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Chapter 341
Hearing Li Xia's name and his grievances with Uncle Xie Fang, Kong Xian no longer believed Yao Shi'an's statement that "worried that it was Mongolia's espionage that prevented Wu Xinjun from entering the city".

But he also thought, since the war is imminent, if Pu Shuai sends someone who has a party dispute with the city guard Yao Shi'an to come for reinforcements, what is the benefit to the current situation?
Thoughts just passed through my mind, suddenly I heard someone yelling: "Open the city gate!"

However, Xiao Shixian had already rushed over with strides, and instead of going up the city wall, he ordered someone to open the city gate.

On the top of the wall, Yao Shi'an was furious, and soon, the anger turned into resentment.

At that time, Yu Jie did everything possible to send someone to take his place, and he sent Chia Kong and Xiao to Yunding City to hold him back.

Now when Xiao Shixian heard that Li Xia, who brought down Uncle Xie Fang, had come, he immediately ordered the opening of the city, and the meaning of tit for tat was clearly revealed.

"Since you crowd out so much, don't blame me for surrendering." With this thought in his mind, Yao Shi'an felt a little better.

He hid the resentment in his eyes, sneered, and went down the wall with his saber...

~~
City gate.

With a stern expression, Xiao Shixian clasped his fist at Li Xia and declared himself his family.

"Baoyilang, stationed in Lizhou, commanded by the Yuqian Destroyer Army, Deputy Superintendent of Soldiers and Horses on Tongchuanfu Road, Xiao Shixian."

"I've seen General Xiao." Li Xia withdrew his gaze from the top of the city, looked at Xiao Shixian standing there through the slowly opened city gate, and cupped his hands and said, "I was ordered by General Pu to reinforce Yunding City. In the hands of the city guards, it is definitely not a Mongolian spy."

He turned around, pointed at the long line of Wu Xin soldiers on the mountain road, and said: "These are all my soldiers from the Great Song Dynasty."

Xiao Shixian said: "I know, let's talk after we enter the city."

He ordered his personal guards to block the road, and walked towards the city side by side with Li Xia, but he didn't speak anymore.

The man obviously doesn't talk much.

Over there, Yao Shi'an led people down from the top of the wall, and said: "This general is still checking the letter, but General Xiao is so eager?"

Xiao Shixian was a guest general, and letting Li Xia into the city was a bit over the limit, so he turned his head slightly to avoid Yao Shian's sharp eyes.

It was Li Xia who spoke first.

"I wonder if Yao Chengshou has completed the inspection?"

Yao Shi'an said: "The general is asking General Xiao, but you shouldn't answer."

"Then I also want to ask Yao Chengshou." Li Xia said: "If it wasn't for the fact that the military order was false, why didn't you let me enter the city? Yunding City can't supply the [-] army with food, and the [-] reinforcements can't supply the food and grass either?"

Yao Shi'an was shocked at Li Xia's presumptuousness, his face darkened, and he said coldly: "I have guarded Yunding for more than ten years, and have fought hundreds of bloody battles, and it's not for a yellow-mouthed kid to dictate."

"I'm afraid Yao Chengshou is not alone in this credit."

Li Xia refused to give in at all, and met Yao Shian's gaze.

The two faced each other tit for tat, and the scene froze for a while.

Kong Xian didn't want to have internal strife before the battle started, so he rushed forward and said, "Let's stop talking about Lizhi County, Yao Chengshou is cautious, just ask a few more questions."

After all, Kong Xian glanced at Li Xia with some reproach.

The few words Li Xia said after entering the city, questioning a defender with great military exploits, seemed to him to be too inappropriate.

Unexpectedly, Li Xia refused to bow his head after seeing his wink, and still looked directly at Yao Shi'an.

Kong Xian was very worried, and said to Xiao Shixian: "You too, can't you wait for a while? Why don't you apologize to the city guard?"

Although Xiao Shixian still had a straight face, he still said: "Yes, don't blame Yao Chengshou."

Only then did Kong Xian forcefully smile and continue to ease the atmosphere.

"It is a good thing to have reinforcements. We are all soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty. Little things can be ignored with a smile. The big battle is coming, and it is time to work together and fight the enemy together."

It has to be said that under the grievances between Yu Jie and Yao Shi'an, Yunding City can still stand for more than ten years, I am afraid that it is thanks to Kong Xian's turnaround.

Taking the overall situation into consideration, I owe a lot of credit.

Yao Shi'an didn't know what he was thinking, and finally sneered, he casually threw Pu Zezhi's military order to Kong Xian, and said: "Let them guard the Xiaodong Gate, and don't wander around in the city."

After all, he walked away.

Li Xia looked at Yao Shi'an's back and couldn't help but contemplate.

He vaguely felt that Yao Shi'an was quite airy, and he shouldn't be able to give in so easily.

"Why?"

~~
"City guard, General Xiao Yao has returned with his scouting horse."

"Let him come in." Yao Shi'an said, "You guys, stay outside."

Yao Yiming lowered his voice and said, "Mengren has agreed to Uncle's terms."

Yao Shi'an gave a "hmm", packed up the gold and silver in the drawer, and murmured in a calm tone, "It was Song Ting who forced me here. Let me thank you first, and then send the treacherous party to Sichuan to persecute me. Yu Jie, the sinner who wronged Shu, overturned the case...it was Song Ting who forced me here."

"Uncle, don't think about these things now." Yao Yiming said anxiously: "Prepare to dedicate the city."

"Then do it." Yao Shi'an thought for a while, opened the door, recruited a soldier, and ordered: "Let Zhang Wei come to see me."

……

Zhang Wei is a general under Yao Shi'an's command.

He and Zhang Shi, who were defeated in the Mahu River, are from the same hometown.

Back then, Yu Jie and Yao Shi'an had a grudge, Zhang Shi was reused by Yu Jie, and Zhang Wei was under Yao Shi'an's command. Even so, it did not affect the friendship between Zhang Shi and Zhang Wei.

He thought about it for a day, and when he saw Yao Shi'an this time, he said, "Cheng Shou, I'm thinking, maybe I can take advantage of my relationship with Zhang Shi to help the Mongolian army take down Xuzhou and Luzhou? Help the Mongolian army take down Yunding City." , we propose to seize Xu and Lu cleverly, and then choose a way to return to Duanpu, how about that?"

Yao Shi'an glanced at Zhang Wei lightly, feeling a little despised in his heart for his rushing attitude.

"Let's talk about it after successfully dedicating the city. Take care of the present first, and then think about the credit for the future."

Zhang Wei smiled and said: "Since the city guard has made a decision, what's the problem?"

"This is Yunding City, and there are many idiots who don't even want their lives to resist Mongolia!" Yao Shi'an said seriously, "So far, the only ones who are willing to surrender with me are you and my confidants with more than a thousand soldiers. Be careful."

"But as long as Kong Xian and Xiao Shixian are killed, the Song soldiers in the city will be in disorder. Then the Mongolian army will enter the city, even if there are only five hundred Mongolian troops, it will be enough."

Zhang Wei said, and then asked: "The general just doesn't understand, why did you let the kid surnamed Li bring the Wuxin army into the city? In case there is another incident..."

Yao Shi'an said: "If we continue to argue at that time, if Kong and Xiao become suspicious, we will miss the big deal."

"Yes." Zhang Wei said: "This scruple is justified, let him take a day or two, anyway, he will die if he enters the city."

Yao Shi'an nodded and made arrangements.

"In this way, I will hold a banquet tomorrow night to ambush Kong and Xiao. Zhang Wei, you guard the north gate alone and open the gate for the Mongolian army; Yiming, you arrange swordsmen."

Yao Yiming couldn't help asking: "Uncle, why didn't you invite the man surnamed Li and kill him together?"

Yao Shi'an pondered for a moment, and said, "Li Xia...so aggressive...why? I'm afraid he deliberately wanted to conflict with me...to test me?"

Zhang Wei and Yao Yiming looked at each other, not understanding what Yao Shian was thinking.

"uncle?"

"Send 300 people to guard Wu Xinjun, and don't let them leave Xiaodongmen." Yao Shi'an said: "Tomorrow night, there is no need to invite Li Xia."

"Why?"

Yao Shi'an said: "When the Mongolian army enters the city, they can annihilate the Wuxin army. There is no need to do anything extra."

That being said, he still has a layer of scruples.

Yao Shi'an has been a general for many years and has been deeply involved in party struggles, so he has the most keen sense of smell.He faintly felt a dangerous smell from Li Xia, so he didn't want this person to approach him.

It's ridiculous to say that he even felt that Li Xia deliberately wanted to provoke him, and took advantage of the conflict to draw his sword at each other.

This is absurd, Yao Shi'an clearly knew that it was impossible for Li Xia to find out that he had secretly connected with Mongolia.

"Impossible." He murmured...

~~
The next day, the Xiaodongmen of Yunding City.

The east city wall is built along the cliff, and the hill below the city wall is steep, with rocks and rocks everywhere, and is naturally dangerous and solid.

Here is facing the Jintang Gorge, and you can see the endlessly flowing Tuojiang River in the gorge.

Li Xia had placed the Wuxin Army properly, and was looking at the Tuojiang River in the distance, and he could also see the overwhelming Mongolian army tents by the river from a distance.

Nie Zhongyou walked to his side and sighed: "With such a terrain, it's no wonder that Xu Liewu's [-] troops can't attack."

"I've heard a saying." Li Xia said, "The strongest fortress is often breached from the inside first."

"Breakthrough from the inside? What do you mean?"

"Nothing, just happened to think of it."

Nie Zhongyou's face became more serious, and he asked, "Did you see it? Kong Xian is dissatisfied with you."

"Well." Li Xia said: "He blamed me for not confronting Yao Shi'an tit for tat. The imperial court has court rules. I am a small official and a guest army, so I clashed with the guards when I arrived in Yunding City. He was afraid that the overall situation would be messed up, and he was unhappy. Inevitable."

"Yao Shi'an is already arrogant, but after we entered the city, Kong Xian was still displeased." Nie Zhongyou turned his head to look at the soldiers stationed at the gate of Xiaodongmen, and said, "I'm afraid we will always be left idle. Here it is."

"It's okay." Li Xia said, "I provoked Yao Shi'an on purpose, it's strange that he wasn't really angry."

"Stimulate him? Why?"

~~
On the other side, Yao Shi'an arranged things in an orderly manner.

He arranged for people to watch Wu Xinjun, so as not to let them make mistakes; arranged for Zhang Wei to guard the north of the city tonight, preparing to open the city for the Mongolian army; ambushed the swordsmen and entertained Kong Xian and Xiao Shixian.

Finally, it was night.

Kong Xian and Xiao Shixian brought only four personal guards to Yao Shi'an's residence.

"Yao Chengshou, the battle is imminent, so there is no need for a banquet." Kong Xian said as soon as he entered the hall, "If there is a way to defeat the enemy, call us at any time."

Yao Shi'an said: "Discussing how to defeat the enemy is one of them. In addition, I had some small conflicts with Li Xia yesterday, and I am worried that you may misunderstand."

Xiao Shixian sat down straight away, and said, "I only care about defending the city, so you don't need to explain to me."

Kong Xian hurriedly said, "Don't blame Yao City Guard."

"Haha, it's okay, I know General Xiao's temperament." Yao Shi'an said, "It's not that I'm embarrassing Li Xia, but that he's young and vigorous, and doesn't know what to do...General Kong, you heard what he said too, how wonderful Arrogance?"

"Yes, yes." Kong Xian said: "But these disputes have not lasted for a day or two. At present, the foreign captives should work together to defeat the enemy."

"You always say that." Yao Shi'an shook his head and said with a wry smile, "But you never cared if I was wronged or not."

Kong Xian was slightly surprised, and said: "It's just some angry words from a young man, why take it to heart."

"I'm not just talking about Li Xia. Didn't Yu Jie send you two to Yunding deliberately to target me?"

"Why did Yao Chengshou say that?" Kong Xian said, "Over the years, when have General Xiao and I opposed you?"

Yao Shi'an said: "Really? Back then when I defeated Xu Liewu, why did you two rank ahead of me in the battle report?"

Xiao Shixian finally got impatient, and slapped the chopsticks in his hand on the table with a "snap".

"The war in the middle of Sichuan is continuous, and the people are in dire straits. You eat the king and complain all day long. Will there be an end?!"

"Xiao Shixian!" Yao Shi'an stood up suddenly.

Xiao Shixian said coldly: "I've endured enough, don't make any more noise, just talk about business, if it's just gossip, why don't you let me go to guard the city, and you can drink and eat."

"Okay, okay." Yao Shi'an pointed to Xiao Shixian, and took two steps back.

Xiao Shixian turned to Kong Xian, and said: "You want to say that you will join forces to fight against the enemy, tell him yourself, don't bother with me..."

"puff!"

Before the words fell, a dagger pierced Xiao Shixian's back...

(End of this chapter)