After coming out of the Smoke and Rain Pavilion, Xiao Sheng went directly to the Nine Kings' Mansion. Li Congqian had just finished dinner and was sitting in the courtyard with the princess, enjoying the piano and playing chess. Seeing Mr. coming, he hurriedly got up to greet him, "Xiao Sheng, what is the so-called matter of visiting at night?" ”

"Your Highness, how is our friendship on weekdays?" Xiao Sheng asked respectfully.

Li Congqian looked at him with a puzzled look and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Please tell me the truth!"

"This king and you have a close personal relationship on weekdays, although there is a difference between the top and bottom, but this king admires the general's mind and regards the general as a sibling!" Li Congqian replied sincerely.

"Has Your Highness heard of today's court affairs?"

"This king has heard the royal brother mention this matter!"

"I know that this expedition will be more auspicious and less auspicious, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to return. Therefore, there is something I want to entrust to His Highness, and I hope His Highness should be able to! ”

Xiao Sheng suddenly knelt down on one knee and said sincerely. No matter how hard Li Congqian tried his best, he couldn't pull him up.

Li Congqian held Xiao Sheng's arm, and was embarrassed, "General Xiao, please hurry up, this king is worthy of your brother, what is the matter, but it doesn't matter, why bother to do this big gift." ”

"The return from this expedition is excellent, if there is no return, Miss Liu will ask His Royal Highness to take care of it!" Xiao Sheng still knelt on the ground and pleaded.

"Don't worry, this king will treat him as a brother and sister-in-law. When you return triumphantly, I will ask the royal brother to marry you both. Li Congqian said this just to comfort himself, everyone knew that at this time, the Southern Tang Dynasty was exhausted, he didn't ask Xiao Sheng to be able to repel the Song army, but he asked you to return safely.

"Your Highness's kindness, I am afraid that you will be rewarded in the next life. Tomorrow I will leave first, and I hope that Your Highness will not forget today's covenant. After Xiao Sheng finished speaking, he left without looking back! He didn't just come this time for this purpose, he also wanted to see his best friends before leaving. To be honest, he had thousands of words in his heart at this moment that he wanted to say to Li Congqian, but he didn't know how to speak. Everyone knows that the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty is inevitable, and he only has the same Li Congqian who can protect himself when he arrives.

The next day, Xiao Sheng, dressed in golden armor, rode on a horse and followed Li Yu's dragon chariot, and rushed to the school outside the city along the main street of Jinling City, in the midst of the people's farewell.

Liu Yanyu struggled to squeeze in the crowd, she shouted Xiao Sheng's name loudly, and kept chasing him with the crowd! Until he watched Xiao Sheng walk out of Jinling City, he didn't look back at her!

In a hurry, she pushed away the guards and climbed the Jinling city wall. On the city wall, she looked at Xiao Sheng's back and shouted, "General Xiao, I will make my hair today, and I will not marry a non-general for life." ”

Xiao Sheng heard it, looked back at Liu Yanyu on the city wall, and sighed sadly, "Miss Liu, see you in the next life!" ”

After Xiao Sheng finished speaking, he rode away. Wait for three o'clock in the afternoon, after the school field is ordered! He led a mighty army of 100,000, accompanied by Zhou Cong as the supervising army, and marched towards Suzhou!

After a long journey of more than ten days, the army finally arrived in Suzhou before the Song army. As soon as the army came to Suzhou and had just rested for a day, Xiao Sheng ordered his soldiers to strengthen the city and be ready to meet the Song army at any time.

In the past few days, Zhou Cong has been staying in his tent and rarely shows up. Xiao Sheng's order did not interfere with it, pointing fingers, Xiao Sheng began to think that at the moment of national disaster, Zhou Cong really abandoned his personal grievances and advanced and retreated together with him.

Suzhou, as the last line of defense of the Southern Tang Dynasty, once broken, then the Song army could drive straight into Jinling, the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty. The Song army attacked the city along the way, successively captured important cities such as Jiangyin in Nantong, and finally arrived in Suzhou today.

The mighty Song army was stationed thirty miles outside Suzhou, and the camp tent of the Song army stretched for dozens of miles at a glance.

The Song army flattered Song Taizu's secret order and besieged the city of Suzhou without attacking. In just over a month, hundreds of thousands of people in Suzhou and 100,000 troops in the Southern Tang Dynasty ate all the food in the city. In addition, the Song army surrounded the city of Suzhou, and the grain and grass of the Southern Tang Dynasty could not be sent into the city, and the grain in the city was no more than a thousand stones.

The current situation is dangerous, and if I don't want to come up with countermeasures, I am afraid that the Song army has not yet attacked the city, and the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty will also be starved to death.

Xiao Sheng was discussing with the generals in his tent, and he held a letter in his hand, which was handed to him by the messenger of the Song army early this morning.

The letter said: Li Yu is not guilty, but now that the world is in the world, how can he let others fall asleep and snore by the emperor's bedside? I also hope that the general will understand the righteousness and lead the troops to surrender, and we will not be embarrassed by the soldiers and the people in the city.

After reading the contents of the letter, Xiao Sheng looked at the soldiers and said, "Thanks to the emperor's grace, we are ordered to fight against the Song Dynasty. If you go out of the city and surrender now, how will you return home with the face? What kind of face do you have to face your ancestors and ancestors?"

"What the general said is very true, we wait for the king's fortune and bear the king's worries. Life is a Tang Dynasty, death is a Tang ghost." A general said.

"The grain and grass in the city is less than a thousand stones, and the generals may have heard of it, I don't know what your good plan is?"

The generals looked at each other and talked a lot, and after a long time, they did not discuss the results. Seeing this, Xiao Sheng continued, "In the past month, the Song army has besieged but not attacked, and our army has also defended but not attacked. If our army attacks the enemy camp at night tonight, the Song army will not know that it will be defeated. What do you think of the generals?"

When the generals heard this, they were overjoyed, and they shouted in unison, "We will obey the general's orders."

"What do you think of Zhou Jianjun?" Xiao Sheng looked at Zhou Cong on the side and asked.

Zhou Cong replied with a sinister smile, "I am only supervising the army, you are the general, and it is up to you to decide the deployment of troops."

"Okay, it's rare that you understand the righteousness, regardless of the past suspicions, if you can return victorious today, I will remember the general's first merit."

Zhou Cong showed a strange smile on his face, "Where ・・・・・・ ・・・・・・ are all the credit of General Xiao and all the soldiers, how dare I claim to myself."

"Okay." Xiao Sheng nodded in praise with admiration on his face. He looked at one of the generals under the tent and ordered, "General Han, you inform the Huotou battalion that all the food in the generals will be boiled tonight, so that the generals can have a full meal, and tonight, follow me to attack the enemy camp at night."

"The last will be ordered." General Han replied respectfully.

After General Han left, Xiao Sheng looked at the remaining soldiers and said, "Next, let's discuss the specific plan." ”

They discussed it for a long time, and the plan was very detailed, until before the time of departure, they were still discussing the shortcomings in the tent.

"Report to General Xiao, the whole army is ready to go, and I ask the general to give an order." A soldier ran into the tent and reported.

"Okay." Xiao Sheng put on his helmet and walked out of the account, and when he was about to go out, he looked back at Zhou Cong behind him and asked, "Can you go with me?" ”

"I have been weak since I was a child, and going to the battlefield will only cause chaos to General Xiao, so I am still sitting here, waiting for the good news of General Xiao." Zhou Cong excused.

"That's very good."

After Xiao Sheng finished speaking, he walked out of the tent, rode on his war horse, led the army, and quietly approached the Song army camp. Staying less than two miles from the enemy camp, he motioned for the army to stop and await his orders.

At this time, the Song army camp was unusually quiet, and that kind of silence was intimidating. There were only a few pairs of soldiers patrolling inside, except for the middle tent in the middle of the barracks, there was not a single light in the rest of the tents, as if all the soldiers had already slept.

"The enemy may have an ambush, so we will retreat first." Xiao Sheng thought about it carefully and said.

As soon as Xiao Sheng's words were finished, countless torches lit up around them, as well as the deafening sound of the enemy's flag-waving shouts.