. This place is more than 100 miles away from Kaifeng, and it took a long night to rush to Kaifeng. When he came to Tianqin Pavilion, he was told that Yingyi had entered the palace early in the morning, so he had to rush to Zhaoming Palace again.

As soon as he arrived at the palace gate, he was stopped by the forbidden army responsible for guarding the palace gate, "Stop, where did you come from?" ”

The gray-clothed man smiled and said, "Two big brothers, the villain came to find the Yingyi girl who was on an errand in Xingde Palace, please let me know." ”

"Girl in Yingyi?" The forbidden army looked him up and down, "Who are you?" ”

"Villain......" The gray-clothed man rolled his eyes, and hurriedly said: "The villain is Yingyi's cousin, I haven't seen her for many years, this time I came to Kaifeng to do some goods, and I came to see her by the way." ”

The forbidden soldier said with a cold face: "The two of us are on duty at this time, and we are not allowed to leave here, so you better go back and wait." ”

The man in gray said with an embarrassed face: "The villain is leaving today, and I don't know when I will come back next time." Ask the two eldest brothers to help and be accommodating. With that, he shoved a silver ingot into each of the two forbidden soldiers.

After receiving the money, the attitude of the forbidden army was really much better. The man just now: "The two of us really can't leave, but there are often palace people passing by here, so you can let him go to Xingde Hall to inform him." ”

"Thank you, big brother, thank you!" The man in gray thanked him again and again. After a while, sure enough, a eunuch came, but he didn't see the two forbidden soldiers make a move, seeing that the eunuch was about to go away, the gray-clothed man couldn't help but come to one of the forbidden soldiers, "This big brother, didn't you say that you can let others pass it on?" Why don't you call that eunuch over? ”

When the two forbidden soldiers heard his words, they couldn't help but laugh, "You really think anyone can do it!" This is the palace overseer of the fourth grade, and he is a celebrity in front of His Majesty, and he calls our brothers about the same. ”