For several days, under the city of Caozhou, Wei Chigong led the army to abuse there, hoping to scold Xu Shiji, but unfortunately, Xu Shiji was still like a turtle with a shrunken head, and he didn't come out at all, so that Yu Chigong had no place to have the strength.

Above the city, Li Xin looked at the camp outside the city from time to time, and later, he moved the office to the city tower, and looked at the camp outside the city while working.

"Your Majesty, Jingshi came to report that Xiao Niangniang and Pei Niangniang gave birth to two princes respectively to Your Majesty, and even Shen Niangniang also gave birth to a prince." Ji Gang went up to the city wall and whispered.

"That's a good thing!" The smile on Li Xin's face suddenly increased a lot when he heard this, and he waved his hand and wrote: "The prince born to Xiao Niangniang is called Li Chengdao, and the prince born to Pei Niangniang is called Li Chengming, and the order Zongzheng is recorded on the royal genealogy, so that the queen mother can look at it and reward some!" The Xiao family and the Pei family also want to reward some, as for Shen Niangniang? I promised her at that time, let's call her Shen Xiao! Let him inherit the Shen family's incense and be a free marquis! Li Xin quickly wrote the names of his three sons on the paper, but his mood was much more relaxed.

"The minister, let me pass the order." Ji Gang's heart moved when he heard this, and he hurriedly said, but in his heart, he was thinking about the meaning of Li Xin's name, and it was clear that Shen Xiao had lost his qualification to inherit the throne. However, Shen Ruyan is still very favored by Li Xin, otherwise, she would not have rewarded her with a free marquis and passed on her son to the Shen family.

"Also, tell Cheng Yanjin to be careful when marching, Xu Shiji, I'm afraid he is no longer in the camp." Li Xin put down his pen, thought for a while and said, "Only this kind of explanation can show that Xu Shiji is not in it." ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Xu Shiji doesn't have the courage to do this! Get rid of Xu Shiji or Li Shimin, Li Zhao is afraid that it will be difficult for anyone to have the qualifications to fight against His Majesty. Zhang Zhenzhou served on the side. He hesitated for a while and said.

"You don't believe it?" Li Xin glanced at Zhang Zhen, then took out a blank piece of paper from the side and wrote on it: "Now Shen Ruyan has a son, Shen Xiao, and I want him to worship his brother as his father-in-law, what does my brother think?" ”

"Your Majesty, you?" Zhang Zhenzhou saw it clearly, his face turned red, and he couldn't help but mourn for Xu Shiji for a while. His wife was played by Li Xin, not to mention, gave birth to a child, and worshiped him as her father-in-law. I'm afraid no one can bear this kind of thing.

"Find someone who is not afraid of death. Send this letter to Xu Shiji. Li Xin folded the letter paper, threw it to Ji Gang and said, "If Xu Shiji is inside, this letter can be seen." ”

The corners of Ji Gang's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly picked a guy who was not afraid of death in the Jinyi Guard, and asked someone to deliver the letter, and Zhang Zhenzhou said: "Your Majesty, if Xu Shiji is really not in it, what should I do?" ”

"It's okay if you're not in there, let's not move for now. Wait until the other two sides move. Li Xin's face was calm, and he said: "Now the main battlefield is not on our side, but with Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin, our main task here is to drag down the 100,000 army. Especially Qin Qiong. I want to give Qin Qiong a chance this time. Li Xin did not continue to explain, but quietly looked at the camp opposite. In the distance, a cavalry rushed into Xu Shiji's camp with a white flag, and after half a sound, he rushed out of Xu Shiji's camp.

"Your Majesty. Why didn't you respond! Wei Chigong asked curiously.

"If there is no response, then there is a reaction." Li Xin shook his head and said, "In this way, Xu Shiji is really not in the camp. I don't know if he went to deal with Qin Qiong or Cheng Yanjin. ”

Wei Chigong didn't believe it originally, but suddenly the war drums sounded in the distance, and a group of cavalry roared out, rushed out of the camp, and came straight to the gate of Caozhou, only to see two young men, with a heroic appearance, one with a square complexion, a cold face, and a sword hanging from his waist, and the other was with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, holding a long lance.

"Where is Tang Emperor Li Xin?" The square-faced young man arched his hand towards the city and said: "Everyone in the world says that Li Xin is treacherous, and when I see it today, he is not only a treacherous person, but also a shameless person, and filial piety can be regarded as having seen it." ”

"Lee Hyo-gong!" Li Xin's face was stunned, and he quickly understood that in the Li Zhao clan, it seemed that Li Xiaogong was a handsome person who could become the general of the army. No wonder he can replace Xu Shiji as the leading general.

"Li Xin, I'm afraid you didn't expect it now! Xu Shiji has already left, I'm afraid you're a little disappointed. Li Daozong laughed and said, the long lance in his hand pointed at Li Xin and said loudly: "If you want to seize Shandong, I'm afraid you can only realize it in a dream in the future, and Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong sent by you are definitely not Xu Shiji's opponents." When Xu Shiji kills the two of them, you will wait to be captured alive by us! ”

"Incompetent junior, you are just relying on the prestige of your father and brother, how can you know the general trend of the world, Xu Shiji has run, I already knew, but how many people does Xu Shiji have? But there are 100,000 people, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin are both talented generals, with nearly 200,000 troops, I am here to hold your 100,000 army, and the rest can be handed over to the two generals, what do I have to worry about? Li Xin said with a smile, and there was no worry on his face. Originally, the soldiers around him were still worried, but now when they saw Li Xin's appearance, they suddenly relaxed and burst into laughter.

"Li Xin, you just wait to be captured alive by us!" Li Xiaogong didn't say anything, he knew a lot of things, and his main task was to trap Li Xin in Caozhou, so that he couldn't support Cheng Yanjin or Qin Qiong.

In Zhangzhuang, Zou County, Cheng Biting Jin was holding a huge leg of mutton in his hand and gnawing there, but Zhuge Sheng was seriously looking at the situation around Zhangzhuang on the map, and the Qin family, Qi brothers and other generals were also eating mutton together, letting out bursts of laughter.

"Mr. Zhuge , what do you see? It's about to arrive in Zou County, and you have to say whether this Zou County wants to attack or not. Cheng Yanjin wiped his right hand on the armor and said loudly: "According to your orders, we have also made a lot of small fights along the way, and the soldiers have also seen blood, should we attack the county seat this time." ”

"General, I don't know if you have found out, in recent days, our captures have become less and less, and the grain and grass we have obtained have become less and less, and even some local tyrants and inferior gentry have left their dock forts." Zhuge Sheng frowned, looked at the map in front of him and said.

"Isn't that scared of us?" Cheng Yanjin said nonchalantly.

"No, they were on guard. Someone was directing the matter from behind. Zhuge Sheng shook his head and said.

"Who?" Cheng Yanjin's face was stunned, he was also nervous, although he had a very good time during this time, basically invincible, but he was still very worried about his future, tens of thousands of troops were in his own hands, if something went wrong, who would bear the consequences?

"I don't know." Zhuge Sheng said without thinking: "The enemy is very secretive, and Jinyiwei has not found any trace of the other party until now, but it is certain that our future must be ambushed by the enemy." ”

"Who is it?" Qin Meng was also nervous.

"Xu Shiji, Li Shentong or Li Xiaogong are all possible, there must be someone in front of us in ambush." Zhuge Sheng shook his head and said.

"So what do we do now?" Cheng Yanjin said a little nervously.

"Then it depends on the ability of the Jinyi Guard, no matter who wants to ambush us around here, it will be impossible." Zhuge Sheng said proudly. Jinyi Wei is densely spread in Shandong.

"How many soldiers and horses can Shandong have, and our tens of thousands of troops are still afraid that the other side will not succeed?" Qi Yancheng snorted coldly.

"Sir, will our next stop be Zou County?" Qi Yanfei looked at Zhuge Sheng and said.

"Yes, it's Zou County, let's try it in Zou County first." Zhuge Sheng looked at the map in front of him and said: "This place in Zou County is very interesting, it is not close or far from Yanzhou, you can meet Your Majesty to the west, and General Qin Qiong can meet to the east." If Li Zhao wants to deal with us, he will definitely be in Zou County. ”

"Okay, let's go to Zou County." Cheng Yanjin patted his thigh and said: "Zou County is a good place, it is relatively close to Confucius, the Kong family is one of the families in Shandong, and it is even more powerful than the Cui family, do we rob this Kong family or not?" ”

Zhuge Sheng's face changed after hearing this, and he suddenly smiled bitterly: "General Cheng, when Your Majesty attacked Shandong, did you ever touch the Kong family?" ”

"Nope." Cheng Yanjin said without thinking about it, but he was shocked in his heart, is there a problem with the Kong family? Of course, the Confucian family has problems, don't look at so many families in Shandong, but the most powerful is the Confucian family, who made the Confucian family have a great influence in Shilin, isn't the current Kong Yingda the teacher of many princes such as King Han? No wonder Li Xin didn't move the Kong family last time he came, and there was a reason for that.

"That's not fine, but, sooner or later, the Kong family will have problems, on the one hand, they befriended Your Majesty, Kong Yingda went to Beijing, but in Shandong, they helped Li Zhao, and many of the grain and grass of the Li family were supported by the Kong family, General Cheng, if you are bold, after capturing Zou County, immediately march to Qufu, and it is good to scare the other party."

"You're so daring." Cheng Yanjin looked at Zhuge Sheng, saw that his face was calm, not like a joke, and he also fell into contemplation, and finally patted his thigh violently, and said: "I don't want to, we are from Shandong Green Forest Road, what do you want to do so much, what is in front, surrender is our people, if you don't surrender, that is our enemy, just kill it." ”

"Yes, just kill it." Qin Meng and the others also said loudly.

Unexpectedly, the next day, when Cheng Yanjin led the army to kill Zou County, the gate of Zou County was opened, and Meng Qian actually surrendered the city. This made Cheng Yanjin effortless and got Zou County. (To be continued.) )