Wei Yingwu was lightly armed this time, and only took two followers through the Sword Gate Pass. When he entered the pass, he found that the soldiers guarding the pass had become much more vigilant, and there were crossbowmen waiting behind each arrow stack, presumably that Cui Ning had already told his brother Cui Mi the news of the army in front of the pass.

This time when he entered the Assassin's Mansion, Cui Ning welcomed him into the main hall, and ordered the servants to bring good tea and treat him as a distinguished guest.

Cui Ning asked expectantly, "How?" Can the Yong King have this intention? ”

Wei Yingwu smiled mysteriously, took out the letter from his arms and handed it to him, Cui Tingshi opened it and browsed it carefully, and said happily: "King Yong is worthy of being King Yong, his actions are really magnificent, and he is enough to be a corporal." I, Cui Ning, have this favor, what else can I hesitate about? Please go back and tell King Yong. Cui Ning will choose a good day and an auspicious day to personally go to the front of the Sword Gate Pass to welcome the army into the pass. ”

Wei Yingwu bowed back and said, "Since this is the case, I am looking forward to seeing Dr. Cui again." ”

In fact, what auspicious day is just Cui Ning's rhetoric, he is waiting for the holy decree that Li Siye invited from Chang'an, just like the underworld transaction of handing over money and delivering it with one hand, without any ambiguity.

For Li Siye, the matter is already half of the success, and he doesn't have to worry about revealing the news, the Cui brothers are even more anxious than him now, and they have already blocked all the news on the side of Jianmen Pass, so that it will not flow into the Jiedu envoy's mansion in Chengdu.

The emperor's holy decree was rushed by the fast horse of the Golden Bull Road, and finally delivered to Li Siye, followed by several blank stacks of yellow silk holy decrees, which had been covered with jade seals, so that he could reward the meritorious heroes of Shu, saving a lot of manpower to pass back and forth.

Li Siye ordered someone to pass the news into the Jianmen Pass, and the Cui brothers came out of the pass in person to visit, and after the two saw Li Siye, they immediately gave the courtesy of their subordinates: "Humble Cui Ning, Cui Mi has seen the lord." ”

Li Siye sat in the tent and nodded with a smile, and glanced at Wei Yingwu, who immediately invited the holy decree to read it aloud.

At this time, everyone knelt on the ground, only Li Siye was still sitting on the chair, listening to the content of the holy decree: "Under the door, Shi Cui Ning, the assassin of Shizhou, and Cui Mi, the chief soldier of Jianmen Pass, knew the righteousness, and led all the departments of Shizhou Jianmen to return to the imperial court, and they were very relieved. Cui Ning was specially named the Marquis of Boling, awarded the official Imperial Doctor, and served as the envoy of the Jiannan Festival. Cui sealed Pu'an Hou, awarded the official Yushi Zhongcheng, served as the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, and the military envoy of the unity battalion. The book is like the right, and it is in line with the practice! ”

The brothers both bowed to the ground: "The ministers thank the emperor for his grace, and they should serve their lives to the death." ”

Wei Yingwu stepped forward to hand over the holy decree to the two, Li Siye waved his hand and ordered someone to deliver Jingjie and Liuxu, he stood up from the chair, stepped forward to help the two of them up and said with a smile: "Doctor Cui, and Cui Zhongcheng, from today we will be colleagues." ”

Cui Ning hurriedly said: "The lord's words are wrong, we listen to the holy decree, but it is the lord who is loyal, my brothers are willing to take the lead for the lord, conquer Chengdu, and take Shu County!" ”

"In that case, you can enter Shu with me."

In April of the third year of Yuan Shuo, Cui Ning and Cui Mi opened the sword gate and guided the 40,000 Hexi Army into the central Sichuan Basin.

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After the Hexi army entered Shuzhong, the Cui Ning brothers led the way, and the passing states and counties all looked forward to the wind and surrendered, and the army advanced all the way to the front of Chengdu City.

At this time, he served as the envoy of the Jiannan Festival is the son of the clan Li Xian, who is the eldest son of the famous general Li Yi of Xin'an during the Kaiyuan period, he initially listened to the advice of Guo Yinggan, another general, to burn down all the three plank roads into Shu, thinking that this would be able to block Li Siye's army, but it only made it inconvenient for the people and traders in Shu, and the price of some goods soared, and the Hexi army still landed in front of him like a god.

When he knew that Li Siye's army was approaching the city, this Jiedu envoy did not have the style of his father's general at all, so he was completely panicked, and hurriedly called several generals under his command to discuss.

"Rank general, Li Siye has led the Hexi Tiger Wolf to the city, and sent me a letter of persuasion to surrender, I don't know what you think."

Yan Wu directly admonished: "Of course you can't descend!" Although Li Siye's Hexi Army is powerful, my Jiannan soldiers are not vegetarians. ”

"But the enemy army is menacing, and we are afraid that it will be difficult to stop."

Yan Wu knew that Li Xian was cowardly and indecisive, so he slowed down his tone and dissuaded: "The total number of troops under my Jiannan Jiedu command is also 60,000, but they are scattered in various states and counties. Why didn't the doctor pretend to discuss the conditions with Li Siye in order to delay time, and quietly sent people to various places to send messages to the various armies to guard and arrest, and when the armies were assembled, they could not fight with Li Siye. ”

Li Xian's command has the main battle faction, naturally there is the main surrender faction, but the marching Sima Duji and a group of staff members stepped forward to persuade and said: "General Yan Wu's blood is indeed loyalty, but it also needs to be done according to his ability, Li Siye since Hexi entered the Central Plains, experienced a hundred battles and never met an opponent, the flying tiger rode all over the Central Plains, and the Xuanwu artillery battalion was devastated. Everyone knows that there is no firewood to keep the green mountains, and it is not too late to put things right instead of resisting the defeat of the army and being killed, it is better to surrender and obey first, and when the situation is favorable to the south in the future, it is not too late to set things right. ”

Yan Wu reprimanded angrily: "What kind of nonsense are you talking about, if it falls, it will fall, how can you set things right in the future?" If there is chaos today, the saints cross the Jiangdong to the south, and they need our mutual assistance. Once the Jiannan Army surrendered, it would grow the momentum of the rebels, weaken the strength of the imperial court, and the situation would become more and more out of control. The doctor must not listen to such words, and those who surrender should be dealt with by military law. ”

Everyone was suppressed by Yan Wu's righteousness, and they could only read in pieces: "General Yan's family is all in Jiangdong, and he lives alone for thousands of miles to Chengdu, where is it like us in this place, when the time comes, you can pat your ass and leave, do our people's families deserve to be slaughtered?" ”

"You guys! Loyal and righteous people should distinguish between the family and the country, how can they forget the country in danger and betray the court and society. ”

In front of Li Xian, the people who talked about surrender were basically the locals in Shuzhong, some of them did have concerns about this, and some of them just wanted to change their courts and keep their land and property.

Li Xian has always been reluctant to offend people, so he had to say in a muddy voice: "Don't fight, General Yan Wu can fight well, since he said that he can win, how can we give up, can we fight first, and then talk about surrender if we can't fight." ”

Everyone present was amazed at how things related to war and peace could be said to be such a child's play, but history has happened again and again, proving that the process of evolution is such a child's play.

The marching Sima Duji stepped forward and said: "Since the doctor insists on fighting, he should immediately send people to summon the soldiers and horses from all states to come to Chengdu to rescue, and it is also necessary to send a capable person to gather all the armies together and take unified command." ”

Li Xun reacted and hurriedly asked: "I don't know who is willing to go out of the city to gather soldiers and horses from various states to fight the rebels?" ”

Du Ji glanced at Yan Wu with a smile, turned to Li Xian and said: "General Yan Wu has insight into the art of war, is brave and capable of fighting, and is the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, so General Yan Wu should be asked to go out of the city to gather soldiers and horses to relieve the siege of Chengdu." ”

Li Xun asked Yan Wu in a consultative tone: "General Yan Wu, what do you think?" ”

Yan Wu was a little hesitant in his heart, if he left the city of Chengdu, the surrender faction around Li Xiang would have the upper hand, and he didn't know how many demonic winds would blow every day to tempt Li Xiang to dedicate the city. But if incompetent people were sent to gather the Jiannan tribes and lost the battle, Chengdu would also fall into the hands of Li Siye. He was eager to break himself in half and leave the other half in Chengdu for supervision.

He had no choice but to cross-handed: "Since Dr. Li trusts Yan Wu so much, I should go out of the city to gather all the units of the Jiannan Army and fight to the death against Li Siye's Hexi rebels." ”

Before he left, Guo Yingyi said goodbye to Guo Yinggan brothers, and handed over the hope of Chengdu to the two brothers: "After I leave, I hope that the two of you can always encourage and spur the doctor, and you must not let him listen to slander and surrender the city, and please believe in Yan Wu." As long as he holds on to Chengdu and I wait for an opportunity to attack outside, the Hexi Army has no backup, and within two months, the veteran soldiers of the division will be exhausted, and the grain and grass will be cut off, and our army will inevitably win a great victory. ”

The two brothers replied with their hands crossed: "General Yan, please rest assured, my two brothers will always admonish the doctor." ”