Cao Di sent someone over to invite, and Liu Yanqing agreed without thinking. The army hurriedly retreated to Jiangdong, and the affairs of the defense area and the camp really needed to sit down and discuss it. At the moment of the great enemy, domestic and foreign difficulties, Liu Yanqing did not expect Cao Di to suddenly attack. Among them, the swords and axes in the military tent came out, and the generals of the southeast camp were all frightened and inexplicable, and Liu Yanqing was even more shocked.

"Cao Xianggong, what are you doing here?" He stood up, and Tian Shizhen and other henchmen also looked at Cao Di in disbelief.

Cao Di's face was solemn, and when he saw the sword and axe hand listing around, he breathed a sigh of relief and sighed: "Brother Liu, you abandoned Xiangyang without authorization, lost your teacher and lost your land, and the Son of Heaven was furious and decided to change the commander." Please Brother Liu linger in my camp for a few days, and the southeast camp will be subordinate, and the Son of Heaven will choose another good general to take on it. You and I have been friends for decades, and this time, Cao Mou can't abolish public ...... for personal reasons" He said with some sadness for the death of a rabbit and a fox, but Liu Yanqing and the generals in the southeast did not think so, they were angry, but now people are swords, and they are fish and meat. Tian Shizhen, Xia Degui, Wang Yunde, and Yang Yizhong generals pressed their waist knives in their hands and glared angrily at the generals of the Xijing camp in the Chinese army's tent. These people originally came to fight for the camp in the defense area, but who knew that they were taken down by Cao Di by arranging a knife and axe, and the grievances in their hearts can be imagined. Some people secretly thought, shouldn't Cao Xianggong want to annex the southeast camp and take charge of the military alone? Several eyes fell on Liu Yanqing, if he was not convinced, even if several generals knew that they were invincible, they would not be captured.

The atmosphere in the tent of the Chinese army was terrifyingly quiet, and it seemed to be about to erupt. Even the generals of the Xijing camp held their breath.

Liu Yanqing was silent for a long time, then sighed and said: "There are many unruly people in the southeast camp, if they are not good at preaching and appeasing, they will be scattered and become bandits, and at worst they will be used by the Liao people, which will harm the country." The court should be cautious about the change of commanders. These words are quite a bit of death, and their words are also kind. Seeing that Liu Yanqing did not mean to break the net, the faces of the generals of the southeast camp also eased, and their mood turned worried, "This formation, deposing Liu Xianggong, how will the imperial court deal with us?" ”

Cao Di said: "At present, the army of Liao thieves has to act by extraordinary means for fear of causing trouble, and the generals are waiting in our camp with Liu Xianggong. The matter of changing the commander is arranged by the imperial court, and it will not take long to find out. He sighed and sighed: "Those who know me say that I am worried, and those who do not know me say that I want something." ”

"Cao Xianggong worries about the country and the people, and the world knows it."

"If you are fair and righteous, you are a wolf-hearted person, and you should be convinced."

"Prime Minister Zhuge Liang is not as good as Xianggong Cao."

In the tent of the Chinese army, there was a flood of rhetoric for a while, and the generals of the Xijing camp expressed their loyalty.

Liu Yanqing's face was pale, he looked at the corner of the tent and ignored it. The sword and axe hand had not yet retreated, densely blocking the surroundings, making the Chinese military tent look a little dark, and the corners of Liu Yanqing's eyes twitched slightly. The Liu family is not as noble as Cao, Yang, and Zhe, but it is also a generational general. It's not the first time he's been relieved of military power, and every time he makes a comeback, however, this time, he doesn't have a chance. At this moment, Liu Yanqing thought of his three sons, Liu Guangguo, Liu Guangshi, and Liu Guangguo are all brave generals, especially the second son Liu Guangshi, and the saint also promised him a lot, and once had the intention of giving marriage. "Is it because of this that it arouses the suspicion of this surnamed Cao?" Liu Guangshi had many doubts in his mind, but in this scene, his lips moved, and he didn't open his mouth after all.

The generals of the southeast battalion were silent, since the two battalions were combined, Cao Di was authoritarian and self-respecting, and Liu Yanqing was tolerant everywhere, and at the last moment, it was still the case. In the southeast camp, there are fierce generals transferred from all over the country, and there are generals who have guarded the southeast for generations, at this time, even if they echo their words, they cannot be regarded as henchmen by Cao Di, but will be looked down upon. Many people are thinking about how to deal with it, although Liu Xianggong has fallen, but the court always wants everyone to contribute to the war, right? Everyone in the generals was bored. The atmosphere shifted from tense to silent and depressing. Cao Di even had a strange feeling that he had punched him in the air and had nowhere to do it. "This mess, let's let Zhao Xingde clean it up first. Since the Holy Lord reuses you, let's take a look at how capable you are. ”

After detaining the generals of the southeast camp in the main camp of the Chinese army, Cao Di sent the flag officer of the Chinese army to order all units of the southeast camp to guard the camp area and not leave the defensive area without permission on the grounds that the Liao army was about to cross the river and attack. At the same time, Cao Di mobilized the cavalry and artillery battalions of the Xijing battalion to condescend and put the vicinity of the river beach on guard. Most of the 60,000 or 70,000 men and horses who retreated to Jiangdong from the southeast camp were crowded on the river beach, and soon after the commanders of each battalion followed Liu Yanqing to the Chinese army to discuss matters, they were immediately surrounded by soldiers and horses in Xijing.

"Liu Jiedu was detained by Cao Jiedu, and the Xijing army surrounded us."

"Commander Teng, shouldn't Cao Jiedu then let's go to the knife?" The old man Yu Xitian said with a worried face.

"No," Teng Ying shook his head and hesitated, "Cao Jiedu also expects us to fight." He paused, as if to convince himself, and said, "When Liu Jieshuai was in charge of the camp, he only changed the general. Our people are soldiers and eat food, and they have nothing to do with it. "Teng Ying's ancestral home is from Benyuezhou, he joined the army and went to camp in Hebei, and later followed Wang Yan to the south to fight Fangla, in his forties, mixed with the command, and he can be regarded as a glorious ancestor. It's just that his family stayed in Xiangyang, and now his life and death are uncertain, and there is always a layer of melancholy between his eyebrows. In the big camp, Teng Ying is also an old senior, and he restricts the camp-gunners not to go out to make trouble, but the commotion outside the barracks is getting worse and worse, and there are all kinds of shouts faintly.

"Liu Jieshuai is gone, let's not do it anymore!"

"The Xijing soldiers are too deceitful!"

"We're doing well in Xiangyang, it's all caused by these scourges from Xijing!"

"Reason with Your Majesty! Face Saint! Face Saint! ”

"Don't listen to those out there! Be a pawn for others! Teng Ying shouted.

Several of his cronies were suspicious, Teng Ying's face sank, and he said in his heart, "If Wang Jiedu was under his command back then, let's just risk our lives to do it." Liu Xiangping often summons military men, and the deduction of military salaries is not small, let's comment on what to give him his life. In the final analysis, it is nothing more than the generals vying for power. "Not long after the new establishment of the southeast battalion, there was a change of commander, and there were only a lot more intrigues in the battalion than in other battalions. Most of these troublemakers were the confidant officers and personal soldiers who usually accepted the generals under Liu Yanqing, and at this time they did not dare to go out of the camp to rush the artillery array horse team of the soldiers and horses in Xijing, but they made trouble in the camp and pushed others to come out and send them to death. Thinking of this section, Teng Ying's heart was even more cold, he looked at the north coldly, and he didn't know when he would be able to return to Xiangyang and reunite his family.

Because the generals in the battalion were detained in the Chinese army together with Liu Yanqing, the rebels were leaderless, and they made noise and shouted in the camp for a while, but no one led them out. Teng Ying was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether it was true or not, at this time, someone shouted: "It must be the official family who has been deceived by traitors, let's go together to meet the lord who announced the decree and intercede for Liu Xianggong and the generals." When Teng Ying heard him say this, his doubts in his heart were even worse, and some people shouted: "Officers above the command, go and listen to the order, go and listen to the order, if you go late, you will commit the crime of defrauding the king!" ”

"All commanders gather people and horses, go and listen to the announcement, listen to the announcement!" After a while, there were even more people outside the camp beating gongs and drums shouting. Teng Ying was skeptical. There are too many deceitful things in these years, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, under the pretext of listening to the proclamation, and entangled the soldiers in the army to coerce the saint, which is like a mutiny, and if you don't listen to the order, I am afraid that you have really committed the crime of deceiving the king.

Several officers in the battalion were as shocked as Teng Ying, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

"My lord, instead of hesitating, why don't you go out and see what is going on," Yu Xitian said: "Bring a trustworthy brother, seeing that the momentum is not right, let's come back immediately, we can't let people calculate." Teng Ying looked at all the officers, all of them looked approving, and then nodded and said: "In this way, it's okay, you wait for the good students to restrain your subordinates, don't fall for other people's tricks, Yu Dutou and I will go to see what is going on." ”

Zhao Xingde stood in front of the camp gate, he wore a white robe on the outside, and he wore chain mail on the inside, and the Xijing camp officer who accompanied him to issue the decree turned his face to the side, as if he was not moved by the noise in the camp, but he had the intention of watching a joke inside. Cao Di said that in order to cheer for fire prevention and provoke a mutiny, he only gave 500 people to accompany him to announce the decree, and Zhao Xingde was not allowed to bring his subordinates from Ezhou to come. Deng Su, who was in charge of announcing the decree, had a stern face, Xiucai met the soldiers, and he couldn't explain it clearly, even though he was full of strategies, he was at a loss in the face of this situation that was close to mutiny.

Seventy or eighty thousand people in the southeast camp hurriedly set up camp on the river beach, which was already chaotic, and the command camp with good military discipline was still neat, and the army was very poor, so they set up some tents and grass huts at will to live temporarily, and at this moment it was even more chaotic, although there was nothing to cover outside the camp, but looking into it from the gate of the camp, the people and horses ran back and forth, and the soldiers who probed their brains watched from behind the tent, and the angry and even hostile soldiers gathered at the door, and there was a noise behind them, shouting, beating gongs and drums one after another.

"It's not out of control yet."

Zhao Xingde listened attentively for a while, and said to Deng Su beside him, he looked at the generals of the Song army who were following behind him, and secretly thought: "Now the defense of Ezhou is not what it used to be, and Yue Han's reinforcements should arrive soon." At present, if they use the rebellious soldiers to harm me, they will completely fight Ezhou and kill themselves. Zhao Xingde pondered for a moment, estimating that Zhao Qi and Cao Di would not be so frustrated.

"Let's go." He nudged his mount, "Go in and have a look." Without waiting for anyone to come out to greet him, he rode straight into the messy camp.

Deng Su hesitated slightly, urging his mount to follow Zhao Xingde. The face of the general of Na Xijing showed a hint of color, he sneered twice, and led hundreds of cavalry to follow Zhao Deng and the others into the southeast camp.