"Qingli Military Governor Xu Anmo?" Meng Zhi's pupils shrank and looked at King Jing, "That's it...... Xu Anmo, who was almost engaged in military law by His Royal Highness because he missed the deadline for no reason? But he is the cousin of the crown prince, I remember that in order to protect this person, the prince had a very stiff quarrel with His Royal Highness, how could he get involved with King Yu? . ”

"Where is the crown prince now?" Mei Changsu sneered: "The world is bustling for profit; The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit. It only takes a man of his kind to convince him. ”

"So you believe Tong Lu's words?"

Mei Changsu sighed lightly: "It's not so much that I believe in Tong Lu's words, it's better to say that I am the king of Xiangxin, and I have a reason to choose to take risks." He has now been beaten back to the original point by His Majesty, and it is difficult to make a comeback, and more importantly, there is no time for him to bring down His Royal Highness King Jing like the crown prince. Losing Xia Jiang, losing his friends in the court, and losing His Majesty's grace, the king has always been forced too hard, and when his will is not enough to bear all this, he will either be decadent or crazy, and there will be no third way. ”

"Mr. Su thinks King Yu will definitely choose to be crazy?" Xiao Jingyan asked suspiciously.

"If he has been in the mansion, it will be fine, if he really can't help but go to see Xia Jiang, that Venerable Lord has a way to drive him crazy. After all, the person who has no way to live at all is Xia Jiang, and of course he hopes that King Yu will break the boat. Mei Changsu turned his gaze to Tong Lu and said coldly: "Tong Lu, do you want to avenge Jun Niang?" ”

Tong Lu knocked his head down heavily, and blood dripped from his forehead.

"But how can I trust you that you have betrayed me once? If you are coerced by King Yu again this time, Your Highness listens to your words and goes to accuse King Yu of rebellion. In the end, he didn't have that at all, didn't His Highness also become a framer? ”

Tong Lu's neck was full of tendons, but he was speechless. Suddenly, he jumped and threw himself at the saber hanging from the tent wall, and pulled it out and wiped it around his neck. was snatched away by Meng Zhi.

"It's useless to die." Mei Changsu's voice was still cold: "What if you really value Jun Niang so much, and would rather die yourself than her die?" ”

"Jun Niang is dead...... Tong Lu finally couldn't help crying loudly, "She, her corpse is still buried in Wufengpo...... The Overlord can...... Send someone to see ......"

Mei Changsu quietly looked at his former subordinates for a moment. Fang slowly stepped forward to help him and said gently: "Okay, we will verify the news you said, but you still have to be imprisoned, you can't contact other people, and don't talk nonsense, understand?" ”

"Tong Lu understands, as long as he can avenge Jun Niang, Tong Lu doesn't care about anything......" Tong Lu knelt and refused to get up. Still lying at Mei Changsu's feet, crying silently.

King Jing received Mei Changsu's hand-out, and immediately summoned two henchmen. ordered them to take them down, change their clothes and eat, and watch them carefully. Wait for the tent door to close again. Meng Zhi looked left and right. "What's next?" he asked. Do we believe it or not? ”

"I think it's important to be on guard by believing his words." King Jing is concise and authentic.

"I agree with His Highness." Mei Changsu said: "This is not only an accident, but also an opportunity, how to deal with it, how to use it, should be carefully considered." ”

"Could it be that the act of King Yu is also an accident for Mr.?" King Jing raised his eyebrows.

"Your Highness, will I really be an unpredictable prophet? Although I thought that King Yu might find a way to meet Xia Jiang, I didn't expect that the forbidden army would be controlled, nor did I expect Xu Anmo to get involved. Mei Changsu's face was a little solemn: "If what Tong Lu said is true, then this time I really underestimate the king of honor." ”

"The power of a person in a desperate situation is always more terrifying." Meng Zhi wrinkled his eyebrows, "It seems that King Yu is planning to gamble on ......"

Mei Changsu was about to speak, but suddenly stopped and looked at King Jing and said, "Does Your Highness have any ideas?" ”

"Let's analyze the situation first," King Jing drew his waist knife and drew on the sand, "This is the capital, this is the Qingli camp of Jiu'an Mountain, stationed in the west, three days away from the capital, and five days away from Jiu'an Mountain. But there is one point: Qingli is not a Taiwanese army, the governor does not have the right to specialize in wartime, more than ten soldiers and horses are not seen, and Xu Anmo can not move these 50,000 people? ”

Mei Changsu looked at the painting marks on the ground, and frowned slightly: "Probably it can only be a pseudo-edict or a pseudo-military talisman...... The person who verifies the talisman is Xu Anmo, and he can do it with his hands and feet.#."

"But the five commanders of Qingli also have the right to retest, and if Xu Anmo refuses to retest, then the commander has the right to refuse to send troops. I don't believe that all of these five commanders are reversed. Meng Zhi objected.

"Two or three are enough, and those who are disobedient can be killed." Mei Changsu glanced at King Jing, "The situation in the army is clearer, right?" ”

King Jing's face sank like water, and he silently returned the knife into the sheath. He knew that what Mei Changsu said was true, and now the army is indeed no better than the one in the past, except for the marching army on the front line of the four borders, which still retains a bit of hard bones, the Tuntian army raised in various places has long since lost the loyalty of the soldiers due to the deduction of military salaries and the corruption of military discipline. It is not impossible to buy a few officers if they are lured by heavy profits.

"His Royal Highness's manpower arranged in the capital will not be unaware of the changes in the land of Yu Wang, and there will probably be news sent the day after tomorrow, and we can confirm what Tong Lu said." Mei Changsu's eyes slowly narrowed, and his fingers gently touched his chin, "But...... All this may also be just a trick by King Yu. Once we act rashly and do not force ourselves to rebel in the end, the trust that His Highness has just gained from the emperor will evaporate and fall into the same situation as King Yu. ”

"In this way, even if we get the news in advance, even if we can believe that what Tong Lu said is true, it will be the same as not getting it," Meng Zhi said in a lost voice, "Anyway, we don't dare to tell Your Majesty now......"

"It's not the same. We can anticipate in advance and have multiple sets of plans to prepare for them, which is better than being caught off guard by then. Because Mei Changsu was thinking anxiously, he unconsciously pulled out King Jing's waist knife, and drew on the ground, the skillful movements naturally made Meng Zhi, who was watching, drip cold sweat, and King Jing couldn't help but be stunned.

"Look." Mei Changsu continued unnoticed: "The Holy Driver travels, and there are police posts in all directions. There are two police posts between the capital and Jiu'an Mountain, and one is closer to the capital. will definitely be pulled out by King Yu, a forbidden army close to Jiu'an Mountain, and he will go to check from time to time, and King Yu can't move. And the Qingli army must pass through several large towns for this attack. It is difficult to hide for a long time, hiding important places is a fast word, in order to grab time, it is impossible for them to bypass this police post and take other roads. ”

"You mean, once the alarm signal from this sentry came, it would be completely certain that King Yu was really going to rebel, not a trick?" Meng Zhi calculated slightly: "But it's too late at this time!" This post is only fifty miles away from the foot of Jiu'an Mountain. Waiting for us to answer the message and then escort down the mountain will definitely hit us head-on! ”

Mei Changsu didn't answer, but glanced at King Jing again.

"Jiu'an Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. When the alarm came, he would rather guard the mountain than go down the mountain. "Xiao Jingyan has already understood Mei Changsudi's meaning at this time, and he is also calculating with his eyebrows." It is assumed that Xu Anmo can bring all 50,000 Qingli troops. The Forbidden Army was guarded by three thousand to resist the danger. It's about two or three days, right? ”

"You underestimate our forbidden army," Commander Meng said dissatisfiedly, "Since we know now that they are coming, we must be prepared in advance, and it will be no problem to hold out for five days." It's just that...... What's the use of three days and five days? ”

"The access to Jiu'an Mountain is limited, and the Qingli army is here, and there is not much difference between 50,000 and 30,000. But five days is the limit of the limit. Mei Changsu looked at King Jing deeply, "Can Your Highness come back?" ”

Xiao Jingyan's lips provoked a firm smile: "Mother and you are both in the mountains, and I will come back when I die." ”

Meng Zhi stared at the sketch diagram on the ground and looked at it for a long time, and gradually reacted: "Your Highness is going to transfer the army of Jicheng in the north?" ”

"That's why I'm waiting for the police to come in." Mei Changsu sighed: "Your Majesty is suspicious and indecisive, even if we take the risk to report to him now, he may not be fully convinced, only when he is sure that the anti-army is approaching, the situation is undoubted, he will hand over the talisman to His Highness to transfer troops." Speaking of which, we have to sit quietly here as a last resort. ”

Meng Zhi always felt that there was something wrong with this coping strategy, and after thinking about it for a long time, he came up with it and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Su, you only ask Your Highness if you can't come back in five days, why don't you want to think about whether he can get out?" It will take a little time to wait for the alarm to come and report to His Majesty and then ask for an order, and it will take a little time to get the talisman. The rebels are using surprise attack tactics, and they must not be slow, once they surround the main road down the mountain, they have to rush out, but I'm afraid it's not easy! ”

Mei Changsu was a little speechless when he asked, not that he couldn't answer, but that it was impossible to answer at all, so he had to say: "This is my negligence." If you want to break out of the siege and ask for help, you may only have to rely on the courage of His Highness. ”

Meng Zhi hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness King Jing rushed to the battlefield and was invincible, I know this. But...... There's no complete certainty that you can rush out, right? Sending reinforcements is our last solution, in case His Highness is blocked back, won't everyone sit back and wait for death? ”

Mei Changsu lowered his head and seemed to be thinking, but his eyes quietly swept King Jing.

Fortunately, King Jing quickly took the initiative to answer Meng Zhi's question: "The Great Commander doesn't have to worry that I can go down from the north slope. ”

"The north slope is a cliff, there is no road!"

"There is a very dangerous, very steep path that is completely covered by weeds, when Xiaoshu and I were running around on Jiu'an Mountain, no one else knows about it except the two of us."

"Really?" "This is simply a help from heaven!" ”

"Then it's decided," King Jing also smiled and made a final decision: "Don't tell Your Majesty Meng Qing to reorganize the defense of the Jiu'an Mountains, and you must not be chaotic in the face of danger." No matter how difficult the situation is in the future, Your Majesty and the noble concubine must not be fine. ”

"Yes!" Meng Zhi promised in a deep voice, but then couldn't help but glance at Mei Changsu. The latter didn't notice at this time that he had not been included in the "must not be fine" people, because he had just appeared in King Jing's waist knife in his own hand, and his expression was a little embarrassed.

King Jing followed Meng Zhi's line of sight for a moment, and felt that he was in a hurry, and added: "Although Mr. Su has an entourage to protect you, you still have to be careful of his safety." ”

"Yes!" "Please forgive Your Highness for not paying attention to it just now......" Mei Changsu handed over his waist knife with both hands and bowed humblely.

"It's okay, everybody's talking about what's important. Don't care about these false courtesies. King Jing said lightly, took the waist knife and inserted it back into the sheath.

Meng Zhiji immediately got up and said goodbye to the defense. Mei Changsu didn't want to stay alone in the tent with King Jing, afraid that he would find a way to interrogate him again. So they retired together.

The Buddha's tooth happened to be outside the tent, and as soon as they met, they pounced on him and wanted to lick two bites, Meng Zhi ate and laughed, and Mei Changsu was also a little helpless. Fortunately, the door of the tent was closed tightly at the back, and King Jing could not see it.

"I heard Zhan Ying say that you live in a simple place, I thought you were uncomfortable again, it turned out that you were hiding from the Buddha's teeth." Meng Zhi leaned over and said, "Why don't you just kill the Buddha's tooth?" ”

Although the Buddha tooth couldn't understand human speech, he immediately howled in protest, Mei Changsu was worried that King Jing would hear its cry and be lured out, so he couldn't care about it anymore, and Meng Zhi hurriedly dragged the gray wolf into his tent.

On the second day, King Jing really received a secret report from Beijing. Although there is no inside story mentioned by Tong Lu above, it still reports that the forbidden army is too quiet, the shift is abnormal, and King Yu has entered the prison many times to watch the affairs of Xiajiang. According to the secret report. Every time, he stayed for half a day on the orders of the queen. Even Cai Quan, the secretary of the Criminal Department, couldn't stop it. But other than that, the capital is relatively calm. The patrol battalion still guarded the four gates, and there were no major fluctuations.

Because of the real fluctuations. He was not born in the capital.

The emperor has long moved into the hunting palace, but except for the prince and the prince, the rest of the clan and the courtiers are still camped outside, retaining the scene of the hunting sacrifice. Meng Zhi was the busiest and most nervous person in the past two days, on the one hand, he had to adjust the defense of Jiu'an Mountain, and on the other hand, he couldn't make people feel that there was anything strange about his adjustment, and the whole nerves were tense at any time.

Fortunately, this crisis was approaching, and only four days later, the shocking news had already arrived.

The soldier who came to call the police was covered in blood and was dumb when he was brought to Emperor Liang, and from his embarrassed appearance, it could be seen that the sound of the rebels' horses' hooves was approaching.

The entire Jiu'an Mountain shook, and Meng Zhi narrowed the scope of the forbidden army according to the plan that had been planned, and quickly arranged several outer defense lines along the mountain roads and ravines. Fortunately, this was the royal hunting ground, and the feasible human trails outside the mountain road were all blocked, and there were natural mountain streams around the grassland around the hunting palace, and the slope was suitable, and the mountains and trees were very numerous, and the quarrying was also convenient, and the rebels could not stand it if they wanted to climb up from the roadless cliff slope to attack some rolling stones, so they could shrink the defense line tightly and densely, and get rid of some of the disadvantages of being outnumbered.

"What? What are these traitors clamoring for? Listening to the police report, Emperor Liang didn't know whether he was angry or frightened, and his whole body kept shaking, "You...... You repeat! ”

King Jing stood calmly beside his father and said, "The rebels are saying that their sons have made a rebellion and coerced their father, so they are here to protect King Qin. ”

"When did you hold me hostage?"

"There must be a reason for rebels to rebel. In the future, when they came to the rescue, the scene was chaotic, and although the son was killed, his father was also killed by the son. At that time, there was no prince, and naturally a new heir was appointed according to the queen's edict. ”

"Delusional!" Emperor Liang roared angrily, and then forced himself to stabilize his mind and looked at the son beside him: "Jingyan, the rebels are approaching, what can you do?" ”

"Erchen thought that moving away from Jiu'an Mountain at this time was tantamount to suicide, so he could only take advantage of the fact that the rebels could not close the siege, and on the one hand, he was preparing to hold on to the other while sending people to send reinforcements."

"Good! Good! I'm going to write you an edict ......."

"Father, the emperor has no military talismans, and he can't move the military land of Jicheng."

"Why do you want to discipline the city army? The nearest reinforcements should be the forbidden army of the imperial capital! ”

"Father, the emperor's rebels came from the west, do you still think that going to the imperial capital to ask for help will have an effect?"

Emperor Liang pressed his cold sweaty forehead with his hand and sat weakly in the chair. Concubine Jing, who had been sitting beside him, interjected at the right time: "Ji Chengjun and the imperial capital both asked for help, see who comes faster, isn't it better?" ”

"That's right." King Jing nodded and said, "In order to avoid suspicion, the ministers can't go to the imperial capital." Please ask your father and emperor to give troops, and Fu Erchen will lead troops to protect her father and mother within five days. As for the imperial capital, please send your own confidants to ask for help, if there are reinforcements coming, count the sons and daughters to spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, if there is no father, the emperor can also see the truth more clearly. ”

The situation is critical, and there is no room for the slightest hesitation at this time, not to mention that Concubine Jing is by his side, Emperor Liang is not worried that King Jing will not rush back as quickly as possible, so he only groaned for a while, and then he personally entered the inner tent and took half of the talisman, and solemnly handed it to King Jing: "Jingyan, Jiangshan Sheji, now you are alone, remember not to lose on the way!" ”

"Yes! The sons will not be dishonored. King Jing knelt down and bowed, got up, grabbed the cloak in the hand of the attendant, shook it in the wind, tied his shoulders and strode out of the hall.

At this time, there was a panic outside the palace, and many people were running around at a loss, as if they couldn't escape and couldn't hide. King Jing's face was like cold iron, and his walk was like the wind, not moved by this panic in the slightest, and after his straight and firm figure passed through, the people watching him on both sides inexplicably settled down.

Bypassing the huge platform in front of the Hunting Palace, at a glance, I saw Mei Changsu and Meng Zhi standing side by side on the side of the mountain road, one pointed to the terrain in front of him, as if he was saying something, and the other frequently agreed. After noticing that someone was approaching, Meng Zhi turned back first, Mei Changsu then turned his head and saw that it was King Jing and the two were busy saluting.

"I'm going to leave immediately," King Jing said with a solemn expression, "I'll ask the Great Commander on the mountain." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured!" Meng Zhi hugged his fists and answered these four words very crisply.

King Jing glanced at Mei Changsu deeply and said: "Although Mr. Su said that the method of military affairs he understands is a veteran who has been discharged from military service, I see that you just instructed the deployment of troops and defense, and even the commander is so obedient, I think there must be another famous teacher." When I get back, I'll ask for advice, so please take care of yourself. ”

"We weren't ...... just now," Mei Changsu wanted to deny it, but first, King Jing guessed correctly, and secondly, it was so critical that it was not appropriate for the two to stand on the side of the mountain road and talk about any topic, so they had to keep silent.

Fortunately, King Jing had something in his heart, and he didn't want to think about it at the moment, so he turned his head and strode towards the north slope. At the foot of the mountain, horses and water had already been prepared, and five elite riders went down the mountain the day before and were waiting at the intersection.