The shade of the trees in the middle of the mountain, the dead branches and the snow were unusually quiet, and suddenly a flock of birds rose in the woods, and the snow hanging on the branches fell in a flutter.

"Who!" On the ground that seemed to be nothing unusual, two people suddenly appeared, blocking the visitors who had scared the birds away.

"It's me, no." The man took off his fur hat, revealing his sleek head, with only a handful of hair on top of his head.

"It's not a big man." The two soldiers said, "Get in, Four Baylor is waiting for you." ”

He didn't pass through the two of them, and hurried inward, and from time to time someone emerged from the snow nest and nodded at him.

"Lord Belle, I'm not coming back." Eventually, instead of standing in front of a shack made of dead branches, he shouted in.

"Stop talking nonsense, come in." Zilharang commanded inside.

"How's it going, what's going on?" As soon as he entered the shack, Zilharang asked.

"Lord Belle!" He knelt down on one knee, saluted first, and said, "The situation is not good." ”

He is not a leader of the yellow flag, and he is responsible for liaising with the eyeliner that Huang Taiji has planted in the blue flag during this Jilharang West Tour.

This place is in a mountain col, only thirty miles from where Amin is, and it can be reached in two hours by horse, and two days ago Zilharang led his team here, and he sneaked to the blue flag of the land overnight, wanting to find out some information, so as to make a reference for the next action.

"What's the wrong way?" Zilharang was very calm and did not lose his temper because of this bad news.

"Those few of their own people didn't say much, as soon as we launched, they would come out to cooperate, asking Amin to retire from the position of the owner of the blue flag, the key is those centrists, this time the attitude is a little subtle, the first rat at both ends, vaguely unwilling to show his attitude." He didn't answer.

In the past two years, the blue flag has been declining, and the strength has shrunk so much that even the generals in the flag are not having a good time, Huang Taiji made a layout early, and used a few Ezhen who had secretly taken refuge in him to win over some generals who were dissatisfied with Amin.

Huang Taiji's plan was very simple, let Jilharang use the name of the western tour, and after coming to the blue flag, he suddenly made a difficulty, so that the powerful people in the flag clamored for Amin to step down, and Jilharang naturally controlled Amin in the name of conforming to the army's will.

Then bring Amin back to Shengjing, with his prestige and the excuse that the banner people are not satisfied, through the court meeting, he was officially removed from the post of blue flag master, and successfully pulled out the biggest nail on the road to strengthening the imperial power, and he can also knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, so that Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai have scruples, and without these constraints, they can also prepare for the southern expedition this year.

It's just that I didn't go to the blue flag this time, only to find that things are not as simple as I imagined, and those centrists who promised well are no longer so firm.

"How so?" Zilharang asked, frowning.

"I guess it has something to do with the caravan." Uri said with some certainty.

"Caravans? The Fan family came, why did they take advantage of Amin so early. Zilharang took it for granted that it was the arrival of the eight grain merchant caravans led by the Fan clan, and Amin must have taken out the name of his Great Baylor again and forcibly reaped some benefits from the caravan.

"Lord Belle, that caravan is not from the Fan family." He didn't say.

"Not the Fan family?" Zilharang was stunned for a moment, and then became furious, "Amin, this bold man, even disregarded the laws of the Great Khan and traded with other caravans privately. ”

Speaking of which, Zilharang looked at it, and both of them felt that it was Amin who had gained great benefits from this caravan that made those generals move other thoughts, and those centrists swayed by relying on these things?

But... Is this possible? They still know the bottom of the blue flag, they really can't take out many decent things, the caravan is here to do business, not charity, why give benefits in vain?

Amin just ordered the return of the whole banner materials, and has not released the news that Wula grass and living people can be exchanged for food, Zhiwen They are also very powerful, and they have already given part of the grain to the blue flag first, although the generals in the flag do not know why, but they all think that Amin has climbed up to a wealthy businessman like the Fan family, and he owes it first.

Even if they thought that the grain was owed on credit, the confidence of the soldiers and civilians in the banner was still boosted, and most of the days ahead would not be as difficult as before, because most of the centrist generals hesitated.

Although Huang Taiji was the Great Khan at this time, his prestige and authority were not enough, and the people in the banner were more in awe of his own banner owner, Amin had always had a good reputation, and under the premise that the days had improved, it was still necessary to make a lot of determination to ask the generals in the banner to betray their banner owners.

"Forget it," he pondered for a moment, both of them were puzzled, and Zilharang simply didn't want to, "Since we can't count on these guys, let's act on our own." ”

"Do it yourself? Lord Belle, I'm afraid not. He did not object, "Ezhen, who is really loyal to the Great Khan, does not have more than five of them in the blue flag, and with them, with our thousand men and horses, there is no chance of pulling Amin out of power." ”

"Who said to use the original arrangement?" Zilharang said gloomily.

"Not the same arrangement? Lord Belle, what do you mean...? There was a twinkle in Zilharang's eyes, and he had a faint guess.

"Since the soft ones can't work, then let's come to the hard ones." Sure enough, Zilharang's plan was not far from what he thought.

"Alright, Lord Belle?" "We only have a thousand men, and Amin gives an order, but we can gather at least five or six thousand elite soldiers." ”

"With mental arithmetic or unintentional, the odds of winning are still very high." Zilharang patiently explained, after all, this is a man with a yellow flag, and it has nothing to do with him, if you want them to sell their lives, you have to convince the person in front of you.

"Look, no, it's only more than thirty miles away from Niu Lu where Amin is, we can set off in the evening, lurk near them, and launch a surprise attack in the middle of the night, in a hurry, Amin must not be able to gather so many people, we don't want to destroy Niu Lu where Amin is, just capture Amin, we can evacuate, and wait for the others to react, we will go far away, right?"

He didn't listen, hesitated for a while, and then nodded, "That's fine, it's just... Lord Belle, let's say it, if the other party is tricky, once things go wrong, we have to withdraw immediately. ”

Just returned empty-handed, and he was not reconciled, but if this thousand elite soldiers suffered great damage in this kind of internal conquest, he could not bear this responsibility, especially since there were three hundred bayalas among these thousand people, which were the elite of the elite, and one less was unforgivable.