Li Tangbin left a thousand cavalry on the shore, and he led more than a dozen cavalry officers to meet him, and twenty paces before Li Keyong's horse, they rolled their saddles and dismounted, and walked to the front of the Hedong army. Li Tangbin cleared his throat, "King Jin, under the command of King Liang, Li Tangbin is here to welcome King Jin on the order of King Liang, and King Liang is waiting in Wang Mandu." He said to Li Keyong in a cautious and polite tone, "We have prepared a banquet and labor supplies in Biancheng, and the King of Liang and I are very grateful to the King of Jin for coming south to help." ”

Li Ke sat on the horse and looked at Li Tangbin condescendingly, but he didn't even get off the horse.

"Why didn't King Liang come?" An Jinjun seemed to be talking to himself, but the loud voice made everyone present hear it clearly. Li Tangbin frowned, but pretended not to hear. When he came, Zhu Wen had already told him that Li Ke was unruly, arrogant and arrogant with this person, and if there was anything frivolous in his words, he should not have heard it.

"King Liang asked a certain to apologize to King Jin, he is leading people to prepare the labor army supplies to welcome the soldiers of Hedong, and is preparing the temporary camp of the Hedong army."

Li Keyong nodded, "In that case, then General Li will lead the way." ”

Li Tangbin returned to the shore and remounted his horse, leading a thousand beams to ride in front of the road.

An Jinjun rode a horse and followed closely beside Li Keyong, "This Zhu Asan should have come out to greet us in person. He said dissatisfiedly, "We are here to 'reinforce' the Liang Domain, but he actually really put up the frame of the King of Liang, does he really think that he can be on an equal footing with the Great King, or else." Is he putting on the shelf of the king's 'righteous brother'? ”

"Wait until you cut off his head with a single sword. Brothers. Let's take a good look at his appearance then. Ahn said to his brother with a smile. On the surface, Li Keyong and Zhu Wen are both the kings of the one-word domain, and they are both the marshals of Dazhen, and they are both the righteous sons of Yang Fuguang. But in fact, none of the Hedong soldiers felt that Zhu Wen was qualified to be on an equal footing with Li Keyong. An Jinquan was thinking with some doubts, is Zhu Wen being contemptuous, or is he on guard?

The team went all the way, two days later. They arrived at Wangmandu, an important passage between Zhengzhou and Bianzhou, located on the Bianhe River.

Wang Mandu was an important water and land transportation point on the Bianhe Canal during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and was held between Luoyang and Bianzhou, with a large number of garrisons fortified all year round. When Huangchao was rampant in the world, he crossed the river here twice, fought with the official army twice, and suffered heavy losses.

At this time, at the Bianhe River at the junction of Zhengbian and Bian, there were three military towns, namely Wansheng Military Town on the north bank of Zhengzhou and Wangmandu Military Town on the south bank. and the octagonal military town on the south bank of Bianzhou. These three military towns formed a horn trend, and the middle waterway that was holding Zheng Bian was about to rush up. It is an important gateway to Xuanwu Town. Especially for Bianzhou, where Xuanwu's marshal is stationed, the three military towns in the northwest are extremely dangerous. Here, Zhu Wen has a heavy army stationed all year round, as many as 20,000 horses. It is not only to prevent Heyang and Weibo on the other side of the Yellow River, but also to focus on preventing Huazhou, which has been incorporated into the original Yicheng Town of Shandong Province by Li Jing. Of course, the deployment of heavy troops here is also faintly in the prevention of Luoyang.

Although Zhu Wen does not have the prestige of Li Keyong and Li Jing, and he is also an outlier in the Chang'an court, this emerging warlord who is the same age as Li Jing and has just passed 30 years old is by no means simple. Ten years ago, Juwen was just a swineherd, but in the years since, he has made several important choices, each of which has made him leap. The first time was to leave the house of the landlord Liu in Xuzhou to join the army, the second time was that he was forced to leave the Qin army and only stayed in Xuanwu Town for a long time before immediately defecting to Huangchao, and the third time was that he resolutely betrayed Huangchao and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. After these several choices, the former swineherd finally completed a gorgeous turn ten years later, becoming the top ten feudal town marshals today, with one person owning three towns and several states, being crowned the king of the domain, and holding an army of 100,000.

Zhu Wen was very young, in his early thirties, but his face looked much older than he actually was, with a big beard and a swarthy face that made him look like he was in his forties. After years of conquest, he no longer had the kind of rogue energy that the landlord's family fed the pigs back then, but had the majesty of a superior. He rode a big black horse named Oolongqu. He was wearing a set of mountain armor, wearing a phoenix wings on his head, a golden sheath horizontal knife on his waist, and a horse lance hanging on the saddle. The neatly draped Zhu Wen is majestic, and he has the demeanor of a general who is as immovable as a mountain.

Beside him is Zhu Wen's wife, the princess of Liang, the daughter of Liu Yuanwai in Xuzhou, who took Zhu Wen in at the beginning. After Zhu Wen was crowned king, he sent people to Xuzhou to take his family to Bianzhou. Although Zhu Wen has had many women and several children over the years, he has never officially married. At the suggestion of Zhu Wen's mother, Wang, Zhu Wen simply married Liu Yuanwai's young daughter. The daughter of the master's family, who was once high, has now become Zhu Wen's wife. The Zhumen Liu family is not very beautiful, but the small jasper is better than being gentle and considerate. At this time, Zhu Wen took his wife and a group of Liang generals to Wang Mandu on the border of Bianzheng to greet Li Keyong, full of sincerity.

"Brother Yi, please forgive me for not being able to go to Xingze to greet you in person." Zhu Wen stepped forward with a smile.

"I also came here on the orders of the imperial court, all for the imperial court, why be so polite." Stretch out his hand and don't hit the smiling person, besides, in Li Keyong's eyes, Zhu Wen is already a dead person, so he doesn't care about the trivial matter of Zhu Wen calling his righteous brother.

"Anyway, my brother led the troops to help, and my brother was very happy. A certain person had already prepared a banquet in Bianzhou City, and set up a military tent outside Bianzhou City, and prepared a large amount of wine and meat for the brothers in Hedong to drink and eat. Zhu Wen came up and took Li Keyong's hand, extremely enthusiastic. It seems that he doesn't remember the unpleasant experience when he met Li Keyong at all. Li Ke is crazy or arrogant, but as long as he is ordered by the imperial court to come to reinforce and assist him, Zhu Wen doesn't care about the others. For Zhu Wen, it is very important to get back the three states of Chen, Hao, and Ying, which were negotiated between the imperial court and Li Jing. For this reason, it is worth forbearance with Li Ke.

"Let's go, brother, I have prepared a lot of good things for my brother. You'll love it. Zhu Wen and Li Keyong walked side by side.

Zhu Wen greeted Li Keyong at Wang Mandu. The two armies converged and returned all the way back to Bianzhou.

Arrive outside the city of Bianzhou. Zhu Wen arranged Li Ke's 20,000 horses in a temporary camp twenty miles outside Bianzhou.

Bianzhou, Zhengdi in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the capital of Wei in the Warring States Period. Chen stayed in the rush of the world, extending to the suburbs in all directions, especially after the Sui Dynasty opened the North-South Grand Canal, Bianzhou, which guarded the Bianhe Canal, became more and more important. This is also the fact that although Zhu Wen now controls the territory of the three towns, Xuanwu Town is the traditional four states. has long been robbed of Sanzhou, and Zhu Wendu has always refused to transfer the center of the Liang Domain to Jinshang or Shaanxi. It is too important here, whether it is military or economic, it is quite important, and Zhu Wen cannot give up lightly.

After leaving the army outside the city, Li Keyong entered the city with only five hundred Tooth Army guards. Zhu Wen felt that Li Keyong brought too many people, but it was difficult to say it clearly, so he had to follow Li Keyong's meaning. After entering the city, he took Li Keyong to the Shangyuan Station, the largest newly renovated post station in Bianzhou City. It is a building similar to a didian that integrates a post station and a hotel. Even if Li Ke is arranged to use 500 people, it is completely more than enough, and there is even a big restaurant inside. It was just used for this treat.

After a while of noisy with Li Keyong, Zhu Wen left Li Keyong and the others to rest. Withdrew on his own. He went directly back to the Shuai Mansion, and as soon as he went back, Xie Tong immediately came over.

In the festival hall, not only Xie Tong was there, but even Zhu Zhen, Ding Hui, Pang Shigu, Li Yan, Deng Jiyun, Li Chongyin, Zhu Chongjie, Kang Huaizhen, Li Fan, Niu Cunjie, Shi Shucong, Sima Ye and most of the generals of the Liang Domain in Bian had arrived, except for a group of generals such as brother Zhu Cun in Jinshang and Shaanxi, the rest of the generals could be said to have arrived.

The generals all sat there with heavy faces and did not say a word.

In addition, there was a man sitting in front of a charcoal brazier in warm clothes, wearing a merchant's silk robe.

"Robin Yang!" Juwen recognized him. Yang Yanhong is a general under Zhu Wen, but he is not an ordinary general, because Yang Yanhong is the intelligence director under Zhu Wen. Nowadays, almost every feudal town has its own intelligence agency, such as the Supervision Department of the Qin Domain, the Staff Department of the Chang'an Imperial Court, the Seeker of Xichuan in Chengdu, and the Chazi of Huainan. Zhu Wen also has one such institution, called Luoyandu. Zhu Wen's Liang army had three pro-armies, namely Luoyandu, Tianxingdu, and Jingundu. Among them, Tianxing and Jingun are both guards in front of the tent, but Luoyandu is a team called the front of the tent, which is actually a supervision and intelligence agency. Supervise the generals internally and spy on intelligence externally. Yang Yanhong is the commander of Luoyan Capital.

"King!"

"Why did you come back all of a sudden?" Zhu Wen felt that something was wrong with the situation, Yang Yanhong had just been secretly sent to Yanjing by him not long ago to spy on the peace talks of the Qin Domain. But now that the peace agreement has been reached, Yang Yanhong's sudden return in this outfit, coupled with that gloomy face, is definitely a little wrong. Immediately asked, "What's going on?"

"I found out a piece of news when I was in Yan, and because I was too shocked, I didn't dare to delay, so I rushed back day and night and reported to the king in person."

"What's the news?"

Yang Yanhong said: "What is the real peace discussion between the imperial court and the Qin Domain? ”

"What is the real peace discussion?" Zhu Wen seemed to have questions, but his face began to become ugly. The implicit meaning of this name made him feel bad for a while.

"In the content of the peace agreement between Li Jing and the imperial court, the four states of Cai, Chen, Hao, and Ying were not assigned to the imperial court at all, but the imperial court assigned the four states to the Qin domain!" Robin Yang said with some curse.

"It's more than that." Xie Tong added on the side, "General Yang also found out that the imperial court not only assigned the four prefectures of western Henan to Li Jing, but also assigned Bianzhou to the Qin domain in the content of the peace agreement. And, and there is a secret clause"

"What is it?" Zhu Wen asked in a low voice, his face became darker and darker, and he keenly felt that he had been calculated and fell into a big pit. This made him feel uneasy, and he immediately thought of Li Keyong, who had suddenly rushed from Hedong to reinforce him on the orders of the imperial court, and his 20,000 Hedong troops. At the beginning, only three towns were left in the nine towns in the south, and he should have noticed that something was wrong here. Li Keyong did not have a good relationship with him, on the contrary, Li Keyong used to express his contempt for him unabashedly in the past. Why did he suddenly come to Henan to reinforce him this time? It's a pity that he has been letting his guard down for the peace talks before.

Since Yang Fuguang gave him a fake peace agreement, he hid the real peace conditions. Then Li Ke appeared at this time. It's not going to be a good thing.

"Li Jing and Yang Fuguang also have a secret agreement. That's the imperial court, and the imperial court wants it."

"Li Jing asked Yang Fuguang to present the head of this king, isn't that so?" Zhu Wen's voice became colder and colder.

"That's true." Robin Yang felt a sudden chill all over his body.

Zhu Wen snorted coldly, his face turned pale, and he said slowly: "No wonder the people we sent to Chen Yinghao Sanzhou were killed, no wonder Li Keyong actually rushed to reinforcements so kindly, it turned out that this was all a trap." They all wanted to put their king to death. ”

Xie Tong said on the side: "Is this matter more cautious, let's find out a little bit first." Be careful that there is deception in it, in case it is the Qin people's counter-plot, it will be troublesome. ”

"Where did you get this information?" Although Zhu Wen intuitively felt that this was true, he still tried to restrain himself and turned his head to ask Yang Yanhong.

"This news was seen in a letter that I suddenly found next to my bed when I woke up one morning when I was in Yanjing. There is a detailed peace agreement on it. Robin Yang said and took out the letter that appeared mysteriously. Zhu Wen took it and read it carefully, this letter is indeed the content of the peace discussion, but it is a little different from the peace agreement result that Yang Fuguang gave him. There are a few key points where these are different. It is exactly what Yang Yanhong said just now, and it is aimed at Liang Fan.

"Out of nowhere?"

This news made Zhu Wen a little uncertain.

"This letter must have been left by Li Jing's people. This is a clumsy counter-plot to create infighting between Liang and Jin, between Liang and Chang'an. Zhu Zhen said.

Zhu Wen didn't believe that things were so simple, precisely because this matter seemed too much like a counter-plot, so the more he thought it was not so simple. Li Jing is not a fool, if it was really a counter-plan, he would not use it so clumsy.

"Maybe what this letter says is true?" Zhu Wen whispered.

"How is this possible, if it is true, why did Li Jing remind us?" Uncle Zong asked suspiciously.

Xie Tong and Hu Zhen, the two strategists, almost said in unison at this time, "In order to make the water muddy." ”

If the thing is true, and Liang Fan is not prepared, it is very likely that Yang Fuguang and Li Keyong will join forces to suddenly destroy it. Such a result is of course beneficial to the Yang family and Li Keyong, but it is certainly not good news for Qin Fan. But if this matter is known to Zhu Wen, then with the strength of the Liang Domain, it is definitely unlikely that they will destroy them in one fell swoop, and the biggest possibility is that Zhu Wen and the Chang'an Imperial Court will turn against each other, and the two sides will fight, and it will even be difficult to distinguish the winner for a while. Such a result should be the most in line with the interests of the Qin Domain. Thinking about it this way, I feel more and more that this thing may be true.

"What do we do now?" Zhu Zhen asked Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen was silent for a while, he was thinking about it, he had to make a big decision. Just as the previous decisions changed his life, it will be a decision that could change the fate of the rest of his life. He first had to judge whether this was Qin Fan's counter-plot or a conspiracy by Yang Fuguang!

"I think this thing is true, the one-eyed wolf has always looked down on us, and this time he actually came all the way to help, and there must be a demon when something goes wrong. I don't think I need to think about it anymore, let's just strike first, and then suffer, let's just attack first, directly surround Li Keyong and kill him first, and then send troops to attack the Hedong military camp outside the city, and destroy them first. ”

"That's it, Li Ya'er, who killed the dog's day, let him look down on us."

"Simply kill Li Ya'er, and then send troops to Luoyang, let's destroy Yang Fuguang and Lao'er together. Dog's day, you dare to yin us. ”

However, among the generals, there are also some more stable ones, who feel that they should be more cautious, and some people even proposed to send this secret letter to Yang Fuguang. If the belief is false, then the misunderstanding will naturally be cleared. If the letter is true, I believe that after Yang Fuguang reads the letter, he will definitely not dare to act again. If you can get Yang Fuguang to dispel the plan, I think it is better to endure it first, after all, if we really want to fight against the imperial court, we still can't twist our arms and thighs, not to mention, don't forget, Li Jingke is still eyeing the side? ”

The two strategists who made such remarks were naturally Xie Tong and Hu Zhen. Xie Tong is Zhu Wen's left Sima, and Hu Zhen is the right Sima. These two people are among the Liang Domain, and they are Zhu Wen's Zhiyu. Their proposal is also the result of careful consideration. At present, the strength of the Liang Fan is not strong. Although it has the territory of the three towns, the territory of the three towns is too scattered, and the strategic situation is not good. They have Li Jing of the Qin Domain in the east, Yang Fuguang of Luoyang in the west, Wang Chongrong and Li Keyong of Hedong in the north, and Sanchuan in Tianlingzi in the south. It can be said that they are completely surviving in the cracks of the major leagues. At present, they are attached to the Yang brothers in Chang'an, and the situation is not bad. But if you really turn your face with the Yang family, don't say if you can beat the Chang'an court and the army of various towns led by the Yang brothers. Even if the confrontation is on the side of Chang'an, there is a more powerful Li Jing behind him. If the two tigers compete, and Li Jing comes to reap the benefits of the fisherman, it will be a catastrophe.

Therefore, due to various considerations, the two strategists still felt that it was better to make the matter half clear, so that Yang Fuguang knew that they had been prepared, and forced them to give up dealing with Liang Fan. As long as things are clear, but they don't tear their faces, they can barely maintain this balanced situation in the end.

However, everyone argued, but Zhu Wen was noncommittal, he was still thinking about it! (To be continued......)