Chapter Forty-Nine: Confrontation with Zhao Gao
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But after seeing Zhang Jiashi's not very good expression, Liao Yi suddenly remembered what Zhang Jiashi said to him after he asked him to go from Liaodong to Jiuyuan County:
"Mr. Liao, entering Guanzhong this time is not just to obtain Guanzhong, but also to support Daqin. β
Liao Yi did not forget the bamboo slip that Zhang Jiashi showed him, and some of the information recorded on it.
For Liao Yi, he can't forget the incident he experienced after meeting Zhang Jiashi.
"Your Majesty, are you looking for me because of that incident?" Liao Yi didn't say it too clearly, because he knew very well that such a thing might have a great impact on the morale of the army.
Chen Ping, Sun Po and the others didn't quite understand what dumb riddle was playing between the two, but from the solemn expressions between Zhang Jiashi and Liao Yi, they knew that what the two were talking about was not that kind of trivial matter.
After Zhang Jiashi heard what Liao Yi said, he couldn't help but nodded: "Well, Mr. Liao, you prepare now, and after a while, Gu will also go together." β
Hearing Zhang Jiashi's previous words, Liao Yi didn't feel strange, because he and the more than ten warlocks and wizards who accompanied him this time were mobilized together because of this kind of thing.
But Liao Yi didn't expect that Zhang Jiashi would also accompany him. He had to hurriedly object: "No, how can the king come to the danger in person? This matter will be handed over to Liao." β
Zhang Jiashi shook his head: "I have a hunch that that place should not be simple, and I can't sit idly by." β
Hearing Zhang Jiashi's words, Chen Ping and Sun Po couldn't help but look at each other, because this time Zhang Jiashi didn't use the kind of sky-high killing intent that they had encountered for the first time as the basis for their persistence.
Obviously, Zhang Jiashi wanted to do something from the bottom of his heart this time.
After Liao Yi heard Zhang Jiashi's words, he didn't know what he should say. Because he has always trained a special team to deal with this kind of thing under Zhang Jiashi, Liao Yi is very clear about Zhang Jiashi's attitude in this regard.
In many cases, attitude is enough to decide everything, and now such a sentence can also be used on Zhang Jiashi.
"We're going too!"
The two female voices said this sentence in unison.
Zhang Jiashi doesn't need to think about it to know who the person who said this sentence is.
"You can't go, because you can't help, and you're likely to cause trouble for us!" Zhang Jiashi said without looking back.
And Jing Wuji and Mo Yan'er, who came out on the right side of the screen behind Zhang Jiashi, didn't continue after hearing Zhang Jiashi's resolute words.
And Zhang Jiashi didn't pay much attention to the two, but said, "Mr. Liao, let's gather in two quarters of an hour." β
Hearing Zhang Jiashi's words, Liao Yi nodded, hugged his fists and left Zhang Jiashi's camp. Chen Ping and Sun Po looked at Zhang Jiashi, with a trace of worry in their eyes.
For the two of them, Zhang Jiashi's approach is really bad, because Zhang Jiashi is now shouldering the burden of the entire Liaodong Army, and if Zhang Jiashi is in any danger, then for them and the entire Liaodong Army, the consequences are very serious.
Horses can't be without heads, and groups are chaotic without leaders, they are very clear about this truth.
After thinking about it for a while, Chen Ping tactfully advised Zhang Jiashi: "Your Majesty, it's better to deal with this matter yourself before Mr. Liao has a result." β
Zhang Jiashi heard Chen Ping's words and showed a thoughtful expression, but after Zhang Jiashi raised his head, he still shook his head: "Mr. Chen, there is no need to say much about this matter, Gu has already decided." β
Hearing Zhang Jiashi's words, Chen Ping and others could only look at each other and be silent.
Because although they are not powerless, but in the current situation, once even Chen Ping, the No. 2 person, leaves, who will take care of the troops?
Now that it is still in the fighting, if Zhang Jiashi leaves alone, he can still rely on the dispatch of Chen Ping, Sun Po, Cao Shen and others to maintain the combat arrangement, but if even Chen Ping leaves, then if something unexpected really happens, Sun Po and Cao Shen and others alone will obviously not be able to control the troops of Jiang Lie and others.
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Chen Ping's importance to the current Liaodong Army is second only to Zhang Jiashi, Zhang and the two queens, which is a recognition in the hearts of many people. After all, Chen Ping, as the prime minister, can be regarded as an existence above 10,000 people in the Liaodong Army. Moreover, Chen Ping himself has accumulated his own prestige in the past few years, and Zhang Jiashi also trusts Chen Ping, so there is such a phenomenon.
As for the hearts of others, Xiao He, Li Zuoche, Jian, and Su Jiao are once again first-level existences, but these four people, three of them are not in the sequence of this operation, and they have even entered Xianyang City to command the battle.
Although the prestige of Wang Li and others in the Liaodong Army is not too high, in a sense, Wang Li's influence in the military is higher than that of Ruan Weng Shao and others, who followed Zhang Jiashi early on. Moreover, among the troops of the Northern Frontier Army that were not in the original system of the Liaodong County troops, Wang Li, as the previous commander, had a very high prestige in the hearts of these people.
If you use the division of factions as the classification of the current Liaodong military system:
Zhang Jiashi is naturally the highest-level existence, and the eldest son Zhang, who has been treated as Zhang Jiashi's successor in the Liaodong Army, most people, including Chen Ping, think that he is a well-deserved number two person. And Yingxi and Yinglian generally do not interfere in military and political issues, although Chen Ping did not ignore the other party's thoughts, but in such a situation, the existence of the two queens is more of a symbolic respect.
Zhang Jiashi's other concubines did not consider this aspect.
The entire Liaodong Army is roughly divided into two factions.
Among them, the civil official corps headed by Xiangguo Chen Ping, Neishi Xiao He, and Yushi Dafu Li Zuoche, and the military attache corps of Su Jiao, Ruan Weng Shao, Han Xin and others jointly formed the Liaodong County lineage under Zhang Jiashi.
And Wang Li, He Huai, Yang Wengzi, Jiang Lie and other senior officers of the original Northern Xinjiang Army or county guards formed another faction.
There are also some forces that are not counted in both aspects, that is, Yu Ziqi, one of Zhang Jiashi's brothers-in-law, Mo Hong, one of his fathers-in-law, Mo Hong, the head of the Liaodong Army, and now An Xun, Xu Fu and Han Zhong, the county guards of Yuyang County.
Chen Ping knew very well that it was difficult to negotiate between Wang Li and them, and Chen Ping and Sun Po also intentionally or unintentionally secretly suppressed the civilian officials led by the Wang family forces and infiltrated the top level of the Liaodong Army.
Wang Li is also more aware of this situation, but for many considerations, Wang Li did not rush to allow himself to replace Chen Pingren's position in the core class. For Wang Li, even if he can really replace Chen Ping, it is meaningless.
Therefore, in addition to the exchanges between the two sides in official affairs, the exchanges between Chen Ping and Wang Li, as well as between the two factions, can only be regarded as general friendships in private.
Chen Ping and Wang Li didn't think that Zhang Jiashi could not see the current development of the situation, on the contrary, Zhang Jiashi did not deliberately explain anything, because they did not cause chaos between the two sides.
In fact, for such a situation, Wang Li and Chen Ping's guesses are not wrong, Zhang Jiashi has been very clear about some things in the past few years, such as the people under his hands, will vaguely form a party, and this kind of thing is impossible to prevent. Zhang Jiashi has a bottom line in his heart, that is, he doesn't care about the private relationship between Wang Li and Chen Ping, as long as the people on both sides of them don't cause him trouble in official affairs.
Although the Qingyu Lingshu does not introduce the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty, like the "Niu Li Party Dispute" in the Tang Dynasty and the party struggle in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jiashi knows one thing very clearly, that is, if it really goes too far, it even affects the situation in terms of official affairs, and he will not scruple about anything.
For Zhang Jiashi, he doesn't know much about the art of scheming, but he also understands one thing, just like the "guidance" of the first emperor Yingzheng to him.
When Zhang Jiashi had just moved to Shuangyi, in his mansion, when Ying Zheng asked Gonggong Xi to add personnel to the mansion, he did not deliberately choose some crooked women with cracked dates as maids.
In the past few years, Zhang Jiashi has also deeply realized the meaning of a sentence:
"As a servant, you should know what you should do. β
After officially managing Liaodong County, Zhang Jiashi understood one thing, that is, Chen Ping and Wang Li knew very well what they should do. This kind of subordinate has the ability and will not bother him too much, what he needs to do well is to become a passing monarch, it's as simple as that.
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The battle in Xianyang City continued, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhang Jiashi took Liao Yi and a dozen warlocks and wizards, under the protection of Yu Yong's personal guards, from the south gate of Xianyang City, into Xianyang City.
Zhang Jiashi didn't care too much about the Xianyang chaos that was not in a good situation, anyway, what he had to do was not to deal with the aftermath at this time.
And commanding the troops to fight near the Ting Wei Mansion, after he saw Zhang Jiashi's arrival, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because he didn't expect Zhang Jiashi to really come at such a time.
After knowing Zhang Jiashi's goal, he didn't know what to say, because the situation in Tingwei Prison was very bad. After he asked several chiefs to take people into Tingwei Prison, only a few of them were able to get out alive, and they were the crazy kind.
In desperation, he could only arrange troops, and transferred a large amount of heavy equipment from the arsenal of Xianyang City that had been captured, and used dense bed crossbows to block the entrance to Tingwei Prison.
After Zhang Jiashi heard the words, he couldn't help frowning: "I want to go and see those crazy officers and soldiers." β
Hearing this, he couldn't help but be stunned, but he didn't object to Zhang Jiashi's order, after all, they were the safest area around here.
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Zhang Jiashi saw several officers and soldiers tied next to several pillars, and without saying a word, he took out the Dingqin sword at his waist and directly cut off the head of the one closest to him.
For Zhang Jiashi's approach, some people couldn't help but be stunned, but after smelling a somewhat rancid smell of blood, they saw that the broken neck of Shi Chang did not spurt blood, but slowly flowed with blackened blood.
"These people are all gone. Zhang Jiashi shook his head, and then cast a color on Liao Yi.
Liao Yi knowingly waved a magic staff in his hand, and after whispering some words in his mouth, several pillars of fire rose from the feet of these Liaodong officers and soldiers who had been sentenced to death by Zhang Jiashi, who had gradually become corpses.
Zhang Jiashi sighed helplessly: "I'm sorry!"
He didn't want to do this, especially when it came to the officers and soldiers under his command, it was very difficult for Zhang Jiashi to accept.
But he couldn't help but do it, because he didn't want more people to lose their lives because of his "kindness".
Looking at the figure that was gradually engulfed in the flames and slowly turned into charcoal, Zhang Jiashi turned around and left the room.
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Coming to the gate of Tingwei Prison, Zhang Jiashi turned to the other room and said, "Don't let anyone else in. β
"But Your Majesty, should we send someone to investigate the situation inside?" I didn't want Zhang Jiashi to put himself in danger, so he tactfully persuaded Zhang Jiashi.
"If nothing else, Lone is the person who can handle this place now, if Lone doesn't do anything, I'm afraid, once something goes wrong, the whole Xianyang will not want to have a living person, but become that kind of walking corpse. Also, don't let anyone in! Remember, it's anyone!"
After saying this, Zhang Jiashi set off from Tingwei Prison in front. What I saw was that the personnel, including Liao Yi, followed behind Zhang Jiashi and walked towards the gate of Tingwei Prison.
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Not many people know how big Tingwei Prison is, after all, many people have only heard of such a place.
It's just that Zhang Jiashi, who was close to the gate, had to take two steps back, because he could feel a corpse poison aura in that place.
Therefore, in the Dao space, Zhang Jiashi took out a bottle of poison repellent pill made for this situation, and asked the personnel, including himself, to eat one.
Tingwei Prison is an underground building, and after several wizards in front of it lead the way with a shield in front of them, the others enter the prison one after another.
Although he had taken the poison pill, Zhang Jiashi could still feel a breath that made him very uncomfortable.
Such an aura, when he came to this world, he felt it twice, once in Wanxian County in the face of the two corpse witches, and the other time in the face of the corpse Tai Sui.
And this time, the smell of this place is even stronger.
Because of the war, there seems to be no one in Tingwei Prison to add new light sources to this underground area, and the warlocks and wizards in the front row can only bless their staff with illumination.
There were a lot of blackened blood stains on the ground, but Zhang Jiashi squatted on the ground and gently swept the ground with a piece of rune paper, which actually ignited a hair-making green fire.
Zhang Jiashi muttered: "This place is really hell. β
As a Taoist priest, he knew very well that in such a situation, the best thing was to ask more peers for help. But Zhang Jiashi knew that the people he could find now were all in this place.
After throwing the talisman paper on the ground and stomping on the green flame with his foot, Zhang Jiashi suddenly realized that something was wrong, because he remembered very well that he had sent dozens of people down to this ghost place.
But he did not see anything that could leave almost everyone in this place in danger existing.
Zhang Jiashi pinched a few pieces of rune paper with his left hand, and then threw them in front of the warlock who opened the way.
"!" Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, because he saw a dense group of corpse soldiers under the light of the rune paper that gradually turned from red to green.
"Formation !!"
Liao Yi also saw such a situation, and he hurriedly said this to the others.
More than a dozen people, in addition to Zhang Jiashi, quickly formed a wizard warlock camp that had been trained many times and could also be used in battle, blocking Zhang Jiashi's face.
However, Zhang Jiashi said out loud something that made them all stunned: "Disperse!"
Many people didn't understand why Zhang Jiashi said this, but they did it anyway.
Zhang Jiashi looked at the passage in front of him, and he felt the breath of a person.
And the people who were able to stay unaffected in this place, except for the people who had taken the poison pill, knew that the only one who had turned this place into a large corpse refining ground was the one who had done it.
"Zhao Gao!"
Zhang Jiashi's voice immediately echoed in this place.
After a while, there was an ugly laugh: "Giggles." β
Liao Yi and the others felt that they couldn't help but be creepy by this kind of laughter.
"I didn't expect it...... You really managed to come to this place. "In the dark passageway, a man's voice rang out.
Many warlocks and wizards didn't find out where Zhao Gao was, but Zhang Jiashi knew very well that Zhao Gao was among the corpse soldiers.
"Those guards and officers and soldiers who have disappeared in the past few years, as well as Zhonglang, are all masterpieces that you used to refine the corpses of living people, right?" Zhang Jiashi knew very well that these corpse soldiers were not the kind of garbage of living corpses, but the existence of officers and soldiers with strong combat effectiveness.
"Sure enough, I can't hide it from you in this matter, so it's no wonder that Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng will be planted in your hands. β
After hearing this, a strong wind actually blew from the opposite side of the passage.
Zhang Jiashi felt that something was wrong, because what he saw was that the warlock wizards in front of him actually fell to the ground one after another.
Even Liao Yi, who has the highest strength, can only barely stand on the ground.
Zhang Jiashi was not affected by anything, because Zhang Jiashi's physical fitness was not comparable to that of wizards and warlocks with weak physiques.
Zhang Jiashi knew that these fallen wizards and warlocks were fine, but in such a situation, he didn't want to expect Liao Yi, who was still standing, to help anything.
"Mr. Liao, take them away. Zhang Jiashi said this coldly, and then walked forward step by step.
"But, Lord, this ......"
Liao Yi was about to say something, but was interrupted by Zhang Jiashi: "This is a matter between me and Zhao Gao." He's been waiting for me for a long time!"
When Liao Yi heard this, he could only do his best to cast a spell that could teleport twenty people in a short distance.
After Liao Yi and the sorcerer warlock who fell to the ground disappeared into their original places, Zhang Jiashi summoned the green jade spirit book, and then scattered a stack of rune papers.
This method is one of the ways that Bai Qi handed over to Zhang Jiashi to use the Qingyu Spirit Book that Bai Qi figured out by himself.
Zhang Jiashi will naturally use this method to fight now.
"Giggles, it's really worthy of Yingzheng's fancy, so next, I'll wait for you inside......"
As the words ended, Zhang Jiashi could hear the sound of weapons rubbing against the ground from the other side of the passage......
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