Chapter 644 The Battle of Shangdang (6)
Chapter 644: Shangdang Battle (VI)
An Lushan's wedding team had arrived in Wangdu County, Dingzhou. In order to welcome Yang Guifei, An Lushan arranged a grand show. He even used a dragon chariot. He did it a few years ago and hid it in the warehouse. Now it has appeared publicly. Five hundred guards were carrying huge dragon chariots. Eight hundred men were walking in front of them, holding flags, and magnificent.
An Lushan sat in the carriage, squinting his eyes at the vast wedding party. He was very satisfied with his arrangement. What an imperial concubine is? Besides himself, who else can give her such a great momentum and honor? He believed that the imperial concubine would smile happily.
At this time, a horse ran towards him, and it was an An Lushan guard. He sent someone to inquire about the imperial concubine every day. Has the imperial concubine eaten? Has the imperial concubine taken a bath? Was she rested well? He had to ask all these details clearly.
"Your Majesty, there is a painting!"
The guard presented a scroll with his hands. An Lushan took it with a smile. He closed his eyes for a while so that he could see clearly. He opened his eyes and slowly unfolded the scroll with anticipation, but was stunned. The painting turned out to be a painting of a concubine, lying on the short couch, with her eyebrows and eyes in her eyes and no inch in her body. A burst of anger suddenly ignited from An Lushan's heart.
The bold Li Zhuer and Xu Huajiang dared to let the imperial concubine paint such dirty paintings. Did they take the courage of the ambitious leopard? It might be better for Li Zhuer to be an eunuch, but Xu Huajiang.
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An Lushan couldn't help but burst into anger and tore the painting in half. This was the woman he wanted to hide the beauty in the golden house. It was his reverse scale. Who dared to offend it? He immediately turned a blind eye and must kill Li Zhuer and Xu Huajiang.
But soon, An Lushan got back to the topic, it was not right! How could Yang Guifei draw such paintings? Even in the Ming Palace, she was the most noble woman in the Tang Dynasty. Once this painting was spread, what would her face be? And she is still a female Taoist priest now, so it is even more impossible! What's going on? Isn't it that she is willing to leave after she seeks death? But her expression on the couch is clearly like a slut in Hanchun.
An Lushan began to feel suspicious. He was originally a person with a very suspicious condition. These days, he was blinded by the imperial concubine's affairs and ignored anything. However, this painting was poured on An Lushan like a basin of cold water. He suddenly became shocked and became a little awake.
Li Zhu'er served him for ten years. Does he still understand his personality? Unless he wants to die, he let the imperial concubine paint such a painting. More importantly, he doesn't believe that An Lushan will be killed. The dignified Concubine Yang will paint a painter with a naked body?
There must be a name here!
Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Return to Wangdu County!"
He ordered another soldier: "Send a pigeon letter to Hengzhou and find Li Zhu'er for me."
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The news that An Lushan brigade suddenly stopped in Wangdu County, Dingzhou was spread to Shi Siming's ears after two hours. This news really surprised him, and there was no reason! An Lushan came in such a hurry, how could he suddenly stop in Wangdu County? And he passed Wangdu County and then returned.
This made Shi Siming have an ominous premonition. Has An Lushan seen through his arrangement? Countless thoughts turned around in Shi Siming's heart. For this action, he prepared for three months. Forty thousand troops had been deployed south of Hengzhou, forty thousand troops were deployed north of Hengzhou, and tens of thousands of cavalrymen of Jugu were deployed between Hengzhou and Dingzhou. It can be said that he had already set up a net of heaven and earth in Hengzhou. As long as An Lushan entered Hengzhou, he would close the door and kill pigs.
Shi Siming waited for this opportunity for a long time. Generals and strategists such as Li Huaixian, Li Guiren, Cai Xide, An Qingxu, Gao Shang all confronted Li Qing'an in Hedong. Only An Lushan was in charge in Youzhou. As long as he killed An Lushan, he could control the Youzhou army.
When the generals were defeated in Hedong, they would only come to ask him to take him in. No one dared to oppose him anymore. Although Tian Chengsi of Wei Bo was there, his journey was too long and his troops were insufficient, so he was not worth worrying about.
Shi Siming knew that now was his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If he missed this opportunity, it would be difficult for him to realize his ambitions. Moreover, he used a fake imperial concubine to fool An Lushan. Once An Lushan knew about it, he could not spare himself.
Shi Siming walked to the map and studied the location of An Lushan. Wangdu County is located at the junction of Dingzhou and Yizhou, not far from Youzhou. If An Lushan discovers his intention, he can return to Youzhou in just one and a half days. The key now is that he does not know why An Lushan stopped in Wangdu County, whether he discovered his intention, or just stayed for a while, and would soon continue moving forward.
After thinking about it, An Lushan should not have noticed his intention, otherwise he would have turned around and ran away long ago. "Shi Siming, keep calm!" Shi Siming secretly warned himself.
At this time, a personal soldier reported: "Deputy Commander, Brother Li is here, he has urgent matters to ask for a meeting!"
It happened to be right, and Shi Siming was also trying to find him, "Let him come in!"
Soon, Li Zhu'er walked into the room under the leadership of his personal soldiers. At this moment, Li Zhu'er was extremely nervous. Whether he could survive was at this moment. Looking at Shi Siming's gloomy gaze like an eagle, Li Zhu'er felt his legs weak, and he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed, "Slave Li Zhu'er kowtowed to the deputy commander!"
"Yeah, get up!"
Shi Siming's tone eased, and unexpectedly, Li Zhu'er's role was slightly highlighted. Originally, as soon as An Lushan entered Hengzhou, he would kill Li Zhu'er. An Lushan was a big pig, and Li Zhu'er was a little pig. He killed the big pig and little pig together without leaving any trouble. As for the fat woman, he would use her to bury An Lushan. An Lushan came here for her, wasn't it just for her? For more than ten years of friendship, he was still planning to let An Lushan realize this wish.
Shi Siming's gentle tone ignited a glimmer of hope in Li Zhu'er's heart. He stood up and lowered his hands and said, "Deputy Commander, I just received An Lushan's pigeon letter."
"oh?"
Shi Siming was excited and hurriedly said, "Where is Ge Xin? Show it to me!"
Li Zhu'er handed the pigeon letter to Shi Siming. Shi Siming opened it impatiently and hurriedly read it. The content of the letter was very simple, and he ordered Li Zhu'er to rush to Wangdu County immediately.
"Deputy coach!"
Li Zhu'er secretly glanced at Shi Siming and said timidly: "I don't want to go to Wangdu County, the prince will kill me."
"No! You have to go."
Shi Siming said without hesitation: "You must go and bring An Lushan to Hengzhou. Tell him that the imperial concubine was afraid of the Khitans' death and was already sick. She even called him to help her when she was sick. She must make An thief come in impatiently."
Shi Siming also realized at this time that Li Zhuer was very important, and it can be said that it was the key to his success or failure this time. Shi Siming smiled and patted his shoulder and said to him softly: "I know you are afraid, you are not worried, you don't have any threat to me. I, Shi Siming, will not even have this little heart. Otherwise, how can I win the world? Don't worry, although I won't use you, I will also give you a sum of money to maintain my life and let you spend the rest of your life in Jiangnan."
Li Zhu'er has been with An Lushan for ten years. An Lushan's sincereness on the surface and the viciousness behind him have made Li Zhu'er deeply understand the sweet-mouthed swords of these people in power. He will no longer believe any sweet words from Shi Siming at this time. On the contrary, he is more sure that Shi Siming will definitely kill him.
Li Zhu'er knew that the moment of deciding his fate had come. He knelt on the ground, his face covered with tears and said, "The deputy commander is so kind to me, and the servant will do his best to serve the deputy commander!"
"well!"
Shi Siming nodded repeatedly, he helped Li Zhu'er up with both hands, and gently patted the dust on his knees, and said in a deep voice: "There is gold under the knees of men. Remember, I, Shi Siming, don't want you to kneel!"
Li Zhu'er was so moved that she cried out, "I'll leave this life to the deputy commander."
Shi Siming smiled slightly, turned around and said, "Come on, come and get five hundred taels of gold!"
"This...no!"
"You accept it. This is to give you some money or to take care of the guards around An Lushan for me. Afterwards, I will reward you twice as much."
The personal soldiers took ten large gold ingots and put them in a bag. It was quite heavy. Seeing that Li Zhuer was thin and might not be able to handle the dozens of kilograms of gold, Shi Siming smiled and said, "I'll give you another horse!
"I will never thank you for your kindness. The servant remembers the kindness of the deputy commander."
Li Zhu'er stopped kneeling. He gave a deep bow and turned around and left. Shi Siming looked at his thin back and couldn't help but sneer.
"Deputy Commander, should you send someone to keep an eye on him?" said a personal soldier.
Shi Siming shook his head, "If there are An Lushan people around him, sending people will be exposed. I have seen through this person. I have been a dog for a lifetime, admire his bones and patted his head. He was so grateful that he was so grateful. Since he got on my boat, don't think about it. Don't worry! He won't have any problems."
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It is about two hundred miles from Zhending County to Wangdu County. It can be reached by horse racing and can be reached in one day and one night. Li Zhu'er got a BMW given by Shi Siming, and it was extremely fast. Three guards followed Li Zhu'er and rushed towards Wangdu County.
At night, the three of them came to Wuji County, Dingzhou. Li Zhu'er looked exhausted. He said to the three guards: "I always feel that someone from later generations are following us. Do you feel it?"
A guard shook his head, "No, we have been paying attention for a day, no one follows you."
Li Zhu'er felt relieved, and he smiled and said, "Brother Guard, let's find a place to rest! Let's leave early tomorrow morning."
Although the three guards were An Lushan's soldiers, they didn't know if the matter was urgent. Everything was arranged by Li Zhu'er. Li Zhu'er wanted to rest, so they bowed and said, "What the guy said is, let's go to the county to rest!"
"I'll invite the three elder brothers to drink. Actually, nothing is wrong. We can stop drunk."
The three guards were overjoyed and surrounded Li Zhu'er and entered Wuji County. They found an inn, put down their horses' luggage, and then found a nearby restaurant. Li Zhu'er threw a ingot of silver into the door and said to the shopkeeper: "Take all the good wines here and let my three elder brothers stop drunk."
"Here is here! Here!"
The shopkeeper hurriedly ordered the clerk to move wine, and in a moment, he brought five or six jars of good wine. The three guards were all Turkic Hu people. One of the biggest characteristics of the Hu people was that they were addicted to alcohol and had no chance to drink. Seeing that Li Zhuer was so generous, they were overjoyed and sat down and drank. Li Zhuer accompanied them to drink a glass of wine and another bowl of rice. Seeing that the time was almost right, he said to the three people: "I'll eat it, go back to bed first, you can drink it slowly."
As long as he paid the money, nothing else mattered. They all laughed and said, "Go to sleep! Go to sleep!"
Chapter completed!