"I've got a choice." Xue Mu said in a deep voice.

"You mean that Su Yan?" Qiao Qi guessed what Xue Mu was thinking.

"Exactly."

"Do you want to give up that Su Yan?" Qiao Qi was very hesitant in his heart, he was already old, and he had no energy to try to restore the country, but after all, Xue Mu and Qiao Zheng still had a future, and Su Yan was the biggest hope for them to make a comeback, and he was reluctant to give up Su Yan to the imperial court.

"I think so."

Qiao Zheng didn't like this person who had parachuted in from the moment he saw Su Yan, he felt that his father-in-law and Xue Mu took Su Yan's role too seriously, and in his eyes, the people of the Baiyi tribe were basically barbarian and uncivilized savages, so there was nothing to worry about.

Qiao Zheng said: "Why bother the father-in-law, without this person, we can still unify Dongyi." ”

Xue Mu didn't understand where Qiao Zheng's hostility towards Su Yan came from, he looked at the teacher on the side, looking at the worry in Qiao Qi's eyes, Xue Mu said slowly: "Maybe we can let him complete the task without losing Su Yan." ”

Qiao Qi was overjoyed: "What can you do?" ”

Xue Mu pondered for a moment and said: "I can't guarantee the success of this plan, I can only say that it is okay to try, and I want to send him to fake surrender." ”

"Fake drop?" Qiao Qi frowned and muttered.

"Only a fake surrender can save his life, Su Yan is not our person, as long as he slightly tamperes with the situation of the City Lord's Mansion at that time, the officials and soldiers should not be embarrassed for him, and let him take a few surviving people next to the family with him, and these people will naturally testify to him."

When Qiao Zheng heard this, he directly retorted: "Isn't General Xue afraid that kid betraying us and really taking refuge in the past?" ”

"As far as I know, he has a deep enmity with the imperial court, and only by relying on us can he hope to avenge his father."

"Where did you know that?" Qiao Zheng was surprised.

"This is what Su Yan said himself."

Qiao Zheng's eyes widened, and he said incredulously: "Do you believe this?" If he had been sent by someone else to hide with us......"

Before Qiao Zheng finished speaking, Xue Mu directly intercepted: "If he really has two hearts, then this is a good opportunity to test him." ”

Qiao Zheng raised his eyebrows, expressing puzzlement.

Xue Mu explained: "In the current situation, we have to give up some people anyway, let Su Yan take them, if he really has other intentions and betrays us, our losses are still within the acceptable range, it is not a good thing to detect his dissenting intentions as early as possible to avoid greater losses in the future, and if he does not betray us, through the method of fake surrender, he may still have the possibility of living and coming to us again." ”

"What if he betrayed us at the first time and informed the Beifu Iron Rider of our whereabouts? At that time, it was not safe for us to walk through the desert. Qiao Zheng asked.

"Do you remember what I said earlier? He must be accompanied by people who are loyal to us, and I will privately order them to let them follow Su Xian's side closely after we separate, not leaving an inch, and if Su Xian makes any abnormal moves, they will work together to kill him. ”

Qiao Zheng pursed his lips and didn't say anything more.

"Okay, just do as you say." After Qiao Qi saw that Qiao Zheng had no objections, he said to Xue Mudao.

Xue Mu then asked, "The personnel in there? ”

Qiao Qi turned around, waved his hand, and said tiredly: "You can arrange it yourself." ”

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In the more than ten years before the fall of the previous dynasty, because the power of the empire was in the hands of a group of eunuchs, the entire imperial center was in a state of paralysis, and the weakness and incompetence of the central government directly led to the continuous expansion of the strength of local states and counties, so that the military strength of several states and counties, including the Dugu family's prefecture, gradually became stronger.

After Duguli became emperor, he implemented the army reform under the advice of the emperor, established the current four battalions, and set up the general's mansion outside the military department, and all the large-scale military dispatch of the four battalions required the consent of the imperial general's mansion to be implemented.

However, everything in the world is not perfect, because the General's Mansion is located in the center of the continent, and the location of the four battalions is distributed in the four frontiers of the empire, the long distance makes it impossible to transmit many urgent military information in the first time.

Fortunately, apart from a few small riots in some areas, nothing major has happened in the past ten years.

Until last night......

Xue Mu's sudden departure and night march caught the imperial court by surprise and caused many unexpected situations.

First of all, because after the scouts sent out by Dongdaying and Xuanzhou were resolved, Dongdaying and the neighboring Xuanzhou could not figure out the movements of Xue Mu and others at all, so they had to notify the neighboring states and counties on the one hand, and at the same time urgently report to the General's Mansion for 800 miles, waiting for the military order of the General's Mansion, when the officials around Youzhou received the news, it was noon the next day, and the Jiuqu army at this time had already entered the territory of Luzhou, and at this time the Dongdaying was still waiting for the order of the General's Mansion.

Could it be that Ruoling and Dugu Shao's Dongda Camp couldn't set off without permission?

If in peacetime, of course, the generals of the four battalions are not brainless, and they still understand the reason that they will not be subject to foreign military orders, but not now, or they don't dare, at this time in their cognition, the only heir of the empire, His Royal Highness Prince Duguyun is still in the hands of the Jiuqu rebels, they don't know the other party's movements, if they choose the right direction to chase over, it is still a great achievement, but if they chase in the wrong direction, the responsibility for losing the prince will fall on the head of the East Battalion, of course, in addition to this, It is unknown whether General Ruoling of the East Camp has a small abacus in his heart.

Secondly, except for Xuanzhou and Fuzhou, the other states did not receive any news about Youzhou, and there was only one heir to the Holy Dugu Qi, and there were countless people who coveted the prince's life outside, and the imperial court did not spread the news out of the consideration of protecting the prince and stabilizing people's hearts, so that after the Youzhou incident, the officers and troops in Luzhou and other states did not receive the general's precautionary order.

In this way, Xue Mu led thousands of cavalry, did not take the official road, only took the shortest roads and small roads, marched day and night, and the whole army wore the imperial army clothes taken out of the Youzhou treasury, under the banner of the Beidaying and Youzhou army, and marched all the way unimpeded.

There was basically no obstacle to such an army in the entire territory of Luzhou, and by the time they received the letter from the General's Mansion, Xue Mu and the others had already left here.