Straight man of steel

Chapter 471 Uncle Xiao Ding

Zhang Yuan asked Xin Zhao to go back to rest first.

Then someone called Xiao Ding over.

Xiao Ding has always been the captain of Zhang Yuan's guard, and he can see Zhang Yuan every day, but he seems a little afraid of Zhang Yuan, and he dare not communicate with Zhang Yuan.

It was already night and I was called here, and I felt a little apprehensive in my heart.

"General Hussars, you are looking for me."

Zhang Yuan smiled at Xiao Ding.

"It's just you and me here, don't be too formal.

Sit down first, I have something to tell you. "

Xiao Ding nodded dully. When Zhang Yuan was admonishing Zhang Qian, he was standing beside him.

Only then did he realize that his brother-in-law was the Hussar General of the big man, but he was nothing.

Because even if his father Xiao Qing was restored to marquis status, he still respected Zhang Qian very much.

A lieutenant without any real power can't control the feudal city, and there is no official in the family to look after him, which is actually very pitiful.

"Today Xihou Zhao Xin is back, and the things I asked him to do have been completed.

Then there are some important things I want you to do, but the danger is very high, I wonder if you are willing to risk yourself? "

Zhang Yuan didn't intend to tell Xiao Ding the matter before he made his decision. The matter of Hunxie King Wuhuan Da Shanyu is still the most confidential matter. Except for those involved who need to know, it is better for others not to know. .

"General Hussars, just tell me how dangerous it will be."

"If you don't take care of it, your life will be gone."

Zhang Yuan said seriously.

And he felt that losing his life might still be a good thing, if he was really caught by Yu Yizhixie, the great Shan of the Xiongnu, and Xiao Ding revealed all the things under torture, then Zhang Yuan might be finished too .

The reason why Zhang Yuan didn't say it was so serious was because he was afraid that the pressure would scare Xiao Ding.

"so serious?"

Xiao Ding knew that his life might be lost in the war, but he didn't know that he would lose his life before the war started.

"It's likely to be more serious than this. Maybe the Marquis of your Xiao family will be lost from your hands again."

Zhang Yuan further tested Xiao Ding's psychological resistance.

"What do I get if it works out?"

Zhang Yuan appreciates the fact that he started negotiating conditions before he even started working.

Zhang Yuan is not Liu Che, so it doesn't matter if you negotiate conditions with him, but just don't negotiate conditions with Liu Che.

Zhang Yuan met a person who could live a good life after negotiating conditions with Liu Che, and that person was Dongfang Shuo.

"There will definitely be a thousand stone official position after returning.

It's not like after my Hussar General's Mansion is abolished, you can't find another home to resettle yourself. "

The Xiao family's morale has been worn out in the past few decades.

The glory of the first hero in the founding of the Han Dynasty has only one title of Marquis left.

Xiao Qing humiliated when he saw people, not because he wanted to rejuvenate the Xiao family.

But Xiao Qing humbled himself outside, but he didn't let Xiao Ding and Xiao Ruo lose face with him.

Xiao Qing had great expectations for Xiao Ding.

Before Xiao Ding followed Zhang Yuan this time, Xiao Qing had already entrusted everything that could be entrusted.

"General Hussars, I listen to you.

I will do whatever you want me to do. "

"Aren't you worried that you will harm the Xiao family?"

Zhang Yuan was a little curious, where did Xiao Ding get his courage from.

During the previous contact period, Zhang Yuan felt that Xiao Ding was a little timid.

Xiao Ding hesitated when he heard what Zhang Yuan said.

"General Hussars, I have already guessed a few things.

My father told me that there is only one situation that will harm your family on the battlefield.

That is to surrender to the Huns.

If the Huns capture me, I will try my best to survive if I can survive, so that the incense of the Xiao family will not be cut off.

If I can't bear it any longer, I will try my best to commit suicide, so as not to let the Xiao family fall into the abyss because of me. "

It seems that my uncle is still sensible.

Zhang Yuan likes to deal with this kind of honest and not stupid people, especially this kind of people who have been bound to his own community of interests.

"Since you've made up your mind, so be it.

Come to me tomorrow morning to pick up a letter, and engrave the contents of the letter in your mind on the way.

Then you go to Yuyang City with Xihou, don't tell Xihou the content of the letter, Hunxie King outside Yuyang City will meet you.

After entering Yuyang City, find General Wei Qing and give him my letter.

When he asks you to come back, just come back again.

I can't guarantee that King Hunxie's heart is on our side, so you may crash into their encirclement.

The reason why I didn't let Xihou go was because he was from the Huns, and if he was discovered and turned to the Huns, he wouldn't feel any burden.

But you are different. You also said that if you are caught, you will choose to commit suicide. It is best not to commit suicide. If you survive, there is hope of coming back. "

"I understand, I will definitely do this well."

Xiao Ding nodded heavily.

This matter itself is not difficult, but the process is too dangerous.

Xiao Ding just did some things that ordinary scouts would do, but Zhang Yuan needed a trusted aide to do it, so Xiao Ding was called in.

"Go back and rest, and come to me at Chenshi tomorrow morning to get the letter."

"promise."

Xiao Ding got up and left Zhang Yuan's room, Zhang Yuan also took out a piece of paper and began to write what he wanted Wei Qing to know.

He briefly described the fact that King Hunxie agreed to help the Han army and Wuhuan Da Shanyu was instigated to rebel, and then began to write his own plan.

Finally, the time for the attack was agreed upon.

And let Wei Qing tell Xiao Ding the secret that only Zhang Yuan and Wei Qing know before sending Xiao Ding back, this secret is two words.

It's a code for a connection.

This is to prevent the possibility of Xiao Ding being captured in the first place.

Of course, it is also possible for Xiao Ding to become a double agent after being caught, go to Yuyang City to fool Wei Qing, and then get the secret.

Zhang Yuan doesn't care about this.

As long as the people of Xiao Ding can come back and ask for Yang Duwei's mansion, Zhang Yuan will be able to find out what Xiao Ding has experienced.

In fact, Zhang Yuan's main purpose is to protect himself.

Even if he surrenders, he can return to Yaoyang Duwei's Mansion.

In this way, the safety of Zhang Yuan's own life is in his own hands, so that the news of Xiao Ding's surrender will not spread to Chang'an City, and Liu Che will punish the nine clans of Xiao's family and even Zhang Yuan.

That is really how wronged and wronged.

At Chenshi the next day, Xiao Ding knocked on Zhang Yuan's door on time.

Zhang Yuan got up and stuffed the letter to him.

"Destroy it after reading it, don't let Xin Zhao see it."

In fact, except for the secret, Xin Zhao knew everything on the letter.

Zhang Yuan just wanted to try Xiao Ding.

In order to cultivate his big brother-in-law, Zhang Yuan also worked hard.

After seeing off his two eldest brothers, Zhang Yuan began to study the route to drive away the Xiongnu army.

Either it is south of the Great Wall, and Yi Zhixie is not allowed to lead his army northward to cross the Great Wall.

In fact, this route is the best.

There are not so many passes in the Great Wall.

As long as all the passes are tightly blocked, Yi Zhixie will either dismount his hundreds of thousands of troops and cross the Great Wall, or he will have to run eastward.

Going south is almost impossible.

Because the south is the sea.

To the north is the Great Wall, and to the west is the coalition army chasing the Huns.

Only in this way, all the reasons for fooling Wuhuan Da Shanyu before were completely exposed.

The easternmost part of the Great Wall of the Western Han Dynasty stretched all the way to the Bohai Sea, which was later Shanhaiguan.

This section of the Great Wall was built as early as the Yan State, and then the Han Dynasty reinforced and extended it on the basis of the Yan Great Wall.

Compared with those Great Walls in Shuofang County, Dai County, this Great Wall is a bit simpler.

Because the big man did not regard the Wuhuan people as a threat.

Daiqun to Shuofang County were the main targets of the Xiongnu's invasion, and the Great Wall there could be divided into the Han Inner Great Wall and the Han Outer Great Wall.

What Zhang Yuan wanted was to drive the Huns all the way to Shanhaiguan.

Another very important point is that the big man did not set up checkpoints there, no city, or even residents.

Just built the Great Wall along the mountains.

Once the Xiongnu got there, it was a dead end.

Zhang Yuan couldn't figure out why later emperors wanted to build a pass city in this place.

Originally, the nomads in Liaodong could not get through, as long as the Great Wall was repaired, they would have to climb over the Great Wall if they wanted to pass here, and then they would have no horses to use.

The entire Guancheng is here, once the gate is opened to let people in?
The door of my house is always open, open to accommodate the world.

Zhang Yuan thought about it, and didn't really care about Wuhuan Da Shanyu's attitude, as long as he turned his back on the water and then turned to the Xiongnu, it would be impossible.

If the army of the Huns can get into this pocket, then so be it.

If not, just run a little further and find other pockets for the Huns to penetrate.

Xiao Ding and Zhao Xin had arrived outside the Huns' camp in the afternoon.

Xin Zhao put a pile of mud on Xiao Ding's face and hair, and made him wear Hun costumes.

Directly swaggered towards the campsite.

King Hunxie introduced him to Xin Zhao yesterday as the guard guarding the gate. Xin Zhao walked to the gate and nodded at the man, and the gatekeeper of King Hunxie opened the door for Xin Zhao.

The reason why he came directly during the day was to avoid being searched.

When it gets dark, if you are close to the Huns' camp, even if you are a Huns, others will interrogate and interrogate you.

And during the day, the guards in the Huns camp were too loose.

How could Yi Zhixie manage an army of hundreds of thousands.

A mile or two away from the camp, there are Huns and Wuhuan people with their buttocks sticking out and defecating on the ground.

They also knew to familiarize themselves with the environment they lived in as much as possible, so they all ran outside the camp, and those who were too lazy to run were directly solved in the camp.

After entering the camp, Xiao Ding kept holding his breath.

Looking left and right, every Hun who passed by his side looked like they were coming to arrest him.

"Don't look around, just keep your head down and follow me."

Xin Zhao was also worried that something would happen to Xiao Ding, so he murmured in a low voice.

Xiao Ding immediately withdrew his glance and followed Xin Zhao to King Hunxie's tent.

King Hunxie was not there, but he had told the guards at the gate that if Xin Zhao came, he could come in and out of his camp at will.

The Huns were not in the habit of keeping track of things, so they turned up King Hunxie's tent from bottom to top, but they couldn't find any of his secrets.

"Xihou, we just came in like this."

Xiao Ding still felt unbelievable.

"It's easy to come in, but it's difficult to go to Yuyang City."

Xin Zhao found a place to lie down on his back.

It was easy to enter and leave the camps where the Huns were stationed during the day, but at night, no matter how stupid Yi Zhixie was, he sent scouts to prevent the Han army from attacking at night.

These scouts will be Xiao Ding's biggest obstacle.

Anyway, Xin Zhao doesn't need to accompany Xiao Ding to Yuyang City at night, he just needs to rest honestly in King Hunxie's tent.

Maybe Xin Zhao came, and the guards outside the tent ran to tell King Hunxie, and after a while, King Hunxie pushed open the curtain of the big tent and walked in.

Xiao Ding was taken aback.

"This is the envoy sent by Zhang Yuan?"

King Hunxie pointed to Xiao Ding and asked.

Xin Zhao shook his head.

"He is only in charge of contacting General Wei Qing, and he doesn't have anything that King Hunxie wants to know.

At night, King Hunxie was asked to send a scout team to send Xiao Ding to Yuyang City. "

As long as Xiao Ding escapes the scouts under Yi Zhi's oblique hand, it is not difficult to get under the city wall of Yuyang City.

It's so dark, change into black clothes.

A little faster and more agile, you can sneak directly to the city gate.

"Okay, I will arrange it after nightfall."

King Hunxie knew that Xiao Ding would not reveal anything, so he lost interest in him.

Xiao Ding saw that the king of the Huns was talking about helping the Han people here, and felt a little unrealistic.

The time will soon come to midnight.

This is the darkest time of the day, and just as God sent a good opportunity, a dark cloud covered the moon.

King Hunxie immediately dispatched a scout team of ten people to escort Xiao Ding to a distance of one mile from Yuyang City. If they got closer, they might be spotted by the Han army on the city wall, or by the Xiongnu scouts moving around.

So Xiao Ding quickly ran to the gate of Yuyang City by himself.

The Han army on the city wall may have noticed some dark shadows running around under the city wall, so they yelled.

"who!"

Xiao Ding didn't care about the voice, and now he replied that the scouts of the Huns could find out where he was.

The soldiers of the Han army on the city wall just yelled, and then thought that they had misread, or some animal ran over.

Xiao Ding quickly stuck to the base of the city wall of Yuyang City, panting heavily, then stuck to the city wall and entered the city gate hole, and knocked on the city gate.

"Dong dong dong."

Although there are no soldiers of the Han army outside Yuyang City, there are Han soldiers everywhere in the city, and the soldiers on the night watch on the walls inside the city gate are doing what they should do.

Like sleeping.

There must be only a small part of the soldiers who can really stay up all night and watch the movement around them intently.

Xiao Ding's knock on the door frightened the Han soldiers who were sleeping on the edge of the city gate.

"What's outside the door?"

"It seems to be a person."

"Huns?"

"The Huns didn't sleep in the middle of the night and ran over to knock on the gate of our Yuyang City."

"What if it's a night attack?"

"Have you ever knocked on the city gate to warn your enemy of a night raid?"

Several Han soldiers inside the city gate started arguing, but no one dared to open the city gate to take a look. If something happened, their lives would be ruined.

Xiao Ding also vaguely heard the debate inside the door.

"Brothers in the city, please open the door. I am the messenger sent by Hussar General Zhang Yuan. I want to see the General."

"This man said he was a messenger?"

"You believe what others say. The Huns surrounded us so tightly. Did a messenger fly over?

If he can fly, why not knock on the door, just fly directly to the prefect's mansion to find the general. "

"Whether it is or not, let the head of the village be informed first."

Xiao Ding was about to cry, shouldn't the soldiers inside the door inform his chief when he knocked on the door, it just made him wait so long in fear.

(End of this chapter)