Chapter 982: Suspicion
As soon as Bai Sheng's words came out, everyone was shocked. What did he mean by this? The most direct and simple understanding is that he has already led an army to commit treason.
Isn't it clear enough that you didn't come on behalf of the Song State, and you didn't come on behalf of the Song Emperor? But the question is, if you don't represent the Song State, who do you represent? Do you want to establish yourself as a king or seek to take over the rivers and mountains of the Song State?
Even the soldiers on Liangshan couldn't help but look confused, thinking that at the beginning, whether it was in the Liangshan Juyi Hall or in the Jeju City, Bai Shengke said that he would recruit Liangshan, and after Zhao'an, Liangshan would be incorporated into the sequence of the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, although for the time being, it was not as good as the regular army of the forbidden army, but it was no longer a bandit.
In the eyes of the soldiers of Yangsan, even if Bai Sheng killed Gao Yu in Jeju Prefecture, regained military power in Zengtou City and repatriated Su Taiwei, and confronted Zhanren Longbu at the border of Jizhou, this is just a struggle for power, until Bai Sheng swears to fight the Jin State twice, it cannot be said that he betrayed the Song State.
But Bai Sheng's words at this time can only be understood as his refusal to admit that his armed force belongs to the Song State. What's going on here?
Yelu Yanxi was also shocked by Bai Sheng's words, and his heart was suddenly mixed. The good news is that since Bai Sheng has betrayed the Song State, it will be easier for him to recruit him; what worries him is whether Bai Sheng's move will lead the Song State to send troops to come to the Song State to ask for it? If Zhao Ji is angry and sends heavy troops to ask him about the people, but he protects Bai Sheng and refuses to hand him over, it is bound to form a situation in which the Jin and Song Dynasty join forces to attack the Liao State, and the consequences are simply unimaginable!
How many people did Bai Shengcai bring? 50,000 or 60,000, converging with the 400,000 Liao army to resist the more than 500,000 Jin army could be regarded as an injection of a new force, but how could it compete with the 800,000 forbidden army that the Song State had maintained for a long time?
Avoid the situation between countries, just say that Bai Sheng is a person, since he has betrayed the Song State, it means that this person is extremely ambitious, so today he can betray the Great Song Dynasty, who dares to say that he will not betray the Liao State in the future?
At this moment, many thoughts flashed in Emperor Tianzuo's heart, and he was quite uneasy, and his expression showed some of it, and the civil and military generals of the Liao State led by Yelu Dashi could also think of this to some extent, but they didn't dare to be the first bird again before Emperor Tianzuo didn't express his position.
So the originally lively bonfire party turned out to be cold.
Emperor Tianzuo suddenly woke up from his surprise, found that the scene was a little deserted, and was about to say something to alleviate it, but he heard a guard at the gate of the imperial garden shouting, "Qiqi Sheng, Mr. Zhuge asks to see." ”
Zhuge Wuzhi is here.
Zhuge Wuzhi has always been the highest thinker of the Liao Emperor, and he once assisted the Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji, and made many unknown contributions to the Liao State on the invisible front, but he has retired at home in recent years, and basically does not ask about state affairs.
"Please!" Emperor Tianzuo was about to break the coldness, Zhuge Wuzhi's arrival was too timely, as if he just wanted to sleep, so he brought him a pillow.
Everyone stared at the gate of the Imperial Garden, only to see two people hurriedly walking in from outside, one in front of him wearing a square scarf and holding a feather fan, looking no more than forty years old, it was Zhuge Wuzhi, people who were familiar with him knew that he was actually in his sixties, but he didn't look like it.
Behind Zhuge Wuzhi was followed a young man in his twenties, thin and slender, but he was dressed as a warrior of the Song Kingdom.
Everyone in the audience didn't know this person, so they were all a little surprised, Zhuge Wuzhi came to the palace without any problem, but he brought a Song person in the strange way, in addition to Bai Sheng's identity, which Song person is qualified to enter the palace of the Liao Emperor? Could it be that Emperor Tianzuo has another daughter who quietly married a Song person?
When the two walked to the campfire, Zhuge Wuzhi suddenly stopped and ordered the person behind him, "You wait here first." ”
The young man in the back stood still as he was told, and did not look at the people around him, but only looked down at the roaring bonfire beside him.
Zhuge Wuzhi was even more like no one else, even his disciple Wu Yanguang and Yelu Dashi, who was half a teacher and half an apprentice, turned a blind eye, his eyes only lingered on Bai Sheng's face for a short moment before he moved away, and he didn't salute in front of Emperor Tianzuo, he stepped forward and whispered in Emperor Tianzuo's ear.
No one else knew what he was talking about, but Bai Sheng had excellent hearing, and what he heard him say was "Urgent military situation, please move Your Majesty." ”
Yelu Yanxi did not slack off in the slightest, and then stood up and looked at the ministers and Bai Sheng and said, "Everyone continue to drink and eat, and I will come as soon as I go." Then he took the lead and walked to a pavilion in the garden, followed by four commanders of the Royal Forest Army.
The pavilion in the garden was originally a facility for enjoying the cool in summer, but it was useless at the turn of autumn and winter, and it could be used to listen to Zhuge Wuzhi's report.
Seeing this scene, Yelu Dashi and Wu Yanguang exchanged a look, what is the situation? Is there any major military aircraft that needs to be reported to the emperor by avoiding the two of us? Although they are full of suspicions, they will not be dissatisfied with Zhuge Wuzhi, because Zhuge Wuzhi has a very high status in their minds, and they can only think that Zhuge Wuzhi has mastered 100,000 urgent military aircraft affairs, and it is inconvenient to report to the emperor in public, but they can't guess what this urgent matter is.
I saw the emperor and Zhuge Wuzhi enter the pavilion, Zhuge Wuzhi still whispered in his ear for a while, and at the same time pointed to the young man of the Song Kingdom who was standing next to the bonfire, Emperor Tianzuo looked at the young man for a while, and after listening to it, he ordered Yelu Dehua, Yelu Dehua immediately walked to the young man's side and brought the young man to the pavilion.
When he arrived at the pavilion and bowed to Emperor Tianzuo, the young man got up and whispered a few more words, and Emperor Tianzuo's eyes looked at Bai Sheng intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing this, the ministers of the Liao State all set their eyes on Bai Sheng's body, and Emperor Tianzuo's gaze had already turned away, and he lowered his head, as if he was in deep thought.
Today's Bai Sheng's ears and eyes are brighter than in the past, of course, he can hear the answers of several people in the pavilion, and the military situation brought by Zhuge Wuzhi is that the Great Song Emperor Zhao Ji sent Tong Guan as the commander and led an army of 400,000 with the intention of recovering the sixteen states of Yanyun.
Tong Guan's army has arrived in Jizhou at this time, and there has been a battle with the defenders of the Liao army deployed in Jizhou City, and the victory is not divided for the time being, but it is foreseeable that Guo Yaoshi, the main general of the Liao State Resentment Army guarding Jizhou, will definitely not be Tong Guan's opponent, Guo Yaoshi also sent a fast horse from the north of Jizhou City to Yanjing for help, and the messenger for help is outside the palace at this moment.
The story is roughly like this, Emperor Tianzuo gathered the Liao army generals in the city for a banquet, Zhuge Wuzhi of course also got invited, but he did not participate in this kind of occasion as usual, but he was not relieved to guard Yanjing City, so he replaced his disciple Wu Yanguang to inspect the various city gates, he went to the south of the city at the first stop, wanting to see if there were any flaws in the deployment of the Taiyi Array he taught to Wu Yanguang, but he happened to meet the distress messenger of Jizhou.
And the young man dressed in the costume of a Song warrior was not a messenger from Jizhou, he was Zhu Biao, the third son of Zhujiazhuang and Zhu Chaofeng, the owner of Zhujiazhuang in Shandong.
Zhu Biao also came to report to the Liao State Divine Crossbow Battalion, just like Zengtou City as the advance army of the Jin State, Zhujiazhuang had long been bought by the Liao State, spying on intelligence for the Liao people, drawing maps, and the person in charge of contacting Zhujiazhuang on the Liao side was originally Xiao Feng, and when Xiao Feng did not return for a long time, although Zhuge Wuzhi let Yelu Tali take over as the military master of the Divine Crossbow Battalion, he did not hand over this dark line to her, but took care of Xiao Feng himself.
Coincidentally, Zhu Biao and Jizhou's messenger for help rushed to the south of Yanjing City at the same time, and they were also blocked by the Taiyi Array, so they also saw Zhuge Wuzhi.
The news brought by Zhu Biao was more detailed and accurate than that of the Jizhou messenger, because he learned this information from the officials of the Song State, confirming that the Emperor of the Song State had issued an order to join forces with the Jin State and sent a heavy army to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun.
Based on all this information, Zhuge Wuzhi came to a conclusion, that is, Bai Sheng came to the rescue of Liao State uninvited, and there must be fraud in this matter.