Chapter 33 The meeting of the three eaters
"Hold troops and support themselves!" Li Mu looked at the back of the old man leaving and shook his head. If he wanted to support himself, he could have watched the battle in Handan more than ten years ago when he was at Yanmen Pass. Why wait until today?
"The Zhao family is worthy of being an assassin-born clan!" Li Mu sighed. After all, the blood of Zhao clans was flowing in the blood of Zhao Shuai, Zhao Dun and Zhao Chuan. The real ruthlessness exploded, and even his own clan could abandon it. Zhao Pan was the first, but not the last one.
Li Mu knew that Zhao Bao would definitely leave an armed force for the elders to ensure the stability of Zhao State, but now this armed force is to be used to deal with his own people. If the old man knew what he thought about or not, he would probably die with his eyes open.
The old man left with a team of people, but he didn't care about Zhao Cong and Yan Ju who had already arrived at the Zhao army camp. If Li Mu even needed them to take action, it would be said that Pingyang Jun had misread the person.
"Please come in with Zhao Cong and Yan!" Li Mu looked at his personal guard and said, "I always have to meet when people come."
"General Zhao, General Yan has worked hard all the way!" Li Mu looked at Zhao Cong and Yan Ju and said politely.
Zhao Cong looked at Li Mu and the only few personal guards in the tent, and looked at his dozens of guards, and was obviously relieved. What he was most worried about was that Li Mu would set up soldiers in the tent and kill them directly.
"Li Mu received the order!" Zhao Cong took out a golden sword order from his arms and said arrogantly as he looked at Li Muzhi.
Li Mu frowned slightly, but the other guards couldn't sit still and glared at Zhao Cong and said, "Do Special Envoy Zhao know what the three words Wu'anjun represent?"
"With martial arts, no one in the world knows!" Zhao Cong said lightly, looking at the eighteen guards in a sarcastic tone.
"Since Special Envoy Zhao knows the meaning of Wu'anjun, how dare you call him the name of the Lord!" The guard looked at Zhao Cong, and his long sword was unsheathed and placed it directly on Zhao Cong's neck.
"What a great show!" Xianyu was mixed in the Zhao army. For their novelists, nothing worthy of their attention than the deeds of a general like Li Mu. Unexpectedly, he had just sneaked in and saw such a good show.
"Is Zhao Cong floating around? He actually dares to call Wu Anjun's name directly!" Han Tan also sent a message to Xianyu. Among these scholars, calling him name directly is a taboo, which is equivalent to being directly insulting people. The chief guard did not directly kill Zhao Cong because he was the special envoy of Jin Lingjian. If it were other places, he would have been chopped by a sword.
"If it were before the Battle of Qin and Zhao, the last general would naturally not dare to call Wu'anjun's name directly, but what did Li Mu do after the Battle of Qin and Zhao? First, he lost Jingxing Pass, then lost the six surrounding cities in Jingxing Pass, and then lost Tunliu, causing the Qin army to approach Handan and divide Zhao into two. How can he afford a title like Wu'anjun in such a way?" Zhao Cong sneered, turning a blind eye to the long sword on his neck.
"That's it, that's it..." The chief guard, as a soldier, was obviously not good at making excuses. He opened his mouth but couldn't say any reason. There were too many reasons, but he didn't know how to explain it.
"Except for the guards of Jingxing Pass who committed suicide to repay the king, the Qin army in other cities fled when they heard that they had arrived. Among them was the son and nephew of the Special Envoy Zhao, who is still in the army prison. Can the Special Envoy Zhao meet at first?" The chief guard suddenly spoke, looking at Han Tan in the Zhao envoy team, and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that no one in Handan spoke for the King.
Li Mu looked at the chief guard in surprise. He knew his chief guard well. This kind of distinctive way was obviously not something that the chief guard could say. He looked at Han Tan following the chief guard's gaze, but he frowned slightly. He had never seen this person before. When was there such a person in Handan?
Zhao Cong was stunned when he looked at the chief guard. Why did this man's mouth suddenly become so sharp?
"The Qin army is powerful, and they are preparing to retain their strength to counterattack and retake the city." Zhao Cong said.
"The Qin army is powerful? According to the military information we have obtained, the Qin army, where the sons and nephews of the Special Envoy Zhao are located, encountered less than 3,000 Qin army, while the Shanyang City defenders were reorganized by 3,000. How can this Special Envoy Zhao explain?" the chief guard continued.
"The information obtained by Handan was that Shanyang City was attacked by the armor-piercing soldiers led by Qin Wang Jian, so he had to abandon the city and find the army to return to the rescue!" Zhao Cong's voice was half weak.
"It's a big joke. Everyone in the world knows that Wang Jian and Qin's national commander Wu Chenzi personally led the central army to garrison Luancheng and confront Junhou, and then was chased by Junhou and retreated all the way back to Que and City by Junhou. How did Wang Jian lead the Qin army to attack Shanyang City?" The chief guard continued.
"Famous Master?" Li Mu looked at Han Tan slightly, and famous masters who had not appeared for a long time also came to join in the fun. The words of the chief guard obviously turned the topic out. Zhao Cong originally came to read out Wang Ling, but now being interrupted like this has become a responsibility for losing the city. Moreover, it involves Zhao Cong's sons and nephews, which makes it difficult for Zhao Cong to make it difficult for him to change the concept. Only famous masters can do this method of changing concepts.
"The envoy said that you should read the king's order first!" Yan Ju, a Qi man beside Zhao Cong, spoke. He also noticed something was wrong. There were famous people in Li Mujun, and things were much more complicated than they thought.
"When will it be your turn to talk to me, the Qi people?" The chief guard looked at Yan Ju and scolded him angrily, directly signaling the other guards to take Yan Ju off.
"Do you have a grudge with Yan Ju?" Xianyu asked as she looked at Han Tan. Since they got into the special envoy team, Han Tan's eyes had never left Yan Ju. This time Han Tan would interrupt because she wanted to argue with Yan Ju.
"Do you don't know if Yan's family is from Qi?" Han Tan said.
"Confucian Yanmen!" Xianyu understood that the Yan family of Qi was the descendant of Confucian Yan Hui and Yan Ziyuan, and Yan Hui was one of the ten philosophers of Confucianism and the leader of the seventy-two sages of Confucius.
It is not the first time that Confucianism and famous scholars have argued with each other. It is normal for Han Tan to dislike Yan Ju. If he can take the opportunity to attack the Confucian Yan family, how could Han Tan let it go?
"Do you think this is Yan's proposition or Confucianism?" Xianyu asked as he looked at Han Tan's voice.
"The little sage Zhuang acquiesced, and Yan's family jumped out and became the first bird!" Han Tan said lightly. These are the old Confucian routines. They openly do not support any country, maintain neutrality, and then let Confucian all walks of life go out on their own. If they succeed, Confucian make a fortune, and if they fail, they can weaken the power of Confucian various systems.
"He is the same clan as Yan Lu, the second head of Xiaoshengxianzhuang?" Xianyu asked in confusion. No one knew Yan Lu's origin. Confucianism provided cover for Yan Lu, and no one could find out Yan Lu's past, so he was also very curious. If he was really the same clan, how could Yan Lu allow Yan to come out to wade into this muddy water?
"It shouldn't be. Wu Chenzi said that Yan Lu may be from the Ji surname!" Han Tan said.
"Random!" Zhao Cong looked at Yan Ju being taken down by Li Mu's personal guards, but Li Mu had no words and couldn't help but scold him angrily. Yan Ju is from the Confucian Yan family, and he still has to rely on Yan Ju to help him take charge of the army. How could Li Mu drive Yan Ju out?
"The king passed on the order, ordered Li Mu to hand over the military talisman and seal letter, and return to Handan to state the defeat. The army was replaced by Zhao Cong and Yan Ju!" Zhao Cong took out the edict of King Zhao and read it.
Li Mu frowned, knowing that it was time for him to speak at this time. Zhao Cong took out the edict of King Zhao, and he could not choose to ignore it.
"Li Mu obeys the order, but it takes time for the army to hand over. You may as well go to the camp to rest for a while. Mu, now we will beat the drums and gather the generals to hand over!" Li Mu said.
"No need, let's follow Wu'anjun!" Zhao Cong continued. He didn't believe that Li Mu had no other backup plan. He really wanted to leave Li Mu. He suspected that they would not see the moon at night.
"Go to gather together!" Li Mu said to the chief guard, but blinked.
The chief guard immediately understood that beating drums could gather generals, but they could also be attacking. Li Mu's meaning was very obvious, that was to ask him to go beating drums to send troops, pretending to attack Que and the city. The two armies were fighting, and Zhao Cong and Yan Ju had no way to take over the army immediately, and could only wait for the war to stop. As for when the war would stop, they had the final say.
"No!" The guard chief bowed his sword and directly hit Zhao Cong and others, left the camp, but he slowed down slightly beside Han Tan and nodded in a low voice: "Thank you, sir!"
Han Tan smiled, didn't say anything, and gave way. It was just a pity. It would be great if Yan Ju was slaughtered with one knife.
"Kill!" The shouts of killing came from the army, which made Zhao Cong and Yan Ju stunned, and looked at Li Mu in confusion.
"Before the two envoys arrived, we were ready to attack Que and the city. Now it's time to attack. Shu Mu can't accompany you for the time being!" Li Mu said lightly, and walked out of the camp with his personal guards, and then said to the personal guards: "Protect all the special envoys!"
"No!" The personal guard camp outside the camp also received a warning from the personal guard commander and immediately surrounded the tent, not allowing Zhao Cong and Yan Ju to walk out of the tent.
"Li Mu's dare to do this!" Zhao Cong looked at Li Mu's personal guard guard outside the camp and shouted furiously. He didn't understand yet that they were fooled by Li Mu and were placed under house arrest by Li Mu in disguise.
"Do you think he is stupid? Li Mu dares to disobey the orders of the nine Jinling sword edicts, and he still has this one?" Han Tan and Xianyu squatted in a corner of the camp and said quietly, without attracting anyone's attention.
"I was thinking about how many golden swords will be sent to Li Mu by King Zhao Qian, and how many golden swords will Li Mu withstand it!" Xianyu said, this is a great legend. Nine golden swords will be sent to within one month. What a gimmick. Sure enough, if you are not in Que and City, you will be the right choice to come here.
"You two were also sent by the head of Wu Chenzi?" An old man in a white-bearded official uniform came to Han Tan and Xianyu and asked.
"Are you?" Xianyu and Han Tan were stunned. There was such a master in the special envoy team, but they didn't notice it at all.
"Head of Yin Family, Secret Cultivation!" The head of Yin Family, who had disappeared for a long time, said. He didn't want to come at first, but when he heard that Wu Chenzi killed Le Cheng, he was also afraid. Wu Chenzi's scrupulousness was known to all schools, so he ran from Shangdang again.
"The top melon-eating crowd in the rumors!" Xianyu nodded as he looked at the head of the Yin family and nodded in approval. This is the same as a fellow man, not as good as a court, which is not conducive to the world, but there is lively there, and there is their figure there. This is the same fellow man with their novelist.
"Who are you two?" Yin Xiu asked, looking at Xianyu and Han Tan.
"Han Tan, the guardian of the Taoist mountain gate, the former head of the famous family, has met Senior Yin Xiu!" Han Tan said with a slight salute.
"The novelist, Xianyu, has met the head of the Yin family!" Xianyu also bowed and said.
"The three families of melon-eating families in the rumors have gathered together!" Yin Xiu was also stunned. He thought Xianyu and Han Tan were sent by Wuchenzi, but in the end they were the people of the Hundred Melon-eating World, which were like their Yin family.
"Li Mu can't delay this for long. Zhao Cong and Yan Ju cannot take over the army. Handan will definitely issue another eleventh and twelfth Golden Order Sword Edict!" Xianyu said.
"What can Handan do? You don't know how profound Li Mu's cultivation is, and the horror of his eighteen personal guards." Yin Xiushen said in fear. He was injured by Wu Chenzi with the Dragon of the Taoist Sutra, but later he was almost killed by Li Mu's sword. Now he was very cowardly when he saw these two people.
"Is the Zhao army fucking?" Wu Chenzi looked at the dark Zhao army coming to Que and Chengwei, and couldn't figure out what Li Mu was going to do again. He wanted to attack Que and when they retreated back to Que and took action as soon as they entered the city, why did he wait until now?
Wang Jian looked at the dark Zhao army with a serious look. Although they had 80,000 defenders and had sufficient food and grass to defend the city, Li Mu was on the opposite side, so he did not dare to be careless and ordered all troops to defend themselves and wait for the Zhao army to attack the city.
"Kill, kill, kill!" The Zhao army was moving forward in an orderly manner, moving the Qin soldiers on the tall city walls, but they still firmly stood at their posts.
"What does Li Mu want to do?" Wu Chenzi was stunned again. Zhao Jun stopped at a hundred feet below Que and the city, and did not move forward anymore. He just shouted in various ways, just not entering the range of the crossbow.
"I don't know that the Zhao army is guarding the city, and we cannot get accurate information in time!" Wang Jian said.
"What are the generals doing?" The vanguard general of the Zhao army was also puzzled. The military order only asked them to stop outside the range of the crossbow under the city, and acted as if they were attacking the city, but did not allow them to attack.
"Be careful!" Wu Chenzi looked at Wang Jian and said, "Que and the city were built by the water. There were wading water in the north and mountains in the south, so there were only east and west sides to attack Que and the city. There was no need to worry about the Qin army's territory on the west side, so Li Mu's army is now stationed outside the west gate.
"Que and Shan!" Wang Jian looked at the mountains in the south and said. If he were to attack the city, he would definitely not choose to attack head-on. Instead, he would send surprise troops into Que and Shan in the south, enter the city from the mountain, and open the city gate to let the army enter the city.
"Have you arranged for someone to stay?" Wu Chenzi also realized that the most unlikely place was the flaw that was most likely to break the city.
"Five hundred Iron Eagle Sharpmen and 3,000 Sharpmen have been ordered to guard the mountain. The Que and the mountain are extremely rugged. Only one person can pass through, and the army cannot pass. For the sake of safety, the last general arranged three thousand Sharpmen to defend!" Wang Jian said.
"That's good!" Wu Chenzi nodded. No wonder Wang Jian used his troops to seek stability. In this way, he was a clerk who was unable to open the road, and even arranged three thousand sharp men and five hundred iron eagle sharp men to guard it. It was difficult for Li Mu to come up the mountain with a surprise troops.
"Does Li Mu know this path?" Wu Chenzi thought about it and asked.
Wang Jian shook his head and explained: "Although Que Yucheng was built by Zhao State, it was occupied by us after the city was established. There is a small path on Que Yu Mountain and some medicinal farmers hunters. Zhao State does not know the existence of this path."
Wu Chenzi nodded and said, "After we withdraw from Que and City, we will leave five thousand sharp men to lurk on the mountain!"
Wang Jian also instantly reflected when he looked at Wu Chenzi. This was prepared to prevent the failure of persuasion of surrender. It was much easier for them to counterattack and regain Que and City.
Chapter completed!