In the battle of false signals to defraud Hulaoguan to send troops, although the Sui Army won the battle and severely damaged the Wang Dangren Department of the Wagang Army and the Li Shicai Department of the Li Mi Army. The established tactical goal of taking the opportunity to break Hao Xiaode's camp was not achieved, and the strength of the Zhai-Li coalition army was not greatly weakened, because most of the enemies killed by the Sui army were Wang Dangren and Li Shicai's self-led soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was relatively weak. However, no matter how much the Sui army killed, it was of little use. It was far from the effect of injuring Zhai and Li's coalition forces.
Of course, the soldiers of the Sui Army did not work hard in vain. The biggest victory of the Sui Army in the eastern capital was a heavy blow to the cohesion of the Zhai Li coalition forces. He didn't save him, and watched Wang Dangren being surrounded and beaten by the Sui army. He was afraid that the Sui army would take the opportunity to enter the camp. Hao Xiaode adopted the suggestion of his favorite general Liu Heitai, and shot his bow and arrow at Li Shicai, an allied army in Ji County. As a result, Hulao Pass and the camp were saved. However, Wang Dangren and Li Shicai suffered heavy losses and almost lost their heads. Because of this, even though they failed to take down Hao Xiaode's camp as they wished, Chen Sangliang still laughed and retreated triumphantly. Waiting to see the joke and see if there is a better fighter.
Not surprisingly, the Wagang Army and Li Mijun had an internal strife. After Wang Dangren fled back to Hulao Pass, the first thing he did was to find Shan Xiongxin and yell at Shan Xiongxin for his ruthlessness and refusal to send aid, which caused him heavy losses. In agitation, he even slapped Shan Xiongxin in the face. Shan Xiongxin repeatedly explained that it was useless. The situation did not escalate, but Wang Dangren still greeted Shan Xiongxin's eighteenth generation ancestors furiously. Bing Yuan was really afraid that it would cause a catastrophe and quickly pulled Shan Xiongxin away. He comforted Wang Dangren and immediately sent someone to contact Zhai Rang Li Mi, report this matter to them and ask them to decide how to deal with it.
Hulaoguan was better, but Hao Xiaode's situation was more serious. After gathering the remnants of the defeated generals, Li Shicai rushed back to the camp to settle accounts with Hao Xiaode. They didn’t dare to open the door to let Li Shicai return to the camp, but sent envoys to explain the whole story to Li Shicai and make amends. As a result, Li Shicai, who was in a rage, not only refused to listen, but directly killed Hao Xiaode’s envoy with a knife, and then ordered to attack Hao Xiaode’s camp—everyone Bandit, no one has a good temper.
Hulao Pass dispatched troops in time to stop Li Shicai, Bing Yuan was really good at talking, and knelt on the ground begging Li Shicai not to be impulsive, not to give the shameless enemy Chen Sangliang a chance to take advantage of the fire, finally calming Li Shicai temporarily and returning to Hulao Pass Temporarily stationed outside the west gate, waiting for Zhai Rang and Li Mi to come to deal with it—the key is that Li Shicai's strength is far inferior to Hao Xiaode, otherwise even if Bing Yuanzhen smashed his head, Li Shicai, who suffered a heavy loss in his lineage, would have to skin Hao Xiaode's skin!
Things got serious, and after Zhai Rang and Li Mi reported the process to Zhai Rang and Li Mi by Pegasus, Li Mi suddenly turned pale with fright, knowing that if these things were not handled properly, it would definitely lead to catastrophe, and would definitely stir up trouble for his arch-enemy Chen Sangliang. Li Mi had no choice but to temporarily hand over the army to his deputy Yang Jishan, and Zhai Rang also temporarily handed over the army to Xu Shiji to lead the army. Fortunately, the Banzhu battlefield is not too far from Hulao Pass. Zhai Rang and Li Mi returned to Hulao Pass in the afternoon, and immediately called Shan Xiongxin, Wang Dangren, Hao Xiaode and Li Shicai to Hulao Pass for a meeting. Face to face to solve the aftermath of the problem.
After the meeting of several enemies, they still started with scolding and fighting. Fortunately, the two bosses, Zhai Rang and Li Mi, had already arrived at the scene, so they hurriedly used both hard and soft tactics. After a lot of effort, the enemies calmed down and sat down to accept the boss's mediation. Then when they reported the incident, the enemies couldn't help but quarreled again. Li Mi and Zhai Rang had no choice but to let them report separately. After fully understanding the situation at that time, Li Mi and Zhai Rang discussed again in a low voice, and then invited them back to the hall, and sat down again to talk.
"General Wang Dangren, General Li Shicai, I know you are angry." Li Mi, who is very eloquent, said sincerely: "This is human nature. If it were me or Duke Dongjun who encountered such a thing , may be more angry and impulsive than you, so what you did this morning, I have already discussed with Duke Dongjun, and we will not pursue it, just pretend it never happened."
"That's right, we won't pursue it." Zhai asked the parrot to learn his tongue, and then said to Shan Xiongxin: "Brother Shan, although Brother Wang beat you, but he was angry at the time, there is nothing to be said for it, give me a face, don't argue with him gone."
Zhai Rang opened his mouth, feeling somewhat wronged, Shan Xiongxin nodded and agreed, and Wang Dangren's anger subsided a bit, and Li Mi said again: "Brother Wang, Brother Li, you also have to be considerate of Brother Shan and Brother Li. Brother Hao’s problem is that last night was a night battle, the enemy’s situation was unknown, the officers and soldiers were cunning, Chen Yingliang’s little thief is also famously vicious and vicious, if one of them opens the door to help, and the other opens the door to let you back to the camp, it’s impossible to blame Chen The dog officer will take the opportunity to rush into Hulao Pass or the camp, and not only will you still not be rescued, but the loss may be even greater. They are forced to do this, and I hope you can understand and forgive."
"He didn't save me, I don't blame him, but why did he, Hao Xiaode, shoot arrows at my brothers?" Li Shicai said unconvinced: "Some of my brothers have already climbed the fence and can go back to the camp. People hacked and stabbed to death, is it necessary to use such a ruthless hand against the friendly army?"
"Brother Shicai, the most terrifying thing on the battlefield is not the enemy, but your own defeated soldiers." Li Mi said with a wry smile: "If General Hao hadn't made such a decisive decision, your defeated soldiers would all rush forward when they saw a chance to return to camp. Overthrow the fence of the camp, and when the officers and soldiers follow in to the camp, you and Brother Hao will still suffer heavy losses, maybe even worse."
After all, Li Mi hurriedly added: "Brother Shicai, you don't have to worry, I know you have suffered heavy losses, so how about this, I will replenish you with 500 troops, 500 middle-aged soldiers equipped with weapons and shields, Give you twenty more war horses, this should be enough to make up for the loss Brother Hao caused to you, right? A chopstick is easy to break, and a chopstick can't be pulled continuously. In front of a strong enemy, if we can't work together, it will be tantamount to Don’t you understand the reason for sending the neck up for Chen Gouguan to chop it off?”
Li Shicai remained silent, somewhat satisfied with Li Mi's compensation to him. Over there, Zhai Rang also said: "Brother Ren, my military strength is not as strong as that of Wei Gong, but I will also add five hundred fully equipped soldiers for you. I will reward you again." Your thirty taels of gold, you don’t think it’s too little, and don’t refuse, you deserve it.”
After getting compensation, and seeing that Zhai Rang and Li Mi spoke kindly and pleasantly, Li Shicai and Wang Dangren didn't say anything more, and thanked Zhai Rang and Li Mi honestly. Seeing that these two thorns were no longer pursued, Li Mi was overjoyed. He hurriedly smiled at Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode and said, "General Shan, General Hao, Brother Wang and Brother Li are no longer pursuing the case, so why don't you say anything?"
"Brother Dangren, it's my fault. For the safety of Hulaoguan, I didn't send troops to rescue you, causing you heavy losses, and I apologize to you." Shan Xiongxin cupped his hands and said to Wang Dangren: "Today you hit me in anger, I won't miss it either, I'll just pretend it never happened, and we'll continue to be good brothers in the future."
"Brother Shicai, please forgive me." Hao Xiaode also cupped his hands and said: "I was confused for a while, and after listening to Liu Heitai's suggestion, I shot arrows at your people and offended you. You should be angry. Kill me I don't care about my envoy's affairs."
"I listened to Liu Heitai's suggestion? This kid is very courageous." Li Mi's heart moved, and he admired Liu Heitai even more, but now is not the time to talk about this topic, Li Mi can only talk about it Putting it aside temporarily, he turned to Li Shicai and Wang Dangren again, and asked with a smile: "General Li, General Wang, Brother Shan and Brother Wang have already made amends, so why don't you say anything?"
Seeing that Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode were quite sincere in apologizing, Wang Dangren and Li Shicai didn't have much to say, but they also apologized to Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode, admitting that they had acted too much and offended Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode a lot. Saluting each other and apologizing, the grievance was resolved. Li Mi and Zhai Rang were overjoyed when they saw the mediation was successful, and quickly ordered a large banquet to celebrate the reunion of several subordinates. They also summoned several senior civil and military generals of the Wagang Army to accompany them, enlivening the atmosphere and further increasing their friendship.
In the banquet setting room, several Wagang civil and military guests who were invited came to the lobby, but Bing Yuanzhen came to the hall after the banquet, with a solemn expression as if he had something on his mind, and he didn't match up with everyone's hypocritical politeness. Li Mi saw that something was wrong, so he asked Bing Yuanzhen, "Mr. Bing, what happened?"
Bing Yuanzhen hesitated for a moment, and took a look at Hao Xiaode, before he said: "Duke Wei, Duke Dongjun, it's about last night. Last night, the officers and soldiers attacked our beacon tower and pretended to be General Hao Xiaode to send a false signal. Brother Wang was tricked and captured, from this we can see that there are traitors in our army."
"Yes, I'm about to report this too." Hao Xiaode was reminded by Bing Yuanzhen, and quickly said to Li Mi: "Wei Gong, the beacon signal last night was not sent by me, but by the officers and soldiers pretending to be me. Knowing our contact signal means that there must be a traitor among us, and this matter must be strictly investigated."
"I was already suspicious just now." Li Mi said calmly: "Although it is possible that the government and the army found out about this matter through investigation, it is very likely that there is a traitor. We must investigate carefully and prevent any accidents. one."
After that, Li Mi turned to Zhai Rang and said, "Master Dongjun, both your army and our army are involved in this matter, how about we investigate separately? I am in charge of investigating the situation in General Hao's camp, and you are in charge of the internal investigation of Hulao Pass. How do you feel?"
"Okay, let's investigate separately." Zhai Rang agreed, and said viciously: "If there is such a traitor, we must find him out, dismember him, chop it up and feed it to the dogs!"
Zhai Hong, Zhai Mohou and others echoed loudly, saying that this damn spy must not be spared lightly, but Bing Yuanzhen was full of hesitation, hesitated again, and suddenly said surprisingly: "Wei Gong, Dongjun Gong, Maybe there is no need to investigate, this traitor has already been discovered."
"Who? How did you find out?" Li Mi, Zhai Rang and others were shocked, and Zhai Rang jumped up in surprise.
"It was reported by two of our soldiers who escaped from the battlefield." Bing Yuanzhen said hesitantly: "During the battle last night, they were captured by the officers and soldiers, and they heard the officers and generals answering, telling us about the traitors in our army. Later, the officers and soldiers wanted to kill them, so they ran for their lives, got into the forest to the south, escaped by chance and came back to report.”
"Who is this traitor?" Zhai Rang asked with great joy.
"Liu Heitai!" Bing Yuanzhen gritted his teeth and replied, "Liu Heitai, the young commander under General Hao Xiaode's command, is Liu Heitai who claimed to have lied to Chen Yingliang's dog officer last time and was told to meet you here! "
"Liu Heitai?!" Everyone present except Li Mi screamed, Hao Xiaode jumped up and shouted: "How is it possible? Liu Heitai has always been loyal, how could he betray us?"
"General Hao, does Liu Heitai know the secret signal for you to contact Hulaoguan?" Li Mi asked calmly, but he was nervously calculating in his heart, analyzing whether this was a scheming plan by Chen Sangliang, who had no conscience, or Liu Heitai. Really became a traitor to the army
Hearing Li Mi's question, everyone's eyes naturally focused on Hao Xiaode's face. Hao Xiaode was tongue-tied at first, then nodded honestly, admitting that Liu Heita knew the secret signal. As a result, Zhai Rang immediately yelled like he was going crazy, "Catch it! Catch this Liu Heita immediately! Divide up the body with knives and avenge our brothers who died in battle!"
"King Hao, no wonder Liu Heizai persuaded you to shoot arrows at me, it turns out he is a traitor in the army!" Li Shicai also suddenly realized and yelled.
"Wait!" Li Mi hurriedly yelled to stop him, and said in a deep voice, "Calm down, the little thief Chen Yingliang is too treacherous, we must prevent him from repeating his old tricks and trying to drive us apart again! Mr. Bing, those two soldiers who escaped... . "
"I've already brought it, and I'm waiting outside the door." Bing Yuanzhen rushed to answer, and immediately ordered the two captured Wagang Army soldiers to be brought into the hall for questioning.
Soon, the two soldiers were led into the hall. Li Mi first carefully asked about their identities, places of origin, and the army they belonged to, and learned that they were all soldiers under Wang Dangren's command, and that they were all Wang Dangren's hometown. The people from Waihuang asked about what had happened, and the two soldiers reported the truth, saying that after Wang Dangren's team was dispersed by the Sui army's ambush last night, they were left alone and were killed by a group of Sui army soldiers in Hulao Pass. The southern captives were accompanied by several Wagang army captives. Later, a general of the Sui army came to the scene and laughed and said that the Wagang thieves had really caught the trap, and the beacon signal provided by Liu Heita was indeed true and sincere. Give internal responses to the officers and soldiers, and celebrate the victory of the ambush with the soldiers of the Sui army.
After the general of the Sui army left, the Sui army who captured them was receiving a report that his younger brother had unfortunately died on the battlefield. All the captives were killed to avenge his younger brother. When they heard this order, they did not dare to wait for death, so they ran for their lives together. Several companions were chased and killed by the officers, but they escaped into the woods by luck. The officers and soldiers caught up with them, and after a while they withdrew, they fled back to Hulao Pass to report.
The truth came to light, Zhai Rang, Zhai Hong and others roared again and again, Hao Xiaode was somewhat shaken when he thought of Chen Sangliang's attempt to recruit Hao Xiaode earlier, Li Mi was skeptical, some didn't believe that there would be such a coincidence, but he didn't dare Taking it lightly, after a little calculation, Li Mi ordered: "Brother Hao, send a few people to invite Liu Heitai, and say that I admire his decisiveness last night, and I want to reward him. Remember, don't let Liu Heita knew we were suspicious of him."
Hao Xiaode first agreed, but did not execute it immediately, and said: "Wei Gong, Liu Heitai also has a younger brother named Liu Shishan, who is also in my army and helps Liu Heitai lead the troops. If Liu Heitai really secretly Liu Shishan must know about the official army, so should you call him together?"
Considering that if Liu Heikai is really a traitor, Liu Shishan is also an accomplice, and if he summoned Liu Heikai and Liu Shishan brothers at the same time, the two brothers might become suspicious. Li Mi shook his head decisively and said: "You can't startle the snake, just spread the word about Liu Heitai. It’s fine to come to see him, and to Liu Shishan, it’s fine to send someone to spy on him, and if he makes any changes, he will be killed immediately!”
Only then did Hao Xiaode nod, and immediately sent someone to act according to the plan, leaving Li Mi to continue to calculate during the banquet, thinking constantly in his heart, "Is it a divorce or a coincidence? If it is a divorce, why did the little thief Chen Yingliang treat such a small boy like Liu Heitai?" Handsome? Little thief Chen Yingliang put so much effort into arranging the arrangement just to lure me into murdering Liu Heita, is it worth it? Could it be that this incident was a complete coincidence? Is Liu Heita really a traitor?"
Li Mi has never read Zizhi Tongjian, so of course he doesn’t know why Chen Sangliang attaches so much importance to Liu Heita, who is now just a small bandit general. In fact, Chen Sangliang’s importance to Liu Heita is far beyond Li Mi’s imagination. Above all, through deduction and analysis in advance, Chen Sangliang was also worried that Liu Heikai would be lured and killed by Li Mi, the fox of Wagang, or indiscriminately hacked and killed by incompetent people such as Zhai Rang and Hao Xiaode. talent. So in fact, before Zhai Rang and Li Mi returned to Hulao Pass, Chen Sangliang had a new move...
Another prisoner of Hao Xiaode's army was released back to the camp. This prisoner was captured by the Sui army a few days ago when Hao Xiaode's army was tricked out of the camp and suffered a disastrous defeat. After a lot of effort, he passed the identification of the traitorous captives and identified him from the captive group. After repeatedly confirming that he belonged to Liu Heitai, Chen Sangliang personally met the captive, gave him good food and wine, and comforted him with kind words. Reward him with clothes, and release him this morning, let him return to the camp of Hao Xiaode's army, and let him bring a message to Liu Heita:
"Zhai Rang and Li Mi are going to kill you, be careful."
It was just this message, Chen Sangliang was only afraid that the prisoner would not be able to deliver the message to Liu Heita, but he was not afraid that the prisoner would betray him and help Liu Heita clear up his grievances—in fact, Chen Sangliang was still rewarding Liu Heita On the inside of the prisoner's clothes, there was secretly written a sentence, "Dedicate this pawn to Li Mi, the suspicion will be eliminated, and it will be reused."
Now it's time to know how wicked and unconscionable Chen Sangliang is, right? If Liu Heitai refused to rebel, or if the prisoner betrayed and reported the secret, and Li Mi, the fox of Wagang, discovered the secret words hidden on the prisoner, wouldn't Liu Heitai even jump into the Yellow River to wash it out? Didn't Liu Heitai's act of loyalty that he took the initiative to confess turned into a cover-up