After leaving Pei Ze's tent, Zhang Maocheng did not go to the general's tent, but left the barracks with anger, returned to the general's mansion in the town and changed his clothes, then left through the back door of his house, and went to an inconspicuous house in the town in a simple carriage that did not match the general's identity.

Stepping into this unattended courtyard, Zhang Maocheng saw at a glance the person sitting in the courtyard teasing the birds and basking in the sun, that person was the military advisor sent by Xu Liqian, saying that it was a military advisor, but he was just a little white face who knew the current situation of Chang'an City better, and he didn't understand the things of marching and fighting at a glance.

Sitting presumptuously and rudely across from this person, Zhang Maocheng said with a blushing face: "King Wucheng wants to see his subordinates. ”

Qin Fengming glanced at Zhang Maocheng, who was covered in dust, and then moved his chair back to hide with a disgusted face, and then said disapprovingly: "If he wants to see it, let him see it." ”

Zhang Maocheng, who was already displeased, became even more angry when he heard Qin Fengming's perfunctory answer, and shouted with his eyes open: "Let them see?" That's the soldiers that King Wucheng and King Wucheng single-handedly transferred and taught! ”

"So what?" Qin Fengming sneered, "That's the soldier that King Wucheng and King Wucheng single-handedly transferred and taught, but it's not trapped in your camp?" ”

"Just trapping fifty people has cost me more than two hundred, and if he wasn't in my camp, then I wouldn't know where my head would be at this moment!" Recalling the battle that day, Zhang Maocheng still has lingering palpitations.

I used to think that King Wucheng was almost the same age as him, and the generals in the army would boast about King Wucheng's ability just because it was the son of General Pei, who had studied martial arts and the art of war since he was a child, and the difference between him and King Wucheng was only combat experience, and this experience was also completed in the past four or five years, but after really fighting with King Wucheng, he found that King Wucheng's prestige was really not blown. And although the people who came with King Wucheng were all bad breeds who enjoyed Qingfu in Chang'an in the impression of the Northwest Army, they were really capable, even if they fought against the elite soldiers in his Northwest Army, those people would never frown.

Qin Fengming glanced at Zhang Maocheng disdainfully, and said: "In the territory of Suzhou, all the soldiers are yours, more than 1,000 government soldiers, more than 30,000 border garrisons, plus 5,000 private troops recruited by yourself, are you still afraid of these fifty people?" ”

Zhang Maocheng's eyes flashed, and he said: "The 30,000 border garrisons can only call up to 10,000, and the remaining 20,000 must be used to defend against the Turks." ”

Qin Fengming looked at Zhang Maocheng with a sneer, "Who told you to guard against the Turks?" It is enough to keep 5,000 men to guard it. ”

"Are you crazy?!" As soon as he heard the number of five thousand, Zhang Maocheng immediately raised his voice and looked at Qin Fengming like a madman, "If the Turks attack, how can five thousand people stop it?" ”

"If you can't stop it, you can't stop it," Qin Fengming said disapprerovantly, "If the Turks really come in, they don't need you to divide your forces to deal with it, but it can weaken the enemy's combat power, isn't it great?" ”

"But when the time comes, the people of Suzhou will ......"

"Hey, General Zhang, who decided to follow King Wu's rebellion, still cares about the lives of the people of Suzhou, but don't forget what you came to Suzhou for!" Qin Fengming snorted, "This is King Wu's order, the general will look at it." If you don't bring enough people, King Wu will blame it, don't say that I didn't sue you. ”

Zhang Maocheng gritted his teeth secretly.

"That's right," Qin Fengming said again, "If you are really so afraid of King Wucheng, break the legs of the fifty people he brought, anyway, isn't King Wucheng as long as they live?" ”

"You!" Zhang Maocheng looked at Qin Fengming in shock.

Qin Fengming said with a smile: "The general is now difficult to ride a tiger, for the sake of his wife and children and your own life, you must give up those senseless kindness." ”

Concubine Yun Shufei was really discerning back then, and she actually picked such an honest man from the countryside, first used a beauty trick to trap her, and then lured people to the northwest with Lingyun's ambition to protect the family and defend the country, just because of the honesty, this general has been coaxed by his wife to act according to the Yun family's plan all these years, and now the Yun family is going to use him, as long as his wife cries in front of him, it is easy to make him treasonous.

Zhang Maocheng glared at Qin Fengming fiercely, and left angrily after a while, he was already angry, and he felt even more aggrieved now.

But Pei Ze, who was in the camp of the Northwest Army, was in a good mood, just waiting for Zhang Maocheng to appear in front of him again.

But this time the waiting time was unexpectedly long, and Pei Ze waited for three days to wait for Zhang Maocheng.

At noon on this day, Pei Ze was eating the unpalatable lunch in the northwest camp, and he ushered in Zhang Maocheng unsuspectingly.

Pei Ze raised his eyebrows, put down the chopsticks in his hand indifferently, and calmly swallowed the food in his mouth, and then waited for Zhang Maocheng to speak.

Seeing that Pei Ze was still unfazed, and didn't seem to care about his imprisonment, nor did he care about what would happen to him, Zhang Maocheng was puzzled, he couldn't understand where Pei Ze got the confidence.

"King Wucheng said earlier that he wanted to see your subordinates, and General Ben will take you there."

Pei Ze stared at Zhang Maocheng, then shook his head and said, "No need, because the general's thinking speed is too slow, so this king can't wait to see them first, and now he just waits for the general to come." ”

"What?"

As soon as Zhang Maocheng spoke, Pei Ze suddenly jumped up and attacked Zhang Maocheng with lightning speed.

Zhang Maocheng subconsciously blocked Pei Ze's first blow, and then subconsciously counterattacked.

Pei Ze took two steps back, reached back and pulled out the knife hidden under the table in advance, and raised his hand to slash at Zhang Maocheng.

Unexpectedly, Pei Ze would hide a weapon under the table, Zhang Maocheng missed the best time to dodge in a daze, although he had retreated a little, he was still cut by the tip of the knife, and before Zhang Maocheng could react, another knife poked out from behind him and crossed Zhang Maocheng's neck.

"Don't move, or your head will fall off." Kong Qing sneered, raised his foot and kicked Zhang Maocheng's knee.

On the first day of his imprisonment, even if Zhang Maocheng cautiously separated the fifty of them, he could not stop them from sneaking out in the middle of the night. They used all the soldiers in the battalion to replace their own people, and the second half remained, swaggering around the camp in disguise as soldiers, and the other half rushed to the garrison camp at night. They found out where the generals lived, and then they picked a wonderful night with a bright moon and sparse stars, and tied up all the generals at the same time.

On the day Zhang Maocheng came out of their prince's tent angrily, he secretly followed Zhang Maocheng behind, and found both Zhang Maocheng's general's mansion and Qin Fengming. Then they replaced the soldiers guarding the prince and waited for Zhang Maocheng to come.

Hearing only a "poof", one of Zhang Maocheng's knees slammed on the ground, but the knife across his neck followed him like a shadow, and he couldn't leave for half a minute.

Zhang Maocheng looked at Pei Ze in amazement.

Li An lifted the curtain and walked into the tent, walked straight past Zhang Maocheng, who was kneeling on the ground, and walked in front of Pei Ze, and arched his hand: "Lord Qiqi, the generals of the Northwest Army, the Suzhou Prefecture Pastor and Qin Fengming have all been taken into custody, and the General's Mansion is also under control. ”

After saying this, Li An also turned his head and looked at the stunned Zhang Maocheng proudly.

They secretly followed Qin Fengming who Zhang Maocheng found, but they didn't expect that Qin Fengming's guy had obviously picked up a life but didn't cherish it, so he went to the northwest to work for Xu Liqian, and he really hated his life.

"You ......" Zhang Maocheng looked at Pei Ze, and in addition to shock, there was only confusion in his eyes.

Pei Ze looked at Zhang Maocheng and said with a smile: "General, remember, in the future, you must not detain the enemy prisoners in your own camp, otherwise you will lose your life at night." Take it out! ”

"Yes!" Responding with full of anger, Kong Qing lifted Zhang Maocheng up and carried him out, and as soon as he got out of the tent, someone brought a rope to tie Zhang Maocheng.

Pei Ze and Li An followed Kong Qing out of the tent, and then said to Zhang Maocheng, who was tied up by five flowers: "After catching someone, you must tie them up immediately, don't you understand this truth?" ”

Do you think that if there are many people in this big camp, you will be able to contain fifty of them? But how many of the more than 1,000 people in the battalion are elite soldiers? Since the previous general of the Northwest Army caused the incident, there are no generals in the Northwest Army who have fought with His Majesty back then, and even if the rest of the people have fought with the Turks, it is just the most basic fight, how can they compare to those who survived several lives and deaths?

"Lord Wang!" Someone came running from a distance and stopped in front of Pei Ze, "The prisoner cart is ready, do you want to go to the garrison camp immediately?" ”

"Well," Pei Ze nodded, and said, "Put people into the prisoner car, take these more than 1,000 government troops, and go to the garrison camp!" ”

The number of government troops was small, and the camp was on the outskirts of Suzhou, and the garrison here guarded Yangguan and Yumen Pass, so the camp was in the northwest of Suzhou.

When they heard the drums of the assembly, the government army of Suzhou thought that something was wrong, but after gathering in the school field, they saw that their generals and captains were all escorted into the prisoner car, and there were some people on horseback on both sides of the prisoner car, and the only one recognized by more than 1,000 people was Pei Ze, who was the king of Wucheng who died two hundred brothers some time ago, but why was it their general who was in the prison car today, and it was King Wucheng who was riding on horseback?

In fact, these soldiers did not understand why they wanted to arrest King Wu Cheng that day, just as they did not understand why Zhang Maocheng would be put in a prison car today.

The people brought by Pei Ze were all those who fought together back then, and they were all people who had transferred troops and sent generals, but after entering Chang'an, they were all incorporated into the emperor's personal guards and sixteen guards as soldiers, and some of them were used to following Pei Ze and retired from the army and went to Wucheng Palace, and the level was lowered, but in fact, they were the emperor's henchmen everywhere, and the glory on his body had never been reduced, so he saw a familiar scene at this time, and the voice shouted out was the demeanor of a general, and after a few shouts, a thousand government troops were shocked, and a quarter of an hour later, Pei Ze took the government army of Suzhou and swaggered towards the camp of the garrison.

When more than 1,000 people appeared near the garrison camp, they frightened the people in the camp, and when the soldiers on the lookout saw that their general was being escorted in a prisoner's car, they were even more dazed, and ran down the lookout and were about to go to the camp to inform the adjutant general, but they saw several unknown people walking out of the camp, and when the guards at the gate of the camp did not exist, they opened the door of the camp with a big grin.

"Who are you?!" The gates of the camp were opened, and the people guarding the camp reacted, and one by one they raised their spears and machetes to aim at these few people they didn't know.

The men scoffed, and then raised their hands to block the spears very casually.

"Go away, go away, don't get in the way of King Wucheng."

King Wu Cheng? Hearing this thunderous name, the guards were stunned again.

Why did King Wucheng come to the northwest?

Although the emperor first incited the whole army when he rebelled, it was because the people in power at that time were unkind, and the emperor had great confidence that he could be supported and embraced. But this matter is different when it comes to Xu Liqian.

Xu Liqian's rebellion is not for the people, but for rights, for ordinary soldiers, they are also extremely unwilling to exchange their lives for the rights of others, after all, they could have waited until the end of their military service to go home to live a good life, why should they die for something unrelated to them?

Therefore, after Zhang Maocheng was instigated by his wife to decide to rebel, he only informed a few generals of the garrison, so naturally some of them decided to fight for the promise of wealth and nobility promised by Xu Liqian, and some were forced into the gang by Zhang Maocheng. As for those ordinary soldiers, they didn't know what was going to happen, and Zhang Maocheng probably planned to make up some reasons to perfunctory them.

After a while, Pei Ze arrived at the gate of the camp, but he did not stop, leaving only a sentence asking all the soldiers except the soldiers on duty to assemble at the school field, and then led the team behind him to the school field directly.

By the time the garrison of nearly 30,000 people had assembled in the school field, Zhang Maocheng and the others had already gotten off the prisoner cart and knelt in a row at the front of the line.

And Pei Ze, Li An and Kong Qing stood on the high platform on the side of the school yard together, looking at this row of kneeling people, Pei Ze suddenly recalled what they had rebelled against.

At that time, it was also a long conversation between a few people overnight that decided the fate of tens of thousands of people's lives, and at that time, there were also people who didn't understand anything but were instigated by the atmosphere and hastily joined the army, and there were people like him who had no choice but to rebel.

Pei Ze knew that among these people kneeling below at this time, there were those who made their own decisions to commit treason, such as Zhang Maocheng, and those who decided to help Zhang Maocheng for the sake of temporary righteousness, such as the lieutenant of the Suzhou Prefecture Army, and some were coerced and lured by Zhang Maocheng, such as the deputy general of the garrison guarding the pass, but no matter which one it is, he must die here today, which is a warning to all the generals in the northwest, reminding them that His Majesty will never tolerate traitors, even if they are only coerced.

Taking a deep breath, Pei Ze loudly explained the whole story to the whole army, of course, what he said was to smear Zhang Maocheng and a few people, maximize the treason of several people, and then cut off the heads of these people in front of nearly 30,000 people.

"Kong Qing," Pei Ze then said to Kong Qing beside him, "Take people to the General's Mansion and leave no one." The family members of the governor of Suzhou and other generals, the male is in the army, and the female is ...... Compile into the lowly register, and do it according to the rules. ”

"Yes!" Kong Qing turned around and left the high platform, and left the garrison camp with ten people.

"Li An," Pei Ze instructed Li An again, "let the people we bring take the place of these dead generals temporarily, and give them three days to stabilize the morale of the army." ”

"Yes!" Li An also left immediately.

Pei Ze was the only one left on the high platform, looking down at the blood-soaked yellow sand on the ground, Pei Ze's eyes suddenly flashed Xiao Yanzhi's smiling face.

Looking up at the sky in the northwest and the clouds, Pei Ze hoped that Xiao Yanzhi, who was far away in Chang'an, would be at peace and worry-free, and he would not have to be as unlucky as him to witness this unpleasant scene.

However, the so-called sharing of joys and sorrows means that even unhappiness must be together. Pei Ze here killed a lot of people regardless of the severity of the crime, and Xiao Yanzhi over there also ran into □□ trouble.

I just received Pei Ze's strange letter from home, and I didn't receive anything the next day, even if it was Xiao Yanzhi, I couldn't laugh anymore.

In the imperial study, the emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi, who was starting to wander again, and raised his hand to knock lightly on the table.

"In other words, I have returned to my soul."

"Huh?" Xiao Yanzhi's eyes flashed, and he turned his head to look at the emperor suspiciously, "Father, what's the matter?" ”

The emperor asked helplessly, "Did you hear what I just said?" ”

"Uh......" Xiao Yanzhi scratched the corners of his mouth, "Father forgives me." ”

"What the hell is wrong with you today?" The emperor looked at Xiao Yanzhi with a worried expression.

Xiao Yanzhi opened his mouth, but in the end he just shook his head and smiled indifferently: "Erchen is fine." ”

Originally, I wanted to say that it was because I didn't receive Pei Ze's family letter, so I was worried about whether something happened to Pei Ze, but after thinking about it, I felt that the fact that Pei Ze wrote him a family letter every day revealed that the relationship between the two was too close, and it seemed that it was not convenient for the emperor to know.

The emperor's eyebrows moved, and he smiled at Xiao Yanzhi and asked, "Are you worried about Pei Ze?" ”

Xiao Yanzhi scratched the corners of his mouth again and said, "It's a little." ”

The Emperor chuckled and said, "Don't worry. Back then, his father couldn't set foot in the Suzaku Gate of the palace, but he accompanied me into the palace, don't look at him standing in the court with a bad brain, as soon as he entered the barracks, he was smarter than anyone else. ”

"That's what my father said." Xiao Yanzhi lowered his eyes.

But no matter how right he was, he couldn't stop him from worrying.

The emperor shook his head and took a cup of tea.

Seeing this, Xu Lishan secretly kicked Xiao Yan, and then leaned his head into Xiao Yanzhi's ear and whispered, "Are you worried about it when you go home?" What can I do if I let my father see it again? ”

Xiao Yanzhi glanced at the emperor, and then replied to Xu Lishan in a low voice: "Didn't you see it?" ”

Xu Lishan gave Xiao Yan a blank look.

It's too late for my father to really see it, okay?!

Catching a glimpse of Xu Lishan and Xiao Yanzhi's whispers, the emperor smiled, but he didn't see it.

His heart suddenly began to ache, and the emperor's face stiffened, and he hurriedly closed his eyes and took a deep breath, trying to endure the pain, but the increasing pain gradually exceeded the range of patience, making the emperor can't help but bow up.

Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan, who were constantly looking at the emperor, almost immediately discovered that something was wrong with the emperor.

"Father!" Xiao Yanzhi stood up from his wheelchair and rushed to the emperor's side with one lunge, "Father, what's wrong with you?" Zhao Kang, medicine! ”

Hearing Xiao Yanzhi let Zhao Kang take the medicine, the emperor glanced at Xiao Yan, but the pain in his heart made the emperor speechless, so he didn't ask Xiao Yanzhi how he knew.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Zhao Kang also hurriedly ran to the emperor's side, skillfully took out the medicine bottle, and then poured out two pills and sent them to the emperor's mouth.

The emperor took Zhao Kang's hand and swallowed the pill in his mouth, quietly waiting for the effect of the medicine to take effect.

"Father, are you better?" Xiao Yanyi looked at the emperor nervously, and could do nothing but hold the emperor's hand.

The time to endure the pain always passed very slowly, the emperor's face was pale with pain, and his forehead was full of fine and dense beads of sweat, but the pain in his heart did not ease at all, but became more and more painful.

"Why doesn't this medicine seem to be working?" Xu Lishan said in a panic.

Xiao Yan's heart jumped, and then asked Zhao Kangdao: "Is this a new medicine?" ”

He asked him to change the medicine, but don't have any problems......

Zhao Kang shook his head and said, "If you go back to Your Highness, the new medicine from the Imperial Doctor's Office has not yet been prepared, and this is still the kind that Your Majesty took before." ”

"Why didn't that work?" Xiao Yanzhi was also anxious, "Go and call the imperial doctor, go and call the imperial doctor!" ”

"Eh, eh! The old slave is going! Zhao Kang hurriedly went out and called for security, and asked the security to run to pick up the doctor as fast as possible.

"Father......" Xiao Yanyi tore off the kang table on the bed, and didn't care about the scattered folds, "Help me help my father lie down." ”

"Good!" Xu Lishan was also panicked, and what Xiao Yanzhi said at this time was what he said.

"Father, the Imperial Doctor will come soon, right away." Xiao Yanzhi half-knelt on the edge of the couch and wiped the sweat on the emperor's face with his sleeve, "Father and the emperor insist on it, the imperial doctor will be there soon, immediately." ”

Xu Lishan also looked anxious, looking at the emperor with a blue face for a while, and then looking at the door of the imperial study, and shouted urgently: "What about the imperial doctor?!" ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" Zhao Kang, who had been guarding the door, suddenly lit up, "You guys should hurry up!" ”

Several imperial doctors rushed in, wiping the sweat on their foreheads while walking into the imperial study, and when they saw the emperor's face, several people were shocked.

Xu Lishan hurriedly got out of the way and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze?" Hurry up! ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

Several imperial physicians immediately gathered around the emperor, checking the pulse, checking and checking, and kept talking to each other, and then the two imperial doctors panicked and turned out the silver needles in the medicine box, and acupuncture for the emperor with their hands and feet, and another imperial doctor turned to Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan.

"Dare to ask the two princes, have you heard any news that makes you excited? Or what did you eat or drink? ”

"Tea, my father drank tea!"

But the teacup was placed on the kang table before, and it was pulled by Xiao Yanzhi before, and it had fallen to the ground and shattered.

The imperial doctor looked at the broken tea bowl on the ground and was stunned, then squatted down to check carefully, but fortunately, there was still a little tea soup on a certain piece of debris.

"Qi Qi two princes, in this tea...... Someone added something, just ......"

Before the imperial doctor finished speaking, the door of the imperial study was kicked open, Xiao Yanzhi and Xu Lishan were startled, and when they turned their heads, they saw the generals of the left and right guards leading people to rush in.

"Who let you in?!" Zhao Kang walked quickly to the general, "Trespassing on the Liangyi Palace, are you looking for death?!" ”

"Get out of here!" The general pushed Zhao Kang away, and then shouted, "The two highnesses actually conspired to poison His Majesty, and they got the stolen goods, so take them down for me!" ”