Chapter 42: The Verge

Gao Huan became interested, and immediately asked respectfully: "Sir, please make it clear if you have any good plans." ”

"General, don't worry, if we want this plan to succeed, we need someone to help." Murong Heng said quietly.

"Who?" Gao Huan and Xu Mingzhi asked in unison, and when they heard this, the two smiled at each other, this is the heart-to-heart connection between the monarch and the minister.

"My clan, Murong Shaozong, is forty-four out of twenty this year, and this person is extraordinarily talented in martial arts. He is now serving in Beilingqiu County, Yanzhou, if we can bring this person in first, our plan can be successful. Murong Heng shook his head and wanted to find a good boss for his relatives.

Gao Huan was still a little uneasy and asked, "Sir, do you really think that your clan is talented?" So why is he not so well-known now? “

"The general doesn't know, my clan has been smart since childhood, not only the political articles are well written, but also the troops are also a set. It's just that Er Zhurong (now that he is dead, no one calls him the king in private) only promotes his own family, and even the gatekeepers are all official positions, and talents like my clan are buried in the county area. Alas~! Murong Heng sighed very regretfully.

"Well, since the gentleman says that this man is very ambitious and talented, then I will recruit him to serve under my account." Gao Huan then agreed.

Murong Heng smiled and shook his head and said: "The general's words are wrong, if the general really wants to achieve a career, this person must be personally befriended and invited, as the so-called scholar dies for a confidant, think of a talent like my clan, the general can only make friends with him with sincerity for sincerity, so that he can go to the soup for you." ”

"Oh? How high do you think of yourself as a race? Do you want me to invite it myself? Gao Huan smiled a little incredulously, and Gao Yue, Gao Zhongming, Li Erhu and others on the side also looked disdainful. What character can be bigger than the shelf that followed Gao Huan to life and death?! Everyone was a little curious about Murong Shaozong.

Later, Gao Huan learned that this Murong Shaozong was a descendant of the former Yan royal family, and after the fall of the former Yan, he was attached to the Northern Wei Dynasty, but his family background has since fallen, and after four generations to Murong Shaozong's generation, he can only be a small county Sima in the county, and his official position is not even a grade. Therefore, this Murong Shaozong has been holding his breath since he was a child, wanting to restore the glory of the family and revive the prestige of the family.

Although Youzhou is not really counted as Gao Huan's sphere of influence now, nominally the emperor has officially appointed him as the assassin of Youzhou, so Murong Shaozong is now counted as his subordinate. He was about to calculate the day to go to Youzhou for a personal trip, but suddenly received a secret letter from Sun Teng from Yecheng.

Since Er Zhurong arranged for the four brothers to go to other states, they have always relied on letters to communicate with each other, and Sima Ziru has fewer letters after being transferred by Er Zhurong to Yingzhou Assassin History, because of the long distance. After He Batsheng entered the customs, there was no news because of the war, and only Sun Teng was left in Yecheng as Gao Huan's source in the Luoyang court.

Sun Teng's letter was to the effect of the following: "Gao Huan, my brother is very happy to see the letter and hear that my brother's new Wuzhou assassin history, but in view of the current delicate situation, the foolish brother has a few points that I hope my brother will be cautious. The first and Erzhu forces can not break head-on, because the actual has not arrived, and the second and the court still need to sincerely support, now the strongest force is more than the younger brother, the emperor favors the court to trust the people of the world to entrust with one, and hope for self-respect. The third foolish brother has received the news that Erzhu Zhao has started an incident in Bingzhou, and it is estimated that he will also receive the news of Erzhu Dulu and Erzhu Tianguang in the near future, and my brother should seriously choose to stay. Everything is fine in the other house, don't think about it. ”

After reading Sun Teng's letter, Murong Heng breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "Everything seems to be as the old man expected, the situation has reached a very delicate moment, and it seems that we are about to make a choice, general." ”

Gao Huan's trust in Murong Heng is more than that of ordinary people, and private information such as family letters can be shown to him, because in Gao Huan's heart, Murong Heng and Zhuge Liang should be the same kind of people, at least he must try his best to cultivate him into a person close to Zhuge Liang. There is no big problem with reading the family letter first, so naturally it should be shown to Murong Heng, because the amount of political information in it is too large, and Gao Huan is afraid that he will not be able to deal with it alone and make a mistake.

Now Gao Huan's position is no longer comparable to the original general in Huaishuo, that is, after Huaishuo lost the town, he could still single-handedly come out and break into the world from scratch, but now he has the history of the five states, with an army of 100,000 and millions of ordinary people, plus Gao Yue and other clansmen, Li Erhu and other generals, Murong Heng and other staff, too many people rely on themselves to live in troubled times by their own power, if they have a slight problem in decision-making, then there is a danger of extermination. Gao Huan can finally understand the pain of his company's boss in his previous life: he must not only take them well so that they have something to eat, but also find a way to protect the interests of his company from being swallowed up by other companies.

"What we can do at the moment is to be vigorous and ready to enter Beijing at any time." Murong Heng looked at Gao Huan and everyone with a very affirmative look and said.

"In that case, we will have a conflict with the Erzhu clan." Gao Yue said a little worriedly: "Using the soldiers and horses of our three states to fight against the Zhuerzhu forces is undoubtedly hitting the stone with an egg and killing oneself. Everyone bowed their heads and said nothing, Gao Yue's words were at the center, everyone was so easy to get to today's position, and no one wanted to easily lose the glory and wealth in their hands.

"If Erzhu Zhao really entered Beijing to massacre courtiers and eliminate dissidents in the name of the Qing monarch, we should react quickly and stand firmly on the side of the emperor. That's pretty good for us to achieve great things in the future. After Murong Heng said these words, it seemed that everyone glanced at him, and seeing that no one refuted it, he continued: "Before we molded, we had to immediately send someone to find out if Er Zhu Zhao really wanted to enter Beijing, and when he would enter Beijing, we would rush to Luoyang before him and take the emperor into our own hands." ”

"According to Mr. Zhuzhao's words, according to us now, we don't need to inquire about the time of Er Zhuzhao's entry into Beijing, wouldn't it be better for us to directly lead troops into Beijing to escort us now?" Gao Huan said a word.

"The difference between the general's words, now the emperors and ministers in Luoyang City do not trust us, the princes who have been released, and they will not really use us until the critical moment of life and death, only when they hear the news that Erzhu Zhao entered Beijing to slaughter the city, those princes and grandsons of the ministers of the court will be afraid of the reappearance of the tragedy of sacrificing to the sky, and they will sincerely beg us to protect them." Murong Heng said what he was thinking. A reader is a man with many eyes.

"Since this is the case, then in this case, we will first move Guangzong's army to Yecheng and prepare for the southward march to Luoyang, and once Erzhu Zhao crosses the Yellow River and enters Hedong, we will act." Gao Huan came to the final summary arrangement.

It seems that this visit to Murong Shaozong will be delayed, because there is more important things to do now: to prevent Erzhu Zhao from entering Beijing to massacre the courtiers and hold the Son of Heaven hostage.

But Gao Huan didn't let Xu Mingzhi and other staff members rest, now that he is the assassin of the five states, his subordinates are obviously insufficient, if he wants to control all the territory and population of the five states in his own hands, he also needs to cultivate a large number of cronies to serve as county level magistrates, so he needs to recruit a large number of Han scholars buried in this troubled world to help him. The recruitment list and the merit order are distributed to all states, counties and counties. In addition, he sent people to Guanzhong and Liaodong to find contact with the two brothers He Batsheng and Sima Ziru. Everyone began to do their jobs and get busy.

Three days later, Guan Yi returned with definite news: Erzhu Zhao's army had arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, ready to cross the river and enter the eastern boundary of the river at any time. Gao Huan also personally went to Yecheng to sit in the dispatch, but Erzhu Dulu in Qingzhou and Erzhu Tianguang in Guanzhong sat still and watched the success or failure. These two old foxes.

Regarding the situation of Er Zhuzhao At the military mobilization meeting in Yecheng, Yuan Ruyi's intelligence made everyone's eyes shine, this little girl is only eighteen years old, in addition to looking more and more like a beautiful embryo, it is also a little scary to spy on the military situation with her wrist. When he learned what Yuan Ruyi's means were to find out about Er Zhuzhao's situation, Gao Huan, Gao Yue, Li Erhu and the others were all drenched in cold sweat, and even Murong Heng felt that he would one day be caught by this little girl.

According to Yuan Ruyi's intelligence, after Er Zhuzhao fled back to Bingzhou, he originally wanted to move his family to the north to join Rouran, but there was a staff member named Xie Sichun in the Bingzhou capital, who immediately brainwashed him for two hours: Going to Mobei to join Rouran not only could not save his life, but he might be betrayed by them to the people in power of the new government in exchange for benefits. It seems that the passive skill of running away in an emergency is not exclusive to the Erzhu family.

Xie Sichun also gave Er Zhu Zhao an idea to lead the men and horses of the Bingzhou headquarters as soon as possible, plus a total of 100,000 people from the two places of Yanzhou (the old base of the Erzhu clan) and Hengzhou, to go south to Luoyang, hold the emperor hostage to dominate the court, and follow Er Zhurong's actions. When the time comes, he will sit on the world and exterminate the disobedience, and he can contact the forces of Qingzhou and Guanzhong to protect the four northern states and become a soil emperor. That's the way to go.

At most, Erzhu Zhao's IQ is just thinking of being a prince on one side, so Xie Sichun's strategy is tantamount to opening up a new world to a new future for him, and it is not impossible to even become an emperor in the future. At that moment, he gathered all the people, converged the two armies of Yanzhou and Hengzhou, and went straight to Luoyang.

Er Zhu Zhao's army arrived at the edge of the Yellow River, but because they couldn't find so many ferries for a while, they were delayed, which gave Gao Huan and others a chance.

"We now have Ruyi's accurate information, although this little girl refuses to say how to buy this internal response, but judging from the current intelligence, it is beneficial to us, and now we can lead the army south to Luoyang to Beijing to protect the emperor." Gao Huan said to the generals and staff in the Yecheng marching camp.

Seeing that everyone had no opinions, Gao Huan began to divide the labor, Gao Yue and Gao Zhongming led an army of 30,000 to Lin Xi, Li Erhu Guan Yi led an army of 30,000 to Dunqiu, and he took Murong Heng to lead the Chinese army of 40,000 to go to Dangyin. The soldiers were divided into three ways to take Luoyang.

The current situation is that Er Zhuzhao's army has returned to the Yellow River one after another and assembled in the east of the river, while Gao Huan's army is stationed in Tongxian County, north of Luoyang, and the two sides are facing each other, and the situation is about to erupt