Three Kingdoms King of the North

"Guangyuan, I have already sent people outside the Da Sikong Mansion and the Great General's Mansion. If Guo Bang enters the Da Sikong Mansion, I will know." Xu Shu smiled faintly and said: "When the time is right, we will Let’s fan the flames again, and the two of Li and Guo will definitely die.”

Shi Tao wanted to ask again, but he saw a middle-aged man in common clothes walking in from the outside, he knew this person, he was a spy sent by Jizhou to the capital, so he asked quickly: "But what's the news?"

"Two gentlemen." Since neither Xu Shu nor Shi Tao had specific official positions in Jizhou, Xi Zuo addressed them as gentlemen: "The young one saw that Guo Si went to Da Sikong's mansion."

When Xu Shu heard what Xizuo said, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know why Guo Si went to Li Jue's mansion?"

Xi Zuo replied: "I asked the cook of Da Sikong's mansion that Li Jue invited Guo Si to the banquet."

"So that's the case, I know." After Xu Shu finished speaking, he ordered Xizuo in a low voice: "You should get in touch with the staff in the general's mansion immediately. If Guo Si wants to drink feces juice after returning to the mansion tonight, please do so immediately." Come report me."

Xi Zuo was taken aback by Xu Shu's words, he thought to himself, who would be so bored to drink dung juice at home?But since it was Xu Shu's order, he didn't dare to disobey it, and could only agree: "I understand. If there is any disturbance in Guo's residence, I will come and report to the master as soon as possible."

After Xi Zuo left, Shi Tao looked at Xu Shu and asked in bewilderment: "Yuan Zhi, what are you talking about? It confuses me. Guo Si is fine, why do you want to drink dung juice?"

Xu Shu got up and went to the door, looked outside, walked back to Shi Tao's side again, took out a letter from his sleeve, handed it to Shi Tao, and said to him: "This is from my lord. A secret letter, please read it carefully."

Shi Tao took the letter with a puzzled expression, opened it and browsed the contents.After he read the letter, he couldn't help opening his mouth in surprise. After a long time, he said to Xu Shu, "Yuan Zhi, so the lord came up with this trick?" Then he asked, "As far as I know, the lord has never been to the capital. How did he know that someone in the court should use this countermeasure? If the entrustment is not someone, and the news leaks, won't it give you and me a second time?" Did people bring about murder?"

Regarding Shi Tao's worries, Xu Shu nodded and said, "Guangyuan, you are right. When I received this secret letter, I also had your worries now, but everything I saw was according to what the Lord said in the letter. As long as we develop, we feel that there is no need to worry about it anymore. As long as we cooperate with the lord and use countermeasures to make Li and Guo become life and death enemies, we don't need to worry about everything."

"However, my lord said that after Guo Si went to Li Jue's mansion for a banquet, he would lead his troops to attack Li Jue the next day." Although Shi Tao had read the secret letter, he still didn't understand many things, so he humbly asked Xu Shu for advice: "I want to know, what is it that can make two people who are as close as brothers turn against each other?"

"My lord's letter didn't go into details." Xu Shu said thoughtfully: "But he asked us to send people to observe whether Guo Bang drank the feces juice when he returned from Li's residence. It should be related to poisoning. .”

"Poisoning? How is this possible?" Shi Tao still feels that all the advantages are too incredible. He said to Xu Shu: "If Li Jue wants to kill Guo Si, just find two assassins to sneak into the general's mansion in the middle of the night and assassinate him." That's it, why bother to trick him into poisoning at home. Doesn't this mean that we don't tell everyone that Guo Bang was killed by him?"

"I still can't understand this matter." Xu Shu waited for Shi Tao to finish speaking, nodded slightly, and continued, "Since Li Jue won't poison Guo Si, how can Guo Si drink dung after he returns home?" What about juice detoxification?”

Guo Si drank to his heart's content in Li Jue's mansion, and only drank until the moon was three poles before he left and returned to his mansion.Mrs. Guo saw that Guo Si had not returned so late, so she sent someone outside to inquire. When she heard that he had gone to Li Jue's mansion to drink, she became very angry. She thought that Guo Si used the name of drinking to meet Mrs. Li privately went.

Seeing Guo Si coming back from the outside, he immediately greeted him and asked coldly: "Husband, you are finally back. Don't you forget how many times my concubine told you that you can't go to that person's house easily, otherwise you will Is it a fatal disaster?"

After hearing this, Guo Si said disapprovingly: "Ma'am, you are worrying too much. Zhiran and I have been friends for many years, and we have always been brothers and sisters. How could he harm me? The last incident was most likely caused by a villain. Deliberately provoke my relationship with him." Before he finished speaking, he suddenly clutched his stomach and cried out in pain.

Mrs. Guo couldn't help being anxious when she heard Guo Si's stomach ache, and she said: "I must be poisoned!" After speaking, she called the housekeeper and asked him to go to the latrine to get fecal juice to detoxify Guo Si.

Chapter 269

Xu Shu and Shi Tao were both stunned when they heard Xizuo's report.They never dreamed that things would develop almost as they wrote in Han Zhan's letter.

After a while, Shi Tao woke up from the shock.He stood aside regardless of the details, and said to Xu Shu: "Yuan Zhi, my lord is really good at predicting things, and everything is within his expectations. Shi is really admired."

To Shi Tao's statement, Xu Shu just smiled lightly, and then asked Xizuo: "Have you ever sent someone to monitor outside the General's Mansion?"

"Responding to Mr. Xu," Xi Zuo replied respectfully, "I left two people at the front and back doors. If there is any trouble, they will come and report to me immediately."

"Yuan Zhi, what are you going to do?" Shi Tao and Xu Shu are old friends for many years, seeing him asking such a detailed question, he guessed that he must have other plans, so he asked directly.

Unexpectedly, Xu Shu didn't answer him immediately, but waved his hand at Xi Zuo and said, "You have worked hard all day, go down and rest first, and report to me when you have news."

After Xizuo left, Xu Shu said to Shi Tao: "Guangyuan, now Guo Si has summoned his confidants in the military camp to discuss matters in the general's mansion. He probably intends to attack Li Jue. I think we should report to Li Jue. "

"What, Yuan Zhi, what did you say?" Shi Tao jumped up immediately when he heard Xu Shu say that, and said with wide-eyed eyes: "Letting Li and Guo kill each other is not a plan that the lord has already decided. You just need to watch from the sidelines, why should you report to Li Jue and tell him to prepare for it?"

To Shi Tao's question, Xu Shu just smiled and said nothing, just looked up at him.Shi Tao is also a smart person, after a while, he understood Xu Shu's purpose for doing this.He said with a face of sudden realization: "Yuan Zhi, you said you were going to report the news because you were worried that Li Jue would not be on guard and Guo Si would catch you off guard."

"That's right, that's what it means." Xu Shu didn't wait for Shi Tao to finish, and then continued: "If Li Jue is eliminated by Guo Si in the shortest possible time, then his soldiers and horses will definitely be recruited by Guo Si. , Guo Si's strength will be greatly increased. But if we report to Li Jue and let him prepare in advance, even if Guo Si's attack is caused, the loss will not be heavy. As long as the two fight inextricably, both sides The strength of the two will be weakened, and when the lord leads his troops to Chang'an, he will be able to destroy the two of them."

"Yuanzhi, tell me, when will we send someone to notify Li Jue?"

"This time can't be too early, if it's too early, Li Jue won't believe it;" Xu Shu said thoughtfully: "If it's too late, Li Jue has already been caught off guard by Guo Si, even if he wants to do something, it's a bit difficult." It’s not enough. So the timing is very important.”

Shi Tao knew that his old friend was always resourceful, so he humbly asked him for advice: "Then when do you think is the best time?"

"When Guo Si's subordinates leave the General's Mansion and return to the barracks, we can start." Xu Shu said to Shi Tao: "Once our spies who stayed outside the General's Mansion come back with any information, we can send People warned Li Jue to prevent him from being caught off guard by Guo Si's killing."

After about an hour, the spies who stayed outside the General's Mansion came back to report that Guo Si's confidantes had left the General's Mansion and returned to their own barracks.

Xu Shu nodded after hearing this, and then found the steady spy.Seeing that a letter written on cloth was handed over to him, he repeatedly told him: "You must find a way to hand this letter into Li Jue's hands as soon as possible, otherwise you will miss a big deal."

Xi Zuo took the letter from Xu Shu's hand, and rushed to Li Jue's Da Sima Mansion with a few of his subordinates, preparing to hand over the warning letter to Li Jue.

Looking at the backs of several people leaving, Shi Tao asked with some concern: "Yuan Zhi, can this be done?"

"I see that it is likely to happen." Xu Shu nodded and said: "Li Jue will send people to the barracks to check after receiving our letter, and he will know that what he said is true, and he will definitely fly into a rage. Use all your troops and horses to compete with Guo Si."

Xi Zuo led his subordinates to a place about [-] steps away from Da Sima's mansion, and then they began to discuss how to send the letter to Li Jue without attracting others' attention.He looked at his most trusted Ding Si and asked, "Ding Si, if I ask you to handle this matter, what are you going to do?"

"Brother," the spy known as Ding Si said to Xizuo, "if we go straight over and tell the soldiers guarding the gate that Guo Si is going to lead troops to attack here, they will definitely be hacked into pieces. According to my opinion See, it is better to tie this letter to the shaft of the arrow and shoot the letter over."

"This is a good idea." Regarding Ding Si's proposal, Xi Zuo nodded and said, "Then let's do this. I will tie the letter to the arrow shaft later, and you will be in charge of shooting the arrow."

A moment later, Xu Shu's warning letter was tied to the shaft of the arrow, and Ding Si shot it at Da Sima's mansion with his bow and arrow.The sharp arrow flew over the heads of the gatekeepers and nailed to the pillar, which startled the soldiers.After bluffing and shouting for a while, they found an arrow nailed to the post.

The team leader in charge took the arrow off the pillar, and tied a letter to it, who dared to be negligent, trotted all the way into the mansion, and went directly to the living room to meet Li Jue.

Li Jue, who was a little drunk, was lying on the couch drowsy at the moment, when he suddenly heard someone shouting loudly: "Report to Da Sikong, the younger one picked up a letter outside the mansion, and I came here to give it to the general. "

An official named Zuo Ling was sitting aside at the moment.Li Jue said to him, "Go over and have a look, what's written in the letter?"

Zuo Ling walked up to the leader of the team, took the letter in his hand, opened it and only glanced at it for a few moments before he turned pale with shock.He hurriedly came to Li Jue, and said to him: "General Zhiran, something serious has happened."

"What's the big deal?" Li Jue asked a little inarticulately.

"Someone told us in our hearts that Guo Si is gathering an army and is preparing to come and attack us." Zuo Ling said to Li Jue in a panic, "I ask Da Sima to make preparations."

Zuo Ling's words shocked Li Jue into a cold sweat, so frightened that he sobered up from the wine at that time.There was an expression of disbelief on his face, "Why did Hoduo raise troops to attack me? But I don't know that I have always treated him well."

Zuo Ling shook his head, and said to Li Jue: "Da Sima, this subordinate thinks the origin of this letter is suspicious, so you can't believe it or not."

"Zuo Ling, in your opinion, how should we deal with it?"

"If General Guo really wants to send troops to attack you, he must be dispatching troops in his barracks at the moment." Zuo Ling suggested to Li Jue, "You might as well send someone to the barracks to spy on you. We are preparing for war, so we should take precautions early."

After Li Jue killed Fan Chou a few days ago, he was always uneasy, deeply afraid that someone would come to avenge Fan Chou.At this moment, I heard that Guo Si is mobilizing troops and horses, preparing to deal with him.Thinking of this, he quickly called a few soldiers and ordered them to rush to Guo Si's barracks immediately to see if there was any movement in the camp.

A soldier sent out came back in less than half an hour.He knelt in front of Li Jue and said: "Back to Da Sima, the general's barracks is very lively at the moment, and the generals are dispatching troops from various places. According to my little guess, I'm afraid they are planning to attack somewhere."

Li Jue waved his hand at the soldiers, sent him away, and said to Zuo Ling: "Zuo Ling, if Guo Si really leads troops to attack, how should I respond?"

"Great Sima," Zuo Ling thought that he was on Li Jue's side. If Guo Si really wanted to counterattack, he would die, so he could only fight to the death: "Since Guo Si is already dispatching troops General, we must not sit still and wait for death. In the opinion of my subordinates, we also dispatched troops to Da Sima's mansion early to prevent Guo Si from directly leading troops to attack the mansion."

Regarding Zuo Ling's proposal, Li Jue nodded and agreed: "That's very good, I will give an order to the deployment in the barracks, let them lead the troops into the city immediately, and come here to join us."

There were originally 500 soldiers in Da Sima's mansion. After Li Jue learned that Guo Si was going to lead troops to attack, he hastily dispatched another [-] people to defend his mansion, so as not to be attacked by Guo Bang.

At four o'clock in the morning, just as the soldiers on guard in Li's mansion were all drowsy, they suddenly heard the sound of orderly footsteps from the street outside, and then heard someone shouting: "Hurry up, General Sima!" Surround the mansion, don't let that bastard Li Jue leave."