In the government hall of the Jiedu Embassy, Li Keyong looked at the letter in his hand and was silent for a long time, and his face was cloudy. The civilian staff and confidants and generals sitting on both sides of the seat all looked at Li Keyong on the main seat nervously, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Li Cunxiao, who was pinned on by Li Keyong and had 70,000 troops in Yizhou City, actually had a private correspondence with Li Ye's wife when the war was so tense!

Moreover, in Li Ye's letters, most of them are full of persuasion, and the words are extremely cordial and warm, full of admiration for Li Cunxiao, and the promised conditions are so generous that onlookers are blushing!

Not only that, he was arranged by Li Keyong in Yizhou, named Xiangzhu Li Cunxiao, but in fact, he reported to Li Siben, who was monitoring him, that the official army had besieged the city for so many days, not only did not fight a siege battle, but also kept persuading the defenders of Yizhou to surrender!

Although the reaction of the defenders was far from enthusiastic, it was something that could not be prevented. After all, the other party is an official army, representing the imperial court, and has just won a big victory, if someone can't think about it and opens an opening to defect, then this matter will immediately become very serious!

Yizhou ...... It doesn't look so stable anymore!

The two fortresses in the south of Taiyuan, Fenzhou has been lost, if Yizhou misses again, then Taiyuan will be completely exposed in front of the official army, and Li Ye can use hundreds of thousands of troops to directly besiege Taiyuan City!

Just when the staff and generals were thinking complicated and in a heavy mood, Li Keyong suddenly heard a loud laugh from the main seat.

When everyone looked up, they saw Li Ke with a smile on his face: "This is Li Ye's trick, I want to make me doubt Li Cunxiao, so that he can take advantage of the fisherman." If Li Ye thought that this would be able to separate our lords and ministers, it would be really ridiculous and generous. ”

As he spoke, Li Keyong stood up, a spiritual aura flame rose in his hand, and burned the letter in public.

"Send an order to Li Cunxiao, let him defend the city with peace of mind, there is no need to rush to war, as long as Yizhou is not lost, he will be the leader of this battle. When Ben Shuai recaptures Fenzhou, he will personally lead the army to reinforce Yizhou!" Li Ke looked at everyone with his negative hand and ordered with a look of dissipation.

He showed unreserved trust in Li Cunxiao.

Everyone in the hall looked uplifted, and they all stood up and saluted: "The county king is wise!"

After everyone dispersed, Li Keyong sat back, and the excitement and conviction on his face just now were gradually replaced by solemnity and solemnity.

No man or lord will fully trust his courtiers.

Who deserves to be fully believed?

At present, Li Cunxiao is a general of the military family, and he Li Keyong himself is just a general of the military family.

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Fang Qingzhen is one of Li Keyong's most trusted and valued staff, he is almost at the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, and he was Li Guochang's confidant and strategist before, counting, he has followed Li Guochang and his son for almost 20 years, and he is the oldest group of veterans.

Coming out of the Jiedu Embassy, he got into the iconic simple carriage, and after half an hour's drive, Fang Qinghalal returned to his mansion. It's not appropriate to say it's a mansion, because it's just a three-entry courtyard.

Three courtyards, even ordinary rich people will be cramped to live, but this is the only house in Fang Qinghal. Everyone in Hedong knows that Fang Qinghal is selfless, worried about the country and the people, diligent, thrifty and simple, and is a model for officials. Although he is in a high position, he treats people calmly and without any slightest, which can be called perfect.

Back at his home, where there were only three servants, Fang Qinghal learned that his old friend had come to visit and was already waiting in the hall.

The other party is an old Confucian who is even more pedantic than him, only being an eight-grade petty official, and he has to be straight and offend people at every turn, and Fang Qinghal is a temper, which is considered to have the same smell, so the intersection is irreversible.

Moreover, when the two met on a study tour, they had been friends for 30 years, but the other party did not have the opportunity of Fang Qinghal, and was appreciated by Li Guochang early. This old Confucian named Xu Maoda often carried two fresh fatty fish to Fang Qingzhen's Mansion as a guest.

The two soon set up a dining table in the side hall and began to sit and drink and laugh at each other. After the five flavors of food and wine, the topic of the two also came to the current event, the war in Yizhou.

"King An has besieged Yizhou for more than a month, and I heard that Li Cunxiao and King An have frequent correspondence with King An, and King An is constantly persuading the defenders to surrender, Yizhou has been in turmoil and panic?" Xu Maoda asked with interest while eating soup and fish.

Fang Qingzhen nodded: "King An has a strong interest in Li Cunxiao, which is already a well-known thing. But this is also normal, with the realm of Li Cunxiao's general, anyone will want to persuade him to surrender. ”

Xu Maoda raised his glass, and the two drank a glass of wine, and he smacked his mouth: "The taste of this Jiannan Roasted Spring is mellow and strong, which is different from other wines...... However, then again, Li Cunxiao really won't surrender?"

Fang Qingzhen pondered: "Li Cunxiao is a loyal and brave person, how can he be easily persuaded to surrender?"

Xu Maoda shook his head, obviously not having much confidence in people's hearts: "That's hard to say." If it were an ordinary person to persuade him to surrender, Li Cunxiao might not have surrendered, but at the moment, it was King An himself! King An, can it be the same as everyone else?"

Fang Qingzhen fell silent, obviously Xu Maoda's words touched him. King An not only has great personal prestige, but also represents the imperial court.

Xu Maoda continued while eating vegetables: "The battle of Yizhou was very strange from the beginning. King An sat on an army of 300,000 and attacked with the momentum of Qinzhou's great victory, but did not storm the city, but began to dig Haogou to besiege the city unusually, and took the initiative to give up the great offensive! King An's adoption of this long-lasting strategy was also inconsistent with his consistent style of conquest. From his conquest of Huang Chao to the pacification of Wei Bo, it was all a thunder wrist, when did he ever be so conservative?"

Fang Qingzhen pondered and said: "After all, Li Cunxiao has become a general of the military family, and no one under King An is invincible, if he dares to attack the city, I am afraid that it will be inappropriate, right?"

Xu Maoda drank a glass of wine to himself, looked at Fang Qinghal with shining eyes, and said in a profound tone: "Under the command of King An, Liu Dazheng and Shangguan Allure have the highest realm, and they are not Li Cunxiao's opponents when they join forces, according to this, no one can really fight with Li Cunxiao." But there is one other person that you have forgotten intentionally or unintentionally!"

"Who?" Fang Qingzhen was stunned, but he immediately reacted, "You mean?"

Xu Maoda's expression was dignified: "Yes, it's King An himself!"

"This ......" Fang Qingzhen opened his mouth, and stopped talking several times, "King An has also cultivated the way of a soldier and a general?

Xu Maoda asked rhetorically: "Why is it impossible? King An quickly quelled the Huangchao Rebellion and became famous all over the world, relying on one victory after another! To say that he cultivated the way of soldiers and generals, what is impossible? When Lao An Wang was alive, he was the best in civil and martial arts, and he never lost a record in quelling chaos and fighting the border. Prince Xin'an inherited his father's business, and everyone said that he was a minister of Zhongxing and had the ambition to clear the universe! Wouldn't it be natural for him to cultivate the way of a soldier and a general, and to win a decisive victory on the battlefield when the world is in turmoil?"

Fang Qingzhen was silent again. This time he was silent for a longer time, because his heart shook too much.

Li Ye is a soldier and a general? I have never heard of it before! But who can deny this and say that it is completely impossible?

"King An has been fighting for many years, and it is natural for him to practice the way of soldiers and generals. The only thing worth noting is where his realm has been. Because after all, King An's time to govern the army is not long, at least compared to the king of Longxi County, it stands to reason that he will not reach the realm of military generals. ”

Xu Maoda continued: "But this is not a problem for King An at all. He is a strange person in the real realm in less than ten years! In other words, it is impossible to say that he can achieve the realm of a military general in the same ten years, but if he wants to say that he is the king of An, then no one can say that it is completely impossible!"

Fang Qingzhen put down his chopsticks, only to feel that his throat was dry, he looked at Xu Maoda, and asked with difficulty: "If this is the case, then the battle of Yizhou?"

Fang Qingzhen is a wise person, among all his relatives and friends, only Xu Maoda's knowledge and insight make him admire, and many times he is ashamed of himself. In the past 20 years, when he used words for Li Guochang and Li Ke, he was also inspired by the other party, and the effect was very good.

Xu Maoda said: "King An did not attack Yizhou in order to avoid a bloody battle between the two armies and a broken net, and he used the method of besieging the city to lock Li Cunxiao in the city, just to persuade him to surrender! King An attacked Yizhou from the beginning, not only to attack Yizhou City, but to subdue Li Cunxiao, a general, by the way!"

Fang Qingzhen is like waking up from a dream!

Anyone who is interested in the world will not have no ideas in the face of a general like Li Cunxiao, let alone Li Ye?

No wonder, from the very beginning, Li Ye did not hesitate to risk his life, deigned to the front of Yizhou City, and invited Li Cunxiao out of the city for a meeting. was not angry when he was rejected, but took the initiative to take out the wine and congratulate Li Cunxiao on his promotion to general. He turned it in like this, didn't he have a plan?

In order to persuade Li Cunxiao to surrender, Li Ye's conditions can be described as full of sincerity, and he came to protect the festival envoys, and promised that he would have the possibility of being a marquis in the future, or even worship a king with a different surname! When others said this, it was ridiculous and generous, but Li Ye's words were the same as Li Yan's words, and even more effective than Li Yan's words!

"King An persuaded the defenders of Yizhou to surrender and launch a mutiny among ordinary soldiers, precisely to build up momentum for Li Cunxiao!" Xu Maoda said leisurely, "With King An's current prestige and status, he can do this for Li Cunxiao, who can guarantee that Li Cunxiao will not be moved?"

Fang Qingzhen nodded solemnly.

The two talked for a long time, until late at night.

In the end, Fang Qingzhen was completely convinced that Li Cunxiao was very likely to surrender.

He was restless, so he immediately set off and went out to see Li Keyong overnight, to persuade the other party to transfer Li Cunxiao back to Taiyuan City!

After Fang Qinghal went out, Xu Maoda did not stay, and soon left Fang's mansion, went home in an ox cart, and entered his yard.

He got out of the bullock cart, and someone was waiting eagerly beside the cart.

It was a young man who was not yet thirty years old.

"Father, how is it, have you convinced Fang Qinghalal?" Xu Maoda got out of the car, and the young man immediately caught up.

Seeing his son who didn't learn and didn't know how to do it, Xu Maoda had mixed feelings in his heart, and he instinctively wanted to get angry, but before he could mention it in one breath, he turned into a long sigh and disappeared.

If it weren't for his useless son, how could he agree to that person, in the name of drinking and talking about Taoism, to persuade Fang Qingzhen to believe that Li Cunxiao would definitely take refuge in Li Ye and guide the other party to give Li Keyong advice?

"Why sigh, sir. What you are doing now is for the sake of the righteousness of the family and the country, and for the benefit of the society. After this incident, not only will Ling Lang be unusually qualified to be a celebrity, but you will also be rewarded with a knighthood. ”

A cold voice suddenly sounded beside Xu Maoda. A gorgeous woman in a purple robe stepped out of the dark shadows of the trees.

Seeing the other party, Xu Maoda couldn't help but shudder.