Chapter Seventy-Three: Li Mi beheads Zhai Rang

Although Luoyang was not captured, it was affected by the weather and could not be done by manpower, and the people in Wagang believed that the weather would warm up in the coming year and Luoyang would definitely be captured.

Therefore, Li Mi returned to Wagang with the great defeat of Wang Shichong, and his prestige soared, and he held a banquet to celebrate the victory, and at the same time promoted a large number of cronies, which made the old Wagang department who was already complaining even more dissatisfied.

After the banquet, Zhai Rang's brother Zhai Kuan said to Zhai Rang with the strength of wine: "What is he Li Mi, just a lost dog, if you didn't give way to him, would he be where he is today?" ”

"Big brother, you are drunk, after the King of Wei took charge of Wagang, my Wagang is ten times and a hundred times better than in the past, and now there can be an army of 200,000, which is all the credit of King Wei."

Zhai Rang's subordinate general Wang Ruxin said: "I don't agree with the words of the big boss, Wagang can have today, it is all the brothers who fought with their lives, not him Li Mi fought alone, you look at his proud appearance today, as if all the battles were fought by him, and when he comes back, he will seal his cronies, Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Cheng Biting Jin, Xu Shiyun He didn't mention it, and the clear-eyed people knew what he wanted to do at a glance." ”

Zhai Kuan slammed the table and said: "What General Wang said is very true, if it goes on like this, I am afraid that there will be no place for our brothers to drink in the future, this time the emperor has to do it with his own brothers, if you don't do it, let me do it, I will definitely get rid of Li Mi's dog." ”

Although Zhai Rang was also dissatisfied in his heart, for the sake of the overall situation, he still scolded the two of them and drove them out.

The next day, the words of Zhai Kuan and others reached Li Mi's ears somehow, and Li Mi was furious, so he prepared to get rid of Zhai Rang's brothers.

Zhai Rang didn't know that his brother's drunken words had been known to Li Mi, and Li Mi was also planning to get rid of them.

There was nothing to do in the winter, so as usual, Zhai Rang came to Li Mi to drink and have fun, Li Mi was hospitable, and arranged the subordinates who came with him in other places, but secretly ordered the guards to prepare to get rid of Zhai Rang.

During the banquet, Li Mi took out a good bow and said to Zhai: "This is what I captured when I fought Wang Shichong, and it is said that Yang Guang specially rewarded Wang Shichong, how about you take a look?" As he spoke, Li Mi's eyes were full of fierceness.

Zhai Rang did not doubt him, took the bow, pulled it full, and was about to open his mouth to evaluate, not wanting to walk out of a warrior from behind at this time, and cut off Zhai Rang's head with a knife in his hand.

Li Mi shouted: "Zhai Rang conspired to assassinate the king and kill him, come to someone, and take Zhai Rang and his people down to correct the law on the spot." ”

In a hurry, where did everyone react, Zhai Kuan and Wang Ruxin, who followed Zhai Rang, were stabbed to death on the spot, Xu Shichang was slashed by a soldier in the confusion and was seriously injured, fortunately, Li Mi saw that Zhai Rang's three brothers had been killed, so he ordered to stop the soldiers who wanted to kill Xu Shichang.

Shan Xiongxin, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin and others, who rushed to hear the news, saw the situation in the courtyard, so they collectively made a guarantee and begged to spare Xu Shixian's life.

Li Mi thought to himself, the three chief evils have been killed, and the other old Wagang departments will slowly try to do it, and if they are too hasty, it will backfire, and if the disaster of fighting in the same room happens, then their hard work will be ruined. I really want to be a bitch and set up a torii.

So Li Mi said pretendedly: "The rebellious people, only Zhai Rang three people, now that they have been ambushed, this king will never implicate others, hurt our brother's feelings, come to someone, go and invite the best Lang Zhong to come, give General Xu a good treatment of his injuries, General Xu is the backbone of Wagang, this king relies on a lot of places, and there must be no loss." ”

Li Mi said to Shan Xiongxin and the others: "Now Zhai has let the three of them ambush him, and he also asks the generals to tell the situation to Zhai to let the brothers in the barracks to know, so as to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings." ”

Shan Xiongxin and others had no choice but to agree.

Although Shan Xiongxin and others also have doubts in their hearts, but it is important to save people at present, so after thanking the King of Wei for not killing, they came to Xu Shixian's house together, Xu Shiyun was seriously injured, and woke up five days later, and saw that all the brothers were there, and said weakly: "Li Mi traitor is trying to harm my brother, you and my brother should make plans early, otherwise I am afraid that my life will be lost." ”

Then he told the situation of the day again, although he didn't know what happened to Li Mi and Zhai Rang, but when everyone went, no one carried weapons, why did they suddenly have a bow, and that bow was personally seized by Shan Xiongxin and dedicated to Li Mi, so far everyone didn't understand that this was a trumped-up ploy used by Li Mi to eliminate dissidents.

Now that Xu Shichong has not recovered from his serious injury, the brothers can't immediately turn against Li Mi, but they don't want to wait for someone to be meated, so they secretly plan to defect to Wang Shichong in Luoyang, after all, Wang Shichong still represents the imperial court and is a righteous party, but how to vote, this has to be planned carefully, after all, except for Xu Shiyun and Qin Qiong who are alone, others are dragging their families, especially Cheng Biting Jin married Pei Renji's daughter, and it will take time to persuade her.

Originally, as the head of the world's righteous army, Wagang had more than 200,000 soldiers, and was the most promising to pacify the north and win the world, but because Li Mi killed Zhai Rang, there was an unhealable crack in the Wagang army, which laid a major hidden danger for the future disintegration.