The time has come to the afternoon, and when the dust of the war in the west of the city has settled, Yang Hu, who has retreated to the inner city, is at a loss, and he is trying to control the overall situation.

"Although I fell into the trick of the Zhao family and let Ji Sunsi escape, today's battle will definitely be won by me!"

Yang Hu's confidence was not affected by the roadside accident, and he was still full of confidence. For today's coup d'état, he and his henchmen have been preparing for a long time, and now they have the advantage of being on the home field, Zhao Wuxian is a foreign son, and there are less than 1,000 people under him, even if they are all good at fighting, how much can they play a role in the situation?

After the incident, the news came from the north that the soldiers of the Meng clan were heading south along the north-south central axis avenue, and he immediately judged that this was the Meng clan's desire to attack the palace under his control.

"Whether or not you can seize the monarch is the key to today's battle!" Yang Hu was so determined, he immediately issued a series of orders.

"Zhao Wuxian surrendered and then rebelled, it must have been in collusion with the Meng family, and now the most important thing is three things: one is to go to the office quickly and control the monarch in our hands, and we must not let the Meng family take the lead; The second is to let the army join forces to besiege the north of the city, the soldiers of the Meng clan are concentrated there, and after the camp is removed, no one in the Lu country will dare to resist, and the overall situation can be determined...... Third, naturally, I sent a deviant division to the west to assist my brother, recaptured Ji Sunsi, and took down the Zhao family's erection, but don't hurt his life first. ”

Although he hated Wuxian so much that his teeth itched, Yang Hu still wanted to capture him alive so that he could make a deal with the Zhao family of the Jin Kingdom.

So, after withstanding the attack of the Meng family, the first thing Yang Hu did to make amends was to personally lead the troops to the Lu State Mansion and kidnap Lu Hou who was hiding in the curtain.

"The Meng clan colluded with Zhao Wuxian to rebel and wanted to depose the monarch, please follow the courtiers to beg for thieves!"

Since yesterday, the pawn of the Yang Tiger has controlled the guards of the Lu Palace, and the monarch has been out of power for a long time, as early as the time of the previous monarch Lu Zhaogong, it has reached the point where the three pairs of warriors who are not good at shooting are among the ministers when they shoot the salute, and they have to be supplemented from the doctor's retainers.

Now it is even more unbearable, and there are only a few vertical temples left around Lu Hou to protect him. He was trembling and was forcibly stuffed into the carriage by Yang Hu, and was surrounded in the center with his uncle and grandson.

Yang Hu's order was issued in an orderly manner: "Ji Liao commands two thousand Ji family soldiers, and Uncle Sun commands one thousand Uncle Sun family members, and five hundred of my Yang family soldiers are in the south of the city." Gongshan Bufu led 2,000 Fei Yi soldiers to occupy the east of the city and attack the north of the city together. In addition, Gong Jiji also took 500 people to the west of the city to aid Yangyue, and was sure to capture Zhao Wuxian and Ji Sunsi. ”

The battle spread in the alleys, gradually advancing from the east and south to the west and north, and the Meng clan was outnumbered. The territory under control is gradually shrinking, and Lucheng has started a full-scale war.

Yang Hu had a chance to win, but the situation seemed to be more difficult to grasp than he and his henchmen had imagined in advance.

The strength of the Meng clan was beyond his imagination, and the warlike soldier Gongzhi Virgin led two thousand Meng clan soldiers to resist stubbornly, although they failed to attack the inner city palace, but still stuck to the north of the city.

Yang Hu was very dissatisfied with his weak attack, but he was helpless.

Whether it is the personal family of the Ji family and the Shusun family, or the countrymen who were forcibly driven out of their homes to fight, they were just forced by the monarch and the head of the uncle and grandson to be controlled by Yanghu. had to be the enemy of Meng on the opposite side.

What's more, because many of the Ji family's retainers didn't see their own sect master, they responded passively under the leadership of Si Shi Fu Yi, refused to obey the command of Ji Ning, the son of the concubine, and did not join the battle group in a corner, but looked at Yang Hu and the others with hostile eyes, threatening to do their best to help unless they saw Ji Sunsi himself.

This is also the reason why Yang Hu did not dare to kill Ji Sun and Uncle Sun in front of these retainers and countrymen before. Although their power is elevated, the majesty of more than a hundred years is still there. Except for some speculators, most of the retainers still obeyed Ji Sunsi's dispatch, and Yang Hu has also borrowed Ji's tiger skin in the past few years. to be able to command so many people.

As a result, the thousands of soldiers on Yanghu's side and the disadvantaged Meng clan soldiers fought inextricably in Beicheng, and the hope of ending the battle before dark became more and more slim.

The house leak was rained overnight, and there was bad news from the west of the city.

Gong Jiji returned with two or three hundred remnants of the defeated general. Xiang Yanghu reported that Yanghu and Shusun Zhi's soldiers had been defeated by Zhao Wuxian, and Gong Jiji had also run into an ambush, and he was able to escape back after explaining half of them.

"What!? Vertical son dare! Yang Hu was so angry that he yelled, which meant that Yang Yue, the younger brother he had arranged to pursue Ji and Zhao Wuxian in the west of the city, was likely to have met with an accident!

"Zhao Wuxian has taken control of the west of the city. His warrior spear was in the lead, and he was carrying more than 2,000 people behind him, and now he has pushed it towards this side! ”

"Wait, Zhao Wuxian only has a few hundred, where are the more than 2,000 people?"

"There are the subordinates arranged by the Meng clan over there, as well as the countrymen, under the call of Ji Sunsi, many people in the markets along the west of the city really showed their right arms, holding bows and arrows and bamboo spears to help. Although he didn't dare to confront us head-on, he drilled back and forth in various alleys, making people unguardable. ”

"Chinese people, Chinese people......"

Yang Hu vaguely realized that he seemed to have mistaken the focus of this fierce battle in the city, and he should take extinguishing Zhao Wuxian and Ji Sunsi as the first priority!

At this moment, the chariot with the Ji clan's banner appeared at the end of the alley, and Ji Sunsi changed into armor under the urging of Zhao Wuxian, even though his face was pale, he still stood in front of everyone.

As soon as Ji Sun Sifu appeared, the two sides had not yet engaged in battle, which put huge pressure on Yang Hu. He also discovered that Ji Sunsi's appeal was really more useful than Lu Hou.

Ji Sunsi began to preach on the chariot according to the words that Wu Xian had taught him, and the soldiers under the chariot spread these words one after another, and finally the two thousand people gathered into a huge wave, as if overwhelming!

"Yang Hu is plotting rebellion! wants to kill Da Situ, but now Da Situ has been saved by Dr. Liqiu! Ji's, Meng's, and uncles' grandsons are all private retainers, and it's not too late to turn against the sun and become thieves! ”

After hearing the shouting, Yang Hu's ears buzzed, and the Ji family soldiers in his camp also looked at each other, hesitating for a while.

Earlier, Yang Hu was still the head of the family, although he had the intention of rebellion, he did not act too much, so these Ji family's private relatives could endure it for the time being. But now Yang Hu is openly fighting with the head of the family in person, unless it is a diehard loyalist who has defected to Yang Hu's party, most people will choose to abandon their weapons and not fight, or even turn against each other!

After a moment of hesitation, there was also a loud roar from the crowd: "The Ji family is the master of our three worlds, and serving the master of the family is today!" ”

The caller was none other than the priest Fu Yi, who was originally the right hand of Ji Sunsi's car, and under his leadership, some of Ji's private family soldiers immediately reversed the spearhead. Yang Hu's heart suddenly appeared in the heart of about a thousand people. They began to attack Yang Hu from the inside, disrupting the originally well-organized array.

The soldiers of the Yang Tiger began to collapse from within, and the situation began to reverse, not only did the Ji clan split into two halves to attack each other. Gongshan Buwu in the east of the city was also attacked by the Meng family's father. Zhao Wuxian's soldiers squeezed Yang Hu from the west, and more and more Chinese people joined along the way, and Yang Hu had to retreat step by step.

"It can't be!" Yang Hu watched his ambitions slowly crumble, and he turned around as he retreated towards the south of the city surrounded by his subordinates. I happened to see the big banner of the Xuanniao erected high in the enemy formation.

"Zhao Wuxian!"

The reason why today's events have failed is because this person suddenly turned against the water and forcibly reversed it with his own strength.

"The tiger father has no dogs, and the yang tiger is obedient!" In the end, he could only drop this sentence viciously and retreat to Miyagi.

The time was gradually approaching evening, the city was full of cigarette butts, countless rebels and people in the streets and alleys were wandering around, and the young men in the city were each their master, and they were recruited by Yang Hu and Meng respectively, and they were very happy to fight in the market. Among the soldiers of the two families. Some of them hesitated in the face of the spears in front of them, but when they turned around, they turned into fierce thugs, taking advantage of the opportunity to rush into the streets and houses in droves to loot.

However, in the place where Zhao Wuxian's soldiers passed, order was slowly being restored.

Zhao Wuxian and Zilu stood side by side on the car, he had already taken off the dark clothes draped outside, and he was also wearing a dark armor, holding on to the car railing and looking at the narrow road in front of him.

"Although there is still a fierce battle in the city, the west and north of the city are now under the control of the doctor and the Ji family. Gongshan Buwu in the east of the city was also expelled from the city by the Meng clan. The manpower on our side has increased to more than 5,000, which is not much different from Yang Hu's side, not to mention that the uncle and grandson soldiers under Yang Hu are forced, and most of them have no will to fight. ”

Zilu seems reckless though. But he is not a simple horseman, maybe he is worse than Ran Qiu in the military formation, but he is also a person who knows the soldiers, and his analysis of the situation is quite clear. Indeed, the balance of victory has gradually tilted in favor of Zhao Wuxian, Ji, and Meng.

But Zilu still couldn't understand how all this happened, and at first Zhao Wuxian was at least taking risks and secretly arranging them. Can be later. He just let Ji Shisi go around the front, and let the situation gradually turn around!

Faced with Zilu's question, Zhao Wuxian smiled and talked about a past incident.

"In the eleventh year of Xianggong, Ji Wuzi wanted to focus on his people, so he added the Chinese army, and Sanhuan divided the people of the three armies. The Jisun clan, the Shusun clan, and the Mengsun clan are divided into three armies, and one is the main army of the levy. As a result, the office is weaker and the three huans are getting stronger. ”

"In the twelfth year of Xianggong, three Huan twelve points of its people, three families got seventy percent, the public got fifty percent, the people did not belong to the public, and the public office was humble."

"In the fifth year of Zhaogong, Ji Pingzi dismissed the Chinese army, and the office was divided into four divisions, Ji Sun was called the left division, and the Meng family was called the right division, and the uncle and grandson took their own military names, and the three families took their own taxes, and the people of the country no longer belonged to the public, and the public office was inferior!"

This is the process of Sanhuan's gradual specialization, and now although there are Yang Hu indiscriminately, the situation is almost the same.

"Nakayu also knows these things, but what does it have to do with today's war?" One of Zilu's advantages is that he likes to ask questions, and his disadvantage is that he also likes to ask questions, and he seems to regard Zhao Wuxian as a Confucius on weekdays, and he begins to ask tirelessly.

Zilu's performance today was an eye-opener for Wuxian, although he was not sure that he would be completely subdued, but it was necessary to get along well for future use.

So Zhao Wuxian continued: "Eight years ago, Lu Zhaogong, who was expelled by Ji Pingzi, died abroad, at that time my father asked Shi Mo, the Ji family drove away the monarch, but the people obeyed him, the princes attached to him, the monarch died outside, and no one went to ask him for guilt, why is this? ”

Shi Mo replied at that time: There are three chens in the sky, there are five elements in the earth, there are left and right in the body, and each has a mate. Similarly, the king has a duke, and the princes have a qing, all of whom are assisted, and God gave birth to the Ji family, with the Marquis of Zuolu, and it has been five generations so far. Isn't it natural that the people have forgotten their monarch and turned to submit to the Ji clan after a long time? Zilu should know that although the descendants of Sanhuan are weakened now, the people still don't know the king, only the Ji family, or in other words, most of them are the people of the Ji family, not the people of Luhou! ”

This is the original words of the wise man Shi Mo, Yang Hu is a fan of the authorities, and he only sees the weakness and humility of Ji Sunsi on weekdays, but he forgets what this clan means to the Qufulu people.

After coming to Lu State, in his interactions with Sanhuan and Yanghu, and in the observation of the streets and alleys of Qufu, Zhao Wuxian clearly realized this. Therefore, he has a different understanding from Yang Hu, attaches great importance to the Ji family, and even takes Ji Sunsi as a tool at the risk of his life.

This is a huge tradition and trust, something that the Ji clan has spent hundreds of years building, rooted in the most basic strength of a metropolis: the soil of the Chinese people, and it is almost impossible to pull it out at once. Many years ago, Lu Zhaogong and the Ji family were merged, and the people of the country would rather help the Ji family than help the monarch, and now he has been replaced by Yang Hu, a harsh politician who holds the monarch hostage, has no great merit and no city grace, is it possible that the people of the country will help him in turn?

"You once studied the "Thai Oath" with the master, and it was said that what the people want, the heavens will follow, and it is also right to put it in today's affairs."

"Honestly, if you win its people, you will win its country!"

Zilu recalled Zhao Wuxian's words and was greatly shaken.

However, Zhao Wuxian was merciful, and did not say Shi Mo's most shocking conclusion, so that Zilu inherited Confucius's three views of "monarchs, kings, ministers, and ministers", and further collapsed.

"The society is impermanent, and the monarch and the minister are impermanent, which has been the case since ancient times!"

Looking at Lu Cheng, which was no longer prosperous yesterday, and the streets and alleys were full of devastation and corpses, Zhao Wuxian secretly thought in his heart: "The Ji family's fourth branch office has stolen the people and taxes of Luhou; Yang Hu specialized in Lu and stole the military power of the Lu State. They all wanted to be thieves, one spent five generations in business, and the other wanted to counterattack as a commoner, but they all failed. The power of the Ji clan was swallowed up by the Yang Tiger that was generated from within, and today's events were just a return to the light; The defeat of the Yang Tiger has been decided, and the future is uncertain from now on. ”

"After the end of the fierce battle, whose hands will the name and weapons of the Lu State fall into?"

Is it the resurrection of the Ji clan and the rise of the Meng clan that retains the most strength, or, after this battle, the doctor of Xiaqiu who has become the "savior" of the Sanhuan and Lu people? (To be continued.) )

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