Chapter Sixty-Eight, Conspiracy
"I'm not stupid, I still know how to hide!" Second Master Yang comforted Mr. Zixian together, and hope rose in his heart, he tearfully tried to touch Yang Luhai's face, but Yang Luhai dodged him in a hurry.
"Let's go, Hai'er, uncle will take you back and grab all the elixirs from the Shangguan family!" Second Master Yang couldn't help but say, grabbed Yang Luhai and walked out of the room on his shoulder.
"It also involves the Shangguan family......" Mr. Zixian sighed secretly, things have become more and more difficult to do.
In the next few months, Lin Zheng did not move his troops again, but the generals and commanders in Luoyan Pass did not dare to take it lightly, for fear that Lin Zheng would rush up on a whim to move his muscles.
"It's winter. A middle-aged man in gold armor with a majestic face stood on the top of the cliff and stretched out his hand to catch a falling snowflake.
"General. ”
Behind the middle-aged man, a general walked up and knelt on one knee: "General, Lin Zheng's intention is already very obvious, if you lose the Ruian Plain, our country will lose most of the harvest, and you can only rely on the stock reserve, but how many years can this inventory last?"
"Is there another reminder letter from the palace?" The middle-aged man turned his head, and the general didn't dare to look at the middle-aged man's eyes and pressed his head even lower.
"The Zhou Dynasty is blocked at the door of his house, and it would be too unreasonable not to fight, right?" the young commander said cautiously.
"At the beginning, I didn't agree to send troops, but now I have given people a reason to send troops and take away Hengshan Pass and Ruian Plain, just for the sake of the royal family!
"But this is the seventh war reminder. The young man said helplessly.
"The seventh. The middle-aged man sneered: "You look back at our soldiers." ”
The middle-aged man lifted the general with one hand and threw it on the edge of the cliff, and under the cliff was the inner city of Luoyanguan. In the inner city, 200,000 soldiers are roaring and training in an orderly manner.
"Our soldiers are good soldiers, but what are they wearing in their hands?!" the middle-aged man asked the general in front of him angrily.
"The Zhou Dynasty has been strong for so many years, not to mention the strong soldiers and horses, especially the heavy cavalry troops, can the heavy Kai on their bodies be pierced with the arrows in our hands?" The middle-aged man shook his head: "Not to mention that the cavalry in Lin Zheng's hands still has heavy shields." ”
"This is also a helpless thing, the emperor has called three companies to develop the armor-piercing arrow, but the research of the armor-piercing arrow is carried out in Hengshan Pass, and now the process of breaking Hengshan Pass may have fallen into the hands of Lin Zheng. The young commander said helplessly.
"No, this is not the root cause, the root cause is that the faint monarch held the three families too high, making the family feel that they were high above and couldn't look down on our Chu country at all!" The middle-aged man's heart was full of anger, and he wanted to behead the faint monarch immediately.
"General!" The commander immediately stepped forward and pressed the middle-aged man to silence the gesture: "On weekdays, there is only your own family in Luoyan Pass, you can scold as much as you want, but now the Confucian national teacher is still resting in our Luoyan Pass, be careful that he listens to it and sues the general." ”
"Confucianism?" The middle-aged man snorted coldly: "Confucianism sues me for something, Confucianism is the prince's family and is the representative of the reformers, maybe they can't get used to the faint king sitting on the dragon chair more than me!"
"General Li sees the situation very clearly. Mr. Zixian climbed the cliff with a smile, and his beard was white and his body was rickety, and he was really afraid that he would braided his hair halfway.
"Zixian National Teacher. General Li nodded in greeting.
"General Li is right, Confucianism is the reform faction of the prince's line, and we are more unaccustomed to the fat man on the dragon chair than General Li. Old Mr. Zixian walked to General Li's side with a kind face.
"I don't know what the meaning of Mr. Zixian's remarks is?" General Li raised his eyebrows and looked vigilantly at the harmless old man in front of him.
"The prince is knowledgeable, resolute, broad-minded, and has an incomparably long-term vision, knowing that if he is squandered by that fat man on the dragon chair for three or five years, the Chu State will definitely perish!"
"Just say what you want, there's not a trace of conversation going out here. General Li heard the hidden interest in Mr. Zixian's words.
"Actually, the old man came this time, just to borrow Lin Zheng's east wind to capture Yang Luhai to Luoyanguan to see General Li. Mr. Zixian explained.
"The crown prince asked the national teacher to come?" General Li asked with a frown.
"Exactly!" Mr. Zixian nodded: "Let me ask the general, if we look at the entire Chu State, how many troops are there when we are full?"
"All of them add up to 500,000 at most, and more than 100,000 people were lost at Hengshan Pass, barely 400,000 troops. General Li thought for a moment and said.
"The Chu State lost 100,000 troops in the first battle of Hengshan Pass, but how many people did Lin Zheng lose?" asked the old man Zixian again.
"Less than 10,000. General Li's heart was also full of anger when he thought of this, he didn't know whether the armor-piercing arrow had been successfully developed, he only knew that the equipment of the Zhou Dynasty army was far better than that of his own soldiers.
"General Li, it doesn't seem that this is simply because the soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty are stronger than the soldiers of the Chu State, right?" asked Mr. Zixian.
"The soldiers of the Chu State do not have to be weak in the soldiers of any country!" General Li looked firm, and he would never back down on this point.
"Since it's not because of this, I think General Li should know the specific reason better than me. Old Mr. Zixian smiled mysteriously: "General Li, there is a great opportunity here, I don't know if you dare to catch it?"
"What chance?" General Lee asked.
"Lin Zheng tortured the third young master of the Yang family to a half-crippled, you must know that Yang Luhai is a genius who can repair the blueprint left by their ancestral master, and now the Yang family is angry and may want to fight the team, and even implicate the Shangguan family. Old Mr. Zixian's eyes showed excitement.
"Does General Li want them to stand in line with the crown prince? Or do you want them to stand in line with the fat man sitting on the dragon chair, and let him rely on the Yang family to continue to strengthen the Gujia Pass, so that the people of the entire Chu State will starve to death?"
"Are you going to rebel?" General Li hesitated.
"No, it's not a rebellion, we're here to remove the rotten and dilapidated places of the Chu State, let the good parts be stationed in it, and if we don't clean up the carrion on the wound, how can the wound heal?" Mr. Zixian looked at General Li with burning eyes.
"General Lee, what do you mean?"
General Li stroked his beard with one hand, looked at the earth-shattering training of the children of the Chu State under his feet, and looked at their clumsy equipment, and made up his mind in his heart.
"The national teacher is right, if you don't clean up the carrion on the wound, how can the wound heal?" General Li had made up his mind and decided to lead his army back to sweep away the gloom in Chu.
"Commander Jiang. General Li looked at the young general beside him.
"I have some important things to go back to the Chu State, and during this period, you will lead the army to defend Luoyan Pass!" General Li instructed, Commander Jiang is his only confidant, and he can rest assured that Commander Jiang will be handed over.
"What are the plans. General Li asked Mr. Zixian.
"The prince has been in business for so many years, and any big enemies have basically been secretly swept away by Confucianism, and now only General Wang, the commander of Gujia Pass, and the fat man's three hundred guards are left. Mr. Zixian explained.
"General Wang?" General Li frowned: "General Wang is a loyal dog next to the fat man, and he will definitely not rebel." ”
"So it's up to the general. Mr. Zixian said.
"I can only bring back 100,000 people at most, and the rest have to hold this Luoyan Pass, if even this Luoyan Pass is lost, the Chu State really has no chance. General Li said cautiously.
"One hundred thousand is enough! General Wang has already had two commanders who have been rebelled, and they will help us when the time comes, and the three hundred guards around the fat man will be handed over to me Confucianism to solve. Old Mr. Zixian nodded hurriedly, it was much easier than he thought to seek General Li to take sides, and it seemed that he had long been tired of looking down on that faint king.
"In that case, when are we going to act?" General Li asked Zixian.
"Half a month later, when the prince will go to the fat man's banquet, our Confucian Confucianism will protect the prince closely, and General Li only needs to lead the army to stop General Wang's people. Mr. Zixian said.
"In half a month, I will definitely return to the palace. General Li nodded, the evacuation of 100,000 people is not disappearing, he needs to withdraw in small batches, otherwise Lin Zheng will find that this Luoyan Pass will be lost.
"I believe in General Lee. Zixian nodded and said goodbye: "Since the old man left after the agreement, he was accompanied by the Yang family, so he can't make the family suspicious." ”
General Li did not send Mr. Zixian down the mountain, everything needed to be done in secret.
"My lord, do you really want to?" After Zixian left, Commander Jiang asked General Li with a worried face.
"Want to rebel?" General Li finished speaking for Commander Jiang.
"This is a great crime of the Nine Clans, what if it fails?" Commander Jiang couldn't even think about it.
"If you fail, the State of Chu will be gone, compared to the State of Chu, what is the Zhu Jiu Clan?" General Li lined up the shoulders of the commander of Jiang: "Jiang Deng, you are promoted by me, if I fail, you must do your best to clear up the relationship with me, do you hear?"
"No, how can this work?" Jiang Deng hurriedly shook his head: "Jiang Deng's parents died when he was a child, and the general is like Jiang Deng's biological father, no matter what, Jiang Deng has to stand with General Li." ”
"Parents want their children to be doing well, and so am I. ”
"General......" Jiang Deng almost cried.
General Li did not touch Jiang Deng's head like a father, and what Jiang Deng needed to leave himself was tenacity, tenacious struggle to find his own way under layers of pressure.
"And we won't necessarily lose to the fat man. General Li's eyes returned to resoluteness, and his right hand pressed on the hilt of the sword at his waist to arrange for the first group of people to leave Luoyan Pass.
The generals in Luoyan Pass were all like brothers to General Li, and when they discovered this group of people, they didn't bother and let General Li do it.
Finally, seven days later, General Li moved out 100,000 troops, and the commanders came to inquire, but when they came to the big tent, they found that General Li was long gone, and only Jiang Deng had been waiting for everyone.