"PS: In the previous chapter, the distance from Xuchang to Liangcheng was miscalculated, and it has now been revised."

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At noon on the fifth day of October, Zhao Yu and Li Meng, the governor of Henan, led their troops to the western suburbs of Liangcheng.

While the soldiers of the two armies were resting in place, Li Meng sent several soldiers to Liangcheng to summon the news.

During this period, Li Meng chatted with Zhao Yu about the refugees, that is, the refugees who flocked to Yingchuan County from Henan County.

He said with emotion: "On behalf of our Zhang Junshou, I thank Yingchuan for his help......"

"Where, where."

Zhao Yu played the role of the captain of Yingchuan perfectly, and got in touch with Li Meng: "If your county hadn't been to help me defend Yingchuan against the rebels, how could the rebels retaliate?" Now that Henan is in a predicament, I Yingchuan will help, which is also what it should be. …… Lieutenant Li, please rest assured, when I came, the county was already raising a batch of grain, about 300,000 stones, to help your county survive this winter......"

"Thank you Li Junshou, thank you Zhou Duwei."

Li Meng thanked him again and again, after all, the only person who could help him Henan County at this time was Yingchuan County in addition to the imperial court.

Just as the two of them were chatting, a soldier suddenly came to report: "The two lieutenants, Tong Lieutenant of Liang County, and Shi Wangyi, the county guard of Liang County, came together, hoping to meet with the two lieutenants and confirm the official document." ”

As soon as he heard the words 'Tong Duwei', Zhao Yu's gaze inadvertently became a little sharper, but fortunately, Li Meng and the others on the side did not find anything unusual.

On the contrary, Li Meng also kindly reminded Zhao Yu: "It's not appropriate to ask that Tong Duwei to wait for a long time, why don't we go out to greet him?" ”

"Okay."

Zhao Yu adjusted his mood, nodded casually, and immediately beckoned the generals, and followed Li Meng and his party out of the temporary station of the army.

Not long after, Zhao Yu followed Li Meng and his party out of the temporary garrison of the 60,000 troops.

He immediately noticed that on the outskirts of the temporary station, there was a group of people who did not look like non-commissioned officers at all, led by a group of people, about thirty or forty by sight, looking at the 60,000 troops in front of him with his hands behind his back, and talking to an official beside him from time to time.

"That's Tong Yan, the governor of Liang County."

Li Meng privately reminded Zhao Yu: "Although this person and you and I are both captains, Liang Cheng is a student in Handan, and he is known as the 'Southern Capital', and I heard that this Tong Duwei is deeply respected by the royal family, and Zhou Duwei should be friendly with him, and don't offend." ”

Zhao Yu knew that Li Meng was out of kindness, so he nodded casually: "Thank you Li Duwei for mentioning it." ”

At this time, Tong Yan, the governor of Liang County in the distance, and his party also noticed Zhao Yu, Li Meng and others, and turned their heads one after another, and Tong Yan took two steps forward with a smile on his face.

"Captain Tong, don't come unharmed?"

Li Meng took the lead in stepping forward to say hello, it seems that he should recognize Tong Yan.

"Haha."

Tong Yan hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Hard work, Captain Li led the troops to volunteer my Liang County, Tong is grateful......

After that, he turned his head to look at Zhao Yu who was standing beside Li Meng - there was no way, Zhao Yu had a mask on his face, which was too eye-catching among this group of people, and he was noticed by Tong Yan at once.

Seeing this, Li Meng immediately introduced: "Tong Duwei, this is ......"

Tong Yan raised his hand to interrupt Li Meng's introduction, and then looked at Zhao Yulang and said with a smile: "If Tong didn't guess wrong, he must be the new lieutenant of Yingchuan County, Zhou Hu ......."

Zhao Yu suppressed the other emotions in his heart and hugged his fists: "Zhou Hu, meet Captain Tong." ”

"Captain Zhou is too polite."

A few traces of satisfaction flashed in Tong Yan's eyes, and he reached out and pressed Zhao Yu's hands that hugged his fists and saluted, and then said with a smile: "Tong heard about it a while ago, saying that there was a hero in Yingchuan County, and the rebels were defeated and retreated......

After that, he looked Zhao Yu up and down a few times, nodded and praised: "The imperial court, what is needed is a talent like Zhou Duwei." ”

"Captain Tong has won the award."

Zhao Yu tried his best to act as if nothing had happened.

At this time, Shi Wangyi, the magistrate of Liang County, who came with Tong Yan, spoke beside him: "If the two lieutenants don't mind, please show the imperial court order and the appointment document of the second county." ”

Seeing this, Zhao Yu and Li Meng each took out two letters from their arms, one was Handan's order to send troops from the two counties to reinforce Liang County, and the other was the letter of appointment from the two county guards.

For example, the one in Zhao Yu's arms was written by Li Junshou himself, confirming that the 'Yingchuan Governor Zhou Hu' led 20,000 county troops to reinforce Liang County, and the official document was also stamped with the official seal of the Yingchuan County Shou.

This was confirmed in order to avoid the enemy pretending to be reinforcements, but given that Tong Yan and Li Meng knew each other, this became routine.

No, Shi Wangyi, the magistrate of Liang County, just glanced at it casually, and then took the official documents of the two county guards into his arms, and as for the two orders issued by Handan, they were exchanged for Zhao Yu and Li Meng.

"It's rude." This Wang Changshi arched his hand towards Li Meng and Zhao Yu, and said, "According to the order of the county guard, please ask the two captains to station troops here first, and if there is anything needed, you can send soldiers to inform the city." ”

Hearing this, Li Meng turned his head to look at Zhao Yu, and when he saw that Zhao Yu didn't say anything, he nodded: "Okay." ”

Seeing this, Changshi Wang Yi arched his hand towards Zhao Yu and Li Meng again, and immediately said to Tong Yan: "Duwei, the county guard is still waiting for the lower official to reply, and the lower official will return to the city first." ”

"Hmm."

Tong Yan nodded, and after Wang Yi led the officials of the county guard mansion out a few steps, he turned his head to look at Li Meng and Zhao Yu, and invited with a smile: "The two of you have worked hard from afar, Tong has ordered someone to prepare wine and food in the mansion, catch the wind for the two of you, and ask the two of you to appreciate your face." ”

Li Meng hurriedly said, "Tong Duwei is too polite. …… After I gave the order to the soldiers, I went to visit with Captain Zhou. Zhou Duwei? ”

Zhao Yu also nodded, saying that he would definitely go to the appointment.

Seeing this, Tong Yan left satisfied.

After Tong Yan left, Li Meng also temporarily left to give orders to his army, taking this opportunity, Zhao Yu recruited Zhang Ji to his side and asked him in a low voice: "Do you see clearly?" Is that him? ”

Glancing at Niu Heng and He Shun beside Zhao Yu, Zhang Ji nodded, and said with a gloomy face: "Even if he turns to ashes, I can recognize him." ”

It turned out that Zhao Yu had not seen that Tong Yan with his own eyes back then, and he didn't know whether the Tong Yan who claimed to be the Governor of Liang County back then was the same person as the Governor of Liang County Tong Yan he saw today, but Zhang Ji was lucky to see that Tong Yan back then.

This is also the reason why Zhang Ji has been hiding behind Wang Qing, Cao Wu, Qin Yu, and Jia Shu, and has always lowered his head and peeped secretly, for fear of being recognized by that Tong Yan.

"Is it really him?"

Zhao Yu's eyes flashed a few hints of gloom.

From the side, Niu Heng asked confusedly, "Ah Hu, what are you two talking about?" What is not it? ”

"I'll tell you later."

Zhao Yu glanced at Niu Heng and said.

It's not that he can't believe Niu Heng, he just can't believe Niu Heng's head, if he tells Niu Heng at this time, 'That Tong Yan is the enemy of my family', I guarantee that today next year will be the day of that Tong Yan's sacrifice.

Even if Zhao Yu asked Niu Heng Mo to act rashly, from this moment on, this reckless man would probably keep that Tong Yan firmly in his heart, and glared fiercely at him as soon as he met, waiting for Zhao Yu to give an order to take down his head.

Killing Tong Yan is certainly a pleasure, but this move is tantamount to a rebellion, in all fairness, the people under Zhao Yu are not ready to 'rebel' for the time being, and even most people may not even have this idea.

Once Niu Heng kills Tong Yan, Zhao Yu estimates that there is only one way out to defect to Jiangdong Yishi, and those he has worked hard for nearly eight years will probably be ruined.

If the righteous master will win this time, it doesn't matter, but Zhao Yu is just worried that the righteous teacher will not be able to win this time, after all, the real strength of the Jin Kingdom has not yet been shown, for example, the Chen Taishi, who has never been defeated, has not shown up, on the other hand, what about the righteous master? However, because he occupied a large amount of territory at once, he had to disperse his forces.

At first glance, every time the rebels occupy a city, they will buy the hearts of the people and recruit troops, but Zhao Yu knows that this group of newly recruited soldiers, their loyalty to the righteous division is far inferior to the group when the righteous division raised the army, and now the rebels are victorious, these newly recruited soldiers can still maintain their loyalty to the righteous division and are willing to pay sacrifices, but once the rebels are defeated and fall into the disadvantage, it may be a situation where the army is defeated like a mountain.

In view of this, Zhao Yu really didn't dare to put his small forces on this victory, after all, in his opinion, once the Jin court really launched a counterattack, the righteous master really didn't have much chance of winning.

If even the Jiangdong Yishi is defeated at the time, then the small force he runs is the only hope for revenge.

Tong Yan? That's just the person standing in front of the stage, the murderer who does what he is told, but nine times out of ten he won't be the mastermind.

The real mastermind......

"The royal family...... What?'

Glancing at the direction in which Henan Governor Li Meng left, Zhao Yu frowned deeply.

Li Meng once reminded him that Tong Yan, the governor of Liangjun, was quite valued by the royal family, so was it also the royal family who framed his Luyang Township Marquis Mansion back then?

And who exactly is this royal family?

A certain prince? Or the Prince? Or ......

Just a random guess made Zhao Yu's pressure increase dramatically.

He couldn't help but sigh again, feeling the wisdom of Mr. Ram - if he Zhao wanted revenge, he really had to be prepared to be an enemy of the Jin Kingdom, because it was too much involved.

It's just that Zhao Yu couldn't figure out where he offended the royal family in the Luyang Township Marquis Mansion, so that an unknown member of the royal family actually ordered Tong Yan to frame him in Luyang Zhao in private.

And the key to analyzing the mystery is in that Tong Yan.

Zhao Yu had to think of a way to get that Tong Yan into his hands without knowing it.

On October 15, with the assistance of Xiang Xuan, Zhou Gonger's generals and more than 30,000 elites, Chen Miao, the commander of Jiangxia's righteous division, quickly occupied Chenliu and advanced the battle line to Xianping County, which was only 70 miles away from Liangcheng.

During this period, Cheng Zhou, the commander of Yuzhang Yishi, also led Yuzhang Yishi and a part of Jiangdong Yishi to quickly capture Dingtao, Heze and other counties, and pushed the battle line closer to Liang County.

As of around the 20th, the three righteous divisions of Jiangxia, Yuzhang, and Jiangdong had basically met at the border of Liang County, claiming to have 300,000 troops.

At this time, Liang County also gathered 100,000 troops, including this county, Henan County, and Yingchuan County.

During this period, the name of 'Yingchuan Commander Zhou Hu' first appeared in the joint combat meeting of the three righteous divisions, and was known to the generals of Yuzhang Yishi and Jiangdong Yishi......

Including those who accompanied him as the grain supervisor of Jiangdong Yishi, Zhao Yin and Zhao Bohu.