Zhang Xiaowu, the guard with a knife in front of the emperor, perfectly shows what is called a background lamp, he is a background lamp, a big background lamp. Standing behind Emperor Dade, he also gradually discovered the greatest advantage of Emperor Dade, endured humiliation, and if he didn't make a sound, he was already a blockbuster, and gave his political opponent a fatal blow in the most appropriate time. He felt that Emperor Dade would continue to pretend to be weak and deceitful, waiting to give the next political enemy a fatal blow.

Then he thought about Emperor Dade's attitude towards himself, Emperor Dade can trust himself so much today and treat himself well, what if he threatens him in the future? In the face of political enemies, Emperor Dade was as ruthless as his father Emperor Taiqian, but Emperor Taiqian wanted to exterminate his opponent, while Emperor Dade deposed his opponent, and his methods were softer, but he was decisive at all.

Zhang Xiaowu had no right to participate in military affairs, when the emperor was discussing with Dushanbo, Zhang Kuan and others, he stood outside the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, and happened to see Li Canglan, the two looked at each other and nodded with a smile.

After waiting for about an hour, the three of them finished discussing, Dushanbo left in a hurry, but Zhang Kuan saw Zhang Xiaowu, he obviously knew Zhang Xiaowu's identity, but at this moment, he had no time to take care of Zhang Xiaowu, so he just glanced at it and left.

Dushan Bo also left the imperial city, and gathered a few righteous sons at home, and after urgently telling everything, he immediately rushed to the White Tiger Military Camp in Wuguan County.

It takes some preparation for the White Tiger Army to set off south, and as the vanguard of the White Tiger Army, it is usually the first to set off from the Seventh Regiment. But the 7th Regiment was all cavalry, and in the land of the water towns south of the Yangtze River, the cavalry fell into passivity. And half of the soldiers of the 7th Regiment are from Youzhou, and half of the soldiers are from Qingzhou, both of which are cold areas in the north, and they have rich experience in plain operations and even desert operations, so it is the first time to fight in the water town. Therefore, it is a difficult question who to choose as a striker, and it is still a question of how to open up.

Du Shanbo was worried along the way, and after arriving at the White Tiger Army camp, he got more information.

The soldiers of Nanyang County were defeated because instead of recapturing Yuezhou and defeating the rebels, they lost Jiangzhou, and the rebels won eighteen battles in a row, and the imperial army also lost their armor and fell thousands of miles. What made the king of Nanyang even more unacceptable was that the puppet Wu rebels did not rely on assassination or conspiracy to win, but the rebels actually defeated the Suzaku Legion on the frontal battlefield, and the Suzaku Legion was defeated.

The proud King of Nanyang tied himself to his horse and fought with the rebels, but he couldn't bear the rout of the Suzaku Army, and the King of Nanyang County was disheartened, and rushed into the rebels on horseback alone, and beheaded more than a dozen pseudo-Wu generals, and was finally captured. Wang Deyue, the puppet king of Wu, took pity on Wang Zhongyong of Nanyang County and ordered people to let the king of Nanyang County go. The king of Nanyang County only wanted to die quickly, and killed himself in front of the battle, and his body was carried back by the general of the Nanyang County Wangfu, and the Suzaku Legion knelt down to welcome the corpse of the king of Nanyang County back to the camp.

Wang Deyue, the puppet king of Wu, knew that the Suzaku army had regained its morale, so he resolutely ordered the whole army to stop advancing and turn around to attack Hangzhou. And the Suzaku Legion, which was supposed to take advantage of the victory of the mourning army, went south to attack the rebels, but at this time there were internal quarrels and finally missed the opportunity.

"What is this Ximen Lie doing?" Dushanbo was extremely disappointed, Ximen Lie was the second of the eighteen righteous sons, the commander of the 14th Regiment of the Vermilion Bird Legion, and now he couldn't control the situation, Dushanbo was naturally very disappointed in him. He couldn't help but think of the general beside Emperor Dade, the ghost general Zhang Xiaowu, who turned the tide when the northern part of the country was in chaos, and defeated several Inuyi armies one after another with miscellaneous soldiers, saving the last trace of face for the court and the empire.

If Zhang Xiaowu was replaced by Ximen Lie, he would definitely kill the other generals first, and unify the army to move south, but it is a pity that Ximen Lie is not Zhang Xiaowu, and it is impossible to have Zhang Xiaowu's courage to die and survive. After all, Zhang Xiaowu was born as a commoner and dared to offend anyone, while Ximen Lie was born in a scholar clan and had a huge Yongzhou Ximen family behind him, so he couldn't make a decisive decision.

"Wang Deyue is a hero." Ouyang Hong sighed, "A hero who has not been met in a hundred years. ”

Du Shanbo also had to agree, and said: "If it weren't for the confrontation between the two armies, I would have intended to accept him as a righteous son." Guangzhi, this Wang Deyue, you can tell me about his person. ”

Ouyang Hong said: "Wang Deyue was born in the eighteenth year of the avenue, this year is only thirty-four years old, this person is from Lujiang Mansion in Yuezhou, born in a fisherman's family, learned civil and martial arts since childhood, and participated in the township examination (examination) at the age of 12 to live a child qualification, and was known as a prodigy in Lujiang Mansion for a while. However, three years later, when he took the Yuezhou State Examination (exam), he unexpectedly fell off the list, and the reason for his failure was most likely that his test papers were dropped by someone else, and someone replaced his test results to obtain the qualification of Xiucai. ”

Du Shanbo was shocked: "Impostor? ”

Ouyang Hong said: "Yes, the news that the white paper man found out is like this, he is replaced by the son of the director of the Yuezhou River High-tech City, the father-in-law should have no impression of him, but I say one thing, the father-in-law must know." "The white paper man is Ouyang Hong's subordinate who is responsible for finding out the news, and Ouyang Hong is also a general in the White Tiger Army who is responsible for the news, although the court knows the existence of the white paper man, but it does not dare to extend its tentacles into the White Tiger Army, and even the golden guards are afraid of the white paper man. Under the creation of Dushanbo, the White Tiger Legion is like an iron mountain, which is as solid as gold and cannot be poured into, which is why outsiders cannot shake the foundation of Dushanbo.

"You say."

"In the fourteenth year of Taiqian, King Ning once held a banquet of hundred poems, during which the first emperor also disguised himself, and on that day there was a drunken man who said wildly, saying that he must be on the list of heaven. Later, the first emperor was furious, thinking that this person had a bad character and would never be on the list, but this person was not ashamed to bet with the first emperor, saying that if he didn't win, he would get out of Longdu, and if he did, the first emperor would get out of Longdu. Ouyang Hong laughed, shook his head and said, "As a result, in the fifteenth year of the imperial examination, this high-tech city was actually ranked thirtieth in the high school heavenly list, and he was so angry that the first emperor dismissed the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and the left and right servants of the Ministry of Officials, and even the right minister Lou Bo was also dismissed." Only then did the high-tech city learn that it was the emperor who had bet with him, and he was scared to death. ”

Du Shanbo remembered this person, and it turned out that he was the one who replaced Wang Deyue to participate in the imperial examination.

Ouyang Hong continued: "After Wang Deyue learned that he was impersonated, he sued Lujiang Mansion, but Lujiang Mansion did not accept it, and then sued Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, but he still accepted it silently. His parents were so angry that they committed suicide at the gate of the Yuezhou Governor's Mansion, and he was also imprisoned for picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Later, the Heavenly Fire Sect rescued him, and he joined the Heavenly Fire Sect, probably because of his talent, this person became the righteous son of the leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect. Ten years ago, due to the death of the leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect, he became a new leader at the age of twenty-four. ”

"When the Tianhuo Sect leader Yang was the leader, the scabies of the Tianhuo Sect did not go out of time in the imperial court, although it was uncomfortable but not life-threatening, but after Wang Deyue became the sect leader, he vigorously promoted the slogan of equality among the people and fairness of the people, and robbed the land of the Shi clan and distributed it to the common people, so that he was supported by the common people." Ouyang Hong said, "The most dangerous thing about this Wang Deyue is the secret development of the sect, he preaches that all men are equal, no matter what the background is, as long as he believes in the Heavenly Fire, he is the Heavenly Fire Sect, so there are many secret participants, and there are even many sect members in the Dragon Capital." ”

"Impostor, kill people!" Dushan Bo smiled bitterly, who would have thought that a person who almost knocked down half of the Holy Han Empire would be a prodigy who was impersonated by the imperial examination, which shows how rampant the local officials are, and even the passage for the people to rise has been monopolized, how can the people not rebel if they go on like this? If Zhang Xiaowu was here, he would definitely say that the original college entrance examination results were impersonated, which is a tradition since ancient times, and after the people in power gave birth to a stupid child, they tried their best to take away the life path of the common people, and its cruelty was comparable to that of a cuckoo bird.

Ouyang Hong said again: "Although Wang Deyue has just established the State of Wu, in order to prepare for the establishment of the State of Wu, he has endured for ten years, and the first battle after the establishment of the State of Wu is to defeat the Vermilion Bird Legion head-on. Father-in-law, if he does not defeat the State of Wu as soon as possible, he is afraid of endless troubles in the future. ”

"Negligence, they are not stragglers, they are still growing into formidable opponents. ”

Everyone in the court thought that the rebels had been hiding in Tibet for seven or eight years, and they must be weak and vulnerable, and they must be because they couldn't defeat the imperial court. The reason why the rebels did not defeat the Suzaku Army for several years was to recuperate, give themselves sufficient time to prepare, and also make more Jiangnan people full of resentment towards the imperial court. After all, the imperial court is among the three states in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people of Yuezhou and Jiangzhou have lost their hearts, and now if the rebels capture Hangzhou, I am afraid that the imperial court will really be unable to control it.

Ouyang Hong said: "Father-in-law, I have already sent a white paper man to inquire into the news, but the biggest problem now is who is the fine work in the Vermilion Bird Legion and how many enemies there are. The Jiangnan rebels are different from the Inuyi, the inuyi's fine work is a foreign race dressed up, but the rebel army's fine work is the Han people. ”

"Do you have a solution?" Du Shanbo asked, he did not ride a horse fast, due to the heavy rain last night, the road was a little muddy, if the horse galloped wildly, it would fall and hurt the horse, and the army set off not overnight, Du Shanbo happened to be on the road to plan countermeasures.

Ouyang Hong said: "Father-in-law, I thought that if necessary, the Vermilion Bird Legion would be transferred back to the southern camp of the Longdu Daying. The soldiers of my White Tiger Army are all northerners and are more loyal to the Empire, while the Suzaku Legion has many southern soldiers and cannot be trusted. After transferring the Suzaku Legion back to the South Camp, check it carefully, and even if you can't find out, you can avoid being found out by the gap. ”

Du Shanbo said: "I'll leave this matter to you, just do what you say, Zhou Qian, help me write a note." ”

"Marshal, there are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the march of our army will definitely be blocked." Said another man on horseback.

This person is Zhou Wenqi, who joined the army of Cheng Chu in the past, and now Zhou Wenqi serves as one of the affairs of the White Tiger Army, responsible for providing strategies for the legion. Zhou Wenqi is one of the few people from the Sixth Regiment who has been reused, and it is precisely because of his background that Dushan Bo arranged for him to do a trick.

"Zhou Qianshi, do you have any suggestions?" Dushanbo asked.

Zhou Wenqi said: "I think that the White Tiger Army should be parallel to land and water. ”

Yang Zhen said: "My White Tiger Army does not have a water army, and most of the officers and soldiers of the White Tiger Army are selected in the north, and they are not accustomed to water. ”

Zhou Wenqi said: "There is no White Tiger Army, but there is a ready-made water army in Chechi County, there are many rivers and lakes in Chechi County, everyone knows water, and each is a ready-made water army." If the marshal is interested, he can transfer the soldiers in Chechi County to form a naval army, and with a little training, it is the naval army of the White Tiger Army. ”

Dushanbo nodded and said, "Great goodness!" Zhou Qian, this matter is entrusted to you, and you must form a naval army of 3,000 people, led by you alone. ”

Zhou Wenqi was overjoyed and said: "The humble will definitely complete the task." ”

Emperor Dade walked out of the palace of heart cultivation, the sun shone on his face, setting off his smile, he hadn't been so hearty and happy for a long time, Emperor Dade suddenly said: "Oops! "Yijin Sutra" forgot to practice, first, teach me quickly. He said that he moved his body, the sun shone on his face, and his expression was much better, and the Jiangnan rebellion and pseudo-Wu were established, but it created an opportunity for the Great German Emperor who was in trouble.

Zhang Xiaowu couldn't cry or laugh, but the emperor had an order, how dare he disobey, so he took the emperor to do the ninth set of radio gymnastics again. Emperor Dade may have been too excited today, once shouting to go fishing, the eunuchs and palace maids heard that he was going to fish, and Dons was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. Emperor Dade almost drowned in fishing before, what kind of drama is this ancestor making today?

"Your Majesty, no." Gou Delu knelt on the ground, Chunxi died in such a vain, he didn't want to be the next Chunxi.

"You really don't know what to do, I won't go fishing in the middle of the lake this time." Great German Emperor.

Gou Delu said: "Your Majesty, why don't I find a fish tank......"

Emperor Dade was so angry that he gave him a kick and said angrily: "Bastard, am I here for fishing?" Am I short of fish? ”

When Emperor Dade and the eunuchs and palace maids were angry, they saw from a distance that Empress Dowager Zhang's phoenix sedan chair was carried by everyone, with more than 100 eunuchs and palace maids behind her, so solemnly and anxiously came, which shows the anger in Empress Dowager Zhang's heart at this time. Emperor Dade stopped laughing, got up and looked into the distance, and suddenly said: "First, if I let you kill the eunuch next to the Queen Mother, what will you do?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile: "The ministers are loyal to Your Majesty, so they naturally listen to Your Majesty." ”

Emperor Dade said: "But I won't protect you. ”

Zhang Xiaowu was silent for a while, and then asked rhetorically: "Isn't it a minister to protect Your Majesty?" ”

"Hahaha......" Emperor Dade laughed, his eyes were full of ambition and desire, this is an emperor who can kill at any time. It is true that Emperor Dade was a literati, but the literati were ruthless and treated their opponents mercilessly.

Empress Dowager Zhang Feng sedan chair came to the door of the Yang Xin Palace, and then put it down, she sat on the phoenix chariot and did not come down, a group of palace maids and eunuchs came forward and knelt down to say hello, long live long live, long live. Emperor Dade said goodbye, and then he greeted the Empress Dowager Zhang, but the Empress Dowager Zhang frowned tightly and asked menacingly: "Emperor, let me ask you, why was your ninth brother driven out of Longdu by you?" ”