Li Shimin and his entourage crossed the Yellow River by boat, and only after sunset did they see the gate of the camp, and then everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Stop, who's coming?" The soldiers stationed at the camp gate watched the gang vigilantly through the twilight.

"Bold, this is His Royal Highness the King of Qin." Qin Qiong came out and scolded.

Li Shimin smiled, took off his face armor, and asked everyone to help take off his armor, and the soldiers confirmed that the person who came was indeed the King of Qin himself with his clothes.

As soon as they entered the camp with the generals, they heard a commotion outside, and everyone pricked up their ears to listen carefully, and vaguely discerned who the guards outside the camp were arguing with.

"It's Wei Xuancheng." Cheng Yanjin was the first to hear the voice of the comer.

When everyone heard this, they all looked at King Qin, and Li Shimin smiled bitterly: "Let him come in." ”

"This black face is too powerful, or let's quit first." As soon as the generals heard Wei Zheng's name, their heads were big.

It is said that after Wei Zheng entered the prince's mansion, the first credit he made was to persuade Xu Shiji to join the Tang Dynasty. At that time, he was just an unknown person in the palace, but he took the initiative to ask the King of Qin for help, and Li Shimin didn't have much hope for him. After all, after Li Mi died, Xu Shiji was actually a separatist party, how could there be a reason to give up the territory so easily.

But unexpectedly, after Wei Zheng arrived in Liyang, he quickly persuaded Xu Shiji, and as a result, a large part of the power left by Li Mi was returned to Li Tang. As soon as Wei Zheng made a move, everyone was impressed. Li Shimin remembered Fang Xuanling's evaluation of this person, but he really didn't have to do it, so he hurriedly ordered him to return to his home, promoted him to be a counselor, and attached great importance to his opinion. In the past two years, Wei Zheng and Du Ruhui have become the two most important strategists under Li Shimin's account.

But Wei Zheng's character is really not pleasing to the generals, and he never shies away from anything that is unpleasant in the camp, and scolds him directly. Even King Qin himself was scolded by him several times in public. Of course, when literati scold the street, they naturally don't bring a dirty word, but this is even more uncomfortable. But what made the generals helpless was that although King Qin himself was sometimes very angry with him, he never blamed him. On the contrary, he paid more and more attention to him. Therefore, when they heard that Wei Zheng was coming, all the generals looked at each other one by one and retired to King Qin.

Li Shimin said in his heart that he would go together when he was doing things, and let the king come by himself when he was behind the blame, how could there be such a cheap thing, and he didn't say yes, nor did he say no, so he didn't say a word, pretending to be stupid.

The generals didn't get permission, so they naturally didn't dare to leave, so they had to watch Wei Zheng go straight to the tent.

"Your Highness, I have a note for Your Highness to look at." Wei Zheng entered the account, but he was the same as before, his expression was very calm, and he couldn't look at the people standing in the camp, but just handed the note in his hand to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin was relieved when he saw that Wei Zheng was not here to find fault, and opened the proclamation to take a look, but he was dumbfounded. The meaning of the proclamation is very clear, but the content is to ask Li Shimin to punish the crimes of his generals, including Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chigong, Qiu Xinggong, etc., and the list is the people who are with him today.

"The generals have protected the king today and fought their way out of the encirclement. As for today's things, the blame is on the king......"

"Ridiculous!" Wei Zheng's outbreak came without warning, "The commander of the first army actually put himself in danger and did that thing to explore the horse, and the generals did not report it, and fell into danger for His Highness, and it should be done by military law." ”

"Your Highness just wants to personally survey the terrain, as for hitting Wang Shichong's army, it's also a coincidence, why should Wei join the army make a fuss?" Wei Chigong had just surrendered, and he hadn't yet comprehended Wei Zheng's power, so he defended himself.

All the generals had a gloating expression, and they really didn't know the depth of this big black man, and they dared to argue with Wei Zheng.

Sure enough, Wei Zheng's counterattack was extremely sharp, he stepped in front of Wei Chigong in one step, raised his head and glared at him angrily: "King Qin is the commander of the Eastern Expedition, and the safety of 80,000 soldiers is tied to His Royal Highness, if something happens, who dares to bear it?" ”

"Isn't that all right?" Wei Chigong dodged Wei Zheng's aggressive gaze and whispered.

"Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, the way of survival. As the commander of the army, you don't even know this truth, how to lead the troops? ”

"I ......" Originally, Wei Chigong was a general, but he surrendered after being defeated many times. Now that he was scolded by Wei Zheng for not understanding the art of war, he couldn't lead soldiers, and he had nothing to say for a while.

"Wei joins the army, this king knows that this time is indeed ill-thought, and he must take it as a warning, so don't embarrass General Wei Chi." Li Shimin hurriedly relieved Wei Chigong of the siege.

"Your Highness's words are wrong, and you don't mean to embarrass the generals, but the state has national laws and military regulations. If this matter is let go, how will His Highness govern the army in the future? ”

"But now that the war is imminent, all the generals are the pillars of the army, and the generals are cut off before the battle, isn't it a mess? How about punishing them for their crimes and meritorious service, and then dealing with them after taking Luoyang? ”

Wei Zheng didn't really want Li Shimin to behead all the generals under him, but just wanted King Qin to change the problem of liking the courage of the horseman.

One by one, the generals hurriedly bid farewell to Li Er, smeared oil under their feet, and slipped away.

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng's expression, as if he was about to speak again, and quickly changed the topic: "Today, this king met the king wheat you often say." ”

"Oh?" When Wei Zheng heard the news of Wang Mai, he really became interested.

Li Shimin breathed a sigh of relief, and then told Wei Zheng what happened today: "...... Wang Fugui's recent intelligence mentioned that he pretended to be a blacksmith and worked with Wang Mai to make a pendulum clock for Wang Shichong. ”

"What is a pendulum clock?" Wei Zheng asked curiously. He came with the army all the way from Chang'an, so he didn't hear about the famous Buddha treasure that moved the world.

"Wang Fugui's letter mentions that the pendulum clock is an instrument for accurate timekeeping...... Li Shimin said about the pendulum clock again.

Wei Zheng's eyes lit up when he heard this: "This thing is so magical, so to speak, even if it is rainy weather, you can accurately know the time." ”

"That's right," Li Shimin nodded, "This king has always heard you old Wagang people say that this person is magical, and I see ...... today."

"How?" Wei Zheng couldn't wait to ask.

"It's normal." Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Not fat, not thin, not tall or short, there are really no characteristics." ”

Wei Chigong has been very depressed recently, and he feels that the generals of the Tang Army don't seem to be very friendly to him. Take the incident of being pointed at by Wei Zheng in the camp more than a month ago, no one helped him, and everyone seemed to be quite happy to see that he was unlucky. After surrendering to the Tang Army, Li Shimin had nothing to say about him, but this seemed to cause dissatisfaction among everyone.

But think about it, a general who was always defeated under his own side before, how could He De be so appreciated by King Qin, and everyone was not convinced, so naturally it should be. However, in the barracks, there are naturally meritorious people who are respected, and I will definitely let these people see this battle, Wei Chigong secretly made up his mind.

Lying on the bed, I was thinking about it, when I suddenly heard a noise in the tent, and it seemed that someone was coming, and I was busy getting up to check. As soon as he turned around, he saw a fist smashed towards the door, he couldn't dodge, he took a heavy punch in the face, and suddenly felt a little dizzy, and in an instant, he only felt that the fist on his body fell like raindrops, and he grinned in pain. Before I could wake up, I felt that I was being pressed on the bed by twisting my arms and thighs.

"What happened?" Wei Chigong's eyes were blurry, and he couldn't see anyone clearly.

"Do you know that the Xun Xiang who was good friends with you escaped today?" A voice asked.

"I don't know." Wei Chigong replied honestly.

"Hmph," someone next to him sneered, "hurry up and kill this fight, lest he escape with him one day." ”

"It's ......" sounded next to him.

"I didn't want to ......escape," Wei Chigong defended himself.

"This matter will still be decided together when King Qin comes back tomorrow."

In the early morning of the next day, Li Shimin dragged his tired body back to the Chinese army camp, and this night's inspection exhausted him. Just as he wanted to rest for a while, he saw a group of people escorting Wei Chigong to the outside of the tent.

"Why did you treat General Wei Chi like this?" Li Shimin looked at the people outside the tent and asked with a frown.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin," Qu Tutong took everyone into the tent, "Xunxiangsu is friendly with Yu Chi Jingde, and now that Xun Xiang has fled, how can Yu Chi Jingde not know the reason?" Therefore, I ask His Highness to have this person court-martialed. ”

"That's right," Yin Kaishan said in a low voice, "and Wei Chi Jingde is extremely brave, now that he is imprisoned, his heart will be resentful, and he is afraid that he will be troubled in the future, so it is better to kill him." ”

Li Shimin shook his head: "Otherwise, if Jingde really wants to rebel, I'm afraid he will leave a long time ago, how can he be after looking for the phase?" ”

"Now that the two armies are facing each other, it is better to kill by mistake than to let go."

"What nonsense," Li Shimin rebuked loudly, "how can you cut off your arm on trumped-up charges." After speaking, he hurriedly asked the soldiers outside the camp to bring Wei Chigong to the camp.

Wei Chigong's nose and face were swollen from being beaten last night, and he held back his anger at this time, and when he saw King Qin walking towards him, he turned his head away from looking at him.

Li Shimin personally untied the rope on Wei Chi Gong's body: "The friendship between the husband is because of the like-mindedness, I hope that General Wei Chi will not have a dislike because of a little misunderstanding, and this king will not believe those unfounded rumors." He also asked someone to take a bag of gold and give it to Wei Chigong, "If the general really wants to leave, this gold will be wrapped up in my gift to you." ”

After some kind words and persuasion, Wei Chigong was finally appeased. Li Shimin pointed to the marching map on the table: "It just so happens that everyone is here, let's discuss the military situation together." ”

Hearing this, the generals hurried to the side of the map.

Li Shimin pointed to Hanjiacang City in the north of Luoyang and said: "Last night, I took advantage of the night to go to Beibi Mountain, specifically to find out the situation here, but you can't talk to Wei Zheng about it. ”

The generals smiled and said "yes".

"Now there are still two goals from encircling Luoyang, the first is to cut off the grain route between Wugao Pass and Luoyang, Wang Junkuo has already taken his men and horses; The second is to occupy this Hanjiacang City. ”