Ninety-one

"Retire, I don't care what the lord says, I have to retire"

Hu Quan slapped it on the table, and his voice was as loud as thunder.

The people in front of them did not speak, and no one spoke in the tent for a while, Hu Quan gave an order, and all the generals knew that the defeat of the previous day made Hu Quan's mood extremely unhappy, so naturally they would not touch Hu Quan's mold at this time, and immediately began to set up camps.

If the troops are withdrawn in the middle of a field battle, of course, there is a great danger, and the withdrawal of troops near the enemy in a field battle is most likely to be pursued by the other side, and even a rout of the whole army will occur, but in the current battle, the officers and soldiers are all in the city and do not dare to pursue, so Hu Quan plans to use his headquarters as a backup and let the other units of the militia go first, even if the other side chases out, it will not affect the entire battle situation.

The day before yesterday, the defeat of the militia, the militia lost almost all the prisoners, Shi Dayong, Zuo Mingyu, Zuo Guangxian, a wolf and other units were demolished, the officers and soldiers burned all the siege equipment, dozens of trestles, hundreds of hook ladders, dozens of catapults, as well as countless crossbow beds, strong bows, outside the Cheng'en Gate in the north, the corpses were several miles, the original capture of tens of thousands of prisoners was not left, the Liao soldiers who pursued and killed even once chased Hu Quan's camp outside the gate, after this war, the militia was unable to launch a new attack for at least half a month.

Luo Wuche and Yu Qiangben and other Shi Dayong's personal soldiers all followed the battle array outside Cheng'en Gate to pick up some weapons and armor thrown on the ground, these things are the materials of the militia, and now they must be recycled as much as possible.

The officers and soldiers at the head of the city let out a sneer from time to time, and from time to time one or two cold arrows flew over, scaring these crows who were picking up supplies on the battle array, and after the great victory of the officers and soldiers, their morale rose greatly, and on the contrary, the original rogue militia were all silent, bowing their heads to pick up all kinds of materials on the ground, and the flags behind them were also weak.

Luo Wuche scolded while flipping on the ground, carefully look at the city, although the arrow can't be shot at this distance, but the crossbow bed can be shot, the other party can't shoot a crossbow for a few small soldiers, but it's always okay to be careful, that day he and Yu Qiangran back to the camp, only to find that Shi Dayong had already run away without a shadow, and then followed a group of armor, only to find Shi Dayong who had been hiding on the side.

A piece of corpses outside the Cheng'en Gate, most of them are captives, these old Baiwa were captured by the periphery of the city, and then driven to siege the city, tens of thousands of people died in front of the Cheng'en Gate, this area of several miles, in addition to the corpses on the ground, there are unburned trestle cars, destroyed disfigured trebuchets, trenches filled by corpses, hook ladders thrown to the ground, arrow platforms that no one cares about in the battle array, the sun rises after the battle, Luo Wuche looked at the spears and broken knives inserted in the ground, and suddenly had the illusion that these broken knives and guns grew out of this soil。

Luo Wuche waved his head to interrupt some thoughts, stood up, and muttered: "Xing, Baiwa suffers, dies, Baiwa suffers." Yu Qiangben in the back said angrily: "If you don't work quickly, finish it early and call it a day, if you let the crossbow on the opposite wall shoot, we will all be finished." Luo Wuche stared at Yu Qiangben and sneered: "Do you understand, officers and soldiers will not waste crossbow arrows for a small role like us." Yu Qiangben also said angrily: "Fart, I only know that Lao Tzu's life is the most important thing in the world, so I don't bet on whether the other party will release the crossbow or not." Luo Wuche sighed, glanced at the city carefully, and picked up all the knives that could be used, a large number of people behind him were doing this job.

Suddenly, there was a "boom" sound on the opposite wall, Luo Wuche had already heard this sound, but he didn't expect that the other party really shot the bed crossbow for these scattered stragglers, and immediately hid under the wreckage of the trestle on the side, when he just dodged in, the crossbow flew over two hundred steps, nailed to the ground, and lifted up the dirt for a while, and the surrounding rogue militia were frightened to scatter and dodge, like frightened birds, the officers and soldiers on the wall suddenly laughed, and the rogue militia were even more frightened.

At this time, Luo Wuche had already carried a large stack of swords and shields behind his back, so he took this opportunity to go to the back, Shi Dayong secretly revealed to him that the militia would be withdrawn in the near future, Luo Wuche's mind was also alive, because he knew that once he retreated, the management would be chaotic, and he would be able to escape from the militia camp at that time.

Luo Wuche calculates how to escape these days, the militia is also very strict with the supervisors of the deserters, often hangs the deserters at the gate of the camp, and has increased the intensity in the past few days, Luo Wuche glanced at the deserter who was hanged at the gate of the camp, and calculated how to escape, in Luo Wuche's heart, first, he was unwilling to fight, and second, he was even more unwilling to fight for the enemy who killed his father, which is why he wanted to escape from the camp of the militia.

In Licheng, outside the governor's office, Li Shujiao came out of the yamen, and several righteous sons Li Chenglu, Li Chengzhi, Li Chengdou, etc. were at the door of the official office, and when they saw their father-in-law come out, both of them breathed a sigh of relief, and the two of them surrounded them together, Li Shujiao saw that the two looked nervous, so he smiled easily: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, the governor is very polite, and he didn't say a word of seriousness, and you also said that you want to bring troops to come to guard, in my opinion, it is not necessary at all." ”

At this time, Li Shuijiao has already led troops into the city, and the soldiers and horses are naturally divided in the barracks in the city, today Cui Guiyuan's pacesetter herald Li Shujiao Jin to see, several righteous sons advocated bringing some soldiers and horses to guard, because the last incident was bad for the governor, Cui Guiyuan is not a big person, naturally can not be careless, but Li Shuijiao finally did not decide to put down his heart, come to see Cui Guiyuan, according to Li Shuijiao, Cui Guiyuan himself is not the person who pulled back when the enemy army came to the city, several righteous sons persuaded not to listen, so Li Chenglu, Li Chengzhi, Li Chengdou followed him to the governor's office, not wanting to be extraordinarily polite at this time, even the door with his eyes on the sky in the past whispered, and he didn't dare to accept the silver.

Several people slowly rode their horses together, and Li Chengdou said softly: "Father-in-law, Lord Cui is not a good person, I heard that this person is very resentful, Lord Cui is polite now, I am afraid that the enemy soldiers outside the city are on the side, so I am so polite to my father-in-law, I am afraid that it will be difficult to be a father-in-law in the future." ”

Li Shujiao said: "I also know, but state affairs come first, even if I know that he has the intention to retaliate in the future, I will beat the exile militia away first." Besides, I am a first-class festival general, holding a silver order arrow, the watch seal can go directly to the heavens, and he can't stop me, after this battle, we will return to Liaozuo, and he can't control our heads at that time. On the other hand, a few righteous sons also nodded, after this battle, they can return to their hometowns, which one doesn't want to.

Li Chengdou lowered his eyebrows lightly, and said to Li Shu: "Father-in-law, I'm just afraid that Lord Cui won't think about it, I don't know what the situation is like when I meet you today, what did Master Cui say? Among the sons of Li Shujiao, Li Chengdou is the most resourceful and often comes up with ideas.

Li Shujiao's face glowed red, and he said with a smile: "For so many years, the first time I saw a civil official, I could not kneel, and when I met today, Lord Cui actually stopped me from kneeling, and I thought that my face was also bright." A look of joy appeared on his face as he spoke.

Li Chengdou's face was ugly, and he said, "What else did you say to Master Cui?"

Li Shujiao said with a smile: "I just offered a strategy, opened the city gate, and stationed the Liao soldiers, Yan soldiers, and local Mao soldiers in the city, and the city wall to support each other, which is also a few days ago I talked to several general soldiers and generals, and today I saw that Lord Cui was in a good mood, so I said it, of course, Lord Cui is also very good-tempered, and I can't see that I am unhappy." ”

Li Chengdou's face became even more ugly, and when he finally stopped his horse, he got off the horse, and several people were stunned, not knowing what Li Chengdou was going to do? Li Shujiao also stopped his horse and said, "Dou'er, what are you going to do?" Li Chengdou walked up to Li Shujiao's horse and suddenly knelt down with a "porphyr" sound.

Li Chengdou said: "Righteous you, the child asks you to go to Tai'an quickly, according to the righteous father, this Lord Cui will either use our army as cannon fodder, or will plot against the righteous father, he is doing this today, it is clear that he is paralyzing the righteous father, and then suddenly attacked, this is a common technique used by civil officials, the righteous father remembers, a few decades ago, several university scholars suddenly attacked the generals of the Governor's Mansion, it is also this method, first paralyzed with good words, and then suddenly turned his face to start, this Cui Guiyuan, it is clear that he has the intention to put his father-in-law to death, father-in-law, please leave quickly. As he spoke, he kowtowed a few times on the ground, ignoring the astonished gaze of the passers-by on the side.

Li Shujiao also got off the horse, helped Li Chengdou up, and said: "It's naturally good that my son is worried about my safety, but the strong enemy is in front, and I fled from the enemy, it's really not like words, I don't need to say this anymore, don't let others hear this, if you let Master Cui hear it, I'm afraid I won't be able to protect you, get up quickly." On the side, Li Chenglu, who has always been the most impulsive, also shouted: "That is, if that dog official dares to do this, I will lead the troops to attack the governor's yamen, those pacesetters, all like soft-footed shrimp, how can they go into battle." "I was content when I spoke.

Li Shujiao helped Li Chengdou up and said: "I have listened to what you said, but now the state affairs are big, and the private affairs are small, Chengdou, don't say these words again in the future, in case people hear it, Chenglu, don't be so arrogant, you look at Tai'an's Wu Chuanyu and Zhang Jiayu, they support the army but never make trouble, don't make trouble, this is why Geng Ruji and they can achieve a balance of civil and military affairs in Tai'an, if you can catch up with them, I will rest assured." ”

Li Chengdou got on the horse, and several people rode to their own military camp in the city, although Li Chengzhi was worried, many words that the generals could not say in front of the civilian officials, such as the strategy of using troops, Li Shuijiao said it in front of Cui Guiyuan today, and in Cui Guiyuan's ears, it was clear that Cui Guiyuan was accused of not knowing how to use troops, and several other generals in the city did not dare to say it in front of Cui Guiyuan, but they colluded with Li Shuijiao to say that they were also afraid of Cui Guiyuan, but at this time, Cui Guiyuan was offended.

In the next few days, the militia was no longer capable of launching the next attack, and several times Cui Guiyuan ordered Li Shujiao to put the cavalry into the city, and asked the cavalry to dismount to guard the chopping mouth, Li Shujiao also refused with a grin, Cui Guiyuan did not say anything, but Li Chengdou was extremely worried in his heart, this calm, often covering the undercurrent.

Cui Guiyuan ordered a strict defense after the last siege of the militia, and once even wanted to put down the boulders to block the four gates, but later someone said to Cui Guiyuan that if the four gates were blocked, the first-class militia would come in, and the four gates would be blocked, and they would never be able to escape.

More than ten days later, this day Li Chengdou and several brothers patrolling the city, since a few days ago Li led the sect to return from Cui Guiyuan's mansion, and preached with all the righteous sons, although there was nothing to do for a while, Li Chengdou was uneasy in his heart, and he also quietly asked the disciples of the governor's yamen for money, and quietly inquired about Cui Guiyuan's news, but Li Chengdou usually did not have any savings, and he did not have much money, and he did not find out any additional news about Cui Guiyuan.

Li Chengdou and Li Chengzhong were at the head of the city, looking down at the city, only to see that the dilapidated scene outside the north gate was still the same as before, the rogue militia threw down a large number of siege equipment, trestle bridges and hook ladders were thrown on the ground, no one came to collect them for a few days, and they were already stained with mud, at first some of the rogue militia wanted to clean up these things, and the defenders of the city under the instruction of Long Shizhong used bed crossbows to shoot these rogue militiamen who cleaned up the old things, although they did not shoot much, they were so frightened that they threw down the equipment and never dared to clean it up again.

Many corpses outside the north gate are also thrown on the ground, it is summer now, mosquitoes have already flew, bursts of stench rise, carrion in more than ten days of exposure and rain, has exposed a lot of white bones, Li Chengdou and Li Chengzhong looked down from the wall, they saw that the sporadic soil was full of flashing white light, these miserable white colors are like stones exposed in the mud, I am afraid there are tens of thousands of people.

That day of the siege of the city, only thirty percent of the people who died under the swords and guns of the officers and soldiers, seventy percent of the people were trampled on each other and died, that battle, not only burned the siege equipment carefully made by the militia, but also greatly consumed the combat power of the militia, the prisoners died almost the same, the militia also died a lot, this is why the other party no longer attacked the city, just under Li Chengdou's eyelids, he saw that the barbs under the root of the city wall, hung with red turbans, wearing white cloth clothes, some of these militia also wore leather armor, occasionally there were individual heavy armor soldiers, their bodies were not collected。

Li Chengdou turned to the side and said: "Why don't you collect the corpses, if you don't accept these corpses, I'm afraid there will be an epidemic." The little colonel respected these Liao soldiers who broke the siege very much, and said: "This is a strict order from Lord Cui, no one is allowed to open the door, and those who violate the order will be beheaded, so we can't stand the smell of corpses all day long." ”

Li Chengdou looked at the camp of the militia in the distance, many of these corpses were displayed at the gate of the camp of the militia, but he did not see them collect them by themselves, Li Chengdou knew Hu Quan and others who were the commander of the militia, and he did not even know about the epidemic prevention in the army, but he didn't know why the camp of the militia did not accept these corpses that were close at hand, could it be that the militia was not worried about the epidemic. “

Li Chengdou stared at it twice, the flag of the camp of the militia was floating, but there was no one to see for a long time, only one person came out and walked around, the whole camp was very quiet, the silence was extraordinary, it seemed to be unpopular, this was by no means like the atmosphere of the army stationed.

Li Chengdou turned his head and shouted: "Open the city gate quickly, the militia is afraid that they have all withdrawn, they are worried that I will take advantage of the victory to pursue, so I will retreat, but I am afraid that it has been a few days, open the city gate quickly." The little colonel on the side also showed suspicion on his face, and naturally there were other people guarding the city gate, and it was not his turn to speak.

Li Chengzhong on the side shouted: "Why don't you let go of the blue and put our two brothers down to check, what do you think?" As soon as the little colonel heard this idea, he did not violate the governor's strict orders, and he also respected these Liao soldiers in his heart, so he agreed.

The soldiers at the head of the city crowded to this area to watch, the school officer guarding the city hung a blue with a winch on the crossbow bed, put the two in the blue, and slowly put it down, the guards on this section of the wall heard the news that the wandering militia may have withdrawn, and they all crowded over to see, all looking nervous.

In the nervous looks of the soldiers at the head of the city wall, Li Chengzhong and Li Chengdou covered their noses, walked through the large cemetery, each took a weapon in his hand, and slowly arrived at the gate of the camp of the militia, and in the eyes of the soldiers defending the city, they moved into the camp of the militia step by step.

Not long after, the flag in the camp of the militia was suddenly pulled down, and the guards at the head of the city saw the two of them pulling the big red flag of the militia, shouting and rushing out of the door of the camp of the militia.

At the moment, Long Shizhong, who was guarding the door, immediately ordered the cavalry to rush out, reconnoiter the situation, and found that the four gates of Licheng were left, and there were only some fake accounts left, fake camps, the original militia had already withdrawn for nearly two days, leaving only a very small number of old soldiers, raising the banner every day, creating momentum, and the army had already returned to Feicheng.

At the moment, the four gates were opened, and the scout rode south, and found that the brigade of the militia was already nearly eighty miles away, after the scout came back and reported the situation, Cui Guiyuan confirmed that the situation was correct, laughed loudly, and was extremely entertaining, this time he held Licheng, and naturally he could report the merits on the table, and at the moment Li led the troops to pursue the militia, because the enemy retreated, mostly begging for death, just pursuing, Cui Guiyuan didn't want to think about it, so he refused, and now the credit has been received, of course, there is no need to take risks, Li Shujiao is a pity, and he doesn't care about Cui Guiyuan's face。

At that moment, the officers and soldiers defending the city and the people Zhuang opened to clean up the corpses under the city, and a number of tools filled in several trenches, and at the same time sent the field army out of the city to prevent the other party from suddenly killing back.

Cui Guiyuan sat in the study, his eyes were closed, as if he was thinking about an important matter, and the little guy on the side stepped forward, but saw Cui Guiyuan in front of him a playbook, which was written uprightly "Ten Dang Chop" pressed with a paperweight made of use, the wind blew, Cui Guiyuan grabbed the pen, ate the ink, and began to write.

The little guy was lightly moved, stepped forward to grind the ink, but turned his head away, to see what his adult wrote on the notebook, only to see that the rice paper was written uprightly: "You have ten crimes, you know it? On the authoritarian side, the money and grain of military horses are not subject to the core, and they should be beheaded. The crime of the ministers is to bully the king, and they will repay the deception, kill the refugees and take the merits, and the two should be beheaded. If there is no general, the general will be punished. Er's performance has a herding horse calendar city to take the gods are like a backhand, a big rebellion, three should be killed. Hundreds of thousands of silver per year, not to give soldiers, three and a half of the three buckets of rice per month, stealing military food, and four should be beheaded. Unauthorized opening of the horse market, fornication with the soldiers, five should be beheaded. Thousands of people in the ministry assumed their surnames, and the pawns and husbands were all killed. Since Tai'an, he plundered merchant ships, and he was a thief, and he was beheaded. forcibly take the children of the people, do not know the discipline, the subordinates follow suit, the people are uneasy, and they should be beheaded. Jin Jingshi, worship the traitor as his father, and the crown is like in the army, and he should be beheaded. The defeat of Tai'an, the loss of the army is not calculated, covering the defeat is a success, and ten should be beheaded. Leading the army to the south for two years, he can't regain an inch of land, wait and see to raise the enemy, and he should be killed. ”

The little guy only felt his brows jump, the date of this piece was a few days ago, but it was not sent out, and the adults of his own family naturally wanted to attack Li Shujiao.

Cui Guiyuan stood up, put together the recital, and asked in a low voice, "How is the news from Tanma? ”

The little guy lowered his eyebrows and said: "Master, just now I visited the Malay report, and now the militia has gone a hundred miles away, and they are going to attack Tai'an City, and now it has been confirmed that they will not come back." ”

Cui Guiyuan straightened his body, looked at his complement clothes, and said: "Take my Shangfang sword, and order the pacesetter battalion guerrilla Jiang Chaodong to see this official, and tonight's celebration banquet, you must say goodbye to the army, all more than a thousand generals, must arrive, if there is one less, it will be done by military law." The little guy answered, bowed his head and went out.

The little guy came out of the arch, and saw a few maids looking at him by the flowers, with a charming smile in their eyes, holding a handkerchief in their hands, and wanted to step forward and say, this little guy is a person who has been serving Cui Guiyuan all the year round, of course, he is a celebrity around Cui Guiyuan, and of course he is the object of a group of people.

The little girl smiled and smiled, and smiled at a few maids: A few sisters, don't blame the little ones, today the master ordered that there was an emergency, and he didn't bring the pastries he wanted for a few sisters to eat, forgive me. A maid smiled on her face, took a few steps forward, and said, "Xiaohuanzi, if you give yourself to your sisters, you can also make up the number." The little guy smiled and said: "Sister is joking, Xiaohuanzi has an urgent matter now, and the matter entrusted by my sister will reply to my sister after Xiaohuanzi has made the master's order." "I don't tease these women between the words.

After saying that, he walked this heavy yard, and opened the small door in the corner of the backyard, a few maids were still laughing behind him, and the little ring walked away with the smile, flashed out of the courtyard door, and then gently closed the corner door, and saw a man dressed in black under the willow tree at the door, this man seemed to be an idle man on the street, not eye-catching, the small ring looked at no one on the left and right, and quietly handed over a note, and said in a low voice: " General Li is kind to the small, and the small can only do this, please inform General Li that there is still hope for escape. The man in black raised his head, it was Li Chengdou, but for some reason he was dressed like this.

Li Chengdou said softly: "When I go back, I will persuade my father-in-law, the kindness of the little brother, and my Li family father and son will never forget." The little guy looked left and right, and said, "The little one is gone, please cherish yourself." Li Chengdou also hugged his hand, and the two quietly said goodbye, and the small ring flashed, opened the corner door, and quietly entered.

Li Chengdou raised his head and sighed: "It is also the merit of my father-in-law on weekdays, if it weren't for the parents who saved this little ring among the refugees, I am afraid that I will die in the hands of this Cui Guiyuan now." He lowered his head at the moment, covered his head with Fan Yangli, looked left and right, and went to his own camp head along the corner of the governor's yamen.

Li Chengdou walked for half an hour, passed through the lively street corner, and saw that the people on the street were happy, all happy, but there were many worries in his heart, and now it was the time when his father-in-law was in danger, and he was really not in the mood to look at the happy people on the street, but only felt the noise on the street, and the sound was in his ears.

Contrary to the crowd, when I was squeezing back, I suddenly saw a group of soldiers squeezing towards Anyuanmen, it was a group of brothers from his own family, Li Chenglu and Li Chengzhi at the head, and the back was more than 1,000 Liao soldiers at the head of his own battalion. Geng Ruji trained the cavalry, only to see that his brothers were neatly clothed, and went to the direction of Anyuan Gate, all of them showed happy looks, and the pedestrians on the street looked at the soldiers, and they were not as afraid as before, and now that they have won the battle, the old Baiwa on the street is naturally polite to these officers and soldiers, and they usually don't wait to see these guests.

Li Chengdou squeezed over, and was eye-to-eye with Li Chenglu, Li Chenglu squeezed over, and shouted: "Brother Dou, you are also here, then the old official Cui promised to give us military salaries, and I heard that we will make up for five hundred war horses, all of which will be placed at Anyuan Gate and waiting for us to receive them, come with us, your men have also lost a lot, just make up for it together." He shouted happily, Li led the soldiers and horses, are distributed to the righteous sons, each of his righteous sons with a cavalry, each of the righteous sons of his army can be regarded as a military commander, of course, there are a few military commanders are not righteous sons, they are brothers of the same generation as Li Shujiao, a few battles in half a year, a lot of losses, is to want to have a subsidy, but Cui Guiyuan insisted no, Li Shuijiao knew that he was wearing small shoes for himself, but there was no way, now this time finally let go, with this supply, it is this Liao soldiers are naturally very happy.

Li Chengdou squeezed through the crowd, rushed to Li Chenglu's face, and shouted urgently: "Where is the father-in-law? Why haven't you seen your father-in-law?"

Li Chenglu said with a smile: "Then Jiang Chaodong came to invite his father-in-law, saying that tonight's celebration banquet should invite his father-in-law to sit in the chief. "I was very happy when I spoke.

Li Chengdou shouted: "Don't go, don't go, this is a trap, Cui Guiyuan wants to kill his father-in-law, everyone don't go to Na'anyuanmen, let's tie up our father-in-law, escape from the city quickly." He spoke urgently, but he didn't know that the other party was so fast.

On the side, Li Chengzhi said: "Don't joke, kidnap your father-in-law out of the city, what do you want to do? And we haven't received military funds for a long time, and now is the time for supplies, how can we miss it, and Li said that Cui Guiyuan wants to kill his father-in-law, you have been talking about it for so long, and you haven't seen Lord Cui do it, you don't have to scare yourself, our father-in-law is a first-class general in the court, holding a silver order arrow, how can you say kill and kill." ”

The other Xiangyi sons didn't believe it, and they all came forward to ask, Li Chengdou usually has no contradictions with the brothers, and the brothers often quarrel because of the uneven distribution of materials, and now they can't convince a few brothers, only Li Chenglu's relationship is relatively iron, and he has saved each other's lives, and when he saw that several other people didn't believe in him, he said loudly to Li Chenglu: "Chenglu, you believe in your brother's words, you bring your first army, and I also call my first army, we go together in the governor's yamen, and naturally we can save my father-in-law." Li Chenglu thought about it, and saw that there were no other brothers and uncles on the side, and thought that only Li Chengdou was the only brother who was good to him on weekdays, so he said: "Okay, Brother Dou, let's take a look, I have more than 100 riders under my command, and you also bring more than 100 riders under you, so let's go and take a look, but according to me, most of the time there is nothing to do, and you don't scare yourself." ”

The other righteous sons were silent, Li Chengzhi said: "You still don't want to be like this, if you let Lord Cui see it, let Lord Cui know that his father-in-law is suspicious of him, and how to ask the righteous father, and if you don't go to Anyuanmen, we won't keep these materials for the two of you." ”

Li Chengdou shouted: "You'd better follow me and Chenglu to rescue together, I'm afraid that as soon as you arrive at Anyuanmen, you will be disarmed, or go with me to save people, if you really don't believe me, please wait for me to come back with my father-in-law, Chenglu and others, and then it's not too late to get the military funds." ”

Several uncles were silent and did not agree to Li Chengdou, Li Chengzhi said: "You two go by yourself, it's none of my business." Several uncles also squeezed to the side, not wanting to go with Li Chengdou.

Li Chengdou was helpless, got on the horse, went to the army under his command, counted the manpower, and joined Li Chenglu, the two turned the horse's head, took the two cavalry under their command, reversed, and began to go against the flow of people to the governor's yamen, and shouted when leaving: "We must wait for us to return safely, and then go to Anyuanmen to receive military funds." ”

In the courtyard behind the governor's yamen, the standard battalion guerrilla Jiang Chaodong was wearing chain mail, followed by a team of pro-soldiers, and in front of him was Cui Guiyuan, at this time Cui Guiyuan had already put on the red court clothes, and the white crane was embroidered on the complement.

Cui Guiyuan took a sip of tea and sat on the official chair safely, this yellow flower wooden chair was sent by several grain merchants, and all the reselling of military food and soldiers' mouths below had to be divided into a big head to the top people, and now Cui Guiyuan is also one of the top layers, and the grain merchants below can't directly take yellow and white things in order to curry favor, the right way is to send both yellow and white things, but also elegant things, and then finally to be able to make a little name for Cui Daren.

Jiang Chaodong walked a few steps, the chain mail on his body made a "click" sound, as the governor's standard camp, the equipment is naturally the best, Cui Guiyuan also picked strong people from the army several times to stuff them into his standard camp, it is really strong.

Cui Guiyuan said softly: "Is the Du'an faction properly done?" Jiang Chaodong lowered his body and said: "Don't worry, my lord, all sides have been arranged, as long as he comes in, he will be like a turtle in an urn, in order to prevent him from hurting people, all the soldiers and generals will be under the weapon when he enters the door, and the Liao soldiers under him under him have been sent to Anyuan Gate, and the deputy general Sun Dagong has been arranged to lead 5,000 troops, and he has been ambushed on the city wall of Anyuan Gate early. ”

Cui Guiyuan was a little worried, so he said: "What can happen to the other generals, will they be connected in private, do you have any news?" Jiang Chaodong said: "Don't worry, my lord, although Li Shujiao can fight, he has offended many people, except for Zu Tingnian and Long Shizhong, there is no one else to deal with him in the past few days." Cui Guiyuan said: "This matter needs to be thundered, if you don't do it, you will have no strength to fight back." Jiang Chaodong said: "The adults are clever, and the young generals are impressed." ”

Cui Guiyuan held the teacup, thought about some of his own parts again, thought about it, and said: "How many generals did not come today?" Jiang Chaodong said: "Except for the guards who guard the four gates, all the generals will come to the governor's yamen today, and all the generals are not in their own barracks, so it is impossible to incite rebellion." Cui Guiyuan thought for a while and said, "Is it good to transfer all the guards of the four gates back?" Jiang Chaodong said with a smile: "The idea of the adults is naturally good, but if the four guards are transferred back together, it will be eye-catching. Cui Guiyuan said in a deep voice: "Then forget it, the official will rely on you tonight." Jiang Chaodong said: "In the past few days, Li Shujiao has been paralyzed, it is a good time to do it, rest assured, you will definitely succeed tonight." ”

At this time, a group of armored soldiers were distributed in the left and right compartments of the governor's lobby, silent.

In order to prevent some people from rebelling, soldiers were sent to quietly lurk in the alleys in several streets of the governor's yamen, and if they didn't pay attention, of course they couldn't see it, but once someone really rushed out of the yamen, these soldiers could immediately block the way out, so that Li Shujiao could not go back.

Of course, if the general is not satisfied and makes a rebellion together, these standard camp guards must also be suppressed, Cui Guiyuan is most taboo is that someone rushes out of the governor's yamen and returns to his barracks, you must know that each general has a few cronies to defend, once the confrontation, maybe someone will rush out, of course to block the street.

At the same time, Cui Guiyuan has already made up the crime, and now he is waiting to be launched.

Not long after, the generals from all walks of life continued to arrive, there was already a group of pacesetters on the side of the governor's yamen to greet, the generals and the soldiers must leave the weapons when they enter the governor's gate, and because today is to the governor's yamen, the celebration is a meritorious banquet, of course, you can't wear armor, all the generals know the preferences of Lord Cui, most of them wear their own supplements, for a time the governor's yamen is full of military attachés embroidered with bears and leopards on their chests, and the soldiers are dressed up as family members, and they also follow behind the military attachés, but they are not allowed to enter the inner hall, and naturally there are people who lead them to the side to drink.

Li Chengzhong is one of the several righteous sons of Li Shujiao, and now he is crowded in the side hall with his old family of more than ten years, and the surrounding chaos is the family of various generals and officials who are crowded together, and everyone does not know each other, Li Chengzhong grabbed a family member next to him and shouted: "Is the righteous father going to the main hall, why don't you follow." The family said: "Those pacesetters blocked us, and the uncle told us to return, how could we disobey." "In the past few days, Li Chengdou has kept saying that Cui Guiyuan wants to kill Li Shujiao, although Li Chengzhong doesn't believe it, but he is careful to be careful, and the family naturally brings more, but everyone didn't think that they were not allowed to bring weapons in, these more than ten people, all wearing chain mail under their cotton clothes, but the knife they carried with them was taken away, and now they regret it in their hearts.

I saw a row of mermaids entering, carrying dozens of burdens behind, the smell of meat came, all the soldiers began to swallow saliva, and then there were dozens of rough men behind, all carrying wine barrels in, the aroma of wine came, the soldiers who had no knowledge below all shouted, the soldiers were quite hard, it was best to eat dry rice all year round, if the military salary was not timely, maybe they had to drink porridge, and they could only have meat to eat and drink wine during the New Year's Festival, this is still a pro-soldier, and the ordinary battalion soldiers were even worse, and there were often things to escape.

The man despised the soldiers, and shouted: "What are you robbing, are you fighting to be reincarnated? Everyone has it, what are you anxious about?" There were pacesetters below holding weapons, as if they were going to suppress the soldiers, and the soldiers were silent, and they were also soldiers, and the treatment in the standard camp was naturally different from that of ordinary soldiers, but now that the wine and meat were in front, they didn't take care of it.

Bowls of meat were lifted up, all of them were plum cabbage buckle meat in the earthen porcelain bowl, as well as warm wine, at that moment many soldiers picked up the bowl and poured it into their mouths, many people grabbed it, several soldiers under Li Chengzhong also grabbed a barrel of wine, and a family grabbed a pot of buckle meat, several people squatted on the ground, and poured meat into their mouths, and the hall was in a mess for a while.

The doorman spat out a mouthful of saliva, turned around and left, but the standard battalion soldiers on one side stood on the side, coldly watching everyone.

Li Chengzhong was not in the mood to grab meat to eat, walked to the door, and said to the commander of the standard battalion: "Brother, I want to go to the main hall to have a look, can you let me out?" handed over a piece of silver under his hand, and the standard battalion soldier held the knife, and did not take the ingot of silver in his hand, and sneered: "It's good here, there is a place to eat and pull, the main hall is where the governor is, what are you, you dare to go to the main hall, and you are not afraid of colliding with all the adults." Li Chengzhong laughed a few times and said, "Yes, yes, I'll go back." When they returned to the crowd, everyone was in a mess, and some of the soldiers sat on the ground and gambled. The crowd was very chaotic for a while, and when he couldn't see the captain, Li Chengzhong quietly bypassed the corridor, and a few standard camp soldiers on the road did not notice him, and when he arrived at the thatched house, because he was afraid of smell, there were not a few standard camp soldiers guarding here, Li Chengzhong went in, and saw a window on the side, one and a half meters high from the ground, and saw that no one came in, Li Chengzhong jumped up, and without making a sound, he quietly opened the window, outside the window was a bluestone road, a group of cooks carried things forward, Li Chengzhong knew that the front was the main hall, so he jumped down lightly and touched the front。

He was wearing a cotton helmet commonly used by Zhou soldiers, the quality was slightly better, and he looked like a standard battalion soldier, because there were a lot of standard battalion soldiers sent by the governor yamen today, so no one paid attention, he followed a group of people for a long time, and suddenly there was a roar in front.

A voice came, it was Li Shujiao's voice, only to hear Li Shujiao scold loudly: "This will be a first-class festival general, holding a silver order arrow, Cui Guiyuan, you dare to kill me." This voice came, which immediately startled Li Chengzhong, and he became more and more anxious, squeezed a few steps, and squeezed forward.

When I finally arrived at the door, I saw groups of pacesetters rushing to the door of the main hall, and Jiang Chaodong was at the door, Jiang Chaodong shouted: "Don't leave Li Shujiao." The standard battalion soldiers behind him poured in, and there were sounds of fighting and roaring in the hall, and someone shouted, "Protect Lord Cui." A few other handmaidens ran out screaming.

Then I heard a screaming voice shouting: "You have committed 12 major crimes, and this official has already made it clear to the Holy Lord, and the holy decree will be issued on the same day, and you will be beheaded now." ”