Standing in Shi Siming's tent was such a weak scholar, wearing a black gauze on his head, a linen robe, and his hands behind his back to calm down. Before Shi Siming rebelled with An Lushan, he had always looked down on scholars, but since he had fought with Yan Gaoqing and Yan Zhenqing, he knew that people who had read books were more difficult to deal with than martial arts.

These Youyan generals in the tent were as powerful as tigers and wolves, and their eyes were like clusters of sharp arrows.

Shi Siming asked with a smile, "The envoy is from the camp of the Hexi Army?"

"Yes."

"The envoy was sent by Captain Li?"

"Yes."

Shi Siming's smile suddenly froze, and he shouted: "Tell me, come here, tie this person up and sawed him to death!"

Sawing is a kind of punishment that Shi Siming likes to use, that is, tying people to trees and sawing them in half with tree saws.

The two soldiers stepped forward and pushed Cen Shen's shoulders to go out of the tent, but Master Cen laughed loudly without changing his face: "Hahaha." ”

"Come back!"

Cen Shen turned around, and Shi Siming asked angrily, "Why are you laughing, do you think I don't dare to kill you?"

"Since I dare to come to your camp, I have long put life and death aside, why should King Zhou tease me."

Shi Siming suddenly laughed and stood up, poured a glass of wine and handed it to him: "Haha, worthy of being a person of Taiwei Li, he has both bearing and courage, and we can talk about things after drinking this wine."

Cen Shen raised his head and poured down the wine, handed it back to Shi Siming, and the other party sat back in front of the desk: "Master Cen was the secretary of the Beiting Marching Army in his early years, and Dai Wang was Taiwei Li's right-hand man. It's just that I don't understand, Taiwei is now famous, canonized as the king of Xiliang by the imperial court, and then entered the title of Taiwei, why did he take this risk to come to Xiangzhou? You must know that if you are not careful, such a thing as rebellion may put the life of the whole family on the line. The Captain is not like an outlaw like us. ”

Cen Shen replied loudly: "Taiwei Li has indeed become famous, but this King of Xiliang is sealed by the Emperor Taishang, as the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, the new emperor can't tolerate an old minister like Taiwei, his life is in danger when he was in Chang'an, so he was forced to go out of Chang'an to recapture the Hexi Army from the eunuchs and plan a future for himself." ”

"Well said." Shi Siming clasped his palms together and said: "If you are not forced to be helpless, who is willing to lick the blood with a knife and rebel." Lone mistakenly believed in the imperial court before, thinking that he could spend the rest of his life safely by submitting to obedience, but he didn't expect the imperial court to betray his promise and send someone to take my life. I don't know what the Taiwei and I are seeking to form an alliance with, it won't be just a small Weizhou. ”

Cen Shen replied to the question: "The main force of the seven armies of the imperial court is under Yecheng, and now the division is tired, it is the time when the king of Zhou rescues Emperor Yan An Qingxu, and our army is willing to give up the road to Yecheng, so that the king can calmly defeat the Tang army." ”

Shi Siming didn't pay attention to his proposal at all, and asked directly, "What benefits does Taiwei Li want from this?"

"After defeating the imperial army, the king of Zhou monopolized the nineteen counties of Hebei, and my lord monopolized Henan, how about the two sides relying on each other to fight against the imperial court?"

Shi Siming patted the case and laughed: "Li Siye doesn't want to do anything, just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, just want to monopolize Henan?" How did he come up with such a brilliant idea? ”

The rebel generals sitting on either side of the tent also burst into laughter.

Cen Shen's face was expressionless, and there was even a little contempt and indifference in his eyes, and he waited for everyone to laugh before he said loudly: "My lord is more useful if he doesn't do anything than what he does." King Zhou, you are so shrewd, why do you only look at the front and not the back. All you need is this last battle to take full control of Hebei. And now that there are imperial court garrisons in many states and counties in Henan, my lord needs to capture and uproot them one by one, and he doesn't need to lose troops? Once my lord has captured Henan, he will be under pressure from the west from Hedong and Guanzhong, and from Nanyang from the south. ”

Shi Siming finally stopped laughing, frowned and said: "After all, Taiwei Li is a great hero of the imperial court, if he submits again, the imperial court is afraid that it will be able to accept it." Besides, you said that he was going to rebel, so why should I believe you, as the so-called soldiers are not tired of cheating, I have experienced too many things that have gone back against you. ”

Cen Shen glared and asked, "Do you want to vote?" ”

"Why do you have to say it so arrogantly, Captain Li can participate in the battle under Xiangzhou City without his soldiers, but I really need his assistance, can you lend me his artillery battalion and return it to you after this battle." At that time, we took Weizhou and Xiangzhou as the boundary, and the land south of these two places, as long as you have the ability, it doesn't matter if you fight them all. ”

Cen Shen hesitated and pondered for a while, nodded and said, "I can't make a decision on this matter, wait until I go back and report it to the lord." ”

Shi Siming smiled gloomily and said, "Then please ask Taiwei Li to reply as soon as possible, An Qingxu of our family can't wait so long." ”

Cen Shen nodded with his hand, turned around and exited Shi Siming's big tent.

The subordinate general Xue Song asked beside Shi Siming: "King, I always feel that this Li Siye doesn't really want to be friends with us, don't be fooled by him." ”

Shi Siming laughed and said: "I might as well guess him with the greatest malice, there are only three possibilities for him to do, the first is that he did not betray the imperial court, and wanted to take advantage of the fierce battle with the Tang Army to attack behind his back and make a great contribution." Second, he has rebelled, but he is not willing to stay in Henan, the land of the four wars, so he wants to take advantage of the decisive battle between me and the Tang army to lead the army north to attack Fanyang in Youzhou, seize my three million stones, grains and grass, and seize my tens of millions of gold and silver. Third, he has rebelled against the imperial court, but his ambitions do not stop there, trying to be the yellow finch after this praying mantis. As long as he knows what to do to his advantage, is this kind of person still difficult to deal with? ”

……

Li Siye was stationed in Qingfeng County on the border of Weizhou, the crimson Daxu was floating in the air, and the various armies were camped outside the county seat, and the military tents were arranged in an orderly manner, and it seemed that the army was quite rigorous.

He came to the camp gate and said to the soldiers: "I am Guo Ziyi, I am from the Shuofang army camp, and I have come to see Captain Li. ”

The soldiers didn't dare to slack off when they heard this, and hurriedly ran to report to Li Siye.

After a while, Li Siye walked out of the camp with Dai Wang, Yan Xiaosi, Tian Zhen and other generals, and said to Guo Ziyi: "Guo Sikong followed in the footsteps of our army, could it be that he came to Xingshi to ask for guilt?" ”

Fugu Huaien whispered behind him: "Why didn't I see that this person was so thick-skinned before, and he dared to lick his face and come out to greet him when he did such a betrayal of the imperial court." ”

Guo Ziyi stopped him with his eyes, and said respectfully with his crossed hands: "Although I am the same age as Taiwei Li, my qualifications and merits are far inferior to that of Taiwei, when you were the envoy of the Beiting Festival, I had just been transferred from the deputy capital of the Beiting to the Shuofang Hengsai military envoy, and when you were the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, I was still the Hengsai military envoy. As a rising star, Guo Ziyi should meet the captain. ”

"Don't dare to be, now that I'm a criminal of the Tang Dynasty, you don't need to make such a big gift to me."

Guo Ziyi turned over and dismounted, looked up at the sky and said, "The captain won't just leave us outside like this, and won't even let the big camp in." ”

Li Siye stretched out his hand to invite, and the two of them walked side by side to the big tent of the Chinese army, Guo Ziyi took the initiative to fall behind half a position, and even bowed his shoulders slightly. He paid attention to these details at the moment, just to let Li Siye deepen his good impression of him, and then he could become a qualified lobbyist.

He kept all the generals out of the big tent, leaving only Guo Ziyi to talk in detail in the tent.

"It stands to reason that Taiwei is already the best of the people, and it is not Guo Ziyi's turn to come to advise, but the merits accumulated by Taiwei from the past to the present can already be compared with my famous founding generals of the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Jing and Li Ji, and there is already a place for you in history, but now the sudden reversal is equivalent to ruining the prestige and meritorious service you have accumulated so many years of painstaking efforts. Of course, Taiwei has his own reasons for doing this, but ask yourself, what are the more than 200,000 Tang soldiers fighting for more than three months under this Yecheng now, just to be loyal to the emperor? I can have a hunch that if Yecheng wins a big victory, my Datang will successfully quell the rebellion within this year and next year, and the 80 million Datang fathers and elders will no longer have to suffer from the disaster of the army, if they are defeated, the overall situation that has been difficult to reverse will also be in vain, and the rebels will become more cruel and ferocious, and this rebellion will not know when it will be quelled. If today's overall situation is focused on Taiwei alone, is Taiwei willing to let his accumulated reputation go to waste? Is the captain willing to become a sinner for the ages? ”

"Even if the Taiwei has grievances and is unwilling to make peace with the imperial court, please put the overall situation first, and after jointly defeating our enemies, it is not too late to part ways. At that time, the good name of Taiwei still existed, and the subordinates were also willing. ”