This general is none other than Pang Shigu, the general of Zhu Wen's confidant tooth soldiers, who has a lot of weight in Zhu Wen's heart, and his words are pertinent and expedient.

"No," Master Pang said, and an elegant young man with a horse's face immediately spoke up to stop him, this person's name is Li Zhen, and he is Zhu Wen's chief strategist.

Li Zhen is the great-grandson of Li Baozhen, the Tang Dynasty Sikong, who fell in the middle of the family road, tried and failed, and defected to the grass army in a fit of anger, which happened to be appreciated by Zhu Wen, and is now Zhu Wen's first strategist.

"Could it be that Brother Li has a way to settle this matter?" Pang Shigu looked at him suspiciously.

Li Zhen didn't look at him, but said to Zhu Wen: "General, the reason why King Qin's army is confronting us is to recover Chang'an, they are the attacking side, we are the defensive side, and now there is not much difference in strength. ”

"I have studied Zheng Jin, and his subordinates said frankly that if there are loyal ministers in the Tang Dynasty, then this Zheng Zheng is undoubtedly one of them, he has been a scholar in his life, a household servant, a bachelor of Hanlin, and a history of Wuzhou Thorn, and as a jiedu envoy to lead the troops to fight, he is still a novice, which shows that this person is far more in terms of the art of war and strategy, and the planning of the troops on paper is far more than the actual command."

"In today's situation, Qin Wangjun and I can't hold each other, but the enemy has used such a sharp strategy to deal with us, this is not Zheng Jin's style, he does not have this vision and determination, let alone the measure of grasping the opportunity."

When Zhu Wen heard this, his expression became more solemn, and he wondered: "Could it be that there are people in the coalition army?" ”

"Yes, General, even if we quell the rumors, if we don't get rid of this person, it will definitely cause us big trouble." Li Zhen arched his hand and looked at Zhu Wendao sincerely.

Zhu Wen pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "Someone, go check it out for me, and see who proposed this plan." ”

"Li Zhen, to quell this incident, I'll leave it to you." After Zhu Wen instructed someone to investigate the person who offered the advice, he said to Li Zhen.

"No"

Since the attack plan was issued, in the first few days, the grass army guards fled one after another, and Zhu Li took the opportunity to let Zhou Dewei take Meng Juehai to collect them, and they also collected thousands of people one after another.

But a few days later, the other side had already restrained the deserters, which made the coalition side happy for a few days, and began to think hard about countermeasures, not because the plan was not good, but because there were too many capable people in the grass army, which Zhu Li had to admire.

However, although the attack plan was quelled by the other party, it also caused the other party to flee with nearly 10,000 guards, which was not fruitless, and the big bosses of the coalition army could not blame anything.

Li Zhen calmed down Zhu Li's scheming, but he wasted a lot of money, and with the frightened and confused grass army guards, it was not easy to be fooled.

He first summoned the generals and listed Zhu Wen's achievements one by one, so that they could publicize them in the grass army, Zhu Wen's record in the righteous army is indeed undoubted, although it is not a victory in every battle, but it is also eight or nine out of ten victories, but it stabilized the military heart of part of the grass army, Zhu Li is aimed at Huangchao will be defeated, but Zhu Wen is in front of his subordinates, and his prestige is still unmatched.

At the same time, he sent people to arrest the fleeing grass army, cut off their heads in public, kill chickens and monkeys, and make an example of the monkeys, but the rout of the grass army was reduced to a negligible extent, and in the end, he drew a big pie for the grass army, stimulated their desires, rebuilt their fighting spirit, and completely put an end to the grass army guards' thoughts of escaping.

At this time, the grass army also got the news of Zhu Li's scheming.

The grass army was discussing the countermeasures to get rid of Zhu Li, and Zhu Li's record was soon placed in front of Zhu Wen, to be honest, which surprised the civil and military forces of the grass army.

Ulzhou stopped the army and fought and beheaded the thirteen generals of Shatuo; Offer advice and authenticity, break Fu Wenda, and capture his people alive; once again offer advice to fly to seize the state; On the bank of Weishui, the horses shot stiffly, planned to capture Meng Juehai, and the soldiers collected their soldiers without blood.

In the face of such a brave and resourceful general, even the countless strategists under Zhu Wen were sad, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

At this time, a voice sounded: "General, this Zhu Li, his subordinates know him." ”

As soon as the voice was heard, everyone's eyes turned to the direction where the voice came, most of this person was blind, he should just be a brigade commander, and he didn't know how to run into the big army camp, but at this time, no one cared about this, even Zhu Wen looked at that person with bright eyes.

It was a sturdy, thin brigade commander, his eyes flashed, shrewd and well-behaved, he seemed to be harmless to humans and animals, his name was Li Yanzhang, Huang Chao went south, and the soldiers were divided into two ways, he was the captain under the command of Bi Shiduo of the West Road Grass Army.

Bi Shiduo's troops were defeated in Tanzhou, he fled and left, and even let him touch the east road of the grass army all the way, and entered the base camp of Huangchao, and by coincidence, he became Zhu Wen's subordinate again.

"Do you know Zhu Li?" Zhu Wen stared at Li Yanzhang for a moment, and asked.

Li Yanzhang knelt down on one knee and arched his hand: "Yes, general, Zhu Li was originally a member of the guard of our grass army, and by chance, he worshipped Pang Xun's old military captain as a teacher, and his subordinates heard that they later took refuge in Hongzhou Weichi's family." ”

"Yes, that's right, Zhu Li was deeply liked by Li Keju because of the recommendation of Wei Chixin, the son of Wei Chi Khotan, and when Li Ke used the strategy to replace Shuo, he became famous in a battle, and he had this achievement." When Li Zhen heard this, he showed a look of surprise, and continued: "Before, my subordinates only found out, Zhu Li was recommended by Wei Chixin, and was the first to serve as the envoy of Danzhou Beikou, but he didn't know anything about his previous affairs. ”

"He has been in the grass army, and he knows a lot about us very well, and now he is an enemy of us, and the danger is even greater." Li Zhen's expression was solemn and solemn.

When everyone heard him say this, their expressions became even heavier, but the brigade commander named Li Yanzhang spoke again: "General, all the officials, Zhu Li also has a weakness. ”

"Weakness?" When everyone heard this, they immediately came to their senses, and Zhu Wen said urgently: "What is the weakness?" ”

"General, when his subordinates met Zhu Li, there were only him and his sister, at that time, there was news that he and his parents were lost in the army, and when his subordinates went to Guiguan from Tanzhou, they happened to meet a couple on the way, and after careful questioning, they knew that these two people were Zhu Li's parents, and the subordinates thought that they were all people from the grass army, so they took the couple by the way, and now they are still placed in the auxiliary army." Li Yanzhang's expression flickered, and a trace of ruthlessness and eagerness flashed in his eyes.

"Hahaha, God help me." When Zhu Wen heard this, his expression was lifted, and he laughed heartily.

"Hahaha, where else can Zhu Li run this time, he Ah Lang and Ah Niang are all in our hands, aren't they let us knead them?" Li Zhen was also very happy, and echoed.

However, in the big tent, although most of the people look happy, there are also many people who look strange, after all, if this kind of behavior is spread, it will definitely make the world look disgusted.

However, what they despise even more in their hearts is that people like Li Yanzhang use the lives of other people's parents as advanced qualifications, and they are not the sons of men.

Zhu Wen was in a good mood, and sure enough, he rewarded Li Yanzhang, accepted him as his righteous son, gave him the name Zhu Yougong, and promoted him to the rank of pro-soldier captain, although the official rank was only promoted by two levels, but the significance was not trivial, and it also made Li Yanzhang very excited.

Following.

Zhu Wen said that Meng Kai came to fight the coalition army for the first time, and named Zhu Li by name.

Everyone in the coalition army didn't know why, but they had to come out to meet Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen is the general of Huang Chao, he and Meng Kai are known as Huang Chao's right-hand men, and now the two of them come together, and everyone has to cheer up to deal with it.

The two armies confronted each other, and Zhu Wen shouted loudly in the direction of the coalition army from a distance of several hundred meters: "I have heard for a long time that Zhu Li in Shuozhou is both civil and military, and Zhu admires it, so Zhu has a reluctant request, General Zhu Li, dare to come out and see it." ”

When the envoys of the two armies heard this, they looked suspicious, this Zhu Wen came, did he just want to take a look at Zhu Li, things are definitely not that simple.

"General, Zhu Wen has countless capable people, he wants to see you by name this time, and the one who will inevitably come is not good, please be careful, general." Zhou Dewei was on Zhu Li's side, and said in a low voice.

When Zhu Li heard this, he glanced at him and said indifferently: "What Dewei said is that no matter what happens, control the army and be careful not to fall for his plan." ”

The grass army rashly came to fight, but it was beyond Zhu Li's expectations, the other party was to prevent them from going south, and now it has become the attacking side, even if Zhu Li wants to break his head, he can't think of what conspiracy the other party is playing, so he can only redouble his supervision, be careful and be careful.

After instructing Zhou Dewei and Shi Yan, Zhu Li knocked the jade unicorn horse's belly, drove the horse out of the formation, and walked towards the battlefield. ”

"Arrogance, Zhu Li, what kind of thing are you, and you are qualified to fight against my general." The exit was a mighty man, very strong, even if he was hundreds of meters away, he could feel the oncoming bloody qi on his body.

Zhu Li ignored him, but looked straight at Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen's eyes narrowed slightly, looked at Zhu Li and said: "Zhu Li, if the news I get is good, you were originally from Xuzhou, and you used to be a member of my grass army, why do you want to be an enemy of the Yellow King now?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Li's expression was calm, his identity and origin, if the other party went to check carefully, he would always be able to find out, for Zhu Wen to know this, he was not surprised, and said loudly: "Since ancient times, the official forced the people to rebel, this is an iron law, however, throughout history, the consequences of the people's rebellion can only bring greater disasters to the people of the world, often these poor people, they fight desperately all their lives, and the final result is either to make wedding dresses for others, or to be used by those who have intentions, and they are unlucky. ”

"Zhu Li is not talented, he doesn't want to follow the grass army to cause evil everywhere, he can only stay useful, do his best, retreat to one side, and protect the safety of the Li people, General Zhu thinks that what he said is right."