Chapter 22: The Cloud Guard

Long before the march, Tao Chenmo asked Liang Gu to draw a detailed map of Qianzhou. The army went south, went to Li Zidu, Tao Chenmo suddenly ordered the army to abandon the ship and land, changed to walk, landed for another day, arrived at Dawangling, from this place to the south is Dongxiang, to the east is Tongping, Tao Chenmo ordered to rest on the spot, make a stove to make rice.

After the incident, Tao Chenmo suddenly ordered Wei Wenzhong to lead 50,000 troops to take Dongxiang, and everyone was puzzled.

"Didn't the general say that he would attack Kirupai and use it as a basis? Why did you suddenly change to attack Dongxiang? Wei Wenzhong asked.

Tao Chenmo smiled meaningfully, obviously this was not his temporary intention, and then said: "Tongping is naturally going to attack, it's just a matter of time, the reason why I announced when I went out of the city to take Tongping directly is to spread the maze of the formation, it is to say to Yang Mingzhen's secret agent, if I guess correctly, most of the troops in the east of Qianzhou should be in Tongping now, so at this moment Dongxiang is easier to get." ”

"I see, I understand the lowly position."

"Remember, after you capture Dongxiang, only a small part will be garrisoned, and the rest of the soldiers will return here immediately to join me, don't ask anything, just do it."

Although Wei Wenzhong didn't understand Tao Chenmo's intentions very well, he had seen Tao Chenmo's art of war and strategy, so he didn't ask anything more and led the troops away.

Wei Wenzhong traveled south, and Tao Chenmo arranged for the remaining soldiers to camp in Dawangling.

Hearing that Tao Chen entered Guizhou at the end, Yang Mingzhen was somewhat surprised. In fact, Bai Ling failed to attack Yunyang for the first time, and many people in the mansion took the opportunity to ask Bai Ling to take responsibility, of course, some of them were instructed by Wu Wentong, but in the first battle, Wu Wentong was defeated first, and it was difficult for him to say it clearly if he was responsible. But Yang Mingzhen still insisted on appointing Bai Ling, the reason is very simple, Bai Ling's personality is very similar to him, he likes this young man from the bottom of his heart, so this is the second attack on Yunyang. But it's a pity that the second time was only almost successful, and Wu Wentong took this opportunity to attack Bai Ling's troops, intending to replace him, and then heard that Bai Ling was defeated and killed, Wu Wentong pretended to be sad, saying that although the political views are different on weekdays, it does not hinder mutual appreciation, Bai Ling died, Yang Mingzhen was also very sad, but two attacks on Yunyang, the loss of more than 100,000 people, he needs to take a good breath, and he doesn't care about revenge for the time being, but he really didn't expect Cheng Jinshang to fight back, and even sent troops to take the initiative to attack himself.

According to the news of Yunyang spies, Tao Chenmo intended to capture Tongping, Tongping is the boundary of Ren Pujia, and Tao Chen's first stop in Guizhou is convincing enough, but he knows too little about Tao Chenmo, on the contrary, Tao Chenmo is smarter to set a trap for Yang Mingzhen, he expected that Yang Mingzhen will be convinced of his intention to attack Tongping, so he secretly planned to fake Tongping and take Dongxiang.

Sure enough, Yang Mingzhen arranged heavy troops in the Tongping area, and assigned Wu Wentong to rush from Qianyang to Tongping to supervise the battle, Wei Wenzhong starry night and night, under the guidance of Liangdi, arrived in Dongxiang in about two days, without saying a word, went straight to attack the city, at this time Dongxiang only had less than 10,000 garrisons, Wei Wenzhong sent Liangdi to lead people into the city secretly, while attacking the city with heavy troops, the inside should be combined with the outside, two hours of time to take Dongxiang, all the elite of Dongxiang, and then, according to Tao Chenmo's instructions, only a small number of people were left to guard, Most of the rest retreated to Dawangling.

Li Xiu, who was guarding Tongping, was ready to face Tao Chenmo, but when he saw Tao Chenmo camping in Dawangling and not attacking, he had to mutter.

And here, Tao Chenmo passed Ren Pujia to the tent, and he needed to know more information about Li Xiu in Tongping.

"Li Xiu, a person from Zhongzhou in the Great Yuan, was imprisoned for colliding with a general in the army, and was demoted to Dongxiang, Qianzhou for 14 years, and was later recognized by Zhang Chuan, who had been recognized as a leader under Yang Mingzhen, because of his strong martial arts and military experience, he soon became Zhang Chuan's confidant, and then Zhang Chuan died in battle, Yang Mingzhen reorganized the Exile Army, Li Xiu succeeded Zhang Chuan's military post and was appointed as the leader of the legion, and then played a vital role in the process of Yang Mingzhen's domination of Qianzhou."

"It turns out that when I was in Yunyang, I heard my wife say that this Li Xiu and Bai Ling are not all the way, but he can always be loyal to Yang Mingzhen, which is very strange."

In fact, it is not surprising that Li Xiu was able to join Yang Mingzhen's command, all because of the role of Zhang Chuan back then, and later Zhang Chuan died in battle, it happened that Li Xiu established a very high prestige in the Exile Legion, Yang Mingzhen in order to let the Legion be able to obey his dispatch, so that it was reused, in fact, Wu Wentong has long coveted the command of the Exile Legion, but most of the people in the Legion are exiled eunuchs in the Central Plains, these people trust Li Xiu more, Wu Wentong did not succeed, otherwise this Li Xiu would not have the opportunity to take on this important responsibility, on employing people, Yang Mingzhen does have some means. ”

"Since he is a court exile, there should be a lot of capable people under Li Xiu's command, right?" Tao Chenmo continued to ask.

"There are more than 10,000 people in the Wandering Legion, and there are many capable people among them, and Li Xiu's deputy general Ji Heqing is one of them."

"Oh? Let's hear it. ”

"Ji Heqing's ancestor is Ji Mao, the founder of the Great Abyss who almost slaughtered the entire Bobu clan, the ancestor is budding, and the descendants will inevitably lose their nature when they sit back and enjoy their success, and the decline of the Ji family is also a natural thing, by the time of Ji Heqing, the imperial grace of the Ji family has long been gone, Ji Heqing's father offended Qin Yong because of the grievances of General Liang Pingchuan, and the family was exiled to Qianzhou, and then it was also because of Zhang Chuan's care that he entered Yang Mingzhen's army, this person acted decisively, was good at using soldiers, and had the style of General Ji Mao back then."

"At that time, General Ji's expedition to the extreme west, the slaughter of Bobu made the countries in the west look down, although it was a little cruel, but it also ensured the peace of the western border of the Great Abyss for more than 300 years, this matter, anyone who has entered the barracks can be said to have heard of it."

"Therefore, General Tao's decision to attack Dongxiang first is correct, the entire exile army is entrenched in Tongping, and this bone is probably a little difficult to gnaw."

"No matter how difficult it is, it has to be gnawed, when Mrs. first arrived in Yunyang, she said something about Wu Wentong, so I made some preparations before the expedition, Wu Wentong wants to completely replace Li Xiu, Dongxiang is the best vote, this is the key to my order Wenzhong to attack the city."

"What does the general mean is that he hopes that Wu Wentong can divide his troops to go to Dongxiang, and we are gathering and annihilating him?"

"That's pretty much what it means, but it's still useful for Wu Wentong to keep it, and besides, I promised my wife that I would definitely get Tongping back for my wife, so my ultimate goal is naturally Tongping."

"Pu Jia thinks that he has led the troops for many years and knows a little about the art of war, but the generals are not reasonable to speculate, in comparison, Pu Jia is really stupid." Ren Pujia praised with a smile.

Tao Chenmo also smiled slightly, and said: "Madame has won the award, and the arrangement of troops needs to vary from person to person, if it weren't for Madame to provide a lot of information, I would naturally not be confident." ”

"It's just that I don't know how many helpers Wu Wentong brought from Qianyang."

"It shouldn't be too much, first, Yang Mingzhen has arranged tens of thousands of horses in Tongping, and second, Yang Mingzhen will never take all his belongings out of Qianyang, he still needs to use Qianyang as the foundation to fantasize about going north."

After listening to Tao Chenmo's analysis, Ren Pujia's heart was also a little more resolute, and she found the sense of security that she had when she first arrived in Yunyang.

As Tao Chen expected, before arriving in Tongping, Wu Wentong was shocked to hear that Dongxiang City was broken, and instantly panicked, you know, this Dongxiang is the birthplace of Yang Mingzhen, there are thousands of Yang clan relatives in Dongxiang City, many Yang family ancestral halls, it can be said that most of the things related to Yang Mingzhen are still there, Yang Mingzhen attaches no less importance to Dongxiang than Qianyang, Dongxiang is lost, Yang Mingzhen is bound to be angry, and he is afraid that it is difficult to have a good life as the overseer, according to his original intention, he planned to lead the troops to take Dongxiang directly, However, he only brought a few thousand soldiers and horses from Qianyang, and the heavy troops in Qianxi were all in Tongping and Youluo, thinking about it, he finally had to decide to go to Tongping first, and then lead the troops to recover Dongxiang.

As soon as he arrived in Dongxiang, Wu Wentong was impatient to ask Li Xiu to order troops and go to Dongxiang to help, but Li Xiu refused.

"Li Xiu! Do you know that Dongxiang is the foundation of the Yang Mansion, and there are still generals' families in the city, as well as the Yang ancestral hall, if these things are lost, do you think you have a few days to live? Wu Wentong was angry.

"It's not that I don't know what you're talking about, but since Dong Xiang has been lost, I won't run around with my head covered until I figure out what Tao Chenmo wants."

"Running around? What are you talking about? Don't you know what Dongxiang means to Lord Fusi, Yang Fusi will be the king of the world in the future, and Dongxiang at that time will be the land of Longxing, can you afford to lose it? Let you take back the city, why do you say that this is a mess? The more Wu Wentong spoke, the more angry he became.

"This Tao Chenmo obviously came under the banner of attacking Tongping, but why did he suddenly change his plan to attack Dongxiang? It is clear that this Tao Chenmo is in the old cloth maze, and he may never have planned to take Tongping first, if I am led by his nose again at this moment, it will be self-defeating. Li Xiu argued.

"Since you expect him not to be in such a hurry to attack Tongping, then why are you still here to stay?"

"Tao Chenmo is likely to use Dongxiang as a bait to order us to go, so as to annihilate us in one fell swoop, since Dongxiang has been lost, we don't have to rush to throw ourselves into the net for a while."

"This is just your subjective assumption, Tao Chenmo is a nobody, you really regard him as an immortal?"

"Nobody, then you ...... back then" In fact, Li Xiu wanted to say that even if Tao Chenmo was really a nobody, then why did you fall like a mountain back then? It's just that he didn't have a good idea of Wu Wentong's identity.

"What's wrong? Li Xiu, the fighter plane is fleeting, now Tao Chenmo has just captured Dongxiang, and his heels have not yet been established, if you hesitate, it will be difficult to get Dongxiang back in the future. ”

"According to the report, Tao Chenmo was stationed in Dawangling, which is only a day's journey from Tongping, if we divide troops to rescue Dongxiang, he will inevitably take the opportunity to attack Tongping, and it will be difficult to take care of the end at that time, who will bear this responsibility?"

"You...... Tao Chenmo has less than 100,000 troops in his hands, he has already divided a part to attack Dongxiang, even if he is stationed in Dawangling, there are only tens of thousands of people in his hands, you don't rescue Dongxiang, then take advantage of his division of troops to attack the city, we will concentrate our forces to attack Dawangling, give him a salary from the bottom of the kettle, and then take Dongxiang, so it's always okay, right? ”

"This ....." Wu Wentong is not useless, and his analysis still has some truth.

"Li Xiu, don't waste any more fighters."

"Things won't be so simple, since Tao Chenmo dares to put on a show and be stationed in Dawangling, he must have his own plans, if he has the heart to capture Dongxiang, why don't he concentrate all his forces and attack in one blow?"

"False is true when it's true and false, there is nowhere and nowhere to do it, Tao Chenmo is nothing more than a maze of the old cloth, bet that you don't dare to rescue Dong Xiang, if I guess correctly, he must have used most of it to attack Dong Xiang, he naturally knows what Dong Xiang means to Yang Fu Si, so he will step on the sore spot of Fu Si first, if not, why didn't he personally lead the troops to attack but set up a position in Dawangling?"

After saying this, Li Xiu was a little shaken, and he looked back at Ji Heqing, hoping to get a positive answer from him.

Ji He cleared his throat and said: "I think that the Overseer has some truth, but Tao Chenmo's troops are superior to ours, even if he divides his troops, with his shrewdness, he will definitely not go out to attack Dongxiang, which has less than 10,000 people, so I think that I should listen to General Li and don't act rashly for the time being." ”

"You ......" Wu Wentong was so anxious that his throat smoked, and he roared, "Why are you two so stubborn, okay, I'm not here to discuss with you, I have the order of the government secretary in my hand, I have already decided, we can not return to Dongxiang for the time being, but you two must immediately reorganize your troops and horses and attack Dawangling." ”

"Master Wu, by all means." Li Xiu and Ji Heqing said in an almost pleading tone.

"Do you know that if Yang Fusi knows that you have lost Dongxiang, he may dismiss the two of you at any time and investigate them, while there is still room for maneuver at this moment, you two had better obey orders, otherwise the king of heaven will not be able to protect you at that time." Wu Wentong has decided not to waste words anymore.

Li and Ji had no choice but to Wu Wentong's high officials, and what Wu Wentong said was not entirely unreasonable, so they had to act according to the order, and then gathered the 40,000 soldiers and horses in the city, ready to go out of the city to attack Tao Chenmo, but when he left, Li Xiu left a hand, and he secretly led Ji Heqing to leave 5,000 people in the city, and then led the troops out of the city with Wu Wentong.

From Wu Wentong learned that the city of Dongxiang was broken, and then rushed to Tongping to ask Li Xiu to send troops for almost two days, and Wei Wenzhong, who captured the city and immediately turned back, had already rushed back to Dawangling at this moment, Wu Wentong thought about taking this opportunity to capture Dongxiang for Yang Mingzhen and capture Tao Chenmo, so that he was completely in power in front of Yang Mingzhen, but he didn't know that what was waiting for him in front of him would be a purgatory.

All the way forward, Li Xiu's heart is always up and down, and he has a hunch that this battle is a little bad. According to Li Xiu's meaning, the army went straight to Dawangling, directly rushed to kill, if it was not right, it quickly retreated to Tongping City, but at this time Wu Wentong felt that he should take advantage of his unpreparedness and raid at night, so he insisted until late at night before leading tens of thousands of soldiers to kill the military camp at the end of Tao Chen, they almost did not encounter any resistance and killed the handsome tent, and a group of people rushed in but found nothing, no generals, no soldiers, only sizzling charcoals.

Li Xiu shouted: "It's not good, withdraw!" ”

As soon as he exited the camp, countless rockets flew in the night sky, like thousands of meteors, breaking through the wind, only to hear the screams, hundreds of people fell in response, what is more terrifying is that the barracks are full of rags, dry firewood, as soon as they encounter fire, all of them burn up, the soldiers who dodged the dark arrows have not yet reacted and were burned by the fire again, in an instant, the screams resounded through the valley, Li Xiu shouted Ji Heqing, led the panicked soldiers, quickly retreated, just exited the barracks, and was surrounded by the Yunwei soldiers who came from all directions, Tao Chenmo was white-clothed and white-horse, Coming in the middle.

Li Xiu raised his sword in front of him and shouted: "Soldiers, life and death are determined, kill me!" With that, he rushed forward.

Ji Heqing did not hesitate to follow the general, all the soldiers were encouraged, and they also rushed forward, Tao Chenmo raised his gun to signal, and Yunwei came like a tide.

Wu Wentong didn't believe it when he was killed, why there were so many people in Tao Chenmo's hands, as if they had never been to Dongxiang at all, seeing this situation, his legs were already weak, where did he dare to rush forward, he was not careful, and he didn't know who knocked him to the ground, so he fell down and pretended to be dead.

Li Xiu rushed left and right, and soon rushed out of a clearing, Yunwei and the others were difficult to get close to him for a while, Tao Chenmo had been staring at Li Xiu quietly from a distance, at this time, he stepped forward and said loudly: "Li Xiu, Yang Mingzhen is not the master, it is not worth your hard work for him, if you put down your weapons, I will spare you from death." ”

"Manly man, why fear death, come, see what you are capable of." After saying that, he rushed to Tao Chenmo.

Tao Chenmo jumped off his horse and faced him head-on. Li Xiu also made a spear, the two of them came and went, stabbed, entangled, picked, and taken, everything was beautiful, everyone wanted to come forward to help, but they didn't know where to start, and Ren Pujia had to protect around Tao Chenmo to prevent someone from sneaking up.

This Ji Heqing is also violent, Wang Liyang naturally likes it very much when he sees this, so he also stepped forward to take the move, Wei Wenzhong also came forward to help when he saw this, Wei and Wang joined forces is not an ordinary majesty, less than forty rounds, Ji Heqing was defeated, and was captured by the two, Wang Liyang said angrily: "Who asked your kid to help, you see, I haven't enjoyed it yet." ”

Wei Wenzhong said helplessly: "When is this happening, you are still acting in your personal prestige." Then he ignored him, and went on to kill the enemy.

More than 100 rounds of death, Tao Chenmo gradually gained the upper hand, Li Xiu began to be a little unsupportable, he had heard that Yunyang Xuanwei General Tao Chenmo did not like armor, silver guns are invincible, although he did not inquire about the name of today's fight, but the scene in front of him has explained everything, Tao Chenmo really deserves his reputation, Bai Ling's defeat in the two battles of Yunyang seems to be acceptable, and more than 20 rounds, Li Xiu was lazy and knocked down by Tao Chen's last shot, and was about to get up, more than a dozen big knives were instantly placed on his neck, Li Xiu secretly said: "My life is resting!" ”

But Tao Chenmo did not want his life, but ordered him to be escorted left and right, and then went straight to Tongping without stopping.

Along the way, the most excited person is naturally Ren Pujia, who has been on the run for nearly two years, and then returned to his homeland, with mixed tastes, and I don't know if the fathers and elders in the city are okay.

At the end of Tao Chen, 80,000 troops approached the city, and the defenders in the city were stunned, but after all, they were the most elite corps in Qianzhou, and after a little panic, they regained their composure and tried to resist desperately.

Seeing this scene, Tao Chenmo was a little surprised, he thought that this Wu Wentong had sent all the elites in the city out, but he never thought that this Li Xiu would actually leave behind, but for him, a few thousand people couldn't stop him at all, just to see what method was used.

After a little thought, Tao Chenmo ordered the three armies to rest and recuperate, and not to attack the city for the time being.

After using the food, Tao Chenmo took Wei Wenzhong, Wang Liyang, Ren Pujia and others to the camp to take care of Li Xiu and Ji Heqing.

"Li Xiu, what's the point of you doing this?" Tao Chen got straight to the point.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Li Xiu was nothing.

"You sent the army out of the city, but left some of it in the city, you think this will stop me from taking Tongping?"

"Since I can't stop you, then what nonsense are you talking to me?"

"If I'm not mistaken, the rest of this city is a part of your outcast legion, and if you are really a competent leader, you should let them surrender, and stop making unnecessary resistance, otherwise, you will only sacrifice their lives in vain."

"Manly man, I would rather die standing than live on my knees, you don't have to waste your tongue, if you are really capable, you will attack yourself, if there is a descender under my command, I will dispose of it with you."

"I'll fuck you, Li Xiu, it's shameless, right?" Hearing that Li Xiu was disrespectful to Tao Chenmo, Wang Liyang jumped like thunder, originally thinking that he meant to take Tongping directly, and there was no need to waste words with Li Xiu.

Tao Chenmo waved his hand to signal Wang Liyang to calm down, and then said slowly: "I ask you two questions, first, do you know why the Wandering People's Army is so powerful? Second, do you know that Mrs. Pujia is the secretary of Tongping Mansion, and her prestige in Tongping is even greater than that of the imperial court? ”

Li Xiu didn't know why Tao Chenmo asked these two questions, so he had to be silent.

"Okay, I'll answer for you, the reason why the Wanderer Legion is superior in combat is because most of the soldiers in the legion are after the Qing officials of Dayuan, or offend the powerful or be implicated, the reason why they die, one is to resentment the Dayuan court right and wrong, black and white do not argue, and the other is to have a day of meritorious service, reorganize the world, in order to remove the unexcused crime of the court's blessing, but if they die in the barren land of Qianzhou, how can they taste what they wish in their lives? How will you give an account to their children? The second question, Mrs. Pujia is the secretary of Tongping Mansion, the people of Tongping regard it as a mother, when they were persecuted by Yang Mingzhen, they had to leave their hometown, and now they have returned with troops, Tongping City is afraid that there are thousands of empty alleys, waiting for it, you put thousands of people and horses at the door will only promote public anger, when my 80,000 troops poured in, the people in the city fought back, what consequences you know better than me. Tao Chen said word by word, gently and majestically.

Li Xiu was dumbfounded.

"Come on, light incense." Tao Chenmo didn't care whether Li Xiu agreed or not, so he ordered.

After the people finished lighting the incense, Tao Chen looked at Li Xiu fixedly, and said: "Give you a stick of incense time, remember, I am not asking for your consent, but giving you a chance, and when the incense burns out, I will order the siege of the city." Then he led the people out of the tent.

"General, let them surrender, the defeat is decided, we don't have to take the lives of these thousands of soldiers, if the government secretary is to blame, I will bear the blame." Ji Heqing said to Li Xiu.

Li Xiu sighed and said, "Could it be that we really give up this city?" ”

"I know the backbone of the general, we can die, but we don't have to kill the lives of these thousands of soldiers in vain, in fact, Tao Chenmo is not wrong at all, the soldiers are running around for their lives under Yang Mingzhen, isn't it just to return to their hometown one day, if there is no life, what is the point of all this?"

Li Xiu was speechless again, he also knew that Tao Chenmo was not wrong at all, but he was unwilling to do so.

A stick of incense didn't burn for long, Tao Chenmo entered the tent again, he just glanced at Li Xiu, did not ask him any more questions, seeing that Li Xiu did not speak, Tao Chenmo waved his hand and commanded left and right: "Pass my order, beat the drum and attack the city." ”

"Wait." Li Xiu suddenly spoke, "Tao Chenmo, if the soldiers are surrendered, do you want to ensure that their lives are worry-free?" ”

"I came to Guizhou this time, the purpose is to sweep away Yang Mingzhen, so that Qianzhou will not be chaotic in the future, if I kill the lives of innocent soldiers in vain, who will dare to surrender me in the future? You can rest assured, as long as the soldiers in the city open the city and surrender, I promise to let them decide freely whether to go or stay. ”

"Okay, Tao Chenmo, I'll persuade you to surrender, but if you go back on your word, I, Li Xiu, will let me turn into a powerful ghost and will definitely find you to pay for my life."

Since this is the case, Tao Chenmo took Li Xiu and Ji Heqing to the city wall.

Seeing that his commander was captured, the soldiers in the city were immediately confused.

Li Xiu shouted: "Soldiers, don't panic, I know that you have raised troops against the abyss is nothing more than to overthrow the corrupt court and return to your hometown, in this case, leaving your life is more important than anything else, otherwise it can only be in vain, it will not help, I have said to Tao Chenmo, as long as you lay down your arms and surrender in Kaicheng, he can spare your lives, and the government will punish the crime, I will bear it, you can return to your hometown by yourself, now the abyss is full of smoke, no one will come to pursue you, your wishes are also forgotten." ”

"We are willing to die with the general, not surrender!" The soldiers in the city were excited.

When Wang Liyang heard this, he immediately became angry, thinking that the soldiers in this city didn't know what to do, and he was about to scold but was stopped by Tao Chenmo.

"Don't worry, I won't kill General Li Xiu, I came to Qianzhou to exterminate Yang Mingzhen, Yang Mingzhen is not the master, you don't have to give up your lives for him, if you surrender, I will let all of you live, there are still wives and children waiting for you in the hometown, I want to be an adult, if there is no place to return, I Yunwei welcomes all heroes to conspire together." Tao Chenmo said loudly.

Although the people in the city still have no change in their faces, they inevitably have waves in their hearts, Qianzhou is far away, and it is difficult to return to their homeland, and no one feels good in their hearts.

"Soldiers, the reason why we follow Yang Fusi is not to return to our homeland one day, for so many years, how many soldiers have been buried in other places, and they still want to go home until they die, and now, you don't have to fight hard to have the opportunity to go back, brothers, it's shameful to do this, I am the commander, and I bear all the infamy." Li Xiu continued to persuade.

"The winner is the king and the loser Kou, today you desperately resist can become a moment of heroism, when I level Qianzhou, your death will become meaningless, I know that you follow Yang Mingzhen is nothing more than to get out of the evil spirit of the great abyss and want to add sin, but he Yang Mingzhen can't do it, he can't even take a small Yunyang, what does he take to bring all the heroes and heroes back to their hometowns and raise their eyebrows?" Tao Chen's tone became more and more majestic.

In fact, hearing Tao Chenmo say this, Ji Heqing's heart was completely shaken.

At this time, Li Xiu suddenly knelt down, saluted the soldiers in the city, and said sadly: "Everyone, go home, Tongping is Mrs. Pujia, and now she is back, they want to be beautiful, and we can also return what people want." ”

Seeing Li Xiu like this, and then looking at the fierce siege army outside the city, some of the defenders in the city began to lay down their weapons, which is one and two, and then more people began to abandon their weapons, Ji Heqing stepped forward to help Li Xiu, looking at all this in front of him, the eyes of the two of them couldn't help but be a little moist.

Tao Chen led Ren Pujia into the city, the people in the city welcomed, fled for two years, and now returned to his hometown, bringing back both faith and hope, in the future, he will no longer have to be afraid of Yang Mingzhen's obscenity, knowing that the villagers still love themselves, Ren Pujia can't help but burst into tears, I don't know what to say.

Tao Chenmo spoke, after entering the city, he only ordered the collection of the weapons of the defenders in the city, and told everyone that if they wanted to return to the north, they could go to Yunyang by themselves, he knew that Yunyang, the north would not be hindered in any way, if there was no place to return, they could join Yunwei and treat them with comrades. Seeing Tao Chen's promise fulfilled, Li Xiu also put his mind at ease.

It's night, and the moon is shining.

Liang Di and Wang Liyang patrolled the city wall with soldiers, and Tao Chenmo took Ren Pujia and Wei Wenzhong to the barracks to guard Li Xiu and Ji Heqing.

Tao Chen finally ordered someone to open the prison door of the two.

Ren Pujia saluted the two and said, "Thanks to the two adults for their care of Tongping's father, Pujia is here to thank you." ”

Li Xiu and Ji Heqing knew Ren Pujia's prestige early on, and they had always respected her very much.

"The heroes compete for victory, and the disaster will not affect the people, this is what we should do, and the lady does not need to be polite." Li Xiudao.

"Having said that, there are probably not many people who can really do it."

"Madame must have come more than just to say thank you."

"Yes, we're here to let you go."

"Are you really willing to let us go?" Li Xiu looked at Tao Chenmo.

"A gentleman's word, horses are difficult to chase, I promised you soldiers that I would not hurt your lives." Tao Chenmo said lightly.

Li Xiu and Ji Heqing looked at each other, and they didn't know whether to leave or stay for a while.

"Don't worry, there won't be any obstacles for the two of you to go, it's just that I'm worried that if you continue to return to Yang Mingzhen's account, I'm afraid it's a little bad." Tao Chenmo said.

"What do you mean by that?"

"In the battle of Dawangling, we did not find Wu Wentong's body, with his ability, I am afraid that he is on the way to Qianyang at this moment." Tao Chen said at the end.

"So what?"

"Yang Mingzhen deployed 40,000 troops in the area of Qianxi, although it was his intention to assemble Tongping elitely, but Dongxiang and Tongping were lost after all, and someone had to bear this responsibility, obviously, he Yang Mingzhen would not take responsibility for his mistakes, Dongxiang was lost before Wu Wentong came, although sending troops to Dawangling was also Wu Wentong's intention, but at this moment he returned to Qianyang one step ahead of you, with his shrewdness, he will only push the responsibility on you, and your return to Qianyang at this moment is tantamount to throwing yourself into the net."

"Now, Qianzhou is the time to employ people, Yang Fusi will not fail to understand this, even if it is calculated, it will have to wait until the crisis is solved."

"Really? If Yang Mingzhen really knows people and is good at his duties, he Wu Wentong will not make waves in Qianzhou, Li Xiu, Ji Heqing, neither of you are ordinary people, how much can Yang Mingzhen do, do you really not know? ”

Li Xiu and Ji Heqing naturally knew what kind of person Yang Mingzhen was in their hearts, but after all, he was kind to the two of them, even if they were suspected of taking advantage of them, they couldn't deny the kindness, so from the beginning, no matter what they thought in their hearts, they had already decided that they would return to Yang Mingzhen if they had the opportunity.

"Yang Fusi has been operating in Qianzhou for decades, how can you say that you can be brought down?" Li Xiu asked rhetorically.

"Dayuan has been operating Qianzhou for more than 300 years, but in the end, it is not for Yang Mingzhen to rob it, time can explain some things, but he can also change a lot of things, I come to Qianzhou, either Yang Mingzhen dies, or I die, so I have decided this Qianzhou, if I don't take Qianzhou, how will I Yunyang generals go north to Tai'an and look down on the world?" Although Tao Chenmo's tone was light, he was full of aura, and Li Xiu and Ji Heqing couldn't help but move in their hearts.

"The grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates, no matter what, if the two of us walk out of the city gate today, we will only meet each other in the future, so Tao Chenmo, you have to think about it."

"Loyalty, it's a good thing, but sometimes it will only hurt yourself, you two insist on returning to Qianyang, I, Tao Chenmo, will never stop me, but I want to make a bet with you."

"Bet on what?"

"If the two of you return to Qianyang, if you are taken by Yang Mingzhen, or even if he uses the two of you regardless of his previous suspicions, I will see you again in the future, if you are still defeated in my hands, how about going to my account?"

Li Xiu and Ji Heqing glanced at each other, thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, bet on it, but what if you lose?" ”

"If I am caught, I will dispose of it alone, otherwise, I will definitely take Yang Mingzhen's life." Tao Chen said fixedly, with an indescribable smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Okay, Tao Chenmo, I'll wait for you."

"Please."

Li Xiu and Ji Heqing looked at Tao Chenmo and the others, hugged their fists, and then started to leave, walking to the door, Li Xiu turned around and looked at everyone again, wanting to say something, but they didn't say anything, hesitated slightly, and turned to leave.

"The general is really not afraid to let the tiger return to the mountain?" Wei Wenzhong asked with some confusion.

"The wolf looks back, either to repay the favor or to take revenge, there are some things that are worth gambling."

"I'm sure it's going to be a reward, they're not wolves." Ren Pujia said confidently.

As Tao Chenmo expected, after Wu Wentong fled all the way back to Qianyang, he put all the responsibility for the defeat on Li Xiu and Ji Heqing, especially in the matter of his own claim to recapture Dongxiang but was delayed by Li Xiu, Wu Wentong took Yang Mingzhen's mind and added some firewood, Yang Mingzhen's nest was broken, and he was furious, so Li Xiu and Ji Heqing were sent by Yang Mingzhen as soon as they returned to Qianyang.

Dong Xiang was broken, and Yang Mingzhen was angry, so naturally he would not give Li Xiu and Ji Heqing a chance to plead, and his top priority was how to snatch Dong Xiang back from Tao Chenmo's hands. Since Bai Ling died in battle, only Li Xiu and Ji Heqing were left to fight with Wu Wentong for military power, but with Li Xiu and Ji Heqing in prison, Wu Wentong in Qianzhou really achieved the authority of one person under ten thousand people, he knew that Yang Mingzhen was eager to take back Dongxiang, so he took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the troops to attack the city, Yang Mingzhen had long been eager to swallow Tao Chen's last life alive, at this time someone stepped forward, he was naturally very happy, so, Wu Wentong led 80,000 troops to Dongxiang.

Hearing that Wu Wentong's army was attacking in prison, Li Xiu was extremely anxious, he hysterically asked to meet Yang Mingzhen, but Yang Mingzhen was angry where he was willing to see him, in desperation, he called the jailer and ordered: "Little brother, no matter what, please tell the Lord of the Mansion Division, Tao Chenmo just used Dongxiang as a bait to lure my army to annihilate in one fell swoop, his real goal is only one, that is Qianyang, to deal with Tao Chenmo, must not divide the troops to attack, must concentrate forces to resist it, Otherwise, my Qianzhou troops will only be eaten away by him little by little. ”

This jailer was also helpless, how could he see Yang Mingzhen as a little jailer, but seeing that Li Xiu was so anxious, he had to agree first, and Li Xiu saw that he agreed, and kept thanking him.

After the jailer left, Li Xiu finally regained his composure, looked back at Ji Heqing, but saw that he was sleeping soundly, Li Xiu couldn't help but be a little angry, pushed Ji Heqing awake, and asked with some displeasure: "Why can you still sleep peacefully at this time?" ”

"Otherwise, what can we do, Yang Fusi refuses to see us, and he doesn't want to let us out, what's the use of screaming like you?"

"But we can't just watch Wu Wentong push hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Qianzhou into the fire pit, right?"

"I know, but it's useless for us to say it, if Yang Fusi really trusts us, then we won't end up in such a field."

Li Xiu was dumbfounded for a while, so he had to sigh deeply.

Ji Heqing knew that Li Xiu felt uncomfortable, so he also softened his tone and continued: "Brother Li, I know that you have ambitions in your heart, just like you persuaded the soldiers, in fact, you also want to get rid of your notoriety and return to your hometown, I am the same as you, but if you think about it carefully, how much better can the situation in Qianzhou be than that of the Dayuan Imperial Court?" There is a Qin Yong troubled dynasty in Dayuan, and there is a Wu Wentong in Qianzhou who is doing evil, how do you and I compare with Bai Ling? Bai Ling's heart is ruthless, killing people like hemp, this Wu Wentong doesn't secretly use methods against him, to put it bluntly, this Wu Wentong just wants to be alone, and it is just that Lord Fusi likes to listen to and believe, if it wasn't for the kindness that Nian promised Brother Zhang Chuan back then, I would have stopped working hard for these birdmen. ”

Li Xiu had to sigh helplessly, thought about it, and then said: "I said Ji Heqing, you kid don't really want to submit to Tao Chenmo, this hairy boy, right?" ”

"To tell the truth, Tao Chen rejected Bai Ling twice at a young age, and then he was the commander of the three armies, and he dared to crusade against Qianzhou with 80,000 people, no matter what point he was, he made me Ji Heqing admire."

"The war in Qianzhou has just begun, and it is too early for everything."

"So, I'm not in a hurry, life and death are fateful, if he Tao Chen really relies on 80,000 people to pick out Yang Fusi, who has an army of nearly 200,000, then I will really accept it, and, don't forget, this bet was made by you, and by the way, I was also put in, big brother, it seems that you have lost at present."

"That's not necessarily, as long as Lord Fuji takes back his life, I can help him recover the defeat."

Ji Heqing didn't say anything more, just smiled lightly.

Wu Wentong led the troops to attack Dongxiang not only to make merit, the encounter of Dawangling made him understand, in fact, Tao Chenmo only captured Dongxiang and did not send heavy troops to guard, he went to fight more and less to succeed in a battle, both to fulfill Yang Mingzhen's wish and to let himself raise his eyebrows in the Qianzhou army, but unfortunately he just left on the front foot, Yunwei spy report has been conveyed to Tongping, Tao Chenmo in order to make Wu Wentong convinced that Dongxiang has no main force, so he pretended to gather a large army to attack Qianyang, Wu Wentong heard the news and sent someone to inform Yang Mingzhen, While speeding up the trip to Dongxiang.

Tao Chenmo personally led the army to the direction of Qianyang, under the guidance of Liang Di, halfway to the east of the sword ambush, Wu Wentong galloped all the way, did not notice at all, Tao Chen at the end of the time to wait for work, the army was exhausted, Wu Wentong was caught off guard, defeated.

Tao Chenmo did not let Wu Wentong leave again this time, but let him be escorted.