Li Wuji replied with a painful face: "Miss Xing really misunderstood me, how can I know the treasures of the Tiemen Temple, the steward of the Southern Tibetan Academy, even if there is a secret that should be in charge of the temple." ”

Xing Ruyan smiled like a flower, and said softly: "Ruyan came to Chang'an for no other purpose, just to witness the treasure; When Master Fuliu conspired with Li Yuan back then, the senior was one of the people present. However, at that time, the predecessors were not yet monks, just a gentleman in Chang'an City, and then less than three months after becoming a monk in Tiemen Temple, he was promoted to the head of the Southern Tibetan Monastery; The mission of the predecessors is to wait for these treasures and wait for others to bring tokens. ”

Xing Ruyan said, sliding out of his hand a boxy jade plate, with a red character "six" engraved on the front, and a copper coin pattern on the north, with deep knife work; Li Wuji coughed for a while, took the jade plate, and picked up the jade pendant on his waist, and at this time Xing Ruyan and the two noticed that Li Wuji's jade pendant had a square groove, which was just enough to put the jade card in. The most wonderful thing is that there are also two rings on the jade pendant, which just form three circles in a line with the copper coin.

Li Wuji observed for a while and said, "Yes, it's a token." But Miss Xing, you have to figure it out, Li Yuan is not qualified to activate the treasure. ”

Xing Ruyan chuckled and said, "It's a little woman who wants to use it." I forgot to introduce, I am a disciple of Shi Shiliang, and I stayed in Chang'an on the order of the family teacher, you only need to open the door you are in charge of, and the other doors are in charge of the little woman; You have to believe what I say, if you don't believe it, it will make me very embarrassed, and I don't want to kill anymore. ”

Li Wuji was startled, and suddenly came to his senses: "Master Fojia didn't commit suicide, he died at your hands. ”

Xing Ruyan put away her smile, straightened her face and said, "Senior, it's no good to know too much. ”

Li Wuji timidly echoed and said, "What the girl said is that she is old and confused. ”

Wei Yijie only felt that his heart was beating faster, he just thought that he had participated in a coup d'état, but he didn't expect that it was so wide-ranging, treasures, murders, conspiracies, power, everything was something that made people go to hell. Wei Yijie regretted a little, he should discuss it with the old man in the family, he only wanted to get ahead, but he didn't take into account that Li Yuan was also forced to do so.

Xing Ruyan returned to normalcy and slowly ordered: "Master Wei must contact the people in Yang Yu's circle and find more people in the Wei family." Senior Li is responsible for summoning the masters in the rivers and lakes, the more the better, and when the people are all together, we will first raise the treasure, and then launch a mutiny to control Chang'an City. ”

Li Wuji asked worriedly: "Jiang Duo and Zhang Jin's two guards are in Chang'an, they are all veterans who fought with Yang Chong all the way, can we do it by force?" ”

Li Wuji's worries are not unreasonable, the so-called masters in the rivers and lakes, when facing thousands of troops, are just killing a few more people to cushion their backs, and it is unavoidable to take the rank of general among the millions of troops. Xing Ruyan said calmly: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, and Dengzhou won't be able to hold it for long." At present, we are 30% sure that at least we can kill all the officials who have defected to Yang Chong. ”

It's still broad daylight, and there is no problem with indoor visibility, but Li Wuji always feels indescribably depressed, Xing Ruyan, this woman is too demonic, so demonic that old rivers and lakes like Li Wuji are a little unbearable, and I feel that Jiangnan Restaurant and Chang'an are shrouded in a layer of demonic energy.

Yang Chong was urging the armies to step up their attack on Dengzhou, but because the Hexi Army had attacked too fast a while ago, Li Yuan's ally Du Fuwei, who was fighting fiercely with Li Zitong in Danyang, could not withdraw north to reinforce at all; Although Li Xiaogong's army went out of Sichuan and was attacking Xiao Mill, the king of Liang, unlike in history, without the support of Du Fuwei and Henan, Li Xiaogong's lone army did not achieve a devastating victory, and was still stopped by the Liang army west of Yueyang.

Li Yuan's advantage lies in the smooth navigation of Dengzhou's state governance and the city, the turbulent river flows into the Han River through the Xinyehui Baihe River and then opens to the Yangtze River, and in the thirteenth year of the battle of Chibi in Jian'an, Cao Cao excavated the grain river in the southern suburbs of the city, and used Dengzhou as a rear granary; Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the Jingzhou administrative office, which had been located south of the Han River, to Qicheng, which then became the political, economic, and cultural center of the Nanyang Basin. Even if the city can't be defended, it's a big deal to get on the ship and leave.

Shandu, and other counties were soon captured by the Hexi Army in a state of half-abandonment by the Tang Army; After the two sides came into contact with the city, the offensive and defensive battles were not fierce, the Hexi army was looking for the best plan, and the Tang army also understood that the Hexi army's siege of the city was never a death attack every day regardless of casualties, but would choose a sudden action to open the gap in the city at once, and then there was an unstoppable influx of troops.

Yang Chong chose psychological warfare, there were countless dignitaries and nobles in the city, and he wanted to create a situation where they were cornered and make them panic; In addition to ordering airships to blow up boats on the turbulent river every day, Yang Chong also sent iron cavalry to patrol the riverbank, and once a boat was found docking, he immediately arrested the personnel and boats.

The attaché who observed the celestial phenomena said that there had been a heavy rainstorm recently, and Yang Chong secretly ordered the army to take the barracks to a high place, and when the torrential rain poured down and the turbulent river swelled, the Hexi army dug the embankment to the south of the turbulent river, and the river water was rolling, rushing into the moat, and pouring into the north gate of the city. The Hexi army took advantage of the situation to attack the city by boat and raft, and the defenders resisted desperately under the command of Li Jiancheng, fighting fiercely for two nights and two days, until the river receded, and the Hexi army collected its troops and returned to the camp.

What the Tang army did not expect was that the attack of the Hexi army only chiseled more than a dozen grooves where explosives could be placed at the north gate and the east gate. Qin Xingshi, the general of the Right Prison Gate, and Zhang Pinggao, the Duke of Xiao Guo, were killed in battle, and 366 people, including Li Yuan's concubine, Li Shimin's family, Nayan Chen Shuda, Wen Daya, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, Cui Mingan, the secretary and supervisor Pei Xi, the guard Shaoqing Yang Qi, the commander of the horses, Yang Shidao, and the general of the Right Tun Guard, Dou Cong, were captured.

Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng only led 7,000 troops to flee to Xinye in a hurry this time, supplemented 3,000 elite soldiers in Xinye, and 10,000 people boarded the ship to go to Hanshui to fight Li Xiaogong, leaving Li Shuliang and Pang Qingyun to garrison Xinye; As for the officials and family members of the city, they really can't take care of it, and they don't even have a plan to redeem people.

But this time Yang Chong had a bit of a headache, because three of Li Yuan's harem beauties wrote to him, Cui Yao's sister Cui Shangqi, Yang Su's daughter Yang Miao, and Xue Daoheng's daughter Xue Huan; The people below have no choice but to pass it on. The problem is that the three women not only hope that they can go home, but also ask Yang Chong to let go of Wan Guifei, Yin Defei, Zhang Jieyu, Mo Lifang, Zhang Chongze and others, according to common sense, if Yang Chong does not want to negotiate with Li Tang anymore, Li Yuan's concubines have only one way to go.

(End of chapter)