On the seventh day of the eighth month, in the afternoon, Duan Da received a letter from the Yin Shishi, and learned that the battle situation on the west bank of Laishui had been reversed, and the Xiaoguo army had turned the corner, and the Yin Shishi had understood his intentions, and was leading the army to quickly evacuate the west bank of Laishui and rush to the Juma River to meet him, so the heart that had been hanging was finally relaxed. In addition to palpitations, Duan Da couldn't help but be very worried about the future direction of the situation, Li Zixiong and the white-haired thief joined forces, and two fierce tigers came to the northern Xinjiang, and he had to face two sharp knives, and it was a little powerless to firmly control the overall situation of Youyan.

At dusk, Lu Junxian crossed the river and hurriedly met Duan Da. Lu Junxian was uneasy, misunderstood that Duan Da was looking for him because the battle situation on the west bank of Laishui had changed, if Xiaoguo was hit hard, Duan Da and the white-haired thief would form a mortal enmity, in this case, even if Lu Junxian contacted the white-haired thief, it would be meaningless, not to mention that Song Jingang had not replied to him now, so he could only be perfunctory.

Sure enough, when Duan Da saw Lu Junxian open his mouth, he asked, can there be any progress in the entrusted matter? Lu Junxian shook his head again and again, and said with a sad face that things were very tricky, difficult to do, and he needed time, and then he asked tentatively, "Ming Gong, is there any news on the west bank of Laishui?" ”

Duan Da stroked his beard and smiled, and said meaningfully, "This favor has been written down, and it will be rewarded in the future." ”

Lu Junxian's sad face suddenly froze, and he was shocked, what do you mean? Xiaoguo was defeated, Duan Da was angry and hated, and remembered the grudge on his head, wanting to take revenge on himself? Or, Song Jingang found the white-haired thief, and the white-haired thief also gave Fan Yang Lu's face, allowing the Yin Shishi to break through and leave? It's just that Fan Yang Lu's face is so big? Before the two sides began to cooperate, the white-haired thief was willing to give away favors for nothing?

Lu Junxian laughed dryly, pretended to be confused, and said nonsense, "Xiangyuan has a life, and there is no hesitation in righteousness, how can you say that human favors come from?" Xiangyuan said it seriously. ”

Duan Da shook his hand and said with a smile, "Zhao Gong (Yin Shishishi) came to write and said that the rebels suddenly withdrew from the siege this morning, and Xiaoguo not only turned the crisis into safety, but also relieved the siege of Yicheng by taking advantage of the situation, thus reversing the tide of the battle. ”

When Lu Junxian heard this, he was gloomy, overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down to congratulate, but immediately realized that something was wrong, Duan Da, an old fox, actually crossed the river and demolished the bridge, and wanted to dig a "pit" to bury people, how can this be reasonable, this is also shameless, right?

Duan Da saw the expression on Lu Junxian's face clearly, and couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart, how could he miss such a God-given opportunity? I'm worried that I can't catch your handle, this is just right, one fell out of thin air, as long as I don't say it, Li Zixiong doesn't say it, who can know the truth? Since you can't know the truth, or even if you have a guess, but unfortunately there is no evidence, then you can only eat coptis dumbly, knock out your teeth and swallow blood.

"Considering that the rebels are heavily blocked on the front line of the Juma River, and if they continue to divide their troops to attack, they will inevitably delay the time to go south, so they have ordered Zhao Gong to quickly evacuate the west bank of Laishui, rush to the Juma River to meet with a certain person, and concentrate his forces to cross the river to attack, and strive to settle a battle, break through the resistance of the rebels in one fell swoop, and gallop south to aid Gaoyang as quickly as possible."

When Duan Da said this, he smiled more "kindly", "I know that this is not good for you, and it may make you lose your trust in the other party." The other party's purpose is to delay our time to go south, so he has no intention of paying a heavy price, let alone fighting with us to the death, so it is reasonable to give you a favor, but now that you want to concentrate your forces to break through the Juma River, this will inevitably make you fall into a treacherous and backsliding charge. ”

Lu Junxian's face was expressionless, and his eyes were cold. Duan Da is shameless, vainly trying to use this matter to seize his own handle, pinch Fan Yang Lu's "throat", wishful thinking, but the key to the problem is not here, but the military and political officials of Guanlong nationality represented by Duan Da in northern Xinjiang, if the situation in the future is very bad and all forces in northern Xinjiang should work together, they still seize every opportunity to contain and attack the Shandong people, then the result is not optimistic.

"Xiangyuan Gong, a certain is really dull, very puzzled, who do you mean by 'the other party'? Why would it be bad for something? Why did a certain person fall into the charge of treachery and backsliding? "Lu Junxian simply pretended to be confused to the end, and pushed it, I don't know anything, what can you do to me?

Duan Da smiled, "If you want to know the answer, go and ask Jing Gong (Feng Deyi)." Jing Gong was ordered to go south to Gaoyang, passing through the Juma River, and make a temporary stop, you can go and visit. ”

When Lu Junxian heard that Feng Deyi had arrived, he was overjoyed, and immediately said goodbye to Duan Da and hurried to meet him.

Hejian Feng and Fan Yang Lu have always been close, Feng Deyi's mother is from Fan Yang Lu, is the sister of the famous poet Lu Sidao in the Northern Dynasty, and although Lu Junxian is not from Lu Sidao's lineage, but also the main family descendant of Fan Yang Lu, and is also a powerful figure in today's Fan Yang Lu family, so Lu Junxian not only knows Feng Deyi, but also is quite familiar with each other.

After meeting and greeting each other for a while, without waiting for Feng Deyi to ask, Lu Junxian took the initiative to tell him a shocking secret.

"Gong Jing, the white-haired thief said that Song Zixian of Tang County is plotting to use the Uncovered Assembly to assassinate the Holy Lord."

As soon as this remark came out, with Feng Deyi's strong psychology of "political tumbler", he also changed his color when he heard it, he was shocked, suffocated, his hair stood on end, and the cold sweat "swished" came out.

If the holy driver is frightened in northern Hebei, if the holy lord is assassinated in Boling, the result can be imagined, the first to bear the brunt is a large number of wealthy families in northern Hebei, such as the Cui family in Boling and the Liu family in Zhongshan, and the holy lord, the center and the wealthy families in northern Hebei will inevitably break up, and the two sides have no room for maneuver at all, so they can only fight, and the result is that both sides will lose. And this kind of damage is particularly serious and irretrievable for the Holy Lord and the center, because the wealthy families in northern Hebei are not only the core force of the Hebei aristocratic group, but also the main force of the Shandong aristocratic group, and at the same time, it is also an important political force that the Holy Lord wants to actively woo, because it will not only affect the overall situation of the entire north, affect the situation in northern Xinjiang and the trend of north-south relations, but also directly affect whether the Eastern Crusade can continue, and whether Middle Earth can win the future civil war. It affects whether the Holy Lord can continue to maintain his authority and ruling position in the political situation, so if the two sides break up, the Holy Lord will not only lose the support of the wealthy families in northern Hebei, but will also gradually distance himself from the Shandong aristocratic group, and the Holy Lord will usher in an unprecedented political and military crisis since his rule.

In this way, the general trend at home and abroad is very unfavorable to the Holy Lord and the reformers. First of all, Yang Xuangan's mutiny led to a heavy blow to the Heluo aristocratic group, and the Holy Lord and the Guanlong aristocratic group headed by Xijing openly went to confrontation and rupture; Two months later, if there is another assassination by Song Zixian, the northern Hebei aristocratic group suffers another heavy blow, and the holy lord and the Shandong aristocratic group also openly move towards confrontation and rupture, then under the blow of a series of crises such as the successive defeats of the Eastern Expedition, the repeated domestic rebellions, the outbreak of the crisis in western Xinjiang, and the continuous deterioration of north-south relations, it will be difficult for the holy lord and the reformists dominated by the Jiangzuo people to support it. In the end, even if he managed to turn the tide and barely supported it, he was scarred and dying.

What's next? Next, if the Civil War breaks out, and hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of horses cross the Great Wall and invade south, what resistance will Middle-earth take? Taking a step back, even if the Holy Lord and the Central Hub still have the strength to fight and sacrifice their lives to die, can they win this war? If they are defeated, politically and militarily defeated, and in the face of the frantic counterattack of domestic and foreign enemies, will the Holy Lord and the reformers still be able to hold on? Will Guozuo still be able to hold on? Can the great cause of reunification be maintained?

The consequences of this matter are too serious, Feng Deyi doesn't dare to think about it. He had an intuition, this news was true, the white-haired thief was not talking nonsense, and how the white-haired thief learned this secret did not matter at all, the important thing was that the reason why he chose to say it at this moment was not to deliberately provoke the fight between the wealthy families of Northern Hebei and the wealthy families of Youyan, but to save the wealthy families of Northern Hebei and the wealthy families of Youyan, to save the Holy Lord and the center, and to exchange this credit for the support of the Northern Hebei Wealthy Family and Youyan, in exchange for the support of the Holy Lord and the Central Alignment King to go north to the border.

The white-haired thief's methods are too terrible, because of this, Feng Deyi has affirmed that his guess is right, the white-haired thief is the "culprit" who caused the "Yulin Storm", and the previous questions have also been answered, Pei Shiju has actually lost control of him, so he has disappeared mysteriously for many years, and then suddenly returned to Middle-earth from the desert, and changed from a horse thief to a thief, and now he is pulling the King of Qi to the northern frontier together, the purpose is very simple, that is, to take revenge, first use the Northern War to kill the northern captives, and then use the king of Qi to dominate to trigger a civil war.

What a crazy person, and what is even more terrifying is that he also inherited his father's extraordinary strategy, perhaps this is the reason why even meritorious veterans such as Li Zixiong are willing to cooperate with him and go crazy with him. It's just that now he has a good strength, and he has seized the advantage in many key "key points", if he is not stopped, let him "scourge" continue, the consequences are unpredictable.

Lu Junxian knew that Feng Deyi would definitely be shocked by this shocking secret, so after finishing speaking, he closed his mouth and waited for Feng Deyi to "digest and absorb". Seeing that Feng Deyi's face gradually softened, Lu Junxian immediately opened his mouth to continue. Feng Deyi's eyes were quick, and he raised his hand to stop it without hesitation, "Have you seen the white-haired thief?" He said the news himself, did you hear it with your own ears? Does anyone else know? Did you tell anyone else? ”

Lu Junxian hurriedly shook his hand, "The stakes are very high, and I didn't tell anyone." ”

Then he entrusted Song Jingang, the hero of Shanggu, to secretly meet the white-haired thief, and told him in detail. Lu Junxian originally wanted to establish contact between the two sides and find opportunities for cooperation, but the white-haired thief gave a positive response, the white-haired thief said that the purpose of his entry into northern Xinjiang was for the Great War between the North and the South, and the white-haired thief decided that the Great War between the North and the South would break out within two years, and for this he needed the cooperation of the wealthy families of Youyan. As far as the current north-south relations are concerned, this cooperation will do more harm than good to the Youyan wealthy family, and the Youyan wealthy family cannot accept it, so the white-haired thief is very ruthless, and he raised his hand to dig a big "pit" for the Youyan wealthy family, and this "pit" is the conspiracy of Song Zixian, the heroic man of Tang County, to assassinate the Holy Lord by using the Uncovered Assembly.

"It doesn't matter if this news is true or not." Lu Junxian finally said, "The important thing is that since the white-haired thief said it, it will reach the ears of the Holy Lord and the center sooner or later, so I Fan Yang Lu Clan has no choice but to report the Holy Lord and the center as quickly as possible, although I know that this is the white-haired thief's discordant plan, it is to provoke the fight between Youyan and Jibei, and it is to give him enough time to gain a foothold in Yanbei and develop, but there is no way, we have no choice but to swallow our anger and jump into the pit." ”

Feng Deyi breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, there were very few people who knew about this matter, although the time to deal with the crisis was very tight, but the stakes were very high, as long as the Holy Lord, the Central Hub, and the Northern Hebei and Youyan Wealthy Families trusted each other and cooperated tacitly, they could still properly handle the crisis and minimize the harm of this matter.

"The news is true." Feng Deyi's expression was serious, and he said solemnly, "You have made meritorious service, if you return to your career in the future, don't forget the favor of others." ”

Lu Junxian was dumbfounded, "Really? How do you know? ”

"You underestimate the gravity of this matter, and once it becomes a reality, it will be a big crisis, a big crisis with very big impact and very serious consequences." Feng Deyi shook his head and sighed, "Since even you have despised this matter and made a wrong judgment, let alone others, so some vulgar and stupid people, after being bewitched by some ill-intentioned people, will accidentally do earth-shattering things." ”

Lu Junxian was surprised, underestimated? Despised it? Assassinating the Holy Lord is indeed a big deal, but it is not earth-shattering, right? Could it be that Song Zixian was really sure to stab the Holy Lord to death?

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