Chapter 308: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Feng Er returned to the backyard, summoned more than a dozen subordinates, and told them about the matter that Hu Zhen sent someone to monitor. Everyone couldn't help but feel indignant and shouted to teach the other party a lesson.
When his subordinates were almost in trouble, Feng Er raised his hand and pressed them down to calm them down. Then he said, "I have asked the general for instructions. He said that since the other party dared to send someone to monitor us, we should not be polite to them. Let's do it tonight and pull out all the secret whistles around the mansion."
"Brother Feng," asked a young man named Henzi, "Tell me, what should we do?"
Feng Er took out a sketch, placed it on the table, and said to everyone: "After it's dark, you climb over the wall and leave the mansion, and then go to ambush here." He knocked on a position on the picture with his hand, "I will leave the mansion as if there is something urgent to do, and lead the secret sentry outside the mansion to the place where you are ambushing."
"How should we deal with them?" asked Henzi.
"Is that a word?" Feng Er looked at Henzi, touched his fingers around his neck, and said coldly: "Don't leave any of the people you catch, kill them all."
Henzi thought for a while and asked again: "If a patrol team passes by when we are doing business, what should we do?"
"If the other party has many people, send someone to deal with them, give them some benefits, and kill them away." Feng Er had already had a curse about what Henzi was worried about, so he said confidently: "If the other party has few people, kill them together."
That night, Feng Er, Henzi and others set up an ambush in the city and lured Hu Zhen's subordinates into a trap. Overnight, all seven or eight secret whistles sent by Hu Zhen to Wu Xi's mansion were removed. There was even a patrol team that was removed by Feng Er and others.
Hu Zhen waited for a night, but he did not report back from the spies he sent. He hurriedly ordered people to search around Wu Xi's mansion. As a result, his body was found in an alley, and he was lying in a group of patrol soldiers. Although it seemed to outsiders that the patrol soldiers had suspicious people and tried to catch them all, these people refused to surrender. The two sides fought hard and finally died together. But Hu Zhen knew very well that he had been plotted against Wu Xi.
Hu Zhen thought about it for a long time and decided to report the matter to Li Jue. When Li Jue saw his arrival, he asked absent-mindedly: "Chang Wen, you came to this Grand Sima early in the morning. Is there anything wrong?"
"The last general meets the Grand Sima!" Hu Zhen knelt down and greeted Li Jue, and then said, "The reason why the last general came to disturb the Grand Sima early in the morning is that there is an important matter, and he needs to report it to the Grand Sima immediately."
"What's the matter?" Li Jue asked casually.
Hu Zhen said in a shocking manner: "Some people colluded with Jizhou soldiers and horses in the city to try to open the city gate and let them enter the city!"
"What? Someone colluded with the soldiers in Jizhou?" After hearing Hu Zhen say this, Li Jue immediately jumped up from the place where he sat, rushed to Hu Zhen with a quick step, and asked nervously: "Who is so bold?"
"The guard of the South Gate Wu Xi."
"Wu Xi?!" Li Jie repeated the name and said with a giggle: "Wen Chang, you are joking. If you say that others collude with the soldiers of Jizhou, this Grand Sima still believes it, but you say that Wu Xi is impossible."
"It's true, Grand Sima." Seeing that Li Jue refused to believe his words, Hu Zhen swears: "I will use Xiang Gong's head to guarantee that Wu Xi has privately colluded with the troops in Jizhou, intending to open the city gate and let the enemy enter the city."
If it were in the past, Li Jue heard that anyone was suspected of colluding with foreign enemies and did not even try it, so he directly ordered to drag it out and chop it. But now he was working on people and had to be extra cautious. It was precisely for this reason that he hesitated for a moment and then asked Hu Zhen: "Do you have real evidence?"
Hu Zhen could not give up any real evidence, but was unwilling to give up such a good opportunity, so he said carefully: "When he returned to the Grand Sima, although the Mo General had no real evidence, the subordinates of the Mo General had seen Wu Xi and his confidant pointing in the direction of the Jizhou soldiers on the city wall, as if they were colluding with the other party."
"Where is your men now?"
"Dead!"
"Die?!" Li Jue asked in surprise: "How did he die?"
"I will send him to Wu Xi's mansion to monitor." Hu Zhen took the opportunity to complain to Li Jie, "However, early this morning, he and several other secret whistles were found dead, and a team of patrol soldiers died in an alley. The murderer even pretended to be the illusion of their own killing."
Seeing Hu Zhen’s words so confident, Li Jue couldn’t help but believe it a little. He quickly called a personal soldier and ordered: “Go and invite General Guo here!”
Guo Si had just gotten up and heard Li Jue's personal soldiers come to invite him, but he did not dare to be negligent and came to see Li Jue in a hurry. When he entered the door, he saw Hu Zhen standing in the hall, and couldn't help but glance at the other party in disgust, and then asked Li Jue: "Zhiran, you hurriedly call me to come, don't you know what's important?"
"Ado," Li Jue looked at Guo Si and said, "Hu Wencai told this Grand Sima that Wu Xi, who was under your command, had privately colluded with the Jizhou soldiers, intending to open the city gate to welcome the enemy into the city."
"This is impossible," Guo Si immediately roared after hearing this: "Wu Xi is loyal to this general, how could he collude with the Jizhou army?"
"If the general doesn't believe it, you can recruit Wu Xi." Hu Zhen has decided to surrender to Li Jue again, so he said with a tough attitude: "I will be willing to confront him in front of him."
When Wu Xi saw the person sent by Guo Si to recruit him, he couldn't help but feel panicked, but he still pretended to be nothing on the surface and said, "Please go back and tell the general. After the general is cleaned up, you can go to see the general."
When the messenger left, Wu Xi called Feng Er and asked in a panic: "Feng Er, do you say that the general is asking me to meet at this moment. Could it be that we contacted Jizhou in private and leaked the news?"
"Please rest assured, General." Feng Er comforted Wu Xi and said: "This matter was done quite confidentially. No one except the general and me knew about our private agreement with Jizhou. As for the secret whistles that monitored the mansion, they were all removed last night, leaving no flaws."
Although Feng Eryi repeatedly assured Wu Xi that there would be no mistakes, Wu Xi was still uneasy when he saw Li Jue and Guo Si. He knelt down and kowtowed to the two of them, and said, "Mr. General, please pay tribute to the Grand Sima, General! I wonder what is important for the two generals to come here?"
"Wu Xi, you are so brave. You dare to collude with the Jizhou army." Li Jue slapped the table hard, and then said in a stern tone: "Why don't you come here quickly!"
"I'm wronged, Grand Sima!" Wu Xi knew very well that once he admitted this, not only would he be dragged out immediately, but his relatives and friends in Xiliang would be killed completely by Li Jue and others. Therefore, he pretended to be pitiful and said, "The General of the United States has always been loyal to the General and you. How could he collude with the Jizhou Army in private? I guess someone deliberately wanted to frame the General of the United States, so please ask the Grand Sima Ming to investigate."
When Guo Si saw Hu Zhen surrendering to Li Jue again, he couldn't help but feel resentful towards him. Therefore, he believed that the so-called Wu Xi colluded with the Jizhou army was all Hu Zhen framed Wu Xi. Therefore, he said to Wu Xi, who was kneeling on the ground: "Wu Xi, don't be afraid. As long as you don't collude with the Jizhou army, this general will make the decision for you."
"Thank you, General, thank you!" Wu Xi kowtowed to Guo Si twice in a row, "The General should be very clear that General Mo has always been loyal to you, so how could he collude with the Jizhou Army? It must be that General Mo accidentally offended the villain, so the other party would frame the General Mo."
"Then tell me," Li Jue asked with interest after Wu Xi finished speaking, "Who did you offend him? How could he be so cruel?"
Although Wu Xi had long guessed that it was Hu Zhen, he deliberately pretended to be confused and said, "I don't know." After pausing for a moment, he asked back: "I dare to ask the Grand Sima, I don't know who reported that Mo Jiang secretly colluded with the Jizhou army."
Li Jue did not speak, but turned his eyes to Hu Zhen standing aside. Seeing that all the eyes in the hall were on him, Hu Zhen took a step forward and said loudly: "Wu Xi, it was someone who reported you."
Wu Xi turned his head and looked at Hu Zhen, sneered, and then asked back: "Hu Wencai, since you said that this general colluded with the Jizhou army, I wonder if there is any real evidence?"
"My subordinates saw you and your confidant pointing at the siege of Jizhou soldiers and horses on the city tower." Although Hu Zhen had no real evidence, he was already in trouble at this point, so he could only say with a stern voice: "It is clearly trying to offer the city to the Jizhou army."
"Absurd," as soon as Hu Zhen finished speaking, Wu Xi immediately retorted: "I did yesterday watch the besieged Jizhou Army with a subordinate on the city wall. But we are discussing how to break the enemy, rather than colluding with the Jizhou Army."
After hearing Wu Xi's self-defense, Li Jue asked in confusion: "Wu Xi, this Grand Sima asked you, since you are discussing how to defeat the enemy, why did Hu Wen say that you are trying to collude with the Jizhou army? Did you have any grudges before?"
"Reply to Grand Sima," Wu Xi looked at Hu Zhen and said viciously: "Although there was no grievance in the past, I have accidentally formed a grudge recently."
Wu Xi's words confused Li Jue, and he asked in confusion: "Wu Xi, what do you mean?"
"Zhiran, I know what's going on." When Guo Si heard this, he immediately understood what Wu Xi meant and helped him to rescue him: "This general asked Wu Xi to be responsible for the defense of the South Gate and divided the military power in Hu Wencai's hands, which made him feel resentful to Wu Xi. I'm right, Hu Wencai?!" When he said it later, he deliberately increased his tone. After Guo Si said this, Li Jue immediately understood that it was because Wu Xi took over the military power in the south of the city, which made Hu Zhen feel resentful to him, so he did not hesitate to frame the other party.
Guo Si pointed at Hu Zhen with his hand and said, "The bold dog guy should actually frame Wu Xi, what should you be guilty of?"
Hu Zhen was so scared by Guo Si's words that he knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Li Jue repeatedly and said, "Mr. Sima knows that he is wrong. Please spare the life of a dog!"
Although Li Jue was also very angry at Hu Zhen's behavior, it was time to use people. Finally, after two days, he knocked him off with one stone. Will someone come to join him in the future? For this reason, Li Jue decided to protect Hu Zhen and help him resolve the crisis in front of him. So he smiled and said to Guo Si: "Aduo, Hu Wencai was also confused for a moment, so he did such a bastard. Look, is this matter turned into a big thing into a small matter? How about it?
Guo Si saw that Li Jue wanted to protect Hu Zhen. Even if he insisted, he would probably not be able to kill Hu Zhen. It would be better to be a favor and get along with Li Jue in the future. Therefore, he turned his attention to Wu Xi and asked, "Wu Xi, this matter has something to do with you. Tell me, how should I deal with Hu Zhen?"
Wu Xi was not a fool, and had long seen Li Jue's intention to defend Hu Zhen. At this moment, he didn't understand what Guo Si said. It was obviously impossible to kill Hu Zhen. Therefore, he could only pretend to sigh and said to Li Jue and Guo Si: "Grand Sima, General, this matter was caused by the fact that the military power of the South Gate. In order to calm General Hu's anger, the military power of the Mo Jiang was willing to return the military power of the south city."
Neither Li Jue, Guo Si nor Hu Zhen expected Wu Xi to play such a move to advance or retreat, and he couldn't help but look at each other. In the end, Guo Xi came out to smooth things out: "Wu Xi, I and the Grand Sima both understand that you are loyal to us. As for the defense in the south of the city, I think you will continue to be responsible. Zhiran, what do you think?" His next sentence was said to Li Jue sitting next to him.
"This is natural." Li Jue was worried that he had no steps to step down. When he heard Guo Si say this, he immediately followed the flow and said: "I see that the defense in the south of the city is still Wu Xi. It's getting late, and this Grand Sima hasn't had breakfast yet, so it's all gone."
When Wu Xi left Li Jue's mansion, he found that his clothes were soaked in cold sweat. Seeing him coming out of the mansion, Feng Er, who was waiting outside, finally breathed a sigh of relief. He hurriedly went up to him and asked in a low voice: "General, don't Li Jue's two thieves doubt you, right?"
"No." Wu Xi's strength seemed to have been drained. With Feng Er's support, he barely stood firm and said weakly: "Send me back home first."
Feng Er agreed and quickly helped Wu Xi into the carriage parked aside, and then ordered the coachman: "Go back home!"
On the way back to the house, Wu Xi, who was lying in the carriage, closed his eyes and rested, suddenly opened his eyes and said to Feng Er: "Feng Er, we removed Hu Zhen's subordinates yesterday. I believe he would not dare to send anyone to monitor us anymore. Tonight, you can go to the camp outside the city to meet General Zhao and discuss the entry with them."
After hearing Wu Xi finally made up his final decision, Feng Er was overjoyed and nodded vigorously, lowered his voice and said, "Please rest assured, when it gets dark, the youngest will leave the city to see General Zhao."
Chapter completed!