Seeing the rebels under the city retreating like a tide, Liu Xie came to Ao Lie with some excitement and said excitedly: "Brother Huang, oh, no, the prince, we won, we beat the rebels back." Liu Xie still remembered his identity as the "captain of the city gate", so there was an inconsistent mistake in the title of Ao Lie.

Ao Lie is not as excited as Liu Xie, the battle-hardened Ao Lie is not a rookie like Liu Xie, he can see that the rebels are not exhausted and retreat, and they still maintain a fairly neat formation when retreating, which shows that the rebels are only strategically retreating, not defeated, and Li Dao and Guo Yan in the rebels must be brewing some conspiracy.

Jia Xu, who had the same idea as Ao Lie, came to Ao Lie's side, first saluted Liu Xie, and then saluted Ao Lie: "My lord, I think that the rebels are not defeated, they may want to come up with a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so that our army's battlefield killing weapons are useless, and force our army to engage with them in short combat." ”

Liu Xie asked with some confusion: "Isn't retreating a defeat?" What's the difference? "Liu Xie has never led troops to fight, so naturally he can't see the mystery of this. And Jia Xu knows the way of self-preservation, he will not risk taboos to be Liu Xie's temporary teacher, so he just smiled and said nothing.

In the end, Ao Lie stood up and explained to Liu Xie: "The rebel army retreated in a strict formation, without the slightest panic, so it can be concluded that the rebel army is not really defeated." As for Mr. Wen He's plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, a certain conjecture is that the rebels are probably trying to help the people of the villages near Luoyang go into battle, so that our army's weapons of mass destruction will no longer be useful. ”

"What?! So what to do? Liu Xie came back to his senses and shouted worriedly. He is the son of heaven of the Han Dynasty, let him see the innocent people of the Han Dynasty being sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder, or come to attack his own cannon fodder, Liu Xie's heart is very uncomfortable.

patted Liu Xie on the shoulder, Ao Lie comforted and said, "It's okay. Tomorrow, we will meet the rebels in a short battle, and it is expected that Li Dao and they just want us to throw a mouse trap, not to use a weapon like the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, the people who are attacking the city must be the main force of the rebels, and those ordinary people may not even be able to climb the ladder. Through today's battle, the weaknesses of the rebels have also been clearly figured out, and maybe tomorrow at dawn, the rebels will be in chaos without a fight. ”

The first half of Ao Lie explains. Liu Xie understood, but in the second half, he felt covered with clouds and mountains, and he didn't understand what Ao Lie meant. Liu Xie doesn't understand, but it doesn't mean that everyone doesn't understand. Jia Xu's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the right flank of the retreating rebels. He whispered, "The meaning of the lord." Is it to make a fuss about him? ”

The right flank of the rebels was Han Sui's troops. In the initial siege battle, Li Dao and Guo Yan did not use their own men and horses, but pushed Han Sui's troops to the front line, and after being shot by red-clothed ballistas, Han Sui's troops suddenly withdrew. Then there is the main force of Li Dao and Guo Yan, many people don't care about this detail, and even if they see it, they won't have any ideas. But who are Ao Lie and Jia Xu? One of their eyebrows was plucked, they were all hollow, they were all delicate figures, and in this detail, they saw an Achilles heel of the rebels, and within the rebels, the voices were not uniform! There is a huge difference between Li Dao Guo Yan and Han Sui, but this difference has been covered up for the time being, and conquering Luoyang has become their common choice, and it is also the most important goal of cooperation.

It's not surprising to think about it, these three people are all separatist warlords in Liangzhou, Li Dao and Guo Yan are old brothers for more than ten years, and they used to serve together under Dong Zhuo, and they have a deeper relationship, and it is normal to jointly exclude the outsider Han Sui, they don't want to share the interests of Luoyang City with Han Sui after they conquer Luoyang.

Xu Shu on the side quickly figured out these things, and spit out four words with a smile: "Inseparable relatives." Ao Lie and Jia Xu looked at Xu Shu with a smile, and the three of them unified their thoughts through eye contact, and then they didn't care about the others, turned around and walked down the city, and went to the nearest house in the city to plot. Before leaving the city, Ao Lie did not forget to pull Liu Xie and motioned for him to follow. Jia Xu refused to be Liu Xie's teacher, but Ao Lie intended to let Liu Xiexue strategize, so he had to use this method of auditing to imperceptibly instill the knowledge in Jia Xu and Xu Shu's stomachs into Liu Xie.

More than half an hour later, the four of them walked out of the room, Liu Xie looked at Xu and Xu Shu in his eyes, there was something called admiration in it, in the past, this kind of emotional outpouring would only appear when he faced Ao Lie, it can be seen that in the past half an hour, Liu Xie has been completely impressed by the resourcefulness of Jia Xu and Xu Shu. It wasn't until today that Liu Xie really understood what a war was all about, it wasn't as simple as two teams dancing swords to fight to the death.

After retreating thirty miles, the rebels set up camp. Han Sui's troops, as customary, were placed in the large battalion on the right flank. After settling the men, Yan Xing left with two thousand soldiers, and he wanted to capture as many civilians as possible before dark to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Not long after Yan Xing left the camp, two Xiliang sergeants escorted a mediocre-looking person into Han Sui's big tent, claiming that this person was Han Sui's old acquaintance and had come to visit Han Sui. Han Sui glanced at the person in front of him carefully, making sure that he didn't know this person, and was just about to drink the sergeant to push him out of the coffin and behead him, when he suddenly saw this person blinking his eyes at him one after another, as if there was something unspeakable.

Han Sui thought about it, let the sergeant loosen the tie, and then let the others withdraw from his tent, leaving the person brought by his subordinates alone in the big tent.

Sitting down in the big tent, Han Sui said with a warning tone: "Now that there is no one here, you can tell your intentions, if you can't satisfy the general, the steel knife of the sergeant under the general is very sharp, and there is no problem in cutting off your head." ”

The person who came didn't speak, spit out a wax pill from his mouth and handed it to Han Sui's table. Han Sui picked up the wax pill suspiciously, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while. This thing is not available in Liangzhou, I heard that it is specially equipped by a secret army in charge of intelligence under Ao Lie's subordinates. It seems that the person in front of him should have been sent by Ao Lie.

Weiyi crushed the wax pill with a hard hand, threw the wax clothes on the table, Han Sui took out a small ball of paper from it, spread it on the table, and looked at it seriously. This short letter turned out to be Ao Lie's handwritten letter, which can be reflected in the five words "Ao Mohan respectfully" at the signing place. I have to say that Ao Lie's handwriting is really beautiful, but the writing is really poor, in this text message of only a few hundred words. There were more than a dozen traces of modification and smearing, and Han Suida, who saw it, frowned, he couldn't understand why Ao Lie, who was known as a man of both civil and military skills, would write such a lame letter. There is nothing prominent about the handwriting that can be seen in the letters. It's just a very simple greeting letter, Ao Lie as a junior. I just expressed my respect to Han Sui. praised Han Sui for guarding the border for more than ten years, which is really a model in the world.

Putting down the letter, Han Sui raised his head to look at the person who sent the letter, and said coldly, "What does Ao Mohan mean?" With his talent, composing poems and lyrics is like flowing water, why does writing a letter have to be revised and revised in such a way? The giver replied, "My lord has spoken." Paper is not easy to manufacture and should be cherished and used. As for the traces that have been altered, they were originally my lord's words of dissatisfaction with Li Dao and Guo Yan, for fear of causing General Han to be angry. This time I smeared it. ”

This explanation makes sense, after all, Han Sui is still in the same trench as Li and Guo, and it is indeed inappropriate to say that the two of them are not in front of Han Sui. However, since Ao Lie knows about his relationship with Li Dao Guo Yan and writes this letter to himself, what does it mean? Could it be that Ao Lie really thinks that Han Sui has a meritorious role in guarding the frontier, and specially wrote to praise himself? Don't talk about Han Sui, I'm afraid idiots can't believe this reason.

So, Han Sui asked the question in his heart. In this regard, the sender's explanation is that Ma Teng's son Ma Chao is arrogant and domineering under Ao Lie's command, relying on himself to be Ao Lie's sworn brother, and has some credit, often provokes fights with the generals, Ao Lie has long been dissatisfied with this, so he wrote this letter to Han Sui, wanting Han Sui to give Ao Lie the method to subdue Ma Chao. Back then, Han Sui's general Yan Xing almost killed Ma Chao, this is a well-known thing, ask Han Sui for advice on how to subdue Ma Chao, this explanation is also very smooth, Ao Lie, as the master of the people, naturally it is impossible to ask the people under his command for advice on how to govern the people under his command, so it will lose the prestige of the master.

It turned out that this was the case, Han Sui Ha smiled and said smugly: "Ao Mohan still has some vision, and if he wants to subdue the horse, he will be able to catch it." Anyway, Ben will reply to Ao Mohan and tell him the means of subduing the horse. Ao Lie's praise and the flattery of the messenger made Han Sui a little fluttery, and he had been pressed under Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Han Sui had not experienced the taste of being respected for a long time. Besides, Ma Chao's bravery is well known in Liangzhou, Yan Xing was able to defeat Ma Chao because Ma Chao was still young at the time, after more than five years of growth, now Ma Chao has reached the peak age of military generals, and has created a great reputation under the command of Ao Lie, Han Sui is really afraid that one day Ma Chao will return to Liangzhou, and he can kill Ma Chao with the help of Ao Lie's hand, Han Sui is quite willing. So I happily picked up the pen and prepared to reply to Ao Lie.

As soon as Han Sui picked up his pen, Li Dao and Guo Yan suddenly lifted the tent curtain and walked in from outside. After seeing the messenger sent by Ao Lie, the letter on Han Sui's desk, and Han Sui's action of lifting the pen and preparing to reply to the letter, there were endless doubts and suspicions in the eyes of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and a "wonderful" misunderstanding arose.

Guo Yan, who couldn't hold his breath, shouted and asked Han Sui: "General Han, are you going to fornicate with Ao Lie?" And what's going on with this letter? Why are there smear marks in it? What is the content of those erased handwritings? Why do you erase it? ”

In the face of Guo Yan's questioning, Han Sui suddenly understood, he had fallen for Ao Lie's discordant plan, and hurriedly explained the cause and effect of the matter, and resolutely said that this letter was originally like this, and he did not move anything at all. Han Sui's explanation was extremely pale and weak, Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't believe Han Sui's explanation at all, but at this time, the messenger shouted at Han Sui: "General Han, please follow the time mentioned in the letter, cooperate with my lord inside and outside, and eliminate the rebels!" Immediately, he drew a dagger from his boot and stabbed himself in the heart, turning himself into a dead corpse.

This messenger is actually a member of the Shadow, before he came, Ao Lie told him that there was likely to be no return, but he still came to Han Sui's camp firmly, not for anything else, just because Ao Lie had a great kindness to his family, and he gave his life to Ao Lie willingly. The sentence before he died was actually not told to him by Ao Lie, but he accurately judged that Li Dao and Guo Yan had doubts about Han Sui according to the situation at the scene, and temporarily added it in order to make the contradiction between Li Dao, Guo Yan and Han Sui more intense.

This Shadow member committed suicide, which made Guo Yan's anger reach its peak, pointing at Han Sui and scolding: "Han Sui, the matter has come to this, what else do you have to say?" Han Sui was just about to explain, but Li Dao suddenly stretched out his hand to interrupt him, and said slowly: "General Han, the second brother has a reckless temperament, and he has offended a lot. In this way, in order to show that General Han has no other intentions, and in the battle tomorrow, General Han is also asked to still lead his troops to be the vanguard to clarify his intentions. ”

Li Wei's words are good, in fact, he has the same idea as Guo Yan, he no longer believes in Han Sui at all, and let Han Sui take the lead, on the surface, it is to give Han Sui a chance to show his will, but in fact, he is to use Han Sui's troops as cannon fodder! Of course Han Sui understands Li Wei's thoughts, but in the current situation, where is there room for Han Sui to refute? If you don't agree, maybe Li Dao and Guo Yan will immediately take a knife against themselves, and their general Yan Xing is not in the camp, and Han Sui is not the opponent of Li and Guo at all; If you agree, then tomorrow's battle, my troops will probably be completely finished, and they will be sent by Li and Guo to be cannon fodder, can they still hope to come back alive?

But Han Sui has no other way to think about it now, the situation is stronger than people, so he had to grit his teeth and agree hard: "The two generals can rest assured, tomorrow a certain person will personally lead his troops as the siege vanguard of the army!" Han Sui's idea was to temporarily promise to come down and stabilize Li Dao and Guo Yan, and when Yan Xing came back, he would discuss with him to see if there was any other remedy, if it really didn't work, Han Sui also prepared for the worst, and returned to Jincheng overnight with his troops, and never served Li and Guo again! (To be continued......)