Han Shizhong and other generals jointly signed a guarantee to plead for Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing. When Emperor Gaozong saw the joint petition, he remembered Fu Tianpeng's past contributions to the court, so he drafted a new order to cancel the wanted order against him and reinstate him to his original position.
After Qin Hui learned the news, he entangled a group of flattering and treacherous ministers and went to the Jinluan Palace to petition Gaozong to change his mind. At this time, the Minister of War learned that Jin Wushu, the Four Wolf Lords of the Jin Kingdom and the Grand Marshal of the South, was preparing to contact Wu Xi from Sichuan to attack Jingmen and then open up the line along the river.
The military situation is urgent and every second counts. Emperor Gaozong immediately informed his ministers to discuss countermeasures. Han Shizhong reported back to Emperor Emperor Gaozong that the middle of Shu was full of dangers due to mountains and rivers, and the two generals Wu Jie and Wu Lin had guarded it for many years and were deeply loved by the people. Now that their descendant Wu Xi is rejecting the throne of Shu and bringing shame to his ancestors, the court can tell the people in Sichuan to denounce Wu Xi's crimes and take measures to calm the people. As long as Wu Xi loses the support of the people in Sichuan, I believe that soon He must be able to capture him in one fell swoop.
After listening to Han Shizhong's analysis of the war situation, Emperor Gaozong couldn't help but feel happy. He named Han Shizhong as the General of the Western Conquest, controlled the troops in the two lakes, and sent troops to attack Wu Xi soon. Han Shizhong asked Gaozong to let Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing go with the army, and Gaozong agreed.
When the army was setting off, Liang Hongyu played drums to cheer for the soldiers of the three armies. After Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing bid farewell to her, Han Shizhong's army marched toward Bashu in a mighty manner. Wu Xi learned the news in Shu and immediately summoned his old troops to discuss countermeasures. At this time, deputy general Song Yi came out to offer advice. He said to Wu Xi: "Your Majesty, the Song army has a wall ladder, and we have Zhang Liang's plan. Are we still afraid of them?"
Seeing Song Yi's confident look, Wu Xi immediately asked him if he had any good strategies to defeat the enemy. Song Yi told Wu Xi that when Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty entered Shu, Zhang Zifang suggested that he set fire to the plank road to eliminate Xiang Yu's suspicion. Later, Han Xin built a plank road openly and secretly visited Chencang. Help Liu Bang come out of Sichuan to seize the world, and use ancient strategies in the present. Why don't we follow Zhang Liang's approach?
Wu Xi nodded repeatedly after listening to Song Yi's words. He laughed loudly and said: "After I set fire to the plank road and set up strong bows and crossbows along the cliff, even if Han Shizhong had wings, he would not be able to come over and kill me.
After saying that, Wu Xi immediately sent people to set fire to the plank road leading to Sichuan, and he closed himself in Shu, enjoying himself at ease. Wu Xi thinks that without the plank road, there are endless cliffs everywhere. I don't care about the Song Kingdom or the Jin Kingdom.
After burning the plank road, Wu Xi declared himself king of Shu and fought against the Song Dynasty. Han Shizhong learned of the news and ordered his army to rush to Bashu on a starry night. The soldiers left Jingmen and arrived in front of the boundary in the middle of Shu. They found that the plank road had been burned, and the rocks rolled down the cliff, but they were all gone. It was clear that it was a cliff thousands of meters high.
Han Shizhong, Fu Tianpeng, Zhao Xueqing and other generals looked down at the steep mountains. He stroked his beard and said seriously: "Even if I have Deng Shizai's ambition to sneak across Yinping, I'm afraid I won't be able to capture Xichuan like him. Let's take a look. , looking at the dust and smoke from a distance, there must be soldiers stationed there. They are waiting for work according to the dangerous situation. Even if we can climb the cliff, we will be killed by these soldiers.
Seeing this situation, some of the generals were gearing up, and some scolded Wu Xi for being cunning. However, for a while, no one had a good idea for entering Sichuan. After Zhao Xueqing calmly thought about it, she told Han Shizhong that now our army has been ordered to fight against rebellion, and the morale of the three armies is strong. This is a good opportunity to rush forward in one go. If the move is delayed for a long time and the food and grass are insufficient, it will not only be extremely detrimental to the capture of Xichuan in the future, but may also be pursued by the Jin people halfway.
After hearing what Zhao Xueqing said, Han Shizhong asked her if she had any good strategies to defeat the enemy. Zhao Xueqing told the marshal that the road to Shu is more difficult than reaching the sky. This is an indisputable fact. However, for farmers and woodcutters who collect medicinal herbs in the mountains all year round, the Sichuan Road is just a flat plain. Why don't we send soldiers who were born in Jingchu to disguise themselves and go deep into the people to find out who has a medicine farmer or a woodcutter who is active in the nearby mountains all year round?
As soon as Zhao Xueqing said this, Marshal Han praised him repeatedly. He nodded and said: "The accent is also easy to communicate. The medicine farmers and woodcutters will definitely know the mountains and terrain nearby. Haha, this is a good strategy. Let's do it like this."
After the plan was made, Han Shizhong immediately sent people to find qualified soldiers. After the personnel were selected, Han Shizhong selected the best from the best, and the last soldier named Jiang Xin stayed. Han Shizhong told Jiang Xin that he would cooperate with Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing in the visit this time, and all matters would be subject to their arrangements. When the plan is successful, there will be a heavy reward.
In this way, Fu Tianpeng and Zhao Xueqing dressed up as old people with frosty hair and silver hair, and Jiang Xin followed them into the city as the old couple's son. After the three of them entered the city, they chose a corner to move down the cabbage and put it on the ground.
After Jiang Xin placed the cabbage, he began to shout loudly: "Fresh cabbage, leaves like emerald, sweet and delicious."
When the three of them were doing business, they saw a woodcutter walking over carrying bundles of firewood. This woodcutter has a big face, a wide chin, slanting sword eyebrows, a broad nose, and dark arms that are thick and powerful.
After he put the load of firewood on the ground, he squatted down and fanned himself with a broken straw hat.
Fu Tianpeng and the others looked at the woodcutter carefully while selling vegetables. After a while, three people walked on the other side of the road. They all wore silk satin brocade shirts and looked like they belonged to a wealthy family. People on both sides, one was saying flattering words to the young man in the middle from time to time, while the other was following behind him and fanning himself from time to time. The rich man was holding half a banana in his hand, stuffing it into his mouth, and laughing non-stop.
While the three were talking, they saw a girl passing by them. She carried the bamboo basket and walked forward with broken steps. When the rich man saw this, he threw the banana peel into the bamboo basket. The girl raised her beautiful eyebrows and angrily scolded the rich man. She pointed to the bamboo basket and told them that it was full of hard-earned herbs, how could they be wasted like this.
The rich man saw that the girl was angry. Instead of being angry, he said to the two guys next to him: "Haha, look, Xiulan is getting more and more beautiful. Hehehehe."
The two evil servants nodded repeatedly and followed the rich man to tease Xiulan with vulgar words. Xiulan's face turned red with anger. She put down the bamboo basket, grabbed the herbs inside, and threw them at the three of them. The rich man said again: "Hitting is a kiss, scolding is a love. Come, come, throw, throw."
When the rich man used words to make Xiulan angry, two evil servants came up and said to Xiulan: "You are throwing it wrong, let us teach you."
Two evil servants, one on the left and one on the right, came up and grabbed Xiulan's hand. They said to Xiulan: "Miss Xiulan, let's go. Mr. Yao's family has a lot of herbs. Let you throw away as much as you like."
Fu Tianpeng was about to teach the three scoundrels a lesson, but Zhao Xueqing coughed lightly and reminded him not to forget important things. Just like that, Fu Tianpeng suppressed his anger and watched the development of the situation. When the woodcutter saw Mr. Yao robbing a girl in broad daylight, he immediately got up and went to stop him.
Mr. Yao glared at the woodcutter sideways and said to him: "Li Si, you are really a bedbug eating melon seeds. Why are you everywhere?"
Li Si bowed to Mr. Yao repeatedly and begged him to let Xiulan go. When Mr. Yao heard this, his eyes turned strangely, and Li Si said with saliva flying from his mouth: "Li Si, have you fallen in love with her? You can let me let her go, but you can hug her in front of everyone." Kiss her and I’ll let her go.”
Xiulan saw that Mr. Yao was full of filthy words and the more he said that Zhao was outrageous, she rushed forward again and scolded Mr. Yao for being shameless. When the two evil servants saw this, they started to beat him. At this time, Li Si came up to stand in front of Xiulan, and the two evil servants punched and kicked Li Si.
Mr. Yao was happy as he walked to Li Si's load of firewood and lit it with a fire letter. Immediately thick smoke billowed out, and the flames scared away all the people setting up stalls around him. Li Si's family couldn't open the fire anymore. He wanted to go to the city and sell firewood to buy some cornmeal for his mother on the sickbed, but the firewood was burned to ashes by Mr. Yao.
Li Si couldn't bear it any longer, so he got up from the ground and rushed in front of Mr. Yao. He went up and slapped Mr. Yao in the face, which made Mr. Yao dizzy. When the evil servants saw Mr. Yao being beaten, one of them picked up a watermelon from a fruit stand, and the other picked up a pole on the spot, and started beating Li Si one after another.
Li Si's two fists were hard to beat with four hands, and he was soon beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhao Xueqing secretly ordered Jiang Xin to take action. Jiang Xin stepped forward and waved his hands repeatedly, saying: "Alas, alas, what you are doing is from the neighbors, so why bother fighting each other with fists and kicks."
After hearing what Jiang Xin said, Mr. Yao stared at him with toad eyes. The two evil servants also looked at Jiang Xin with stern eyebrows for a while. They said to Jiang Xin: "We looked left and right, horizontally and vertically, and we all felt that you were nothing."
Jiang Xin said to them: "I am a person, you are not things."
After hearing what Jiang Xin said, Mr. Yao was immediately furious. He said to the evil servant: "What day is it today? Why are so many fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs coming out? Please teach these two boys a lesson."
As soon as the two evil servants heard Mr. Yao's words, they picked up their things and ran towards Jiang Xin. Jiang Xin saw two evil servants rushing towards him side by side. He quickly moved forward and cleverly avoided the evil servants' attacks.
He passed between them and used the white horse move to cross the gap. The two evil servants were knocked upside down.
The evil servant grimaced in pain. Mr. Yao jumped to the side and cursed: "You are a waste, why don't you beat them down quickly?"
While he was speaking, Jiang Xin rushed forward with another stride. He grabbed Young Master Yao by the collar and threw him out like a chicken. With a "dong" sound, Mr. Yao fell down in disgrace.
The market was in chaos, and soon the Yamen sent out officers and policemen to maintain order. Mr. Yao covered half of his red and swollen face, pointed at Jiang Xin and Li Si, and ordered them to take them down together.
Jiang Xin and Li Si stood where they were, while the guards and police officers put on the shackles and took them back to the Yamen.
Before leaving, Jiang Xin winked at Fu Tianpeng, and Fu Tianpeng nodded secretly. In the next step, Jiang Xin can establish a friendship with Li Si in prison so that he can get his help when searching for a path in the mountains.
