On the night that Gui Yuehua's head was hung out, Hua Bin returned to the city, bringing ten helpers, and without accident, they were captured alive shortly after they walked out of the tunnel, the tunnel was flooded and sealed, and the captives were sent to the palace of the king. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The captives were divided into separate custodys, and the emperor personally interrogated Hua Bin.

Only three days apart, Hua Binbi was much more haggard than when she was under house arrest in the guard camp, but there were no scars on her body, but she was under great pressure in her heart.

The secrets of the Chu people were not exposed, after everyone showed their plans, the king of the Huns was very satisfied, leaving everyone behind, feasting every day, Deng Cui successfully won the favor of the Huns, and called the nobles brothers, and even dared to offer wine to the king's concubines.

The accident happened the night before yesterday, the banquet was underway, the king of the Huns received a letter, asked the interpreter to read it to him quietly, Gui Yuehua was also confused for a while, but at this time he stepped forward to toast, and wanted to learn from Deng Cui's appearance, showing a little recklessness, and I don't know which sentence was wrong, which angered the king of the Huns.

Maybe he was just unlucky, the king of the Huns was angry, got up, drew his knife, walked to Gui Yuehua, and slashed without a head, poor Gui Yuehua was also a well-known master in the rivers and lakes, but in that case he didn't dare to make any resistance, just raised his arm, and quickly put it down, and died in the tent inexplicably.

The king of the Huns made a big call, very angry, his wife and concubines hugged each other and trembled, and many nobles got up and responded from time to time, and they didn't know what they were saying.

The Chu people were all taken out of the tents, and the interpreter told them with a serious expression that the days of enjoyment were over, and Hua Bin and the others must return to the city tomorrow night and get the emperor's head within two days.

Hua Bin was really frightened, he was still trembling when he told this, in Da Chu, what Hua Jia felt was only humiliation, in the Huns, what he felt was grass mustard, what relatives, nobles, and reputation in the rivers and lakes were worthless in the Huns, Hua Bin tried to recall the means by which the slaves flattered themselves, in order to protect themselves in front of the Hun king.

Yun Mengze's Dong Zhai lord put the blame on Hua Bin and others, thinking that they failed to bring the emperor's head as promised, which caused their status among the Huns to plummet, so he personally followed to make a great contribution.

Hua Bin just wanted to beg the emperor for forgiveness, and when she saw the emperor, she knelt on the ground, without the slightest arrogance.

Han Ruzi thought it was ridiculous, the dignified Marquis Junyang, who had been among the Huns for a few days, had become so humble. He sat on a chair, separated from Hua Bin by many guards and eunuchs, and asked, "What about General Deng?" ”

"He, him, and the king of the East China Sea were all left by the king of the Huns."

"King of the East Sea?"

Hua Bin told the events of the first day again, Deng Cui's performance was too successful, the king of the Huns was reluctant to let him go, and the king of the East China Sea was too cowardly, the Huns did not plan to send him to persuade the Chu generals, and he had not yet thought about how to use it.

Deng Cui actually did not escape from the camp of the Huns, but became the guest of honor of the Hun king, Han Ruzi didn't know whether to be disappointed or happy, waved his hand to let the guards take Hua Bin, and began to think about one thing, what made the Hun king suddenly angry and anxious to take the emperor's head?

In the siege during the day, the Huns obviously intended to bring reinforcements to the vicinity of Jincheng, which was not only to show off, but also to provoke the defenders, hoping that the emperor would go out of the city to fight.

In addition to the siege, the Hun king used all tricks to kill the emperor.

Yun Mengze's robbers have been in the Hun camp for a long time, maybe they know some inside information, Han Ruzi will not meet those people in person, and summons Zhang Jing, the head of the Criminal Department, and Xie Cun, the guard of the guard camp, to let the two of them preside over the interrogation together.

Zhang and Xie were both surprised, but they didn't ask much, but Cui Teng, waiting for the two of them to leave, immediately asked: "Zhang Jing is an old official of the Criminal Department, Xie Cun is still a child, Your Majesty will let him interrogate the prisoner?" ”

"Let him start studying." Han Ruzi admired Xie Cun's keen observation ability and felt that this person could be a torturer in the future.

Hua Bin and the others have returned to the city, and the tunnel has been sealed, so there is no need for Han Ruzi to hide in the palace anymore, and he decided to patrol the city to break the rumors that the emperor can't get out of bed.

When he left the mansion, Cui Teng said: "Your Majesty, I have to remind you that Xie Cun is a praise marquis, although the family has been in decline for a long time, but the descendants are either officials or generals, even if they are idle positions, not officials." If he goes to the criminal department to be a court official, he must be willing, and he may not accept it as an officer who interrogates prisoners, no matter how high his grade is. ”

"What about you?"

"Me?" Cui Teng shook his head again and again, and said with a smile: "I can't be an official, I'd rather follow the emperor without an official or a job." ”

"Let Xie Cun choose."

It was dark outside, and most of the officials and people had already fallen asleep, but the emperor's inspection still alarmed some people, and before dawn, the news would spread throughout Jincheng.

Han Ruzi went straight to the military camp, where he summoned the generals who defended the city and listened to their arrangements for defending the city - the more the Xiongnu showed that they would not attack the city, the more the Jincheng would have to be ready for battle, which was the basic judgment of the emperor.

Fan Bangshan is the general who defends the city, and he mainly reports the situation.

Han Ruzi quickly heard the question, "Wait, the defenders in the city are only 4,000 people, and according to General Fan's arrangement, at least 5,000 people have been mobilized now." ”

"Recruited some soldiers from among the people of the city." When it comes to arranging troops, Fan Bangshan is reluctant to make it difficult, and he becomes more and more nervous when he goes on, and he often needs to be reminded by other generals, and he breathes a sigh of relief after speaking.

Han Ruzi can't help it, there is no general in the city, Fan Bangshan at least has a good reputation, and he can suppress the soldiers and civilians in the city, as for the specific plan to defend the city, he has his own staff officers to help him formulate it.

Deng Cui is right, whether Jincheng can be held or not is not in the Chu army, but in the determination of the Huns, and all the arrangements in the city are better than nothing.

Deng Cui is more arrogant and doesn't like to do such fruitless trivial things, but Han Ruzi is different, although he won't bow down to everything, he won't let it go, and leave it all to others to do, which is better than nothing is also a choice for him.

He was satisfied with the plan to defend the city, encouraged him, dismissed the generals, leaving only Fan Bangshan alone, and asked, "Who is responsible for recruiting troops from among the people?" Why didn't anyone tell me? ”

Fan Bangshan scratched his forehead, although he was brave before the battle, he was always a little nervous in front of the emperor, "It seems that the military department recruited people, I used them when they sent soldiers, I didn't ask in detail, I thought that the military department would report to Your Majesty." ”

Han Ruzi smiled: "Well, General Fan just concentrates on defending the city, what about those newly recruited soldiers?" Can you fight? Is the armor still enough? ”

Asked about these things, Fan Bangshan was finally able to answer like a stream, "It's not bad, it's more obedient, you can obey orders, it may not be possible to go to the battlefield, it's enough to defend the city, and you don't need them to take knives, guns, bows and crossbows, mainly to transport earth and stones to the city, I have practiced several times, and it was very smooth." ”

The city head is cramped, and it needs to be kept unblocked, it is impossible to pile up too many equipment, and when it is really time to start a war, it is necessary to ensure the supply from the city, and the newly recruited soldiers mainly do this kind of thing, strictly speaking, they are not soldiers, but they are very helpful for defending the city.

Han Ruzi had to admit that he was originally prejudiced against the officials of the DPRK and China, thinking that they were all incompetent, but all kinds of facts proved that many ministers actually had real skills, but they were not put in the right position and were not given enough trust.

Han Ruzi returned to the palace of the king and found out the official documents from the past few days, believing that the documents about recruiting soldiers were among them, he just ignored them before, there were too many things recently, and he really didn't take these things very seriously.

He was picking up the lamp to read the stacks of official documents, Zhang Jing and Xie Cun asked to see each other, the two had already interrogated Yun Mengze's group of thieves and obtained a lot of useful information.

The king of the Xiongnu who besieged the city came from the Western Xiongnu, was the younger brother of Da Shan Yu, his status was noble, proud and arrogant, after easily capturing Liaodong and attacking Jincheng, he was very contemptuous of the Chu army, thinking that there was no need to lure the troops, and to break through Jincheng as soon as possible and kill the emperor, in order to show the strength of the Huns.

Therefore, the king of the Xiongnu used the power of the heroes of the rivers and lakes to assassinate the emperor, and then he could logically break through Jincheng and go to join forces with Dadanyu.

It is rumored that Da Shan Yu's health is not very good, and the king of the Huns is anxious to join forces, because he is afraid that in case Da Shan Yu ascends to heaven, he will be calculated by other brothers and nephews when he leads his troops outside.

As for what news the king of the Huns was angry about, the robbers did not know.

Zhang Jing sensed that the emperor intended to cultivate Xie Cun, so he deliberately praised the young man a few words.

Han Ruzi sent the eunuch to send the two away, and said to Cui Teng: "You go and ask Xie Cun what he thinks." ”

In addition to drinking, Cui Teng doesn't often stay up late, he has already yawned, he is very happy to have something to do, and he answered yes and ran out to chase Xie Cun.

Han Ruzi continued to read the official documents, and finally found that there was no one who was fully responsible for recruiting troops, from the accompanying six senior officials to the local officials in the local yamen in Jincheng, more or less involved, with different names, and finally a scholar adviser who accompanied him proposed to change the requisition of labor to conscription, one is to increase the momentum, and the other is to encourage the people - the military pay is higher, and the reputation of defending the city with soldiers is also better.

Single-name Zhong, Han Ruzi has a slight impression of this scholar, but he doesn't remember that he has something extraordinary.

Finding talents is always a difficult thing, even if talents are around, they are often ignored, Han Ruzi was deeply touched and wrote down this person, but he was not in a hurry to choose, he still had an imminent threat that had not been lifted.

It was past midnight, and when Han Ruzi was about to go to bed, Cui Teng finally came back, his face flushed, and he took advantage of a small loophole in the emperor's will to invite Xie Cun to have a few drinks.

"Clear." Cui Teng said triumphantly, feeling that he had done a big thing, "As I said before, Xie Cun doesn't want to be an official, and would rather stay in the honor guard camp as a loose general." ”

General Sancong is just a good name, but in fact he is the emperor's entourage.

Han Ruzi sighed lightly, even if he really found a talent, how to use it is a problem.

Now is not the time to solve this kind of thing, Han Ruzi sent someone to send Cui Teng away, went to bed, lay down for a while, suddenly figured out one thing, and naturally said to Meng E, who stayed in the house: "I guess what angered the Hun king." ”

"Hmm." Meng E replied, waited for a while, and said, "I didn't guess it." ”

"Da Dan Yu is about to send an envoy for peace talks."

"Da Dan Yu really wants peace talks?"

"Nope." Han Ruzi's heart sank, "I'm afraid that the Chu army of Qi will be in big trouble." (To be continued.) )