Since the defeat of Zhang Xutuo in the Battle of Dahai Temple, the power of the Wagang Army has expanded rapidly, occupying the thirteen counties of Henan, and the number of troops has reached 600,000, becoming the largest rebel force, and at this time, the crisis within the Wagang Army is also deepening.

After Li Mi defeated Zhang Xutuo, he played the banner of Wei Guogong and marched all the way east, the officials of various counties and counties in Henan surrendered to Li Mi, Li Mi was kind to appease, and ordered them to take their own posts, he was strict with military discipline, and the rape and murderer were beheaded, so that the prestige rose day by day, along the way, there were countless anti-kings who surrendered to him, and when Li Mi went to Qi County, his army had reached 400,000 people, far more than Zhai Rang's 200,000 people.

In order to attack Luoyang and control the grain, Li Mi increased the Luokou warehouse several times and built Luokou City, which became the capital of the Wagang army.

On the surface, the two are still like brothers, but behind the scenes, the two are secretly competing for food and military funds.

At this time, Li Mi has become the leader of the Wagang Army militarily, and Zhai Rang is only a deputy general, but in terms of personnel and internal affairs, Zhai Rang holds great power, just like Cheng Yanjin said a joke, although the two brothers have separated their families, they still live together, after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some stumbling things, but the two of them are not brothers as simple as separating their families, as their careers gradually become bigger, the two have different understandings on some key issues, so that the contradictions between them began to intensify.

Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Hong is an extremely greedy and lustful person, he was named the pillar country and the prince of Xingyang County by Zhai Rang, and led 50,000 troops to garrison Xingyang County, Zhai Hong also has no ability, relying on him to be the brother of the veteran of the army and the commander, he became the second person under Zhai Rang, robbing the people's daughters in Xingyang County, looting money, occupying good land, and doing all kinds of evil.

That night, Zhai Hong invited a few of his generals to drink in his mansion, and called out a few concubines to accompany him.

Among these several subordinates, there is a general named Wang Baoquan, he is looking for Zhai Hong to ask for something, he saw that the time is almost up, so he smiled at Zhai Hong and said: "The second master, the brothers have something to ask for, I don't know if they can help?" ”

"If you have something to say, what is your brother polite?"

"That's right, I have a brother-in-law named Wang Zhan, who is a captain under my account, two days ago he was molesting a people's girl, and was caught by Li Mi's inspectors and brought to Luokou City.

"What! That bastard dares to arrest people on Lao Tzu's territory, against the sky, don't worry, I will go to Luokou City the day after tomorrow, I will ask people back, he dares not to let people go, he will not want to cross the border from Xingyang in the future. ”

When Li Mi was mentioned, Zhai Hong suddenly remembered an annoying thing, he slammed the wine bowl on the table, and scolded: "He***, my brother doesn't know if his head was caught by the door, Li Mi wants to respect him as the emperor, but he actually refuses, if he doesn't want to be the emperor, then let me do a good job, so that Lao Tzu can also taste the taste of being an emperor." ”

"It's good to be an emperor! You can choose any woman in the world, and sleep with the most beautiful woman in the world every night. ”

Everyone laughed rudely, stretched out their hands and touched the woman in their arms, and several concubines lowered their heads and did not dare to say anything.

At this time, Wang Baoquan smiled again: "Actually, the most beautiful woman in Xingyang County is by my side, but unfortunately the second master can't eat it." ”

"Who is it?" Zhai Hong asked with great interest.

"Don't you know yet? The princess of King Yang Qing is said to be no less beautiful than Queen Xiao, and she is beautiful, I saw it once two years ago, and it is still unforgettable, and his two daughters are also extremely beautiful. ”

There was silence at the banquet, Xingyang Taishou and Xun Wang Yang Qing were persuaded by Li Mi to surrender a few days ago, and returned to Xingyang City to pick up their families, the palace was sorting out things, and they would go to Luokou City in two days, these days, the family temporarily lived in the palace in Xingyang City, Li Mi sent more than 100 soldiers to guard, and strictly ordered that no one should be harassed, and those who violated the order were beheaded!

This kind of silence is particularly tormenting, stabbing Zhai Hong's face like a needle, if it is ordinary, although he hates it in his heart, he doesn't dare to say anything, he can't afford to offend Li Mi, but now that he is drunk seven points of wine, he loses his mind, 'bang' punch, he slammed it on the table, "Damn, it's just a surrendered prisoner of war, has Lao Tzu killed fewer Sui officials over the years?" Since it is on Lao Tzu's territory, it is up to Lao Tzu to decide. ”

He stood up and waved to the crowd, "Go!" Go play with Lao Tzu and the princess. ”

His generals are all extremely vicious bandits, some of them are thinking excitedly about the princess, and some are thinking about King Xun's jewelry and money, since Zhai Hong is willing to take the lead, they all shout and follow Zhai Hong

In the middle of the night, thousands of soldiers followed Zhai Hong all the way, and rushed to the front of King Xun's mansion in a moment, there were more than 100 sentries at the gate of King Xun's mansion, all of them were Li Mi's subordinates, they saw Zhai Hong menacing, and they all drew their swords and shouted: "Stop!" Whoever comes close will be killed. ”

Zhai Hong was emboldened, and shouted an order, "Kill me!" ”

Thousands of pro-soldiers rushed up, surrounded more than 100 people and slashed and killed, and the continuous screams pierced the quiet night sky, and in a moment, more than 100 guards sent by Li Mi were all killed, and the pro-soldiers crashed open the gate of the palace, Zhai Hong sneered, "Women stay, men are all killed!" ”

Hundreds of people rushed into the mansion, Zhai Hong smiled lewdly, the woman he wanted, who could stop him, he turned over and dismounted, and strode towards the mansion, the palace was full of miserable rain, screams, cries, and cries resounded

On the opposite side of the palace, two black figures were so frightened that they shrunk into a ball, they were soldiers who had escaped the slaughter by hiding in the corner and sleeping

Two days later, the news that Yang Qing and the prince were killed, and the princess and the two county lords were killed by the rebels reached Luokou City, Li Mi was furious, and the king of Xun was the puppet emperor he was ready to support the throne, and killed the king of Xun, which ruined his big thing, and the reputation of the Wagang army was bad, which would make the officials everywhere dissatisfied, who would dare to surrender him in the future?

Even his own subordinates dared to kill, Li Mi's teeth creaked, and he pulled out his knife suddenly, "Zhai Hong, I have to kill you!" ’

"Follow me to Situ Mansion!"

Li Mi walked out of the mansion in a rage, turned over and got on the horse, he was going to find Zhai Rang to ask someone, and his soldiers suddenly pointed to the distance and shouted: "Duke Wei, Zhai Situ is here!" ”

I saw Zhai Rang running on horseback with hundreds of guards, and Zhai Hong was shirtless and tied to a horse. ”

Zhai Rang also heard about the stupid thing that his brother did after drinking, he didn't blame his brother for killing King Xun, but his brother killed Li Mi's people, which made him a little unable to put down his face, so he came to make a gesture.

Li Mi looked at him and Zhai Hong behind him coldly, Zhai Rang turned over and dismounted, and ordered: "Bring it up!" ”

Several guards pushed Zhai Hong up and knelt on the ground, Zhai Rang whipped him violently, "Don't apologize yet!" ”

Zhai Hong was forced to come by his brother, but he was not convinced in his heart, lowered his head and said hatefully: "I drank wine, I was confused for a while, I killed Wei Gong's subordinates, and I apologize to Wei Gong!" ”

Li Mi sneered, "You killed my subordinates and apologized, I don't care about it in front of Situ, but if you kill King Xun and insult the princess, I can't spare you, come here!" ”

Li Mi shouted: "Take down and behead me!" ”

Li Mi's personal soldiers stepped forward to arrest Zhai Hong, Zhai Rang's face changed greatly, he blocked in front of his brother and shouted, "Wait!" ”

Zhai Rang stared at Li Mi and said slowly: "Wei Gong really doesn't give me this face?" ”

Li Mi said expressionlessly: "I have already said that I don't care about the person who killed me, but he dared to kill King Xun and ruined the opportunity for the eldest brother to compete for the world, and he must not be spared." ”

Zhai Rang laughed, suddenly, he laughed, looked at Li Mi and said coldly: "I know that your so-called opportunity is nothing more than to establish King Xun as the emperor, that is just your wishful thinking, I have never agreed, how many brothers did King Xun kill us, what other Sui officials, and how many of us were killed, but you protect them as if they were treasures, tell you, I am ready to slaughter them all, and King Xun, my eldest brother killed well, I want to reward him greatly, I Zhai Rang is to lead the brothers to overthrow the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, And by no means to set up another Sui Dynasty emperor. ”

After speaking, Zhai Rang snorted heavily and waved his hand, "Let's go!" ”

He took hundreds of guards to turn over and get on his horse, Zhai Hong was also untied, Li Mi stared at Zhai Rang's back, his eyes flashed with murderous intentions, Zhai Rang has become the biggest stumbling block for him to compete for the world, he must kill him

Zhai Rang returned to his house, his anger in his heart was not gone, and he began to endure what Li Mi did, his brothers got into trouble with him, bloodshed and died, and the family was ruined, but in the end, the high-ranking officials Houlu was occupied by those Sui officials who surrendered, and the Wagang army occupied countless counties, but the counties were still controlled by these Sui officials, and these Sui officials regarded Li Mi as a benefactor, loyal to Li Mi, and disdained him Zhai Rang.

This is the most intolerable thing for Zhai Rang, the world is the world of the Wagang Army, not the world of his Li Mi, the huge crisis makes Zhai Rang also consider getting rid of Li Mi, he has been waiting for this opportunity for several years, and now he can't wait any longer.

"Big brother, are you looking for us?"

Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode hurriedly walked in from outside, both of whom were his most trusted henchmen, and both of them had heavy troops.

Zhai Rang nodded, "Let's go into the house and talk!" ”

He beckoned to his brother Zhai Hong again, "Come with you!" ”

Zhai Rang led everyone into the room, closed the door, and dozens of guards patrolled vigilantly around

The night was dark, the streets of Luokou City were very quiet, a dark shadow hurriedly walked along the corner of the house, he soon came to the door of Li Mi's mansion, hesitated, and went around the side door, he was just about to knock on the door, dozens of people suddenly rushed out from the darkness, several steel knives pressed on his neck, this is Li Mi's guards, hidden in the dark, and his vigilance is quite high.

The black shadow hurriedly raised his hand, "My master sent me to find Duke Wei and have a confidential report on important matters." ”