Chapter 450: I Need Strength

Before the team contacted the imperial court, Mou Liangbi knew that his name would definitely be on the list of fallen soldiers. This battle has been fought so far, even if he can return to the court alive, the best outcome is only to be dismissed from his official position and go home to relax. And after King Xujun sent people to contact the imperial court, Mou Liangbi knew that the position of the secretary of the military department had been replaced by Zong Lianghu, but he didn't have any grievances, bad luck, who was to blame?

If he and King Xujun had been decisive, they wouldn't have had that fiasco. In fact, Li Yuanshan was not without warning before the rebellion, he and King Xujun were both aware of it, but both of them had the same mind and the same hesitant temperament.

After more than ten years in prison, he originally thought that his life would end like this, but he didn't expect the emperor to use him before the war and directly promoted him to the secretary of the military department. At that time, Mou Liangbi was high-spirited, but who would have thought that fate would be so many grinds and such ups and downs?

King Xujun's death, he also knew that there was something strange.

In the entire team, only he and King Xujun had read the secret report sent back by Cui Zhongzhen. He was a little more wary of Li Xiaozong.

But it was this hesitant temperament that made him miss the opportunity to eradicate Li Xiaozong.

Sitting in the big tent, looking at the personal soldiers arranged by Li Xiaozong outside, Mou Liangbi couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

"Eat a trench but not grow a wisdom......"

He muttered, bitterness between his brows.

The water on the stove was already boiling, and he didn't notice it at all. His mind was actually blank, nothing. I was just stunned and didn't think about anything.

At this moment, the voices of soldiers and people talking outside pulled him out of the chaos, and he looked outside, just as he opened the curtain and walked in.

"Why is Your Highness here?"

Mou Liangbi hurriedly got up.

Wanyan Chongde carried a pot of wine in his hand, and said with a smile: "There has been no war in the past two days, and it looks sour, so I went out to hunt a few wild games in the morning, cleaned up by myself, and came to have a drink with Master Mou." ”

He waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him walked in with food boxes, lowered their heads and set the wine and food on the table. Mou Liangbi didn't care that the face of the pro-soldier was a little raw, he shook his head and said: "Where do you still have the heart to eat and drink, now that the war is so stale, whether you should retreat or not, sooner or later there will be a big mess." ”

The soldier poured wine into the cup, and said in a low voice: "Today, Lord Jiumou should still eat it, but the meal made by His Highness himself naturally has a different flavor." ”

Mou Liangbi said that this pro-soldier had no rules, and when he looked back, he was immediately stunned. The soldier straightened up, a gentle smile on his delicate face.

"Fang ......"

He opened his mouth, but subconsciously stopped.

"As soon as you get drunk and relieve a thousand sorrows, you can simply accompany His Highness for a drink!"

He walked over to the table and sat down, his eyes fixed on Fang Jie.

Fang Xie looked out, then took out the note he had written earlier from his cuff and placed it on the table. Outside is Li Xiaozong's personal soldiers, no matter how small his voice is, he can't hide it, so Fang Xie wrote everything he wanted to say, put it on the table and left, he nodded to Mou Liangbi, and the smile on the corner of his mouth can make people's hearts become steady. Mou Liangbi also nodded at him, his eyes full of surprise and excitement.

"You go back first, I'll go back to the camp by myself after drinking with Master Mou."

Wanyan Chongde waved his hand, and Fang Xie immediately retreated.

He had just gone out when he saw a group of people in the distance coming towards him. Although he just glanced at it casually, Fang Jie's heart still couldn't help but tighten. The group of people who walked over this side was led by Li Xiaozong! Behind him, more than a dozen generals of the Sui army followed step by step, as if they were listening to Li Xiaozong's arrangement of military affairs.

Fang Xie pulled the leather helmet down and stood aside and bent down to salute.

Li Xiaozong didn't look at him at all, and wiped Fang Jie's body while talking to those generals. After Fang Xie waited for them to pass, he straightened up and walked towards the camp of the Han Cavalry in the Northern Liaodi. Li Xiaozong was talking as he walked, and suddenly felt a chill on his back, and subconsciously glanced back, but found nothing.

"Who's that soldier?"

He asked the soldiers who were guarding outside the tent.

"General Hui, that's His Royal Highness Wanyan's personal entourage, who came to deliver wine just now."

"Your Highness is here?"

"Drink with Master Mou in the tent."

Li Xiaozong snorted, waved his hand and ordered the generals: "You all go back first, and then discuss how to enter the army tomorrow." ”

The generals said yes and turned to leave. Li Xiaozong opened the curtain of the big tent and went in, and said with a smile: "The two of you are very interested, the weather is getting colder and colder, and a hot pot of wine is to relieve fatigue and keep warm." ”

When Mou Liangbi heard the words outside, he had already put the note into his sleeve, got up with Wanyan Chongde, and invited Li Xiaozong to sit down and drink together.

"It's a rare game!"

Li Xiaozong looked at the wine and food on the table and said, "There is no war today, so I will borrow His Highness's wine to drink once." ”

The three of them sat around and gossiped a few words, and naturally turned the conversation to the war against the rebels.

"The weather is getting colder and colder, our soldiers lack winter clothes, Meng Wansui is just guarding, and we can't find a chance to break the enemy, isn't it ......?"

Mou Liangbi was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted by Li Xiaozong: "If the prince's revenge is not avenged, how can he easily withdraw from the army?" Tens of thousands of soldiers have worked hard and returned in vain, how can I explain to them? ”

"But the rebels only need to be on guard, how can they take revenge?"

Mou Liangbi said: "General Li, the prince died in battle, and I have the same grief as you. But now that you are in charge of military affairs, you can't be emotional, and as the commander-in-chief, you have to be responsible for tens of thousands of soldiers! ”

"I am also responsible for the death of the prince!"

Li Xiaozong said loudly: "I accompanied the prince to investigate the enemy's situation that day, the prince died in battle, but I survived, this revenge is not avenged, how can I explain to the prince's spirit in the sky?" Tens of thousands of soldiers have one mind, that is, they would rather die than kill the rebels! Master Mou, you are so timid, the prince is afraid that he will be cold! ”

"General Lee!"

Mou Liangbi said angrily: "If you accidentally put tens of thousands of soldiers to death, the prince will be chilled!" ”

Wanyan Chongde hurriedly picked up his wine glass and said, "Both of them are for the sake of the prince, why quarrel?" Presumably, under the prince's nine springs, he categorically didn't want to see the two people he trusted the most like this. Let's not talk about military affairs today, okay? ”

Li Xiaozong sighed, picked up his wine glass and said, "Let His Highness see and laugh." ”

He took a drink from his wine glass, got up and said goodbye: "I still have military affairs to deal with, so I will leave first." ”

After saying this, he turned around to leave, and suddenly saw a folded piece of paper at Mou Liangbi's feet: "What is that?" ”

Mou Liangbi looked down, and his face immediately changed.

He bent down and picked up the paper and handed it to Li Xiaozong: "This is the retreat strategy I wrote in the past two days, how to continue to spend the winter with food and grass after the army returns to the cottage, how to prepare winter clothes to keep out the cold, how to guard against the rebel counterattack, how to reorganize the team, how to contact the imperial army, all of which I have painstakingly thought, since the general is here, then I will leave it to you." ”

Li Xiaozong stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment, and said, "The matter of retiring from the army will be discussed in a few days." ”

He didn't take the paper, but turned and walked away.

After Mou Liangbi waited for him to go out, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.

The tense muscles on Yan Chongde's back also relaxed, and he found that the clothes inside were all wet.

……

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Li Xiaozong returned to his big tent, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that today's incident was a little weird. But when I think about it carefully, I don't think there's anything wrong. Frowning and pondering for a while, he suddenly remembered that just as he was about to leave the tent of Mou Liangbi, Wanyan Chongde's hand subconsciously helped the handle of the knife beside him.

"Someone Coming"

He shouted outside the tent, and immediately his own soldiers came in.

"Go to Master Mou and ask for what he wrote today, you just need to talk about it, and Master Mou will know what it is."

The soldiers went out, and after a while, they came back and said that Mou Liangbi had burned the thing.

Li Xiaozong frowned and pondered for a while, then smiled self-deprecatingly. I am really too nervous these days, Mou Liangbi has been hollowed out, and there is only one chance to kill him. Although Cui Zhongzhen is not dead, he is a waste person in a cage, and if he wants to kill him, he only lacks one chance. And such an opportunity, he can create at any time. After the death of King Xujun, the generals in the army belonged to him with the highest prestige, and naturally took over the command.

Cui Zhongzhen is just from his personal army, and although he is also quite authoritative in the army, Li Xiaozong is not worried about anything. The reason why he strongly rejected Mou Liangbi's suggestion to withdraw from the army was because he had to seize this opportunity and firmly control the general's heart in his own hands.

The soldiers were filled with hatred for the death of Yang Kai, the king of Xujun, and he had to take advantage of this hatred.

"Liu Shilang"

Li Xiaozong shouted outside, and his personal army was immediately coming in: "What does the general command?" ”

"After Ming'er raises the account early in the morning, I will order Cui Zhongzhen to make meritorious service for his crimes, give him a man from the Chong battalion to go to the rebel camp for a foreign battle, and you go to see Meng Wansui overnight, so that he can send troops to fight tomorrow. You hide among the rebels and look for an opportunity to shoot Choi Jung-jin to death. ”

"Subordinates obey."

"And"

Li Xiaozong was silent for a while and continued: "You tell Meng Wanzai that after three days, I will let Mou Liangbi take the men and horses to escort the baggage back to the cottage, and let Meng Wansui set up an ambush in Jiazigou, as long as Mou Liangbi is dead, there will be no more serious troubles." ”

"That'...... What about the end-faced heavy virtue? ”

Liu Shilang asked.

"I can't eat the cold cavalry of more than 10,000 people for the time being...... Although I look greedy, I don't have that much appetite. It's not time to move him yet, wait and see, and hear what news is coming from the east. You arrange for someone to set off immediately and go to the side of Hexi Road to find out the movements of the imperial army. If the imperial army is blocked, we will retreat to the Wolf Milk Mountain to garrison. If the imperial army wins, I will contact Meng Wansui to jointly attack Xiangzhou! ”

Liu Shilang nodded: "My subordinates understand!" ”

"Let's go"

Li Xiaozong waved his hand: "Don't let others find out." ”

Liu Shilang answered, bowed and retreated.

Li Xiaozong drank all the herbal tea in the cup, and the heart-penetrating coldness made his somewhat impetuous heart quiet. He walked to the door of the tent and looked at the sky outside, thoughtful.

After a long silence, he suddenly smiled.

"Kill Cui Zhongzhen first, then kill Mou Liangbi, and then find an opportunity to kill Meng Wanzai...... If I conquer Xiangzhou, the emperor won't be able to reward me even if he doesn't want to. Even if the imperial army is defeated, with hundreds of thousands of horses in hand, where can it not be accommodated? ”

He stretched out a hand and drew a few times in mid-air, and the teapot on the table suddenly shattered, but the herbal tea in the teapot floated in the air, quickly changing shape, and finally turned into an ice blade.

He clenched his fist, and the blade shattered in mid-air and fell to the ground.

"Strength"

Li Xiaozong muttered: "I need more strength......"