Chapter 269
After hearing the detailed reward, Xu Shu and Shi Tao were both shocked. They never dreamed that the development of things would almost develop as written in Han Zhan’s letter.
After a while, Shi Tao woke up from the shock. He stood aside despite his careful work, and said to Xu Shu: "Yuanzhi, the lord is really good at predicting everything, and everything is within his expectations. Shi was so impressed."
Xu Shu just smiled faintly about Shi Tao's statement, and then asked in detail: "Have you ever sent someone to monitor outside the General's Mansion?"
"Reply to Mr. Xu's words," Xizuo replied respectfully, "The subordinates left two of them at the front and back doors. If there is any disturbance, they will come to report to me immediately."
"Yuan Zhi, what are you going to do?" Shi Tao and Xu Shu were old friends for many years. Seeing him asking this, he guessed that he must have some plans, so he asked directly.
Unexpectedly, Xu Shu did not answer him immediately, but waved to the slightest, and said, "You have been tired for a day, go down and rest first, and come and report me when there is news."
After Xiaozao left, Xu Shu said to Shi Tao: "Guangyuan, Guo Si has now summoned his confidant in the military camp to discuss matters in the General's Mansion. He probably intends to attack Li Jue. I think we should report to Li Jue."
"What, Yuan Zhi, what did you say?" Shi Tao immediately jumped up when he heard Xu Shu say this, and couldn't help but say with wide eyes: "Let Li and Guo kill each other, it's not that the lord has already decided on the plan. We just need to watch from the wall. Why should we inform Li Jue and ask him to prepare?"
Xu Shu smiled but said nothing about Shi Tao's question, but just looked up at him. Shi Tao is also a smart person. After a moment, he understood the purpose of Xu Shu doing this. He said with a sudden enlightenment: "Yuan Zhi, you said you went to inform me because you were worried that Li Jue was not on guard and was caught off guard by Guo Si..."
"That's right, that's what it means." Xu Shu continued without waiting for Shi Tao to finish his words: "If Li Jue was destroyed by Guo Si in the shortest time, then his troops would be incorporated by Guo Si, and in this way, Guo Si's strength will increase greatly. But if we report to Li Jue and ask him to prepare in advance, even if Guo Si's attack is caused, there will be no heavy losses. As long as the two fights hard to resolve, the strength of both sides will be weakened. At that time, the lord will lead his troops to Chang'an and destroy the two."
"Yuanzhi, tell me, when will we send someone to notify Li Jue?"
"This time cannot be too early. If it is too early, Li Jue will not believe it." Xu Shu said thoughtfully: "If it is too late, Li Jue has been caught off guard by Guo Si. Even if it is wanting to do something, he is a little overwhelmed. Therefore, the choice of timing is very important."
Shi Tao knew that his old friend had always been resourceful, so he humbly asked him: "When do you think is the best time?"
"When Guo Si's subordinates leave the General's Mansion and return to the military camp, we can take action." Xu Shu said to Shi Tao: "Once we stayed outside the General's Mansion and had any information back, we can send someone to warn Li Jue so that he would not be caught off guard by Guo Si."
After almost an hour, the spy who stayed outside the General's Mansion came back to report that Guo Si's confidants had left the General's Mansion and each returned to their own military camps.
After hearing this, Xu Shu nodded, and then found the steady and detailed work. Seeing a letter written on cloth, he repeatedly reminded him: "You must find a way to hand this letter to Li Jue as soon as possible, otherwise you will miss the big thing."
Xiu Zu took the letter from Xu Shu and took several subordinates to Li Jue's Grand Sima's Mansion, preparing to hand over the letter to Li Jue's warning.
Looking at the backs of several people leaving, Shi Tao asked with some concern: "Yuan Zhi, can this happen?"
"I saw that ** can succeed." Xu Shu nodded and said, "Li Jue received a letter from us and sent someone to the military camp to check it out. He would know that what he said was not false. He would be furious and would compete with Guo Si."
Xi Zuo took his men to a place about fifty steps away from the Grand Sima Mansion and stopped. Then several people began to discuss how to send the letter to Li Jue without attracting the attention of others. He looked at Ding Si whom he trusted the most and asked, "Ding Si, what do you plan to do if I asked you to do this?"
"Big Brother," said to Seizai, a spy known as Ding Si, "If we walked over directly and told the soldiers guarding the gate that Guo Si would lead his troops to attack here, they would definitely chop into meat paste. In my opinion, it would be better to tie this letter to the arrow shaft and shoot the letter over."
"This is a good method." Regarding Ding Si's proposal, he nodded carefully and said, "Then let's do it. I will tie the letter to the arrow shaft later, and you will be responsible for shooting the archery."
A moment later, Xu Shu's warning letter was tied to the arrow shaft, and Ding Si opened his bow and shot the Grand Sima Mansion. The sharp arrow flew over the heads of the gate guard soldiers and nailed them to the pillars, which scared the soldiers. After they shouted for a while, they found an arrow nailed to the pillars.
The responsible team leader took the arrow off the pillar and tied a letter to it. He dared not be negligent. He quickly jogged all the way into the mansion and went straight to the living room to meet Li Jue.
Li Jue, who was a little drunk, was lying on the couch and was drowsy when he suddenly heard someone shouting loudly: "You are the Grand Sikong, the young man picked up a letter outside the mansion and came to hand it over to the General."
An official named Zuo Ling was sitting aside at this moment. Li Jue said to him: "Come and take a look, what is written on the letter?"
Zuo Ling walked to the team leader, took the letter from him, opened it and looked at it a few times, and was shocked. He hurriedly came to Li Jue and said to him: "General Zhiran, something big happened."
"What... what big... what big... what big thing?" Li Jue asked a little confusedly.
"Someone told us in his heart that Guo Si was gathering a large army and preparing to attack us." Zuo Ling said to Li Jue in a panic: "Please prepare early for the Grand Sima."
Zuo Ling's words shocked Li Jue and broke out in a cold sweat, which scared him to wake up at that time. An incredible expression appeared on his face, "Why did Adu raise an army to attack me? I don't know that I have always treated him well."
Zuo Ling shook his head and said to Li Jue: "Sima, my subordinates think that the origin of this letter is suspicious, and they should not be trusted easily or disbelief."
"Zuo Ling, in your opinion, what should we do?"
"If General Guo really wants to launch troops to attack you, his military camp will definitely be dispatching troops." Zuo Ling suggested to Li Jue: "The Grand Sima might as well send someone to the military camp to spy on it. If he is really preparing for war, then we should take precautions early."
After Li Jue killed Fan Chou a few days ago, he was uneasy and was afraid that someone would come to avenge Fan Chou. At this moment, he heard that Guo Si was mobilizing troops and preparing to deal with him. Thinking of this, he quickly called a few personal soldiers and told them to rush to Guo Si's military camp immediately to see if there was any movement in the camp.
A personal soldier sent back in less than half an hour. He knelt in front of Li Jue and said, "If you go back to the Grand Sima, the general's military camp is very lively at this moment, and generals and officers everywhere are dispatching troops. According to small speculation, they are probably planning to attack somewhere."
Li Jue waved his hand to his personal soldiers, sent him away, and said to Zuo Ling: "Zuo Ling, if Guo Si really leads his troops to attack, how should I deal with it?"
"Grand Sima," Zuo Ling thought that he was standing on Li Jue's side. If Guo Si really wanted to do something counterattack, he would be unable to escape death, so he could only fight to the death: "Since Guo Si is already dispatching troops, we must not sit still and wait for death. In the eyes of our subordinates, we have already drawn troops to the Grand Sima Mansion to prevent Guo Si from leading troops to attack the mansion."
Regarding Zuo Ling's proposal, Li Jue nodded and agreed: "This is a good statement. I will give an order to the deployment in the military camp, so that they can immediately lead their troops into the city and come here to meet with us."
There were originally five hundred soldiers in the Grand Sima Mansion. After Li Jie learned that Guo Si was going to lead the troops to invade, he hurriedly dispatched another 2,500 people to defend his mansion so as not to be captured by Guo Si.
At the fourth update, just as the guards in the Li Mansion were all drowsy, they suddenly heard neat footsteps coming from the street outside, and then heard someone shouting: "Quickly encircle the Grand Sima Mansion, don't leave that dog thief Li Jue."
The person who came to besiege the mansion was a confidant under Guo Si. When he saw the guards outside the Grand Sima Mansion, he immediately retreated back to the mansion when he saw the troops he brought. He thought that the other party was afraid of him, so he quickly ordered his subordinates to attack the Grand Sima Mansion. Unexpectedly, as soon as they rushed to the front, they were caught in a burst of arrows, and the dozen soldiers who rushed to the front were shot into hedgehogs.
Seeing that the mansion was prepared, his confidant sent people to continue to siege the Grand Sima Mansion, and sent people to report to Guo Si that his troops had surrounded the Grand Sima Mansion, so he asked the General to come and take charge of the overall situation.
When Guo Si heard that his troops had surrounded the Grand Sima Mansion, he hurriedly led 400 cavalry to gallop along the street. The people in the city heard the shouts of killing and the rushing horse hooves outside. They didn't know what happened again, so they hurriedly closed the doors and windows and blocked the doors with things to prevent the house from being looted by the rioters.
When Guo Si led his men to the outside of the Grand Sima Mansion, he saw dozens of corpses lying outside the mansion. He hurriedly asked his confidant: "What's going on? Why are there so many dead people at the door?" When he asked this, he thought that the people lying on the ground were Li Jue's subordinates. But he never thought that one of the dead people here was counted as one, all of whom were under his command. They were all shot to death by arrows on the wall when they rushed to the Grand Sima Mansion.
Seeing this, Guo Si was so angry that he was so angry that he quickly ordered his confidant to concentrate his forces to attack the main gate of the Grand Sima Mansion. After receiving the order, he immediately ordered five hundred soldiers to attack the main gate. In order to prevent being killed by bows and arrows from the mansion, the soldiers who rushed in the front were holding shields in their hands.
Li Juejun behind the wall surrounded Guo Si's troops and horses again, and used the same trick again, and they used arrows to greet them, trying to drive them away from the mansion. However, because the attacking soldiers had shields in their hands, Li Juejun saw that the other party had started a new attack, he used the same trick again and shot arrows at the approaching black shadow.
If Guo Sijun had no shield in his hand, at least nearly a hundred people would fall down in the rain of arrows by Li Juejun. But at this moment, only a few soldiers walking in the front fell down. As soon as they fell down, someone came to take over their position behind and continued to maintain a neat formation to approach the Grand Sima Mansion.
Guo Si's confidant was not idle during the period when he was waiting for Guo Si to arrive. He was afraid that the gate of the Grand Sima Mansion would be too strong and the soldiers could not be knocked open, so he sent someone to get a cart from the barracks. A group of soldiers holding shields surrounded the crash, so as not to get the soldiers pushing the cart to be injured by arrows.
Although the gate of the Grand Sima Mansion is strong, it cannot block the impact of a car. You must know that even the city gate will collapse after being hit by a car that is constantly hit by a car.
After the gate was knocked open, Guo Si's army outside the mansion rushed in and started a melee with Li Yijun who was standing in the mansion. Because Li Yi had few soldiers, although they fought tenaciously, they had to retreat step by step in the face of Guo Si's army that was coming like a tide.
After receiving Xu Shu's warning, Li Jue did not immediately mobilize troops to protect his Grand Sima Mansion, but sent people to inquire about the news first. After all this, he was a little too late to mobilize troops here. The 2,500 people who came to reinforce were intercepted by Guo Si's army on the way. Both sides were fighting hard to resolve, so they could not draw strength to defend the Grand Sima Mansion.
Seeing that his subordinates were getting fewer and fewer, Li Jue knew that if he continued to fight, the entire army would be destroyed, so he quickly ordered everyone to fight and retreat to the backyard. He was about to escape from the Grand Sima Mansion from the back door and rushed to his military camp to send troops to encircle and annihilate Guo Si's rebels.
More than fifty personal soldiers escorted Li Jue to the back door. Unexpectedly, as soon as the door was opened, a group of Guo Si's troops arrived outside. The personal soldiers hurried forward to meet the enemy and fought with the other side. The two Du Bosses, with seven or eight soldiers, fought to the death to break out from Guo Si's army and covered Li Jue's breakthrough outside.
In order to prevent Li Jue from escaping, Guo Si arranged two thousand horses at the back door. There were more than fifty people around Li Jue, so it was not easy to break through the siege. Although the two Du Bosses were extremely brave and rushed to the front, they were outnumbered and soon died in the chaos.
Chapter completed!