Beads of sweat oozed from Li Yuande's forehead, and he trembled and got up and saluted Zhao Junsheng: "Xiaguan, go back and discuss with the generals and try your best to convince them!" However, some officials are on business, and some generals are guarding elsewhere, and it will take time to come to Jixian County, please ask the general to give a few more days! ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and said: "The emperor gave General Ben a limited amount of time, so General Ben didn't play dumb riddles with Li Taishou, and directly told this matter, in order to save time." In this way, Ben will give you five days at most, and there you go! ”

“······ The next official retires! Li Yuande bowed and cautiously retreated with Yang Zhubo.

Zhao Junsheng and Dongfang Chen saw the two of them leave and smiled at each other.

Dongfang Chen said: "General, these days, Li Yuande and his gang are afraid that they won't be able to sleep every day!" ”

"Sir, do you think Li Yuande will take the risk and rebel?" Zhao Junsheng took a sip of tea and asked.

Dongfang Chen said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, Li Yuande is not a fool, and his generals are not completely brainless, with their strength, it is simply self-defeating to rebel, who would dare to do this great crime of punishing the Nine Clans in a hurry?" If they collude with Beiyan, discuss it in advance, and have foreign aid to respond, maybe they can escape to Beiyan, and if they start in a hurry, they can only end up with the annihilation of the whole army! ”

Zhao Junsheng got up and walked back and forth in the lobby, and then Li Baolai reported: "General, Gao Xu sent someone to contact, he has led an army of four thousand to the outside of the mountain pass of the military capital!" ”

"Oh? Gao Xu has already arrived with his people? It's coming pretty fast, it's good! You go and call the person sent by Gao Xu to contact us! ”

Li Bao turned around and shouted, "Come in!" ”

A young man in his twenties dressed as a woodcutter walked in and reported to Zhao Junsheng: "General, Vice General Gao sent a villain to report to the general, the army has arrived on the north bank of Qingyi Water outside the mountain pass of the military capital, and is ready to listen to the general's orders at any time!" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Did the army come from Wuchuan Town and go outside the fortress to encounter any trouble?" ”

"Back to the general's words, the army passed through many Xianbei tribes along the way, although they were on guard against our army, but there was no conflict, and the army also bought beef and mutton and fur from some Xianbei tribes along the way, there was no conflict, and there were no casualties!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "That's good, you first assassinate the Shifu to rest for a day, and then return after breakfast early tomorrow morning with enough dry food, and tell Gao Xu when you go back, in the future, you will contact with Xinying, and the military order will also be passed by Xinying!" Li Bao, you can arrange for him to bring the letter eagle with him tomorrow morning before he leaves! ”

"Yes, General!"

But it was said that Li Yuande and Yang Zhubo came out of the Thorn History Mansion, and then they both felt that their backs were wet with sweat, and it was not until after getting into the carriage that Li Yuande breathed a sigh of relief and said to Yang Zhubo: "I didn't expect this Zhao Junsheng to be young, but he spoke and acted like an old fox, and this official was scared out of a cold sweat by him!" ”

Yang Zhubo couldn't help but say helplessly: "Why aren't your subordinates? ”

Back at Taishou Mansion, Li Yuande immediately sent people to call several generals and subordinate officials to discuss major matters, including Jiang Yuanxing, the county commander, Dou Wen, Changshi Zhai Guang, the county lieutenant Wu Baozhi, and the generals Dou Ba and Yao Yongcuo.

These subordinate officials and generals were all officials and generals of Liu Song of the Southern Dynasty who were captured with Li Yuande, Jiang Yuanxing was Sizhou Beijia, Dou Wen was Sizhou Zhizhong, Zhai Guang was Xingyang Taishou, Dou Ba was General Jianwei, Yao Yongcuo was General Zhenwu, and Wu Baozhi was General Zhenwei.

Everyone arrived, and Yang Zhubo got up and said to everyone under Li Yuande's signal: "Everyone, Zhao Junsheng, the new assassin of Fang Cai, called the prince and the lower officials over and said that he wanted to take over the military power in our hands, and the 12,000 people were afraid that they would all have to be handed over, Zhao Junsheng gave the prince five days to think about it, which is why the prince summoned you over!" ”

Dou Ba immediately shouted: "What? Why is he? Lao Tzu has worked hard for so many years, and finally accumulated these family funds, and spent countless mental and financial resources. Mahler is a bastard, and Lao Tzu is in a hurry, and Lao Tzu is against his mother! ”

The other people's faces also changed color.

"Ahem!" Li Yuande coughed twice and said: "Old Dou don't be impatient, if you have something to say, everyone is an old brother, at this time, we should work together, think of a way, we must advance and retreat together, don't mess up!" ”

Jiang Yuanxing frowned and asked: "With Zhao Junsheng's ability, he won't know that behind the prince of the mansion is King Le'an, but he still wants to seize the military power of the monarch of the mansion, isn't he afraid of the power of King Le'an in the court?" ”

At this time, Yang Zhubo said: "Everyone, Zhao Junsheng called the prince and the lower officials over without beating around the bush at all, and said directly to the point that the emperor was very jealous of the military power in the hands of the prince, saying that the prince had too many soldiers and horses, and the generals of other border towns only had 3,000 people, at most only 5,000, but the prince of the palace had 15,000 people, which was five times that of other border towns. ”

Dou Wen exclaimed: "If this is the emperor's idea, if we don't hand over the military power······"

Zhai Guang asked at this time: "Could it be that Zhao Junsheng is cheating us?" He's just coveting these soldiers and horses in our hands in the name of the emperor? ”

Li Yuande sighed: "I have sent a fast horse to Pingcheng to see King Le'an, but I have not replied so far." Whether it is the emperor's idea or not, I am afraid that there is no way to confirm this, is it possible that we still send someone to meet the emperor and ask him if he has this idea? These 12,000 men and horses should have been disbanded, but I tried my best to keep them against the public opinion at that time, and I also took out money and food to support them, but now it seems that not only does it not bring us benefits, but I am afraid that I will have to compensate my wife and break the army! ”

"Yes, at that time, we had this idea to increase our self-preservation strength, but in the eyes of the court and the emperor, our behavior is ill-intentioned, if we don't hand over the military power, Zhao Junsheng will not make a fuss about it, we are only afraid that it will be more auspicious!"

Dou Ba was furious again: "What are you afraid of? It's a big deal! ”

Dou Wen was quite helpless, "I said, can you stop being so babbling, can you grow a little brain?" Just with these 12,000 foot soldiers, you want to rebel? Do you have water in your brain? This is the hinterland of Hebei, as long as we move, the Xianbei soldiers from all directions will besiege it, and you haven't learned the power of the Xianbei people's fast horse scimitar! ”

Dou Ba immediately retorted: "Who said we don't have a chance? As long as we defeat the 6,000 people and 3,000 Youzhou troops sent by Mao Xiuzhi, we can wave our army north to attack Yuyang, and break Yuyang before the people in the imperial court have reacted, so that we can contact Beiyan, Beiyan is a vassal state of my Southern Dynasty, we can get the support of Beiyan's troops, grain and ordnance and deal with the Xianbei people, even if it is not low, we can retreat into Beiyan, and then let Beiyan collect ships and let us go south and return to China! ”

Yao Yongcuo and Wu Baoyi listened to Dou Ba's thoughts and ideas, their eyes lit up, and even Wu Baozhi said: "This idea seems to be good, I think it is feasible!" ”

Yao Yongcuo also said: "Didn't Zhao Junsheng give Fu Jun five days to think about it? Let's make a little preparation and launch a surprise attack while they are unprepared, I don't believe we can't defeat them!" ”

Dou Wen hurriedly stopped them from thinking like crazy: "I think you guys are crazy, since Zhao Junsheng has made it clear that the carriage and horses are clear, how can he be defenseless?" If he did this on purpose, the purpose was to force us to rebel, as long as we raised an army, we would run headlong into the trap he set, and then we would all have to die without a place to be buried, and we would have to affect our families! ”

It has been more than ten years since these people surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty, and their families are all here, and if they are not careful, they will all be ruined, is this risk worth taking?

Jiang Yuanxing sighed and said: "What Brother Dou said is good, I also have a little knowledge of this Zhao Junsheng, now that His Majesty has ascended the throne, Zhao Junsheng has made the greatest contribution, according to the situation at the time, it is impossible for His Majesty to succeed in ascending the throne today, it is he Zhao Junsheng who pushed His Majesty to the throne with the power of one person, if we really think that he is a young man who doesn't know anything and underestimate him and despise him, I am afraid that we will not know how to die at that time!" ”

These people deliberated and discussed for a whole day, but there was no unanimous result.

After two days in a row, Li Yuande's spy planted in Jundushu suddenly returned to Jixian County.

"Why did you come back all of a sudden?" Li Yuande was very surprised by the sudden return of the secret agent.

The spy clasped his fists and said: "Fu Jun, my subordinates got a news from a ranger detective in the military capital, they accidentally found a soldier and horse outside the mouth, this army of soldiers and horses has about more than 4,000 cavalry, it looks like the dress is not like the Rouran cavalry, but I am facing the soldiers and horses, but I did not play the banner!" ”

"What? When did this happen? Li Yuande was taken aback.

The spy replied: "When the news reached the military capital yesterday, his subordinates quickly heard about it, but Wu Yanbi, the deputy commander of the military capital, ordered the news to be blocked, and the garrison did not strengthen its vigilance!" ”

After listening to it and thinking about it carefully, Li Yuande soon found that something was wrong, and his face began to turn pale, "It's not good, the military capital garrison is only afraid that it has taken refuge in Zhao Junsheng, and the cavalry outside the mouth must also be Zhao Junsheng's people, they appear outside the mouth, the only possibility is that they are from Wuchuan Town, and Wuchuan Town is where Zhao Junsheng started!" ”

Things have come to this point, Li Yuande feels that his general trend has gone, I am afraid that this 12,000 will not be able to be saved, Zhao Junsheng has already made all preparations, once the five days have passed, Zhao Junsheng will send troops to exterminate him and the 12,000 people on the grounds of rebellion, even if you don't count the defenders of Jundu Shu and Juyong Pass, the other side also has 7,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry, and it really doesn't take much effort to beat him 12,000 infantry.

"Come on, go and call Dou Ba, Jiang Yuanxing and others!"

The henchmen who were notified quickly rushed over, and Dou Ba asked, "Boss Li, why are you in such a hurry to call us here?" I'm getting the soldiers to prepare, you give us another day, and we'll be up in a day! ”

Li Yuande put his hand and sighed and said: "Let's stop, the men and horses of the military capital have taken refuge in Zhao Junsheng, and Zhao Junsheng has unknowingly arranged four thousand elite horsemen outside his mouth, which shows that he is waiting for us to do it, as long as we do it, we will kill ourselves!" Brothers, I've thought about it, let's hand over the military power, honestly be an idle official, we have made a lot of money over the years, enough to eat for the rest of our lives and our children and grandchildren for several generations, and we don't have to do that headless thing anymore! ”