At noon, a restaurant in Luoyang, Beijing

In the private room, Wu Sansi was discussing something with Yuhu and Mei Niang.

The jade fox was puzzled, "Do you have to pick a day to enter the incense?"

Wu Sansi hurriedly said: "This is the rule in the palace, this emperor goes out, especially when he goes out for incense, worship, etc., he must pay attention to the day, but Uncle Shi can rest assured, the emperor has already instructed the Ministry of Rites to choose the date, and the time is set for this month, and it can't wait for a few days."

Jade Fox thought about it and nodded, "Since that's the case, then I'll just wait and let her live happily for a few more days."

Wu Sansi hurriedly said, "Yes...... But Uncle Shi, what is your plan? This king persuaded the emperor to go up and make incense, and if something happened to him, the emperor would investigate it, and I would not be able to cut off a hundred heads."

Mei Niang smiled: "Don't worry, this time Uncle Shi has a careful plan, as long as Wu Zetian goes to the White Horse Temple to make incense, there is no return, and she will not have the opportunity to settle accounts with you." Wu Sansi was shocked.

At noon, the gate of Toyosu Castle

The soldiers on the city wall patrolled back and forth, and the soldiers at the city gate were fully armed, carefully interrogating the passing merchants, and they were very strict.

At this time, a white light fell from the sky, showing the appearance of Sister Xiu, who glanced at the word "Fengzhou" on the city gate, nodded and said, "Well, I finally arrived in Fengzhou." As he spoke, he turned into a white light and flew over the tower to the city......

In the council hall of the marshal's mansion in the city, an old general was convening the generals to discuss the meeting, but at this time, he saw a soldier rushing in and reported: "Report to the marshal, there is a woman surnamed Bai outside the marshal's mansion who asks to see her, saying that the emperor is sending and has an urgent military situation to discuss with the general."

The generals were shocked, and the old general was surprised: "The emperor sent ...... Please."

The soldier hurriedly bowed and said, "Yes." Bow down and withdraw.

The generals exchanged heads: "Sent by the emperor?"

"What did the emperor send people for?"

"Could it be related to the war in Liangzhou in the west?"

"Well, that's possible."

The old general stopped and said, "Don't be impatient, you will know when the messenger comes in."

The generals nodded yes, stopped talking, and looked out the door.

After a while, I saw the soldier hurrying in with Sister Xiu, bowed down and reported: "Marshal Bao, it's this white girl." As he spoke, he bowed and withdrew.

Sister Xiu hurriedly bowed and said, "The little woman Bai Xiu'er has seen General Zhao."

The old general nodded and said, "You were sent by the emperor, but what are the tokens?"

Sister Xiu said, "Old general, please take a look." As he spoke, he took out the token and handed it over, while the guards hurriedly walked up to pick it up and presented it to General Zhao.

General Zhao took a closer look, was startled, hurriedly walked down, knelt down the mountain and shouted: "The last general will see the marshal, long live my emperor, long live long live."

More than a dozen generals on both sides were startled, and hurriedly knelt down the mountain and shouted, "Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Sister Xiu hurriedly said, "Old general, generals, please get up quickly." Help General Zhao up

Everyone hurriedly said, "Thank you, Emperor." He stood up as he spoke.

Old General Zhao hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, please take a seat." I want to invite Sister Xiu to sit in the main seat.

Sister Xiu hurriedly said: "The old general doesn't need to be polite, the little girl came this time to follow the emperor's order to transfer 150,000 cavalry from Fengzhou to rush to Liangzhou." As he spoke, he took out the tiger talisman and handed it to General Zhao.

The generals were startled, looking at each other, General Zhao took out the other half of the tiger talisman from a square box on the case, carefully compared it with the other half of Sister Xiu, and it actually coincided at all, startled, hesitated and knelt down and said, "The last general will obey the order."

Sister Xiu helped up and said, "The military situation is urgent, if you are late, Liangzhou City will be more dangerous, how long will it take you to prepare?"

Old General Zhao clasped his fists and said, "The cavalry stationed in Fengzhou is the elite of the Anbei Protectorate, and they are always ready for battle in peacetime, and they can set off with the whole army at noon tomorrow."

Sister Xiu was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Okay, then I'll bother you."

General Zhao hurriedly said: "My lord's words, loyalty to the emperor, serving the court is our duty, the old man will order to go down, my lord, please sit here first." Talking and leading

Sister Xiu sat aside, then turned around and walked back to the main seat and said in a loud voice, "The generals will listen to the order."

The generals bowed and said, "The last will be."

The old general thought for a moment and ordered: "The generals will return to the camp immediately, prepare overnight, order 150,000 horses, and send the troops to Liangzhou at noon tomorrow, there must be no mistake."

The generals replied, "Yes."

After a while, Sister Xiu and General Zhao watched the generals disperse, and General Zhao hurriedly turned around and said, "The adults have come from afar to work hard, so the old man will arrange for the adults to rest in the back, please."

Sister Xiu hurriedly said, "General Xie, please." Follow the old general to the back.

After a while, Sister Xiu and General Zhao were walking in the corridor, and General Zhao hesitated and asked, "My lord."

Sister Xiu said, "If the old general has anything to say, please say it directly, you don't have to be polite."

Old General Zhao nodded and said, "Originally, the affairs of the imperial court should not have been asked more about the affairs of the imperial court, but the lord came to transfer the army this time, and it was indeed a little unexpected, and the old man had some doubts in his heart, so he wanted to ask the lord."

Sister Xiu was puzzled: "Does the old general not understand why the emperor wants to transfer the Fengzhou cavalry to help Liangzhou? The loss of the Toyosu cavalry in the north is like the loss of the northern barrier?"

Old General Zhao hurriedly said, "Exactly."

Sister Xiu said: "I know the old general, you are worried, but now the war in Liangzhou is tight, and there are more than 300,000 troops in the Great Zhou Dynasty besieged in Liangzhou by Tubo, and Liangzhou is in danger.

Old General Zhao suddenly realized, hugged his fists and said, "Your Excellency, please rest assured, our Fengzhou cavalry will definitely not live up to the emperor's trust."

Sister Xiu nodded and said, "Well, that's good."

Night, Liangzhou City

In the cold night, the cold wind blows, the flags on the city walls are blown and hunting, the city is heavily defended, and the patrolling soldiers patrol back and forth with torches.

At this time, he heard a rapid gong sound in a place in the city, but saw the granary in the north of the city in flames, and the soldiers shouted, "Oh no, the granary is on fire, the granary is on fire." They rushed back and forth with buckets to put out the fire......

Longji, Li Yan, and Meiren heard the movement, and the leading army arrived, but they were shocked to see that the granary had been burned to ruins......

Li Yan clenched his fists and said angrily: "Block the whole city for me, search and interrogate carefully, and arrest the female cadre who set the fire for me, I will kill him alive."

Several generals hurriedly bowed down and said, "Obey...... Follow me." Walking into the street with the soldiers, the eyes of the three soldiers who were hiding in the firefighting team on the side flashed, and their hearts were frightened......

For a while, Longji, Meiren, Li Yan, and Zhang Sheng were discussing something in the conference hall.

Longji said heavily: "We are still careless, we didn't expect that there are still Tibetan female cadres in the army."

Li Yan said angrily, "If I catch him, I will have to chop him up and feed his meat to the dogs."

Longji persuaded: "Big brother calm down, now it's burning if it's not burning, it's useless for us to just be angry."

Zhang Sheng said: "Although the granary was burned this time, fortunately we have taken precautions and transported half of the grain and grass to other places for storage, otherwise what we will eat tomorrow will be a problem."

Longji nodded and said, "Even so, the food we have left now is only enough for the army to eat for fifteen days, and I don't know if we can wait for reinforcements to arrive."

Li Yan said angrily: "Originally, our food was enough for the army to eat for a month, and the reinforcements from the imperial court may arrive in a month, but now it is only fifteen days, and after fifteen days, if the imperial reinforcements are not enough, we can only starve to death and be defeated without a fight."

Zhang Sheng worried: "What I am most worried about now is that as soon as the news of the burning of the granary gets out tomorrow, the morale of the army will be unstable."

Longji nodded and said, "Once the army's morale is unstable, its combat effectiveness will decline, and if Tubo takes the opportunity to attack, Liangzhou City will be in danger."

Li Yan nodded and said, "Hmm."

The beauty pondered, "So, for the sake of today, we must try to stabilize the morale of the army

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Zhang Sheng nodded and said, "If you want to stabilize the morale of the army, you need food, but where do we get food now?"

The beauty pondered, "How many people know about the balance of the granary?"

Li Yan said: "The specific margin is, because the stakes are very high, only me and a few cronies and generals know."

The beauty nodded and said, "That's easy to do, tomorrow morning, we will kill cattle and sheep to reward the whole army, and announce the burning of the granary on the spot, saying that although the granary was burned, but, because we have transported most of the grain to other places in advance, so the loss last night only accounted for one-tenth of the total, and the rest is enough for the soldiers of the whole city for a month, in order to be more convincing, we will pull the remaining grain to more places overnight and store it separately, so that even if some people suspect it, seeing that there is grain in so many places, I have to believe it."

Everyone was shocked, and after a while, Zhang Sheng praised: "Deputy Marshal's clever plan."

Li Yan hurriedly said, "I'll send someone to do it."

Suddenly, the beauty said, "Wait."

Li Yan wondered, "What's wrong?"

The beauty pondered: "I think that under our tight defense, there are still people who can approach the granary and set fire, then the person who set the fire must not be someone else, maybe it is the person who defended the granary, and the people who participated in the firefighting just now are also very suspicious, these people are the target of our interrogation."

Li Yan nodded and said, "I'll send someone to lock up everyone involved and interrogate them, I don't believe that I can't find the female cadre who set the fire."

The next morning, Liangzhou Daying Campus

A large number of soldiers gathered in the school yard, bags of grain were placed in front, more than a dozen cauldrons were erected, and a team of soldiers pulled more than a dozen cattle and sheep on one side.

Li Yan stood on the high platform with Longji and Meiren, Li Yan looked at the crowd and said loudly, "Brothers in Liangzhou City...... You must have heard of it, yes, because the enemy is too cunning, and actually installed female cadres in our army, and late last night, our granary was set on fire by them, and it burned so well, it burned so beautifully."

The soldiers were shocked, and they burst into discussion: "If this female cadre is caught by me, I will definitely not be able to spare him."

"Yes, I can't spare him, I'm going to burn him."

"It's too cheap to burn him, I'm going to hang him."

"General, our granary has been burned, why do you still say that it is beautiful?"

"That is, the granary was burned, what will we eat in the future?"

"yes, what's to eat?"

"If you don't have food, what can you do?"

A general boldly shouted, "Marshal, our grain and grass have been burned by the female trunks, why are you still laughing? Without food, what will we eat in the future?"

The crowd hurriedly chimed in, "That's it."

"yes."

Li Yan laughed, and the troops were shocked, looking at each other, and even more puzzled.

After a while, Li Yan stopped laughing and said loudly, "What are you laughing at? I laughed at those Tubo girls who were mixed with us were too smart, and they wanted to burn our grain with a fire, so that we had no food to eat, and surrendered without a fight, but I said, they are too naïve, too underestimate the wisdom of our Great Zhou soldiers, you see, if our grain and grass are burned, what is the grain in front of everyone? Open all these sacks for me."

A row of soldiers below hurriedly opened the grain bags, only to see that they were filled with wheat and flour......

The army saw it and was surprised, "Wow, is it really food?"

"Really, and noodles." Talk.

One of the generals said loudly, "Marshal, I don't understand this, since the granaries have been burned, how can we still have so much grain?"

Li Yan smiled, "Why? Because I have been guarding against this trick for a long time, I have secretly sent people to transport most of the grain to various places in the city in advance to store it secretly, and the grain left in the granary, that is, the grain that was burned last night, only accounts for less than one-tenth of the total, that is to say, our current grain storage is still enough for everyone to eat for more than a month, I don't believe you can go to the various places in the city to store grain."

The general was surprised, "A month? Marshal, do you mean, within a month, reinforcements from the imperial court will come?"

Li Yan nodded and said, "Of course, I have already received definite news, the imperial court's reinforcements are already on the way, and there will be fifteen days to reach here, so everyone can rest assured, as long as we continue to hold out for fifteen days, as soon as the imperial court reinforcements arrive, we will join forces inside and outside to defeat Tubo."

The army rejoiced, and I don't know which one shouted, "Defeat the Tibetans."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shouted in unison: "Defeat the Tibetan ......."

"Defeat the Tibetan ......" was a big hit......

Li Yan, Longji, Beauty, and Zhang Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they looked at it......