Cheng Guang and Zhao Jian waited outside the palace, and when they heard that the king of Zhenxi had tied up King Yuwen and taken it down, they were immediately anxious like horse ants on a hot pot, and wanted to immediately admonish the king and beg him to release him.

When the two were very anxious, the king of Zhenxi passed the two into the palace.

After seeing the two, the king of Zhenxi said: "I have already arrested Yuwen Haotian, the king of Zhenbei, if this traitor is handed over to the imperial court, it will be a miracle, maybe the imperial court will not send troops to attack the Western Regions again, what do you two think?"

"Well, this... General Cheng Guang wanted to speak and stopped.

Zhao Jian took a step forward and said: "The villain has the courage to speak, and there are several drawbacks in the king's move. ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"First, now that the Northern Regions have been pacified, Yuwen Haotian is no longer very important to the imperial court, and I am afraid that we will not give up sending troops to the west because we have captured King Yuwen. The second is that King Yuwen and the Western Regions were jointly anti-dynasty, and now they came to defect to the king, but they were arrested by the king and handed over to the court, and the people of the world will regard the king as a fickle and dishonest person. Third, and the most important problem is that King Yuwen now has more than 20,000 elite soldiers stationed in Tongyuan City, once it is known that the king will capture King Yuwen, then Tongyuan City will be immediately lost, and then will come to besiege Xiamaguan City, then both will be defeated, and the court can sit back and enjoy its success, and the fisherman will benefit. ”

Hearing this, King Zhenxi pondered for a moment and said: "There is some truth in saying this, but I have different political views from him, and it is impossible to cooperate with him, I am against the imperial court, just to depose the current emperor and set up a new emperor, and he Yuwen Haotian is a thief who colludes with the Northern Barbarians and wants to seize my martial arts world, how can he conspire?!"

"No, the king, the reason for King Yuwen's incident is not as rumored, it is indeed that he was framed by someone and killed by the court in vain, and he started the incident in order to avenge the blood hatred. Zhao Jian explained in detail what he had heard from General Chu to the King of Zhenxi.

After listening to Zhao Jian's narration, after the king of Zhenxi groaned for a while, he beckoned Zhao Jian to come forward and whispered to him: "When he took that Yuwen Haotian, he once said that he would hand over his army to me and let me dispatch it, I don't know if it was a joke." In this way, you can choose the time to go to the prison in private to meet King Yuwen and find out his true intentions. ”

After receiving the order, Zhao Jian immediately came to the prison to visit Yuwen Haotian.

Zhao Jian came to the prison alone, and saw Yuwen Haotian wearing his hair, with iron chains on his hands and feet, sitting on the ground with his back to the prison door, sitting with his eyes closed.

He asked the jailer to open the prison door, went in to meet Queen Yuwen, and asked the jailer to remove King Yuwen's handcuffs and shackles.

"The little one is not talented, let Lord Yuwen suffer, please bear with me, after some time, I will persuade the King of Zhenxi to let Lord Yuwen go." Zhao Jian said to King Yuwen very apologetically.

"Ha, ha, ha,。。 King Yuwen laughed when he heard this, "This virtuous brother doesn't need to be taken to heart, within five days, King Zhenxi will definitely treat me like a guest." ”

"Oh, how do you say that?" Zhao Jian was puzzled for a moment.

"That's a story for later, and you'll know it then. Saying that, King Yuwen changed the topic: "At present, the king of Zhenxi has detained me here to the point of not being prepared, and I am worried that my soldiers will attack the general army of Chu because I did not return in time, and I am afraid that the general army of Chu will not be able to explain for a while, and the two sides will have trouble again, which will not be good." ”

Zhao Jian thought of Miss Muyang's words at this time, and thought to himself that this Lord Yuwen really had a chance of winning, and I don't have to worry about it when I see it, and I heard King Yuwen talk about the Tongyuan garrison, and his heart moved, this is exactly what the King of Zhenxi sent him to investigate.

"Then how will it be disposed of?" Zhao Jian hurriedly asked.

I saw that King Yuwen did not answer, but just reached out and took a jade bi from his neck, handed it to Zhao Jian, and said: "This jade bi is the king's troop transfer talisman. Now you have taken this, quickly return to Tongyuan City, and show the generals that the officers and soldiers of our department will be commanded and dispatched by you and General Chu on your behalf, and make timely arrangements for the defense of the city. The imperial army is approaching. ”

Zhao Jian took the jade bi with both hands, and saw that this jade was as warm as fat, translucent as a mirror, and the two brocades on it were about to come out, a piece of peerless jade. After seeing it, he carefully put it away and put it in his arms.

King Yuwen talked to him in detail about how to arrange troops in Tongyuan City, how to strengthen defense, etc., and introduced to him the characteristics and strengths of several generals under him, so that Zhao Jian must keep it in mind, so that he can take advantage of the situation and dispatch troops.

After bidding farewell to King Yuwen and coming out of prison, Zhao simply went to the palace, reported the situation to King Zhenxi, and showed him the troop transfer talisman handed over by King Yuwen. When King Zhenxi heard this, he was a little surprised, and thought to himself, Is this King Yuwen really here to help me resist the invasion of the imperial court? He immediately said to Zhao Jian: "Then you and General Chengguang will return to Tongyuan City tomorrow with this talisman to verify the truth of this matter." ”

The next day, after Zhao Jian and Cheng Guang returned to Tongyuan City, they immediately went to the General Military Mansion to report the situation to Lord Chu.

Chu Weixian was like sitting on pins and needles at this time, impatient, first, he had heard that the imperial court's expedition to the west had been on the road, and second, he had not heard from King Yuwen for three days, and he didn't know what the result of meeting with King Zhenxi would be.

After Zhao Jian saw the general soldiers of Chu, he told him about the meeting between King Yuwen and King Zhenxi. Chu Weixian heard that the king of Huizhenxi had taken King Yuwen into prison, and shouted: "It's bad, it's bad, how can this be good." ”

"I have been reported, the imperial army has set off to conquer the west, and it will not be long before the army presses the border, and there is this civil strife, and Tongyuan City is in danger. Chu Weixian shook his head again and again and said.

"General Chu must not be anxious, although the king of Yuwen was taken by the king of Zhenxi, he does not seem to complain, but is willing to hand over the army he leads for us to deploy to resist the attack of the imperial court. Zhao Jian said.

"Is that true?"

"Yesterday, King Yuwen personally handed over his troop transfer talisman to me while in prison, and personally taught me the essentials of defending the city, which seems to be no joke. But the king of Zhenxi couldn't believe it, even if I came back to try the truth. After speaking, Zhao Jian took out a piece of jade from his arms and showed it to General Chu.

Chu Weixian was examining the jade bi in his hand, and at this time, a herald soldier came in and reported: "The front-line horse exploration has been confirmed, the hussar general Huang Zhipeng led an army of 150,000, the king of Qi sent the general Wu Chao to lead an army of 50,000, and the king of Zhennan sent Du Si Peng Dayuan to lead an army of 30,000 troops, and divided the troops into three ways to the Western Regions. ”

It turned out that after the capture of Gulu Pass, Huang Zhipeng, a hussar general who had been on the northern expedition for many years, was robbed of the first credit by the auxiliary general Fang Dingchao, and he was unwilling, and immediately proposed to lead his troops westward to conquer the king of Zhenxi.

General Fang also wanted to return Lord Huang's favor, besides, he suffered a big loss in the last expedition to the west, and he still had lingering palpitations, so he didn't dare to go rashly again. Therefore, it was agreed that General Huang would lead a large army to the west, so General Huang brought out 150,000 soldiers and horses from the Northern Regions and set off to the Western Regions.

Who knew that halfway through, he learned that King Yuwen had also defected to the Western Regions, and he was happy and worried for a while, and he was happy that he could take the opportunity to wipe out the two thieves.

For the sake of stability, he immediately asked Huang Jian, the king of Qi, and Qin Yifei, the king of Zhennan, to help, hoping that the two would jointly send troops to crusade against the Western Regions, and if they captured the two thieves, everyone would share their merits. Thinking that there would be such a good thing to enjoy, the two kings sent their armies to help in the war. So after the soldiers and horses of the three roads gathered in Quyang County, they fought all the way to the Western Regions.