After Zhang Qian crossed the Gushui River, he stayed by Li Zhihe's side and watched the development of the situation.

Li Zhihe's tooth tent was set up in the camp in the west of the city, and at noon the next day, Deng Tai sent someone to report that some time earlier, Luoshan City, which had been closed for half a year, put down the drawbridge in Dongcheng, and several people entered Luoshan City from the camp in the east of the city where the Tangyi army was stationed.

Zhang Qian, Xu Jing, Yao Xishui and others hurried to the north camp of the city where Deng Tai was the main general with Li Zhihe.

The watchtower built by the bamboo tower in the north of the city is high and narrow, and people can clearly see the situation inside and outside the east gate of Luoshan when standing on the watchtower that is more than six zhang high.

When they rushed to the camp in the north of the city and climbed the watchtower made of bamboo and wood, the drawbridge at the east city gate had already been closed, and it was not clear who Han Qian sent into Luoshan City to negotiate with Wen Bo, Cao Ba, Xue Chuan and other enemy generals.

Although Zhou Yuan also found a craftsman to polish the copper telescope in Xuzhou, he didn't know what was wrong, and the effect was always not ideal, and it could not effectively increase the field of vision.

Li Zhihe and the others climbed the watchtower and looked at it for a long time, but they didn't see anything unusual in the city, so they could only wait in Deng Tai's big tent first.

Almost at dusk, the sun was setting in the west, and Li Zhihe planned to return to the camp in the west of the city first, and the sentry guards in the watchtower rushed over to report that more than a dozen people in Luoshan City were coming to the north city gate, and the defenders of the north city gate tower were preparing hanging baskets, and it seemed that they were going to use hanging baskets to release people out of the north city gate.

Their movements outside the city were clearly seen by the Luoshan defenders, but they didn't know the movements inside the city, which was really depressing.

After waiting for a stick of incense, more than a dozen soldiers brought Guo Rong, the former Marquis Wen Zhanyu and Wen Bo's chief bookkeeper Gu Dingyuan and others into the big tent to meet Li Zhihe, Zhang Qian and others.

Emperor Tianyou fought in the south and the north, as the eldest son of Wen Duqiao, Wen Zhanyu also made great achievements, and was named the Marquis of Kou, but he left his hands and feet disabled on the battlefield, and did not hold a specific official position after the founding of the Great Chu, but his son Wen Yuan was one of the generals of the Wen Boya Army and a leading figure in the third generation of Wen's children.

Li Zhihe recognized Wen Zhanyu in his early years, and Xu Jing and others could also recognize his appearance from Xu Jing's slightly narrow cheeks and high cheekbones, and Wen Bo, and then look at his hands and feet, it is naturally not difficult to guess his identity.

However, they had long known that Wen Zhanyu was not in Luoshan City before, and seeing Wen Zhanyu appear at this time, there was no doubt that the Wen clan was indeed robbed from Xuzhou to Tangyi by Han Qian, and had already negotiated with Han Qian on the terms, so they had the opportunity to enter Luoshan City with Guo Rong to meet Wen Bo at noon.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the big tent was so oppressive that it seemed that there would be thunder and rain in the next moment.

Zhang Qian's heart mentioned his throat, he was worried that Li Zhihe would not be able to hold it back, so he turned his face on the spot, asked Guo Rong and Wen Zhanyu to be detained, and even directly launched the beheading signal in front of the tent, and the situation was really mixed into a mess.

Li Zhihe put down the file in his hand, his face was gloomy, as if a dark cloud was shrouded, he ignored Wen Zhanyu and Gu Dingyuan, his cloudy eyes stared at Guo Rong, tried his best to contain the anger in his heart, and asked: "So, the Marquis of Qianyang has already negotiated terms with the Wen family?" ”

Guo Rong saw that all the generals in the big tent were eyeing him, and he wanted to skin him and swallow him alive, but he had no fear and approached

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, arched his hand towards Li Zhihe and said:

"Wen Bo, Xue Ba and other generals hated the evil deeds of Anning Palace and Xu Mingzhen's cruel usurpation of the first emperor, but their relatives were coerced as hostages after thieves, and they were coerced to act as a tiger. However, in any case, Lord Zhang and the Marquis of Xinjin are here, so it is more appropriate to inform Lord Zhang and the Marquis of Xinjin about this matter, draw up a preliminary plan, and then enter the imperial court. ”

Seeing that the faces of Li Zhihe, Deng Tai and others were clouded, Zhang Qian stood up to play a round and asked Wen Zhanyu and Gu Dingyuan: "But I don't know how the defenders of Luoshan are willing to truly return to the imperial court, and they don't intend to delay time?" ”

Zhang Qian said that he was asking what conditions the defenders of Luoshan were, but in fact he asked Han Qian what conditions he had negotiated with the Wen family.

Guo Rong smiled and replied directly on behalf of Wen Zhanyu and Gu Dingyuan:

"The Marquis of Qianyang has made it very clear that since the princes of the court have decided to join Shu to attack Liang, even if Tangyi has different opinions and is worried that the war situation in the Central Plains will endanger Jianghuai, he will never stay out of the matter. The top priority at the moment is to reorganize the Luoshan garrison into a new army, commanded by Wen Bo, under the command of the Zuo Wuxiang army, and controlled by Huang Xu, the Marquis of Jiangyin, to strengthen the offensive against Wuguan and ensure that it can join forces with the Shu army to capture Yongzhou City before next summer, before the Mengwu people and the Weizhou rebels. Doing so is also an opportunity to give the defenders of Luoshan a chance to make meritorious contributions, and then they should be rewarded and punished depending on whether they are active in the offensive or not......"

Zhang Qian made a "sigh" in his heart, thinking to himself what kind of condition this is, and what is Han Qian's intention, is it to force the Luoshan defenders to enter Yong, and use cruel warfare to consume the combat power of the Luoshan defenders, which is the purpose of attrition and weakening?

Zhang Qian looked at Li Zhihe hesitantly, but he didn't know what Li Zhihe thought in his heart, but in his opinion, such conditions were definitely not good for the Xiangbei Army, after all, their expectation of absorbing the Luoshan garrison was completely disappointed, but it was not extremely bad.

It was not that Li Zhihe did not send people into the city to recruit surrender before, but Wen Bo put forward the condition that Gwangju be divided out separately, and he would lead the Gwangju Assassin to lead the troops to garrison, and he could only accept the moderation of the Xiangbei Defense Embassy in name.

In this way, the surrender is equal to the non-surrender, but the soldiers and horses of the Xiangbei army still have to withdraw from Lingshan, Yiyang and other places.

The current condition is that Wen Bo will lead his troops to attack Guanzhong, on the one hand, he will continue to be under the surveillance of the Xiangbei Army, and on the other hand, he will be completely separated from the Tangyi Army, at least in the short term, and he will not have to worry about being completely co-opted by Han Qian, right?

And Tang Yi didn't reveal his ambition to take over Wen Bo's department, maybe Han Qian knew in his heart that he couldn't really win the trust of the Wen family, right? Preventing Li Zhihe and other factions from co-opting Wen Bo and Luoshan's defenders may also be a realistic choice for Tangyi to eliminate the hidden dangers of the flanks and limit the growth of competing forces.

Wen Zhanyu officially appeared in Luoshan this time, and the secret of Tangyi's hijacking of the Wen clan was also semi-public.

If Wen Bo led his troops to attack Guanzhong, the Liang army really made any achievements, and the imperial court would be able to justifiably exempt the Wen family from the crime of rebellion in Anning Palace, and move the Wen clan from Tangyi to Jinling to settle down.

Now, Wen Bo and the Luoshan garrison can be independent of the Xiangbei army and the Tangyi army, and they can also meet the expectations of many princes and ministers.

And the Wen and Luoshan defenders are not

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Whether it is sincerely attached, whether it can be used by the court in the future is a matter for later.

Of course, Zhang Qian was willing to submit such a result to the Jinling Princes, but he could not ignore Li Zhihe's opinion at this time; Even if he wanted to rush back to Jinling to do his job in the near future, he had to ask Li Zhihe's opinion first.

Li Zhihe thought about it for a long time before he said to Zhang Qian: "Since the Marquis of Qianyang has negotiated such conditions with the defenders of Luoshan, then please ask Lord Zhang to work hard and see the verdict of the princes!" ”

Hearing Li Zhihe say this, Zhang Qian thought to himself, what kind of opinion is this? Cautiously asked: "I see Wen Bo, really ask everything clearly, and then rush back to Jinling to do something, maybe it is better?" ”

"Then I'll bother Master Zhang." Li Zhihe arched his hand and said.

"What do you say about the ownership of Luoshan City?" Xu Jing couldn't help but ask when Zhang Qian and Guo Rong went to Luoshan City to meet Wen Bo.

Li Zhihe did not interrupt Xu Jing's questioning, and Deng Tai, Yao Xishui and others also stared at Guo Rong and Wen Zhanyu.

Luoshan County is located in the north of Yiyang, out of the gap between Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, and can only border the Huai River through Luoshan County, which can be said to be a strategic place to control the upper reaches of the Huai River and peep into Caizhou in the north.

The five counties of Gwangju, Le'an County and Huangchuan County have fallen into Tangyi's pocket, and they don't expect to get it back at this time, but Luoshan County has to fight for it.

"Huaixi is dilapidated, vast and sparsely populated, and it is urgent to fill the gap with 20,000 civilians in Luoshan City, but as for Luoshan City, it still has to bother the Marquis of Xinjin to defend the palace, and the two armies work together to defeat the rebels in Shouzhou." Guo Rong said.

Xu Jing looked back at Li Zhihe, unsure if he could accept the result of dividing the land into the two armies.

Li Zhihe stood up, couldn't hide his frustration and said, "I'll give Master Zhang a ride." ”

Sent someone to escort Zhang Qian with Guo Rong, Wen Zhanyu and others to the north city gate, and the defenders put down the basket to enter the city, standing in front of the gate, watching Zhang Qian follow Guo Rong and Wen Zhanyu into Luoshan City, Deng Tai couldn't help but ask suspiciously:

"Could Han Qian have a deeper scheming and want to use Wen Bo to disadvantage my Xiangbei?"

To reorganize the Luoshan garrison into an army and cooperate with Zuo Wuxiang's army to fight against the Liang army in Guanzhong, it was inevitable to enter Junzhou by means of Xiangbei, but only by opening the Wuguan passage from Jingzikou could he enter Guanzhong.

Deng Tai was worried that when Wen Bo's troops passed through the territory of Xiangbei, they would suddenly attack with the Tangyi army, which would cause the Xiangbei army to fall into a more passive situation.

"You shouldn't have to worry too much, right?" Xu Jing said.

Luoshan City has sufficient materials and strong cities, they are not willing to pay heavy casualties, and they have no way to take Wen Bo's department in a short time, but Wen Bo led his troops to borrow the road from Xiangbei to the west, they retreated to Lingshan and Yiyang camps, and only a small number of soldiers and horses can hold the gap between Tongbai Mountain and Huaiyang Mountain, and a large number of elite generals will retreat to the southern foot of Huaiyang Mountain with Wen Bo's department.

Furthermore, when Wen Bo led his troops to borrow from Xiangbei, first the key cities along the way were under the strict control of the Xiangbei Army, and then accurately supplied a certain amount of grain, straw and grass.

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