Now that he has chosen to surrender, Zhai Rang quickly found his position.

He persuaded: "Guogong, although Li Mi controls Xingyang, I still have many loyal subordinates in Wagang. In my opinion, they should be summoned as soon as possible, so as not to be defeated by Li Mi. ”

Li Yizhi shook his head and smiled, and said, "General Zhai, you have neglected one point, in Li Mi's heart, you are now a dead man. If I hadn't made a move, General Zhai thought who else in this world could save you? ”

Zhai Rang shook his head and said even more gratefully: "Zhai Rang once again thanked Guogong for saving his life. ”

Li Yizhi was speechless, and he said: "I mean, instead of you exposing it, it is better to let Li Mi think that you are a dead person." Only in this way will he unscrupulously exclude dissidents and consolidate his position. As for your subordinates, even if he wants to clean up, he will talk about it after the situation stabilizes, so as not to lose his unkind reputation and even cause chaos in the Wagang army. ”

Li Mi is a person who aspires to the world, and naturally cherishes feathers very much.

Now that Zhai Rang is dead, those old departments of Zhai Rang naturally can't make any big waves.

After all, it is all the strength of Wagangzhai, as long as Zhai Rang's old subordinates don't follow him, Li Mi will definitely not kill them all, at most suppress their promotion, or gradually elevate them.

Zhai Rang nodded, feeling that Li Yizhi's words were very reasonable.

Li Yizhi continued: "In this way, then our opportunity has come. Only when Li Mi is relieved, he will make a vigorous move, eliminate dissidents, and promote his cronies, so as to control the Wagang Army as quickly as possible. But as far as I know, people like Qin Shubao, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yanjin and others, although they can fight well, they are not the henchmen of the two of you, do you think Li Mi will continue to let them take power? ”

Zhai Rang shook his head and said, "Absolutely not." Li Mi seems to be benevolent and righteous, but in fact he is the most vicious; It seems to be generous, but in fact it is the smallest. ”

Li Yizhi chuckled and said: "Li Mi wants to consolidate his rights, and his exclusion of dissidents is tantamount to abolishing his martial arts, and we must take the opportunity to absorb these people in order to enhance our strength." For those old subordinates of yours, you can secretly handwrite to them, and ask them to be with Li Mi and wrong, so that they don't really surrender to Li Mi. ”

Zhai Rang nodded hurriedly, and he actually understood it very well in his heart.

If he really died, then at least more than half of his old subordinates would choose to take refuge in Li Mi.

Li Yizhi said: "The matter here will be handed over to you next, try to attract all the excluded talents." I will return to Jiangdu later, mobilize a large army to the north, and then you will gather the old troops and join me in Qiaojun. ”

Qiaojun is today's Bozhou, and four or five hundred miles northwest is Xingyang, which is near Zhengzhou.

If Li Yizhi can join forces with Zhai Rang here, he can basically split more than one-third of the territory of the original Wagang.

Zhai made a promise, and then the two separated.

A few days after Li Yizhi left, Zhai Rang quickly joined Tu Shufang, who had escaped, and Zhai Jiao, who had not yet left.

In order to make Li Mi believe that he was dead, Zhai Rang asked Zhai Jiao to cooperate with him in a scene, that is, he found someone who looked somewhat similar to him and buried him, and asked her to wear a filial piety cloth on her head.

After Li Mi got the news, he was really relieved.

Now that Zhai Rang is dead, he has no scruples at all.

In order to prepare to go north to grasp the absolute military power after Li Yizhi was in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Mi used very direct means to dismiss Qin Shubao, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yanjin, Shan Xiongxin and other generals.

Of course, it is not that they are completely unnecessary, after all, Li Mi has not yet fainted to this point, he just transferred them to the rear, trained the soldiers, and let them fight when there is a big battle.

Originally, because of the seizure of power, Qin Shubao and others felt that Li Mi was not loyal enough, and now that the other party had deposed their military power, they were even more determined to leave.

It just so happened that Zhai Rang had people secretly find them, and after learning that Zhai Rang was not dead and had taken refuge with Li Yizhi, they agreed almost without thinking about it and decided to take refuge in Li Yizhi.

What surprised Li Yizhi was that not only did he recruit so many famous historical generals, but also because Qin Shubao and others had great prestige in the army, as long as they raised their arms, they could kill and replace their generals, thus taking away the army.

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Li Yi hurried all the way, and finally rushed back to Yangzhou on the morning of the third day, and then summoned Tian Wen and others.

As for Wang Tong, he is still on the way.

Li Yizhi asked: "In the more than half a month since I left, have you been okay inside and outside the court?" ”

Tian Wen reported: "All aspects are proceeding in accordance with the order, and yesterday we received a report from General Li that the Liang State has been basically pacified, and he is now in accordance with the military system you formulated earlier, and the Zhichong Prefecture is being established in various places to stabilize the localities. As for General Luo, he just defeated Zhu Yi some time ago, and now he is in pursuit, and I believe that it will not be long before there will be another good news. ”

Li Yizhi was overjoyed and said, "This is very good, so that we can also draw troops to the north." ”

Tian Wenxi asked, "Have you already saved Zhai Rang?" ”

Li Yizhi nodded and said: "Yes, now that he is secretly gathering the old department, I am ready to lead the army to the north, fight them inside and outside, and join forces in Qiaojun, so as to drive a nail in the north." In this way, Mr. Tian, you will send a message to General Li later, see how many soldiers and horses he can draw out there, and transfer them back to Jiangdu as soon as possible, I will be of great use. ”

"Good!"

Tian Wen nodded.

Next, Li Yizhi inquired about all aspects of the court and found that there were no major problems, and everything was running according to the system he had set.

The only thing that needs to be paid attention to is the cooperation with the Eastern Underworld Sect.

However, this matter is not urgent, and the arsenal cannot be put into production without two or three months.

Four days later, Li Yizhi received a reply from Li Jing, saying that 100,000 soldiers and horses had been transferred back to Jiangdu.

As for Li Jing himself, he still needs to sit in the south of the Yangtze River and cannot go north for the time being.

The speed of the army's march is naturally impossible to get there fast, and if Li Yizhi wants to lead the army north, he will have to wait for at least half a month.

However, plans have not kept up with the changes.

On the fifth day, Li Yizhi received a flying pigeon message from Zhai Rang.

Zhai Rang said in the letter that he had recruited Qin Shubao and others, and they would take their respective subordinates with them at any time, adding up to nearly 50,000.

If you count his own old troops, it is more than 100,000 people, accounting for more than one-third of Wagang's troops.

Li Yizhi was overjoyed, this was really an unexpected surprise.

Inevitably there are many dreams at night, and he has no time to wait for 100,000 troops now, Li Yizhi is ready to lead the garrison on the Huai River to the north, about 30,000.

At the same time, his current goal is no longer just Qiaojun, but Xuchang.

Xuchang is located about a hundred miles south of Xingyang, and the location of the ground is extremely important, and after he and Zhai Rang and others joined forces, the 100,000 troops transferred back from Jiangnan have almost arrived.

At that time, more than 200,000 troops will be gathered in Xuchangtun, and they can go north at any time and destroy Li Mi in one fell swoop.

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