Chapter 167: Chasing the Wind and Catching the Shadows, Swearing Loyalty

The book continued from the above, saying that when Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng went to inspect the Ma army, they learned from Fang Xuanling that Wei Chi Jingde was arrested by Qu Tutong, and this matter turned out to be instructed by Li Yuan, so they were shocked and hurriedly rushed to the camp.

The two walked into the military tent and found that Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan, Liu Hongji, Changsun Shunde, Dou Cong and others were discussing something in the military tent.

I saw Li Shimin nodding slightly, and walked to the first seat without saying a word and sat down, while Chu Mofeng sat aside with great interest, and shouted to the soldiers outside the door: "Go and find a jar of wine for my father." ”

The soldiers outside the door responded and turned to leave, and after a while, they walked in with a jar of wine, and said to Chu Mofeng: "Grandpa Qiyuguo, my subordinates have searched the entire camp and only have this jar of wine, you will drink it first, and then ask him to bring you some back to store when the Huotou Army goes out to buy." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded, took out a hanging of money from his arms and handed it to the soldier, and said with a smile: "This hanging money is for you, go and inform me, buy more and come back, and later go to the garrison of the Tiance Army to find Zhao Xin of the Heavenly Killing Camp to withdraw the money." ”

Seeing this, the pro-soldier happily accepted the reward and thanked Chu Mofeng repeatedly, Chu Mofeng waved his hand when he saw this, signaling him to put the wine jar in his hand aside and retreat.

In the military tent, Qu Tutong saw Chu Mofeng drinking openly, and couldn't help frowning and was about to scold, but was pulled by Yin Kaishan on the side, only to see Yin Kaishan shake his head, stand up and say to Chu Mofeng: "Grandpa Guo, there are regulations in the army that you are not allowed to drink without permission, you see ......."

Slapping the mud seal on the wine jar away, Chu Mofeng raised his head and poured a big sip, wiped the wine marks on the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, looked at Yin Kaishan coldly and said: "I said General Yin, you talk about military regulations and military discipline with me, let me ask if there are still military regulations and military discipline in our big camp?"

As soon as Chu Mofeng's words came out, everyone present, except for Li Shimin, was suddenly surprised, and secretly speculated in their hearts about what Chu Mofeng meant by this, only to see Qu Tutong stand up and say angrily: "Grandpa Guo, veteran, let me ask, why does my Tang army no longer have military discipline and military regulations to speak of? ”

"Detaining a general with a soldier without the permission of the official, and killing a meritorious soldier with just a letter, isn't this disregarding military regulations and military discipline?" Who knew that as soon as Qu Tu's voice fell, Chu Mofeng held the wine jar with one hand, and slapped the small table beside him with the other hand, perhaps because of too much strength, the small table couldn't stand Chu Mofeng's blow and fell apart with a 'bang', and an explosion made everyone in the tent suddenly feel their hearts skip a beat.

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin, who was at the top, couldn't help but muttered to himself, when did this kid become so superb in martial arts, and he couldn't use all his strength to slap the small table apart, yes, yes, this time it is estimated that these old guys present were startled.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin coughed lightly and said slowly: "The entire Tang Dynasty knows that the Duke of Qi loves soldiers like a son and is sympathetic to his subordinates, so please ask the Duke of Qi to calm the anger of the thunder first, and let the generals explain the whole story clearly." ”

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Chu Mofeng nodded angrily, and said to Qu Tutong and the others: "Everyone, do you have to give an explanation to His Royal Highness the King of Qin and his own prince about today's matter? Or do you also want to learn from Pei Lin and unjustly kill the generals of the imperial court for no reason?"

As soon as Qu Tutong and the others heard Chu Mofeng mention the word 'Pei Lian', they remembered that because of Liu Wenjing's incident, the lord in front of him could dare to argue with His Majesty in court, and several people glanced at each other, only to see Yin Kaishan get up and clasp his fists at Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi, Grandpa Qiyuguo, this matter will be explained by the future." ”

It turned out that after Fang Xuanling received the edict, he opened it for Li Shimin as usual to take a look, and felt that the situation was urgent, so he immediately handed it over to Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan, two important ministers, to read. The two were very nervous after learning the news, after all, they had long been suspicious of Wei Chi Jingde, and now they were even more afraid that Wei Chi Jingde had received a secret report from the Xiangxiang, and suddenly launched a rebellion, which would catch the Tang army off guard.

Before that, when the Tang army attacked Wang Shichong, Xunxiang took the 8,000 troops who had taken refuge at night and fled to Wang Shichong.

After seeing this edict at this time, Yin Kaishan and Qu Tutong even suspected that when the two armies were facing each other, if Wei Chi Jingde and Wang Shichong secretly colluded with each other, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Thinking of this, the two hurriedly recruited the veterans of the Taiyuan uprising, Liu Hongji, the eldest grandson Shunde, and Dou Cong, and showed them the edict, and they were also so nervous that their foreheads were sweating, and they felt that a rebellion could happen at any time.

Everyone decided to do it immediately, first arrest Wei Chi Jingde, so under the auspices of Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan, hundreds of elite armor soldiers were arranged to ambush behind the military tent, and sent someone to falsely pass on the order of Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to ask Wei Chi Jingde to come to the military tent to discuss matters.

Wei Chi Jingde, who was wiping his armor in his tent, heard that King Qin had summoned him, and remembered the conversation with himself before he defected, and couldn't help sighing, thinking that this matter was really known to His Royal Highness the King of Qin, it seems that it was really wrong that he didn't report it at the beginning, thinking of this, he hurriedly got up and prepared to go, thinking about explaining to Li Shimin, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin wants to punish himself, then he deserves it.

Immediately, Wei Chi Jingde came to the military tent alone, but as soon as he entered the door, he was pressed to the ground by five or six armor soldiers. And Wei Chi Jingde showed a very shocked look, did not make any resistance, and was tied up by the armor soldiers and pulled to the back to take care of it. Immediately, Qu Tutong and Yin Kaishan waited in the military tent, and when Li Shimin came back, they gave an order, and then beheaded Wei Chi Jingde, and then prepared to use the same way to solve the problem of Wei Chi Jingde's cronies in the army.

After listening to Yin Kaishan's narration, there was silence in the military tent, and the jar of wine in Chu Mofeng's arms had already drunk to the bottom, and he threw the jar of wine in his hand to the ground, and the crisp cracking sound was so harsh in the military tent.

I saw Chu Mofeng stand up and walk in front of Yin Kaishan, and said coldly: "What was the reason why I hung you on the flagpole for three days and three nights, and beat Wen Jing on the head? Because back then, when you went out with His Royal Highness the King of Qin, you did not act according to the instructions of His Royal Highness the King of Qin, and rashly attacked and caused heavy casualties in the army, and you still entrusted you with a heavy responsibility afterwards, why is this? Because I believe that you are a person with a sense of responsibility and conscience. ”

Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, Yin Kaishan suddenly sat on the chair with a burst of words, and Liu Hongji on the side was about to get up to speak when he saw this, but Chu Mofeng turned around and pointed at Liu Hongji and said, "Old Liu, I didn't expect you to be involved in this matter, it's really disappointing to me." ”

"Grandpa Guo, this is not an urgent matter, and it involves the issue of rebellion, is it only then that the last general will make suggestions with the generals?" Seeing that Chu Mofeng was faintly angry, Liu Hongji couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.

"The last person who should be involved in this matter is you, since you were captured for the first time, you ask yourself, how many times when you were in prison, did your own prince ever give up on rescuing you? When you were captured again, someone advised me and His Royal Highness the King of Qin, saying that you Liu Hongji has been captured repeatedly, you must have betrayed the Tang Dynasty, do you know what His Royal Highness the King of Qin said?" Stretching out his hand and pointing at Liu Hongji, a trace of anger appeared in Chu Mofeng's eyes.

"I don't know the last general, please ask His Royal Highness King Qin and Grandpa Guo to show me. Hearing that there is such a play, Liu Hongji couldn't help but be a little surprised.

I saw Li Shimin say slowly: "Back then, someone said to me and Qi Guogong, saying that you Liu Hongji intended to betray the Tang Dynasty, and suggested that this king give up rescuing you, but this king rejected this person at that time, and I told him that Liu Hongji was an old man who had followed him all the way since Jinyang started his army, and this person was brave and resourceful, and the only thing he would not do was to betray the Tang Dynasty." General Liu, you have disappointed this king too much. ”

Liu Hongji heard that there were so many bizarre and twists and turns here, and immediately knelt down in front of Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Grandpa Guo, how can the last general He De be so protected by the two of you, the last general is really ashamed." ”

After Chu Mofeng helped Liu Hongji up, he said slowly: "General Liu, how similar things are to today's events back then, since your own prince and His Royal Highness the King of Qin trust you, why can't you trust others?"

At this time, the eldest grandson Shunde got up and said: "Grandpa Guo, there is something unclear in the end, since you are convinced that Wei Chi Jingde will not rebel, how to explain the matter of looking for the appearance?"

"General Changsun, I know that you are the uncle of Princess Qin, since you don't believe that Wei Chi Jingde will not rebel, then your own prince can swear here, Jingde is also an old friend of your own father, if this person betrays the Tang Dynasty in the future, then General Changsun can use my head to calm His Majesty's anger, I don't know what General Changsun wants?" Chu Mofeng listened to Changsun Shunde's words, and thought to himself, you old guy really don't look at things, didn't you see that His Royal Highness the King of Qin insisted on protecting Wei Chi Jingde? A relative of the emperor also came out to join in the fun.

Listening to Chu Mofeng's words, the eldest grandson Shunde couldn't help but secretly slander in his heart, I know that you Qi Guogong is now in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and in addition to the Tiance Army under your command, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Shi Wanbao, Liu Dewei, Shi Danai and others all take your horse as the head, it is said that most of the people in the entire rivers and lakes are favored by you because of the Songshan incident back then, if I move you at that time, wouldn't I think my life would be too long?

Thinking of this, the eldest grandson Shunde had no choice but to sigh and say: "Since the Duke of Qi is willing to come forward as a guarantee, there is nothing to say in the future." ”

Seeing that the five people present had managed to get the three of them, Chu Mofeng turned around and glanced at Li Shimin, which meant that the master had done it for you, and you could handle the remaining two.

Seeing this, Li Shimin got up and said to Qu Tutong with a smile: "Old General Qu, if this king is not mistaken, when you returned to the Tang Dynasty, there were many people in the court who were suspicious of you, right?"

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin, the veteran knows that this matter has been done by Meng Lang, and he also asks His Royal Highness the King of Qin to forgive him. As soon as he heard Li Shimin speak, Qu Tutong knew what Li Shimin was going to say, so he hurriedly stopped his words and relented.

Seeing that only Dou Cong was left among the few people involved, Li Shimin immediately turned his gaze to Dou Cong, Dou Cong sighed in his heart when he saw this, but in the spirit of loyalty to the Tang Dynasty, he still cheered up and said to Li Shimin: "His Royal Highness King Qin, since you and Grandpa Guo both think that Wei Chi Jingde will not rebel, why don't you summon him to ask and make a decision?"

"Go and invite him over!" Li Shimin resolutely gave an order to Liu Hongji when he heard this.

Liu Hongji walked next door with a few armor soldiers and brought the five-flowered Wei Chi Jingde to the military tent. As soon as he saw Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng, Wei Chi Jingde instantly lowered his head, and tears flowed down his face.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng stepped forward, looked at the tightly wound rope on Yu Chi Jingde's body, frowned, and touched his waist with his right hand, only to see a cold light flash, and the rope on Yu Chi Jingde's body broke immediately.

At this time, Wei Chi Jingde knelt down in front of the two and said: "His Royal Highness King Qin and Grandpa Guo, Jingde has something to hide from you, please punish me." ”

Qu Tutong, Liu Hongji and others heard Yu Chi Jingde say this, and thought to themselves what you kid would say, but they saw Chu Mofeng help Yu Chi Jingde up, and said coldly: "The big man has gold under his knees, and the good man doesn't flick when he has tears, Jingde doesn't need to be like this, he has something to say." ”

Immediately Wei Chi Jingde wiped a handful of tears and told what had happened before, it turned out that on the eve of Xunxiang preparing to lead his troops to rebel, he had come to find Wei Chi Jingde, hoping that he could leave with him, but he was sternly rejected by Wei Chi Jingde.

At that time, looking at Xunxiang's ruthless face, Wei Chi Jingde couldn't figure out why he wanted to rebel, and he was angry and stretched out his hand to Xunxiang and said: "His Royal Highness King Qin and Grandpa Guo treat us well, why do you want to rebel?"

"People die for money, birds die for food, King Zheng sent someone to contact me privately, if we go over, not only can we be added to the official rank, but even the marquis is not impossible. Looking at the former good brother in front of him, he spat out lotus flowers like a poisonous snake and kept tempting Yu Chi Jingde.

"Just for this? If it weren't for the mistaken love of His Royal Highness King Qin and Grandpa Guo, we would have been a pile of dry bones under the three-foot loess, and now you are going to rebel and look for the appearance for these small profits, I really misjudged you. Hearing that Xunxiang was going to seek refuge with Wang Shichong, Wei Chi Jingde was angry at the moment, pointing at Xunxiang and scolding: "If you want to be that capricious villain, you will leave, I have fought side by side with you for many years, you have saved me and I have saved you, from today onwards, our brothers will be cut off, your soldiers you take away, if you dare to bewitch my soldiers, I will lead my soldiers and horses to kill you." ”

Xun Xiangyan pointed to Yu Chi Jingde and said: "Okay, you have a kind, when King Zheng rules the world one day, I see that you are still not as stubborn as today." With that, he turned and walked out of the tent.

When he was about to walk to the entrance of the big tent, he only heard Wei Chi Jingde say coldly behind him: "When we meet on the battlefield on other days, you and I are mortal enemies, don't blame me for being cold-blooded and ruthless." ”

After listening to Wei Chi Jingde's words, he left the big tent without looking back, and then left the lobby barracks overnight with a total of 8,000 of his cronies.

After listening to Wei Chi Jingde's narration, Li Shimin said to him with a sad expression: "I know that you are not the kind of capricious person. Then he turned his face to Liu Hongji and said: "Do you hear? This is what you call a person who will rebel, if such a person will rebel, I don't have to fight and kill, I don't have to fight and kill, I will wash my neck collectively and wait for the enemy to kill him." ”

Everyone present was silent when they heard this, and at this time, Chu Mofeng stepped forward and said to Wei Chi Jingde: "Since we met back then, I knew that you were an upright man, and today His Royal Highness the King of Qin and the public of the country will protect you, if His Majesty blames him, it will be borne by the public of the country, just hope that you can continue to open up territory for the Tang Dynasty in the future." ”

Looking at the man in front of him who was younger than himself, Wei Chi Jingde suddenly choked up and didn't know what to say, at this time Li Shimin glanced at Qu Tutong and the others, and several people stepped forward to apologize to Wei Chi Jingde when they saw this.

Then Li Shimin took Wei Chi Jingde's hand and said: "Let's go, today this king will hold a banquet to atone for the general's crimes." After speaking, he pulled Wei Chi Jingde and walked towards the outside of the big tent, and when he was about to reach the exit, Li Shimin turned to Chu Mofeng as if he remembered something and said, "I'll leave it to you here." ”

After Li Shimin and Wei Chi Jingde left, Chu Mofeng turned to Qu Tutong and the others and said: "Everyone, I have always been obsessed with the matter of Wenjing back then and the matter of Zhongwen today, both of them are loyal and good people, one was framed by Pei Lian's dog thief, and the other fell for the tricks of the Turkic dog, but Your Majesty actually ......."

Speaking of this, Chu Mofeng sighed, looked at everyone and said slowly: "Our Datang has been able to come to this day, and what we rely on is to have all of you who are loyal and righteous, and I hope that such incidents will not happen again in the future." Immediately, Chu Mofeng said with a hideous face: "As for the guy who is looking for the face, the country will definitely not let him go." ”

When everyone heard this, they understood that they had misunderstood Wei Chi Jingde, and they also knew why Chu Mofeng would be so reasonable and strive to keep Yu Chi Jingde.

After returning to the camp, Chu Mofeng wrote a note and stuffed it into the bamboo pipe on the leg of a carrier pigeon, and threw the carrier pigeon in the direction of Luoyang, only to see the carrier pigeon flapping its wings and flying towards the direction of Dongdu.

As soon as noon passed, Liu Feiyan and the others, who had been lurking in Luoyang for many days, were already asleep in the inn at this moment, but Gu Zhen'er was sitting on the bed alone at this time, looking at her graceful body under the gauze, Gu Zhen'er gently stroked her hair and murmured: "You have four children, why do people still like you so much, is this infatuation?"

When she was muttering, she heard a sound of 'cooing' outside the window, Gu Zhen'er hurriedly got out of bed when she heard this, went straight to the window, pushed the window open, and a strong autumn mood came to her face, only to see a carrier pigeon standing at the edge of the window, as if waiting for someone.

Easily copied the carrier pigeon in, Gu Zhen'er took out the note in the bamboo tube, and threw the carrier pigeon out of the window, only to see the carrier pigeon slowly flying towards the outside of Luoyang City. Back on the bed, Gu Zhen'er sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed, took out the fire fold and lit a candle, read the note carefully in front of the candlelight, and then stuffed the note under the pillow.

When they sat together, the corner of the table inadvertently rubbed against their proud firmness, which suddenly made Gu Zhen'er's face red, and the whole person's skin gradually flashed a faint pink, feeling that her cheeks were a little hot, Gu Zhen'er hurriedly took some water and threw it on her face, and suddenly a cool feeling suppressed the heat.

Thinking that there was something important to do tomorrow, Gu Zhen'er blew out the candle, ran into the quilt with an arrow step, covered the quilt and fell asleep, in the dream she was in the same room with the person who had been thinking about it for a long time, and there seemed to be a soft whisper of this person in her ears, and then the two of them gradually fell into silence after a cloud and rain.

At the beginning of the year, Li Shimin and Wei Chi Jingde led 500 elite horsemen to the southern foot of Beibi Mountain, and looked at the scene in the eastern capital city for a while on the mountain beam, and described the terrain of the future battlefield outside the city. After the matter was done, everyone came to the area of Yuyi to shoot wild animals, and then boarded the Wei Xuanwu Mausoleum to visit the ancients.

As everyone knows, the scene of galloping horses just now was actually seen by Wang Shichong, who was patrolling the city wall of the eastern capital. He stared closely at the faint fast-moving shadows on the distant ridge, and asked the people around him with a puzzled face, "Who are those people, are they the enemy's spies?"

One of the generals in the entourage said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks it should be Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who has always liked to go to the battlefield to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. ”

Wang Shichong nodded when he heard this, and then called a sharpshooter in the army and said, "Take a closer look, if there are any black-clothed and black-armored cavalry in the ranks of those cavalry." According to the grapevine, whenever Li Shimin comes to the battlefield to reconnoiter the enemy, the killing god on the opposite side will always be ambushed around, and the two of them have a great feeling of being inseparable.

After raising his eyes and looking into the distance for a while, the sharpshooter turned to Wang Shichong and said, "Your Majesty, there are no black-clothed and black-armored cavalry in the cavalry ranks. ”

"Oh, this hairy boy who doesn't know the height of the sky, he didn't let that killing god accompany him, it's really heaven help me!" Wang Shichong's mouth was full of contempt, and his eagle eyes flashed with grabbing light, and he turned to the people around him and said, "Go and call General Shan!"

After a while, the north gate of Luoyang, the eastern capital, slowly opened, and I saw Wang Shichong personally leading 10,000 horsemen to quietly slip out of the north gate, and they tried their best to use the cover of the terrain to rush towards the area of Wei Xuanwuling from the direction that the people on the mountain beam could not see. According to Wang Shichong's deployment, the champion general Chen Zhiluo led a crack platoon to the foot of the mountain in front of him to block the way of the Tang army. Wang Shichong and the hussar general Shan Xiongxin led the cavalry to the back of the mountain, rushed down the mountain, and attacked in two strokes, striving to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

At this time, Li Shimin and others, who were lingering in the area of Wei Xuanwuling, did not know that an overwhelming net was coming towards them.

Shan Xiongxin, who followed Wang Shichong to fight, heard that he was going to capture Li Shimin, the king of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, and his heart was excited, he knew that many Wagang brothers had defected to this person back then, and this person had Chu Mofeng, known as the first Qi Guogong in the Central Plains martial arts, if he could capture the two in one fell swoop, his prestige in the rivers and lakes would inevitably rise a lot.

Thinking of this, Shan Xiongxin couldn't help but urge the war horse under his crotch to run forward, and when he galloped to the foot of the mountain behind him, everyone dismounted one after another, wrapped their horses, and quietly climbed to the top of the mountain.

At this time, the sentry in charge of guarding at the top of the mountain saw the figure of Shan Xiongxin and others, and hurriedly warned loudly, at this time Li Shimin and others knew that the enemy had arrived, and then turned over and ran in the direction of the camp......

As the saying goes, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, and watch Li Shimin lead the troops to retreat, Wei Chi Jingde desperately protects the master, and then watch Chu Mofeng wait for the rabbit, Qi Guogong fights Shan Xiongxin, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......