Back at the residence, Qin Ke'er immediately noticed that someone had entered her room, because the incense powder she had deliberately sprinkled on the floor disappeared and was artificially wiped off.

[It seems that the assassins who were ordered to search were not ordinary assassins, but they were so vigilant...... By the way, it is said that Mo Fei of the Dongling people also followed that Xie An's side, but he never showed up today, could it be him? ]

Thinking secretly in her heart, Qin Ke'er sighed with a little regret.

To be honest, Qin Ke'er had already guessed that her master, who had ransomed her with a lot of money, would send assassins to search her room, and the reason why she sprinkled some incense powder in the house was nothing more than to judge the other party's intentions from the location of the footprints and see what the other party wanted to search.

However, for now, she felt as if she had underestimated the assassins around Xie An, although the assassins who searched her house had left flaws due to their own negligence, but Qin Ke'er had not been able to achieve her intended goal.

But then again, Qin Ke'er is just a regret, and Mo Fei's mood at the moment is by no means as simple as regret.

"Oh? She set such a little trap? ”

In the room not far from Qin Ke'er's room, when he heard Mo Fei's 1510 report, Xie An's eyes flashed a little surprised, surprised that Qin Ke'er was far smarter and more scheming than he imagined.

"Yes!" Mo Fei nodded, and whispered in a complicated and inexplicable tone, "I was negligent for a while, and I didn't notice anything wrong on the floor, although I wiped off the powder afterwards, but I also revealed my whereabouts...... Please forgive me! ”

Seeing Mo Fei knocking on one knee and clenching his hands into fists, Xie An waved his hand and said with a chuckle, "Forget it, it's just a little thing." Get up first. Qin Ke'er's matter, let's stop here for the time being, that woman is very careful, I'm afraid it will be difficult to catch her flaws for a while, there is another thing for you to do here! ”

"Yes, my lordship, just ask!"

Patting Mo Fei's arm and motioning for him to stand up, Xie An raised his hand and pointed at He Tao, the assassin of Jinling in the seat, and said. "Mo Fei, this is the leader of the Jinling people in this city, called He Tao...... He Tao, this is the ...... of Dongling"

"One of the Four Heavenly Kings of Dongling, the sickle Mofei, the Jijingbei Town, the Fusi, the Jinyi Weisi, the Duwei, ......" He Tao chuckled and picked up Xie An's words. Under Xie An's slightly surprised gaze, he said with a smile, "Brother Xie, don't forget, although the younger brother lives far away in Jinling, he can also communicate with Jijing...... I have admired the name for a long time, Captain Modu! ”

"......" Mo Fei nodded and hugged his fists, which was supposed to be a return salute, and then looked at Xie An suspiciously.

may have noticed the look of doubt in Mo Fei's eyes. Xie An said in a deep voice, "The current form is like this, Fang Caifu learned from the mouth of the He Tao brothers that the Taiping army seems to be piling up grain and grass in the Poyang area, so he has asked Ding Qiu and others to order General Liang Cheng to lead 40,000 troops to take the first step. Occupy the city of Lujiang and Anhui, while we will take Poyang along the river, and the troops will be divided into two roads, forcing the Taiping army to engage our army head-on. However, Brother He Tao also said that he did not dare to rashly conclude this news. Therefore, in order to act properly, Xie Fu thought that he would have to devise another plan to force the Taiping army to comply. ”

Mo Fei nodded suddenly in realization, but he didn't interject, because he knew that Xie An hadn't finished speaking.

"Later, you will take the brothers of the Dongling people to act together with the He Tao brothers, and spread rumors in Jinling City, saying that the Taiping army pretended to be thieves and robbers and ransacked several nearby villages and slaughtered the entire village, anyway, to smear the reputation of the Taiping army in Jiangnan as much as possible...... He Tao is a native of Jinling, and his words are more effective than us! -- After this is done, you will go out of the city to the southwest, and spread the evil deeds of the Taiping army along the way......"

Mo Fei nodded, and after thinking for a while, he hesitated and said, "My lord, so you can force the Taiping army to fight our army head-on?" ”

Xie An smiled faintly when he heard this, he knew that the way the Great Zhou government suppressed the Taiping Army in the early years was to encircle and suppress it, but it turned out that the Taiping Army mixed in the people of Jiangnan was like a swimming fish in the water, if the water in the pond was not drained, how could the big fish be caught?

It is undeniable that the Taiping Army does have a righteous status in the minds of the people in Jiangnan, and there are even many Jiangnan people who secretly hope that the Taiping Army can successfully restore the Southern Tang Dynasty, so in Xie An's view, to deal with the Taiping Army, it is necessary to discredit the image of the Taiping Army in the minds of Jiangnan people, and the best way is nothing more than to use rumors.

In this era of inconvenient information circulation, fictional rumors have a very powerful destructive power, unless the Taiping Army takes the initiative to stand up to refute the rumors, it is difficult to suppress the spread of rumors, and once this rumor spreads, the impact on the Taiping Army can not be said to be small, at least it can make the people of Jiangnan vigilant against the Taiping Army, no longer as mixed as it was at the beginning.

As for the credibility of the rumors, as the so-called three people become tigers and everyone makes money, as long as Xie An spreads rumors diligently, there will always be people who believe it, after all, the Jiangnan area is so big, who has the leisure time to check them one by one, the vast majority of people are still just the same people.

Coincidentally, He Tao and others are from Jinling, and because of the relationship between the Jin family, they have a lot of reputation in Jinling City, as long as they say [a nearby village was looted by the Taiping Army], it must be more credible than ordinary people, and when this rumor is completely spread in Jinling, it will be even more credible, because the follow-up rumor can add a sentence [This matter has already spread in the entire Jinling City].

The credibility of rumors is based on the number of people who spread them, and they have nothing to do with what the truth is, so the best way to deal with rumors is to curb them at the beginning, and once they spread, it is difficult to stop them in a short time.

"Do what the government says!"

"Yes!"

On June 6, the fourth year of the reign of Jingzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the rumor that [the Taiping army ransacked a nearby village] spread in Jinling, and then quickly spread to the nearby counties, and the momentum became more and more fierce, from the prefix of [heard people say] at the beginning, to [I saw it with my own eyes], and the people of Jiangnan, who were dominated by Xie An, did not know that they were being used, and when spreading this rumor, they said it as if they had seen it with their own eyes.

On the same day, Xie An left 5,000 Liang soldiers in Jinling to assist the city guards in garrison, and then led the army to continue south, revealing the intention of leading the army to attack Poyang.

On 12 June, this rumor finally reached the ears of the top brass of the Taiping Army......

Nanjun Jiangling, the fief of Li Yan, the king of Chu of the Three Kings. In the hall of a mansion in the city, there were two rows of men dressed like ordinary people, and the one on the left was the man who even Xie An wanted to call his uncle affectionately, Chen Bei, the third-generation commander of the Taiping Army.

On the opposite side of Chen Bei, the person at the head of the seat on the right is not a stranger, it is Wu Heng, the son of the first deputy marshal of the Taiping Army and the third deputy marshal Wu Heng, who lurked beside Li Mao, the king of Yan, and then escaped safely from the hands of Liang Qiuwu and Jin Ling'er after his identity was exposed.

And looking at the two rows in the hall, there were more than twenty men. There are also many people Xie An has seen, or even familiar and friendly.

For example, one of Xie An's brothers-in-law, the second-generation [Tianshu Divine General] withered sheep, and the second-generation [Tianji Divine General] Wei Xuan, who had been secretly bought by the eldest grandson Xiangyu, and the second-generation [Tianquan Divine General] Wei Hu, who was once captured by Liang Qiu Wu.

"What do you think about this?" After a long silence, a crisp female voice broke the deadlock in the room.

Go with the prestige. I saw that on the main seat of the hall, there was a woman who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with red lips and white teeth, delicate and dignified, like a white lotus after the rain, as if there was a kind of aura that was not stained by mortal dust.

Not surprisingly, this woman is the spiritual leader of the Taiping Army and a descendant of the Southern Tang royal family. Liu Qing, who was named [Four Ji] of [Heavenly Ji].

"Brother Chen?" Liu Qing took the lead in looking at Chen Bei, who was holding her arms around and silently in the banquet, and her beautiful and aura eyes flashed with a little deliberately concealed admiration.

In full view of everyone, Chen Bei opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something. But in the end, he shook his head slightly, as if to indicate that he had nothing to say about it.

"Humph!" A cold snort sounded in the room, from the third-generation deputy marshal Wu Heng. I saw him glance at Chen Bei and sneered. "Why did Her Royal Highness [Princess] take the lead in asking Chen Shuai? - Chen Shuai has a deep friendship with Xie An, and it is said that they call each other brothers! ”

Chen Bei frowned when he heard this, glanced at Wu Heng with some displeasure, and said lightly, "What is righteousness and what is personal affection, Shuai can still distinguish clearly, so there is no need for Deputy Marshal Wu to tell right and wrong!" ”

"Telling the truth?" Wu Heng snorted lightly and said sarcastically, "Chen Shuai said that when Chen Shuai was in Jijing, he lived in the Xie An Mansion?" ”

"So what? ――Do you still suspect that Chen had an affair with him? ”

"This is what Chen Shuai said himself," Wu Heng sneered and pouted, "But in fact, Wu is quite skeptical that Chen Shuai can do what he said a few days ago, without favoritism!" ”

"What do you want?" The displeasure in Chen Bei's eyes became more and more intense, and he only saw the [Heavenly Ji] Liu Qing's eyes changing again and again.

"It's very simple, go and kill that Xie An!" Glancing at Chen Bei, Wu Heng said lightly, "Although Xie An said that there are tens of thousands of Liang troops by his side, how can that ordinary soldier stop my Taiping Army Chen Dashuai?" ――Taking the head of Xie An among tens of thousands of troops is easy for Chen Shuai, right? But Chen Shuai didn't have the slightest intention of doing it himself until now, which inevitably made people suspicious......

As soon as the words fell, I heard a crisp sound on the ground, and the whole case in front of Chen Bei exploded, and the low table, which was more than an inch thick, was smashed by him with a palm.

"Wu Heng," looking at Wu Heng coldly, Chen Bei said in a cold voice, "Don't bully people too much!" -- It angered Chen, and it is not beneficial to you! ”

Facing Chen Bei's faintly exuding murderous aura, Wu Heng sneered and said, "What? Chen Shuai was annoyed and angry? ――Could it be that Wu Mou broke his heart? ”

Seeing that Chen Bei's face was getting more and more ugly, Liu Qing, who was sitting on the main seat, was secretly anxious.

In all fairness, Liu Qing naturally would not doubt Chen Bei's loyalty to the Taiping Army, she knew this man who was more than ten years older than him too well, because since she was three years old, she had been by this man's side, from strangeness at the beginning, to closeness later, and then to a secret crush......

Thinking of this, Liu Qing only felt a little bitter in her heart, as the so-called [Jun was born and I was not born, I was born and Jun is old], how many nights, she secretly hated that she was born too late.

Chen Bei, the brother she has admired for many years, is twenty-nine this year, approaching thirty, and she is only fifteen years old, and she is still half a year away from reaching the age of sixteen and Lu, and the difference between the two is fourteen years and fourteen years old. That's almost a generational age gap.

And what made Liu Qing feel even more desperate was that the man she admired had never paid attention to her beauty, and in his heart, there would always be only that woman, the woman who had passed away nearly eleven years ago, the woman she called her mother......

Worried, very worried......

Silently enduring the pain of the contraction coming from the mouth of his heart, Liu Qing barely showed a smile on his face, and said lightly. "Brother Chen, don't be impulsive, Deputy Marshal Wu must also be thinking about my Taiping Army, in fact, Brother Chen does have a deep friendship with Na Xie An...... It is normal for Vice Marshal Wu to be suspicious. ”

It seems that he is speaking for Wu Heng. can listen to the name of the two of them in her mouth, one is [Brother Chen] and the other is [Deputy Marshal Wu], how obvious the difference between intimacy and alienation is.

Sure enough, after glancing at Chen Bei, Liu Qing said to Wu Heng with a smile, "But." In my opinion, Vice Marshal Wu is afraid that it is a bit exaggerated, Brother Chen is an old man in my Taiping Army, and he has been loyal to our Taiping Army for nearly 20 years. How can you have different aspirations? ”

Wu Heng also seemed to notice the difference between Liu Qing's intimacy with the two of them, so he snorted softly, closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Downstairs, the withered sheep looked back and forth thoughtfully at Chen Bei and Liu Qing.

Let's be honest. Liu Qing, the [princess] of the Taiping Army, secretly admired the third-generation coach Chen Bei, which was not a surprising thing in the hearts of these people in the house. Take the withered sheep as an example, he had heard this kind of rumors a few years ago, but he was still slightly surprised to see Liu Qing favoring Chen Bei so much.

But then again, if you want to say that Chen Bei has any dissenting intentions for the Taiping Army, not only does he not believe it, but there are probably few people in the whole army who believe it, after all, Chen Bei has been in the Taiping Army for nearly 20 years, and after the death of the second generation of the commander and Liu Qing's mother, it is almost Chen Bei who shoulders the burden of maintaining the Taiping Army, so to speak, if there is no Chen Bei, there will be no Taiping Army today.

Because of this, when Wu Heng and Chen Bei quarreled, none of the high-level generals in the Taiping Army stepped forward to persuade them, because they knew very well that it was just Wu Heng who was dissatisfied that he was the deputy marshal and Chen Bei was the boss, so he took the opportunity to attack the latter.

It is a common thing that the disagreement between the coach Chen Bei and the deputy marshal Wu Heng is not a secret in the Taiping army.

"Okay, let's get down to business first," patting his white little hand lightly, Liu Qing said with a straight face, "This time, the Zhou court sent Xie An to lead 80,000 Liang troops to visit Jiangnan, obviously for our army, and now Xie An's 80,000 Liang troops are divided into two routes, most of them are heading towards Poyang, it seems that the matter of our army's hoarding of grain and grass in Poyang has been leaked......"

"If you want to fight, you can fight!" Interrupting Liu Qing's words, [Heavenly Power Divine General] Wei Hu snorted and said, "Jiangnan is the sphere of influence of my Taiping Army, so Xie An actually went deep alone, just to wipe it out!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the withered sheep in the hall smiled faintly.

"Dry sheep, what are you laughing at?" Wei Hu's face darkened slightly.

"It's nothing, it's just a feeling." The withered sheep shrugged and said lightly.

Wei Hu opened his mouth and glared at the withered sheep with displeasure, of course he knew that the withered sheep was sarcastic and wanted to take revenge on the grievances of the year, after all, Wei Hu suffered a loss in the hands of Xie An three years ago, well, more precisely, it should be in the hands of Liang Qiuwu, the eldest wife of Xie An's mansion.

came to swear that he would kill Fei Guo, and even released a bold statement among his companions, not taking the Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Dance in his eyes at all, but as a result, three or two moves were put down by that woman, and Wei Hu is still haunted by this matter.

But fortunately, the relationship between Wei Hu and Withered Sheep is different from that between Chen Bei and Wu Heng, it seems that they quarrel every day, but the relationship between the two is good, so Wei Hu didn't pay much attention to it.

[I'll teach you a lesson later!] ]

Glaring at the withered sheep fiercely, Wei Hu turned his head and hugged his fists at Liu Qing and said, "Her Royal Highness the Princess, although Her Royal Highness the Princess said before that she would avoid confrontation with the Zhou team for the time being, and wait for the three kings to be ready to fight together, but Xie An led the army all the way, and our army blindly avoided it, I am afraid it will inevitably fuel its arrogance!" - What's more, Xie An released rumors and framed my Taiping Army......"

"This person released rumors, most likely because he wanted to force our army to come forward and confront him head-on," Liu Qing smiled faintly and said softly, "According to the news from Guangling, the 80,000 Liang troops under Xie An's command were originally stationed in Yangzhou, and then for some reason, they were suddenly transferred to Guangling, and then crossed the river to Jinling, approaching our Jiangnan step by step...... If what I expected was correct, then Xie An should have been instructed by [Eight Sage King] Li Xian's side. ”

"Eight Sages King Li Xian?" Wei Hu was stunned and asked suspiciously, "Isn't that guy in Nanyang?" What does it have to do with him? ”

While the withered sheep shook his head and sneered, Liu Qing sighed lightly and explained, "Li Xian is indeed eloquent, and 100,000 Jizhou soldiers are directly blocked in Nanyang, and the three kings dare not make any rash moves...... Although Li Xiao is not good at military affairs, but his fiefdom position is extremely important, if Nanyang is lost, Li Xian divides his troops to block the exit of Hanzhong Pass, and goes south to attack [King of Chu] Li Yan, even if [King of Qin] Li Shen has more than 60,000 white water troops in Hanzhong, I am afraid that it is beyond the reach of the whip, so I can only sigh at Wangchuan......"

"This ......"

"In the current situation, the three forces are holding each other down: Li Xian has restrained the three kings, and Na Xie An has restrained our Taiping army. If our army intends to help the Three Kings open up the situation, then Xie An can safely attack our army from the rear; On the contrary, if our army should fight against Xie An's 80,000 Liang army, then Li Xian can use troops against the three kings with confidence. -- Xie An's 80,000 Liang army, in my opinion, is a stone to throw stones to ask for directions, as long as our army does not reveal its movements, Li Xian's 100,000 Jizhou soldiers will never dare to move! Therefore, Li Xian is bound to ask Xie An to force out the main force of our Taiping army, so that it is convenient for him to use troops against the three kings! ”

"Isn't our army completely passive?" Wei Hu asked in amazement, and the rest of the people in the hall also showed solemn expressions.

"Not necessarily," Liu Qing smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "Li Xian's talent is unparalleled, but he is too conceited, he may not know that he committed an extremely fatal negligence ......."

At this moment, a Taiping soldier dressed like a common man hurriedly walked in and knocked on the ground, "King Qin has a letter to!" ”

"Is it finally here?" Liu Qing smiled faintly, stood up, and said in a deep voice, "Pass the order, gather troops and horses within three days, and fight against the 80,000 Liang army of Xie An!" ”

Everyone in the hall was stunned when they heard this.

"With Xie ...... War with Xie An's 80,000 Liang army? A hint of discoloration flashed in Chen Bei's eyes, and he said hesitantly, "Didn't you say that the battle situation is stalemate, and it is not easy to move lightly?" ”

"This time and that time!" Liu Qing glanced at Chen Bei a little playfully, and then, as if she had thought of something, she said softly, "I know that Brother Chen is a person who values love and righteousness, and he doesn't want to meet his old friends on the battlefield, so it doesn't matter, this time our army only needs to hold off Xie An's 80,000 Liang army, and there is no need to fight him...... The rest of the things will be left to Li Shen, the king of Qin! ―― If Li Xian is defeated, Xie An will be unable to support it alone! ”

"Li Xian? Li Xian has 100,000 Jizhou soldiers, how can he be so sure that Li Shen can win? Speaking of which, don't you read the letter sent by Li Shen? ”

Liu Qingxiu glanced at Chen Bei, her eyes were like a girl in spring, and the pride and calmness on her face gave people a feeling of wanting to show off her talent in front of her sweetheart.

"No, you don't! ――I can guess what Li Shen wrote in the letter without looking at it...... It's just that the time is ripe, Li Shen is ready to swallow Li Xian's 100,000 Jizhou soldiers in one go! ”