After the eldest grandson Shunde and Hou Junji were escorted to Chen Fuliang, after some separate interrogation and face-to-face confronting, Li Yuan's confession of Ambassador Li was finally confirmed, Shibi Khan did try to buy Ambassador Li, but the cause was not because of Li Yuan's subjective malice, it was completely caused by misunderstanding, and afterwards Li Yuan did burn the letter in front of the eldest grandson Shunde and Hou Junji, and at the same time there was no secret contact with the Turkic army, nor did he betray the army of King Qin - this is well confirmed, If Li Yuan really wanted to pit King Qin's army, it would be impossible for King Qin's army to win three great victories in a row before.

Originally, Li Yuan was still a little worried that Chen Yingliang was investigating why Changsun Shunde betrayed too much Qinwang's military intelligence to the Turkic army, but fortunately, Changsun Shunde's betrayal of military information to the Turkic army was actually due to Chen Yingliang's instigation and connivance, and during the period, it was also involved in Chen Yingliang's attempt to use Changsun Shunde to harm Li Yuan, and Chen Fuliang's ass was not clean in this matter, so Chen Yingliang naturally chose to forget this suspicion, and pointed the finger at Hou Junji who tried to escape, and tortured Hou Junji about the reason and whereabouts of his escape. He also asked whether Hou Junji continued to maintain contact with the Turkic army in secret.

Hou Junji, who relied on his mouth to eat, did not have a few hard bones on his body, and was whipped a few times by the military law team under the command of the Yin Shishi, and he honestly explained the reason for his escape, saying that he saw Li Yuan's father and son being taken away by Chen Yingliang and looked strange, and saw the army of the country coming to greet Chen Fuliang, and felt that the situation was wrong and he was a thief, so he quietly prepared to escape, and then saw that Chen Yingliang was sent to arrest Changsun Shunde, Hou Junji, who had an unclean buttocks, quickly slipped away, and insisted that he didn't want to run to the Turks to report the news. Instead, he wanted to flee back to his hometown in Youzhou to hide, and had never had any private contact with the Turkic army before.

Hou Junji's confession is just an isolated evidence, and it is a matter of importance, no one in Chen Yingliang and the generals of Sui Junqin dared to believe it, plus Chen Fuliang hated Hou Junji, a perverted person, even if he knew that he was in Lingyan Pavilion, he didn't have much interest in him. Therefore, Chen Yingliang was not polite to Hou Junji, accepted the construction of the Yin Shishi, and continued to hand Hou Junji over to the military law team under the command of the Yin Shishi, so that they could clean up Hou Junji with various tortures, continue to torture Hou Junji's confession, and by the way, avenge in advance the two poor women in history who relied on human milk to satisfy their hunger and supply Hou Junji's perverted torture from childhood to adulthood.

At this point, the investigation of Li Yuan's secret connection with the Turks came to an end for the time being, and in the absence of Li Yuan's treason and defection to the enemy, Chen Yingliang chose to let Li Yuan's father and son temporarily save their lives, waiting for Emperor Yang of Sui to personally send them in the future, and also said directly to Li Yuan and Li Er: "Ambassador Li, Second Prince Li, if you are lucky, I will not kill you for the time being, but whether the emperor will kill you or not in the future, it is not up to me to decide." If you are smart, then obediently give me meritorious service to atone for your sins, make more merits, maybe His Majesty the Emperor will open up the net and let you live. If you still want to play any tricks, I'm afraid that even if Your Majesty wants to spare your life, he won't be able to find a reason to spare you. ”

Knowing Emperor Sui's bearish temper, Li Yuan and his son of course knew that Chen Yingliang's words were definitely not a lie, and they knew that if they didn't hurry up and do a few things that satisfied Emperor Sui Yang, Emperor Sui Yang would definitely not be able to spare himself at that time, so Li Yuan and his son just kowtowed again and again, thanked Chen Yingliang for his forgiveness, and swore that they must go to the sword mountain and the sea of fire for Chen Fuliang, and go to the soup to fight the fire, even if they are broken, they will atone for their sins. As a result, Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, was a little unhappy again, and stood up and said: "Marshal, even if Ambassador Li's treason is not discovered for the time being, I am afraid it is no longer appropriate to continue to let him take charge of the army, right?" ”

Glancing at the ill-intentioned Yang Xuan, Chen Fuliang said loudly: "Pass on my commander's order, Hedong comfort ambassador Li Yuan is unwell and unable to take charge of the army, from now on, the Taiyuan Qinwang army is led by Li Yuan's eldest son Li Jiancheng, and he still plays the banner of Li Yuan, and Li Jiancheng replaces Li Yuan for all affairs in the army. Ambassador Li Yuan Li temporarily stayed in the camp of the Chinese army for treatment and recuperation. ”

"Dashuai, you ......." Yang Jian was anxious when he heard this.

"Your Highness, please listen to Wei Chen's words." Chen Yingliang said quietly: "Weichen is brave, I want to ask you to temporarily serve as the deputy marshal of the Taiyuan Qinwang Army, help General Li Jiancheng to lead the Taiyuan Qinwang Army, and discuss the matter, if there is a dispute, and then the Weichen will come forward to coordinate and deal with it, I don't know if His Royal Highness can be honored and noble, and temporarily aggrieved?" ”

Since working hand in hand with Chen Yingliang, Yang Jun smiled happily for the first time, and said with a smile: "King Qin's important matter is important, for the safety of his father, this king should do his best to assist the marshal King Qin's rescue, please rest assured, this king will be a good deputy to General Li Jiancheng." ”

Chen Yingliang nodded and thanked him, and then announced his two personnel orders to the whole army, so as to stabilize the morale of the army, and the result was not bad, I heard that Li Jiancheng replaced Li Yuan in charge of the Taiyuan Sui Army, and the Taiyuan Sui Army, which was already panicked, quickly stabilized dìng, Li Xiaogong and Xu Shixu and other Li Yuan's dead friends also quietly breathed a sigh of relief, Li Jiancheng was grateful, and worked harder to appease the soldiers of the Taiyuan Sui Army, Chen Yingliang was forced to change the line of fire, which did not cause serious consequences. At the same time, because it was expected that Li Jiancheng would never dare to compete with him, Yang Jian was also very satisfied with Chen Yingliang's personnel arrangement, and did not make excessive requests, just waiting patiently for the first time to enter Yanmen City.

After dealing with the affairs of the Taiyuan Sui Army, and also temporarily put Li Yuan under house arrest in the Chinese army camp, it was the turn of Li Er and Li Jing next, and he was not polite to Li Er and Chen Yingliang, and said directly to Yun Dingxing: "General Yun, General Li Shimin is under your command, but now my Chinese army needs him, temporarily leave him in the Chinese army camp, you have no problem there, right?" ”

"No problem, absolutely no problem." Yun Dingxing, who is good at standing in line, didn't even blink an eyelid, he immediately agreed, and then took the initiative to say: "Dashuai, do you want the last general to send Chai Shao to you too?" ”

"Forget Chai Shao, let him continue to obey your orders." Chen Yingliang smiled and said: "I can tolerate a large group of ambassador Li's henchmen, and I can still care about his little Chai Shao?" Let him stay under your command, and let him go to the battlefield and make some merit when he has the opportunity, no matter what, he and I used to be world friends. ”

Yun Dingxing hurriedly agreed again, and then couldn't wait to pat himself on the back, praising Chen Ying's generous conscience, not remembering the old evils, and repaying grievances with virtue is really a moral model and a model of a gentleman. Chen Yingliang smiled and said a few words modestly, and then turned his gaze to Li Jing, his gaze was also very complicated, and after a while, Chen Yingliang said to Li Jing: "Li Juncheng, you can sue me now, what did you and Ambassador Li talk about separately in the military tent?" ”

Li Yuan and Li Er began to worry again, for fear that Li Jing would betray them at this critical moment, and confess that they had asked Li Jing about the truth of the Turkic traitors, Li Jing looked calm, and only replied after a while: "You are marshal, Xia Guan and Li Dashuai did not talk about anything, but discussed the layout of the new camp of the Taiyuan Qinwang Army, Da Shuai, you also know that although Xia Guan is a civilian, he has a certain understanding of military affairs, and even you praise the arrangement of troops and camp arrangements, Ambassador Li also knows that Xia Guan has a small strength in this regard, So I discussed these things with the lower officials. ”

Li Yuan and Li Er quietly breathed a sigh of relief, but Chen Yingliang looked puzzled, and really couldn't understand why Li Jing still refused to tell the truth? Li Yuan's father and son have been stripped of their powers, why didn't Li Jing hurry up and change his court? And the Yin Shishi who had been suspicious of Li Jing next to him stopped doing it, and immediately stood up and said: "Commander, Li Juncheng and Ambassador Li have too close in the past, and they have constant contact in private. ”

The generals of the Sui army agreed, and Chen Yingliang also put Li Jing under house arrest, Li Jing was silent, Chen Fuliang was also hesitant, weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Chen Yingliang said: "Okay, since Li Juncheng and Ambassador Li are only discussing the military situation, and we haven't found any illegal actions by Li Juncheng, then you don't have to serve Ambassador Li's decoction, and continue to stay in my Chinese army tent to listen to it." ”

"Dashuai, why are you so negligent?" When the Yin World Master heard this, he was anxious, and hurriedly reminded: "This Li Jing is very suspicious, you can't stay." ”

"Yin Taishou, when it comes to suspicion, who can be more suspicious than Ambassador Li's eldest son, General Li Jiancheng?" Chen Yingliang said calmly: "Also, compared with Li Juncheng, those generals and officials under Ambassador Li are more suspicious, you and I can even tolerate these people and General Li Jiancheng, why can't we tolerate Li Juncheng, who is less suspicious?" ”

The Yin World Master was speechless, and it took a long time before he said: "Then at least you can't let him participate in the military plane anymore." ”

"Under the melon field, the lower officials will not dare to participate in the military aircraft anymore." Li Jing took the initiative to accept the request of the Yin Shishi, and then bowed his hand to Chen Fuliang and said: "Dashuai, the lower official knows that you must need a messenger to communicate with the Turks, if the great marshal does not give up, the lower official is willing to take on this position to prove his innocence." ”

Chen Yingliang's eyes flickered again, and then said, "Let's go down and rest first, let me think about it." ”

Li Jing agreed, and at that moment Chen Yingliang immediately ordered the soldiers to take Li Yuan's father and son and Li Jing outside the tent to be placed under house arrest, and then asked the Sui generals to keep the affairs of Li Yuan's father and son strictly confidential to avoid being detected by the Turks, and then announced the dissolution of the tent and let the generals go back to rest, and then Chen Yingliang hurriedly led Yin Shishi and Yuan Tiangang and other cronies, and went to the Taiyuan Sui army camp under the strict protection of the army to check the situation, until it was confirmed that Li Jiancheng was able to pacify the army, and there was no commotion in the Taiyuan Sui army camp. Only then did Chen Yingliang relax a little and ordered each battalion to lift martial law, and only arrange an army to take turns to be vigilant as a precaution.

Although Chen Yingliang sent people to declare that martial law was imposed because of Li Yuan's sudden illness, and he was forced to do so as a precaution, the morale of the Qinwang coalition army was inevitably affected to a certain extent, and some gossip circulated privately in the army anyway. After discovering these circumstances, Chen Fuliang was inevitably a little worried, and Yin Shishi and Yuan Tiangang and other henchmen also reminded Chen Yingliang: "Marshal, the impact of changing generals before the battle is still too great, if we don't hurry up and find a way to revive the morale of the army, I am afraid that the combat effectiveness will be greatly affected, and the morale of the army will be even more flustered." ”

Chen Fuliang nodded, and then suddenly asked, "Regarding Li Yuan's matter, you say, how should I make good use of the relationship between Li Yuan and the Shibi Thief Chief?" ”

"Send someone to see the Shibi thief chief under the banner of Li Yuan, and directly say that the Turkic traitor is Ashina Simo, and induce the Shibi thief chief to kill this Turkic general, and beat the Turkic military morale." The Yin Shi Shi built yì Dao.

"Such a good opportunity, just to kill a Turkic general, it's too wasteful." Chen Fuliang shook his head.

"Then the lower official doesn't know." Yin Shishi replied helplessly: "Xia Guan is not very proficient in the way of scheming, and he really can't think of any good way to make good use of the relationship between Li Yuan and the Turks. ”

The Yin master surnamed Yin couldn't think of any good way to kill the Turkic army, let alone the old and old-fashioned Wei Zheng and the great scientist Yuan Tiangang, all of whom couldn't provide Chen Yingliang with any useful reference opinions in terms of strategy, and Chen Yingliang couldn't think of any good way to use Li Yuan's chess piece to squeeze the oil and water out of Li Yuan's body because he didn't know enough about the Turkic situation. Forced to be helpless, Chen Fuliang had to take the opportunity of patrolling the camp to enter Wang Shichong's command account by the way, and asked his famous cunning father-in-law Wang Shichong for advice to see what good way he could kill the Turkic army.

Wang Shichong is indeed better at battlefield intrigues than Yin Shishi and others, and proposed a strategy to Chen Fuliang to invite the king into the urn, and Chen Yingliang sent someone to pretend to be Li Yuan's messenger to contact Shibi Khan, pretending to be Shibi Khan as an internal response, luring Shibi Khan to send troops to attack the Sui army camp again, and the Sui army took the opportunity to arrange an ambush again, and then won another battle and defeated the Turks.

Although Wang Shichong's plan is feasible, and with a little flexibility, he can get more results, but it still can't satisfy the insatiable Chen Fuliang, Chen Fuliang also directly said to the old man who has lost his conscience: "Uncle Yue, it's too wasteful to do this, although it is feasible, and there is a great hope to deceive the Turks, but you also know the terrain in this area, the two mountains are sandwiched by more than 20 miles from east to west, we can't block such a wide open land no matter what, we can't completely annihilate the invading enemy, even if we win another battle, what's the use?" The Turkic army is still stronger than us, and we are not at a disadvantage? ”

"Virtuous son-in-law, one more victory is not enough, what do you want to do with Li Yuan?" Wang Shichong asked in surprise.

"Of course, it is to completely annihilate the main force of the Turks and kill the Shibi Thief Chieftain." Chen Fuliang replied frankly: "Of course, it is best to kill the Shibi Thief Chief in one battle, and if not, at least the main Turkic force must be severely damaged, and the strength and weakness of the Yanmen battlefield will be completely reversed." ”

Wang Shichong was dumbfounded, and then hurriedly tried his best to persuade his son-in-law not to be so greedy, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and to be careful to gnaw the bones and break the teeth, and it is very rare to remind the son-in-law not to be greedy and chew too much, but unfortunately Chen Fuliang's ambition is too big, and Wang Shichong, who is famous in history, is also too nagging, and one thing is repeated over and over a thousand words is not the point, but the absolutely unfilial son-in-law Chen Fuliang is tired of listening, and finally Chen Fuliang simply found an excuse to say goodbye and leave, This is finally getting rid of the nagging of the old man.

After leaving Wang Shichong's camp, Chen Yingliang didn't go to find the more useless Liu Changgong and Yun Dingxing, but just went back to the Chinese army camp to figure it out for himself, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang inevitably had some nest fire in his heart, and said secretly: "Damn, I've been mixed up in the late Sui Dynasty for more than two years, why don't I even have a decent think tank by my side?" It would be nice if Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were here, at least they could give me advice and share my worries, and I didn't have to rack my ......brains alone, wait, I have it by my side. ”

muttered here in his heart, Chen Fuliang suddenly remembered a major event, not only did he have a think tank by his side, but also three think tanks that were absolutely weighty - Li Yuan, Li Er and Li Jing, these three battlefield slippers can definitely help him - but whether these three think tanks can be relied on is still a big problem. After thinking carefully for a long time, Chen Fuliang gritted his teeth again, and then ordered: "Call Li Jing to my back account, I want to see him." ”

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After hurriedly returning to his back account, Li Jing had already been half-invited and half-detained into the tent first, and after meeting, Chen Fuliang was not polite, while asking people to prepare dinner for himself and Li Jing, he beckoned Li Jing to sit down, and then sat directly in front of Li Jing, and said more unceremoniously: "Li Juncheng, I won't say much nonsense, you still refuse to explain the relationship with Ambassador Li, the reason I know, the old Li family is one of the eight major clans in Guanlong, with hands and eyes to the sky, and trees with deep roots, you dare not go against them, I know very well." ”

Li Jing was silent, and Chen Yingliang said again: "Now I won't force you to confess what the relationship with the Li family is, I just want to tell you a little, Ambassador Li did not secretly communicate with the Turks to commit treason to the enemy this time, and His Majesty the Emperor may not necessarily kill him, but since you are involved in this matter, you will be affected in the future. If you don't want to be dismissed from office and killed, there is only one way now, and that is to save yourself. ”

Li Jing was still silent, and Chen Yingliang didn't force him to express his position immediately, until the soldiers brought dinner and Chen Fuliang personally put a dinner in front of Li Jing, Li Jing asked: "Dashuai, how should the subordinate save himself?" ”

"Of course, it is meritorious service, and the merit will atone for sins." Chen Fuliang used a tone of earnest teaching, and pointed: "As long as you make a contribution in this battle of King Qin, and help me break through the Turkic army and successfully rescue the driver, I will give your credit to the Ming court, and also prove that you are indeed not involved in Ambassador Li's suspected collaboration with the enemy. ”

Li Jing showed some smiles in his eyes, as if he had some sarcastic smiles, and then said calmly: "Of course, the lower officials are willing to make meritorious service to atone for their crimes, but the lower officials don't know how to make meritorious service to atone for their crimes, and they ask the marshal for guidance." ”

"Li Juncheng, didn't you build a chance before that I seized the opportunity of the main Turkic force to go deep into the Jedi and fight for decades of peace in the north?" Chen Fuliang said directly: "Now that the opportunity has been placed in front of us, the opportunity for Ambassador Li Yuan Li to inadvertently gain the trust of the Turks has also appeared, in your opinion, how can I seize this opportunity to break the main Turkic force in one fell swoop, and even kill Shibi Khan himself?" ”

"Chen Dashuai, you seem to be asking for advice from the lower officials?" The sarcasm in Li Jing's eyes became even more obvious, and he said with a smile: "Isn't Yin Taishou Jiany, don't you let the lower officials participate in the military plane?" Why do you still want to ask the lower officials to break the enemy now? Aren't you afraid that your subordinates will take the opportunity to cheat, but you will be defeated and killed? ”

"You won't." Chen Fuliang was extremely relieved of Li Jing's point, and said directly: "I can see that you are a loyal minister, you are loyal to the Great Sui court, and you are also loyal to the emperor His Majesty, so I am only afraid that you will help Ambassador Li harm me, but I am not worried that you will lead the defeat of King Qin's army, and the emperor and the Great Sui court will lose their rescue." ”

Speaking of this, Chen Fuliang added: "Moreover, I also have self-confidence, confident that I can see through your plan, and if your plan is slightly wrong, I will be able to detect it immediately." ”

Li Jing smiled, his smile was quite mysterious, and then suddenly said: "Dashuai, the lower officials feel that you are too anxious, Ambassador Li's matter is indeed an opportunity, but you only want to seize this opportunity, but you ignore that this opportunity is not enough for you to break the main Turkic force in one fell swoop, let alone to help you capture and kill the Shibi Thief Chief." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Chen Fuliang was stunned.

"Marshal, haven't you seen that the Turkic side still has absolute trust in Ambassador Li?" Li Jing smiled and said: "Last night, our army set up an ambush and defeated the Turks, beheading and capturing almost 20,000 people, and the losses of the Turks were not miserable, but Ambassador Li did not warn the Turks in a word before, and sat back and watched the Turkic fiascos defeat - let me ask the commander, if you are the first thief chief of the Turks, in such a situation, do you dare to believe Ambassador Li's letter messenger, take the main Turkic force to risk the battle, or even take the risk yourself, to give our army a chance to break your main Turkic force?" Or even give my army a chance to capture you? ”

Chen Fuliang's face changed slightly, and then he suddenly realized that he was a little too taken for granted, Yan Zhan ignored the trust of the Turkic army in Li Yuan, and forgot that it was impossible for the main Turkic force to risk the destruction of the entire army because of a letter from Li Yuan or a messenger.

Glancing at Chen Fuliang, Li Jing said again: "Also, the Yanmen battlefield here is indeed a Turkic death place, but the terrain is still a little opener, with the current strength of our army, it is still difficult to break the main Turkic force in a battle, so Xia Guan believes that you must continue to weaken the Turks, wait patiently for a better opportunity to appear, and then try to completely annihilate the Turks." We must not be overjoyed and rush for success, which can only bring disaster upon ourselves and turn victory into defeat. ”

"Listening to your words, it's better than reading for ten years, and I'm really in a bit of a hurry in this matter." Chen Fuliang nodded slowly, admitted his mistake, and then habitually asked casually: "Li Juncheng, then in your opinion, how should I act." ”

"Step by step." Li Jing replied: "While helping Ambassador Li gain the trust of the Turks, we will also use Ambassador Li's opportunity to further weaken the strength of the Turks. ”

"This, that seems like a contradiction, right?" Chen Fuliang said suspiciously: "While helping Ambassador Li gain the trust of the Turks? While using him to further weaken the Turkic power? To help Ambassador Li gain the trust of the Turks, we must pay some sacrifices, and if we use Ambassador Li to weaken the Turks, we must use him to set a trap. ”

"It's a contradiction." Li Jing nodded, smiled again, and said: "However, after leaving the big tent of the Chinese army just now, Xia Guan has already thought of a plan, which can not only use Ambassador Li's strict zhòng to weaken the Turkic strength, but also help Ambassador Li further gain the trust of the Turks, so that the Shibi Thief Chief fully believes that Ambassador Li will join forces with him." ”

"And such a clever plan?" Chen Fuliang was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "What is Li Juncheng's clever plan?" Please tell us about it. ”

Li Jing smiled and suddenly said, "Xiaguan is hungry, please let Xiaguan finish eating." ”

"Li Juncheng, please, please take the chopsticks, is the food in your mouth? If it doesn't work, I'll immediately ask someone to recook. ”

"There's no need to cook again, but Dashuai, you can eat quickly, we'll finish the meal, and then talk slowly."

"It's okay, I'm not hungry, Li Juncheng, come, I'll pick up the vegetables."

"Still say you're not hungry? Dashuai, you haven't eaten at noon, can you not be hungry? If you don't finish your meal, I won't say anything. ”

"Okay, I'll eat, I'll eat."