Deng Jingshan walked heavily towards Zhang Zhongwu's Chinese army tent.

All the guards, the nearest one was more than ten steps away from the big tent of the Chinese army, and their faces were heavy, and when they saw Deng Jingshan coming over, Fan Sheng, the central guard, hurriedly greeted them.

"General, since I received the news last night, everyone has been driven out by the prince, and they are not allowed to step into the big tent." Fan Sheng said: "It's really anxious, but you also know the temper of the prince, although everyone is in a hurry, they don't dare to disobey the prince's orders!" ”

Deng Jingshan nodded, "I'll take a look." ”

Walking to the tent door, lifting the curtain, Deng Jingshan walked straight in.

In the huge military tent, there was no chaos as Deng Jingshan imagined, it was still as neat as usual, Zhang Zhongwu was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the big tent alone, where he was polishing his armor.

Around him, more than a dozen knives and guns of various types were polished to a shiny finish.

Deng Jingshan didn't speak, walked straight over, sat next to Zhang Zhongwu, picked up a piece of cloth from the ground, and vigorously wiped the nail leaf on the other side.

The two of them didn't speak, and each polished the nail leaf on one side. It wasn't until the last nail leaf was polished to the point that Zhang Zhongwu threw away the skin in his hand, looked at Deng Jingshan and said, "Chengyou must be gone." ”

Deng Jingshan sighed: "That child, I watched him grow up, Lord Wang, among your children, Chengyou is the most successful, it's a pity." ”

"It doesn't seem to matter now, Jingshan, we seem to have reached the time when the mountains are exhausted again!" Zhang Zhongwu laughed.

Deng Jingshan didn't speak, but took out a pot of wine and a large bag of fried beans from a package he brought with him. Looking at these two things, Zhang Zhongwu was stunned for a while, and then said with a smile: "It's rare that you still remember this fried beans to drink." ”

Deng Jingshan picked up a bean, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it so loudly.

"When it was the most bitter, we survived for ten days with a pot of wine and a bag of fried beans." Deng Jingshan said with a smile: "When it comes to the exhaustion of mountains and rivers, it was really exhaustion of mountains and rivers at that time, and now compared with that year, we at least have more cards to play in our hands." ”

"At that time, it was barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes." Zhang Zhongwu said: "Later, the family business is getting bigger and bigger, and this momentum is getting farther and farther away from me." ”

"Now we have to get it back!" Deng Jingshan said angrily: "I'm the same, it's always at such a life-and-death juncture that I can figure out something." ”

Chewing beans and drinking wine, Zhang Zhongwu said: "I finally figured it out now, why didn't Gongsun Changming's old boy take a good look at me, and finally went to Chengde to join Li Ze, a stinky boy who was unknown at the beginning." That old man, his eyes are still so poisonous, and when he looks at people, he doesn't miss it. Come to think he knew I couldn't do it a long time ago, right? Even if you don't lose to Li Ze, you will still lose to Zhang Ze and Wang Ze. Otherwise, everyone is rebelling, why wouldn't he be willing to assist me, but willing to assist Li Ze? ”

Deng Jingshan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Li Ze's kid is good-looking on the surface, a male thief and a female prostitute. actually made himself a descendant of King Qin, hehe, haha, it's really shameless. ”

"I can only say that I admire, I admire it so much." Zhang Zhongwu said: "If I had this scheming, I wouldn't have ended up like today." ”

"Admiration is admiration. It's just that he is not ashamed of what he did, rebelling is rebellion, and usurping the throne is usurping, but he wants to make this appearance of covering his ears and stealing the bell, which is a little dirty. ”

"We are not much better than each other, fifty steps and a hundred steps." Zhang Zhongwu shook his head and said: "The successful person is not blamed, and the future history books will be written by him, and he can naturally be portrayed as a great and glorious person." But then again, this guy really deserves it. ”

"Lord Wang, do you think Xiang Xun's plan can be successful?" Deng Jingshan asked in a deep voice.

Zhang Zhongwu shook his head: "After reading Li Ze's foresight, I don't think Xiang Xun's plan has a chance of success. In fact, the assassination in Gaomi was the closest they came to success, but unfortunately, it fell short, as for the assassination in Li Ze's heartland like Zhenzhou, it was simply to touch the tiger's buttocks, I was not optimistic at all, and I even doubted that all this was under Li Ze's control. ”

"Why?"

"I didn't think about this problem before, but Li Ze suddenly had such a background problem, and I thought about it a little more clearly. Think about it, even if Li Ze made himself a descendant of King Qin, had the identity of the Li Tang clan, and was one of the purest bloodlines, there was still a big problem, the current little emperor did not make a mistake! Zhang Zhongwu said with a smile.

"He doesn't have a chance to make a mistake at all!" Deng Jingshan also smiled.

"That's right, the little emperor basically has no chance to make mistakes, this little emperor, but the only son of the old emperor, was personally supported by Li Ze on the throne, and he has no fault, Li Ze is such a feather-loving person, is he willing to bear such an infamy?" Zhang Zhongwu said with a smile: "He is a guy who wants to be a bitch and set up an archway, so of course he is unwilling to do such a thing." ”

Deng Jingshan said in horror: "So, he tolerated the Xiang clan in Zhenzhou and Wuyi to engage in the east and west, just to give the little emperor a chance to make mistakes, right?" ”

"That's how it should be!" Zhang Zhongwu said: "Do you think about what kind of prestige Li Ze has in the Northland? If he was really assassinated again in a place like Zhenzhou and Wuyi, and all the evidence afterwards pointed to the little emperor and his unmarried wife Xiang Lan, how would the people of the northern land, the bureaucrats, and the army react? ”

Deng Jingshan suddenly realized.

"The emperor punished the minister without fault, and it was not a canonical punishment, but it was actually through the means of assassination that was unsightly, and it was indeed a big scandal to do such a thing!"

"That's it. The little emperor really did such a thing, and Li Ze abolished the emperor and stood on his own, shouldn't he be right, reasonable? Zhang Zhongwu threw a bean into his mouth: "Otherwise, I really can't imagine how Xiang Lan planned such a big thing in Zhenzhou?" Is Gongsun Changming blind or is Tian Bo blind? If they were really blind, would we be where we are today? ”

"It must be so, with Li Ze's insidiousness, I am afraid that everything has been arranged a long time ago, waiting for the other party to take the bait, and clear the last obstacle for his usurpation road." Deng Jingshan nodded again and again.

"Forget it, we're not going to these indifferent hearts here." Zhang Zhongwu raised his neck and poured a big sip of wine: "Let's talk about our moment, what do you think should be done?" ”

"There are only two paths, one is to retreat." Deng Jingshan Road. "The other is to survive in death, gamble everything, do a vote, win, it is a new scene, and if you lose, you will naturally lose everything."

"Which one do you choose?" Zhang Zhongwu asked with a smile.

"Do you need to ask? Of course, it's the second one, bet on everything, and do one vote. Deng Jingshan said: "If you choose to withdraw your troops, maybe you will live for a few more months." The heavy snow is coming, we have no abundant food, not enough warm cotton clothes and bedding, this way to retreat, will inevitably throw countless corpses, and then we have to face the dilemma of being intercepted in front and chasing soldiers in the back. I'm afraid that when the time comes, we will die a very suffocating death. Even if I die, I, Deng Jingshan, want to die vigorously, and it is not in vain that I have been arrogant all my life. ”

"There's a third way, why don't you mention it?" Zhang Zhongwu asked with a smile.

"The third way?" Deng Jingshan was stunned.

"Surrender!" Zhang Zhongwu said with a smile: "Surrender to Li Ze, then let go of everything, go to Li Ze to bow three times and knock nine times, long live the mountain, maybe you can spend your old age in peace and waiting for peace or something!" ”

Deng Jingshan looked at Zhang Zhongwu for a moment, looked up to the sky and laughed, Zhang Zhongwu also laughed, and the two of them laughed so much that tears flowed out, and they laughed a little breathlessly.

Surrender is an option that the two have never considered.

Even if it is death, the two of them want to die a heroic death!

After wiping away their tears, the two of them took a big sip of a wine jug, and Zhang Zhongwu continued: "The decisive battle with the enemy is our only bit of life, but Jingshan, this vitality, I'm afraid it's also very slim." I always thought that Han Qi and Xue Chong were exchanging space for time, but now it seems that this is not the case at all. They didn't expect Li Ze to rescue them at all, but they had already made arrangements, this Zunhua, I'm afraid that it was the place they chose to fight with us, so I guess that our opposite side is definitely not only this little bit of people in Xue Chong's hands. There must be one or even more armies that we don't know about. ”

Deng Jingshan nodded and said: "It should be like this, it's just hard to guess, but I think that Zhang Jia must have a cavalry unit that has made a detour to our flank through the desert." ”

"No matter how many people he comes, we only have one way after all, and that is to move forward bravely, and if we win, we will live, and if we lose, we will die!" Zhang Zhongwu said angrily.

"As in the past, I am the striker, and the prince is next." Deng Jingshan stretched out his hand and shook hands with Zhang Zhongwu.

"Good!" Zhang Zhongwu Huoran stood up, drank all the wine in the pot, strode out of the big tent, and said to Fan Sheng sharply: "Drum and gather generals, all the generals above the tooth generals, gather in the big tent of the Chinese army." ”

The drums were beating, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded from all directions, and the generals of the Liao army rushed from their respective camps to the camp of the Chinese army.

At the head of Zunhua City, Han Qi and Xue Chong were full of comfort, and beside them, the tall Li Han stood silently.

"Zhang Zhongwu is going to fight hard!"

"Two months, what a sacrifice we have made, isn't it just waiting for this moment?"