Tang Weitian led his troops out of the camp and defeated a team of Qiang soldiers who came to check the situation, he was still brave and invincible on the battlefield, but he set a few rules for himself: those who have been stabbed down, those who surrender on their knees, no longer make up for a spear, and those who scattered and fled were all handed over to his subordinates to chase, and he only rushed to the place where there were many people.

There were not many Qiang soldiers, only a few of the more than 50 people were killed, and the remaining half escaped and half became prisoners.

Tang Weitian acted according to the plan, released the captives before the battle, and asked them to go back to inform the king of Qiang that the Yizhou army would be cold within ten days, so that the Qiang people could prepare to welcome guests.

Xu Ji was not in a hurry to get cold, he was waiting for the Yang family to take the initiative to come over.

The barracks moved forward for several miles every day, and the back did not move or move less, Zuojiazhai had been burned down, and all the materials in the village had been moved out, enough for this team of thousands of people to build a huge camp and set up countless flags.

Tang Weitian led his troops out of twenty or thirty miles every day, but he never saw the Qiang soldiers again.

On the fifth day of the camp, the envoy of the Yang clan of Liangzhou came.

The road ahead was occupied by the Qiang people, and the Yang envoys could only bypass Qinzhou and rush from the rear of the military camp.

The envoy saw the camp lined up along the road from a distance, and the soldiers who entered the camp were full of tents and soldiers, and could not help but be surprised, and entered the tent with bated breath, and the number of courtesies was very respectful, and Xu Ji was called "Honorable Envoy", and only after a few polite times did he change his name to "Mr. Xu".

The conversation went very smoothly, and the envoy was very grateful for the arrival of the Yizhou army, and it was no problem to borrow the road and food, and there was only one request, to enter Liangzhou within ten days, and to attack the Qiang people with the Yang clan.

Xu Ji shook his head and refused, "It's not appropriate, this plan is not appropriate." ”

The messenger immediately changed his words and said, "If ten days is too fast, half a month will do." ”

"Five days ago, I had informed the Qiang people that they would be cold within ten days, but now there are only five days left, but Liangzhou will be postponed for another five days, which will make the Yizhou army lose its trust, which is inappropriate."

The envoy smiled: "I see, there is no problem, I will immediately return to explain the situation, the two armies are concurrent immediately, even if the rain and snow come, they can't stop the Liangzhou army." ”

The two sides agreed on the date and meeting place of the troops, and the envoy left an entourage as a guide, and took the others to say goodbye, and returned to Liangzhou overnight.

The next day, Xu Ji's camp expanded twenty miles forward, and Tang Weitian led his troops to go further, occupying a mountain range, and could already see the Liangzhou border, but there was still no Qiang soldier.

On the evening of the ninth day, the envoy of Liangzhou arrived, saying that everything had been arranged, and the two armies would march together tomorrow, and he also brought the will of the king of Liang, and ordered the officials of Nanliang to provide grain and grass to the Yizhou army, and send them out of the country after the war.

Xu Ji was not polite, accepted the will, and immediately ordered someone to send it to the iron eagle camp, and then invited the envoy to drink, he drank a small amount, found other generals to come and accompany him, and found an excuse to retire, and walked through the camp overnight to find Tang Weitian.

Tang Weitian's soldiers only had more than 2,000 soldiers, some of whom were Zuojiazhai soldiers, who knew their own reality and the strength of the Qiang people, so the closer they were to Liangzhou, the more panicked they became.

Xu Ji summoned the generals, "Tomorrow will send troops, the Yang army will be the mainstay, and the Yizhou army will be supplemented, and this battle will be won." ”

Everyone was a little settled in their hearts, Xu Ji talked and laughed freely, joked with Tang Weitian, and finally said: "Tomorrow I will go to the battlefield with you, and after taking a city, I will stop eating, and you will encourage you." ”

Everyone retired, and Tang Weitian said: "Childe should stay behind, in case it ......"

"Did the scouts find the Qiang soldiers?"

"No, but many people think it's not a good sign, and the Qiang soldiers may be in ambush."

"The Qiang soldiers will not set up an ambush, they must think that there are many soldiers here, so they will concentrate their forces to fight a decisive battle with the Yang clan."

"Huh? Is King Qiang so stupid? ”

"King Qiang is not stupid, I have a relationship with him, I think he is a very decisive person, he thinks that Yizhou has a lot of soldiers, but he comes from afar, if the host is defeated, the guest will naturally retreat, in turn, if the guest is defeated, the host may not retreat, but take advantage of the fire to rob."

Tang Weitian thought for a while, nodded and said, "Well, if I were the King of Qiang, if I thought that Yizhou had many soldiers, I would also concentrate my forces to fight the Yang clan." ”

"Moreover, the Qiang people have been fighting with the Yang clan for a long time, winning consecutive battles, and their morale is quite high, and they have the heart to win, but they may not be against the Yizhou army."

"Can the Qiang people win this time?"

"In fact, the odds of victory are not great, if the rumors are true, the king of Qiang has just quelled the civil strife, his strength has weakened, and his morale is not at its peak. On the contrary, it was the Yang family, who was forced to have no way out, and had the ambition to mourn the soldiers, so he suddenly got strong reinforcements and fought desperately, and the chances of winning were greater. ”

"Hehe, when the Yang family discovers the truth, it will be interesting." Tang Weitian said with a smile.

"The truth? The Yizhou army is more than 40,000, and it is not wrong to claim 50,000. ”

"But most of the soldiers are on the side of General Tie Er."

"When General Tie Er gets the will of King Liang, he will immediately enter the boundary of Liangzhou, which is no different from the agreement."

Tang Weitian was stunned for a while, and said with a smile: "Childe is really good at playing tricks." Suddenly sighed, "I really miss it." ”

"What do you miss?"

"I miss when my son was the king of Wu."

Xu Ji smiled, "Don't be careless, everything will not be as I expected, you need to be careful." ”

"Understand, I'll walk slowly tomorrow."

A guard came in and said to Xu Ji: "There is another messenger from Liangzhou, you must see Mr. Xu." ”

"Another messenger?"

"Well, I asked him to go to see the previous envoy, but he refused to go, and said that he was not in the same group as him, but he refused to reveal his identity, only said that his surname was Yang, and he was also a messenger from Liangzhou, and he was coming head-on."

"Bring it in."

There was something special about this new emissary, and his arrival meant that he had crossed the territory occupied by the Qiang soldiers.

The envoy was alone, without an entourage, carrying a burden, even so, Tang Weitian still guarded in person, not leaving an inch.

"Mr. Xu, don't come unharmed." The comer bowed his hand.

Xu Ji was very surprised, and immediately got up and said, "It turned out to be the general of the fierce army." ”

The new envoy from Liangzhou turned out to be Yang Mengjun, the son of King Liang, and it was with the help of this person that Xu Ji was able to escape from He Rongren.

"Mr. Xu is going to enter Liangzhou tomorrow?"

"Exactly."

"Never."

Why is that? Tomorrow's date is agreed between me and the messenger of the King of Liang. ”

Yang Mengjun glanced at the guards in the tent.

Xu Ji motioned for the guards to retreat, but left Tang Weitian and said to Yang Mengjun: "This General Tang is my old man, and it doesn't hurt if the General Mengjun has something to say." ”

Yang Mengjun stared at Tang Weitian for a while, nodded his head, and said, "Who was the envoy that Mr. Xu received before?" ”

"Calling himself Yang Ge, the brother of King Liang."

"Hey, he's the younger brother of King Liang by generation, but it's actually very far behind. But he is not the envoy of King Liang, but the envoy of his brother Yang Mengzhi. ”

"Huh?"

Lao Liang Wang has many children and grandchildren, naturally indispensable to fight for power, all along, he can suppress it, but since the world is in turmoil, he has a serious illness, the situation began to be chaotic, the descendants first united with the civil and military ministers, regardless of his opposition, forcibly established the King of Liang, and then competed for the position of the prince, from the secret fight to the open dispute, and from the verbal quarrel to the sword and soldier to meet.

The Yang clan has been running Liangzhou for several generations, and it is deeply rooted, and if it were not for the discord between the descendants and descendants, they would not have been defeated by the Qiang soldiers.

Yang Mengjun did not shy away from admitting that he had also participated in the struggle for the throne, and only after he failed did he ask to lead his troops out of the town, away from the capital.

Just a month ago, Yang Mengzhi, the son of another failed struggle for power, was unwilling to quit, so he also asked for a group of soldiers from his father, claiming to go out of Liangnan and fight a decisive battle with the Qiang people, but after winning the army, he attacked the palace and imprisoned the old Liang king.

Xu Ji had also heard this rumor, but soon after that, it was rumored that the old Liang King had regained his power.

Yang Mengzhi received too little support, he killed some people, but he still couldn't save the situation, and in a hurry, he decided to bring in outsiders.

"Yang Mengzhi has made peace with the king of Qiang, ceded all the Liangnan, and he occupied the north of Liang. Mr. Xu will be cold tomorrow, facing not only Qiang soldiers, but also tens of thousands of Liangzhou soldiers. ”

Xu Ji was shocked, Tang Weitian was even more surprised, and couldn't help but speak: "They don't know about our Yizhou Army...... Are there many soldiers? ”

"I know, because of this, we have to join forces, Yang Mengzhi is not in the right position, and I am worried that the Yizhou army will release the old Liang King."

Tang Weitian changed color, Xu Ji was even more afraid, and arched his hand: "If there is no reminder from the general of the fierce army, the soldiers of the Yizhou army will die in a foreign land, and I will be saved by the general of the fierce army twice. ”

"After all, the Yizhou army is here to help, and the Yang family can't watch the reinforcements be fooled."

"Who does the Liangnan Zhucheng support?" Xu Ji asked.

"Liang Nan still supports the old Liang King and does not receive Yang Mengzhi's orders."

Xu Ji was a little relieved, the will brought by the envoy Yang Ge and the seal of the old Liang King might work.

"How did the fierce general come from the front?" Xu Ji asked again, quite skeptical.

"I was ordered by the Golden Holy Maiden to go back to Liangzhou to inquire about the military situation, and I walked for half a month, and the day before yesterday I just learned that Mr. Xu was going to go to the cold with his troops, so I immediately rushed to remind me that the people I brought were all left behind."

Yang Mengjun was familiar with the terrain of Liangzhou and was able to easily avoid the Qiang soldiers.

"The Golden Saintess?" Xu Ji and Tang Weitian called out at the same time.

Yang Mengjun said with a smile: "I led my headquarters to form an alliance with the Descendant Army, and planned to attack Liangzhou in one fell swoop, rescue the old Liang King, and expel Yang Mengzhi and the Qiang people, so I want to carefully check the enemy situation." ”

"It turns out that the rumored Liangzhou Army who came to the aid of the Golden Saintess is Your Excellency." Xu Ji arched his hand.

"When I was young, I was a pawn under General Cao of Xiao Guogong, and I had a lot of teachings and a master-apprentice relationship, so I led my troops to help, but I hated that I couldn't save General Cao."

The Yang family is a Sanzhou family, and the descendants are usually sent to the imperial army to stay for a few years, one is training, and the other is hostage.

Yang Mengjun was worried that Xu Ji still didn't believe it, so he untied the burden behind him, and opened it and showed a wooden stick.

Xu Ji was nothing, Tang Weitian screamed, immediately untied the stick pinned to his waist, tore off the wrapped brocade, and compared it with Yang Mengjun, he was more and more surprised: "This ...... It's a real incarnation! ”

Yang Mengjun nodded, "The Golden Holy Maiden said that if I have to go around Qinzhou and encounter the Incarnation Army, this stick may be useful." ”

"Perhaps? It must work, you wait. Tang Weitian put away his wooden stick, knelt on the ground, kowtowed respectfully to the magic stick, and said cordially: "Long time no see, are you okay?" ”

Yang Mengjun waited for a while, a little embarrassed, but confirmed that he had been trusted, so he said: "Fortunately, there are many generals in Yizhou, and I will lead the way, as long as you don't enter the ambush, you can still fight." ”

Xu Ji smiled bitterly: "To be honest, the Yizhou army only has three thousand people. ”