Time was tight, and Chen Sangliang had made the worst plan early. He just retreated. He asked the army to prepare siege weapons while camping the camp. He gave priority to building two necessary weapons, namely trenches and bridge vehicles and flying ladders, supplemented by a small number of pointed wooden donkeys, and at the same time, the tactic of using gunpowder to explode the city gate has also become a helpless choice for Chen Sangliang. This tactic is not very sure. Chen Sangliang had previously instructed Yuan Tiangang and Cui Hongdan to conduct a secret experiment. Because the power of the explosion was too spread, only one of the three times was barely successful, and half of the city gate was barely broken.

While making the worst plan, Chen Sangliang did not give up stealing Hulao Pass with his special tricks of cheating. Dai Zhou, an important official of the Zheng army, who was sent to Hulao Pass by Wang Shichong, was a good target. He once made great contributions to Wang Shichong's defeat of Li Mi, but was demoted and exiled for opposing Wang Shichong's claim to be emperor. What is this not the best material for the detachment of the quarrel and counter-espionage? Any detachment strategy for Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben were suspicious of Dai Zhou. Of course, it would be best to force Dai Zhou, who was wronged to rebel. If it was forced to rebel against Dai Zhou, Dai Zhou could also use the hands of Yang and Wang to destroy this dangerous element, causing chaos within the Hulao Pass defense army, which could also create opportunities and reduce resistance for the Sui army to break the city.

The target of the attack was found, but how to attack became a big problem, especially now that Chen Sangliang's reputation in this area is already stinking to the wind. If he wants to use fake books and fake letters to frame Dai Zhou, he may not even be fooled easily on the battlefield like Wang Xingben. So after returning to the camp, he kept thinking until dark. Chen Sangliang did not come up with any new tricks to harm Dai Zhou. He racked his brains and still found nothing. Chen Sangliang had to put this matter aside for the time being and settled down to inspect the camp and army situation first.

The new camp, which was just built in a hurry today, was very simple in terms of fortifications. It was just to log and set up a village, and built several sentry towers to get out of the base, and even the trenches were not too late to dig. Also, because it was only five miles away from Hulao Pass, I inspected it and found that it was too dangerous. When the army was quite tired, Chen Sangliang had to arrange an army to be on guard for the night. Fortunately, the bird thief's cousin Li Keshi was also very considerate of his nephew and volunteered to lead the relatively physically strong team to take on the hard work of the night. Chen Sangliang accepted his cousin's kindness, and at the same time ordered Cui Hongdan to build trench bridges and stairs overnight so that it could be used at any time.

After the patrol, he returned to the central army tent and still thought of a way to break the city. When Chen Sangliang was worried, Hao Xiaode, who was newly named Duke of Pingyuan County, took the initiative to come to the door and replied to Chen Sangliang: "Your Highness, Zhang Sheng, who heard that Li Mi had fled and surrendered to Wang Shichong, was also in Hulao Pass. When the general was under Li Mi's tent, he had a bit of friendship with Zhang Sheng. If His Highness did not abandon him, he would be willing to come forward to persuade Zhang Sheng to surrender. If he could succeed, Zhang Sheng would lead his troops to suddenly open the city gate in the city, and our army would take advantage of the opportunity to enter the city, and our army would successfully enter Hulao Pass."

Although there is still no confidence in doing so, it is better to have hope than to have no hope. In a very happy mood, Chen Sangliang hurriedly asked Hao Xiaode about Zhang Sheng's situation, and then learned that Zhang Sheng was a thief in Huanshui County. In order to let his subordinates eat, he took the initiative to lead his troops to surrender to Li Mi, who occupied Luokou Cang at that time. He met Hao Xiaode under Li Mi's account. He had a relatively close relationship and could only be considered a friend of drinking and drinking. He really had hope to encourage him to open the city gate to welcome the Sui army into the city. Chen Sangliang was even more happy and hurriedly asked Hao Xiaode to write a book on the spot to persuade Zhang Sheng to surrender, and asked Sun Fujia to write a document for him, promising Zhang Sheng a lot of rewards and bribes to win over.

Even Chen Sangliang did not expect such a coincidence in the world. At this moment, a guard suddenly came outside the tent to report that a man claimed to be the confidant of Zhang Sheng, a general under Wang Shichong, came to pay homage to Chen Sangliang under the order of Zhang Sheng. He reported a secret matter and asked Chen Sangliang to personally receive it. Chen Sangliang, who was discussing how to surrender the little thief in Zhang, was overjoyed and subconsciously agreed to receive it. However, the guard had just turned around, and Chen Sangliang immediately came back to his senses and shouted: "Let's wait! Wait a minute!"

The guard turned around in surprise, and Feng Deyi next to him also asked in confusion: "Your Highness, what happened?"

"This is too coincidental." Chen Sangliang sneered: "I and General Hao have just discussed how to surrender Zhang Sheng here, and Zhang Sheng's envoy came to the door himself. What's so coincidental in the world? This envoy was probably sent by the Hulao Pass thief army to spy on whether I had led my army here in person."

After sneering, Chen Sangliang thought for a moment and ordered Feng Deyi: "History Feng, you have worked hard to meet the envoy on behalf of me to see the envoy and see what was going on. In his words, he might as well deliberately reveal some flaws, so that the envoy would recognize me not here, and then don't rush to send him away, let him wait for my news in the guest account."

Feng Deyi agreed and quickly went to the behalf of Chen Sangliang to meet the envoy. Chen Sangliang then asked Hao Xiaode to go out of the guest account to peek out the negotiations between Feng Deyi and the envoy, and take the opportunity to identify whether the envoy was Zhang Sheng's subordinate. Hao Xiaode agreed and hurriedly went out with Chen Sangliang to find out the situation. Mulan followed Chen Sangliang without hesitation.

When Feng Deyi arrived at the guest account, the so-called envoy Zhang Sheng had been invited to the account to wait. After meeting, Feng Deyi first introduced himself to his identity, and then took the light to look at the appearance of the envoy. Feng Deyi immediately found that he looked familiar. He couldn't help but ask the envoy: "Have we met you? Why did I seem to have seen you somewhere?"

"The Neishi Master is very good at memory. The villain Shen Jian has indeed been destined to meet the adult several times." The messenger replied respectfully: "But the villain was just a small follower at that time, and the adult should not remember the identity of the villain."

"Shen Jian?" The envoy obviously underestimated Feng Deyi, who had been stubbornly forced by Mr. Fan to eat more than a dozen kilograms of stones. As soon as he heard the envoy report his surname, Feng Deyi, who was extremely smart, recalled carefully and immediately asked: "Who is Shen Yue, the Marquis of Cai County? Is your head of the family? I remember that you had appeared next to the Marquis of Shen County in Dongdu."

Shen Jian opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Mr. Inner Shi, what kind of memory do you have? The villain has just met you one or two outside the gate of the imperial city. Can you still remember that the villain is with the head of the family?"

"I can recite the book word for word after reading it once, let alone people?" Feng Deyi said proudly, and then Feng Deyi was stunned again and asked hurriedly: "You are the family of the Marquis of Shen County, how could you become the confidant of the thief Zhang Sheng?"

Shen Jian smiled and replied, "I dare not deceive the Seiji. The villain was recommended by the head of the family, the Marquis of Shen County. He was instructed by Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben. He pretended to be the envoy of Zhang Sheng's thief general to pay homage to His Highness the King of Tang. He said on his face that he was preparing to offer the Hulao Pass city, but in fact he was spying on behalf of the two thieves Yang Wang whether His Highness the King of Tang was here."

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"What does this mean?" Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben were shocked. "Can someone in Hulaoguan City prepare to pick up Chen Zhe into the city?"

"The villain also asked Yuwen Xin this way." Shen Jian hurriedly said, "But Yuwen Xin obviously did not trust the villain enough and refused to introduce it in detail. He just smiled and said that he was very helpful, but he was helpless, and his misfortune was few and helpless. Our Majesty did things against him and was unsure of rewards and punishments to alienate the heroes. Naturally, some people were interested in Chen Zhe. Why did you say that if the Prince's Highness was not lucky and hid in Luokoucang City and didn't come out, otherwise, the Chen Zhe army would even capture him alive together this time."

Shen Jian said nothing about Dai Zhou in these nonsense, but it is more serious than directly explaining that the traitor in Hulao Pass is Dai Zhou. Because in the entire Hulao Pass, Dai Zhou suffered the greatest grievances in front of Wang Shichong, and was kicked out of the capital. The relationship with Wang Shichong is the most worthy of rewards and punishments and alienation of heroes. At the same time, what is even more serious is that Dai Zhou had previously urged Wang Xuan to guard Hulao Pass first, and repeatedly suggested that Wang Xuan should move the Eastern Front General Command to the city of Qiuhulao Pass, and closed the sentence that the Sui army could almost capture Wang Xuanying alive in Hulao Pass. So it was extremely natural. After carefully thinking and savoring these words, Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben also focused the focus of suspicion on Dai Zhou.

There must be something hateful about a poor person. Just when Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben were full of suspicion, Dai Zhou, the suspected partner, came to Shuaitang in a big way. He came to Detang and said with a sneering face: "I heard that the person who went to contact Chen Zhe has returned? How about it? I must not see Chen Zhe himself? Who is Chen Yingliang? How can he fall into this trick? Don't worry if you don't contact him. If you don't go, you won't see him. Are you more confused and nervous?"

After exchanging a glance, Yang Gongqing first whispered and temporarily tolerated, admitting that Dai Zhou had expected that the envoy who surrendered did not see Chen Sangliang. Then Yang Gongqing asked carefully: "Dai Shilang, Chen thief's army is unknown, and Hulao Pass is weak. I intend to ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to send an army back to Hulao Pass to strengthen the troops. I wonder what you mean?"

"It's too late." Dai Zhou shook his head and said sneered: "It's too late now. The Chen thief army is stationed outside the city. Our Luokoucang defenders will inevitably be intercepted by the Chen thief army, which will only make the soldiers die in vain."

"With the plan of Minister Dai, how should we defend against the enemy now?" Wang Xingben stared at Dai Zhou and asked.

"Simple, just close the door and don't go to fight." Dai Zhou said relaxedly: "I said yesterday that the Chen thief army came from 70 miles a day, and the army must not have much food and grass. We just need to stick to it and not fight. Then, within ten days, the Chen thief will inevitably retreat on its own."

Wang Xingben nodded, and then suddenly said, "What if a traitor opens the city gate to welcome Chen thieves into the city?"

It is natural to human nature, as smart as Dai Zhou couldn't help but change his face when he heard this. He was stunned and said in surprise: "Riege? Is there a traitor in Hulaoguan? Who is the traitor? Have you found out?"

Assuming that his neighbor stole an axe, Dai Zhou's normal reaction was naturally the ironclad evidence of his guilt and timidity in the eyes of Wang Xingben and Yang Gongqing. Even more suspicious, although Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben did not speak, their eyes were still staring at Dai Zhou's face. Dai Zhou was at first confused, and then gradually woke up and asked in surprise: "General Yang, Your Highness, King Jing, don't you suspect that the lower official is a traitor of Chen, right?"

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