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"How is it?" Wang Chengqian leaned against the snowdrift behind him and looked up at Tang Yuan who was walking over from a distance.

"Everything outside the city is besieged, and I don't know what's going on inside the city." Tang Yuan threw the things in his hand over, "—Look at this, Zhao En is probably responsible for the besieged city this time."

Wang Chengqian took the thing and found that it was a piece of cloth embroidered with red flames, and the flames were divided into three strands.He weighed the piece of cloth in his hand and asked, "How do you know it belongs to Zhao En, just with this piece of cloth?"

"Just this piece of rag." Tang Yuan nodded, "Look at the three strands of flames above, they are the marks of the soldiers of the third prince of Dawan. I tore them from the corner of the flag of the besieging army."

"I remembered. I saw this logo during the martial arts conference. On the clothes of the big black man who followed Zhao En, there were three flames. Great, I see where Zhao En can go this time. "

"But you can't act rashly now, I have to find a way to sneak into Gubei City."

"Let me help you." Zhao En stood up and threw the rag to Tang Yuan, "But we have agreed that Zhao En must be killed by me."

"The grievances of the rivers and lakes, I will not intervene."

"Then let's go." Zhao En took his horse and was about to walk towards Gubei City, but was stopped by Tang Yuan.

"Leave the horse, and we will walk."

"Ah?" Wang Chengqian asked first, then led the horse to a tree behind him, "What are you doing?"

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"Sneak into Gubei City, but not during the daytime, or we will be a living target on the battlefield. I just went around the Dawan military camp, and besides the piece of cloth, I also went to their kitchen."

"The kitchen? Have you gone to see their food?" Wang Chengqian subconsciously leaned back and looked at him with a frown.

"I saw it. Why? Why are you looking at me like that?" Tang Yuan looked at him suspiciously and said, "I didn't steal it! I went to spy on the enemy."

"Then what did you find?"

Tang Yuan said: "There is no food in their kitchen."

"Isn't that normal? The grain and grass are all rationed, and it will be fine to go to the granary to get it." Wang Chengqian didn't care much, thinking that Tang Yuan's discovery was useless.

"No, food and grass are important supplies in the army, and there is no such thing as a distribution for every meal. Most of them will distribute food every seven days. When the military is in a tight situation, it may be three days. There is only one situation where every meal is a distribution." -"

At this point, he elongated his voice tantalizingly, and Wang Chengqian hurriedly asked, "What?"

"It's the lack of food and grass. Because of the lack of food and grass, they need to be rationed, and they will not have enough food and grass in a short period of time, so they dare not even type out for seven days, for fear that something will happen in the middle. If it is true, then we It can be boldly speculated that the food and grass of the Dawan army can only last half a month at most."

"Isn't your speculation too bold? This is the border of Dawan. Besides, Zhao En is the third prince of Dawan. Will Dawan watch him lose and not give him any assistance?"

"Yes." Tang Yuan said categorically, "The family relationship of the royal family is the most unreliable. The current emperor is my uncle, but he is not relentless in wanting me as a nephew. What's more, Zhao En was raised in the Central Plains as a proton since he was a child. Dawan's two elder brothers don't have any feelings at all, if I were his two elder brothers at this moment, I would wish him to die in the Central Plains, it would be the best."

Wang Chengqian shook his head and said, "I don't understand the affairs of your royal family."

"You'd better not understand it for the rest of your life, and just treat it as a group of fools and lunatics playing a show. It's best for the children of the rivers and lakes to be happy and enmity."

"That's right!—then what are we doing now?"

"Wait. When night falls, sneak into Gubei City. Let me squint for a while now." Tang Yuan said, unpacking his luggage, took out the chessboard and stood behind him to block the wind, put on a cloak and closed his eyes.

Wang Chengqian saw that he was actually sleeping soundly in this icy and snowy place, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. He brushed off the snow on his body and climbed to a nearby high ground. Squatting on the high ground, he could finally get a glimpse of Gubei City, a famous border city. .

The city wall of Gubei City is made of bluestone, which is extremely firm and unbreakable in the wind and snow at the border. The Yuan Jiajun banner standing on the city wall has become a small dot in the place where Wang Chengqian stands. , Facing the wind and swaying to and fro, dangerous as fluff.

The sun gradually sank, casting a series of feeble halos over the walls of Gubei City.Gubei City is too far north, the daytime is much longer than Jiangnan, and the night time gradually becomes difficult.

Tang Yuan woke up completely with a bang of "beep". He has been running around for the past few days and couldn't even sleep at night. Instead, he let go of his heart in the ice and snow of Gubei City and fell into a deep sleep. of.If Wang Chengqian hadn't lit a fire beside him, he wouldn't have been woken up by the explosion of the fire.

"What time is it?" He rubbed his eyes and asked.

"I don't know." Wang Chengqian replied while using a wooden stick to pull the fire, "I think a fire is lit over there, and a fire is lit." He pointed to the direction in the distance, Tang Yuan looked over with his hand, It is the direction where the Dawan army is stationed.

"Cooking smoke? They're starting a fire to cook." Tang Yuan stood up and pulled the cloak around himself, "We have to leave now, while they are starting to work together."

"You know how to sneak in?"

"Of course, come with me." Tang Yuan stood up first and left.Looking at his back, Wang Chengqian also stood up, kicked a pile of snow to cover the fire, and a wisp of green smoke immediately rose into the sky.

Tang Yuan seemed to have eyes behind him, and a voice came from the front: "Cover the fire tightly, so there won't be any smoke."

Wang Chengqian thought it was really troublesome, but he still put more snow on the fire. If this place is seen by Dawan's army, it may cause trouble.

"This is what you said there is a way?" Wang Chengqian pointed to the hole under his feet and asked, "Drilling a dog hole?"

"That's right, let's go. We Jianghu people are afraid of going into a dog's hole, right?" Tang Yuan nodded, and said calmly, "Or do you think you can pass from above?"

Wang Chengqian followed his fingers and looked up, only to see a high city wall blocking him. If it were other times, the city wall would be a high threshold. Water was splashed on the walls, and the water formed a thick layer of ice, with no place to stay.

There is really no other way but to go into the dog hole.

The two young heroes from the Central Plains weighed it up, and they both decided to drill the dog hole, but the dog hole is easy to drill and hard to get out.Tang Yuan's small stature made it easy to drill, but Wang Chengqian was almost stuck.

Tang Yuan was still a heartless person, and he didn't even need help. By the time Wang Chengqian struggled out of the dog hole, Tang Yuan had already found the guards of Yuan's army.

But helplessly, the defenders of the city had never seen Tang Yuan before, so they thought it was an enemy stall from somewhere.Even when Tang Yuan grabbed his neck behind him and felt that his life was dying, he didn't answer Tang Yuan's question.Tang Yuan could only pinch him and repeatedly asked in his ear: "I won't kill you. Take me to find your captain."

Wang Chengqian thought he was very capable, but in the end he hijacked his own people to find his own people, and followed him, and followed the guards who were scared by him to the camp of Gubei City.

"Is this the way to your camp? It wasn't like this a few years ago."

The city guard was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, and he couldn't speak clearly: "Yes, yes..."

The two of them did not hide their whereabouts, and even robbed someone who was swaggering in the city, and soon the captain received the news.

When Tang Yuan was tormented by the stammering of the defenders, the captain just arrived from the camp.Seeing Tang Yuan for the first time, the captain rushed forward as if he saw a relative, and rescued the defender who was scared to death, half kneeling in front of Tang Yuan with a slight cry: "Master Tang, humble job!" There is a long way to go."

"Brother Lieutenant, get up quickly. I have no official position, I can't bear your kneeling." Tang Yuan hastily moved away from his kneeling and helped him up, "Brother Lieutenant , Yuan Xiao, no, is General Yuan still okay?"

"This..." Tang Yuan's heart sank when he saw the captain hesitant to speak.

Although he had received the news before this, he was still holding on to a sliver of hope. Yuan Jiajun had always acted dangerously, and this matter might have been a trick released by Yuan Jiajun.But seeing the captain's expression, he knew that something really happened to Yuan Xiao, otherwise the Yuan family army would not be so motivated.

"This is not a place to talk. We will discuss in detail whether Yuan Jiajun has camp nearby."

The captain led Tang Yuan into the tent, and the moment the curtain fell, the captain pointed at Tang Yuan again, and knelt down with a "plop" on his knees.

Tang Yuan was shocked: "Brother Captain, what are you doing?"

"Young Master Tang, this kneeling is not me kneeling down to you, the son of the eldest princess, as a general of Yuan's army, but my kneeling down to General Yuan's family as General Yuan's brother. I am too incompetent to call General Yuan into danger."

"You don't need to kneel," Tang Yuan forcefully helped the captain up, "I can feel that Yuan Xiao is not dead yet, he is still waiting for me somewhere, waiting for our Yuan Jiajun brothers to rescue him. ——Can Tell me where Yuan Xiao's accident happened?"

The captain calmed down after hearing what he said, nodded vigorously, walked to the front of the sand table and pointed out a place: "It's here, sixteen miles outside the city, on a bald high cliff. ——At that time there was a black-clothed man with extremely high martial arts skills. People fought with General Yuan, and General Yuan told us to withdraw, but we couldn't contact them anymore. We also sent people to look for them on the Bald High Cliff. There were only traces of fighting, but no one was found. Later, after the siege of Dawan, Our people never went out again."

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

The captain lowered his head when he heard the words, and said: "It's not hard, if General Yuan can come back, no matter how much we brothers do, it won't be hard."

"No, I mean, Yuan Jiajun is going to work hard for you. You have to find a way to stabilize the morale of the army these days, and don't attack casually. I have seen Dawan before I came in. Their food and grass can't last long. Now There is only one drag formula left inside and outside the city, let's see who can last longer." Tang Yuan patted the captain on the shoulder, turned around and picked up Yuan Xiao's set of clothes in the tent and stuffed them into his luggage. Tie it tight, "Sixteen miles outside the city, I'll go to the Bald High Cliff to have a look."