Pan Kai felt that he was standing on the edge of the cliff, and he would fall down and break his bones if he was not careful, but there were a group of tigers and wolves behind him, and he had to prepare to jump.

It was just dark, Guo Shifeng hurried back, Pan Kai immediately retreated the guards, stepped forward and said, "How is it?" ”

"As I expected." Guo Shifeng said urgently.

Pan Kai was shocked, "Xu Ji has already noticed? ”

"It's not that he is aware, but he has already known that he led his troops to the Eastern Capital, and he found an excuse to refuse to leave, in fact, it was all for you, General Pan."

Pan Kai's face changed suddenly, he sat down slowly, and muttered, "King Liang won't believe me after all......"

King Liang may still be hesitating, but after Xu Ji came, King Liang should make up his mind. And the old eunuch seems to be hiding something. ”

"King Liang once gave the eunuchs in the palace to all the generals as slaves, but no one dared to treat them as slaves......"

"Because they're all King Liang's eyeliner?"

"Well, Gao Shengze is the leader of these eyeliner."

"General Pan is also around?"

Pan Kai stretched out four fingers, "But it doesn't matter, this is the council hall, I have given an order, eunuchs are not allowed to enter, and what we say here will not be passed out." ”

"Really?"

Pan Kai opened his mouth and closed his mouth, not very sure.

"I can't hide it anymore, please General Pan make a decision quickly."

"Don't worry, perhaps...... Maybe King Liang is just testing me, he has this habit. ”

Guo Shifeng said with a smile: "General Pan is too loyal, and he refuses to admit the facts in front of him." King Liang ordered General Pan to defend the eastern capital, and even left his wife and children, but as soon as he arrived in Jizhou, he would marry the daughter of the Tiancheng clan, and the heart of abandoning the eastern capital was clearly revealed. ”

"Why did King Liang abandon the Eastern Capital?" Pan Kai asked in a low voice, but he already agreed with Guo Shifeng's statement in his heart.

Guo Shifeng had the victory in his hand, and said patiently: "The general trend is like this, the king of Liang went north to Jizhou to marry Tiancheng, and turned to attack Jizhou to recapture the former Liang's hometown, and the eastern capital is no longer very important to him, it is nothing more than to attract He Rong's army, so that he can have some respite in the north." ”

"King Liang doesn't believe that I can hold the eastern capital at all."

"King Liang doesn't believe it, he just hopes that General Pan will defend as long as possible, so that he can attract more enemy troops, but after he decided to marry Tiancheng Zhang in Jizhou, he began to worry that General Pan had no intention of defending the city, which was a big trouble for King Liang, so he wanted to change someone else to defend the city."

"Xu Ji." Pan Kai immediately replied, feeling that everything was clear, "Who else is more suitable for guarding the Eastern Capital than Xu Ji?" After all, he had guarded it once, and he had defended it, and this time he just had to keep it longer. ”

"That's it."

"But...... King Liang directly changed the general, I will not disobey the order, let alone fight with Xu Ji, why do you have to put me to death? ”

Guo Shifeng laughed, as if this question was not worth answering.

Pan Kai came up with the reason himself, "King Liang still suspects that I have colluded with Xu Ji, so he asked Xu Ji to kill me to show that he has no two hearts." ”

"That's one of them. General Pan asked himself, how many of his relatives and friends were generals in the Liang army? ”

"That's a lot, not fifty, but also thirty, King Liang used to ...... me I trust it very much, as long as I recommend someone, I will be a general, even if I have never been on the battlefield. ”

"And General Pan's recommendation is all relatives and friends?"

Pan Kai's face flushed, he hadn't thought about this problem before, but now when he thought about it, he suddenly felt that he had been making mistakes, "I don't know many people, King Liang...... King Liang always said that his family members were generals, so it was convenient for me to lead the troops. ”

"Where is King Liang's family?"

"King Liang's children are all young, and he has no other family."

"So General Pan still doesn't understand?"

Pan Kai sighed, "King Liang treats me very kindly, and he has the grace of knowing me." ”

"King Liang treats you very kindly, and he asks for it heavily, and he wants you to repay it with your life."

"If it's just my own life, I'm willing to give it back to King Liang."

"With King Liang's usual character, will he let General Pan's relatives and friends go? In other words, if General Pan died, would his relatives and friends be indifferent? The most important thing between monarchs and ministers is mutual trust, if one party is suspicious, the other party should also be more careful, suspicion and suspicion, and eventually cause trouble, and finally it depends on who strikes first. ”

Pan Kai pondered for a long time, but still refused to make up his mind.

Guo Shifeng waited for a while, and said slowly: "If General Pan wants to be a loyal minister, he must first think about one thing: Is King Liang really the Ming Lord?" The monarch is loyal and loyal, the merits are brilliant through the ages, and the monarch is loyal, but there is no more soul of unjust death. With the intelligence of General Pan, with the strength of the Eastern Capital, it is all necessary to either stick to the situation and wait for the situation to change, or to join the Ming Lord and make meritorious deeds, or even claim the king himself. General Pan is willing to repay King Liang with his life, what is the sin of the many relatives and friends who follow General Pan, and they are also implicated in this? ”

"Mr. Guo doesn't need to say any more." Pan Kai finally made up his mind, "King Liang is ruthless, abandoning his wife and children is like a piece of, let alone me Pan Kai?" King Liang has Xu Ji's help, he must have found a more suitable general, where will he take me seriously? Please send troops over King Ning, I am willing to hand over the eastern capital. ”

Guo Shifeng was overjoyed, and was about to open his mouth to promise, Pan Kai said again: "But there are a few things I want to say ahead." ”

"General Pan, please speak."

"First, don't hurt King Liang's wife, if King Liang wants it, send it over, if you don't want it, stay in the Eastern Capital and treat her with courtesy."

"Wife and weak son, King Liang doesn't care, King Ning is useless to kill, and it is not helpful to defend the city, why bear this notoriety? I agree to this on behalf of King Ning. ”

"Second, the soldiers of the Liang army in the city, follow their hearts, those who are willing to stay stay, those who are willing to go will go, and King Ning cannot force them."

"King Ning wants to be united, if the Liang army has the intention of going, King Ning will never keep it, but will send it out of the city. But General Pan will stay, right? ”

"Well, where else can I go if I don't stay?"

"General Pan has a son by King Liang's side, who can be exchanged for Liang soldiers."

"No need, no matter what, I am betraying King Liang, even if he kills my son, I will not complain."

Guo Shifeng smiled and didn't say anything.

"Third, let Xu Ji and others go out of the city, where they like to go."

"That's not right."

"How?"

"Xu Ji is entrusted by King Liang, how can he abandon the city and leave? Since his arrival, he deliberately avoided the generals of the Liang army, pretending that he could not be reused by King Liang, but if King Liang did not believe in him and did not use him, why did he allow him to leave? This is the most obvious suspicious tactic, the so-called pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. General Pan's heart softened, he lost everything, and he was empty of the name of a traitor. ”

Pan Kai gritted his teeth, "Then there is no way, it is King Liang and Xu Ji who want to do it first, not that I am ruthless and unrighteous." When will King Ning's soldiers arrive? I started a day early. ”

"Ning Jun will arrive at any time, but Xu Ji can't wait."

"When is the right time?"

Guo Shifeng was silent.

"Today?" Pan Kai was taken aback.

"Today, tonight, now, there is no time to delay."

"But I haven't explained the situation to my soldiers yet."

"No, General Pan gathered relatives and friends, plus credible soldiers, two hundred people are enough."

"Xu Ji led nearly 20,000 troops, I'm afraid the 200 people here are not enough, right?"

Guo Shifeng said with a smile: "Let's plan for this, Xu Ji is good at using plans, in order not to attract the suspicion of General Pan, deliberately alienated from the generals, but there can't be too many people who know about this kind of thing, I guess only very few people in the Liang army know Xu Ji's true purpose, and even none, Xu Ji has a secret will, let Gao Shengze announce the decree if necessary, who dares to disobey?" ”

"This is the intention of Gao Shengze to follow."

"That's right. Therefore, General Pan had to make a decision immediately, lead his troops to kill Xu Ji and Gao Shengze, and then claim to be acting on the orders of King Liang, and when King Liang learned the news, King Ning's army had also arrived, and General Pan slowly persuaded the generals. ”

Pan Kai hesitated for a while, and then made up his mind again, "Okay, let's do it in an hour." ”

"General Pan's move saved the Eastern Capital and the soldiers and civilians of Mancheng."

Pan Kai grabbed one of Guo Shifeng's arms, "King Ning wants to defend the eastern capital, right?" ”

"Of course, otherwise, why send me over to persuade General Pan? The eastern capital is dispensable to King Liang, but it is very important to King Ning. ”

Pan Kai let go of his hand, strode away from the door, and said to the guards: "Emergency military affairs, go and call Pan Ju." ”

Pan Ju is Pan Kai's nephew, and he is also a cronie, young and vigorous, and he does everything to his uncle, Pan Kai only said "King Liang wants to get rid of the Pan family", Pan Ju was immediately furious, and he didn't even ask the reason, holding the handle of the knife, "The Pan family will never sit still, the general will order, fight to the death, after the matter is completed, the general will be the king!" ”

"I've made up my mind, and I don't need you to talk nonsense. Go and call the relatives and friends of our Pan family, don't make a big fuss, just say...... Just say that I want to celebrate my mother's birthday, invite them to come over and discuss, and don't mention a word about other things. ”

"Understood, who are you looking for?"

Pan Kai said a series of names, Pan Opera knew all of them, repeated them on his lips, kept them in his heart, and hurriedly ran out to find someone.

The first step has already been taken, Pan Kai no longer hesitated, and did not need Guo Shifeng's urging, and ordered the leader of the guards to invite the four eunuchs that King Liang had given him.

"These four people must be eliminated first, so as not to leak the news." Pan Kai explained.

Guo Shifeng arched his hand and said: "It's still General Pan who thinks about it thoroughly." ”

First several relatives and friends arrived, and then four eunuchs arrived at the same time, unaware of what was going to happen, except that it was strange that General Pan had allowed them to enter the council chamber.

Pan Kai shouted: "Take it!" ”

The guards immediately knocked down the four eunuchs, startling the relatives and friends who were watching.

The eunuchs were even more unconvinced, shouting one after another, Pan Kai did not explain, drew his knife out of the sheath, and directly cut down one person, and the remaining three people were as white as earth, and they didn't dare to speak again.

Guo Shifeng stepped forward, stopped Pan Kai from continuing to move, and said to the three eunuchs: "Did Gao Shengze ask you questions?" ”

The three of them were so frightened that they couldn't open their mouths, and could only nod.

"Gao Shengze asked about General Pan's movements?"

The three continued to nod.

"Gao Shengze just asked?"

The three of them nodded anyway.

Guo Shifeng looked at Pan Kai, Pan Kai's face changed slightly, "If it is as Mr. Guo said, Xu Ji will do it." ”

The three eunuchs were inexplicable, and they didn't know what this had to do with Xu Ji.

Guo Shifeng nodded slowly and took a few steps back.

Pan Kai said to several relatives and friends: "King Liang sent a messenger to kill the Pan family, I don't want to send him to death, are you willing to follow me to make trouble?" ”

These people were Pan Kai's cronies, and they immediately pulled out their knives and shouted.

The three eunuchs were so frightened that they were about to open their mouths to argue, but they only had time to scream.