Chapter 18: Infernal Affairs at the end of the Han Dynasty

"Is that true?" In Yi County, in Li Dao's temporary county office, Li Dao stood up and looked at Zhu Ci in front of him with a frown: "This matter can't be a joke. ”

"It's true, it's what Li Ru said himself." Zhu Ci nodded seriously.

"Then why don't you arrest Li Ru and Hua Xiong?" Li Dao's face was a little ugly.

"I think maybe we can use this to do it!" Zhu Ci said excitedly: "When Ye Zhao contacts me, we will secretly ambush the ambush soldiers, and when Yang Ding and Ye Zhao secretly communicate, I will wait for the ambush soldiers to come out, even if we can't kill that Ye Zhao, we can also hit it hard!" ”

"Reasonable!" Li Dao nodded and said, "You go back first, if Ye Zhao contacts you, let me know as soon as possible!" ”

"Good!" Zhu Ci nodded, got up to say goodbye, and Li Dao sent Zhu Ci outside the door, his face became gloomy.

"Who is lying?" Behind the screen, Guo Yan walked out slowly, looked at Li Wei and frowned and asked.

An hour ago, Yang Ding also came, and what he said was similar to Zhu Ci, but the protagonist was replaced by Zhu Ci.

"I can't say." Li Dao was a little irritable, he was already suspicious by nature, and now the generals from all walks of life in Guanzhong led the army to support, which was a good thing, but the main people of the two roads said that the other party had voted for Ye Zhao, which made Li Dao a little indistinguishable for a while.

"Could it be true that both of them are telling the truth?" Guo Yan looked at Li Dao and said another possibility: "Then Li Ru is as cunning as a fox and deliberately revealed the matter, so that the two of them can guard against each other?" ”

"It's possible!" Li Dao is even more annoyed, if he doesn't lie, then it's okay to say, but if there is one person who lies......

"Lord, Duan Xuan asks to see!" A personal guard came in, saluted the two of them, and said to Li Dao.

Li Dao and Guo Yan glanced at each other, and Li Dao sighed and said, "Let him in." ”

Soon, Duan Xuan came in, arched his hand at Li Dao and Guo Yan, and said, "I've seen the second duke." ”

"Why are you here?" Li Wei looked at Duan Xuan and said.

Duan Xuan was a little hesitant, and after looking at the two of them for a long time, he sighed and said, "On the way here, I have met Li Ru. ”

"Oh?" Li Dao was already numb.

Duan Xuan looked at Li Dao and hesitated: "I didn't agree, but considering the friendship of the past, I didn't feel embarrassed, but according to his words, I am afraid that someone in our army has secretly defected to Ye Zhao, so I must guard against it!" ”

"Who did you say?" Guo Yan looked at Duan Xuandao.

"Then Li Ru is like a treacherous ghost, if he doesn't come down and say, how can I ask?" Duan Xuan smiled bitterly.

Li Dao and Guo Yan were stunned at the same time, and glanced at each other, that's right, with Li Ru's twisted intestines, if he didn't want to say something, who could get it out of his mouth, at least with Yang Ding and Zhu Ci, it would be impossible.

Li Wei's face suddenly became more gloomy, and he nodded: "I already know about this matter, Zhongming has been tired all the way, let's go and rest first." ”

Duan Xuan didn't say much, and left directly, leaving Li Dao and Guo Yan.

"Now it seems that if these two people were either deceived by Li Ru, someone else lied, but one thing is certain, someone must have secretly communicated with Ye Zhao." Li Dao said with an ugly face.

Li Ru would never be so stupid, knowing that the two would come to tell the truth, and would deliberately reveal such secrets to the two...... It didn't seem right, Li Dao felt that his brain seemed to be a little insufficient.

"In order to avoid the bad things of these two people, it is better to ......" Guo Yan looked at Li Dao, and a cold murderous intent flashed in his eyes: "Eliminate all these two people, and there will be less trouble!" ”

"That simmering ......" Li Wei nodded, which was also the safest way, and then looked at Guo Yandao.

"He's unlikely." Guo Yan shook his head and said: "You forgot that he went to the Son of Heaven with that Yang Ding, but was slandered by that Yang Ding, and finally almost died in Huayin, this person is a little pedantic, such a big hatred, if you have evil intentions at this time, and directly say that Yang Ding and Ye Zhao secretly cooperated, it was the time to get rid of Yang Ding, but he didn't do so, this time, you and I can't blame the good people anymore." ”

Li Dao was said by Guo Yan, and nodded silently: "In this case, how to get rid of Yang Ding and Zhu Ci?" ”

"I have a plan!" Guo Yan said: "You can send someone to inform the two of them separately, in order to avoid long nights and dreams, it is better to get rid of the other party as soon as possible, attract them to the army, ambush them with knives and axes, and when the two of them enter the camp, they will be killed with knives!" Send someone else to take advantage of the opportunity to swallow up its people! ”

"Yes!" Li Dao nodded when he heard this, then looked at Guo Yan and said, "However, who is going to annex his subordinates?" ”

"This ......" Guo Yan frowned slightly, this is not a simple question, Yang Ding and Zhu Ci have a total of 20,000 soldiers and horses, whether it is him or Li Dao to annex it, the strength is far superior to the other side, in this troubled era where fists are the last word, whoever has more soldiers in his hands will have the right to speak, in this matter, no matter who he is, he will obviously not stop.

After thinking for a while, Guo Yan said: "These two people have similar troops, why don't you and I swallow one each?" ”

"Good!" Li Wei nodded, he also knew that this was definitely not the time to quarrel with Guo Yan, their common enemy now was Ye Zhao, if he fell out with Guo Yan at this time, this Yixian County would not have to defend it.

Ye Zhao's army had arrived a few days ago, Li Dao sent troops out of the city to try once, and was almost attacked into the city by Ye Zhao's army, the combat effectiveness of the Shu army was so strong, it was chilling, it was because Li Dao had been resisting the city and defending it for these days, and he did not dare to fight Ye Zhao completely.

If you want to annex Yang Ding and Zhu Ci's soldiers and horses, it is natural to make a good layout, and it is best to receive the deployment of the two while minimizing losses, so in the next two days, Li Dao and Guo Yan are secretly arranging the deployment.

On the third day, Li Dao invited the two of them to a banquet, told them that they were going to kill each other, and asked them to come forward to testify, so that everyone could say that he killed people for no reason.

Yang Ding and Zhu Ci didn't know what to do, they each agreed, and at noon they only brought their personal guards to the city of Yixian, almost after the two entered Yixian, Li Dao and Guo Yan's men surrounded the two people's camps.

"General, what does this mean?" After entering Li Dao's mansion, the guards brought by the two were killed by the sudden sword and axe hand, Yang Ding and Zhu Ci's faces changed greatly, and they looked at Li Dao and said loudly.

"What do you mean?" Li Wei smiled, shook his head and looked at the two of them, "Wait for Ye Zhao, do you think I don't know?" ”

"I didn't fornicate with Ye Zhao below, the person who fornicated with Ye Zhao was him......" The two of them roared almost in unison, but before they finished speaking, they looked at each other in amazement, their faces instantly turned pale, and at this moment, the two finally understood what was happening.

"General, wronged, this is that Li Ru's trick!" Yang Ding and Zhu Ci broke out in a cold sweat and said loudly to Li Dao.

"Kill!" Where would Li Dao listen to the two of them quibbling at this moment, sneered, waved his hand, and the knife and axe hand rushed up.

Seeing this, Yang Ding and Zhu Ci didn't care about it anymore, they each pulled out their weapons and roared to kill the sword and axeman, the two of them are also battle-hardened generals, and at this moment, seeing that there is no way to live, they are desperately killing Li Dao.

There is a way that one husband is desperate, and ten thousand people can't stop it! At this moment, when the two of them knew that they had no way to live, they just wanted to pull Li Dao on their backs, and for a while, they let them kill a lot of people.

Seeing this, Li Wei snorted coldly, grabbed a bow, and shot an arrow at Yang Ding, Yang Ding couldn't dodge, and was shot through the heart and lungs by the cold arrow cluster, roared unwillingly, and scolded: "Li Ru, you can't die well!! ”

When he was dying, he didn't scold Li Dao, but it was Li Ru who scolded, and this angry roar suddenly made Li Dao's heart sink.

"General, you'll regret it!" Zhu Ci saw Yang Ding's death, panicked, was cut to the ground by two knife and axe hands, looked up at Li Dao, gritted his teeth, and said.

The bad feeling in Li Wei's heart became clearer and clearer, he felt as if he had been tricked, but the matter had come to this, everyone was killed, what was the use of talking about this, he immediately cleaned up his mood and led the soldiers and horses to accept Yang Ding's soldiers and horses, in the discussion with Guo Yan, Yang Ding's soldiers and horses were his own, and Zhu Ci's soldiers and horses were close to martial arts and belonged to Guo Yan.

With such a big movement here, the news quickly spread to Duan Xuan's side.

"Just said a word, and let Li Dao and Guo Yan kill the two?" Duan Xuan still looked at Li Ru sitting opposite him in disbelief, in order to facilitate planning, since Duan Xuan led the army to arrive in the area of Yixian County, Li Ru secretly infiltrated Duan Xuan's camp.

"Naturally, it's not as simple as a sentence, the two of them should have met with Li Dao and Guo Yan before, which made Li Guo and the two suspicious, you went at that time, those words were to clear your suspicion, and at the same time, let Li Guo and the two thieves confirm that one of the two is secretly in line with the lord, Li Dao is suspicious, Guo Yan is cautious, but the resourcefulness is insufficient, at this time, in order to be safe, it is naturally better to indulge in vain!" Li Dao said with a smile.

Duan Xuan only felt the cold air behind him, although he also wanted to avenge the original revenge, but he never thought that Yang Ding and Zhu Ci would be so easily killed by Li Ru, from beginning to end, Li Ru just went to their military camp and walked around, moved his mouth, and killed the two without moving a single soldier, this ability and scheming are really ......

"Why don't you let me subdue the two of them?" Duan Xuan then looked at Li Ru with some dissatisfaction, if Li Ru deployed in advance, he might not be able to take this opportunity to surrender the two of them, and when the time comes, even if he is not as many as Li Dao and Guo Yan, it is not an object that the two can easily knead.

"If you want to hurry, you can't reach it, if you do it, it will only make the two of you suspicious!" Li Ru said indifferently.

In fact, even if there was this opportunity, Li Ru would not let Duan Xuan surrender his people, Ye Zhao wanted a complete Guanzhong, but he was not prepared to have other people under his hands to set up a mountain.

"So what now? Although they killed the two of them, Li Dao and Guo Yan annexed their subordinates, and their strength was not lost! Duan Xuan frowned and looked at Li Ru.

"No, a lot to lose!" Li Ru shook his head and said with a smile: "The account is not calculated like this, although it is forcibly swallowed by its subordinates, but Yang Ding and Zhu Ci's subordinates are probably resentful, and as soon as this matter comes out, those generals from all walks of life who have taken refuge will inevitably be in danger, and the people's hearts will be scattered, so what is the use of more soldiers?" What we have to do now is to mess up this man's mind even more! ”