Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 2920 Those who do not plan forever, do not plan for a while

  In Xihai City.

  Tai Shici did not get entangled in other government affairs, but focused on the sand table and the terrain around Xihai City.

  『Is General Wen Yuan going here to meet the enemy? 』Tai Shici asked, pointing to the position of the army stronghold marked on the sand table.

  Han Guo nodded and said: "I set off first, and then General Wen Yuan should have left two days later, counting the time, he should be back by now..."

  Tai Shici frowned, "Wen Yuan just passed by like this, didn't you worry about ambush?" 』

  Han Guo replied: "There is indeed an ambush, probably in this area... General Wen Yuan bypassed it..."

  Tai Shici was taken aback when he heard the words, "Go around? 』

  Since it is an ambush, it is natural to need to observe the enemy's movements more. If it is so easy to be bypassed by the enemy, is it called an ambush?

  Han Guo nodded and said, "Most of the coalition forces in the Western Regions are ordinary herdsmen. 』

  『Where are the elite? ’ Tai Shici pointed to the army village and said, ‘They are all here? 』

  Han Guo nodded.

  Tai Shici laughed, "This is really... well, let's not talk about Wenyuan for now, come forward and tell me how you fought with Wusun... How many Wusun people are there and how strong are they?" 』

  Han Guo nodded, then walked to the front of the sand table, and started his review of the battle against Wusun.

  Wusun people, because they deviate from the main area of ​​the Western Regions, or are too far away from Xihai City, they have not learned the corresponding experience and lessons. This is also normal, just like a farmer in the countryside imagining that the emperor must be using a golden pole, because that is the limit that the farmer can imagine.

  The limit that Wusun people can imagine is probably the strength and soldiers that Gao Shun showed before...

  This is not difficult to judge.

   Otherwise, Wusun people would not dare to dispatch again.

  『Before the lord comes to Xihai, we should deal with Wusun first! ”Tai Shici said in a deep voice, “You attacked Wusun at night with 500 cavalry, and these people will definitely find out that you are not outnumbered by dawn, so…”

  Han Guo looked at Tai Shici, "I will bring another five hundred people to lure the enemy?" Taking advantage of the fact that the Wusun people don't know that the general has arrived here... but where should we lead them? 』

  Tai Shici nodded, "How about going to the city?" 』

  Han Guo said, "Under the city?" Then in the city...」

  Tai Shici smiled and said nothing.

  Han Guo nodded and said, "This subordinate takes orders!" 』

Han Guo didn't say anything that he had just come back and he needed to rest, wash and eat before he could leave, but without saying a word, he called a few civil servants who had followed him, and told Tai Shici what Tai Shici had told him. The kindness was conveyed to these two or three people, and then he bowed his hands to Taishi Ci and left.

  Tai Shici nodded to those clerks, recognized their faces, but said nothing.

  The two or three civil servants also didn't say much, and after saluting, they followed Han Guo's instructions.

  Han Guo stepped back, ready to go, but Liu Min came in behind, and reported to Tai Shici: "Report to the Protector, the thief has confessed..."

  『What did you recruit? ’ Tai Shici asked.

  Liu Min replied, "Report to Duhu, his original name is Pang Jing, he is from Qiao State." His ancestor used to be the captain of Liaodong, because he was raped...』

  Tai Shici frowned and waved his hands, "These detailed pasts, you will add later, the key now is what other spies are there in Xihai City, and who are they after?" 』

  Liu Min swallowed all the follow-ups in his stomach, then picked up the important one and said, "The confession said that he was a son of Yang's family on the line, named Kan, who claimed to be the school official under Prime Minister Cao..."

  『School official? ! ’ Tai Shici’s eyes widened, ‘Okay, this hand has reached out to the Western Regions! This person confessed without asking anything? 』

  『He mentioned one thing, which is to save his family members. His family members are in the hands of Yang Shizi. Liu Min replied, "The subordinates agreed first." 』

"what else? 』

"He said that because his family members were in the hands of Yang Shizi, he went to Yang Shizi's courtyard and suspected that the courtyard was digging tunnels..." Liu Min said in a deep voice, "Because he saw some new soil in the courtyard...just don't know The tunnel situation, and where it leads to...』

"well! This Xihai city is already full of mouse holes! 』Tai Shici laughed.

Tai Shici stood up and turned around twice, "Since he is the school official, he must know how to use the time. Now that he is arrested, if he delays, he will know... Tonight, deploy people and arrest him immediately. Don't let him go." its off! 』

  『Only! The subordinates have already mobilized the most elite manpower, and they will definitely be arrested! 』Liu Min should go down.

  Tai Shici asked again: "In addition, other suspicious places should be watched closely!" Someone suspects that there are many people from other places in Xihai City! This is so authentic, I have to stop at one point! 』

Liu Min cupped his hands and said, "When my subordinates knew about the tunnel, they gathered maps of Xihai City to check the layout of the Lifang courtyard... In Xihai City, if tunnels are excavated, they must be closer to the city wall, otherwise the difficulty will increase and they will be easily discovered . And there are enough places to dig, and there can't be too many people coming in and out...』

  『Say the result directly! ’ Tai Shici frowned and said.

  『Only. ’Liu Min took two steps forward, reached the edge of the sand table, pointed to the outline of Xihai City, and said, ‘In the west and north of the city, here, here, and here, there are three most likely places, all of which are of suitable size in the courtyard, and There are few people going in and out on weekdays...』

  Tai Shici glanced at Liu Min and nodded. On the whole, Liu Min was quite capable, so Tai Shici said, "Do you have any plans?" How many people are short? 』

  Liu Min said: "Although the subordinates are generally suspicious of these three places, it cannot be ruled out whether there is a fish that slipped through the net, but as long as it is alarmed, the fish will definitely run away!" Therefore, I ask the general to increase the inspection of the four fields outside the city, within ten miles outside the city, but there are forests and shrubs and other places to send more scouts to monitor...』

"Can! Tai Shici nodded and said, "I will send a team of soldiers and horses to you, and you will arrange the arrests in the city!" Do it well, don't lose the face of You Wensi! 』

   Liu Min bowed down and kowtowed loudly.

   This matter is simple, but it is simple, and it is complicated, of course.

   Lu Bu will not mention it, even if Zhang Liao came, even if Liu Min went to investigate and arrest him, there would be nothing he could do. Because Zhang Liao didn't have enough manpower, only when Tai Shici brought enough manpower, and these people were unlikely to have any connection with the locals of the Western Regions, could there be a way to completely encircle and suppress the spies in Xihai City.

  Night fell quickly, and Xihai City under the night was silent.

  A group of cavalry marched on the main street in Xihai City, and the sound of horseshoes kicking and trampling traveled far in the silent night.

   Under the cover of the sound of horseshoes, some figures appeared in the darkness, and followed the previously planned route to the three most suspicious courtyards.

  Liu Min was outside the courtyard of the confessed son of the Yang family, with piercing eyes.

   This courtyard has two entrances, the inner and outer courtyards are separated by the middle courtyard gate. Perhaps it is also because the inside and outside are separated that there is room to dig tunnels. There are main hall and main room and four wing rooms in the outer courtyard, all of which are pitch black at this time.

Seeing that the hands of the people in front and behind the courtyard were already in place, Liu Min waved his hand, and suddenly someone came over the wall without a sound. Yu silently removed the latch and opened the courtyard door.

  In the outer courtyard, there was a faint smell of blood.

  Liu Min glanced at the dark corner of the courtyard, and there was a person who fell down. It seemed that he hadn’t died completely, but he was pressed down. Not only could he not move his hands and feet, he couldn’t even make a sound...

  Liu Min observed and found nothing abnormal in the outer courtyard. This is also normal. After all, the outer court is used to meet foreigners most of the time. Even if there are few contacts in the inner court on weekdays, placing the tunnel in the outer court will undoubtedly increase a lot of risks, so basically it will be set inside. hospital.

   Just as Liu Min's men moved from the outer courtyard to the inner courtyard, suddenly there were several crisp bells ringing, which was extremely ear-piercing in the silence!

  It turned out that in the dark place of the inner courtyard, someone tied a blacked-out bell to a rope. As long as the door was pushed and the rope was pulled, it would ring immediately!

  Following the sound of the bell, there was a flash of a figure at the window of a room in the inner courtyard, and then disappeared.

  『Stop going! Seeing that the concealment was broken, Liu Min immediately shouted, stretched out his finger, and said, "Break the door!" 』

  The hidden bell also proves that there must be ghosts in the courtyard!

  One person just flew up and kicked directly towards the wooden door of the house. With a sound, the person groaned. Not only did he fail to kick the door open, but he seemed to have hurt himself.

   Immediately, there seemed to be some shouting sounds from inside the door, and then some sounds of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came out.

  Liu Min's expression changed, "Go into the window!" break! 』

   Someone immediately smashed open the window, only to find that the inside was blocked by a bookshelf, and someone pushed and pulled it vigorously.

  At the door of the room, there was also a strong man who came forward with an iron pillar, knocked the wooden board of the door to pieces in a blink of an eye, went up and stomped with his feet, and the bookshelves and wardrobes piled up inside were also pushed away by the strong man.

  When Liu Min and the others entered, they heard a clattering sound coming from the depths of the room. Following the sound, they found the wooden board that was covered in the corner. As soon as the wooden board was lifted, someone stabbed upwards with a gun, almost hitting the person who lifted the wooden board.

  The person who lifted the wooden board stepped back, and one person held a bow and shot an arrow at the place where the figure in the cave was shaking!

  Bowstrings sounded, people screamed, and immediately some people jumped down and shouted: "Take it!" Someone else ran forward! 』

Another person jumped down with a torch. Liu Min also took a torch and jumped down to take a look. He saw that a half-sized room had been dug underground, and there was a hole in the corner, extending into the dark place. . The hole is not big, but it can walk almost upright.

  Liu Min judged the direction of the cave entrance and snorted coldly.

  Xihai City is close to the city wall to the west, and there is a low-rise private house that is not very conspicuous. Inside the private houses, there were some messy sundries, and a few mice squeaked, staring at a certain direction as if they were frightened by something.

  A wooden board on the ground was suddenly lifted up, revealing a hole, and a black shadow emerged.

  The mice were frightened and fled in all directions.

The black shadow didn't have time to observe the surroundings, so it got out in a panic. Instead of opening the door to escape immediately, it grabbed a thick wooden stick at the side, and then propped it under a stone mill, pushing its shoulders forward vigorously. At the top, I saw the stone mill slowly rolling onto the wooden board at the entrance of the cave, making the board creak under pressure.

  There were human voices coming from the entrance of the hole, some flames flickered in the gaps between the boards, and then someone seemed to be pushing the board, but it couldn't be pushed at all, only some muffled curses were heard...

Heiying took a few breaths, ran to a small cabinet, threw out all the messy utensils inside, lifted the partition under the cabinet, and then lifted out a hidden package, carried it behind his back, and stood up. After listening to the door for a few breaths, he pulled the latch and fled outside.

Outside the house was a long and narrow alley. The man hurriedly ran forward along the shadows of the surrounding heights. Not far away, he suddenly paused. He seemed to have noticed something was wrong. He was about to turn back, but it was already too late. . The two black shadows around had rushed up, knocked him to the ground, and then pressed him firmly to the ground. Immediately, more people rushed up, pressing hands pressing hands, pressing feet pressing feet, and some The foot stepped on his face, making him unable to scream, coughing and coughing, and it was difficult to even breathe...

  …_(:з」∠)_…

  In places like the Western Regions, there is little rain and drought, and the surface of the land is mostly loess, which is very suitable for digging holes. Just like Karez, as long as it is well maintained, it will not collapse after a thousand years of wind and frost.

  The question is that the karez hole is beneficial, and the other holes...

  If it wasn’t for the fact that Xihai City hadn’t been built for a long time, maybe a few years later, all the holes in Xihai City, large and small, could be connected to fight tunnel battles!

  Tai Shici gave Liu Min an order to thoroughly investigate the "rat infestation" in the city, but he did not expect that more than one nest of mice was caught!

  Just when Liu Min led people to arrest Yang Shizi, the scouts cruising outside the city, Yebushuai and others, also caught many marmots that were alarmed and fled outwards!

  When Tai Shici received the report from his subordinates, he didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. If this is used as a comparison, the people in Guan Er are still good, and these groundhogs hidden in the daily life, if Xihai City is really besieged one day, I am afraid they will not know how to break the city defense by then!

  At this time, Tai Shici realized more and more the difficulties in the Western Regions mentioned by Hussar General Fei Qian.

  There are no friends here, all are enemies.

  Even if they are crawling under their feet, they are still poaching the corner of the Han family.

  Do you rule the Western Regions by killing?

  Three or four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, generation after generation of the guardians of the Western Regions, if all the people who killed the Western Regions were piled up, it would probably be higher than the Tianshan Mountains! At least ten Western Region states were wiped out, dozens of royal families were wiped out, and there were countless small tribes. When the big man is strong, his murderous intent is not insignificant, and then what happens?

  In history, not only was the murderous intent of the Han Dynasty heavy, but the murderous intent of the Tang Dynasty towards the Western Regions was not small. When the Tang Dynasty controlled the Western Regions, it was no joke that there was no man's land, but if there was a word "broken" in the victory report of the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars, then the opponent's end would basically be **** rivers. The view is like a mountain.

   Only those who surrender without seeing blood at the beginning will make those bloodthirsty generals in the Tang Dynasty lick their lips and sigh with deep regret...

   But killing like this for hundreds of years, Huaxia people and Hu people from the Western Regions fought each other, and I don’t know how many people died on this piece of land. Then, did the Western Regions really completely belong to Huaxia?

Even in the Western Regions of later generations, there are still a small number of people in the Western Regions who eat vegetables supplied by China, use items made in China, and wear clothes made in China, and then they are still cursing. The Western Regions will always be the Western Regions, and have nothing to do with China.

   This is completely different from Ah San's territory.

   Did Ah San kill someone?

Of course there is, otherwise Ah San’s natives would not be reduced to the lowest level, and they would not be able to stand up in later generations, but in Ah San’s territory, apart from killing people, there is another very important factor, which is the religious system and spirituality. Only by the suppression from above, the so-called non-resistance method of the later generations, and the self-consciousness of inferior people that cannot be changed for a while even after leaving Ah San's territory...

  Although violence is also a kind of beauty to a certain extent, China should not only have the beauty of violence.

  The sky is getting brighter, and the hustle and bustle of the night is about to pass.

  Rats, big and small, were caught and killed, and those who survived were in great pain, struggling between speaking and not speaking.

  The ordinary people in Xihai City opened their eyes blankly. Many people didn't even know what happened last night. For them, a generation is too far away, and they can only think about the things in front of them.

  Some people say, "One generation can only do what one generation does." 』

   At first glance, it seems to make sense, but...

  Actually, the ones who are most moved by this sentence are Li Paste and Bald Qiang. What's interesting is that these two people also use this sentence to laugh at others, thinking that their words are good words, to recognize the reality, and to do well in front of the present.

  Thinking about it, saying this sentence is called deep slumber. Thinking about it, the person who said this sentence is harboring evil intentions.

  Because the hidden meaning of this sentence is "Your generation, you can't make it", "Wait until you die, let's talk about it in your next life", "After I die, don't care about the flood"...

  The key is that there are still some people following behind, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes.

   Fortunately, Huaxia also has another saying, "Those who do not plan for the whole world are not enough for a moment, and those who do not plan for the overall situation are not enough for a region." 』

   Fortunately, not everyone is a fool who believes in the nonsense of the so-called "generation".

  More people are cautious about the present and focus on the future.

   In this way, there is a Chinese inheritance, which continues continuously.

Just like here in the Western Regions, Tai Shici must consider the future of the Western Regions, because he took over the responsibility of the Western Regions from Feiqian, instead of just doing the things in front of him. done.

Killing these groundhogs and thieves, of course, can't be merciful, and it's not too complicated, but what should be done after killing them, after a few years, decades, or a hundred years, this is what Tai Shici thinks he and The biggest difference between Lu Bu. Tai Shici felt that if he was like Lu Bu, who just killed and didn't care about anything after killing, then he would definitely become the second Lu Bu, and there would be no changes in the Western Regions.

  The sun rises, shining brightly, reflecting on Xihai City, driving away the shadows and ghosts from last night.

Tai Shici thought for a long time. He felt that he seemed to have some ideas, but they were just ideas, and he had not yet formed a specific strategy. So he was going to ask Fei Qian for advice after he arrived in the West Sea. However, before discussing the follow-up governance rules and control methods of the Western Regions, Tai Shici decided to kill those Wusun people first, so as to reduce the threat of Xihai City...

  (end of this chapter)