Ling Xiao followed the generals to the Dongchang Mansion, and the Mansion also became a temporary marshal's mansion at this time. After taking his seat, without waiting for Zhu Di to ask, Ling Xiao said: "This is General Meng's letter."

As he spoke, he took out the letter in his arms and gave it to Zhu Di, Zhu Di took the letter and said to Ling Xiao: "Thank you for risking your life to deliver the letter" Ling Xiao hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The prince is polite"

Zhu Di opened the envelope, looked it up and down and nodded, and passed it to Qiu Fu and others around him, after everyone read it, Zhu Di said: "The generals see what General Meng said, I don't know what good plan there is?" Ling Xiao could not have participated in such a military secret meeting as a person in the rivers and lakes, but Meng Yuan's letter mentioned that the reason why the grain and grass were not hindered was all because of the escort of the two Ling Xiao brothers. I also saw that Ling Xiao spoke calmly and acted reliably, and did not treat Ling Xiao as an outsider.

After Zhu Di finished asking, everyone in the hall bowed their heads and muttered silently, and the atmosphere in the entire hall seemed to become extremely solemn for a while.

After a while, Qiu Fu said: "Lord, with General Meng's five hundred soldiers, if you are safe and stable to send grain and grass to the city, I am afraid it will be difficult" After a pause, he said: "Besides, the southern army is strong, and we can't rush out, now we can only rely on foreign aid, and we can only cooperate with the outside..."

Zhu Di said: "General Qiu is reasonable, now our messenger doesn't know when he will be able to get to the city?" Seeing that he was gradually silent, Zhu Di said to the generals around him: "Give an order to the soldiers in the city tower, as long as you see someone coming to break through, report to me immediately" A general walked out of the side and said "Yes" and walked out of the palace.

Zhu Di suddenly said in a loud voice: "You have followed this king to fight in the south and the north, but your achievements have not been accomplished, and now it is the will of heaven that you are trapped in Dongchang City, and you can't repay the kindness of your generals until you die..."

As he spoke, he had to take off his clothes and bow down. The generals were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly stepped forward to help them up, and the generals showed an excited look and said in unison: "We will be born when the lord is born, and we will die if the lord dies, and we will swear to follow the prince to the death, and we will never be greedy for life and afraid of death."

The voice was very exciting, so that Ling Xiao was also full of excitement when he heard it, and he seemed to be moved by this spirit of loyalty and courage, and seeing death as home.

Zhu Di said: "Okay, good, worthy of being a good brother of this king" Everyone heard this sentence and was even more excited in their hearts, and said to Ling Xiao: "Now we are trapped in the city, and it is even more difficult for the strong man" Ling Xiao said busily: "The prince said this is really tormenting the small people, and today I can see the loyalty of the monarch and the ministers, which is really the blessing of the small people."

Ling Xiao thought to himself: "I'm afraid I won't be able to do it, I'm afraid it's still difficult for me to live with these hundreds of thousands of horses."

I only heard Zhu Di say: "The letter said that the grain pressing team will wait for the strong man to reply to the letter fifty miles away, and now the messenger sent to move reinforcements has not yet returned, first arrange a room for the strong man to rest for a while, and when the messenger comes back, we will discuss countermeasures together" Ling Xiao hugged his fists and said: "It's all up to the king's orders"

Zhu Di said, "Come on." Prepare a room for Ling Shaoxia and let him rest first!" Ling Xiao rushed overnight was insignificant to him, but when he heard Zhu Di mention it, a sense of exhaustion surged all over his body, so he hugged his fists at Zhu Di and said, "Thank you, Lord Wang" and retreat from the hall.

A soldier led Ling Xiao into the back hall, which was a large garden, and the rooms were all built around the garden. Everything in the room is fully applied, the cleaning is relatively clean, just eat some snacks and fall asleep, maybe really tired for many years and don't feel more comfortable than today.

Ling Xiao didn't know how long he had been asleep, and suddenly heard a shrill voice shouting, "Ling Shaoxia, Ling Zhuangshi..."

Ling Xiao is one of the best masters in the martial arts, and his alertness has always been extremely high, even in his sleep, no wind or grass can escape his keen ears. Hearing the shouting, Ling Xiao woke up and thought, "How can you sleep so deeply?" Maybe you are really tired, or maybe you have relaxed your vigilance in this kind of heavily guarded mansion?"

Sitting on the edge of the bed and rubbing his temples, he got up and opened the door, and saw a soldier with a fat figure walking in with a smile on his face, and Ling Xiao saw that it was Wang Meng who had arranged a place for him. Ling Xiao looked up and saw a ray of sunlight shining at the door, thinking that his rest time might not be too long. So he asked, "Captain Wang, what did you call me?"

Wang Meng glanced at Ling Xiao, couldn't see the joy and anger, and said with a smile: "Ling Shaoxia, disturbing your dreams, please forgive me, the little one is on the order of the prince, I came to ask you to go to the front hall for dinner, and said that a few friends from the rivers and lakes introduced you to each other..."

Ling Xiao heard that it was sent by the prince, and thought, "Since it is introduced by the prince, I will see this friend in the rivers and lakes, maybe I will know it at first sight", got dressed and went out of the room to see the sun in the sky, thinking: "I only slept for half a day, and it was really not long."

As Wang Meng walked to the front hall, he asked casually: "I don't know if someone from the front line has broken through and come to report the news" Wang Meng said: "As far as I know, there are no campers yet" Ling Xiao said "oh".

As he spoke, he had already walked through the garden to the front hall, and as soon as he entered the hall, he saw that there were several people sitting on a table of eight immortals, and the upper seat was the prince Zhu Di. As his eyes swept towards the few people beside Zhu Di, he was already shocked when he didn't look at it, excited, angry, and happy.

Just who the few people in front of him are, it is the Cheng brothers who Ling Xiao has been looking for for many years and has no news, like evaporating to kill his father's enemy. Ling Xiao thought to himself: "It's really hard to find a place to step on the iron shoes, Zhang Yu was saved by mistake, and now he has been looking for many years..."

Although Ling Xiao is a master of art but bold but not reckless, looking at the situation, the three Cheng brothers seem to be the prince's guards, thinking: "Don't attack for the time being, it's not too late to find an opportunity to start" and then carefully look at the Cheng brothers, they have long lost the arrogance of the year.

Although the dress is still good, it has lost that sharpness, and the cheeks are more vicissitudes. Zhu Di said: "Ling Shaoxia, you are here... Come and sit down, I'll introduce you to a few friends."

Since two years ago, in order to avoid Ling Xiao's revenge, the three brothers of the Cheng family happened to meet Zhu Di, so they gave up their family wealth and the huge manor and followed Zhu Di.

Zhu Di launched the "Battle of Jingjing" and named them the generals left and right, and the brothers were grateful to Zhu Di for his kindness and protected Zhu Di all the way. And Zhu Di never treated them as subordinates, which made the brothers very happy.

The three of them thought that if they followed Zhu Di and overthrew the current emperor, the three brothers would be Zhu Di's founding heroes, and they would also be crowned princes and generals at that time, even if the enemy came to the door, they would not be afraid. In the morning, Zhu Di came to the brothers' room, Zhu Di was very polite to them, and the three of them did not dare to slack off.

The brothers were busy clasping their fists, and Cheng Shu asked with a smile: "Whenever the prince is sent, he only needs to send someone to inform him, why bother to work hard" Zhu Di said: "General Cheng, I came here to tell you something."

When the Cheng brothers heard this, they all thought: "Isn't it that Yan Jun has encountered a big problem again" Thinking about this mile tree, he hurriedly said: "Our brothers have always been grateful to the prince for his appreciation, if it is really useful to our brothers, as long as the prince speaks, we will never give up."

Zhu Di smiled and waved his hand and said: "General Cheng's words are serious, if there is really a need for a general, this king will naturally not be polite, and now this king is not a big deal." You know that this king has always been good at martial arts, and today there is a young man in the house, and this king will set up a banquet at noon, and I want to introduce you to each other."

The Cheng brothers all said "oh" in their hearts, the military situation was very nervous, if there was really anything to use, the three of them would not refuse, they thought that the prince would come in person, there must be a big event, but I didn't expect it to be a small matter, and I was relieved in my heart.

Cheng Shu said with a smile: "Lord Wang, why don't you come here in person, we are people in the rivers and lakes, maybe we are really familiar with that young man" Zhu Di nodded and said, "Yes."

Cheng Shu asked about the military situation again, and when he talked about the military situation, Zhu Di was worried, but as the commander-in-chief, even if the situation was critical, he had to be in danger, his brows were slightly wrinkled, and they each exchanged a few words of greeting, and the three of them sent Zhu Di out of the room.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and the three of them went to the front hall on time for the banquet, each wondering in their hearts who this person was? At the same time that Ling Xiao saw the Cheng brothers, the three of them also saw Ling Xiao.

When he saw his face clearly, he was shocked, and his mouth opened wide, and a cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back, and he never imagined that Ling Xiao would find such a place.

Cheng Gen seemed to be about to have a seizure on the spot, but Cheng Teng was held by one hand intentionally or unintentionally, and his eyes swept to signal not to move, although the hearts of the three of them were churning like rivers and seas, Cheng Teng was still calm enough in front of Zhu Di.