It's time to go back to the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, and I don't know if it was the first snow in 617, in the snow, the west attack on the Wagang Army, which was often closed, suffered a heavy defeat.

The fiasco of Zhai Hong's father and son was of course, and he didn't know that the enemy was not worth the terrain and rashly entered the dangerous road of Cuihan, and before he crossed the Kip Stone Mountain, Yao Yi, the county commander of Shaanxi County, had already organized the township soldiers to cooperate with Changping to guard Duguxiu to prepare for battle, and firmly held the Hangu Pass, and then Gao Shilian's brother-in-law Xian Yuzhen also rushed to Shaanxi County with Hongnong's soldiers and horses to help the war, and then the Wagang army had just arrived at Pillar Mountain, Liu Changgong, Pei Xingfang and He Yanyu had also rushed to Changping with Tongguan soldiers and horses, and the combined army was more than 20,000 and waiting. Shan waited for Zhai Hong's father and son to come to the door to send him to death. At the same time, the reinforcements that Li Er promised to send still didn't even know where they were.

In such a situation, Zhai Hong's father and son can fight the position again unless it is a miracle, but because the people in the mountainous areas continue to take the initiative to come and rely on, the number of troops of the Wagang division quickly approached 20,000, and the complacent Zhai Hong father and son felt that the odds were in hand, and they still stupidly hit the Hangu Pass, and launched an attack on the Hangu Pass that had been repaired many times.

The result of the attack was purely to give Pei Xingfang and Xian Yuzhen and other new Sui army talents to brush up on experience and accumulate credit, not to eliminate the elite of the Sui army under the command of He Yanyu, only with the Hongnong army brought by Xian Yuzhen, firmly held the Hangu Pass, and the Zhai Hong father and son who took the initiative to attack the attack were all over the ground looking for teeth, and then Yao Yi took the trail to attack the back of the Wagang army's partial division and annihilated the enemy, fortunately, Pei Xingfang kept in mind the advice of his distant cousin and was unwilling to fight a war of annihilation, and strongly persuaded the commander-in-chief Liu Changgong to give up this very sure tactical plan and change annihilation to counterattack. took advantage of the darkness of night to cover the camp and defeated Zhai Hong's father and son in one fell swoop, forcing them to abandon the camp and flee for their lives.

A team of cavalry claiming to be Li Mi's subordinates stopped the defeated soldiers of Zhai Hong and his son on the road, claiming to be the order of the Duke of Wei to meet Zhai Hong and his son, and asked to meet Zhai Hong and his son. Zhai Hong's father and son were shocked, and they were shocked to see that the soldiers who were hit by the arrows beside them had bled to death, and the blood flowing from the wounds was still blue-black.

It is conceivable that Zhai Hong's father and son were angry about this matter, and they had just escaped from Cuihandao and returned to the main camp of the Wagang Army, and immediately pulled Zhai Rang to the door to ask for the crime, and Li Mi was also suddenly furious, but Li Mi was not angry with Chen Fuliang's insidious and vicious, but angry at the stupidity of Zhai Hong's father and son, and roared: "You are fools? Can't you all see such a simple discord plan? If I send someone to assassinate you, will the Assassins act under my name? Am I that stupid? ”

The other generals of the Zhai and Li coalition forces also felt that Li Mi could not be so stupid, but Zhai Hong's father and son quickly pointed out that this was exactly Li Mi's cleverness, "Duke Wei, of course you are not stupid, you deliberately let your people act directly under your banner, which can just create the illusion that the officials and soldiers framed you, this is exactly your cleverness!" Otherwise, why don't you tell us that there are so many defenders? ”

The result of the dispute is not clear to anyone, Li Mi really wanted to kill Zhai Hong and his son with a knife, but he did not send someone to shoot them with a secret arrow, Zhai Hong and his son were very suspicious that Li Mi wanted to kill them, but there was no evidence, and in the end everyone could only break up unhappily, Li Mi and Zhai Rang's family The contradictions that had gradually emerged became more prominent, Zhai Rang's family began to worry that Li Mi would kill them and swallow the Wagang Army alone, and Li Mi also began to worry that Zhai Rang's father and son would strike first, and suddenly made it difficult to kill him.

As in history, after the contradiction between Li Mi and Zhai Rang gradually reached the point where it was difficult to reconcile, the voice of the first strike began to appear around Li Mi, and soon after Zhai Rang's family left angrily, Zuo Sima Zheng Cheng warned Li Mi and said: "Duke Wei, although the matter of Kui Handao is a matter of official and military conspiracy, but Zhai Rang's family is ignorant and greedy, and it is likely that they will think that the assassin is sent by you, if you don't make a decision early, I'm afraid that sooner or later they will have the heart to harm you. ”

Li Mi was silent, and only after a moment did he sigh and said: "At the moment of the great enemy, Wang Shichong is stubbornly guarding Luokoucang, and Chen Yingliang is a traitor in Guanzhong. ”

"Of course, what Wei Gong said makes sense." Zheng Ying nodded, and then said: "But this kind of truth, Zhai Rang's family definitely doesn't understand, as long as there is an opportunity, they will definitely not scruple so much." The poisonous snake eats the wrist, the strong man breaks the arm, Wei Gong, you must make a decision early and seize the opportunity. ”

Li Mi was silent again, and at this time, a personal soldier suddenly came from outside the tent to report, saying that Li Er sent Yinqing Guanglu doctor Ren Bi as an envoy to ask for a meeting, Li Mi couldn't help frowning when he heard the name of Ren Bi (pronounced the same gem), and said suspiciously: "Ren Bi is an envoy?" Sending this famous tongue discerner to meet me, what tricks does Li Erlang want to play again? ”

Seeing that Li Mi was so jealous of Ren Bi, he was busy asking the reason, Li Mi replied casually: "Ren Bi is the adopted son of the former Chen Zhendong general Ren Mannu, known for his ability to distinguish the tongue, after Li Yuan raised his army, he took the initiative to go to attach, and successively surrendered more than ten cities such as Han Cheng and Feng Yi for Li Yuan, I heard that Sun Hua, the largest rebel leader in Guanzhong, was also persuaded by him to take the initiative to surrender to Li Yuan, and was named the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu by Li Yuan as a general, and his eloquence is very good, Li Erlang sent him to visit me, and he must have negotiated something with me. ”

"Teacher, then don't see him at all, anyway, we don't need him Li Erlang to do anything for us." Wang Bodang built yì road.

"It's okay, I just want to see how good this Ren Bi's eloquence is." Li Mi smiled confidently, and said: "Besides, Li Erlang is still a little useful to us, at least he can contain some of the Guanzhong troops, and the enemy's enemy is a friend, so we can't snub him too much." See, please come in. ”

The soldiers agreed, and in a short time, Ren Bi, who had made great contributions to Li Yuan's rebels' entry into Guanzhong, was invited into Li Mi's account, as Li Mi expected, Ren Bi's appearance was elegant, polite, and graceful, which gave people a feeling of trust. After meeting, Ren Bi also saluted Li Mi very obediently, and said respectfully: "Li Shimin, the right governor of Taiyuan Yishi, has comforted Ren Bi and met Duke Wei. ”

"Soothesizer?" Li Mi intended to test Ren Bi, but he didn't invite Ren Bi to take a seat, so he pretended to be surprised and asked, "Is Doctor Ren coming to appease me for the Right Governor?" Do you want me to take the initiative to join the account of the Right Governor? ”

"Definitely." Ren Bi shook his head, didn't take advantage of Li Mi's stubble, and said with a smile: "The little envoy came to meet Duke Wei today, not to comfort and appease, but to overthrow the great cause of the tyrant Yang Guang, and to remove the big trouble in his heart for Duke Wei. ”

"Remove that one of my worries for me?" Li Mi sneered, and asked arrogantly: "Who else can be worthy of being a big trouble in my father's heart?" ”

Ren Bi smiled more relaxedly, and said: "There is a person who helps the gang to abuse, acts for the tiger, and kills tens of thousands of righteous soldiers under the account of Duke Wei for Yang Guang, so that millions of soldiers and civilians in the eastern capital Luoyang are still in dire straits, and he has a fox and a fake tiger, and the army under his command is strong and strong, and the armor is sharp, and he has forced Wei Gong the battlefield several times, and Wei Gong occupies the tiger prison in Luokou, and the troops are outside the eastern capital, but because of his scruples, the piece of armor cannot go west, is he not worthy of being called the heart of the Duke of Wei?" ”

The sneer on Li Mi's face finally disappeared, and instead, he was still surprised and curious, and asked in surprise, "Your envoy can get rid of this thief?" ”

"I wonder if Duke Wei has heard of Yang Yichen's story?"

Ren Bi didn't answer the rhetorical question, but asked himself again, and introduced with a smile: "Yang Yichen's surname is Wei Chi, because the first emperor made many meritorious deeds and made many military exploits, he was given the surname Yang, and the royal family genealogy was included. That Yang Yichen was also loyal to the two generations of emperors of the Great Sui, resisting the Turks in the north, Yang Liang in the south, Tuyuhun in the west, and Goguryeo in the east, invincible, invincible, Xiang Haigong, Gao Shida, Ge Qian and Zhang Jincheng and other anti-Sui righteous soldiers were killed by him, and now Dou Jiande, the king of Changle in Hebei, was once beaten by him to only more than 100 horsemen to die in the world. However, at this moment, the tyrant Yang Guang suddenly summoned him to Jiangdu and renamed him the secretary of the Ministry of Rites. ”

Ren Bi asked Li Mi this question, Li Mi had already fallen into the grass when Yang Yichen suddenly fell, and the sources in the officialdom all relied on the information provided by his brother-in-law Qiu Junming, and the later Li Yuan's family secretly helped, so naturally he couldn't know the reason behind Yang Yichen's sudden downfall. After hesitating for a while, Li Mi put away his arrogance, first asked Ren Bi to sit down, and then bowed his hand to Ren Bi and said, "My father really doesn't know this, and I ask the doctor to teach me." ”

"Don't dare to be." Ren Bi returned the salute, and then said: "Secret Gong, Yang Yichen was suddenly recalled to Jiangdu to be reappointed as a civilian, all because of a slanderous remark by Yu Shiji, the servant of the internal history. After Yang Yichen sent the Baojie to Jiangdu, just because he had a dislike for Yu Shiji, Yu Shiji was jealous of his high achievements, so he made a slander in front of Yang Guang, saying that Yang Yichen had a heavy army outside and had to guard against it. Yang Guang was suspicious, so he ordered Yang Yichen to disband the army and return to serve in the court, so Yang Yichen became angry and became ill, and died in office soon after. ”

Everyone knows how bad Li Mi is, after listening to Ren Bi's words, can you still understand what he and Li Er mean? In a big move, Li Mi thought about it for a moment and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”

"It's very simple, just ask Duke Wei to make a little effort to post this inscription in the county and county that has been attached to you." Ren Bi smiled and took out a piece of text, held it with both hands, and said, "Of course, it is best to ask the soldiers under the command of Duke Wei to take the risk and post this document on the gate of the eleventh gate of the Eastern Capital." ”

Li Mi quietly took the text, and when he opened it to take a look, he saw that the general content of the text was as follows: "Chen Yingliang, the general of the Right Military Guard, Xuchang Gong, would like to proclaim to the world with faith: Yang Guang has no way, arrogantly pretending to be respectful, the bamboo of the South Mountain, the crime of the book is not exhausted, the waves of the East China Sea are decided, and the evil is inexhaustible. Yang Xingji of the royal family, glorious Mingde, fraternity in all directions, and a long-term hidden dragon, should be the new monarch. Today, I should be obedient to the people of heaven and rejuvenate the teacher to comfort the hope of all the people. When the notice arrives, everyone should return to the new king, and if they do not obey, they should destroy the nine clans! I would like to know about this. ”

Looking at the forged Chen Fuliang text repeatedly, Li Mi asked in a deep voice, "Who is Yang Xingji?" ”

"His Royal Highness's distant cousin." Ren Bi replied truthfully: "In Daxing City, in terms of his closest blood relationship with His Royal Highness the Acting King, after His Royal Highness the Acting King was unfortunately killed by Chen Yingliang's rebels, the general of my family wanted to support him as the Son of Heaven, but before he could act, the general had already been killed by Chen Yingliang. ”

Li Mi stopped talking again, and after thinking for a while, Li Mi suddenly laughed, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the right governor is not very old, and his scheming can be so deep, what a plan to blame Jiangdong, if my father is in the scheme, Chen Yingliang is a thief, but he will immediately bring Daxing soldiers and horses to fight with me." ”

"Why did Duke Wei say this?" Ren Bi asked knowingly.

"Isn't that easy?" Li Mi sneered and said: "If I help you frame Chen Yingliang's dog thief for rebellion, trying to emulate your general to abolish Yang Guang and establish the new emperor, then once Yang Guang and Yang Yu in the Eastern Capital City fall into the scheme, they will inevitably ask Chen Yingliang if there is really such a thing, Chen Yingliang thief In order to prove his innocence, what choice does he have except to return to the Eastern Capital immediately?" He came down with his elite subordinates, Guanzhong is empty, and Bengong is facing a strong enemy, isn't your chance coming? ”

Hearing Li Mi's words, Li Mi's subordinates next to him immediately glared at Ren Bi, but Ren Bi remained silent, smiled and arched his hand and said: "Duke Wei, our right governor knows that you will definitely think so, so we specially sent a small envoy to come for you to inquire at any time." Yes, we really hope that Chen Yingliang's thief will return to the Eastern Capital and make Guanzhong empty again, but Wei Gong, why don't you think about it, with the treachery of Chen Yingliang's thief, how dare you let Guanzhong, who is surrounded by strong enemies, ignore it, and personally lead the main force back to the Eastern Capital? He is not afraid that as soon as he walks on the front foot, our right governor and Tianshui Xue Ju, Hexi Li Rail, and the back foot will be killed in Daxing Pass? ”

Li Mi closed his mouth and said in his heart: "There is this possibility, Chen Yingliang's thief did not dare to return to the army at this time, he just left with his front foot, Xue Ju, Li Liang and Li Erlang, these jackals, tigers and leopards, can be killed in Guanzhong Daxing with their back feet." ”

Seeing that Li Mi's sarcastic expression disappeared, Ren Bi took the opportunity to say again: "Duke Wei, please think about it, with the current situation in Guanzhong, Chen Yingliang's dog thief will never dare to return to his division and leave Guanzhong. But once Yang Guang and Yang Yu summoned him back to the division, he would fall into a dilemma, if he did not return to the division, he would attract the fear of the monarch and the suspicion of his subordinates. At that time, whether he refuses to return to the army under the edict, repeats the mistake of Yang Yichen, or only leads a small army back to the Eastern Capital, isn't it the best chance for Wei Gong to get rid of the big trouble in your heart? ”

Li Mi began to waver, the secret way is good, with Yang Guang's bear and donkey temper, once he is suspicious of Chen Yingliang's thief, he will definitely be relieved of his military power to prevent just in case, Chen Yingliang's thief edict is Yang Yichen's fate, if he does not obey the edict, he will attract thousands of people, his subordinates will question, and he may even be captured and killed by Yang Guang's old puppet in the name of rebellion. Unless he is willing to leave Guanzhong Daxing alone, he can only lead a few elites back to the Eastern Capital to show his loyalty, without those brave generals who can fight well in front of him, I can strangle him with one hand!

"Duke Wei, the terrible thing about Chen Yingliang is not that he is scheming and undefeated in a hundred battles, but that the tyrant Yang Guang loves and trusts him." Ren Bi continued to instigate: "Chen Yingliang was able to dig up quickly in four years, relying on the appreciation and promotion of Yang Guang, Fan Zigai, Wei Xuan and others, asking for soldiers for soldiers, power for power, money and food, weapons and weapons, and finally entrusted him with the important task of staying in the eastern capital, Chen Yingliang has come to this day by relying on these supports. Now that Fan Zigai, Wei Xuan and others are dead, if Yang Guang is suspicious of him again, what hope do you think he can have? ”

"As for Duke Wei, you just said that our right governor wanted to blame Jiangdu, and the little envoy didn't finish talking just now." Ren Bi said in a earnestly teaching tone: "If our Right Governor really has this plan, then why doesn't he act directly?" Is it difficult to send a few warriors who are not afraid of death to risk sneaking into the eastern capital to post these inscriptions? Since we can do it directly, why do we ask you to take action and act on your behalf? It's not to let you know about this matter and prepare for it in advance, the original intention is to work together to overthrow the tyrant Yang Guang's anti-Sui cause, didn't Wei Gong think of this? ”

Ren Bi's eloquence is indeed good, treacherous as Li Mi couldn't help but agree in his heart, felt that his words were very reasonable, and after a little calculation, Li Mi nodded and said: "Okay, I promise you, I will immediately order someone to post the text everywhere, and then order someone to post it at the eleventh gate of the Eastern Capital at night." But....... ”

Speaking of this, Li Mi smiled slightly, and said to Ren Bi again: "But you right governors don't have any tricks, and you come up with some insidious and poisonous tricks to force Chen Yingliang's thief to lead the main force out of the customs, then Bengong will be miserable by you." ”

Ren Bi was startled, he didn't even dare to say it, but he sneered in his heart and said, "It's really treacherous!" But it's a pity, you've already been tricked, why don't you want to think about it, if it weren't for the road blockage, our secret envoy wouldn't be able to go south, and we wouldn't have the strength to post the text in the counties outside the Guanwai, so that Yang Guang Lao'er would know the storage of this article, and we still need to ask you to help spread the text? ”

Ren Bi also underestimated Li Mi a little, and after sending him to the camp to rest, Li Mi threw the text to Zu Junyan, who is famous for his literary talent, and said with a smile: "Change this broken text, plus Chen Yingliang's thief and Li Yuan's family joined forces to abolish Yang Guang and support Yang Xingji, so that Yang Guang and Yang Yu know that Chen Yingliang's thief has secretly colluded with Li Yuan's two precious sons, as well as the Pingling Dou clan behind Li Yuan, is ready to overthrow their court." ”

"Wonderful!" Zu Junyan's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "Duke Wei's plan is wonderful, in this way, once the tyrant and Yang Tong are suspicious, Chen Yingliang's thief has two choices in order to prove his innocence: returning to the army and entering Hedong." Our army is strong and the Li family is weak, and Chen Yingliang's thieves will definitely fight Hedong first, and will not come back and forth to aid the Eastern Capital first, so that we can free up our hands and concentrate on dealing with Wang Shichong in front of us and Yang Tong in the Eastern Capital. ”

"We have our hands free, and the people we have to deal with are not only Wang Shichong and Yang Tong, but also an enemy." Li Mi said lightly. Why don't you want to think about it, if it weren't for the road blockage, our secret envoy wouldn't be able to go south, and we wouldn't have the strength to post the text in the counties outside the Guanwai, so that Yang Guang Lao'er would know the storage of this text, and we still need to ask you to help spread the text? ”

Ren Bi also underestimated Li Mi a little, and after sending him to the camp to rest, Li Mi threw the text to Zu Junyan, who is famous for his literary talent, and said with a smile: "Change this broken text, plus Chen Yingliang's thief and Li Yuan's family joined forces to abolish Yang Guang and support Yang Xingji, so that Yang Guang and Yang Yu know that Chen Yingliang's thief has secretly colluded with Li Yuan's two precious sons, as well as the Pingling Dou clan behind Li Yuan, is ready to overthrow their court." ”

"Wonderful!" Zu Junyan's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "Duke Wei's plan is wonderful, in this way, once the tyrant and Yang Tong are suspicious, Chen Yingliang's thief has two choices in order to prove his innocence: returning to the army and entering Hedong." Our army is strong and the Li family is weak, and Chen Yingliang's thieves will definitely fight Hedong first, and will not come back and forth to aid the Eastern Capital first, so that we can free up our hands and concentrate on dealing with Wang Shichong in front of us and Yang Tong in the Eastern Capital. ”

"We have our hands free, and the people we have to deal with are not only Wang Shichong and Yang Tong, but also an enemy." Li Mi said lightly.