At night, Yuan Tao was resting in the tent, and a personal soldier reported at the door of the tent, "Report to the envoy, Mr. Miao is here!"

Yuan Tao was stunned. Didn’t Miao Changchun deal with Li Xiu in Gaochang?

Did he succeed?

It's unlikely to think about it.

"Let him in!"

Soon, Miao Changchun walked in quickly.

Yuan Tao went up and asked, "Sir, have you succeeded?"

Miao Changchun smiled and shook his head, "Do you want me to succeed?"

"How do you say this?"

"If I succeed in assassinating Li Xiu, the wedding will not be held, and everyone will not have to go to Gaochang again. This should not be what the envoys are looking forward to!"

Yuan Tao's face changed. Collusion with Tuqi was the highest secret of the Yuan family. Only a very small number of Yuan family's children knew about it. It was impossible for outsiders to tell him. How could Miao Changchun know?

Could it be that my father told him?

"Sir, please say it clearly!"

"Before I set off, the head of the family told me that assassinating Li Xiu and stopping the princess' wedding was only part of the task. In addition, I also asked me to assist the envoy and cooperate with the Beiting strategy of Tuqishi. This is the top priority of Beiting's mission."

"Have my father talked to you about Tuqishi?"

Miao Changchun secretly admired Li Xiu's inference. As expected, it was related to Tuqishi. He nodded without hesitation, "That's right!"

After pausing, he said, "The head of the family just told me a rough framework and asked me to discuss the specific implementation details with the envoy!"

Yuan Tao took a few steps behind his hands and sighed, "Mr. I'm right. Killing Li Xiu too early will alarm the enemy. Instead, it will ruin the big plan. If you want to put the overall situation first, let him live a few more days first. There is no staff member around me, and Mr. is here just right!"

Miao Changchun sighed in his heart. After all, he had received many years of favor from the Yuan family. He hoped that Yuan Tao would be smarter and could drive him away, but Yuan Tao wanted to keep him.

Everything was under Li Xiu's control, and it was completely unscrupulous. This young prince really scared Miao Changchun.

.........

Just about sixty miles behind Yuan Tao's army, an army of 3,000 people also rested at night.

This army was led by the Hanhai Army envoy Tian Renwan, who also went to Gaochang to attend the princess's wedding.

All of these military leaders were cautious and did not dare to go to Gaochang alone, for fear that Yuan Tao would take the opportunity to swallow himself in one go, and led the army to ensure safety.

Tian Renwan was about fifty years old, tall and handsome. He was a civil servant and once served as the governor of Yizhou. He was originally going to serve as the chief of the Beiting Jiedushi.

However, Yuan Tao's offside appointment disrupted all plans, and Tian Renwan was appointed as the commander of Hanhai Army and the chief of the Beiting Jiedu Prefecture.

But in fact, he was just the nominal chief of the Jiedu Prefecture. Yuan Tao did not give him any government power at all. All the Beiting Jiedu Prefecture Administration government affairs were handed over to two aides, completely emptied Tian Renwan.

Tian Renwan simply stopped taking care of government affairs and turned his energy to his Hanhai Army envoy, firmly controlling the military power of the Hanhai Army, and did not give Yuan Tao any chance.

It was late at night, and all three thousand soldiers were asleep, and there were patrols outside on guard.

Tian Renwan didn't expect the possibility of thrusting the cavalry. He was guarding against Yuan Tao. The Yuan family had no bottom line in doing things. If he was not careful, he would be killed by the other party. The mountain was high and the emperor was far away. He could just find an excuse to explain to the court.

Tian Renwan was sitting in the candlelight reading a book. At this time, he heard a burst of rapid horse hooves, as if someone was riding a horse from the south.

Soon, the personal soldiers reported outside the tent, "Report to the military envoy, the 38th prince sent someone to deliver the letter, saying that there was an urgent matter!"

"Please come in!"

Soon, a warrior walked in quickly and bowed, "See the envoy Tian Jun!"

"Does the thirty-eighth prince send me a letter?"

“That’s right!”

The sender took out a letter and presented it to Tian Renwan.

Tian Renwan opened the letter and read it, and he was shocked. The thunderbolt might attack Tingzhou from the east.

Tian Renwan has been in Beiting for three years and participated in the Battle of Broken Ye. He is very familiar with the situation in Beiting. After Broken Ye was defeated, he retreated north to Yibohai and went to the front line of Jinshan.

It is no longer possible for Tuqi Shi to attack Tingzhou through the Yili Valley. If you want to invade Tingzhou again, you can only enter Yiwu from the north.

If Yiwu is in trouble, Tuqi Shiren will indeed attack Tingzhou from the east.

Tian Renwan continued to read the letter, and a news that shocked him even more appeared behind the letter. Yuan Tao colluded with Tuqi and sold him to Beiting.

Although Tian Renwan and Yuan Tao had a bad relationship, they were only internal struggles in the officialdom and did not collude with alien races or betray the Tang Dynasty.

This is something that Tian Renwan dared not imagine. The dignified Beiting envoy actually colluded with a foreigner and betrayed the Tang Dynasty.

If anyone told him like this, he wouldn't believe it, but this was a handwritten letter from the emperor's 38th son Li Xiu, and Tian Renwan's heart began to stir up trouble.

"What else is there except this letter?"

The warrior bowed and said, "Your Highness asked Bei Yi to tell the military envoy that the Yiwu Army envoy Sun Zhaoyang led 3,000 troops south to Gaochang. Yizhou was empty, which was to create opportunities for the Tuqi Shishi. Your Highness asked the military envoy to return to Tingzhou to prevent the Tuqi Shishi's sneak attack!"

Tian Renwan's expression became serious. He knew that what Li Xiu was saying was the fact that the five thousand Yiwu army was taken away by Yuan Tao. If the other three thousand troops were led south to Gaochang by Sun Zhaoyang, then Yizhou would be really empty and empty, and it was the opportunity to rush to serve people.

He walked a few steps behind his hands, nodded and said to the sender: "You go back and report to Your Highness Thirty-Eighth Highness, and you will say that I will lead my army back to Tingzhou immediately and will not give Tuqi any chance."

............

After the sender left, Tian Renwan immediately ordered the army to get up overnight and turn around and return to Tingzhou City...

In Gaochang City, more than a thousand soldiers ran in the night. Soon, they surrounded a group of merchants near the North City Gate. This merchant was the intelligence point where Tuqi Shiren was in Gaochang.

When Li Xiu realized that the target of the thunderbolt man would not be Gao Chang, Li Xiu decided to close the net.

Twenty warriors, led by Pei Min and Zi Linfeng, climbed over the wall and entered the backyard. There was a three-story platform in the backyard, which should be the Eagle Tower. More than a dozen faith eagles lived around the Eagle Tower.

"The Eagle House is there!" The warriors first discovered the Eagle House.

"Control the eagle!"

Capturing spies is not very meaningful, and controlling the eagle room is the top priority. With the Xinying, you can continue to contact the Tuqi Shi people and convey false information.

At this moment, a chaos in the front yard, the army rushed into the business bank, and a conflict broke out with the spies in the business bank.

Although these spies were brave, they were too few, so they were not opponents of hundreds of soldiers. In a moment, corpses were everywhere. The spies retreated to the backyard, but unexpectedly encountered a stronger opponent.

Pei Min shouted loudly, swung his sword into the crowd, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, killing six people in an instant, and the other spies were stunned.

They reacted and were immediately frightened and fleeing, but they could not escape, and were surrounded by soldiers outside and were inseparable.

In just one stick of incense, the spies in the business died and caught them, and no one escaped.

Just as dawn was dawn, Li Xiu also came to the business bank. Pei Min and Zi Linfeng were leading people to search the business bank's internal information.

Pei Min came up and said, "Your Highness, the army has been withdrawn, and we will deal with the rest."

"How many prisoners have been captured? Are there any escapees?"

Pei Min shook her head, "There are twenty-three people in total, six people were captured alive, including the manager, and the rest were dead, and none of them escaped."

"What about us?"

"Our brothers did not suffer any casualties, but eight people died in the army. These guys were very strong. Fortunately, they were sneak attacks. They had no weapons. If they fought with the army on the battlefield, the army would probably suffer more than a hundred casualties."

“Searching for anything valuable?”

"Some, please follow me!"

Pei Min took Li Xiu to the shopkeeper's room. There was a large wooden box on the table. Pei Min opened the box, which contained some letters, scroll maps and rosters.

"These are all copies of various maps they have collected in the past two years, which is very comprehensive. The information also includes the investigation of the generals of the Beiting Army, and they are all written in Turkic language. It can be seen that they are very considerate."

"Is there any purchase of generals or officials?"

"have!"

Pei Min took out a list and handed it to Li Xiu, "This is their bribery of the Beiting Army and officials. There are 14 people in total, mostly Yizhou, and there are also Xizhou and Tingzhou. For example, Xizhou Sima Wang Shanyu was the highest civil servant who was bribed by them, and the highest-level general was Sun Zhaoyang, the commander of the Yiwu Army. He gave him 8,000 guan in two years."

"Don't have Yuan Tao?"

"He doesn't have his name on the roster, maybe he's a bit special."

At this time, Zi Linfeng walked in quickly and handed Li Xiu a scroll of paper, "This is the eagle letter I just received!"

Li Xiu quickly opened the eagle letter, with only one sentence on it, and the following was translated in Chinese characters.

‘Have Tian Renwan arrived in Gaochang?’

Li Xiu pondered for a moment and asked, "You go to interrogate the manager. When do they usually reply when they receive the letter?"

"I asked about it. Their rule is that I must reply to the same day."
Chapter completed!