As he spoke, Zhang Liang took off his coat and exposed his upper body. Li Mi fixed his eyes and saw that it was full of new and old knife marks, whip marks; Densely covered with scars.

"The Great Demon Kingdom is hateful, and it will make you dare to hurt my beloved generals like this!" Li Mi didn't look like a fake, so he believed it for seven or eight points, he put on Zhang Liang's clothes, and scolded loudly, but Zhang Liang was very moved when he heard it.

Zhang Liang cried and said: "Weichen pretended to be respectful in the Great Demon Country, and used Shang Shan's identity to find out something. This is the blueprint for the construction of the steelmaking blast furnace of the Great Demon Kingdom, and it is seen to the King of Wei. ”

"What?" Li Mi exclaimed in surprise and hurriedly took it in his hand, although he couldn't understand it, but it was a drawing of a building.

"Zhang Liang! If this is indeed the blast furnace blueprint, your credit should be the first, and I will find out and seal you the post of Xingwei County Minister. ”

Zhang Liangle's snot bubbles were about to come out, and he lay on the ground and kowtowed vigorously to thank him. Li Mi laughed and helped him up again.

Zhang Liang hesitated for a long time after getting up, as if he had something to say. Li Mi saw his hesitation, and asked the people around him to retreat and said, "If you have anything to say, don't take it into account." ”

Zhang Liang saw that no one from Zhou hesitated for a moment and said: "King Wei may know that General Xu Shiji, General Shan Xiongxin, General Wang Junke, General Wang Bodang and General Xie Yingdeng have kowtowed to Jialiulou in Shandong Province?" ”

Li Mi frowned slightly, he knew about this matter, although he didn't care about it on the surface, but he was really unhappy in his heart. Li Mi nodded, his face a little unsightly.

Zhang Liang continued: "Among the righteous people also include Zhang Ding, Qin Qiong, Li Jing, Cheng Zhijie and others from the Great Demon Kingdom. Therefore, when Wagang encountered difficulties some time ago, the Great Demon Kingdom would always help him. ”

Li Mi pretended not to care and said, "Yes! At the beginning, these generals were born recklessly and attached great importance to the righteousness of the rivers and lakes; Wasn't our Wagang a bandit's nest back then? ”

Zhang Liang said: "King Wei, you may not know, but they are still in constant contact until now. This time, Leshou will be in the league. It was the Great Demon Kingdom that found Li Tang through General Xu; Let them give up joining forces with Dou Jiande and join forces with us Wagang instead. ”

Li Mi was stunned: "Why did they promote our alliance with Li Tangqiang?" ”

Zhang Liang said: "King Wei, what kind of kindness are they there?" They wanted to weaken the strength of the other three roads and concentrate their forces to attack one point. They also want to take advantage of Li Tang and we are not of the same mind, so that they can provoke the two families to turn against each other, so that they can sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

And King Wei, do you think Li Tang will have any good intentions? They originally wanted to unite with Li Shimin to weaken our Wagang, but they didn't expect that it was Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji who came, so that the plan went wrong.

King Wei, you may still be buried in the dark; When Li Shimin was imprisoned in Wagang, it was Xu Shiji who changed the forgiveness to imprison Li Shimin to the amnesty of Li Shimin and let him run away; They've been a family for a long time! ”

"Oops!" Li Mi exclaimed: "Zhang Liang, what you said is the truth? ”

Zhang Liang smiled bitterly: "King Wei, I was under Xu Shiji's account at the beginning, because I had a life-saving grace for him, and I was cited as a confidant by him; So I've seen it with my own eyes; It's just that because you are contemptible and light, I am afraid that you will not believe it and dare not say it directly.

Moreover, during this period of time, the people of their Jia Liulou were frequently active, and they were in constant contact with the Wagang generals; Who knows how many people have been rebelled against by them? ”

Li Mi heard the oops, his hands were bruised, obviously he almost couldn't hold back the anger in his chest; At the beginning, he also suspected Xu Shiji, but because he was an old minister of Wagang, he did not dare to act rashly; Today, it was not the case; Xu Shiji really betrayed him.

Li Mi nodded and asked Zhang Liang, "Zhang Liang, what do you think I should do now?" ”

Zhang Liang didn't think about it: "King Wei, the safest way is to withdraw to Wagang; But in this way, it gave the Great Demon Kingdom a chance to take advantage of it, and if they returned this breath, it would be difficult to ask for it in the future; King Wei also lost the opportunity to settle the throne.

We seem to be dangerous now, but in fact, the Great Demon Kingdom is not the end of the crossbow? If we add a little more force, as long as we break through the Dingtao, it will cause a chain reaction, and the Great Demon Kingdom will be defeated! ”

After Li Mi heard this, he laughed and said, "Zhang Liang coincides with what I thought; You said we should draw troops from somewhere. ”

Weichen believes that Xu Shiji is better not to move. Liyang is the largest granary in the Central Plains, since ancient times, there is Liyang ripe, Kyushu Gu said, there is the foundation of our Wagang. If we persecute Xu Shiji too much, and he surrenders to the Tang Dynasty or Wang Shichong, we will lose more than we gain.

And I heard that Wang Shichong has repeatedly defeated the king of Wei, so that he is unstable in Luoji; is fighting with Yuan Wendu and Lu Chu for control of Luoyang and has no time to care. Weichen thought that he could draw a part of the soldiers and horses from Wagang slightly. ”

Li Mi was convinced of the words and immediately pulled Zhang Liang and said: "Qing's great talent almost made him alone; Fortunately, God blessed you to return to my side. From today on, Zhang Liang will be the counselor of my Wagang, and he will be rewarded with the lone king of the Great Demon Kingdom. ”

"King Xie Wei!" Zhang Liangle's snot bubbles almost popped up, and he lay on the ground and kowtowed incessantly to thank him.

As Zhang Liang said, Wang Shichong holds the military power in Luoyang and holds the power alone; aroused the jealousy of Yuan Wendu and Lu Chu; Several people suggested to Yang Tong that Zhao'an Li Mi confront Wang Shichong.

Wang Shichong got the information and said to the generals under him: "Those people in Yuanwendu, writing and painting, are just civil officials, I see the trend of the situation, and they will definitely be arrested by Li Mi." Besides, my troops have fought against Li Mi many times and killed his father, brothers and sons, and there are already a lot of them, and once we become his subordinates, we people will have no way to live! ”

The generals were all indignant when they heard this, and they all accused Yuan Wendu and the others. Yuan Wen was very frightened after knowing it, and discussed with Lu Chu and others, and when Wang Shichong was in the court, he set up an ambush to kill him, and he had already agreed on the time.

Duan Da, the general of the Praetorian Guard who was surrounded by them, suddenly regretted it, and was afraid that this matter would not be successful, so he sent his son-in-law Zhang Zhi to tell Wang Shichong about the plan of Lu Chu and others.

Wang Shichong was furious when he heard the letter, and he led his men and horses to surround the palace city that night. Yuan Wendu's generals Fei Yao, Tian Yan and others met outside the East Sun Gate, Fei Yao was defeated, Wang Shichong seized the city gate and rushed in, the general Huangfu Wuyi escaped alone, and Lu Chu was captured and killed.

At this time, the gate of the palace was closed, and Wang Shichong sent someone to knock on the palace door and said to the emperor: "Yuan Wendu, they want to hold His Majesty hostage and surrender to Li Mi, Duan Da told me after learning about it, I dare not betray the court, I am here to crusade against the people who betrayed the court." ”

At the beginning, Yuan Wendu heard that something had happened, and came to the Qianyang Palace to protect the emperor, commanded the troops to defend, and ordered the soldiers to resist the mutiny with the city.

Duan Da falsely claimed the order of the emperor, and commanded the Praetorian Guards to suddenly arrest Yuan Wendu and escort it to Wang Shichong. As soon as Yuan Wendu was delivered, he was beaten to death with a stick by Wang Shichong's people.

Duan Da also falsely claimed the order of the emperor and opened the palace gate to welcome Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong sent someone to replace all the guards in the palace, and then met with the emperor to apologize, saying: "Yuan Wendu and others have committed endless crimes, conspired to create civil strife, and the situation is urgent to adopt this method, I dare not betray the country." ”

The emperor was persecuted by the army. I had to swear an oath to him; On the same day, Wang Shichong was promoted to the left servant of Shangshu, and was in charge of supervising various military affairs inside and outside the imperial court.

So Wang Shichong left Hanjiacheng and moved into the Shangshu Provincial Government Office to live, monopolizing the power of the court. He appointed his elder brother Wang Shiyun as the internal historian and lived in the palace, and his nephews and descendants all held military power and guarded various towns and cities.

The change of power in Luoyang, Li Mi, who was on the front line, did not get a report, and he thought that Wang Shichong and Yuan Wendu and others had no time to take care of it in the fight, so he drew 50,000 troops from his home and came to Shandong.

After Li Shimin traveled all the way to Shandong, he did not immediately attack the Great Demon Kingdom, but secretly came to Liyang. As soon as Xu Shiji saw Li Shimin, he knew that Li Mi was going to lose, so he welcomed Li Shimin into the big tent, and he was not hypocritical, kneeling on the ground to worship.

Li Shimin hurriedly helped him up and crowned him as the governor of Liyang, Shangzhuguo, Laiguogong, and Youwuhou general; Still let him garrison Liyang.

Xu Shiji smiled bitterly: "King Qin, what is going on with us in this demon war?" I feel like Datang and the Great Demon Kingdom have teamed up to set up a big net; Netted all the heroes of the sky. ”

Li Shimin sighed: "This is not my work alone, it is all the suggestion of the fifth brother." ”

"Is it Zhijie's suggestion? This battle didn't do him any good, huh? The interests of the left and right have let Datang go? ”

Li Shimin nodded, let out a long sigh and said, "This is where the gap is. At a time when we are fighting for power and profit in the world, we can't kill each other. The fifth brother is distressed by the suffering of the people in the Central Plains; What he wants is to end this battle as soon as possible, unify the world, and relieve the people from hanging upside down. ”

"Ahh Xu Shiji was also stunned, "Zhijie, he deliberately used himself as bait to lure everyone to attack, and then ......"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "Yes, that's it!" After defeating Song Jingang, the fifth brother made this suggestion just like me; I couldn't believe it at first. But no matter how much you scrutinize, you can't find anything harmful to Datang; I agreed to his suggestion.

Step by step, I realized how small I was; How huge the gap between Fifth Brother Yu is. Xu Shiji shook his head and exclaimed continuously.

Li Shimin said with a smile: "Although there was a little mistake this time, it is finally developing according to our expectations." This struck a severe blow to those anti-king forces; Those who act rudely and indiscriminately kill innocents are wiped out. It's just that what happened in Liuxian County made it impossible for me to explain it to my fifth brother. ”

Xu Shiji said: "There are always casualties in war; If King Qin doesn't feel like he can't go, he will reduce or exempt more taxes in the future! Speaking of his general's long history Guo Xiaoge, and the generals of the whole camp were called in.