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"That's a good thing." Fang Qianhu clenched his right hand and slapped his palm hard, and the armor on his shoulders made a "crash" sound due to his excessive movement.

Since the Dawan Kingdom has undergone tremendous changes and the three sons have seized power, the country will be in chaos at this moment, and sending troops at this time may have a miraculous effect.

"Hey, what do you know? Listen to our general." The captain turned his mouth towards Yuan Xiao, motioning him to look at Yuan Xiao's face.

Yuan Xiao looked down at the words on the letter. The words were very scribbled, and some words were even unreadable. This was the news that the spies risked their lives in Dawan and wrote it hastily in an extremely dangerous environment.Yuan Xiao could even imagine the scene where the secret agent nestled in a dark corner, with the sound of chaotic footsteps outside, took out a piece of charcoal pencil to write the message on paper in the dark, and sent it out at a secret time.No one who has ever been a spy will be unfamiliar with this scene.

But no matter how hard it is to get the news of the spies, when it is sent back to the country, it will be inspected layer by layer, surrounded by countless people to analyze the pros and cons of the news.

When Yuan Xiao was a spy back then, he hated this kind of person, but now it's his turn to be the person in power, but he inevitably followed this path.

Is this news true or false?

Yuan Xiao pressed the letter paper under the branches of "Fire Tree and Silver Flower". This priceless treasure became a paperweight for a person like him. I don't know how the owner of Gubei City will scold him for being a waste of money when he sees it.

"Fang Qianhu," Yuan Xiao said suddenly, "Since you said it was a good thing, why don't you tell me what you think."

"I heard that the Dawan Kingdom does not have a prince, and only at the last moment will it announce who is the successor. But since the king of the Dawan Kingdom has died suddenly, the three princes will inevitably fall into a fight, and the army on the border of Dawan will be leaderless at this time. , might become a victim of the power struggle. If we send troops at this time, we will definitely win."

"But what if the news is false?"

"This..." Fang Qianhu was at a loss for words, and he could only take the position of Qianhu at most. He was very good at fighting, and he would be second on the battlefield. Come first.However, when the two armies are confronting each other, even if they make a wrong step, the whole army will be killed. At this time, he can't make up his mind.

"If this news is false, it means that our spies have been discovered, either killed or bought. This news was sent to us on purpose by Dawan. If we rashly send troops, what is waiting for us is the one who has been dug out. Good trap." Yuan Xiao stood up, turned around twice in the camp with his hands behind his back, and suddenly turned around and told the captain, "Go explore again. Go to the Dawan border army station and take a look. How many traces of people's activities, look at two more days."

"General Yuan, why do you need to watch it for two more days?"

"You don't even know about this," the captain took the words, "to prevent being tricked. The little prince of Dawan Kingdom is very scheming, so we can't fall for him. Hey, you don't know, just a few During the Battle of Gubei City a few years ago, that little prince in Dawan almost tricked our General Yuan, thanks to the General..."

"Ahem." The captain ran the train with his mouth full. Yuan Xiao couldn't stand it anymore, so he coughed twice to tell him to shut up.

The captain's voice suddenly dropped, and he leaned into Fang Qianhu's ear to complete the second half of the sentence: "Thanks to our general's superior skills, we saw through the little prince's scheme and blocked it with his own body." Half of Dawan's troops, otherwise our brothers would be corpses filling up the moat of Beicheng."

Fang Qianhu opened his mouth and exclaimed, "It's so powerful", and followed the captain to leave the door, leaving Yuan Xiao alone in the tent. The sound of the two talking with the north wind drifted into the tent along the gap in the curtain.

It's so amazing, I really want to see it...

It's really powerful, but it's not him, Yuan Xiao thought.He is not at all afraid of the schemes of the so-called little prince of Dawan Kingdom. These schemes, these ghostly ideas are indeed wonderful, but it is nothing if he has seen more exciting ones.You must know that the most feared and secretive bitter Taoist in the entire Central Plains grew up around him.

The battle of Gubei City was the battle he was most proud of in his life, and it was also the one he least wanted to repeat.

"General, there is news." A young soldier with a young face got off his horse panting, and handed him the news from the spies in Dawan.

At that time, he had just been promoted to the general of Zhen Guo, and he led the troops to Gubei City at the beginning of his promotion. The Yuan family army who was used to leading them was detained in the pass by the emperor, and he only brought the government army here.He has no foundation here, and the soldiers under him don't know if they can be trusted.The only one who could deliver was Tang Yuan who followed him to Gubei City in the army.

As soon as he received the secret letter, he took the letter into his account and studied it with his generals. The generals came from various parts of the government army, they had different opinions and criticized each other, and none of the sentences were accurate.Yuan Xiao didn't believe them, but he didn't dare to attack them at will, so he could only endure it.

Endure until Tang Yuan enters the tent at night.

Feeling angry, he threw the secret letter to Tang Yuan and told him to read it. Tang Yuan took it and laughed after seeing it: "Hahaha, this letter is quite fake."

“How come you see?”

Tang Yuan shook his hand, and complained: "Why is your hand so big? You can't hold it, it's a shame. You see, this letter seems to have been written in a hurry, but it's actually an imitation of haste.—— You can’t see it, you never forged letters, but I gave my experience in replying to Master’s letter. Look at this crooked pen, if it was written in a hurry, it must be very sharp, if it’s not Sharp should not be able to write here, this stroke will be broken in the middle. But this letter is different, this stroke is very smooth and smooth. This shows that this person must have a table and a paperweight when writing letters OK."

"But spies sometimes have the time to spare..."

"Then would you deliberately imitate this kind of haste? This kind of haste that seems to be discovered and killed in the next second?" Tang Yuan pressed on step by step, pointing to the secret letter for him to read, and dragged him to the sand table Before pointing out the terrain of Dawan to him, "Look, the territory of Dawan is actually very wide. When I traveled here with Master, I went to find a kind of magic medicine. During the period, I heard that there are three suspected capitals in Dawan. Dawan Kingdom is located in one of these three places, but it changes frequently. But no matter how it changes, it is within this range."

Tang Yuan drew a circle on the sand table with his fingers, and seemingly randomly placed three points.But Yuan Xiao was keenly aware of the special features of these three places.Backed by mountains, in front of you is a vast plain, stuck at the water source, if it is a border, it will be a land that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if it is an inland area, it will be a land rich in water and grass.

"These three places are not close to Gubei City. Even riding a fast horse will take three days to catch up. A message written in a hurry, breaking through many barriers and reaching the border will take at least five days, and it will be handed over to you. Up to now, it will take at least seven days. In the past, if such a big incident really happened in Dawan, wouldn't there be any other rumors?" Tang Yuan patted Yuan Xiao's hand on his shoulder, "Yuanxiao, let's explore again, don't be afraid Delay for a few days, I'm afraid we won't be able to bring these people back."

In the end, it was really thanks to Tang Yuan's keen intuition and Yuan Xiao's fighting sense that he was able to counter-kill Dawan's 1 horses with [-] soldiers.The big things mentioned in the secret letter are indeed true, but the enemy's trap has also been prepared and waiting for them to get into it.

The battle of Gubei City was a victory, and it was a big victory.But Yuan Xiao still didn't want to see that scene happen again.

At that time, there was only one other person besides him who held back half of Dawan's troops by himself, and that was Tang Yuan.

If it weren't for the help of Tang Yuan's Jiugong Bagua Formation at that time, it would be easy for him to kill one person, and he could save hundreds of lives if he risked his life, but that was 5000 people, and one person with one knife was enough for him to die more than a dozen times.

At that time, Tang Yuan set up the Jiugong Bagua formation in front of Gubei City. Anyone who fell into this formation would keep turning around until they found the real exit, and what awaited them at the exit was Yuan Xiao's slash. .

With this, Yuan Xiao held back half of Dawan's troops and gave the Fujun students who went to ambush the other half an extra day.

But as Tang Yuan said, with every gain there is always a loss, and with every blessing there is always a curse.Not everyone can set up such a powerful formation, nor can it be set up casually.There are even deficiencies in it, which need to be filled by the power of heaven and earth.As for how much Tang Yuan would have to pay for setting up this formation, he never mentioned a single word.

"Small-scale play of this formation will have no effect. But Gubei City is too big, I'm afraid you will have an accident if it is small. So I borrowed the power of heaven and earth with the lives of the people in the formation as bargaining chips."

In addition to those who are trapped in the formation, there is another person in the formation, and that is the formation.

If it wasn't for Yuan Xiao's outstanding martial arts skills, these 5000 people would either be hacked to death or directly dragged out of the formation. When the power of heaven and earth is withdrawn, the more power of heaven and earth he borrows, the more life Tang Yuan will have to sacrifice.

Even so, Tang Yuan was also seriously injured, and Yuan Xiao dragged Tang Yuan out of the pile of dead people.When Tang Yuan was dragged out, his body was covered in blood, and he couldn't tell whether it was his own or someone else's. Yuan Xiao was also covered in blood, as if he just got out of a bath in the blood.

Just like that, Tang Yuan could still laugh: "Hey, you, look at you covered in blood, like a newly married son-in-law."

Tang Yuan grinned and opened his mouth. With his bloody white teeth, he was a bit creepy, but with his back against the setting sun and his bright red suit, he looked really good-looking in Yuan Xiao's eyes. Can't find anyone better looking than him.

He held Tang Yuan's seriously injured body in his arms, and simply sat among a pile of corpses, waiting for the government army to return.Yuan Xiao lowered his head, and his black hair hung down from his head, all the way to Tang Yuan's face, brushing the corners of his lips.

"Yuanxiao, won't you give me a kiss?"

Yuan Xiao looked down at him, stretched out his hand and carefully wiped off the blood on his face with his thumb, and lowered his head.Yuan Xiao will never forget Tang Yuan's soft lips, the breath he exhaled carefully when he was seriously injured, and the strong smell of iron in his mouth.