Wen Yunxiang stood up, put on his shawl, and lifted the curtain of the tent.

A black shadow took advantage of the change of guard on patrol and entered Wen Yunxiu's big tent sideways, and the man in black pulled down the black scarf covering his face, revealing a beautiful face.

"Thrush, why are you here, is there something wrong with my mother."

The thrush shook his head and said respectfully to Wen Yunxiang

"Your Highness, rest assured, Niangniang is very good in the palace, and the lord is not worried about you, so he sent me to assist you."

Wen Yunxiang frowned, what could this secret guard do to help him, although this thrush said that his kung fu was superior, but it was a little unbelievable that there was only one person to help him come up with ideas to eliminate the bandits.

"Did Grandpa explain anything?"

The thrush lowered his head, a trace of hesitation flashed in his eyes, and he didn't let Wen Yunxiang notice it, and quickly raised his head and said to Wen Yunxiang

"The lord doesn't know the situation here, but he just sent me to protect His Highness, this sword has no eyes and I am afraid that His Highness will be injured."

Wen Yunxiang nodded, and then didn't think about thrushes anymore.

The thrush clutched something tightly in his hand and squeezed it in the palm of his hand. And Wen Yunxiang never noticed that there was anything unusual about the thrush's fist.

That night, the thrush left without stopping, and sent the situation here to the prime minister's mansion with flying pigeons for hundreds of miles.

Early the next morning, soldiers came to report that there was an anomaly in the only path in the mountains that they had been sent to watch.

Wen Yunxiang hurriedly got up and put on his armor and wanted to summon the three armies, their position at this time was relatively passive, the terrain here was well known to the thieves, so they had to be cautious and not careless.

Wen Yunxiang, who rushed over, saw that Commander Xue was already discussing something with several generals below, and saw Wen Yunxiang enter the tent

"Your Highness, the sentry sent this morning stared at what they had paved on this road, it was full of pieces of porcelain, and our horses would not be able to get on the road."

Commander Xue frowned, "If we hike into the mountain, then we will definitely not be able to escape in time when we encounter an ambush, and it is easy to become the turtle in the urn of such thieves." ”

This is the only mountain road with a valley on both sides, and if they were placed on the top of the mountain and rolled down when they entered the mountain, they were afraid that the casualties would be even more terrible without horses.

At this time, it is not possible to rush into it.

Wen Yunxiang was no longer speechless, he also knew the difficulty at this time, and stared at the map carefully, trying to find an entry point from this terrain.

This kind of thief uses all kinds of tricks to damage it, as the saying goes, the gun is easy to dodge the hidden arrow, but it is difficult to prevent it.

Seeing that Wen Yunxiang didn't speak, and the generals next to him didn't dare to speak, Wen Yunxiang's fists clenched tighter and tighter, as if he was hating his uselessness and powerlessness.

gritted his teeth and forced himself to come up with a way, if this matter was done by his father, what should he do? No matter how bad it is, if the second brother does this, how will he deal with it.

Wen Yunxiang's brows became deeper and deeper, squeezing out deep furrows, and suddenly his eyes widened and his brows stretched as if he had been hit by something in his mind.

"Since this group of thieves is relying on the advantage of the terrain, why don't we turn our advantage into a disadvantage?"

The generals next to him looked at Wen Yunxiang with some doubts, they hadn't figured out what an advantage was to become a disadvantage.

And Xue Xin seemed to have thought of something, and spread out the map and looked at it carefully.

Wen Yunxiang said: "They are guarding this mountain, so we can't easily attack it, so wouldn't it be better for us to surround the mountain and force them to come out on their own?" ”

The two rhetorical questions solved everyone's confusion at once, and Xue Xin also thought of a way to lead them out, but he didn't know what was the safest.

"Your Highness, I wonder if Your Highness has a clever plan in mind?"

Xue Xin arched his hand towards Wen Yunxiang, his eyes full of appreciation and admiration.

"Fire attack. There are many trees on this mountain, and it is very easy to start a fire, if the mountain is set on fire, we are not afraid that they will not come out, and we will guard the door just to catch them all. ”

When everyone heard the strategy of the fire attack, they all showed a relieved smile, this method is really a good strategy, but it is not wonderful to wipe out all the thieves without spending a single soldier.

At this time, Xue Xin was a little hesitant, and when he asked His Highness about his clever plan, he had already germinated a way to cut off the food and water source in his heart, trapped in the mountains, and waited until the right time to negotiate and sue for peace.

It's just that His Highness's method seems to be more practical, more effective, and more ...... Cruel.

"Your Highness, there are spies who have come to report, this thief seems to be the king of the mountain, there is a village on the mountain, on weekdays, the men go down the mountain to rob gold, silver and grain, and some old and weak women and children are in the stockade."

Xue Xin paused, and didn't forget to raise his eyes to look at Wen Yunxiang's expression

"This fire attack is really a clever plan, I'm afraid it will hurt the innocent......"

Wen Yunxiang pursed his lips, as if he was in deep thought, this is the only way he can think of to achieve his father's request, how can there be a double law in this world?

"Let me think about it for a few more days."

These other methods are somewhat impractical in Wen Yunxiang's place, even if they can cut off the transportation of grain into the mountain, but the animals in the mountains can be hungry, and if there is a village in the mountain, there will be a certain amount of grain in the past.

As for cutting off the water source, their location at this time was in the middle of the mountain, and the thieves' stockade was planted on the top of the mountain, so naturally they could not cut off the water source at the top from below.

If there is only no food, it will be stalemate for at least half a month, not to mention that if it is spent here, the consumption of this army will be greatly increased. It has been a few days since he returned to the imperial city to restore the decree.

Maybe he will disappoint his father and emperor with him, and these thieves can't even wipe out an army of 20,000 as soon as possible, and they can't save their mother's relatives.

Wen Yunxiang left the camp tent, did not return to his tent, but walked around, and suddenly remembered the thrush, strange, he hadn't seen the thrush since last night, where did he go?

"Your Highness."

There was a voice behind Wen Yunxiang, and a deliberately lowered voice of a person dressed in the appearance of an ordinary soldier knelt down to say goodbye.

"Didn't the main hall say that you should not follow me, and let the main hall be quiet?"

The man looked up, and it was a thrush dressed in the clothes of an ordinary soldier.

This made Wen Yunxiang a little surprised

"Thrush? ...... are you? ”

"Your Highness, I beg your pardon for eavesdropping on your conversation with several generals this morning."

Wen Yunxiang looked at the thrush suspiciously, "If you have anything, just say it, this palace will not punish you, after all, you were sent by my grandfather to assist me."

The thrush looked at Wen Yunxiang fixedly

"The lord once instructed me to remind His Highness that you can do whatever you want boldly, don't have so many worries, you have the Prime Minister's Mansion behind you."

Wen Yunxiang was a little cowardly, but he was not a fool, he still understood the thrush's reminder, and this time he was going to send troops to clean up the thieves with the reputation of being guilty and making meritorious contributions.

Why should he care about the lives of those who don't matter, as long as he can achieve his goal.