Zhao Jingzhi rushed back to Yicheng day and night to report to Beigong Ru about his meeting with Shugongyun in Qincheng. Beigong Ru listened and asked, "Then how does Uncle Gongyun dress and look in the mansion?" Zhao Jingzhi didn't understand why Beigong Ru cared about this, but he still described it carefully to him. Beigong Ru frowned as he listened, and finally said: "Qincheng is a famous rich and prosperous mining town in Yiguo, but Shugongyun's life is so simple. It seems that this person is by no means satisfied with being a rich and noble clan, and his ambitions are high, and he cannot fulfill his wish unless he takes the throne. Yu Mo also nodded in agreement. Beigong Ru explained his plan in detail with the two of them, and wrote a letter asking Zhong Xingrui to hand it over to Chu Ziyi secretly. The next day, the three of them packed up, and Beigong Ru took Zhao Jingzhi and Yu Mo to Qincheng.

In the first few days, Shugongyun was always tepid, and he just arranged Beigong Ru to live in the mansion, but he didn't talk to him too much. Zhao Jingzhi was a little breathless. On this day, the three of them went to run horses outside the city, and he finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Shizi, what tricks is this old fox playing?" We're here, he's been ignoring it? Beigong Ru restrained the horse, and the three of them rode together, only to hear him say: "Don't worry, it won't be long before he takes the initiative to find us." ”

Yu Mo said again: "I think the father and son don't trust us very much. Beigong Ru patted the horse's neck lightly and said with a smile: "If they are so easy to be fooled, we won't spend so much effort." However, after observing these days, I can feel that Shugongyun is partial to the second son, Gongsun Jing, and this is where we can make a fuss. Zhao Jingzhi asked curiously, "Oh? How do you know? Beigong Ru smiled and joked: "You, the only son of Da Sima, are loved by thousands of people, how can you understand the hard work of fighting for father's love with many brothers?" Yu Mo also laughed. Zhao Jingzhi said slightly: "I don't know, don't sell Guanzi, what should we do next?" Beigong looked at him provocatively and said, "You run to the top of the mountain before me, and I'll tell you." "Good!" Zhao Jingzhi whipped violently, rode the horse away, Beigong Ru and Yu Mo also urged the horse to catch up closely, and the three young people were joking and laughing along the way, temporarily forgetting that they were in the enemy camp and the road ahead was dangerous.

This morning, the day that Beigong was looking forward to finally arrived, and Shugongyun invited him to the study to discuss matters. When I came to the study, I saw my uncle Yun sitting behind the desk without saying a word, and Gongsun Long and Gongsun Jing were also standing in front of the table and were silent. Beigong Ru stepped forward, saluted respectfully, and asked, "Uncle Wang has something to order?" Shugongyun motioned for him to step forward, and handed an edict to Beigong Ru to read, he said, "I just sent someone this morning, you know Chu Ziyi, what do you think about this?" ”

Beigong Ru quickly read the edict, pondered for a while, and said: "King Yiwang invites you to enter the capital to worship your ancestors at this time, if you don't go to the ancestral system, you don't know if you can come back." Uncle Gongyun nodded solemnly. At this time, I only heard Gongsun Jing say: "Father, the child has a way to solve his father's worries." Uncle Gongyun's face turned happy and said, "Let's hear it." Gongsun Jing said awe-inspiringly: "Father only said that he was sick, and asked the child to go to the capital to worship the ancestors on your behalf." This can not only protect my father, but also give Chu Ziyi no excuse to blame us. Fathers should not think of their children and delay major events. Uncle Yun was greatly moved and said, "You have this filial piety, which makes my father very comforted." This matter needs to be considered in the long term. Go first. ”

After the three of them withdrew from Shugongyun's study, Beigong Ru waited until Gongsun Jing walked away, and whispered to Gongsun Long, "Brother Bozhuang, can you speak further?" The younger brother has something to discuss. Gongsun Long looked at him suspiciously, nodded anyway, and followed Beigong Ru to a secluded pavilion in the garden.

After the two sat down, Beigong said straight to the point: "Brother Bozhuang, the younger brother grew up in the palace since he was a child. In a word, Gongsun Long, who said it, suddenly changed color and said: "Our brotherhood is stronger than Jin, don't speculate and be a villain in vain." Then he got up and departed. Beigong Ru sneered: "I'm afraid that Brother Bozhuang, you treat others as brothers, but you don't know that everyone is in other people's calculations." ”

Gongsun Long stopped, turned back and asked, "How do you say this?" Beigong Ru said unhurriedly: "Today's drama of a filial son going to the trouble on behalf of his father can be described as tear-jerking. Surely your father was also very useful, right? Gongsun Long walked back slowly, sat down and said, "This proves that Shao'an has no intention of competing with me for the position of patriarch?" He knew that he might not return, but he volunteered to go. Beigong Ru shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Bozhuang, that's because he knew that Uncle Wang wouldn't let him go out of all kinds of considerations, so it's better to be a filial son and compare you to the eldest son." ”

Gongsun Long's face was like gold paper, and his tone softened: "How can the prince see it? Beigong Ru continued: "Brother Bozhuang, you think, first of all, if Uncle Wang really says that he is sick and does not go, it stands to reason that the two of you should be sent into Yicheng together, firstly, to show his attention, and secondly, to show Yiwang that he is above board and has no dissenting intentions. Even if only one is given, it should be the eldest son, not the second. is just the second son acting as the father, which is tantamount to telling the Wing King and the people of the world that they have a weak heart and have other plans. Gongsun Long couldn't help but nod when he heard this.

Beigong Ru saw that he had let down his guard, so he said again: "Secondly, with my junior brother's understanding of Chu Ziyi, I speculate that this time he wants to use Uncle Zhao Wang to worship his ancestors to test your hypocrisy. What he dreams of is to be able to get rid of the clan, sit alone, and sooner or later he will do it. If Uncle Wang sends his son this time, it will be tantamount to telling Chu Ziyi that you are not prepared enough to dare to openly confront, then he will definitely take the opportunity to quickly send troops. If you don't go, he will have an excuse to raise an army against your rebellion. So, go or not, the ending is the same. Uncle Wang must also understand the stakes in this, instead of sending his son to throw himself into the net, it is better to hurry up the plan and raise troops as soon as possible to achieve hegemony. Your brother guessed these things correctly, so he dared to propose to go to Yicheng to curry favor with Uncle Wang. ”

After listening to this analysis, Gongsun Long was already shocked and angry, and bowed deeply to Beigong Ru: "Listen to your words, let the foolish brother suddenly open up." Alas, I really missed the opportunity. Beigong Ru bowed back and said, "No, no." Then, he said this and this to Gongsun Long, and Gongsun Long nodded and thanked him.

The next day, the four of them revisited the matter in their study. Gongsun Long was the first to say the plan that Beigong Ru had thought of for himself yesterday, and then said to his uncle Yunyun categorically: "Father, so according to the child's opinion, it is a dead end for us to go or not, so it is better to speed up the preparation and choose the army." Beigong Ru was busy cooperating with Gongsun Long on the side, and interjected: "If you want to take Yicheng, you must first take Jinping City and open the passage to the north." And if you want to take Jinping, you must first break the city of You and the city. These two cities are just like horns, one city is in trouble, and the other city will send reinforcements to attack back and forth. Does Brother Bozhuang have a clever plan to break the city? ”

Gongsun said with a big chest: "That's nature. He said what Beigong Rujiao said to himself word for word. Uncle Yunyun was overjoyed when he heard this, slapped the table, stood up and said, "Okay! What Long'er thinks is exactly what I want. If you take Youcheng and Fengcheng, I will order you to capture Jinping as the commander of the army. Seeing this, Beigong said loudly: "I am willing to lead my subordinates to help Brother Bozhuang, and I hope I don't dislike it." Shugong Yun guessed that Beigong was in a hurry to express his sincerity, and he also wanted to use this to test his ability and sincerity, so he nodded and agreed. Seeing that he was left out in the cold, Gongsun Jing was very angry, and at the same time wondered: When did this big brother use military strategy to advance by leaps and bounds?

After another month of intensive preparations, Shugongyun finally held a swearing-in ceremony and quickly transferred troops to the direction of Youcheng and Fengcheng. Gongsun Long led his troops to the destination with lightning speed, only waiting for a sneak attack at night. After dark, Gongsun Long divided 10,000 soldiers and horses into three groups, 5,000 people were led by Beigong Ru, 2,500 people were led by himself, and the rest were dispatched by Zhao Jingzhi. Before leaving, several people and the soldiers drank Zhuangxing wine, and then led the troops separately.

Xiahou Yuan, the general of the city, had just fallen asleep that night, when he heard the sound of killing under the city, and the gongs and drums shook the sky. He was shocked, and hurriedly rushed to the city to inspect, while commanding the soldiers to resist desperately, and at the same time sending people to Fengcheng to send a letter to the guard Sun Kewang, asking him to quickly send troops to support. Sun Kewang received a distress letter from Xiahou Yuan, hurriedly ordered his troops, and rushed to Youcheng. Sun Kewang had just crossed the Broken Water Bridge with his soldiers, and was about to continue his journey, only to hear a road of soldiers and horses from behind, cut off the bridge cable, and cut off Sun Kewang's back road. Sun Kewang was shocked, and there was another enemy army in front of him, led by Beigong Ru and Yu Mo. The two soldiers and horses attacked before and after, Sun Kewang was unexpected, the formation was in chaos, and he was dismounted by Beigong Ru with a knife and captured alive. Sun Kewang's army was defeated, and no one escaped. Beigong Ru ordered half of the people to stay behind to clean up the battlefield and escort the prisoners, and the other half followed him to change into the clothes of Sun Kewang's army and ran to Youcheng.

When he arrived at Youcheng, Beigong took the lead and rushed into the camp of Gongsun Long, who was besieging the city, and fought with Gongsun Long for dozens of rounds. Gongsun Long saw Beigong Ru's eyes, pretending to be invincible, and was about to return to his horse and flee. Beigong Ru led people to chase after him in a hurry. Xiahou Yuan took advantage of the night at the head of the city, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that he was about to win all the way in his own military uniform. I don't want to, at this time, suddenly another enemy army came from behind, and it was Zhao Jingzhi who took the lead, and joined the defeated Gongsun Long, and turned back to kill.

Beigong Ru hurriedly led people to run under the city gate, shouting loudly as he ran: "General, open the door!" Xiahou Yuan didn't have time to think about it, and when he saw that his soldiers and horses were being chased, he hurriedly asked people to open the city gate and let them go. Entering the city, Beigong Ru waited as if entering a no-man's land, killed the wingmen guarding the gate, opened the city gate, and welcomed Gongsun Long and Zhao Jingzhi. In less than half an hour, they captured Xiahou Yuan and took Youcheng without waste. After a while, he led the troops to attack Fengcheng, Fengcheng lost the commander Sun Kewang, most of the elite soldiers had already been captured, and the remaining soldiers saw that Gongsun Long's soldiers and horses were menacing, so they had to open the door and offer the city.

Beigong Ru's serial plan to attack the east and west helped Gongsun Long easily break the two cities in a row, and Gongsun Long was naturally grateful to him and trusted him. However, it was said that Shugongyun was overjoyed when he learned that Gongsun Longqi had won the victory, and sent Gongsun Long as the commander to continue to lead troops to attack Jinping City, the gateway to Yicheng. Gongsun Jing saw his brother's victory in the first battle, and he couldn't hold back, so he petitioned to help Gongsun Long, and his uncle Yun asked him to lead troops to support.