Shaanxi County.

At the south gate, Huo Jun was walking on the city, patrolling the city at night.

"General Huo, look, there seems to be something floating in the sky!" Suddenly, a sharp-eyed soldier pointed to the sky and shouted.

Huo Jun looked up, and sure enough, he saw that in the night sky, there were more than a dozen points of light, which were drifting in the direction of the city along the south wind.

In the direction of Wei Ying, when the arrow broke through the air, more than half of the light clusters fell immediately.

The Wei army's arrows disappeared, and after a while, as seven or eight light clusters approached, Huo Jun saw clearly that it was nothing else floating in the wind, it was actually a Kong Ming lantern.

"Kong Ming lantern, why did Kong Ming lantern suddenly float in? What tricks is Wei Jun playing? Huo Jun clenched the hilt of his sword and immediately raised his vigilance.

When a Kong Ming lantern flew over Shaanxi County, it seemed that due to the exhaustion of oil and the dry of the lamp, the heat weakened and began to slowly descend, and several lamps fell into the city.

"Quick, find out all the Kong Ming lanterns for me, don't let Wei Gou play any tricks!" Huo Jun ordered sharply.

The soldiers defending the city immediately rushed down the city and ran in the direction of the Kong Ming lantern falling.

Huo Jun stood at the head of the city, looking at the extinguished light clusters, and there was suspicion between his eyebrows, guessing what Su Zhe's intentions were.

A moment later, the soldiers brought five or six scrolls back to the city, claiming that there was nothing on the lanterns, only these scrolls.

Huo Jun became more and more suspicious, so he ordered these scrolls to be unfolded and the soldiers to light torches.

The scroll was unfolded, illuminated by the firelight, and what was written on it was clear.

Huo Jun took a closer look, but he was stunned, and muttered in surprise: "What kind of messy things are written on this?" ”

Huo Jun looked at all the scrolls carefully, and what was written on them was the same thing that he couldn't understand.

"Let's go, go to Captain Fa, he might be able to see it."

Huo Jun asked the soldiers to take these scrolls, went down to the city, and went straight to Fazheng's residence in the starry night.

At this moment, Fa Zheng had already fallen asleep, and when he heard the report from his subordinates that Huo Jun had an urgent matter to ask to see, he thought that the Wei army was attacking the city at night, so he was busy getting up and hastily draped out to meet him.

"General Huo, what happened, did the Wei army attack the city?" Fa Zheng asked, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"Not really, there is something in the final general that I want Captain Fa Tai to see."

Huo Jun asked the soldiers to present the scrolls, and explained how he found the Kong Ming lantern floating towards the city, how he ordered the soldiers to search for them, and how he found these scrolls from above.

"Something?"

Fa Zheng was completely sleepy, his eyes were full of surprise, and he sat down and opened the scrolls one by one.

When he saw what was drawn on the scroll, he couldn't help but be stunned.

There are many words written on the scroll, but they are all words that represent numbers, such as "壹贰電".

There was a long list of numbers, more than a hundred, densely packed into a square array.

"Captain Fatai, what do these numbers mean? So what tricks is the Su thief playing? Huo Jun pointed to the scroll and asked blankly and curiously.

Fa Zheng frowned deeply, staring at the numbers and muttering.

Suddenly, a gleam flashed in his eyes, and he said excitedly: "These scrolls were not written by Su Thief, they were sent to us by His Majesty!" ”

"Your Majesty?" Huo Jun was stunned again, and his mind hadn't turned a corner yet.

Fa Zhengze sneered: "Do you think, the Su thieves have surrounded Shaanxi County, if Your Majesty sends a messenger to sneak in by land, it is very likely to be caught by the Wei army, and Your Majesty's will will will not be transmitted at all, only by using this Kong Ming lantern to float into the city from the sky, can you cross the Wei camp unconsciously." ”

Huo Jun suddenly realized, but said: "This is a wonderful way, but why did Your Majesty send so many of the same scrolls over?" ”

"Isn't this simple, even if it floats from the sky, it may not be able to completely hide from the Wei army, if there is only one lamp, it is easy to be shot down by the Wei army, so Your Majesty wants to send so many lamps in, there is always a lamp that can fly in."

Huo Jun finally came to his senses, but pointed to the words on the scroll and said, "But why did Your Majesty write these things in the will you gave us?" ”

Fa Zheng said with a smile: "This is Your Majesty's caution, do you think, if Your Majesty really writes his will on this, once the Wei army shoots down the Kong Ming lantern, wouldn't Your Majesty's will be known to the Wei army." ”

"But in this case, even if we hide it from Wei Gou, won't we not be able to understand it?" Huo Jun questioned again.

The corners of Fa Zheng's mouth hooked a smug smile, "Don't you know, before I set off that day, Prime Minister Zhuge made a private agreement with me that if we were besieged by the Wei army, he would suggest that Your Majesty contact us in ciphertext, so as not to be discovered by the Wei army." ”

"Ciphertext?" Huo Jun's eyes moved.

"The so-called ciphertext is a book that I agreed with Prime Minister Kong Ming in advance, as the mother of the ciphertext, these numbers on the scroll represent the words on the book, as long as all the words are combined, it is Your Majesty's will." Fa Zheng explained.

Huo Jun's expression was shocked, and he finally understood everything, and couldn't help but sigh: "Prime Minister Zhuge is really prescient, and he really thinks about it. ”

At that moment, Fa Zheng took out a volume of "Zuo Chuan" from the pile of books he carried with the army, and checked the ciphertext table on the scroll overnight to find every word in it.

After a busy night, at dawn, they finally found all the ciphertexts.

A new decree was finally re-presented before their eyes.

After seeing the content of the holy decree, Fa Zheng's expression was shocked and he was silent, but Huo Jun gasped.

"Captain Fa, does Your Majesty really want us to abandon the city and break through?" Huo Jun looked at Fa Zheng in surprise.

Fa Zheng sighed: "Although Your Majesty is in Tongguan, he knows the situation of our Shaanxi County well, he should have seen that Huxian County was lost, we became an isolated city, and the morale of the soldiers was low, and they couldn't last long, so they could only make this decision to keep our troops and horses." ”

"Alas~~" Huo Jun sighed helplessly, "Our situation is indeed not good, no matter how much the Su thief continues to attack, we really won't be able to support it for a few days." ”

After sighing, Huo Jun looked at Fa Zheng again: "Captain Fa, how do you decide, should we abandon the city and break through, or continue to hold on?" ”

Fa Zheng was silent, his fists clenched secretly, and there was a trace of unwillingness between his eyebrows.

I think that at the beginning, it was he who overrode public opinion, volunteered to lead the army to Hongnong, and came to defend this Shaanxi county.

Who would have thought that it was his strategy that indirectly led to a series of defeats later, causing the Han army to lose its troops.

And now, if he can't even defend Shaanxi County, and finally flees to Tongguan in disgrace, what face will he have to see Liu Bei.

His intention to consolidate his position by defending Shaanxi County and making meritorious contributions came to naught.

Of course he was unwilling.

"Captain Fa Tai, our army has lost soldiers and lost generals, and these thousands of soldiers in our hands are very precious to Your Majesty and my Han Dynasty." Huo Jun saw that he was hesitant, so he cautiously reminded.

Fa Zheng's body was shocked, and the remaining bit of entanglement disappeared.

After pondering for a long time, he shook his head helplessly and sighed: "That's it, Your Majesty has a will, how can we resist the will and prepare to break through." ”

Huo Jun secretly breathed a sigh of relief and was relieved, but asked again: "Captain Fa, do we really want to break through in the direction specified by His Majesty?" ”