Xihai City.

It had been two days since Li Yan received Li Wei's letter, in which he said that Nanliang's bald-haired Wei Tan wanted to send troops to attack Beiliang together with Xiliang. Although Li Wei had the intention of consulting Li Yan in the letter, Li Yan could see that Li Wei seemed to have made up his mind to fight the Huns.

A few people in the Zhenbei army knew about this, and the two generals, Lei Ming and Iron Hammer, heard the words and agreed to send troops with Nanliang. For so many years, the Huns have been a frequent offender, and they have long had enough. Now Nanliang is willing to attack Guzang, and Xiliang directly takes Zhangye, so that the Huns are exposed to the enemy.

After a night of thinking, Li Yan wrote a letter and sent him back to Jiuquan as soon as possible. originally thought that in another year or two, Xiliang could accumulate the strength to fight with the Xiongnu, but now Nanliang is unwilling to destroy the country and wants to form an alliance with Xiliang, which is an unexpected joy.

If this battle is won, Xiliang will win most of the Hexi Corridor in one fell swoop, and his strength will be greatly improved. And Nanliang can also relieve the danger of destroying the country.

Li Yan has long coveted the Hexi Ranch, and he has been thinking about it when he passed by the Hexi Ranch when he went to the Jin Kingdom last year. Now that I want to doze off, someone actually sent a pillow.

In the Zhenbei General's Mansion, Li Yan was discussing with Linghu Dezhao, and Li Yan understood that since Li Wei had made up his mind to fight with Beiliang, the most important thing now was to rectify the armament.

"Now that the grain and grass in the West Sea have not been collected this autumn, if the war is deadlocked, I am afraid that the grain and grass will be insufficient. As far as I know, the grain and grass in Jiuquan City is only enough to last until this autumn, and now the grain and grass in the West Sea is only enough for March. Linghu Dezhao was deeply worried about the shortage of grain and grass in the West Sea.

"Humph! Then take it from the hands of the Huns, it is said that Zhangye City hoarded millions of stone grain and grass, so much grain and grass left in the hands of the Huns, what a pity. Li Yan snorted coldly.

Ling Hu Dezhao stood with his hands behind his back, feeling a little worried in his heart: "Having said that, I am afraid that the Huns will not be able to hold out in Zhangye City, so even if I have an army of 100,000 people in Daliang, it will not be easy to break through Zhangye City within a period of time." ”

"I have my own arrangements for this matter, and the day after tomorrow I will go back to Jiuquan in person, and I will leave the affairs in the army to you." Li Yan frowned, then got up and said to Linghu Dezhao.

"Don't worry."

Li Yan rode out of Xihai City and went straight to Longshou Stream. A few days ago, Hu Lu and Li Yan exchanged pig iron again, and now there are 4,000 more war horses in the Xihai camp.

After explaining in Longshoujian, Li Yan came to the military camp of the Blood Wolf Guard near Longshoujian, where Han Qian had been training the Blood Wolf Guard for the past two months.

There are now more than 300 Blood Wolf Guards, and this year Han Qian selected more than 100 people from the Zhenbei Army to join the Blood Wolf Guard, after several months of devil training, these Blood Wolf Guards have changed a lot.

In the tent, Li Yan looked at Han Qian in front of him, and couldn't help but smile, he hadn't seen him for two months, and it was already dark.

"Brother Han, I have an important matter to hand over to you."

"Childe, tell me about it." Han Qian stood up and clenched his fists and said.

"I want you to select a hundred reliable sergeants from the Blood Wolf Guard, and after three days, after dressing up, leave the West Sea and blend into Zhangye City, find a secret place and wait for orders." Li Yan said with a solemn face.

"Don't worry, Childe, that guy has been yelling and being idle lately, just let him go!" Han Qian patted his chest and replied.

"Good. It is not appropriate to make a public statement, and the fewer people who know about it, the better. When you enter Zhangye City, you don't have to do anything, and wait for my orders to act. ”

Han Qian nodded and said, "Han Qian understands. ”

"Early the day after tomorrow, follow me back to Jiuquan City." After Li Yan finished speaking, he walked out of the blood wolf guard's military camp and returned to Xihai City.

In the Liangwang Mansion, Li Wei looked at Li Yan's letter in the study, with a long-lost smile on his face. Immediately summoned Song Miao to see him.

"Brother, why are you in such a hurry?" As soon as Song Miao entered the study, he saluted Li Wei.

"Haha. Brother Xian, look at it, this is Yan'er's reply. You told Meng Kai these three conditions, and if Nanliang could agree, the two would form an alliance and send troops to attack Beiliang together. Li Wei stroked his beard and handed the letter in his hand to Song Xuan.

Song Miao took the letter and read it for a while, "This~, brother, is this too harsh?" If the bald Wei Tan doesn't agree, wouldn't it be a missed opportunity? ”

"Brother Xian doesn't need to worry too much, although the Huns have agreed to negotiate peace with Nanliang, but the bald Wei Tan also understands that the Huns will not stop there. So he will definitely say yes. Li Wei said in a deep voice.

"It's easy to say that this soldier, horse, money and food, but with the bald hair of Prince Nanliang as the hostage, I'm afraid Nanliang won't agree easily." The more Song Miao looked at it, the more shocked he became, and the content of the letter was simply unexpected.

"Now Nanliang is in danger, and the Western Qin and the Huns are eyeing each other. In order to ensure that Nan Liang will not be treacherous, it can only be so. ”

"Brother, don't worry, Song Miao understands." Song Miao arched his hand, of course Song Miao understood Li Wei's worries. If Nanliang is treacherous, and Xiliang sends troops to attack Zhangye, and then sits on the mountain to watch the tiger fight and does not send troops to contain Guzang's tens of thousands of troops, then Xiliang is in danger.

Jiuquan City is quiet in the dead of night, and the lights in Song Xuan's mansion are bright, and the door of the mansion is closed.

Meng Kai heard the three conditions put forward by Song Xuan, and his face instantly flushed with anger. Especially seeing the prince's bald hair as a hostage, Meng Kai could no longer hold back the anger in his heart.

"Lord Song, the old man can agree to the soldiers, horses, money and food for my lord, but the old man can't accept it with my Daliang prince as a hostage, His Royal Highness the prince is a body of ten thousand gold, how can he be a hostage?" Meng Kai stood up and glared angrily.

"Lord Meng is angry, Jiuquan Gong has already said this, if Guangwu Gong does not agree, then this alliance will be abandoned. Lord Meng might as well inform Guangwu Gong ...... these three conditions," Song Miao said without any care.

"That's it~ okay!" Meng Kai sighed, this time he was going to Xiliang Meng Kai was ready to be knocked hard by Xiliang. It's just that I didn't expect Xiliang to take the bald tiger platform as a hostage.

Meng Kai returned to the inn with a helpless face, wrote a letter overnight about what he had seen and heard in Xiliang and the conditions proposed by Xiliang, and asked his entourage to send him back to Ledu early the next morning.

Li Yan hurried overnight and returned to Jiuquan City at noon. As soon as he entered the city, Li Yan went straight to the Liangwang Mansion.

In Li Wei's study, Li Yan stood aside respectfully. From the comparison of the military strength of Xiliang and the Huns to how to capture Zhangye, Li Wei and Li Yan have been talking in the study for more than an hour.

"Yan'er, you've really grown up. In the past two years, your changes are really unpredictable to grandpa. If you win this battle, you should be the first to take the lead. Li Wei stroked his white beard and looked at Li Yan with a smile on his face.

"Grandpa said that he laughed, Yan'er didn't dare to take credit." Li Yan touched his nose and said embarrassedly.

"Yan'er, you go back first. After Nan Liang agrees to my Da Liang's conditions, we will discuss when to send troops, and you will stay in Jiuquan during this time. ”

"Yes. Yan'er retired. ”