Chapter 784 A Dream of Youth 316
At this moment, Xie Qi was leaning back in his chair. The dark and damp dungeon was lit only by a few candlelight, which made his eyes appear deep and somber.
Xu Hongying glanced at the person on the wooden frame, pursed her lips, and said, "Once things are settled tomorrow, I will go out of the city to find Bao'er myself."
Before this, they had already sent a team to search for people, but no more than that, because 60,000 troops were eyeing Bingzhou City.
"Um."
Xu Hongying finally couldn't resist walking up to the person tied to the frame and whipping him. She was also terrified; if someone from the county government hadn't come to report in time, the man would have succeeded.
The encirclement plan of the fart was merely a ploy to lure the generals away for an ambush and kill!
Didn't the Northern Jin want to encircle them? Then the Great Zhou will play along!
The reinforcements from Shaanxi only numbered 20,000 to lull the enemy into a false sense of security. In reality, there were 40,000 reinforcements, plus 30,000 soldiers in the city and 5,000 soldiers who retreated from Shiling. This was the true encirclement.
The Northern Jin army besieging the city numbered approximately 60,000, and with the additional 30,000 mentioned by Xiao Chu, the total was 90,000.
Xu Hongying did not believe the enemy had 90,000 troops, and neither did the other generals. However, they had to be prepared for the possibility that the enemy did indeed have 90,000 soldiers.
When Xie Qi woke up and learned that he could not leave the city to search for people, he and General Xu volunteered to join the army to help. He was very knowledgeable and adapted quickly even though he had no experience.
His overall calculations were far superior to those of the other officers, and everyone was amazed by his calculation abilities.
But Xie Qi couldn't manage a smile. What did he think he was? Xie Ning was the one with the strongest calculation ability. Xie Ning had taught him arithmetic later on.
After joining the army, he also gained some power and convenience, one of which was the trial of Xiao Chu and others.
After all, it was he and Xu Hongying who brought Luo Yueqian to General Xu. Otherwise, Luo Yueqian wouldn't have been able to see him. The army was too busy, busy discussing strategies and preparing for war. General Xu almost fell ill again.
As fate would have it, Luo Yueqian received a mission from his superiors and, unable to ask for leave, had no choice but to lead his men to question and investigate everywhere. Afterwards, he always felt that something was amiss.
So even after Xiao Chu left with his men, he still sent people to keep an eye on things.
However, he didn't send people from the government office, but rather beggars from the streets. Luo's mother was always kind-hearted, and whenever she encountered beggars on the street, she would give them some food or ask them to do something for her, and then she would give them copper coins in return.
Therefore, Luo Yueqian could command them.
However, Xiao Chu entered a place he couldn't keep an eye on, where there was even tighter surveillance, so Luo Yueqian couldn't go in, but he always kept the original tenant who had never shown up in his thoughts.
There was a half-deaf fortune teller at the entrance of their alley. He had nowhere else to go, so he stayed there morning and night. Therefore, he knew exactly who came and went in the alley.
After Xiao Chu and the others left, Luo Yueqian listened carefully to the sounds in the courtyard for a while. It was very quiet during the day, but there were some slight noises at night. Luo Yueqian then saw the person crawling out of the vegetable cellar from the top of the wall.
It's clear that officials went in to check earlier today, and there was no one inside, indicating that the other party was hiding.
Luo Yueqian sensed something was wrong, but the appointment had not yet been made, so he had neither connections nor authority.
Originally, Luo Yueqian wanted to find the person above, but then he remembered that his friend Cheng An said he had seen the people in this courtyard at the entrance of the Xu residence, and he was conflicted again. He didn't know the connection between the two.
He didn't want to risk his life because of recklessness.
In the end, he decided to take people in himself to investigate, hoping to cause trouble if possible.
Before the plan could be implemented, he saw Xie Ning's convoy on the street, but Xie Ning was nowhere to be seen. They must have encountered bandits.
This made him increasingly uneasy, remembering what Xie Ning had told him: if he couldn't find her in an emergency, he could contact her brother and others.
When Xie Ning said this, he only intended to leave an opening so that Luo Yueqian wouldn't be unable to find anyone to help when needed. Xie Ning trusted Xie Qi and Xu Hongying.
In any case, they wouldn't go so far as to harm themselves.
Of course, this refers to being able to find him within Bingzhou City. Unexpectedly, by sheer chance, Luo Yueqian found the right person at this time, and Xie Qi took him to see General Xu.
After secretly searching the courtyard and finding the person in the cellar, the group locked him up and interrogated him. Unexpectedly, they learned that the other person under surveillance, Hu Xin, was actually a fake.
This real Hu Xin almost died.
Zhen Huxin wasn't stupid. In order to save his life, he immediately spilled everything he knew. He would surely die at the hands of his own people in Northern Jin, but he might be able to live in Great Zhou.
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