"General, let me go!"

Yuan Song took the initiative to volunteer to Wang Junguo, "I am skilled in water and can cross the river. If there is an accident, I can jump into the river and flee back."

Wang Junkuo attaches great importance to Yuan Song. The grain ship was robbed and could summon defeated soldiers to join him. He volunteered to go to Jiangling to deliver a letter. He was a brave general. He nodded and handed him a letter and a package containing Li Qun's head. "You don't have to say anything, just hand the letter and head to Lu Zushang, and you don't even have to go ashore."

"Abide by the orders!"

Yuan Song took the letter and the package, bowed and jumped onto the mail ship, pointed to the river, "Go!"

The long pole stretched out the warship, pulled up the sails, and the hundred stone warship sailed out of the river port and headed towards Jiangling County. Looking at the warship walking away, Wang Jungu's brows frowned slightly, not knowing whether Lu Zushang would be willing to exchange.

At this time, a sound of footsteps came from behind, and a personal soldier rushed forward to report: "General, Your Highness the King of Chu's orders arrive!"

Wang Junguo was overjoyed, “Where is the order?”

Several personal soldiers brought a letter delivery soldier forward. The letter delivery soldier was originally going to Yiling to deliver letters, but he did not expect to meet Wang Junguo halfway, which made him secretly glad. He stepped forward and knelt on one knee, "See General Wang!"

"Where is Your Highness's letter?" Wang Junguo asked anxiously.

The sender took out a letter from his arms and presented it with both hands. Wang Junguo took the letter and opened it quickly. A personal soldier brought the torch up. With the light of the fire, Wang Junguo hurriedly looked at it, and his eyes lit up. The King of Chu personally led an army of 50,000 to attack Jiangling and ordered him to send 8,000 cavalry to assist in the attack on Jiangling City. This news made him extremely eager for it.

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It doesn't take long to get from the police to Jiangling City. When dawn broke out, Yuan Song's ship arrived at Jiangling City Water Village. The so-called water village was to create a water area by the river, surrounded by wooden stakes, making it difficult for ships outside to enter. Only the water gate could pass.

There were water sentry towers on both sides of the water gate. As soon as the ship approached the water gate, it was discovered by the sentry. Several sentry ships rushed out, and the leader of a Tang army commander pointed the warship with a sword. He ordered from a distance: "Stop!"

Yuan Song waved his hand, and more than a dozen subordinates took the sails. The ship lost its power and slowly slowed down. After a moment, he stopped in front of the Tang army's whistle. Yuan Song walked up to the bow and said loudly: "I am the envoy of the Sui army. I am ordered General Wang Junguo to see General Lu!"

The brigade coach glanced at him, turned around and turned his eyes. Several whistle boats behind him stepped forward. The soldiers climbed onto the ship one after another, searched the ship carefully, and took away all the weapons and all the dangerous things, and even searched them carefully.

Then he took Yuan Song onto the sentry boat and sailed towards the water camp. The Sui army warships remained outside the water camp and were not allowed to enter the water camp.

The whistle boat was extremely fast and was walking along a waterway. Yuan Song looked at the Tang army's water camp without hesitation. The water camp was about three miles wide and more than ten miles long. Hundreds of warships were densely moored by the river.

Suddenly, he saw the grain transport ship captured by the Tang army, which was neatly moored by the river, only a few hundred steps away from him. Yuan Song's eyes were sharp. He found that the grain transport ship was very dripping, and it should be that the materials carried on it had not been unloaded.

When Tang Jun saw him seeing the grain transport ship, he laughed at him, "Yang Yuanqing is not bad! He knows that we are short of food, so he specially sent food. It would be great if he could send some women, and we wouldn't even dislike the princess."

Several Tang soldiers burst into laughter. Yuan Song was furious and shouted sternly: "The Sui army is about to unify the world. Who knows? If you don't think about your own wealth and life, will you be afraid of being killed by the nine clans?"

His tone was extremely stern. Several Tang soldiers realized something and were so scared that they dared not say anything. At this time, the brigade coach on the bow of the ship cursed: "You guys, don't fart, and throw the Tang army away."

He glared at Yuan Song again, "This is the territory of the Tang army. If you are arrogant, I will kick you off the boat."

Yuan Song snorted coldly, ignored him with his hands behind his back, and the whistle boat arrived at the shore in a moment. Yuan Song got on the shore, pointed to the bamboo box containing the parcel, took out another letter and handed it to the coach of the pier, "I'm just here to deliver the letter, there is nothing to say, just wait here."

The brigade coach did not make things difficult for him and ordered his subordinates, "Look at him!"

The brigade coach ran quickly into the city with a bamboo box. On the top of the city, Lu Zushang had already seen the wardrobe with the Sui army envoys.

These days, Lu Zushang has also been a little worried. It is his duty to intercept Sui army's ration ships and his duty. Regardless of whether he is disappointed with the Tang Dynasty or not, he will only serve as the Tang army for one day, and he will have to perform his duties and it is impossible to let the Sui army's ration ships go.

But he did not expect that the grain ship incident would become the first battle of the Jingxiang War. General Chai Shao had led an army of 50,000 south and was about to arrive in Jiangling City. This made Lu Zushang feel a little depressed. He did not want Jiangling to become a place for the war, but it seemed that he had no choice.

At this time, the commander of the patrol brigade rushed to the top of the city and knelt down on one knee to report, "Report to the General, the envoy of the Sui army arrived at the order of Wang Junguo, and sent this bamboo basket and a letter."

Lu Zushang took the letter and looked at the bamboo basket again. He felt a bad feeling in his heart. Why did Wang Junkuo come here in Yiling? Could it be that something was wrong with Gong'an County?

Thinking of this, he turned around and ordered his personal soldiers to "open the basket!"

Several personal soldiers stepped forward and opened the basket. There was a cloth bag inside. Unpacked the cloth bag. Several personal soldiers immediately exclaimed, "It's the head!"

A personal soldier suddenly recognized the head and shouted: "It's General Li Qun's head."

Lu Zushang felt like he was stepping on the air, and his heart fell into the ice cave. As expected, the Sui army had captured Gong'an County. He restrained his anger and opened the letter and read it. The letter asked to exchange prisoners of war with him. One thousand one hundred prisoners of war exchanged 200,000 dan of forage, just across the Yangtze River. The time was before tonight.

Lu Zushang couldn't speak for a long time. This was a very headache for him. Should he change it or not? It was obvious that the Sui army cavalry was short of forage and needed horse materials in urgent need of horse materials. If not replaced, it would definitely be a blow to the Sui army cavalry. But in this way, Lu Zushang's reputation for not caring about the soldiers was spread. If replaced, although it was beneficial to his reputation, he was afraid that Li Xiaogong would cause trouble for him and said that he was making decisions without authorization.

Lu Zushang was in a dilemma. He pondered for a long time. Anyway, Chai Shao would arrive soon and let Chai Shao decide the matter. He immediately ordered: "Bring the envoy of the Sui army."

After a moment, Yuan Song was brought up, but he didn't respect him and stood proudly. Lu Zushang glanced at him and snorted, "How dare you be so rude? Do you want to redeem your life for the killed General Li?"

Yuan Song sneered, "I am not a civil servant and I can't do the courtesy of a civil servant, but don't you think it's funny to ask me to give you a military general?"

"So you general, okay! I respect you as a man, and tell General Wang Junkuo for me, saying that although I am willing to exchange with him, I have no right to make a decision. I want to ask King Jing, so I will definitely not be able to reply today. At the latest the night after tomorrow, I will definitely have an answer, and ask him to wait for two days."

Yuan Song nodded, "I will tell General Wang."

Lu Zushang waved his hand and said, "Send him away!"

The Tang army soldiers led Yuan Song down the city and kept sending him out of the water camp. Yuan Song got on his warship and immediately ordered: "Go back!"

The ship sailed to the opposite shore and drove a mile or two away. Yuan Song suddenly called one of his subordinates forward and whispered a few words, which scared his subordinates, "General, is this OK?"

"I'm fine, just tell General Wang that I'm sure I will succeed."

Yuan Song gave a few more words, then quietly slid off the boat, disappearing silently like a fish.

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In the Sui army's tent, the returned soldiers reported to Wang Junkuo about his mission. Wang Junkuo was furious and punched the table with a punch, "Without my order, he actually acted without authorization. He was so brave!"

Two side generals next to him looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward and advised, "General, please calm down. Then Lu Zushang said he wanted to ask Li Xiaogong for instructions. In fact, it was just an excuse. I guess he didn't want to exchange at all. Even if he asked for instructions, Li Xiaogong would not agree. So he just let General Yuan make great contributions, which is also a good thing."

Another side general also pleaded with love: "Actually, General Yuan made a decision at the moment. If he comes back and asks the general, he may lose the opportunity. Moreover, Yuan Song is extremely talented, so maybe he really has a way to make a great contribution."

After the two of them persuaded him, Wang Junkuo's anger calmed down a little. He walked to the door of the tent, stared at the opposite side of the river, and thought to himself, "I wonder what kind of magical achievements this Yuan Song can make for him?"

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As night gradually descended, the Tang army's water village was particularly quiet. There were only a dozen patrol boats patrolling back and forth around the water village, and the ships were not allowed to approach, but the water village was quiet and there was no more soldier.

At this time, a figure appeared under the water of the Sui army's grain transport ship. It was Yuan Song. He sneaked into the Tang army's water camp and had been hiding for a whole day. It was not until night fell that he hid out and swam in front of the Sui army's grain ship.

The bows of each grain transport ship were numbered. Soon, Yuan Song found the No. 65 ship, quickly climbed onto the big ship, hid in the dark and listened for a while, without any movement, and then he lifted the deck and entered the cargo warehouse.

The cargo warehouse was very dry, and bags of grain were placed neatly like other ships. Yuan Song was extremely nervous. He knew that in ships No. 65 and No. 66, in addition to grain, there were some special items, so I wonder if Tang Jun had discovered it.

He touched a knife and pried open the door of the cabin. There was a cabin on the other side of the partition, with hundreds of skins neatly stacked inside. He breathed a sigh of relief. Tang Jun did not notice the turbid oil in it. He was extremely happy and bit the knife in his mouth and began to act.

He moved bags of turmeric oil out of the cabin, but felt worried. Each bag of turmeric oil weighed at least twenty kilograms, and one or two bags were definitely not enough, but he couldn't take a few more bags away. He pondered for a moment, and had a solution in his heart, and then slid off the big ship again.

About a quarter of an hour later, a small sampan was docked silently under the No. 65 grain transport ship.

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Chapter completed!