In Li Jiba's eyes, An Lushan is more commanding and attractive than Wang Zhonghe, if it weren't for the obstruction of the villains in the court and the prevention of the appointment of the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, several troops and horses, including Yunzhong Shou, would have followed An Lushan a long time ago.

With this mentality, he was extremely confident in winning over Yun Zhongjun, and he was domineering when he spoke.

"You have received a lot of benefits from the government over the years, and now is the time to use you......"

At this, he suddenly felt a little cold on his neck, and when he looked down, he saw a black shadow pounce at his feet, and then he heard a hoarse voice asking a question.

Li Jiba reacted immediately, but he was not afraid, but looked at Fan Chang and said, "You are such a waste!" ”

Fan Chang looked bitter and said: "The king of Dongping County is still listening to the orders of the imperial court, after all, General Wang is the guard appointed by the imperial court, how dare we disobey?" ”

His words were to the point, An Lushan was still afraid, and he couldn't rush ahead of An Lushan.

As for the "General Wang" mentioned at this time, it refers to the fact that Wang is rare.

Li Jiba slowly turned his head and looked at Wang Rare. The tip of the gun was aimed at his bearded Adam's apple, but he was not afraid, and sneered: "I thought that the king was a rare general, but he turned out to be a villain who loves sneak attacks, did you kill the prince of Tubo and attack from behind?" ”

"To answer my question, I want to know the distribution of An Lushan's forces at Shiling Pass." The king said rarely.

This straightforward sentence is not interrogating Li Jiba, two Longyou soldiers have already come over, and they will use capital torture to force the king to ask what he rarely wants to know.

"Okay, I'll tell you." Li Jiba said loudly: "The prince of the palace is in Shiling Pass, and there are only eight thousand soldiers and horses around him. ”

"It's useless to talk about it now." "My scouts will ask you, and I will trust them only." ”

"What I said is true, eight thousand falling rivers are enough to sweep the east of the river." Li Jiba's eyes were wild, and he said word by word: "Remember what I said, the brave and unparalleled Drag River will definitely tear apart you Tang Army!" ”

It was rare for the king to keep the name of "Eight Thousand Falling Rivers" in his heart.

At this moment, Li Jiba suddenly leaned back, his throat dodged the tip of the gun, and his hand took out a dagger from his waist, and raised it quickly and neatly.

With a soft sound, Fan Chang, who was sitting in a daze, had a cut on his neck, and blood sprayed out, splashing on the barbecue and wine on the table.

At the same time, Li Jiba retreated two steps in a row, pulled out the saber on Fan Chang's waist, and slashed at Wang Rare.

"Let me tell you again, I am the son of the Lord of the Falling River!"

With this knife, Li Jiba showed the fierceness and courage of the sergeant of the Luoluohe. Although he is a famous general, he is approaching with a knife and is not afraid.

"Tiger—"

In the sound of breaking the wind, Wang was forced to take a few steps back by him. Because every inch is short and every inch is dangerous, his gun is too long to be used.

Li Jiba took the lead and couldn't help but cheer up, and immediately wanted to force him to kill the king and achieve the prestige of a famous general, but this sense of cheering up only then rose, and the spear had struck like lightning.

"Poof."

One inch long and one inch strong, Wang's rare gun was too fast, it was pierced at the scarecrow for countless days and nights in the wind and frost of Longyou, and ruthlessly penetrated into Li Jiba's chest.

"Ahh

Li Jiba was incredulous, roared angrily, and actually held the handle of the gun with one hand, pulled it hard, and stabbed the gun into his body. With this force, he drove forward and continued to press towards the king, swinging his sword.

It was rare for the king to abandon the gun and retreat.

Seeing this, the two soldiers hurriedly grabbed it, "poof" two knives, and killed Li Jiba on the spot.

The heavy body was smashed to the ground, and Li Jiba was crazy and murderous until he died.

This is the rare first impression of "Falling River" to Wang, one person is like this, and eight thousand people are also like this, like a vicious dog raised by An Lushan, drooling, ready to bite the Tang Dynasty at any time......

~~

"Eat dog intestines, Zahu is not the envoy of Hedong Jiedu!"

In the midst of the scolding, a map was spread out, and several candlesticks were lit, illuminating more than a dozen rough faces in the room.

It was Yan Weiyue, the deputy general of Yanmen Pass, who spoke, the entire arm of his left hand had been broken, tied with a few branches, his old face was wrinkled, his beard and hair were white, and he looked like a tree.

Standing behind him was Xue Song, as well as the nine soldiers who had escaped from Yanmen Pass, all with anger on their faces.

Xue Song originally thought that letting Xue Yue go to Daizhou for help would save this younger brother's life, but now that he has obtained the quasi-Xindai and the land of Xin, he has fallen under the control of An Lushan, and he is inevitably anxious.

"An Lushan has rebelled, and the imperial court will soon issue an edict to quell the rebellion, right?"

Wang Rare shook his head, casually hung Li Jiba's head on the weapon rack, wiped his hands, and said: "It's not that simple, listen to this person's meaning, An Lushan hasn't rebelled, but is pointing out that Wang Jieshuai is reversed." ”

"Can there be such a thing?" Everyone didn't believe it.

Li Sheng then came forward to appease the Yanmen soldiers and said, "We have sent people to Shuofang, but they won't come back so soon, and wait." ”

"No waiting." Wang rarely leaned over to look at the map, pointed to the north of Taiyuan, where it meets Xinzhou, and said: "An Lushan is here, let's kill it, cut off the head of this miscellaneous beard, and everything is over." ”

Yan Weiyue was stunned for a moment and asked, "It's as simple as that." ”

Wang was pondering on the map and didn't speak, so Li Sheng responded: "Yes, General Wang is so neat in doing things. ”

In other words, others praise this kind of Haikou, everyone will definitely not believe it, but Wang rarely has an unbelievable record, which makes people have to be convinced.

Yan Weiyue looked at the map and saw that it was very simple, and many mountains and rivers were not marked. He has been in Yanmen for a long time, he is most familiar with the terrain, but he can also understand it, and muttered: "But Yanmen Pass has fallen into the hands of traitors, how to pass?" ”

Wang Rare didn't raise his head, and said slowly: "Or can you go from the station of the Hengye Army?" ”

Yan Weiyue understood as soon as he heard it, this was to go from the Flying Fox Plug and unexpectedly go around to the side of An Lushan from the east.

He was thrilled by the king's rare idea, but he shook his head again and said, "But the Hengye army has also been attached to Zahu. ”

"Not necessarily." Wang rarely groaned, "Most of the Hengye troops are Hu people, and they are not controlled, and they have frequent trade with the north, so under the deliberate attraction of An Lushan, it is inevitable to get close to Fan Yang...... But if they really completely followed An Lushan to rebel? It's too arbitrary. ”

"What does General Wang mean is that the attitude of the Yokono Army may be to open one eye and close one eye?"

Wang nodded and said, "I have intuition. ”

Yan Weiyue was surprised that he dared to take a risk based on his instincts alone, and thought, "Even so, it is still too risky to pass under the nose of the Fan Yang garrison. ”

With this question, there was silence in the room for a long time, until Wang Rare suddenly asked.

"Do you know Xue Bai?"

"Ahh Xue Song didn't speak, and when he heard this, he immediately raised his head and wanted to speak.

"Yes." Yan Weiyue said: "He gave me a poem. ”

"Xue Lang knew that An Lushan was rebellious, so he made many arrangements for this, and I saw him in Chang'an before I went to Yunzhong." "He gave me something that might be able to use ......."

In Chang'an in winter, Wang rarely saw Wang Zhonghe.

That was after he and Li Sheng went to Yanshoufang to worship, Wang Yunxiu led them there, in a branch money shop of Fenghui Bank.

At that time, Wang Zhongsi said with emotion.

"The saint is old, deaf and deaf, deceived by ministers and rebellion, ignorant of the grievances of the people in the world, and the society is afraid of a big shock.

~~

Xinzhou.

Due to the sudden cut off of the trade route to Taiyuan, many business travelers were stranded in the post house, and they were naturally anxious and complained.

Not many people know exactly what happened. Even if some daring people ran to the south to see, they would be stopped by the officers and soldiers, telling them that "there is a movement of troops and horses attacking the Khitan in the north at Shiling Pass, and it is forbidden to pass."

As for more, the officers and soldiers had no reason and did not bother to inform them.

In early March, the second floor of a restaurant was filled with business travelers, and among them, a man in a felt hat sat by the window, holding a flask, lazily looking at the sky.

He wore a long sword at his waist, which was gently swung by his other hand, and he struck the window with a soft "tuk-tuk" sound.

If someone listens carefully, the sound is actually full of rhythm, and it turns out that the merchant actually composed a smooth tune in his hand.

He remembered the situation when he came to Jinzhong in the twenty-third year of Kaiyuan, his thoughts were flying, and he muttered silently: "The wind blows the song into the air, and the song flies around the clouds." ”

Suddenly.

"Stop him!" There was a loud shout from the long street.

With this voice, a young man rushed out of the alley, followed by the officials who rounded him up.

The young man collided with a man carrying dung water, and casually picked up a dung bucket and smashed it on the head of an official, with a loud "bang", and then there was a scuffle.

Seeing this, the merchants in the restaurant twisted their long beards, squinted their eyes, looked at them, and saw that the young man was wearing a pair of deerskin military boots at his feet, and the robe he was wearing was very dirty, but he could still see that it was a military robe.

The merchant then stood up and strode downstairs.

Some of the drinkers who were still eating and drinking on the second floor complained.

"He's going to cause trouble again."

With these words, several men dressed as merchants stood up and ran over with the merchant.

On the long street, the young man had already run away, but his dung-stained footprints were still on the ground, and the stench in the air was strong.

"Chase!"

……

In front of the alley is a dead end.

Xue Yue stopped, listening to the shouts behind him getting closer and closer, he gritted his teeth, raised the flat shoulder in his hand, and prepared to meet the enemy.

Suddenly, a small courtyard door on the side opened, and someone pulled him hard.

"Come here!"

Xue Yue was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, the door of the small courtyard was closed again.

He was dragged away in a hurry, leaving him with only a felt hat on his back, and they passed through one house and into another.

"You stink."

The other party turned his head, and it was a fifty-year-old man with three long beards, with a handsome face, dressed as a merchant, and wearing a long sword at his waist. casually threw a suit of clothes and said, "Put it on." ”

"Thank you for saving your life." Xue Yue didn't forget to clasp his fists and salute before changing his clothes, "Dare to ask Engongzun's name?" ”

"Li Bai."

Xue Yue was stunned for a moment, stopped what he was doing, and his eyes widened.

"Hahaha, Li Bai, the word is too white, the number is Qinglian, if you ask me my name, I will tell you. Now let me ask you, is it a sergeant from Yanmen or Daizhou? ”

"Yanmen." Xue Yue hurriedly reported his name, and then looked at Li Bai with curiosity for a while, "How did Mr. know?" ”

"I am the white star in the sky, and I can see the things of the world."

"Huh?"

Li Bai smiled narrowly and said, "Silly boy, don't tease you, come with me." ”

Xue Yue hurriedly followed him and said: "Don't hide it from Mr. Li, I followed the general to guard Yanmen, and encountered the anti-thieves colluding with the Khitan offensive, and the general ordered me to ask for help, this is my signal, and Mr. may help me ......"

"The road to Taiyuan has been blocked."

Although it is a big event, Li Bai still has a casual and free attitude. He walked through the alleys and houses with great familiarity, and finally entered a shop.

At first, Xue Yue thought that this was a gambling house, because he saw boxes of copper coins, leather goods, and peppercorns, but soon, he realized that something was wrong, there were no gamblers here, only the gentlemen in the account room were busy keeping accounts.

He was familiar with the gambling house.

"Mr. Li, what is this?"

"Haha."

Li Bai smiled but did not answer, and took Xue Yue into the backyard.

Someone immediately stepped forward and said with a serious face: "Mr. really can't bring people over at will, in case the ...... is exposed"

"No, your people are looking at me." Li Bai handed over a wine bag, "Come, take a few sips of wine and dissipate your anger, oh, this is the Yanmen soldier, Xue Yue." ”

Xue Yue hurriedly clenched his fists, but met a surprised gaze.

"You're Xue Yue?"

"I—I'm named Xue Yue." Xue Yue scratched his head, feeling that the other party seemed to recognize which Xue Yue, so he whispered again: "But I shouldn't be the Xue Yue that Your Excellency knows." ”

"Xue Ling's son?"

"I ......"

Xue Yue was shocked, subconsciously took two steps back, and turned his head to look for the back door.

He had no money on him, but he didn't expect to meet Grandpa's creditor at this time, if the other party wanted to hand him over to pay off the debt, it would be better to flee first.

At this time, someone rushed over from the front hall and said, "Baihu, there is news, will I tell you in private?" ”

"Say, it's all your own people."

Xue Yue was about to escape, and when he heard the word "his own person", he couldn't help but be stunned.

"There is news from the north, General Wang is coming around from Feigusai, and we need to cooperate......"

~~

Geese are rarely heard in the sky, and the snow on the top of Yanmen Mountain has melted.

Spring is coming to an end.

In Lishan, under the Xixiu Ridge, it is a completely different scenery.

The pear blossoms are in full bloom, singing and singing and singing are sounding under the pear trees, and the beautiful women's long skirts are swaggering, which is more beautiful than the pear blossoms.

The pepper garden outside the Huaqing Palace is quiet.

Sichuan peppercorns usually ripen in late summer and early autumn, so no one will visit the pepper orchard at this season.

However, this day was a special case, a soldier of the Longwu Army suddenly broke open the door of the pepper garden, rushed in quickly, and even trampled on some of the precious pepper branches.

"Bold!" An old eunuch who managed the pepper garden rushed out and shouted angrily: "Do you know what ...... is here?"

In the middle of his words, he saw one of the people who came, and hurriedly ran down the steps and asked, "General Chen, why are you here?" ”

Chen Xuanli strode up, grabbed the old eunuch's shoulder, leaned over his ear, and asked in a low voice, "What about that person?" ”

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Because he was there, the old slave still mistakenly thought that someone was going to rob him."

"Take me there."

The pepper garden is very large, and the rows of pepper trees are very valuable, as if they have formed a city wall, and even Chen Xuanli does not dare to directly step on it. They could only stride until they reached the depths of the pepper garden.

On the road, there are two places that are guarded, and they are very well guarded.

There was finally a row of houses in front of him, Chen Xuanli strode forward, stood outside the window and looked in, and saw a tall man with long hair and long beard faintly behind the screen.

He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You all go down." ”

Then he pushed open the door and walked into the house, saying, "A-xun, the saint asked me to come and see you......

The man in the room was eating, and when he heard this, he buried his head, and Chen Xuanli reached out and patted him on the shoulder and pulled him over.

At a glance, he was stunned for a moment, his pupils constricted, revealing an incomparably solemn chill.

He recognized the person in front of him, it was not Wang Zhonghei, but a death row prisoner captured by Long Wujun last year.

"Something is wrong." Chen Xuanli muttered.

"Hey."

The death row inmate in front of him grinned, showing a mouth full of black teeth.

No matter how big the thing is, he only needs to give out a life and a head, which is worth it.

~~

Just half an hour later, the first messenger had rushed out of the Huaqing Palace.

Li Longji stood in the contemplation of the contemplation, holding a clairvoyant mirror and looking at it, and could see that the messenger kept spurring off the horse and galloping away, like a meteor.

As soon as the camera turned, he could see the post station ten miles away, and soon, he saw the second messenger receiving the order and galloping away, which can be described as "one post after another, and the post ride is like a star stream".

He couldn't see it any further, so Li Longji put down the clairvoyant mirror and showed the incomparably cruel look in his eyes.

"Thousands of precautions, Wang Zhonghei is still the opposite."

In fact, he had a premonition that many years ago, when that adopted son destroyed the Turks, he imagined for the first time what would happen if they were to rebel. Many times after that, it was because of the affection brought by his own hands that he let go of the other party.

It's a pity, it's still worth killing.

This was Li Longji's first reaction when he received the news and confirmed that Wang Zhongsi had really escaped from Jiaoyuan.

He climbed the highest, held a clairvoyant mirror to see the farthest, and naturally saw the truth at a glance.

Soon, the second and third ...... More and more wills are coming out, speeding to all sides.

In today's prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 1,600 post stations in the world, more than 17,000 post soldiers, and more than 20,000 post officers.

The Tang law was very strict with them, and anyone who delayed the departure period and should not be sent was given a hundred rods; The clerk is eighty days late, doubled in two days, and so on. In normal times, it is fine, but once there is a military situation, whether it is a cold wind, a scorching sun, or a downpour, they have to carry a paper bag on their backs and run on the way to deliver letters.

On the road to various important places, there are often post stations every ten to thirty miles, once the official document is written with the words "immediately fly", it is required to deliver at least 180 miles a day, and then 300 miles a day, and the fastest is 500 miles.

"Five hundred miles expedited!"

In this day, I don't know how many times this sentence was shouted, in the morning the shouting also appeared in Lishan, before sunset had arrived at the Yellow River, and the next morning, the envoy of Wenxi Post in Jiangzhou, Hezhong Prefecture, Hedong Province, had received the briefcase and ran wildly along Fen.

On the morning of the third day, the briefcase arrived at Fenxiyi in Jinzhou, and at noon on the fourth day, it had appeared in Taiyuan City.

"Taiyuan Mansion, the deputy envoy of Hedong Jiedu, Taiyuan Yin Yang Guanghui and the following officials receive orders!"

There was a great confusion in the government office, and the officials rushed one after another, put their heads forward, carefully opened the briefcase, took out the sealed official documents, and unfolded them.

A clearest command appeared before their eyes.

"If you dare to resist and return to Beijing, you will not be spared."

~~

Shiling Pass.

"Five hundred miles in an emergency! Yang Fu Yin can be in the ?! ”

When the shouts reached the city tower, Yang Guanghui tiptoed up and looked out through the gap by the window, only to see two sergeants guarding him squatting outside the door eating Hu cakes.

From here he could see the situation inside the city, and he saw that some officials were released into the city.

The news from the imperial court arrived, and it was really fast.

Yang Guanghui's eyes rolled, ready to return to the couch, pretending not to know anything, "squeak", the door behind him had been opened, and someone grabbed his collar.

"Come on, you!"

Soon, Yang Guanghui was lifted to the lobby in the city tower, and he saw that the officials and envoys who came to deliver the message were kneeling on the ground, trembling.

"You are also stupid, you dare to take any errand."

When Yang Guanghui passed by them, he couldn't help but kick the official to show his loyalty to Xue Bai.

Glancing at him, Wang Zhongsi was reading a document in his hand, with a terrifying aura on his body.

Xue Bai said: "Have you guessed what it is?" ”

"No...... Not very sure. ”

Xue Bai then took the paper from Wang Zhonghe's hand and threw it in front of Yang Guanghui.

Yang Guanghui looked at it, although as expected, he pretended to be shocked, and hurriedly said: "This is definitely not my complaint, I am playing An Lushan's rebellion!" ”

"Do you know what you're asked to do?"

"I'm going to stabilize the situation." Yang Guanghui secretly thought in his heart that if he could take advantage of this matter to return to Taiyuan City, his safety would be more guaranteed, so he immediately expressed his loyalty and said: "I will definitely stabilize the officials of Taiyuan Mansion, oh, and the Heavenly Soldiers, I must stabilize it." ”

"Not stupid."

"Then I'll go back to Taiyuan......"

Xue Bai smiled when he heard this, and Yang Guanghui was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped his mouth, at a loss.

"Go, I'll send you there." Xue Bai still made arrangements and said, "Diao Bing, you take someone to go with Yang Fuyin and protect him." ”

"Don't worry, Lang Jun, I know how to do it."

When Xue Bai made these arrangements, Wang Zhongji didn't ask, and it wasn't until everyone else retreated that he asked, "How long can it be delayed." ”

"Maybe the saint has twelve gold medals." Xue Bai made a joke that he only understood, and then said: "I can still hide it from the soldiers now, but I'm afraid that in a few days, the army's morale will be chaotic." ”

"You said that the reason why you saved me again and again was because you didn't want An Lushan to get Hedong."

"Yes, now it's time to see Wang Jieshuai show his powers."

Wang Zhongsi lost his former self-confidence and said, "I'm afraid that if I live up to your high expectations." ”

Although the saint's reaction was something he had expected a long time ago, the disappointment in his heart still made him inevitably struck.

Xue Bai wanted to comfort Wang Zhonghe, but he couldn't analyze anything more useful, so he simply said casually: "All along, my way to protect Hedong is to save you, do you know why?" ”

"I don't know how many famous generals in the Tang Dynasty are, and I can't help them."

"But I've heard a saying." Xue Bai said, "That sentence is, 'As long as the Four Towns Festival makes Wang Zhonghei there, An Lushan will not dare to rebel'." ”

Wang Zhongsi snorted lightly, even he didn't understand where Xue Bai's confidence in him came from, and he secretly thought in his heart that he was no longer the envoy of the Four Towns Festival, it was given by the saint, and the saint could take it back.

But he could only cheer up, thought about it, and said, "Are there any more fireworks, let's light them tonight." ”

"Give the king a rare signal?"

Wang Zhongsi got up, put on his helmet, looked at Xue Bai, and asked with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

"Isn't it?"

An Lushan will think the same way.

Wang Zhongsi said, went out of the city tower, walked to the battlements and looked at the camp of An Lushan, where there were eight thousand rivers and many more strong men.

As for him, there are no longer so many soldiers under his command, and even the Heavenly Soldiers have the possibility of turning away from him.

He asked himself what was left by then, probably a faithful and courageous heart.

(End of chapter)