On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 380
"Duke Ming, the families of Ming and Wei state soldiers are shouting outside the city day and night, disturbing people's hearts.

"We can't send troops to drive them away, and soldiers often hang out of the city at night and go to Cui Ni.

"If you continue to defend Yecheng, no one knows whether Ming and Wei generals will open the city gate privately to lure the rebels into Yecheng.

"For now, the only way is to gather the elite of Xiangzhou and go out of the city to fight against Cui Ni.

"If you can win, the crisis will be solved by itself, please allow me to ask Ming Gong."

Feng Xiaoci, the Sima of Xiangzhou General Manager's Office, said.

The justice joined the army, Lu Yu, Yitong and the third commander, Mo Chen Yi, immediately agreed. The three had already discussed before they came to ask for the battle, so naturally there was no disagreement.

But Li Jing, the general manager of Xiangzhou, was frowning, and he also knew that Feng Xiaoci was telling the truth.

Cui Che has been asking the family members of the soldiers to shout outside the city for the past two days, and Li Jing is really at a loss what to do about it.

With rebel cavalry guards, Li Jing could not send troops out of the city to drive them away, let alone order the defenders to shoot arrows outside the city to shoot the shouting women and children to death.

If you really want to do this, I'm afraid that the soldiers of Ming and Wei Erzhou will immediately turn their bows and arrows and turn against each other.

That is to say, Cui Che didn't dare to risk the displeasure of the world, and drove the women and children of Ming and Wei states to attack the city, otherwise Li Jing really didn't know how the city should be defended.

Of course, even if Cui Che didn't do this, Li Jing felt that Yecheng would not be able to hold on anymore.

As Feng Xiaoci said, not only must guard against the rebels outside the city, but also guard against soldiers from Ming and Wei within the city to respond to Cui Che.

In such a situation, even Li Jing's Hou Mo Chen Yi, who is good at defending the city, has no way to solve it.

Now that Cui Che used Ming and Wei Erzhou's women and children to destroy the morale of the defenders, it was also in line with Li Jing's inference at the beginning, and finally convinced Li Jing of Li Jing's innocence.

Li Jing knew that apart from the decisive battle outside the city, the only way to defeat the enemy might be Li Jing's offering to attack Maozhou and destroy Cui Che's supplies hoarded in Guantao County. This plan was abandoned.

This made Li Jing regret what he should have done, so he immediately sent someone to Li Jing's residence to invite Li Jing to discuss matters.

He planned to use his understanding of Cui Che to discuss the specific matters of leaving the city for a decisive battle.

But Li Jing told the envoy that he was ill and refused to come.

Lu Yu was displeased, he begged for orders:
"Duke Ming, this Li Jing is clearly pretending to be sick and unwilling to contribute to Duke Ming. Since he does not agree with me and has a close friendship with Cui Ni, this person cannot stay. Lu is willing to get rid of him for Duke Ming."

Li Jing let out a long sigh, shook his head and said:
"Forget it, he was planning for me wholeheartedly, after all, I was provoked by others and harbored suspicion towards him.

"Since I have failed him, how can I take his life again."

Li Jing didn't know that he had escaped a catastrophe, but maybe he knew Li Jing's character and was sure that he would not harm him, so he could not presume the illness.

Butcher Zhang died, he would not eat mixed pigs, Li Jing would not come, Li Jing still had three generals under his command, Feng Xiaoci, Lu Yudu, Hou Mochenyi were all outstanding talents.

In the past, when Li Jing led the army in battle, he only focused on comforting the soldiers. All matters in the army, big or small, were handled by three people, and they never failed Li Jing's expectations.

Today, Li Jing once again handed over the heavy responsibility to Feng Xiaoci, Lu Yudu, Hou Mo Chen Yi, and they will have full authority to plan the decisive battle with Cui Che in the city tomorrow.

Time can't be dragged on any longer. The later the day, the morale of the soldiers will drop by one point.

In the end, the three agreed that tomorrow they would lead 5000 Xiangzhou soldiers and 5000 Weizhou soldiers, riding out of the city with a total of [-] steps, and the remaining [-] Xiangzhou soldiers would follow Li Jing to stay in Yecheng.

As for Mingzhou soldiers and Weizhou soldiers, they dare not use them anyway. They can only hope to use Li Jing's prestige in the past to deter the soldiers of the two states and prevent them from creating chaos in the city before the victory is clear.

As the envoy, it was Li Jing's general Zhao Shizhu who was sent out of the city.

When Zhao Shizhu learned about this assignment, he cursed Li Jing in a different way in his heart. He knew that Li Jing looked down on him long ago, so he sent him to invite Cui Che to fight as an envoy.

If you go to other people's camps, you may even send someone who relies on you to wait for the opportunity to investigate the truth under the banner of not beheading the envoy.

But Cui Che was famous for envoys who had to be blindfolded when they entered the camp, and had to enter the commander's tent to take off the blindfold, so what was there to check.

Li Jing sent him there just to send a letter. As for whether Cui Che was killed, detained, or sent back to Yecheng, Li Jing didn't care.

Zhao Shizhu was hanged from the city wall, and he was caught by sentry cavalry within a few steps. He thought he was the soldiers of Ming and Wei Erzhou who came to look for his family members. After hearing Zhao Shizhu's self-reported family name, he realized that he was sent by Yecheng The envoy pays homage to the camp.

As usual, Zhao Shizhu was blindfolded, and when his eyes came back to light, he also saw Cui Che, who was in command.

"Who am I to be the envoy? It turned out to be Zhao Zhuguo, but Li Jing wanted to open the city and ask for surrender, so he sent Zhao Zhuguo to discuss with me?"

Zhao Shizhu respectfully said:

"Duke Yan didn't dare to call Zhu Guo in person. Mr. Li sent Zhao here just to make an agreement with Mr. Yan tomorrow at [-] o'clock in the morning, to have a showdown with Mr. Yan in the north of the city."

Cui Che smiled and said:

"Could it be that Li Jing is planning to invite me to a decisive battle tomorrow, thinking that Cui will relax his vigilance tonight so that he can attack Cui's camp."

As soon as the words fell, there was laughter in the handsome tent.

Zhao Shizhu hurriedly explained:

"When it comes to robbing the camp, Duke Yan is the number one in the world, how dare we fight against each other."

Cui Che waved his hand and said:
"Zhao Zhuguo is absurd."

Then he wondered again:

"Could it be that there is no one under Li Jing's command, and the mere messenger wants to let Zhu Guo, who is the second rank, be responsible."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Shizhu couldn't help complaining:

"Li Jing is high-spirited, how can Zhao get into his eyes, only Yan Gong still remembers that Zhao is in the position of the Zhu Kingdom, unlike Li Jing, who calls me around like a servant."

Hearing Zhao Shizhu call Li Jing's name directly, Cui Che showed a smile on his mouth, but immediately withdrew it, only to hear him say in surprise:
"What is Zhao Zhuguo's crime? The majestic imperial court ordered officials to suffer such humiliation."

Hearing this, Zhao Shizhu sighed endlessly.

His official position in the Zhu Kingdom was obtained by the life of his brother-in-law Yu Qingze.

At the beginning, he had an affair with Yu Qingze's concubine, worried that his brother-in-law would find out, so he acted preemptively, and falsely accused Yu Qingze of treason. In the end, Yu Qing was executed, and Zhao Shizhu was promoted beyond his quota, and was awarded the post of Zhu Guo .

It was precisely because of this incident that Li Jing always looked down on him, but Zhao Shizhu himself also had a hard time, if Yang Jian hadn't hinted, how would he have the guts to falsely accuse Yu Qingze, one of the four nobles in the imperial court.

While weeping, Cui Che said with emotion:

"I had a lot of trouble with Yu Qing, and I wanted to punish him myself, but I never thought that Zhao Zhuguo would do it for me.

"People in the world say that Zhao Zhuguo framed his relatives, but the person who wants Yu Qing to die is clearly the late emperor, and Zhao Zhuguo has slandered him for the late emperor.

"Being educated on behalf of others, and being squeezed out by his colleagues, Cui really feels worthless for Zhao Zhuguo."

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(End of this chapter)