Guo Shaojie smiled and said: "Look, sir, it is spring and it is full of vitality. The color of the soil on the moat is obviously different from the surrounding soil. The moat is newly dug to prevent the towers from attacking the city. Look at the city gate again.

The sacks stacked on the side are already as tall as a person. This is to prevent water attack. Above the horse, do you see the equipment? It should be a catapult, and there should be a lot of stones behind it."

"They are all conventional defense methods. At first glance, there is nothing strange about them, but when you put it like that, they are really different." Ma Liu said thoughtfully.

"Brother, can you see any clues?" Guo Shaojie narrowed his eyes.

"All the defenses are comprehensive, which means that the other party already knows what we are planning to do. He thinks that he is us. If he were us, how would he take the city? What we see is only the defense outside, but the situation inside the city.

We don't know yet, but this is the scariest thing." Tan Zhen touched his beard and looked at Qingyang City, his eyes suddenly condensed.

"The person who came just now should be a deputy general. If he had such a plan, how could he let those 10,000 troops attack rashly?" Guo Shaojie said.

Ma Liu chuckled: "I think you are overthinking it. A person who is good at defending may not be good at attacking. Maybe he is good at defense, but not good at attacking. As long as we draw him out, won't it be easy to fight?"

Tan Zhen nodded slightly: "I hope so..."

The three of them turned their mounts and headed towards the camp.

Under Jiang Ning's suggestion, Wang Ren also gradually realized the power of Tan Zhen's troops. Chuzhou City was well lost. Now with only 13,000 people, he could only follow Jiang Ning's arrangement and speed up the construction of fortifications.

schedule.

On the second day after Tan Zhen and others set up camp, Xu Xuanjie also led the Ning family army to arrive ten miles south of Luzhou City. The army was stationed ten miles away from Tan Zhen. They looked at each other from head to tail and could join forces if necessary.

But in the next few days, both Xu Xuanjie and Tan Zhen chose to stand still. A strange scene appeared on the battlefield. When the two sides were closest, the scouts were within the range of bows and arrows, but they did not order an attack.

This kind of temptation lasted for several days. Without everyone's knowledge, a figure appeared in Luzhou City, carrying a large amount of money, and headed towards Wang Shi's government office.

"Okay, I finally fulfilled my mission." Xu Xuanjie pressed the letter on the desk with a happy face.

Ning Yuanwen and Ning Yuanwu next to them looked at each other. If this was the case, it would not be a bad idea to change their formation and eat all the people in Tan Zhen and Qingyang Town, and then go to the southwest.

"Without further delay, send someone to pick up father immediately. As soon as father arrives, we will start something together." Ning Yuanwu stood up and said.

"Before that, we can't be idle and feint a few times to avoid suspicion. Today is already the seventh day, and in half a month, it will be the rainy season. By then, the time and place will be in my hands." Ning Yuanwen

Ye Dao, recalling what happened in Gao Qiu's tent, I feel a little scared now. If we don't take action, these 100,000 Ningshan troops may never be able to return.

"You don't need to pick me up, I'm already here." Suddenly a voice came from outside the tent, the sound was like a loud bell, but it carried a bit of vicissitudes of life.

The three people in the tent all shivered for a while, and Xu Xuanjie tore off the letter and stuffed it into his sleeves.

A person slowly walked into the tent. It was Ning Que, the mighty General Huwei in the border areas and the true master of Ningshan Mansion.

Ning Que glanced at the three of them. Even Xu Xuanjie, who was usually regarded as a teacher and a strategist, couldn't help but shudder. The majesty of not being angry and the sharpness of having experienced the bloody storm were like a cold light.

The long sword he shot was hanging above the heads of the three people.

"Father...Father...you..."

Ning Yuanwen was the first to speak, but Ning Que snorted coldly: "My father is sick, not dead."

Now it seems that he is not sick. Now Ning Que's body can be described as strong. And in this moment, Xu Xuanjie has understood everything.

The illnesses in the past three years turned out to be fake, and the serious illness this time was also fake. He thought that since he had followed Ning Que through life and death for more than thirty years, his eldest brother would not lie to him, but now it seems

, Not so, an inexplicable sadness welled up from the bottom of his heart, and Xu Xuanjie felt fearless at this moment.

"I don't dare..." Ning Yuanwen and Ning Yuanwu both knelt down on the ground, their faces ashen.

Xu Xuanjie, however, remained motionless and stood aside.

"Don't you dare? If I don't come again, I'm afraid you will take action." Ning Que shouted: "It's a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor. I belong to the Ning family, and the family is full of loyal people. How come I got here with you two and two of them came out?"

Rebel?"

"Today I killed two people with my own hands, and then I went to plead guilty to the Holy One." Ning Que said, pulling out the sword from his waist, and amidst the roar of tigers and dragons, silver light roared over.

Seeing this, Xu Xuanjie took a step forward, and the sword edge stopped an inch before his eyebrows.

"Xuanjie, go away..." Ning Que shouted.

But Xu Xuanjie knew it well. If you want to kill your two sons, are you going to cut off your own incest? What's more, the person you Ning Que wants to kill, how can I, Xu Xuanjie, be able to stop him?

Admittedly, I could think so in my heart, but I couldn't say it. However, I heard Xu Xuanjie say: "Brother, please calm down. This matter was done by me alone. It has nothing to do with the two young masters. If you want to kill me, just kill me."

"Father, calm down. This matter has nothing to do with the teacher. It's really because Gao Qiu is pressing too hard. If he doesn't take action, the Ningshan Mansion will be doomed..." Ning Yuanwu suddenly stood up and appealed: "I and I

The eldest brother also knows that the Ning family is full of loyal people, but when the eldest brother went to Gao Qiu's place, they actually ambushed the swordsman. If it hadn't been for the teacher's help, I'm afraid that the eldest brother would have lost his head by now."

"In this expedition, our soldiers from Ningshan Prefecture are fighting in the front, but what about the military department? They are making small moves behind the scenes. We have 100,000 people and there are still 90,000 left, but where are the soldiers from the military department? There are not many. If it is not for food and grass, we can do it ourselves.

Supply, I'm afraid there will be problems with the soldiers' food and pay."

"Now we are asked to attack Luzhou again. There are more than 140,000 defenders in Luzhou City. Isn't this battle going to wipe out all the wealth of my Ningshan Mansion?"

"My little sister is now in Qingyang, but she has surrendered to the Manichaean Fang La. How are we going to fight this war? Will they give up until we have exhausted all our wealth? In recent years, taxes have been increased, recruitment has been restricted, and we have to guard

The border is not allowed to enter the court. In the year of severe drought, the court does not care about it, and the taxes and silver to be paid are even more. How does the court treat me, Ningshan Mansion? How does my Ningshan Mansion treat the court? "

The two of them exchanged words with each other, one after another, which was too numerous to mention. During this period, they also asked Ningshan Mansion to pay tribute to a beautiful woman. Although they were not selected, they did not come back. The reason for this was known to Leng Nuan.

"For this reason, you are going to raise troops to rebel?" Ning Que slowly put down his sword. How could he not know about each and every incident in the past ten years?

"I have already asked my little sister to look back...I'm afraid my father will take action himself..." Ning Yuanwu gritted his teeth and said.

Ning Que narrowed his eyes and said: "They don't know, don't you know? If the barbarian land and frontier refugees are moved, the world will never have peace. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms have just passed a hundred years, is it possible that there will be another

Let the people be displaced for a hundred years?"
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