Han Du is an ordinary military commander of Liu Xuanjun, because he is sharp-tongued and clever, especially good at flattering senior superiors, he has been regarded as a replacement candidate for the next chief by the tun general and Du Bo in the tun where he is located, Han Du himself has always hoped that the chief of his team will die as soon as possible, make room for himself as soon as possible, and give himself the opportunity to impact Du Bo's position, lest he be a general, and he must personally take the five soldiers under his jurisdiction out of the camp every few days to patrol the sentry, which is dangerous and tiring, and there is a mistake and may carry the black pot for the boss.

But there was no way, because the damned Shi Chang had not died in battle so far, so on the evening of the contact battle of Shenting Ridge, poor General Han Du could only honestly personally take five of his subordinates out of the camp to patrol the sentry, and he was extremely unlucky to follow the team to be arranged in the outermost periphery of the patrol circle, to the most dangerous and vulnerable to the enemy's position to patrol the sentry, General Han Du called every day should not be, called the earth and the earth to be ineffective, and had to take over this drudgery with tears.

"Liu Yun of the dog! Lao Tzu said that your ancestors are ancestors! I was blind when I caught the lot, but I caught this ghost place patrol, what if I met the enemy? You deserve to see that you are not pleasing to the eye, and I want to drive you away! ”

As soon as he was separated from his boss Shi Chang to patrol the sentry, General Han Du immediately scolded him, scolding his boss Shi Chang Bai Hushou, and caught the worst lot when he caught the lot, so that he, the future star of Qu'a, wanted to risk his life to patrol the sentry, and the five soldiers led by General Han Du also echoed one after another, all condemning the bad luck of Liu Yun, who was bad luck and harming people. Then another soldier suggested: "Head, the old rule, find a place where no one is sleeping, and when the time comes, go back and report the confession." ”

"Let's take a few more steps." General Han Du said helplessly: "Last time I reported that Liu Yun, who was a dog, touched the widow's door, and was known by the dog, and the dog said that in the past few days, the dog said that he was grabbing my handle, and he wanted to prevent the dog from coming to check the sentry." ”

"Touching the widow's door? Isn't this your favorite thing? I have also heard that on one occasion you brought Dub into the house of your good little widow. ”

"Fart! Who took Dub to the house of the widow of Ba? I'm going with the knots, bringing the touch! ”

Talking about gossip, General Han Du led five of his subordinates to the north and walked two or three miles, seeing that the sky was already dark, and there was no shadow of another army under the personal command of Shi Chang behind, General Han Du picked a dense woods on the side of the road, and gestured with his finger, a soldier understood, first ran into the forest to reconnoitre, and then not long after, the soldier shouted in the woods: "Head, it's okay, come in." ”

"Let's go, go to sleep."

General Han Du waved his hand, yawned and led the remaining four soldiers into the woods, but after entering the woods, he didn't go far, and General Han Du's mouth couldn't close when he yawned, because in the woods, twenty or thirty heavily armed Xuzhou soldiers appeared, surrounding General Han Du and his party of five, ten of whom also held short crossbows and aimed at General Han Du's group of five. The corporal under General Han Du, who had gone into the forest to reconnoiter before, had been disarmed and was pinched in the hands of two Xuzhou soldiers who were as strong as bears, and a snowy steel knife was also put on his neck.

"Why are you here now? And brought so many people here? Are these people unreliable? ”

Unexpectedly, the group of Xuzhou soldiers not only did not immediately kill or take people, but one of the leaders also took the initiative to ask inexplicable words, and when General Han Du and the others were inexplicable, the leader pointed at General Han Du again, and asked in a northern accent: "Ask you, these people are unreliable, do you want to kill them all?" ”

"Ah......h General Han Du, who was frightened, finally woke up, nodded hurriedly and said, "They are reliable, reliable." ”

"Yes, yes, we're reliable, we're reliable." The same is true of several soldiers under General Han Du's command, including the soldier who has been taken down by the Xuzhou soldiers.

"Just be reliable." The Xuzhou soldier at the head nodded, and asked General Han Du very strangely: "Why don't you tie the white cloth of the joint on your left arm?" We thought we were recognizing the wrong person. ”

"Ahh Han Du was inexplicable again, and finally woke up, it turned out that General Han Du had a problem with sweating, and liked to hang a sweat towel around his neck to wipe his sweat at any time, but it happened that this sweat towel was still relatively white after washing, which made the Xuzhou soldiers misunderstand - of course, for General Han Du, this is also the best misunderstanding.

Thinking of this, General Han Du suddenly had a little courage, and quickly nodded and said: "General, don't get me wrong, I'm afraid that tying a white cloth to my arm will make it easy for people to find out that the situation is wrong, so I temporarily hung it around my neck, and I was ready to tie it on my arm when I met with the general, but I didn't expect you to come so quickly, so I didn't have time to make a code." As he spoke, Han Du hurriedly tore off the sweat towel and hurriedly tied it to his left arm.

"I see." The leader nodded, and then asked, "Did General Tai Shici ask you to bring a letter?" ”

"General Tai Shi Ci?!" General Han Du's face changed, fortunately, it was dark and he couldn't see clearly, so General Han Du, who was quite anxious, quickly said: "General Ziyi, in order to prevent accidents, didn't dare to let the villain come with a letter, but just said that if the general has any explanation or letter, he can let the villain take it back and hand it over to him." ”

"Oh." The leader nodded, first took out a letter from his arms, and then said: "Take this letter back and give it to General Taishi, please tell General Taishi, today he reminded our army that Liu Xiang Pifu set up an ambush to lure the enemy, my lord is very grateful, and after our army breaks through Liu Xuan, my lord will have a heavy reward for General Taishi." ”

After finishing speaking, without waiting for General Han Du to wake up from the shock, the person at the head had already stuffed the letter into General Han Du's hand, and then pointed to several soldiers of Liu Daojun behind Han Du and asked, "Ask again, are these people reliable?" If anyone is unreliable, speak up now and I'll solve it for you. ”

General Han Du was still righteous, and soon nodded in the pleading eyes of several subordinates, and also said that these soldiers were all people of General Tai Shi Ci, and in order to cover themselves for Tai Shi Ci to contact the Xuzhou army, they came here, and the soldiers of Xuzhou believed it, so they let go of General Han Du's five subordinates, and then walked away in a big way, leaving the frightened General Han Du and his party of six people in the center of the woods to jump in shock, trembling and trembling.

Finally waited until the Xuzhou team went away, Han Du finally came back to his senses, first glad that his fortune was so great that he could encounter such a clever thing and escape his surname, and then when he thought about it deeply, General Han Du gradually began to be overjoyed again, and said with a smile: "Haha, it seems that Lao Tzu can't be promoted this time, brothers, come with me, go back to the camp to find the lord and ask for a reward!" ”

……………… The mistake made by the Xuzhou army this time was indeed a bit excessive, so excessive that even Liu Xian, who had already slept, jumped out of the bed barefoot after hearing the news, and directly summoned General Han Du, who had taken great luck, in the sleeping tent, and also sent Xu Shao and Fan Neng, two major civil and military henchmen, to listen. And General Han Du was also very competitive, and very effectively seized the opportunity to show himself in front of the boss of the house, and blew the details of the whole thing into a daze, which not only illustrated the cunning and viciousness of the Xuzhou soldiers, but also showed his own wisdom and martial arts.

As a result, many loopholes in the details were naturally covered up by General Han Du's boasting. But then again, whether there are loopholes in the details Liu Xuan doesn't care anymore, just hearing Han Du's report is already thunderous Liu Xuan is most concerned, of course, it is the letter that Han Du brought, but after taking a closer look at the letter signed by Deputy Director Tao, Liu Miao is no longer thunderous, but trembling with anger. I saw that the epistle was omitted:

"Today's battle, if it weren't for the secret words on the Ziyi array, Liu Xuan's trickery in my few times, so that I can protect the lives of thousands of soldiers, all of the general's merits, grace can not be forgotten, there will be a reward for the merits, the general's great achievements and the previous few merits, should all order people to secretly remember the books, and when the general returns triumphantly, they should be rewarded together, and there will be no negligence. The general's plan to ambush Liu Miao in Guangwu Temple, I also decided to adopt it, and I asked the general to act according to the plan and capture it in a battle.

In addition: The people who fought with the general on the battlefield today, I don't know if the general is the person who should be secretly recruited? If so, you should have remembered his appearance, and the general might as well ask him to contact the secret envoy for you and me, and replace the general's henchmen who unfortunately drowned before. ”

"Tai Shi Ci, unrighteous puppet!" Liu Miao was completely furious, and roared hysterically at the case, "It turns out that today's ambush failed, and it was really his ghost!" I said, how can my trick of luring the enemy be seen through by the pottery thief? I will kill such ungrateful people! Come on, go to Taishi Ci camp ...... quickly. ”

"Slow down." Xu Shao spoke up in time to stop it, and then arched his hand and said, "Lord, didn't you find this very strange?" With the cunning and cunning of the pottery thief, how could he make such a big mistake and treat our patrol soldiers as messengers? ”

"Lord, it's because of this white sweat towel of the villain." General Han Du hurriedly explained, pointing to the sweat towel on his left arm and explaining: "The villain has a problem with sweating, and it is too hot to hang the sweat towel around his neck in summer, so he tied it to his arm, and as a result, he was misunderstood by the Xuzhou thief army." ”

"Mr. Zijun, the pottery thief is well-known for his cunning and cunning, but why can't his soldiers make mistakes?" Fan Neng, the current chief general of Liu Xuanjun, also said: "Mr. Zijiang, do you still remember our old rival Yuan Shu? When he contacted Zhang Wen and Zhang Sikong to crusade against Dong Zhuo, he was sent by the messenger to the wrong door and sent to Lu Bu's mansion, which resulted in Zhang Sikong's family being killed. ”

Xu Shao hesitated, but Fan Neng said: "Also, if this matter is a trick by a pottery thief, and the pottery thief is so deliberate, why should he attack Tai Shici as a mere general?" If the pottery thief really wants to disrupt our army's heart, or lure our army into a scheme, and take the opportunity to set a trap to severely damage our army, at least he must attack a general at the level of captain like Chen Heng, right? ”

Xu Shao had nothing to say, and Liu Miao was even more furious, and shouted to the guards in the tent again: "What are you doing here?" Why don't you go and arrest Tai Shi Ci Pifu? and today's pawn who went to war with Tai Shi Ci without permission, he was also arrested together, and tortured him to ask him if he had secretly communicated with Tai Shi Ci pottery thief! ”

"Lord, wait, lord, please calm your anger first." Xu Shao hurriedly dissuaded again, and said: "Lord, I still think this matter is very suspicious, with the ability of a pottery thief, it should be impossible to make such a mistake." Otherwise, Mr. Ziyu has a lot of insight and far-reaching strategies, why don't you invite him to discuss? ”

"What are you calling for Yi?" Liu Xuan became more and more angry, and shouted: "It's Yi Pifu who can even say the words to persuade me to surrender to the pottery thief, it's about the internal annihilation of the collusion with the pottery thief, what good words can he say?!" ”

"It's ......."

Xu Shao's ability in strategy and strategy is indeed far inferior to the ability to know people, although he feels that things are wrong, but he can't find any flaws that can convince Liu Xuan, in desperation, Xu Shao had to persuade: "Lord, let's not do this, anyway, Tai Shi Ci is in our army, and he is not afraid that he will fly to the sky, the lord can send people to secretly monitor Tai Shi Ci, and on the other hand, he will also strengthen the monitoring of Guangwu Temple, the peak of Shenting Ridge, and wait until Ming Ming, if the pottery thief really arranges ambush soldiers in Guangwu Temple, Tai Shi Ci also has no subordinate actions, The lord can also take him down immediately, and behead him justifiably. ”

Fan Neng resolutely objected, and Liu Miao was also a little reluctant, but he couldn't stand Xu Shao's repeated hard persuasion, and repeatedly reminded that this matter was too coincidental, and it was best to be cautious, Liu Miao changed his mind, nodded very reluctantly and said: "Okay, just do it, Fan Neng, you can arrange people to keep an eye on the area of Guangwu Temple, and then arrange some good hands to secretly monitor Tai Shici, and if there is any change, take it immediately!" By the way, that cavalry pawn is also keeping an eye on me! ”

Xu Shao breathed a sigh of relief, Fan Neng was very unhappy and hugged his fists and sang a promise, Liu Miao looked at Han Du who was kneeling in front of him, and said: "Go down and receive the reward, tell your Ququ general, and ask him to upgrade you by two levels, but tonight's matter must be kept secret." ”

The overjoyed Han Du kowtowed again and again, and thanked him happily, but Xu Shao still refused to rest assured, after saying goodbye to Liu Xuan, Xu Shao simply went to Shiyi's sleeping tent overnight, dragged Shiyi who had fallen asleep from the bed, and secretly told Shiyi what had just happened to Shiyi, asking Shiyi to analyze the situation for himself and find out the flaws that could persuade Liu Xuan.

After listening to Xu Shao's introduction, Shi Yi remained silent, and after thinking about it for a long time, it was Yi who asked Xu Shao: "Mr. Zijiang, four years ago, the lord and Tao Ying had a gathering in Liyang, and you were also present at that time. ”

"Actually, I didn't mention it much, it was just a sentence or two."

Xu Shao still barely remembered the past events, and after giving a general introduction to what happened back then, Shi Yi was silent again, and after a long time, it was Yi Cai who said in a slow tone: "Mr. Zijiang, in your opinion, if there were no words from Tao Ying and Jia Xu back then, would Tai Shi Ci be able to be reused by the lord?" Can the status in front of the lord reach the height of our army's generals Zhang Ying, Fan Neng, Yu Cheng and Zhang Heng? ”

"Why does Mr. Ziyu ask that?" Xu Shao was a little puzzled, but still replied truthfully: "Unlikely, the lord is the royal family, after the eldest son of Gaozu, he has raised filial piety and honesty, and the most important thing in employing people is to pay attention to the family background, how can you reuse Tai Shici, who was born as a ranger and a county official?" And General Fan Neng's situation also knows that either the famous family is the son of the wealthy family, and everyone is above the top, how can they tolerate Tai Shici to be tied with them? So even if there was no incident back then, the current Tai Shici would at most serve as a deputy to one of the four major generals of our army. ”

Shi Yi continued to be silent as usual, Xu Shao was a little angry, and said, "Mr. Ziyu, I came to you tonight at the risk of being punished by the lord, why didn't you say a word for half a day?" ”

"Mr. Zijiang forgives his sins." Shi Yi finally spoke, and said: "I'm not sure about it, so I hesitate, but I think the suggestion made by Mr. Zijiang to the lord is very good, since the letter said that the ambush in Guangwu Temple is Tai Shi Ci's plan to Tao Ying, then tomorrow when there is movement in Guangwu Temple, you can tell whether Tai Shi Ci is really secretly colluding with Tao Ying." If the letter is true, there will be a change in Tai Shi Ci at that time, if the letter is false, Tai Shi Ci will naturally not have any action, after this pass, the lord's suspicion of Tai Shi Ci will be dissipated a lot. ”

"That's what I thought too." Xu Shao nodded and asked again: "But that letter came so strangely, doesn't Mr. think it's too much of a coincidence?" ”

"There are many more coincidental things in the world than this." Shi Yi finally answered very quickly this time, and said: "What's more, General Fan Neng is also right, if this is really a trick of the pottery thief, then the pottery thief should be aiming at Fan Neng, Zhang Heng and Sun Shao, the future of our army, what's the point of attacking Tai Shici?" Even if the lord really killed Tai Shici, what benefit could Tao Ying get? ”

Xu Shao thought about it carefully, and saw that Shiyi lowered his head and seemed drowsy, so he didn't bother anymore, and quickly left. And after Xu Shao left, what was still drowsy just now was Yi suddenly opened his eyes again, got up in his clothes, walked to the tent door to see Xu Shao leave, and muttered in his heart, "Mr. Zijiang, if I tell the truth, saying that Tao Ying was a snares who had been planning four years ago, and at that time he was just a qu general Tai Shici, and now he wants to force Tai Shici away from the lord's command by any means, and take the opportunity to pull it under his account to be reused, do you believe it?" Is the Lord in public trust? When the time comes, I am afraid that the lord will scold me again for being ridiculous and will expel me from the tent again...... ”

After sighing lightly, Shi Yi looked up at the stars in the night sky again, and said secretly: "Tao should be a person, only the ability is important, not the family background, even a martial artist like Tai Shici from a civilian background can also pay so much attention, I don't know ......, how about me?" ”

(To be continued)