Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

After three days of rest.

The fifth group led by Jin Falin and Lin Hu set out together with the soldiers brought by Deng Yongmen.

Leaving Ezhou, we headed to Mangdang Mountain.

Xiangzhou Provincial Administration Office.

The person sitting in the high position is no longer Zhu Qingquan, but Li Haicheng.

As for Zhu Qingquan, just yesterday he questioned the rebel leader Li Haicheng why the King of Zhenbei had not come to Xiangzhou yet.

He also doubted whether the strategy devised by military advisor Zhang Fangliang would work.

After waiting for a long time, King Hongxuan of Zhenbei did not come, but what he waited for was a butcher's knife on his neck.

The head of Zhu Qingquan, the governor of Xiangzhou, was hung above the gate of Xiangzhou city.

At the same time, the imperial edict of Emperor Yunzhou was posted outside Xiangzhou City.

"I heard that in Xiangzhou, Zhu Quanqing, the governor of Xiangzhou of Dafeng State, was responsible for herding the people, but he was corrupt and abused the law, wantonly harming the people. He deserves death. Now I have issued this decree. Zhu Quanqing has been executed to rectify the national law and reassure the people. I hope that you will take this as a warning, abide by the way of being an official, serve the people wholeheartedly, and do not disappoint my expectations. I decree this!"

Within the Provincial Administration Office,

Military Advisor Zhang Fangliang looked at Li Haicheng and said:

"Prime Minister, the lobbyist sent by this military advisor has not yet brought back any news. I'm afraid he has died."

Li Haicheng's eyes were cold:

"Humph! Since Zhao Shixiu in Ezhou is so stubborn, then we should just attack Ezhou directly!"

"Anyway, through the mobilization of this Prime Minister, another 30,000 soldiers from Xiangzhou were recruited! This is a well-equipped army."

"The general trend is that Dafeng will perish!"

Zhang Fangliang looked at Li Haicheng and said:

"Right now, this military advisor doesn't care about Ezhou Governor Zhao Shixiu. What I care about now is! Why hasn't the King of Zhenbei come to Xiangzhou yet?"

"According to the news we received earlier, the King of Zhenbei had long since left the northern border and came to the southern border to destroy us. However, the dragnet that my military advisor had set up in Xiangzhou didn't work at all, which means that he didn't even come to Xiangzhou."

Zhang Fangliang had already deployed layers of spies along the route, in case the King of Zhenbei’s army entered Xiangzhou.

As a military advisor, it is impossible for him not to know.

After all, the King of Zhenbei must lead an army, and a large army cannot be hidden.

Therefore, Zhang Fangliang concluded that the King of Zhenbei had not fallen into his trap at all.

Zhang Fangliang frowned and suddenly realized a problem.

If King Hongxuan of Zhenbei had not come to Xiangzhou, where would he and his personal guards have gone?

Think of this question.

Zhang Fangliang's pupils suddenly shrank:

"The King of Zhenbei is in Ezhou now!"

Li Haicheng, who was sitting in a high position, frowned:

"Military Advisor, are you saying that the King of Zhenbei is now in Ezhou?"

"Prime Minister, the lobbyist I sent is eloquent, but he hasn't brought back any news yet, which means something has changed in Ezhou."

At this moment, a scout came into the hall with a terrified look on his face.

"Hmm? Why are you so flustered?"

The scout knelt on one knee and reported:

"Reporting to the Prime Minister! Something big has happened!"

Li Haicheng said with a slightly cold expression:

"Why are you so flustered? This Prime Minister has already occupied Yunzhou and collected all the food and money in Yunzhou in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Now, I have occupied Xiangzhou and obtained the food and money of Xiangzhou. Not only that, this Prime Minister also obtained 30,000 soldiers from Xiangzhou!"

Li Haicheng's strategy of using the emperor to control the princes paid off time and time again.

It's simply always successful.

Now Li Haicheng not only has a large number of elite soldiers and generals but also has sufficient granaries. What big thing could happen?

Zhang Fangliang also looked at the panicked scout and said:

"What big thing happened?"

You heard the scout say:

"Reporting to the Prime Minister! I have received accurate information from outside. The King of Zhenbei led 120,000 infantrymen, using specially made military crossbows, to fight against the 300,000 heavily armored cavalrymen of the Northern Shang Kingdom in Baidi City in the northern border. The infantry led by the King of Zhenbei shot and killed 180,000 heavily armored cavalrymen!"

"what!"

"What did you say?"

Li Haicheng sat up suddenly from his seat, and Zhang Fangliang showed a look of horror.

"Not only that, I have also received accurate information that the infantry led by the King of Zhenbei did not lose a single soldier."

After hearing the news.

Li Haicheng took a few steps back and fell into his chair.

"Impossible! Left and right swordsmen!"

The swordsmen on the left and right of the hall stepped forward:

"I, the military advisor, will kill this arrogant person who spread rumors and caused trouble! Kill him!"

The swordsmen on both sides stepped forward and immediately pressed the scout who was half-kneeling on the ground to the ground.

"Prime Minister! Prime Minister! Everything I say is true!"

"Military Advisor! I am loyal to you and have never told you a lie. I am a scout and I am willing to guarantee with my life that every word I say is true!"

Zhang Fangliang hurried forward.

He snatched the long knife from the hand of an axeman.

"You are a traitor full of lies. You must have been bribed by the Dafeng Kingdom and deliberately spread rumors here!"

"Your humble servant! Absolutely not...Ah!"

The scout never thought about why he died.

Once the news he said in the hall spread to the entire rebel army,

Then what's the point of attacking the Dafeng Kingdom?

What else are we talking about, the destruction of Dafeng or something like that?

"This man has been bewitched and deserves death! Drag him out."

In the hall, except for Prime Minister Li Haicheng and Military Advisor Zhang Fangliang, who believed the scout's instructions, everyone else was skeptical.

But I heard such outrageous news.

Who would believe it?

Zhang Fangliang said to his subordinates in the hall:

"Take the body out and feed it to the dogs! Everyone, get out!"

The swordsmen on both sides dragged out the scout who was killed by military advisor Zhang Fangliang.

The shock in Zhang Fangliang's eyes did not fade at all. He looked at Li Haicheng who was also shocked and said:

"Prime Minister! We must not prepare any more now! If we wait any longer, something terrible will happen. Not only will we fail in our mission, but we will also lose our lives!"

"I'm worried that the King of Zhenbei is gathering troops in Ezhou to strengthen himself. The troops he brought from the northern border this time are limited, and he can only bring more than 10,000 people at most."

"We must not delay any longer now!"

Li Haicheng stood up and said:

"Military Advisor, please send someone to bring my son-in-law Hong Li here. I am worried about him no matter where he is. Just put him by my side!"

Hongli is now in Yunzhou.

When it fell into Li Meihua's hands, one can imagine what the result would be. Li Haicheng wanted his daughter to give birth to the prince of Dafeng Kingdom as soon as possible.

So I didn't bring this great gift with me.

But now that I know that Hongxuan actually has such powerful means, of course I have to keep Hongli by my side, so that he can feel at ease!

Zhang Fangliang looked at Li Haicheng and said:

"Prime Minister, the most important thing now is to find a way to get rid of Zhenbei King Hongxuan. Bringing Yunzhou Emperor Hong with you is just a delaying tactic!"

Li Haicheng looked at his military advisor and said:

"You mean! Send Miaosina to assassinate the King of Zhenbei?"

"Yes! We must send her to assassinate King Zhenbei! We should make preparations for both scenarios!" Zhang Fangliang said in an affirmative tone.

"But Miaosina may not agree! We made her a promise last time and we have to pay her. How could she help us again?"

"Humph! She is just daydreaming! She wants 10,000 kilograms of pure iron. If this Prime Minister has so much pure iron, why can't I make more weapons?"