The inner courtyard of the secret detective, the wooden building where Ru Bohu is located.

When the windows of this wooden building are not opened, the light is very dim.

The tall Cao Qian, dressed in a black secret robe, saw Huo Quai, who was in military uniform, come in, and stepped forward to salute: "I've seen Huo Hou!"

Ru Bohu wore a secret detective robe inlaid with red stripes, sat on the side with his hair draped, held a mirror in his left hand, and tickled his head with a wooden hairpin with his right hand.

There were no bamboo slips and other objects on the low mat in front of him this time, but three bronze mirrors in a row, all of which were old objects, and the back was engraved with bronze patterns. The grip of the three mirrors is rounded and seems to be played with a lot.

Ru Bohu was looking in the mirror and scratching his head, which was a little surprising. Looks like he's in a good mood?

Huo Quzhi smelled the smell of blood at the end of his nose: "You were injured?" ”

Cao Cunning: "Yes, I was stabbed in the ribs." ”

"Caught somebody?"

"Caught one, killed one on the spot, and ran away."

"There was more than one target, and we chased the one that escaped for four days, but we didn't catch it."

Cao Wei said the process: "In this operation, we went straight to the secret detective order to analyze the second identity of Yu Yu to hide in Luoyang, that is, Li Qing, the chief secretary under the command of Luoyang Wei. ”

After I led people into Luoyang, I went straight to Luoyang's Weiguan Station. Li Qingbai will be there to handle official business.

When we went, he seemed to be alert and was about to retreat, but we blocked him.

"He was very skilled, but he was eventually captured by us."

"After I caught someone, I personally took people to their residences, including the place where Yu Yu lived before, and searched them simultaneously."

"At that time, we thought that we had completed the arrest of Li Qing, but when we searched his residence, we found that there was a hidden dark room in the mansion, and another invitation suddenly rushed out, Li Qing."

When Huo Qu came in, he saw that in the tower, in addition to Ru Bohu and Cao Qian, there were people lying on the ground on the side.

Obviously, it was Li Qing, the chief bookkeeper under the command of Luoyang Wei who they captured, that is, Yu Yin.

At this time, Cao Wei also turned over his hand and took out a small round bronze mirror and handed it to Huo Quzhi: "Huo Hou, take a look." ”

Some mirrors that have been trained by magic can seal a small part of the reflected image, and after being urged, they can be manifested in the mirror.

"I'll do it."

Ru Bohu personally took the mirror from Cao Cun's hand:

"This is the water moon mirror, which means reflecting the moon in the water. My secret detectives often wear this mirror when they are on official business. ”

Ru Bohu urged the mirror, and a picture of a battle suddenly appeared in the mirror, which was very short, and only two or three breaths were preserved.

On one side was the secret detective led by Cao Wei, and there were sixty forbidden soldiers.

The other party is a middle-aged man, tall and thin, with a fluttering body and very fast speed.

Huo Quzhi could only roughly see the appearance of the person's yellow face and long eyebrows through the mirror.

The images in the mirror are staggered, and it is Cao Wei who is fighting with him.

Suddenly, the figure pulled back.

Rushing to the outside of the encirclement, when it approached the edge of the double siege of the secret detective and the forbidden army, the other direction of the battle, without warning, rushed out of the second figure, and cooperated with the middle-aged man, flanking back and forth.

The two forbidden soldiers who stood in the way, as well as the four secret detectives, even the armor on their bodies was kicked to pieces by the middle-aged man who rushed towards them, and their whole bodies spurted blood and fell to the ground.

A strange cyan halo emanated from the two figures, which seemed to trigger some kind of secret weapon, and immediately broke through the encirclement, rose and fell above the building, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"The person we captured is already very skilled, and he has been fighting with us for a long time, so he should be the main master."

I didn't think there was anyone hiding in his mansion and being bumped into by us. Of the two people who ran away, he was later responsible for picking up the one, and when we were chasing him, he was killed on the spot and was not captured.

"Middle-aged people, fleeing."

In Cao Wei's narration, Huo Quzhi looked at the figure who had been caught on the ground.

It was a middle-aged man with a pale face and eyes closed as if he were in a coma.

"He was caught by us and immediately pressed a requiem mirror against his eyebrows."

"Three people, the one who fled out of Luoyang. We found some traces and chased them all the way north for three or four days. ”

Cao Wei summed up the whole process: "But I have never been able to catch it. ”

Huo Quzhi was close to the unconscious person on the ground, with a small bronze mirror pressed on the center of his eyebrows.

"This man's soul is dead, and he will never wake up again." Ru Bohu said.

"When he was arrested, he had no problem, but it was only later that he found out that something was wrong with his spirit."

Cao Qian recalled: "After he was captured by us, the next afternoon, his breathing became weak, and after examination, I noticed that his soul was silent, and there was no fluctuation of his thoughts. ”

According to the time given by Cao Qian, Huo Quzhi inferred that it was the afternoon when he killed the writer.

Could this person be a puppet controlled by the writer?

The writer died, and he also fell silent with the spirit?

Huo Quzhi looked at the leisurely Ru Bohu:

"But the secret order has made an important discovery?"

Ru Bohu: "That's right, that secret person, or the secret force, has been found by me to find the real clue. ”

"This person's soul is gone, it is impossible to wake up again, but the secret detective order has made a big gain, where does the clue come from?" Huo Quzhi asked.

A slight smile appeared on Ru Bohu's slender face: "We knew before that secretly people can influence and control others to work for themselves. ”

Huo Quzhi heard this, thought for a while, and said: "The secret investigation order means that since the other party is not a person, there are many directions for investigation. ”

"The list of twelve people you listed before, suspected to be secret people, did you start again from this direction and made a discovery?"

Ru Bohu's face flashed with a little surprise, and said, "Talking to Huo Hou can indeed save a lot of explanation. ”

"Exactly."

"Huo Hou, you came back a few days ago and said that you killed a person who could fight with Daozun without winning or losing, and I suspect that it was the writer."

"It is now certain that he may be the writer, but not all, and the forces behind it have not been eliminated."

Ru Bohu said: "I asked people to thoroughly investigate the list of twelve people again, including some people who are related to them, and I have made some very interesting discoveries. ”

Huo Quzhi sat down on the side, and his eyes unconsciously glanced at the three mirrors placed in front of Ru Bohu.

The three mirrors are all facing upwards, and you can vaguely see that there is a halo of light in the gap between the mirror and the low seat.

"I compared these doubtful men and found that half of them were bookkeepers in various places, and some were scribes."

"And the cities where these people work are almost all important towns or border gates. During the initial investigation, there were also problems within my secret investigation, and these key information was adjusted and concealed, and it was not discovered at the time. ”

Ru Bohu's words fell and looked at Huo Qu's illness:

"The official rank of the main book seems to be small, but it is the person who is responsible for sending and receiving and recording all kinds of files, and has access to almost all the information in and out of a place."

Huo Quzhi followed Ru Bohu's train of thought, and he was also clarifying his judgment:

"They're sending and receiving messages about these important cities to monitor, or rather analyze, what's going on in various places."

And because of the location of the city where these people are dormant, if their news is linked, it is possible to form a relatively complete message chain, and what important changes are taking place in our Han Dynasty? Feather.

"That's right."

Ru Bohu: "For example, grain in and out, in and out of the city where they are located, through the direction of transportation comparison, you can judge the direction of grain, if it is transported to Beiguan, it proves that the border is preparing grain, to fight." ”

Even according to the distribution of grain reserves, the deployment of Beiguan can be roughly analyzed.

"Where there is a lot of food, there are heavy soldiers, and vice versa."

The layout of the secret person, the most powerful thing is that he has not shown up all the time, and he has relied on influence and use others to complete it, and the way is extremely obscure.

Even if something goes wrong in a link, the tail can be quickly cut off without a trace.

It is also very surprising that the other party analyzes the changes in various places and even the Han Dynasty through the main books and pen officials who are in charge of recording files in important cities.

Huo Quzhi asked Cao Qian: "You said that the person who escaped left Luoyang and was always fleeing north?" ”

"Yes, I suspect that he wants to go to Beiguan, or escape directly from Beiguan and go to the area controlled by foreign tribes such as the Xiongnu or Wuhuan."

"Huns?"

Huo Quzhi groaned: "If the one who ran away is Yu Yin, and his son Yu Chu has no news?" ”

"No, since Yu Yu has a problem, Yu Chu must also have a problem, and it is estimated that he will not show up again."

"I haven't finished my clue here."

"After finding out the master books and pen officials in the controlled places, we can roughly deduce the real goal of the secret people."

Ru Bohu said in a deep voice: "Although the other party is secretly plotting, the goal has always been very clear, that is, he wants to make my Han riotous. ”

"Then the most important thing for them is to contact the Xiongnu, and borrow the strength of the Xiongnu in order to transform these arrangements into goals and realize their value."

"They analyzed all kinds of changes that have occurred in my Han Dynasty, and in the end they want to push the Xiongnu to break through the barrier and mess up our Han realm!"

Huo Qu was sick: The secret people are using Huainan, the Huns, and even the Han as pawns. As long as he confronts the Huns, no matter who wins or loses, once the chaos breaks out, he will always achieve his goal.

"To take the world as a chess, you have to have this kind of ability."

Ru Bohu said: "Those people in the shadows, who have been hiding for so long, should also come out." ”

"I join forces with Huo Hou to completely draw out this power in the dark and see how it is?"

As he spoke, he opened the small mirrors in front of him one by one, and let Huo go to see it.

"I can't see anything in this mirror except a dazzling halo, what is this halo?" Huo Quzhi looked at the mirror and said.

When the mirror was turned over, a magnificent tide of light flowed through it, filling the mirror.

"It is the light that corresponds to the national fortunes of my Han and part of the Xiongnu." Ru Bohu also has the practice of the Yin and Yang family.

His fingers changed flexibly, using his five fingers to correspond to the five elements, and successively sent his breath into the mirror: "This light of national fortune corresponds to all the people, Your Majesty, and hundreds of officials in the court, including Huo Hou. ”

Xiongnu, Ulaanbaatar.

With the golden dome of the royal court, Yi Zhi squinted at the few people in front of him.

Previously, the Xiongnu cooperated with the writer and secretly sent a team to attack the border pass of the Han border. But soon the news came back, and the whole army was wiped out, and not even a single one escaped.

Yi Zhixian was furious, and several recent encounters with the Han people had caused more and more losses.

"I, the Huns, and the Han people have always been the main attack, and the border of the Han border is at the mercy of my Hun cavalry."

"The Han people were afraid of our Huns and built high walls, but they also couldn't prevent my Huns. Why the losses have been increasing in recent times, and who can say why? ”

Yi Zhi glanced at several generals behind him, and finally settled under one of them, his eyes sharp: "Wei Qing, he said." ”

Zhao Xin was a general under Wei Qing before.

He was originally the little king of the Huns, but later defeated and surrendered to the Han Dynasty, changed his name to Zhao Xin, and was named the Marquis of Xi. He has also made meritorious contributions in many wars.

Not long ago, in the battle of Dingxiangbei, due to the defeat of the army, he surrendered to the Xiongnu and returned to the Xiongnu.

At that time, Zhao Xin swore to the shaman god that he would never descend to Han again, otherwise the three souls would have no resting place after death. This is the heaviest oath of the Huns, so they can save their lives.

What Yi Zhixian values is that he has been a general in Han and has enough understanding of the Han realm and the Han army.

When asked about Zhao Xin now, he was secretly shocked, knowing that if he couldn't prove his worth, he could die at any time.

The bones on Zhao Xin's face are very strong, but his eyes are too flexible and he doesn't seem resolute enough.

When he was fighting, he made good use of cavalry, which was also the reason why he was valued by Wei Qing and accepted by his subordinates in the first place.

At this time, Zhao Xin was anxious to save his life for the Xiongnu, and immediately said:

"Since the end of the Warring States Period, the Han people have been learning to master the cavalry tactics of our steppe tribes, and it took a hundred years to have today's combat effectiveness. One of the main reasons why the Xiongnu have suffered a lot of losses recently is that the cavalry of the Han people is advancing. ”

In addition, it is their Mojia military craft.

"Its bow and crossbow and armor were better than my Huns in the Qin period. Especially the bow and crossbow of the Han people, when the two armies face each other, they will start the battle with crossbow shooting, which will cause great damage to our Hun cavalry. ”

Yi Zhi's face softened slightly: "Go on?" ”

Zhao Xin: "If you want to defeat the Han people, you must make full use of the advantages of my Hun cavalry." ”

"Da Dan Yu might as well order that the cavalry attacking the Han border pass be dispersed into more small groups of soldiers and horses, with hundreds of people in a team, relying on queues to intersperse and frequently disturb the Han border."

"Because the small group of cavalry is dispersed enough, it can weaken the power of the Han people's bows and crossbows, and it can also give full play to the advantages of our Hun soldiers."

"With hundreds of people as a team, cooperate with each other, as long as the Han people are a little relaxed, they can take advantage of the situation, and even go around the city, straight into the hinterland of the Han people, and harass the horses. Because it is flexible enough, it is extremely difficult for the Han people to do so even if they want to chase them. ”

Yi Zhi slanted into a thoughtful expression.

Zhao Xin meant that the greater the number of small group rangers, the more defenseless the Han people became.

And for the Xiongnu, the horses harassed the Han realm, and the war was fed by war, and the consumption was not large.

The Han people have been facing this kind of harassment for a long time, and they need to be on guard from time to time, but the consumption will continue to increase.

The Han people's cities were fixed, and they were far less flexible than the Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu came to attack, and the Han people had to hold the border pass. This is a natural strategic disadvantage, and Zhao Xin wants to further amplify it.

His strategy was based on an understanding of the Han Chinese defense.

In the past, the Xiongnu attacked the Han and had many advantages.

Zhao Xin is persuading Yi Zhixian to change his mentality and stop expecting a big victory. Instead, they used scattered cavalry to harass the entire line of the Han people's border passes, increasing the consumption of the Han people, so that they did not dare to relax from time to time, and dragged down the national strength of the Han people little by little.

"The Han people are also holding each other down in the Chinese army, and in the long run, the national strength will inevitably decline, and then it will be an opportunity for our Xiongnu soldiers to suppress the border."

Yi Zhi slanted a slight smile on his face, and recognized what Zhao Xin said: "But do you have any other suggestions?" ”

"The Han city is fixed, which is conducive to defense, but it is inconvenient to move, so that the cavalry can be turned into a small group of rangers, and the head-on confrontation with the Han army can weaken the power of the Han army's bows, crossbows, ordnance, etc., which is the strategy of promoting our Xiongnu offensive."

Zhao Xindao: "In addition, in addition to Wei Qing, the general of the Han army, Da Shan Yu should pay full attention to Huo Quai, and the emperor and Wei Qing of the Han people all have high hopes for him. This person's talent as a soldier is amazing. ”

"I think it's better to use money and bribes to bribe some Han people to get their inside information. Once there is an opportunity, Da Dan Yu will do whatever it takes to attack and kill the Han generals. ”

"There have always been people within the Han people who have passed the news to me, and they have also made similar suggestions."

Yi Zhi thought for a while and said: "The latest news from the Han realm said that they are plotting a big thing, if it can be done, at least half of the Han army can be damaged, and help our Xiongnu break through." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Xin was surprised and wondered: What can make the Han army lose half of the wall?

PS: The next chapter is in the early hours of the morning, and the word count of today's two chapters will be more than usual.

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