Li Shao suddenly paused and his face turned darker.
Who would have expected that the imperial edict to worship Xi Kangsheng as commander-in-chief and conquer Gao Zhao had not yet reached Guanzhong, but Xi Kangsheng wore white dragon fishing clothes and entered the pass first?
And it’s such a coincidence!
After Li Chengzhi went west, Li Shao weighed his options and finally decided to take a chance on Li Chengzhi's words and implement a plan to support the invaders in self-respect.
At that time, Gao Yun had already been enthroned, and Gao Zhao's secret orders and forged edicts had been handed over to Li Shao by Li Chengzhi. Naturally, Yuan Chen did not know that Gao Zhao had raised an army.
It had only been a few months since he had been appointed governor of Jingzhou, and his foundation was still shallow. Moreover, his talents and intelligence were mediocre, so it was not difficult for Li Shao to plot against him.
At that time, Zhang Jingzhi was the governor of Jingzhou and Yang Shu was the governor. The former led the army and the latter managed politics. If he wanted to evade Yuan Chen, he could do it easily.
The three of them are planning how to make Yuan Chen realize that Gao Zhao has rebelled and have to suddenly start a rebellion. They must also control it just right, not making Yuan Chen too strong to avoid causing trouble in Guanzhong, but not making him too weak.
He was crippled in just a few strokes.
But before the three of them could figure it out, Xi Kangsheng suddenly arrived at the Jingzhou government office.
Yuan Chen looked confused and didn't know what to do, but Li Shao was riding a tiger and couldn't get off, and was in a dilemma.
Regardless of any dynasty, it is a serious crime for an official to leave the territory without authorization. Moreover, it turns out that nearly ten thousand troops from Lingzhou and Lingzhou have entered Xiaoguan. There is no way to hide it from the re-election of Huazhou, Xiangzhou, and Jingzhou governor. They have been serving in Guanzhong for nearly ten years.
, Xi Kangsheng, who has countless followers and eyes.
So even if he wanted to hide, it was too late...
Li Shao had no choice but to take out the secret order and imperial edict given to him by Li Chengzhi. He only said that Gao Yun came from the west and passed through Yuanzhou (formerly Gaoping Town). He accidentally discovered that Gao Zhao had rebelled and sent him to Yuan Dynasty.
All Gao's cronies summoned by Chen were intercepted and killed.
Later, he was afraid of missing the opportunity, so he killed him first and then sent out troops without authorization. He also contacted Zhang Jingzhi and Yang Shu in order to capture Yuan Chen in one fell swoop.
As the saying goes, in an emergency, do something extraordinary, that is, take the lawsuit to the capital. The Queen Mother and the court officials will never say "no" to Li Shao.
Naturally, Xi Kangsheng would not blame him. Instead, he was full of praise, saying that he was resolute and decisive, and he acted decisively to eliminate troubles for the court. It was indeed a wise move.
But I don’t know if he had heard some news or was deliberately bluffing, so he actually asked Li Shao if Li Chengzhi had sent these secret orders and edicts.
Fortunately, Li Shaocheng's palace is quite deep, and there is no leakage. Xi Kangsheng seems to be addicted, and even teases Li Shao, and will mention it from time to time.
Is it over yet?
Even though Li Shao was quite well-educated and had been an official for several years, he had always treated Xi Kangsheng respectfully, but at this moment his face couldn't help but look ugly.
He wanted to say something sarcastic, but when he looked up, he found that Xi Kangsheng was not looking at him, but staring at Yang Shu.
Looking at Yang Shu again, although he was not at least dumbfounded, his face was still shocked and he was staring straight at Xi Kangsheng, as if he wanted to see the flowers.
Li Shao suddenly realized: What a Xi Kangsheng, seeing that he didn't leak even a single word, he actually bluffed Yang Yanrong again.
Fortunately, I had the foresight. Not to mention Yang Shu, even in front of Zhang Jingyi, I never mentioned a word about Li Chengzhi being alive.
Not only that, when he received a report from the imperial court that Li Chengzhi had been killed by Gao Zhao, he even pretended to shed a few tears.
Seeing that Yang Shu seemed to be stupid, Xi Kangsheng was very surprised: "You don't even know about it?"
"Joke!"
Yang Shu, the former superior officer and today's head coach, also responded correctly, "The inferior officer only knows that Li Chengzhi has been killed by Gao Zhao. When have you ever heard that he is still alive?"
After a pause, Yang Shu glared at Li Shao again: "Brother Yuan Bo, are you serious about what Mr. Xi said?"
Xi Kangsheng is so disappointed.
He served as the governor of Huazhou twice and had many contacts with the Yang family's children. Don't you know Yang Shu's character?
Yang Shu has an upright temperament and a hatred of evil. If he knew the inside story, he would definitely not be able to keep it from leaking, at least he would not be able to hide it from his eyes.
With such an appearance, it seems that he really doesn’t know.
But it’s not without any gains.
Yang Yanrong was so angry and asked Li Shao, wasn't it because he was also convinced that Li Chengzhi would not be killed by Gao Zhao so easily?
"Yanrong, these are all things that Duke Xi takes for granted. How can you take them seriously? Otherwise, why should we respect him without thinking about food and drink, and be overwhelmed with sorrow?"
Is Zhang Jingzhi overwhelmed with grief?
He was worried and anxious.
As soon as the old lady gave him the order, he couldn't wait and agreed without any hesitation?
Xi Kangsheng sneered in his heart, and then heard Yang Shu say in surprise: "Yes, why haven't you seen me since we sent out troops seven or eight days ago?"
"I have other important tasks, so I didn't join the army!"
Xi Kangsheng stroked his beard and replied with a smile, "Ten days ago, I sent him to pass through Monan (today's Alxa League, which belonged to Xihai County in the Wei Dynasty) into the West Sea, and out of Daqi to observe the movements of Rouran..."<
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"Da Qi is the territory of the Du Lun tribe. It was completely wiped out by Li Chengzhi and the Xihai Relics a long time ago, so there is no need to inspect..."
After half a sentence, Yang Shu suddenly paused and thought of a rumor.
It’s called the Xihai Relics, but it’s actually a tribe of the Li family...
This is clearly because Xi Kangsheng was determined to be evil and had no good intentions, so he deliberately sent Zhang Jingzhi to test him.
Not only testing Li Chengzhi, but also testing Zhang Jingzhi.
Is Xi Kangsheng really good at picking people?
If the rumors are true, and what you suspect is also true, there is a 50-60 chance that Zhang Jingzhi will never come back, but what will happen then?
Can Gao Zhao still be allowed to ignore it and march into the West Sea?
Yang Shu secretly guessed and took another look at Li Shao's face.
I saw Li Shao looking at his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, as if he was in samadhi.
Haha, a pair of traitors...
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Bogulu is about 1,500 to 6,000 miles away from Daqi. Zhang Jingzhi's men are all light cavalry, and each rides three horses. Logically, they will travel day and night, and they will arrive in five or six days.
But now it has been ten days, and Zhang Jingzhi has not yet climbed over Nanbed Mountain (the border between Yuan, Wei and Rouran, south of Daqi).
As the name implies, we know that Monan is very desolate. It is a vast area of thousands of miles, with neither mountains nor big rivers, and most of it is desert and Gobi. Therefore, even if you ride for hundreds of miles, you may not see a trace of human habitation.
There are only a few aquatic plants that grow in the rainy season in summer, and occasionally there are nomadic animals in the west.
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But now, as if he has seen a ghost, Zhang Jingzhi often encounters refugees.
Xi Kangsheng only asked him to explore the military situation, and there were not many soldiers and horses accompanying him, only two hundred horses. However, all the people in the six towns, whether herders or farmers, were military households, and they were skilled in bows and horses. They were not ordinary common people, so Zhang
Jingzhi has been cautious and tried to avoid it.
But the further north you go, the more people are fleeing. There are actually powerful troops wearing armor and holding troops exploring the road ahead. Behind them are chariots like dragons and cattle and sheep like clouds. They seem to be migrating westward. Zhang Jingzhi finally sat down.
I can’t stand it any longer.
He first intercepted a group of small tribes with less than a hundred tents, and then learned that the six towns were now in raging war.
But they are all herdsmen, and they know what is happening but don’t know why. They don’t know why the war breaks out, let alone who is fighting whom.
I just know that if I don’t run away, I will be affected by the war. Naturally, the cattle and sheep will be robbed, the young men will be sent to the army, and the women and children will be killed...
Zhang Jingzhi was horrified, and he doubted that Bei Town must be the reason why it was like this, but he didn’t know whether it was just the town of Woye in the far west or several towns that were in chaos.
Two days later, he saw the right opportunity and captured a group of scouts exploring the road. It happened that the leader of the group knew a little bit about the situation, so Zhang Jingzhi asked about it.
Not even a few towns, but six towns were spared.
For some unknown reason, the three towns east of the Yellow River, namely Fuming, Rouxuan, and Huaihuang, suddenly broke out. General Huaihuan and Sun Dao, the governor of the three towns in the east, joined forces with tens of thousands of troops and divided their troops into three groups to invade Wuchuan.
Luo Jian, the governor of Xisan Town, seemed to have predicted this, and had already sent his troops to the east of the river to wait for work.
Seeing this, Changsun Dao sent his troops into Langshan, bypassing the river, and raided the fertile fields west of Wuchuan, hoping to attack from a 20% pincer attack.
Luo Jian went against the grain and did not return to reinforce Woye. Instead, he returned the favor in his own way. He even sent ten thousand light cavalry to attack the towns of Rouxuan and Huaihuang to the east of Fuming.<
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In just over ten days, there is already me among you, and you among me. The huge six towns have turned into a mess.
It wasn't just the defeated army, the animal husbandry, but also the military households and townspeople who made a living in the fields had to flee the six towns with their families. That's why Zhang Jingzhi saw so many refugees.
It seemed reasonable and reasonable, but Zhang Jingzhi had an intuition that something was fishy.
He pondered for a moment and then asked suspiciously: "Since the six towns are all in chaos, there is no way to go east. And Shuo, Heng, Yan and other states have already attached themselves to the Gao family, so naturally they can't go. But now the Du Lun tribe
The whole family has been exterminated, and Damancheng and Daqi have become an ownerless land. So why don’t you flee to the north but to the west?”
"Escape north?"
The captain stared, surprised, "This envoy, you didn't know that Rouran had made a comeback, and even took advantage of the civil strife in the six towns to seize Bigan City a few days ago?"
Bullshit.
Zhang Jingzhi’s first reaction was disbelief.
As soon as I heard it, I knew that the leader of the team was just like a family guardian. He didn't know anything about military affairs and was a loser.
He scolded in a cold voice: "The Royal Court of Rouran is thousands of miles away, how can you predict that the six towns will be in chaos? Do you know that if troops are sent from the Royal Court of Rouran to Bigan City, it will take at least two months.
.And apart from the Royal Court, which tribe dares to invade our Wei territory and is not afraid of repeating what happened to the Du Lun tribe?"
The team leader was stunned for a moment after being scolded, but he did not dare to argue. He just replied dully: "I saw this with my own eyes. It is absolutely true. How dare you deceive Mr. Shi?"
See it with your own eyes?
A light flashed through Zhang Jingzhi's heart: "Since you have seen it with your own eyes, do you know how many soldiers and horses the Hu tribe has?"
The team leader replied truthfully, "I don't know how to observe the formation, but according to what the leader said, there should be tens of thousands of soldiers and horses!"
"What nonsense!"
Before Zhang Jingzhi could ask again, a confidant beside him shouted, "Since we can observe the formation, we must be within two or three miles of the enemy's formation. However, if Hu's army has tens of thousands, how can he not send armored cavalry to wander outside the formation?"
How dare you spare your lives?"
"Hu Qi gave chase, and after a further five or six miles, he rode back to camp. It was not the case for our group. Anyone who wanted to go north and fled to Daqi was like this... Later, there were
Rumor has it that the Hu army was only defending the territory, not invading our Wei territory, so Qiu will not invade..."
The confidant suddenly laughed out loud: "It's the most ridiculous thing in the world... A thief drinks blood like a tiger and a wolf. When did he have such a heart and not rob the cattle and sheep when he saw them?"
He was about to ask, but Zhang Jingzhi stopped him again: "Don't ask anymore?"
No matter how stupid he was, Zhang Jingzhi had already guessed something.
The nearly 10,000 crawlers under Bigan City are definitely not barbarians. They are most likely members of the Li family, just to take advantage of the civil strife in the six towns and fish in troubled waters.
And if it weren't for Li Chengzhi, who in the Li family could have calculated so accurately: As soon as the six towns were in chaos, the army blocked Langshan and forced the six towns to collapse, so that the rebels had to flee to the West Sea?
Even though he had already predicted that Li Chengzhi was definitely alive, Zhang Jingzhi was still in a difficult mood, feeling surprised and angry at the same time.
What a little thief, how could he even hide this from my uncle?
The confidant didn't know why, but when he saw Zhang Jingzhi's face was solemn and there was a sparkle in his eyes, he wisely closed his mouth.
"Thank you!"
Zhang Jingzhi composed himself, stood up slowly, and signaled to his confidants: "Untie him!"
Seeing the ropes on his body being untied, the team leader looked confused. Just as he was about to ask, he stepped back and received a gentle kick from his henchman.
"Do you need Sima to apologize to you before you can leave?"
Do you want to...let yourself go?
The team leader was overjoyed and kowtowed heavily to Zhang Jingzhi.
I had seen Zhang Jingzhi produce a letter before, saying that he was from Bogulu, and that he was a Sima under the command of Marshal Xi Kangsheng, but the team leader just thought he had escaped from the six towns and made a random name.
Didn’t you think you could actually survive?
As soon as he stood up, he heard Zhang Jingzhi say: "A certain person is an official of the imperial court. He knows the sufferings of the people and does not want to wait in trouble. But we cannot let them get away so easily. There should be one or two witnesses no matter what.
When I present it to Duke Xi, I might as well be a witness..."
The team leader's reaction was a little slow, thinking that Zhang Jingzhi was unwilling to let him go, and replied helplessly: "I would like to go with you for a while..."
"No need for you, just send a few soldiers under your command..."
Zhang Jingzhi pointed to his confidants, "Go and pick a few who are more alert, but don't let them talk too much..."
The confidant is a son of the Zhang family and has followed Zhang Jingzhi for more than ten years, so he knows very well his character. Seeing his eyes flashing slightly, he immediately guessed that this team leader knows too much, so it is not easy to lead him.
Go back to life.
As for why Zhang Jingzhi wanted to deceive Xi Kangsheng, his confidants dare not even think about it, let alone talk about it.
He respectfully accepted the order, mentioned the team leader and left the tent.
Zhang Jingzhi closed his eyes and meditated, and within a moment, his confidant came back to life.
Seeing the panic on the faces of several clan soldiers, Zhang Jingzhi nodded slightly. Just as he was about to ask, he suddenly heard a noise outside the tent.
There seemed to be the sound of armored cavalry running towards me, and someone called "Xi Zhonglang!"
Zhang Jingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, he had the foresight to deliberately avoid Da Xi. Otherwise, if he had told Xi Kangsheng what the team leader just said, Xi Kangsheng, a South African fool, would have guessed a thing or two.
He was secretly glad that when he saw Da Xi entering the tent to greet him, he didn't get up, but just held his hand in front of him.
"Why is Zhonglang in such a hurry?"
Da Xi was not polite and sat down directly with a slightly dissatisfied look on his face: "I heard that Sima let that team of scouts go. May I ask why?"
Zhang Jingzhi sighed leisurely.
I knew that Xi Kangsheng had no good intentions and must have planted a lot of hidden traps and spies among these two hundred riders.
Otherwise, Da Xi would not have arrived so quickly.