Chapter 5 Fighting Fires from the Mountains (Part II)

In the garden on a spring night, the flowers and trees have shown their vitality, but the dead branches and leaves are still there, and a green-shirted scribe is pacing on the winding path in silence, and when he stops at the side of a small tree, he plucks with his hand the young shoots that have just come out of the branches, and the young shoots fall with his hands. The scribe sighed with a feeling in his heart, he was like this young shoot, and he couldn't help but shake it too much. This person is Mo Ju who is forbearant at home, and the changes in the court are too fast, so fast that he is at a loss. After waiting for more than ten years, he finally had the opportunity to display his talents, and he originally thought that he could show his ambition to succeed in this grand plan, but who would have thought that when his foundation was not stable, General Hua suddenly passed away, and then soon came out of nowhere. When the country and He Ran had a secret talk, he was only worried about this Ju Ran, and after returning to Dechang City, the worry directly escalated into shock, because several high-powered old ministers were in a different place because of the impeachment of him, the queen mother was self-evident in his favor, just a few months, this Ju Ran reached the point of calling for clouds and rain, and Mo Ju, who saw the situation clearly, could only call in vain. Now it seems that the Queen Mother's affection for Ju Ran is like that of those kings, and women are more likely to go to extremes in terms of emotion. With a glimmer of hope, Mo Ju presented the gift that He Ran asked him to bring to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother only glanced at it and turned cold and took the gift and brushed away, he could see that this gift was touching the Queen Mother, Mo Ju really hated that time could be reversed, then he could directly escort He Ran back as a gift.

Thinking of his brother He Ran, Mo Ju is really jealous, this person is simply a panacea, it works there, it will work, if he is there, the difficulties he is encountering now will be solved immediately, he can lead the troops to fight, and he can also level the queen mother, if he is willing to come to Kangguo, our brothers will join forces to ......, alas, it is useless to think that these are all useless, this person's life is too good, Mo Ju is really envious of the relationship between King Yi and his monarchs and ministers, his brother is really comfortable, but this is not angry, but he has no ambitions! Thinking of this, Mo Ju shook his head, because he realized at this moment that it was precisely because He Ran had no ambition that King Yi and his ministers would not be suspicious of him, and his good life was not all due to God.

Pushing the illness and forbearance for a period of time really wanted to hold Mo Ju out of his illness, because he didn't know when it was a head, seeing the feeling of Ju Ran's continuous cultivation of wings but helplessness, it was undoubtedly the biggest torture for him, he didn't go to Zhao Hong to discuss, because when he was in the court, just by eye contact, he understood that Zhao Hong, who had just become Dazai, was in a similar situation to himself, and his foundation was even more unstable, because he still had the identity of a traitor, and at this moment he had to clamp his tail and be a man. But Mo Ju knew in his heart that Zhao Hong was forbearance like himself, and he would never tolerate someone like Ju Ran riding on his head. In contrast, Zhao Hong should be more anxious in his heart, his position as a military advisor is not something that can be replaced by just one person, such as today's constant wars, and when it is in danger, he must lead the troops to fight with real swords and guns, even if he gains power, he still has to rely on himself in the short term, and if he really changes a mediocre talent to take charge of the country's soldiers and horses, it is in danger of destroying the country at any time, Dazai is different, at least if he changes a mediocre talent, he will not be in danger of losing the country for a while.

What kind of opportunity arises to bring down Ju Ran? Mo Ju couldn't think that this was his biggest distress. He had known about Tongling's sneak attack on Zhao for a long time, and there was no one in the army who had more ears and eyes than him. After hearing the report, the corners of his mouth twitched, even Chi Sheng and the others understood the strategy that didn't work, and he was naturally a military advisor when he heard it, but he just twitched the corners of his mouth, and he didn't even say a word.

When the news of Pinghe's fiasco came, he didn't even raise his eyelids calmly, because he knew that this was the result, but his heart was twitching, 14,000 soldiers, these are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles! He is really distressed, the Xiongshi of the border is far from being comparable to the army put together by the temporary conscription of the people, Kang Guo does not have much capital to toss so much, and if he fights a few more defeats like this, then the army of Zhao Guo will be able to take Dechang directly, and even if he is put on the battlefield, he will not be able to return to the sky. Distressed to distressed, he understands that this defeat alone cannot bring down Ju Ran in one fell swoop, does he really have to wait until the country dies to have a chance? Mo Ju closed his lips tightly and stomped back into the bedroom.

As Mo Ju expected, Tongling did not lose the position of the border commander because of the defeat of Pinghe, but only suspended the momentum of promotion, what Mo Ju did not expect was that less than a month after the defeat of Pinghe, Kang Guo quickly reconciled with Zhao State, and the court hall sounded the hustle and bustle of uniting Zhao State, Qian State, and Liuguo to jointly cut Xiping, which made Mo Ju really a little unable to sit still.

Analyzing the secret reports from all sides, Mo Ju couldn't help but smile bitterly after thinking about it, although there was no conclusive evidence, but he believed that his inference would not be wrong, it should be King Zhao who was secretly manipulating these changes, Tongleng sneak attack on Zhao State and the loss of troops would return in vain, Ju Ran and his gang realized that Zhao State was not as easy to provoke as imagined, and if it was not good, it would be eaten by it, if at this time King Zhao secretly took the initiative to show favor to Ju Ran, and cooperated with bribes and other means, then the two countries quickly repaired and explained.

After the battle of Pinghe, Mo Ju learned of the deployment of the Zhao army at that time, King Zhao sent 18,000 forbidden troops to help the battle, plus the troops of the border pass of Zhao State, in the case of occupying the time and place, Jiao Gong is fully capable of killing the two Kang armies without returning, although he has not directly handed over, but Jiao Gong's ability Mo Ju still knows a little bit about it, before he analyzed that Jiao Gong may have just been promoted, lest his soldiers are unwilling to use their lives, for the sake of prudence, he concentrated his descendants and horses only to encircle and annihilate Chi Sheng's Kang army, Now that I think about it, it's not like that at all, it was King Zhao who planned all this at the beginning.

King Zhao must have also seen Ju Ran's eagerness to cultivate power in the army, the best place for promotion in the army is the battlefield, only when the battle is fought can the generals have the opportunity to be promoted again and again, so he must send a person who can speak well to Ju Ran and his group to talk about the benefits of the war against Xiping, which can be regarded as a good heart.

Hum! Mo Ju pursed his lips, King Zhao's scheming was very clear to him, if he really fought, Zhao Guo would definitely not be able to send troops, his intention was to consume Kang Guo's national strength, and when the time came, he would not hesitate to give Kang Guo a fatal blow.

The war with Xiping can't be started no matter what, but how can Ju Ran be stopped, Mo Ju thought about it and felt that he had to meet Zhao Hong, as soon as he made a decision, the attendant came in to report, and Lord Dazai came to visit the patient!