Two days later, Luo Yi found out that the situation was not good, and the three hundred cavalry he sent to guard Song Zhengben had no news, which made Luo Yi very surprised, I don't know if Dou Jiande detained these three hundred people, or if something happened to them? He urgently sent people to search along the way, but found nothing.

In fact, on the second day after Song Zhengben arrived in Youzhou, Luo Yi sent the general Shi Ji to lead two thousand soldiers south to the Juma River, which is the junction of Zhuo County and Hejian County, where Luo Yi began to provide large-scale relief to the poor people in Hejian County, and sent people to Hejian County to widely publicize the disaster relief of Zhuo County.

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Dou Jiande was also confused, he sent to the border to guard Song Zhengben's army, and waited for two days without waiting for news from Song Zhengben.

Dou Jiande's heart was very anxious, he had spent two days in a state of anxiety, Song Zheng was his mastermind, it was very important to him, he would rather not form an alliance with Youzhou, than lose this strategist who could control the overall situation for him.

Dou Jiande was pacing back and forth in the room with his hands behind his back, the troubles in his heart were not only the disappearance of Song Zhengben, but also the Sui army's capture of Hengshan County, Wei Dao'er in Hengshan County has always been regarded by him as a wall blocking the Sui army's southward movement, or a buffer zone, he hopes that Wei Dao'er exists, so that when the Sui soldiers have the intention of going south, they can show it through Wei Dao'er first, and the Sui army will inevitably attack Wei Dao'er first, so as to give himself a time to prepare.

But now that Wei Dao'er has been pulled out, 40,000 Sui troops have entered Hengshan County, directly threatening Boling County, one possibility. Once the Sui army took Boling County, then the Sui army of Shanggu County in the north and Boling County in the south would form a flank attack on Hejian County.

Another possibility is that the Sui army of Shanggu County attacked Zhuo County and used the Sui army of Hengshan County to contain itself, thus directly breaking the alliance between himself and Luo Yi.

Choose one of the two possibilities, Dou Jiande feels that the latter may become more realistic, Yang Yuanqing is likely to have realized that he wants to unite with Luo Yi, or Yang Yuanqing in order to prevent himself from uniting with Luo Yi. Soon after taking Shanggu County, he immediately took Hengshan County, the purpose was to deploy troops in Hengshan County and contain himself, and now the Sui army has deployed 40,000 troops in Hengshan County, indicating that his guess is correct.

But at this critical moment, Song Zhengben disappeared again, and no one made up his mind for Dou Jiande. It made him feel as if he had lost a support, and it upset him.

At this time, a guard reported at the door: "Lord Wang, Kong Changshi has urgent matters to see." ”

Dou Jiande nodded, "Please let him in." ”

Kong Changshi is another heavyweight of Dou Jiande's staff, named Kong Deshao, like Song Zhengben, is also a Sui Dynasty official, he strongly advocates Dou Jiande to ascend the throne as emperor, although Dou Jiande does not want to ascend the throne now. But he values Kong Deshao very much, and named him the chief historian of the palace, which is equivalent to his prime minister, he and Song Zhengben are both Dou Jiande's henchmen and advisers.

After a while, Kong Deshao walked in quickly, Kong Deshao was not good-looking, short and fat, with a pair of shrewd mung bean eyes. Living like a small businessman, he doesn't have the same thin demeanor as Song Zhengben, it is this that makes Dou Jiande a little disliked, and Kong Deshao is partial to intrigue and trickery, he can't think of such an overall strategy as conspiring against Sui, so Dou Jiande ranked him behind Song Zhengben.

Soong's disappearance was good news for Condesau, as it meant that his biggest political rival was gone. In the past two days, Kong Deshao's mood has been particularly comfortable, but in front of Dou Jiande. He completely concealed the joy in his heart, and pretended to be worried and sad.

"Participate in the prince!" Kong Deshao stepped forward and gave a deep salute.

"Long history is exempt!"

Dou Jiande sighed and asked, "Is there any news about Mr. Song?" ”

Kong Deshao shook his head sadly, "There is no news of him for the time being, but I suspect that this may be a conspiracy by Luo Yi." ”

'Conspiracy? ’

Dou Jiande glanced at him, he knew that Kong Deshao was a conspiracy, and everything had to be related to the conspiracy, which made him a little unhappy, but Song Zhengben's bizarre disappearance seemed to be somewhat related to the conspiracy, so he patiently asked: "Tell me in detail, what kind of conspiracy law?" ”

"Before talking about the conspiracy, please allow the prince to report an important matter first."

"Say it! What's important? ”

Dou Jiande sat down and looked at Kong Deshao, Kong Deshao hurriedly said: "The humble post has just been reported, and many people in Wen'an County, Gaoyang County, and Pingshu County have rushed to Zhuo County, and this northward trend is expanding a little. ”

Dou Jiande was stunned, "Why is this?" ”

"I heard that it was the Youzhou Army that was releasing grain in the area of the Juma River near us, and many people of unknown origin came to our territory to encourage the people to receive rice, saying that each family received dozens of catties of rice for the New Year."

Dou Jiande frowned, he immediately thought of the Sui Army's propaganda in Hengshan County, what was the reason for this, he hesitated and asked, "What does the Youzhou Army want to do?" ”

"Hasn't the prince thought of it yet?"

Kong Deshaw said cautiously: "What resources are the most precious now? ”

Dou Jiande pondered for a moment, and suddenly realized, "You mean..... They're robbing our population! ”

"Lord Wang, it's not just as simple as robbing the population, he thinks that he is actually recruiting troops, coaxing our people with food, and then selecting the best and strongest from them to coax them to join the army in Youzhou, so that Youzhou can raise at least thirty or forty thousand troops."

Dou Jiande's fists gradually clenched, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, "Damn Luo Yi, one side wants to unite with me, but the other side is digging my corner behind my back." ”

"Lord Wang, from this incident, we can see that Luo Yi's so-called alliance with us is actually not sincere, so Mr. Song's mysterious disappearance can be explained."

"How do you explain it?"

"It's very simple, Mr. Song must still be in Luo Yi's hands, on the one hand, he is pretending to negotiate with the prince, and on the other hand, he is recruiting soldiers under the pretext of disaster relief, so that the prince is not good at tearing his face with him, so he has to watch him dig into our corners."

Dou Jiande somewhat understood what Kong Deshao meant, "You mean, in fact, Luo Yi didn't reach an agreement with Song Xian, he was afraid that Mr. Song would come back and expose him, so he pretended to let him come back, but secretly detained him again, is that what you mean?" ”

"This is exactly what the humble position means, the humble position has always believed that Luo Yi's soldiers regard us as mortal enemies, and it is impossible for Luo Yi not to be afraid of this, he has controlled Youzhou for less than two years, and he has not completely secured his position, so he will not risk angering his subordinates and unite with us, from his excuse to dig up our corners, it can be seen that he actually uses the method of increasing his troops to deal with the eastward expansion of the Sui army alone, and detaining Mr. Song can also prevent the news from being exposed, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone."

Dou Jiande's brows furrowed, Kong Deshao's inference that Luo Yi's disaster relief was for recruiting soldiers he thought was correct, but he felt a bit far-fetched to say that Luo Yi was afraid of leaking the news of his refusal to form an alliance and detained Song Zhengben, because Song Zhengben told him when he left that Luo Yi was definitely willing to form an alliance, and there was a way to hide Luo Yi's subordinates.

"I doubt that the Sui army intervened and intercepted Song Zhengben halfway."

Kong Deshao resolutely opposed the alliance between Dou Jiande and Luo Yi, not because he wanted to help the Sui army, but because he himself had a personal vendetta with Luo Yi, and his brother Kong Dezan died at the hands of Luo Yi, and he very much hoped to kill Luo Yi by the hands of the Sui army.

On the other hand, Kong Deshao is a native of Licheng County, Qi County, and he hopes that Dou Jiande can withdraw his forces to Qingzhou, which will be more beneficial to him, since Dou Jiande has left this back road through his marriage with Xu Yuanlang, then he hopes that this back road will become a fact, avoid the edge of the Sui army, and preserve his strength to retreat south.

It is precisely because of this that Kong Deshao desperately obstructed and destroyed the alliance between Dou Jiande and Luo Yi, and did everything possible to let Dou Jiande know that Luo Yi did not have the sincerity to form an alliance.

"How does the prince think that Sui Jun would know that Song Zhengben went to Youzhou? and calculated the time and route of his return so accurately, even Luo Yi's subordinates didn't know, would Sui Jun know? ”

Kong Deshao paused and said: "Humble conjecture, in the end, Luo Yi can't explain, he will definitely say that Sui Jun intercepted Mr. Song and put the responsibility on Sui Jun, the prince is generous, and always thinks about people on the good side, but Luo Yi's insidious and cunning, capricious, hasn't the prince understood it?" ”

Kong Deshao's words make sense, how could Sui Jun know that Song Zhengben secretly went to Youzhou? At the same time, he calculated the time and route of his return so accurately, this is indeed a debatable issue, maybe Luo Yi's subordinates opposed the alliance and assassinated Song Zhengben halfway, and it is indeed possible.

Dou Jiande was a little confused, Song Zhengben's case was confusing, so he couldn't see through what the problem was? After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't have a clue, so he had to put this matter down for the time being, and asked again: "Then how to deal with Luo Yi digging our corner now?" ”

Kong Deshao had already come up with a countermeasure, and he smiled: "Didn't the prince always want Luo Yi's armor?" There is a strategy for lowly duties, which can make Luo Yi steal chickens without losing a handful of rice. ”

Dou Jiande perked up and hurriedly said, "Tell me, what can you do?" ”

"The prince can select tens of thousands of soldiers whose dependents are on our side, use disarmament as an excuse to let them serve as the people, and then let them go to Zhuojun to receive rice, Luo Yi will inevitably recruit them as soldiers, and the prince can also send more than 100 guards to recruit soldiers together, waiting for the opportunity for the guards to encourage these soldiers to flee back with their armor, and finally Luo Yi spent money on Fermi, but finally equipped tens of thousands of soldiers for us, what does the prince think about this?"

Dou Jiande squinted his eyes and laughed, "Although this plan is very bad, you can give it a try." ”