On the day of the discussion, Jiang Tianba found that a person was missing, and after looking around the crowd, he didn't see Mu Beituo's figure.

However, he didn't pay much attention to it, because there were more important things to do for him.

While the Xiyi military camp was in full swing preparing for tackling key problems, Jiang Tianba was also preparing his own affairs.

That night, after the three armies were resting, he took a pen and paper to write the words "From the 23rd, Beiliang Road".

In fact, over the years of entering the barracks, he has also learned some simple and easy-to-remember things under the influence of Cheng San, not completely illiterate, and his handwriting is crooked and crooked, which is very ugly, but for him, a rough man who has never written a few words, this level is rare.

He rolled up the note, put it in a palm-length bamboo tube, and went out of the tent.

At this time, except for the patrol camp, most of the soldiers had already slept, and there was no one around, but when he came out, a group of people happened to patrol by, and when they were far away, he came to the back of the camp, bent his index finger to his mouth, and whistled to the sky.

Soon a snow-white pigeon flew over, fluttering its wings and landing on Jiang Tianba's raised arm.

He tied the bamboo tube to the pigeon's feet, smoothed its fur, and whispered, "Little one, it's all up to you this time." ”

Then, the pigeon fluttered its wings and flew into the night sky, and Jiang Tianba stood there staring at it for a moment, then turned back to the tent.

However, shortly after he fell asleep, there was a rush of footsteps in the tent, and several soldiers broke in.

Jiang Tianba was shocked, glared and said angrily: "You are so bold, you dare to trespass into the camp of this general? Don't get out of here yet! ”

Led by a lieutenant general, he sneered, and had no fear in the face of the general who was as fierce as a tiger, straightened his waist and said: "We came to arrest you at the behest of the king, so don't be prestigious in front of us, and it's not too late to say anything in front of the king!" Come on, take away! ”

"What are you doing? Let me go! Before Jiang Tianba could put on his coat, he was dragged out of the camp tent by several soldiers and went straight to the military tent of King Xiyi.

When they arrived in the tent, they were immediately thrown heavily on the ground with a "thump" sound.

Jiang Tianba still had some injuries on his body, he was pulled all the way over, and he threw it like this, so he had to trigger the wound, and he couldn't help but gasp in pain, and struggled for a long time before he struggled to get up from the ground with difficulty, and when he looked up, his forehead was already full of cold sweat.

In the tent, only the King of Xiyi and the King of the Dark Clouds and another general with high authority were present, and the King of Xiyi sat on the top, looking at him condescendingly with a blank face.

"The king is moving the people, and he will be tied up late at night, I don't know what is going on?"

King Xiyi moved the corners of his mouth, smiled coldly, and said slowly: "This king is going to behead you!" ”

Jiang Tianba was shocked and said hurriedly: "I don't know what I did wrong?" The king wants to kill him? ”

"Humph! What's up? Before King Xiyi could speak, King Dark Cloud rushed over first and glared at him viciously, "You don't know what you have done?" ”

Facing his murderous momentum, Jiang Tianba shrank back in fright, gritted his teeth and said, "I, I really don't know." ”

"Look!" Then, the Dark Cloud King took something from the hands of the soldiers behind him and threw it in front of Jiang Tianba, "This is what you let go, isn't it?" ”

Jiang Tianba lowered his head, only to see a pigeon lying on the ground that was pierced by sharp arrows throughout his body, and his whole body was stained red with blood, and the bamboo tube on his feet was still there, but it was empty.

"From the 23rd, Beiliang Road." King Xiyi slowly spoke, "You are going to inform Emperor Dayan to send troops to ambush our army on the Beiliang Road, right?" ”

"Yes."

There was silence in the sleeping tent for a while, King Xiyi slowly stood up, walked towards Jiang Tianba, leaned over and grabbed his neck, and said quietly: "Jiang Tianba, this king first saved your life, and then sent someone to take care of you, recuperate your injuries, and make you a general, so it's not easy to treat you, right?" ”

"The king treats me like a mountain." Jiang Tianba raised his head and looked directly at the other party, and replied calmly.

"Why, then, do you want to betray this king? Why? King Xiyi glared at him, hating again and again, this fierce momentum, as if he was going to cut him with a thousand knives.

Jiang Tianba still didn't show the slightest fear, he was still so calm.

"I am a person from Dayan, and I must not do anything that harms the people of Dayan, the king's life-saving grace, I am willing to repay it with death, but I can't do it if I raise troops to attack Dayan."

"What a righteous General Jiang!" King Xiyi laughed mockingly, threw him to the ground, turned his back, and almost ordered to kill, but in the end, reason prevailed, and he suppressed his anger again.

"You want to die? This king is not willing to do it yet! Now I will give you two ways, first, according to the king's will, write another secret report, and pass it to the Emperor Dayan, second, this king ordered someone to cut off your hands and feet, put it in an urn, and put it in the army for the soldiers of the three armies to see, so that you will be a person for the rest of your life, and you can't survive and die. ”

King Xiyi knew very well that Jiang Tianba had no long body, and what he was most proud of was that he could break through thousands of troops, if he broke his limbs and turned him into a waste, it would be far more cruel than killing him.

It is said that King Xiyi is cruel and murderous, and if he really lives up to his name, Jiang Tianba was full of joy, his face was as white as paper, his body trembled slightly, and the cold sweat on his forehead became more and more.

At this moment, he was really scared.

"How? Have you thought about it? The King of the Dark Clouds approached, looked at him with his hands down, and said coldly: "Our king has always been impatient, but he has spent a lot of thought on you, and now I am afraid that I have almost endured it, if you hesitate again, beware that he really made you a human being!" ”

Jiang Tianba knelt on the ground, his neck shrunk, his eyes were erratic, he opened his mouth, but he hesitated suddenly, and he was stunned.

King Xiyi lost his patience, and waved his big hand: "Come on, take him down......"

"Wait!" In a panic, Jiang Tianba shouted, and finally lowered the head that was not easily buried in front of people, "What the king wants me to do, I will do it, just ask me to give me a whole corpse." ”

"You are obedient and obedient, why should this king take your life?" King Xiyi pulled the corners of his mouth away, and finally a smile appeared, "Since Brother Jiang agreed, let's take a pen and paper." ”

According to the request of the King of Xiyi, Jiang Tianba wrote a crooked and concise sentence on the small piece of paper spread out, "From the 23rd day, Chunghua Dao", and then used the previous method to summon a snow-white pigeon and release it to the east.

The reason why Jiang Tianba wrote the Chunghua Road was to lure out the main force of the Yan army and stagger it, so that the Xiyi army could easily capture Xilin Pass, the Yan army was not suitable for the environment of the wasteland, and it was in a hurry, and it would not be long before it would be cut off from water and food, and it would starve to death outside the pass, and the Xiyi army had Xilin Pass as the rear, and occupied the entire Yunzhou, and it was not difficult to expand the territory to the east.

This battle, the king of Xiyi attaches great importance to it, because if this battle is won, he will definitely go down in history and be admired by future generations, with less than 70,000 troops, break through the defense of the Yan army of more than 100,000, what kind of great victory is that? What kind of great achievement is it to start with this little force, and finally lead Xiyi to dominate in the east?

That night, the king of Xiyi drank alone in the tent, looking forward to a better future, and accidentally drank several jars of wine, and the next day when the army set out, he almost couldn't wake up.

"Big brother, we still need to be careful this time, don't relax, the Great Yan people are cunning and treacherous, and that Great Yan Emperor is even more unfathomable, he may not act according to Jiang Tianba's secret letter, why don't we change the course temporarily?"

"Jiang Tianba?" King Xiyi smiled a little disdainfully, "Isn't that a fine work sent by Emperor Dayan to make a bitter meat plan?" Although Jiang Tianba refused to admit it, this king still saw through their tricks at a glance, Jiang Tianba, this soft bone, as soon as he said that he would be a man, he immediately revealed his stuffing, the second brother don't worry, Emperor Dayan does have a plan, but he is not good at using people, this time, Xiyi will definitely be able to win. ”

"But ......" the Cloud King was about to say something, but was immediately interrupted by the other party: "But what?" The temporary diversion will inevitably make the morale of the army unstable and unavoidable. ”

After a pause, he said: "I see, you were once bitten by a snake for ten years and were afraid of the well rope, and you suffered a loss at the hands of Emperor Yan in the past, and now you are afraid, this king is not like you, this courage is not scared, there is no need to say much, I don't want to hear it." ”

The King of Dark Clouds had to frown and sigh, that's right, he did have a fear of him because he had planted it once in Mu Liancheng's hands, but his worries were not unreasonable, an emperor who ascended to the throne in his early twenties and cleaned up the court and the forces of the rivers and lakes that threatened the throne in less than five years, can he be an ordinary person? I'm afraid that the truth is just the opposite, Mu Liancheng not only didn't choose the wrong person, but deliberately let Jiang Tianba show his feet and lead them to the bait.

However, the eldest brother refused to listen to persuasion, and now, he can only give it a go.

The army set off in the early morning of the 23rd, 5,000 iron cavalry as the vanguard force in the front road to open the way, the Chinese army and the rear army followed behind, the speed was not fast and dissatisfied, the speed was not fast and dissatisfied, the journey on the wasteland for five or six days, the road was smooth, there was no abnormality, and the king of Xiyi also received a report from the secret agent every day, saying that the traces of the Yan army were found in Chunghua Road, which is a hundred miles away, which means that the Yan army was really deceived.

So the king of Xiyi became more and more excited, and ordered the three armies to speed up, and to rush to Xilin Pass in the next four days, to give the Yan army a head-on blow, in order to avenge the attack on the camp a month ago.

The soldiers were inspired, their spirits were greatly lifted, and they accelerated the march, and the further they went east, the more rugged the road became, and the surrounding mountains began to be intertwined with large and small mountains, but due to environmental problems, the mountains were all bare, and it was rare to see green.