"The mother is overrated, and the slave maid is just saying what she usually feels and thinks in her heart, but it's just ......."

"It's just something, there is something unspeakable that can't be hidden, or there is an accident to hide from this palace." Wu Meiniang looked at Shangguan Wan'er, who wanted to speak and stopped, and asked with a frown.

"Niangniang is angry, how dare the slave and maid have something to hide from Niangniang, it's just ...... It's just that the slave maid has some thoughts about Pei Yan. Shangguan Wan'er also hesitated again and again before she said stubbornly.

"Oh, I have a different opinion on Pei Yan's matter, you didn't say that just now, what, what you said just now is against your will."

"No, no, no, Niangniang is borrowing three lists from slaves and maids, and slaves and maids don't dare to deceive Niangniang, slaves and maids just feel that Pei Yan's matter, what Niangniang needs is just to set an example, kill Pei Yan, let the court officials realize the majesty of Niangniang, if you kill Pei Yan, it is a little too much, and even ..... Even, even those who do good things will spread rumors, which is a hidden danger for Niangniang. Shangguan Wan'er said.

"Uh-huh....."

Wu Meiniang snorted lightly, and began to analyze the intention of Shangguan Wan'er's statement in her heart.

For the gossip outside, Wu Meiniang has never taken it seriously, and the brutal struggle in the court for many years has made her know that everything is false, only real power is real, with real power, fake can become true, black can become white, as for the irony of those incompetent villains, she doesn't care at all, the so-called 'not being envied by others is mediocre', doing one thing, it is impossible for everyone to get benefits, those who do not get benefits, sour words of complaining, for her own no harm at all.

What really makes Wu Meiniang think so seriously is Shangguan Wan'er's attitude, you must know that a superior person cannot be a lonely person, he needs some helpers and henchmen to complete his orders, so many times, they need to take into account the ideas of these helpers, and Shangguan Wan'er is a helper and confidant for Wu Meiniang.

Now even his confidants feel that Zhu Lian Pei Yan is full of doors, if it is a little excessive, then it proves that this matter has indeed been done a little too much, otherwise, Shangguan Wan'er, who is both prosperous and lossy with her, will not put forward this opinion.

"Wan'er means to only kill Pei Yan and pardon everyone in the Pei family, but you also saw those letters from Cheng Hei and Sansi yesterday, which are written in black and white about Pei Yan's old puppet colluding with Xu Jingye to plot a rebellion, such a big crime, how can you easily let him go." Although Wu Meiniang had an idea, she was still a little unwilling in her heart, after all, she was quite resentful of what Pei Yan had done before.

Hearing Wu Meiniang's words, Shangguan Wan'er also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, through years of understanding of Wu Meiniang, she knew that Wu Meiniang already had the intention of retreating, but she was still a little unwilling to lose face in her heart, and at this time, if you want to persuade her to agree, it is actually very simple, it is much easier to give him a step down.

"Niangniang is angry, Zhou Guogong and Wu Shangshu brought the letter yesterday, the slave maid also read it, if it is really according to what is said above, let alone the nine clans of Zhulian, even if all the people associated with him are killed, it is not a pity, but the slave maid has some ideas, from those letters, it can be seen that Pei Yan and the traitor Xu Jingye agreed that when Xu Jingye supported the army to the north, Pei Yan contacted the dissatisfied people in Luoyang City, opened the gate of Luoyang City, and let Xu Jingye's rebels enter the city.

Judging from the letters, this is indeed a vicious strategy, but since they have discussed it, Pei Yan is not a three-year-old naughty boy, why did he suddenly change his mind, in front of hundreds of officials, openly asked Niangniang to return to His Majesty in the main hall, this is a bit incredible, is he not afraid of startling the snake, so that Niangniang will find out in advance that he and Xu Jingye's conspiracy will not succeed. Shangguan Wan'er did not answer Wu Meiniang's question directly, but lightly said the question in her heart, of course, this question just sounded like a question, but what it actually was, it could be seen from Wu Meiniang's expression.

Sure enough, as soon as Shangguan Wan'er's question was raised, the expression on Wu Meiniang's face immediately changed, after many years of experience in the court, she had never seen any ghost tricks, she immediately realized that she was afraid that she was deceived by Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi, the two nephews, just like Shangguan Wan'er said, if Pei Yan really colluded with Xu Jingye, why did Xu Jingye not immediately support the army to the north after the rebellion in Yangzhou, but went south to occupy Runzhou, and Pei Yan did not prepare secretly, but openly challenged himself in the court.

A knot was unraveled, and all the thoughts in Wu Meiniang's mind were opened up at once, and she guessed everything before and after.

It's just that it's clear that she also knows what the two nephews are doing for, but she knows that she will know that she has a little more embankment for Wu Chengsi and Wu Sansi.

"Wan'er, immediately upload the will of the palace, Pei Yan colluded with Xu Jingye to conspire to rebel, it is a great crime, and today the Pei family is sentenced to be beheaded all over the house, in order to set an example, but this palace always thinks that there is a good place in heaven, so it pardons the Pei family's old and young for capital crimes, demotes them to commoners, and sends them to Lingnan to build a state."

"The slave obeys."

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In Luoyang City, as Pei Yan's head fell to the ground, after the whole family was assigned to Lingnan, it became completely quiet, whether it was the forces that took refuge in Wu Meiniang's side, or those who were dissatisfied with Wu Meiniang's heart, they did not act rashly at this time, not because they didn't want to, but because they were waiting for the opportunity.

This time is not elsewhere, but in Runzhou, which is thousands of miles away from Luoyang City, to be precise, everyone's eyes are on the battle of Runzhou, if Runzhou is lost, Xu Jingye can also occupy Jinling City, connect the entire Jianghuai and Jiangnan land, and stand at a point where it can be attacked and retreated.

And Wu Meiniang's side is also quietly waiting for the results of the battle of Runzhou, killing Pei Yan only stabilized the situation in the court from the surface, whether Wu Meiniang can completely suppress the opposition of the whole world, it depends on whether she can quell Xu Jingye's rebellion, Runzhou is saved, Xu Jingye returns in vain, then as long as Li Xiaoyi's 300,000 army arrives, Xu Jingye's rebels will be wiped out in an instant, if Runzhou is lost, what the consequences will be, it is unimaginable.

It was in this situation that Runzhou suddenly became the focus of everyone's attention in the world.

The ninth day of September, Chung Yeung Festival

This festival is also one of the oldest festivals in China, which began to stay on the land of China from the Warring States period, and in the Tang Dynasty, this festival was finally completely officialized, and the official meaning is that the whole country will celebrate this festival.

If it is in the past, during the Double Ninth Festival, the people will travel to enjoy the autumn, climb high and overlook, watch chrysanthemums, plant dogwoods all over the place, eat Chongyang cakes, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities, but this year, it is good to say in other places, but for the people in Runzhou City, it is delusional, in addition to being able to drink some chrysanthemum wine, eat some Chongyang cakes, the biggest pleasure is to listen to the earth-shattering drums outside the city from time to time.

"Knock Knock Knock ........"

After beating the drums, on the position of the Xu army outside the city, thousands of soldiers of the Xu army held shields, pushed the city chariots, and carried cloud ladders to attack Runzhou City.

"Kill, kill, kill, tell Xu Wu that as long as you can climb to the top of the city and open the city gate, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the reward will be ten thousand taels."

Listening to the screams that broke through the clouds, and looking at the charge in front of him as if an ant colony was dispatching, Xu Jingye's eyes were red and he roared.

After being burned with grain and grass by Le Buping that night, Xu Jingye divided his army into several teams in order to play shame, and took turns attacking Runzhou City every day, wanting to break Runzhou City as quickly as possible, kill all the old and young in the city, and play shame for himself.

Originally, in the hearts of Xu Jingye and most of the soldiers of the Xu army, a small Runzhou City, even if it was strong, in the face of the attack of their more than 100,000 troops, it was good to be able to hold out for two or three days, not to mention anything else, more than 100,000 people, who peed on Runzhou City every day, could also collapse the walls of Runzhou City.

At the beginning, all the soldiers of the Xu army were still a little unimpressed, but soon, they were taught a lesson for their arrogance, three days, it was three days, they finally broke through all kinds of traps and obstacles outside the city, and hit the city of Runzhou, for which they killed 8,000 people and seriously injured more than 10,000 people, which can be described as a heavy loss.

If that's acceptable, the next scene is even more difficult for them to accept.

Although Runzhou City is not a big city, it has a special status, and the city is surrounded by only the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, which can be said to have extremely favorable geographical conditions.

As we all know, the city near the river, although it is said to be close, is actually a certain distance, in order to fear that the river will be soaked for a long time, so that the foundation of the city will be damaged.

But Runzhou is different, he and the Yangtze River is closely connected, standing on the head of Runzhou City, you can see the Yangtze River flowing from the foot when you lower your head, the reason why this is so, is the special feature of Runzhou, because the underground of Runzhou City is not composed of all kinds of mud and stones like other places, his underground, there is no soil, all are composed of stones.

It is said that dripping water pierces stones, but such a large stone, let alone dripping water, even the surging water of the Yangtze River has not changed much.

It is precisely because of this that the city wall of Runzhou City is closely dependent on the river, and the moat and city wall of Runzhou City are closely connected.

In this case, if you want to attack Runzhou City, it is impossible to attack other cities, you can assume that the ladder and use the city chariot to attack, they need to build a bridge on the moat that Runzhou has become first, so that soldiers and various tools can pass, otherwise, let alone attack the city, even the city wall can't be touched.

As for filling in the moat, it is even more ridiculous, the moat is connected to the water of the Yangtze River, under the washing of the Yangtze River, you can wash it away as much as you fill in, with this kung fu, it is better to think about how to make the people in the city surrender is true.

Two hours later, Xu Jingye's henchman Xu Wu had to lead the army back after suffering heavy losses, and Xu Jingye also had a gloomy face, and after smashing the horsewhip in his hand on his face, he turned around and walked towards the big tent.

"Tell me, if you can take this damned city, tell me who can come up with a good solution, and the governor of Pontus will not hesitate to reward him." After returning to the big tent, Xu Jingye asked the many generals with a cold face.

Hearing Xu Jingye's inquiry, everyone couldn't help but shake their heads secretly, you must know that in war, the most difficult thing is the siege war, one side has an advantage, on the other hand, if there is not enough strength, or all kinds of coincidences, it is difficult to break the city.

Otherwise, there would not be a saying in the art of war, ten are to surround it, five to attack it, and multiple to divide it.

But now, their number is indeed many times greater than that of the other party, of course, this is without counting the soldiers brought by Duan Jian, but even so, in a situation like Runzhou City, where a husband and wife are at a loss, there is no other way than to attack with the lives of the soldiers.

"A bunch of rice buckets, what is the use of the Pontus governor keeping you, even if you raise a few pigs, they will be much stronger than you." Seeing that no one answered, Xu Jingye couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Governor Qiyu, it's not that we are incompetent, but this Runzhou City is indeed too difficult, a certain general has fought for so many years, and even the alien cavalry on the border is not afraid, but this kind of tactics really makes it difficult for the last general to speak." After hearing Xu Jingye's angry scolding, a general couldn't help but reply.

"Bastard thing, I am incompetent and dare to quibble, thinking that a certain military law is not a decoration, come and pull him down to the governor of Pontus, and beat him with a hundred military sticks, so that he can reflect and reflect well." Hearing that someone dared to refute him, Xu Jingye shouted angrily.

"Uh-huh........"

Hearing Xu Jingye's order, many of the generals present were a little unnatural on their faces, to be honest, these generals who followed Xu Jingye were not incompetent, many of them were also on the battlefield to kill the enemy, and they all understood that Xu Jingye was in a bad mood and scolded a few words angrily, they could also understand, but what the general said just now was not wrong, if he was punished for this, it would be a little too much, you know, this is not a simple punishment, a hundred military sticks, if the soldiers who implement military law are merciless, After a hundred military sticks, there is basically no possibility of survival.

In the case of the rabbit dying and the fox being sad, how could they be indifferent, but if they opened their mouths to intercede for the general at this time, looking at Xu Jingye's angry appearance, I am afraid that whoever pleads will also be punished, for a while, everyone looked at each other but didn't know how to speak.

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