The Peerless Demon of Martial Arts

Chapter 650 The thief shouts to catch the thief
The governor stared at Li Tianxing in disbelief: "The emperor has no taboos, of course, it's just..."

"Since you can, don't talk about it. From now on, no one is allowed to mention Yun Xiaofeng's matter, otherwise it will be a crime of beheading, you know?"

The emperor is cool, just a word can save a person from a crime.

If it was in the past, Yun Xiaofeng would definitely regard Li Tianxing as a life-and-death friend, but with his current status, Yun Xiaofeng feels that he is not on the same path.Yun Xiaofeng can't say these words for the time being, and he will wait until the matter of Qin Mo is settled before he cares about it.

Compared with Li Tianxing, the purple-winged bat and puppet have a much shorter journey to the palace. They have already arrived at the palace, and with their status as the emperor's personal guards, they can come and go as they please, and they will ask the eunuchs in Ouchi for questioning.The plague in the palace is not small, and everyone is in danger. Moreover, the palace is different from the outside. If something goes wrong, the government and the public will be shocked.

When the two came to the harem, they saw many maids, eunuchs, and old concubines, all of whom were suffering from strange diseases and their skins were festered.People who practice martial arts, although they can't be called masters of traditional Chinese medicine, can still tell the difference without the plague.After seeing more than a dozen people in a row, the Purple Winged Bat concluded that this was not a plague, but that someone had drugged it to cause riots in the palace.

Although Li Tianxing became the emperor, he was not supported by people in the harem, and the two were even more rejected. Except for a few eunuchs and court ladies, no one was willing to listen to them, and investigating the case became a very difficult matter.

"Smelly bat, the boss is not around, it's not easy for the two of us to investigate the case." Puppet Sha was worried.

The Purple Winged Bat said: "When the leader was here, everything was fine. An accident occurred as soon as we left. This clearly caused the backyard to catch fire. We can't mess up our own positions, so - investigate the list of everyone who has entered the harem these days , no matter who it is, we must investigate one by one. We can't let the leader get confused."

"You said so lightly, how do you check? None of these ministers are willing to listen to us."

"Go to Wei Huaitai, he made a bet with the leader."

There is a reason, and a good candidate.But when the two went to Wei Huaitai's house, the family members said that Wei Huaitai had gone out, and they went there three times in two days, and Wei Huaitai was not at the house, probably to avoid the two of them on purpose.From this point of view, the matter is likely to have something to do with Wei Huaitai, at least he is an insider.

The purple-winged bat and the puppet became headless flies, bumping into walls everywhere, unable to catch the thread, let alone investigate the case.

After going back and forth like this, more than half a month passed.On Li Tianxing's side, he had already arrived in the desert. After passing through several inns in the desert, walking west was the court's Northwest Camp.The serving general, also surnamed Wei, is Wei Huaitai's nephew, and came to greet him.

The daily food and salaries consumed by the Northwest army is a terrible figure, at least 20 taels of silver. If it is consumed for a long time, the court will be dragged down.But if all the soldiers are withdrawn, the enemy will definitely disturb the peace of the northwest, and it is unknown if they break through the city.Things are difficult to do, but they have to be done.

The general stationed at the station told Li Tianxing that the enemy army was hiding in the desert, but he sent people to search around, but he couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

At night, Li Tianxing, Xingran, and Yun Xiaofeng lit the lamps to look at the map.

All the places on the map that could hide the army have been investigated, and the local General Wei said that there was no result.

"Where can the enemy army be?" Li Tianxing was puzzled, a little confused by the authorities.

Xingran pointed his fingers on the map: "The desert is so big, maybe the enemy army is hiding hundreds of kilometers away, and it is impossible to search for the enemy army that far."

Li Tianxing said: "This is impossible. The enemy army is also human, and they also have to eat and drink water. To the north of the desert is Lao Maozi's land boundary. These enemy troops are from the Central Plains, but they are just a group of rebels who refuse to obey the rule of the court. That's all. If they want to eat, they can only transport it from the Central Plains."

"Then cut off their food supply."

One problem after another, there are only two grain roads from inside the pass to outside the pass, both of which are guarded by the imperial court.The food of these enemy troops may be escorted from some secret cave, and it will never be in a particularly conspicuous location.

Yun Xiaofeng stared at the map for a long time: "It seems that there is no chance. The desert is solitary, and it is not easy to hide so many people. They must find a place to recuperate. There should be oases and water sources around. "

Li Tianxing pointed to the map and said: "Look, our current location in the desert is here, and there are three water source areas nearby. If we go in other directions, if we go deep into the desert, there will be very few water sources, and there are not many water sources. It is not a burden at all." The survival of tens of thousands of people, let alone an army of 10,000+."

Xingran said: "That is to say... these enemy troops should be provided with food continuously?"

"What you said is nonsense."

"Hmph, is it nonsense? You have to listen to me." Xingran spoke slowly, but his eyes were bright: "In my opinion, there are two possibilities at present. First, the general here lied. The military situation, there is no enemy at all."

Li Tianxing said: "This is absolutely impossible. According to the news from the Northwest to the court, the Northwest has been harassed by the enemy many times and lost a lot of soldiers and horses."

Xingran then talked about the second possibility: "The General Wei colluded with the enemy, and he gave the enemy enough food."

Is this possible?It seems even more impossible, he is the great general of the imperial court, Wei Huaitai's own nephew, what good will it do him.

Of course there are advantages, if the enemy army is not eliminated for a day, he will be able to keep his position as a general. At present, the imperial court has no other people who can command the army. Wei Huaitai is too old to be exhausted.The remaining generals in the imperial court did not have any ability to lead troops. They were said to be military generals, and they were not much different from civilian officials.

Now it seems that this possibility is the highest, but... this general colluded with the enemy?In other words, he is simply the leader of the enemy army, and it is possible for the thief to cry out to catch the thief.

"How can you verify this statement?" Yun Xiaofeng asked them: "I have doubts about the general, so I can't say it publicly, who will admit it. Is there any way for you to lure him into the bait?"

If this guy is really calling for a thief, then at least half of the entire Northwest camp is his cronies. If this matter is mentioned, it will cause riots.Xingran is still very smart, her strategy is to temporarily remove Wei's general on the charge of suppressing bandits.

"Remove him? Then who will be the general?" Li Tianxing asked.

The two commented on him unanimously: "You are the emperor now, and if you come to be the general, who else can have any objections?"

The strategy was obvious, if Li Tianxing became a general, the Wei guy would definitely not be reconciled, and would definitely call people or notify the enemy army in private to come and rob the camp.So just keep an eye on him the whole time.

When the emperor raised his tent, all the soldiers and generals stood on both sides, and the one surnamed Wei stood beside Li Tianxing.

At the beginning, Li Tianxing opened up the conversation: "General Wei, as a general sent by the imperial court to the northwest, you have repeatedly failed, without any merit, and instead caused the imperial court to lose soldiers, horses, food and grass. Are you guilty?"

(End of this chapter)