The Imperial Capital cannot be quiet this night.

Thousands of families, whispering behind deep curtains, fearing or wondering, praying or lamenting ......

The people of Mandu, no matter how noble or lowly they were, almost all of them were unable to sleep all night.

And hundreds of miles away from the city of Yanzhou, Su Xiu Ming and Shen Zang Feng if not still have the bottom of the generals to watch, simply to go crazy!

Their family is in the Imperial City!

Su Xiu Ming because the two sons happen to be an exile a grandfather sent back to the Zanzibar Qingzhou, along with the only grandchildren are also with the parents around not in the Imperial City, the old father, his wife and brother if something happens is certainly also the pain of the skin, in the end, there is also the heir of the peace of this comfort.

But Shen Zangfeng his parents, siblings, his hairy wife, and his two sons ...... can say that everything he has is in the imperial capital!

Even though he had been cultivated as the future valve master since he was young because of his eldest brother's indisputability, and had always emphasized on keeping his anger and joy intact, he was doing his best at the moment in order to maintain the calmness and composure on the scene!

年幼时母亲的温柔叮咛、少年时代父亲严厉的教诲、中间兄姐弟妹们的相处、发妻长嬴的蜜语娇嗔、两个尚且天真年幼的孩子……自从知道戎人这次出兵的目的后，这些场景交替浮现在他眼前，根本无时或歇！

At ...... dawn, Shangguan XI entered the council chamber.

As soon as they saw him, the hearts of all the people loosened and then lifted, Shen Zangfeng opened his eyes which had been closed for a slight nap because of the long night's deliberation, and they were filled with the same bloodshot as all the generals and marshals such as Su XiuMing, but when he looked at Shangguan XI, his eyes were still gleaming with a strong expectation, "XI but do you have any clues?"

After all these days of military service, Shangguan XI's ridiculously shy temperament had eased.

At the moment, although he still had few words, he didn't need to be coaxed by the others for a long time before making a sound like before.

He briefly said, "Fortunately." Following that, holding a large stack of rice paper under his armpit, he quickly walked to the long, wide case next to the sand table and unfolded it.

Su Xiu Ming and the others were busy all gathering around.

Shangguan eleven unfolded the paper, but a hand-drawn map. Look at the terrain, it is the northern states of Wei, Donghu, Yanzhou, the imperial capital is the main, the nearby land is only slightly outlined, several places in the map are traces of the Zhu Pen circle, it is the results of his deep thought alone this night.

"Earlier when the Rong people so-called hastily retreated in order to convene the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony, this scheme had already begun." Shangguan XI is not good at talking scenes, and at this moment there is no need to talk scenes, spreading out the rice paper, seeing that people have gathered around, he cut to the chase, saying, "At that time, although the Rongren defeated the Liu family's army, but in reality until they retreated their troops, they had only accounted for nearly two thirds of the Eastern Hu. And at this time they retreated, otherwise, I estimate, they actually fight again is also very hard, at least not as before like a breakthrough. After all, a drum, and then exhausted, three and decline, not to mention the Rongmen soldiers captured countless, many people, one to be satisfied, two to carry the wealth in the body to become a burden, but also did not continue to fight the heart."

"But the Rong people set up this time in the chain of people, is pinpointing this time, did not wait until they show the color of the back strength of the lack of strength, they found a magic drop grass excuse to retreat. So much so that we all thought that they really in order to open that what sacrifice ceremony hastily return, not only many captured things are not want, finally even by us to chase and kill the rear part of the rout also don't care, only think of returning to the king's tent."

Shangguan XI pointed to a few places on the map that he had marked with a vermilion pen and said, ''Because of the previous defeat of the Liu family, so that when the Rong retreated, the army didn't immediately follow, there weren't many soldiers that dared to pursue them. Plus after the path was trampled to a certain extent, it was also hard to estimate the exact number of people who passed by from this. So in fact, we can't even tell if all 300,000 Rong people withdrew from Great Wei territory at that time?"

The crowd finally realized what he meant, and the seat was filled with astonishment, "The retreat last time was so that these Rongs could hide within my Wei?!"

Su Xiu Ming was surprised and said "But now there are about 100,000 soldiers and horses that are besieging and not attacking my Yanzhou, and those that are going straight to the direction of the imperial capital through Yanzhou, just from what we can see from a distance on the city, there are at least more than 100,000 people! How can these people hide without a trace? And when the Rong people gathered at the royal tent, the scouts had visually measured the number of people from afar, and there was no way they could have been more than 100,000 people short!"

Shangguan Eleven nodded and said, "The matter of concealment will be discussed later, let's start with this number of people due to the previous defeat, when the Rong people retreated, our scouts must have been trailing behind, arriving at the king's tent one step behind, and when counting, I think it's only when we estimate that the Rong people have returned to all of them that we will start. And they must have been counting from a distance. In that case, how do you know that these people were all Rong people? Don't forget that Donghu was also taken many people captive at that time, for one thing."

"Wait!" Shen Zangfeng raised his hand and said, "The number of people can be faked, the scouts can not be close to see, there is indeed the possibility of misreading. But we really did not think that the Rong people actually did not retreat back to all ...... you and say how they will be a large part of the troops and horses hidden in the territory of my Wei, but also so that we do not know anything about it!"

Shangguan XI nodded and said ''Also good. In fact, how to hide, I can not be very sure, this is all speculation one possibility is that they actually did not leave a large part of the troops and horses lurking in the territory of Wei, after all, the Rong people form and my Wei people are very different, once encountered, will certainly be recognized. However, if they only took the opportunity to send people to bury a large number of provisions in the Hanhai Gobi, unless God's will, otherwise, even if the Liu family will send people to pay attention to not allow the Rong people to pass through the Gobi, and will not be so big Gobi dug up one by one to check underneath?

"After all, after the Rong people retreat, Donghu in a mess, up and down busy building fortifications, raising the walls and digging deep trenches are too late, spread out spies to keep an eye on the Hanhai Gobi, probably also pay attention to do not tell the Rong people to go there to sneak in, afraid of simply can not imagine the Hanhai Gobi through the most difficult supply wagons, the Rong people will be solved in this way. With the supply wagons, even if something unexpected happens and is blocked by our Wei army, the Gobi can not be built on the city, so it can be said that there is no danger to defend. The primus of the Rong people can be fully utilized, and our Wei people are bound to suffer against them in that situation it's better for the Rong people than fighting a siege in any case."

The council chamber was silent, only to hear Shangguan XI continue, "The second possibility is that these places I circled on the map are all off the beaten path. And they are mostly mountains or valleys. According to the yearly successes of these two years, it is not too much to say that these places are nine out of ten empty rooms. The Rong people scattered and hid in, even if they met the people of my Wei, went up and cut all of them, according to today's mandarins, I'm afraid that so far they haven't reacted."

Shen Zangfeng mused, "Then which one does Eleven think is most likely?"

"I think it's both possible." Shangguan XI said, "A large group of Rongmen waiting in ambush in Wei for a chance to sneak attack will be easily detected. When the Eastern Hu Army stops them, and the Imperial Forest Army and our Yan Zhou surrounds them, the Rong people will end up in dire straits! So they may only lurk a small part of the manpower down, one easy to hide, two, even if they are found the loss is not big not to mention, good luck can even escape, three is that these people are fewer, the action is convenient, and can even wrap the head and face and other easy to expose the identity of the Rong people's features, and in turn to reconnaissance of our movements!

"And they have also hidden a large number of provisions in the Hanhai Gobi for the army to pass through. In the past two days, because the 100,000 soldiers and horses left behind by the Rong people have surrounded Yanzhou without attacking it, it was difficult for our scouts to break through the siege to report the news, and the pigeons released were shot down one after another, and none of them even flew through the Rong people's camp!"

Shangguan XI pointed at the map and said, "So I suspect that these places where Zhu Pen has circled two paths must be harboring Rong people! This is because this is the route that Yanzhou and Donghu pigeon letters as well as messengers must pass through! Although the pigeons have been domesticated, the wisdom is limited, their flight routes are generally speaking will not change, the Rong people are good at riding and shooting, more domesticated falcons, nature will capture the pigeons. Plus guarding the key roads and sniping the messengers. Oh, there is also here, circled three, are where the beacon. So cut off the front means of warning, infiltrated into the heart of Wei Rong people can be like this time, with a thunderbolt to seize the city otherwise the Liu family should have been alerted, how would I Yanzhou almost fell into the hands of the Rong people?!"

...... That said Yanzhou s situation that day was actually more dangerous than the imperial capital.

Yanzhou is not as lucky as the imperial capital, the Rong people have not yet arrived at the city was found and in time to go into the city to report the letter, presided over the political affairs of the master and think to be prudent, rather than after the fact for the four gates suddenly closed to find an excuse for perfunctory past, but also first shut down and then say. This is tantamount to saving the people of the city.

When the Rong people's army suddenly appeared outside Yanzhou city, several people in charge of Yanzhou were in the general's mansion reviewing official documents, and only the soldiers and low-ranking officers were at the city gates. The hour of the Rongmen's arrival was about the same as the hour of the cavalry's drill in the city, so the soldiers under the city gates thought that the earth shook because the cavalry had practiced especially hard today.

They also joked and speculated with each other whether it was Su Xiuming or Shen Zangfeng who personally went to supervise it.

As a result, without a couple of jokes, they saw the flags covering the sky in the distance as they hadn't received any alerts from the Donghu side, the first reaction of the soldiers at the city's head and gates wasn't to close the gates and send out an alert, but to ask each other if there were any reinforcements coming to Yanzhou to be stationed in the city lately.

After such a delay, it was too late for them to see that underneath the flag was a deep-eyed, high-nosed face and then close the door in a hurry.

When Su Xiu Ming and Shen Zang Feng received the news and threw away the Zhu Pen and mounted their horses to arrive, there were already 20,000 Rong people killed in the city, and more Rong people are still squeezing into the city in a steady stream.

Uncle and nephew with their own guards fought in blood, Su Xiu Ming because of old age, physical strength began to decline, the arm was also cut a knife ...... hard to close the city gates, and will be a little bit of the city of the Rong people to search out and kill all this in the middle of the several officers learned that the Rong people into the city The city was in chaos because a few officers learned that the Rong people had entered the city and thought that they could not defend the city, so they abandoned their subordinates in fear and asked to open the other city gates to escape, which led to a great chaos in the whole city, and they were even touched by a few Rong people and lit a fire outside the storehouse where the provisions were stored.

Thanks to timely detection, this did not cause major damage.

But after a bloody battle for a day and a night, dragging the tired body to calm the military heart and comfort the people in the city ...... So easy to stabilize the general situation, the person in charge of interrogating the Rong people who stayed behind to be the tongue reported a terrible news this time, the Rong people attacked in a big way, and the target is the imperial capital!

Lead the attack into the city of Yanzhou are the Rong people in the brave and fearless generation, the interrogator used all the means to pry open the mouth of a person, spare a few words, this person did not confess, but also cut off the gas. So what can be reported is also so much.

However, most of the Rong people appeared in Yanzhou, but there was no news from the direction of Donghu, and since that time when they failed to seize the city, the Rong people no longer attacked the city, but only encamped outside the city and set up a deer halt. Obviously, they are trying to surround Yanzhou without attacking it. Instead, there are more rear armies, vastly moving, heading towards the imperial capital!

This circumstance is sufficient to corroborate the dying words of the captive.

Previously, because of the Liu family's defeat, in order to defend against the Rong people, the elite troops that could be drawn out were drawn out. The Shen family had supported 20,000 Western Liang troops. Then the Rongs suddenly retreated, and Donghu had to hurry to repair the fortifications to prevent the Rongs from coming back, as well as to clean up the laborers to prevent things like the Xinzhou laborers from happening again.

Therefore, the troops in Yanzhou City today were only enough to defend the city. If one wanted to rush out of the city, unless one did not want Yanzhou City and its provisions, then one would surely have to pay a huge and even tragic price.

This is not a problem, the key is that there are so many Rong people now, and there are even more Rong people going to attack the imperial capital, if they pay a heavy price to break out of the siege of Yanzhou, then what's the point of arriving at the bottom of the imperial capital city?

Even if we add the last 20,000 Xiliang troops in the capital, it's not much to look at in front of a hundred or two hundred thousand Rong people.

Where did the provisions come from, especially after leaving Yanzhou?

Previously, in order to prevent the Shen family from rebelling, the royal family and all the families had given restrictions on the supply wagons of the Xiliang army!

I am afraid that once the imperial capital is besieged this time, the main general of the 20,000 Xilang army will have to have a headache for the next food and grass ...... if they are smart and run fast and are not killed by the Rong people.

The problem now is that the Rong people have no intention of attacking the city, and the city of Yanzhou is out of danger for the time being. But how are they going to help God's capital, how are they going to take care of their families and relatives in the imperial capital?