Updated: 2012-01-03

Xue Poye led several generals to look into the distance at this time, and twenty miles away from the first fortification, there was a continuous Yan army barracks, and you could vaguely see the Yanzi banner fluttering in the air.

"Xue Shuai, the Yan people have arrived on the fourth day, and there is no sign of attack." A general next to him said, "What are they trying to do?" ”

The supreme commander of Wei ** Fang is the Metropolitan Governor, and the position of Metropolitan Governor has been held by Sima Qingtian for 20 years, although Sima Qingtian has long since disappeared, but in order to stabilize the morale of the army, the position of Metropolitan Governor is still vacant.

In order to soothe Xue Poye and calm his heart, Emperor Yan issued a decree to make him the generalissimo of Pingkou and take charge of the military affairs of the defense of Kyoto.

Xue Poye held the horsewhip in his hand and said lightly: "You don't know yet, and the general has never mentioned it, this Yan people sent a messenger into the city to meet Your Majesty!" ”

"Send a messenger into the city?"

A burly general next to him said in a rough voice: "General Liao doesn't know, before the arrival of the Yan army, the Yan people had already sent a team of people to come, I wanted to tie that group of people to Xue Shuai's big tent, but unfortunately Xue Shuai arrived just in time and ordered me to put that group of people into the city." ”

General Na Liao looked at Xue Poye and said strangely: "Xue Shuai, the Yan people sent an envoy into the city, what are you going to do?" ”

"What are you going to do?" Xue Poye's expression was calm, and he said expressionlessly: "When the soldiers are in the city, what do you think they will do?" ”

General Liao frowned and said, "In such a situation, it can only be ...... Surrender! ”

Xue Poye glanced at him and said with a faint smile: "You're not stupid. Yes, the Yan people sent a messenger to persuade them to surrender. ”

General Liao's face showed anger, and he said hatefully: "The Yan people are really too arrogant. He stared into Xue Poye's eyes and asked, "General, since you are a messenger to surrender, how can you let them enter the city?" Just kill them. ”

"The two countries are fighting each other, and if they don't kill them, you don't understand this truth?" Xue Poye said slowly: "Yan people are called salutes first and then soldiers, pretending to be benevolent and righteous. Then a sly glint flashed in his eyes, and he said: "It's just that the Yan people are so polite, we can't be too tough, we must always treat them well." ”

General Liao was obviously just a rough warrior, and he couldn't understand the mystery, so he said in a rough voice: "Entertain them? If they are the last generals, they will entertain them with the sword in their hands. ”

The burly general who spoke earlier immediately said: "General Liao, the Holy Lord and Xue Shuai are far-sighted, how can you understand the subtlety!" ”

General Liao said in a rough voice: "General Huang, according to what you say, do you understand?" ”

"I don't understand either." General Huang said: "But since Xue Shuai let those people enter the city, he naturally has Xue Shuai's reason." ”

Xue Poye smiled faintly: "Not bad." How can we not accept the opportunity that the swallow people send to the door. ”

"Opportunity?" General Liao and the other generals were at a loss.

"The Yan people are not in a hurry to attack, they are worried that our Wei army is brave, and they are even more worried that they will need to pay a heavy price to conquer our national capital." Xue Poye stroked his thick beard under his chin and said: "So they knew that we would never surrender, but they still held the last glimmer of hope and sent a Imperial Doctor as an envoy to come, wanting to persuade us with their incorruptible tongue...... This is also the reason why the Yan army has not attacked so far. ”

"The last general is still strange for these two days, after the arrival of the Qingguo people, they began to attack from the north, and attacked for two days in a row, with heavy casualties, and then stopped, but the Yan people did not move, it turned out that the Yan people were actually dreaming of winning without a fight." General Liao sneered.

"The Yan people hope to win without a fight, let's give him this hope, and don't wake them up from this dream for the time being." Xue Poye smiled faintly: "As long as the peace talks don't end, the Yan people have hope and won't attack us for a while." In order to confuse the Yan people, His Majesty also specially issued an order, headed by the Ministry of Rites, to form a peace negotiation group to negotiate with the time surnamed Jiang ......! ”

"Really talking?" General Liao's eyes widened.

"It's called negotiation, but it's really delaying time." Xue Poye said solemnly: "At the beginning, the Yan people and my Great Wei discussed the alliance, but they talked about it for a month or two, and this time we talked about him for a month, and the Yan people couldn't find fault with it." ”

"Talking for so long?" General Liao seemed to understand something, and then frowned and said, "But will the people of the Yan Kingdom talk to us?" ”

Xue Poye raised his hand, pointed at the continuous barracks of the Yan army in the distance with a horsewhip, and said calmly: "I have sent news to Han Mo about the formation of the peace negotiation group by Great Wei, and he knows that we have agreed to negotiate, and we will definitely continue to stand still and wait for the results of the next negotiations." As for the time of negotiation, hehe, the official was still sick yesterday, and now he is sick, it will take at least three or five days to recover, and the negotiations between the two sides are also being interrupted, and the Ministry of Rites is even according to His Majesty's instructions, implicitly hinting to the envoy of Yan State that we may agree to surrender, so that the people of Yan State are naturally reluctant to stop talking, and can only wait for a few days. After the Ministry of Rites is still sick, there are naturally other ways to continue to delay, in short, the longer it drags on, the better, neither can refuse the Yan people, but can not really agree, the Yan people suffer from gains and losses, and they may not really call. He turned his head, looked to the north, and sneered: "As long as the Yan people don't move for the time being, we can use our main energy to deal with the ...... of the Qingguo people!" ”

General Liao immediately said: "What Xue Shuai said is that in this way, the people of Yan entered the city to persuade us to surrender, but it really gave us a great opportunity. The people of Qingguo were as vulnerable as clowns, they were so fierce for two days at first, and after two days of fighting, they suffered heavy casualties, and they were completely exposed, and they no longer dared to attack. ”

Xue Poye said: "As long as it is supported like this, the people of Qingguo will not be able to attack it for a long time, and after a long time, they will not be able to receive food and grass, and sooner or later they will have no choice but to withdraw the army." ”

General Huang was quite worried: "Xue Shuai, over there in Shanbei County, our army is under great pressure, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will not last long." ”

Xue Poye also frowned, pondered for a moment, and finally said: "Fujizi Chong is still in defense, and Shanbei County is mostly steep passes, over the years, in order to guard against the invasion of Qingguo people from Shanbei County, fortifications have also been strengthened in dangerous passes everywhere, and Yuan Mu still can't beat it in a short time." And Yuan Mu also has the same trouble, and if they don't give them logistics, there will be problems...... When Shanbei County retreated, either the grain and grass were taken away, and those that could not be taken away for a while would be burned, Yuan Mu could not get any food and grass supplements in Shanbei County, and could only rely on the domestic supply of Qingguo, but as far as Ben Shuai knew, Qingguo's treasury was empty ~ The brain was empty, and Han Mo had previously defrauded 250,000 stone of grain, and their grain and grass were extremely lacking...... Hehe, the people of Qingguo can't last long. ”

When the generals heard Xue Poye say this, they all showed a slight lightheartedness.

General Huang seemed to think of something and asked, "Xue Shuai, does the Qing people know that the Yan people sent envoys to persuade them to surrender?" ”

The corners of Xue Poye's mouth crossed a sly smile, and he said, "Ben Shuai has already shot an arrow yesterday and informed Qingren of this matter, but it's just ...... What the Qing people know is not that the Yan people came to persuade them to surrender, but that the Yan people sent envoys to negotiate peace secretly! ”

"Peace?" The generals looked at each other, and soon, several of them understood, and showed strange smiles.

General Huang waved his fist and said, "Xue Shuai, it's really wonderful." If the Qing people knew that the Yan people were sending people behind their backs to negotiate peace, there would inevitably be a rift in the Yanqing coalition army, which would be of great benefit to our Great Wei. ”

General Liao said: "Xue Shuai, if Lin Chengfei knew this news, he would definitely send someone to the Yan army camp to inquire, and Han Mo would definitely explain it clearly." ”

"It's nature." Xue Poye smiled indifferently: "It's just that no matter how Han Mo explains, Qingguo will definitely be suspicious of the Yan people." As long as the Qing people are suspicious of the Yan people, they will be worried that the Yan people will really go with us secretly, and they will be even more worried that the Yan people will turn against each other and join forces with my Great Wei to turn the knife around to deal with them...... At that time, not only would they be distracted and wary of the Yan people, but they might even be afraid of too serious consequences, just in case they quickly withdrew their troops......! Speaking of this, Xue Poye sighed lightly and said: "On the battlefield, the wind and clouds are changing, and victory or defeat is unpredictable. When Ben Shuai was in Nanyang Pass, he never thought that the battle would be lost like that......! He couldn't help but shake his head, then glanced at the generals around him, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, although our army seems to be in a weak position at present, you must not think of defeat, as long as the officers and men of our three armies go all out, they will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory and turn the tide of the war." ”

All the generals said yes solemnly, General Huang hesitated slightly, and then said softly: "Xue Shuai, inside and outside Kyoto City, there are more than 100,000 soldiers alone, and hundreds of thousands of people, these hundreds of thousands of people have to consume a large amount of grain every day, although the grain in the major granaries in Beijing is full of hoarding, but if you really want to count it, I'm afraid it won't last long, and you still need to send people to the west to urge food, especially in Tianshui County, to strictly order local officials to do everything possible to raise grain and grass to replenish it, and now it is the period of the Great War, One more grain would be useful for us. ”

Xue Poye nodded slightly, and then said to General Liao: "Liao Yong, on the other side of Qingren in the north, I don't feel that I can have the heart to underestimate the enemy, Lin Chengfei is a fierce general, so we must be cautious." Xiang Huang said: "Huang Wei, Han Mo is a cunning person, although the envoy sent seems to be unmoving, but we still have to be careful of his deception, don't think that they will not move, so they will take it lightly and neglect to take precautions, we must pay attention to the movements of the Yan army day and night, and there must be no sloppiness!" ”

Both generals are in the hands of each other.

At this moment, I saw a fast horse galloping over, it was a spy with a small flag on his back, and when he got close, he turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground, and hurriedly said: "Report to Xue Shuai, an army of the Yan army made a detour to the west of Kyoto City and captured Tianyuan City!" ”

"What?" Xue Poye was taken aback, and the rest of the generals also changed color suddenly.

Wei generals all knew that Tian Yuan City was a county town in the west of the Wei army, and it was also an important transportation place, and the grain and grass transported from Tianshui County had to pass through Tian Yuan City.

Taking Tianyuan City, not only is it difficult to raise grain and grass in the west of Wei County, but it is also difficult to deliver grain from Tianshui County.

"How many of them are there?" Xue Poye asked in a deep voice, "Tian Yuancheng has two thousand defenders, how can he miss so easily?" ”

"Back to Xue Shuai, at least 20,000 troops of the Yan army suddenly surrounded Tian Yuan City at night and launched a strong attack, and the messengers in Tian Yuan City could not be dispatched, and under the strong attack of the Yan army, they finally fell." The spy replied: "Tian Yuancheng has now fallen into the hands of the Yan army!" ”

Xue Poye clenched his fists, his face was gloomy, and he said word by word: "Han Mo, this is ...... Cut off my food! ”