"Let Wei Wensheng garrison Kun Han Dao, the deep ditch and high fortress only defend and not fight, this idea was thought up by your distant nephew Chen Yingliang, right?" Fan Zigai asked unceremoniously directly.

Pei Hongce nodded without hesitation, and replied without blushing and without a heartbeat: "Yes, Ying Liangxian's nephew was originally the secretary of Henan Zanzhi Mansion, assisting me in acting the military and political affairs of Henan County, and has the responsibility of giving advice to me. ”

"Pei Guogong chose such a good nephew for nothing, this luck, even the old man is envious." Fan Zigai laughed a little sarcastically, then pondered for a moment, and suddenly said: "Your nephew said that Wei Wensheng's army is not the opponent of Yang Rebel's army, is this too arbitrary?" Wei Wensheng's team is different from the defenders of our eastern capital, among which the cavalry alone accounts for more than 10,000, although the old man does not know much about military affairs, but he also knows that the cavalry is the first in the field, and the Yang rebel army wants to defeat Wei Wensheng, I'm afraid it won't be so easy, right? ”

"Fan stays behind and forgive me, with all due respect, the little nephew's prediction is not arbitrary, but cautious." Pei Hongce replied respectfully: "The left guards of Daxing are the same as the right guards of our eastern capital, they are all armies that have not fought for more than ten or twenty years, and the few remaining elites have also been brought to the battlefield in Liaodong by the emperor. Although Wei Shangshu's victory or defeat at the moment does not require us to be responsible for the Eastern Capital, after all, there are 40,000 troops under his command, and 40,000 lives are alive, and human lives are at stake, so I hope Fan will stay and think twice. ”

Pei Hongce's last sentence touched the famous Qing official Fan Zigai, and after thinking for a while, Fan Zigai nodded and said: "Pei Guogong's words are reasonable, it is not easy to form an army of 40,000, so the old man will personally repair the book with Wei Wensheng, and persuade him to garrison the Kuihan Road, and fight a cautious battle in the deep ditch and high base." ”

"Lord Fan, you are staying in the eastern capital, and Lord Wei is staying in the western capital, you don't belong to each other, so you are afraid of ...... if you repair books with him like this." The emperor next to him, Wuyi, opened his mouth and said very carefully: "I'm afraid that there is a suspicion of overstepping my authority." ”

"The old man is just building yì, whether he listens or not, it's not me, anyway, the old man said it, this is not overstepping, right?" Fan Zigai asked rhetorically, Huangfu Wuyi understood that Fan Zigai somewhat shirked his responsibility, so he nodded, Fan Zigai didn't say much, and immediately replaced Chen Yingliang's Jian Yì with his own, and wrote a letter to Wei Xuan, and at the same time reminded Wei Xuan in the letter to beware of the moles around him, investigate the ambush and leak secrets, and then sealed the letter, sent a messenger out of the city, and hurried to Cuihan Road to deliver a letter to Wei Xuan.

Maybe it's because of the influence of Chen Yingliang's demon moth wings, in history, Fan Zigai's handwritten letter, which does not exist at all, suffered a sudden accident on the road - when crossing the river and preparing to enter the Cuihan Road, the messenger sent by Fan Zigai was extremely unlucky to encounter the rebel scout team on mobile patrol, and was surrounded just after crossing the river, and the messenger and his entourage were captured by the rebel scouts, and Fan Zigai's handwritten letter to Wei Xuan fell into the hands of Yang Xuangan and his decision-makers.

Not to mention, after seeing Fan Zigai's letter, Yang Xuangan was really taken aback, and blurted out: "I really underestimated Fan Zigai's old thing, I can actually know how Wei Xuan's immortality can make us the most uncomfortable, and we can guess that Wei Xuan has our army by his side just by calculating, when did this old thing become so powerful?" ”

After asking for the letter from Yang Xuangan's hand, Li Mi, the military advisor of Yang Xuangan's rebels, was also scared into a cold sweat, because Li Mi had long understood that once Wei Xuangan's army was stationed in the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack Kuihan Road, and the deep ditch and high fortress were only defended without fighting, then Yang Xuangan's rebels basically couldn't jump for a few days, and they understood that the safest way at present was to lure Wei Xuan's army out of Cuihan Road, seek a decisive battle in the open area, and kill the main force of the Guanzhong Sui army under Wei Xuan's command in the field, so that Yang Xuangan's rebels could rest assured that they would besiege Luoyang. Then he could attack the west at any time and occupy Guanzhong, so Li Mi would strongly persuade Yang Xuangan to lead the army to withdraw from the Cuihan Road and let Wei Xuanshun walk out of the Cuihan Road.

"Fortunately, Fan Zigai's old man has fallen into our hands." Wiping a cold sweat, Li Mi personally asked the Luoyang messenger for a confession, and after confirming that Fan Zigai only sent this messenger this time, Li Mi breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly built Yang Xuangan to speed up the speed of luring the army, deliberately slowed down the scout battle in the Cuihan Road, and let Wei Xuanjun's scouts reconnoiter the situation of the army, and at the same time built Yang Xuangan crossed the Qianshui overnight and set up camp on the east bank of the Qianshui to lure Wei Xuan's army to go out of the Cuihan Road.

Yang Xuangan was not very willing to listen to Li Mi's construction in terms of strategy, but he trusted Li Mi more in terms of tactics, so he immediately nodded and agreed to Li Mi's construction, and immediately ordered the camp to cross the river. But Li Mi still didn't dare to take it lightly, and after thinking about it for a while, Li Mi said to Yang Xuangan again: "Duke Chu, although Fan Zigai's letter fell into the hands of our army by luck, but if Fan Zigai's old thing has not heard back from Wei Xuan for a long time, or if Wei Xuan's army has been directly out of Cuihan Road, it is likely to send a messenger to contact Wei Xuan again, Luoyang is only more than eighty miles away from the exit at the east end of Cuihan Road, and the contact is more convenient, we can't have such luck every time, and we can intercept Fan Zigai's messenger next time." ”

"What then?" Yang Xuangan hurriedly asked.

"It's very simple, just send someone to put on a play for Fan Zigai." Li Mi smiled slightly, leaned into Yang Xuangan's ear and muttered in a low voice, Yang Xuangan laughed loudly after listening, applauded, praised Li Mi's ingenuity, and then immediately arranged for people to act according to the plan without mentioning it.

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Let's turn back and take a look at the situation of Captain Chen Yingliang, who has been lying on the hospital bed for several days, and has drunk ginseng millet porridge and ginseng stewed chicken soup for several days, after all, Chen Yingliang, who is still young, has finally recovered, can run and jump, and behaves as usual, and can also take the soldiers of the national army into training. During this period, the rebel team that confronted the defenders of the Eastern Capital also stayed in the camp of Kim Yong Cheng honestly, and did not come to the city to fight again, but also gave Chen Yingliang enough time to rest and train recruits.

Under the care and care of the veterans brought out by Chen Yingliang, and under the incomparable desire for victory and reward, the recruits soon completely integrated into the ranks of the national army, and the organization and discipline were completely reborn, and the morale and fighting spirit were extremely high.

Of course, Chen Yingliang, who has a certain foundation in his hand, is also looking forward to fighting again and completely establishing his reputation as the god of war of the right guard, but what makes Chen Yingliang extremely annoyed is that the teammates who report **** are too pig-headed, especially in terms of scouts, although Chen Yingliang has repeatedly persuaded Fan Zigai to strengthen scout reconnaissance through Pei Hongce, but now, Chen Yingliang still doesn't even know where Yang Xuangan's main force is, let alone how many rebel troops there are in Kim Yong Cheng's camp. Chen Yingliang didn't even dare to say anything about taking the initiative to ask for battle, for fear that he would encounter too many enemies, and the meat would not be eaten but his teeth would be broken, so he could only learn about the enemy situation outside the city through the channel of Guò Pei Hongce as much as possible, and waited anxiously for the favorable fighter to appear.

Fortunately, Pei Hongce is really interesting to Chen Yingliang, a distant nephew, and all major military affairs are always answered and contacted, and sometimes he takes the initiative to send military information. No, on the morning of the third day when Fan Zigai sent someone to send a letter to contact Wei Xuan, Pei Hongce, who had just returned from the Imperial City Deliberations, returned to Shangchunmen, and when he passed by the Jiaoye Workshop that had to be passed, he came to the camp of the Baoguo Army by the way, called Chen Yingliang to the side of the camp, and said with a smile: "Virtuous nephew, good news, Wei Shangshu has replied, he has decided to accept your proposal to build yì, and station the main force in the Cuihan Road, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and only send partial divisions to highlight the Cuihan Road, appropriately contain and test the situation of Yang Ying's main force, and look for favorable fighters." ”

"Promised?" Chen Yingliang was also overjoyed, and said happily: "I have always been worried that Fan Liushou and Lord Wei are not subordinate to each other, and Lord Wei is eager to fight and revenge, and he refuses to accept this proposal. ”

"Wei Shangshu has a friendship with Fan Liushou, and they are both loyal to the imperial court, as long as Jian yì is correct and reasonable, of course he will listen." Pei Hongce smiled and said: "There is also the matter of the mole, Wei Shangshu said in his reply that he is also suspecting that there is a Yang thief and a traitor in his team, and he is investigating carefully." Because of this, Fan Liushou also asked me to bring you a message in private, saying that you are a talent that can be created, telling you to train hard, take the army to kill the thief and quell the rebellion with peace of mind, and serve the country loyally, and wait until Yang Xuangan is pacified, Fan Liushou will definitely ask for credit for you in front of the emperor. ”

Chen Yingliang was pretended to be modest, and thanked him again and again. Originally, this matter was basically over here, and Pei Hongce was also ready to return to Shangchunmen to garrison, but Pei Hongce patted Chen Yingliang's shoulder like a ghost, and said with a smile: "You little guy, luck is good, for Wei Shangshu's letter, four forbidden army soldiers and a servant from the eighth rank died, but in exchange for Fan Liushou's personal praise for you, promising to ask for credit, it can be regarded as good luck." ”

"What do you mean by the death of four Forbidden Army soldiers and one internal servant?" Chen Yingliang asked casually with some doubts.

"The inner servant sent by Fan Liushou to contact Wei Shangshu was chased and killed by the scouts of the Yang Rebel Army when he returned." Pei Hongce said casually: "The four forbidden soldiers who protected him all died on the way back to the city, and even the corpse was not found, and the inner servant escaped to the outside of the Lu Gate, and he was able to enter the city, but he was killed by the thief scout on the stone bridge across the river, and he was almost able to return to the city. ”

The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart, Chen Yingliang, who has been eating by solving cases for a long time, immediately found out that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked: "Uncle, you just said that our messenger is the city where he returned to the city at the third watch in the middle of the night?" Killed by a thief scout on a stone bridge across the river? Wei Shangshu's reply was found on the messenger's body afterwards? ”

"Yes, it was the third watch last night." Pei Hongce nodded, and said: "Virtuous nephew, uncle has to go back to Shangchunmen, you have to take care of your body, if there is anything, just ask someone to sue me." ”

As he spoke, Pei Hongce turned around and wanted to leave, but Chen Yingliang hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Uncle, please wait a moment." ”

"What else?" Pei Hongce asked.

Chen Yingliang didn't answer, his eyes rolled for a moment, and then Chen Yingliang said cautiously: "Uncle, are you a little strange about this, the traitor's scout killed our messenger, and it took a long time for our Lumen defenders to go out of the city to bring back his body, during which the thieves had plenty of time to clean up the aftermath, Wei Shangshu's reply to us, why wasn't it searched by the thief scout?" ”

"It's ......." Pei Hongce hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Maybe the thief scout forgot to search his body, right?" ”

"It may be possible that the enemy forgot to search his body, but this is very unlikely." Chen Yingliang said: "First, our messenger is protected by soldiers of the forbidden army, and no matter how stupid the scout of the traitor is, he will definitely be able to guess that he is a big man and pay enough attention to him. Second, when there is enough time, why didn't the rebel scouts think to search the corpse to see if there is anything valuable? ”

Listening to Chen Yingliang's analysis, Pei Hongce also found that the situation was wrong, and quickly nodded and said: "Yes, this is very wrong, so virtuous nephew, why do you think the scout of the traitor did this?" ”

"Uncle, is there such a possibility?" Chen Yingliang smiled and said, "Yang is a traitor, did he deliberately let his scouts forget about his body, and deliberately let Wei Shangshu's reply fall into our hands?" ”

"Deliberately let Wei Shangshu's reply fall into our hands? Why? Pei Hongce asked in surprise.

"Because that reply is most likely a forgery!" Chen Yingliang replied categorically: "Yang Xuan felt a traitor, for some purpose, deliberately forged a reply letter from Wei Shangshu, used our true messenger to send the letter to the eastern capital, and then staged a chase and killing drama in front of our Lumen defenders, even if we don't believe that the letter is true!" ”

"Chase and kill drama? What do you mean? Pei Hongce asked tremblingly.

"If I were Yang Xuangan's rebel thief, I would do it." Chen Yingliang replied confidently: "Send someone to pretend to be our messenger, run to the Lumen Gate in the middle of the night and shout to identify yourself, and then deliberately be chased by the pursuers behind on the bridge, pretending to die on the bridge, and then the pursuers behind put the body of our real messenger on the bridge, basically just like a decent look." Anyway, it was so far away, and it was at night, and our defenders couldn't see what was happening on the bridge clearly, so they could only listen to the sound to discern the situation. ”

Pei Hongce was dumbfounded, and after a long time, Pei Hongce suddenly roared, startling the **** soldiers who were training strictly, and then Pei Hongce didn't speak, jumped on his horse and rushed in the direction of the imperial city, so fast that his own soldiers couldn't keep up. Chen Yingliang smiled slightly, knowing that he was likely to be able to show his face again, and then turned to the **** soldier who had stopped training and shouted: "What are you doing?" Still not training? It's about to go to war, if you don't train your body well, how can you kill the enemy and make meritorious service when you go into battle? ”

About a quarter of an hour later, another fast horse rushed into the camp of the Baoguo army, and immediately a forbidden army commander, holding a talisman in his hand and shouting, "His Royal Highness the King of Yue, Chen Yingliang, the secretary of the Zanzhi Mansion in Henan, immediately enter the palace to meet His Highness, there must be no mistake!" ”

"Obey the order!" Chen Yingliang saluted in a dashing manner, and then immediately handed over the training to the four lieutenants temporarily, and rode the war horse that had already been prepared to go to the imperial city with the commander of the forbidden army out of the camp, and at the same time Chen Yingliang smiled secretly in his heart, "I didn't expect that Yang Xuangan's straw bag could have such a capable person and perform such a good show." It's good to have capable people, the more capable people Yang Xuangan has, the more opportunities Uncle Ben will have to show his talents! ”