Zhang Mancheng couldn't accept this fact, and roared: "You have 10,000 people, Liu Zixuan only has 500 people, 20 times more troops than the enemy army, you are actually defeated, the commander has been killed, are you all rice buckets?" Zhang Ziming, you misunderstood me. ”

The surroundings were quiet, and no one dared to talk, for fear of saying something wrong and touching the moldy head of this Taishou. Zhang Mancheng finished his fire, and slowly calmed down, and continued to ask: "Is Liu Zixuan going to meet Shi Luosheng now?" ”

The leader said: "After Liu Zixuan broke through, he went in the direction of Xiaqiu. ”

Zhang Mancheng was a little desperate, and slowly spit out three words: "Go back to the city." After saying that, he turned his horse's head and went back on his own, and Steward Yu could only follow behind with the troops.

"Master, we might as well write to Lord Taiwei now that Shi Luosheng is plotting to rebel, and Liu Zixuan led the army to attack our city defense army last night is ironclad evidence." After returning to the Taishou Mansion, Steward Yu wanted to beat him upside down.

Zhang Mancheng shook his head and said, "It's useless, didn't you notice that you didn't see Yin Ruoyang this morning?" He must have gone to Jianye now to tell Lord Taiwei about my rebellion, and Li Ming is still in Liu Zixuan's hands, so when the pair of confessions will know that we are lying. ”

Steward Yu said again: "Then let's escape, flee to Chu State, flee to Qin State, in short, leave the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Mancheng smiled bitterly: "Do we still have a place to escape now?" Rebellion is to destroy the nine tribes, or in two days all the country's passes will be plastered with notices that want us, can we still escape? ”

Steward Yu asked unwillingly, "Then what should we do now?" Are you trapped in Jeju City? These 20,000 city defense troops can't hold it. ”

Zhang Mancheng didn't speak again, looking out the window blankly.

Jianye City Taiwei Mansion, when the court Taiwei Tian Yulong heard the news of Zhang Mancheng's rebellion brought by Elder Guo of the Seven Peerless Sect, he fell into deep thought: "Zhang Mancheng was raised by himself, as long as he rebelled, no matter whether he succeeded or not, he would definitely be implicated." Chen, Deng, and Cui will definitely not let go of this opportunity to hit themselves, and even the three may join forces for a short time, and they must not give them such an opportunity. ”

"Now there is only one way to clear up the relationship, which is to kill Zhang Mancheng before others, so that although he is the person I promoted, I also have merit in quelling the rebellion, and when the merit is offset, others will at most say that I don't know people, and I don't have much loss to myself."

Thinking of this, Tian Yulong asked Elder Guo to go down to rest, and called his henchman Hu Benzhonglang Xu Wenzhe over: "Wenzhe, Zhang Mancheng of Jeju is going to rebel, I don't care what method you use, you must take the lead in fetching Zhang Mancheng's head for me before Deng Yuanjue's people arrive." ”

Xu Wenzhe didn't ask much, and went directly.

Half a day later, Lin Wenying and others also arrived at the General's Mansion, and after Deng Yuanjue learned about these situations, he took Li Ming into the palace to face the saint, and when he returned, he sent his eldest son Deng Wenying to lead 30,000 troops to Jeju City to quell the rebellion.

Zhang Mancheng was preparing to rebel, although the people of the Great Song Dynasty were still in the dark, but the Chen, Li and Cui families of the five major families also received the news one after another. In addition to the fact that the Li family is the in-laws of the Tian family, both the Chen family and the Li family are collecting evidence and preparing to attack Tian Yulong when Zhang Mancheng raised troops.

In Xiaqiu, Shi Luosheng and Liu Zixuan will also get together, Shi Luosheng heard how Liu Zixuan used tricks to delay time with Zhang Mancheng, and finally broke out of the encirclement and killed Zhang Ziming, and said to Wang Lun: "Mr. eyes are like torches, Zixuan is really an underestimated general." ”

Wang Lun also laughed: "The general is not far behind, and he knows how to make good use of people." ”

But Liu Zixuan touched his head a little embarrassed and said: "Okay, okay, I'm embarrassed what you said, now Zhang Mancheng still has more than 20,000 people in his hands, and we have to find a way to take him down." ”

Shi Luosheng said with a smile: "Zhang Mancheng is no longer afraid, what can a city defense army with 20,000 people with low combat effectiveness and no morale do." Now we have to think about how to take Jeju City without bloodshed. Mr. Wang, you write a letter to the people in the city, explain clearly the matter of Zhang Mancheng's rebellion, and let the people in the city not be deceived by him, and let people copy a few more copies, and then shoot them into the city with bows and arrows. ”

Wang Lun took out the letter that had already been written from his sleeve and said with a smile: "The general is the same as I thought this time, the letter has been prepared after the general pacified Zuoxi, and sent the secret agent back to Jeju City, as long as Zhang Mancheng has any abnormal movement, those secret agents lurking in the city will release the news, I believe that Zhang Mancheng is now spreading the word that Zhang Mancheng plans to rebel." ”

Shi Luosheng was overjoyed and said: "It turns out that Mr. has been prepared for a long time, so he is a little more sure of taking Jeju City peacefully." ”

"Master, now there are rumors in the city, and there are rumors everywhere that the lord is going to rebel, and I have ordered all those who spread rumors to be arrested and killed." Steward Yu found that rumors have spread in the city recently, and it has been a bit out of control, and now the people in the city do not dare to go out, for fear that they will be arrested and sent to the army, and there is no one to see on the streets in broad daylight.

Since Zhang Mancheng came back from Dongshan last time, he has ignored government affairs, and all the things in the city have been handed over to Butler Yu to deal with, and he stays in the study all day long except for drinking and sleeping, and now he is indifferent when he hears Steward Yu's words, and said lightly: "You just look at it." ”

Seeing that Zhang Mancheng lived with wine all day long, the housekeeper Yu was depressed, snatched the wine glass in his hand, and said hurriedly: "Master, it is imminent now, you can't go on like this." If we don't think about it, we're really going to be finished. ”

Zhang Mancheng smiled bitterly: "What else can be done now, the army of Shiluosheng will arrive soon, the morale of the generals in the city is completely demoralized, and the number of people fleeing is getting more and more day by day, we have no hope, you should also pack up and prepare to escape." ”

Butler Yu shook his head when he saw that the persuasion was ineffective, glanced at Zhang Mancheng and turned to leave, while Zhang Mancheng continued to pick up the wine glass and drank it.

Butler Yu returned home and arranged for his family to start packing up their belongings and preparing to escape from Jeju City before the arrival of Sekroseong's army. Butler Yu thought to himself: "It's okay if the master doesn't go with him, his goal is too big, and he will definitely not be able to run far with him." ”

"Are you Steward Yu?" A voice behind him asked.

Butler Yu looked back and saw a burly man in his thirties standing behind him. Steward Yu asked rhetorically, "Who are you and how did you get in?" ”

The person who came said lightly: "Below is Xu Wenzhe, the general of the Tiger Ben, who came to Jeju on the order of Lord Taiwei." ”

When Steward Yu heard that it was someone sent by Tian Yulong, he hurriedly invited him to the house and asked, "I don't know why the adults came to Jeju, and is there anything that the villain needs to do?" ”

Xu Wenzhe nodded and said: "Steward Yu is really a smart person, I really have one thing to do when I came to you, but I don't know if Steward Yu is willing to help?" ”

Steward Yu said: "Although the adults command, the villain will do his best." ”

Xu Wenzhe said: "That's good, I want you to kill Zhang Mancheng." ”

Steward Yu was taken aback: "Kill the master?" Why, the lord has always been loyal to Lord Taiwei. ”

Xu Wenzhe snorted coldly: "Loyal? Lord Taiwei single-handedly promoted Zhang Mancheng, what about him, colluding with mountain bandits, embezzling military salaries, and exploiting the people, even if he is still plotting to rebel, this matter will reach the ears of the saint, so what does the saint think of Lord Taiwei? What do the other great families think of Lord Taiwei? In short, Zhang Mancheng must die now, and he must die in the hands of Lord Taiwei, only in this way can the mouth of the people in the world be blocked, do you understand this? ”

Steward Yu hesitated a little and said: "My lord, although I said that, after all, I have been following the master for almost twenty years, and I really can't do anything about it, can I think of other ways?" ”

Xu Wenzhe said angrily: "Steward Yu, do you think that only you can do this?" I'm giving you a chance, don't push back, tell me now, do it or not. After speaking, he touched the sword in his hand and looked at Steward Yu coldly.

Steward Yu saw that he dared to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly said, "I'll do it, I'll do it." ”

Xu Wenzhe said again: "This matter cannot be delayed, Shi Luosheng's army is expected to arrive outside Jeju City tomorrow, I will come to you tonight, I want to see Zhang Mancheng's head at that time, otherwise your family will be ready to go down first to explore the way for Zhang Mancheng." With that, he drew his sword and unsheathed it, cutting the desk next to him into two pieces.

How dare the housekeeper slack off any longer, put down the work in his hand and go to the Taishou Mansion.

On the way there, it was not bad for Steward Yu to think about it carefully: "Killing Zhang Mancheng himself is also a meritorious counter-rebellion, so there is no need to take the family to the end of the world, and you can still take the line of Captain Tian, and maybe you can mix up an official and a half-job at that time." ”

Thinking of this, Steward Yu quickly let go of his psychological burden and began to fantasize about the upcoming good life after killing Zhang Mancheng.

Coming to the study of Taishou Mansion again, Zhang Mancheng didn't know how much wine he had drunk, and glanced at Steward Yu with drunken eyes and said, "Why are you here again, and what happened?" You can handle it yourself, don't bother me. ”

Steward Yu walked up to Zhang Mancheng and whispered: "Master, I have been following you for twenty years, and after so many years of saddle before and after the horse, I can be regarded as doing my best for you." Now you are in a big disaster, in fact, there is nothing to do with me here, you see that it is you who colludes with the mountain bandits, you are the one who embezzles military salaries, and you are also the one who exploits the people, and now it is you who want to rebel, what I want to really do, it is all at your instigation, now that the disaster is coming, I don't need to tie up with you to die, master, are you right? ”

Zhang Mancheng was already drunk and snored slightly. Steward Yu glanced at Zhang Mancheng, picked up the wine jug on the table and took a few sips and continued: "Master, now that Lord Taiwei wants to kill you, I also think what General Xu said makes sense, Lord Taiwei single-handedly promoted you, don't you implicate people with such a rebellion?" So, I thought about it again, if you die, won't Lord Taiwei's side be fine, and the people in the city don't have to fight, of course, my family doesn't have to die in the world, everyone's problems will be solved. ”

Steward Yu took another sip of wine, took out a dagger from his sleeve and said to Zhang Mancheng: "Master, it's good that you're drunk, if you're still sober, I really don't know how to face you." Now even if I stab you, you won't feel any pain, how nice. ”