Chapter 601 Hongmen Night Banquet

Where there are people, there must be rivers and lakes. "Where there are rivers and lakes, there must be fighting. And where there is strife, betrayal is indispensable, and human nature dictates it.

When Li Mizi decided to kill Zhai Rang in order to completely unify the peasant army in Henan, he sent a few henchmen to monitor Zhai Rang's court. And in order to master all of Zhai Rang's actions, he also used a person around Zhai Rang who had secretly allegiance to him earlier.

Zhai Rang's family meeting did not end until midnight, and the old brother of Wagangzhai, who had already fallen to Li Mi, wrote a letter to Li Mi as soon as he returned home. In the letter, the words of everyone at the banquet in Zhai Rang's mansion tonight were written in their original form.

When the letter was secretly delivered to Li Mi, Li Mi was still dressed and not sleeping. He heard that the banquet in Zhai Rang's mansion had summoned many old brothers in Wagang, and he had already been unable to sit still. During the day, at the court meeting, he treated Zhai Rang like this, and he had already made things clear. I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of what if, in case Zhai Rang and others come up with some strategies that are unfavorable to themselves at the banquet, then they have to guard against it.

Sitting under the palace lamp, Li Mi quickly finished reading the long letter. While watching, he also held a cinnabar pen and circled many of them. Especially the paragraph that Zhai Hong said, he had to start first, and getting rid of his own words made him circle many times. The cinnabar handwriting was shocking, as bright as blood.

Li Mi's face was pale, and he sat there silently, not moving for a long time.

After a long time, Li Mi asked people to summon several of his henchmen, Fang Xuanzao, Chai Xiaohe, Zu Junyan, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng and several others.

Everyone rushed to the palace late at night, and they didn't understand what was happening, and they were all secretly worried. Li Mi didn't say a word, and directly threw the secret letter that he circled and circled in front of everyone.

After Fang Xuanzao saw it, he was also surprised. Although it is also clearly written in the letter, Zhai Rang should indeed have no bad intentions, and those who have bad intentions should be Zhai Hong and a few others. But Li Mi called them in the middle of the night, if it was really just for a Zhai Hong, then it was absolutely impossible. After thinking about it, Fang Xuanzao felt that there was only one possibility for things, that is, Li Mi had already moved to get rid of those people who were always relying on the staff qualification and did not obey Li Mi's orders.

Thinking of this, Fang Xuanzao immediately said, "Zhai Rang is greedy, self-serving, unkind and unjust, and has the heart of a king, he should plan it as soon as possible!" ”

This was exactly what Li Mi was thinking, but Li Mi was still a little worried, "Now that our safety has not been determined, if we kill each other, how will others think of it?" "What Li Mi really has been worried about is not Zhai Rang and the others, but after killing Zhai Rang, he is afraid of causing a split in the Wagang army. After all, in today's Wei State, the real root is still the Wagang Army.

Chai Xiaohe also advised: "If the poisonous snake bites his hand, then the strong man should break his wrist, this is to save his life." If they get their hands on it first, it's too late for you to regret it! Zhai Hong has a good saying, the first strike is strong, and the second attack suffers, Wei Gong must not hesitate, so that he missed a good opportunity. ”

"The crack has already been generated, at this time, no matter how much Wei Gong is waiting, he still exists, and it will only make people more and more aware of it. Those people have already separated from Wei Gong, and if they drag it out, they are afraid that it will be a big disaster, so they should make a decision as soon as possible. "Zu Junyan is also in favor of getting rid of Zhai Rang, the matter is already halfway done, and at this time, there is naturally no possibility of stopping. Li Mi came to them, but it was just for show.

Li Mi was silent for a long time, and finally clenched his fist and waved his hand fiercely.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Mi passed down the decree, saying that Ji County had discovered that the reinforcements of the Liaodong Army had arrived. The situation changed, so in the end, he decided to conquer Ji County himself, and instead let Otsuka Jae stay at Kim Yong Castle. …,

As soon as this news came out, Zhai Rang, who was already lying on the bed and was about to pretend to be sick, was stunned for a moment. However, he was still happy that he didn't need to lead the troops to kill the county. There is no need to pretend to be sick anymore, and I get up happily and drink.

In the early afternoon, Li Mi sent people to invite all the civil and military generals in Kim Yong City to the palace for a banquet.

After Zhai Rang and the others entered the palace, they were introduced into another side hall, and all the people who were attracted were old brothers of the Wagang Army. Needless to say, Zhai Rang is the guest of honor, and his elder brothers Zhai Hong, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and others are the deputy guests. In addition, there are dozens of civil and military generals from the Wagang Army, all of whom are also guests.

Li Mi was the main escort of the banquet, Wang Bodang was the deputy escort, and most of Li Mi's henchmen were also helping to greet the guests.

After everyone sat down, Li Mi said: "I don't need a lot of people to drink with you today, just leave a few people who call for it." After saying that, he ordered all the people around him to quit.

Zhai Rang didn't understand what he meant, and at this time, Li Mi's confidant, Fang Xuanzao, who was also an old brother of Wagang, spoke: "Everyone is together today to drink and have fun, it's so cold, please Otsuka Zai and the entourage of the generals also drink some wine and eat some food." ”

After listening to this, Zhai Rang didn't think about it, so he readily agreed: "Okay!" ”

Immediately, Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and others also waved away the guards who came together, and all the entourages retreated.

There were only a few dozen people left in the house, half of them were Li Mi's people, everyone was seated separately, Zhai Rang and the others were on the right, and Li Mi's people were all sitting on the left and right. Everyone drank wine, chatted about some jokes from the past, laughed, and the atmosphere was unusually warm.

Li Mi clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention, he smiled and stood up, "Drinking like this, without the company of a beauty, is really a bit lacking." Why don't I let the palace dancer come and dance for the brothers? ”

Zhai Rang has always liked wine, and when he heard that there was a beautiful woman from Duke Wei to accompany him, he immediately said happily: "Okay, good, I heard that Duke Wei has raised a lot of beautiful women in the palace, and I have never had the opportunity to see them, but today is a great opportunity, but I must not miss it." ”

The corners of Li Mi's mouth twitched slightly, and there was still a smile on his face, "Okay, I'll call them to dance with Otsuka Zai right away." As he spoke, he slapped his face a few times, and suddenly saw a team of singers rushing in. It's just that these charming singers are all dressed as warriors, all dressed in bright red armor, and they are also wearing long red silk cloaks on their backs. Everyone wore their hair in a high bun, and their smooth faces were painted with blood-like markings. They carried swords at their waists, a longbow and a pot of white feathered arrows on their backs.

A team of fifty singers full of masculinity stepped into the hall, and the familiar outfit and the charming face instantly surprised Zhai Rang and others in the hall. This huge contrast and combination of masculinity and coquettishness surprised everyone who saw it for the first time.

At the entrance of the hall, several musicians knelt there and began to beat the small drums, and the drums full of rhythmic rhythm sounded, and the fifty singers danced with the horizontal knives on their waists. The snow-bright horizontal knife was originally full of coldness, but when waved in these white and delicate hands, it seemed to be like a soft finger, and more like a willow leaf in the spring breeze, dancing with the wind, dancing like a frightening flood.

Zhai Rang, the old brothers of the Wagang Army, who were born as bandits, saw such a fresh and charming dance when they saw it, and they couldn't help but look at it one by one.

The slow beat of the drums gradually became more and more exciting, and the sword dances of the dancers also changed. From soft and elegant, it gradually became fierce and severe, as if you were in a cruel battlefield somewhere in an instant. Every time the dancers swung it, they became extremely fast, and the snow light slashed through, as if it was an electric snake flying. …,

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The rhythm of the drums changed again, this time, slowly and heavily, as if a great war had just ended.

The dancers slowly returned their swords and slowly waved their long cloaks. One by one, like butterflies wearing flowers, they slowly floated from the hall to the sides of the various hosts and guests. The long cloak of blood flew up and down like a sunset, gradually fading everyone's eyes.

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ”

Suddenly, the musicians at the entrance of the temple sounded the golden horns in unison.

Among the countless flying blood-red cloaks, the beautiful dancing girl in the formal costume behind Zhai Rang suddenly pulled the golden dagger on his waist and stabbed Zhai Rang's neck with a knife. Zhai Rang let out an earth-shattering roar, and he staggered to push down the cases in front of him, and ran forward a few steps, one hand desperately covering the blood-spattering wound on his neck.

He turned his head slowly, looking at the dancing girl who had just danced gracefully like a fairy behind him, but in his eyes he was horrified to see that the dancing girl had a merciless smile on her face, and her jade hand was gently loosened, and a white feather arrow suddenly came. There was a pain in his chest, and he slowly lowered his head and looked at the feathered arrow in his chest. He opened his mouth with blood spitting out, but in the end he didn't say anything, and then collapsed in a pool of blood, his eyes full of doubt, incomprehension, and resentment.

Everything happened too suddenly, too quickly.

When Zhai Rang was attacked and stabbed, Zhai Hong was also stabbed, but he was stabbed in the chest and killed with a knife, and he didn't even have time to react.

In the main hall, the red sleeves are displayed, the daggers are fluttering, and the feathers and arrows are flying.

The beautiful girl one moment ago, the next moment she became a pink killer who asked for her life.

The screams of death, the shouts of angry reprimands, and the sound of the case crashing, the hall was in chaos for a while.

Several old brothers of the Wagang Army had fallen in a pool of blood, Xu Shiji reacted quickly, kicked the dancing girl next to him, and just ran to the door, but was shot in the leg by an arrow, fell over in the hall, and was pressed to the ground by several female killers.

Shan Xiongxin and several other old brothers entered the white blade empty-handed, grabbed a horizontal knife, left and right grids, but these women were very powerful, several people in a team, horizontal knives and bows and arrows, and after a while, several heroes of the Central Plains fell into the hands of those seemingly delicate dancing girls.

After a while, more than ten old Wagang brothers in the hall, Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong, Wang Ruxin and other five people died, and most of the rest were injured and restrained. Seeing that the situation had been decided, Li Mi said to the panicked crowd: "I raised an uprising with you to eliminate violence and peace; But Otsuka Jaezhai is autocratic, greedy and tyrannical, insulting his colleagues, and rude to his superiors. I only killed him today, and it has nothing to do with you! ”

After finishing speaking, Li Mi walked to Xu Shiji's side and personally applied medicine to the wound on his leg. Xu Shiji looked at Brother Zhai Rang Zhai Hong who was lying on the ground with a pale face, and then looked at Li Mi who was close by, his lips twitched for a long time, and finally he didn't say a word! What can be said? If you say anything wrong at this time, you may immediately invite death.

Half an hour later, after Li Mi settled and pacified the entourage guards brought by Zhai Rang and others, he rushed to the old camp of Zhai Rang and others with tens of thousands of elite soldiers from the internal army. He left the army outside the camp and rode alone to Zhai Rang's camp to comfort his subordinates one by one!

Outside was Li Mi's elite inner army with tens of thousands of bows and spears, and I saw the heads of five people, including Zhai Rang and Zhai Hong's brothers. Li Miyan made it clear that only Zhai Rang's family was investigated for this matter, and even the family members of Wang Ruxin and the other three who were killed were not investigated. In addition, the old brothers of Wagang can each immediately get a reward of good wine and meat. Most of the Wagang veterans in the battalion are also from bandits.

Many of them used to come from other cottage rebels, and in the troubled times, there were not many such fire-fighting things. Seeing that Li Mi didn't pursue them, and no one took the lead, no one stood up and said anything. …,

Immediately afterwards, Li Mi ordered Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin, Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, Chai Xiao and five people to lead Zhai Rang's subordinates respectively.

An internal fire merge, which comes quickly and ends faster.

There was no large-scale civil strife, only the heads of Zhai Rang and the other five, as well as some minor injuries to Xu Shiji and Shan Xiongxin, and this internal dispute was over. Zhai Rang's death seemed to be an insignificant matter.

Li Mi got rid of Zhai Rang and was in a good mood, but he also rejected Fang Xuanzao's proposal to kill Shan Xiongxin and the others together. In Li Mi's opinion, in the past, only Zhai Rang was the founder of Wagang, so he could always stand in that position and disgust himself. But as soon as Zhai Rang died, the old brothers of Wagang would have no banner to gather. Whether it is Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and others, they do not have that reputation.

And these people also have a lot of ability, such talents naturally can't be blindly killed, it's better to use them for themselves. It's just that Li Mi was on that calm surface, but he didn't find it, and unconsciously, from this day on, Wagang had disappeared. And the Wei State, which is supported by Wagang, has also changed.

Xu Shiji, Shan Xiongxin and other former Wagang generals no longer entertained each other as in the past. They became silent, and seemed to be more respectful to Li Mi, and they no longer showed themselves the same old qualifications as before.

A few days later, Li Mi already felt that everything in the generals had been integrated, so he announced at the court meeting that from now on, he would personally command 100,000 Wei troops to cross the Yellow River north and recover Ji County, and Wang Bodang, Xie Yingdeng, Yuan Baobao, Bing Yuanzhen, Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji, Huang Junhan and other generals led their headquarters to march with the army.

(Six more completed, 19,000 words, coded all night, collapsing)

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