The gift to the Yin Shi Shi Shi was not given in vain, after some conversations, the Yin Shi Shi Shi with a good character still provided Chen Yingliang with a lot of useful information, so that Chen Yingliang had some understanding of the enemy Turkic team this time, and also knew the difficulties and importance of this war.

According to the intelligence collected by various channels of the Yin Shishi Tongguò, the specific number of troops on the Turkic side has not yet been determined, but at least it is more than 250,000, of which the main force surrounds Yanmen City, led by the Turkic Khan Shibi himself, and the partial division is led by the brother of Shibi, Ashina, besieged Laoxian, and is responsible for confronting the Sui army King Qin, with a strength of about 50,000 people, stationed in the Yuanping area in the southwest of Laoxian County, choking the throat of the Sui army of Qinwang to reach Yanmen, and also blocking the main road to Loufu and Kaiyang. forced the Yin Shishi to take the Xinkou Qinwang Road, and could not go straight to Yanmen from the road of Loufu Pass, and at the same time, it also made the team of Ma Yi Taishou Wang Ren Gong unable to go south, so if the Sui army team wanted to rescue Emperor Yang of Sui, they first had to pull out the nail stuck in the throat of the Ashina Association Rate.

In terms of the composition of the Turkic troops, the Yin Shishi frankly admitted that there were many cavalry very terrible, and almost all the soldiers had war horses, even if it was a siege infantry, it was also served by the cavalry, and the mobility was very strong, and it was good at riding and archery, and liked to use the tactics of group charge, first to shoot the enemy with a stormy bow and arrow, and then launch hand-to-hand combat, and occasionally use heavy cavalry to charge directly to fight, but such a situation rarely occurs, and at the same time, the poor productivity of the Turkic barbarians cannot form too many heavy cavalry, Therefore, Chen Yingliang, the master of the Yin World, must prepare more long shields to deal with the Turkic arrow rain tactics.

Listening to the introduction of the Yin World Master here, Chen Yingliang first thanked the Yin World Master for his kind reminder, and then asked a rather mentally retarded question, and said: "Uncle, the little nephew has a question, although the Turks have a vast territory, they are not rich in products, and the climate and environment are not suitable for growing food. Can you bring more than 250,000 cavalry to attack the Holy Driver? ”

"You don't even know that?" Yin Shishi first said, and then explained: "The population of the Turks is small, but they are a combination of soldiers and people, adult men are all soldiers, soldiers in wartime, forming an army to fight, serving the people in leisure time, animal husbandry for a living, all men in the country are soldiers, so it is very easy for the thief chief to dispatch 250,000 troops, as long as he wants, he can dispatch more troops." ”

"I see." Chen Yingliang nodded, seeing that the Yin Shishi was unwilling to go on, Chen Yingliang hesitated for a moment before asking: "Uncle, then the little nephew may ask again, have you ever found out how many of the 250,000 troops of the Shibi Thief Chief are attached?" And how many strings and how many tops? ”

Yin Shishi glanced at Chen Yingliang in surprise again, and then smiled: "Little guy, you are very good at pretending, you even know the words "attachment", "control string and tuojiao", and dare to say that you don't know about the Turkic army?" ”

"Just a few furs." Chen Yingliang said with a wry smile: "Originally, the little nephew wanted to ask you this question directly, but I knew that it was difficult to find out clearly, and I was worried that I would not be able to answer it, which would embarrass my uncle, so I asked my uncle around the corner, but my uncle thought that the little nephew was stupid and refused to say it, so the little nephew had to ask directly." ”

"In front of me, there is no need to beat around the bush, just say it directly, the old man doesn't like people who spit out." Yin Shishi reprimanded the juniors, and then said: "You're right, I don't know, my uncle doesn't have much time to take office when he goes upstairs, and he knows very little about the Turkic situation, just like you, I only know that the Turkic army is composed of three kinds of soldiers, the pro-army of the Shibi thief chief is attached, which is equivalent to the elite of our soldiers, and the ordinary herdsmen are called the control strings, which are equivalent to our auxiliaries, and Tuuma refers to the Hu mercenaries, mostly composed of Zhaowu Jiu surnamed Hu, and the combat effectiveness is quite strong, but in the Turkic army brought by the Shibi thief chief this time, how many soldiers are there in each of these three types, I really don't know yet. ”

The enemy situation is so unclear, Chen Yingliang, who is holding back enough strength to show his hand in this big battle, inevitably frowned a little, but fortunately, the Yin Shishi said again: "You can go to Li Jing to inquire about these situations, he has served as a county commander in Mayi since the first year of the Great Cause, and he knows the most about the Turkic situation, as long as he is willing to help you, you will definitely have gains." ”

Chen Yingliang nodded, and only then did he know that Li Jing had been serving as a county official in Mayi for eleven years, and then Chen Yingliang thought for a while, and then asked: "Uncle, there is another thing I can ask you to help me with, can you get me the climate records of Lao County and Yanmen, the more detailed the better." ”

"Climate records? There is no way, I can't get it, the forty-one cities of Yanmen County, except for the two cities of Yanmen and Laoxian, have all been broken by the Turks, and the local records of the government have probably been burned to ashes. The Yin Shishi replied casually, and then said: "Maybe Li Jing can help, after living here for eleven years, he is also half a snake, and he may be able to help you in this regard." ”

Chen Yingliang, who had an accomplice lackey named the demon Yuan Tiangang, was disappointed, but he had no choice but to quickly thank the Yin Shishi, and then leave and return to his camp to check the rest of the army. And Chen Yingliang was not interested in studying the beautiful daughter of the Yin World Master, and on the way back to the camp, his mind was turning over and over, and all he pondered was about Li Jing......

"Do you take the risk of entrapping Li Yuan? Get him into his hands, not only can he get a right-hand man who can take the lead alone, but he can also play an important role in this Qinwang war, but he can kill two birds with one stone, but he is Lao Li's direct subordinate, and he helped Lao Li cut off my intelligence channels last night, and simply lived in Lao Li's camp, with Lao Li's virtue and temper, if I go to Li Jing for help, I have to quickly put Li Jing next to me as a second or fifth boy? Originally, it was nothing to be spying on some military information by Lao Li, but if Lao Li was dark-hearted and used this Li Jingyin to me, then my loss would be too great. ”

With this complicated mind, Chen Yingliang soon returned to his army, and after a night of rest, the body of the soldiers of Qian Peng has recovered a lot, although the fatigue is still very strict, but it is not impossible to fight, Chen Yingliang checked and felt satisfied, and then ordered to take out the ham and bacon brought by the army to supplement the nutrition of the soldiers, and at the same time ordered the distribution of double rations for three consecutive days, the soldiers of Qian Peng cheered, Chen Yingliang returned to the big tent of the Chinese army in the cheers, and Wei Zheng, Yuan Tiangang discussed the military situation with Ma Sanbao, Cheng Yanjin and other civil and military henchmen.

After a group of henchmen arrived, Chen Yingliang was not polite, and immediately gave a general introduction to the situation of his negotiation with the Yin Shishi, and said that Li Yuan deliberately transferred Li Jing's team to make it impossible for him to find out the enemy's situation, but Cheng Yanjin, Qin Qiong, Kan Liang and other generals were furious when they heard it, and they all scolded Li Yuan for his despicable character, and even did such a thing in order to steal merit. The eldest grandson Wuji, who was familiar with the Turkic situation, sneered again and again, but Wei Zheng was a little confused, and hurriedly asked Chen Yingliang: "Deputy envoy, what do you want the climate records in this area for?" ”

"Let Mr. Yuan study the climate characteristics of this area and strive to predict the future weather in this area." Chen Yingliang explained: "The most terrifying thing about the Turkic cavalry is their cavalry, but when they fight in the rain, their bowstrings will be soaked in water and they will not be able to shoot arrows, and the power of cavalry and archery will be greatly reduced, so we can take the opportunity to calmly break the enemy, so I want to strive to fight a big battle in the heavy rain." ”

At the same time that Qian Peng Wenwu suddenly realized, Chen Yingliang sighed again: "It's a pity that the climate records in this area have long been destroyed, and there are records in Yanmen and Lao County that can't be obtained, so Yin Taishou can only ask me to go to Li Jing, the Cheng of Mayi County, and say that he may be able to help us." ”

"Deputy Envoy Chen, why don't you just go directly to Li Jing for help?" Qin Qiong asked suspiciously.

"Looking for Li Jing's help? It's almost like death, right? Chen Yingliang smiled bitterly and said: "We arrived at King Xinkou Qinwang in front of Li Yuan this time, which made him lose face when he was stationed in Taiyuan, how could he let us take more credit?" Li Jing is also his direct subordinate, knowing that we need Li Jing to help us like this, we can't immediately give Li Jing a promotion, and the golden beauties will go up together, so that Li Jing can come forward to kill us? ”

On the road, General Peng Sui, who had already fought with Li Yuanming once, all nodded, feeling that with Lao Li's cautious eyes and acting style, he would indeed not miss this opportunity to plant traitors in the army, and at the same time, they all thought that Li Jing, who helped Li Yuan cut off the intelligence channels of the army, was no longer reliable, and he must have stood on Li Yuan's side. Only Yuan Tiangang said that he would seize the time to study the climatic characteristics of this area of Yanmen, and strive to predict the weather for Chen Yingliang in the near future.

It was also a coincidence that just when Chen Yingliang and Qian Peng and everyone agreed that Li Jing had been a lackey for Li Yuan, the soldiers outside the tent suddenly came to report, saying that Li Jing of Mayi County asked to see him, Chen Yingliang heard the report, and only nodded and agreed to meet after a little hesitation, Chen Peng Wenwu reminded Chen Yingliang to be careful, and Chen Yingliang replied: "Don't worry, you want to lie to me, he is still a little tender, I have my own opinions." ”

After a while, Li Jing, who had already met Chen Yingliang, entered the big tent and gave Chen Yingliang a salute, Chen Yingliang was very good at pretending to return the gift, and asked the soldiers in the tent to arrange a seat for Li Jing, and then asked Li Jing with a smile, Li Jing gave up his hand according to Li Yuan's guidance, and said sincerely: "Don't hide it from the deputy envoy, the subordinate is here to ask for guilt." ”

"What is Li Juncheng's crime?" Chen Yingliang asked pretending to be surprised.

"Last night, when the deputy envoy's army was resting, Xia Guan led the army to guard the front camp, but suddenly led the army to leave, causing a flaw in the camp defense and almost causing a catastrophe." Li Jing happily confessed his crime, and said: "Although this matter was personally ordered by Ambassador Li, and the subordinate was forced to follow the order, and it did not cause any consequences, but the subordinate still felt guilty about it, so he specially came to ask for forgiveness, and also asked the deputy envoy to forgive and understand the distress of the subordinate official." ”

"It's such a small thing." Chen Yingliang laughed heartily, waved his hand and said: "It's okay, not to mention that it didn't cause any consequences, even if something happened, it has nothing to do with you, you are Ambassador Li's subordinate, his order is a military order, if you dare to disobey, it will be a headshot, of course I can understand your distress." ”

Li Jing hurriedly thanked him, and at the same time carefully looked at Chen Yingliang, Chen Yingliang knew that he was observing his words and judging whether he really trusted him, but Chen Yingliang didn't care, just smiled and asked: "But Li Juncheng, can you inquire about something, why did Ambassador Li mobilize troops at night last night and transfer all your troops to live in his camp?" ”

"Ambassador Li wants to use the ranks under the command of Xia Guan to indirectly control all the Qin Wang's troops." Li Jing's answer was amazingly frank, and directly broke Li Yuan's true intentions, and explained: "Although the lower officials only brought only about 400 people, these soldiers are all people who have lived in the border for a long time, each soldier can speak Turkic language, is familiar with various customs and habits of the Turks, and also knows the combat characteristics of the Turkic army, knows the banner team of the Turks, and some people can even write some Turkic characters, which are the valuable translators and guides that all the Qinwang army needs, without them, the Qinwang army from the south is deaf and blind. Ambassador Li held them in his hands, which was equivalent to indirectly controlling all the Qinwang army. ”

Hearing Li Jing's words, the people present were inevitably dumbfounded, they didn't expect Li Jing to confess to this journey, looking at Li Jing's eyes were full of surprise, but Li Jing seemed to be unconscious, and continued: "Deputy Envoy Chen, if the lower officials are not mistaken, Ambassador Li should be aiming at the position of commander-in-chief of the Qinwang army, he is the ambassador of Shanxi Hedong, Yanmen County is his jurisdiction, fighting in his jurisdiction, plus he controls the interpretation team, even if there is no emperor's will to appoint, King Qin's army can only publicly recommend him as the commander-in-chief. ”

Glancing at Chen Yingliang again, Li Jing showed a smile and said gently: "Deputy Envoy Chen, you are far away in Pengcheng, but you preemptively led the main force under your command to rush to King Xinkou Qinwang, so that Ambassador Li stationed in Taiyuan will lose face, and after the siege is lifted in the future, in front of the emperor, Ambassador Li will definitely suffer some reproach - so, if your army is under his command, you have to be careful." ”

Qian Peng and the others looked at each other even more, but Chen Yingliang straightened his face and looked at Li Jing for a long time before suddenly asking, "Why are you suing me for this?" ”

"Because, I ......." Li Jing hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Because I am a courtier of the Great Sui Dynasty and an official of the Great Sui Imperial Court, I must put King Qin's rescue as the priority." ”

Li Jing's words made Chen Yingliang shake slightly, because Chen Yingliang clearly remembered that in history, Li Jing was the first to accuse Li Yuan of rebellion, and he also helped Daxing to slaughter many of Li Yuan's sons, until he was escorted to the execution ground before defecting to Tang, and he could barely be regarded as a loyal minister of the Great Sui. So after hesitating for a moment, Chen Yingliang asked, "Then what are you going to do?" ”

"I'll do my best to help you." Li Jing said calmly: "There are 425 people in the Ma Yi team, and I am the one who is most proficient in Turkic language, I am the one who can write Turkic script, and I am the person who is most familiar with the Turkic situation!" The subordinate has no right to send an interpreter and guide to the deputy envoy to you, but if the deputy envoy can trust the subordinate official, the subordinate is willing to act as an interpreter and guide for you, and fully assist you in rescuing the king. ”

"Of course I can trust you." Chen Yingliang smiled more hypocritically than usual, and asked again: "But, Li Juncheng, do you know what the consequences of this will be?" Ambassador Li is your direct boss, and it is not difficult for you to fall to the ground. ”

"Of course I do." Li Jing nodded, smiled and said: "But I'm not afraid, Deputy Envoy Chen, you are only nineteen years old, and you have already been arrested in the twelve counties, and this time you first led the army to Xinkou Qinwang, and after success, the future is naturally even more limitless - Xiaguan has been eating wind and drinking sand in the bitter cold land of Mayi for eleven years, and he has long been tired of it, and he really wants to change to a more comfortable place to serve you." I just don't know, is the deputy envoy willing to give this opportunity to the subordinates? ”

Chen Yingliang hesitated, a genius like Li Jing, saying that Chen Yingliang didn't want to be encircled, I am afraid that he would not even believe a fool, but Li Jing is too smart, it is difficult for smart people to touch their minds, and of course it is difficult to distinguish between loyalty and traitor, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang also knows very well that his foundation is too shallow, compared with a Guanlong giant like Li Yuan, it is not an order of magnitude at all, even if he can take out the high-ranking official Li Jing, he will definitely not be able to exceed the price offered by Li Yuan, so Chen Yingliang is extremely tempted, It is also difficult to immediately believe in Li Jing's sincerity.

After hesitating for a while, Chen Yingliang still decided to give it a try, and was confident that in this era, no two or five boys could deceive him, a super two or five boys who had twice undercover drug nests, so he gritted his teeth, left the table in front of Li Jing, bowed, and said solemnly: "Li Juncheng, if you can help me succeed in King Qin, then please rest assured, and please believe that the younger generation will not disappoint you." ”

"I believe in you." Li Jing returned the salute, his expression solemn as if from the bottom of his heart.

Secretly concluded an alliance with Li Jing, Chen Yingliang was not polite, and immediately asked Li Jing to help get the meteorological records in the area of Yanmen Pass, but to the surprise of Chen Yingliang and Chen Peng and others, as soon as he heard Chen Yingliang's request, Li Jing immediately asked: "Deputy envoy, do you want to find the laws of the climate and fight on a rainy day?" ”

"How do you know?" Chen Yingliang blurted out a rhetorical question.

"The Turks are most afraid of rain battles, the bowstring becomes soft in the rain, and they can't show their strength in cavalry and archery. Li Jing replied calmly, and said with a smile: "Deputy envoy, you are looking for the right person, if you ask someone else for this thing, others will definitely answer you that the forty-one cities of Yanmen have fallen to thirty-nine cities, and only the two cities of Yanmen and Laoxian are still surrounded by the Turks, and even if you have them, you can't get them." But you found the lower official, but you found the right person. ”

"What does Li Juncheng mean by this?" Chen Yingliang asked suspiciously.

"The deputy envoy has come from afar, and he doesn't know much about the local situation, so he shouldn't have had time to explore the specific terrain." Li Jing explained with a smile: "So the deputy envoy should not know that although Xiurong County south of Xinkou belongs to Taiyuan County, it is the same as Yanmen, Laoxian and other places, surrounded by the same two mountain ranges, and the climate and rain are basically similar, with a small difference ...... difference." ”

"Okay, I'll send someone to show off my face right away." Chen Yingliang said happily.

"No need." Li Jing stopped, and said with a smile: "Xiurong Dai County Commander has already led troops to Xinkou Qinwang, he has a small friendship with Xiaguan, in order to facilitate the Qinwang army combat reference, Xiaguan has already asked for his order to allow, sent someone to copy the county records, and took the rain records of last year and this year in Xiurong, those record copies are currently in the hands of Xiaguan, Xiaguan will send you at night." ”

Chen Yingliang was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Li Jing again and again, and asked Li Jing to send the meteorological records as much as possible, Li Jing agreed, but reminded again: "Deputy envoy, the two mountains in this area of Yanmen Pass are sandwiched, the climate is changeable, the weather is difficult to predict, and the climate of Xiurong is somewhat different, so even if the lower official sends you Xiurong's rain record, I am afraid it will be difficult to help." ”

"It's okay, just do your best." Chen Yingliang said quietly: "Fortunately, it's August, and there should be a few autumn rains here in Yanmen Pass, so I just need to catch one of the autumn rains." ”

Li Jing nodded, and saw that Chen Yingliang had no instructions, so he also said goodbye and left, and at the same time refused the gift that Chen Yingliang asked his own soldiers to send, saying that he would be rewarded after making meritorious service to Chen Yingliang, and resolutely refused to accept it, Chen Yingliang was not reluctant, but personally led the people of Qian Peng to send Li Jing out of the camp. And after Li Jing left, the eldest grandson Wuji immediately rushed to Chen Yingliang with an arrow step, and asked in a low voice, "Brother, how is it?" This Li Jing took the initiative to surrender, is it true or false? ”

"Can't be sure." Chen Yingliang shook his head, and said in a low voice with a stern face: "In short, for him, you have to take advantage of him, and you must be even more vigilant." ”

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In this way, Li Jing returned to the Taiyuan military camp very smoothly and handed over to Li Yuan, and reported to Li Yuan a lot of his negotiations with Chen Yingliang, and directly pointed out that Chen Yingliang asked for the meteorological records in the area of Yanmen Pass in order to find the most favorable rainy day fighter for the Sui army's battle.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Yuan asked, "Then do you think you should give it to him?" ”

"The lower officials think it should be given." Li Jing said calmly: "There are two reasons, first, the lower officials can see that Chen Yingliang still doesn't trust me, and I have to show loyalty to make him really believe it." Second, the two mountains in the area of Yanmen Pass are sandwiched, and the wind direction and climate change three times a day, even the locals are difficult to predict the future climate, and those records are of little use to him. ”

"Then give it to him." Li Yuan nodded with a smile, patted Li Jing's shoulder again and said, "Work hard, I wanted to gain the trust of that kid, that kid is notoriously cunning like a fox on the battlefield, and the old man needs you to gain his trust." ”

Li Jing nodded again, and the corners of his mouth showed a smile again, a little hideous smile.