Three Kingdoms King of the North

"However," Chong Shao said with some embarrassment, "delivering letters is a trivial matter, but the guards at the gates are all the confidantes of Li Guo and other thieves. Easy stuff."

"Money can turn ghosts around," Ma Yu said coldly: "As long as we grasp the weaknesses of these guards and prescribe the right medicine, we will surely get twice the result with half the effort." After expressing his opinion, he added, "For example, those who are lustful, we will give them beautiful singers; those who are greedy for money, we will give them more jewelry and jade; those who like power, we will promise them a future." After listening to Ma Yu's strategy Finally, both Liu Fan and Zhong Shao nodded, and then began to discuss how to write the letter to Ma Teng.

That night, a man in black, carrying a burden on his back, quietly climbed down from a section of the city wall where there was no one there, and then ran towards the camp of the Xiliang army.

As a result, there were still two or three miles away from the camp, and he was captured by the ambush soldiers.Seeing the shining knife in front of him, the messenger in black was frightened out of his wits and shouted, "Don't kill me, I was sent by the city to deliver letters to General Ma and General Han."

Hearing that it was a messenger, the leader of the team quickly ordered his men to put away their weapons, blindfolded the man with a black cloth, and took him outside Ma Teng's big tent.Ma Teng, who was discussing with Han Sui and Ma Chao, sneered when he heard his subordinate's report, and said, "Bring him in, I'd like to hear what sweet words Li Guo and the other thieves will say."

A moment later, the messenger with his hands tied behind his back came to Ma Teng's tent under the escort of two soldiers.Ma Teng waited for the man in black kneeling below, and asked coldly, "Who is here?"

The messenger hurriedly knelt down, turned to the direction of the voice, and replied: "I am a servant of the servant Ma Yu's family. I came to contact the general by the order of my master."

"If you want to fight, you can fight, if you want to surrender, you want to surrender." Hearing this, Han Sui said impatiently, "Why do we have the heart to talk to them?"

"You need to be in a hurry," Ma Teng raised his hand to stop Han Sui, and then ordered the soldiers, "Remove the black cloth covering his eyes." After the soldiers untied the messenger and removed the black cloth from his eyes, he He continued to ask: "What does your master want to tell us?"

The messenger quickly took out a letter from his pocket, stepped forward and placed it on Ma Teng's desk, and said, "You two generals, this is a letter from my master, please read it."

Han Sui picked up the letter and unfolded it, carefully browsing the contents above.After reading the letter, he couldn't help smiling, and he said to Ma Teng a little excitedly: "Shoucheng, good news, the servant Ma Yu, Zuo Zhonglang will Liu Fan and the counselor Zhong Shao are going to make an appointment with the internal response and wait for us." Open the city gate and welcome the army into the city."

After saying these words, Han Sui looked at the messenger with a softer gaze, and asked with a smile, "Brother, when does Master Ling plan to open the city gate for us?"

"Return to the general," the messenger couldn't tell which one was Ma Teng and which one was Han Sui, so he could only address him vaguely, and continued: "Li Guo and other thieves are worried that someone in the city will act as an internal response, so they open the city gate to greet the west." Liang's army entered the city, so the gate guards he arranged are all his confidantes. My master needs to spend time to buy these guards. It is estimated that it will take about a month at the earliest to open the city gate and welcome the two generals into the capital. "

Ma Teng and Han Sui never imagined in their dreams that they were worrying about how to destroy the city, and someone offered to sacrifice the city, and they were overjoyed.Ma Teng ordered someone to reward the messenger, and handed over a temporarily written letter to the other party. At the same time, he said: "This is my reply letter to your master. When you return to the city, you must be more careful. Don't get caught."

"Thank you two generals for your concern." The messenger hastily bowed his hands and saluted the two, and said at the same time: "The young one will definitely bring the letter back to the city smoothly."

It was already midnight when the messenger returned to the city, but Ma Yu's study was still brightly lit.And Liu Fan and Zhong Shao never left. Anyway, today's emperor is missing. Before the new emperor was established, there was no major event in the court. Whether he went to court was irrelevant, so the two stayed in Ma Yu's study. Here, wait for the arrival of the messenger together.

Ma Yu took the letter from the courier to him, quickly read the above content, and passed it to Liu Fan and Zhong Shao. We made an appointment on the third day of the next month, let us open the west gate, so that he can lead the army into the city."

"The guard of the west gate?!" After reading the letter, Liu Fan frowned and thought, "This person is Li Jue's confidant, and he is also close friends with Li Jue's nephew, Li Bie. An easy thing."

Han Sui picked up the letter and unfolded it, carefully browsing the contents above.After reading the letter, he couldn't help smiling, and he said to Ma Teng a little excitedly: "Shoucheng, good news, the servant Ma Yu, Zuo Zhonglang will Liu Fan and the counselor Zhong Shao are going to make an appointment with the internal response and wait for us." Open the city gate and welcome the army into the city."

After saying these words, Han Sui looked at the messenger with a softer gaze, and asked with a smile, "Brother, when does Master Ling plan to open the city gate for us?"

"Return to the general," the messenger couldn't tell which one was Ma Teng and which one was Han Sui, so he could only address him vaguely, and continued: "Li Guo and other thieves are worried that someone in the city will act as an internal response, so they open the city gate to greet the west." Liang's army entered the city, so the gate guards he arranged are all his confidantes. My master needs to spend time to buy these guards. It is estimated that it will take about a month at the earliest to open the city gate and welcome the two generals into the capital. "

Ma Teng and Han Sui never imagined in their dreams that they were worrying about how to destroy the city, and someone offered to sacrifice the city, and they were overjoyed.Ma Teng ordered someone to reward the messenger, and handed over a temporarily written letter to the other party. At the same time, he said: "This is my reply letter to your master. When you return to the city, you must be more careful. Don't get caught."

"Thank you two generals for your concern." The messenger hastily bowed his hands and saluted the two, and said at the same time: "The young one will definitely bring the letter back to the city smoothly."

It was already midnight when the messenger returned to the city, but Ma Yu's study was still brightly lit.And Liu Fan and Zhong Shao never left. Anyway, today's emperor is missing. Before the new emperor was established, there was no major event in the court. Whether he went to court was irrelevant, so the two stayed in Ma Yu's study. Here, wait for the arrival of the messenger together.

Ma Yu took the letter from the courier to him, quickly read the above content, and passed it to Liu Fan and Zhong Shao. We made an appointment on the third day of the next month, let us open the west gate, so that he can lead the army into the city."

"The guard of the west gate?!" After reading the letter, Liu Fan frowned and thought, "This person is Li Jue's confidant, and he is also close friends with Li Jue's nephew, Li Bie. An easy thing."

Chapter 261

However, when Ma Yu and others were thinking about how to respond to the Xiliang army, a soldier patrolling the city found traces of someone climbing a certain section of the city wall, and immediately reported it to the higher authorities.

After getting the information, Ximen Guard immediately rushed to the palace to look for Li Jue, Guo Si and others.He knelt in front of Li Jue and said, "General Qi, the soldiers patrolling the city today found ropes to climb the city. Someone must have sneaked into the city at night."

As soon as Li Jue heard this, he immediately stood up from his seat and shouted: "Come here!" Hearing his shout, several soldiers came in from outside immediately, waiting for his orders.Li Jue pointed at the soldiers and told them: "Immediately conduct a search from house to house in the city, and we must catch the spies who sneaked into the city."

Just when the soldiers agreed and turned to leave, Jia Xu called out, "Wait a minute!" After the soldiers stopped, Jia Xu said to Li Jue, "General, since the spies sneaked in at night, Once you enter the city, there must be someone in the city to meet you. If you search all over the city, you will only startle the snake."

If Jia Xu said these words yesterday, maybe Li Jue would have hesitated, but at this moment, he asked Jia Xu as if grasping at straws: "Mr. He, what should we do?"

"From Jia's point of view, the spies must have colluded with a certain minister when they sneaked into the city." Jia Xu said slowly, "We might as well investigate secretly to see which minister colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui. As long as we eradicate With internal response, Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city will naturally retreat."

"There are many military officials in the imperial court." After hearing Jia Xu's suggestion, Li Jue said with some headaches, "How do we know which one is colluding with Ma Teng and Han Sui in private?"

"Since the robbing of the holy car, people in the capital are in panic, and most of the military officials stay at home behind closed doors." Jia Xu thought for a while, and said to Li Jue: "The general only needs to know which ministers are still visiting everywhere now. Then we can focus on monitoring, and maybe we can find out from among these people the insiders who colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui."

"This plan is very clever." After hearing this, Guo Si who was next to him applauded repeatedly: "Then we will follow Mr. Yi."

Guo Bang summoned the military commander who was patrolling the city, and asked him, "Let me ask you, which ministers have often left their mansions to walk around?"

Army Sima thought for a long time, and then said: "General Qi, Liu Fan of Zuo Zhonglang and Zhong Shao, the admonishing doctor, visited the mansion of Ma Yu, the servant, and did not return all night."

"What will these three people do when they stay together?" Li Jue couldn't help talking to himself when he heard this.

When Army Sima heard Li Jue's words, he thought the other party was asking him, and quickly replied, "General Qi, maybe the three of them were drinking and chatting together, but I don't know."

"I see, you go down." Li Jue waved at the army Sima expressionlessly, signaling him to leave.After the army commander had left, Li Jue asked all the warriors present: "Someone in the city colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city. Tell me, what should we do?"

"Does it need to be said?" Fan Chou, who has always been reckless, spoke first: "I will lead two thousand soldiers and horses to surround the mansion of the three men, capture them alive, and bring them back to the general."

"General Fan is not allowed." Jia Xu hurriedly stopped Fan Chou, and said to him: "At present, we are only guessing that the three of them colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city, but there is no real evidence, and rashly arresting people will cause chaos in the city." People are panicking."

Facing Jia Xu, Fan Chou said angrily, "But if they really colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui, and we let them go like this, I will be unwilling."

"The father of Liu Fan, general of Zuo Zhonglang, is Liu Yan, shepherd of Yizhou." In order to prevent the reckless Fan Chou from doing stupid things, Jia Xu said euphemistically: "If we send Liu Fan to prison without real evidence, I'm afraid Liu Yan will know. After that, there will be rebellion."

"Mr. He." Seeing that Fan Chou was rendered speechless by Jia Xu's words, Zhang Ji quickly stood up and said, "Now Ma Teng and Han Sui's soldiers and horses are outside the city. If we don't get rid of the internal forces, I'm afraid." He didn't finish, but everyone in the lobby understood what he meant.

"Report to General." At this moment, a soldier ran in from outside and knelt down on one knee in front of Li Jue, "There is a servant outside who claims to be from Ma Shizhong's mansion, begging to see him."

"A servant of the servant of the horse." Li Jue waved his hand impatiently after hearing the report from the guards, "I see you, hurry up and blow him away!"

The soldiers agreed and stood up to leave, but Jia Xu stood up again: "Wait a minute!" After the soldiers stopped, Jia Xu said to Li Jue: "General, we are not suspecting Ma Yu, Liu Fan, Zhong Shao, etc. Could the three of them be Ma Teng and Han Sui's internal response? Since his servants are asking for an interview, why don't you call them in and ask what's going on?"

"Childish," as soon as Jia Xu finished speaking, Guo Si echoed, "I think Mr. Jia's words are quite reasonable, why don't you call the servants of Shizhong's mansion in and ask him to hear what he said? If so Talk nonsense, just beat them out with a stick."

Li Jue had always trusted Guo Si very much, so when he heard what he said, he changed his mind and ordered his soldiers: "Go and bring that servant here!"

"The villain sees General Li." A moment later, the servant who came in with the soldiers knelt down in front of Li Jue and said, "The villain wants to report the illegal activities of the director to the general."

Li Jue stared at the servant kneeling on the ground, and only uttered one word from his mouth: "Say!"

"General Li, the younger one wants to report Ma Yu, the master of the family, and secretly discussed with Zuo Zhonglang General Liu Fan and the admonishing doctor Zhong Shao to open the city gate and let the Xiliang army outside the city enter the city!"

The words of the servants of the Ma family immediately shocked the people present into a cold sweat.After a long time, Jia Xu asked, "You said that your master, in collusion with Liu Fan and Zhong Shao, tried to open the city gate to let Xiliang's army enter the city. Is there any real evidence, or are you guessing out of thin air?"

"Responding to your lord's words," the servants of the Ma residence did not know who the person was asking the question, but they still boldly said, "After dark last night, my master sent a confidant to contact Ma Teng and Han Sui outside the city. In the middle of the night, the person sent out came back from the outside. I don’t know what he said to my master. My master discussed with Liu Fan and Zhong Shao all night. At dawn, my master also ordered people to distribute weapons to us. Said to take action soon. The villain felt that something was wrong, and he was unwilling to join forces with them, so he came to report to General Li."

Jia Xu cast a contemptuous look at the servant of the Ma family who was begging for glory, and asked coldly, "Do you know that if you report this in front of General Li, your master's life will be lost?"

"I know, I know." The servants of the Ma Mansion nodded several times, and said in a positive tone: "The villain just can't understand their private attempts to harm General Li, so I came here to report to the general."

"Come here!" Li Jue got the information he wanted from the servants of the Ma Mansion, and quickly ordered Guo Bang, Zhang Ji, and Fan Chou to lead 1000 troops each to the Ma Mansion, Liu Mansion, and Zhong Mansion. Capture the three officials who colluded with Ma Teng and Han Sui in private.

Regarding Li Jue's order, Zhang Ji asked hesitantly: "General, this Liu Fan is the eldest son of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan. Is it appropriate for us to take him down?"