After leaving Song Mu's mansion, Li Xu went to the Nine Gate Admiral's Office.

He gave someone a large bowl of iced sour plum soup, and Li Xu sipped and pondered.

From Song Mu's words today, it can be seen that Song Mu obviously had more information about "Tanghou" than he had imagined, but it shouldn't be too much. He still knew nothing about the core key information.

Li Xu finally read the article about the Chang'an City defense plan formulated by Song Mu.

The core idea is to follow Li Xu's previous suggestions, taking the emperor's wedding as an opportunity to mobilize soldiers from surrounding prefectures and counties to gather in Chang'an City. He thought that the emperor's wedding was a military parade to conceal a military parade to conceal the troops to avoid turmoil in people's hearts.

At the same time, he sent an order to Song Cheng, who was far away in Tongguan, and asked him to secretly draw an elite force to sneak back to Chang'an City to fight for the king.

The biggest problem with this plan is that it is impossible to determine when the Tang army will go south. If the Qin army convenes too early, it will consume a huge amount of food, grass and military pay, and the other hand, more than 100,000 troops gather together will easily cause some other changes. Once it is not handled properly, the Qin army may cause a military disaster on its own without waiting for the Tang army to attack.

三来还有可能会造成流言沸腾.

After all, the emperor's wedding requires a specific date. We cannot wait until the Tang army is approaching Chang'an City before announcing the wedding date.

Moreover, if the troops were drawn too early, the surrounding cities would be empty in defense. If the Tang army took advantage of it and attacked the east and west, it would be no more than the loss.

抽调过晚也不行,大军集结是一件很麻烦的事情,不能等到唐军快到长安城的时候再抽调,肯定来不及.

Therefore, Song Mu was very confused about the two issues of when to draw troops to the capital and how many to draw.

In fact, Li Xu had already thought of this last night that the Tang army would inevitably fight the Qin army under Chang'an City.

Although many people are going to die, it is an extremely necessary battle.

Li Xu's purpose was to fully demonstrate the strength of the Tang army through this battle, expose the weakness of the Qin army, completely shatter the determination and will of Qin to resist, and make them realize that the Tang army was a force they could not defeat at all.

In this way, many subsequent things will be smoother.

就算偶尔有些叛乱,也不会规模太大.

It is of great significance to the smooth transition of the regime.

Since the Qin State could not determine the time of the decisive battle, Li Xu would help them determine it.

If there were not enough Qin soldiers, this war would be boring and would not achieve the expected goal.

The messenger sent last night will tell Tan Lun and Shi Dakai that they will issue an open "declaration on the Qin Dynasty" before sending troops and declare war openly.

There will be a clear time for the decisive battle in this manifesto.

In this way, the Qin court had a clear timetable and it would be more appropriate to know when it would be appropriate to mobilize troops.

However, in this way, the excuse of using the emperor's wedding to draw military parades will naturally be invalidated and can only become an open imperial edict to serve the king.

At the same time, the rumors that Li Xu told him that the Tang army was about to come in Chang'an City would ferment.

At that time, a two-pronged approach will lead to chaos before the Tang army arrived in Chang'an City.

When people's hearts are in chaos, the battle is easy to fight, and many things can be carried out in the chaos.

What Li Xu had to do was not only to use his position to obtain the assembly and deployment of the Qin army, but also to take advantage of the opportunity to control the city defense to block those who wanted to run away, and at the same time block those who wanted to take the opportunity to get into the city and cause trouble.

After fighting, Chang'an City is still yours after fighting, and no one can take the opportunity to cause trouble.

While thinking about these things, a soldier suddenly came to report that a small constable from the Jingzhao Prefecture Office came to see him.

Li Xu was stunned and remembered the little captain named Niu Yanwen he met when he taught the Hu Shang a lesson the day before yesterday.

At that time, he asked him to help follow the Hu merchants.

I was just giving a casual order, but I didn't expect it to be found so soon. It seemed that I had discovered something.

"Let him in."

Soon, Niu Yanwen, wearing a black constable suit, followed a soldier in tremblingly. When he saw Li Xu, he was very respectful.

"Get up, come to find this general so soon, but have you discovered that those Hu merchants have done anything wrong?"

Li Xu asked straight to the point.

Niu Yanwen hurriedly said, "Reporting to the Admiral, the villain kept paying attention to the Hu merchants after he received the orders from the Lord that day. Last night, the villain met the Hu merchants gathered together and discussed who to invite the banquet. The villain became concerned, changed into casual clothes and followed them all the way to Pingkangfang. When he saw these Hu merchants hugging one by one into a tram called "Qunfang Pavilion". The villain also took the opportunity to mingle in, but found that they were hosting Wang Yun, the manager of the uncle Wang Xiong's mansion."

Li Xu listened quietly and gave Niu Yanwen a continued look.

Niu Yanwen was afraid that his long-winded words would make the young admiral impatient. At this moment, he felt relieved when he received his encouraging eyes and continued quickly: "The villain wanted to hear what they were saying, so he ordered the room next to them. He heard those people whispering, but he didn't say anything clearly. But after a while, he heard someone pushing the door in the next room, and then he heard someone screaming."

"When the villain heard the noise, he also went out to watch the fun. As a result, he saw Wang Yun being carried away by a group of thugs in the railings. The arm on his left hand was cut off from the bottom of his forearm. It was so miserable. The Hu merchants shouted to report to the official, but were stopped by Wang Yun. Later, Wu Hou, who was patrolling the streets in Pingkangfang, also came, but was sent away by Wang Yun in a few words."

"The villain continued to follow Wang Yun, and he saw him covering his broken arms and entering the alley next to the tram. After a while, he saw another person walking out of the alley. Although the distance was far away, the villain could still see clearly that the person was fair-looking, and he had no beard on his chin. He was also a little sissy when he walked out. After leaving the alley, he quickly got into a green sedan chair and left. Before leaving, he told Wang Yun that he would teach you a lesson and make your master restrain himself, and he would not be able to hear the specific details."

Although this little detective was a bit long-winded, the matter was explained clearly.

Li Xu pondered.

That Wang Yun was Wang Xiong's housekeeper, and he had heard Niu Yanwen talk about this before.

Since Wang Xiong is an imperial merchant and the future elder brother-in-law of the little emperor, it seems reasonable to have something to do with the palace.

The sissy man Niu Yanwen said, who was not bearded, must be a eunuch.

There are naturally only a few people who can move eunuchs, and the emperor and his son are the most likely.

So what did Wang Xiong do to ask the emperor and his son to send eunuchs to cut off one of his arms as a warning?

Although Li Xu could not imagine why the palace warned Wang Xiong, he instinctively felt that Wang Xiong's identity was not as simple as it seemed.
Chapter completed!