From mid-April, as if awakening to his will, Hu launched a fierce counterattack on Shizuicheng, where the Liang army was based.

Every day it was dark.

The siege lasted until early May, during which Hu launched a total of 17 attacks, each of which ended in defeat and forced the Liang army to raise the walls by nearly a zhang.

At the end of each battle, it took more than half a day to clean up the corpses, and the burning of the corpses was foul-smelling, and it had not dispersed for more than a month.

The defenders of the city are tired, let alone the siegers.

In mid-May, the Hu people no longer attacked the city, but used cavalry to attack the logistics and supplies of the Liang army, the grassland was too open, the cavalry of the Liang army could not compare with the Hu army, even if they could quickly respond and intercept, they could not completely eliminate the danger.

In desperation, Song Che transferred 50,000 elite soldiers from the upper road and stationed them on the right flank of Shizui City, so that even if the enemy cavalry attacked and harassed, he had to go around in a big circle and gain more defense time for logistics support.

After the combat effectiveness was divided on the upper road, it once again entered the stage of stalemate with the enemy, and the enemy army on the lower road guarded the two major passes of Jiayu and Yumen, which was even more difficult to shake.

In mid-May and early June, the two sides seemed to have tacitly agreed to a truce, but from early June onwards, Hu launched another attack.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

Endless killings, piles of corpses, blood staining the steppes.

On this day, Liu Tong found Song Che.

"Strategist, after more than a month of my observation, I have confirmed ten suspicious characters in Moyo, all of whom are of different races, including eight men and five women—

The women disguised themselves as prostitutes and had affairs with many soldiers, but the discipline in the army was strict, and those who came to them to buy prostitution were all pawns, and no sergeants patronized them;

The other eight men volunteered to be included in the cavalry, and were very passive on the battlefield, and did not deal with their colleagues much on weekdays, and one of them often went out late at night, and his behavior was quite suspicious. ”

"Hmm...... Have you tested them? Song Che asked.

"The lower officials were afraid of startling the snake, and they were afraid of leaking the military aircraft, so they didn't dare to try it easily, but they just collected enough evidence and came to the military advisor to confirm." Liu Tong said.

Song Che thought for a moment and said: "In this way, if you fake the news, it means that a batch of baggage will be transported from Lucheng tomorrow, so that the cavalry will be ready to meet him, and we will see how he is tonight." ”

"The military advisor has a clever plan, and the next official will do it."

……

It's night.

Late at night.

Song Che, Jiang Yuntian, and Liu Tong came to the sentry tower, in a condescending position, overlooking the entire military camp.

Xu was too tired to defend the city during the day, the barracks were quiet, and all the soldiers slept to death.

The night was three minutes deeper.

"The rat is out of the hole."

Song Che handed the telescope to Jiang Yuntian.

A non-commissioned officer tiptoed out of the barracks, he should have done this more than once, and chose the route to miss the patrol perfectly.

He walked to a locust tree a hundred paces away from the camp, looked around for a moment, and after making sure that there was no one around, he whistled softly, and a wild goose fell from the branch into his arm, he tied the creed to the goose's feet, and gently lifted it into the air, and the wild goose flapped its wings and ran away to the moon, and then he returned to the cavalry camp as if nothing had happened.

"Day and night, it's hard to prevent thieves, no wonder the other party can pinch it accurately every time the time of transporting materials, it turns out that there are internal ghosts who have been passing news to them, it's extremely hateful!" Jiang Yuntian angrily handed the telescope back.

Song Cheyun said lightly: "It's not strange, it's not strange...... On the contrary, it is a good thing. ”

"A good thing?"

"He must have sent out information more than once, and every piece of information has made the Hu people reap the sweetness, which will undoubtedly increase the Hu people's trust in his information, and we need this trust-

This is called pig raising, first set a trap, raise the pig to be white and fat, and finally slaughter it in the sharpening of the knife. ”

"It's not good to feed a pig too fat, and it hurts to be arched by it."

"Hmm...... It's time to slaughter the pigs. ”

Song Che took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Liu Tong, "Lord Liu, this is a very difficult task, looking at the entire military camp, I can rest assured that you will do it alone-

You went out of the city overnight, delivered this letter to Asler, the leader of the Eagle Tribe, who was stationed twenty miles west of the city, and told him for me that sometimes the choice is often greater than the effort, and there is only one chance, I hope he will consider it carefully. ”

Liu Tong gritted his teeth and took the envelope, "The next official will not disgrace his mission!" Immediately, he resolutely walked down the watchtower.

"Do you want to ...... Divide them? Jiang Yuntian asked.

Song Che nodded lightly, "The Eagle Tribe is the most powerful tribe except for the capital of the Hu Kingdom, and the biological mother of the Great Prince Sultan is the sister of Asler, the leader of the Eagle Tribe.

The second prince, Kuimu, killed his father and brother to seize the throne, and he himself formed a grudge with various tribes, and the reason why they briefly allied to attack us was that they regarded us as common enemies.

Right now, I'm offering to woo him and giving him a condition that he can't refuse, and there's an 80 percent chance he'll be friends with us. ”

"Is it only eighty percent? What if he is so hard-hearted that he wants to share the same hatred with the Hu tribes? Jiang Yuntian asked.

"No, eighty percent are friends with us, and the remaining two percent are undecided, but he will definitely not refuse easily, because I said in the letter that I praised him as the king of the grassland," Song Che asked Jiang Yuntian with a smile: "If you were Asler, would you refuse?" ”

Jiang Yuntian shook his head, "I won't refuse, but ...... Do you really want to praise him as the king of the steppe? ”

"Of course not, I just drew him a flatbread, it doesn't matter if he eats it or not, the main purpose is to let others know that I painted him a flatbread,"

Song Che said: "When Asler is tempted, we will use the hand of the inner ghost to convey the news of Asler's collusion and rebellion, so as to intensify the contradictions between the majority of the capital and the outside, and then reap the benefits from it - this yang plot is called 'driving the tiger and devouring the wolf'." ”