This was the first military meeting since Wu Zhao was recuperating from his injuries, and all the civil and military forces quickly gathered.

Looking at the neatly arranged brothers, Wu Zhaozhi was complacent: "Everyone, we have a stable foothold, thanks to the strong support of all the brothers." After more than a month of recuperation, the brothers are all right? ”

Everyone congratulated Wu Zhao on his recovery, and everyone was lively for a while. Wu Zhao exchanged a sentence or two with them one by one, and then he spoke: "I agreed with several gentlemen before that after Wu recovered, it would be the time to send troops to fight against Zhang Lu. I wonder what preparations you have made during the time I am recuperating from my injuries? Junshi, you come. ”

Sima Guang said: "My lord, over the past month or so, it has been quite effective in recruiting deserters and gathering displaced people, and the population has increased by hundreds of thousands, reaching more than six million; There were more than 100,000 troops, 5,000 cavalry, 60,000 infantry, 35,000 archers, and thousands of engineers. However, there is a shortage of armaments, and the food and grass can only be supplied for two months, and now they are negotiating with various families to borrow food. ”

Fa Zheng bowed his hand: "My lord, what about the marriage?" ”

Wu Zhao knew that he would not let go of this stubble, and patted his forehead: "Give me another half a month, and I will take Zhang Lu in half a month, and I will give you food and grass and military salaries when the time comes." ”

Fa Zheng didn't dare to say any more, Wu Zhao nodded: "Okay, then we will continue to discuss the matter of sending troops now." Wenlong, how has the battle in the Sword Pavilion been going on for more than a month? Did Zhang Lu attack from Micang Road? ”

Mao Wenlong shook his head: "Feng Zicai stubbornly held on without a fight, and repelled Zhang Lu's attacks several times in succession. Zhang Lu sent the general Yang Ren to attack Su from the path next to the Sword Pavilion, but Chen Liansheng found and repelled the trail and blocked the trail. There is no negligence in the rice cang road under the strict inspection of the checkpoints set up by our army. ”

Wu Zhao praised: "That's good, the soldiers of our army are united, the soldiers are brave, and it is easy to destroy Zhang Lu!" Junshi, you sit in Chengdu to handle government affairs; Wenlong, you order 60,000 elite soldiers and horses, I want to personally recruit Zhang Lu! ”

After discussing the details at the moment, Bai Fa is a military advisor and goes out with the army; Mao Wenlong was the vanguard, Lei Tong and Wu Lan were the deputy vanguards, leading an army of 10,000; Qin Yi led an army of 50,000 by himself, Yan Yan, Ximen Qing, Wang Bao, Meng Da and others will accompany him on the expedition, and the rest will stay in the rear to manage political affairs. Qin Yi specially instructed Pei Xuan to order the establishment of recruitment halls in various places to recruit civil and military talents.

After the military discussion, Wu Zhao greeted Shang Fazheng, Zhang Song, and Yan Yan, and accompanied by the three, went to a pavilion where Zhang Ren, Wu Ban, and Wang Lei, who would rather die than surrender, were placed under house arrest. For more than a month, presumably the arrogance of the three of them should go down a lot, see if they can surrender, and this crusade against Zhang Lu can also be used.

As soon as he entered the gate, the sergeant guarding the door changed his face and raised his voice to say hello: "Lord, are you here?" ”

Wu Zhao didn't think much about it, and ordered the soldier to go in and report. The soldier was in short supply, and after a long time, a group of people hurried over, the first of whom was handsome but flattering: "I don't know that the lord and the lords are coming, and they have not been far away, capital crime, capital crime!" ”

Wu Zhao was in a hurry to see Zhang Ren, and he didn't bother to talk nonsense with him: "Which room is Zhang Ren locked in?" Lead the way! ”

The man answered, took the lead and left. Open a large room on the third floor, which is very well furnished, with beds, mirror tables, tables and chairs, etc., and a maid waiting. Wu Zhao nodded with satisfaction and looked at Zhang Ren, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed: "General Zhang, I haven't seen you for more than a month, how can you live here?" ”

Zhang Ren looked quite haggard and looked indifferent: "I just hate that there wasn't an arrow that killed you that day." Now that the injury is healed, I finally remember to take Lao Tzu's life? ”

Wu Zhao didn't think it was wrong, and was very humble: "General Zhang is a famous general in Shuzhong, how can Zhao have the heart to do harm?" It's just that he was seriously injured at that time and couldn't visit him in person, so he stayed here for a while. Now that my body is almost healed, I have come to ask the general to come out of the mountain to help me. ”

Zhang Ren suddenly scolded: "Let go of your mother's fart!" Hypocrites, vicious villains! There is a kind of slashing Lao Tzu with a knife, playing some ghost tricks to torture Lao Tzu What is he doing? If you want revenge, shoot a few arrows from Lao Tzu, don't let Lao Tzu look down on you! ”

Wu Zhao was confused by his sudden outburst and took a few steps forward to explain. The official in charge of guarding hurriedly came over: "Lord, he has been cursing the lord every day for more than a month, saying that once he escapes, he will break the lord's body into ten thousand pieces." Be careful, don't go near him. ”

Fa Zheng suddenly interjected: "My lord, there seems to be something strange. Zhang Ren seems to be in poor physical condition, as if he has a hidden secret. ”

Wu Zhao turned his head to stare at the official: "What's your name?" I told them to be well treated, but why did he look so haggard? ”

The official snorted: "He refuses to eat every day, and he can't stop scolding, and the lower officials really can't persuade him, so he is haggard......"

The voice of the little white snake in Wu Zhao's mind suddenly remembered: "Host, this is the sixth second-level person you have summoned, Lai Junchen." A native of Yongzhou in the Tang Dynasty, he was a famous cool official when Wu Zetian was in power. Intelligence 89, Armed Forces 52, Political and Metallurgical 75, Commander 23, Charisma 56, Good at Daggers, Good at Making Torture Tools, Infantry Attribute C, Cavalry Attribute C, Archer Attribute C, Naval Army Attribute C. Compound Stunt: Cool Officer. The first stunt: Luo Weaving. He especially likes to frame others, and is good at fabricating the so-called criminal facts and motives of the person he wants to accuse, and his intelligence increases by 10 to 20 points when he begins to frame others and fabricate crimes, and his political and ye increases by 10 to 20 points; The second stunt, extorting a confession. It can use all kinds of strange torture instruments and all kinds of torture methods to force others to surrender in fear, so that they can be tortured into tricks. Intelligence increases by 10 to 20 and force by 10 to 20 while in the Forced Confession state. ”

Wu Zhao's heart was like 10,000 divine beasts rushing by: I said why can't I touch it everywhere, it turned out to be hiding here; I said how Zhang Ren looked like he had been wheeled hundreds of times, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was as if he had eaten gunpowder, it turned out that this guy was making trouble! Yes, the dream of recruiting three people is completely shattered!

The nameless fire in his heart couldn't be controlled, and he shouted loudly: "Yan Yan, drag this dog thing out for me, and cut it with a sword!" All the other supervisors here are beating up the 300 boards! Fast! ”

Yan Yan is not yin, but he still presses the sword to come and get people. Lai Junchen and the others knelt on the ground with a puff: "The lord spares his life!" The villain is wronged, wronged! ”

Wu Zhao said angrily: "Wronged? Okay, others, you guys come and talk about what he's done, say one thing without ten strokes of the board, say! ”

Everyone still looked at Junchen with hesitant expressions. Wu Zhaoqi didn't fight in one place: "Okay, you guys now start to line up in the corner over there and say, the first one says 10 big boards, the second 20, the third 40, the fourth 80, the fifth 160, and so on." The last one, decapitation! ”

The pot exploded at once, and everyone stood up at once, scrambling to rush to the corner of the wall. Seeing this, Lai Junchen desperately kowtowed on the ground: "Lord, I said, I said." I just want to concoct them well, so that they can surrender as soon as possible and serve the Lord. I am completely sincere in my heart to repay the Lord, my lord! Pray for mercy! Pray for mercy!