Zhu Li garrisoned the north bank of Weishui, always paying attention to the movements of Tuoba Sigong and Li Xiaochang.

In fact, Zhu Wen had already discovered the situation of the East Bridge, but he found that Zhu Li did not wave his army straight into Chang'an, and after thinking about it, he understood what the other party was worried about, so he just set up some obstacles and stationed some manpower between the Weishui East Bridge and the Weishui Bridge to prevent Zhu Li from sneaking attack, so he concentrated on dealing with Li Xiaochang.

Of course, Tuoba Sigong and Li Xiaochang also got the news that Zhu Libing took the Weishui East Bridge bloodlessly, but the two did not invite each other to help, after all, at the beginning, the two relied on a large number of soldiers and generals, and they simply took people out, and now they are naturally embarrassed to ask Zhu Li for help.

The key is the two of them, one is the Yan Yan Festival Envoy, and the other is the freshly baked Xia Suiyin Festival Envoy, if the two Jie Degree Envoys' records are not comparable to a small thorn history, then their people will be lost.

Since mid-July, the Youzhou army and the Yanyan army have launched countless charges to the south of the bridge one after another, but they were all beaten back by Zhu Wen without accident.

The battle lasted for a long time, and in mid-August, Li Xiaochang and Tuoba Sigong could no longer bear such losses, so they had to stop the attack and wanted to continue to contact more Jiedu envoys to come to help.

However, the war is not something that you can stop and fight when you say you will stop, and the two armies of Li Xiaochang and Tuoba Sigong have low morale and are still vainly trying to stop fighting, is this possible?

In late August, Zhu Wen and Meng Kai led their men and horses to raid at night, and defeated Tuoba Sigong and Li Xiaochang's camp at once.

In desperation, Zhu Li had no choice but to retreat to the northeast, and the army advanced and retreated in an orderly manner under the command of Zhou Dewei, without giving Zhu Wen and Meng Kai any opportunity to escape from Zhu Wen's pursuit safely.

The army retreated to Weinan, and happened to meet Zheng Jin, who had won a great victory and came to support, so they were stationed and waited for Zhu Wen and Meng Kai's pursuers.

The next day, Wang Chongying, the envoy of the Suining Festival, also rushed to King Qin, and somehow found this place, so the three parties joined forces and set up a line of defense.

After a few days, after collecting the remnants of the army, Li Xiaochang and Tuoba Sigong, who had become like dragons and tigers, also rushed to Weinan, and under the discussion of everyone, they planned to fight a decisive battle with Zhu Wen and Meng Kai in Weinan.

For the battle situation on the bank of Weishui, the two knots returned with a big defeat, and the news that an assassin had surrendered the enemy army without blood spread far and wide, which made Li Xiaochang and Tuoba Sigong in the coalition army very embarrassed.

Even Xi Zong, who was in Chengdu, was very surprised when he heard the news, the emperor likes people who can win battles, even the eunuch Tian Lingzi is very happy, after all, the power of the eunuch comes from the emperor, if the Tang Dynasty falls, the Li family will certainly die out, but as the eunuchs who call for wind and rain in the Tang Dynasty, they are also unlucky.

Soon Chengdu issued an edict sent to the coalition army, this time the edict of Zheng Zheng Xingying soldiers and horses, and Zhu Li as the camp of the Hedong Jiedu envoy, together with the head of the coalition army, attacking Zhu Wen and Meng Kai.

In the temporary camp, the atmosphere is a little weird, the weird atmosphere is caused by the change of identity, the last time the rebellion against Shatuo, Zheng Zhen was the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, Li Xiaochang was the history of the Yan Yan Assassin, Wang Chongying was the history of the Sui Ning Assassin, and Zhu Li was just a small Yunqi lieutenant at that time.

After pacifying Shatuo, Li Xiaochang became the envoy of the Yan Festival, Wang Chongying became the envoy of the Ning Festival, and the only thing that remained unchanged was Zheng Jin, and Zhu Li just became a Xiazhou assassin, in the eyes of these bigwigs, it was indeed insignificant.

But now it's different, don't talk about Zheng Jin, just say Zhu Li, he has now become the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, and he also has the word "camp", and he is in charge of the three armies, and the change in status makes these bigwigs feel uncomfortable.

The bigwigs who used to be high in the sky, but now they have to sit down and listen to the assignment of a young man, the atmosphere is not weird, even Tuoba Sigong, the newly emerged Xia Suiyin Festival envoy under the banner of King Qin, his expression is also very ugly, after all, he has the greatest momentum, and almost brought out most of the elite of the party, but the result is still a complete failure.

As for Li Xiaochang, he has a ghost in his heart, and the idea of dividing the soldiers into three ways, but what he suggested to Tuoba Sigong was that he just saw that Zhu Li had few soldiers, and deliberately wanted to see Zhu Li's jokes, but he didn't see other people's jokes, but he became a joke.

Zheng Ji took the lead in breaking this embarrassing atmosphere and said: "Zhu Wen and Meng Kai's army is in front, if you have a good plan to break the enemy, you might as well say it, let's discuss it and see if it is feasible." ”

Everyone, look at me, I see that you are silent, but Tuoba Sigong arched his hand and said: "Manager Zheng, our army has been newly defeated, and all the baggage grain and grass have fallen into the hands of the grass army, I think it is better to solve the problem of baggage grain and grass first, the sons and daughters can't eat enough, and they can't be loyal to the country." (Tang Dynasty: Generally called Jiedu envoys as governors, governors, etc.) ）

"Yes, let's solve the problem of heavy grain and grass first." Li Xiaochang echoed and said that his heavy grain and grass were also lost.

When Zheng Ji heard this, he said calmly: "Don't worry about the two of you, I have captured a large number of baggage after breaking through Shangrang, and I will give some to the two of you later." ”

When Tuoba Sigong and Li Xiaochang heard this, they glanced at each other, and hurriedly thanked Zheng Jin: "Thank you for your help." ”

"Thank you, Steward."

"You're welcome, it's all for the country." Zheng Jin said lightly, "The army of Zhu Wen and Meng Kai is about the same number as ours, if it is a hard fight, it will take a long time, so I think it is still based on surprise attacks." ”

Everyone nodded silently, but still no one spoke, this scene, so that Zhu Li couldn't sit still, he came to this era, and found that the biggest problem of the bureaucrats in the Tang Dynasty was deliberations, a group of people got together to talk nonsense, or simply meditated silently, that is, they couldn't discuss a charter, and the efficiency was too poor.

So he arched his hand to Zheng Zheng and said: "Manager Zheng, Huangchao attacked Chang'an, and won a victory on the surface, but ended up in a dilemma of being attacked by enemies everywhere. Zhu believes that we can release rumors to confuse the guards of the grass army, and it would be better if we could discourage the enemy's army without spending a single soldier. ”

"Hmm, Zhu Dudu might as well be more detailed." Zheng Zheng came to the spirit, and even the others also cheered up, after all, Zhu Li's record was not blown out, but real, and many people here had cooperated with him, so they all attached great importance to his suggestions.

Zhu Li looked around at everyone and continued: "We can spread rumors, saying that Huangchao will inevitably be defeated, it is best to say it reasonably, convincingly, most of the grass army are ordinary people, and the people are blind, the most susceptible to rumors, if they believe that Huangchao is doomed to defeat, within a few days, the grass army will inevitably have someone to flee, once we drive a large number of grass army to disperse, wouldn't we be able to defeat Zhu Wen and others without much effort?" ”

"Okay, good idea." Zheng Jin looked at Zhu Li with burning eyes and said continuously.

"Yes, it's wonderful." Wang Chongying, the only one who had no ill feelings towards Zhu Li, also stroked his hands and praised it.

Even Li Xiaochang and Tuoba Sigong also acquiesced in the brilliance of the strategy, the most important thing is to use Zhu Li's strategy, there is no need to send troops at all, so that they can slow down and regroup their military prestige after a big defeat in Weishui.

The plan has been decided, everyone is divided into preparations, Zheng Ji sent people to collect countless coarse cloths, cut them into pieces, and then write on the coarse cloth the ten reasons why Huang Chao will be defeated, tie the coarse cloth to the feather arrows, and order the guards to shoot into the Zhu Wen camp at night.

That night, the grass army patrol guards found the feather arrows such as the camp, and thought that someone had sneak attacked, but after countless feather arrows fell indiscriminately into the camp, there was no movement, the patrol guard pulled out a feather arrow, checked it, and found that there was something on the feather arrow, opened it and looked at it, and was immediately shocked.

At the beginning of the coarse cloth is four big characters, "Huangchao will be defeated", and the reasons for Huangchao's defeat are specifically analyzed below these four big words: "One: The grass army is attacking and plundering everywhere, and it does not think about management, so it cannot last, and the king does not take it, it is for the defeat of one; Two: Today, the grass army stole Chang'an, the world shook, and the group attacked it, with a cloth cloth in the yellow nest, it can be a group of heroes in the world, and it is necessary to defeat the two; ......”

The reasons listed above are all clear-eyed and well-founded, and the patrol guard was sweating profusely and his face turned pale, and at this moment, many guards were awakened by the sound of arrows, and quietly took off their bows and arrows, and took off the strips of cloth.

The patrol team was discovering that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered people to hand in the feather arrows, but at this time, although many people pretended to pull out the arrows and hand them in, they quietly put the strips of cloth into their arms.

Zhu Wen was also woken up by his subordinates at night, asked the reason, and immediately changed his expression, before dawn, he asked the military camp and collected the coarse cloth, but there was still a lot of cloth brocade with the words "Huangchao will be defeated".

Many generals and strategists of the grass army were awakened by this incident, draped and dressed neatly, and entered the big tent of the Chinese army one after another.

Zhu Wen sat on the first place, his face was so gloomy that he could drip water, looked around at the left and right civil and military, and said in a deep voice: "Zheng Zhen is really old and spicy, this move is indeed yin, and he wants to defeat my tens of thousands of troops without spending a single soldier, and his heart can be punished." Ladies and gentlemen, how to deal with it now, please do everything you can to calm this matter, if not, we don't have to fight, just prepare to run away. ”

There are a lot of capable people under Zhu Wen's command, and now it is an emergency military meeting, and there are dozens of civil and military soldiers standing in the big tent, everyone took the coarse cloth strips and circulated them to each other, but no one spoke for a while.

After the tea was circulated, a sturdy general stepped forward and said: "General, now the rumors in the army have not completely dispersed, we might as well take the opportunity to send troops to Weinan and fight to the death with Zheng Jin, there is still a fight to break the rumors with actual results." ”