"Qingque, why haven't you rested yet~?"
In Taiyuan Posthouse, in Tiedan's room, looking at Li Tai who had just come in, Tiedan couldn't help but ask.
It is now almost four quarters past midnight (eight o'clock in the modern era), and most people have already had dinner and rested. At the post house, except for the imperial guards on night watch and Han Lizheng and others who went to Wang Kui's manor near Longshan, the rest of the people are at the post house. After dinner, everyone went back to their respective rooms.
(No way, who told ancient people to have biological clocks like this?)
Tiedan is sitting at the table reading a book at this time. This is the arithmetic textbook for Yanhuang Academy for the next semester. Li Zexuan has compiled it before entering the military camp, but it has not been printed on a large scale. After all, he is his brother-in-law. Li Zexuan is here On the other hand, Tiedan still opened a little back door.
"I can't sleep!"
Li Tai walked in and sat down opposite Tie Dan without any courtesy. Seeing the book in Tie Dan's hand, he couldn't help but mutter:
"Tiedan, you are not being kind! Everyone is busy working on the telegraph relay station, but you are enjoying the 'small stove' opened by Shan Chang alone. You are calling this unfair competition!"
Speaking of this, the little fat man had an indignant look on his face, which was a bit like a sports meeting on a modern campus. All the students were participating in the sports meeting on the playground, but someone discovered that a classmate was secretly studying in the classroom.
Tiedan put down the book in his hand and said with a speechless expression: "What's unfair competition? It's not like you haven't read the arithmetic textbook that Master gave me for the next semester before!"
He has the arithmetic textbook for the next semester of the academy in his hand. This is not a secret. At least Li Tai, Meng Wenhao, and Qin Huaiyu have known about it for a long time, and everyone has asked Tiedan to borrow it before, and Tiedan has never refused.
"The world seems to be stable now, but I always feel that it will soon enter troubled times. As a student of Yanhuang Academy, we should adhere to Master's wishes, establish a heart for the world, establish a destiny for the people, carry on the unique knowledge for the saints, and create peace for all generations. , with the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks in the second half of the year, it will be difficult for Yanhuang Academy to survive alone. Then we may have to run around again like now! So I want to take advantage of every night to preview the courses for the next semester in advance to avoid homework Being left behind!”
After closing the book and placing it on the table, Tiedan suddenly sighed and sighed softly.
Indeed, as he said, when Li Zexuan founded Yanhuang Academy, he hoped to cultivate a group of people who are truly useful to the country and the nation, rather than nerds who only study hard. Therefore, whether it is the Battle of Guancheng in April this year, or In June, they went north to exterminate locusts, and now they came to Taiyuan and Yunzhou to establish telegraph relay stations. In these events, students from Yanhuang Academy are more or less involved!
As the first batch of students of Yanhuang Academy, and what Li Zexuan considers to be the golden generation of Yanhuang Academy, Tiedan, Li Tai, and Li Ke have placed too many high hopes on them. Li Zexuan hopes that they will not only be able to Learn the lessons in the academy well, and in this process, if the country needs it, the students in the academy must also step up!
If the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty wanted to last for eternity, it needed too many people like this who could serve the country! This is also the main reason why Li Zexuan risked the disapproval of the world to found engineering and Yanhuang Academy!
"Yeah! You are right, Tiedan, I have thought about it recently too!"
Li Tai nodded and stopped teasing Tiedan about the textbooks. The longer he stayed at Yanhuang Academy, the more he could feel that this academy was closely connected with the fate of the country and the nation. The two were silent for a moment, Li Tai changed the topic and said: "Tiedan, I suddenly thought of something in the room just now. Do you think Zhao Deyan and his people will come to attack the post house tonight~?"
"Attack the post house? How is it possible~?"
Li Tai's unintentional words were like thunder, exploding in Tiedan's ears. Tiedan was startled and shook his head subconsciously.
"How is this impossible?"
Li Tai curled his lips and said: "You also know that our previous conversation in the cell was overheard by a man in black. General Dugu and your father both thought that the man in black was probably Zhao Deyan's person. And everyone thought that Zhao Deyan would send someone to inform Wang Kui near Longshan after learning the news.
I thought so at first, but after I just returned to the room, I thought about it carefully. After General Dugu asked your father to lead two hundred forbidden troops to Wang Kui's secret manor, the only remaining forbidden troops in the post house were There are more than two hundred people!
It can be seen from the previous battles that Zhao Deyan is very scheming, and he likes to take the wrong direction. I think that when he learns that our rear is empty, he will definitely make a desperate move and concentrate all his power in Taiyuan City. Get up and attack the inn! "
After hearing Li Tai's bold conjecture, Tiedan's eyes widened in horror. Indeed, after they interrogated Star Wolf in the cell and were eavesdropped on the conversation by a mysterious man, it may be that as Li Tai said, all Entered into a misunderstanding: since Zhao Deyan and Wang Kui are in the same group, after learning that Dugu Xin is about to send troops to encircle Wang Kui's "lair", Zhao Deyan will definitely send someone to inform Wang Kui of the news as soon as possible. , or directly send people to help Wang Kui out of trouble!
But obviously, they all ignored or did not think of another possibility - Zhao Deyan would not care about Wang Kui's life or death at all!
Li Tai's conjecture was very bold, and it sounded hard to believe at first, but Tiedan thought about the series of unexpected events that happened to them after they entered Taiyuan City, and all of Li Tai's bold conjectures came true one by one. Or it has been confirmed, which shows that Li Tai is the strongest among them in his understanding and control of the situation!
Seeing Tie Dan's expression was gloomy and hesitant in his eyes, Li Tai continued: "In addition, Tie Dan, think about it, Wang Kui has secretly trained so many killers, and he has kept this secret from everyone in the Wang family for so many years. This shows that He is a scheming and suspicious person. Do you think he would have rashly informed Zhao Deyan of the hiding place of these killers before the incident happened
If he had not informed Zhao Deyan in advance, then Zhao Deyan would not have sent anyone to notify him or save him after learning the news! On the contrary, I think he is more likely to choose to attack the post house! "
Hearing this, Tiedan stood up with a serious face and said: "Qingque, your analysis is very reasonable. I think we should immediately inform General Dugu of your conjecture now and let him find ways to strengthen the defensive power of the post house! "
Tiedan didn't care much about his own safety. After all, he had martial arts skills. Even if Zhao Deyan sent people to attack the post house, he would still have a chance to escape if he couldn't defeat him! But not Li Tai! Li Tai has no martial arts skills, is fat, and can't run fast. If Zhao Deyan gathers all his troops to attack the post house at this time, Li Tai will most likely fall into the hands of the enemy!
Even if there was only one chance in ten thousand, he would not dare to take the risk! Because no one can bear the thunderous wrath of His Majesty Li Er afterwards!
"Okay! I didn't expect you to agree with me, Tiedan!"
Seeing that someone finally agreed with his point of view, Li Tai said excitedly: "Let's go! Let's go find General Dugu now!"
After that, Li Tai stood up and went out with Tiedan.
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"As expected by the guard master, there are not many imperial troops left to guard the post house!"
On the big tree on the street south of the post house, Xuan Ye stood like a light feather on the treetops. With the lights in the post house and the torches in the hands of the patrolling soldiers in the post house courtyard, he quickly made a rough estimate of the inside of the post house. Existing defensive forces.
As Zhao Deyan had expected, there were only more than 200 Imperial Guards left behind at the post house, and he brought a total of 110 people with him. Judging from the number of people, they were indeed inferior to the Imperial Guards. But almost all of the people on his side are martial arts masters, and although the Forbidden Army is well-trained and proficient in various battle formations, their general is still seriously injured!
Without the general, it is equivalent to losing the backbone, and the combat power of the Forbidden Army will be greatly reduced!
Xuan Ye is still very confident in this battle!
He must also be confident that if Li Tai cannot be captured alive, then his "boss" Zhao Deyan will definitely fall into the hands of the government and be slaughtered!
After exploring the truth, Xuan Ye jumped down from the treetops lightly and came to a corner of the street. There were more than a hundred people hiding here. At this time, these people were all dressed up and hidden in the night. .
"How's the situation~?"
Seeing a figure walking this way, everyone was alert at first. When the figure approached, they saw that it was Xuan Ye. Tianying hurriedly stepped forward and asked impatiently.
"The situation is as the guard master expected. There are only about two hundred guards in the post house, and there will be no more than two hundred and fifty at most!"
Xuan Ye said.
"Very good!"
Hearing this, Tianying couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and said excitedly.
Xuan Ye looked at the people around him, then lowered his voice and said in a deep voice: "Time is urgent. I will use hidden weapons to kill several hidden sentries placed by the imperial army in the east. Then we will use Qinggong to fly directly into the post from the east wall. If you are not good at Qinggong, stay outside and guard the front and back doors of the post house to prevent King Wei from sneaking away!"
"yes!"
When Zhao Deyan returned to the inn earlier, he handed over the command of the team to Xuan Ye and Tianying. Naturally, everyone had no objection to Xuan Ye's arrangement and agreed one after another.
Tianying thought for a while and said, "Do you want me to help you~?"
At the critical moment, this guy also abandoned his previous prejudice against Xuan Ye. Now he just wants to complete the task assigned by Zhao Deyan. As for the credit, it is not too late to grab the credit when the overall situation is decided!
"Need not!"
Xuan Ye took a deep look at Tianying, and then said: "After a while, I will attack the post house and lead people to resist the imperial army. You sneak into the post house room to find the King of Wei. After catching the King of Wei, we will evacuate immediately and don't cause any trouble." !”
Everyone knows that catching Li Tai is definitely a great achievement. It's not that Xuan Ye doesn't want this credit, but he understands that as the strongest combat force on their side, if he doesn't lead a frontal attack, this one There's no way he can win against them. For the sake of the overall situation, he doesn't care whether he gets credit or not at this moment!
"… good!"
Hearing this, Tianying felt a little touched in his heart. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded.
"Go! Do it!"
Xuan Ye waved his hand to everyone and said: "Use all the methods you are good at in a moment. This battle can only be won but not defeated!"
"yes!"
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