"Grandmaster, Lin Yao is back!" Just as Lin Shucheng frowned, the guard's anxious voice came from outside the house.
"Well? Lin Yao is back? Let him see me immediately!" Lin Shucheng's face became more and more gloomy and said in a deep voice. Lin Yao was his personal guard, the guard arranged by Situ Lei. After being trapped in Longxi Prefecture for more than a month, he was trapped in Longxi Prefecture for more than a month.
Lin Shucheng decided to find every way to report the situation here to Situ Lei to know.
Lin Shucheng believed that as long as Situ Lei knew the situation here and asked the army from Hanzhong or Chang'an to dispatch, the officials from Liangzhou would crawl at his feet wailing, and he would also find out what was wrong here.
"Grandmaster!" The door of the house was opened, and a cold wind blew in, making Lin Shucheng, who was already worried, feel even more chilling. A young man with a not-burly figure but a strong appearance walked in quickly.
This person is nothing else, but Lin Yao, who was arranged to leave with makeup by Lin Shucheng. Moreover, they were preparing to leave quietly last night.
"Lin Yao, I couldn't go out? Was he discovered? Where are the others?" Lin Shucheng asked repeatedly.
Lin Yao said with a look of hatred and grief, "Grandmaster, we can't leave at all. Although our subordinates and several other brothers put on makeup, they were still stopped at the gate of the city. The Liangzhou army guarding the city had already prepared.
After ambushing, he was attacked by the opponent's arrows before he could approach the city wall."
"Fifteen brothers were shot and killed eight of them on the spot, and the rest were evacuated immediately, but the Liangzhou army pursued them reluctantly. It was because of this that the subordinates could return here now. Situ Fei was everywhere around the Grand Governor's Office.
The people were secretly monitoring. Now, except for the subordinates, the rest were all killed!" As he said that, Lin Yao couldn't help crying.
Lin Shucheng was shocked. Lin Yao and others were not ordinary people, but part of the guards selected by Situ Lei from tens of thousands of guards. Not only did he have strong individual combat capabilities, but he was also good at fighting under his own circumstances.
But I saw with my own eyes that more than twenty such guards beat the attack of a guard with a hundred men. If it weren't for a head-on battle, they would be no longer able to deal with two or three hundred men. But now, they were all killed last night.
If Lin Yao called Situ Fei like this in the past, Lin Shucheng would definitely have scolded him, but now, Lin Shucheng no longer has such a mind. If he still didn't understand at this moment, this person would not be allowed to be in trouble.
The second young master whom he saw was said that he was not worthy of being newly appointed by Situ Lei.
What exactly did Situ Fei want to do? Separation and independence? Just by the defeated generals in his hands, he was extremely dissatisfied with Situ Fei, but Lin Shucheng still couldn't believe Situ Fei's desire to separatism and independence.
The Liangzhou Army has an existing military force of only about 50,000 troops, and the local government troops are only more than 60,000. The number seems to be quite large, but more than 80,000 of these Liangzhou Army are new recruits, and Situ Fei has arrived.
After Liangzhou, most of the Liangzhou army were transferred to the Central Plains and fought with the eastern princes and suffered losses.
It is not that they were formed for a short time, but that these soldiers had not undergone actual war at all, and at most they had undergone some training. And those old soldiers were all transferred to Yanju Mansion by Situ Fei to the most
The front line went to resist the Zhao army. As a result, the entire army surrendered directly to the enemy.
Besides, even if Situ Fei wants to be in power, it is impossible. To the south of Liangzhou is the 50,000 army gathered in Hanzhong, and in Chang'an, the 30,000 guards transferred from Yongzhou to defend the old capital. These two troops
The army is an old soldier who has experienced bloody battles, and there is no problem with any defeat to Liangzhou army. If Situ Fei dares to be in separatist and independent here, Lin Shucheng believes that it will take less than half a month for the former generals of Liangzhou army to no longer exist.
Seizing power? Don't want me to take his position? But the current situation in Liangzhou is not a good place. Lin Shucheng frowned and was worried. Now that there are no confidants and no one provides him with any information, Lin Shucheng is completely
A deaf and blind man could not make accurate judgments.
No! Lin Shucheng suddenly remembered that Ling Xiao, who had the same mission as him, had never heard of him when he went to Luoyang. Logically, after Ling Xiao controlled the situation in Luoyang, he would send a message to him so that Situ Fei could pull him immediately
Live and return to Chengdu Prefecture. However, no news has been sent back from Luoyang until now.
Could it be that he was blocked by Situ Fei? The news could not be transmitted back? It was impossible. If this were the case, Ling Xiao would have reported these abnormal situations to Chengdu Prefecture.
Damn it! What's going on? Who gave Situ Fei such a boldness?
"Lin Yao, you have a good rest in the mansion and let Hu and Wen immediately contact the secret stronghold of the Tiqisi in the city! You must figure out what's going on. Also, let Hu and Wen immediately pass on the situation here.
When you arrive at Chengdu Prefecture, let the prince make a decision himself." Lin Shucheng suddenly remembered the powerful spy organization under Situ Lei's command.
"yes……"
Luoyang, the capital of the Great Yan Kingdom. Although this place is still the most prosperous place in Yongzhou, it is no longer the sign of the surging crowds when Da Yan was newly moved. A heavy snow turned this place into white.
world.
Like Lin Shucheng, Ling Xiao, who arrived in Luoyang, was also excluded by the Grand Governor of Yongzhou. The only difference is that in Luoyang, the Grand Governor of Yongzhou Situ Hao has a huge official system support, so Ling Xiao did not directly arrive in Luoyang.
Situ Hao's position as the governor of the Great Commander for no reason was removed.
In Luoyang, Ling Xiao was the deputy governor of Yongzhou, assisting the Grand Governor of Yongzhou to handle the Yongzhou military to resist the possible actions of the Zhao army in the north, and at the same time supporting Liangzhou in the west.
Ling Xiao's original intention was to take over military affairs first, then interfere in government affairs, or not, just take over the logistics of the army. Unfortunately, in Luoyang, the old capital, there were too many people standing behind Situ Hao.
Countless officials became supporters of Situ Hao and firmly controlled the military and political power in Yongzhou. Especially when the Zhao army spread some situations to Luoyang, Situ Hao and the officials behind him took action one after another, desperately regaining the power in their hands.
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What is different from Situ Fei's place is that there is no such thing as a war in Luoyang. No matter who it is, he is in a situation of power seizing power. It seems that it gives people a situation of internal strife among officials. Of course, this is also
It is related to the mixed situation of various forces in Luoyang.
In Liangzhou, Situ Fei deliberately did whatever he wanted and was not noticed by others. That was because Liangzhou was located in a remote place, especially after the rebellion of Liangzhou, it was not valued by the court. Therefore, Situ Fei was unscrupulously under house arrest here.
The state commander-general.
But in Luoyang, all kinds of forces are mixed, and it is still the center of the power of the Yong army. Before we reach a certain situation or absolutely take me, Situ Hao naturally did not dare to do anything particularly overwhelming. After all, Situ Lei is not dead yet
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However, Ling Xiao was unable to obtain the power of Yongzhou. No matter what, even if he obeyed Situ Lei's secret order and wanted to slowly remove the power in Situ Hao's hands, he could not remove the other party without any reason
Official position. Furthermore, Situ Hao is also the Grand Commander, and he is his immediate superior. Any opinion or military order, the Grand Commander's meaning is higher than his.
More importantly, Situ Hao is Situ Lei's eldest son, the eldest son, and the future His Highness Yong. This is the consensus of everyone, and this is why so many officials are willing to follow Situ Hao. Therefore, now Ling
Xiao and Situ Hao competed for power, and naturally, officials in Luoyang were standing behind Situ Hao.
What is better with Lin Shucheng is that he was not suppressed by Situ Hao head-on. At least, Ling Xiao is still the deputy governor of Yongzhou. In Yongzhou, he is now the second most important figure after Situ Hao. However, he is in the Yongzhou Grand Governor's Office.
, the power is not high. In other words, the officials in Luoyang are now attached to Situ Hao.
In the eyes of these people, Situ Lei is about to become a thing of the past, so it is normal for King Yong to succeed to the throne. They depend on Situ Hao, so they naturally follow the dragon's merit. In addition, these officials around Situ Hao's side
He was also extremely guarded against Ling Xiao.
Why is this? Ling Xiao is Situ Lei's confidant and has extraordinary abilities. The people around Situ Hao naturally don't want Ling Xiao to be valued by Situ Hao again. If Ling Xiao is watched by Situ Hao, after Situ Hao becomes King Yong, Ling
Xiao will definitely become the most trusted person among the Yong army, which will naturally make Situ Hao unhappy. Therefore, Ling Xiao was resisted by everyone in Luoyang and was unable to achieve the predetermined goal at all.
What worried Ling Xiao the most was that the information he sent back to Chengdu Prefecture did not give a clear answer at all. Later I learned that King Yong of Yong, King of Yong, had really reached the point where the sun set. Now, Situ
Lei can no longer handle military and political affairs normally. Now the people who handle Yong military affairs are Situ Che, the fifth son of King Yong, and Lin Shiwen, who assisted Situ Che.
The two were busy rectifying the Yong army gathered in the south, and there was time to manage the situation in Luoyang. Especially Situ Che, in his opinion, as long as they gathered in Yizhou and Ningzhou, they were more than 100,000 troops gathered in Yizhou.
The top priority is to take Jiaozhou, Jiangzhou and Yizhou under your control.
Besides, the situation reported by Ling Xiao was that he could no longer handle the affairs of Yongzhou normally, not a major event. Therefore, Situ Che did not take it in his heart. Lin Shiwen was busy with the heavy affairs and power transfer.
, I didn't see this report at all.
Only Situ Lei and a few people under his command knew about Ling Xiao’s secret mission to Luoyang, and Situ Che knew nothing about it. As a result, this situation occurred, and Ling Xiao and Lin Shucheng were suppressed in both places.
The situation is, but Chengdu Prefecture knows nothing.
Situ Lei was already in poor health, and he led his troops south to fight against Murong Cheng. Situ Lei knew that he had fought with Murong Cheng, and the one who was cheaper was Zhao Xun. But Situ Lei, who was old, decided to go with the past
The enemy also competed with Murong Cheng, who had fought with him for more than ten years. Or, this is what he most wanted to see in his heart.
However, when the army was on an expedition, no matter how well the personal guards served, Situ Lei was still a little uncomfortable. In addition to the hard work of the war, Situ Lei finally reached the end of his life.
Regarding the choice of heirs, many people think that the eldest son Situ Hao is justified and the most appropriate. However, Situ Lei did not choose Situ Hao. The most important reason is that Situ Hao stood behind too many old ministers of the Great Yan Dynasty. In this regard, Ling Xiao and others
People also agree with Situ Lei's opinion. Another important reason is that Situ Hao is too gentle and is not suitable to become a prince in this chaotic time. In other words, Situ Hao is the master of the preservation, but not the one who opens the border.
Jun.
After some thought, Situ Lei handed over the power of King Yong to the fifth prince Situ Che. Since the end of October, Situ Che began to take over the power of the Yong army and asked his subordinates to assist Situ Che in rectifying the entire army and taking over military and political affairs. He sent Lin Shucheng and Ling Xiao
I went to Liangzhou and Yongzhou just to prevent it.
"Grandmaster, the situation is very bad. The spies of the Tiqisi in the city were taken down by the Liangzhou army!" Hu Wen, who was sent by Lin Shucheng to contact the Tiqisi in Longxi Prefecture City, came back to report the report.
"What? The spies of Tiqisi were...what exactly do they want to do?"
"Grandmaster, although we were unable to find the Tiqisi, we sent people to investigate the Liangzhou army back. They were chased by the Liangzhou army, but they still sent back the information they found!"
At that time, Lin Yao hurriedly walked in and hurriedly told Lin Shucheng, "According to the brothers who were quietly planted in the army, the defeat of more than ten days ago was deliberately organized by someone."
"What? Someone deliberately lost more than a dozen cities to the Zhao army?" Hearing this, Lin Shucheng's face changed drastically, and then he thought that since the loss of the city was deliberately done, then, after the Liangzhou army changed its chief general,
The "brave" of combat is naturally something that someone deliberately does.
So, if you want to do this, it is not possible to rely on the Liangzhou army alone, but you also have to conspire with the Zhao army... Conspiracy, Zhao army? Lin Shucheng suddenly had a big head and his heart was beaten.
"Grandmaster!" Lin Yao continued, "In addition, our people also found that they bought a large amount of food, grass and winter clothes in Qinchuan in the east, and let the soldiers of Liangzhou replenish the supplies they needed. However, ours
When the person was about to go to investigate, he was discovered by the Liangzhou army, but he could not come back. However, it was still vaguely known that these materials were transported by merchants from Zhao.
"Did they collude with Zhao Jun? Who exactly is it? What do you want to do? By the way, did you know who is responsible for these things?"
Lin Yao said with a gloomy face: "It is the former Grand Governor, and the second son Situ Fei personally presided over the leadership!"
"Impossible! How could he collude with Zhao Jun? He betrayed the interests of Liangzhou and lost himself in the end." Lin Shucheng was a little unbelievable.
"No! Everyone in Liangzhou ignored the military orders of this governor and completely abandoned us and worked alone. There must be extraordinary people behind the scenes. Such things are definitely not something ordinary people can do. Our army is in the east and south, at any time
They can all be in power to Liangzhou. They will never easily turn against the Yong army, but instead have a deal with the Zhao army. In the head of the Yong army, they are all senior members of the same party, with countless fertile land in the family, and the Zhao army's policies,
It's definitely not what they want." The more Lin Shucheng thought about it, the more worried he felt. He vaguely felt that he was going to guess the problem.
"Is it because of something wrong in Yongzhou? Or something wrong in Chengdu? If something big happens, the Longxi Prefecture City will definitely not be so stable."
"Dare to put the governor appointed by King Yong under house arrest and dare to ignore the tens of thousands of troops next to him. This must be a problem in Chengdu Prefecture, or Liangzhou knows the purpose of my visit this time.
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"No, it must be that Situ Fei knew what was going on. He was unwilling to accept it, but he was worried that Chengdu Prefecture would respond accordingly, so he did not come forward and let the Liangzhou army undermine me and control the power of Liangzhou by himself.
That's right, but you can't send Liangzhou to Zhao Jun for free!" The more Lin Shucheng thought, the more ugly his face became.
"Grandmaster?" Seeing Lin Shucheng talking nonsense, his face became increasingly ugly. Lin Yao and Hu Wen on the other side were both anxious and shouted.
"Lin Yao, go out immediately, go to Changshi Tianyu's mansion, tell him that the governor wants to see the person behind him, that is, the second young master!" Lin Shucheng said with a serious face after being awakened.
The residence of Changshi Tianyu, not far from the Grand Governor's Office, Changshi Tianyu, Sima Wang He Wen, Sima Weiping, He Zhaowu, and Situ Fei gathered together. They gathered here not for anything else.
It was precisely because Lin Shucheng sent someone to pass on the message that he wanted to see the person behind Tian Yu.
"Lord, Lin Shucheng has guessed that you are the master behind Liangzhou." Since Situ Fei was unwilling to return to Chengdu Prefecture, he was in danger of being killed and determined to be in power, all civil and military officials from all over Liangzhou have worshipped him.
Situ Fei is the main focus.
Situ Fei said in a deep voice: "You guys say, what's wrong with Lin Shucheng looking for me?"
Wang Hewen said coldly: "Lord, what if Lin Shucheng knows it? Now he is already in a turtle. No matter what he knows, it does not pose any threat to us. But..."
"But what?"
"But I don't know what Lin Shucheng knew. If we knew what we cooperated with Zhao Jun, then we would have no way out. In other words, the lord has already started to stand on the surface and wants to retreat.
It's impossible."
The reason why Situ Fei has never revealed his identity and has not been in power in Liangzhou openly is to see the situation in Chengdu Prefecture. It can be changed at any time if it is possible or not. Once the situation changes, he can launch a scapegoat and put himself out of the matter.
.If Lin Shucheng knew everything now, it means that Lin Shucheng had other subordinates in Liangzhou. Then he would have no choice but to retreat.
He Zhaowu, the army joined the army, said in a voice: "Lord, now you have no choice but to retreat. No matter what, we should make a decision. Lin Shucheng has good abilities. If the lord wants to control the army in Hanzhong or Chang'an, this person is our best person