In the Mongolian camp outside Ezhou, the white flag flutters in the wind, and the white cloth strips fly in the wind.

There was a man standing on the top of the city in the city, with heroic hair, armor, and a colorful beard, and he stood on a high platform at the city gate, facing the breeze, and his hair was flying, so that he was not mighty.

This person is the famous general of the Song army, Lu Wende, who started by resisting the invasion of the Mongol army, and is also famous for this. He joined the army at the age of 17 to resist Mongolia, and has been on the front line of the anti-Mongolian war for a long time, and his more than 30 years of military career has forged his prestige and status.

When Meng Ge attacked Sichuan in the spring, he was ordered to be in danger, and was named the envoy of the Baokang Army, the deputy envoy of Sichuan and the governor of Chongqing Mansion, and the general leader of Sichuan's financial endowment, with great power.

After Lu Wende was ordered, he successively opened up the Shu Road, reinforced Diaoyu City to thwart the attack of the Mongolian army, and made great achievements, with the sudden death of Meng Ge, the danger of Hezhou was solved, and he was ordered to reinforce Ezhou.

Lu Wende had a close relationship with Jia Nidao, when Jia Nidao was ordered to control the two Guangxi people and lead the Ezhou war, because he was the reason for the civil minister, so the allocation of generals was inevitably inappropriate, many generals in the army were dissatisfied, Jia Nidao dispatched troops and horses to take measures to deal with it, and Gao Gao and Cao Shixiong in the army were the representatives who opposed Jia Nidao the most.

Under such circumstances, Lu Wende took the lead in expressing support and gradually suppressed the situation, for which Jia Yidao was especially grateful.

Lü Wende's move was very shrewd, he knew that no matter how great his military merits were, he was just a military general outside the imperial court, and he was burdened with the prosperity of the Lü family behind him, and without the help of powerful ministers in the court, it would be difficult for the Lü family to maintain long-term prosperity, and Jia Yidao was a Chinese courtier, and without the support of a military general outside the court, it would be difficult for him to achieve greater achievements and consolidate his position, so the two tacitly became allies who invoked each other inside and outside.

After receiving the order to reinforce Ezhou, Lu Wende took a wait-and-see attitude, and he secretly guarded not far from Ezhou City with his army, in order to wait for an opportunity to wait until Ezhou City was in great danger before making a move, so that Jia Yidao could remember his kindness.

That night Zhang Xi took his son Zhang Honggang to attack Ezhou, the situation was extremely critical, Jia Rudao was terrified in the city, it was at this critical moment that Lu Wende led his troops to arrive, killing Zhang Xi by surprise, so Zhang Xi was hit hard, and had to lead the troops to retreat.

In this matter, Kublai Khan did not blame Zongzheng's proposal, because Kublai Khan knew that it was caused by his own negligence and underestimated the enemy, and Zong Zheng later saved Zhang Xi's life, so he did not have too many suspicions.

Lu Wende looked out of the city, as if he was pondering something, and suddenly, his brother Lu Wenhuan came up and asked,

"What is Big Brother thinking?"

"This morning, the spies reported that the whole Mongol army was covered with white flags and white strips of cloth, and it seemed that someone in the army had died, and I was speculating about who it was. Lu Wende replied to his brother,

"Could it be Zhang Xi, who was injured by our arrows a few days ago, he was hit by several arrows, I'm afraid he won't survive!" Lu Wenhuan secretly guessed,

"Zhang Xi has been seriously injured for several days since that day, if he is not treated, it should be a few days ago, it should not be him. Lu Wende was experienced and immediately denied.

"Who could it be?" Lu Wenhuan looked puzzled.

"This morning, I talked to the Prime Minister about this, and the Prime Minister seems to be hiding something, and recently, his whereabouts are very mysterious, but I don't know what he is busy with. Lu Wende said to his brother,

Lu Wenhuan listened to what his brother said, and suddenly thought of seeing Jia Rudao and Gundam quietly leaving the city with soldiers and horses late the night before yesterday, so he told Lu Wende truthfully.

Lu Wende was puzzled for a while after hearing this, so he asked: "Hasn't the prime minister always been at odds with Gundam? How could he lead his troops out of the city with him, are you not mistaken?"

"I saw it at night, but I saw it very clearly, and it was definitely the Prime Minister and Gundam together. Lu Wenhuan's tone was affirmative, and his face was determined.

Lu Wende couldn't help frowning, doubts surged in his heart, and he muttered to himself: "At this time, it is the time to confront the Mongolian army, our army has been holding the city tightly, and the Mongolian army is eager for our army to go out of the city to fight them, the prime minister should know this very well, why do they have to lead the troops out of the city with Gundam late at night, what did they do when they went out of the city." ”

"Wen Huan, you go and invite General Gundam here for me, I have something to ask him. Lu Wende suddenly remembered something, and then instructed Lu Wenhuan,

Lu Wenhuan immediately left the castle tower and went to find Gundam.

Lu Wende looked at the clouds in the sky, stretched out his right palm, closed his eyes, and felt the cool breeze blowing.

After a while, Gundam walked to the top of the castle tower, and when he saw Lu Wende, he greeted him and said, "The last general Gundam meets the envoy of the system, and the lord calls me to call me I don't know what to do?"

Lu Wende asked directly: "The night before, did the prime minister go out of the city with you?"

"Yes. Gundam's tone was round, and his answer was crisp and clear.

"What is the matter?" Lu Wende replied again,

Gao replied truthfully: "The prime minister informed me that he received reliable information that Zhang Rou, a senior general in the Mongolian army, and his son Zhang Hongyan would appear in Fenghua Temple, and he had ordered someone to plant explosives around Fenghua Temple in advance, and ordered me to lead troops to go with him to kill the Mongolian general Zhang Rou and his son. ”

"I see, what is the result?" asked Lu Wende,

Naturally, the explosives were ignited and Zhang Rou's father and son were killed. Gundam replied coldly, not with any joy in his words, but full of complaints.

"Oh! It turned out that Zhang Rou's father and son had died, no wonder the Mongolian military camp was full of white flags and white strips of cloth. Lu Wende immediately came to his senses, and when he saw Gundam's disdainful look, he was puzzled for a while, and after careful consideration, he figured out the clue and understood why the prime minister wanted to go with Gundam, just to establish a military might in front of Gundam in order to deter Gundam, so Gundam was full of anger when he answered the question.

"Then since Fenghua Temple, can the general see where the prime minister has been? Lu Wende asked again,

Gundam didn't think about it, but immediately replied, "Lord Lu should know that I have always been at odds with him, and where will I pay attention to where he goes. ”

Hearing what Gundam said, Lu Wende realized this, and felt a little vain,

Gundam thought carefully about the situation that day, and suddenly remembered something, and then suddenly woke up: "Oh, I remember, after coming down from Fenghua Temple that day, he seemed to order me to lead the soldiers and horses back first, and I went northwest with a group of guards. ”

After listening to Gundam's words, Lu Wende pondered for a moment and replied to Gundam,

"Okay, I see, let's go down!"

Gundam then resigned.

Lu Wende was a shrewd man, and when he pondered carefully, he felt that something was wrong, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he turned away from the castle tower and went to the arsenal.

Seeing Lu Wende's momentum, the warden of the Hyogo Room hurriedly stepped forward to greet him and said, "Meet the envoy, I don't know why the Lord came to the Hyogo Room?"

"Pawn, let me ask you, in the past few days, has gunpowder been shipped out of the arsenal?"

The pawn immediately replied, "No." ”

Lu Wende looked at the priest and asked in a stern tone, "Are you sure?"

"The arsenal is an important place in the army, and the disbursement of all weapons and gunpowder is recorded and sealed, and if you don't believe it, you can check the records. With that, he asked Lu Wende to go to the inner room.

Lu Wende followed the warden to the inner room where the case files were stored.

"Wait a minute, sir. The priest said, and then took a book from the shelf on the very side, turned to the records of the transfer of weapons in recent days, and handed it to Lu Wende.

Lu Wende took the book from the pawn and flipped through several pages in a row, but there was indeed no record of gunpowder being transferred, and his heart couldn't help but sink, and his eyes shrank.

He then handed the book back to the pawn, hurried out the door, and then went straight to Jia Nidao's residence.

Lu Wende came to Jia Rudao's temporary mansion in Ezhou, and went to the mansion violently, but was stopped by the four government soldiers guarding the gate and said: "Lord Lu, the prime minister is not a guest now. ”

Lu Wende looked at the four government soldiers and scolded: "Bold, you dog slaves dare to stop me." Then he went straight to the ground.

The four of them were afraid of Lu Wende, so they no longer stopped each other.

Lu Wende walked quickly into the mansion and went straight to the hall, and when Jia Rudao's housekeeper saw that Lu Wende was coming, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.

Lu Wende was not in the mood to pay attention to the butler, but walked directly into the hall and searched around.

"Master Lu, what are you doing here?" the butler followed Lu Wende around, not understanding what Lu Wende wanted, so he asked.

Lu Wende didn't see Jia Yidao, so he asked the housekeeper, "Where is the prime minister?"

The housekeeper snorted: "My lord, he, he went out." ”

"Where did you go?" asked Lu Wende sharply,

"This" butler hesitated and flinched.

"Say it quickly. Lu Wende shouted,

"I don't know, my adults didn't tell me. The butler replied,

Lu Wende took a deep breath, flicked his sleeves, and walked out the door angrily.

After noon, the weather was sunny, but suddenly a dark cloud drifted out of nowhere, and then the wind blew violently, and the weather suddenly changed drastically, and it rained heavily, occasionally accompanied by a few dull thunders, which made people very surprised.

Under the storm, 30 Mongolian soldiers rode straight to the gate of the Mongolian camp, all soaked, and the leader entered the camp, and after getting off the horse, he went straight to Zhang Honggang's camp tent before changing clothes.

When Zhang Honggang saw the leader, he immediately asked, "How are things going?"

The leader told Zhang Honggang that they hadn't seen Mei Shaoxia at all.

Zhang Honggang scolded angrily: "What are you doing, why didn't you see Mei Shaoxia?"

The leader explained: "According to Mei Shaoxia's instructions, we came to the fork in the road at the foot of Xijiao Mountain to wait for a person named Er, and then acted according to his instructions, we saw that person, after the password, he ordered us to wait in Xijiao Mountain for a day, and then return to the camp at noon today, there are no other orders!"

After Zhang Honggang listened, he was puzzled for a while, and then asked again: "What happened in Xijiao Mountain?"

The leader shook his head and replied, "Nothing happened, it has been calm." Rain dripped down his braids on both sides of his hair and fell onto his already soaked clothes.

Zhang Honggang looked confused, and when he saw that the leader was soaked, he replied lightly: "Since it is Mei Shaoxia's order, then forget it, you go down!"

The leader immediately retreated, Zhang Honggang secretly wondered in his heart, if he let thirty Mongolian soldiers stay in Xijiao Mountain for a day, then there would naturally be a reason, but why there was no movement in Xijiao Mountain, Zhang Honggang couldn't help but feel strange, and he didn't know what to do for a while, thinking that since he was completely acting according to Mei Shaoxia's orders, he didn't pursue it too much.