Chapter 33: The First Try
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Although Xiang Ye was very reluctant, he finally adopted Wu Wei's suggestion.
Xiang Ye, who was dressed in plain clothes, rushed from Jiuyuan City to Jixian County with a team wearing pure white armor.
Li Xinpeng arranged the defense of Jixian County, and outside Jixian County, many Yan troops gathered here from all over the city surrounded the city.
These generals of the Yan army did not accept Li Xinpeng's persuasion to surrender, after receiving the persuasion letter sent by the Xia army, although some people were hesitant to surrender, but more people thought of avenging Zang Di, and in the few days after the fall of Jixian County, the Yan army felt outside the city and surrounded the city.
When Xiang Ye arrived at Jixian County, Jixian County had been surrounded for more than ten days.
Every day the Yan army outside the city will launch an attack on the city wall, although the scale of these attacks is not large, it is not so much an attack, but it is better to attack and disturb, but the city has been besieged for a long time, and the food and grass in the city will inevitably be insufficient, and rescuing Li Xinpeng has become a matter that Xiang Ye has to solve immediately.
When Xiang Ye left Jiuyuan City, Wu Wei had already calculated that the Yan army would besiege Jixian.
At the same time, Wu Wei also calculated that the besieging of Jixian County was only the Yan army responsible for the defense of various places, and the overall combat effectiveness was not very strong.
Only more than ten miles away from Jixian County, Xiang Ye reined in his war horse and looked at the Yan Kingdom battle flag that was faintly visible in the distance with a twisted brow.
The battle flags of the Yan Kingdom are dense, and you can't see the end at a glance.
The general on the side leaned into Xiang Ye's ear and whispered, "King, there are so many Yan troops, should we transfer some soldiers and horses from the country?" ”
Xiang Ye shook his head and said to the general: "General Baifu has just returned to Jiuyuan City to recuperate, General Wei Feng and Hu Muchun went to Linhe together, and General Shi Lei has killed too much, it is not suitable for him to deal with the Yan people, as for your General Jing Ao, he is even more responsible for defending Jiuyuan City, except for Xiang Tong's Chu army, I have no soldiers to adjust now." ”
"I can't transfer the Chu army to help us fight the Yan people, right?" Xiang Ye's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said to the partial general: "You go to the Yan army camp and ask them to find a general who can talk, and I will negotiate with them in person!" ”
The partial general hesitated, but did not continue to make suggestions to Xiang Ye, answered, and rode towards the Yan army camp.
Xiang Ye ordered the team to camp on the spot and quietly waited for the general to return from the Yan army camp.
From time to time, there were bursts of shouts and killings outside Jixian County, and Xiang Ye, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, only slightly pursed the corners of his mouth when he heard those shouts of killing.
Although the shouting and killing sound was loud, Xiang Ye didn't feel the murderous aura at all. This is very incompatible with the gloomy and dusty atmosphere of the battlefield.
He could be sure that the Yan army's attack was nothing more than a bluff, and more of them just wanted to 'force' Xia Guo to give a better condition, rather than really wanting to be an enemy of Xia Guo!
Xiang Ye's guess was indeed correct, as soon as it was dark, the partial generals he sent out returned to the barracks intact.
"King Qiyu, the minister was ordered to go to the Yan army camp to meet a few Yan generals, those Yan generals were unwilling to negotiate with the king on the surface, but in private, they all told the minister that their siege of Jixian was just instigated by a person named Zang Yu, if they could get rid of this person, they were all willing to serve the king!" After returning to the barracks, the general went straight into Xiang Ye's big tent to report to him.
Xiang Ye smiled slightly, and said to the partial general: "Do you believe that one person can instigate these generals to become enemies of Great Xia?" ”
The general shook his head and said a little blankly: "The minister doesn't believe it either, but the minister really can't understand why they all want to kill that person named Zang Yan!" ”
"Just a litmus test!" Xiang Ye waved his hand to the general and said, "You go down to rest, I will arrange this matter!" ”
The general responded, turned around and left Xiang Ye's big tent.
"Someone!" Not long after the general left, Xiang Ye shouted outside the tent.
After the shouting, it was not Xiang Ye's guards who entered the tent, but a young man wearing black 'color' armor.
"King!" After the young man entered the tent, he didn't kneel and bow, but just stood in front of Xiang Ye with his fists folded.
"Since following the overlord, I have been training you 'in private', and today you should also sacrifice your sword!" After the young man entered the tent, Xiang Ye lowered his head and played with a bronze wine glass on the table, and said in a slow tone: "There is a person named Zang Yu in the barracks of the Yan Army, I want his head, before dawn tomorrow, you can help me get him!" ”
The young man in black answered, turned around and walked out of the tent.
He got out of Xiang Ye's big tent and disappeared behind a bush of grass while the night was dark.
In the grass, several other people in black 'colored' armor had been waiting there for a long time, and when they saw him, they hurriedly surrounded him, and one of them asked in a low voice, "Wang Yu, has the king finally decided to use us?" ”
Wang You, who had received the will from Xiang Ye, nodded, and said to these people: "We, the 'Wuyi Guards', finally have the opportunity to show our skills this time!" The king said that there is a man named Zang Yu in the barracks of the Yan army, and we must bring his head before dawn! ”
"Hehe, okay!" The other men in black glanced at each other, and one of them, who was short in stature but looked very 'lean', said, "I've wanted to go out and try my sword for a long time!" ”
"Let's go!" Wang Yu was obviously the head of this group, and after conveying Xiang Ye's will, he didn't talk much to these people, and with a wave of his hand, he led them to rush to the Yan army's military camp at night.
The Yan army besieging Jixian County had more than 100,000 people, and it was already very difficult to find a characterless person in such a military camp, and it was even more difficult to kill that person.
Wang Yu and the others didn't seem to be interested in the exact information about whether there was Zang Yu or not, and they stopped when they marched to a place that was only more than fifty steps away from the Yan army's military camp, lurking behind a small dirt slope.
"If we want to know the exact location of Zang Yan, we can only catch a live mouth." After everyone lurked, Wang Yu whispered to the others: "The person who can let the king personally order the assassination must have a prominent position in the military camp, but the Yan army is an army from many different places gathered together, and the military discipline is bound to be loose, and we still have an opportunity to take advantage of it!" ”
Several black-clothed men nodded, their eyes all focused on Wang Yu's face.
"Second son, you go and 'get' a living, remember, as long as the officers don't want soldiers!" Wang Yu arranged for a man in black to catch the live mouth, and then said to another man in black: "Dog Four, you and Sanwazi go and dig some pits, and bury some of the things we brought on the way that the Yan army must pass to chase us, don't bury too much, bury too much 'waste' fee!" ”
The few people who received the order were ordered to leave, and Wang Yu and the rest of the people crouched behind the dirt slope and watched the Yan army camp.
The second son was short and quickly 'touched' towards the Yan army camp, and everyone who was lying behind the dirt slope watching him was watching nervously.
After all, this is their first mission, and the success or failure of this mission directly determines the status and degree of reuse of these people in front of Xiang Ye in the future.
When they were only more than ten steps away from the Yan army camp, the second son fell to the ground.
He heard footsteps coming from the barracks, apparently a patrol coming towards him.
Sure enough, after a while, a patrol of more than a dozen people appeared in everyone's field of vision.
The second son lying on the ground was only more than ten steps away from the patrol, and as long as he moved slightly, he would be discovered by the Yan army.
He lay on the ground with his fists clenched, beads of sweat forming in his palms. In his ears, the whole world fell into silence, except for the sound of the Yan army patrol walking on the ground, all he could hear was his own heartbeat.
The patrol circled around the neighborhood twice, turned around and walked back to the barracks.
Everyone let out a long sigh, and the second son, who was closest to the barracks, even raised his throat and fell back into his mouth.
When the patrol was far away, the second son got up from the ground and disappeared into the Yan army's barracks in a flash.
Compared with the second son, the tasks of the fourth and third children are relatively simpler.
They found a place where the Yan army would inevitably pass by if they fled, dug more than ten pits, and then 'touched' more than ten small bronze balls from the cloth bag they carried, and after burying these balls one by one, they returned to Wang Yu's side.
Wang Yu didn't ask them if they had buried their things, but crawled on the ground, looking at the Yan army's military camp without blinking, what he was most worried about was not how to block the Yan army's pursuit when he fled, but whether he could successfully complete the task.
After about a stick of incense, everyone saw a figure running out of the Yan army barracks, and the figure seemed to be carrying a person on his shoulder.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Wang Yu muttered quietly in his mouth, clenched his fists, and his forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat.
Gradually, the figure approached, and it was the second son who carried someone back.
As soon as he ran to the back of the dirt slope, the second son threw the person he was carrying on his shoulders to the ground, and said scoldingly: "This guy still wants to scream, but he didn't scream because he was stunned by my palm!" I was almost ruined by him! ”
Wang Yu glanced at the person who was thrown on the ground by the second son, and saw that this person was wearing a snow-white robe, looking like an officer who was about to sleep.
"Wake him up!" Wang Yu muttered to a black-clothed guard behind him.
The black-clothed guard nodded, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and stabbed it fiercely at the Yan Army's officer's big 'leg'.
This time it was deep and ruthless, and the Yan Army officer who had been in a coma suddenly woke up with painful eyes. If it weren't for the fact that the second son had stuffed a large ball of sackcloth in his mouth beforehand, he would have let out a miserable howl. ~