Lei Yue Longmen

Li Jingchen led 1 soldiers from the Imperial Forest Army and marched for [-] days before arriving at the foot of Wolf Mountain in Moyin County, where they joined the [-] soldiers from the Eldest Princess Li Pingzhu's army and more than [-] people from Tu Yunkai's remnant army.A total of [-] people surrounded Langtou Peak, the main peak of Langshan Mountain.

Langtou Peak reaches high into the clouds and is named after its shape resembling a wolf head that looks up to the sky and howls.It is surrounded by nearly [-] peaks, large and small, guarding Langtou Peak like a pack of wolves.

Li Pingzhu accompanied Li Jingzhu to inspect the foot of the mountain for a week, and specifically mentioned: "The mountain is the last remnant of Fengyin Qixiong Gu Rentu, and it is also his lair. For more than a year, we have traveled to Qingyang, Lanyang, and Fengyin. , Fuyang and other places, he destroyed more than a dozen of his dens, but he has never found his old lair. Didn’t expect him to build his general lair here? You see, Langtou Peak stands facing the north, facing the north, and in front of it is a cliff of Baizhang , the back is a steep hillside, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Now more than [-] bandits occupy the high ground and pile up rocks to build fortifications. It is difficult for us to attack. In addition, they robbed tax money some time ago, and also robbed most of Tu Yunkai's army rations , enough to support for several months. But our food and grass can't support them to waste it, we must come up with a strategy to defeat the enemy as soon as possible."

On the other side, Cen Zhu went to the Langshan road where Tu Yunkai was in ambush to check. He found that the walls on both sides of the road were tens of feet high and almost vertical. If the enemy threw stones here and blocked the exits on both sides, The people below were instantly reduced to fish on the felt board, ready to be slaughtered.No wonder the five thousand elites led by Tu Yunkai lost more than half of them.She intends to write a report on what she saw and submit it to Li Pinghong.

On the side of Langtou Peak, the aunt and nephew continued to stumble forward on the uneven rocks.Going around to the southwest of where Tu Yunkai's troops were stationed, a forty-year-old general Xuanjia with a short beard walked towards him solemnly. It was Lou Ren, the deputy general of the Imperial Forest Army brought by Li Jingchen this time.

He first bowed to salute the two Highnesses.He said to Li Jingchen: "His Royal Highness, I was ordered to take over the rest of Northern Xinjiang, but Tu Concubine refused to hand over the general seal, and even said that unless His Highness came personally, he would not hand over the seal."

The eldest princess looked at Li Jingchen unexpectedly, and rarely saw a trace of anger on her face.

Folding his hands on his chest, he said with a half-smile, "Did you tell Tu Yunkai that it was His Majesty's will to escort him back to the capital? Who gave it? His guts? How dare you openly disobey the king's order?"

"I also said the same thing, but Tu Ma has been refusing to come out of the tent. I am afraid that the forced execution will cause the remnants of northern Xinjiang to mutiny. I am not sure for a while, so I came to ask His Highness for instructions. Should he be brought to justice? "

Lou Ren sneaked a glance at Li Jingchen.The latter didn't answer, and went straight to the tent in northern Xinjiang, and General Xuanjia followed immediately.The guards, who had been waiting in full force just now, saw Li Jingchen and his party coming, and they withdrew their troops one after another to make way.Tu Yunkai's bodyguard, Zhang Qishou, bowed in front of the tent and said, "For my humble servant, please refer to Your Highness, please refer to Princess Eldest."

"Where's the son-in-law?"

"The son-in-law is in the tent."

Li Jingchen turned to Gu Louren: "Send Gu's order, and immediately receive it!"

"Here!" General Xuanjia gained confidence, and waved his hand to signal his subordinates to join him.

"Wait!" Zhang Qi suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him, Lou Ren did not want to be outdone, and immediately pulled out half of his waist knife, staring wide-eyed: "Don't you dare to disobey His Highness's order?!"

Zhang Qi panicked and said: "I don't dare, it's just that your highness told me that the son-in-law had told you so much before that you had to discuss something with your highness in secret. This matter is very important, and your highness hopes that your highness can listen to him." , it won’t be too late to detain him and return to Beijing.”

"Only talk with His Highness in secret, and avoid even Gu?" Li Pingzhu squinted at him.

"Princess forgive me, the son-in-law only said that he wanted to have a secret talk with His Royal Highness the Empress Dowager, and the others didn't mention it at all."

Lou Ren looked back at Li Jingchen, put the waist knife back into its sheath, and stepped aside.

Li Jingchen turned his head and glanced at Li Pingzhu, who nodded, "You go in? Go ahead, I want to know what kind of medicine is sold in this Tuyunkai gourd?"

Li Jingchen lifted the curtain and entered the big tent, and saw that in this round shed, there were two screens on the left and right, a few arrows on the mahogany table in the middle, and the usual pens, inks, papers and inkstones, etc., Tu Yun Kai is not behind the case.

While she was wondering, a man in silver armor walked out from behind the screen. His figure and appearance were almost the same as Tu Yunkai's, but from the words "Your Highness forgive me" after he kowtowed, Li Jingzhen judged that this person was not Tu Yun. open.

"Who are you? Look up."

The person who came raised his head, revealing a pair of triangular eyes, Li Jingchen recognized this person as Li Wang, another personal guard beside Tu Yunkai.

Li Jingchen immediately sensed that the situation was different, "Where is the son-in-law?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, the son-in-law led a small team up the mountain last night in the dead of night."

"What?!" Li Jingchen couldn't hide his shock.

"The son-in-law regarded today's encounter as a shame in his life, and he wanted revenge. Before he left, he left a letter for His Royal Highness to sign personally, and he also left a message saying, 'If this trip is not successful, you will be benevolent, and you must cut off the head of the thief. , with the shame of Xue today'."

Li Jingchen immediately opened the letter to check, then Li Wang said again: "This portable sword is also left by the son-in-law. The son-in-law said that if he encounters any accidents during this trip, he hopes that His Highness can pass this sword on to the little grandson. The son-in-law begs For the sake of the little emperor's grandson, His Highness, give him one more chance to atone for his crimes!"

"Bastard!" Li Jingchen gritted his teeth angrily, "You think Gu doesn't know what he's thinking, he's afraid that he will be escorted back to Beijing this time, and it will be difficult to turn himself around in the future, so he just doesn't do anything and goes up the mountain to fight for his life! If you lose the fight, you will have the reputation of killing yourself and becoming a benevolent, but if you win by chance, it is a chance to die and live again. He is forcing the orphan! He knows that the orphan will not agree with him to do so, so he cut it first and then played it. Give him a bet on the success or failure of the whole army!"

"Then is your Highness willing or not?" The deed finally revealed its true colors.

Li Jingchen shuddered, and smiled back in anger.

This is the purpose of Tu Yunkai. First of all, it doesn't matter whether it can be successful or not, as long as things are done first, Li Jingchen has no choice but to cooperate with him and go to gamble with him considering the overall interests of the Tu family and Donggong.This man is downright selfish and stupid.

She sneered and said: "It's not that I don't want to, but that his plan is too risky. It's okay to succeed, but if it fails..."

"How do you know it won't succeed if you haven't tried it? The ministers have been planning here for several days, sending several secret sentries to investigate, and they think they are [-]% sure. As soon as the army arrives, they can cooperate with each other." Qi Zi relied on his background in the army and fought for many years. He was submissive on the surface but actually didn't take Li Jingchen's words seriously.

"Okay, since you are so persistent, I will wait here for your good news."

"So, Your Highness agreed?" Zhang Qi was delighted.

Li Jingchen sneered in his heart, but his face was calm, "What can I do if I don't agree? Haven't you already killed before playing?"

"Please forgive me, Your Highness. The son-in-law didn't intend to deceive His highness. It's just that if the son-in-law is convicted today, it will also affect the reputation of His highness and the little emperor's grandson. The East Palace and the Tu family have long been one. To avenge the shame of Donggong."

This is the saddest part of this matter, if Tu Yunkai can keep his own place, the power of the Tu family and the East Palace might not be able to keep him safe.

But he is restless.

"Gu can promise to hide it for you, but there is one person who can't hide this matter."

"Who?"

"Princess."

"Absolutely not." Zhang Qi said urgently: "Eldest Princess is the commander in chief of this bandit suppression, if she knows, won't the whole army know about it?"

"Because the eldest princess is the commander in chief of this bandit suppression, she must know about it. Gu understands the temper of the eldest princess, and she hates being deceived the most. If she knows that you are acting in private without telling her, it will be fine, if If you lose, even Gu can’t keep you. How to choose, you can decide for yourself. Moreover, since you insist that this is a good strategy, how do you know that the Eldest Princess will not hide it with Gu?”

"This……"

The eldest princess was invited into the tent, and glanced at everyone suspiciously.Li Jingchen informed them of the strategy and the letter.

The eldest princess finished reading: "I used to think that Tu Yunkai was impulsive and irritable, and did a lot of stupid things. Now it seems that I have to add another one, I don't know the depth!"

Zhang Qi and Li Wang were ashamed and angry, as if they wanted to defend their master.

Li Jingchen didn't care about them, he was more concerned about the strategy mentioned in the letter, and asked: "Does Auntie think this strategy is not feasible?"

Li Pingzhu shook his head, "It's not impossible, on the contrary, this is a good strategy to defeat the enemy, but the premise is that Tu Yunkai can successfully insert into the enemy's rear as he said, and cooperate with us inside and outside. "

"However, judging from my many years of experience, his chances of success are very small. First of all, Gu Rentu is not a bandit in the ordinary sense. His cunning and ferocity are beyond ordinary people's imagination. Such a person is on the line of life and death. The vigilance must be a hundred times that of ordinary people, and it is not easy to play tricks under his nose."

"Besides, has he ever thought that this matter has a worse outcome than killing people? What if he is unfortunately captured? Gu Rentu is a master torturer. If he takes Tu Yunkai's life Threatening the entire army, what should we do?"

"The son-in-law will not be captured. The Tu family has family rules. The Tu family in northern Xinjiang will not take prisoners. If that moment comes, the son-in-law would rather commit suicide than drag the whole army down." Zhang Qi said firmly.

"Okay, even if he committed suicide. What if someone slaughtered and humiliated his body? You would never want to see your son-in-law humiliated after death, with his body incomplete!"

Zhang Qi said angrily: "Those who insult people's bones will be punished by heaven!"

"God's punishment? If Gu Rentu is afraid of God's punishment, he is not Gu Rentu. There is nothing in this world that Gu Rentu dare not do." Li Pingzhu looked very serious, "Then Pei Yan is a living example. ?, he dares to torture the living, let alone the dead."

The eldest princess has always been straightforward when speaking, she is not like Li Jingchen, who still cares about saving face for the Tu family.The power of the Cheng family in the southwest behind her may not be weaker than that of the Tu family, let alone the support of the current emperor.Both Zhang Qi and Zhang Qi dared not speak out.

"Fei Li, this matter is up to you to decide."

Li Jingchen: "You might as well follow what the letter said. Tonight we will conduct a feint attack to the south of Langtou Peak to harass the bandits. Next, whether Tu Yunkai can sneak in from behind? It depends on God's will."

"Well, it's okay to try, anyway, it's too late to regret it now. Just a feint attack is not enough, I'm afraid two or three times, Gu Rentu is a man of vigilance, it's better to make a real attack than a feint attack. By the way, let's find out the enemy's situation, right? You don't know Tu Ma, who is in ambush there, creates an opportunity."

As Li Pingzhu said, the eyebrows and eyes similar to those of Li Jingchen had more sharp edges and corners, but there was also a hint of maturity and stability that Li Jingchen didn't have at his age.

Li Jingchen: "Thank you, aunt." Seeing that Zhang Qi kept giving her winks, "Please ask aunt to keep the secret."

Li Pingzhu glanced at the deed with a half-smile, "I'm not stupid, besides, I can't afford to lose this person."

"..."

Several people have made a plan, so the eldest princess decides to suspend the escort of Tu Yun to Beijing for two days.Each to arrange.

It was almost evening when Cen Zhu returned to the tent, and was preparing to spread paper and rub ink, but he didn't see Gu Qing when he turned around, only Xiao Zhuang was dozing off on the desk, so she woke him up and asked, "Xiao Zhuang, where's Gu Qing? Xiao Zhuang woke up in a daze, and pointed forward: "It's there, huh? It was there just now, why didn't you disappear?"

"Hurry up and find it!!"

"Oh!" Cen Zhu and Xiao Zhuang went out of the tent together, caught the officers and soldiers passing by and asked, "Did you see my school boy? The one who is so tall and wears blue clothes."

Most people said they didn’t see it? Cen Zhu was so anxious that she was furious these days. What she was most worried about these days was that Gu Qing knew that the person who was besieged on the mountain was her brother, and she didn’t know if she was too sensitive. what's up.

"My lord, this is not the way to find it. Can you just call Sister Qing's name?"

"How can that be? If you shout like this, won't you expose her identity directly? You can't bring female relatives in the military camp."

"Then what should we do? Finding a needle in a haystack like this is not always the answer."

"That's good, you just call out my name? Gu Qing should come over and see what's going on when he hears someone calling me."

"Huh? That's right, adults are still smart. Then I called Ha!"

Xiao Zhuang spread his hands to his mouth, and started shouting up to the sky: "Cen Zhuo-! Cen Zhuo-!! Cen Zhuo--!!!" As a result, half of the barracks were startled.Everyone looked at the weird two people, as if they were holding some kind of soul-calling ceremony.

"Hey, little brother, has Mrs. Cen lost his soul, and you call her name here?"

"Go, go, what's the matter!"

After yelling about a dozen times, a handsome and thin book boy emerged from the group of rough men, holding a basket of food in his hand, and like everyone else, he tilted his head and looked at them curiously.

Seeing Gu Qing's eyes brighten, Cen Zhu immediately pulled her over, and said pleasantly, "You really came here. I knew you would come!"

Gu Qing's expression became even more confused.

"What are you doing?"

Cen Zhu looked her up and down, and seeing that she was fine, he finally exhaled, "I didn't do anything, I was looking for you? Where did you go? I was so scared to death, I thought you got lost? "Xun saw the six white flour steamed buns and two dishes in her basket again, and suddenly realized: "So you went to cook! No wonder! Remember to tell us when you go out later. If I am not here, tell Xiaozhuang, even if he When he fell asleep, you also yell at him, otherwise I will be very worried if I can't find you, you know?"

Gu Qing blinked his eyes, seeming a little puzzled.But knowing that Cen Zhu was caring about himself, he nodded shyly, slipped his slender fingers out from under the half-moon-shaped handle of the basket, and gestured quietly: "Understood, I won't act alone in the future."

"That's right!" Cen Zhu smiled and tapped her very lightly, "Let's go, go back to eat."

When Cen Zhu triumphantly pulled Gu Qing into the tent, he didn't notice at all that there was a pair of sullen eyes behind her that had been staring at her for a long time.In fact, this was also Cen Zhu's own mistake, she only knew that Gu Qing would be caught by using herself as bait, but she forgot that this bait would also work on another important figure in the military camp.

Just when Li Jingchen came out out of curiosity, he happened to see this scene in the crowd, and a bottle containing one of the five flavors in his heart suddenly turned upside down.