The candle shadow flickered, and the dim candlelight shone on Liu Wei, who was sitting behind the low table, reflecting half of his face and half dark. made his already gloomy face more and more weird and terrifying.

Pressing his hands on the table, Liu Wei's brows furrowed slightly, and a pair of eyes stared at the young man standing in the tent without blinking.

The young man was still wearing hemp rope as he had been when he had been arrested the night before, but his face was completely gray, much more ugly than when he had been caught. Standing in the tent with his head bowed, the young man's forehead oozed with beads of sweat, revealing a somewhat cramped and uneasy expression.

Behind the young man, stood two heavily armed Luoyang soldiers. Standing in the candlelight, the faces of the two Luoyang soldiers were gilded with a layer of light and dark, pale yellow luster. They stood upright, barely blinking their eyelids, but somewhat like two statues in the tent.

"What do you have to say?" Staring at the young man for a long time, the corners of Liu Wei's eyes twitched slightly, and he asked him in a cold tone: "The first evil of plundering the village, the head of the person hangs outside the tooth gate, and thousands of other rebels have been captured, the agreement between you and me earlier should also be fulfilled, right?" ”

With hemp rope tied to his body, the young man hung his head down, and his forehead was already covered with cold sweat. Liu Wei said that he wanted to fulfill the agreement, and the young man shivered excitedly, but he didn't dare to look up at Liu Wei.

"This king didn't want to kill you!" Holding his hands on the table, he slowly stood up, Liu Wei put his hands behind his back, walked to the candlestick, stared at the jumping flames, and said to the young man: "But if this king doesn't kill the spies and spread the word, wouldn't everyone dare to come to this king's military camp and provoke this king to lead his soldiers to go to the trap laid by others to send them to death under the guise of arson?" ”

As soon as Liu Wei said this, the young man was shocked, and hurriedly raised his head, his mouth open, as if he wanted to defend something.

"You don't have to say anything!" Before the young man could speak, Liu Wei raised a hand to stop him and said to him: "You came to the barracks to set fire, not willingly, but under the instruction of others!" To provoke the king with those words is to grasp the king's eagerness to cut off the evil thieves who are causing harm to the villagers. There is only one reason for everything, that is, you already know that Gongsun Fan has set up an ambush there, and you have already calculated it in your heart. At first, this king also regarded you as a folk righteous man, but now that I think about it, this king is wrong! ”

After saying this, the young man was covered in cold sweat, Liu Wei turned around suddenly, his eyes narrowed slightly, a cold glint flashed in the corner of his eyes, and said to the young man: "It's just that you ignore Qing'er, thinking that as long as you intercept the scout, she won't lead troops to rescue, but you don't know that Qing'er is a woman, with a delicate mind, and after waiting for a long time to see the scout return, where will she be able to sit still?" Moreover, before leaving, this king specially ordered that Gongsun Fan could not fight quickly, and what was waiting for him was only failure! ”

"Your Highness spares your life!" When Liu Wei said this, the young man's legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground with a "poof", trembling all over, but he couldn't speak again.

"Gongsun Chan wants to kill this king, and this king also knows how he would do this!" Looking down at the young man kneeling on the ground, Liu Wei continued: "But he thinks that this king is too poor and militaristic. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the north, can't they deal with Gongsun Zhan? Returning to Luoyang this time, the king originally planned to recuperate with the army, and had no thoughts of going north. But the former general was so anxious to make an enemy of this king, so he couldn't say anything, so he had to go to war! ”

Looking at the young man who was kneeling on the ground and trembling all over, Liu Wei continued in a calm tone: "This king originally planned to spare your life, and asked you to return to Jizhou, bring a letter back to Gongsun Zhan, let him wash his neck, and wait until this king's army arrives, and then take his head." ”

"The villain is willing to bring a letter for His Highness!" From Liu Wei's words, as if he had captured a glimmer of hope to live, the young man hurriedly responded: "The villain will definitely convey His Royal Highness's intention to Gongsun Zhan......"

"No!" Before the young man finished speaking, Liu Wei raised a hand, stopped his words, and said to him: "This time, the Bohai Navy has a lot of wounded soldiers, and this king has arranged for some prisoners to be released early tomorrow morning to escort the seriously wounded soldiers of the Bohai Navy back to their hometowns, and someone will pass the message for this king!" ”

"Take it down!" Without waiting for the young man to speak again, Liu Wei turned his back, reached out and picked up a short knife on the side of the candlestick, gently picked the wick of the candlestick, and gave an order to the two soldiers standing behind the young man.

After getting Liu Wei's order, two personal soldiers stepped forward to set up the young man and dragged him out of the tent.

The two soldiers dragged the young man, and just arrived at the tent curtain, one of them reached out to pick up the tent curtain, and Liu Wei, who was using a short knife to pick up the wick of the candle, turned his back to them, looked at the candle flame with his eyes, and said lightly: "Tomorrow morning, I have a good meal, don't be a starving ghost when you go on the road!" ”

"Your Highness spares ...... life!" Liu Bian's words undoubtedly pronounced the death sentence of the young man, the young man who was dragged by the two soldiers listened, his legs suddenly became weak, and the whole person was paralyzed, and the only part of the body that can still mobilize muscle movement is the lips, he shouted to Liu Bian with his voice to beg for mercy, in vain to try to Liu Bian's mind to turn around and spare his life.

Liu Wei didn't pay attention to his plea for mercy at all, turned his back to the curtain and waved his hand.

It wasn't until the two soldiers dragged the young man out of the tent that Liu Wei could still hear the sound of begging for mercy from afar after the young man came out of the tent.

Liu Wei broke through Gongsun Fan and was gathering the villagers to let them know who had secretly poisoned them, while Pang Tong had already led the army and entered the Yin territory of Henan, and in one day, he could reach Gucheng.

As soon as it was dark, Pang Tong ordered the camp to be set up, and when the soldiers had set up their tents, he returned to the tents with Tai Shici, who was disguised as Liu Wei.

As soon as he entered the tent, Tai Shici tore off the clothes and armor on his body, and while putting them on the shelf where the clothes and armor were hung, he said to Pang Tong: "Military advisor, when will His Highness return?" Jie wears this suit and armor all day long, but he suffocates the last general! ”

"Ziyi, don't worry!" Sitting down in the tent, Pang Tong pressed his hand twice towards Taishi Cixu, and said to Taishi Ci: "Ziyi also knows, His Royal Highness met the Huns on the way, and there have been scouts in the past two days, and there are chaotic troops harassing the village along the way, I am afraid that I am busy, I will wait until I get to Gucheng, Ziyi is good in the city, before His Highness returns, don't move around at will!" ”

"Suffocating!" After hanging up the armor, Tai Shici turned around, shook his head again and again, and said to Pang Tong: "Let the last general pretend to be His Royal Highness, it is better to give the last general more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, conquer the Huns, and have a happy fight!" ”

"I'm afraid ......" As soon as Tai Shici's words fell, Pang Tong raised his head and looked at him, smiled slightly, the muscles of his ugly face moved a few times, and said to him: "In the short term, His Royal Highness will not use troops against the Xiongnu, unless the Xiongnu army presses the border and enters the Central Plains." ”

"Isn't that a no-fight to be fought?" Pang Tong said that Liu Wei would not use troops against the Huns, Tai Shici blinked his eyes twice, and said with a bit of depression in his tone: "Ziyi is a military general, if there is no battle to fight, when can he repay His Highness's kindness?" ”

"Ziyi, don't worry!" The ugly face was distorted, Pang Tong waved his hand at Tai Shi Ci with a smile on his face, and said to him: "If this army division is not wrong, only this villager is disturbed, it will not be long before the army will go out again." ”

"The scout didn't spread the news, it was the local garrison that attacked and harassed the villagers......" After listening to Pang Tong's words, Tai Shici blinked his eyes twice, and asked very blankly: "Could it be that His Royal Highness wants to recruit his own family?" The local officials have no case, so they just catch Luoyang and ask for the crime, why bother so much? ”

Pang Tong had that indifferent smile on his face, and did not answer his question, but just turned his head to look at the beating wick, and after a long time, he said faintly: "It's an eventful autumn, I'm afraid that His Highness can't get it if he wants to recuperate!" ”

The night slipped quietly through the gap between his fingers, and in Guan Qing's tent, Guan Qing and Liu Nu's bunk were connected, and the two of them almost fell asleep head to head.

"Sister Guan!" Sleeping next to Guan Qing, Liu Nu saw her with her eyes closed, and called her softly.

Hearing Liu Nu calling her, Guan Qing opened her eyes, looked at Liu Nu lying beside her, and asked her softly, "Ju Ci is not sleeping, what are you thinking?" ”

"Sister, what kind of person do you say King Luoyang is?" Wrapping the quilt tightly wrapped in linen and cotton, Liu Nu blinked his big eyes and said softly to Guan Qing: "I have heard before that the king of Luoyang does not remember the old hatred, and has collected many people who once wanted to put him to death, why is it not so generous to us Huns?" At one time, all the hundreds of Huns who had surrendered were slaughtered, leaving only one person to return to Xiangbei to report the news! In addition, before dark, I heard the soldiers outside the tent talking that early in the morning, the king of Luoyang would kill many people to avenge the villagers who had been plundered and abused, and I didn't know whether it was true or not. ”

"Of course it's true!" At the mention of Liu Wei, Guan Qing, who was sleeping next to Liu Nu, showed a little tenderness in his eyes, and said softly to Liu Nu: "Your Highness is benevolent, you don't want to kill too much, so you let go of the people who wanted to put him to death in the past." As for the Huns and those who will be killed tomorrow, he wants to save more people, so he has to kill! ”

"My sister is stupid!" Guan Qing's words made Liu Nu look dazed, she blinked her big eyes, and said very suspiciously: "Killing is killing people, how can it be to save more people?" ”

"You Huns have always been eyeing the Central Plains, the Huns are clear, Your Highness is clear, but many arrogant ministers in the Central Plains are not clear!" Smiling at Liunu, Guan Qing whispered to him: "Your Highness only left one person for him to go back to report the news, that is, to let your family know that when the Xiongnu enter the Central Plains, they will definitely have to bear the blow that is difficult to withstand with the power of the Xiongnu." If the Huns don't come, the people of the Central Plains will not be killed for no reason, and the Huns will not be counterattacked, and they will be in harmony with each other, avoiding years of military disasters and avoiding corpses all over the field, wouldn't they kill hundreds of people and save the Huns and millions of subjects in the Central Plains? ”

"Think about it!" After saying this, seeing that Liu Nu was still confused, Guan Qing reached out and gently hugged her arm, and said to her: "Since Ju Ci went to Luoyang with the army, His Royal Highness has really done anything to Ju Ci except for occasional verbal threats?" ”