At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 605
Since Li Mi defeated Zhang Xutuo, his reputation has spread far and wide, and his prestige has far surpassed that of Zhai Rang, the leader of the army. Zhai Rang is also very knowledgeable. leader.

Li Mi pretended to resign, and finally under Zhai Rang's insistence, he finally agreed to be the leader of the Wagang Army. Wei Guogong, with Luokou as his capital, was called the first year of Yongping, and the documents issued were inscribed as Marshal Wei Gongfu.

Immediately, Li Mi appointed his confidants Fang Yanzao as Zuo Changshi, Bing Yuanzhen as You Changshi, Yang Defang as Zuo Sima, Zheng Detao as Right Sima, Shan Xiongxin as Zuo Wuhou General, and Zu Junyan as Jishi to join the army. The rest were awarded official positions according to rank.

As for Zhai Rang, who had made great achievements in supporting him, Li Mi also reciprocated, conferring him the title of Situ, a first-rank rank, and a title of Duke of Dongjun County.

Li Mi is indeed a very capable person. After becoming the leader of the Wagang Army, he can finally show his strengths. First, he defeated the general Liu Changgong sent by Yue Wang Yang Tong to attack Wagang, and then captured Xingluo Cang and Back in Luocang, Pei Renji, the guard of Hulao Gate, surrendered to Li Mi because of the court's suspicion.

So far, Li Mi has cleared all the obstacles to enter Luoyang, the eastern capital. In July, soldiers surrounded Luoyang. At this time, Li Yuan also raised troops in Taiyuan to step up the attack on Guanzhong. Then Yang Guang sent Wang Shichong to rescue the eastern capital.

Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought fiercely near Luoyang several times, and finally defeated Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong only survived with his body, and hid in Luoyang City and dared not fight again.At this time, Li Mi's prestige in the Wagang Army was even more prestige, and the Wagang Army has also become the most powerful rebel army recognized as the most powerful, and it has the potential to swallow the Central Plains and establish the country.

This is the reality. When a group of like-minded friends gather together to start a business and have nothing at the beginning, everyone must be very united, hard-working, and do not care about personal gains and losses. But, once the business is successful and the family is getting richer. , A crisis emerged. Everyone had conflicts over the distribution of interests, fighting openly and secretly, and even brothers turning against each other. In the end, they would either break up the partnership, or the ruthless one would be self-sufficient.

This is almost the case within the Wagang Army today. As the saying goes, two tigers cannot hide in one mountain. Although Zhai Rang took the initiative to abdicate to let the virtuous, he is the founder of Wagang after all, and his appeal in the army is still very strong. Moreover, as Situ, he also leads a strong army under his command, and there are still many people who support him.

Compared to Li Mi, although Zhai Rang is relatively mediocre, he is quite tolerant, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to give up the top spot. However, Zhai Rang also has a problem, that is, his ears are relatively soft.

Seeing that the Wagang Army is occupying more and more territory, its strength is getting stronger and stronger, and it has the potential to establish the Central Plains. As the leader, Li Mi is very likely to become the emperor. At this time, Zhai Rang's people began to envy First of all, his confidant Wang Ruxin privately persuaded Zhai Rang to abolish Li Mi and take back the power, and then his eldest brother Zhai Hong also came to persuade Zhai Rang to take back the position of boss.

Di Hong was vulgar and stupid in the first place, and he probably intended to let Li Mi hear it, so he said to Zhai Rang in public regardless of the occasion: "Brother Rang, Wagang was originally founded by you, and no one can compare to you in terms of credit. If you get to be the emperor of the world, you can only be the emperor, and you must not give it to others."

Zhai Rang was so embarrassed that he reprimanded his elder brother Zhai Hong for talking nonsense in public, but the latter didn't take it seriously, and retorted brazenly: "There is only one emperor, and the ninety-five emperor commands the world. How can I let Li Mi be it? Brother, if you If you don’t want to be one, then I’ll be the big brother, anyway, I must never let it to outsiders.”

Hehe, this guy really dared to say it, but Li Mi's words reached Li Mi's ears. Li Mi was naturally very annoyed, but with his city prowess, he could bear it without saying anything, but he also became murderous towards Zhai Hong.

After the idiot Zhai Hong uttered nonsense, he found that Li Mi didn't do anything to him, so he became more confident. Not only did he not listen to Li Mi's orders, but he often humiliated Li Mi's advisers and soldiers, even as the long history (equivalent to the secretary-general) Fang Yanzao didn't escape either, so everyone under Li Mi hated Zhai Hong very much.

It is said that Zhai Rang's advantage is that he is more magnanimous, but he also has a fatal disadvantage, that is, he is more greedy for money. Once, an official named Cui Shishu came to seek refuge with Li Mi, and Zhai Rang happened to bump into him.Zhai Rang saw that Cui Shishu dragged his family and brought dozens of cars of valuables, so he ordered people to arrest Cui Shishu and forced him to "dedicate" all the belongings he brought to him.

This matter naturally made Li Mi very angry. Zhai Rang did this, obviously he did not take himself, Duke Wei seriously, and this matter was spread, would anyone dare to come to him?
And just at this time, Zhai Rang invited Li Mi's office to join the army for his sentence of justice. He was punished by Zhai Rang because he was late, and he was beaten with thirty army sticks until his ass blossomed and blood flowed, and he ran back. Cry to Li Mi.

After all these things, Li Mi finally couldn't hold back anymore, and became furious. Fang Yanzao was secretly delighted when he saw this, and immediately fanned the flames: "I want to teach Wei Gong to know that Zhai Situ blamed his subordinates last time, saying that they broke through your army last time." Nanjun obtained a large amount of property, but only distributed it to Duke Wei's own people, not a single cent to Zhai Situ and his subordinates, and Zhai Situ also said..."

Li Mi frowned and said coldly: "What else did Zhai Rang say?"

"Subordinates dare not say it!" Fang Yanzao said cautiously.

"Say!" Li Mi's face showed anger, and his voice raised a few degrees.

Only then did Fang Yanzao say in a secretive voice: "Zhai Situ also said that he even supported you, Mr. Wei, and I don't know what will happen in the future!"

A cold light flashed in Li Mi's eyes, and his complexion became gloomy. He stared at Fang Yanzao and said, "Zhai Rang really said that?"

Fang Yanzao respectfully said: "Subordinates don't dare to speak half a lie." Then he added in a low voice: "Zhai Rang is stubborn and greedy, whether he has the heart of a king, Duke Wei should figure it out as soon as possible, otherwise it will be too late to regret !"

Li Mi's complexion fluctuated, and the coldness in his eyes gradually condensed into a cold murderous intent, he said calmly: "A few days ago, my country's lord got a new good bow, and I invited Zhai Situ to come to the camp tomorrow to drink and watch."

It is said that Zhai Rang is not only rich, but also has a hobby of collecting weapons!

As soon as Fang Yanzao heard it, he knew that Li Mi had murderous intentions towards Zhai Rang, so he couldn't help secretly happy, and quickly wrote an invitation card, and sent someone to send it to Zhai Rang.

Zhai Rang didn't expect that Li Mi would throw a Hongmen banquet against him, so he happily ran to the banquet the next day, and brought Shan Xiongxin, Wang Ruxin, Zhai Hong and other cronies, and he didn't bring any weapons.

After exchanging greetings, everyone sat down at the table. Seeing the guards brought by Zhai Rang guarding the surrounding area, Li Mi smiled and said, "It's cold, brothers, go down and have some wine and vegetables to warm up. You don't need to stand here to wait."

Zhai Rang was not suspicious when he heard the words, and waved his hands: "Since Wei Gong gave you wine, you all go to have fun, and you don't need to stand here."

Zhai made the guards overjoyed, so he left the big tent and went to drink and eat meat in other tents.

After dismissing Zhai Rang's guards, everyone began to drink and have fun. After a few glasses of wine, Zhai Hong started to tremble again, and said with a fake smile: "Wei Gong is getting more and more airy now. The older you get, the more you don’t even post to me, Zhai Hong, if it wasn’t for Rangdi’s favor, I wouldn’t be able to drink Duke Wei’s wine today.”

Li Mi sneered in his heart, the reason why he didn't invite Zhai Hong was because he had other plans, how could this idiot come here uninvited. Oh, Miben thought Master Hong wasn’t here, so he didn’t post to you.”

Seeing that Li Mi was so respectful to him, and calling himself Lord Hong by name, Zhai Hong couldn't help being secretly pleased, so he calmly said: "It doesn't matter, just remember it next time."

Wang Bodang and Cai Jiande looked at each other, sneered in their hearts, and next time?Next time, let King Yama treat you to a drink!
Shan Xiongxin couldn't see it anymore, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Didn't Wei Gong get a new bow? Why don't you take a look?"

Zhai Rang suddenly became interested, nodded and said: "I almost forgot today's business, even Wei Gong said it is a good bow, I think it must be a good bow, please Wei Gong quickly show it for everyone to see first."

Li Mi smiled slightly and clapped his hands. A soldier came in with an iron tire bow on a tray, and put it in front of Zhai Hong. When the latter saw it, his eyes lit up and he blurted out: "Good bow!"

This iron tire bow is indeed very exquisite, and the two ends are specially cast in the shape of a tiger's head. Di Hong liked it very much when he saw it.

Li Mi smiled and said, "Please Situ try the bow!"

Zhai Rang took the bow enthusiastically, first tested the strength of the bow, and then suddenly stretched the bowstring to the full, everyone couldn't help applauding, but at this moment, Cai Jiande, who was standing behind Zhai Rang, suddenly pulled out the knife and chopped it down. After touching Zhai Rang's head, blood splashed like a fountain, and Zhai Rang's head rolled directly onto the table, smashing the table full of wine and vegetables into a mess.

Everyone present was stupefied with fright, that bastard Zhai Hong was almost scared to pee, jumped up and was about to flee, but was cut into two by Wang Bodang, and Zhai Rang's confidant Wang Ruxin wanted to escape, but was also killed by Cai Jiande stabbed.

Shan Xiongxin reacted quickly, kicked over the table, and fled out of the way. Li Mi's soldiers guarding the door swung their knives at the sight.

Shan Xiongxin's martial arts skills are not bad, but he didn't have a weapon in his hand. After overthrowing a few soldiers, he was cut and wounded. Seeing that he was about to die under the sword of his own soldiers, Li Mi shouted loudly: "Stop!"

The soldiers put away their weapons and retreated. Shan Xiongxin asked angrily, "What crime did we commit that Duke Wei would kill you like this?"

Li Mi said in a friendly manner: "Xiong Xin, the purpose of raising righteous soldiers with you is to eliminate tyranny and solve the urgent needs of the people in the world, but Zhai Rang is arbitrary, greedy and tyrannical, insulting his colleagues, rude to his superiors, and Mi has to preemptively strike if he wants to do something wrong. , now only Zhai Rang's family is being killed, as long as you don't interfere, there is absolutely no danger of your life."

Shan Xiongxin's complexion changed, he covered his bloody arm and remained silent.Li Mi stepped forward to bandage Shan Xiongxin's wound, and comforted him: "I hurt Xiongxin by mistake, it's my mistake, Mi hereby apologizes to Xiongxin, and I hope Xiongxin doesn't mind."

At this moment, what else can Shan Xiongxin say, and Zhai Rang, Zhai Shou, and Wang Ruxin are all dead. If Shan Xiongxin doesn't know his identity, he must end up with a different head, and he can only bow his head and proclaim himself a minister to save his life.

Li Mi acted fiercely and decisively. After killing Zhai Rang's brothers, he immediately sent troops to control Zhai Rang's camp, arrested all the backbones, and prevented them from causing trouble. Hold it firmly in your hands.

(End of this chapter)