Gongsun Sheng said helplessly: "Don't Zhang Xiaochun and others know that they can't fight for the sake of fighting, as soon as you say something to the east, I will say the west, and do everything right, and the result can be imagined." ”

Shan Tingqi smiled and said: "Brother, you are still not used to officialdom, even Sima Guang and Cheng Yi judge the correctness of things as villains and gentlemen, and as a result, Yinzhou and other places are returned to Western Xia for nothing, Zhang Xiaochun's actions are not difficult to understand." What we need to consider now is whether to make the contradictions public and stop suffering. ”

Yang Zhi looked around at the four of them and said: "What I'm most worried about is that Zhang Shen deliberately delays the war in Suizhou, so that we are in a dilemma, I want to ask, if I let Wu'er Siqi escape back to Lingzhou, will he take the initiative to give up Suizhou at this time?"

"No way. Yang Zhongwu said with certainty: "Wu'er Siqi is most worried about being ambushed by us on the way to escape. ”

Yang Zhi asked again: "Then how determined is Wu'er Siqi willing to fight to the death? Will it go all the way to the dark? Cai Fu, tell me about the situation of Wu'er Siqi's family." ”

Cai Fu replied: "Wu'er Siqi family is the descendants of Heishui Yao, five generations later Tang moved to Dengzhou, and later became a horse merchant in the Central Plains, trading with the Dangxiang clan, and finally joined the Dingyan army; ”

Gongsun Sheng asked tentatively, "Is Yang Shuai preparing to start with Wu'er Siqi?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "I estimate that Qu Duan is likely to beat Lingzhou and force Brother Richard to retreat to Xingzhou; I can give Wu'er Siqi a promise, I don't need him to surrender, as long as he doesn't mess around, one day in the future, our army will be in Xingzhou, and he will give his family a chance. ”

This requirement is not high, for Wu'er Siqi, there is no need to do anything to betray, as long as the army is restrained to stay in Suizhou; Li Yanxian shook his head and said: "Yang Shuai, instead of this, it is better to spread false information, there must be people in Wujie or Youzhou City who are in contact with Western Xia, we release the news that Wu'er Siqi is already talking with us, and Brother Li Cha will return to Xingzhou as soon as possible." ”

Li Yanxian's statement has a lot of room for maneuver, Yang Zhi has five camps near the border of Suizhou, blocking the passage between Suizhou and Youzhou; Yang Zhi can make a fake from there, and Youzhou is not clear here at all, Yang Zhi thought for a while and said: "Yanxian's idea is better, we can give it a try, Brother Gongsun, why don't you accompany Master Li Guang on a trip; I will send a captured officer to Suizhou, and only discuss with Wu'er Siqi about the release of Ma Shen." ”

Gongsun Sheng smiled: "No problem. ”

The next day, Gongsun Sheng and Li Guang set off in a carriage under the protection of a thousand horsemen, and Wu Jue, who was sitting on the border line of Suizhou, had already fought with the cavalry of Western Xia; fortunately, because the trap of Suizhou was designed early, Quduan built five camps at that time just in case.

Li Guang and Gongsun Sheng did not go to the camp at the front of Wu Jue, and the camp that was still 60 miles away from Youzhou did not move, and sent someone to send the captured Western Xia officer to Wu Jue; Wu Jie had already received Yang Zhi's letter and immediately sent the officer to the Western Xia army. The Western Xia army learned that Yang Zhi had a letter, and even sent the letter to Suizhou, Wu'er Siqi saw that it was really Yang Zhi's arrangement, and Yang Zhi wanted to exchange ten captured officials in Xiazhou for Ma Shen. cruel

After reading Yang Zhi's official documents repeatedly, Wu'er Siqi sighed and said: "Amazing, Yang Zhi, Suizhou and Xiazhou are different, after these days of interrogation, don't you know that Ma Shen and these people are abandoned sons; but the ten officials opened by Yang Zhi are all the sons of dignitaries in the court, and Yang Zhi is very smart, and he did not kill them, but proposed to us in exchange." If we don't agree, think about it, what do the people in the DPRK think of us?"

Wuzang Guduo was speechless for a moment, he understood what Wu'er Siqi meant, Yang Zhi was making a fuss;

Wu'er pondered and said: "I feel very strange, we have occupied Suizhou for six days, except for Wu Jue to monitor us in the west, the Dingbei army has not taken the action of counterattack, is it just to wait for us to run out of food and grass before we start? Yang Zhi is so eager to exchange prisoners, don't you know that we know Ma Shen's identity? My mind is very confused, I hope that the Lingzhou side can give me a hint, a clear hint; before that, I am still willing to consume with the Song army." ”

Wu Guduo did not object, and came out and asked the deputy general in charge of grain and grass in a low voice: "How long can our grain and grass last?"

The adjutant general smiled bitterly: "General, we have plenty of food and grass, but this is a lonely city, and Yang Zhi probably won't send an army to attack us." If I were Yang Zhi, I only needed to wait, and when the battle in Lingzhou was over, if Yue Fei captured Lingzhou, our army would definitely have no fighting spirit, and even if Yue Fei failed, our 30,000 people would also be a bargaining chip in Yang Zhi's hands. Lingzhou lost 60,000 people, we are losing, and there are only 200,000 people left in Great Xia. ”

There was no hiding bone and a sigh, even his deputy general could see clearly, Yang Zhi was really generous, just like blowing up the embankment of the Yellow River in Lingzhou, once again refreshing the cognition of his own people; now he is embattled, presumably most of the generals in the army have lost the spirit of competition.

It's a pity that Wu'er Siqi and Wuzang Guduo didn't guess that Yang Zhi's drunkard meant not to drink, what Yang Zhi needed was to let everyone see the messengers on both sides, in the early morning of the seventh day of the fall of Suizhou, the fog had not completely dispersed, and a messenger of the Dingbei Army galloped from the direction of Suizhou to the east gate of Youzhou, showed the waist card of the Fu Division, and hurriedly ran into the city gate.

The veteran carrying the railing asked, "Geng Si, why is it so urgent? ”

Geng Si said: "You don't know, Master Li Guang wants me to bring the reply before dusk today, and I can't afford it." ”

The veteran lowered his voice and asked, "Is it that the other party is waiting for a letter, and the battle is about to end?"

The uneasiness on Geng Si's face flashed: "What nonsense, there is nothing." ”

After Geng Si finished speaking, he rushed out of the passage that had removed the obstruction, and hurried all the way to Zhifusi, but anyone who saw Geng Si's expression could conclude that the old soldier had guessed correctly, and the old soldier shook his head indifferently, neither of them noticing that one of the officials at the city gate had found a reason to leave in a hurry.