Chapter 298: Counter-Plot

Seeing the rebels under the city retreat like a tide, Yuan Xie came to Yuan up with some excitement and said excitedly: "Brother Huang, oh, no, the prince, we won, we beat the rebels back." "The pen is interesting and the pavilion www.biquge.info" Yuan Xie still remembers his identity as the "captain of the city gate", so there is an inconsistent error in the title of Yuan Qi.

Yuan Qi is not as excited as Yuan Xie, the battle-hardened Yuan Qi is not a rookie like Yuan Xie, he can see that the rebels are not exhausted and retreat, and they still maintain a fairly neat formation when retreating, which shows that the rebels are only strategically retreating, not defeated, and Li Dao and Guo Yan in the rebels must be brewing some conspiracy.

Jia Yuan, who had the same idea as Yuan Qi, came to Yuan Qi's side, first saluted Yuan Xie, and then saluted Yuan Qi: "Lord, I would like to think that the rebels are not defeated, they may want to come up with a plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so that our army's battlefield killing weapons are useless, and force our army to engage them in close combat." ”

Yuan Xie asked with some doubts: "Isn't retreating and leaving, isn't it defeated? What is the difference between this?" Yuan Xie has never led troops to fight, so naturally he can't see the mystery in this. And Jia Yuan is well aware of the way of self-preservation, he will not risk taboos to be a temporary teacher for Yuan Xie, so he just smiled and said nothing.

In the end, it was Yuan Qi who stood up and explained to Yuan Xie: "The rebels retreated in a strict formation, without the slightest panic, so it can be concluded that the rebels are not really defeated." As for Mr. Jia Yuan's plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, a certain conjecture is that the rebels are probably trying to help the people of the villages near the capital go into battle, so that our army's weapons of mass destruction will no longer be useful. ”

"What?!, what can I do then?" Yuan Xie came back to his senses and shouted worriedly. He is the Son of Heaven, let him see innocent people being sent to the battlefield to be cannon fodder, or come to attack his own cannon fodder, Yuan Xie's heart is very uncomfortable.

patted Yuan Xie's shoulder, Yuan Qi comforted and said, "It's okay. Tomorrow, we will meet the rebels in a short battle, and it is expected that Li Dao and they just want us to throw a mouse trap, not to use a weapon like the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, the people who are attacking the city must be the main force of the rebels, and those ordinary people may not even be able to climb the ladder. Through today's battle, the weaknesses of the rebels have also been clearly figured out, and maybe tomorrow at dawn, the rebels will be in chaos without a fight. ”

The first half of the Yuan Qi is explained. Yuan Xie understood, but in the second half, he felt covered with clouds and mountains, and he didn't understand what Yuan Qi meant. Yuan Xie doesn't understand, but it doesn't mean that everyone doesn't understand. Jia Yuan's eyes lit up, and he pointed to the right flank of the retreating rebels. He whispered, "The meaning of the lord." Is it to make a fuss about him?"

The right flank of the rebels was Han Sui's troops. In the initial siege battle, Li Dao and Guo Yan did not use their own men and horses, but pushed Han Sui's troops to the front line, and after being shot by red-clothed ballistas, Han Sui's troops suddenly withdrew. Then there is the main force of Li Dao and Guo Yan, many people don't care about this detail, and even if they see it, they won't have any ideas. But who are Yuan Qi and Jia Yuan? Their eyebrows are plucked out, they are all hollow, they are all exquisite figures, in this detail, they see an Achilles heel of the rebels, and within the rebels, the voices are not unified! There is a huge difference between Li Dao Guo Yan and Han Sui, but this difference has been covered up for the time being, and conquering the capital has become their common choice and the most important goal of cooperation, and before this goal is accomplished, other contradictions can be put aside for the time being.

It's not surprising to think about it, these three people are all warlords of Liangzhou, Li Dao and Guo Yan have been old brothers for more than ten years, and they have served together under Dong Meng, and they have a deeper relationship, and it is normal to jointly exclude the outsider Han Sui, they don't want to share the interests of the capital city with Han Sui after they conquer the capital.

Xu Shu on the side quickly figured out these things, and spit out four words with a smile: "Inseparable relatives." Yuan Qi and Jia Yuan looked at Xu Shu with a smile on their faces, and the three of them unified their thoughts through eye contact, and then they didn't care about anyone else, turned around and walked down the city, and went to the nearest house in the city to plot.

After retreating thirty miles, the rebels set up camp. Han Sui's troops, as customary, were placed in the large battalion on the right flank. After settling the men, Yan Xing left with two thousand soldiers, and he wanted to capture as many civilians as possible before dark to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Not long after Yan Xing left the camp, two Xiliang sergeants escorted a mediocre-looking person into Han Sui's big tent, claiming that this person was Han Sui's old acquaintance and had come to visit Han Sui. Han Sui glanced at the person in front of him carefully, making sure that he didn't know this person, and was just about to drink the sergeant to push him out and behead him, when he suddenly saw this person blinking at him one after another, as if there was something unspeakable.

Han Sui thought about it, let the sergeant loosen the tie, and then let the others withdraw from his tent, leaving the person brought by his subordinates alone in the big tent.

Sitting down in the big tent, Han Sui said with a warning tone: "Now that there is no one here, you can tell your intentions, if you can't satisfy the general, the steel knife of the sergeant under the general is very sharp, and there is no problem in cutting off your head." ”

The person who came didn't speak, spit out a wax pill from his mouth and handed it to Han Sui's table. Han Sui picked up the wax pill suspiciously, put it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while. This thing is not available in Liangzhou, I heard that it is specially equipped with a secret force in charge of intelligence under Yuan Qi's subordinates. It seems that the person in front of him should have been sent by Yuan Qi.

Weiyi crushed the wax pill with a hard hand, threw the wax clothes on the table, Han Sui took out a small ball of paper from it, spread it on the table, and looked at it seriously. This short letter turned out to be Yuan Qi's handwritten letter, which can be reflected in the five words "Yuan Qi respectfully" at the signing place. I have to say that Yuan Qi's handwriting is really beautiful, but the writing is really poor, in this text message of only a few hundred words. There were more than a dozen traces of modification and smearing, and Han Sui, who saw it, frowned, he couldn't understand why Yuan Qi, who was known as a man of both civil and military skills, would write such a lame letter. There is nothing prominent about the handwriting that can be seen in the letters. It's just a very simple greeting letter, Yuan Qi as a junior. I just expressed my respect to Han Sui. praised Han Sui for guarding the border for more than ten years, which is really a model in the world.

Putting down the letter, Han Sui raised his head and looked at the person who sent the letter, and said coldly: "What does Yuan Qi mean? With his talent, composing poems and lyrics is like flowing water, why does he have to write a letter and revise it like this?" The giver replied, "My lord said it." Paper is not easy to manufacture and should be cherished and used. As for the traces that have been altered, they were originally my lord's words of dissatisfaction with Li Dao and Guo Yan, for fear of causing General Han to be angry. This time I smeared it. ”

This explanation makes sense, after all, Han Sui is still in the same trench as Li and Guo, and it is indeed inappropriate to say that the two of them are not in front of Han Sui. However, since Yuan Qi knew his relationship with Li Dao and Guo Yan, and wrote this letter to himself, what did he mean? Could it be that Yuan Qi really thought that Han Sui had made meritorious contributions in guarding the frontier, and specially wrote to praise himself? Not to mention Han Sui, I am afraid that even idiots cannot believe this reason.

So, Han Sui asked the question in his heart. In this regard, the sender's explanation is that Ma Teng's son Ma Yue was arrogant and domineering under Yuan Qi's command, relying on himself to be Yuan Qi's sworn brother, and he had some credit, and often provoked fights with the generals, Yuan Qi was already dissatisfied with this, so he wrote this letter to Han Sui, wanting Han Sui to give Yuan Qi a way to subdue Ma Yue. Back then, Han Sui's general Yan Xing almost killed Ma Yue, this is a well-known thing, ask Han Sui for advice on how to subdue Ma Yue, this explanation is also very smooth, Yuan got up as the master, naturally it is impossible to ask the people under his command for advice on how to govern the people under his command, so it will lose the prestige of the master.

It turned out that this was the case, Han Sui laughed, and said smugly: "Yuan Qi still has some vision, and if he wants to subdue the horse, he will be able to capture it." Anyway, Ben will return to Yuan Yuan to tell him the means of subduing the horses. Yuan Qi's praise and the flattery of the messenger made Han Sui a little fluttery, and he had been pressed under Li Dao and Guo Yan, and Han Sui had not experienced the taste of being respected for a long time. Besides, Ma Yue's bravery is well known in Liangzhou, Yan Xing was able to defeat Ma Yue at the beginning, because Ma Yue was still young at the time, after more than five years of growth, now Ma Yue has reached the peak age of military generals, and has created a great reputation under Yuan Qi, Han Sui is really afraid that one day Ma Yue will kill back to Liangzhou, and he can kill Ma Yue with the help of Yuan Qi's hand, Han Sui is quite willing. So I happily picked up the pen and prepared to reply to Yuan Qi.

As soon as Han Sui picked up his pen, Li Dao and Guo Yan suddenly lifted the tent curtain and walked in from outside. After seeing the messenger sent by Yuan Qi, the letter on Han Sui's desk, and Han Sui's action of lifting the pen to reply to the letter, Li Dao and Guo Yan's eyes were filled with endless doubts and suspicions, and a "wonderful" misunderstanding arose.

Guo Yan, who couldn't hold his breath, shouted and asked Han Sui: "General Han, what are you doing? What is the matter with this letter? Why are there traces of smearing in it? What is the content of those erased handwritings? Why do you want to erase them?"

Faced with Guo Yan's questioning, Han Sui suddenly understood, he had fallen into Yuan Qi's discordant plan, and hurriedly explained the cause and effect of the matter, and resolutely said that this letter was originally like this, and he had not done anything at all. Han Sui's explanation was extremely pale and weak, Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't believe Han Sui's explanation at all, but at this time, the messenger shouted at Han Sui: "General Han, please follow the time stated in the letter, cooperate with my lord inside and outside, and eliminate the rebels!" Immediately, he pulled out a dagger from his boot and stabbed it into his heart.

This messenger was actually a member of the Hidden Dragon, he committed suicide, which brought Guo Yan's suspicions to the peak, pointing at Han Sui and scolding: "Han Sui, the matter has come to this, what else do you have to say?" Han Sui was just about to explain, Li Dao suddenly stretched out his hand to interrupt him, and said slowly: "General Han, the second brother has a reckless temperament, and he has offended a lot. In this way, in order to show that General Han has no other intentions, and in a battle tomorrow, General Han is also asked to still lead his troops to be the vanguard to clarify his intentions. ”

Li Wei's words are very good, but in fact, he has the same idea as Guo Yan, he no longer believes in Han Sui at all, and let Han Sui take the lead, on the surface, it is to give Han Sui an opportunity to express his will, but in fact, he is using Han Sui's troops as cannon fodder! Of course, Han Sui understands Li Wei's thoughts, but in the current situation, where is there room for Han Sui to refute? If he does not agree, maybe Li Dao and Guo Yan will immediately take action against themselves, and their own general Yan Xing is not in the camp, and Han Sui is not Li at all. Guo and Guo's opponents; if they agree, then tomorrow's battle, their troops will probably be completely finished, and they will be sent by Li and Guo to be cannon fodder, can they still hope to come back alive?

But Han Sui has no other way to think about it now, the situation is stronger than people, so he had to grit his teeth and agree to it: "The two generals can rest assured, tomorrow a certain person will personally lead his troops to be the siege vanguard of the army!" Han Sui's idea is to temporarily agree to come down and stabilize Li Dao and Guo Yan, and when Yan Xing comes back, he will discuss with him to see if there is any other remedy, if it really doesn't work, Han Sui also prepared for the worst, and returned to Jincheng with his troops overnight, and never served Li and Guo again!