After listening to Tian Yu's analysis, Cao Zhang said with shame: "I am indeed a little careless and underestimate the enemy, I also fought with Kebi back then, he didn't know the art of war at all, so I dealt with him according to the tactics of the year."

But after these two battles, among the Xianbei, it is obvious that there are people who know the art of war to help them. I think it may be someone sent by Shu. ”

Tian Yu nodded and said, "It is reported that Liu Chan sent Zhuge Liang's two sons and Zhao Yun's two envoys Xianbei. Zhao Yun's two sons are now in Hetao, and I heard that although the two of them are young, they are extremely extraordinary, and with hundreds of slaves, they have killed nearly a thousand young warriors under Bu Dugen.

As for Zhuge Liang's two sons, they are still by Kebineng's side, could it be that they are the ones who make suggestions? ”

Cao Zhang immediately said: "I have fought Zhuge Shang, Zhuge Liang's second son, this person is extremely brave, but I have never seen the other one. It should be this person who can make suggestions behind Kebi. ”

When an impatient general heard this, he said: "There is no point in discussing who will give advice to Kebi, and the top priority now is to find a way to defeat the enemy." ”

"As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, and it is necessary to figure out who is giving advice to Kebi." Tian Yu glared at the general and said: "If it is really the son of Zhuge Liang, he is still young, and even if he understands the art of war, he has some deficiencies in personality after all, and he can be defeated."

If it is other scheming people, they need to be more cautious in the use of troops, and they must not slack off in the slightest, and every move of the enemy needs to be considered before making a decision.

The order went down, and the soldiers and horses had a good rest in the past two days, so that the fine work could find out the situation and figure out who was giving advice to Kebi. Master Hou, tomorrow you will go with me to see how Xianbei's defense is. ”

"No!" The generals took orders.

The next day, Cao Zhang took Tian Yu to Xianbei's base camp to inspect the situation.

Under the protection of Cao Zhang, Tian Yu spent a day circling Danhan Mountain and inspected Xianbei's defensive formation.

After returning to the camp, Tian Yu convened the generals to discuss the military situation.

Tian Yu said to the generals: "Today I took a look at Xianbei's defense, the enemy is centered on Danhan Mountain, and there are camps in all directions, these camps are interdependent, and they secretly fit the way of the art of war, but they are not deep, and many defense facilities are built temporarily. It can be seen that Xianbei's preparation is not sufficient......"

"General!" At this moment, the civilian officer in charge of managing intelligence walked in.

Seeing this, Tian Yu looked at the civil official and asked, "How is it?" Got it figured out? Who is giving advice to Kebi? ”

The civilian official in charge of intelligence said: "I have figured it out, it is Zhuge Zhan, the eldest son of Zhuge Liang, who is giving advice to Kebi, and not only that, but we also found out about another matter." ”

"What?"

"Yan Taishou is the cause of death."

Tian Yu raised his eyebrows: "The cause of Brother Yan's death?" Wasn't he killed by Kobineng? ”

"It was Kobineng who killed him, but he died because of the messenger."

"Emissary? Which messenger? ”

The civil official explained: "It was the messenger sent by His Majesty to read the holy decree, according to our people, the envoy followed Yan Taishou to envoy Xianbei, but he was arrogant, and from the beginning he exposed the fact that our army was preparing to send troops to attack Xianbei, and wanted to use this to force Kebineng to conclude the decree, which caused Kebineng to be furious.

Later, he hijacked Kebineng and forced Kebineng to kill the envoy of Shu, so as to completely offend Shu Han and fall to my Great Wei State. ”

Tian Yu's brows suddenly wrinkled into a Sichuan character when he heard this: "He is just a messenger, how can he act so arbitrarily?" If he does this, he will definitely anger Kebineng, and Brother Yan died for this? ”

The civil official nodded and continued: "I heard from our people that he received a secret decree from His Majesty, and if Kebineng did not accept the holy decree, he would assassinate Kebineng, and the envoy also succeeded in hijacking Tebineng, but Kebineng had a strong personality, and did not kill the envoy of Shu, but ordered to kill Yan Taishou. ”

Cao Zhang said suspiciously: "Not only did he receive His Majesty's secret decree, but he also successfully hijacked Kebineng, even if Kebineng was unwilling to kill the envoys of Shu, he could still break the net and kill Kebineng." ”

"It's a pity that the envoy is greedy for life and afraid of death, he originally thought that by kidnapping Kebineng, he could force him to kill the envoy of Shu and fall to my Great Wei, so he doesn't have to die.

But I didn't think that Kebi could be very strong, and he was not afraid of death at all. So when it came to the end, he was afraid again, so he kidnapped Kebineng and wanted to flee for his life, he was afraid that the matter would leak out, and forced Kebineng to kill the soldiers who followed.

But at this time, Zhuge Shang stood up and proposed the idea of exchanging hostages, and because of this, he gained Xianbei's friendship, which caused Xianbei to completely fall to Wei. ”

"This messenger is a big problem!" Tian Yu frowned and said, "Are you sure this matter is true?" ”

The civil official said firmly: "This matter is known to all the people, and our people say so. Moreover, they also said that after Zhuge Shang was taken away by the messenger, he returned after a long time, and Zhuge Shang said that the messenger was stabbed with a dagger by him, and Kebineng also sent troops to chase and kill, but there was no news at all. ”

Tian Yu said in a deep voice: "A dagger? The last time I saw the messenger, he was covered in stab wounds, more than just a dagger. ”

Cao Zhang's face was full of doubts and said: "This matter is a little strange, last time His Majesty ordered, I was also above the court, and the messenger he sent was in charge of Jiang Ji, but he didn't say anything like assassinating Kebineng." ”

When Tian Yu heard this, he immediately stood up and ordered: "There are two messengers, and where is the other messenger, immediately call him over." ”

Cao Zhang asked, "The general suspects that there is something wrong with the envoy?" ”

Tian Yu said in a deep voice: "What kind of person is Dr. Jiang? The messenger sent must be extraordinary, how could he do such a reckless thing? I suspect that the identity of this messenger is false. Our plan may have been known to Shu from the beginning, and the envoy was simply a person from Shu!

Zhuge Shang is the son of Zhuge Liang, how could he take the risk of taking his place as a hostage for Kebi Neng, only if he is sure that the messenger is his own person and there is no danger, he dares to do so.

Moreover, the messenger was only stabbed with a dagger in Xianbei, but when I saw him, he was covered with scars, and this matter had to be suspected.

If this is really Shu State's obstacle, we only need to explain it to Kebineng, and there is no chance to turn hostility into jade silk. ”

Five days passed quickly, and the people sent back by Tian Yu also rushed back.

In the big tent of the Chinese army.

Tian Yu asked, "How is it?" Did another messenger bring it? ”

The soldier replied, "When we returned to Youzhou, we learned that the messenger had left after our journey, and that we had dug up the grave of the dead messenger who had fled from Xianbei, but there was no one in the grave. ”