"Mr. Lang, will the court become suspicious if you escape like this?"
"How can you not be suspicious?"
Li Chengzhi laughed and said, "Nine times out of ten, the imperial court will secretly send a secret envoy to Shangdang to open the tomb and take a look!"
Zhang Jingmo covered his mouth: "Ah, wouldn't that be obvious?"
"Don't worry, it won't happen!"
Li Chengzhi shook his head, "Li Hui always does things without leakage. Be it husband or me, you and the two ladies, the substitutes are all very similar to each other, and they have been burnt to charcoal. Unless they are resurrected, they are the biological parents."
You will definitely not be able to recognize him when he comes, let alone a secret agent who has not been masked for many times?"
"Then...what about Captain Gao?" Zhang Jingmo asked worriedly.
"Unless I die in front of him, he will never believe it!"
Li Chengzhi's expression was very relaxed, "But it doesn't matter. Even if he doesn't believe it and even guesses where I will hide, there is nothing he can do."
Zhang Jingmo's brows furrowed sharply: "In this case, are the two sisters... afraid that they will be embarrassed to see the husband for a while?"
Li Chengzhi paused for a moment, then sighed again.
Let’s just talk about Gao Meng. He is both Gao Wenjun’s cousin and Wei Yu’s cousin. He was originally a close relative, but in the blink of an eye, he has become a life-and-death enemy, fighting to the death?
Not to mention Gao Zhao repeatedly killed Li Chengzhi?
The three obediences and the four virtues, and the husband is the guide for his wife, are by no means empty words in this era.
Wei Yu is okay, and she is still innocent at her age. But for Gao Wenjun, it is no different than bad news. When she is ashamed and resentful, she will inevitably think wrong. With her strong temper, there is no guarantee that she will not do stupid things.
That's why Li Chengzhi called Zhang Jingmo and asked her to enlighten him.
"Tell Wenjun, Gao Zhao is Gao Zhao, and Gao Wenjun is Gao Wenjun, how can they be confused? Besides, Lang Jun is not a coward, so just let her feel at ease!"
Zhang Jingmo responded in a low voice and left the camp with a blessing.
There are several stone houses not far away, which should be temporary residences for officials during the Yellow River flood control. Li Chengzhi ordered people to tidy up a little, smoked them, and asked Gao Wenjun and the others to move in.
The advantage is that the ground is high and the walls are thick, which is much better than sleeping in tents in the open air.
Twenty miles further north is a ferry. Li Chengzhi was sure that if Gao Yun wanted to cross the river, he would choose this place.
As expected, not long after Zhang Jingmo left the tent, Li Cong came to report: "Lang Jun, Li Fang has sent word that the hundreds of armored cavalry have arrived ten miles away, and they will arrive in four quarters at most..."
Li Chengzhi looked at the already white Dongtian through the gap in the door curtain, and nodded slightly: "Come just in time? Order Li Xiaoxian and Li Fang to be careful and don't scare Gao Yun away..."
"No!"
Li Cong went to deliver the order, and Li Chengzhi lay back and slowly closed his eyes.
He ran hurriedly all night, not daring to rest for even a moment, and finally intercepted Gao Yun.
If after three to five days, Gao Yun still hasn't returned to his life, no matter how stupid Gao Zhao is, he can guess that he must have done something of his own.
But by then, he had already taken the order from his captain and led the 500 soldiers disguised as Gao's tribe through Guanzhong and arrived at Yuanzhou.
After that, everyone will use their own methods, either you die or I die...
In fact, Li Chengzhi really didn't want to leave the center of the court so early. He thought that with the victory in Guanzhong, he could take a step further and become a hot new star of the court. With him, Gao Ying and Gao Zhao,
Yuan Jia, and the relationship between the three assistant ministers with Han surnames, can in any case gain Xihai a few more years of opportunities to cultivate and recuperate.
Little did he know that God would not fulfill his wish. He had not calculated that Gao Zhao would stab him in the back.
Well, it’s not a stab in the back. It’s just that Gao Zhao’s sense of smell is different from ordinary people. Through every trace, he concluded that Li Chengzhi had long been disobedient and had even acted disobediently.
Gao Zhao didn't want to make a wedding dress for others, let alone submit to others, so he pressed forward step by step, even cutting and beating, in order to force Li Chengzhi to submit and surrender to him.
It's a pity that Gao Zhao underestimated Li Chengzhi's resilience, ability, and even ambition.
Who dares to imagine that when Li Chengzhi was just a white man, when the Li family in Jingzhou was already in ruins, with only three hundred retainers, and even the lintel of the family was on the verge of collapse, he would already have rebellion and start planning?
In just two years, it has spread all over the world?
One wrong step leads to another wrong step. Until the two fires in Jinming County and Xiazhou Camp forced Gao Zhao to reveal his true colors.
Frankly speaking, Li Chengzhi still admires Gao Zhao very much. If he hadn't used his identity as a time traveler to seize the opportunity, it would definitely be him, Li Chengzhi, who was gritting his teeth, smashing his teeth and swallowing it.
Although he currently has the upper hand, he only narrowly won one move, and it is still unclear whether he will be killed in the end.
If Xiazhou rebels, Shuozhou, where Gao Zhi is the governor, will inevitably rebel. Correspondingly, the four states of Heng, Yan, Ying, and Ding, where monks are already in chaos, will inevitably start a prairie fire.
Li Chengzhi is 99% sure of this.
Otherwise, why are there so many states in chaos that even the famous general Cui Yanbo can only hide in the city of Dingzhou, while only Xia and Shuo states are calm?
Even if there is a lot of food stored in these two states, the refugees are not dead. They must run wherever there is food. Is it impossible to know that there is food in Xia and Shuo states and miss the opportunity to survive?
Therefore, Li Chengzhi concluded that Gao Zhao must be behind the monk rebellion.
As a result, the land of Jin and Yan will rebel, and then there will be chaos in Beizhen. Because the food from the imperial court cannot be transported. Whether it is civilian food or military food transported for disaster relief, if you want to force the transportation, it will be meat buns and dogs.
Cheap Gao Zhao.
At that time, chaos will spread east of the Yellow River and north of Taihang, affecting almost half of the world in the Yuan and Wei dynasties. Gao Zhao only needs to order Gao Meng to take charge of Jinming and guard the capital, Guanzhong, Hedong and other places to the key points and passes in the north.
It can stop the imperial army's northern expedition.
As long as he can contend with the imperial court for another two to three years, he will be able to completely integrate Beidi and the six towns.
Everything else is fine, but as long as you subdue the powerful military leaders in Beizhen, as long as you raise the flag, you can gather hundreds of thousands of strong soldiers who are good at fighting.
Even Li Chengzhi shuddered, so how could he pretend to be deaf and dumb and turn a blind eye to Pingzhou to seal it?
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Therefore, since the beginning of his enfeoffment, when he planned to burn Jin Ming's Youhu and Xiazhou camps, Li Chengzhi had already started racking his brains to plan how to escape from Pingzhou.
Don't want to fall asleep just now, Gao Zhao sent you a pillow?
The strategy of feigning death and resurrecting has been used twice: once by the old Baijia troops in Jingzhou, when Li Shiliang faked his death, then the second time when he took control of Hexi, and now it is the third time.
The more times he did it, the more flaws were revealed. But Li Chengzhi had no intention of letting Gao Zhao believe it. It didn't matter whether he believed it or not, as long as the court believed it, even if it was half-doubtful.
After all, he is the leader of a country, and he considers himself to be the orthodox Han family, so the court still needs to be reasonable. There are only a few people like Yuan Ying who "don't worry about the flood after I die" and do nothing without leaving any room. p>
Therefore, even if Gao Ying and Yuan Cheng are suspicious, at least they will not do anything to the family members in Jingzhong.
As for the father?
To forge iron, one needs to be strong. As long as he survives, Gao Zhao will never touch his father, his eldest brother, his third brother, etc.
It's not that he is confident, but that he knows Gao Zhao very well.
Li Chengzhi took a deep breath and stood up again when he heard the faint sound of explosion.
With calculation without intention, Gao Yun would not be able to escape even if he had wings...
……
Gao Yun's face was covered with blood, and he could no longer tell how much was his own and how much was spattered from the soldiers protecting him.
His throat was hoarse and he even coughed up blood, but he still didn't dare to stop.
Even if he was obscured by the bursts of thunder, he couldn't hear himself...
When he saw the last Shibu fell, the explosion suddenly stopped, and the only sounds left in his ears were people howling and horses neighing, and bursts of buzzing, Gao Yun suddenly woke up.
In the huge field, only he and a dozen of his guards were still sitting on their horses. The rest had fallen to the ground. They had been blown to pieces, or their bones were exposed, and they were miserable.
Howling.
Five hundred steps were all killed like this?
Did you survive half an hour?
And until now, he didn’t even know who the enemy was?
Through the firelight, he saw the armored cavalry slowly surrounding them not far away. Gao Yun's eyes turned red and he screamed piercingly: "Who is instructing you?"
"Isn't it possible that Master Gao asked knowingly?"
In the smoke, several riders stopped ten feet away, looking at him eagerly.
The person who asked the question was a young general with a strong back and a strong back. When he lifted up his visor and took a few steps forward, Gao Yun's eyes widened.
My intuition is that I know someone I know, but I can’t name him for a while, let alone where I’ve seen him before.
When he turned his eyes slightly and saw Li Cong beside Li Xiaoxian, Ji Yun felt all the energy and blood pouring into his mind.
Li Cong, the Military Counselor of Pingzhou Duke’s Mansion?
And the person who answered the question just now was seen in the camp outside Shangdang City yesterday...
Are these people Li's tribe?
He trembled for a while, as if he couldn't even ride a horse.
I should have thought of it earlier.
In the whole world, besides Li Chengzhi, who else can have such thunderous means as divine punishment?
It's funny that he was still in shock just now, thinking that they were pursuers sent by the imperial court...
"Haha...Li Chengzhi is not dead...he is not dead?"
"Don't worry, even if you, Mr. Gao, die, Mr. Lang will still be safe and sound!"
Li Xiaoxian shouted coldly: "Master Gao, at this point, why don't you just surrender?"
"Get caught without a fight?"
Gao Yun smiled sadly, "I just want to torture Gao and ask for secrets. I have been greatly favored by the master of the family, how can I make you happy?"
Listening to what he said, I thought Gao Yun was going to commit suicide. Li Cong was about to pounce, but Li Xiaoxian grabbed the reins of the horse.
"Are you looking for death? Use arrows..."
Li Cong was horrified when he saw Gao Yun dismounting from his horse and seeming to throw himself into the fire, holding an oil can in his hand.
He picked up the bow, but before he could pull the string, he heard a few "boom boom" sounds. Turning around, he saw that Li Xiao had already made arrangements, and several knights on the left and right fired their crossbows at the same time, and in an instant, Gao Yun was shot like
Hedgehog.
Then I heard Li Xiaoxian shout coldly: "Kill, don't leave anyone alive!"
Before the roar could be heard, hundreds of crossbows were fired, and the remaining dozen Gao family soldiers were immediately shot off their horses.
Li Cong was extremely puzzled: "Why not keep alive?"
"Shuokou, do you really dare to think about it?"
Li Xiaoxian laughed coldly and said, "If you were captured by Gao Zhao, knowing full well that the enemy and thieves wanted to torture you in every possible way, and vowing to find out the whereabouts of Mr. Lang, would you say you wouldn't tell me?"
Did I say a bird feather?
Rather than suffering all the torture, it would be better to commit suicide.
Li Cong understood instantly: The moment he learned that Lang Jun was not dead, Gao Yun was determined to die...
"Behead them all and throw them into the river. Be more agile!"
Li Xiao shouted first, then dismounted and walked to Gao Yun.
After groping in his arms for a while, he pulled out a seal and a cowhide envelope hot-lacquered, Li Xiaoxian was happy.
"It's not what Mr. Lang expected. No wonder this old thief threw himself into the fire without wiping his neck?"
Li Chengzhi had confessed when he arrived: At this time, Gao Zhao was imminent. He was afraid of being overtaken by the imperial court's pursuers, so he would flee as fast as he could. And there was absolutely no way that these hundreds of armored cavalry could escape to Xiazhou silently.
.If he wanted to travel unimpeded, he could only pretend that he had given orders from the Taiwei, so Gao Yun most likely carried the Taiwei's order with him.
Sure enough, not only was there an order, but there was also a letter...
"Quick, present it to your husband quickly!"
Li Xiao first handed the copper order and envelope to Li Cong solemnly, then picked up Gao Yun's body, put it on his horse, and carried it to the river.
In just half an hour, the field that had been littered with corpses just now was completely empty. If it weren't for the bright red blood stains, the still smoking scorch marks, and the cratered mud pits caused by the explosion, no one would have been able to tell that a fierce battle had taken place here.
Field.
This place is ten miles away from the nearest village, and thirty miles away from the ferry, so it should not cause any alarm.
It’s just that those corpses are difficult to dispose of, especially horse corpses: with nearly a hundred kilograms of iron armor tied to them, they can actually float to the surface of the river?
But there is no good way, so this is the only way. And now that there is a letter from the Taiwei, even if the floating corpse alarms the downstream counties, no one dares to intercept it...
After all the corpses were thrown into the Yellow River, Li Xiao first gave an order, followed by hundreds of armored cavalry, heading north in a mighty manner.
……
What an unexpected surprise?
I thought it would be good to find a token from Gao Yun, but I didn’t expect that not only did I have the customs clearance document for Jingzhou, but there was also a secret letter and an imperial edict?
The letter was sent to the then governor of Jingzhou, Gao Zhao’s son-in-law, Wang Yuanchen of Hejian.
Gao Zhao admitted frankly that the conspiracy to rebel had been revealed, and ordered Yuan Chen to immediately organize his army, recruit civilians, load grain and grass, and rush to Xiazhou as soon as possible.
The imperial edict was a forged edict by Gao Zhao. In the name of the Queen Mother, she negotiated with the Emperor and ordered Yuan Chen to collect grain from Jingzhou and provide relief to the people of Hengzhou (the old capital of Yuan and Wei, west of Shuozhou).
Looking at the signature, it turns out that it was not long after Yuan Chen moved to Jingzhou to be the governor. Presumably, when Yuan Chen arrived in Jingzhou, he had already started to collect grain.
The reason why the imperial edict was forged was naturally to deceive Ling, the former governor of the two states, Li Shao, otherwise Yuan Chen would not be able to reach Xiazhou.
This is only the second step. With this customs clearance document stamped with the imperial seals of the Emperor and the Queen Mother, Li Chengzhi can reach Yuanzhou without any hindrance.
After meeting Li Shao, no matter whether Li Chengzhi went to the West Sea or directly to Daqi, it was always smooth sailing...
But now that he has seen the secret letter, Li Chengzhi naturally can't just run for his life.
As long as you can make the enemy lose one more point, it is equivalent to making yourself stronger, so you must not miss it.
Li Chengzhi thought for a moment, then shouted in a deep voice: "Li Cong, go in person and present this secret letter to Gu Zanghou..."