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At this time, a pigeon flew up from the backyard of the king's house, and also flew out of the city, but just as it flew over a row of big trees outside the house, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot out of the big tree, and hit the pigeon's abdomen, and the arrow fell from the sky with the pigeon.

After a while, the carrier pigeon lay on Qu Tutong's table, Qu Tutong's general knife picked up the letterbox, unfolded the fine silk inside, and wrote the words with a fine needle on it, Qu Tutong looked at it for a moment, his brows were furrowed, and the content inside was to tell the manor not to sell grain in a hurry, and wait for the price of grain to skyrocket before making a move, and it was decided that this year's rent should be increased by 10% compared with last year.

Although it exposed the face of the Wang family's profiteers and the fact of exploiting the tenant farmers, the content of the letter had nothing to do with the army at all, and it was not what Qu Tutong wanted at all, which made Qu Tutong very disappointed.

He was still unwilling, and asked two staff members to study the pigeon letter together, whether it was using the method of hiding the head and shrinking the tail, or using the homophonic suggestion method, but did not find any clues.

Qu Tutong couldn't sit still, regardless of whether the Wang family's pigeon letter was suspected of collaborating with the enemy, but the Wang family's communication with the outside world was the biggest suspicion, although he couldn't catch the evidence, but it didn't mean that he could only stare at it, and he couldn't do anything, Qu Tutong immediately ordered: "Prepare the horse, I'm going to the palace!" ”

In less than a stick of incense time, Qu Tutong rushed to Wang Shou's mansion with three thousand soldiers, he ordered the army to surround Wang Shou's mansion, at this time, more than a dozen young children of the Wang family came out of the mansion with Wang Shou, Wang Shou sat on the wooden platform, and asked with anger on his face: "General Qu Tu, what are you doing?" ”

Qu Tutong said coldly: "At the moment of the great enemy, the head of the family is still secretly communicating with the outside of the city, which makes people suspect that the head of the family is suspected of collaborating with the enemy. ”

"Why do you say that?"

Qu Tutong raised the pigeon, "This is the carrier pigeon that flew out of your house, and there is a pigeon letter you wrote on it, do you dare to admit it?" ”

Wang Shou nodded, "I admit that there is a connection with the manor, because the general blocked the city gate and did not allow people to enter or leave, and we need to tell the manor what to do, everyone does it, why does General Qu Tu only stare at the Wang family?" ”

"Really? Who else uses pigeon letters to contact the outside world, the owner of the family may wish to talk about it. ”

"I won't do this kind of harmful thing, General Qu Tu don't fight this idea."

Qu Tutong sneered, "I have already secretly checked, there is no one else at all, only the Wang family is sending carrier pigeons." ”

"Even if it's it! But on what basis did General Qu Tu say that I collaborated with the enemy? At most, I violated the ban, and it was Pei Xiangguo's ban, Pei Xiangguo has left, this ban no longer exists, and General Qu Tu did not say that he was not allowed to send pigeon letters. ”

Wang Shou can speak well, and his thinking is very keen, he grasps the timeliness of Pei Lian's ban to make a fuss, because Pei Lin is not the Son of Heaven, and the ban cannot be compared to the holy decree, his ban will become invalid with his departure, and Qu Tutong, as the new general of Taiyuan, did not order the ban on carrier pigeons, which made Wang Shou take advantage of the loophole.

Qu Tutong was speechless for a while, and said for a while: "It's wartime, Pei Xiangguo is my predecessor, and his ban is naturally my ban." ”

Wang Shou sneered: "It's a pity that Pei Lin is not Xiao He, and General Qu Tu is not Cao Shen, so he can't do Xiao Gui Cao Sui, it's better to do this, General Qu Tu asks the Son of Heaven, if the Son of Heaven agrees that Pei Xiangguo's ban will always take effect, then I promise not to release a pigeon." ”

Qu Tutong couldn't say anything about Wang Shou, so hated that he gritted his teeth and said: "I don't debate with you, but I know that you and Zhou Jun have secretly communicated with each other, you can go to the Son of Heaven to sue me, but I tell you, from now on, you don't want to have any contact with the outside world." ”

He shouted: "Surround his mansion and let no one enter or leave!" ”

"Qu Tutong, you deceive people too much, I am the dignified prince of Taiyuan County, I have a knighthood, you have no right to house arrest me!"

Qu Tutong ignored him, turned around and walked away, and the Tang soldiers drove Wang Shou and his family back to the mansion, locked the gate from the outside, and dozens of people stood guard at the door.

Not only did he put Wang Shou and his family under house arrest, Qu Tutong immediately ordered the county prince Yuanji to be arrested and imprisoned, and the county ordered Zhou Ju to preside over the government affairs of Taiyuan.

That night, Qu Tutong began to purge in the army, and all those who had anything to do with the Wang family were transferred out of the city defense.

After hesitating again and again, Qu Tutong still issued an order to transfer Wang Junkuo to the deputy general of the central battalion, and appointed his confidant general Xie Jingyuan as the chief general of Xicheng, although he only had a trace of suspicion about Wang Junkuo, but even if he had this suspicion, he could not be confused, and immediately deprived Wang Junkuo of the defense right of Xicheng.

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But Qu Tutong still exposed one of his weaknesses in this matter, that is, he loved talent, and it was the general who cherished Wang Junkuo that he did not immediately make a move on Wang Junkuo, but put it at the end.

Qu Tutong really felt embarrassed, the defense system had been formed, and at this time, the defense deployment would be disrupted, so that there would be loopholes in the defense, and Xie Jingyuan's ability to defend the city was far inferior to Wang Junkuo, and transferring Wang Junkuo away would undoubtedly be a huge loss to the defense of the city.

It was this psychology of gaining and losing that made Qu Tutong hesitate again and again, and finally made up his mind to transfer Wang Junkuo away from the city for defense.

But when Qu Tutong began to clean up the children and protégés of the Wang family in the army, Wang Junkuo realized that something was wrong, and he wrote a short message while Qu Tutong had not yet liquidated his head, and sent a personal soldier to climb the rope down the city and secretly go to the Zhou army camp to deliver the letter.

Zhang Xuan's royal flag was planted in the East Camp, but in fact his people were in the West Camp, and the West City was the focus of the Zhou army's attack.

The big tent was brightly lit, Zhang Xuan stood in front of the city model with his hands, looking at the water gate of the west city, he was very interested in this water city gate, he carefully observed the water city gate during the day, he found that the river was very wide, they didn't need to enter the city at all, drive the two-thousand-stone building boat to the water gate, and the army could directly board the city from the boat, as for the sunken ships in the river, it was easy to deal with, just drag them away from the water gate.

Of course, this is only an alternative, provided that Wang Junkuo fails, after all, Qu Tutong is not Li Shenfu, he was a famous general in the Sui Dynasty, comparable to Zhang Xutuo, Wang Junkuo wants to succeed in sacrificing the city in his hands, not only must have enough strength, but also have enough luck.

This is also an important reason why Jang Hyun is known as a famous player in the world, he will not leave only one way for himself, and must consider failure before meeting success.

At this time, a guard came in from outside the door and whispered a few words to Zhang Xuan, who nodded, "Take him in!" ”

After a short time, the guards brought a wet Tang Army soldier into the big tent, and the soldier knelt down and kowtowed, "The villain has come to deliver a letter to His Majesty on the order of General Wang." ”

"How's it going in the city?" Jao Hyun was not in a hurry to read the letter, and asked about the situation in the city first.

"Back to Your Majesty, the situation in the city is not very good, General Qu Tu sent troops to surround the mansion of the head of the Wang family, arrested Wang Juncheng and imprisoned, and at the same time cleaned up the children of the Wang family in the army, and the general of my family was also transferred to the deputy general of the Chinese army, and he was no longer in charge of the defense of Xicheng."

"Ahh Next to him, Wei Chigong couldn't help but exclaim.

Even a steady person like Wei Chi Gong couldn't calm down, which showed that the situation was quite bad, and it could be said that they had lost all their efforts, but Zhang Xuan didn't have any expression on his face, as if what the soldier said had nothing to do with him.

He opened the letter and read it unhurriedly, nodded and said, "If I promise to follow your general's plan, how should I inform him?" ”

"Your Majesty only needs to beat three rounds of war drums outside the East City at the second watch, and my general will know."

"That's a good idea."

Zhang Xuan praised it, and immediately rewarded the soldier who sent the letter with fifty taels of gold, and asked the guards to take him down to rest and eat, and the soldier went down with a thousand thanks.

Zhang Xuan saw that Wei Chi Gong was full of questions, so he smiled and handed him Wang Junkuo's letter, "You can see it when you look at it." ”

Wei Chigong took the letter and read it carefully, and said a little worriedly: "This plan is very risky, what if it fails?" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled faintly, "Wang Junkuo took his strategy, we deployed our own siege plan, but at the same time, if he succeeded, it would be an unexpected surprise, if he failed, at most more than 10,000 Tang soldiers died, then there was no way, let their souls find Qu Tutong to settle accounts!" ”