Wang Xuanjing led his army to Guanzhong, preparing to join the Tang Dynasty. But Wang Xuanjing didn't lead the army and go directly. It's a great deal, but it feels more like the icing on the cake.

Therefore, Wang Xuanjing was ready to join Li Tang when he sent troops to fight against Wang Shichong.

Li Yuan saw that the Tang Dynasty was about to move troops against Luoyang in the official title given to Li Shimin, and Wang Shichong understood that Li Tang's next target was himself after learning that Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were killed.

Immediately began to prepare for battle, accumulate food and grass, and build ordnance.

Wang Shichong felt that although Li Tang was powerful, he was not weak, and he was fighting locally, if he fell into a tug-of-war, he had a high chance of winning in the end.

There is such confidence because Wagangzhai has become a climate, since Li Mi killed Zhai Rang, Wagangzhai has been separated from Germany, the original generals have surrendered to Wang Shichong, Li Mi had to lead the remnants of the defeated generals to take refuge in Li Tang, Wagangzhai was occupied by Wang's people dressed as bandits.

After the surrender of the Wagang Army, the strength of Wang Shichong's subordinates continued to improve, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Shan Xiongxin, Pei Renji, and Pei Xingyan can be said to be full of talents.

This is also where Wang Shichong has the confidence to fight against Li Tang.

It's just that Wang Shichong is cunning, insidious and ruthless, not the master, and it didn't take long for Qin Song and Cheng Yanjin to take advantage of the confrontation and defect to Li Tang.

This made Wang Shichong very angry, and he began to become more and more suspicious of the other Wagangzhai people. Originally, everyone in Wagangzhai surrendered to Wang Shichong because they were forced to be helpless, but Wang Shichong became suspicious of them, and everyone was even more worried.

They know that Wang Shichong is a person, insidious and ruthless, if they continue, maybe one day Wang Shichong will find a reason to kill him directly.

Pei Renji and Pei Xingyan, father and son, were originally officials of the Sui Dynasty, but they were captured after a failed crusade against Wagangzhai, so they surrendered to Wagang, and later Wagang was defeated by Wang Shichong, and they surrendered to Wang Shichong. But compared to Wang Shichong, they were more loyal to the Sui Dynasty.

"Father, Qin Qiong and Cheng Bingjin ran to surrender Li Tang in front of the golden array, and as soon as they left, they made us miserable!" Pei Xingyan said with an ugly face.

"Although my son is a general, the soldiers under him are now also arranged with a large number of Wang Shichong's people, and other people in the court avoid us, how can it go on like this?"

Pei Renji had a gloomy face, since he surrendered to Wang Shichong, in the past two years, he has also fought for Wang Shichong many times and made great contributions, before Wang Shichong married his brother's daughter to his son in order to entrap him.

At the same time, he also gave them high-ranking officials, and seemed to trust them very much, but Pei Renji knew in his heart that Wang Shichong had always been jealous of them.

After all, he and his son had an army in their hands, and this army was not Wang Shichong's, but the army of the Sui Dynasty. When he led the army to attack Wagangzhai and surrendered after the defeat, Zhai Rang did not accept his military power at the beginning, and still let him lead the army.

The army under his command did not listen to Wang Shichong.

If you don't want Wang Shichong to suspect it, it's good to hand over the military power directly, but Pei Renji knows that Wang Shichong is a person, this person is insidious and cunning, ruthless and ruthless, and he is not like a human king.

I'm afraid that if they hand over the military power, their father and son will not die well, and when the time comes, it will really be a knife and a fish and a meat.

Pei Renji thought for a while, and immediately said: "Wang Shichong is cunning, and he is suspicious of us in his heart, if he continues, I am afraid that the father and son will be in different places." ”

"In that case, then we can only fight to the death!"

"Father, what are you going to do?"

"Wang Shichong is strong and hard-working, naturally not an opponent, we can contact the old ministers of the Sui Dynasty, some of these people have hearts towards the Sui Dynasty, when Wang Shichong established Yang Tong as the emperor, let's go and unite those old ministers who are committed to the Sui Dynasty, and conspire together! Kill Wang Shichong and proclaim Yang Dong as emperor. ”

After some discussion, the father and son decided that it was feasible and began to prepare.

After all, when Wang Shichong was called king, there were only areas around Luoyang, and most of the officials were officials of the Sui Dynasty.

Therefore, the old ministers of the Sui Dynasty can only be used as officials, so a framework is quickly pulled up, but in this set of frameworks, the loyalty of these Sui Dynasty officials to Wang Shichong will be put with a question mark.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Shichong is suspicious of the officials below.

Pei Renji was originally a high-ranking official of the Sui Dynasty, and his background was extraordinary, but he was a big family in Hedong and had a good relationship among former Sui officials.

Then discussing state affairs, Pei Renji soon found a few former ministers who were interested in the Sui Dynasty. Among them, the most important is the Confucian Confucian Child, Yuwen Confucian is a Shangshu, and has a good relationship with Pei Renji.

After learning that Pei Renji wanted to kill Wang Shichong and assist Yang Tong, he immediately hit it off with him and prepared to kill Wang Shichong together.

These people contacted more people, Wang Shichong knew that he had a bad reputation, and at the same time he was very suspicious, so every time he traveled, he brought a large group of armor guards, and it was almost impossible to kill Wang Shichong under the escort of these armor soldiers.

There is a large army guarding this Luoyang city, and as long as it lasts for a while, there will be a steady stream of soldiers coming. When the time comes, Pei Renji and they will not be opponents at all.

So everyone came up with a way to prepare to assassinate Wang Shichong while he was eating.

Everyone contacted the willingness of the Shang Food Bureau, and the secretary Cheng and others were ready to do it when Wang Shichong was eating. When Wang Shichong was eating, there were not many people around him, so he took advantage of this time to hold him hostage or kill him.

Then Pei Renji led the guards to take Luoyang in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that assassination has been going to be done since ancient times, the fewer people who know, the better, don't you hear that if the king is not secret, he will lose his minister, if he is not secret, he will lose his body, and if he is not secret, he will become harmful, Pei Renji pulled dozens of people and wanted to do it, how can so many people still ensure confidentiality?

Sure enough, before they could make a move, Wang Shichong received the news, so he took the first step and directly killed all the people involved.

It's just that in this way, the officials and generals under Wang Shichong also began to endanger themselves. Wang Shicheng was known for his cunning and cruelty at the beginning, but at this time he was in power and everyone feared him. But that didn't convince them.

After Li Tang learned that Wang Shichong had massacred officials and generals, he knew that he was unstable internally, and immediately decided to prepare a large army to attack Luoyang.

On the other side, after learning of Li Tang's attack, Wang Shichong was frightened and hurriedly sent someone to ask Dou Jiande for help.

The relationship between Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong was not good, and the two fought many times, but Dou Jiande hesitated after learning that Li Tang had sent troops in a big way, and finally decided to help Wang Shichong.

Of course, Dou Jiande also had luck in his heart, if he defeated Li Tang in this battle, he would send troops to capture Luoyang. He sent troops to help Wang Shichong this time, completely because his lips were dead and his teeth were cold.

(End of chapter)