At night, the barracks were quiet and serene, and every once in a while in the open space inside the barracks, a jumping bonfire was blazing.

Around each bonfire, there were several soldiers of the Luoyang Army who were in the north and south of the country.

Looking at the bonfires burning in the barracks from a close distance, you can't see how elaborate their layout is, but if you know the formation, you will find that the layout of these bonfires is arranged in the way of Qimen gossip.

As long as someone moves in or close to the barracks, the officers and soldiers around the campfire will immediately notice the abnormality and wake up all the Luoyang soldiers in the camp.

The layout of the barracks was arranged by Pang Tong. When he explained the camp formation to Liu Bian, Liu Bian had a little more respect for this young strategist who was only fourteen or fifteen years old now.

Fourteen or fifteen years old, two thousand years later, he is still at the age of junior high school. Some teenagers who mature late, at this age, are either immersed in reading all day long, or are addicted to games; And some of the relatively mature ones are probably busy learning how to pick up girls.

Like Pang Tong, he knew how to march at a young age, and put on such a rigorous formation, which was really difficult to find among the teenagers of later generations.

In the silent barracks, the sound of officers and soldiers snoring can be heard from time to time, and the snoring not only does not bring more life to the barracks, but highlights that it is in a deep sleep.

Near the tightly packed camp tents, a group of patrol soldiers armed with swords and round shields would walk by from time to time.

The patrol soldiers' feet stepped on the ground, making a neat "pop" sound, which added a bit of solemnity to the silent barracks.

Liu Wei stood outside the tent, looking up at the bright blue star in the eastern night sky. The morning star has appeared in the sky, and seeing that the dawn is coming, Tai Shici and the others still have not turned around.

"Your Highness, more deeply exposed ......" lowered his head, looking at the mountains in the distance shrouded in the dark night, almost unable to see the shadow of the mountains, a soldier standing outside the tent whispered to Liu Wei: "Your Highness, let's go back to the tent to rest, if General Taishi ......"

"No!" Before the soldier could finish speaking, Liu Wei turned his back to him and waved his hand.

Clenching his fists and standing behind Liu Wei, the soldier took two steps back and stood back at the door of the tent.

The eastern sky had already shown a touch of fish's belly white, and the light pierced the thick darkness, and the shadow of the mountains in the distance gradually became clear.

Looking into the distance, Liu Wei was anxious, and a figure appeared in his sight.

Because the distance was too far, he couldn't really see who was running in the direction of the barracks, but his heart was still abruptly raised, and his two feet involuntarily moved forward.

The black shadow was getting closer and closer, and gradually, Liu Wei could see clearly that it was a man in a black shirt.

When Tai Shici and the others left, they were wearing black clothes, and when they saw the man's outfit clearly, Liu Wei didn't greet the soldiers outside the tent, and ran quickly towards the Yamen facing the foot of the mountain on that side.

Before he could reach Yamen, the man in black ran into the barracks through the guards at the gate.

Seeing Liu Wei head-on, the man was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists with both hands, half-knelt on the ground, and said to Liu Wei: "Your Royal Highness, General Taishi has already led us to break through the Taihua Shanxi Liang Army, and today His Highness can lead the army across the mountain!" ”

Liu Wei recognized that the man who was half-kneeling in front of him was one of the soldiers who followed Tai Shici up the mountain.

After carefully looking at the black-clothed soldier in front of him, he saw that the black-clothed soldier had long lacerations in several places, and one of the sword marks on his chest was even very deep, all the way to the flesh, a blood stain that had dried up and solidified, and a hard blood scab was pasted on his black clothes.

"Good!" After listening to the man's report, Liu Wei raised his hand at him and said to him: "You go down to rest, find a wounded doctor and take a look at the wound, as for other things, the king has his own place!" ”

The soldier who returned to the camp answered, stood up, bowed with his fists and took two steps back to the side, and then turned around and ran quickly towards a camp tent under the escort of two soldiers guarding the Yamen.

The morning sun finally poked out half of its head from the end of the horizon, and the sunlight covered the earth with a pale golden cover, and even the mountains of Taihua Mountain were reflected by the rising sun, glowing with a pale golden luster.

Standing inside the Yamen, Liu Wei looked up at the mountains in the distance, and beckoned to a soldier guarding the Yamen nearby.

Seeing Liu Wei waving, the soldier hurriedly ran to him and stood on one side with his fists clenched.

Raising his hand and pointing to the mountains not far away, Liu Wei said to the soldier: "You immediately go and inform the military advisor, ask him to transfer a team of men and horses, go up the mountain to take over the defense of Tai Shi Ci and others, and order General Tai Shi Ci to lead the original team back to the military camp, this king has important appointments!" ”

"No!" The soldier answered, turned and ran toward the barracks.

Looking back at the soldier's figure getting farther and farther away, Liu Wei also turned around and walked towards his tent.

There were still dozens of steps away from the tent, and Liu Wei saw Dong Xian standing outside his tent with his hands down, as if waiting for him.

Under the treatment of the wounded doctor, the bruises on Dong Xian's face have disappeared a lot, but the bruises have not dissipated, making his face, which was not very fair, even more filthy.

"Your Highness!" At the same time that Liu Wei saw Dong Xian, Dong Xian also saw Liu Wei, he hurriedly greeted him, bowed down and hugged his fists, and greeted Liu Wei.

Holding his fist and arching slightly towards Dong Xian as a return salute, Liu Wei lazily asked him: "General Dong came to look for this king early in the morning, I don't know what happened?" ”

Hearing Liu Bian's question, Dong Xian's face showed a hint of hesitation, and then he muttered and said, "What will you say to His Royal Highness at the end of yesterday ......"

"Ugh!" Already knew that Dong Xian had stolen the bamboo slips, how could Liu Wei not know that he wanted to promote peace talks as soon as possible, and then get out of the barracks, but he didn't show the slightest abnormality on his face, just waved his hand at Dong Xian, and said to him: "This matter must be discussed in the long run, General Dong will not think that General Niu said that he is willing to withdraw from the siege of Chang'an, and this king will believe it, right?" If General Niu was really sincere, he should have ordered the retreat of the army outside Chang'an City at this moment, instead of waiting for the changes. The king was a little suspicious, he wanted to delay with the king, intending to delay the advance of the king's army, and wait until he broke through Chang'an, and then turn back to fight the king. How will the 30,000 soldiers and horses under the command of this king compete with General Niu's more than 200,000 Xiliang army at that time? ”

Liu Biao said that Niu Fu and Hu Chi'er's plan was broken, Dong Xian was stunned for a moment, and he was even more sure in his heart that Hu Chi'er must have colluded with Liu Bian. In his mind, when it comes to peace talks, Hu Chi'er probably does not want to delay the march of Liu Wei's army, but to leave time for Liu Wei, so as to paralyze the Xiliang army.

"Send General Dong back to rest!" Dong Xian opened his mouth and was about to speak, when Liu Wei beckoned to the two soldiers not far away and gave an order to the two soldiers.

The two soldiers got the order and walked forward quickly, and one of them made a gesture of invitation to Dong Xian and said, "General Dong, please!" ”

Seeing that Liu Wei didn't want to talk anymore, Dong Xian had no choice but to bow down with his fists, bow down to Liu Wei, say goodbye, and return to the camp where he was housed under the escort of the two soldiers.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, after staying up for most of the night, Liu Wei, who was a little sluggish, had just eaten the meal sent by the soldiers outside the tent, and was about to lie down to rest for a while, when a soldier's voice came from outside the tent: "Your Highness Qiqi, General Tai Shici is back!" ”

Before he sat down on the bed, before he had time to lie down, when he heard the soldier's voice, Liu Wei got up and rushed out of the tent.

As soon as he arrived outside the tent, he saw Tai Shici, dressed in black, walking quickly towards the main tent. Seeing Tai Shici, Liu Wei hurriedly greeted him.

"Your Highness!" Before Liu Wei approached, Tai Shici stopped, clasped his fists and bowed to him and said: "The last general is fortunate to live up to his mission, and led his brothers to sneak into the camp of the Xiliang Army at night, and fought with them, killing all the more than 500 Xiliang troops on the mountain, and only a few of our army were slightly injured!" ”

"Good!" With a bright smile on his face, Liu Wei raised his hands, patted Tai Shici on the shoulder twice, and said to him: "Hurry up and go to have some food with your brothers, after noon, the army will march towards Taihua Mountain!" General Taishi led the cavalry behind the tail hall of the great army! ”

"No!" Tai Shi Ci responded with a clenched fist, turned around and walked away quickly.

The sun gradually passed the middle of the day, and turned to the west, and the Luoyang army camp, which had been stationed at the foot of Taihua Mountain for two days, finally got up and drove towards the only road up the mountain.

The camp tent was put away, and Dong Xian and several of his entourage, under the supervision of a group of Luoyang soldiers, followed the army and slowly walked towards the mountain road of Taihua Mountain.

While walking, Dong Xian was still looking left and right, and when he found that the army was walking towards the Taihua Mountain Road, Dong Xian suddenly shouted: "Slow, I want to see His Highness!" ”

"What's it called?" As soon as Dong Xian shouted, an officer in charge of monitoring him glared at him and scolded angrily: "How noble is Your Highness? Can you see what you want? ”

"There will be important matters to present to Your Highness!" The officer's shouting and scolding did not stop Dong Xian, he shouted again in his voice: "If His Highness insists on going his own way, the army will be destroyed, only now!" ”

"Presumptuous!" As soon as Dong Xian's words were shouted, the officer said angrily: "If you bewitch the people again, do you believe that a certain sword will kill you?" ”

"Let him come!" As soon as the officer's shouting and scolding fell, Guan Qing, who was riding a fast horse, came to his approach, raised the big knife in his hand, pointed at Dong Xian with the tip of the knife, and said to him: "You come with General Ben!" ”

Hearing Guan Qing's voice, Dong Xian only felt a cold chill on the back of his spine rushing upward, he raised the face that was already a little swollen, but it looked very filthy because the blood had not yet dissipated, and looked at Guan Qing with round eyes in horror, his mouth opened a few times, but he didn't dare to make any more sound.

"Come with General Ben!" Apricot eyes widened, and he glared at Dong Xian viciously, Guan Qing said to him coldly: "General Ben led you to meet His Highness!" ”

"The last general doesn't dare to bother the general!" I don't know what Guan Qing's plans are, Dong Xian, who was full of anxiety, hugged his fists and bowed, and said to her on horseback: "The last general is still going to find His Royal Highness at home......

"Take it away!" Seeing that Dong Xian was reluctant to go with her, Guan Qing didn't talk to him, threw a word to a group of infantry who followed her, and rode forward.

After getting Guan Qing's order, more than a dozen soldiers rushed up, and two of them twisted Dong Xian and pushed him forward.

"What are you going to do?" Being twisted by a group of soldiers, Dong Xian was shocked in his heart and hurriedly shouted loudly.

Several of his entourages saw that he was twisted away, and they wanted to step forward to help, but there were Luoyang troops everywhere, and they really didn't dare to let go of their courage to rush up to save Dong Xian, so they had to lower their heads one by one, with a look of mourning on their faces, and finally they didn't even dare to move.