Now it's time to take a look at the situation on this side of the battlefield in the Eastern Capital, Chen Fuliang supported a puppet emperor in Daxing to set up another central government, this incident surprised many people, including Chen Fuliang's father-in-law Wang Shichong and quasi-father-in-law Pei Renji did not expect that Chen Fuliang, who has always been more loyal than anyone else, would be so coarse, in fact, even worse than them! In this regard, Wang Shichong, who is a good seller with Chen Fuliang in his bones, is envious and jealous, and only hates that he can't become a son-in-law, but Pei Ju, a professional household of the pit father, shook his head and sighed, "The old man finally understands why Chen Yingliang, a thief, mixes so well in the officialdom, just with this cheeky and black-hearted, the old man can't catch up." ”

Only Li Mi was not particularly surprised, as early as the battle of Meng Haicheng that year, Li Mi had already seen that Chen Fuliang, who deliberately let go of himself, was a ruthless character who hid a knife in his smile, and sooner or later his true form would be revealed, and now that this moment has finally come, Li Mi naturally will not have any surprise, on the contrary, he admires Chen Fuliang's forbearance and good luck even more, and he can wait until today, and wait for such a good opportunity.

Li Mi didn't have time and mood to be surprised that Chen Fuliang's true form was revealed, after receiving the news of the Jiangdu mutiny, in order to quickly understand the situation in Jiangdu, Li Mi used the surrendered county power to quickly establish a news transmission channel that went straight to Jiangdu, and the result made Li Mi angry and helpless was that he had just built this channel, and the first news he received was that Yu Wenhua and the rebels set off to the north, preparing to return to Guanzhong along the Tongji Canal, and what made Li Mi even more violent was that Du Fuwei's army, which controlled Gaoyou and Anyi, did not stop Yu Wenhua at all, but on the contrary, he also gave up the Hangou Canal, which was firmly in control of Yuhua, and sent Yu Wenhua and the army out of the country, allowing Yu Wenhua to cross his control area.

Of course, Du Fuwei did this to preserve his strength, and he didn't want to fight hard with Yu Wenhua and the army who were eager to return to the north, but in this way, he made Li Mi suffer, and the counties along the Tongji Canal were either directly accused by Li Mijun, or they surrendered to Li Mijun in honor, Yu Wenhua and marched along the Tongji Canal, they must attack these counties, and the main force of Li Mi's army was too far away to rescue, and they could only watch these counties fall. And even if Li Mi can ignore these counties that have not even paid taxes once, Yu Wenhua will sooner or later hit the back of Li Mi's main force, and when the time comes, there will be Wang Shichong blocking the way, Chen Fuliang will be looking at him, and there will be Yu Wenhua and Tyrant Ju behind, and Li Mi's fun will be too big.

What makes Li Mi even more cautious is Yu Wenhua's strong military strength, and the strength of Yu Wenhua is about 1230,000, although the strength is not as good as Li Mi, who has more than 300,000 troops, the equipment is so good that Li Mi is envious to vomit blood, and the combat effectiveness is also very strong - all of them are strong elite soldiers! Among them, there are more than 30,000 cavalry and a large number of veterans of a hundred battles with rich experience! In terms of military strength and equipment, not to mention that the peasant rebel army under Li Mi is difficult to follow, even the Chen Fuliang army, which currently occupies the Guanzhong area, has to fall behind!

It's not bad for Li Mi, the counties and counties in the Central Plains are still under his direct and indirect control, and the news that Yu Wenhua and the news that he is killing in the direction of his chrysanthemum are only known to him and a few henchmen, and he still has some time to prepare for the contingency. Therefore, Li Mi once considered such a strategy, first quickly take the eastern capital Luoyang, and then guard the Kun Handao in the west to prevent Chen Fuliang from taking advantage of the fire to rob, and in the east, he relied on the Tiger Prison Xiongguan and the Yellow River antenna to compete with the Yu culture and army that were destined to have no follow-up grain and grass, and consumed the Yu culture and the army with the advantages of grain and grass and geographical advantages.

Wang Shichong quickly dispelled this idea to Li Mi, through guò scouts and detailed reconnaissance of the inner line, Li Mi found that the army of the Eastern Capital after many expansions had been gradually trained and formed under Wang Shichong's strict training, although the strength and combat effectiveness were still inferior to the main force of Li Mi's army, Wang Shichong adopted the correct strategy of sticking to the cautious war, and at the same time vigorously strengthened the city defense, created a large number of weapons to defend the city, and dug moats around the imperial city and the palace city in advance, established defensive fortifications and transferred food to the imperial city, If Li Mijun launches a frontal attack, even if he can take the inner and outer cities of the Eastern Capital, it will definitely take a long time, and he will have to break countless teeth, and the loss will definitely be no smaller than that of Heyu Culture and hard fighting, and if he is not careful, he will immediately fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on his back, so even if Li Mi has a certain advantage, he still does not dare to rashly make up his mind to attack the Eastern Capital with all his might.

What Li Mi didn't expect was that just when he was worried about the danger of being attacked on both sides, Yang Tong actually sent an edict of surrender very whimsically, asking Li Mi to surrender to him and accept his edict! Of course, Li Mi was amused and curious about this, and almost wanted to ask Yang Dong's envoy face to face, what qualifications did Yang Dong have to ask him to surrender and submit? But after calming down, Li Mi changed his mind again, did not refuse or accept Yang Tong's edict, and sent his henchmen Li Jian and Chai Xiaohe to bring gifts into the city to meet Yang Tong, and took the opportunity to spy on the reason and purpose of Yang Tong's surrender, as well as to test Yang Tong's sincerity in surrendering.

As a result, what Li Mi didn't expect was that Li Jian and Chai Xiaohe were ceremoniously received in the eastern capital, Yang Tong personally met them and gave them a banquet, Yuan Wendu and Duan Da and other powerful figures in the eastern capital personally accompanied them and let the beautiful palace maids sing and dance, and they did show sincerity and wanted to get along with Li Mijun friendly. After three rounds of drinking, Yuan Wendu, Duan Da and others also deliberately talked about Chen Fuliang, who supported the puppet emperor in Guanzhong, and scolded Chen Fuliang's various despicable deeds, and constantly mentioned Chen Fuliang and Li Mi's various grievances and grievances, and finally Yuan Wendu also implored Li Jian and Chai Xiaohe to persuade Li Mi to accept Yang Tong's appeasement and join hands to crusade against the common enemy Chen Fuliang.

The truth was revealed, and after listening to Li Jian and Chai Xiaohe's returns, Li Mi immediately understood that this was Yang Tong's plan to kill people with a knife, and wanted to use himself to clean up the thief Chen Fuliang, who had set up another central government, so that the army and Chen Fuliang would lose both, and Yang Tong happened to take advantage of the fisherman. Considering that Yu Wenhua and his elite division were killing his chrysanthemums, Li Mi also quickly made up his mind, took the initiative to surrender to Yang Tong, and also promised to seek the **** Chen Fuliang to atone for his crimes, and take the opportunity to temporarily reconcile with Yang Tong, so that he could free up his hands to deal with the threat of Yu Wenhua with all his might.

And then there is the news that Chen Fuliangjun has carefully investigated, Yang Tong in order to pull Li Mi over as a lackey and let him bite people, very generously sealed a large number of important official positions for Li, and also canonized a large number of court official positions to Li Mi's subordinates, and incorporated Li Mi's thief army in honor - thanks to this blessing, Pei Renji, who had followed Li Mi back to the arms of the Great Sui Imperial Court in reputation, picked a big bargain, and his wife and daughter, who had been imprisoned for more than a year, were released from prison and returned home to accept house arrest. And then within a few days, naturally, Yang Tong, who still didn't know Yu culture and the situation, also sent people out of the city to send a decree, asking Li Mi to send troops to the west, crusade against the traitor Chen Fuliang, and capture and kill the puppet emperor Yang Xingji.

Li Mi was stupid to throw down Luokoucang and run to Guanzhong to fight hard with the difficult enemy Chen Fuliang, and immediately showed the Yang Dong envoy the information that Yu Wenhua was heading north, and told the Yang Dong envoy that Yu Wenhua had already released the word that he would first take the eastern capital Luoyang, and then take Guanzhong Daxing, and then dominate the world. Yang Tong's envoy was shocked, and hurriedly rushed back to the city to report to Yang Tong and Yuan Wendu and others, Yang Tong and Yuan Wen were also shocked by this, and immediately turned the historical trajectory back to the original direction, and asked Li Mi to first clean up the culture of killing the monarch and the thief, and promised that once Li Mi cleaned up the culture of the world's largest traitor who killed Emperor Yang of Sui, he would let Li Mi enter the eastern capital to preside over government affairs and assist Yang Tong in governing the world.

"Presiding over government affairs? Auxiliary government zhì management of the world? ”

Looking at Yang Dong's edict, Li Mi sneered again and again, and was suspicious of Yang Tong's promise, but Li Mi's subordinates all felt that this was a great opportunity, and pointed out to Li Mi that Yang Dong was young, and he hastily succeeded to the throne with an unstable foundation, and it was impossible to backtrack his already worthless holy edict completely turned into a piece of waste paper. It's just easy, so Du Jian yì Li Mi accepted this order, first eliminated the enemy Yu culture, and then entered the dynasty to annex the Eastern Capital Imperial Court.

Li Mi's acceptance of Yang Tong's surrender was to prepare for war with Yu Wenhua, and he was of course more moved by the instigation of a cadre's subordinates, but at this time, there were suddenly soldiers outside the door to report, saying that Yu Wenhua and sent Xiongwu Lang to Hong Jian as an envoy, carrying Yu Wenhua and the edict of Yang Hao, the emperor who supported it, came to visit, and had been sent to Jinyong City by the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass. Li Mi couldn't help but sneer again when he heard this, and said: "Another one came to appease my father, ask him to come in, and see what officials Yu Wenhua and his father have been sealed, and what wishes have been made." ”

The soldiers agreed, and immediately went out to lead Yu Hongjian into the internal audience, but Pei Renji next to him hurriedly dissuaded: "Duke Wei, Yu Wenhua and the murder of the monarch have committed it, the world is angry, you have accepted the edict of His Majesty the Emperor of the Eastern Capital, and become a courtier of the Great Sui again, and the envoy who receives him again will definitely cause criticism." According to the opinion of the last general, it is better to take this Yu Hong Jianjian and send him to the eastern capital to be taken prisoner, so as to prove your sincerity in surrendering to His Majesty Yang Dong, and also let everyone in the world know that you are different from Yu Wenhua and the traitor, and applaud your righteous deeds. ”

Pei Renji, a professional pit father, finally said a reasonable opinion, although this opinion is still a pit dad, but Li Mi still thinks so, nodded and said: "General Deben is reasonable, Yu Hongjian is gone, take him down and imprison him immediately." Yu Wenwen, you go and ask for a confession, and let him explain the specific situation of Yu Wenhua and the traitor. Oh, by the way, he brought in the edict, let me see how much Yu Wenhua has and how little he has in terms of buying and appeasing. ”

Yu Wenwen agreed, and immediately went out with his own soldiers to get people, and then soon, Yu Hongjian's roar came from outside the door, and then the edict he brought and Yu Wenhua and the gift to Li Mi were also sent into the room, and what made Li Mi laugh out loud was that Yu Wenhua, who had swallowed all the treasures in the Jiangdu Palace, actually slammed the door to only send him a pair of jade walls and ten pearls as a meeting gift, and there was a small family spirit in his bones. After looking at Yu Wenhua and the so-called holy decree issued to himself in the name of Yang Hao, Li Mi laughed out loud, it turned out that Yu Wenhua only gave Li the position of the secretary of the military department and Henan Yin, and also asked Li Mi to donate millions of stone military rations, and open the tiger prison to let Yu culture and transit.

"With such a skill, why are you afraid? Yu Wenhua and Xiao'er have become the public enemy of the world, and they are even stingy with official rewards, blindly relying on strong soldiers and horses to bully others, such an incompetent person, even if he has a million male soldiers, he is just a clown who jumps off the beam, and he is not afraid! ”

Laughing and coming to this conclusion, Li Mi was no longer afraid, and was even more determined to fight to the death with Yu Wenhua, but at this time, a personal soldier suddenly came from outside the door to report, saying that Li Er had sent Ren Bi as an envoy to meet again, and said that there was a hundred thousand urgent matters, and asked Li Mi to meet immediately. Li Mi needed Li Er to contain Chen Fuliang for him, and he didn't put up any shelf, and immediately agreed to meet him, and then soon, the most outstanding Ren Bi under Li Er was led into the hall, and after saluting, Ren Bi was not polite, and asked directly after a little politeness: "Duke Wei, my family Tang Guogong received the news, I heard that Yu Wenhua and the soldiers of Jiangdu are going north along the Tongji Canal and are killing behind you, I don't know if there is such a thing?" ”

"How do you know?" Li Mi's surprise was not trivial, because even the Dongdu Imperial Court, which was close at hand, still relied on Li Mi's assistance to know about the situation, but Li Er, who was far away in Hedong, was the first to learn about it, and Li Mi was naturally surprised.

"It's our army who heard the news carefully." Ren Bi replied respectfully, but out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but glance at Zu Junyan next to him.

"You are capable of doing your work." Li Mi snorted, and then nodded and said, "There is such a thing, what?" Does your Tang Guogong have anything to say? ”

"Exactly." Ren Bi nodded, cleared his throat again, and said: "Duke Wei, Yu Wenhua and going north along the Tongji Canal will inevitably threaten your back on the eastern front, Tang Guogong is very worried about this, and is very worried that Duke Wei will fight on two fronts, suffer from the enemy on your back, and fall into a crisis. The day before yesterday, the right governor of my family heard that Duke Wei had accepted the emperor's majesty (Yang Tong) and was named the imperial lieutenant by His Majesty, and Tang Guogong was happy for Duke Wei, but he was inevitably more worried about the dangerous situation of Duke Wei, so he specially sent a small envoy to ....... ”

"Report." The soldiers who suddenly entered the door interrupted Ren Bi's false words and said to Li Mi: "Qi Wei Gong, the puppet prime minister Chen Yingliang sent General Zhaoyong and Qianniu Bei Zhang Yongtong as envoys to visit Wei Gong. Zhang Yongtong was taken by General Yang Defang in Mianchi and has now been escorted to Jinyong City. ”

"Chen Yingliang's traitor also sent someone to visit me?" Li Mi was stunned and said, "What does that traitor want to do?" ”

"It's definitely here to appease Duke Wei." Pei Renji said with confidence: "Chen Yingliang is a thief who supports the puppet emperor, self-proclaimed prime minister and general, holds military and political power, and he has the final say in the appointment of the official. ”

Li Mi was silent, he just secretly scolded Pei Renji for being a fool in his heart, not to mention that he and Chen Fuliang had a grudge against each other, and they hated each other deeply.

Seeing that Li Mi's face was not good, Ren Bi was secretly happy in his heart when he misunderstood, and hurriedly gave a quiet look to Zu Junyan next to him, and Zu Junyan, who had received countless benefits from Li Er in his back, understood, and immediately said: "Duke Wei, General Deben was right just now, you are already a courtier of the Emperor of the Eastern Capital, and it is not appropriate to see the traitor envoy again, it is better to follow the example of the Yuwen traitor envoy, take down Chen Yingliang's traitorous envoy, and dedicate it to the emperor His Majesty, Your Majesty will definitely be overjoyed, and you will definitely be more important to Duke Wei." ”

Zu Junyan had quite a few friends in Li Mi's shogunate, and when he opened his mouth, naturally several people echoed him, and Pei Renji, who was full of envy and jealousy for his son-in-law, also ran out to pit his son-in-law, and instigated Li Mi to take Zhang Yongtong and hand it over to Yang Tong. Ren Bi also took the opportunity to say: "Duke Wei, the little envoy is an outsider, and he shouldn't have intervened in your internal affairs, but since it happened to happen, the little envoy dared to say a word - Chen Yingliang is a traitor and treacherous, and his envoy must have malicious intentions and good intentions, so it is better for Duke Wei not to see him." ”

Zu Junyan and the others echoed together, and at this time, Wang Xuance's voice suddenly sounded in the corner of the hall, and said very respectfully: "Duke Wei, if you don't want to see that Chen thief's envoy, how about letting Xiao Sheng meet him on your behalf?" The road in Guanzhong is blocked, Chen thieves are well guarded, our army knows very little about the situation in Guanzhong, and Xiaosheng just inquired about the situation in Guanzhong for you. ”

Turning his head to look at Wang Xuance, Li Mi smiled and said: "The ambition is commendable, but you are not the opponent of Zhang Yongtong, let's let him in, I haven't been in direct contact with that thief for a long time, and my father still misses him, let's see him." Otherwise, the thief would have laughed behind my back that I didn't even dare to see his messenger. Call that Zhang Yongtong in. ”

Wang Xuance was as disappointed as Zu Junyan and the others—because Wang Xuance was very suspicious that the envoy sent by Chen Fuliang might still want to take the opportunity to get in touch with him. Ren Bi also glanced at Wang Xuance quietly, and said secretly in his heart: "If you can't think of what this hairy boy said, the old fox Li Mi can also listen to it, and I must try to see if I can pull him over." ”

In the disappointed eyes of Zu Junyan, Pei Renji and others, Zhang Yongtong, who had swaggered in front of Li Mi on behalf of Chen Fuliang more than once, strode into the hall, and said with a smile while bowing to Li Mi: "Little envoy Zhang Yongtong, on the order of Xu Changgong, the prime minister of the Great Sui, came to meet Mr. Dharma Master, Mr. An. After a long time, Mr. Dharma Master's demeanor is still the same, which is really gratifying. ”

"Is that you?" Li Mi also recognized Zhang Yongtong and said with a smile: "Good boy, when I saw you last year, I remember that you were just a false lieutenant, and it has only been a year since you were a general of Zhaowu of the sixth grade, and you are also a thousand cattle who are also the sixth grade, and you are following Chen Yingliang, the traitor who steals the country, and climbs very fast." ”

"Mr. Tofa's blessing, the little envoy went to your army on behalf of the prime minister several times last year, and all of them did not disgrace their mission and won the prime minister's appreciation." Zhang Yongtong is always neither humble nor arrogant, without fear, and said with a smile: "I also entrust the blessing of Li Yuan's old thief, the prime minister served the emperor's holy decree to conquer the Guanzhong, and he made a small meritorious service in the war to exterminate Li Yuan's old thief, and he was lucky to get these two positions." ”

Ren Bi's face suddenly became a little ugly, and Zhang Yongtong smiled again: "Mr. Lawmaster, whether the little envoy can be promoted and rewarded in the future will continue to rely on your support, and please ask Mr. Lawmaster to enter the army and fight to the death with our army, so that the little envoy will have the opportunity to accumulate merit and be rewarded." ”

"A person worthy of Chen Yingliang's traitor, he speaks so directly." Li Mi laughed loudly and said: "Don't worry, sooner or later I will give you this opportunity, but my father can guarantee that when it comes to the duel on the battlefield, my father will definitely capture you alive and execute you with a broken car, so as to punish you for the sin of speaking disrespectfully in front of your father several times." ”

"The envoy is not afraid." Zhang Yongtong replied with a smile: "Because the little envoy knows that that day will never come." ”

Li Mi laughed again, appreciating Zhang Yongtong's boldness, and then Li Mi smiled again and said: "Listen to your tone, Chen Yingliang's thief sent you here today, it seems that he didn't use the sign of a puppet emperor to recruit his father?" ”

"Of course not." Zhang Yongtong replied with a smile: "Mr. Dharma Master, who are you, how can you accept the surrender of our prime minister?" Take 10,000 steps back and say, Mr. Lord, you pretended to accept the surrender of our prime minister for various reasons, and our prime minister asked Mr. Dharma Lord that you and Mrs. Wang's only son be sent to Daxing as hostages, Mr. Dharma Master, are you willing to do it? So our prime minister said, instead of pretending to be friends with Mr. Dharma, it is better to be an enemy directly, which is more enjoyable, Mr. Dharma, don't you say? ”

Li Mi laughed out loud again, and said: "Chen Yingliang's traitor is really direct, yes, being a traitor like your pseudo-prime minister is far more pleasant than pretending to be a friend!" Don't talk nonsense, let's just say it, Chen Yingliang traitor, what kind of despicable tricks did you send to play? ”

"Our prime minister has always been generous, how can he use any despicable tricks?" Zhang Yongtong said a sentence that was absolutely unconscionable without blushing, and then said: "Mr. Dharma Lord is quick to talk, and the little envoy will say it directly, the little envoy has only one purpose for coming here today, that is, to save your life, Mr. Dharma Master!" ”

Li Mi raised his head and laughed, and said with a smile: "And the face said that he didn't come to play despicable tricks?" First frightened and then soothed, a typical lobbyist trick, first intimidate the father-in-law with big words, and then lure the father-in-law into the trick with rhetoric, isn't it? ”