Huai Zong opened the book, only glanced at it, his face changed, his hands were torn into pieces, he threw the book to pieces, and scolded: "The dog thief has no faith in his words, and he deceives people too much." ”

Dou Gui was puzzled, picked up the fragments from the ground and took a look at them, his face suddenly became very complicated.

There is not a word on this letter, only a picture, a poor young woman, her face is like a wind and snow, and what is even more amazing is that her mournful eyes are so vivid that she almost jumps out of the paper, and her slightly open lips seem to tell her expectations:

"Brother, come and save me!"

Dou Gui's eyelids jumped for a while: "Prince? ”

"Prepare for the siege." Huai Zong limped back and forth in the tent, roaring loudly, like an enraged lion.

"Prince, we can't take the city." Dou Gui's face changed, and he hurriedly shouted: "We don't have siege equipment, how can we attack the city?" Even if it is made by craftsmen, it takes a lot of time. What's more, our warriors are accustomed to mounted archery and are not good at attacking cities at all. ”

"What then? Are you just watching from here? Huai Zong patted his chest and shouted: "I'm here to save Ah Xue, and now she is suffering in the city, but I'm watching from outside the city?" I'm going to break Ning Cheng, rescue her, and cut off Liu Xiu's dog's head! ”

"Prince, I know your anger, and I am angry. However, the art of war is cloudy, the king does not raise troops out of anger, if we attack the city in a hurry, we will pay a heavy price! ”

"Shut up!" Huai Zong glared at Dou Gui angrily, and his chest was pounding: "We Xianbei people don't have cowards who are afraid of death. ”

Dou Guizheng was about to persuade again, but the Split Wind strode in and roared loudly: "Someone from the city? How much did they offer? ”

Huai Zong glared at him angrily and pointed to the book in Dou Gui's hand. As soon as Dou Gui saw him coming, he immediately wanted to put the book away, but it was too late, so he had no choice but to hand over the book, but an ominous premonition rose in his heart. Sure enough, when Cracking Wind saw the pitiful eyes of the wind and snow, tears fell, he covered the book to his chest, knelt down on one leg, and said loudly: "Prince, I want to attack the city, and I will lead the warriors of the Minotor tribe to rush into the city first and rescue my father and sister." ”

Dou Gui's mouth was bitter, and he cautiously persuaded: "Haoshuai, before the siege of the city, we can redeem them, once the war starts, it will be difficult to talk about it again." "If the wind cracks, Liu Xiu's tricks can be seen through at a glance, and the crack wind or Huai Zong will not dare to ignore his attitude, it is impossible to make such an impulsive decision. However, Feng Crack was captured by Liu Xiusheng, and although he Dou Gui was as calm as Feng Crack, his status in the eyes of Huai Zong and Wind Crack could not be compared with Feng Crack at all.

Liu Xiu grabbed the brains of the Xianbei people, and Dou Gui thought sadly, he made the Xianbei people become a brave brute.

"Ransom? How to redeem? The split wind sprayed Dou Gui's face with spittle: "The Han people are all untrustworthy things, yesterday you said that you would let them go, and then negotiate the price and then redeem them, but now you see how he treats my sister?" My sister is a captive, not his slave, so I can't let him be so bad. ”

Dou Gui was speechless, why did the people of Xindao spoil your sister? He looked at the picture and couldn't explain it. Yes, the wind and snow on this is indeed a grievance, but this does not mean that she has been violated, not to mention that this is just a picture, and it does not mean that it is the truth. However, how can there be such a clever painter in this city, obviously a national player.

"Hao Shuai, this is just a picture, it can't explain anything." Dou Gui persuaded bitterly: "Even if you want to attack the city, you must first propose a ransom, what if you misunderstand?" ”

Cracking Tempest rolled his eyes and shouted, "Give you two days, if you can't redeem my Abba and Sister, we will attack the city." If you don't attack, our bull-headed tribe will attack the city alone. ”

"Split Tempest, are you in charge or am I in charge here?" Huai Zong shouted with red eyes.

"You are in charge, can you save my Abba and Sister?" The wind was furious, kicked the copper kettle in front of Huai Zong, pointed at Huai Zong's nose and scolded: "If you weren't incompetent, how could you cause my sister to be caught by that Han dog?" Do you still have the face to bark at me? ”

"Bold!" Huai Zong's face turned blue with anger: "Your father was accidentally arrested by Liu Xiu, and you yourself are also present, how can you blame me for this?" ”

Splitting Wind choked, and after a while, he waved his hand vigorously: "If you can save my Abba and Sister, I will dispose of it to you, you can cut off my head." If you can't save it, I'll save it! After speaking, without waiting for Huai Zong's answer, he threw open the tent door and walked away.

Dou Gui's face turned pale, and listening to Huai Zong's heavy gasp, his heart couldn't help sinking. Now it is no longer a question of whether to attack the city, the Split Wind has gone crazy, Huai Zong will not attack the city, but he is afraid that the Split Wind will no longer be the commander, and the Bullhead Tribe will attack the city alone.

"Zhongxiang, send someone to ask for the ransom." Huai Zong, who had been silent for a long time, waved his hand weakly, his legs became more and more painful, and his face twitched in pain: "If we can't talk, we can only attack." Delay it for two days first, and hurry up to make siege equipment. He paused for a moment, and then said, "We are not good at siege matters, you have to worry more." ”

"I'll do my best." Dou Gui bowed, hesitated for a moment, and then continued: "Prince, should we first send someone to contact Shanggu Taishou Gong Shafu and Youzhou Thorn Shi Liu Yu?" ”

"Go ahead, only you can do this." Huai Zong shook his head helplessly, stroking the broken leg that was getting more and more painful, and his eyes were a little manic. Dou Gui stood where he was and didn't move, Huai Zong didn't pay attention at first, and it took a while to react and look at him puzzled.

"Prince." Dou Gui said softly: "Ningcheng is dangerous, it is foolproof, and it is conducive to a long-term war, why does Xia Yu want to provoke us?" ”

Huai Zong rolled his eyes and noticed the abnormality. Xia Yu has insufficient troops and a city to defend, why did he provoke me to attack the city? Wouldn't it be more meritorious for him to defend the city and let me return in vain, so why make such a decision?

"Unless...... Something went wrong in the city that was not conducive to holding on. Dou Gui guessed, "I heard that he recruited some displaced people to the city to replenish his troops, his strength should not be a problem, could it be that there is a problem with food?" The more Dou Gui thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible, and his eyes gradually lit up: "The scouts said that they had found several batches of grain teams, and these grains should have been sent to Ningcheng, but we came suddenly, so they didn't have time to send them to the city......

Huai Zong's eyes also lit up, and he patted his thigh lightly: "In this way, as long as we surround the city, even if we don't attack, we can quickly force them to chaos without a fight?" ”

"Very likely." Dou Gui said happily: "The prince is really wise, this is the best strategy for a soldier who surrenders without a fight." ”

"Don't worry." Huai Zong waved his hand and interrupted Dou Gui's flattery: "This is just our speculation, not necessarily true." And the Tempest may not believe it, so if you send someone to talk, you will say it...... Let's just say that we may exchange war horses or food for Lord Wind Crack and Ah Xue, war horses are what they have been craving, if they choose food instead of war horses, then we have guessed right. ”

"The prince is clever." Dou Gui smiled.

Huai Zong asked Rifty Wind to be summoned again and told him his plan. Cracking Wind also calmed down a little at this time, knowing that it would be difficult to attack the city with only the Niutou tribe, and Huai Zong's plan was not bad, so he readily agreed. On the one hand, Huai Zong asked people to enter the city to negotiate and protect, and on the other hand, he asked Dou Gui to supervise the craftsmen to step up the construction of siege equipment, and prepare to storm Ningcheng as a last resort. At the same time, he sent someone to send a hard-spoken spy to Gong Shafu and Liu Yu, accusing Xia Yu of spewing blood, planting slander, and arresting Fengxue who went to Ningcheng Hu City to buy, and demanding that Liu Yu release him immediately, denying that the Xianbei people would be killed in Shanggu County.

After Xia Yu received Huai Zong's request for the ransom of the prisoners, he laughed a lot, and he asked Lu Min and Liu Xiu to be invited to the hall together, so that they could listen to Huai Zong's envoy repeat the request, and then asked: "De Ran, although your painting does not contain a word, it is better than a book of ten thousand words." ”