"General, let me go!"

Yuan Song took the initiative to ask Wang Junkuo for help, "The lowly water is skillful, and he can cross the river, and if there is an accident, he can also jump into the river and escape back." ”

Wang Junkuo attached great importance to Yuan Song, and he was able to gather defeated soldiers to defect to him after the grain ship was robbed, and took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Jiangling to deliver the letter, he was a brave general, he nodded, and handed him a letter and a package containing Li Qun's head, "You don't have to say anything, just hand over the letter and the head to Lu Zushang, and you don't even need to go ashore." ”

"Obey the order!"

Yuan Song took the letter and the package, bowed down, jumped on the sentry boat, and pointed to the river, "Let's go!" ”

Chang Penny stretched the warship, the sails were raised, and the Baishi warship sailed out of the river port and headed in the direction of Jiangling County, looking at the warship walking away, Wang Junkuo's brows furrowed slightly, not knowing that Lu Zushang was willing to exchange.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps behind him, and a personal soldier rushed forward to report: "General, His Royal Highness the King of Chu has ordered to arrive!" ”

Wang Junkuo was overjoyed, "Where is the order?" ”

Several personal soldiers stepped forward with a messenger, the messenger was originally going to Yiling to deliver a letter, but he didn't expect to meet Wang Junkuo on the way, which made him secretly happy, he stepped forward and knelt down on one knee, "See General Wang!" ”

"Where is Your Highness's letter?" Wang Junkuo asked anxiously.

The messenger took out a letter from his arms, presented it with both hands, Wang Junkuo took the letter and opened it quickly, a personal soldier put the torch together, by the light of the fire, Wang Junkuo hurriedly looked at it, his eyes couldn't help but light up, the prince of Chu led an army of 50,000 to Jiangling, and ordered him to send 8,000 cavalry. The news that he was preparing to assist in the attack on Gangneung Fortress made him look forward to it very much......

It doesn't take much time to get from Gong/An to Jiangling City, and when the dawn broke, Yuan Song's ship arrived at the Jiangling City Water Village, which is a water area carved out by the river, surrounded by wooden stakes, and it is difficult for foreign ships to enter. It can only be passed by the water gate.

Water watchtowers were erected on both sides of the water gate, and as soon as the ship approached the water gate, it was spotted by the sentry. Several sentinel ships galloped out, led by a Tang army brigade commander, pointing at the warship with a war knife. Lao Yuan shouted: "Stop! ”

As soon as Yuan Song waved his hand, more than a dozen of his subordinates collected the sails, and the ship lost power, so it slowly slowed down, and after a while, stopped in front of the Tang army's sentry ship, Yuan Song walked up to the bow of the boat and said loudly: "I am the envoy of the Sui army, and I am ordered by General Wang Junkuo to come to see General Lu!" ”

The brigade commander glanced at him, turned his head and glanced back, and several sentinel ships behind him stepped forward. The soldiers climbed aboard the boats and searched them carefully, taking away all the weapons and all the dangerous things, including them.

Only then did Yuan Song take Yuan Song onto the sentry boat and sail towards the water village. The warships of the Sui army remained outside the water village and were not allowed to enter the water village.

The speed of the sentinel boat was extremely fast, and it was speeding along a waterway, and Yuan Song looked at the Tang army's water village silently, which was about three miles wide and more than ten miles long. Hundreds of warships were moored densely along the river.

Suddenly, he saw the grain ship captured by the Tang army, neatly moored by the river, only a few hundred steps away from him, Yuan Song's eyes were sharp, and he found that the draft of the grain ship was very deep, and it should be that the materials carried on it had not been unloaded.

Tang Jun next to him saw that he saw the grain ship, and laughed together, "Yang Yuanqing is good!" Knowing that we are short of food, we specially sent food, and it would be nice if we could send some women, even if it was a princess, we would not dislike it. ”

Several Tang Army soldiers burst into laughter, Yuan Song was furious, and shouted: "The Sui army is about to unify the world, who doesn't know, don't you think about your net worth and defile the princess, aren't you afraid of being punished by the Nine Clans?" ”

His tone was extremely harsh, and several Tang soldiers realized something, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything more, and then the brigade commander on the bow of the ship scolded: "You guys, don't fucking fart, lose the face of the Tang Army." ”

He glared at Yuan Song fiercely again, "This is the territory of the Tang Army, if you are presumptuous, Lao Tzu will kick you off the boat." ”

Yuan Song snorted coldly, ignored him, and the sentinel boat arrived at the shore in a moment, Yuan Song went ashore, pointed to the bamboo box containing the package, and took out a letter and handed it to the brigade commander, "I'm just here to deliver the letter, there's nothing to say, just wait here." ”

The brigade commander did not embarrass him, and ordered a few of his subordinates, "Watch him!" ”

The brigade commander carried a bamboo box and ran quickly towards the city, and at the head of the city, Lu Zushang had already seen the sentinel ship coming with the envoy of the Sui army.

In the past few days, Lu Zushang has also been a little worried, intercepting the Sui army grain ship is his job, it is his duty, no matter whether he is disappointed in the Tang Dynasty or not, as long as he is the Tang army for one day, he will have to perform his duties, and it is impossible to let the Sui army grain ship go.

But he didn't expect that the grain ship incident would become the first battle of the Jingxiang War, and the general Chai Shao had already led an army of 50,000 to the south and was about to arrive in Jiangling City, which made Lu Zushang a little frustrated in his heart, he didn't want Jiangling to become a place of great war, but it seemed that he had no choice.

At this time, the commander of the patrol brigade hurriedly rushed to the head of the city, knelt down on one knee and reported, "General Qiyu, the envoy of the Sui army arrived on the order of Wang Junkuo and sent this bamboo basket and a letter. ”

Lu Zushang took the letter, glanced at the bamboo basket again, and had a bad feeling in his heart, Wang Junkuo is in Yiling, why did he come here, is there something wrong with Gong/Anxian County?

Thinking of this, he turned around and ordered his own soldiers, "Open the basket!" ”

Several pro-soldiers stepped forward to open the basket, and there was a cloth bag inside, and when they untied the cloth bag, several pro-soldiers suddenly exclaimed, "It's a human head!" ”

A personal soldier suddenly recognized the head and shouted, "It's the head of General Li Qun." ”

Lu Zushang was like stepping on the air, a heart fell into the ice cave, as he expected, the Sui army had captured Gong/An County, he restrained the anger in his heart, opened the letter and read it, the letter was asking to exchange prisoners of war with him, 1,100 prisoners of war for 200,000 loads of forage, just on the other side of the Yangtze River, the time is before tonight.

Lu Zushang was speechless for a long time, this was a great headache for him, did he change it or not? Obviously, the Sui cavalry lacked forage and urgently needed to get horse feed, if it was not replaced, it would definitely be a blow to the Sui cavalry, but in this way, his reputation for Lu Zu not being considerate of the soldiers would spread, and if he changed, although it was beneficial to his reputation, he was afraid that Li Xiaogong would find him trouble, saying that he was in charge of his own affairs.

Lu Zushang was in a dilemma, he pondered for a long time, anyway, Chai Shao will arrive soon, let Chai Shao decide this matter, he immediately ordered: "Bring the envoy of the Sui army up." ”

After a while, Yuan Song was brought up, but he didn't salute, standing proudly, Lu Zushang glanced at him and snorted, "How dare you be so rude, do you want to redeem the life of the killed General Li?" ”

Yuan Song sneered, "I'm not a civil official, and I won't do the courtesy of a civil official, but don't you think it's funny if I want me to give you a military officer's courtesy?" ”

"So you're a general, okay! I respect you as a man, and tell General Wang Junkuo for me, saying that although I am willing to exchange with him, I have no right to decide, and I want to ask King Jing, so I will definitely not be able to reply today, and I will definitely have a reply the night after tomorrow at the latest, and ask him to wait for two days. ”

Yuan Song nodded, "I will definitely tell General Wang." ”

Lu Zushang waved his hand, "Send him away!" ”

The Tang soldiers took Yuan Song down to the city and sent him out of the water village all the way, Yuan Song got on his own warship and immediately ordered: "Return home!" ”

The boat sailed towards the opposite shore and sailed out for a mile or two, Yuan Song suddenly called one of his subordinates forward and whispered a few words to him, startling his subordinates, "General, is this okay?" ”

"I'm fine, you just tell General Wang, I'm sure I will succeed."

Yuan Song explained a few more words, then quietly slid off the boat, like a fish, silently disappeared into the water......

In the big tent of the Sui army, the returning soldiers reported the situation of the envoy to Wang Junkuo, and Wang Junkuo was furious, 'Bang! He slammed his fist on the table, "Without my order, he actually acted on his own, so bold!" ”

The two generals next to him glanced at each other, and one of them stepped forward to persuade: "General, please calm your anger, then Lu Zushang said that he wanted to ask Li Xiaogong, but in fact it was just an excuse, I guess he didn't want to exchange at all, even if he asked for instructions, Li Xiaogong would not agree, and it was also a beautiful thing for Suo Xìng to let General Yuan make a great contribution." ”

Another partial general also interceded: "Actually, General Yuan also made a decision on the spot, if he comes back and asks the general again, I'm afraid he will lose the opportunity, and this Yuan Songshui is extremely high, maybe he really has a way to make miraculous achievements." ”

Under the persuasion of the two, Wang Junkuo's anger calmed down a little, he walked to the door of the tent, looked at the opposite side of the river, and secretly wondered in his heart, "I don't know what kind of miracle this Yuan Song can do for himself?" ’……

As night fell, the Tang Army's water village was extremely quiet, only a dozen patrol boats patrolled back and forth around the water village, and the ships were not allowed to approach, but the water village was quiet, and there was no soldier.

At this time, under the water of the Sui army's grain ship, a figure appeared, it was Yuan Song, he sneaked into the Tang army's water village, and had been hiding for a whole day, until night sè fell, he came out of hiding and swam in front of the Sui army's grain ship.

The bow of each grain ship was numbered, and soon, Yuan Song found the sixty-fifth ship, quickly climbed onto the big ship, hid in the dark and listened for a while, and there was no movement before he lifted the deck and got into the hold.

The warehouse was very dry, and bags of grain were neatly stacked like other ships, Yuan Song was extremely nervous in his heart, he knew that in the ships No. 65 and No. 66, in addition to grain, there were some special items, so he didn't know if Tang Jun had found it.

He felt a knife and pried open the hatch, there was a cabin on the other side of the partition, and hundreds of skins were neatly stacked inside, he was immediately relieved, Tang Jun did not find the fire oil in it, he was overjoyed in his heart, bit the knife in his mouth, and began to act.

Carried bags of fire oil out of the cabin, but he was worried in his heart, each bag of fire oil weighed at least twenty pounds, one or two bags were definitely not enough, but he couldn't take a few more bags with him, he pondered for a moment, had a way in his heart, and slid off the big ship again.

About a quarter of an hour later, a small sampan was silently docked under the grain carrier No. 65.

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