Chapter 120: Wolf Ambition
Seeing that Li Keyong was a little hesitant, Hui Feng said loudly: "King Jin, thank you for saving Hui Feng, the muscles and bones of your hands and feet have been broken, and you are already a wasted person, how can you charge into battle for King Jin and fight bravely to kill the enemy? ”
Li Zhen reminded: "Master Zhu, this wisdom wind has changed too quickly, be careful that he is deceitful, don't believe his words!"
Zhu Wen pondered silently, but calculated in his heart: Although Huifeng is dangerous, he is also a wasted person, and at present, only if he does not kill Huifeng for the time being, can he blackmail Li Keyong, as long as Huifeng is left by his side, and when everyone leaves Bianzhou, he can dispose of Huifeng as he wants, why not sell a favor to Li Ke, and also show generosity in front of Yun Feiyang, why not? So he smiled and said: "General Li, is this Shuai the kind of person with rat belly and chicken intestines?" After all, Hui Feng has done so many things for the imperial court, and there is no merit and hard work, how can this marshal not give him a chance to reform his life because of his personal interests? General Hui, Ben Shuai agreed to your request to bury Cheng Yingying, and spared you for the crime of disobedience. But the death penalty is forgiven, and the living sin is unforgivable, and you will be punished as a slave in my house, and you will never be turned over!"
In order to paralyze Zhu Wen, Huifeng thanked him loudly: "Thank you for the grace of the marshal not to kill, the previous Huifeng is dead, and from now on, his subordinates are willing to make cattle and horses for the general, and they will not give up!"
Li Zhen didn't know what Zhu Wen was thinking, and reminded: "Dashuai, although Huifeng is crippled, he is jealous and hateful, and his grievances are clear!
Zhu Wen nodded at Li Zhen and said with a smile: "People are not sages, who can do nothing! Besides, Lord Hui was also fascinated by women for a while, so he lost his nature and wanted to be the enemy of the old man! Now that Cheng Yingying is dead, I think he will slowly understand, as long as he is driven by his own handsomeness, are you afraid that there will be no wealth and beauty in the future?"
Hui Feng replied again: "The lesson of the big handsome is that the previous Hui Feng was confused! For the sake of a Cheng Yingying, he didn't even care about his own future, and for the sake of the Pomeranian smile, he didn't know the severity and made a move on Lord Zhu, it's really damned!"
Li Zhen was still not at ease with Hui Feng, so he quietly discussed with Zhu Wen for a while, and shouted: "Hui Feng, you just assassinated the big handsome with your right hand, in order to show your loyalty to the big handsome, our big boss ordered you to chop off one of your little fingers with your own sword!"
Li Keyong, Yun Feiyang and the others didn't expect Zhu Wen to be so vicious, they all looked at Hui Feng, who knew that Hui Feng ignored his own pain, laboriously picked up the sword on the ground and cut off one of his fingers.
Li Zhen was still not satisfied, and ordered again, "Huifeng, we adults hate cats the most at night, you will take care of the homes for adults in the future, but how many dog meows do you have to learn to scare night cats?"
Huifeng crawled on the ground, shook his head and barked a few times, until Zhu Wen nodded in satisfaction, and then stopped barking.
Hui Feng wagged his tail and begged for mercy, and Li Keyong couldn't stand it, Li Keyong sighed: "I knew that this Hui Feng had been frightened and spineless after this turmoil, and he shouldn't have exchanged the city for his life at that time! Alas, this banquet servant can't eat anymore, and the servant wants to go back to the post house to rest!"
Zhu Wen said with a smile: "Since the King of Jin is not strong enough to drink, he wants to go back to the pavilion to rest, I think today's banquet should be dispersed." Come on, quickly send King Jin and the Twelve Taibao back to Shangyuan Station to rest!", after speaking, he asked people to lead Li Keyong and left.
Zhu Wen asked Yun Feiyang and the others again: "General Yun, you also live in Shangyuanyi, okay?"
Yun Feiyang replied: "Although he is the general of the imperial court, he is now more like a person in the rivers and lakes, and besides, the Jiang gang leader and the Jiang gang leader have to rush back to Jiangnan as soon as possible, so we just talk about Lord Zhu for one night, and we will leave Bianzhou tomorrow." Tonight, we will stay in the barracks and take care of the food and grass for the adults for another night!", after saying goodbye to Zhu Wen, he led Jiang Chengfeng, Jiang Chao and others to leave.
Li Zhen saw that Li Keyong and Yun Feiyang had left, and asked Zhu Wendao: "Dashuai, how should Li Keyong and Yun Feiyang deal with these two groups?
Zhu Wen replied: "Hui Feng has already changed his mind, and he is a waste person, so there is no need to worry! Ou Yangguang is just dislocated, find a Lang Zhong to massage it, and you can recover! It's just that Li Keyong and Yun Feiyang are very reassuring!"
Li Zhen glanced at Hui Feng and reminded: "Da Shuai, this Hui Feng doesn't know the truth and fake, since Da Shuai spared him from dying, according to the foolish opinion of the slave, it is better to make him blind, deaf, and dumb!"
Zhu Wen said with a smile: "Li Zhen, I didn't expect you to be a scholar, and your heart is even more vicious than Ben Shuai, as long as you give Huifeng medicine and make him dumb, I still have to keep his eyes and ears, and be a slave and a servant for Ben Shuai!"
Li Zhen flattered and said: "It's still an adult, come here, find a Lang Zhong in the army to come over and feed Huifeng dumb medicine!"
After a while, a Lang Zhong came over tremblingly and saluted Zhu Wen and Li Zhen. Li Zhen gave the guards beside him a look. When the two guards saw this, they stepped forward and forcibly pressed Hui Feng and poured the dumb medicine prepared by Lang Zhong in advance into his mouth.
Li Zhen saw Huifeng rolling on the ground in pain, and said boldly: "Dashuai, Li Keyong will be our fierce rival in the future, this time we must not let him leave Bianzhou alive, now he is staying in Shangyuanyi, according to the foolish opinion of his subordinates, why don't you send troops to surround Shangyuanyi tonight and kill Li Keyong while in chaos?"
Zhu Wen nodded slightly and said: "Although this idea is good, but the whole world knows about it afterwards, and the court blames us, so won't we become the target of the world." This matter needs to be cautious!"
Li Zhen thought for a while, and then suggested: "Dashuai, why don't we let Ou Yangguang assassinate Li Keyong, even if it doesn't work, we can let him set fire around the Shangyuan Station, and then we will send troops to pretend to put out the fire, and take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Keyong's father and son!"
Zhu Wen stroked his beard with a smile and praised: "Good plan, it's just that General Ouyang's body has not recovered yet, and he wants to trouble him to work for the old man, so he is uneasy!", after speaking, he looked at Ou Yangguang, who had just been dislocated by Lang Zhong.
Ou Yangguang hurriedly replied: "It is the honor of his subordinates to serve the marshal, and his subordinates must live up to their mission, lead the troops to set fire to it, and take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Keyong's father and son!"
Li Zhen asked again: "Dashuai, Yun Feiyang colluded with a few gang leaders in the rivers and lakes, and he was bent on going to Jiangnan, and he didn't have a deep grudge against us, so why should we embarrass them?"
Zhu Wen smiled and said: "Li Zhen, you have been with the old man for so many years, and you still haven't learned a little bit of the old man's skills! You don't have to think about it: Why did this Yun Feiyang go to Jiangnan? It's not that he colluded with the Jiang Temple in Jiangzhou and the Changjiao Gang in Yuezhou to dominate Jiangnan. In addition, he followed the old man all the way to the east this time, and the old man estimated that he had other ulterior secrets!"
Li Zhen was shocked: "Dashuai, are you saying that Yun Feiyang met us in Chang'an, it was carefully designed by them, and they walked with us along the way, and they didn't really make friends with us, but they just used us to go east to Hanguguan and go south to Jiangnan?"
Zhu Wen said with a smile: "The truth in it, you might as well ask General Ouyang, he followed Lord Yun Feiyang before!"
Ou Yangguang wanted to have reservations, but when he saw Yun Feiyang abandon him and leave, he was angry, and simply told how Yun Feiyang and others followed Xu Zhi to Jinyang, how to take away the annotation "Palace Record" of "Tui Bei Tu" from Zhou Chen, and hid them in Zhu Wen's grain and grass baggage, took them out of Chang'an, and prepared to bring them back to Jiangnan.
Li Zhen suddenly woke up and asked, "Dashuai, then we can't let go of this cloud flying, it's best to get the strange book in their hands!"
Ou Yangguang saw that Li Zhen let himself go out to harm Li Keyong, he was angry about this, and also suggested: "Dashuai, his subordinates have a plan, even if they miss, they will not suspect us!"
Zhu Wen asked, "General Ouyang, what kind of clever plan is it?"
Ou Yangguang said with a smile: "Marshal, why don't you let General Li Zhen lead a group of soldiers, disguised as Li Keyong's Shatuo Black Crow Army, wait for the Shangyuan Station to start a fire, and attack Yun Feiyang and the others overnight The baggage follow-up troops where Yun Feiyang and others are located, let Yun Feiyang and others think that it is a fire between us and Li Keyong, and we can lose some grain and grass at most, so that we can eliminate the big harm, and get Qishu, wouldn't we kill two birds with one stone?"
Zhu Wen listened to this, and said with great joy: "Good strategy, just act according to General Ouyang's strategy, our troops are divided into two ends, and we will act on the third watch tonight! By the way, before we leave, we burned this Bianzhou Prefecture Office, and I don't want to see it again, as soon as I see it, I remember the past in Caizhou!"
When Hui Feng saw that Zhu Wen was going to burn down his mansion, he thought to himself: By that time, Yingying will not be unrecognizable and ashes, so how can he bury her?
Seeing that Huifeng had become stupid and dumb, Zhu Wen was overjoyed and said with a smile, "The big thing has been planned, just wait for the good news from you tonight." Now that the guests have been sent away, we should also go back to Xingyuan as soon as possible!", after speaking, he asked his subordinates to take the dumb Huifeng and set fires everywhere in the state office.
Besides, Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others were waiting for the arrival of Huifeng and Cheng Yingying at the "Jingfu" inn near the state office, and suddenly saw thick smoke and flames in the state office not far away. At this time, the shopkeeper of the inn also exclaimed: "The big thing is not good, our Hui Lord in Bianzhou and the new Lord Zhu had a conflict, and Lord Hui was tied up by Lord Zhu and taken out of the state office." ”
When Xu Zhi heard this, he was shocked, and said to Zhou Yuanzhi and the others: "It's not good! Senior Brother Hui and Miss Cheng are in danger! Let's go out and have a look!" , Zhou Yuanzhi, He Mengjiao, Li Cunxiao and others listened to it and nodded yes.
Xu Zhi, Zhou Yuanzhi and others came out of the inn, and when they saw that Zhu Wen's men and horses had gone away, everyone followed closely and followed with a pillar of incense, only to see from a distance that Hui Feng's face was pale, his limbs drooped, and he was covered in blood, tied to a prisoner car, passing through the downtown area, and the way was crowded with people watching the excitement.
Xue Atan saw Xu Zhi's eyes with tears, and shouted, "Brother Xu, let's go forward together to kill that Zhu Wen and save Brother Hui!"
Li Cunxiao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Xue Aniu must not be reckless! Save Brother Hui and think long-term!", after speaking, he pointed to Huifeng's surroundings. Xue Atan saw that Hui Feng was surrounded by layers of guards armed with spears, bows and arrows, and wearing heavy armor, so he stopped talking.
He Mengjiao carefully searched Zhu Wen's team and asked Zhou Yuanzhi, "Sister Zhou, have you ever seen Sister Yingying?"
Zhou Yuanzhi hurriedly said: "I only saw Brother Hui, but Sister Yingying didn't see it!
The idiot said worriedly: "Miss Cheng won't encounter any accidents, right?"
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by anger: "Idiot, can you speak, how can you think about things in the worst way!"
Xu Zhi persuaded: "Don't worry, let's explore Zhu Wen's reality first, and then try to save Senior Brother Hui!"
While discussing, everyone followed Zhu Wen, Li Zhen and others out of Bianzhou City and came to the outskirts of Zhu Wen. Because the defense of Bianzhou had not yet been handed over, Zhu Wen did not dare to live in the city, so he had to take Li Zhen and other entourages and guards back to the military camp in the south of the city to rest for a while.
Xu Zhi watched Zhu Wen, Li Zhen, Ou Yangguang and others bring Hui Feng into the barracks, and he was very anxious in his heart, and sighed: "It seems that what the shopkeeper said is true, Senior Brother Hui fell into Zhu Wen's plot, and the injury is not light! We must find a way to save him as soon as possible!"
Zhou Yuanzhi was afraid that Xu Zhi was too worried about Huifeng's safety, so she was out of proportion, and reminded: "Brother Xu, don't be anxious, after sunset, as soon as we explore Zhu Wen's military camp, we can rescue Brother Hui and Miss Cheng!"
He Mengjiao also persuaded: "What Sister Zhou said makes sense, eldest brother should be a little calm, wait for the inspection of the barracks, and then try to rescue Brother Hui!"
Xu Zhi sighed and said, "Well, let's explore the military camp first, I hope Senior Brother Hui and Miss Cheng can be safe!"
Xu Zhi led everyone to hide in a forest not far from the barracks, carefully looked at Zhu Wen's barracks, only to see that the barracks were built on an open land, several miles away, backed by the open Bianhe River, three sides are high fences, only the backwater side is not fortified, it is an independent small battalion, a high lookout was built in the four corners of the southeast, northwest and northwest, each lookout has two soldiers, one soldier is on guard everywhere, and the other soldier holds a horn and waits for battle.
Zhou Yuanzhi once assisted Huang Chao in marching and arranging the formation, and she knew a little about military affairs, she looked at Zhu Wen's military camp and said with emotion: "Although this Zhu Wen is despicable and treacherous, he is an expert in leading troops to fight. His camp seems to be ordinary, but it is tight inside and loose outside, tight and tight, especially when he puts the grain and grass in the camp against the water and sets up a camp alone, not only is it difficult to be robbed by the enemy, but even in the event of a fire, he can also get water in time to rescue!"
Li Cunxiao asked, "Then according to what Sister Zhou saw, how should we break into the camp and rescue Brother Hui?"
Zhou Yuanzhi pondered for a while, and then said: "Brother Xu, Sister Mengjiao, brothers and sisters, it's the middle of summer, why don't we swim in the water, enter the Zhu Wen camp, and then inquire about the whereabouts of Brother Hui!"
Xu Zhi listened to it and praised: "Yuan Zhi, good idea! Zhu Wen Baimi must have a sparse side, this waterfront side, he must be negligent in guarding, we will break through his camp defense from here!"
After Zhu Wen and Li Zhen brought Huifeng back to the barracks, Li Zhen said to the soldiers behind him: "First tie Huifeng to the pillar at the south gate and show the public for three days, so that he can be sober and sober! Let the soldiers see the fate of opposing the commander!", several soldiers listened, smashed the prison car, threw Huifeng to the ground, tied his legs with a rope, and hung him upside down on the high pillar in front of the south gate.
After Zhu Wen dealt with Huifeng, he was about to go to the back tent to rest, when a messenger rode a fast horse and sent 100,000 urgent military information from the front line. Zhu Wen took the letter with three chicken feathers inserted, and retired the generals, leaving only Li Zhen, Ou Yangguang, Ge Congzhou and a few other cronies to discuss in the big tent of the Chinese army.
Li Zhen saw that Zhu Wen had read the battle report ahead, his face was solemn, and he asked, "Marshal, how is the battle ahead?" Did King Huang flee back to Yanzhou?"
Zhu Wen sighed and said: "Alas, I thought that Lone and the Yellow King rebelled together, and they were like brothers, but I didn't expect that now they are separated by yin and yang, and there will be no day to see each other again!", after speaking, he barely squeezed out a few tears from his eyes.
Seeing this scene, Ou Yangguang understood three or four points, but he still asked, "Dashuai, has Huang Yi been killed?
Zhu Wen did not talk directly, but handed the military report in the book to Li Zhen, Ou Yangguang and others beside him.
Li Zhen and others took the battle report, only to know: Huangchao besieged Chenzhou for more than 300 days, and could not be attacked for a long time, under the strong attack of the imperial court armies, they had to retreat to Zhongmu, and Huangchao's generals still had no way out and surrendered to the imperial court. Huang Chao had no choice but to lead the remnants of the army to retreat to Taishan Wolf and Tiger Valley. After Li Keyong got the news, he immediately sent thousands of Shatuo troops, and under the leadership of the general Shang Rang, chased them to the Wolf and Tiger Valley overnight, cleared the grass coar, and beheaded the Huang Chao. Now the heads of Huang Chao and other bandit leaders, as well as their wives and concubines, have been taken by the Shatuo army, and Li Keyong is ready to personally send them to the imperial court to be taken prisoner.
After reading the battle report, Li Zhen said to Zhu Wen: "This battle report is really gratifying for the marshal!"
Zhu Wen saw that Li Zhen had something to say, and asked rhetorically, "How can you say this?"
Li Zhen analyzed: "This is a congratulatory side, that is, the marshal has just turned his back on the Huang Chao, and he can help the court turn things around, and the Son of Heaven will inevitably regard the marshal as a lucky star, and the future situation will be extremely beneficial to the marshal; moreover, our army has also participated in several major battles to contain the grass cowards, and afterwards the court will reward the merits and deeds, and will inevitably add officials to the marshal, but it is ......."
Zhu Wen was overjoyed when he heard this, and asked again, "Just what?"
Li Zhen sneered: "It's just that the first credit for exterminating the Yellow Nest should be recorded on Li Keyong, a foreign Tartar, no matter how great the generals' credit, it is not as great as the merit of sending the head of the Yellow Nest to the Taimiao, the handsome man planned all the way, wouldn't it be a wedding dress for others in the end?"
Zhu Wen said: "Didn't Li Keyong personally promise Ben Shuai today to give the first credit to Yu Gu?"
Li Zhen sneered: "Dashuai, how can drunken jokes be taken seriously? Besides, we have cleared this thorn in the eye and flesh tonight, how can his subordinates be willing to give up?"
Zhu Wen hurriedly said, "So what?"