At dusk and sunset, with the blood-stained sunset on the horizon, a cavalry squad galloped from the west and arrived at the foot of Xiaoguan City in an instant.

"Whoever is coming, stop and dismount, and report the name!"

On the tall Xiongguan City, the general of the Xu army who stayed behind in Xiao Pass asked loudly. Although there were not many people coming, it still made the defenders of the city nervous. In the early hours of this morning, the marshal led all the soldiers and horses in the city out of the pass, and at this time the city was the emptiest time, and the guards had to be a little more cautious.

Among the teams under the city, Xiao Shilian, who was the leader, couldn't help but secretly say in his heart that it was He Ruohuai Liang when he saw that it was He Ruohuai Liang who appeared on the city's head, and frowned.

Chen Kedi, who was dressed as an ordinary cavalryman next to Xiao Shilian, raised his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Lord Xiao, what's wrong?" ”

"The defender of the city is He Ruohuailiang, the son of He Ruobi, the former Duke of the Song Kingdom of the Great Sui. After this person was also a nobleman of Guanlong, He Ruobi, Yuwenbi, Gao Ying and others were executed by Yang Guang for defaming the government, and He Ruo's family retired to Chang'an. After Yu Culture and Chang'an became independent, many Guanlong nobles in Guanzhong fell to him, and this He Ruo family also voted for Yu Culture and. Yu Wenhua and He Ruohuai Liang Song Guogong position, his uncle He Ruodong and He Ruolong were named Wudu County Duke and Wanrong County Duke respectively, extremely favored, He Ruo's family is also very loyal to Yu Culture. Especially this He Ruohuailiang, he is even better friends with Yu Wenhua and his second son Yuwen Chengtoe, and the relationship between the two is not ordinary. Unexpectedly, today this He Ruohuaiwen actually went to the city to patrol in person, it seems that we want to enter the city, I'm afraid it's not easy. ”

Heard Xiao Shilian's explanation. Chen Kedi also frowned. I didn't expect to encounter such a thing as soon as I came.

He looked up at Xiao Guan, the city was thick and strong, although he already knew that there were only more than 10,000 old and weak soldiers in Xiao Guan at this time, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers, craftsmen and tens of thousands of people. But if he can't outwit and storm this fortress, Chen Kedi estimates that even if 10,000 Chen army light cavalry are piled up, they may not be able to take it down for a while. Even if you really pay a big price to win Xiao Pass, you can't hold it.

Troublesome. Big trouble.

Chen Kedi turned his head to Xiao Shilian, who had a white beard and was dressed in a purple official robe, and said, "Master Xiao, I don't know what a good plan can be?" ”

At this time, Chen Kedi could only pin his hopes on this Xiao Shilian.

This gray-haired Xiao Shilian. But it's also very big. His father is also a Chen person, and a few decades ago, he was also known as the three armies of the Qi Crown, and the world's famous general Xiao Maha of Southern Chen. Xiao Maha is one of the best generals in Southern Chen, Xiao Shilian is the eldest son of Xiao Maha, when he was young, he once followed his father to fight with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when Xiao Maha and Xiao Shilian father and son had only five horses, seven horsemen went straight to the Northern Zhou Central Army array, and captured the flag in one fell swoop, defeating the Northern Zhou army.

Xiao Maha is the Southern Dynasty since Chen Qingzhi. A prestigious general. At the end of the Chen Dynasty, Chen Shubao was crowned as the third prince of Xiao Maha, and even awarded the general of the middle and hussar and the doctor of Zuo Guanglu. and appointed his daughter as the crown prince concubine of the crown prince Chen Shen, and was named the prince of Suide County.

However, the queen lord was mediocre, and he actually took advantage of Xiao Maha to lead the troops outside, cheated with Xiao Maha's wife, and put a green hat on his general. made the loyal general feel cold, and finally faced the Sui army to attack Chen, but did not send troops outside. led to the demise of Nan Chen. After Chen's annihilation, Xiao Maha surrendered the Sui army, and then rebelled against Yang Liang, the king of Han, because of his lack of will, and was defeated and killed.

After the death of Xiao Maha. Xiao Shilian was not killed, but this brave and fierce general was determined not to lift a sword and axe again for the rest of his life. Instead, he lived in seclusion in Chang'an to study. Yu Wenhua and the army, collected most of the nobles in Guanzhong into the court as officials, Xiao Shilian such a fierce general was naturally not missed, but Xiao Shilian did not want to be a general, Yu Wenhua and gave him an idle civil position. This time, Yuwen Chengzhi was awarded the marshal of Xiaoguan, and Yuwen not only invited several veterans of the Yuwen family out of the mountain, but also sent out many Guanlong nobles in the court.

The four generals of the Yuwen clan are the generals of the army, and the three uncles and nephews of the He Ruo clan are also generals, and Xiao Shilian and several other old nobles are also sent over.

However, Yu Wenhua may never have imagined that Xiao Shilian would get together with Chen Chao. It is said that although the Xiao family and the Chen family were monarchs and ministers, Chen Shubao, the queen of Chen, had an affair with Xiao Maha's wife, and Xiao Maha refused to send troops when he saw death, there is no doubt that the Xiao and Chen families should have been feuding a long time ago. It is precisely because of this that he is relieved to appoint this Xiao Shilian.

He didn't expect that Chen Kefu's ability to buy people's hearts was indeed very powerful, and the secret agents and envoys of the Secret Service Department who specialized in planning and selling were even more powerful.

As early as a year ago, Xiao Shilian had secretly fallen to Chen Kefu. Speaking of which, Xiao Shilian's sister is still Chen Kefu's father's side concubine, and Xiao Shilian can be regarded as Chen Kefu's uncle.

Although Xiao Shilian has lived in seclusion for many years, he is very clear about the current situation in the world. Regarding Chen Kefu's wooing, he only thought about it and agreed. After all, according to the situation in the world, the future world will still be the Chen family, if you give up this opportunity to resolve with the Chen family, then it will be difficult for the Xiao family to have a day of revival. Xiao Shilian can not care about his future, after all, he is sixty years old, but he has to think about the future of the Xiao family.

At the beginning, the Xiao family betrayed the Chen family, and Yang Sui could take refuge. But now, if they offend the Chen family again, there is no way out.

Half a month ago, when Chen Kedi sent Liu Shiguang to pretend to betray Liu Wuzhou and join Yuwen Chengtoe, he asked the spy to contact Xiao Shilian. On the battlefield today, Xiao Shilian was supposed to be by Yuwen Chengtoe's side, but halfway through the battle, he quietly ran away. In the chaos of the army, no one will find out whether this marching captain ran away or scattered, or died in the chaos of the soldiers.

Chen Kedi's plan was originally very good, as Xiao Shilian Xu Army Commander Shi, he falsely passed on military orders, falsely claimed that the battle ahead was tight, and urgently transferred the remaining Xu troops in the city out of the pass to rush to the battlefield to support. After the tiger left the mountain, he used Xiao Shilian's identity to cooperate with the outside and won Xiao Pass in one fell swoop.

The plan is good, and the implementability of success is high.

But what everyone didn't expect was that this first step would run into trouble. Heaven and earth are calculated, but they did not calculate that because of the emptiness of Xiao Guan, He Ruohuai Liang would actually sit on top of Guan Cheng in person.

At this time, Guan Shang was already asking for a second time. Seeing that there was no response from the city, the defenders in the city were already a little nervous, and behind the battlements, there were already soldiers who began to draw their bows and arrows, and if they didn't answer, it was estimated that they would attack with random arrows.

Xiao Shilian stepped forward immediately, and until Xiao Guan was in front of the moat of the city, he raised his head and shouted to He Ruohuai Liang in the city: "The gate is He Ruoshi's nephew, and the old man is Xiao Shilian!" ”

Although it was dark at dusk, He Ruohuailiang, who was closed, immediately saw that the person under the gate was Xiao Shilian.

He was a little cautious and did not open the door immediately, but shouted at the gate: "Didn't Shibo go out with His Highness to Liu Wuzhou and Xue Rengao?" Why did you come back alone, what's going on? ”

"It's a long story, but the old man makes a long story short. Our army engaged the Qin and Zhou coalition forces in the morning, but our intelligence was a little wrong, and the two armies of Qin and Zhou were not 50,000, but 80,000 horses. Although His Highness and the fourth general, General Yuwen, are brave, I am outnumbered, and I am in a hurry. It was all thanks to the hard work of the soldiers that our army could not hold on to the thief army. Now that the front line is tight, His Royal Highness specially ordered the old man to return to the pass, and quickly spread that He Ruoshi's nephew led the remaining soldiers and horses in the pass to rush to Jitou Mountain for reinforcements! ”

"Open the city gate and welcome Xiao Changshi into the customs." He Ruohuai said loudly.

The drawbridge was lowered, the gate was slowly opened, and Chen Kedi disguised himself as a small soldier and a team of fifty cavalry Chen Jun elite escorted Xiao Shilian into the pass.

Entering the pass, He Ruohuailiang was already waiting at the city gate from afar, and saw everyone come in. He Ruohuai Liang scanned Chen Kedi's face up and down several times, although there was a big iron helmet blocking most of his face, Chen Kedi still felt the gaze that seemed to be able to penetrate the iron helmet.

"Immediately send an order, gather all the soldiers and horses in the city, and after half an hour, immediately go out of the city to reinforce His Highness." He Ruohuailiang is about fifty years old, but he looks burly and strong, with a red face and long beard, and the whole person is also in his forties. The armor on his body was not the Mingguang armor that the generals were accustomed to at this time, nor was it fish scale armor, but a set of fine chain armor inside, and a mountain pattern armor on the outside.

With two sets of armor on his body, Chen Kedi estimated that he weighed at least fifty catties, but looking at He Ruohuailiang's appearance, he didn't seem to be burdened at all. The one hanging from his waist was not an ordinary horizontal sword, but a steel halberd five feet to the right. The soldiers behind him were carrying a Chang Xuanhua giant axe, which seemed to be his horse weapon.

From his armor to his weapons, and even his expression, He Ruohuailiang's whole body exuded a strong killing aura that rushed to his face.

An officer with the appearance of a captain in Mingguang armor stepped forward cautiously and said worriedly: "General, Your Highness gave an order before leaving. No one is allowed to move the soldiers and horses in the city without another warrant. If the general wants to transfer troops, he must first show the military order stamped with the marshal's order, and then he must also have the three soldiers of the three generals who remain behind to match one before he can transfer the troops. ”

He Ruohuai snorted coldly, staring at the general.

sneered: "Do you mean that you are suspecting Xiao Changshi's fake command now, or are you suspecting that General Ben has other plans!" ”

"I don't dare to be humble, I just follow His Highness's military orders."

He Ruohuai Liang turned his head and glanced at Xiao Shilian with deep meaning, and then said softly: "Rescue is like fighting fire, and it is common for you to not have time to write military orders for a while. Then, can't Xiao Changshi personally replace His Royal Highness's military order? Do you say, Xiao Changshi? ”

Xiao Shilian and Chen Kedi were all stunned, what did He Ruohuai Liang do? Listening to his tone, it seems that there is something in his words, and He Ruohuailiang is definitely not a fool, what does he mean by those words? Not only does he not pursue the military order now, but he helps Xiao Shilian, what is he going to do?

"Yes, yes, the lowly duty will be executed immediately, and it will be executed immediately......" The captain was already sweating profusely and didn't know how to distinguish it, so he had to keep nodding his head, and hurriedly turned his head and ran to give orders to gather the soldiers and horses. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )

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