Without the help of local officials, trying to pull food out of the mouths of the mountain people scattered in the mountains is tantamount to seeking the skin of the tiger. These people have rich experience in dealing with the government, and the gray-headed faces of the sitting tigers often touch in front of them, what can Gao Chongwen, an alien dragon, do to him?

The shadow of hunger loomed over the camp of Gao Chongwen's Ministry of Education, and Zizhou was alone, and its strategic symbolism was greater than its actual military significance, and Gao Chongwen thought of withdrawing troops, but even from a military point of view, it was not a very good option at the moment.

What's more, when he jumped hundreds of miles to raid Zizhou, which made the court jubilant, the Son of Heaven issued a decree late at night to worship the secretary of the Ministry of Inspection, and Wei Dan, who succeeded Li Kang as the envoy of the Dongchuan Festival, even played the imperial court to make the Dongchuan Festival make a concession - not only for the reward, but also so that he could have a large rear to rely on.

The singing and dancing of the celebration banquet has not stopped, but Zizhou has gained and lost, but how can he explain to the world? How to face the favor of the Son of Heaven?

Some of the generals under his command scolded Li Mao angrily, claiming that if this person hadn't been in the way in front of them, they would have entered Chengdu City and captured Liu Pi alive, so why would they have fallen here.

Some people also instigated Gao Chongwen to impeach Li Mao, accusing him of colluding with Liu Pi and delaying the military plane, causing thousands of troops to fall into danger.

Gao Chongwen sneered and scolded: "Nonsense, how can I, Gao Chongwen, be a traitor and villain who is more than others, if I am wrong, I will go to him to confess." ”

Everyone tried to persuade them not to bow their heads to Li Mao, Gao Chongwen angrily flipped the table and left with hatred.

Li Mao has already received the news of Gao Chong's Ministry of Culture and Culture's food shortage, and is waiting for him to come to apologize. He is relaxed on the surface, but he actually has no bottom in his heart, Gao Chongwen has a very strange temper, taciturn, introverted personality, and is unpredictable.

Therefore, as soon as he heard Gao Chongwen's visit, Li Mao immediately cheered up, and before going out, he also asked Han Yi to help him see if his clothes were flawed, which caused Hu Chuan to chirp and talk nonsense.

Gao Chongwen saw Li Mao waiting outside the Yimen, and he was very emotional, and bowed down and said: "I regret not listening to the good words of appeasement." ”

Gao Mingwen is facing the dilemma Li Mao already knows, and he will not say anything superfluous, Gao Chongwen humbly said his plan, he has decided to give up Zizhou City, return to Jianzhou and join Yan Li's department, break Mianzhou to the south, and enter Chengdu.

Li Mao said: "The purpose of capturing Zizhou and boosting morale has been achieved, and such a city has no military significance. ”

Gao Chongwen was overjoyed, he thought that Li Mao would be like those ministers in the court, resolutely opposing him to give up Zizhou, if he refused to let go, he would be convicted of the crime of abandoning the land without authorization, with this charge in his body, it would not be easy for Li Mao to kill him in the future.

"So, the appeasement envoy is willing to help a certain person defend himself in front of the saint?"

"The general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarchs, not to mention that the saint does not have a specific strategy for how to use the army, whether to advance or retreat and the marshal to cut it by himself, what the saint wants to see is Liu Reverse and ambush, and the two rivers return to the territory of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Mao's words reassured Gao Chongwen, he was relieved, and said happily: "The saint trusts his subordinates so much, and the ministers can only have their livers and brains, and it is difficult to repay the kindness of their encounters." ”

"But Zizhou can't give up right now." Li Mao's words suddenly changed.

"Well, what's the plan to appease the envoys? The battalion had less than ten days to feed on its food. ”

Gao Chongwen set up a small ambush, the grain and grass in his camp could only support three days, and now he set off, marching at the fastest speed, barely able to reach Jianzhou before the food was cut off, and no matter how late, the situation was unimaginable.

"The marshal is not afraid to wait for another three days, and after three days, Liu Pihui will send the general Xing Zhu to send eight thousand quintals of rice beans over."

Li Mao said lightly, but Gao Chongwen felt that his scalp was blowing up, since the grain road between Zizhou and Langzhou was cut off by Dongman and the Fifth Academy Army, Liu Pi sent someone to send a prisoner to come over to condole.

The condolences must be fake, and it is true to take the opportunity to attack Zizhou, which is basic military common sense. Li Mao couldn't see through it?

Gao Chongwen asked in a sullen voice: "Pacify the envoy who believes that Liu Bi will have such good intentions?" ”

"He may be uneasy and kind, but the food is real, what is the Gao Shuai polite to him about the things sent to the door?"

Gao Chongwen looked at Li Mao in surprise, puzzled what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd.

"I have promised him to bring grain into the city in three days, and the two of us will sit down to discuss the truce."

"He's coming into town? I have dealt with this person, and he can be regarded as brave and resourceful. ”

"If Xing Zhu can be the master, he may not be willing to enter Zizhou City, but Liu Pi is different, he will be willing to try."

There was some meaning in what he said, Gao Chongwen was unconsciously moved, and said: "The appeasement envoy is to say ......"

Li Mao stopped him and didn't let him continue, but Gao Chongwen already understood, he got up and arched his hand to Li Mao, and said: "If you don't do the business sent to the door, it will be a loss of conscience, and you will be appeased to sit in the military tent and watch a certain person go into battle and capture the flag." ”

Sending Gao Chongwen away, Qin Mo asked Li Mao suspiciously: "You guys played a bunch of dumb riddles, what are you talking about?" ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "It's nothing, Liu Pi sent someone to send some food over, and I asked Gao Shuai to go out of the city to get it." ”

Qin Mo said: "That's all? ”

"That's all." Li Mao smiled silently.

Liu Pi sent the general Xing Zhu to deliver food to Gao Chongwen to show his sincerity in repenting and returning to the court. Xing Zhu understood what Liu Pi meant, Zizhou had run out of food, Gao Chongwen might let him enter the city, as long as he could sneak into the city, he would have the opportunity to take advantage of Gao Chongwen's defenselessness, take off his nest, recapture Zizhou, and then smoke Gao Chongwen's head and send it to Chang'an to give Li Chun the goods that year.

The Xingzhu escort is a real grain and grass, a total of 8,000 quintals, Sichuan uses a quintal as a unit of measurement, a quintal of rice weighs more than a stone, and a load of beans is slightly lighter than a stone.

In order to carry the 8,000 quintals of rice beans, Xing Zhu requisitioned 4,000 people, and in order to ensure safety, another 1,000 soldiers were mobilized to escort them. Of the 4,000 people, 800 were impersonated by the elite soldiers of the Xichuan army, and these people carried short knives with them and bows and crossbows hidden in bamboo baskets.

When there were still seventy miles away from Zizhou, Xing Zhu was told that he would escort the soldiers to camp on the spot and accept the comfort of the assistants of the imperial court's pacification envoys, while the four thousand people would enter the city with Xing Zhu and others to accept the gratitude of the high marshal.

After the 4,000 people arrived at the city, the city defenders invited them to live in the newly built barracks outside the city, and only the leaders of the tribes were allowed to enter the city to participate in the banquet.

Everything was as Lu Wenruo expected, Zizhou had run out of food, Gao Chongwen had to lower his posture to welcome the Xichuan people into the city, and Xing Zhu had a chance to sneak attack.

Lu Wenruo thinks that his plan is exhaustive, but the specific execution of the punishment is bitter, the half of the city wall of Zizhou City has been formed after Gao Chongwen's supervision, even if his own side succeeds in the sneak attack, if the outside army is not reinforced, it is undoubtedly dangerous. But at this point, Xing Jun had no choice but to take sixty soldiers pretending to be Ding Fu and calmly walked into the heavily defended Zizhou City.

Xing Zhu had been stationed in Zizhou City and was familiar with everything here, and he looked around as he walked, silently revising the raid plan he had made in advance. According to the original plan, they will raise fire in the middle of the night and attack at the third watch, and the 800 warriors stationed in the camp outside the city pretending to be the people will join forces at the same time, and the inside and outside will join forces to attack Zizhou City.

After they succeeded, as long as they could hold on to Zizhou for a day, the elite of Xichuan who were ambushed around Zizhou in advance gathered together, and they should be combined with the outside, they would be able to break Gao Chongwen, even if they couldn't capture and kill this thief under the city, Gao Chongwen had no way out, he ran out of water and food, and there was no food at all within hundreds of miles around Zizhou, and there were only two ways waiting for him, either to surrender to Xichuan, or to die in the mountains and bad waters.

"The children of the Five Courtyards, sure enough, they are all helping to eat idle meals."

Xing Jun cursed in his heart, the city wall of Zizhou was nearly twice as tall and thicker than before, even if he succeeded in the surprise attack inside the city, how would the reinforcements outside the city be reinforced? They had come from afar, and they did not have a single siege machine with them. Do you climb with your bare hands?

Xing Zhu squinted at the newly repaired, smooth rammed earth city wall, the city wall was built in a hurry, the materials were rough, and it was not exquisite, maybe it would collapse after a year and a half of heavy rain, but now it is a fatal obstacle.

"With such a tall wall, these people who eat dry food can turn a blind eye, I really obey them."

In addition to this fatal injury, there was also a small problem in one link, the sixty followers who followed him into the city and himself, including himself, were confiscated by the guards when they entered the city, and even the short knife for manicure was unceremoniously detained by the guards.

Gao Chongwen is not a simple person, on the surface he is polite to him, but at a critical moment, but there is no ambiguity at all, on the other hand, the self-proclaimed reincarnation of Zhuge Kongming's Lu Dajun in Chengdu always has some wishful thinking, he actually swore to Liu Pi that Gao Chongwen has run out of food, and now he is asking for Xichuan, and he will not worry too much about the details, and there will definitely be no problem with bringing a few short knives into the city.

Xing Jun quietly greeted the elders and women of Lu Wenruo's family in his heart, and then forcibly suppressed his anger and thought of a way to crack it, the confiscation of his personal weapon must be detrimental to the big operation they planned, but it was not very deadly, there were knives, guns and arrows buried in several places in the city, which was the secret buckle left by Xing Jun when he evacuated Zizhou, and he was waiting for this day.

As long as you can drag it out for a day and get the weapon in hand, then you will suddenly attack, and there is still hope for victory.

Gao Chongwen's welcome banquet was unusually grand, almost consuming two-thirds of his stored grain and all the wine and meat, but he was not distressed at all, Tanma told him that the grain and grass brought by Xingzhu was real, really good rice and good beans, although each basket was coated with tung oil that was falsely claimed to be used to prevent rain, but Gao Chongwen was not worried at all, not to mention whether they had the opportunity to light a fire to burn grain, even if it was a fire, eight thousand quintals of grain, as long as he could grab one-third, it was enough to support him from Zizhou to Jianzhou.

If he can't even grab the food under his nose, then wouldn't his years of training in vain?

According to Li Mao's plan, everyone toasted to several Sichuan army generals such as Xing Zhu, although Gao Chongwen did not act in a fair and honest manner, but he did not hesitate to participate.

Xing Zhu drank a lot, but the tiger couldn't stand the wolves, and he was drunk for a while, so his deputy hurriedly helped him to rest.

The banquet continued, and the generals of the imperial court also drank and staggered, and there were several live broadcasts, more of which were dizzy, dancing, talking nonsense, or simply drunk and drunk.

Xing Zhu is drunk and knows in his heart, and he has been carefully observing, these people are really drunk, and they are by no means pretending. He glanced at Li Mao, who was flushed and extremely active, and then looked at Gao Chongwen, whose face was black and trembling, and said with a smile in his heart: "Let you drink this last meal of wine, your head will be mine tomorrow morning." ”

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