Fifth Night No. 4: Loyalty in Danger (1)

Sima Fuqiang always looked far ahead, which was not unrelated to his profession, so he made a mistake and forgot about the urgent problem in front of him. He gave up the opportunity to advise Li Mi to Xu Shiji, naturally for the longer-term goal of joining Li Tang's camp in the future, but it was useless for how to avoid the crisis of internal strife in the Wagang Army at present, and Li Mi did not know that Captain Ma was "loyal" to him.

So when he went to Xu Shiji for a task the next day, he tasted the bitter fruit. For this well-known and resourceful general, Xu Shiji naturally wants to stay by his side, even if Li Mi's side has begun to gather people to attack Heishi Pass, he will never let the East China Sea team dispatch. Therefore, Sima Fuqiang's "farsighted" behavior caused the Donghai team to continue to be tied to the core of all disputes - Zhai Rang in Luokou Cangcang City.

At this time, Zhai Rang was a huge powder keg that would be detonated by Li Mi at any time, and Xu Shiji had been staying by the side of the powder keg during this time. Xu Shiji's life is hard, and history proves that he will never die in this infighting, but the East China Sea team is different, God knows if Li Mi's men will attack them.

In other words, if Sima Fuqiang hadn't blindly considered long-term interests last night, he should have gone to Li Mi to offer advice in person. In this way, although the Donghai team lost a little bit of Xu Shiji's intimacy, they ensured that they stood correctly in this infighting, at least letting Li Mi know that he was facing himself.

The essence of war is driven by interests, and Sima Fuqiang has a good understanding of this, but he has great shortcomings in how to choose between long-term interests and short-term interests. This is a case of a clear mistake, and it's not the first time.

Speaking in detail, the Battle of Weishui can barely be regarded as a wrong choice, and the East China Sea team can completely get the short-term benefit of points in the Eastern Jin Dynasty camp, and then try to break away from the Eastern Jin Dynasty camp and go north to fight the Northern Wei camp after the short-term benefit of the Eastern Jin Dynasty camp.

Of course, it can't be said that it was a wrong choice, after all, it is far easier to use Huang Ying's former Qin camp to change camps than to transfer from the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the future, which can be regarded as a matter of opinion.

The plan to surprise attack Wang Shichong's base camp in Heishi Pass took effect, and Wang Shichong, who was afraid that the back road would be cut off, finally couldn't ignore it after the Sui army guarding the pass raised a beacon fire for help six times, and waved his army back to help. The Wagang army waited for the opportunity to chase and kill, and drove the Sui army back to Heishi Pass all the way, beheading countless people, and greatly boosting morale.

Not everyone was happy about Li Mi's victory, at least Wang Ruxin and the others had a gloomy face. These people didn't want Li Mi's prestige to continue to rise, so under their prodding, Zhai Rang finally got a command.

On the ninth day of the first day of November, Wang Shichong, who had failed in the attack on Yuecheng in the west of Xingluo City, moved to Shizihe on the south road, and Zhai Rang, with the support of his pro-party, led the army to take the lead in fighting the Sui army.

What kind of person was Zhai Rang before he established the Wagang Army, he was a small Facao in Dongjun, which is equivalent to the director of the modern police station, but he was just a small local official, although he was quite brave, but he had learned what art of war. As the founder of the Wagang Army, he relied on the wise general Xu Shiji and others to help him take care of it in the early days, so that he could gradually make a fortune by robbing merchant ships in the Yongji Canal area.

At this time, he really let him lead an army to take the lead, and the opponent is Wang Shichong, the old fox of the Sui army, how can this opponent that even Li Shimin has a headache for him, how can there be a good result. And what is even more ridiculous is that in order to show Zhai Rang's military "talent", Wang Ruxin and others did not let him bring Xu Shiji with him, so as not to win the battle and be counted on the head of Mao Gong.

In this way, Zhai Rang was really blind, his brother Zhai Hong and Wang Ruxin were all gangsters in the township, who once commanded a major battle of such a scale, and they didn't even know much about the arrangement of troops, and they were quickly defeated and retreated.

Li Mi had expected Zhai Rang's result, and after reversing the defeat in Yuecheng, he had now regained his composure, so he let Wang Bodang and Pei Renji each lead an army to ambush Zhai Rang's defeat on the way to retreat, and he took Shan Xiongxin to lead the Chinese army to counterattack, and then beat Wang Shichong's army again into a hasty rout.

And Xu Shiji himself continued to stay in Cangcheng, the foundation of the Wagang Army, and he was undoubtedly the most trustworthy of the Wagang generals, so it was natural to stay behind. Once again, the Tokai team was out of the battlefield, and one can imagine their dismal gains in the Battle of Blackstone.

It was the morning of the second day after the Battle of Shizihe, and there was only one day left before the infighting in the Wagang Army, and the Donghai team could no longer find any excuse to get out of this place. Sima Fuqiang sat at the gate of the camp worriedly,

It's not that he didn't think about going out with the East China Sea team, but this is obviously not a good idea. At this critical moment when the two armies were fighting, anyone who left the city without permission would be considered an act of collaboration, which was far more dangerous than being in the middle of the internal strife of the Wagang army. Losing the intimacy and contribution of Xu Shiji of the Wagang Army is light, and being directly beheaded as a typical decapitation is probably the most serious punishment.

Another option is to take refuge with the generals of the Li Mi faction, but unfortunately, this will not work either.

The Donghai team was labeled as Xu Shiji, that is, the recognized Zhai Rang faction, and basically had no dealings with the generals of the Li Mi faction. If there is Huang Zhi, a "social" strongman, it is completely too late to temporarily make friends with a future Li Tang camp general like Qin Qiong or Cheng Yanjin, but now everything is empty talk. With Sima Fuqiang's communication skills, he couldn't even handle the other party's personal soldiers, let alone meet these generals themselves.

With Xiaofeng's IQ, he might suggest that the captain ask Xu Shiji to help introduce one. But what does that mean? It means betrayal!

Because it is taking the route of Xu Shiji of the Wagang camp, the East China Sea team is a general existence for Xu Shiji. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the family generals could not be loyal to the royal family, but they must not be disloyal to the sovereign, and this custom was even spread far and wide, forming its samurai culture.

Therefore, if Sima Fuqiang stupidly ran to Xu Shiji and said, "General, my subordinates admire General Cheng Zhijie very much, can you please help introduce him?" That is tantamount to showing Xu Shiji, "I am going to draw a line with you, and in the future, our master-slave love will be cut off!" ”

Of course, it is also possible that Xu Shiji is very generous and doesn't mind Sima Fuqiang openly eyeing other Wagang generals, but don't forget that he is the "pure minister" who is known for his loyalty and righteousness in the mouth of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. In the Wagang Army, the people he can go to hang out with are Wang Bodang and Shan Xiongxin, all of whom are the core figures in the whirlpool of this infighting.

So, it's not going to work.

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