On that day, when the news that Li Zhu and others failed to operate and died in battle reached Wang Qing, Wang Qing was completely shocked. He immediately ordered his troops to go down to investigate the matter. Several Fangshan bandits crossed the front line overnight and lurked into the side of the Song Dynasty.

Zhu Wu had a solution to this. First, Zhu Wu ordered people to select a person with a similar appearance to Li Suk from the hundreds of captured Fangshan bandits. After comparing Li Suk's appearance and carefully putting on his makeup, he was indeed very similar to Li Suk. Then Zhu Wu ordered people to cut off the man's head, pretended to be Li Suk's head, and hung high in the military camp with the heads of dozens of people for public display. There were dozens of real-valued people's heads reflected by the Fangshan bandits' heads that followed Li Ying to pick up the firearms. These people were hung high, and the heads of "fake Li Suk" were mixed in. Even if Li Suk's biological mother came, I would probably mistakenly regard the "fake Li Suk" above as the real Li Suk.

At the same time, Zhu Wu ordered people to take all the dozens of generals and soldiers who were bribed by the bandits of Fangshan to him.

Zhu Wudao, "Do you want to survive?"

Among the more than fifty people, a large number of people fell to their knees, each crying and snot flying, begging Zhu Wu to spare their lives, but there were still more than a dozen people who did not respond at all. These dozen people knew that they could not escape death. Although Zhu Wu's words made them so excited, they did not dare to believe it, so they pretended to be "Isn't it just a death? That's it, twenty years later, I am a hero again."

Zhu Wu was not angry when he saw the performance of these dozen people. He just smiled coldly and nodded to Shi Bao beside him. Shi Bao immediately took out a piece of paper with words in his arms and read it loudly. With his voice, not only the more than 30 people who had just knelt down and begged for mercy, but even the more than a dozen people who were forced to stand up all their faces changed drastically and they were all shivering! Because... Shi Bao was thinking about the details of all their relatives! At this time, without waiting for Zhu Wu to speak again, the dozen people all rush to kneel down. Everyone looked at Zhu Wu in despair, looking at his face that was chilling, although smiling,

"You are all guilty of death," Zhu Wu smiled slightly, "but the prince is kind-hearted and can spare you all. Of course, there are conditions for letting you live. From now on, you can immediately return to the military camp, and do whatever you have done before and what you will do in the future. If the bandits in Fangshan contact you again, you must report it immediately and reply to them according to our instructions!"

Everyone understood that Zhu Wu wanted them to help him implement a counter-espionage plan against the Fangshan bandits!

"You can refuse," Zhu Wu continued, "You can't be afraid of death, but it's not enough to die alone. Your family will be executed. If you commit serious crimes, it is possible to kill the nine clans. Well, I've said everything I should say, and now tell me your choice."

Choice? Do you have to choose? More than forty people rushed to shout that they would be obedient and would completely obey the instructions of the prince and Duke Wu. But there were still a few people who did not express their opinions. Among them, they mustered up the courage and asked, "How do we know that after the matter is done, the Prince of the Crown Prince and you will suffer a lot of great losses. Even if the Prince of the Crown Prince and you are willing to let us go, will Prince of Jia and Lord Tong be willing to let us go?" As soon as this was said, the people who just expressed their willingness to surrender then reacted, yes, you let us go, what should you do if King of Jia and Lord Tong come and take our lives?

Zhu Wu smiled lightly, "First of all, you have no choice. This is the only way for me to live for you and your family. Secondly, it is very easy to solve this problem. I can pick dozens of people from the bandits in Fangshan to pretend to be you and die, and then I can give an explanation to the court. Then, with the power of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, it would be easy to hide you with another identity?"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you. Although I felt that Zhu Wu's words were not so credible, at least this was a hope. Even if it was not for himself, but for his family, he could only accept Zhu Wu's conditions!

Hula, everyone finally knelt down...

Next, Zhu Wu also made people publicize the successful extermination of Li Zhu and others in the Song army. The news was full of beginning and end, reasonable and vivid. Later, even the vast majority of the Song army believed that the Qishan army had just killed dozens of bandits, including Li Zhu, the second leader of the Fangshan bandits, in a secret operation, and seized a large number of excellent firearms.

At this point, Zhu Wu completely completed all the countermeasures, waiting for the Fangshan bandits to take the bait.

It turned out that Zhu Wu's preparations were all in hand. The people sent by Wang Qing first contacted several of the more than 50 generals and soldiers who had returned to their respective positions. The people hurriedly reported the situation to Zhu Wu. Under Zhu Wu's instructions, the people were united and insisted that Li Zhu and others had indeed been killed by the Song army. At this moment, their heads were still hanging in the military camp to show their public.

Of course, those bandits in Fangshan did not believe it and insisted on taking them into the military camp, and they should see it as the truth.

Those people were so embarrassed that they said it was too dangerous to do so. If something went wrong, everyone would be done!

Several Fangshan bandits smiled coldly and threatened, "You must take us there. If not, you will not make any mistakes?"

Those people were shocked when they heard this, and then suddenly felt that it seemed that it was not bad to hear Zhu Wu's words. Otherwise, even if they did not die in the future, they would have to be killed by these Fangshan bandits!

The men were determined and immediately pretended to be afraid as planned and agreed to the request of the Fangshan bandits. Then they found the Song army uniforms that had actually been prepared to be replaced by the Fangshan bandits, and then took them into the military camp.

After a pretentious act, several people took the Fangshan bandits to the place where the heads of "Li Zhu" and others were hung. Several Fangshan bandits looked up and saw that the dozens of heads were not all "acquaintances". After a closer look, the second leader Li Zhu's head was indeed among them!

At this point, several Fangshan bandits finally completely believed that Li Zhu and others were dead. They immediately returned to Xijing to report the matter to Wang Qing. Before they came back, the entire Fangshan army had already known about the killing of the second leader Li Zhu because of Zhu Wu's intentional dissemination. In the face of such "facts", Wang Qing could not believe it.

Li Zhu's death was like losing his right-hand man to Wang Qing. It made him bizarrely angry and also caused him to be in chaos, causing him to make two fatal mistakes one after another!

Faced with Li Zhu's death, his first reaction was that his subordinates had a traitor, otherwise it would be the Song army who was from Jingdong Road. But how could those Jingdong people report the secret? They wanted to defeat the Song army by themselves, so it was impossible for them. Since it was not them, most of the problems were from their own side. In addition to themselves and Li Zhu, there were only a few senior generals in the army, and dozens of people selected by Li Zhu himself. It was impossible for him to leak the secret. Li Zhu and those dozens of people were all killed. Now the most suspected are those senior generals! This idea made Wang Qing very scared. He was afraid that if anyone among those people suddenly turned against him, it would bring him a fatal blow!

Wang Qing, who was already confused, made the first serious mistake at this time. In the idea of ​​rather killing a thousand people by mistake than letting go, he dismissed all the senior generals and immediately took them back to Xijing to investigate. Of course, the few people were confused and shouted for injustice. As a result, the more they shouted injustice, Wang Qing felt that they were suspicious, and even caught many of their close friends and interrogated them for a serious trial, which made the Fangshan army panic!

Immediately afterwards, Wang Qing made the second fatal mistake. As the second in command and military advisor of the Fangshan bandits, Li Zhu actually had a deeper understanding of all the situations of the Fangshan bandits than Wang Qing himself. Many major military deployments were basically done by him.

Wang Qing never expected that Li Zhu not only did not die or even betray him. All his attention was focused on finding out the traitors, and he did not make timely adjustments to the Fangshan army. How was it deployed or how it was deployed, and where were the food, grass and other military funds stored in the past, which gave Zhu Wu an opportunity to take advantage of it!

With the detailed distribution of various troops and horses of Fangshan Army provided by Li Zhu, the detailed information of leaders from various places, and the detailed information of cities in various places, Zhu Wu formulated a detailed combat plan in a targeted manner.

On September 8, after Zhao Huan issued a general attack order, under Zhu Wu's command, 50,000 Qishan Army, 30,000 Western Army and 50,000 Jinxi Allied Forces launched a sudden full-scale attack on the Fangshan bandits according to the combat plan!

The operation plan was well kept confidential. When the spies were actually lost, Wang Qing and the Fangshan bandits did not receive any warning. Faced with the strategic and crazy attacks of more than 100,000 troops of the Song army, the soldiers from all Fangshan were in a mess and could only wait in a hurry to fight. In addition, the main generals of each army were detained by Wang Qing in Xijing for trial. The Fangshan army had no leader to fight each other, and the situation was urgent!

There is more than one piece of news that is unfavorable to the Fangshan Army. Zhu Wu used a large number of thousands of firearms seized in the battle, allowing the Fangshan Army to fully understand the troubles they caused to the Song army in the past with the same firearms!

Wang Qing only realized this time. He hurriedly ordered the imprisoned generals to be released and let them lead troops to fight, but it was too late, and the defeat of the Fangshan army was a foregone conclusion!

On September 15, Xijing was lost.

On September 25, Fangzhou and other three states were lost.

On the first day of October, Wang Qing was defeated and captured in Fangshan.

{Piaotian Literature www.piaotian.com Thank you for your support, your support is our greatest motivation}
Chapter completed!