At dusk and sunset, accompanied by the blood-stained sunset in the sky, a cavalry team rushed from the west and arrived at the city of Xiaoguan in an instant.

"Who is coming? Stop dismounting and inform us of your name!"

On the tall Xiongguan city, General Xu, who was left by Xiaoguan, shouted loudly. Although there were not many people coming, the defenders in the city were still nervous. In the early morning of this day, the general led all the troops in the city out of the pass. At this time, the city was the most empty, and the defenders had to be more cautious.

Among the team under the city, Xiao Shilian, the leader, saw that He Ruohuailiang appeared on the city, couldn't help but say something bad in his heart and frowned.

Chen Kedi, who was dressed in an ordinary cavalry next to Xiao Shilian, looked up slightly and whispered: "Mr. Xiao, what happened?"

"The guard in the city is He Ruohuailiang, the son of He Ruobi, the former Duke of Song of the Sui Dynasty. This person is also a descendant of the Guanlong nobles. He Ruobi, Yuwenbi, Gao Ying and others were executed by Yang Guang for slandering the government. The He Ruo family retreated and lived in Chang'an. After Yuwen and his independence in Chang'an, many Guanlong nobles in Guanzhong fell to him. The He Ruo family also joined the position of Yuwen and. Yuwen and He Ruoliang were granted the position of Song of the Song of He Ruohuailiang. His uncles He Ruodong and He Ruolong were respectively named Wudu County Duke and Wanrong County Duke, which was extremely favored. The He Ruo family was also very loyal to Yuwen. Especially He Ruohuailiang, he was also close to Yuwen and his second son Yuwen Chengzhi, and their relationship was very good. Unexpectedly, He Ruohuaiwen actually went to the city to patrol today. It seems that it is not easy for us to enter the city."

After hearing Xiao Shilian's explanation, Chen Kedi also frowned. Unexpectedly, he encountered such a thing as soon as he came.

He looked up at Xiaoguan. The city was strong and the walls were thick. Although he knew that at this time, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers in Xiaoguan City, and the rest were tens of thousands of auxiliary craftsmen and civilians. But if he could not take the lead and attack this fortress with a strong attack, Chen Kedi estimated that even if he had piled up ten thousand Chen army light cavalry, he might not be able to take it down for a while. Even if he really paid a big price to take Xiaoguan, he would not be able to defend it.

Trouble. It's a big trouble.

Chen Kedi turned to Xiao Shilian, who was wearing a white beard and a purple official robe, said, "Mr. Xiao, I wonder if there is any good plan?"

At this time, Chen Kedi could only place his hope on Xiao Shilian.

This gray-haired Xiao Shilian is also a big-headed person. His father was also a native of Chen. Decades ago, the general of Southern Chen, Xiao Maha, who was known as the most powerful general of the three armies and the world's famous general. Xiao Maha was one of the best generals in Southern Chen. Xiao Shilian was Xiao Maha's eldest son. When he was young, he followed his father to fight with the Northern Zhou Dynasty. At that time, Xiao Maha and Xiao Shilian and his son had only brought five cavalry and seven cavalry to the formation of the Northern Zhou Central Army, and killed the generals and seized the flag in one fell swoop, defeating the Northern Zhou army.

Xiao Moha was a famous general in the Southern Dynasty since Chen Qing. In the late Chen Dynasty, Chen Shubao was granted the title of the Three Dukes of Xiao Moha, and even appointed him as the General of the Cavalry, and was appointed as the Grand Duke of the Left Guanglu. He also appointed his daughter as the concubine of the Crown Prince Chen Shen, and was named Duke of Suide County.

However, the emperor was incompetent and took advantage of Xiao Moha's leadership of his troops to have an affair with Xiao Moha's wife and put a green hat on his generals. This made the loyal general feel disappointed. When the Sui army attacked Chen, he led his troops outside but did not send out. This led to the demise of Southern Chen. After Chen destroyed, Xiao Moha surrendered to the Sui army. Later, because of his unsuccessful intention, he raised an army with King Yang Liang of Han, and was killed in the end.

After Xiao Maha's death, Xiao Shilian was not killed, but this brave and powerful general was determined not to raise his sword and axe for his life. He instead lived in seclusion in Chang'an to study. Yu Wen and his army raised an army and collected most of the nobles in Guanzhong to enter the court to serve as officials. Naturally, a powerful general like Xiao Shilian was not missed. However, Xiao Shilian was unwilling to be a general, so Yu Wen and he gave him a leisurely civil position. This time Yu Wen Chengzhi was appointed as the commander of Xiao Guan. Yu Wen and not only invited several veteran generals from the Yu Wen family to come out, but also sent out many Guanlong nobles in the court.

The four generals of the Yuwen family were commanding soldiers, and the three uncles and nephews of the He Ruo family were also generals. Xiao Shilian and several other old nobles were also sent over. Xiao Shilian was the chief of the army and had a very high official position.

However, Yu Wenhua and may never have thought that Xiao Shilian would get together with the Chen Chao. In theory, although the Xiao family and the Chen family were monarchs and ministers, Chen Shubao, the late emperor of Chen, had an affair with Xiao Maha's wife. After Xiao Maha was dead, he refused to send troops. There was no doubt that the Xiao and Chen families should have been a feud. It was precisely because of this that he was relieved to appoint Xiao Shilian.

However, he did not expect that Chen Kefu's ability to win people's hearts is indeed very powerful, while the secret envoys who specialize in dealers in the Special Service are even more powerful.

As early as a year ago, Xiao Shilian had already secretly turned to Chen Kefu. Speaking of which, Xiao Shilian's sister was still the concubine of Chen Kefu's father who had not passed away, and Xiao Shilian was also considered Chen Kefu's uncle.

Although Xiao Shilian lived in seclusion for many years, he was very clear about the world's current situation. He just thought about Chen Kefu's enlistment and agreed. After all, according to the world situation, the world will still belong to the Chen family in the future. If he gave up this opportunity to resolve the problem with the Chen family, the Xiao family would not have a day of revival. Xiao Shilian could not care about his future, after all, he was sixty years old, but he had to consider the future of the Xiao family.

At that time, the Xiao family betrayed the Chen family and Yang Sui could surrender. But now, if they offend the Chen family again, there is no way out.

Half a month ago, when Chen Kedi sent Liu Shiguang to pretend to betray Liu Wuzhou and surrender to Yuwen Chengzhi, he asked the secret spies to contact Xiao Shilian. On the battlefield today, Xiao Shilian should have been by Yuwen Chengzhi, but when the battle was halfway through, he ran away quietly. Among the chaos, no one would find out whether the marching chief ran away or ran away, or died in the trap of the chaos.

Chen Kedi's plan was originally very good. As Xiao Shilian's chief of the army, he falsely passed military orders and lied that the war ahead was in a hurry, and urgently dispatched the remaining Xu army in the city to the battlefield to support him. After digging the tiger away from the mountain, he used Xiao Shilian's identity to cooperate with him inside and outside to seize Xiao Pass in one fell swoop.

The plan is very good and the success is highly implementable.

But what no one expected was that this first step was in trouble. The sky and the earth did not calculate that because Xiao Guan was empty, He Ruohuailiang would actually be in charge of the city of Guan himself.

At this time, Guan Shang had been asking for a second time. Seeing that there was no response from the city, the defenders on the city were already a little nervous. Behind the battlements, soldiers had already started to slap their bows and arrows. If they didn't answer, they would probably be attacking by arrows.

Xiao Shilian stepped forward until Xiaoguan protected the Haogou, and raised his head to He Ruohuailiang on the city and shouted: "The Guan is He Ruoshi's nephew, I am the chief secretary Xiao Shilian!"

Although it was dark at dusk, He Ruohuailiang, who was closed, immediately saw clearly that the person under the lock was Xiao Shilian.

He was a little cautious and did not open the door immediately, but closed it and shouted: "Didn't Shiwang go to the expedition of Liu Wuzhou and Xue Rengao with His Highness? Why did he come back alone? What's going on?"

"It's a long story, I'm a short story. Our army fought with the Qin and Zhou coalition forces in the morning, but our intelligence was a little wrong. The Qin and Zhou armies were not 50,000, but a total of 80,000 troops. Although His Highness and the four general General Yuwen were brave, we were few and many enemies, and they were anxious to be at a disadvantage. It was all due to the soldiers fighting hard that our army could not stand stalemate with the bandit army. Now the front line is in a tight position, Your Highness specially ordered me to return to Pass, and quickly pass the Nephew He Ruoshi to lead the remaining troops in Guanzhong and quickly go to Jitou Mountain to reinforce!"

"Open the city gate and welcome Changshi Xiao into the pass." He Ruohuailiang said loudly.

The suspension bridge was lowered and the door was closed slowly. Chen Kedi pretended to be a soldier and a team of elite Chen army soldiers of fifty cavalry protected Xiao Shilian and rode his horse into the pass.

Entering Guanzhong, He Ruohuailiang was already waiting at the city gate from afar and saw everyone coming in. He Ruohuailiang glanced up and down on Chen Kedi's face several times. Although a large iron helmet blocked most of the face, Chen Kedi still felt the gaze that seemed to penetrate the iron helmet.

"Immediately send orders to gather all the soldiers in the city. After half an hour, I will immediately leave the city to reinforce Your Highness." He Ruohuailiang was about fifty years old, but he looked burly and strong, with a blushing face and long beard, and he looked like he was in his prime. The armor on his body was not the bright light armor that the generals used at this time, nor the fish scale armor, but a set of fine chain armor inside and a mountain pattern armor outside.

With two sets of armor on his body, Chen Kedi was probably weighing at least fifty kilograms, but looking at He Ruohuailiang's appearance, he was not burdened at all. What hung around his waist was not an ordinary horizontal sword, but a five-foot-right steel hand halberd. The personal soldiers behind him were carrying a giant axe of 100 feet long. It seemed that it was his immediate weapon.

From his armor to his weapons, and even his expression, He Ruohuailiang's entire body was filled with a strong murderous aura that hit him.

An officer with Mingguang armored armor looked forward carefully and said nervously: "General, Your Highness has issued an order before departure. The soldiers and horses in the city are not allowed to be transferred without authorization. If the general wants to transfer troops, he must first show the military order with the commander. Then the three remaining General He Ruo must match the troops to be one before the troops can be transferred."

He Ruohuailiang snorted coldly, staring at the general with his eyes tightly.

He sneered: "What do you mean now is that you are suspicious of Xiao Changshi's false transmission of the order, or is you suspect that this general has other plans!"

"I dare not be a humble position, but a humble position is just carried out according to the orders of Your Highness."

He Ruohuailiang turned his head and looked at Xiao Shilian with deep meaning, and then said softly: "Aiding urgently is like putting out a fire. It is common for the battle formation to not have time to write military orders for a while. Then, can Changshi Xiao personally come and write a military order on behalf of His Highness? Do you think so, Changshi Xiao?"

Xiao Shilian and Chen Kedi were both stunned. What did He Ruohuailiang want to do? Judging from his tone, there seemed to be something in his words. Moreover, He Ruohuailiang could never be a fool. What did he mean by what he said? Not only did he not pursue military orders, he was helping Xiao Shilian. What was he going to do?

"Yes, yes, the low-ranking position will be executed immediately, immediately..." The captain was sweating profusely and didn't know how to tell the matter. He had to nod and quickly turn his head to summon troops.

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