GBP Chapter 818 Fang Ruhai vs. Li Kaigu
Chapter 818 Fang Ruhai vs. Li Kaigu
The county magistrate of Kunshan County was named Lu.
Lu from the Jiangdong Lu family.
Because of the assassination of the emperor, all the members of the master's family were killed by Wu Sansi's men. He escaped because he had not a close relationship with the master's family.
However, in this era, although there was a distinction between master and servant, they still had the same ancestor. When the main family was killed, he, as a member of the branch family, was still sad for several days.
Fortunately, the emperor of Yuezhou did not pay attention to him, a small county magistrate of Suzhou, so he was not dismissed.
Only occasionally, when he woke up in the middle of the night, he would hear the rushing river outside and think it was the sound of fighting and killing.
The young county magistrate who claimed to be from Lufeng and was captured by Hu Jinghui, upon learning of Li Cunxi's identity, resolutely carried out all of Li Cunxi's orders without hesitation.
For example, inform the higher-ups that everything is normal in Kunshan and no soldiers from the Great Zhou have been found.
Li Cunxi's original intention was to delay time and collect food and supplies in case of emergency.
After staying in Kunshan County for five days, the battle reports from Jizhou and Yuzhou finally reached Kunshan County in Suzhou.
After Lu Feng received the battle report from his advisor, he quickly got up and rushed to the Han family where Li Cunxi was to inform Li Cunxi of the battle situation.
The master stepped forward to stop him and said, "Sir, you are, after all, a minister of the Great Wu Emperor. If the Great Wu Emperor learns of your actions, he will be furious and want to tear you into pieces. What will you do then?"
Lu Feng's expression changed as he angrily said, "To steal my Lu family's money and food, that damned Mang Sansi actually killed so many people from my master's family, and he still wants us to be loyal to him?"
He spat on the tiles.
"Do you really think we are all our ancestors, Lu Yi and Lu Boyan? We have to be proud!"
"We can't do something like this, where our master is killed and we change our names to show that we are submitting to Mang Sansi and working for him desperately!"
No matter how famous Lu Yi was in history books, he was still not very famous to the younger generations like them.
All the members of his family were killed by Sun Quan's brother Sun Ce, leaving them with a lack of successors. Lu Ji, who was several years younger than Lu Yi, had to take over. Lu Yi still had the audacity to change his name to Lu Xun, to show his loyalty to Sun Quan and to work for him. In the end, he was angered to death by Sun Quan.
Don’t you deserve it?
Even if Lu Feng dies, he will never do such a thing!
The lawyer stopped trying to persuade him. Having followed Lu Feng for several years, he decided to take another gamble with Lu Feng.
In fact, after Wu Sansi killed the heads of the Lu and Zhang families, many aristocratic families in the 19 states of Jiangdong became alienated from Wu Sansi.
It was only because they welcomed Wu Sansi into the Nineteen Prefectures of Jiangdong and proclaimed himself king and emperor that they had no way out, so they had to endure it all the time.
Those aristocratic families all knew that Wu Zetian was already dissatisfied with the aristocratic families, and now this incident had happened. As long as Li Cunxi's army destroyed the pseudo-Wu regime, most of these aristocratic families would be massacred.
But there are always some people who want to surrender early and take a better path.
The reason why Li Cunxi had been in Kunshan County for so long without being exposed was because of the help of many people in the county.
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In less than a quarter of an hour, Li Cunxi received the battle report.
The content of the battle report is very simple.
As Zhang Renyuan wished, he brought a total of 200,000 troops from Zuoweiwei and Zuolongwuwei, and successfully blocked Li Xiaoyi on the border between Jizhou and Fuzhou.
Li Xiaoyi, who intended to have a decisive battle as soon as possible, never expected that Zhang Renyuan's main goal was to delay him. After several unsuccessful attempts to challenge him, he had to give up the idea of a decisive battle and confront Zhang Renyuan.
During the confrontation between the two sides, Li Kaigu led the left and right Yuqian guard armies out of Yuzhou and into Tingzhou, threatening the four states of Jian, Fu, Quan and Zhang.
The Tingzhou garrison consisted of only a few thousand men, so how could they possibly face an army of nearly 100,000? Therefore, within two days, Tingzhou was completely taken over, and the Tingzhou governor Wu Delie was beheaded by Li Kaigu, leaving him without a burial place.
The news of the imperial army entering Tingzhou was naturally leaked to Wu Sansi. Wu Sansi was impatient and sent General of the Cavalry and General of the Left Eagle Guard Fang Ruhai to lead the Left Eagle Guard army south to Jianzhou, waiting for an opportunity to defeat Li Kaigu.
The battle report ends here. Judging from the time, Fang Ruhai should have fought with Li Kaigu.
Presumably, Fang Ruhai, who was full of confidence in beating Li Kaigu into a pulp when he went on the expedition, had probably already witnessed how terrifying Li Kaigu was.
Thinking of this, Li Cunxi couldn't help but laugh sarcastically.
Wu Yanhao reached out and took the battle report. After taking a closer look, he exclaimed in amazement:
"I really didn't expect the battle to turn out like this."
"But Fang Ruhai is also a veteran. Can Li Kaigu really defeat him?"
Li Cunxi took a sip of tea and nodded silently.
Fang Ruhai was not a famous general, otherwise his name would not have been recorded in history books.
But Li Kaigu is different. He is a real famous general. Although he was promoted to general on the spot, Li Kaigu's ability is incomparable to Song Wuji.
This was a real general who commanded the army. At a time when there were few famous generals in the Wu Zhou Dynasty, this was a great figure who could be compared with Tang Xiujing.
If Fang Ruhai could defeat Li Kaigu when his military strength was inferior to Li Kaigu's, it could only be said that God did not want Wu Sansi to perish.
"As long as they fight, Fang Ruhai will be defeated!" Li Cunxi asserted, "We have to make some moves too, Patriarch Lufeng!"
Lu Feng was stunned, and suddenly realized that Li Cunxi was actually calling him, and he immediately perked up.
"Your Highness, Prince Qin, what is the matter?"
"How are your contacts with the people I asked you to contact?"
"Rest assured, Your Highness, the respected Prince of Qin, apart from Wu County, the five counties of Changzhou, Haiyan, Jiaxing, Changshu, and Huating are all willing to deal a heavy blow to Mang Sansi when his situation is hopeless."
"What about Wu County?"
Lu Feng said sadly, "Wu County is the provincial capital, and the new governor is not on the same page as us. I heard that the new governor is the steward of the prime minister of the pseudo-Wu regime, named Zhang Yi. I don't think he's a good person..."
"Wait, say it again, what's your name?" Li Cunxi stared.
"Zhang Yi!"
"Why didn't you tell me earlier? If you knew his name was Zhang Yi, I only needed to write a letter and he would be at my service!"
Li Cunxi immediately asked someone to bring pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a letter in front of Lu Feng.
Then he asked Ma Rong, who had spent some time with Zhang Yi during the Jiangzhou case in his early years, to deliver the letter to Wu County and hand it to Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi is the steward of his future father-in-law. He follows Wu Sansi together with his future father-in-law. If Zhang Yi can be made to obey his orders, it is only a matter of time before the whole of Suzhou rises in rebellion.
"Your Highness the Prince of Qin has such a wide network of contacts." Lu Feng sighed.
Wu Yanhao said, "You haven't seen his true network of contacts yet. Once his most hidden connections are exposed, this fake Wu regime will collapse!"