Gongsun Xi replied frankly, "Of course, I stepped on it with one foot!"

Pei Min shrugged at Li Mi, this was his answer.

An Lushan was able to sweep across the Northern Central Plains in one breath, but with his sharpness.

Li Heng was able to become the emperor mainly because of the help of the east wind caused by An Lushan.

An Lushan seems to be powerful, but as long as he can defeat his sharpness, the disadvantages of unstable foundation will appear.

Li Heng took advantage of the chaos to arise. As long as the civil strife was eliminated, he would not be able to cause trouble.

But if you want to deal with An Lushan, Li Heng will definitely make trouble in the rear for himself, making the road to countering the rebellion even more difficult. But if you deal with Li Heng first, it would be like giving An Lushan a chance to recuperate.

This situation is wrong no matter which side you choose. On the contrary, the most correct choice is to take action together and suppress both sides in one breath.

But this is going hand in hand and requires careful and effective planning.

Pei Min then looked at Li Linfu and said, "A gentleman can be deceived. Mr. Song and Mr. Wei are all gentlemen, not opponents of King Zhong. Lingwu needs you to go there to help Mr. Song and Mr. Wei. This gift has arrived, and it is time to show off your muscles next."

Li Linfu said respectfully, "I will leave immediately."

Pei Min said, "This is not urgent. You have followed me for many years and have been in front of you and rarely go home. After finally returning to Chang'an, everything is busy and there is no time to reminisce about the past with your family. I will give you a day to spend with your family. By the way, the son is 21 years old this year, right?"

Li Linfu hurriedly said, "Thank you Pei Shuai to be kind, and go back to Pei Shuai. It just turned twenty-one a month ago."

Pei Min thought for a while and said, "I remember my son's name is Li Xiu. He is so handsome and quick-witted that he is quick to hear and see. He was a young man. Most of the officials of the court ran west to Lingwu. I really lacked any manpower. So let the son help me. If you do well, I will promote him."

Li Linfu thanked him with ecstasy and respectfully, "Thank you Pei Shuai, my subordinates will promote his son Pei Shuai."

"Go!" Pei Min waved his hand and asked him to go down.

After watching Li Linfu leave, Pei Min sighed slightly and asked, "Wang Chengen is coming soon!"

Wang Wei’s affairs in this detail are always perfect, and he said, “It’s almost time to Chang’an.”

Pei Minsen smiled and said, "Then let's meet him first and let him go to Tongguan to report directly..."

Wang Chengen came to Tongguan with some frustration. Looking at the towering Tongguanguan City, the eunuch with a status in the temple sighed and said to the followers beside him, "Go into the gate!"

The military supervisor has always been a fat man. Not only can he make money, but he will win or lose. That is the general's business, and he will have many benefits.

In the past, when the army needed to go on a large army to fight, these eunuchs were sharpening their heads and trying to go with the army.

But Pei Min only has no water in it.

No eunuch had ever asked for any extra money from Pei Min, and no eunuch had the courage to do so.

This time, Wang Chengen was ordered to come to Tongguan to act as a military supervisor, and he had already made a loss of money.

When he came outside Tongguan City, he saw that the officers and soldiers above and below Tongguan had no reaction to their arrival. He thought that this was true. If it were other commanders, even if the military supervisor came, he would not have any reaction at all even if there was no flowers or the welcome of gongs and drums.

"I'm so fond of you!"

Wang Chengen sighed in his heart that Li Heng and Li Fuguo deliberately escorted Pei Min to declare war on them, and did not explain the matter of asking Pei Min to be the military supervisor at all. Therefore, Wang Chengen thought he was really here to fulfill his military supervisor's obligations.

After entering Tongguan, Wang Chengen planned to go to his residence to rest, but asked the soldiers to lead the city tower of Tongguan.

Wang Chengen was full of questions and asked the reason. The soldiers leading the way only replied, "Pei Shuai is waiting on the city tower to supervise the army." He was like a blind man and deaf man, and he ignored him.

He followed the soldiers leading the way to a city tower east of Tongguan. Pei Min stood with his hands behind his back, and a soldier next to him was reporting something to him.

Wang Chengen hurriedly stepped forward and said hello.

Pei Min didn't turn around, but just raised his hand to signal and asked the soldier to continue talking.

Wang Chengen was dry and hung up, and there was no way to do so, so he could only slander in his heart. But he soon attracted what the soldiers said...

What the soldiers said was about Wang Shi and Du Xian

"Wang Xiang, Du Xiang faced the rebels like wolves and tigers, and personally commanded the enemy at the top of the city with the body of a scholar. I still remember that on the day when Tongguan fell, Wang Xiang and Du Xiang gathered our last soldiers and said that Tongguan was the last line of defense in Chang'an. As long as the rebels passed Tongguan, all the elders in Guanzhong in the capital would face the butcher knife of the rebels. They could no longer defend, but they would use their lives to buy some time for the resignation and retreat for the elders in Guanzhong. Let our father and son leave, and the sons of the same army leave... In the end, they fought all the people who stayed. Faced with the rebels' surrender, they jumped from here with a laugh..."

The soldier said, burst into tears.

As one of the few survivors, soldiers could not describe the tragic battle in words, could not express the heroic spirit of Wang Shin, and Du Xian died calmly, and could only express the most sincere feelings in his heart with tears.

Pei Min relieved his emotions and asked, "Wang Jianjun, how do you feel after hearing this?"

Wang Chengen finally had an ominous premonition and said, "Previous Wang, Prince Du, and the country were loyal to him and died bravely, which was moving."

"Yes!" Pei Min sighed, "This great river and mountain is because of the thousands of Wangs and Du Xian, which is now magnificent. But I heard that before retreating to Tongguan, Wangs and Du Xian calculated in advance that the Yellow River was frozen, intending to retreat to Luoyang and avoid the sharpness of the rebels. The army supervisor held a show of defending the Yellow River defense line without any strategic significance, and also transferred all the defenders of Luoyang to defend the Yellow River defense line, which led to the emptiness of Luoyang, but he didn't know what he thought?"

Wang Chengen was shocked and hurriedly said, "Prince, it is definitely not the case. Here, why are the people on the south bank of the Yellow River thinking about it? When retreating to Luoyang, the people north of the Yellow River will be threatened by the rebels. I really couldn't imagine that Wang Xiang, Du Xiang would be defeated in succession, and he had no power to fight back..."

"Nonsense!" Pei Min said sternly, "Wang Shin, most of the troops recruited by Du Xian are hired workers and pawns. Most of them lack training. They were able to win before because the natural barriers are located. Without the Yellow River barrier, what kind of battle is there? Is it really stupid for the people in the world? If I guess correctly, you have a lot of industries in the suburbs of Luoyang? In order to avoid the plunder of your homeland and fields, let the lives of 60,000 soldiers be buried with them? Today, you still have the face to speak in front of me for the sake of the people?"

"It is not an exaggeration to cut your actions even if you cut them into pieces. I don't want to dirty my knife, so you jump off the city tower here, so that I won't do it myself..."
Chapter completed!