The Four Great Cases of Wu Zetian

Chapter 59

Visiting old friends counted into the enemy's camp to win and attack Dazhai with their lives
But said that Ma Rong had entered the big tent, Li Feixiong asked: "I don't respect myself. After several years, I robbed officials and family members from Baihe Forest and obtained wealth. Where can I be proud?" Ma Rong said: "It's hard to say! We broke up since that year. , rushing here and there, there is no fixed schedule for death.

In recent years, in the Shandong area, I worked as a fast-moving team leader, but I had no choice but to be corrupt officials and ignorant of talents. Instead, I forged a lot of hatred with my friends in the green forest.In the future, I will know that my virtuous brother gathered in Taihang Mountain for righteousness. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at Baoshan, he was here again.I don't know that my virtuous brother has such great ambitions to do such amazing and wonderful things.Brother Yu is here, is it possible to appoint him? "After Li Feixiong heard this, he said the words that after the Baihe Forest was robbed, the people were scattered, and they were arrested by the local police. After entering the table, Ma Rongfu asked again: "Your brother's words are all from the past. Now that you are attacking the city, do you want to claim the power of the Tang dynasty and call yourself a widow, or is there someone else in charge?How about the recent victories and defeats, who led the officers and soldiers? Seeing him asking this question, Li Feixiong hurriedly said: "How could my little brother have such delusions!"If someone hadn't ordered me to do this, not to mention that I can't win with my skills, even food and grass can't help me. When Ma Rong heard this, he was really happy in his heart. As expected, someone secretly accused him of accepting it. He said: "This is the good fortune of my virtuous brother, so there is such an opportunity!"Just now when I came to the camp, I saw the name of Luling King written on the banner. Could it be that the prince of Fangzhou, who regained the country, ordered his brother to assist? "

Li Feixiong laughed and said, "I'm not an outsider. I'm here to help my younger brother. You might as well tell me the details. Where is the King of Luling? Speaking of which, the eldest brother can also know that Empress Wu is now in court, and the general Wu Sansi brothers They were all appointed high officials and took charge of the government. The prince was demoted to Fangzhou, and he wanted to succeed Datong Chuan and Wu Chengsi, but Di Renjie and his loyal officials and soldiers repeatedly obstructed them. The king of Luling recalled. Therefore, the Wu brothers came up with this idea and ordered me to pretend to be the crown prince and attack the city, so that the local officials would report to Beijing, saying that the prince rebelled. These thousands of miles of land and mountains fell into the hands of the Wu brothers. Unexpectedly, the prefect of Huaiqing, Hu Shijing, closed himself and defended himself, unable to attack. Now Di Renjie led his troops to fight with each other. Unexpectedly, he is a general who is used to fighting, and he opened for the first time yesterday. Although the soldiers killed the guarding Jincheng, Wu Meng, the two-gun general in the battalion, also wounded his life for the enemy battalion. The younger brother's skills, the elder brother knows very well, this big camp with so many elite soldiers, how can we retreat him Fortunately, my elder brother came here to help me in the battle tomorrow. If Wu Chengsi can win the world, you and I will be famous and rich, so why not be afraid?" Ma Rong also pretended to be happy, and responded with all his mouth: "My brother With such a way out, if this matter is done, it will be ten times better than the green forest business! Brother Yu will go out tomorrow, and he will kill a big loser to avenge yesterday's hatred."

Seeing Ma Rong's promise, Li Feixiong was very proud of himself, so he called Wang Huai and Hong Liang to meet each other, and they called each other by first and last name, and drank happily until the afternoon, before they broke up.Ma Rong said: "My dear brother, this camp is very majestic, but I don't know the front, rear, left, and right sides. Is there a path to pass? Generally, the camp must extend in all directions so that it can advance and retreat freely. If one side is deployed, three sides are closed, and if the front team is defeated, no one will retreat. Isn't it just waiting to die?" Li Feixiong said: "How do you know the art of war, my little brother? After all, there are Wu Chengsi and others who secretly arrange it. They only want to drive back the officers and soldiers. If the fakes come true, then they will become famous. Since the old man is particular, please invite me at this time. Go to inspect, if there are any loopholes, you might as well change it." Speaking of getting up, everyone went out of the back camp and looked around, all of them were surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the terrain was quite good.There is only a high mountain on the left, one or two miles away. If you can ambush your troops here, you can condescend.Then he asked: "Although the top of this mountain is dangerous and solid, I don't know where the back of the mountain leads to?" Li Feixiong said: "Behind the mountain is the West Gate Avenue of Huaiqing Mansion. My big camp is based on his south gate. If it wasn't blocked by this high mountain, I wouldn't set up camp here." After Ma Rong's inspection tour, he went back to see where his food and grass were.

It was getting late, and Li Feixiong was ordered to set up wine and talk, and he didn't go to bed until the second drum was repeatedly urged.

The next morning Li Feixiong invited him to fight, and let him use his horse as a weapon.Ma Rong said: "Brother Yu's nature is well known. This saber is very good for fighting against people. If you work hard immediately, you can't be refreshing." After all, he still went out of the camp gate with his clothes and went to the battlefield to shout for battle.

When the officers and soldiers saw Ma Rong discussing the battle in the tent, everyone disagreed, rushed to enter the tent, and reported to Duke Di to know.Mrs. Di followed Mrs. Qiao to meet the enemy, and said: "Ma Rong is here, there must be news. If you go, you can only pretend to be defeated. Let's see what Ma Rong has to say." Doubtful, he had no choice but to sit on a horse and carry a knife, and go to the front of the battle.Seeing Mrs. Qiao coming, Ma Rong yelled deliberately: "Who is here? Hurry up and take your life! My family leader Li Dazhai killed you and others yesterday, and ordered my family to avenge him. Don't leave, I will kill you!" With a knife in his left hand, he slashed at the face.Seeing that he was pretending to be astonishing, Mrs. Qiao was really amused in her heart, so she raised her knife to meet him.

Fu fought again, turned his horse's head, and left in the wilderness. Ma Rong shouted loudly, "Where the rebel is going, I will come after him!" Far and near, there are forests on the left and right, and the bandits behind are gone.Mrs. Qiao laughed and said, "Brother, what kind of face are you making? What's going on in the camp?" , you can ambush, tomorrow like this, advance through the west gate, and then you can capture it in one go." Mrs. Qiao was overjoyed after hearing this.The two were about to go back when bandits from a distance came after them. Ma Rong said, "Go ahead in defeat, so that everyone can clear up their doubts!" Looks like, desperate to run forward.Seeing that the bandit soldiers had arrived, Ma Rong shouted loudly: "Hurry up and block the way, don't let this fellow run away!" With a greeting, he still pursued closely. At that time, the bandits and soldiers shouted in unison: "Master Li has an order, please return to the camp here. The mountain road is rugged, and I am afraid that we will be tricked by the enemy." When Ma Rong saw that everyone was like this, he said instead: "You come here early. One step, and it won't escape for this guy. Let's wait until tomorrow when the troops start, and then capture this guy." At that time, he returned to the camp with all the thieves.Seeing Li Feixiong coming out early to greet him, he said: "My brother won this battle today. Although he did not capture the enemy, fortunately he was not defeated. With my brother's ability, are you afraid that you can't win?" Ma Rong also entered the tent.

Li Feixiong had already prepared the banquet, and the two sat down to drink.Ma Rong said: "Brother Yu came here and wondered that there are many capable people in the enemy camp. Who knows that they are incompetent people who are here today. There are such soldiers and horses in this camp, why not divide into four teams, surround his camp, and kill him on all sides." Come on, in less than a day, this Di Renjie will definitely be captured. Why do you stick to it for a long time, but it strengthens other people's ambitions!" Seeing such words, Li Feixiong said: "Although there are many generals in the camp, I have no choice but to train for a long time. They are not generals who are used to fighting. If the elder brother can slowly fight here, go out to the camp with the younger brother every day, win the battle, kill several of his masters, and then attack from all sides, even if he flees into the sky!" Ma Rong said: "My brother's words are wrong! There are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have misfortunes and blessings. If you don't take advantage of this vigor and go down with a drum, but if Brother Yu fights every day, how can you be sure to win? If the enemy camp is added again If you are a novice, how can you talk about Xiang at that time? It is not too late to deal with the military affairs, and the banner in the camp is all in the name of the King of Luling. If the crown prince is trusted in Fangzhou and leads the troops to attack back and forth, the mechanism will be exposed at that time. So what? Success or failure is so ugly, I’m glad you don’t make mistakes in this one action.” Li Feixiong was originally a very rough person, and seeing Ma Rong’s words, he couldn’t help being encouraged: “The big brother’s words are really clever, how dare the little brother No! But advance must be retreated. Tomorrow morning, I will send someone to the capital to deliver a letter, telling Lord Xu Jingzong that Di Renjie is extremely difficult to break through here, and has been attacked from all sides. Please try to help him quickly so that he can recruit troops to rescue him in Taihang Mountain; on the one hand, he must consider One person guards the battalion, fearing that enemy soldiers will come to charge the village." Ma Rong said: "Brother Yu is worried that no one will be there, and Brother Yu is in the camp, so nothing will happen. If the team wins, it will be great, otherwise Brother Yu will lead the team out of the camp and take the virtuous brother out. Wouldn't it be good?" Li Feixiong listened and acted according to plan.

The next day, I first wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it to Duzhong and deliver it to Xu Jingzong's yamen.

Then he ordered Hong Liang to attack the east gate, Wang Huai to attack the south gate, himself to attack the west gate, and the rest of the generals were sent to attack the north gate.All food, grass and military equipment are in the back camp, and [-] soldiers are left behind. Ma Rong is asked to guard the camp, and he still goes to the camp to watch the battle from time to time.The distribution of all matters has been decided, and we only have to wait for the next day to start the army.Let's say Mrs. Qiao returned to the base camp and said what Ma Rong had said.Hearing this, Duke Di was overjoyed. Early the next morning, he ordered Zhao Dacheng and Fang Ruhai to take [-] elite soldiers from Ximen Avenue to the high mountain. At night, they led the crowd to climb the mountain and lie in ambush in the woods.But when they heard the loud sound of cannons, they all went down the mountain together. They must form a team with Ma Rong and capture Li Feixiong alive, so as not to hurt his life, so that they can testify later.The two of them took orders and went to ambush without mentioning it.Let me show that Li Feixiong had finished sending orders that day, and one night had passed. At dawn the next day, each of them led his soldiers, fired guns and opened the camp, and surrounded the front team of officers and soldiers. I wished Li Feixiong the lead, stepped forward and shouted: "The soldiers in the camp have heard that the former Japanese general was defeated by Zhao Dacheng and injured one of my generals. This hatred, this hatred, has not yet taken revenge. Today I am here to fight to the death with you, so as to repay the king of Luling's entrustment! You should report to Di Renjie as soon as possible, and order him to send capable men to fight, otherwise the soldiers from all sides will crowd up and immediately put you in the camp. Step on the flat ground." The officers and soldiers saw that the bandits surrounded him, but they didn't know that he was bewildered by Ma Rong, so they couldn't help but turn pale with fright, and flew forward to report, wanting to know what happened next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.

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