"What? Chen Yingliang's thief fell ill? Li Mi also broke the Tiger Prison Pass and surrounded Luokoucang? Really?! ”

Li Yuan couldn't believe his ears, and the Li Jiancheng brothers and the rebel Zhu Wenwu next to him were also stunned, and they couldn't believe that there could be such a good thing, but the rebel messenger Guo Nu, who had just returned from the Sui army, was full of excitement, and quickly nodded and said: "The villain has his own ears and seen with his own eyes, Chen Yingliang's dog thief received the news that the Tiger Prison Pass was broken by Li Mi, and he fainted on the spot, and then fell ill. Listening to his own soldiers, Chen Dog Thief has not had a good rest since he entered the customs, and he fell ill after accumulating illness. ”

The rebel Zhu Wenwu continued to be dumbfounded, only Li Er shook his head and said to Li Yuan: "Father, it is certain that Yun Dingxing is not telling the truth, Chen Yingliang knows that Anu was actually sent by us, so he acted this play to deceive us." According to the child's opinion, there is no need to leave the scourge of Yun Dingxing anymore, and it is safe to kill it earlier. ”

Dou Cong, Liu Wenjing and other rebel backbones all nodded, and they all felt that Yun Dingxing should be killed immediately, but Li Yuan didn't have much expression, and after thinking carefully for a while, Li Yuan asked Guo Nu again: "Anu, what happened later?" After Chen Yingliang's thief fell ill, did he see you again? Do you have any other explanations? ”

"The thief didn't see the villain again, but asked the villain to bring back a reply." Guo Nu nodded in acknowledgement and replied truthfully: "Later, Fang Xuanling, the staff member of the Chen dog thief, came forward and asked the villain if he could go back to the city to send a letter to Yun Dingxing, and the villain said that Yun Dingxing arranged someone to answer me on the city wall, Fang Xuanling handed over a letter to the villain, and sent someone to send the villain outside the Guanghua Gate overnight, so that the villain had the opportunity to come back and report to the general. ”

Saying that, Guo Nu hurriedly took out Chen Fuliang's letter and held it with both hands, and after the guard handed it to Li Yuan, Li Yuan took it and opened it to take a closer look, and quickly scolded, "The little thief who kills God is really good enough to be treacherous and slippery." ”

Everyone was shocked to ask about the content, Li Yuan showed the letter, and snorted coldly: "The thief didn't believe Yun Dingxing at all, under the pretext that it was too dangerous to open the city late at night, and the location of Guanghuamen was not good, even if it succeeded, it would be difficult to invest in the follow-up army to ensure that the city was taken, and asked Yun Dingxing to be calm and not impatient, continue to lurk in our army, and wait for a better opportunity to appear." ”

Li Er, Pei Lin and others hurriedly took the letter and read it together, and saw that in addition to the content of Li Yuan's oral introduction on the letter, Chen Fuliang also understood what he was telling Yun Dingxing, saying that Yun Dingxing, a rebel general in Daxing City, was not the only rebel general in Daxing City who secretly contacted the Sui army in the eastern capital, and several rebel generals who were quite trusted by Li Yuan also had plans anyway, and it was actually easy for the Sui army in the eastern capital to break Daxing City, but for some reason, Chen Fuliang did not want the rebels to abandon the outer city and retreat to the inner city. In addition, Chen Fuliang arranged two more tasks for Yun Dingxing, one was to find out the grain stocks in the imperial city of Daxing for the Sui army in the eastern capital, and the other was to ask Yun Dingxing to spy on the contact between the main force of the rebel army and the four forces of Xue Ju, Li Rail, Bai Yupo and Xiao Yu.

The rebel Wenwu immediately agreed with Li Yuan's judgment and felt that Chen Fuliang had indeed not trusted Yun Dingxing's sincerity in surrendering, so he politely refused Yun Dingxing's kindness and refused to take the risk of stealing the city with the army - with Yun Dingxing's character, this can be regarded as Chen Fuliang's normal reaction. It is not difficult to understand that there are other generals in the rebels who attempt to rebel, if Yun Dingxing's surrender is true, it can cheer up Yun Dingxing, and if Yun Dingxing's surrender is fake, this can play a counter-effect, so that the rebels are suspicious of each other, true or false, this can also be seen Chen Fuliang's treacherous and resourceful and lack of trust in Yun Dingxing.

As for the two tasks assigned to Yun Dingxing, in fact, they are insignificant trivial matters, even if there is no Yun Dingxing, the Sui army in the eastern capital can also collect these two pieces of information that are just needed to be understood through other channels, Yun Dingxing's surrender is true, and he also got these two pieces of information for Chen Fuliang, which is of course a good thing; Yun Dingxing's surrender is fake, as long as Chen Fuliang compares the intelligence collected from other channels, he can immediately know whether Yun Dingxing is telling the truth or not, and then screen the truth of Yun Dingxing's surrender. At this point, it can also be seen that Chen Yingliang is cautious and suspicious and does not trust Yun Dingxing enough.

After cursing Chen Fuliang's treacherous and suspicious, Li Er raised a very critical question and said: "Father, since Chen Yingliang's thief doesn't trust Yun Dingxing and can't distinguish the truth of Yun Dingxing's internal response, then why did he play that play in front of Yun Dingxing's envoy?" Pretending to be sick and falsely claiming that the tiger prison was broken? ”

"That's easy to explain." Li Yuan replied casually: "Chen Yingliang's thief wanted us to believe that he had fallen ill, but he couldn't find a suitable opportunity to tell us the news, and suspected that Anu was actually sent by us, so he acted in front of Anu by the way. ”

"Father, what is the purpose of Chen Yingliang's thief?" Li Er asked.

"What other purpose can we have than lure us out of the city for a decisive battle?" Li Yuan sneered disdainfully and said, "He is outnumbered this time, and he still has to face the problem of tackling tough problems, of course I hope that we will fight a decisive battle in the field and give him a chance to defeat them." Shameless puppeteer, treacherous thief, this little trick of carving insects, dare to ...... in front of the old man, etc.! ”

Speaking of this with a sneer, Li Yuan suddenly remembered a big event and blurted out, "Wait! There is one more possibility! This thief still has a chance to stabilize us, let us continue to hold the city, and fight against him! Let us feel that as long as we hold the city, he can't do anything about us, we blindly defend the city passively, he takes the opportunity to surprise and give us a heavy blow! ”

Although Li Yuan's analysis is a bit brain-filling, it is not impossible, because even if it is just a confrontation, the rebels will not be able to win the Sui army in the eastern capital of Yongfengcang, and the confrontation for a month or two against the rebels may be nothing, but if the time is longer, the rebels' grain and grass will have to be problematic. At the same time, the main force of the rebel army has been passively avoiding the war for a long time under the condition that the number of troops is overwhelming, and the morale of the army will inevitably decline further, and there will only be more internal problems.

Knowing this powerful relationship, Li Yuan's father and son and the rebel army were inevitably even more suspicious, and they saw Chen Fuliang's true purpose even more, and after racking their brains to ponder Chen Fuliang's intentions, they naturally didn't bother to pay attention to Yun Dingxing, whose fate was hanging by a thread, and decided to continue to put him under house arrest in Miyagi - this is also normal, killing generals indiscriminately without evidence, or the generals of the Sui army who led the troops to surrender, and it is no wonder that the other generals of the rebels are not in danger.

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At the same time in the Sui military camp, in fact, Fang Xuanling and Yuan Tiangang and other Sui army officials did not understand Chen Fuliang's true intentions, and when they asked Chen Fuliang the reason, Chen Fuliang's answer also made them angry, "There is no intention, Li Yuan's old thief is treacherous, and his baby son Li Er is not a good thing, and he will be recognized by using nine out of nine tricks against them, and it will only harm our soldiers in turn, so I have no purpose, just a simple ecstasy array, let them guess for themselves, the more suspicious they are, the more dizzy they are, If we try to time them, we will be more sure of success. ”

Shaking his head and sighing after Chen Fuliang's no tricks to win, no plan to win, Yuan Tiangang asked Chen Fuliang again: "Stay behind, then how can we lure the enemy out of the city for a decisive battle?" Including today, we only have three days. ”

"Divide the troops, continue to divide the troops, take Fufeng in the west, stick to Meixian, wait for the opportunity to seize Sanguan, and cut off the connection between Li Yuan's old thief and Xiao Yu's husband."

Chen Fuliang's understatement answer made Fang Xuanling, Yuan Tiangang and the others jump up, and exclaimed in disbelief: "Do you want to divide the troops? The strength of Li Yuan's thief army was originally three times that of ours, and we still have to divide our troops? ”

"If you don't do this, Li Yuan's old thief won't go out of the city to fight." Chen Fuliang shrugged his shoulders and replied, "In addition to taking the initiative to weaken our own strength, with the treacherous and cunning of Li Yuan's old thief, we will never go out of the city for a decisive battle. Moreover, if you divide your troops to Fufeng in advance, you can also cut off the old thief's westward escape route, lest this old thief run into Hanzhong Chengdu under Xiao Yu's answer, and it will definitely be more troublesome to kill him at that time. ”

Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Yuan Tiangang and several others looked at each other, all of them had a feeling of shock, they never expected that Chen Fuliang would be so bold, the strength was only one-third of the enemy's, and he even dared to divide his troops to the west and take the initiative to weaken his own strength.

Chen Fuliang saw the timidity of several accomplices, so he smiled again and said: "I also know that this is very risky, but this is our only chance to fight quickly, only by luring the enemy out of the city within three days of a decisive battle, we can hope to quickly destroy the thief, in order to fight for this opportunity, this risk is worth taking." Besides, we are not doing this without knowing whether to live or die, don't forget that we still have the rear army of Uncle Yaoshi and the old general Qu Tutong behind us, even if our war is unfavorable, if necessary, they can rush to the battlefield to reinforce within a day, and at the same time, we can also recall the army of the Western Expedition without suffering too much loss. ”

After listening to Chen Fuliang's words, he felt reasonable, and at the same time, with the current situation of the main force of the Sui army, the only way to quickly break the enemy was indeed to lure the rebels out of the city for a decisive battle, and after carefully thinking for a while, Fang Xuanling gritted his teeth and said: "Brother Xian, I have no objection to your division of troops, but the number of troops must not exceed 10,000, and in addition, in the first three days after the division of troops, the speed of our partial division must not be too fast." ”

"Of course, I just want to lure the enemy, not to die." Chen Fuliang replied with a smile, and then decided on the spot that Ma Sanbao and He Panren would lead 10,000 partial divisions to the west, travel fifty miles a day to take Shipingmei County, and cut off the connection between Li Yuan and Uncle Xiao.

Ma Sanbao and He Panren, who received the order, were also taken aback, and Chen Fuliang spent a lot of words to reassure them to receive the order, and just arranged for them to go down to prepare for the expedition, but they never thought that at this time, a report suddenly came from outside the tent, saying that Li Yuan sent his subordinate Liu Shilong as an envoy to come to the Sui military camp with a white flag in hand to ask to see Chen Fuliang. Chen Fuliang was surprised when he heard this, and smiled in surprise: "Old thief Li Yuan still dares to send an envoy to contact me?" The guts are quite fat, didn't you say anything? ”

The herald replied: "Yu stayed behind, said that, the thief army wants to exchange the two sons of the old general Qu Tutong Qu Tushou and Qu Tuquan, as well as Wei Lao's only grandson Wei Ziqi who stayed behind, in exchange for Li Xiuning, the daughter of the old thief Li Yuan." ”

Chen Fuliang, Yuan Tiangang and the others looked at each other, and they all said in surprise: "When did the old thief Li Yuan care so much about his daughter, and he was willing to exchange three important captives for his daughter?" ”

"The exchange of prisoners is fake, but it is true that there are other plans." Fang Xuanling, who is good at understanding people's hearts, pointed out sharply, "Li Yuan's old thief sent an envoy to visit, there must be other purposes!" ”

"Makes sense." Chen Fuliang also agreed with this analysis, and said suspiciously: "Then what is the purpose of Li Yuan's old thief?" ”

"Maybe it has something to do with what happened last night." Fang Xuanling pointed out again: "The ecstasy array you laid out, even those of us around us don't know your true purpose, let alone Li Yuan's old thief. You are also well-known on the battlefield for being good at using tricks, and it is very possible that the old thief Li Yuan will send an envoy to find out your true intentions. ”

In order to save Yun Dingxing, the aimless ecstasy array that was casually laid down by his hands actually received such an effect, Chen Fuliang was of course overjoyed, and hurriedly asked the accomplice lackeys to make some preparations, and then Chen Fuliang ordered Liu Shilong, the envoy who summoned Li Yuan.

By the way, explain the origin of Liu Shilong, Liu Shilong was the mayor of Jinyang Township in Taiyuan before Li Yuan raised the army, and had a good relationship with Pei Lin in private, but on the surface, he maintained a close relationship with Wang Wei and Gao Junya, the two deputy guards in Taiyuan, and often went in and out of Wang Gao's private house, and got quite a lot of important information about Taiyuan for Li Yuan, and was one of the important contributors to the success of Li Yuan's mutiny. also took a fancy to his advantages and specialties. - Of course, if Li Yuan knew that Chen Fuliang had infiltrated the poison nest twice after 1,500 years to go undercover, he would definitely not have such confidence in Liu Shilong.

However, Liu Shilong is not a white faction, when he was first led into the big tent of the Chinese army, Liu Shilong saw Chen Fuliang sitting in the middle at first sight, and immediately smelled a faint smell of medicine in the tent, and at the same time noticed that Chen Fuliang behaved freely on the surface, but his face was a little pale, but he couldn't see it really from a few steps away. Then, Chen Fuliang asked Liu Shilong straight to the point: "Li Yuan's old thief wants to exchange prisoners? Really? ”

"Absolutely." Liu Shilong hurriedly bowed his hand and said with a smile: "Presumably Xu Changgong also knows that Li Xiuning Li Niangzi is not only the beloved daughter of Tang Guogong, but also has made immortal contributions to Tang Guogong, and she was unfortunately ......captured by Xuchang Gong. ”

"Alright, alright, less rhetoric." Chen Fuliang waved his hand to interrupt, and said angrily: "Who is Li Yuan's old thief, can I not know?" The world's first ruthless, unrighteous, disloyal and unfilial man! Can he care about his daughter's life and death? Speaking of your true intentions, the official is very busy and has no time to dwell on you. ”

"Xuchang Gong misunderstood." Liu Shilong hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Tang Guogong sent the villain here, it was really for the exchange of prisoners, and there was nothing else. ”

Chen Fuliang looked Liu Shilong up and down suspiciously, until he couldn't see Liu Shilong clearly, so his heart began to hairy, and Chen Fuliang suddenly asked: "Old thief Li Yuan, did you send you to test whether I have really fallen ill?" ”

Liu Shilong was taken aback at first, and then quickly denied it, "Xuchanggong, what do you mean by this?" Why can't I understand? ”

"Coax the ghost to go, don't think I don't know, the messenger last night was actually sent by Li Yuan's old thief." Chen Fuliang said very directly: "You also underestimate my meticulous ability, I have long known that Yun Dingxing has been directly controlled by Li Yuan's old thief, and he has no military power in his hands, so it is impossible to open the city to answer me, so I only teased your fake messenger last night, I want to see if he Li Yuan's old thief has the courage to go out of the city and fight with me." ”

Liu Shilong's face changed slightly, but Chen Fuliang waved his hand again, and said: "Since the old thief Li Yuan sent you to test, it proves that he doesn't have this egg, and the official is too lazy to waste time with you, go back to tell the old thief Li Yuan, and tell him to continue to hide in Daxing City, and if he has the ability, he will hide in Daxing City for the rest of his life, and see which of us can survive whom." ”

"Xu Changgong, what are you talking about, why can't the villain understand?" Liu Shilong continued to pretend to be confused.

Chen Fuliang smiled, too lazy to talk to Liu Shilong, and went to serve the teacup on the table with a calm expression, but his hand trembled unnaturally, and he almost knocked over the teacup, but fortunately put the teacup back on the table in time, and then Chen Fuliang calmed down again, and said very calmly: "Go and sue Li Yuan, Li Xiuning is a criminal in the imperial court, and the crime should be executed, this official is left behind in the eastern capital, and the ambassador in Guanzhong must be arrested by the law of the country, and it is impossible to exchange prisoners with you, so it is best not to mention it in the future." The grandson of Wei Lao who stayed behind, and the two sons of the old general Qu Tu, I will rescue them from prison sooner or later, if you don't want to be ......, be ....... ”

"If you don't want to be wiped out by our army and wiped out all the gates, you'd better not have the idea of taking hostages!" Fang Xuanling, who was next to him, hurriedly took over the conversation and shouted, "Okay, you can go now!" Someone, send off! ”

Liu Shilong originally wanted to say something more, but Chen Fuliang's personal soldiers in the tent couldn't help but say, and when they came up, they half-pushed and half-invited Liu Shilong to leave, Chen Fuliang still sat high in the middle and did not move at all, and did not say a word. Liu Shilong was suspicious in his heart, and said secretly: "What's the matter? No, why is there something wrong with Chen Yingliang's thief's reaction, is it a real illness? ”

Suspicious, Liu Shilong continued to carefully observe the details in the account, but unfortunately except for the smell of medicine, Liu Shilong did not find any clues, Liu Shilong was disappointed, he never thought that on the way to leave the camp of the Sui army, he was the number one key person in the decision-making level of the rebels, but Yuan Tiangang, a very famous and important lackey under Chen Fuliang, walked past him quickly, and deliberately said to the officials beside him while walking: "The siege weapons must be prepared quickly, and it will definitely snow heavily in three days, and the climate in Guanzhong this year is very cold. When the time comes, the Daxing moat will freeze into ice, and it can be crossed directly, which is a good opportunity for us to attack the city. ”

"You said this to me on purpose, right?" Liu Shilong sneered secretly, and immediately guessed that Yuan Tiangang's words were actually meant for him.

At the same time, Chen Fuliang issued an order in the big tent of the Chinese army, instructing: "Give my cousin and Qu Tutong an order to go to the road, tomorrow must launch an attack on Xinfeng, not necessarily to break the city, but at least fill in a section of Xinfeng's moat and open the road to the city." Words. Liu Shilong was suspicious in his heart, and said secretly: "What's the matter? No, why is there something wrong with Chen Yingliang's thief's reaction, is it a real illness? ”

Suspicious, Liu Shilong continued to carefully observe the details in the account, but unfortunately except for the smell of medicine, Liu Shilong did not find any clues, Liu Shilong was disappointed, he never thought that on the way to leave the camp of the Sui army, he was the number one key person in the decision-making level of the rebels, but Yuan Tiangang, a very famous and important lackey under Chen Fuliang, walked past him quickly, and deliberately said to the officials beside him while walking: "The siege weapons must be prepared quickly, and it will definitely snow heavily in three days, and the climate in Guanzhong this year is very cold. When the time comes, the Daxing moat will freeze into ice, and it can be crossed directly, which is a good opportunity for us to attack the city. ”

"You said this to me on purpose, right?" Liu Shilong sneered secretly, and immediately guessed that Yuan Tiangang's words were actually meant for him.

At the same time, Chen Fuliang issued an order in the big tent of the Chinese army, instructing: "Give my cousin and Qu Tutong an order to go to the road, tomorrow must launch an attack on Xinfeng, not necessarily to break the city, but at least fill in a section of Xinfeng's moat and open the road to the city." ”