Chapter 554: The Son of a Famous General
Luokou was less than fifty miles away from Luokou Cang, and it was quickly retreating. Li Fengyun chased him quickly. Before dusk, the two sides fought fiercely in Luokou.
Li Fengyun has a clear goal, show his strong muscles, and tell Zhou Fashang that if you and I both suffer losses, you will suffer losses, and all your plans will be difficult to implement because of insufficient strength. On the contrary, you take a step back, preserve your strength, and retain the initiative, and can calmly deal with the ever-changing situation.
The main force of the alliance fought fiercely in the front, but Li Fengyun invited the Wu Ben Lang General and the Duke of Yining Zhou Zhong from the rear.
Zhou Zhong did not know Li Fengyun, but he was in Dongdu for a long time. As a senior officer of the Weifufu, of course he knew Wei Fusi and Li Min. He was a little surprised when he saw Li Min. He thought Li Min had died at the hands of the rebels, but he did not expect that Li Min not only did not die, but also appeared in Yang Xuangan's army. It can be seen that Li Zixiong, Li Min and his son had a long time ago, and they were Yang Xuangan's die-hard accomplices. When he saw Wei Fusi again, he was shocked. Wasn't Wei Fusi demoted his home? Isn't he in Xijing? But now Wei Fusi is standing in front of him alive. Wei Fusi is actually Yang Xuangan's accomplices, which made Zhou Zhong suddenly have various speculations, and even guessed that Yang Xuangan had formed an alliance with the local nobles of Guanzhong headed by Wei.
"Mr. Yining, do you know me?" Wei Fusi asked.
Zhou Zhong smiled bitterly and bowed to pay a gift.
"Is there any way to send a message to Zhou Fashang in the shortest time?" Wei Fusi asked again.
Zhou Zhong thought for a moment and said, "Just go to the front line to find a familiar person."
Wei Fusi turned his head and looked at Li Fengyun. Li Fengyun frowned slightly and questioned, "He may take the opportunity to escape, but he needs him and does not want to kill him."
Zhou Zhong suddenly realized that the young officer with a mighty and powerful armor in front of him had an extraordinary identity. He was not Wei Fusi's subordinate, but the commander of this army. Although he looked very strange, as a veteran veteran, Zhou Zhong still smelled the terrifying aura of blood and rain from the other party's fierce murderous aura. He had felt this aura in his father's personal bodyguard, and all of them were powerful figures who killed people.
Wei Fusi turned his head and looked at Zhou Zhong again, and asked coldly, "Will you run away?"
Zhou Zhong smiled bitterly, "I'm going to die now. What's the difference between escaping or not?"
"I'm not afraid of you running away, but I'm afraid of you dying." Li Fengyun sneered coldly, "If you are determined to die, who can save your life after you go to the front line?"
Zhou Zhong was speechless. He was unable to survive and died. He was so sad that his wife and children would be defiled and his ancestors were really in pain.
"Do you know him?" Wei Fusi raised his hand and pointed at Li Fengyun.
Zhou Zhong shook his head.
"He is the notorious white-haired thief."
Zhou Zhong was surprised, unbelievable, unbelievable. He was a white-haired thief? The white-haired thief also participated in this mutiny. Zhou Zhong knew why Li Min appeared here. Li Min was beaten to annihilation by the white-haired thief. At present, it seems that the battle of the whole army was obviously planned.
"Do you know where I know him?"
Zhou Zhong continued to shake his head.
"I met him in Qi County." Wei Fusi smiled, "Do you know why I went to Qi County?"
Zhou Zhong immediately thought of King Qi, and thought that Wei Fusi fell down because of the "deficient" case of King Qi, and Li Zixiong, Li Min and his son were also supporters of King Qi, and they were also political blows because of the "deficient" case of King Qi. He thought that the rumor of King Qi "raising bandits and respecting themselves" in the East Capital, and the entire "believing bandits" were white-haired thieves. Now Wei Fusi, Li Min and the white-haired thieves, who are closely related to King Qi, stand together and stand in front of him. What does this mean? A thought immediately flashed through Zhou Zhong's mind that King Qi is going to enter the capital and is going to rebel with Yang Xuangan.
Without waiting for Zhou Zhong to answer, Wei Fusi himself gave the answer, "I have always been by the King of Qi."
Zhou Zhong became more and more sure of his guess, and blurted out in surprise, "The King of Qi is going to enter Beijing?"
"It's not that King Qi wants to enter Beijing, but that we want to leave Beijing."
Wei Fusi's words immediately made Zhou Zhong fall into confusion and confused. Am I wrong? Did King Qi break up with Yang Xuangan and turn against each other?
Wei Fusi waved at Li Min, "You can talk a little bit about it and let Yining Gong make the right choice."
The elder had an order, but Li Min dared not refuse to obey. Then he thought about it carefully and selectively briefly the inside story of the King of Qi using this storm to obtain political benefits.
Zhou Zhong's doubts gradually dissipated, his eyes gradually became brighter. As the truth emerged, he also saw a glimmer of vitality in despair and a glimmer of dawn in the darkness.
In terms of political life, King Qi, Wei Fusi, Li Zixiong and Li Min, and his son, are actually about to end, and are still alive or have already ended. Even if they save their lives, they will not be as good as death. Their future is even worse than rebellions like white-haired thieves. After all, these rebellions are all grass, ants, nothing, and they will die if they die. They will be destroyed. However, they still have family members, relatives, friends, and disciples. When they are proud, they will be able to ascend to heaven. When they fail, they will also fall into the world. The involvement is too great and the loss of interests is too great. Therefore, even if they are desperate and political life is over, they must support them tenaciously, waiting and pray for the birth of miracles in struggle. There are too many such "miracles" in real life, and there are countless people who "resurrected from the dead" in political life.
Of course, the birth of "miracle" requires conditions. Some "miracles" are created actively and have abundant returns, while others are passively generated, with relatively limited profits. In order to make their political life "resurrected from the dead", King Qi, Wei Fusi, Li Zixiong and Li Min and his son joined hands to form alliances and actively create "miracles", and even cooperated with thieves. The enemy's enemy is friends. In order to strengthen their own strength, King Qi and others can be said to be doing everything they can, but only in this way can they burn their boats and put them to death and make plans to "dominate the northern border".
In Zhou Zhong's view, this plan has its practical significance and has a very high success rate. Since the Holy Lord ascended the throne, Zhongtu launched a Western Expedition and two Eastern Expeditions. The signal sent by the Northern Escaping was to actively attack, expand the territory, and directly endanger their survival. Therefore, the relationship between the North and South would inevitably go from tension to breakdown. Although the war between the North and South could not be said to be about to break out, as the internal and external troubles of Zhongtu increased, Dongdu could not launch another massive external expedition under the political dilemma of being attacked from both sides and behind the back. It was difficult to form a substantial deterrence against the Northern Escaping. National defense would inevitably change from active defense to passive defense, and the Northern Escaping would inevitably actively attack the border and take advantage of your illness to kill you. In the future, wars on the frontiers would inevitably be frequent and bloody.
In this bad situation, King Qi took the initiative to guard the border, exchanged political "self-exile" for military achievements, and continued his political life with his numerous achievements and outstanding prestige. In the eyes of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, the central government has mastered the financial resources and the lifeline of the northern border town garrison. No matter how ambitious the King Qi is, he will not escape the control of the Eastern Capital.
The King of Qi "occupies the northern border" to continue his political life, with the goal of "dominating" or winning the world. Only in this way can he save his political life. When his political life is preserved, the political life of all those who follow him is also preserved. However, the realization of this goal requires not only military strength, but also a piece of territory, but also an appropriate time and the cooperation of domestic and foreign trends.
The plan depends on people and the success of things depends on heaven. Whether a "miracle" can be born depends on the destiny of heaven, and whether the destiny of heaven belongs to the efforts of the King of Qi and his followers. Miracles will not fall from heaven, and there will be no miracle without blood and sweat. This is the hope, that is, why Wei Fusi, Li Min and the white-haired thief can work together, and it is also the reason why Zhou Zhong must make the right choice.
Zhou Zhong came from the Jiangzuo family and was the son of Zhou Luohu, a famous general in the Middle Land. Zhou Luohu was famous and left his name in history. Zhou Zhong, with his father's dazzling aura, inherited the rich heritage left by his father, and had an extraordinary influence in the Jiangzuo aristocratic group. The reason why Wei Fusi "tempted" Li Fengyun "snatched" the forty-seven noble bureaucrats from Yang Xuanzong was that his real goal was the Jiangzuo people, and the first persuasioner and who was very sure to convince was Zhou Zhong.
Zhou Zhong and Zhou family quickly declined politically since Zhou Luohu's death, and Zhou Zhong must be unwilling to accept it. This time he suffered a severe blow and the family was devastated. It can be imagined that Zhou Zhong's will to "survive" is strong. If Zhou Zhong takes the initiative to join the King of Qi and does his best to assist the King of Qi, the members of the three noble groups of Guanlong, Shandong and Jiangzuo will gather around the King of Qi. This greatly enhances the strength of the King of Qi and expands the King of Qi's development space, and has an immeasurable driving effect on the King of Qi's realization of his future goals.
Zhou Zhong made a decisive decision and followed the King of Qi. This was the only chance in despair. He must seize it and should not be missed. However, before making the promise, Zhou Zhong still had a question. If Wei Fusi, Li Fengyun and others participated in Yang Xuangan's mutiny in order to further deteriorate the situation to facilitate the King of Qi to "blacklist" the Holy Lord and the Central Committee, then Yang Xuangan has not yet entered Guanzhong and the situation has not deteriorated to the extreme. Why did Wei Fusi and others rush to withdraw from the Dongdu battlefield? Is Yang Xuangan so stupid that he cannot see the true purpose of the King of Qi and let the King of Qi play with him in his palms?
"Only Yang Xuangan can the situation be the most favorable to the King of Qi, but as far as I know, Yang Xuangan is still far away from Guanzhong. He is still surrounded by reinforcements from various Wei Mansions, and he is still in danger of being wiped out. Once Yang Xuangan is quickly defeated, the situation will be unfavorable to the King of Qi." Zhou Zhong raised a question, "Did Yang Xuangan lose his mind and become enemies with you at such a critical moment?"
"You're right." Li Min sighed, "Although he didn't turn against him, he almost broke up and we had to leave."
Zhou Zhong immediately realized that the situation had changed and immediately asked, "Is the decisive battle in Mianchi resulted? Did Yang Xuangan win?"
Li Min nodded, "Yang Xuangan won, Wei Wensheng was defeated and fled. If nothing unexpected happens, Yang Xuangan will be able to enter Guanzhong soon."
Zhou Zhong did not hesitate anymore and immediately made a promise to follow the King of Qi to the death.
"If you have the confidence to survive, I will feel relieved." Wei Fusi smiled, "You go to the front line to find an acquaintance and ask him to send Zhou Fashang a message. Wei Wensheng was defeated by Mianchi, and then Zhou Fashang knew what he should do."
Zhou Zhongxin understood and bowed to accept the order.
Chapter completed!