Li Tangbin left a thousand cavalry on the shore and brought more than a dozen cavalry officers to greet him. Twenty steps in front of Li Ke's horse, they rolled off their horses and walked to the Hedong Army. Li Tangbin cleared his throat, "The King of Jin, under the command of King Liang, Li Tangbin, is here to welcome the King of Jin here on the order of King Liang, and King Liang is waiting at Wangmandu." He said to Li Keyong in a cautious and polite tone, "We have prepared a banquet and military supplies in Biancheng. The King of Liang and the soldiers and people of Liang's vassal are very grateful to the King of Jin for traveling thousands of miles to come to the south to provide assistance."

Li Keyong sat down and looked at Li Tangbin condescendingly, without even getting off the horse.

"Why didn't King Liang come?" An Jinjun said as if he was muttering to himself, but the loud voice made everyone present hear it clearly. Li Tangbin frowned, but pretended not to hear it. When he came, Zhu Wen had already told him that Li Keyong was rebellious and arrogant, and if there was any verbal frivolity, he would pretend that he had not heard it.

"King Liang asked someone to apologize to King Jin. He was leading people to prepare for the military supplies to welcome the Hedong soldiers and prepare for the temporary camp of the Hedong Army."

Li Keyong nodded, "Since that's the case, let General Li lead the way."

Li Tangbin returned to the shore and got on his horse again, leading a thousand beams to open the way.

An Jinjun followed Li Keyong on a horse, "This Zhu A-san should have come out to greet us in person." He said dissatisfiedly, "We are here to 'reinforce' Liang Fan, but he actually put on the aphor of King Liang. Do he really think he can be on the same level as the king, or is he pretending to be the king's "righteous brother"?"

"When you cut off his head with one knife, brother. Then let's take a look at his appearance." An Jinquan said to his brother with a smile. On the surface, Li Keyong and Zhu Wen are both vassal kings, each of them is the commander of the Dazhenjie, and are both adopted sons of Yang Fuguang. But in fact, none of the Hedong soldiers felt that Zhu Wen was qualified to be on par with Li Keyong. An Jinquan was thinking in confusion. Is Zhu Wen considered being contemptuous, or was he guarding?

The team moved forward. Two days later, they arrived at the important passage between Zhengzhou and Bianzhou, Wangmandu, located on the Bian River.

Wang Mandu was an important water and land transportation key on the Bian River Canal during the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, and was guarded between Luoyang and Bianzhou. There were a large number of garrisons fortifications all year round. When Huang Chao was rampant in the world, he crossed the river here twice and suffered major losses in two battles with the government army.

At this time, three military towns were built at the Bian River at the junction of Zheng and Bian, namely the Wansheng Army Town on the north bank of Zhengzhou, Wangmandu Army Town on the south bank of Zhengzhou, and the Bajiao Army Town on the south bank of Bianzhou. These three military towns formed a horn and were bound to rush up the middle waterways of Zheng and Bian. They were important gateways of Xuanwu Town, especially for Bianzhou, the commander-in-chief's headquarters in Xuanwu, the three military towns in the northwest were extremely dangerous. Here, Zhu Wen stationed a heavy army all year round, with as many as 20,000 troops. It not only guarded against Heyang and Wei Bo on the other side of the Yellow River, but also focused on guarding against Huazhou in Yuanyicheng Town, which had been incorporated into Shandong Province by Li Jing. Of course, the arrangement of heavy troops here was also vaguely preventing Luoyang.

Although Zhu Wen did not have the reputation of Li Keyong and Li Jing, and was also an alien in the Chang'an court, this emerging warlord who was the same age as Li Jing and was just over thirty years old was never simple. Ten years ago, Zhu Wen was just a pig feeder, but in the years that followed, he made several major choices, and each time he made him leap. The first time was to leave the Liu landlord's family in Xuzhou to join the army. The second time was that he was forced to leave the Qin army and stayed in Xuanwu Town for a short time and immediately defected to Huang Chao. The third time was that he resolutely betrayed Huang Chao and surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. After these several choices, the former pig feeder finally completed a gorgeous turn ten years later and became the top ten vassal commander in the top ten. He owned three towns and several states, and was named a vassal king with one character, holding an army of 100,000.

Zhu Wen was very young, just in his early thirties, but his face looked much more mature than actually, with a big beard and dark face that made him look like he was about forty. Years of war have made him lose the rogue spirit of the landlords when they were feeding pigs, but instead had the majesty of a superior. He rode a black horse named Wulongqu. He wore a set of mountain armor, a phoenix winged horn, a golden sheathed sword on his waist, and a horse spear hung on his saddle. Zhu Wen, who was neatly dressed, was majestic and had the style of a general who was still as motionless as a mountain.

Beside him was Zhu Wen's wife, the Princess Liang, the daughter of Liu Yuanwai, Xuzhou who took Zhu Wen in. After Zhu Wen was appointed as the king, he sent someone to Xuzhou to bring his family to Bianzhou. Although Zhu Wen had many women and several children in recent years, he had never formally married. At the suggestion of Zhu Wen's mother Wang, Zhu Wen simply married Liu Yuanwai's young daughter. The daughter of the master's family, who was once arrogant, has now become Zhu Wen's wife. The Zhu family's Liu family is not very beautiful, but the family is gentle and considerate. At this time, Zhu Wen brought his wife and a group of Liang's generals to Wang Mandu on the border of Bian and Zheng, and he was full of sincerity.

"Brother Yi, please forgive me for not being able to go to Xingze to greet me in person." Zhu Wen smiled and stepped forward.

"I also came here on the orders of the court, and they are all doing things for the court, so why should I be so polite?" He didn't hit the smiley person. Besides, in Li Keyong's eyes, Zhu Wen was already a dead person, so he didn't care about Zhu Wen's trivial matter of calling him a brother.

"No matter what, I am very happy to lead the troops to help me. I have already prepared a banquet in Bianzhou City, and set up a military tent outside Bianzhou City, preparing a lot of wine and meat for the brothers in Hedong to drink and eat well." Zhu Wen came up and took Li Keyong's hand, very enthusiastic. It seemed that he could not remember the unpleasant experience when he met Li Keyong. Whether Li Keyong was crazy or arrogant, as long as he came to reinforce and assist him under the orders of the court, Zhu Wen would not care about the others. For Zhu Wen, it is important to bring back Chen, Hao and Ying, among the four prefectures that the court negotiated and returned with Li Jing. For this reason, it is worth tolerate Li Keyong.

"Let's go, brother, I have prepared a lot of good things for me, I will definitely like it." Zhu Wen and Li Keyong walked side by side.

After Zhu Wen greeted Li Keyong at Wang Mandu, the two troops gathered together and returned to Bianzhou.

Arriving outside Bianzhou City, Zhu Wen arranged Li Keyong's 20,000 troops in a temporary camp twenty miles outside Bianzhou City.

Bianzhou, Zheng land in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei capital in the Warring States Period, Chenliu, and the world was connected to the suburbs, especially after the opening of the North and South Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty. Bianzhou, which guarded the Bian River Canal, became more and more important. This is also the reason why Zhu Wen has controlled the territory of the three towns and the traditional four states in Xuanwu Town were long robbed of the three states, and Zhu Wen has refused to transfer the center of the Liangfan to the Jin Shang or Shaanxi Guo. This is too important, both military and economic, and it is very important, and Zhu Wen cannot give up easily.

After Li Keyong left the army outside the city, he brought only five hundred Yajun Guards into the city. Zhu Wen felt that Li Keyong had too many people, but it was hard to explain it clearly, so he had to follow Li Keyong's intention. After entering the city, he brought Li Keyong to the largest newly renovated inn in Bianzhou City. This is a building similar to a didian that integrates in-house and hotel. Even if Li Keyong was arranged to have more than 500 people, there was even a large restaurant inside, which happened to be used to entertain Li Keyong this time.

After a while of remarks with Li Keyong and others, Zhu Wen left Li Keyong and others to rest and retreated. He went straight back to the coach's mansion. As soon as he returned, Xie Tong came here immediately.

In the hall, not only Xie Tong was there. Even Zhu Zhen, Ding Hui, Pang Shigu, Li Xi, Deng Jijun, Li Chongyin, Zhu Chongjie, Kang Huaizhen, Li Fan, Niu Cunjie, Shi Shucong, Sima Ye and other Liang Fans arrived. Except for a group of generals such as brother Zhu Cun, in Jin Shang and Shaanxi Guo, the rest of the generals had arrived.

The generals all looked heavy and sat there without saying a word.

In addition, there was a man sitting in front of the charcoal brazier in a silk robe of a merchant.

"Yang Yanhong!" Zhu Wen recognized him. Yang Yanhong was a general under Zhu Wen. However, he was not an ordinary general, because Yang Yanhong was the intelligence chief under Zhu Wen. The separatist in the vassal states were in a melee. Now almost every vassal state has its own intelligence agency, such as the Supervision Office of the Qin vassal state, the Office of the Chang'an court, the searcher of the Xichuan court in Chengdu, and the Chazi in Huainan. Zhu Wen also had such an organization. It was named Luoyandu. Zhu Wen's Liang army had three personal troops, namely Luoyandu, Tianxingdu, and Jinqiu. Among them, Tianxing and Jinqiu were both personal guards in front of the tent, but Luoyandu was a personal soldier named before the tent, which was actually a supervisory intelligence agency. It supervised the generals internally and spyed on intelligence externally. Yang Yanhong was the military envoy of Luoyandu.

"Master!"

"Why are you coming back suddenly?" Zhu Wen felt something was wrong. Yang Yanhong was secretly sent to Yanjing by him not long ago to spy on the matter of the Qin Fan's peace talks. But now the peace talks have been reached, but Yang Yanhong suddenly came back in this outfit, plus his gloomy faces, something was definitely wrong. He asked now: "What's going on?"

"I found out about a piece of news in Yanjiushi. Because I was too shocked, I dared not delay it. I rushed back day and night and reported it to the king in person."

"What's the news?"

Yang Yanhong said: "The real content of peace talks between the imperial court and Qin Fan this time?"

"The real content of the peace talks?" Zhu Wen seemed to be questioning, but his face began to look ugly. The implicit meaning in this statement made him feel a little wrong.

"In the content of the peace talks between Li Jing and the court, Cai, Chen, Hao and Ying were not assigned to the court. Instead, the court assigned to the four prefectures to the Qin vassal!" Yang Yanhong said with a little depressed expression.

"Not only that." Xie Tong added, "General Yang also found that the court not only assigned the four prefectures in western Henan to Li Jing, but also assigned Bianzhou to Qinfan in the content of the peace. And there was also a secret clause..."

"What?" Zhu Wen asked in a low voice, his face became darker and darker. He keenly felt that he had been plotted and fell into a big pit. This made him feel uneasy. He immediately thought of Li Keyong and his 20,000 Hedong Army who had suddenly arrived from Hedong to reinforce him under the order of the court. At that time, only three towns were left to retreat in the south. He should have discovered something was wrong here. Li Keyong and him had not had a good relationship. On the contrary, Li Keyong had always expressed his contempt for him without any concealment. Why did he suddenly run to Henan to reinforce him this time? Unfortunately, he had been relaxing his guard against the peace talks before.

Since Yang Fuguang gave him a fake peace content and hidden the real peace conditions, it would be no good for Li Keyong to appear at this time.

"Li Jing and Yang Fuguang have a secret agreement. That is, the court, the court wants..."

"Li Jing asked Yang Fuguang to offer my king's head, right?" Zhu Wen's voice became colder and colder.

"It's true." Yang Yanhong felt a chill all over his body.

Zhu Wen said a few coldly, his face turned pale, and he slowly said, "No wonder the people we sent to Chen Yinghao's three prefectures were killed. No wonder Li Keyong came to reinforce so kindly. It turned out that this was a trap, and they all wanted to kill me."

Xie Tong said on the side: "Are you more cautious about this matter? Let's find out first. Be careful of fraud. If it is a counter-espionage plan by the Qin people, it will be troublesome."

"Where did you get this news?" Although Zhu Wen felt that this was true, he still tried hard to restrain himself and turned to ask Yang Yanhong.

"This news was seen in a letter that was discovered by the bed when his subordinates were in Yanjing one morning when they woke up one morning. There was a detailed peace content on it." Yang Yanhong said, taking out the mysterious letter. Zhu Wen took it and read it carefully. The letter was indeed peace content, but it was a little different from the peace result that Yang Fuguang gave him. It was a bit different in several key points. These different places are exactly what Yang Yanhong said just now, and are several of the articles targeting Liang Fan.

"Suddenly?"

This news made Zhu Wen a little confused.

"This letter must have been left by Li Jing's people. This is a clumsy counter-espionage plan, trying to cause internal strife between Liang and Jin, between Liang Fan and Chang'an." Zhu Zhen said.

Zhu Wen didn't believe that things were that simple, because this matter seemed too much like a counter-espionage plan. Therefore, the more he thought that this matter was not that simple. Li Jing was not a fool. If he was really a counter-espionage plan, he wouldn't have used it so clumsy.

"Maybe what is said in this letter is true?" Zhu Wen whispered.

"How is this possible? If the matter is true, why should Li Jing remind us?" asked Shuzong of the clan in confusion.

The two strategists Xie Tong and Hu Zhen almost spoke in unison at this time, "To make the water more muddy."

If the matter was true and Liang Fan was not prepared, it would be very likely that Yang Fuguang and Li Keyong would be suddenly destroyed by joining forces. Such a result would certainly be beneficial to the Yang family and Li Keyong, but it would definitely not be good news for Qin Fan. But if Zhu Wen knew about this, with the strength of Liang Fan, they would definitely not be able to destroy them in one fell swoop. The biggest possibility is that Zhu Wen and the Chang'an court turned against each other and became enemies, and the two sides started a fight. It was even difficult to decide the winner for a while. Such a result should be the most in line with the interests of Qin Fan. Thinking about this, I felt that this matter might be true.

"What should we do now?" Zhu Zhen asked Zhu Wen.

Zhu Wen was silent for a moment. He was considering that he wanted to make a major decision. Just as the previous decisions changed his life, this would also be a decision that could change his fate in the second half of his life. He had to first judge whether this was Qin Fan's counter-espionage plan or was it really a conspiracy of Yang Fuguang!

"I think this is true. The one-eyed wolf has always looked down on us. This time, he came to help all the time. If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. I don't think about it anymore. If you attack first, you will be the best, and then you will suffer. Let's just attack first, and directly surround Li Keyong and kill him, and then send troops to attack the Hedong military camp outside the city, destroying them first."

"That's right, Li Ya'er, who killed the dog god, let him underestimate us."

"Just destroy Li Ya'er and then send troops to Luoyang. Let's destroy Yang Fuguang and old man together. Damn it, you actually dare to underestimate us."

However, among the generals, they were a little more steady, and they felt that they were more cautious in response. Some people even proposed to send this secret letter to Yang Fuguang. "If the letter is fake, then the misunderstanding will naturally be clarified. If the letter is true, I believe that Yang Fuguang will not dare to take action after reading the letter. If Yang Fuguang can cancel the plan, I think it is better to bear it first. After all, if we really want to fight against the court, we are still unable to twist our arms now, let alone, don't forget that Li Jing is still eyeing him?"

The two strategists who made such remarks were naturally Xie Tong and Hu Zhen. Xie Tong was Zhu Wen's left Sima, and Hu Zhen was the right Sima. These two were among the Liang Fan, and Zhu Wen's Zhisu. Their proposal was also the result of careful consideration. The Liang Fan is not strong at present. Although he has the territory of the three towns, the territory of the three towns is too wide and the strategic situation is not good. They have Li Jing from Qin Fan in the east, Yang Fuguang from Luoyang in the west, and Wang Chongrong from Hedong in the north

, Nan's Sanchuan, where Tian Lingzi, can be said to be completely surviving in the cracks of major alliances. At present, they are dependent on the Yang brothers in Chang'an, and the situation is pretty good. But if they really turn against Yang, let alone whether they can fight against the Chang'an court and the armies of various towns led by the Yang brothers. Even if they live in Chang'an, there is a stronger Li Jing behind them. If the two tigers fight, Li Jing will reap the benefits of the fisherman, then it will be a disaster.

Therefore, for various reasons, the two strategists still felt that it would be better to make half of the matter and let Yang Fuguang know that they were prepared and forced them to give up dealing with Liang Fan. As long as the matter was clear but not to break up, they could barely maintain this balance in the end.
Chapter completed!