On April 22, it was hot. Qin Le turned over and jumped off his horse, handed the reins to the ten generals on the side, and walked into the tent of the Chinese army. He paused at the door and glanced at the big black flag erected outside the tent - it was the banner of the 3,000 men, and the word "black bird" was written on it.

After entering the account, I saw Cao Wen, the commander of the Black Bird Army, sitting in front of the case, staring at the map on the case without blinking, so he didn't make a sound for the time being. I walked to the side and poured a cup of herbal tea with a pot and drank it slowly, thinking while drinking, what is this person going to do?

Before the eighth day, he was seriously ill, and Li Bochen asked for help from the Linxi Army. Three days ago, the Black Bird Army, which was originally stationed in Jinzhou, was led by Cao Wen, all the way north, and camped five miles away from Mengjiatun.

It is five miles away from Mengjiatun, and it is also five miles away from the Sui army camp outside Houcheng. On the day of arrival, Cao Wen led his own army to Tunli and met Li Bochen. The two sides said some polite words, and then Cao Wen resigned on the grounds that there was still military affairs, and the whole process was only half an hour.

From the day of the fight to the present, he has never seen Li Bochen again, nor has he conveyed the king's order to himself and Wei Dongshan. This made Qin Le feel more and more strange, and he had to come to the camp to ask for clarification.

I had been here a few times a few days ago, but Cao Wen was hesitant and didn't say anything. To this day, Qin Le gradually developed some anger in his heart. He drank half of the herbal tea, pinched the pottery cup in his hand, and suddenly raised his hand and threw it on the case in front of Cao Wen.

There was still half a cup of water, some splashed on the map, and some splashed on Cao Wen's face. Cao Wen was startled, leaned back, shook off the water on the map first, then raised his hand to wipe his face, looked at Qin Le and said, "Oh, General Qin, are you here?"

Qin Le sneered: "General Cao, this is what I want to ask you." The letter I handed to the king said that Li Bochen had the intention of surrendering, and the king assigned you to bring troops. But when you get here, you don't tell me what the king wants, and you don't contact Li Bochen - the situation will be repeated in a few days, and the good situation will be ruined for a while, even if the king is generous, I will never spare you!"

Cao Wen smiled bitterly, got up and took a handkerchief from the shelf on the side, and said while wiping his face: "Brother Qin, you are really in a hurry. By virtue of your friendship with me, what I could have said to you before, will I not tell you? Come, sit down first, and listen to what I tell you—"

Qin Le was stunned: "Once upon a time, what do you mean?"

Cao Wen threw the handkerchief on the table and smiled: "I didn't say it a few days ago because I didn't get the king's conviction." Today, the king's order has just arrived, and I was going to tell you later, but I also caught up with you. That's—"

He suddenly turned his face blank and shouted: "Linxi Jun advises, Qin Le listens to the order!"

Qin Le hesitated for a moment, stood up straight and gave a military salute, and said in a deep voice: "Qin Le is here!"

Cao Wendao: "The king said: General Cao, after you arrived, you told Qin Le that he and Wei Dongshan had done a good job in this matter, and they had made great contributions. He has an impatient temperament, and you are old and calm, so let him take your opinion first. ”

He paused. After a while, Qin Le glared and said, "It's gone!?"

Cao Wenzhong laughed: "That's all, it's gone." But General Qin, with this edict, I can tell you something else—please sit down. ”

Qin Le frowned and stared at him for a while before slowly sitting down.

Cao Wen said with a straight face: "It has been confirmed that Li Bochen is indeed not the Spirit Lord of Beichen. The people in the king found the child that Chang Gaoyi had been looking for, and after a detailed investigation, they could determine that the child was. ”

Qin Le couldn't help but straighten up: "Really!? What about now?"

"The boy is dead, and it stands to reason that luck should have befallen someone else. But the king said that the kid left a thing, or it was related to the inheritance of luck, and asked you and me to check this place in detail to see if that thing was brought to Li Bochen by Chang Gaoyi before. ”

Qin Le was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and said, "Didn't the king say what it was?"

Cao Wen smiled: "Even if you say it, do you dare to listen to it? There is always an unannounced secret to the inheritance of luck surnamed Wang, so that we know that we can pay it back." But Brother Qin, you said to the monarch before that Li Bochen was also a little wrong, did you notice something?"

Qin Le thought for a while and snorted lowly: "General Cao, if this is wrong and also involves the inheritance of luck, then do you dare to listen to what I said?"

Cao Wen said: "Brother Qin, are you still angry with me? I also think that Brother Qin, your talent is above me, but the king ordered you to call me one master and one auxiliary, and I can't help it." Even if Brother Qin is dissatisfied, it is best to wait for this matter to be over before he goes up to the king. ”

Qin Le snorted: "How dare I have any dissatisfaction." Since it is the king's intention - then everything in this Mengjiatun will be handed over to General Cao to take over. However, even if Li Bochen is not the Spirit Lord of Beichen, he is also a pivotal figure at the moment. What do you mean you haven't seen him for days?"

Cao Wen smiled: "Brother Qin, do you think he is important? I don't think so. ”

"Since this person has been appointed as a martial artist, he is a person of the king. You think that he is also surnamed Li now and has a noble status, but if you think about it again, he is only honored with us. If you leave us and go somewhere else, how can you be honorable and important?"

Qin Le was stunned: "What do you mean by this?"

Cao Wendao: "You said before that Li Bochen promised to ask us to garrison here, and he came to provide supplies. But I thought about it and felt that this matter was inappropriate - since Mengjiatun was under our protection, there was no need for two masters. ”

"After a few days, the Sui army really arrived, and we took this opportunity to ask him to hand over all the power in his hands. If you can hand over what is related to the inheritance of luck, then you can naturally enjoy wealth and prosperity, which is the best result. If you don't want to, I'm afraid that you will use force. So these days, I'm actually not interesting, I'm just too lazy to meet him. ”

Qin Le said: "You want to call him a puppet?"

sneered again: "General Cao, that Li Bochen was also a general who commanded the army in the past, and I won't tell you, I think he is a usable talent." Originally, when I told you, I wanted to recruit him, not to be held hostage like you. And have you ever thought that if you really do this, he will turn his face in anger, what will we do?"

Cao Wen said with a smile: "He has no more than 30 soldiers and only 1,000 men, so what can he do to turn his face? But now he has to count on us to save our lives, so naturally he has to do what we say." ”

Qin Le was silent for a moment, and then suddenly spoke: "General Cao, I remember that you used to be a Sui person. Do you have an old grudge against him?"

Cao Wen was stunned for a moment, and then smiled again: "I was only two or three years old when I came to Li Jing with my father, what does it have to do with the Sui people?"

Qin Le was silent. After thinking for a while, he said, "I remember." General Cao's grandfather was the sect leader of a sect in the Sui Realm. That sect is in the area of Zhangcheng?"