At dusk, it is the time when the tired birds return to their nests. The birds that were foraging in the city flew over the city and flew towards the woods outside the city.

At this time, a pigeon flew up from the backyard of the royal house and flew out of the city. But just as it flew past a row of trees outside the house, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot out from the big tree, hitting the abdomen of the pigeon, the arrow fell from the air with the pigeon, and rushed out from beside it, snatching the pigeon. Seeing that there was indeed a message tube tied on it, he was overjoyed and turned around and ran towards the military camp.

Soon, the pigeon lay on Qu Tutong's table. Qu Tutong used a knife to open the mailbox, spread the fine silk inside, and wrote the words carefully with fine needles. Qu Tutong looked at it for a moment and frowned. The content inside actually told the manor not to rush to sell grain, and wait for the price of grain to soar before taking action. In addition, it was decided that the rent collection this year would increase by 10% compared to last year.

Although it exposed the face of the Wang family's prodigal businessman and the fact that he exploited the tenant farmers, the content of the letter had nothing to do with the army, and it was not what Qu Tutong wanted at all, which disappointed Qu Tutong.

He was still unwilling to give up, so he found two staff members to study the pigeon letter. Whether it was the method of hiding the head and closing the tail or the method of homophonic hinting, he found no clues.

Qu Tutong was a little unable to sit still. Regardless of whether the Wang family's pigeon letter was suspected of colluding with the enemy, the Wang family's communication with the outside world was the biggest suspicion. Although he could not catch the evidence, it did not mean that he could only stare at him and could not do anything. Qu Tutong immediately ordered: "Prepare, I want to go to Wang's house!"

In less than a stick of incense, Qu Tutong rushed to Wang Shou's mansion with three thousand soldiers. He ordered the army to surround Wang Shou's mansion. At this time, more than a dozen young children from the Wang family surrounded Wang Shou and came out of the mansion. Wang Shou sat on the wooden platform and asked with anger on his face: "General Qu Tu, what are you doing?"

Qu Tutong said coldly: "The enemy is in front of him, and the head of the family is still secretly communicating with the outside of the city, which makes people suspect that the head of the family is suspected of colluding with the enemy."

"Why did you say this?"

Qu Tutong raised the pigeon, "This is the pigeon flying out of your mansion, and there is also the pigeon letter you wrote on it. Do you dare to admit it?"

Wang Shou nodded, "I admit that I have connections with the manor, because the general blocked the city gates and did not allow people to enter and exit. We need to tell the manor what to do. Everyone does this, why does General Qu Tu only stare at the Wang family?"

"Is that true? Who else can contact the outside world using pigeon letters? The head of the family may wish to talk about it."

"I don't know how to do such a harmful thing. General Qu Tu should not make this idea."

Qu Tutong sneered, "I have investigated secretly for a long time. There is no one else at all, and only the Wang family is sending carrier pigeons."

"Even so! But why did General Qu Tu say that I was cooperating with the enemy? At most, I violated the ban, and it was the ban of Pei's prime minister. Pei's prime minister has left, and the fact of this ban no longer exists. General Qu Tu did not say that he was not sure to send a pigeon letter."

Wang Shou was eloquent and had a very keen mind. He seized the timeliness of Pei Ji's ban on orders and made a fuss because Pei Ji was not the emperor, and the ban could not be compared with the imperial edict. His ban would become invalid as he left. Qu Tutong, as the new lord of Taiyuan, did not order the ban on carrier pigeons, which made Wang Shou take advantage of the loophole.

Qu Tutong was speechless for a moment and said for a while: "It's time for war, Pei Xiangguo is my ex, and his ban is naturally mine."

Wang Shou sneered: "It's a pity that Pei Ji is not Xiao He, and General Qu Tu is not Cao Shen. If you can't do Xiao Ruo and Cao Sui, it's better to do this. General Qu Tu asks the emperor for instructions. If the emperor agrees that the ban from Pei's prime minister will always take effect, then I promise not to put a pigeon."

Qu Tutong couldn't tell Wang Shou, and hated him so much that he gritted his teeth and said, "I won't debate with you, but I know that you and Zhou Jun secretly communicated with each other. You can go and sue me for the emperor, but I tell you that from now on, you can't think of any contact with the outside world."

He ordered: "Enclose his mansion and do not allow anyone to enter and exit!"

"Qu Tutong, you are too bullying. I am the dignified Duke of Taiyuan County. If you have a title, you have no right to put me under house arrest!"

Qu Tutong ignored him, turned around and left. Tang soldiers rushed Wang Shou and his family back to the mansion, locked the door from outside, and dozens of people stood guard at the door.

Not only did he put Wang Shou and his family under house arrest, Qu Tutong immediately ordered the county magistrate Wang Yuanji to be arrested and imprisoned, and ordered the county magistrate Zhou Ju to preside over the government affairs of Taiyuan.

That night, Qu Tutong began to clean up in the army. Anyone who had anything to do with the Wang family would be transferred from the city defense.

After hesitating for a while, Qu Tutong still issued an order to transfer Wang Junkuo to the deputy general of the Central Camp and appoint his confidant general Xie Jingyuan as the lord of Xicheng. Although he only had a little doubt about Wang Junkuo, even if he had this doubt, he could not be confused. He immediately deprived Wang Junkuo of the defense rights of Xicheng.

But Qu Tutong still exposed one of his weaknesses in this matter, that is, love talents. It was the general who cherished Wang Junkuo that he did not attack Wang Junkuo immediately, but put it in the end.

Qu Tutong felt embarrassed. The defense system had been formed. At this time, the change would disrupt the defense deployment, resulting in loopholes in defense. Moreover, Xie Jingyuan's ability to defend the city was far inferior to Wang Junkuo. It would undoubtedly be a huge loss to transfer Wang Junkuo to the city defense.

It was this anxiety and anxiety that made Qu Tutong hesitate for a while before finally making up his mind to transfer Wang Junkuo out of the city to defend.

But just when Qu Tutong began to clean up the children and disciples of the Wang family in the army, Wang Junkuo realized something was wrong. He wrote a text message before Qu Tutong had settled his head, sent a personal soldier to climb a rope and get out of the city, and secretly went to the Zhou army camp to deliver the letter.

Zhang Xuan's king flag was planted in Dongdaying, but in fact his people were in Xidaying, and Xicheng was the focus of this Zhou army's attack.

The tent was brightly lit. Zhang Xuan stood in front of the city model with his hands behind his back and looked at the water city gate in the west. He was very interested in this water city gate. He observed the water city gate carefully during the day and found that the river channel was very wide and they didn't need to enter the city. He drove the two thousand stone boats to the water gate and the army could directly climb the city from the ship. As for the shipwrecks in the river, it was easy to deal with, just drag them away from the water gate.

Of course, this is just an alternative, the premise is that Wang Junkuo failed. After all, Qu Tutong was not Li Shenfu. He was a famous general in the Sui Dynasty, and could be compared with Zhang Xutuo. If Wang Junkuo wants to succeed in his city, he must not only have enough strength, but also have enough luck.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Xuan is known as a famous general in the world. He will not only leave a way for himself. Before we meet success, failure must be considered.

At this time, a guard came in outside the door and whispered a few words to Zhang Xuan. Zhang Xuan nodded, "Take him in!"

Soon, the guards brought a wet Tang army soldier into the tent, and the soldiers knelt down and kowtowed, "The villain came to deliver a letter to His Majesty under the order of General Wang."

"What's the situation in the city?" Zhang Xuan was not in a hurry to read the letter and asked about the situation in the city first.

"Report to Your Majesty, the situation in the city is not very good. General Qu Tu sent his army to surround the mansion of the head of the Wang family, arrested Wang Juncheng and imprisoned, and cleaned up the Wang family's children in the army. Our general was also transferred to the deputy general of the central army and was no longer in charge of the defense of the West City."

"Ah!" Yuchi Gong beside him couldn't help but exclaim.

Even a steady person like Yuchi Gong was unable to calm down. It shows that the situation was not good. It can be said that all their previous efforts were wasted, but Zhang Xuan had no expression on his face, as if what the soldier said had nothing to do with him.

He opened the letter without any hesitation and read it, nodded and said, "If I promise to follow your general's plan, how should I notify him?"

"As long as your Majesty is right at the second update and beat the three-wheeled war drums outside the East City, my general will know."

"This is a good method."

Zhang Xuan praised him and immediately rewarded the soldiers with fifty taels of gold and asked the guards to take him down to rest and have dinner. The soldiers were grateful to the ground.

Seeing that Yuchi Gong was full of doubts, Zhang Xuan smiled and handed him Wang Junkuo's letter, "You'll know if you look."

Yuchi Gong took the letter and read it carefully, and said a little worriedly: "This plan is very risky, what if it fails?"
Chapter completed!