Oriole Line

, What I said is in vain. " Tang Yu said frustratedly.

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"Then let's go too." Wen Tao said.This is said so lightly, as if going to Liangzhou is as simple as going to the river to catch a fish.

"Hey hey..." Tang Yu hurriedly pulled him back, "The Patriarch has ordered that you must not be allowed to go to Liangzhou."

Wen Tao was unmoved at all: "Oh, you are his bodyguard, you have to listen to what he says. I am not. If you don't go, I will go alone."

"Hey hey..." Tang Yu stepped in front of Wen Tao, feeling that Wen Tao was about to leave at any moment.He slandered his Patriarch a thousand times in his heart again, was the task given to him by Pu Chen someone else?Wen Tao is not Pu Chen's personal guard, and he can't beat him himself, how can he stop him?

"Beiyan's Da Shan Yu Khalil personally sits in Liangzhou City. Liangzhou has already erected walls and cleared the wilderness. It is useless for you to go." Tang Yu persuaded patiently.

"I guess so." Wen Tao analyzed, "Liangzhou's soldiers and horses have always been in Pu's hands. It should not be Pu's generals who surrendered to Beiyan. In this way, Liangzhou's garrison must be dissatisfied, Beiyan thought. To occupy Liangzhou, we must slaughter all the tens of thousands of garrisons, send Beiyan troops to garrison, or incorporate Pu's garrisons. Beiyan is located in a cold region and mainly consists of cavalry, so it is not suitable for garrisons. The best option is to incorporate them. Liangzhou garrison, this requires Da Shanyu to rectify himself in his capacity. Standing up the wall and clearing the wilderness is the first step."

Although he knew that Wen Tao was good at strategy, Tang Yu didn't expect that Wen Tao could analyze the situation in detail without having a front-line military report.He wondered: "Since you have already guessed it, then we will die if we go. The whole Liangzhou City is now like Tietong, people inside can't get out, people outside can't get in, why don't we just wait for news from the Patriarch in Wuchang?" .”

Wen Tao raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Like an iron bucket? Then how did your Patriarch get there?"

Tang Yu scratched his head: "This matter is confidential, and the owner did not disclose it."

Seeing Tang Yu's expression, Wen Tao really didn't seem to know, so he said: "I still say that, if you don't go, I will go by myself."

"You..." Tang Yu was speechless, and sighed: "Forget it, I'll go with you. I trust you, so I go with you. If it's someone else, hmph, I won't be in a hurry for this kind of death. "

Wen Tao smiled brightly and said: "Then please find two good horses, and if you have enough money, we will follow the official path."

A few days later, the two rushed all the way to the border of Liangzhou.Liangzhou borders Yizhou in the west and Jingzhou in the east, and the terrain is dangerous.Although Liangzhou has voted for Beiyan, the garrison is mainly trapped in Liangzhou City, and other areas of Liangzhou have not been greatly affected.Wen Tao and Tang Yu rested in Zhuxi Town, which is only a few dozen miles away from Liangzhou City.When they came out, they were dressed as tourists, and now they stayed in the inn like ordinary guests passing by. The inn was deserted, and several guys were packing their bags.

Seeing a guest coming, the shopkeeper of the inn wondered: "Officer, why don't you run for your life?"

"Run for your life, why do you want to run for your life?" Tang Yu said.

"Oh, I'm afraid you don't know yet, Liangzhou City has already surrendered Beiyan! Beiyan's iron cavalry are murderous, and they slaughtered Luoyang back then. Why don't you run for your lives?"

"I heard that Beiyan didn't slaughter Liangzhou City this time, why should the shopkeeper be so worried?" Wen Tao said.

The shopkeeper shook his head again and again: "The reason why the city was not slaughtered before is because the garrison in Liangzhou has not been completely subdued. In the past two days, I heard that even General Lei Xionglei, the former captain of Liangzhou, has surrendered! Who knows that General Lei is a good man. Loyal and loyal, even he surrendered, will Beiyan let us small places go? Those barbarians are inhuman!"

Lei Xiong descended?Wen Tao and Tang Yu looked at each other.

On the way here, Tang Yu roughly told Wen Tao about the situation in Liangzhou. Gao You, the prefect who surrendered to Beiyan, was a member of the Qi family and had no military power.Lieutenant Lei Xiong, who was in charge of the military power in Liangzhou, was originally a capable general under Puyang's tent, and there was no way he would voluntarily surrender, unless... Wen Tao's thinking was a step faster, but Tang Yu still looked surprised.

"We are just stopping by for a day or two. If the shopkeeper has a room, he will give us two." Wen Tao said.

Although the shopkeeper also wanted to escape for his life, he couldn't leave the inn. Seeing that Wen Tao and the others were quite determined to stay, he didn't resist doing this business.While writing receipts for them, I heard a woman suddenly say: "Shopkeeper, here are two good rooms!"

Wen Tao and Tang Yu took a look and saw that it was a middle-aged and young woman, dressed quite gaudy, but with several expensive jewelry around her body.Behind her were two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls. They looked upright, but they were timid and cowardly, not daring to look at people.

"Oh, it's Qiao Erniang. It's been a month since you went to Yizhou this time." The shopkeeper obviously knew the lady customer well.

"Isn't it?" The woman sat down and drank two cups of tea before she calmly said, "It's getting harder and harder to buy a baby these days. Look at the shopkeeper, I'm picking a baby in Yizhou." Are these two pretty good?" The woman motioned to the two girls with her eyes.

The shopkeeper looked at her up and down and said, "Erniang Qiao has the old eyes. Both of them are outstanding. Let me teach you the number one Yaoniang who has not lost to you for a few years. But, this Liangzhou has After Beiyan was surrendered, Liangzhou City is now like an iron barrel, Qiao Erniang doesn't know yet."

I thought that Qiao Erniang was a woman, so she couldn't help but panic when she heard this, but she waved her hand and smiled, "Shopkeeper, you don't know much about this. I've made inquiries all the way here. Liangzhou They surrendered a long time ago, not only the prefect, but also General Du Wei Lei. The [-] soldiers and horses in Liangzhou belong to Beiyan now. Beiyan's chief chan Yu Khalil even held a banquet To celebrate, he has led his troops back for the past two days, and there are some Beiyan soldiers and horses left in Liangzhou City, and now one of their Beiyan kings is sitting in Liangzhou."

Wen Tao's expression changed, and he interjected, "But King Huben? Khalil's brother?"

Qiao Erniang rolled her eyes and said, "That's the name! Little brother is well-informed. I heard that the king loves the treasures and beauties of Nanjing the most, and he won't slaughter the city, so the shopkeeper was relieved. "

These words really worked, the shopkeeper, who was still in a panic just now, put his heart into his stomach in an instant, and entertained Qiao Erniang.

Wen Tao and Tang Yu returned to the guest room, and Tang Yu couldn't restrain his curiosity for a long time and asked, "Who is that King Huben?"

"King Huben is his name in Chinese. In Beiyan, he is called Bateer, which means warrior. King Huben is brave and good at fighting, and he and Khalil are half-brothers. , he is stronger than Khalil." Wen Tao explained.

"You know this as well?"

Wen Tao smiled and said: "Your patriarch must be aware of these things. But you, who have become the personal guard of the great Sima, don't care about these things."

Tang Yu stuck out his tongue.

Wen Tao continued: "If Beiyan University Shan Yu Khalil was in Liangzhou, it would be difficult for us to sneak in. Khalil is good at strategy and military management. He practiced erecting walls to clear the field. Without the means of reaching the sky, it would be very difficult for us to get in." Wen Tao thought of Pu Chen when he said this, and smiled to himself.

Tang Yu didn't notice, and continued to ask: "What about King Huben?"

"King Huben is more than brave, but lacks in strategy. I heard that he was guarding Yingchuan before, and he was extremely lustful. It looks like she's in the dust, and it's much easier for us to enter the city if we follow her, and maybe we can get close to that Huben King. Now that Haril is not in Liangzhou City, isn't the Huben King doing whatever he wants?"

"It makes sense!" Tang Yu clapped his hands, "Sure enough, you don't have to worry about coming out with you."

Wen Tao smiled and said, "However, I have to trouble Mr. Tang to pay for it. You see, Erniang Qiao's jewelry is not cheap. If you want to persuade her to take us into Liangzhou City, you will get a lot of money."

"That's easy to say." Tang Yu waved his hand boldly, and took out a bulging money bag.Wen Tao took the money bag, walked to Qiao Erniang's room with Tang Yu and knocked on the door.

"Boom, boom." Wen Tao tapped a few times.

A charming voice came from inside, "Here we come." Erniang Qiao opened the door, seeing the two young masters she had just met, she smiled and said, "It's two little brothers, come in and sit down." She was sitting in the hall just now. Zhong noticed that Wen Tao and Tang Yu were handsome, with extraordinary manners, and wanted to make friends, but he didn't want them to come to the door by themselves, so he hurriedly poured tea for them enthusiastically.

"We came from the south, and some relatives are trapped in Liangzhou. We want to know how to enter Liangzhou city." Wen Tao said politely.

"Little brother, it's not easy to enter Liangzhou at this time." Qiao Erniang glanced at Wen Tao from the corner of her eyes, and she was amazed in her heart. This young man is really better-looking than several top ladies she has brought, but it's a pity that he is a man.

"I know it's not easy, so I came here to ask Qiao Erniang." Wen Tao smiled and said, "It's easy to talk about the price." Wen Tao took a sip of tea.

Qiao Erniang had guessed that these two young masters were of extraordinary background, and she had seen a lot of guests of all kinds on weekdays. When she heard that she didn't care about the price, she smiled and said: "That's not difficult. My Qiao Erniang is in Liangzhou City It’s also worthy of the name. Although Liangzhou City is still nominally erecting walls and clearing the wilderness these two days, the defenders of the city have been replaced by the original Liangzhou garrison, and I can get in with these people.”

Wen Tao took out the purse and pushed it in front of Qiao Erniang.Qiao Erniang weighed it calmly, and nodded in satisfaction.Only Tang Yu looked at it with a bit of pain, but fortunately, Pu Chen had the foresight before leaving and left a lot of spare money for Tang Yu. The owner of the house is wise, Tang Yu thought.However, my own