Liu Yanping saw Liu Wu's suspicious appearance, so he hurriedly explained: "This is the order of the marshal, please don't doubt it." ”

Liu Wu replied: "No, no, no, how dare Wu doubt the festival handsome." However, the Wuning army previously captured Jinxiang and Yutai, the key places in our town, and now it has followed the Fengyan Canal and penetrated deep into the area of Juyeze. In the battle of Caomen, Gao Yue and Hun Xuan killed 3,000 of my children, all of which were blood feuds. At this time, if the marshal suddenly talks to the court to make peace and boycott the war, I am afraid that the sergeants will not accept it! Please give me three days, and I will take some time to convince the generals in the battalion to return to the military government, how about it? ”

"There is General Law!" Liu Yanping surrendered his hand and requested.

As a result, as soon as Liu Yanping left, Liu Wu hurriedly found two envoys and instructed them: "You and I are both lifelong friends, and now the Quanping Lu army has reached the threshold of life and death - the marshal Li Shigu and the deputy envoy Li Shidao brothers, trying to detain the crime of rebellion against the imperial court on me and the generals, trying to murder me and please the imperial court." Since my Pinglu army crossed the sea, when did it become his Li family's private army? Brother Li Shigu succeeds anyway, then we are traitors; On the other hand, if we succeed anyway, Brother Li Shigu will be a traitor. Therefore, I have a wax pill to be delivered to the two of you, and I will leave the camp at night and go to Bianzhou as soon as possible, where I will present it to Gao Gongshi and General Hun Da - remember, whoever sees Gao Yue and Hun Yang first now will be the true loyal minister! ”

These two envoys knelt in front of Liu Wu and said that they would never live up to the trust of the commander.

After the two of them rode away, Liu Wu immediately took a few servants and moved the camp to a high hill two miles east of the injustice, set up a banquet, invited all the generals in the army to come to the banquet, and revealed during the banquet: "Your Majesty wants to strike the war with the imperial court and return the army to Yuncheng, what do you think?" ”

The vast majority of the generals of the Pinglu Army did not want to fight for a long time, so they replied in unison: "I am willing to obey the orders of the Jiexia." ”

Liu Wu was silent, knowing that it would not work to openly bewitch the army and confront Li Shigu, so he devised another plan, distributed all the money and property in the camp to the sergeants, and recruited dozens of prostitutes from Caozhou and other places into the camp to reward, and said, "Now that the war has been stopped, everyone in the army is at their own convenience." For a time, the soldiers of the Pinglu Army received money, bought wine and meat, and rushed to go to the flower-like prostitutes to be merry and happy, drunk and dreamed of dying in the gentle township, and the atmosphere of preparing for war collapsed in an instant, and they all happily called Liu Wu "Father Liu".

So Zhang Xian, the deputy envoy of the soldiers and horses, admonished: How can there be a father who indulges his son in gambling and prostitution on the battlefield? Please ask the commander to take the army seriously and rectify military discipline.

As a result, Liu Wu was furious, saying that Ziqing had made peace with the imperial court, and you still want to confuse the people with evil words, and send me to the military gate to be beheaded in favoritism!

The subordinates all interceded for Zhang Xian, and Liu Wu finally beat Zhang with 30 canes to set an example.

That night, Zhang Xian was carried on his shoulder, and quietly found Liu Yanping's camp tent, and said to him: "Liu Wu is not preparing for war, but also scattering wealth to tie up the army's heart, it seems that he is preparing to make a rebellion, and he must be killed." ”

Liu Yanping originally came with Li Shigu's secret order, and then he simply said to Zhang Xian: "Jiexia also has the intention of killing Liu Wu, instead of calling him back to the military government to kill him, it is better to remove this fang in the camp, and then you will be in charge of the military camp, and lead the Ping Lu army to follow Jiexia to the imperial court, and you and I will be rich." ”

Zhang Xian gritted his teeth excitedly, uncovered his clothes, revealing his blood-stained back, "I have long had this intention, there are dozens of strong men under my command, and while Liu Wu's camp is loosely guarded, I will kill him in at the moment of dawn and behead him." ”

At this moment, Liu Yanping's hand and Zhang Xian's hand were tightly clasped together and did not let go for a long time......

At night in Bianzhou City, the crescent moon was like a hook, and Gao Yue, who was wearing a loose white cotton shirt, couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that there was a secret envoy in Liu Wu's camp in Caozhou.

Gao Yue took out the dagger, easily cut the wax pill, pulled out the inner scroll, and after reading it, he happily promised the two envoys: "Please General Liu Wu as the vanguard, defect to Li Shigu, Li Shidao brothers, the palace division and General Hun will lead 30,000 elite officers and soldiers to follow behind, as long as you can capture Yuncheng, I am willing to divide Deng, Lai, Hai, Yi, and Mi five states, set up a separate town, and grant Liu Wujing Festival!" ”

Then the city of Bianzhou sounded a dense drumbeat, accompanied by a long horn sound, "Wei Bo has been obedient to the imperial court, Chengde King Wujun has also surrendered, only Ziqing Ping Lu army still resists the mandate of heaven, refuses to surrender, today will be driven into Yunzhou, capture Li Shigu Li Shidao brothers, triumphant Jingshi." The officers and men of the four armies of Wuyi, Fengcheng, Shence, and Shenwei inside and outside the city began to pack up their bags, strictly pull out the camp, and go to Caozhou on the east side.

At this time, the moon gradually disappeared in the western sky, leaving only a pale blue bend of the remnant wheel, the rising sun, the mountains and rivers, the heat surged, after all, it was still the weather of July......

"Fengjie ordered to beg the rebel Liu Wu!" Liu Yanping drew his sword and killed the two sleepy guards holding halberds, and Zhang Xian and twenty or thirty accomplices of the strong men followed him and rushed into Liu Wu's tent.

As a result, I saw that Liu Wu had a bow and arrow on the rope bed, and he was just wearing clothes and brocade quilts outside.

“！” Before Liu Yanping could react, Liu Wu, who was wearing a full suit of armor behind the screen, turned out hideously, holding a bee gun with a lit fuse in his hand, facing Liu Yanping.

Zhang Xian and his subordinates knew how powerful this bee was, and immediately scattered.

The dense smoke exploded, mixed with five bursts of fireworks, Liu Yanping was caught off guard, and was immediately blown away three feet away, his clothes and armor were shattered, and he fell to the ground with serious injuries, struggling.

"A traitor? I, Liu Wu, am the real thief! Liu Wu shouted angrily, held the iron handle of the bee gun with his backhand, and danced, Liu Yanping's head was hit, smashed to pieces, and he died.

Then Liu Wu slammed the bee on the ground, wiped his sweat, and said to Zhang Xian: "You have done a good job of playing this bitter plan, and you have completely exposed the military government's treacherous plot to kill us." ”

Zhang Xian looked at Liu Yanping's body lying on the ground, then clasped his fists and whispered to Liu Wu:

"It's all the Confucian officials in the military palace, Wang Zaisheng, who sacrificed his death and reported the treacherous conspiracy of the Li Shigu brothers to you, the general."

Liu Wu sneered, "If you want to blame, blame Li Shidao, a fool, for saying things to the woman that shouldn't be said." ”

It turned out that when Li Shidao served as the assassin of Mizhou in the past, his concubine Pu who stayed in Yuncheng had already hooked up with Liu Wu. And Li Shidao's other concubine Yuan, and Hu Weikan, a slave in the house, had an affair, and Li Shidao didn't know anything - after Li Shidao went to bed that day, the Pu family found Yuan, and the Yuan family found Hu Weikan, Hu was gambling and owed a large amount of money to Wang Zaisheng, the Confucian official of the military government, so he immediately sold the information to Wang Zaisheng at the instigation of Li Shidao's two concubines.

Wang Ze quickly and secretly left the house, and told the "upline" about the matter: Liu Congji, the official of the Pinglu Military Mansion.

Liu Congzhi is Liu Wu's son, and Starry Night sent the news to Caozhou and told Liu Wu.

Poor Liu Yanping was always kept in the dark, trapped in Liu Wu's net, until he was smashed by the bee gun, I am afraid that I have not understood what kind of wall song it is, and I will put myself to death.

"Just wait for the envoy to return, and we will turn against Li Shigu!" Liu Wu said viciously to Zhang Xian.