Knowing that Lu Zhen surrendered, Li Mao was overjoyed, and urgently ordered him to be taken to the camp under the city of Hengzhou, Lu Zhen was terrified, and met to apologize, Li Mao comforted: "This is not a battle with the barbarians, you have to fight to the death, your own people fight, just point to the end, I have always advocated that no matter how deep the grudge was before, as long as you understand the current affairs, understand the general situation, and take into account the overall situation, you can be friends again." ”

Lu Zhen said: "Chengde has suffered a lot of disasters, all because he has not met the master, and now the Taiwei has led the troops here to quell the trouble, and the people of Chengde are blessed." ”

Li Mao said: "Chengde's trip to the troubled waters, I was originally reluctant to go, but it was really Wang Tingcuo's way of doing too much, and it was enough to imprison Li Yu, slaughtering 5,000 soldiers under his command, so why did he come and kill the three ladies and Wang Xiao, and then wipe out the Wang family, which is ruthless and despicable, and unbearable."

Lu Zhen said: "A certain person is ignorant of the general trend, aiding and abusive, and sitting back and watching the old master being killed is indifferent, Lu Zhen is difficult to be a person." ”

Li Mao said: "You also have a last resort, Wang Tingcao is not only ruthless and cunning, not only the general was deceived by him, you can now repent and return to the right path, which shows great wisdom and courage." ”

Lu Zhen thought that he was going to bring the topic to Fang Chuang, but Li Mao stopped there, set up a banquet to entertain, regarded him as his own person, and led him to visit all kinds of siege equipment arranged under Hengzhou City after the banquet. Lu Zhen also knew a little about the rumors of Li Mao's establishment of an ordnance station in Liaodong, and the legendary Tortoiseshell Mountain Ordnance Institute made some strange killing weapons, and the flowering bomb in the north of the Megatron River was one of them, and every use was often earth-shattering.

After seeing all kinds of siege equipment under the city of Hengzhou, Lu Zhen's face was pale, and he couldn't say a word, he himself had not seen the power of the flowering bombs, when he heard that the seventy-three flowering bombs in the north of the heavily defended Shenzhou City were broken, he didn't think so, thinking that the guards Wang and Dan were incompetent to lose the city first, and in order to hide their incompetence, they deliberately exaggerated the power of the flowering bombs

The flowering bomb under the city of Hengzhou did not explode, but just looking at the gun carriage that fired it was already terrifying, this strange creature is said to be cast of steel, lying there like a mighty steel beast, there are more than fifty soldiers operating alone, and twice the number of guards guarding it tightly.

The real flowering bullets are packed in large square wooden boxes, on which are painted with all kinds of strange symbols in red lacquer, leaving the deepest impression on Lu Zhen is a human skull, with two crossed human leg bones in the background.

Lu Zhen's stunned expression fell on Li Mao's eyes, and the latter said to him quietly: "The imperial court has ordered Youzhou, Yingping, Liaodong, Yiwu, Henghai, Weibo, Tianping, Yicheng, and Xuanwu to send 200,000 troops to fight against Wang Tingcuo, Yuanhe has just been in Zhongxing, the world is still tired, there is no need for them to work and mobilize the people, my Youzhou Jian'er has besieged this Xiongcheng, it will be half a month, as short as ten days, and Hengzhou will be broken." It's just a pity that the 100,000 people in the city, although I tried my best, but the royal court was constrained by it, and I was never able to move them out of the city. ”

Lu Zhen is a smart man, how can he not understand Li Mao's intentions, and hurriedly expressed his willingness to write to Fang Chuang, persuading him to go out of the city and surrender, Li Mao said: "Wang Ting is ruthless and cunning, General Fang must be extremely careful, if the timing is unfavorable, first lurk and do not move, just send someone out of the city to inform him." ”

Lu Zhen's letter was drafted and handed over to Li Mao for review, Li Mao saw the great joy, not a word is easy, and immediately ordered someone to send it, the letter soon fell into the hands of Qin Fengmian, Qin Fengmian invited a calligraphy master, re-copied Lu Zhen's letter, archived the authentic handwriting, and delivered the fake letter to Fang Chuang.

Fang Chuang was shocked when he read the letter, and said left and right: "Today's gathering, it is also said that General Lu and Wang Zhenwan fought a big victory under Shenzhou City, captured the Octagonal Village, and Shenzhou City can be destroyed overnight, how can General Lu Zhen become Li Mao's lobbyist in a blink of an eye."

The secretary of the tent compared Lu Zhen's letter with the previous letter, and the secretary struggled all night, almost blinded a pair of good eyes, and finally found a flaw, and exclaimed: "I almost fell for Li Mao, this letter is fake." "Immediately point out the flaws in one, two, or three.

After Fang Chuang hesitated again and again, he still took the fake letter and went to see Wang Tingcuo, explaining the reason, Wang Tingcuo pretended to be relaxed and said: "It is a taboo for soldiers to fortify the city, Li Mao is poor in skills, and it is ridiculous to use such tricks. ”

The staying party broke into the banquet in the army, talked about the wine, was very affectionate, and presented a BMW knife after the banquet.

Fang Chuang returned to the camp and hurriedly summoned his henchmen and generals, and said: "Wang Tingcuo is already suspicious of me, so what can I do. ”

Everyone said: "He invited the general to a banquet today, and gave him a famous Ma Liang knife, which shows trust, how can the general say this?"

Fang Chuang said: "Wang Ting, this person is ruthless and cunning, Yang shows affection, and he will definitely knife me behind his back." ”

Everyone was silent, and Fang Chuang said: "Now that Shenzhou has been broken, Wang Dan and Wang Zhen will flee if they die, the imperial army will gather, and the general trend of Hengzhou has gone. I want to vote for Mrs. Li today, you are willing to follow, go with me, if you don't want to follow, send it to the coil, so that you can get together and disperse, and you will have the opportunity to meet again in the future. ”

The crowd said, "I want to follow the general." ”

After Fang Chuang went, Wang Tingcuo was really suspicious, and said in his heart: This person is known for being proficient in military strategy, this time he came to see me with a fake letter, what is the purpose of Wang Zhenwan's defeat and Lu Zhen was captured, with his nature, how can he not surrender If he surrenders Li Mao, in order to make meritorious contributions and get rid of the crime, how can he not fight Fang Chuang's idea

Thinking of this, Wang Tingcao hurriedly summoned the secretary of the army and asked if the letter was indeed a forgery, and there was a letter from Lu Zhen left in his camp. Lu Zhen is not very literate, and the letters are full of colloquial vernacular, and the style of observation and writing is also undoubtedly Lu Zhen's.

Wang Tingcuo sneered in his heart: Fang Chuang, Fang Chuang, in the end, you are still the shrewd son of a bitch, obviously got Lu Zhen's letter and was about to turn back, but in order to stabilize me, he took a fake letter to show his loyalty, and wanted to stabilize me, but there was no door

Wang Tingcuo immediately ordered all ministries to be on strict alert, and sent someone to invite Fang Chuang to discuss the military, Fang Chuang had already taken the lead to prepare, and got in touch with Li Mao, seeing Wang Tingcuo's envoy, he sneered: "Rebel ministers and thieves, with you are also worthy of being the lord of Hengzhou, we have received the kindness of the imperial court, how can we be in the same stream with you"

The words were about to be beheaded, and everyone said: "The two armies will not be beheaded when they fight." Cut off both of his ears. ”

The envoy held two ears and cried all the way back to the barracks, claiming that Fang Chuang had rebelled, and Wang Tingcao sneered: "As I expected. ”

Everyone asked: "Fang Chuang has been reversed, Hengzhou categorically can't hold it, what can I do?"

Wang Tingcao sighed and said: "Helpless, go to Taihang Mountain to avoid the limelight first, and wait for the court to recruit peace in the future." ”

Speaking of being the king of the mountain, Wang Tingcao had already prepared, and after Li Mao broke through Shenzhou, he stepped up his preparations, and now everything is ready, and he is only owed to lead his troops up the mountain.

Thinking of abandoning the prosperous city of Hengzhou to climb the mountain nest, the generals looked at each other, not saying anything, and the boss was unwilling in his heart, Wang Tingcao sneered, and drank the knife and axe hand to kill six or seven wavering elements on the spot.

The people did not dare to disobey, but instead echoed one after another, and for a time the west gate of the city was opened and retreated to the west.

Almost at the same time, Fang Chuang also summoned all the generals, announced his submission to the imperial court, surrendered to Li Mao, and accepted Li Mao's temperance, acted as a vanguard, and attacked the royal court's camp.

Wang Tingcuo knew that it was unrealistic to bring all the 15,000 people in Hengzhou City to the mountain, not to mention so many people, how many people were willing to follow him, or they all followed the mountain with all their hearts, and the barren Taihang Mountain could not afford to support so many people, but it would be a burden in the end. Therefore, he also made careful arrangements when retreating, deliberately leaving those troops who could not be trusted behind as stumbling blocks, which could block for a while.

Fang Chuang was earnest, murderous, killed too much, provoked a backlash, but was dragged by Wang Tingcuo's remnants, and could only watch Wang Tingcuo himself go farther and farther, but he was helpless.

Thirty miles out of the city, no one chased after him, Wang Ting secretly breathed a sigh of relief, you Fang Chuang, Li Mao is scheming Lao Tzu, how could you think that Lao Tzu would still play this hand, I can't beat you, let's go, stay in the green mountains and worry about no firewood

Going forward again is the remnants of Taihang Mountain, the terrain is undulating, the forests are gradually increasing, the ditches are vertical and horizontal, it is very unfavorable to the rapid march of the cavalry, Wang Ting can not chase Li Mao quickly, and ordered to camp on the spot and collect the troops.

Because they went too fast, most of the peripheral and follow-up troops could not keep up, and until midnight, there were still remnants of the defeated soldiers who rushed to return to the team one after another, saying that they were returning to the team, but in fact, most of them also had no team to return to, and the organization was scattered in the chaos, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and the soldiers could not find the soldiers, and they made a mess in the camp.

Wang Tingcao suddenly became vigilant: There are so many people, it is a mess, who dares to guarantee that there are no people who have mixed with Li Mao inside, isn't the Sabre Army under Li Mao the best at engaging in these famous halls

Wang Tingcuo immediately ordered the camp gate to be closed, no longer accepting new recruits into the camp, the rout soldiers came in panic, people were sleepy, there was no food to eat, no drink to drink, full of hope to enter the camp for a full meal, but did not want the door to be closed, did not let people in, a group of people

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