481. Chapter 481 Confuse the opponent
After the idea of assassinating Su Qin flashed, Lu Ji naturally showed a hint of ruthlessness in his eyes. Su Qin actually felt his ruthlessness vaguely, so he unconsciously turned back to his sword to block it.
Lu Ji's sword was blocked and opened by Su Qin, and his heart skipped a beat, showing a little nervousness, and he was afraid that Su Qin would see something. Lu Ji felt regretful, feeling that he was too reckless and eager to achieve success.
Just as he was thinking about how to explain his actions just now, he found that Su Qin had taken the initiative to ask for a bamboo branch instead of the sword. Lu Ji hurriedly replied: "It's so good. I was also very uneasy when I was playing swords with the commander in the tent of the Central Army. Fortunately, the Prime Minister attacked me just now, and I suddenly realized. I was guilty, I'm guilty, please forgive me."
Su Qin kept smiling and waved his hand and said, "General Lu is too worried. Dancing swordsman is just for fun. Why apologize?"
Xibi is located in a mountainous area and is surrounded by lush greenery. At this time, the north is warm and humid, and the Mianchi area is a place with lush bamboo forests. It is no problem for the soldiers of the middle school to find two neat and smooth bamboo branches. In less than a quarter of an hour, they sent two very flat, generally thick bamboo branches.
Su Qin took one of them and waved his hand to ask the military servants to send another branch to Lu. Seeing that Su Qin was very calm, there was a smile on his face, as if he didn't see the dangerous and thoughtful look he had just been. He finally felt relieved.
Su Qin lit up the bamboo branch in his hand and said, "General Lu, I'll come first." As he said, the bamboo branch danced a halo, which looked very beautiful, and slowly approached Lu Ji.
Lu Ji also placed the bamboo branch in front of his chest and waved it out, his movements were soothing and stable. Now he no longer had the slightest intention of attacking Su Qin, so his actions were particularly gentle and humble.
Duan Qi and others had recovered from their surprise at this time. He thought to himself: "It was so thrilling just now. Seeing that Su Qin and Lu Ji's sword dance seemed to be about to fight, fortunately nothing happened. It would be better to use bamboo branches instead of swords, so it would not cause any death."
Duan Qi saw that Su Qin and Lu Ji had such a good mood, and he also led the generals of Wei State to attend the banquet to echo the sword dance of the two and applauded and praised them.
While Su Qin was getting close to Lu Ji, he blinked at him, and then asked mysteriously: "General Lu and General Ning Jun have been together for a long time. What do you think of him as a person?"
Lu Ji was surprised. He didn't expect Su Qin to ask about this topic on his own initiative. His actions slowed down and thought to himself: "It seems that the Qin people's anti-espionage strategy has been effective. After the unfavorable battle of the coalition forces of the Union Army, has Su Qin pointed his doubts at Ning Jun?"
Lu Ji's specialty is Lu Ji's skill. How could he miss such an opportunity? He pretended to send the bamboo branches in his hand forward, and took the opportunity to get closer to Su Qin's ears and said, "Ning Jun has been in Qin for more than ten years, and it is said that he has a lot of contact with Qin. He used to have a good woman in Qin and gave birth to a son for him."
Lu Ji said again: "However, this is all I have heard of. I have not seen it with my own eyes, so I am not sure. I wish Prime Minister Su had his own right and his opinion."
Su Qin pretended to have a look of surprise on his face, and waved the bamboo branches in his hand into the air. He whispered: "No wonder, there are so many strange things happening in the army recently, and it turns out that there is such a strange thing."
A hint of pride flashed across Lu Ji's face. He pretended not to understand and asked, "By the way, I was about to ask Prime Minister Su for advice? Is it true that General Ning was unwilling to come to the banquet today, or is the Prime Minister intentionally trying to avoid him?"
"I'll ask more questions, Prime Minister, don't blame me. If it's inconvenient, just pretend I didn't ask." Lu Ji added.
Su Qin was unwilling to answer Lu Ji's question directly. He smiled a little vaguely at Lu Ji and asked back: "General Lu, what do you think?"
Lu Ji shook his head and said, "I don't know." Then, he laughed out loud, which was obviously a kind of complacent smile after being satisfied.
Seeing that Lu Ji was almost completely confused, Su Qin did not want to respond more with Lu Ji, so he put the bamboo branch in his hand on his chest and said to Lu Ji: "It is so joyful and happy to dance with General Lu today. The battles of the Wei army in the future will be controlled by General Lu."
Lu Jizheng asked for it and hurriedly replied: "There is no problem at all. Prime Minister Su will give him any orders at any time. I am willing to share the worries of the Prime Minister."
Su Qin's banquet ended soon, because there was only tea and no wine, so how could these generals get interested? Only Lu Ji and Su Qin had something to do with each other because they had something to do with each other.
Lu Ji deliberately delayed until the last one left the central army tent, and Su Qin sent him to the door of the tent.
Before leaving, Lu Ji looked serious. He pretended to be worried about the situation of the war and was willing to go through fire and water for the coalition forces of the Union Army. He asked Su Qin: "I believe in Lai Mo General, and I will do my best to repay the Prime Minister's gratitude for knowing each other. But Mo General doesn't understand how the Chief considers the next direction of our army."
"I have this question, and I want to go back and prepare carefully. I have no other intentions. Don't blame the Prime Minister." Lu Ji added again. He always explained his motives and kept talking like this. Su Qin knew that he was a silence. He sneered in his heart, but his face looked sincere and trustful.
On the night after Su Qin invited the generals of Wei, he sent soldiers to secretly find Ning Jun to the big tent, and Su Qin wanted to have a secret discussion with him. Ning Jun had long known the intention of Su Qin to invite the generals of Wei, so he did not ask about this matter and knew it very well.
Su Qin called Ning Jun to agree with him a great detour to encircle the Qin army. In this combat operation, he must maintain close cooperation with Ning Jun in order to lock in the overall situation.
Su Qin took out the five-foot-square map of Mianchi, held the candle in his hand, and arranged it on the map with a few chess pieces one by one, pointing out Ning Jun the position of the division of troops and attacking together.
When he finished laying out the chess pieces, Ning Jun slapped and shouted: "Ji Zi is extremely wonderful. If he could really do as expected, the Qin army led by Sima Cuo would be like a turtle in a jar, and he would not escape with his wings. The Qin people only have the only time to cry."
Su Qin laughed with a haha. The combat plan was matured little by little in his heart. At first, he felt that it would be a very bold plan and could hardly believe whether what he thought was true. But until the end, he figured out the arrangement of the troops and the positions of their respective combat, and he immediately felt that it was a god-given inspiration, and he was quite excited about it.
Now, the suspicion of the leak of his friend Ning Jun has been clarified, and the real spy has surfaced. He himself can pretend to be suspicious of the wrong person, but instead uses the spy, pretending to be foolish and stage a good show of concealing the world.
After Ning Jun and Su Qin discussed the next battle plan, he still quietly returned to his camp. In order to make the fake play more realistic, Su Qin specially asked Ning Jun to move out of the Wei army's camp and temporarily set up an inconspicuous small tent in the Zhao army's camp.
Ning Jun was willing to endure it for the sake of future combat operations. He almost kept his door shut, just to avoid the eyes and ears of Wei generals Lu Ji and others.
On the same day, Su Qin also secretly sent two trusted school soldiers from the central army, one named Zhuo Yi and the other named Mei Xiang, and ordered them to take turns to enter the Wei army camp in the name of sending letters, approaching the tent of Wei general Lu Ji, to see the abnormal behavior there.
Sure enough, early the next morning, Mei Xiang ran back and reported a new news to Su Qin. He saw Lu Ji's school attendant carrying a kettle on his shoulder, running out of the camp with a horse and whipping.
Su Qin was still having breakfast at this time. When he heard this message, he immediately ordered Mei to say, "You should hurry back to the Wei army camp immediately. If there is any new news, come back to report it immediately."
Mei Xiang bowed and replied, "Get order!" Then he ran back with excitement. Su Qin quickly found Zhuo Yi and told him that after breakfast, he immediately went to find Mei Xiang. The two of them stared at Lu Ji's camp and found that Lu Ji's in-person escort was back and came back to report to him as soon as possible.
Su Qin felt strange: "Why did Lu Ji send a kettle to carry on his shoulders? Maybe he was looking for an excuse to fetch water to go out of the military camp, but in fact he was out of the camp and went to inform the Qin army."
Su Qin knew that he had revealed his distrust of Ning Jun to Lu Ji yesterday and his idea of continuing to advance to Mianchi next. Lu Ji thought this was a big information related to the movements of the Zong Jun army. He should be anxious to ask Sima for credit and reward, and seize the time to report the message to Sima.
Su Qin did not know how Lu Ji used to convey information. He thought of several possibilities, such as carrier pigeons, but carrier pigeons are sensitive items in the army. Only the messenger trusted by the commander has the right to manage and contact carrier pigeons. Will Lu Ji have the courage to raise carrier pigeons privately?
Su Qin also wondered if Lu Ji would personally send the information outside the camp in the name of patrolling the military camp and place it at the joint location agreed with Sima Cuo?
Su Qin originally thought that this possibility was the greatest, but he didn't know what kind of connection was, so he sent his trusted school soldiers Zhuo Yi and Mei to reconnaissance.
However, the information brought back by Mei Xiang fully demonstrated that the information transmission methods that Su Qin had expected in advance were not correct. Lu Ji used it as the simplest and clearest, that is, to directly send people around him to report to Sima Zhuo.
Chapter completed!