It is also unacceptable for a high-ranking official like Xu Lengzhi to let him surrender to the enemy. However, if he does not surrender, he will face the danger of trapping the whole army to death. Now he is in a dilemma.
For Xu Lengzhi's current situation, Tang Yin, who is in Pufeng City, can be said to feel it. That day, when he had a private meeting with Cheng Jin, Lotte and a SAN'A, he told everyone about it.
Lotte moved in his heart and said, "if Xu Lengzhi can surrender on his own initiative, it will be very beneficial to our army and reduce many casualties. King, should we take the opportunity to persuade him to surrender now?"
Tang Yin thought carefully, shook his head slowly and said, "it's not right! Xu Lengzhi is the general of Mo country after all. He is still loyal to the imperial court and Shaofang. He won't surrender so easily. We'll go to see him rashly. If we don't do well, we'll explain ourselves."
Lotte nodded and felt that what the king said was not unreasonable. Cheng Jin blinked and said, "then we won't come forward. Write an anonymous letter to persuade him to surrender and put it at the gate of the county capital. Let's see how he reacts first."
Yo! You can have a try! Tang Yin's eyes brightened and said with a smile, "Cheng Jin's method is good. That's it!"
"Your Majesty, this matter is under arrangement!" Cheng Jin volunteered. Tang Yin had no opinion, but warned: "be more careful, and never expose your identity!"
"Don't worry, your subordinates know what to do!" Cheng Jin replied.
Day, night. There was peace inside and outside the county capital. The guards at the gate were standing guard attentively. Suddenly, there was a breaking wind in the air. Before people could understand it, they heard a bang. A Carved Feather arrow was deeply nailed to the door post.
"There are assassins!" The bodyguards instinctively shouted and looked one after another in the direction of the arrow. Now it's dark. There's no light opposite the county capital. It's dark. Where can you see half a figure.
At this time, a large number of bodyguards heard the shouts pouring out of the gate of the county capital, including Tang Yin, whose pseudonym is Ma Wu. People rushed outside and asked, "where is the assassin?"
"I didn't see where the assassin was, but someone just fired a cold arrow!" A guard guarding the door screamed with lingering fear.
"Everybody go and search!" Among the bodyguards, the chief commander shouted to the left and right.
Tang Yin didn't run to the opposite side with the crowd, but came to the gate post, pulled out the arrow inserted on it, saw a letter tied to the arrow, immediately handed it to the commander, and said, "brother Gao, you see, there is a letter tied to the arrow!"
The leader of the team is Gao Peng, Tang Yin's immediate boss. He hurriedly took the arrow handed over by Tang Yin, untied the wrapped letter and opened it. There were five big characters "General Xu personally opened" on the envelope, but he didn't sign it.
This is a letter to Xu Shuai! Gao Peng didn't know what happened. He said to Tang Yin in a hurry, "Xiao Wu, you are in charge here for the time being. You must not let the assassin sneak into the house. I'll see Xu Shuai first."
"Yes, brother Gao, go!"
Gao Peng hurried into the county capital with arrows and envelopes to meet Xu Lengzhi and report the situation.
At this time, Xu Lengzhi is meeting with his generals in the county capital to discuss how to deploy next. As a result, they came to discuss, but they didn't come to a conclusion. Instead, Gao Peng came with a letter.
When he heard that someone had sent a letter to him with flying arrows, Xu Lengzhi frowned and stretched out his hand and said, "show it to me!"
Gao Peng hurried forward and carefully handed the arrow and the letter to Xu Lengzhi's hand. The latter first took the arrow, looked through it several times, and then snorted coldly and threw it on the table.
He is familiar with this arrow, because it is the arrow used by the Mozambican army. Then he tore open the envelope and was about to take out the letter paper inside. At this time, the guard on the side said in a hurry: "general, be careful, there is fraud!"
Xu Lengzhi's action was stiff. After thinking for a moment, he handed the envelope to the general and asked him to open it for himself. The guard slowly took out the letter paper, unfolded it slowly, checked it back and forth, and found no difference, so he returned it to Xu Lengzhi.
The latter took it and looked down. Then he slapped the letter paper on the table. His eyes glittered. He looked around the generals and asked, "guess what this letter is?"
The monks of the general's second brother-in-law were confused and shook their heads one after another to show that they didn't know.
Xu lengzhining said in a voice, "this is a letter of persuasion! But the arrow used to spread the book is from our army. What can I explain?" While talking, he threw the arrows and stationery on the table below for the general to check.
The people looked at each other and hesitated for a while. They still gathered around and passed around the stationery and arrows one by one. After all the generals looked at it, they clenched their fists and said, "there must be spies in our army. They may be sneakers or insiders who were rebelled by wind thieves!"
Xu Lengzhi nodded, glanced sharply at the faces of the people one by one, and said with a sneer: "our two granaries were burned at the same time, but we can't find out the enemy hiding in the city. Now you should understand why? Because the enemy is lurking in the interior of our army! Let the enemy catch the enemy, how can we catch it!"
His words made the generals blush. People hung their heads and couldn't help glancing left and right. There were spies inside their own side, but who were they?
Turning his eyes to the questioner, he said: "general, it's not strange that the enemy can know the location of the granary, but it's strange that the enemy can accurately know the location of the dark granary, and can sneak in and set fire. It's incredible. If the end is right, the enemy must be sneaking into the top of our army..."
His words are tantamount to putting everyone present in doubt.
As soon as his voice fell, Mo Jiang immediately stood up to express his dissatisfaction and said, "it's bad to say to the general. Although we know the location of the dark warehouse, it's not easy to get in. How can we go inside and set fire?"
"That's right! I'm afraid no one can enter the dark warehouse except the bodyguard in the county capital!"
Seeing that the people were gradually pointing their spears at their own side, a guard immediately said angrily, "the guards at the door of the dark warehouse have testified that no one came out of the dark warehouse before the fire. Did the arsonist burn himself?"
The generals are full of tongue and tongues. You can't say a word to me. In the end, the argument can't come to a conclusion.
Xu Lengzhi became more and more upset. He slapped the table and shouted: "stop arguing! After you go back, go and check your subordinates for me. If I find out whose subordinates have problems, I will punish them severely!"
The generals stopped arguing at the same time. They were so frightened that they shrunk their necks and bowed their hands together. "Yes, general!"
Through this flying arrow biography, Xu Lengzhi can be sure that there is a detailed work of Feng army in his own side, but he can't be sure who it is. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of Mo army in the city. Anyone can be bought by Feng state, even the closest confidant around him.
The persuasion letter sent by Cheng Jin to Xu Lengzhi didn't play any role. Mo Jun still insisted on Pufeng. However, the whole army has been reduced from three meals a day to one and a half meals a day, half meals in the morning, one meal in the evening and no meal at noon.
Judging from the current situation, Xu Lengzhi seems to have made up his mind to stick to Pufeng city and fight with Fengyu coalition army to the end.
Tang Yin is the bodyguard of the county capital and has a good relationship with the thousands of elders above, so the news is also more informed. After discovering Xu Lengzhi's intention, he has a killing intention in his heart.
Xu Lengzhi is the backbone of Mo Jun. as long as he is there, hundreds of thousands of Mo Jun may fight with his own soldiers at any time. But if this person dies, it's another matter. The last line of defense in Mo Jun's heart will collapse, which is very beneficial to his own side.
However, there are too many guards and bodyguards around Xu Lengzhi, among which there are many outstanding spiritual practitioners. Tang Yin wants to do it alone, but there is basically no possibility of success. For this matter, he specially went to consult Cheng Jin and Lotte.
Since Xu Lengzhi is determined not to surrender, assassinating this person is the most favorable choice for his own side. Cheng Jin asked Tang Yin, "Your Majesty, can we sneak into the county capital?"
Tang Yin shook her head and said, "now the county capital is heavily guarded. There are double posts inside and outside, and spiritual practitioners constantly release insight. Let alone people, even a mouse can't get in."
After listening to his words, Cheng Jin fell into silence. His side couldn't get in. Relying on the king alone, how could he assassinate Xu Lengzhi! Lotte rubbed his chin and muttered, "if we can lead him out of the county capital, our chances of assassination will be greatly increased."
Tang Yin said with a wry smile: "The reason why I agreed to send Xu Lengzhi a letter of surrender is to test whether he is willing to surrender. Secondly, I also want to stimulate their internal contradictions and let them suspect their own people. Although these two points have achieved their goals, they also make Xu Lengzhi full of vigilance, like a bird frightened by a bow. Now he is confined to the county capital and basically doesn't go out, trying to lead him out of the county capital , that's not easy! "
Lotte's eyes turned and his brain flashed and said, "king, if there is a riot or even armed struggle within the Mozambican army, I'm afraid Xu Lengzhi will have to solve it."
Tang Yin pondered for a moment, nodded his head and asked curiously, "Lotte, what good idea have you come up with?"
Lotte smiled and said, "provoke the central army of Mo country to rob baishuixuan."
"Oh?" Tang Yin didn't understand why Lotte said so. He became interested and stared at Lotte, waiting for him to go on. Lotte continued: "as far as my subordinates know, the shopkeeper of baishuixuan is a distant relative of Ma Qian, the county head. In fact, this is just a cover. Ma Qian is the real boss behind baishuixuan."
Tang Yin nodded as he listened. He is now a bodyguard in the county capital. He has heard more or less about the relationship between baishuixuan and Ma Qian, the county head. However, what does this have to do with bringing out Xu Lengzhi?