Let's say that after Li Mi gathered everyone. began to divide his subordinates, trying to create his own army with a relatively complete system. Li Mi divided his subordinates into four departments, and the Wei Gongfu was mainly composed of the elders of the Wagang Army, including Zhai Rang, Zhai Mohou, Xu Shichang, Shan Xiongxin and others; The marching marshal's mansion mainly includes the personnel of the original government who were attached, such as Pei Renji, Pei Xingyan and his son, etc., which is Li Mi's core class; The hundred battalions consisted of a group of attached bandits; The inner army was composed of hussars led by Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and others, and was the elite of the Wagang army.

Although Zhai Rang has given way to Li Mi, it gives the outside world the feeling that more power is still in Zhai Rang's hands. Some of Zhai Rang's relatives, friends and subordinates began to be a little unwilling, and his subordinate Wang Ruxin repeatedly persuaded Zhai Rang to let Zhai Rang take the important position of Otsuka Zai, so that he could manage all the affairs and gradually regain the power that was ceded to Li Mi. Although Zhai Rang doesn't have much culture, he is a generous person, he knows that his talent is not as good as Li Mi, and he also knows that only Li Mi can strengthen the Wagang army, so he didn't listen to Wang Ruxin's bad idea at all.

Zhai Rang's purpose may be different from Li Mi's, Li Mi is determined to strengthen the Wagang military regime, and he should still have the ambition to fight for the world in his heart. Zhai Rang is a "hillbilly" after all, his purpose is very shallow compared to Li Mi, Zhai Rang simply wants to enjoy the glory and wealth, maybe he was afraid of the previous life of poverty and hardship.

Of course, I have to admit that Zhai Rang is still relatively brave and brave, and he is brave, otherwise he would not be able to become the leader of the peasant rebel army, but "no one is perfect", although Zhai Rang realized that he was not as talented as Li Mi and took the initiative to give way, but he still has a lot of bad habits, the most obvious of which is the reckless and greedy temperament - Zhai Rang often blackmails his subordinates and connives, every time Li Mi is ready to punish them, Zhai Rang comes forward like a big brother to persuade: "Give me a face", Li Mi can't say anything, after all, the Wagang Army was established by Zhai Rang, and his current position is also due to him, so he has to give him a face.

The saddest thing is that Zhai Rang is a person, he has no foresight, and he is just a mouse.

Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Hong is also a vulgar person, he once chatted with Zhai Rang, and said unabashedly: "The work of the Son of Heaven should be done by you, how can you let it be given to outsiders?" This Wagang Army was originally founded by our Zhai family brothers, but now it has let outsiders become the Son of Heaven, what is this like? If you really don't want to do it, let me do it! When Zhai Rang heard this, he immediately burst out laughing, which did not stop Zhai Hong's "rumors". When Zhai Hong said this, he completely ignored the existence of other people, and didn't seem to be worried that someone would tell Li Mi, or he didn't take Li Mi, the Duke of Wei, in his eyes at all.

I have mentioned Zhai Rang's reckless and greedy temperament earlier, which does not deliberately belittle him at all, just give a few examples - at that time, there was an official of the Sui Dynasty, called Cui Shishu, who came to Li Mi, but was caught and locked up by Zhai Rang, and the reason why Zhai Rang did this was very simple, he thought that after all, he was an official of the Sui Dynasty, and he came to Li Mi this time, and he should have brought all the belongings on his body, so he wanted this Cui Shishu to hand over all the gold and silver on his body, and threatened Cui Shishu to punish him if he didn't call it out. It is not known what the result will be.

Another time, Zhai Rang sent someone to call Xing Yiqi of the Marshal's Mansion to gamble with him, Xing Yiqi was late because of something to do, and was beaten by Zhai Rang with 80 rods. After the beating of the cane, Xing Ji Room was no longer able to stand, and was still carried away by his subordinates, Li Mi must have heard of this, but even if his right-hand man was beaten, Li Mi did not dare to blame Zhai Rang, he could only turn a blind eye, Li Mi was privately concerned about Xing Ji's room. Even his own boss couldn't punish Zhai Rang, and he couldn't get justice for himself, so Xing Yiqi had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky, and the matter was over.

Zhai Rang also once asked Zuo Changshi Fang Yanzao: "When you broke through Runan, you harvested a lot of gold and silver treasures, right?" ”

"Yes, is there anything wrong with Zhai Zhuguo?" Fang Yanzao asked rhetorically, with a slight trilling in his tone, maybe he sensed that something bad was about to happen, so he was already scared.

"And where are all these gold and silver treasures?" Zhai Rang looked at Fang Yanzao with fierce eyes, "It won't all be swallowed by you, right?" ”

Fang Yanzao immediately denied it: "Zhai Zhuguo misunderstood, I handed over all those jewels to Duke Wei, and I didn't dare to swallow one privately." ”

"Oh? All of them were given to Wei Gong? Zhai Rang asked again.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you think to leave a little for me? You have to know that Wei Gong was single-handedly promoted by me, and I don't know what will happen in the future! ”

Fang Yanzao should have been scared, worried that he would be punished by Zhai Rang in the future, so he hurriedly found Li Mi and said: "Zhai Rang is just greedy and has the heart of a king, so he should plan it as soon as possible", he also told Li Mi everything Zhai Rang said, and heard that Li Mi's expression was very solemn at that time......

In the winter of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause (617 AD), Li Mi invited Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong, Zhai Mohou, and Hao Xiaode to a banquet.

Li Mi said: "Please drink today, you don't need too many people, except for the people who serve, the rest of you should step down!" After speaking, Li Mi's henchmen retreated, Zhai Rang's henchmen were unmoved, and still stood by Zhai Rang's side, among which Zhai Rang's henchmen Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiyun stood vigilantly behind Zhai Rang to guard.

Zhai Rang spoke: "Is there anything important that Duke Wei needs to say about your banquet today?" ”

Li Mi smiled: "Zhai Zhuguo has been kind to me, and he has supported me to the position of the Duke of Wei now, and I have long wanted to thank you." Li Mi stood up and held up the wine lord engraved with a phoenix bird, "This cup of wine, I respect Zhai Zhuguo, and I also respect the generals, our Wagang regime can not come to this point without everyone's efforts." ”

Zhai asked them to stand up as well, raised the wine jue and saluted Li Mi, and everyone drank it all.

At this time, Fang Yanzao came over and said to Li Mi: "Lord, the weather is cold today, please give wine to General Shan and General Xu." ”

Li Mi patted his head: "Look at my elm head, I forgot to give wine to the two generals, Fang Yanzao, quickly give wine to the two generals, don't neglect the two generals." ”

Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shichang looked at Zhai Rang, Zhai Rang nodded, and Fang Yanzao led the two of them to drink outside the tent, and Zhai Rang's henchmen were also arranged to drink together outside the tent.

At this point, there weren't many people in the account.

Li Mi continued: "But I just thought, after all, this Wagang Army was established by Zhai Zhuguo and your brother, and now it is really not suitable for me to be the son of heaven, I have been thinking about it for a long time, or let it be given to Zhai Zhuguo or your brother." ”

Zhai Rang looked at Li Mi with strange eyes, and said: "Duke Wei is brave and strategic, and the Wagang army can develop into this large-scale and powerful army, but it is all your credit, and you are not an exaggeration!" Several of our brothers are reckless people, it's okay to kill the enemy, and the others are not satisfactory, I think the position of the Son of Heaven belongs to you, and our brothers are not suitable. ”

"But I'm not feeling well, and some people are not convinced! What should I do? Li Mi smiled at Zhai Rang and looked at Zhai Hong again.

"Who would dare to disagree?" Zhai Rang barely squeezed out a smile.

"Zhai Zhuguo is also old, and he has not yet married a wife and had children, why don't I find a few beautiful women for you, and you can enjoy the joy of family? Wait until I overthrow Yang Guang's gang, and then take you back as king, what do you think? ”

Zhai Rang immediately stood up, angrily pointed at Li Mi and accused loudly: "Li Mi, don't go too far, I have already given way to you, what do you want me to do?" Don't forget, I gave me the position of the Son of Heaven, and I naturally want to come back. ”

"Zhai Zhuguo is angry, if you don't agree, forget it, don't be angry. Besides, if Zhai Zhuguo really wants the position of my son of heaven, as soon as you open your mouth, I will definitely take the initiative to give way! Li Mi said with a smile.

Zhai Rang sat down again and drank silently.

"I got a good bow and arrow some time ago, and I'm going to give it to you, Zhai Zhuguo, see if you like it." Li Mi said, ordering his men to bring up their bows and arrows.

It was really a good bow and arrow, after Zhai Rang saw it, his eyes lit up, and he immediately fell in love with the bow and arrow, he took it in his hand and repeatedly observed, groped for the delicate texture on the bow and arrow, he slowly pulled the bow full, at this moment, Li Mi's close guard Cai Jiande raised his knife and stabbed Zhai Rang, and immediately the blood flowed like an infusion, and then a knife went down, Zhai Rang's neck fell to the ground, the action was clean and neat, and everyone had not yet reacted.

"You, what are you doing here? Li Mi, you ......" Zhai Hong's eyes widened, he should have felt the breath of death, only to see that he collapsed as soon as he stood up, and Cai Jiande immediately ended his life.

Li Mi raised the wine lord and fell to the ground fiercely, Li Mi's army outside the tent heard the sound and took action, instantly subduing Zhai Rang's army, Xu Shixian's neck was cut, Shan Xiongxin saw this formation, and immediately knelt down and begged for mercy, we were just about to end the lives of these two generals together, Li Mi hurriedly came out and stopped.

After Zhai Rang's death, "Mi Du rode into his camp, and he gave instructions to order Zhai Rang's troops to lead Shiyun, Xiongxin, and Bodang among his people, and China and foreign countries were safe." ”

Xu Shiyun was cut on the neck by us and didn't care about anything, but obeyed Li Mi's leadership wholeheartedly. Although some of the personnel were later gone, we achieved unprecedented unity in organization and command, and in a short period of time, we won a series of operational victories one after another.

Not long after, Wang Shichong led an army into Cangcheng, and under the command of Li Mi, we successfully defeated Wang Shichong's army. Wang Shichong later moved to Luobei, built a pontoon bridge and attacked the city again, but was beaten by us again. Later, we took advantage of the victory to pursue, conquered Yanshi, built Kim Yong Fortress, and then defeated Wei Jin and captured Yu Wenkai in succession.

This infighting is not a loss for our Wagang army.