The Three Kingdoms Fight for the Deer

Chapter 419 Action Tonight
Just after Zhou Yu and his party left Xiapi in disguise, Sun Quan also began to mobilize soldiers to dress up as ordinary people and enter the city, but they could not enter the Sun's mansion to avoid suspicion.Cheng Pu and Huang Gai led the soldiers to stay in different inns in the city, and they moved separately so that they would not attract too much attention.Sun Quan planned to act at Zishi, and attacked Li Yuan's mansion in the dead of night.

In the Governor's Mansion, Xi Zhicai was handling government affairs, and Jia Xu was assisting. It had been nearly ten days since Li Yuan left, and the city was still peaceful, with nothing wrong.

Jia Xu sat for a whole morning, stretched her waist, and said with a smile: "Military Master, Xiapi is very peaceful under the management of the lord. Not to mention suffering from war disasters, even thefts have decreased a lot. It is really gratifying. Hey."

Xi Zhicai smiled slightly, and said: "That's all the lord's ability. If every family can live and work in peace and contentment, who would want to do theft? Not only Xiapi, Xuzhou, but also all parts of Yuzhou are very prosperous, except for the Jiangdong area, which is a little worse." One point, there are no major events happening in the rest of the places, and I will have a chance to take a break."

"My lord told us to keep an eye on two people before we set off. One is Sun Quan and the other is Ma Xian. I don't know if there is anything unusual about these two people recently." Jia Xu recalled Li Yuan's advice before he left.

"Don't worry, Wen He, these two are under my surveillance. There is nothing unusual about Ma Xian, but yesterday, the city gate officials discovered that the three veterans under Sun Quan's command had all left the city. They didn't know where they were going. Where?" Xi Zhicai sent people to monitor the movements of Sun's family every day, but even though the surveillance monitored, it was impossible to find out everything the other party was doing.

"Then why didn't the military advisor stop them?" Jia Xu wondered.

"The lord only said that the children of the Sun family are not allowed to leave the city. Although Cheng Pu and others are soldiers following Sun Quan, they are not within the restrictions, so I can't stop them from leaving the city." Xi Zhicai was also helpless, and Li Yuan once ordered his release All the generals in Jiangdong, where Cheng Pu and others go is their business, and he can't control it. At most, he can only send someone to monitor.

"There may be something strange about it," Jia Xu lowered his head in thought. "It's not suspicious if one or two of them leave the city, but the three of them going out of the city together may be ordered by Sun Quan. Perhaps Sun Quan will take some action recently."

"Wen He doesn't need to worry too much. Now the conflict between Zhou Yu and Sun Quan is irresolvable. Without Zhou Yu's assistance, Sun Quan is useless no matter how powerful he is. Could he be more difficult to deal with than his brother Sun Ce?" Xi Zhicai didn't think of Sun Quan. Keep it in your eyes.

As soon as Xi Zhicai finished speaking, a soldier ran in from outside the door and said, "Mr. Qi, yesterday you asked me to pay attention to Cheng Pu and others. They have returned now."

"I came back so soon, could it be that I am suspicious?" Jia Xu couldn't help saying.

"Did they return to Sun's house immediately after they came back?" Xi Zhicai felt that things might not be as simple as imagined.

"No, they went to the inn, and the three of them went to different inns." The soldier replied.

"Why don't they go back to the mansion and go to the inn? Could it be that Sun Quan expelled them?" Xi Zhicai thought about it carefully, and felt that this was impossible at all, so he looked at Jia Xu, "Wenhe, can you think of the difference?" What's right?"

"There must be demons who act abnormally. They could have lived in Sun's house, but now they don't go back and stay in the inn. Although we don't know why they did this, we can't take it lightly. Military division, what is happening to the Lord's Tiger Guard camp now? arrange?"

"My lord and Zhongkang took away 300 of them, and the remaining 700 people are responsible for guarding the governor's mansion." Xi Zhicai replied, because the governor's mansion has many important documents, so under normal circumstances, soldiers from the Tiger Guard Battalion will be arranged to help guard.

"Where does the military advisor think is the most important place in Xiapi City?" Jia Xu suddenly asked a question.

Xi Zhicai said without hesitation: "Of course it is the Governor's Mansion. The Governor's Mansion is the place where official affairs are handled, and civil servants and generals discuss matters here."

"No, no, military advisor, don't look at it from your own point of view. If you were the lord, what would you think is the most important?" Jia Xu changed the question.

Xi Zhicai was very smart, and suddenly realized: "My lord's mansion!"

"Yes, the lord's mansion is the most important place, because his family lives there. We all know that the lord is a very family-oriented person. Nothing is more important to him than his family." Jia Xu is very good at To grasp human nature, he has been with Li Yuan for a long time, so he knows Li Yuan very well.

Xi Zhicai heard Jia Xu say that he realized that he had neglected something. When Jia Xu asked him just now, he actually thought of several important places, namely the Governor's Mansion, the Barracks, Baicao Hall, and Lumen Academy. Yuan Du valued it very much, but he didn't think of Li Yuan's mansion.

Jia Xu continued: "Sun Quan's current strength is not strong, so it is impossible to confront us head-on. If I were him, I would definitely use our weakest place to check and balance us, so we should strengthen the defense of the lord's mansion to avoid being attacked. Attack. Does the military commander still remember the kidnapping of the country's uncle Dong Cheng?"

"You mean that Dong Cheng colluded with Mi Fang and wanted to seize the military power of Xiapi?" Xi Zhicai quickly remembered that when Emperor Xian came to Xiapi and was unwilling to submit to Li Yuan, he only wanted to win the control of Xiapi. So Dong Cheng was ordered to collude with Mi Fang to seize the military power of Xiapi, intending to control Xiapi and restore the prestige of the Han Dynasty.

"That's right. At the beginning, Mi Fang hijacked the military adviser and forced us to hand over the military power. In the end, the military adviser's virtuous wife Mi Xian persuaded her brother Mi Fang. Mi Fang and Mi Xian's brother and sister had a deep relationship. In the end, we successfully resolved the crisis because of a momentary hesitation. Uncle Guo Dong Cheng was also arrested. We have already encountered this kind of thing by threatening relatives to seize military power, so we must be more careful this time.”

"Wen He is absolutely right. I will immediately send the Tiger Guards to guard the lord's mansion." After Xi Zhicai finished speaking, he ordered the arrangements. In addition, he also strengthened the defense of important places such as the governor's mansion to avoid being attacked by the enemy. attack.

At night, the night wind was cold and there was no moonlight tonight. The bustling streets during the day became very quiet. Almost everyone had already fallen asleep. However, neither Sun Quan nor his soldiers had fallen asleep. Tonight was destined to be restless.

Cheng Pu and Huang Gai led the soldiers out of more than a dozen inns and marched towards Li Yuan's mansion. In order to avoid being discovered, they didn't even light a torch. So all the way was very smooth, without any trouble.Soon, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai's soldiers joined forces on a street.

(End of this chapter)