Although the pro-soldiers reported that there was no brigade of officers and soldiers following Yang Su outside Huazhou City, Er Zhuji still felt relieved, sent away the pro-soldiers, turned around and returned to the meeting hall, picked up a bowl of wine in both hands, and asked Yang Su with a smile: "Huazhou is a hundred miles away from Chang'an, Qinghe Gong is wearing a Taoist robe, and he rides alone at night here, aren't you afraid that Mrs. Zun will be surprised?" ”

Most of the generals in the hall had heard that Yang Su had always been afraid of his wife, and when he heard Er Zhuji mention Yang Su's wife Zheng Qiye, they couldn't help laughing out loud, and they all wanted to hear how Yang Su answered. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Yang Su seemed to have been reminded by Er Zhuji, and suddenly thought that he came to Huazhou without his wife (which is indeed the case), held the wine bowl with one hand, was stunned for a moment, and then pretended to be quite indifferent, raised his hand and drank all the wine in the bowl, avoided answering Er Zhuji's question, and only shouted at the generals in the hall: "There is wine tonight and drunk tonight, don't ask the Ming Dynasty whether it is right or wrong." Come, drink, drink. ”

Led by Erzhu Ji, there was a burst of laughter in the hall.

Although Er Zhuji no longer suspected that Yang Su was assigned by the imperial court to come to Huazhou to cut off the military power in his hands, or to find out the truth in his army, after all, he had already decided to start up tonight, raise troops against Sui, and Yang Su was present, which made him feel in a dilemma: if he didn't say anything, he ordered the sergeant to drag Yang Su out and kill him, and he was worried that the few soldiers in the army who did not participate in his rebellion plot would be suspicious and expose their intentions in advance.

Er Zhuji lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a so-called foolproof strategy: if Yang Su could be drunk on the spot, and when he was drunk and unconscious, wouldn't it be the safest to announce to the generals in the army to raise troops against Sui?

Thinking of this, he glanced at several of his henchmen present, suggesting that they all go to toast Yang Su and get him drunk as soon as possible so that he can do his right thing. Several confidants and generals got up to toast Yang Su, and the other generals in the hall saw Zuo and refused to be left behind, so dozens of generals of all sizes surrounded Yang Su and toasted one by one, Er Zhuji saw it, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but have a smug smile.

No one could have imagined that Yang Su would have such a large amount of wine, and when dozens of generals of the Huazhou Prefecture Army lined up to toast him one by one, he saw that his face was only slightly flushed, but his body did not shake, his hands did not tremble, he held a bowl of wine in both hands, and called to Er Zhuji: "General, we haven't drunk yet, come, make a bowl." ”

Seeing that it was nearly three o'clock at this time, Yang Su's mind was still so clear, and Er Zhuji secretly stomped his feet: Okay, you deserve to die in Huazhou City tonight, so I wanted to instruct the soldiers outside the hall to rush in and drag Yang Su out and kill him.

Before he could open his mouth to summon his own soldiers to come in and kill Yang Su, he saw that the personal soldier he had sent out to the city to inquire about the news ran into the council hall in a panic and reported to Er Zhu Ji: "Report to the general, no, it's not good. The west side is on fire. ”

Er Zhuji has always been not bold, the reason why he agreed to Zhu Manyue this time and agreed to raise troops against the Sui was only a small part of it was to repay Zhu Manyue for his kindness in the past, and most of it was because he saw that the Sui Dynasty was being attacked from both the north and south, and the Gyeonggi garrison was empty, and he wanted to take this opportunity to gain greater fame and fortune for himself, and win the name of a Zhongxing hero who opposed the Sui Dynasty. In order to achieve this goal, he insisted that Zhu Manyue try to deceive the empress dowager Yang Lihua of the previous dynasty, as a proof for ordering the three armies to rise against the Sui.

As a result, Zhu Manyue did not receive Yang Lihua's handwritten edict, but early this morning, a sergeant under his command reported to him that Wang Shichong, a minor official sent by the imperial court to inspect the local temples in Huazhou, suddenly said goodbye without saying goodbye and disappeared. After Erzhu got the report, he didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered all battalions to dispatch men and horses to find Wang Shichong's whereabouts near Huazhou, and sent his own soldiers to secretly investigate whether anyone in the military workshop had leaked the news of the rebellion against Sui to Wang Shichong. People from all walks of life checked until noon, only found that some local people reported that they had seen a person similar to Wang Shichong's physical appearance, riding a donkey and hurried to the direction of Chang'an, and then the soldiers came to report, saying that the Kaifu Yi who commanded the left army was a fellow villager with the three divisions Shi Wanzai and Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong had left Wang Shichong to rest in his room last night.

Er Zhuji immediately lured Shi Wansui to the council hall in the name of convening a meeting, and personally interrogated him whether he had leaked the news of the rebellion against Sui to Wang Shichong, although Shi Wansui insisted that he would never leak half a word to Wang Shichong, just in case, Er Zhuji still ordered someone to detain Shi Wansui in his own Chinese army, and at the same time decided to raise troops to oppose Sui in advance.

Tonight, first Yang Su made a surprise visit, and then in the middle of the night, a fire broke out in the west of Huazhou, how could this not make Er Zhuji feel flustered?

"Have you ever found a brigade of officers and troops heading in the direction of Huazhou?" At this time, Er Zhuji couldn't care about avoiding people, and hurriedly asked the soldiers who came to report the news.

You must know that the 10,000 Huazhou government troops led by Er Zhuji were out-and-out imperial court officials, and at this time, Er Zhuji, who was the chief general of the official army, actually asked his own soldiers in public to say such a thing, and when the council hall was neutral, several generals who had not participated in the conspiracy and rebellion became alert and stood up with their sabers in their hands.

At the same time, Yang Su, who was sitting next to Er Zhuji, suddenly poured a bowl of wine in his hand towards Er Zhuji, and immediately, with lightning speed, got up and snatched his saber from several cases in front of Er Zhuji, and pulled the knife out of the sheath with a "choking" sound, and everyone saw a cold light flashing in front of them, and where the red light burst out, one of the great general Erzhu Ji's huge heads had been cut off by Yang Su with a knife.

"Generals." Yang Su raised his foot and kicked Er Zhuji's headless body aside, flew to several of the cases, and shouted at the generals in the hall, "Er Zhuji is trying to lead the army to rebel, and the imperial court has sent 30,000 troops to Huazhou to quell the rebellion. Tonight, the deposed envoy has been ordered to kill Erzhuji on the spot, the first evil is punished, and the coercion is not guilty, and the generals are requested to restrain the troops under their command, not to move without permission, and to wait for the court to fall. ”

Faced with the lightning bolt in front of them, most of the generals in the council hall were stunned, and they didn't come back to their senses for a while, only three or four of Er Zhuji's henchmen Zuo Yi saw that the lord was about to be killed, and they all drew their swords and rushed towards Yang Su.

Yang Su is different from Gao Ying, he is one of the best generals in the world, how can three or four generals with equal skills be his opponents, after two or three faces, they are also nameless ghosts under Yang Su's knife.

At this time, most of the generals in the council hall had already come to their senses, and someone shouted at Yang Su and asked, "Why should we believe what you say?" The imperial court did not send an envoy to relieve General Erzhu of his military power, and if you kill the general, you will be regarded as an accomplice in rebellion, how can we allow you to walk out of the military workshop alive? ”

Yang Su held the knife in one hand, took out a hairpin from his arms and shook it, held it high in his hand, and said loudly to the generals: "Ladies generals, please see, this is before the envoy left Beijing today, the former Empress Dowager Yang personally handed it over to me, Er Zhu Ji rebelled, playing the banner of Fu Zhou, and now there is evidence that the Empress Dowager of the previous dynasty wears every day is here, do you still want to believe his set of nonsense?" ”

This time, most of them were deceived by Erzhuji, mistakenly believing that Erzhuji was under the secret edict of the emperor and the empress dowager of the previous dynasty, and the generals who participated in his conspiracy knew that they had fallen for Erzhuji, and they all took off their sabers and expressed their willingness to return to the imperial court to Yang Su.

A long-planned rebellion was put down.