Xue Mu said strangely: "Now most of the generals in various places are from families, don't you know, son?" However, the family cherishes the reputation of their family, so those who are incapable cannot get the recommendation of the family, in addition, it also depends on whether the military commanders and the state capitals are willing to accept these people, such as Youzhou, where we are at the moment, whether it is a civil official or a military general, it was selected from the people little by little, and there is no mark of any family. ”

"Your Excellency!"

At this time, a few soldiers ran in the distance, several of them were sweating profusely, and they looked very anxious.

Xue Mu chuckled in his heart, if it weren't for a big event, it wouldn't have been so many pro-soldiers who came to inform him together.

Xue Mu stepped forward, and a personal soldier hurriedly said: "General Xue, General Zhao ......"

"Silence!"

Xue Mu heard the words of General Zhao and quickly interrupted him, Xue Mu gestured to the soldier with his eyes, and the soldier looked at Shen Ye and the others not far away, and said: "General Zhao Shen came back to see Lord Meng just now, and Lord Meng ordered his subordinates to find you and let you go to the City Lord's Mansion to see him quickly." ”

Xue Mu frowned, and when he turned to look at Shen Ye and the others, his face returned to normal, and he smiled: "The venue has been arranged, and Xue has something important to deal with, so he will retire first." ”

Bai Zihuan and several people got up and said in unison: "The general will walk slowly." ”

Shen Ye looked at the sweat and anxious look on the faces of several soldiers next to Xue Mu, guessing what was going on, and turned his head to look, and found that Ruo Zhiyue also looked thoughtful.

Ruo Zhiyue came back to her senses and found that Shen Ye was looking at her, Ruo Zhiyue had smoke in her eyes, and said generously: "Little brother, am I good-looking?" ”

The girl is not very old, but a flattery arises spontaneously.

Shen Ye was a little overwhelmed, thinking of her previous actions, she changed the topic and said, "Why did Miss Zhiyue bring the sachet over. ”

Ruo Zhiyue said: "My sachet has the purpose of meditation, just now I saw that the little brother was sweating on his forehead and his breath was short, so I subconsciously took it out, by the way, does the little brother have any intersection with that Xue Shen general?" Why are you so nervous? ”

Shen Ye secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, he thought that he was pretending to be calm, but he didn't expect that even Ruo Zhiyue could see that he was nervous, so what would Xue Mu think?

Xue Mu walked towards the City Lord's Mansion while thinking back to Shen Ye's expression.

"He's afraid of me!" Xue Mu squinted his eyes and thought, Xue Mu didn't know why Bai Ziye was afraid of himself, it stands to reason that the two should meet for the first time.

"Or rather, he wasn't afraid of me, but he did something and had a ghost in his heart. Maybe this Bai Ziye is indeed the person Qiao Zheng suspects. Xue Mu speculated silently in his heart.

Xue Mu had heard Qiao Zheng talk about the situation at that time before, and he also felt that Bai Ziye had more suspicions, and it was most likely the person Qiao Zheng was chasing, but the senior brother later warned him not to do much, so he just did it. When he caught the girl from the hundred families and sent it to a few people from the hundred families today, Xue Mu wanted to take the opportunity to observe this person, and there was really a big problem! He thought of the girl that his subordinates caught at the gate of the camp, if it weren't for the girl who was wearing a hundred waist cards, and she looked innocent and not like a fake during the interrogation, he would never let her go, but fortunately she was caught by her own people without seeing anything. However, this person's motives are still suspicious, Zhiyue? Bai Zhiyue? Bai Ziye and Bai Zhiyue, these two people need to pay more attention in the future.

When Xue Mu came to the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, he saw Meng Feng sitting on the chair by the door with a sad face, General Zhao was hurriedly turning around in the hall, Xue Mu looked around the other places, and did not see Gao Bo's figure, so he knew that something was wrong.

Meng Feng was waiting anxiously at the door, and when he saw him coming, he said bluntly: "Senior brother, Gao Bo is dead!" ”

Xue Mu raised his eyebrows, he stared at General Zhao tightly and said: "Xuanzhou is more than five hundred miles away from here, you set off yesterday, even if you run non-stop overnight, people should be in Xuanzhou City now." ”

Zhao Zhi'an's eyes were bloodshot, and he said tiredly: "I was resting at the post station in Huaxian County last night, and I happened to meet Gao Bo's personal soldiers, who were about to deliver the news of Gao Bo's death here in Youzhou. ”

Xue Mudao: "When I was resting with my teacher in Huaxian County, I heard that Gao Bo was attacked and fell into a coma and was sent to Xuanzhou for recuperation. ”

Zhao Zhi'an nodded and said: "That's what his personal soldiers told me, and after they told me the news, they took people to the direction of Dizhou on the pretext of escorting Gao Bo's body back to Beidaying. ”

Xue Mu frowned, always feeling that something was wrong, and he asked, "When did you see them last night?" What are the anomalous behaviors of those pro-soldiers? ”

Zhao Zhi'an thought for a while and said: "Around the time of the child, as soon as I took people to the Huaxian Post Station, I met Gao Bo's personal soldiers, and they all had tears on their faces, their expressions were sad, and there was nothing else unusual. ”

Meng Feng looked at Xue Mu and asked, "Senior brother thinks there is a problem?" ”

Xue Mudao: "I suspect that Gao Bo's personal soldiers have been staying there just to stop Zhi'an and prevent you from going to Xuanzhou." ”

Zhao Zhian was stunned for a moment and said, "Stop me from going to Xuanzhou?" ”

Then his expression changed: "You mean Gao Bo is not dead?" His own soldiers are spreading false news? ”

Xue Mu said slowly: "The general in the army is dead, and the news will reach the military department in a few days, which is what you are talking about the general's mansion, so there should be no reason to fake, Gao Bo should be dead, but if Gao Bo's personal soldiers have been staying near the post station, it means ......."

"It means that Gao Bo has been dead for a long time." Meng Feng said in a deep voice.

Zhao Zhi'an was surprised: "Is the general too worried, according to your guess, if Gao Bo died a few days ago, why didn't his personal soldiers come to Youzhou to inform us earlier?" Maybe they happened to run into me at the inn. ”

Xue Mu pondered for a long time and did not speak.

At this time, Meng Feng said: "Senior brother, now that the matter is over, shouldn't you tell me all the insiders of this plan?" ”

Xue Mu said sincerely: "It's not that I don't trust Senior Brother, it's just that the fewer people who learn about this plan, the safer the teacher will be." ”

Meng Feng snorted coldly: "Senior brother, do you know why I sent Zhi'an to bring Gao Bo?" ”

Xue Mu was puzzled: "Isn't it afraid that Gao Bo will leak the teacher's news and control it in Youzhou City?" ”

Meng Feng looked at him and said, "Originally, after dealing with the affairs of the Wenhui today, I planned to invite my junior brother out of the camp and inform my junior brother of what happened yesterday." ”

Meng Feng took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "The person we caught and his companion are Dugu Shao, the son of Dugu Jing, who escaped from the city yesterday after getting the news that Jun Qiong was arrested, and is now on his way back to Dongdaying!" ”

Xue Mu stood up abruptly in surprise and said, "This matter is very important, why did Senior Brother only inform me now, no!" I'm going to tell the teacher to evacuate quickly! ”

"Wait!"

Meng Feng stopped Xue Mu and said, "Where is the junior brother going to take the teacher?" ”

Xue Mu stopped, looked at Meng Feng and said mockingly: "No matter where it is, it is better than sitting back in Youzhou City, Mengzhou Mansion has done a good job, and it has let such an important person go!" ”

Meng Feng sneered: "It's not that your people leaked the news, so that Dongdaying knew a month ago that the teacher was going out of the mountain, so he sent someone to Youzhou in advance to investigate." ”

Xue Mu was shocked: "A month ago? How can it be?! ”

Meng Feng said: "If you hadn't been unwilling to tell me about the people involved in the plan, how could I be in a hurry to bring Gao Bo to Zhi'an?" ”

Xue Mu returned to his seat, looked at the two, hesitated for a moment and explained, "It was Fang Xiang's people who helped us. ”

"Fang Yue?"

Meng Feng said incredulously: "Why did Fang Xiang help you?" ”

Xue Mu said: "In order to get rid of Lin Ye!" ”

"Lin Ye? Dugu Ping? Is Fang Xiang going to do something to Beidaying? But what does this have to do with the teacher's departure from the mountain? Meng Feng said.

Xue Mudao: "We are just using each other, a few months ago, we received a few secret letters in Jiuqu, the person in the letter said that he was ordered by Fang Xiang to join forces with us to get rid of Lin Ye, and the person in the letter also sent us the army deployment map of the entire Beida Battalion outside the Jiuqu Thirteenth Ring Road, Fang Xiang meant to let us lead the troops out of the mountain, break through the defense line of the Beida Battalion, and cause the world to shake, even if Lin Ye is not killed by us, he can also take the opportunity to remove the generals of the Beida Battalion and reshuffle the entire Beida Battalion, Put your own cronies in. You also know that if it weren't for Lin Ye's betrayal back then, the Dugu family would not have been able to hit the imperial capital so quickly, and the old people in the mountains hated Lin Ye to the core, even if they agreed to Fang Xiang's strategy. ”

Meng Feng gasped and said: "I know that among the four major battalions, only the Beida Battalion is not a descendant of the Dugu family, and it is reasonable for Fang to covet the Beida Battalion, but he dares to tell you such a secret military aircraft!" But aren't you afraid that this is a ploy by Fang Xiang and Beidaying to unite to lure you out of the mountain? ”

Xue Mudao: "Of course we won't be gullible, in those months, we continued to send people with maps to verify all over the defense line, and found that there were no mistakes or omissions, and then we successively selected hundreds of dead soldiers, all of whom sneaked into all parts of Dizhou safe and sound without Lin Ye's knowledge, plus every once in a while we will receive a new map of the military strength of the Beida Battalion, so we believe in Fang Xiang's sincerity." ”

Meng Feng said: "Even if you have the help of the map, your frequent actions will not attract people's attention, and there must be someone in the Beida camp who is secretly helping." ”

Xue Mu said: "Yes, the other party can tell the distribution of troops in such detail, we speculate that the person who wrote the letter must be a senior general in the Beida battalion, sure enough, in the letter a month and a half ago, we found clues, Fang Xiang's side seems to be dissatisfied with our slow movement, in the latest troop deployment map, clearly marked a few safe exits for us, and these exits are all concentrated in the west side of Gao Bo's department, we took the risk to try to contact Gao Bo, and found that Gao Bo was indeed the person behind the command to deliver the letter. ”

Meng Feng said: "Lin Ye's Peking University camp is full of old subordinates who followed him back then, and Gao Bo is also one of them, why does he want Lin Ye to die?" ”

Xue Mudao: "Although all the soldiers in the Beida camp are Lin Ye's subordinates, they are all soldiers loyal to the Lin Dynasty at the earliest!" These people followed Lin Ye to raise troops because they obeyed Lin Ye's orders, and because the eunuchs were regent at that time and were unpopular with the people. But they didn't expect the Dugu clan to seize the throne, and they didn't expect that the ruler of the Dugu family would send them to the frontier of the empire and let them fight with their former compatriots. ”

Meng Feng said: "Then how did Gao Bo become a person of Fang Xiang?" ”

Xue Mu shook his head and said: "I don't know this, and it has nothing to do with us, after communicating with Gao Bo, we know that in addition to Gao Bo and his brother Gao Zhen, they are also Fang Xiang's people, and these two people are stationed on the west side of the defense line. At that time, the teacher felt that his time was short, and he wanted to see his homeland before he died, and I thought that I could take this opportunity to send the teacher out through their defenses, so I went to communicate with Gao Bo in person, who knew that Gao Bo respected the teacher, but he was not willing to take risks, and it was not until I threatened to expose him that he sent a letter to the mountains, and he was forced to agree. So there was a plan for us to disguise the front battalion of the Beida Camp to enter Youzhou. ”

Xue Mu smiled bitterly: "As for who Gao Bo informed of the plan, I don't know, judging from Gao Bo's respect for the teacher, for the safety of the teacher, Gao Bo should not inform Fang Xiang of this matter, but this plan has great risks, and it can go so smoothly." Presumably, in addition to Gao Zhen, there are other people who are secretly plotting against us. ”

Meng Feng took a deep breath and said helplessly: "In other words, you don't know who leaked the plan?" ”

Xue Mu's expression suddenly changed, and he said contemplatively: "I just remembered, senior brother, you mean that Dongdaying received the news a month ago?" ”

Meng Feng seemed to have thought of something, and said with a look of disbelief: "The distance between Dongdaying and the Thirteenth Ring of Jiuqu is so far, which means that someone knew that the teacher was coming out at least two months ago?" And you want to come to my Youzhou?! ”