Chapter 1560: Assassination of Wang Mang

Chao Gai didn't think of the sword soldiers, after all, Liangshan's foundation was not thick, and it was Liangshan who was injured by the sword soldiers, but the Hongmen banquet he laid was seen through by Wu Yong, and he had no choice but to forcibly raise troops to launch a coup d'état.

Under Wu Yong's reminder, Song Jiang had already taken precautions against Chao Gai, recruited all his henchmen back in advance, and hurriedly recalled his younger brother Song Yu, as well as Lu Junyi and other leaders to return to suppress Chao Gai's rebellion.

Song Yu also didn't understand Song Jiang's tearing up of the covenant, but after all, Song Jiang was his only brother who was still alive, and Song Qing and the other brothers were now dead in battle, so it was naturally impossible for him to watch Song Jiang also be in a different place.

Song Yu immediately prepared to lead the army back to suppress the rebellion, and nearly half of the other leaders also returned to help Song Jiang, but nearly half of the leaders chose to wait and see, neither helping Song Jiang nor Chao Gai, including Lu Junyi.

Lu Junyi also did not agree with Song Jiang's decision, but he has been a brother with Song Jiang for many years, and his temperament is also a little indecisive, so he can't completely tear his face like Chao Gai, so he chose to wait and see and not help each other.

Song Jiang has been in charge of the Liangshan Army for many years, and his prestige is naturally not comparable to Chao Gai, Chao Gai suddenly launched a coup d'état, and Song Jiang was indeed caught off guard, but with the return of the four leaders of Song Yu, Dong Ping, Hu Yanzhuo, and Lu Zhishen, the momentum of the rebellion was gradually suppressed, and the situation became more and more unfavorable to Chao Gai.

Chao Gai saw that the matter was revealed, but he was unwilling to stop there, so he sent Yan Qing to lobby Lu Junyi, he knew that Lu Junyi also supported Zhao'an, so he wanted to get Lu Junyi's support to defeat Song Jiang.

At the critical moment of the infighting in Liangshan, Lu Junyi's indecision was committed again, even if Yan Qing was pleading hard, Lu Junyi was still hesitant, so that he missed the perfect opportunity to send troops.

After Lu Junyi made up his mind, the coup d'état initiated by Chao Gai was suppressed by all the leaders.

In this coup, Liangshan suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and Li Jun, a Chaojiang dragon who supported Chao Gai, was also killed on the spot.

Chao Gai was wounded by Hu Yanzhuo's arrow, but escaped under the protection of Shi Jin, and led 5,000 remnants of the army to Beihai and took refuge in Li Jing, the Taishou of Beihai.

After learning of this, Lu Junyi also regretted not doing it at the beginning, but it was to no avail, so he could only continue to stay under Song Jiang's men.

The total strength of Liangshan is only 40,000, and after such a turmoil, the total strength of the total army has dropped to 30,000 by a quarter, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

Qingzhou, Qi State

After Wang Mang left Liangshan, he came to Qi State non-stop, ready to lobby Zhu Tianpeng to join the Anti-Qin Alliance.

Huang Chao was forced to surrender to the Han Dynasty, and then claiming to be the king without authorization was tantamount to rebellion, but after all, he had not changed his flag and banner, so the Qi State was still nominally a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, and naturally he could join the newly established new dynasty.

However, Zhu Tianpeng was not as easy to fool as Song Jiang, even if Wang Mang tried his best to speak, he couldn't move, so Wang Mang realized that it was impossible to persuade Zhu Tianpeng without making a big move, so he stayed in Qi and waited for the opportunity.

When the news of the civil strife and split in Liangshan came, Wang Mang did not have a surprised expression on his face, he had already guessed that Song Jiang's rebellion would cause a turmoil in Liangshan.

Accepting Zhao'an was set by Song Jiang himself, and Liangshan also thought so, but now he suddenly turned his face and slapped himself in the face, and it was natural that someone would oppose it.

Wang Mang had already guessed that there would be infighting in Liangshan, but he did not warn Song Jiang in advance, but used Liangshan as a bait to lure the Qin army in Beihai to dispatch, and Qi would definitely not watch Liangshan fall.

Wang Mang's plan for Liangshan is actually not important, after all, Liangshan only has a total of 40,000 troops, and the comprehensive combat power is generally not high, even if he joins the Anti-Qin Alliance, the role he plays is limited, so the real purpose of his southward trip this time is not actually the right hand Song Jiang, but also to use this to pull Zhu Tianpeng of the Qi State into the water.

Wang Mang wanted to use Liangshan as a bait to provoke a war between the two countries, and once Zhu Tianpeng and Li Jing went to war, they could only join the anti-Qin side against the Qin army.

Wang Mang pulled the tiger skin of the Anti-Qin Alliance, and single-handedly fought among the princes of Qingzhou, but he still muttered about Li Jing's caution after all.

When he learned that the Qin army did not take the opportunity to send troops, Wang Mang's face was full of shock and surprise, which was obviously different from what he expected, Li Jing took the initiative to let go of such a good one, and at the same time made Wang Mang's follow-up plan stuck.

Zhu Wangmang went south this time mainly to pull Zhu Tianpeng into the water, but if Zhu Tianpeng's Qi State had not entered the game, he only brought in a Song Jiang who had been greatly injured, which did not help much for the overall situation.

"It's tricky, it seems that we have to think of other ways to do it, we have to hurry." Wang Mang said secretly in his heart.

As the leader of the Anti-Qin Alliance and the first contributor to the establishment of the new imperial court, Wang Mang must rush back before Liu Che becomes emperor, otherwise he will be busy making wedding dresses for others in vain.

Although Wang Mang is not sure to persuade Zhu Tianpeng now, he has to try it anyway.

"Big Buba, let's go to the Qi Palace."

"No."

Under the escort of the giant boss, Wang Mang went to the palace of the king of Qi again, but he did not expect to be assassinated on the way.

"Death to the traitor."

Assassination is already a normal thing for Wang Mang, but the lineup of the assassin group this time is unprecedented, not only has a half-step grand master-level master, but even a great grandmaster.

"Ho, is Qin Hao already so intolerant of me?" Wang Mang smiled bitterly and said, even the Great Grandmaster has been sent, this is a vow not to give up if he is not killed.

This assassination was arranged by Zhang Liang, the great grandmaster sent was Dongfang Shuo, the half-step grand grandmaster was Qin Yijue, and Chang'e was secretly providing information, it was absolutely impossible to fail, but in the end it was still failed because the patrolling Xia Luqi, Wang Yanzhang and other generals arrived 'just right' and failed.

Although Wang Yanzhang blocked the city gate in time, he still failed to capture Dongfang Shuo and Qin Yijue, but the Black Ice Platform also lost three super-first-class assassins for this.

"Mr. Wang Mang, I've scared you."

Zhu Tianpeng said with a bad face, he didn't expect that the assassins of the Qin army would be so rampant that they dared to assassinate Wang Mang, the envoy of the Three Kingdoms, on the street in the capital of Qi State, it was simply slapping him in the face.

"The security of Qi is really good, the spies of Qin come when they want to, and leave if they want, Wang is really insightful."

Wang Mang was sarcastic, and after some strange tones, he said: "King Qi, no one knows about entering the Qi country in disguise this time, but the assassins of the Qin State know everything about his whereabouts, and set up assassinations on the street, don't you think it's strange to your Royal Highness the King of Qi?" ”