"And who do you think you should send?" Zu Zhao asked.

Chen Gong said: "Lord, I think it's more appropriate for me to go." ”

"Nope." Zu Zhao vetoed Chen Gong's words in one mouthful, and said, "How can I let you go, if Xin Ainu is unreasonable in revenge, then aren't you very dangerous?" Absolutely not let you go. ”

Chen Gong said with a smile: "Lord, at this time, no one in the army can leave, and Yuan Shao must be prevented from sneaking attack." And sending other people to go, it's not that I, Chen Gong, am arrogant, it's true that they are not sincere enough if they go. I know that the lord values me, and Na Xin Ainu naturally knows it, so if I go, she may still be able to listen to some words, and in short, she will not kill a messenger. ”

Zu Zhao thought about it again and again, and it can only be like this, now the rear is still fighting with Gongsun Zhan, Liu Bei always wants to attack every place that can be captured, Cao Cao has been busy with the battle of the Central Plains, but he can use the Son of Heaven to mobilize other princes, if he also wants to get rid of himself, the array is a little troublesome. Today's plan is indeed to not make a feud with the Xin family first, it is best to form an alliance, and let the Xin family know that it was Yuan Shao who murdered Xin Changdao, so as to unite and kill Yuan Shao in one fell swoop, this is the best policy. Therefore, it was agreed to let Chen Gong go to the mourning alone.

However, it was said that after Xin Changdao's death, Chen Gong went to mourn on behalf of Zu Zhao alone. At this moment, the entire Xin family is in extreme grief, Xin Changdao is the person they respect the most, they can't imagine being assassinated like this, how can they not be sad and angry. Now the whole clan is clamoring to avenge him. At this moment, when they heard that Chen Gong was coming, everyone was shocked, and then they all said that Zu Zhao was really too blind, this Chen Gong thought that he was a little talented, so he thought that he was invincible in the world, and he dared to come alone.

Xin Ainu didn't agree to do this, when it came to revenge, she wanted it the most, but it was too unusual for this Chen Gong to dare to come, and she also heard that Chen Gong was extraordinary, but she also wanted to see what he said, and let people take Chen Gong in.

Chen Gong entered the Xin family and found that everyone was looking at him with resentful eyes, and the angry eyes seemed to be about to eat him. Seeing their pain, Chen Gong was also hurt in his heart, Xin Changdao was also a very righteous person, and he couldn't imagine dying like this.

Xin Ainu ordered someone to take Chen Gong to a room and meet him alone, but his subordinates were worried about Xin Ainu's safety, did not agree with her to do so, and wanted to ambush the knife and axe hand inside, and when the time came, they would directly rush out and cut him into pulp. Xin Ainu said: "If Chen Gong was a cowardly person who was afraid of death, he would not come. If we were to plot against him now, it would seem that we were unjust. If they had killed my father, I would have avenged them by killing them on the battlefield, not at home. Besides, Chen Gong is a Confucian general, he knows some concurrency, but his strength is not very strong, will I still be able to deal with him? ”

So, Xin Ainu went to see Chen Gong alone. After the two met, Chen Gong took the initiative to salute and said, "Dare to ask Miss, is it Xin Ainu, the daughter of the county guard?" ”

Xin Ainu said, "It's Miss Ben and me. Now that our two armies are at war, and now there is such a big hatred, you still dare to come, Chen Gongtai, you are really not afraid of death. ”

Chen Gong said: "I'm afraid of death. But man is inherently mortal. Now that Ling Zun has passed away, I have come to mourn and mourn, and I hope that Miss can mourn, after all, people cannot be resurrected after death. ”

Xin Ainu said coldly: "I know that people can't be resurrected after death, but the revenge of killing my father is not shared, and I have to take revenge." You are the first military under Zu Zhao, you dare to come, aren't you afraid that I will kill you? You know, all of us want to kill you directly as a sacrifice to your father's spirits in the heavens. ”

Chen Gong said: "I dare to come, naturally I know that Miss Xin will not do this." Because you don't believe it's going to be our doing. ”

"Why do you say that? That's your messenger, it was your messenger who killed my father, and now you are here to pretend to be responsible, and believe it or not, I will kill you right now. Xin Ainu said, and directly pulled out the long sword on his waist and pointed at Chen Gong.

Chen Gong didn't panic at all, and said quietly: "The Xin family attacked us, and we were criticized for emergency response, but this was not our intention at all, and we never wanted to involve the Xin family." But you listened to Yuan Shao's words and went out to the army. For the sake of your interests, there is nothing wrong with you sending troops to attack us, but we are tantamount to fighting with you as enemies, so we have always treated Father Ling with courtesy. But who knew that such a tragic thing would happen. Miss Xin, just imagine, if our army wants to hurt Ling Zun, can we use it so secretly, in fact, you also know that I have had many opportunities to do that, but we have never had it. ”

Xin Ainu roared angrily: "That's because you want to be a good person, and if you do this, you will tolerate our Xin family in the eyes of the outside world, but in fact you are killing my father." ”

Chen Gong said: "My lord acts above board, and he has never done anything despicable and shameless. Miss Xin, I hope you can believe me, Ling Zun really didn't hurt us. ”

"Why should I trust you?" Xin Ainu asked angrily.

Chen Gong said unhurriedly: "Because we will catch the person who killed Ling Zun, and then we will prove that this must be Yuan Shao's weirdness." If you think about it, the Xin family has already sent troops, but he Yuan Shao has not moved. Why is that? Because when our two armies go to war, whoever wins or loses will be in his best interest. However, our army always only resisted defensively, and did not deal a devastating blow to the Xin family's army, which is enough to prove that we do not want to make enemies with the Xin family. However, when Yuan Shao saw this, he was not happy, and it was likely that he sent someone to pretend that the messenger of our army had murdered Ling Zun. ”

"You have shirked the responsibility cleanly, why do you say that it must be Yuan Shao's conspiracy?" Xin Ainu asked.

Chen Gong said: "There is no evidence yet, but I believe that it will be soon, I just hope that Miss can cooperate with us in a play, so that we can know whether Yuan Shao is the murderer behind the scenes." ”

"What play?" Xin Ainu asked.

Chen Gong looked around, it seemed that he was talking some private words, and he didn't want others to know. Xin Ainu saw Chen Gong like this, and said that there were two people in this, there was absolutely no third party, if he had anything to say, he would say it directly, if it was reasonable, then he could bypass him if it was nonsense, then there was only one way to die.

Chen Gong heard Xin Ainu say this, and whispered in her ear like this, only to see Xin Ainu eyebrows move slightly, and finally looked at Chen Gong coldly for a while, and agreed with his opinion, but she also said that Chen Gong must be left in the Xin family, so as not to let the Xin family be framed again. Chen Gong naturally had no opinion, saying that he was going to stay, in order to let the Xin family believe that they were innocent.

Let's say that Yuan Shao knew that Zu Zhao and Xin Changdao had already started a war, and he refused to use the advice of Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, just not attacked. And the spies reported that Zu Zhaojun and Xin Jiajun were in a very normal confrontation, but there was no rhythm of fighting to the death. For this reason, the old strategist of Yuan Shao proposed to send someone to secretly release cold arrows when the two generals were fighting, so that no matter which side was hurt, they would be killed. Yuan Shao adopted this plan, but the assassination of the hidden arrow failed.

Fortunately, Zu Zhao and Xin Changdao really fought in the end, but after Zu Zhao arrested Xin Changdao many times, he was released, and even the soldiers who were caught were released. After doing this a few times, Xin Changdao had the intention of retiring from the army. Yuan Shao's adviser also suggested that if this continued, it would be difficult for the Xin family to form an alliance with Zu Zhao, even if they did not form an alliance, it would not be good for the Xin family to remain neutral, it would be better to make their hatred greater.

"How can we increase their hatred?" Yuan Shao asked.

The strategist said: "As long as Xin Changdao dies, then the Xin family must choose to take revenge and fight against the water." Now that Xin Changdao has a good impression of Zu Zhaojun, and he is already planning to withdraw from the army, it is better to let a group of elite soldiers pretend to be Zu Zhao's messengers, send the wine and canned food that Zu Zhao got, and then murder Xin Changdao, so that the Xin family will definitely fight to the death. ”

As soon as this suggestion came out, Frustrated and Tian Fengju immediately objected, saying that the plan must not be, if the matter is revealed, then the Xin family will definitely form an alliance with Zu Zhao, and then it will be really unfavorable to Yuan Shao's army, if the Xin family can remain neutral, it is not a bad thing for Yuan Shao's army, at least only the rescue of Cao Cao and others can break through, if it offends the Xin family, it really won't work.

The strategist frustrated Tian Feng and the others, if the plan was feasible. As long as the secrecy is done well, there is nothing to be afraid of. After the final debate, Fu Zhu and Tian Feng argued, but Yuan Shao thought that these two people had been hindering their plans, and especially listened to the words of his fellow countrymen, so he directly locked up Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, although they were not in prison, but they were treated no different from in prison. The two couldn't help but lament for a while, secretly sighing that Yuan Shao listened to that person's plan, and in the end it would only push the Xin family to Zu Zhao, putting Yuan Shao's army in an even more embarrassing situation.

Not to mention that the plan went very smoothly, Yuan Shao was also very happy, and praised the strategist lavishly, and also released Fu Zhi and Tian Feng to show off their success to them. The two of them also learned from the spies that Xin Changdao's death, the Xin family did blame Zu Zhao's head, and the female generals of the Xin family had already done their best to prepare to launch a fierce attack on Zu Zhao, and Chen Gong was detained by the Xin family army because he went to fake the funeral.

Both of them thought that there must be something strange in this, Chen Gong went to the Xin family, which was really unusual, theoretically speaking, going at this time was looking for death. Look at Yuan Shao's army again, although it is now an alliance with the Xin family, but Xin Changdao is dead, and Yuan Shao's army actually didn't send a person to condole, which is really unreasonable, so it is recommended that Yuan Shao also send someone to mourn immediately.

This time, Yuan Shao listened to the advice of the two of them, and wanted to send someone to mourn, but as for who to send, he was a little entangled, and after some discussion, he still decided to let Tian Feng go, first, to be honest enough, and secondly, to see what Chen Gong was doing there. But Tian Feng refused to go, he thought that since this matter was thought up by the strategist, he should go to it. In the end, the strategist had no choice but to go for the sake of the center.

After arriving at the Xin family, he really got good treatment from the Xin family. He expressed his condolences to the Xin family and asked about the Chen Palace, and Xin Ainu told him that the Chen Palace and the others had been detained. Just wait for Zu Zhao to exchange his head, if he doesn't say anything when the deadline comes, then he will kill Chen Gong and the others. After getting this news, the strategist was very happy in his heart, and he was complacent about his plan, and it was really good to be able to get rid of this guy Chen Gong.

Who knew that at night, he heard a soldier of the Xin family whispering, saying that Zu Zhao had found the murderer and found that this was a conspiracy in the army, and it was Yuan Shao's army that killed Xin Changdao. Hearing this conversation, the advisor was surprised and cautiously leaned in to listen. The soldier continued the discussion as if he didn't seem to be aware that he was eavesdropping. said that in order to save Chen Gong, Zu Zhao had already bribed several cronies around Yuan Shao, and they knew the entire murder process, especially Yuan Jiang, a popular person beside Yuan Shao, had been determined to have been bought, and he would come to the Xin family to testify against Yuan Shao's plan one day.

One soldier said, "I heard that this was actually just a ploy by one of the strategists, and Yuan Shao originally disagreed. If the strategist is confessed this time, as long as Yuan Shao hands over the murderer, then our Xin family will not be an enemy of Yuan Shao. ”

"Exactly, Yuan Shao is the third prince of the fourth world, how could he make a feud with our Xin family, he must have fallen for the trick of that strategist. As soon as that Yuan Jiang comes, we will know who that strategist is. When the time comes, Yuan Shao will definitely call him out to sacrifice the spirit of the county guard in the sky. ”

After listening to the soldier's conversation, the strategist was very surprised, so his plan was about to be exposed by that Yuan Jiang. He knew that Yuan Jiang was a relative of Yuan Shao, and he didn't have much ability, but he was very good at sycophancy, and he was very loved by Yuan Shao. And it's hard to guess what Yuan Shao is like, sometimes he can hurt anyone for self-preservation, before he was for his own power, but he didn't even care about the life or death of his brother Yuan Shu.

So Huh, the strategist ordered his cronies to quietly run back to Yuan Shao's camp in the middle of the night, and directly killed that Yuan Jiang. Yuan Shao was furious when he saw Yuan Jiang killed, but he didn't know who did it, and he couldn't find out after some investigation, so he could only order Yuan Jiang to be buried.

And this action was immediately discovered by Xin Ainu's people, this was actually a conspiracy of Chen Gong, he knew that Yuan Shao should send someone to mourn, but he didn't know who came, but no matter who came, this plan was feasible, in order to protect the strategist, Yuan Jiang would definitely be killed. If Yuan Shao is innocent, then Yuan Jiang will naturally not be killed, the so-called body is not afraid of shadows. However, Yuan Shao's army did not have three hundred taels of silver in this place, and directly killed Yuan Jiang, which shows that they always have ghosts in their hearts.

After Xin Ainu learned about this, he was furious in his heart, and immediately detained the strategist sent by Yuan Shao, and then came to press him into the big cell for interrogation.

Everything was understood, Xin Ainu knew that it was really not Zu Zhao's army that killed his father, but Yuan Shao's army, so he immediately announced an alliance with Zu Zhao's army to fight against Yuan Shao's army, and at the same time let Zu Zhao's army enter Didao City. After Zu Zhao's army entered the city, they did not commit any offense to the citizens, and even took out their dry food to give to people to eat. This made Xin Ainu very excited, and at the same time, after the initial contact, he had a deep affection for Zu Zhao. She fell in love for the first time, and actually fell in love with Zu Zhao, but her father had just died, and he couldn't say that he would marry Zu Zhao like this.

Zu Zhao also appreciated Xin Ainu's daring to hate, and promised that as long as her filial piety period expired, she would marry her immediately. This made Xin Ainu even more excited. At the same time, she also determined that the forces of the Xin family would jointly encircle and suppress Yuan Shao and start a war against Yuan Shao.

After Yuan Shao learned that his plan was exposed, and the Xin family also formed an alliance with Zu Zhao to fight him, he was shocked and angry, regretting that he did not listen to the words of Fu Zhu and Tian Feng at the beginning, which led to today's situation. He was bent on asking for help from Cao Cao, but Cao Cao had long been waiting for Yuan Shao and Zu Zhao to fight each other, and for him, Zu Zhao and Yuan Shao were victorious and defeated, and he felt that he was an opponent. However, in order to limit the endless development of his opponent, he recruited the Montenegrin army in the name of the Son of Heaven and ordered the Montenegrin army to attack Zuzhaohou's camp. But Zu Zhao had long known about the Montenegrin army, so he had already sent Han Dang and Zhang Jaw to stop the Montenegrin army, and the Montenegrin army had just left, and it was directly beaten back, with heavy casualties, Han Dang and Zhang Jaw were also powerful, and the Montenegrin army and others were afraid when they heard their names, but they moved.

After holding on for half a year, Yuan Shao still couldn't break through, seeing that the grain and grass in the army were already tight, and the reinforcements had not come, Yuan Shao was very impetuous. Frustrated and persuaded him to attack separately, assaulting at the same time in all directions, no matter who attacked out, it was good, so that Zu Zhao's elite forces could be contained.

But Yuan Shao was furious, saying that Fu Zhu was only thinking about himself and wanted to escape, and he was really an out-and-out villain, so he ordered someone to drag Fu Zhu out and behead him. Fortunately, under the plea of the generals, he was forgiven, and he was beaten with a military stick, and he was beaten until his skin was rotten and he was half dead.

Tian Feng was also heartbroken when he saw that he had ended up like this with his kind words, and at the same time learned that Zu Zhao's rear had defeated Gongsun Zhan and was gathering a large army to aid Zu Zhao, and Cao Cao's Black Mountain Army had also been killed by Han Dang's jaw and dared to hold on, and there was no hope for reinforcements.

For his own safety, Tian Feng left Yuan Shao with regret and went to Zu Zhao. Zu Zhao got these two people, he didn't know how happy he was, he treated them as guests, and immediately worshiped them as Zhongsima, and defeated Tian Feng as the great secretary, which flattered the two.