Chapter 450

Before the team contacted the imperial court, Mou Liangbi knew that his name would be on the list of dead soldiers. Even if he could return to the imperial court alive, the best outcome of this battle is that he was only sent home from his official post. After the king of Xujun sent someone to contact the imperial court, Mou Liangbi knew that the position of minister of the Ministry of war had been replaced by Zong Lianghu, but he had no complaints. Who was the blame?

At first, if he and Princess Xu had made up their minds, there would have been a disastrous defeat. In fact, before Li Yuanshan's rebellion, he was not without signs. He and Prince Xu were aware of it, but they both had the same mind and the same hesitation.

After more than ten years in prison, he thought his life would end like this. Unexpectedly, the emperor enabled him before the war and directly promoted him to the Minister of war. At that time, Mou Liangbi was in high spirits, but who thought that fate was so grinding and so ups and downs?

He also knew there was something strange about the death of Prince Xu.

In the whole team, only he and Prince Xu have seen the secret report sent back by Cui Zhongzhen. He was more wary of Li Xiaozong.

But his hesitation made him miss the opportunity to eradicate Li Xiaozong.

Sitting in the tent and looking at the soldiers arranged by Li Xiaozong outside, Mou Liangbi couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly.

"Eat a moat but don't gain a wisdom..."

He murmured, his eyebrows bitter.

The water on the stove was boiling, but he didn't notice it at all. In fact, his mind is blank and has nothing. He was just stunned and didn't think about anything.

Just then, the voice of the soldiers and people outside pulled him out of the chaos. He looked out and just wan Yan Chongde lifted the curtain and came in.

"Your Highness, why are you here?"

Mou Liangbi quickly got up.

Wanyan Chongde carried a pot of wine in his hand, smiled and said, "there has been no war these two days, and he looks sour all over. He went out to play some game in the morning, cleaned it up by himself, and came to have a drink with Master Mou."

He waved his hand. The soldiers behind him came in with a food box and put the wine and vegetables on the table with their heads down. Mou Liangbi didn't care that the soldier's face was raw, shook his head and said, "where do you still want to eat wine? Now the war is so sticky, you shouldn't go back. There will be big trouble sooner or later."

The soldier filled the glass with wine and said in a low voice, "today, Lord Mou should eat the wine, but the food prepared by your highness naturally has a different flavor."

Mou liangbixin said that the soldier had no rules. He looked back and was stunned immediately. The soldier straightened up with a gentle smile on his beautiful face.

"Fang..."

He opened his mouth, but subconsciously stopped.

"As soon as you get drunk, you can have a drink with your highness!"

He went to the table and sat down, staring at Fang Xie.

Fang Xie looked out, then took out the previously written note from his cuff and put it on the table. There was Li Xiaozong's personal soldier outside. No matter how small his voice was, he couldn't hide it from others. Therefore, Fang Xie wrote everything he wanted to say, put it on the table and left immediately. He nodded to Mou Liangbi. The smile on the corner of his mouth could make people feel secure. Mou Liangbi also nodded to him, with surprise and excitement in his eyes.

"Go back first. I'll go back to the camp after drinking with Lord Mou."

Wanyan Chongde waved his hand, and Fang Xie immediately withdrew.

When he went out, he saw a group of people coming this way in the distance. Although he just took a casual look, Fang Xie's heart still couldn't help tightening. Li Xiaozong was the leader of the group of people coming this way! Behind him, more than a dozen generals of the Sui army followed, as if listening to Li Xiaozong's arrangement of military affairs.

Fang Xie pulled down his leather helmet, stood aside and bent down to salute.

Li Xiaozong didn't look at him at all. He talked to the generals and rubbed Fang Xie's body. After they passed, Fang Xie straightened up and walked to the camp of Hanqi in northern Liaoning. Li Xiaozong spoke as he walked. Suddenly he felt a chill on his back. Subconsciously, he looked back and found nothing.

"Who is that soldier?"

He asked the soldiers outside Mou Liangbi's tent.

"Back to general, that's your highness Wanyan's follower. He came to deliver wine just now."

"Your Highness is here?"

"I'll drink with you in the account."

Li Xiaozong gave a sound, waved his hand and ordered the generals: "go back first and discuss how to enter the army tomorrow."

The generals promised and turned away. Li Xiaozong opened the curtain of the big tent and went in. He smiled and said, "you two are very interested. The weather is getting colder and colder. Heating a pot of wine is to relieve fatigue and keep warm."

When Mou Liangbi heard what was said outside, he put the note in his sleeve, got up with Wan Yan Chongde, and invited Li Xiaozong to sit down and drink with him.

"It's a rare good game!"

Li Xiaozong looked at the food and wine on the table and said, "there is no war today. I'll drink it with your Highness's wine."

The three sat around and said a few gossip. Naturally, they talked about the war against the rebels.

"The weather is getting colder and colder. Our soldiers lack winter clothes. Meng Wansui is just careful. We can't find a chance to break the enemy, can we..."

Mou Liangbi's words were interrupted by Li Xiaozong when he was only half way through: "how can you easily withdraw your troops if you don't repay the king's great revenge? Tens of thousands of soldiers have shed their blood and returned without success. How can I explain to them?"

"But the rebels just need to guard against it. How can they revenge?"

Mou Liangbi said, "General Li, I share your grief over the death of the prince. But now that you are in charge of military affairs, you can't be emotional. As the chief general, you have to be responsible for tens of thousands of soldiers!"

"I am also responsible for the death of the Lord!"

Li Xiaozong said loudly, "I accompanied the Lord to explore the enemy's situation that day. The Lord died in the war, but I lived on. How can I tell the spirit of the Lord in heaven? Tens of thousands of soldiers have one mind, that is, they would rather die than kill the rebels! Master Mou, you are so timid. I'm afraid the Lord will be cold if you know!"

"General Li!"

Mou Liangbi said angrily, "if tens of thousands of soldiers are accidentally killed, the king will be cold!"

Wanyan Chongde quickly picked up his wine glass and said, "both of you are thinking about the Lord. Why should we argue? The Lord must be under nine springs and definitely don't want to see the two people he trusts most. Let's not talk about military affairs today, shall we?"

Li Xiaozong sighed, picked up his glass and said, "Your Highness will laugh."

He took up his glass and drank it. He got up and said goodbye: "I have military affairs to deal with, so I'll leave first."

With these words, he turned to go, and suddenly saw a folded paper at Mou Liangbi's feet: "what's that?"

Mou Liangbi looked down and his face immediately changed.

He bent down to pick up the paper and handed it to Li Xiaozong: "this is the policy I wrote in the past two days. After the army returns to the stronghold, how to continue to spend the winter with food and grass, how to prepare winter clothes to keep out the cold, how to guard against the rebel counterattack, how to reorganize the team, and how to contact the Imperial Army are all my painstaking thoughts. Since the general comes, I'll leave it to you."

Li Xiaozong stretched out his hand, hesitated and said, "we'll discuss the withdrawal in a few days."

He didn't take the paper and turned away.

After Mou Liangbi waited for him to go out, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief.

Wanyan Chongde's tight muscles on his back also relaxed. Only then did he find that the clothes inside were wet.

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Li Xiaozong returned to his big account. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was strange today. But when I think about it carefully, I don't think there's anything wrong. Frowning and thinking for a while, he suddenly thought that when he was ready to leave Mou Liangbi's tent, Wanyan Chongde's men consciously helped the handle of the knife around him.

"Someone"

He shouted to the outside of the tent, and immediately some soldiers came in.

"Go to Master Mou and ask for what he wrote today. You just need to talk about it. Master Mou will know what it is."

The soldiers went out and soon returned to say that Mou Liangbi had burned it.

Li Xiaozong frowned and thought for a while, and then smiled at himself. I'm really too nervous these days. Mou Liangbi has been elevated. I only need one chance to kill him. Although Cui Zhongzhen is not dead, he is a useless man in a cage. He also lacks only one chance to kill him. And he can create such opportunities at any time. After the death of Prince Xu, the general of the army had the highest prestige and naturally took over the command.

Cui Zhongzhen is just a member of his own army. Although he has great prestige in the army, Li Xiaozong is not worried about anything. The reason why he strongly rejected Mou Liangbi's proposal to withdraw troops is that he must seize this opportunity and keep the general's heart firmly in his own hands.

The soldiers are full of hatred for the death of Yang Kai, king of Xujun. He must take advantage of this hatred.

"Liu Silang"

Li Xiaozong shouted to the outside. His personal team was coming in immediately: "what do you want from the general?"

"After the promotion tomorrow morning, I will order Cui Zhongzhen to commit crimes and meritorious deeds. I will give him a man from the Zhechong camp to fight outside the rebel camp. You go to see Meng Wansui all night and ask him to send troops to fight tomorrow. Just hide among the rebels and find a chance to shoot Cui Zhongzhen to death."

"Yes, my subordinates."

"And"

Li Xiaozong was silent for a moment and continued: "tell Meng Wansui that in three days, I will ask Mou Liangbi to escort the luggage back to the stronghold and let Meng Wansui ambush in Jiagou. As long as Mou Liangbi is dead, there will be no serious trouble."

"Then... What about the Wanyan Chongde?"

Asked Liu Silang.

"I can't eat the cold cavalry of more than 10000 people for the time being... Although I look greedy, I don't have such a big appetite. It's not time to move him now. Wait and see what news comes from the East. You can arrange someone to set out immediately and go to Hexi Road to investigate the movement of the imperial army. If the imperial army is blocked, we will return to langrushan and garrison. If the imperial court is big If the army wins, I'll contact Meng Wansui to attack Xiangzhou together! "

Liu Silang nodded: "my subordinates understand!"

"Go"

Li Xiaozong waved his hand: "don't let others find out."

Liu Silang answered and bowed back.

Li Xiaozong drank the herbal tea in the cup in one gulp. The cold feeling of his heart made his somewhat impetuous heart quiet. He went to the gate of the big tent and looked at the sky outside, as if thinking.

After a long silence, he suddenly smiled.

"Kill Cui Zhongzhen first, then Mou Liangbi, and then find a chance to kill Meng long live... If you conquer Xiangzhou, even if the emperor doesn't want to reward me. Even if the imperial army is defeated and holds hundreds of thousands of people and horses, where can you live?"

He stretched out a hand and drew a few times in the air. The teapot on the table suddenly broke, but the herbal tea in the teapot floated in the air, rapidly changing its shape, and finally turned into a skate.

As soon as he clenched his fist, the skate broke in mid air and fell to the ground.

"Strength"

Li Xiaozong murmured, "I need stronger strength..."