On the same day, when the news that Li Zhu and others had failed and all died in battle reached Wang Qing, Wang Qing was completely shocked, and he immediately ordered his subordinates to investigate the matter.

Zhu Wu had already taken countermeasures to this, first of all, Zhu Wu ordered people to select a person who looked quite similar to Li Zhu among the hundreds of Fangshan thieves who had been captured, and after comparing Li Zhu's appearance and carefully putting on makeup, he was really very similar to Li Zhu. Then Zhu Wu ordered someone to cut off the man's head, pretending to be Li Zhu's head, and hanging it high in the barracks with the heads of dozens of people. There are dozens of genuine value of the Fangshan thief Kou head who followed Li Ying to receive the firearms, these people's heads are hanging high, and the heads of the "fake Li Zhu" are mixed in them, even if Li Zhu's mother comes, I am afraid that if I look at it below, I am afraid that I will mistake the "fake Li Zhu" above for the real Li Zhu.

At the same time, Zhu Wu ordered dozens of generals and sergeants who had been bribed by the Fangshan bandits to be escorted in front of him.

Zhu Wudao, "Do you want to live?" ”

More than 50 people immediately knelt down in a large area, each crying snot flying, begging Zhu Wu to spare their lives, but there were still more than a dozen people who did not react, these dozen people knew that they could not escape death, although Zhu Wu's words made them can't help but be moved, but they didn't dare to believe it, they simply pretended to be "Isn't it just a death?" It's coming, and after twenty years, the master will be a good man again".

Zhu Wu looked at the performance of these dozen people but was not annoyed, he just smiled coldly, and then nodded to Shi Bao beside him, Shi Bao immediately took out a piece of paper full of words from his bosom and read it aloud, with his voice, not only the more than thirty people who had just knelt down and begged for mercy, but also the dozen or so people who were strong and self-supporting, their faces changed drastically when they heard it, and they shivered all over! Because...... All Shi Bao was reading were the details of all their loved ones! At this time, without waiting for Zhu Wu to speak again, the dozen or so people all rushed to kneel, everyone looked at Zhu Wu in despair, looking at his smiling, but chilling face,

"You are all guilty of capital crimes," Zhu Wu smiled slightly, "but the prince is kind-hearted and can spare you from death." Of course, there are conditions for you to live, from now on, you can immediately return to the barracks, what you did before, what you will do in the future, if the Fangshan bandits contact you again, you must immediately report and reply to them according to our instructions! ”

Everyone understood, it turned out that Zhu Wu wanted them to help him carry out a counter-plot against the Fangshan thieves!

"You can refuse," Zhu Wu continued, "You can not be afraid of death, but it is not enough for you to die, your family will also be executed, and it is also possible to punish the Nine Clans for major crimes." Okay, I've said everything I need to say, now tell me your options. ”

Choose? Do the people still have a choice? Immediately, more than 40 people rushed to shout that they would be obedient and would definitely obey the orders of the crown prince and Wu Guogong. But there were still a few people who didn't say anything, and some of them mustered up the courage to ask, "How do we know that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not ...... you after the matter is completed?" After all, because of us, King Jia and Master Tong have suffered a lot of losses, even if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and you are willing to let us go, are King Jia and Lord Tong willing to let us go? As soon as these words came out, the people who had just expressed their willingness to surrender all reacted, yes, you let us go on the front foot, and what should we do if King Jia and Tong Guan come to take our lives on the back foot?

Zhu Wu smiled lightly, "First of all, you don't have a choice, this is the only way for me to live for you and your family." Secondly, it is very simple to solve this matter, I can pick out dozens of people from the Fangshan thieves to pretend to die for you, so that I can give an account to the imperial court, and then with the power of His Royal Highness the Prince, it is not easy to hide you with a different identity? ”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, although I feel that Zhu Wu's words are not so credible, but at best, this can be regarded as a hope, even if it is not for himself, but for his family to survive, he can only accept Zhu Wu's conditions!

With a bang, everyone finally got down on their knees .......

Next, Zhu Wu also let people spread the news of the Qishan Army's success in exterminating Li Zhu and others in the Song army, and the rumors had a beginning and an end, reasoned and well-founded, and painted a picture, and later, the vast majority of the Song army also believed that the Qishan Army had just killed dozens of thieves, including Li Zhu, the second leader of the Fangshan bandits, in a secret operation, and seized a large number of sophisticated firearms.

At this point, Zhu Wu has completely completed all the countermeasures, just waiting for the Fangshan thieves to take the bait.

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Facts have proved that Zhu Wu's preparations all came in handy, and the people sent by Wang Qing first got in touch with a few of the more than 50 generals who had returned to their respective posts, and those people hurriedly reported the situation to Zhu Wu, and under Zhu Wu's instructions, those people spoke in a unified voice, and insisted that Li Zhu and others had indeed been killed by the Song army, and their heads were still hanging in the barracks for public display.

Of course, those Fangshan thieves didn't believe it, and insisted that those people bring them into the barracks, and they wanted to see it for themselves.

Those people were embarrassed, saying that it was too dangerous to do so, and if something went wrong, everyone would be doomed!

Several Fangshan thieves smiled coldly and threatened, you must take us there, if not, you won't make any mistakes?

Those few people were shocked when they heard this, and then they suddenly felt that it didn't seem bad to listen to Zhu Wu's words, otherwise even if they didn't die under the punishment of the imperial court in the future, they would have to be played to death by these Fangshan thieves!

Those people thought about it, and immediately pretended to be afraid as planned and agreed to Fangshan Bandits' request, and then found the Song Army uniforms that had been prepared for them to change into for those Fangshan Bandits, and then took them into the barracks.

After some pretended cautious acting, several people took the Fangshan thieves to the place where the heads of "Li Zhu" and others were hung, and several Fangshan thieves looked up and saw that the dozens of heads were not all "acquaintances"? Take a closer look, ah, the head of the second master, Li Zhu, is really among them!

At this point, several Fangshan thieves finally believed that Li Zhu and others were dead, and they immediately returned to Xijing to report the matter to Wang Qing, and before they returned, the entire Fangshan army had also known the news that the second leader Li Zhu was killed because of Zhu Wu's deliberate dissemination, and in the face of this kind of "fact", Wang Qing couldn't help but believe it.

Li Zhu's death was like losing his right-hand man to Wang Qing, which made him bizarre and angry, and at the same time, he was in chaos, causing him to make two fatal mistakes in succession!

In the face of Li Zhu's death, his first reaction was that there was a traitor under his subordinates, otherwise it would be Song Jun, a person from Jingdong Road, who told him, but how could that group of Jingdong people tell the secret? They wish they could defeat the Song army by themselves, so it can't be them, since it's not them, nine times out of ten, the problem is on their side, and in addition to themselves and Li Zhu, there are only a few senior generals in the army, and dozens of people who were personally selected by Li Zhu. It is impossible for him to leak secrets, Li Zhu and those dozens of people are all dead, and it will not be them, and now the most suspicious ones are those senior generals! This kind of thinking made Wang Qing very frightened, he was afraid that if any of those people suddenly defected, it would bring him a fatal blow!

Wang Qing, who was already in a daze, made the first serious mistake at this time, in line with the idea that he would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let go of one, he dismissed all the senior generals and immediately sent them back to Xijing to investigate, of course, several people were confused and shouted that they were wronged, but the more they shouted that they were wronged, the more Wang Qing felt that they were suspicious, and even arrested many of their cronies and interrogated them strictly, which made the people of the Fangshan army panic for a while!

Immediately afterwards, Wang Qing made the second fatal mistake, Li Zhu, as the second leader and military advisor of the Fangshan bandits, actually had a deeper understanding of all the situations of the Fangshan bandits than Wang Qing himself, and many major military deployments were made by him.

Wang Qing didn't expect that Li Zhu not only didn't die but even betrayed him, all his attention was focused on finding out the traitor, and he didn't make adjustments to the Fangshan army in time, how it was deployed before or how it was deployed, where was the grain and grass and other military assets stored in the past or where was it stored, which gave Zhu Wu an opportunity to take advantage of!

With the reference of the detailed distribution of the troops and horses of the Fangshan Army, the detailed information of the leaders of various places, and the detailed information of the cities provided by Li Zhu, Zhu Wu formulated a detailed battle plan in a targeted manner.

On September 8, after Zhao Huan issued a general attack order, under the command of Zhu Wu, 50,000 Qishan Army, 30,000 Western Army and 50,000 Jingxi Allied Army launched a sudden all-out attack on the Fangshan bandits according to the battle plan!

In the face of the strategic and crazy attack of the Song army's hundreds of thousands of troops, the Fangshan soldiers from all walks of life were suddenly in a mess, and they could only rush to the battle, and the main generals of the various armies were being detained by Wang Qing in Xijing for trial, and the Fangshan armies were leaderless, and the situation was urgent!

The news that was unfavorable to the Fangshan army was not only this, Zhu Wu used a large number of the thousands of firearms captured in the battle, so that the Fangshan army completely realized the trouble they had caused to the Song army with the same firearms in the past!

Wang Qing only woke up at this point, and he hurriedly ordered the imprisoned generals to be released and let them lead the troops to fight, but it was too late, and the rout of the Fangshan army was a foregone conclusion!

On September 15, Xijing was lost.

On September 25, Fangzhou and other three states were lost.

On the first day of October, Wang Qing was defeated and captured in Fangshan.