Wei Fusi returned to the camp, a little nervous and doubtful. He was facing a vicious wolf and a fierce tiger, and he was trying every means to plot against King Qi. This made him feel a sense of fear of "making a fuck with a tiger". Especially after seeing two smiling faces, he suddenly regretted it. He shouldn't agree to Li Fengyun's request and shouldn't let the two tigers and wolves be alone in private. But now it's too late to regret it, so he can only face the difficulties.

Li Zixiong revealed two huge secrets as soon as he opened his mouth. First, the white-haired thief was originally named Li Pingyuan, the son of Anping Duke Li Delin, and the secret soldier trained and trusted by Bohai Duke Gao Ying and Wenxi Duke Pei Shiju; secondly, who was the mastermind of the Dongdu mutiny was not clear at present, but one thing is certain. The purpose of the mastermind of the mutiny was to change the imperial regime by violent means, and the target of the imperial regime was the King Yang Nan who had basically lost his heir status in the new round of the imperial regime. Therefore, this mutiny had to hold up the banner of King Yang Nan of Qi, use the appeal of King Yang Nan of Qi to pull up a team, and then conquer the Dongdu and compete with the Holy Lord.

The first secret revealed by Li Zixiong is equivalent to giving King Yang Nan of Qi a "magic weapon" that stuck Li Fengyun's throat. If you disobey, you will kill the Duke of Anping Li Delin and the Li family of Zhao County. However, the second secret revealed by Li Zixiong directly sent King Yang Nan of Qi to the guillotine. Whether you want to rebel or not, as long as you are related to rebellion, you will be dead.

Wei Fusiru was severely injured, as if he was stunned and almost suffocated.

Sure enough, the two tigers and wolves gathered together and immediately "changed the situation" and directly sent the King of Qi to the guillotine. I had seen shameless people, but I had never seen such shameless people. Now it is certain that Li Zixiong was one of the masterminds of the Dongdu mutiny. Li Fengyun knew it when he went over, but the reason why he didn't say it was because he guessed that the mutiny wanted to use King of Qi Yang Nan, so he tried every means to approach King of Qi Yang Nan, and then took a certain opportunity to join the mutiny, and this opportunity was handed over by Wei Fusi.

Wei Fusi was in tears. It was over. Now it was completely over. He was plotted against him and he had no chance to turn over. But in an instant, Wei Fusi forced himself to calm down again. He could survive in a desperate situation, let alone not being in a desperate situation yet? Besides, the greater the risk, the greater the opportunity. Who dares to say that this is not an opportunity to win?

Soon, under the attention of Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong, Wei Fusi took the initiative to speak.

"You have predicted that this mutiny will end in failure." Wei Fusi looked at Li Fengyun and asked calmly.

Li Fengyun nodded.

"Since that's the case, why do you still want to participate in this mutiny?"

"If someone does not participate in this mutiny, the King of Qi will be sent to the guillotine." Li Fengyun did not hesitate and threw the problem directly to Li Zixiong.

"Will this change the outcome of the mutiny?" Wei Fusi asked.

Li Fengyun shook his head, "I have limited strength. Besides, you know that I will go north soon. Whether I participate in this mutiny can't change my decision to go north. Therefore, even if I participate in the mutiny, I will not work hard and cannot change the result of the mutiny failure."

Wei Fusi understood the truth and gradually gained the truth about the conspiracy of the "tiger and wolf", but Li Zixiong's testimony is still needed.

Wei Fusi turned his eyes to Li Zixiong, "Since Li Pingyuan has told you that the mutiny will end in failure, since you know that Li Pingyuan is a confidant of Wen Xigong (Pei Shiju), why do you continue to persevere?"

"Someone's power is very limited. Even if they are willing to change something, they are powerless and can only follow the trend."

“But that’s a way out.”

Li Zixiong shook his head, "The key now is that someone has already walked on the road of no return."

Wei Fusi understood that this time, the tiger and wolf secretly discussed that it was not that the tiger subdued the wolf, but that the wolf persuaded the tiger. The two sides cooperated. However, Li Zixiong's joining affected the agreement between Li Fengyun and King Qi. For this reason, the three parties must re-envision the alliance, and the three parties need a foundation of trust. As a result, the three parties can only suppress each other, block each other's throats, and build the alliance with each other's lives.

"The King of Qi has no choice." Wei Fusi said flatly after thinking for a while, "but you must swear that you should not bring the King of Qi into it in the mutiny, and do not kill the King of Qi."

Li Fengyun and Li Zixiong looked at each other, and a smile flashed across their eyes.

"Next, you must tell me what to do after the mutiny failed?" Wei Fusi asked, "You must tell me your overall plan."

"I have already said that only by going north and resisting the invasion of the Northern Gangsters in the war between the North and the South can we gain a foothold in the northern border and develop in the Yan Dynasty." Li Fengyun once again explained his future vision to Wei Fusi, but compared with what he said before, it was more detailed and thorough, and also added the specific details of using this mutiny to fight against Hebei.

"Mr. Jianchang decided to go north to Yan with Li Pingyuan?"

Wei Fusi was skeptical about Li Fengyun's words before. After all, he lacked understanding of the crisis of the Civil War. First, Tu's country is strong in recent years, and second, the northern desert captives had split and killed each other more than ten years ago, and there were continuous attacks between Middle-earth and Central China, and they were unable to recover. Although he had relied on Middle-earth to recuperate, if he wanted to recover his vitality within more than ten years and invade Middle-earth again, the possibility of invading Middle-earth to launch the Civil War is slim.

But Li Zixiong is different. Li Zixiong is a famous general of the Weifu Palace and a veteran commander of the military. He participated in all the conquests of the Northern Barbarians after the unification of Sino-Turkish forces. He had a deep understanding of the Northern Barbarians and the Civil War in the Desert. If Li Zixiong accepted Li Fengyun's prediction of the Civil War and decided to go north to Dai Yan with Li Fengyun, it would be enough to show that Li Fengyun's future vision was credible and feasible. Of course, the risks were also very terrible. Once Sino-Turkish forces lost the Civil War and the Northern Barbarians crossed the Great Wall and captured the Dai Yan area, this idea would be lost.

However, Li Zixiong's reply made Li Fengyun and Wei Fusi extremely uncomfortable.

"If the chances of a mutiny are slim, I have no choice. My reputation has been left to the point of being a waste of time. Although the world is big, there is no place for me to stand in a cone. I can only join the white-haired thief and live a life of silence."

Li Fengyun couldn't help but slander himself. After all, he still puts his hopes on mutiny. Unless he is desperate, this old man will never be able to stop. But in this way, was it that I used him or he used me?

Wei Fusi also cursed in secret. It seemed that Li Zixiong had gone all the way and would not stop until the end of his journey. However, now the three parties are "bound" together, and they are all damaged. There are too many uncertain factors in the future, and the risks are even more difficult to estimate.

On the seventh day of the third month, Zhang Xutuo commanded the main army and captured Juhe City.

On the eighth day of the third month, Qin Qiong led his army to capture Pingling and rushed to Zhangqiu City.

On the eighth day of the third month, Wang Bo led his army across the Luoshui River and captured Linji. After a little repair, he led his army to go south quickly and directly killed Zhangqiu City.

On the ninth day of the third month, Wang Bo crossed the Jishui River and met Qin Qiong at the foot of Zhangqiu City. The two sides immediately started a fierce battle.

On the same day, Meng Rang and the Zuo brothers led their troops to defend Boling and fought fiercely with Zhang Xutuo and Zhang Yuanbei and his son. Guo Fangyu and Qin Junhong went out of Lepan Mountain and attacked Zhang Xutuo's flanks. Jia Runfu and Tang Wanren defended the flank battle formation and stubbornly with two thousand horses to withstand the attacks of Guo Fangyu and Qin Junhong's ten thousand soldiers.

Boling is at the foot of Changbai Mountain, less than a hundred miles away from Zhangqiu City. That night, King Bo's messenger found the Meng Rang and Zuo brothers, and asked them to stay in Boling, firmly restrain Zhang Xutuo's main force, and win enough time for the Hebei rebel army to cross the Ji River south.

At the same time, Zhang Xutuo also received a letter from Qin Qiong. Qin Qiong urgently reported that the scouts discovered a large number of Hebei rebels on the north bank of the Jishui River and on both sides of the Luoshui River, and the number of people was likely to exceed 100,000. Once these rebels all crossed the Jishui River, the official army was unable to resist and had to retreat to Licheng, which would inevitably lead to the failure of the plan of the official army and the navy to attack the rebels from north to south.

Zhang Xutuo did not expect that more than 100,000 Hebei thieves came south, which was much beyond his expectations. Although these thieves could only go to the battlefield to fight, they were only 20,000 to 30,000 people. In addition, there were about 20,000 young and strong thirty thousand people in Changbai Mountain and Beihai thieves, so Zhang Xutuo had to face the front and back attacks of more than 50,000 rebels, which made the official army very harsh.

"Ming Gong, don't forget that there are tens of thousands of white-haired thieves in the direction of the Zhongchuan River." Yang Qian saw Zhang Xutuo hesitant and hurriedly reminded, "Don't have too much expectations for the King of Qi. Under the current situation, in order to preserve his strength, the King of Qi must watch coldly, sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight, and reap the benefits of the fisherman. It can be asserted that if the King of Ming was surrounded by the rebels in Zhangqiu, he was in danger. The King of Qi would definitely enter Licheng first with the excuse of support. Once Licheng changes hands, the situation will be extremely unfavorable to Ming Gong."

However, although the entire line retreated and defended Licheng, although it could not lose Licheng, nearly 100,000 rebels entered the hinterland of Qi County, burned, killed, and looted. So what if they defended Licheng? The situation in Qi County was completely out of control and directly threatened the navy's expedition to cross the sea, forcing the navy to force the navy to throw its main force to the battlefield of suppressing the rebellion. In this way, even if the thieves were successfully suppressed, Zhang Xutuo could not escape the crime of dereliction of duty. What's more serious is, after this battle, could the navy still ensure that it would cross the sea and expedition within the scheduled time?

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Xutuo resolutely decided to implement the original plan, attack the rebels with the navy, and fight to the death with the rebels in Zhangqiu. He would rather fight with them than let the rebels rage Qi County and poison innocent people, and would never affect the plan of the Eastern Expedition. Only in this way can he protect his official hat.

"A certain order was passed to give up Pingling, Jihe, and give up attacking Boling. All the main forces went north to Zhangqiu overnight and blocked the Hebei bandits on the north bank of the Ji River at any cost."

Whether the Hebei bandits can be blocked on the north bank of the Ji River is the key to the joint attack of the official army, but Zhang Xutuo was caught in the joint attack of the Hebei Rebel Army and the Qilu Rebel Army. It can be said that it was a death toll. Whether the navy can survive depends on whether the support speed of the navy is fast enough.

Zhang Xutuo gambled, betting all the bets on Zhou Fashang, disregarding the threats of King Yang Nan and Li Fengyun, and determined to fight to the death.
Chapter completed!