When Xiao Yuanshan woke up, the people had already arrived in Fuyuan City, after he passed out, his Zhongjun camp had no fighting spirit, and the appearance of Lu Dalin made them even more desperate, in the face of the absolute strength comparison, no one would not cherish their surname, not to mention that this was not an endless battle with the barbarians of the grassland outside the Saiwai, but their own internal strife, every soldier believed that as long as he put down his weapon, the former robe on the opposite side would no longer raise his sword and gun to himself, and Xiao Yuanshan's henchmen and officers had no way to think at this moment, They had no second way but to surrender with the soldiers.

Li Qing's expected local small-intensity battle did not break out, and the smoothness of the matter was beyond his expectations, but this was a better situation, and it was Li Qing's dream but hopeless hope to solve this battle within the Dingzhou army without dying, and when he really appeared in front of Li Qing, he couldn't believe it.

Xiao Yuanshan woke up in Li Qing's chamber in Fuyuan's General Mansion, and saw the once familiar faces on the left and right, Lu Dalin, Lu Dabing, Li Qing, very surprised, he did not roar and angrily scolded Lu Dalin's betrayal, did not angrily scold Li Qing for being scheming, but swept over everyone's faces one by one very calmly, there are people he knows, and there are many people who are dressed in school captain clothes but he doesn't know, they must be Li Qing's henchmen.

Slowly got up from the bench where he had just fallen asleep, and touched the knife in his waist, Yang Yidao and Tang Hu behind Li Qing immediately took a step forward, but Li Qing stretched out his hand to block the two, the two looked at each other for a moment, Xiao Yuanshan suddenly laughed, untied the waist knife, and threw it on the ground.

"You won, I underestimated you. Thank you very much for not letting me be a fool and let me die in my sobriety, this is the greatest respect for a general, I have to admit, if the two of us change places, I will definitely not be able to do this. I will cut you in two at once, and I will never suffer again. ”

Li Qing shook his head, "Xiao Shuai, you are wrong, you will not die, including your subordinates, you will not die, I will not kill you, although now you and I are mortal enemies, but after all, you have fought at the border for many years, and you have no merit and hard work in this Dingzhou, so after completely resolving this matter, I will send you out of Dingzhou and back to Beijing." ”

"What did you say?" Xiao Yuanshan didn't believe his ears, but he didn't kill himself, what is the reason? He looked at Li Qing opposite in disbelief, to determine if the other party was joking, or if he was humiliating himself in this way. After a while, his gaze turned to Lu Dalin.

In his gaze, Lu Dalin stepped forward and said: "Xiao Shuai, please rest assured, General Li really didn't mean to hurt you, but there can only be one master in Dingzhou, so you have to leave, General Li's recital has been written, and I have jointly played it, Xiao Shuai has exhausted his mind for this battle, and his old injuries have recurred, and he has asked to return to Beijing to recuperate." ”

Xiao Yuanshan's eyes flickered, and he looked at the general who made him fail at the last moment, and finally asked the question that was pressed in his heart: "Tell me, Da Lin, I asked myself if I treated you well, why did you betray me?" ”

Lu Dalin looked directly at Xiao Yuanshan's fiery gaze without flinching, "Xiao Shuai, you have done something completely wrong, but you don't say anything else, General Li still has eight thousand elites under his command, it is enough for the elites of Dingzhou to shed blood under Fuyuan City, then who will benefit in the end, it will be our enemy, it is Bayar on the grassland, if this is the case, I dare to assert that Bayar will set up a large army and go straight to Dingzhou, let me ask if we can still hold it?" ”

"You can tell me that I can cancel this operation altogether!" Xiao Yuanshan roared.

Lu Dalin shook his head, "Xiao Shuai, you still haven't figured it out, I don't want us to live in this kind of intrigue again and again, if you want to defeat Bayar, a united Dingzhou is a must, you can cancel this operation, but you will definitely plan the next time, the third time, until your side wins." ”

"Then why did you choose him instead of me, we have fought together for so many years, is it not as good as his friendship?"

"It's not a matter of friendship or not, but for the sake of victory in the future, Xiao Shuai, with all due respect, if you are in charge of Dingzhou, we will be more than successful, and we will not be enterprising enough, and although General Li is young, he has let me see the hope of the rise of Dingzhou and the direct attack on Longcheng, so I choose General Li."

Xiao Yuanshan let out a long sigh, slowly sat down on the chair behind him, holding his head in his hands, and everyone in the hall looked at him silently, without speaking, and no one bothered him.

Finally, Xiao Yuanshan raised his head, "I know, you still need a letter of resignation from me, bring pen and paper!" ”

"I also need you to give General Dai Che of Weiyuan an order, summoning him to lead his battalion generals to Fuyuan to participate in this great victory celebration." Shang Haibo said coldly.

Xiao Yuanshan smiled miserably, "Sure enough, under the nest, there are no eggs left, although Dai Che is my confidant, he is a fierce general, you will be able to use him." ”

Li Qing shook his head slowly: "I don't have time to slowly train and reform him, Xiao Shuai, I once told General Lu that within three years, I must solve the grassland problem, so a united Dingzhou is a must, I can't always worry about someone stabbing me in the back when I lead the army, so General Dai Che's departure is also inevitable, I believe Xiao Shuai can also use him." ”

"Three years, three years to solve the grassland problem, Li Qing, you are really angry, but I sincerely admire you, no wonder Lu Dalin chose you, Dingding the grassland is his lifelong dream." Xiao Yuanshan snorted, lifted the pen, and in a moment, the book was already in place to ask for resignation and the order to Dai Che, and threw the pen on the ground with a snap, and said, "Okay, what you want me to do, I have done it, and now I will let you dispose of it." ”

Li Qing smiled and said to Yang Yidao: "Please go and rest, except for not allowing the big marshal to take a step out of the residence, the rest are not allowed to wait for him." ”

Yang Yidao bowed down to receive the order, and stretched out his hand to Xiao Yuanshan: "Xiao Shuai, please!" Xiao Yuanshan walked away with his head held high.

Looking at the background of his departure, Li Qingdao said: "If you can afford to take it and put it down, it is not a loss that he was the master of Dingzhou." ”

Wang Qinian said dissatisfiedly: "General, I really don't understand, he obviously fell into our hands as a prisoner, but he is still so ashamed, it's really infuriating, why don't you kill him with a knife and never suffer in the future, he suffered such a big loss in the hands of the general, let him go back alive, how can he be willing to rest, and he will definitely be embarrassed by us in the future." ”

"Let's talk about it later, even if we meet again in the future and fight on the battlefield, we won't regret what we did today." Li Qing said with a smile.

Of course, it is easy to kill Xiao Yuanshan, but now is not the time to completely intensify the contradictions between the two families, Li Qing needs time to stabilize Dingzhou, he needs time to solve the grassland problem, and the affairs of the Central Plains can be delayed for a while. If you kill Xiao Yuanshan, then you will completely tear your face, Xiao Yuanshan is different from himself, he is just a little person in the Li family who has not yet entered the ancestral tree, even if he fails and is killed, the Li family will not feel that there will be much loss, maybe the Xiao family will give a certain amount of compensation, and the matter will be smoothed out, but Xiao Yuanshan is a pivotal figure in the Xiao family, kill him, and the matter will be a big deal. It was Li Qingming who knew that Xiao Yuanshan was a relatively powerful general, and he would definitely bring trouble to himself in the future, but he still had to let him go.

"What about the general, what about that guy from Fang Wenshan? Are you going to let him go? Wang Qinian hummed and said, he caught two big guys, since one was released, the other must be released. It's really unwilling.

"Him?" Li Qing sneered: "He doesn't have such a good thing, the Fang family has committed a felony by stealing and selling pig iron and other strategic materials to Bayar, he Fang Wenshan is the governor of Dingzhou, and Fang Wenhai is his brother, he can get rid of the relationship, this time, if you don't let him die, let him take off a layer of skin." ”

Li Qing was really a little annoyed by the Fang family, in addition to wanting to get the Yiling Iron Mine, this kind of behavior that was almost equal to the enemy made him even more disgusted, because they didn't know how many Great Chu soldiers had died, how could they let go lightly of such scum who only had money in their eyes?

Wang Qinian grinned, "That's it, general, these people will be repaired fiercely, grandma's, I'll beat him up later." ”

"Stop, you!" Li Qing was angry and funny, looking at this guy with a missing string in his brain, "Beard, you are not allowed to go to him, although we have to clean him up, we can't beat him, besides, you are afraid that a punch will kill him." ”

"Can't I hit it gently?" Wang Qinian lowered his voice, and then saw Li Qing's vicious gaze, and immediately smeared oil on the soles of his feet, "I'm going to the barracks!" He shouted as he ran, and there was a good-natured laugh behind him.