Chapter 17: The Wagang Mutation
After listening to Fang La's words, Si Xingfang lowered his head gloomily, he is a person from Jiangnan, and now he is following Fang La to the Central Plains, I don't know when he will be able to return to his hometown?
Fang La knew Si Xingfang's thoughts, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the Wagang Army is strong, it is the most powerful in the world, with their help, we will soon fight back to Jiangnan." ”
"What about Childe and Miss?" Si Xingfang couldn't help but ask.
"Jer, I've already sent someone to inform him, and I believe that with his ability, as long as there is no accident, it will not be a problem to break through the encirclement. It's just a hundred flowers..."Fang La's expression suddenly darkened, "Judging from the current battle situation, it is very likely that she has fallen into the hands of the Sui army, and has passed false information to us, with my current ability, it is impossible to save her, I can only hope that she will ask for more blessings!" ”
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At the same time that Fang La planned to go to the Central Plains to defect to Li Mi, a major change was taking place in Wagangzhai, which laid a deep foreshadowing for the demise of Wagangzhai in the future.
Since the addition of Li Mi in Wagangzhai, Lian Jie has won successive battles, ambushed Zhang Xutuo, and lured Pei Renji to surrender, although Pei Renji suffered heavy losses in rescuing Xiao Miao, but the advantage of the Wagang army in the Central Plains remains unchanged.
Two months ago, Wang Shichong's army, which had been confronting the Wagang army for a year, was finally defeated by Li Mi, and Wang Shichong only led a few thousand remnants of his army to retreat to Hanjia City. The Sui army Shangshu Weijin, Hu Benlang general Wang Bian, and Xiao general Fei Qingnu were all killed, and Li Mi took advantage of the situation to lead a large army to occupy Kim Yong City, and the force rapidly grew to 600,000. Sui generals in Yanshi, Baigu, Heyang and other places led their troops to surrender one after another.
Dealing with these surrendered Sui army officials, Li Mi comforted them with kind words, ordered them to take their own positions, and strictly enforce military discipline, and beheaded those who killed, so that his prestige rose day by day, far surpassing Zhai Rang. At this time, Li Mi had become a veritable lord of Wagang, but many important generals in the Wagang army, such as Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin, etc., still respected Zhai Rang, the old lord of Wagang.
Zhai let a rough person, he didn't realize that his existence had seriously threatened Li Mi's rule, not only did he not know how to restrain himself, but instead relied on his kindness to Li Mi, wantonly promoted his cronies, and openly declared: "Without me, where would there be Wei Gong?" ”
What made the contradiction between Li Mi and Zhai Rang even more intense was Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Hong, who was unlearned, extremely greedy and lustful, relying on the identity of his younger brother Zhai Rang to rob the people's daughters, loot money, occupy fertile land, and do all kinds of evil.
After Li Mi went to Wagang, he strictly enforced military discipline and successively beheaded more than a dozen of Zhai Hong's cronies who were fighting for the tiger, which made Zhai Hong hate Li Mi a lot, and persuaded Zhai Rang, "Brother, you are confused!" There is only one Son of Heaven, how can you give it to others! If you don't want to be, you can let me be! ”
There is also Zhai Rang's confidant Wang Ruxin, who also privately persuaded Zhai Rang to lead the Otsuka Zai, command the hundred officials, and take back the power from Li Mi's hands.
Without exception, these things reached Li Mi's ears, which made him quite annoyed, and under the repeated persuasion of his henchmen Fang Yanzao, Zu Junyan, Xing Yiqi and others, Li Mi finally made up his mind to eradicate Zhai Rang.
When everything was ready, Li Mi pretended to set up a banquet with wine, and invited Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong, Zhai Mohou, Pei Renji, and Hao Xiaode to have a banquet together. Zhai Rang didn't know what to do, so he went to the banquet generously, and during the banquet, Li Mi instructed the soldiers to go out of the camp to serve, leaving only a few to serve here.
Fang Yanzao said to Li Mi again: "It's cold and freezing, can Duke Wei reward Situ Hu with some wine and food?" “
Li Mi nodded, "But! ”
After hearing Li Mi's words, Zhai Rang didn't move, but looked at Zhai Rang, who was sitting at the banquet.
Zhai Rang laughed and said: "Duke Wei rewards wine and food, you should go quickly!" “
After everyone heard Zhai Rang's words, they walked out of the big tent one after another.
Seeing this scene, Li Mi's idea of eradicating Zhai Rang became more firm.
When the wine reached the half-tour, Li Mi suddenly smiled at Zhai Rang and said, "Zhai Situ, Gu has recently got a few good bows, and he can hit every shot." I wonder if Zhai Situ is interested? ”
Zhai Rang is a martial artist, he has always loved the Divine Soldier BMW, and when he heard Li Mi say this, he immediately nodded and said: "Wei Gongbao Bow must be the real product in the world, how can Zhai not look at it?" ”
Li Mi immediately ordered someone to fetch the bow, and after a while, he saw a strong guard walking slowly into the tent with a large bow in his hand.
Zhai Rang was taken aback and looked back at Li Mi, "Duke Wei, who is this strong man, who looks so brave!" ”
Li Mi stroked his beard and said: "This strong man is Lone's personal guard Cai Jiande, he is indeed a good hand in ten thousand, the bow in his hand is not ordinary, it is the former Yuexun King Yang Qing, it is said to be given by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, it is a five-stone strong bow, I don't know if Zhai Situ dares to try it?" ”
Zhai Rang laughed and said: "Since Duke Wei said so, then I will be ugly!" He took the big bow from Cai Jiande's hand, carefully checked it and said: "It's only four stones and five buckets, I'll try!" ”
After saying that, he pulled out the lunge, held the bow arm with his left hand, and put the bowstring on his right hand, the muscles on his arms swelled for a while, and his waist was also instantly puffed up, and he roared: "Open!" ”
The bowstring was gradually pulled away by him, and just now Man suddenly heard Cai Jiande roaring behind him, "Zhai let the traitor, suffer death!" ”
With a "squeak", Zhai Rang's skull rolled down to the ground, and a pair of big eyes opened like copper bells, as if he hadn't understood what was going on!
"Li Mi, you dare to kill my brother!"
Zhai Hong shouted, pulled out his sword and rushed towards Li Mi, Wang Bodang had already left the table, the sleeve arrow in his hand flashed, only to see a flash of cold light, Zhai Hong was killed on the spot.
At the same time, Fang Yanzao rushed into the big tent with hundreds of armor soldiers, copying bright blades, and slashed and killed Zhai Mohou, Wang Ruxin, Hao Xiaode and other henchmen.
Although Zhai Rang is no longer the lord of Wagang, he still has a lot of prestige in the Wagang army, and when the news of his death came out, many Wagang generals were ashamed of Li Mien's revenge and ran away angrily.
The most important of them is Xu Shiji, the third master of the original Wagang Village, after hearing the news of Zhai Rang's death, he was very responsible, and immediately led his descendants to leave Beibi Mountain, occupy Liyang Cang to form an army of his own, and announced that he would not obey Li Mi's orders.
In addition to Xu Shiji, Wagang Yong's generals Luo Shixin, Xie Yingdeng, Wang Junke, and Niu Junda also left angrily, Luo Shixin and Niu Jinda went to Jingxiang to defect to Qin Qiong, while Xie Yingdeng and Wang Junke went to Guanzhong to defect to Li Yuan. The brothers who lived and died in the past parted ways.