Chapter 178: Meet by chance

Chang'an City has been changing hands for several days. What makes Xue Bing happy is that there is no commotion in the residents of Chang'an.

The civil servants who were originally worried about who stayed in the city did not cause any trouble for him after learning that Chang'an had changed his master. Instead, they stayed honestly in their mansion.

After observing for several days, Xue Bing even thought about withdrawing the soldiers who secretly guarded these civil servants, because after so many days, these people never did anything.

The soldiers used to watch over them are not a small number, which is a waste for Xue Bing, who has fewer soldiers and horses in his hands.

But after thinking about it, if the secret whistle was really withdrawn, the guys would have done something, which would be too dangerous. So he gave up this idea and still left some soldiers to monitor these people day and night.

He picked up the water bowl and took a sip. Xue Bing said to Wang Ping in front of him again: "General Zhao, is there any news coming?"

Wang Ping hurriedly replied: "There has not been any news from General Zhao's office yet, but letters have been sent to the Qingni Pass in the southeast."

Xue Bing was stunned when she heard this, holding a water bowl in her hand and said, "Is it because General Guan has sent someone to take the Qingni Pass? Why is there a letter delivered so soon?"

Wang Ping smiled strangely and said, "It was not that General Guan took the Qingni Pass, but that was the urgent letter from the guard of this pass. It was said that Liu Jun and Lu Xun led the army to attack the key points in a hurry. I hope Chang'an will send reinforcements urgently, otherwise the pass will not be defended!"

Upon hearing this, Xue Bing smiled and said to Wang Pingyan: "It's a pity that there are no more troops in our hands, otherwise we must send a team of reinforcements."

Wang Ping said again: "But who is the help?"

Xue Bing straightened his face and held back his smile and said, "Of course I'm going to help General Lu seize this pass." After that, the two laughed for a while.

Then the two of them talked about Chang'an's defense for a while, and then they said righteously, "General Wei Yan has a letter." Xue Bing hurriedly said, "Take it up quickly." Then the left and right submitted the letter.

Xue Bing looked at the content and was overjoyed. Without waiting for Wang Ping to ask questions, he said, "General Wei has led his troops out of the Xigu. Now the army is stationed in the southeast of Chencang, and refuses to return to the opposite side of Cao's army. In addition, General Zhang Ren leads Mi Fang and Deng Zhi, two generals, lead 20,000 troops to Chang'an. He wants to arrive within ten days.

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After hearing this, Wang Ping said, "In this way, the general needs to defend for another ten days and his great achievements will be accomplished!"

Xue Bing didn't say anything, but just kept smiling. In his opinion, as long as he stayed for another ten days, the Hanzhong troops would sweep all the way to the city of Chang'an, and the line west of Chang'an to Chencang would be all returned to the Hanzhong King.

In addition, north of the Wei River, such as Xianyang, Wugong and other places, will not begin to occupy it until Chang'an and Tongguan are all stable and the Sichuan-zhong army and Cao's army start a real battle on the western front.

It’s not that I don’t want to occupy it at the moment, but that I really can’t divide enough troops to carry out this task.

Moreover, in Xue Bing's strategy, the importance of Tongguan and Chang'an is related to the entire battle situation. Therefore, it seems that it is important to take down Tongguan first and then send a large army to Chang'an and consolidate the east gate of Yongzhou.

As he was thinking, he suddenly came to report again, saying that General Zhao Yun had a letter.

Upon hearing this, Xue Bing looked at Wang Ping with a look of surprise, and said, "What day is this? Why are you going to have a good thing together?" However, Xue Bing decided to win the good news for Zhao Yun in Tongguan.

After receiving the letter and reading it briefly, Xue Bing's face smiled even more. He turned to Wang Ping and said, "As soon as I expected, General Zhao sent Xue Ze to lead his troops in front and opened the gate of Tongguan. Then the army entered the pass before attacking.

Before the Guanzhong defenders understood what was going on, they were all captives of General Zhao. This letter was to show their merits to the soldiers who followed the army."

After saying that, he lowered his head and went to read the letter. He saw who made any achievements in the letter. Xiang listed it in detail very clearly. And the one at the top was Xue Bing's brother, Xue Ze.

Zhao Yun's achievements after his name were: to open the city gates and allow our army to enter the pass. This was the first achievement of this battle.

After reading this, Xue Bing remembered the time when he was with Zhao Yun.

Although I haven't fought a few battles, I will make a lot of contributions every time, which really corresponds to the saying: "As long as you follow Zhao Yun during the war, you will definitely have contributions to you."

"He smiled again, and took Zhao Yun's statement into the credit line. Xue Bing said to Wang Ping again: "Now Tongguan has been taken, but the guards in the pass are only more than a thousand soldiers with General Zhao's hands. I want to send some more soldiers to stabilize the defense of Tongguan.

It’s better to see how many soldiers should be sent?”

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping hurriedly replied: "General Zhao can seize Tongguan, because he relies on the surrendered general to open and close the door. Second, Tongguan was originally a pass within Cao Wei, and the soldiers guarding the pass were negligent. Only by adding these two points can General Zhao easily seize the pass.

Otherwise, even if there are natural dangers in Tongguan, even tens of thousands of troops will not be able to capture it easily. There are no dangers on all sides of Chang'an, and because the city walls are too long, there will be few soldiers, so the last general thinks that sending a thousand soldiers to Tongguan is enough."

Xue Bing nodded and whispered: "Zijun is afraid that there will be more soldiers and Chang'an will not be able to defend. Then, according to Zijun's words, he transferred a thousand soldiers to Tongguan to help General Zhao guard the pass.

"After giving the order, he said to Wang Ping: "Revise another letter to General Zhao to let him know that General Wei's troops were on the road. As long as he lasted for more than ten days, most of the troops would rush to guard the pass.

"After giving the order, Wang Ping was busy since he left, and Xue Bing was the only one left in the general.

I looked around and felt very deserted. I had just finished the work at hand, so I decided to go out and relax.

As soon as he left the door, a personal guard immediately stepped forward and said, "General, do you need to prepare a horse?"

Xue Bing waved his hand and said, "I just go out for a walk, there is no need to prepare a horse." Hearing this, the guard stopped asking, but just followed Xue Bing.

Chang'an City is very big. Although he rode his horse in the city for a day on the first day after he seized the city, he did not turn the entire city around, but just picked some major streets to walk around.

On this day, Xue Bing picked up some places he hadn't walked a few days ago to go around.

Moreover, he was not wearing armor today and his clothes were very ordinary. Others didn't know that he was the highest official in Chang'an now, so no one would deliberately avoid him. This made him feel that it was more interesting to visit.

Not long after, Xue Bing was looking around and enjoying the street scene in Chang'an. Suddenly, he saw the person in front of him walking in a hurry and looked very familiar.

Looking closely, it was the servant of Xin's family who caused the conflict a few days ago. Xue Bing looked at this person and couldn't help but frown.

After taking this person back that day, Xue Bing and his personal guards interrogated him carefully. Finally, he concluded that the servant went out to buy goods that day, and suddenly saw the flag on the city wall changed. He was shocked and anxious to return home to report, which caused misunderstandings.

This statement was reasonable and there was no flaw. After asking about some other things, Xue Bing ordered someone to release them.

Unexpectedly, people from Xin’s mansion came to him and said, “My lady asked the general to come over to the mansion and talk to him!”

Xue Bing was muddy at that time and didn't understand what the Xin family was looking for him. He didn't want to go, but Wang Ping was beside him at that time and said to him: "The Xin family is a large family in Chang'an, and Xinpi is an important adviser in front of Xu Huang's tent.

This time, he took Chang'an and took his family and treated him well, so that the general would prevent him from causing trouble in the city. "Xue Bing could not do so, so he had to follow the servant to look at Xin's house and his party.

When he arrived at Xin Mansion, he had already prepared the wine and food, and even gave Xue Bing to the seat. He turned around and placed some wine and food on the lower head. Everyone stood quietly on the left and right, and no one took a seat.

After the case, the person who was sitting was the lady Xin whom Xue Bing saw the day before, and the person who invited him this time.

Xin Xianying raised his wine glass and said to Xue Bing: "This time I am thanking the general for his words and sending them back to the people in my mansion. I did not make any more embarrassment. So I would like to thank him for the special wine."

Xue Bing's face became hot when she heard this, but she remembered what she said, "I should send it back in person." In fact, she just sent someone to send someone back. Can she come here?

"Is this woman invited me to come just to harm me?" He said in his heart, but said, "Miss is so polite. Since she is innocent, she will not be embarrassed by him."

Xin Xianying smiled and did not answer. Seeing that he did not say anything, Xue Bing shut up and just drank. After eating this wine for half an hour, the two of them were basically eating dishes and never said a few words at all.

In the end, Xue Bing felt that the food was almost done and said to Xin Xianying: "I thanked Miss Xin for the reception, so I said goodbye."

Xin Xianying did not try to keep him, but said, "God is gone!" Then he ordered his left and right to send him out of the mansion, which made Xue Bing scratch his head and ask, "There are too many wine and food at home, can you ask me to help solve it?"...

Looking back on what happened that day, Xue Bing never got a clue. In the end, after talking to Wang Ping, Wang Ping's words made him understand the meaning a little.

"I think it was the Miss Xin family showing goodwill to the general and said that the Xin family did not want to oppose the general, so please don't make things difficult for the general because his father was in the army. "Xue Bing thought about it, and thought that it was the case, so he let go of this matter.

Since that day, he has only regarded Xin Mansion as an ordinary Chang'an resident and has not paid special attention to it. If he hadn't bumped into this person on the street this day, Xue Bing would have forgotten that there was Xin Mansion in Chang'an.

Looking up, I saw that the man had already walked far away and was looking around from time to time, as if he was afraid of being followed by someone. Xue Bing said in his heart: "Why is this man sneaking? Where are he going?"

Then he said to the left and right: "Follow up, let's see where that person wants to go?" After receiving the order, someone followed him.

Xue Bing lost interest in walking around at this time, and ordered to his left and right: "Don't go shopping, go back!" When he turned his head, he remembered the sneaky figure of the man just now, and then the figure of a woman in a palace dress was swaying back and forth in his mind.
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