Pei Mao and Pei Mao's Hedong Pei family, as a noble family, were the noble family of Hedong County. Their high-profile support for Du Ji, especially Pei Mao's support for the imperial court, has reached the point of destroying the family and making the country. Not only has they donated almost all the harvest and money this year, but they also used their influence to recruit soldiers from the Wenxi generation.

To put it more accurately, it is to unify the children of various powerful families, mainly composed of the Pei family's children, and formed a group of about 5,000 people, regardless of equipment or quality, which is not inferior to the military farming army, and even has to fight over a large number of local armed forces.

After all, Hedong is one of the three major military sources in the Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families here are still very different from those in Xuzhou and Yuzhou. These people are really able to fight wars, have made contributions in their lives, and their children in their families understand military tactics.

However, such a powerful army was naturally firmly in the hands of Pei Mao. The one who really commanded the troops was his eldest son Pei Qian. Du Ji, the prefect of Hedong, was naturally not enough to see in front of Pei Mao, the former Minister of the Shangshu Ling.

If Du Ji could only achieve this point this time, to be honest, it would be impossible to say that he would make up for his merits and demerits at most.

After Pei Mao helped him to fix the army and in fact, he had done everything he, the prefect of Hedong, should have done, Du Ji urged Pei Mao not to go north to Liyang City, but to go south to pass the gate.

Du Ji said that there are emperors in Liyang and Yong'an counties now guarding each other, and he has left 20,000 people and 100,000 grain in Liyang. There will definitely be no problem within at least one or two months. The terrain there is narrow, and if it is mainly defense, it will be useless to have too many people.

On the contrary, Wei Gu and Fan Xian, as officials of the court, led their families to escape from the gates during this crisis. Although they said that the overall situation was the most important, they were actually like rebellion.

The current battle is just a warm-up match after all. With the complete end of the autumn harvest, the intensity of the war in Hedong, Hanoi and Bingzhou generation, as the main battlefield of the Western Front, will surely continue to escalate. The military troops from Nanyang will come to support, and the high-ranking Taiyuan and Shangdang soldiers will definitely go south.

Therefore, before the war, we must first eliminate Wei Gu and Fan Xian, so that the power of the imperial court's western front can be squeezed into a fist and work with the high officials.

Pei Mao thought about it and felt that what Du Ji said made sense, and partly agreed with Du Ji's suggestion. However, Pei Mao firmly disagreed with Du Ji's behavior directly defined the behavior of Fan Xian and Wei Gu as a rebellion.

Everyone is a noble family in Hedong. After two hundred years of marriage, you have me and I have you. The emperor is even more cruel to the gentry and powerful people than the late emperor. If this is determined to be a rebellion, it may be another family that will destroy it, and more than ten thousand people will be rolling around. This is a bit too cruel.

Pei Mao's opinion was to attack Wu He in Wen, which means coaxing and scaring him, but Du Ji refused, and even had a big fight with Pei Mao because of this, and even forced Pei Mao to order Pei Mao, which made Pei Mao angry too.

I am a county marquis, the former minister of the dynasty, and a local local tyrant. You are a junior who has never been promoted to the prefecture position without any foundation. What are you? Cao Cao dare not talk to me like this!

But Du Ji seemed to suddenly become very ignorant, and even yelled to go and sue him for Pei Mao's darkness.

So Pei Mao naturally would not give him any face to Du Ji anymore, and even felt annoyed when he saw him, so he simply gave him a thousand,800 people and asked him to go north to Liyang to go back to find the emperor to report his life.

Are you going to go and complain to the emperor about your husband’s malpractice? You sue it.

He himself brought his five thousand troops to the outside of the Zangguan Pass, and he pretended to attack the city but did not really attack, but began to attack the heart.

And let's not express Pei Mao's attack for the time being. After Du Ji took a thousand, eight hundred people from Pei Mao's hand, he did not go north to find the emperor as Pei Mao thought.

On the contrary, he actually went south directly.

Zhuguan was already the southernmost side of Hedong. Going south, he naturally entered the territory of Henan Yin. Du Ji ran to Henan Yin with more than a thousand people who were completely confused, or to be more precise, he ran to Luoyang, then turned from Luoyang, ran to the territory of Hanoi, and went straight to the territory of Yan Wang, who was already tense at this time, and went to meet his old neighbor, the old leader in time and space, Zhong Yao.

When Zhong Yao met Du Ji, he was naturally completely confused.

"Du Ji? Why are you here? Could it be that the emperor has an order?"

It is said that Zhong Yao and Du Ji also knew each other, but this is the first time they have seen each other since they took office in Hedong and Hanoi respectively.

No wonder Zhong Yao thought so. After all, everyone knows that Hedong is fighting, and the emperor is fighting in Hedong. You, the prefect of Hedong, are not in Hedong, carefully serving the emperor but traveling to the neighbor's house to visit. This is really a bit unreasonable.

"I don't have the will of the Emperor, I came to you with a good idea. I hope you can do me a favor."

Zhong Yao couldn't help frowning when he heard this, "Hedong is now in war. As the prefect of Hedong, you dare to leave your territory without an imperial edict. Do you know that this is already a deserter?"

"I'm not a deserter, I'm asking for your help."

"Why should I help you?" Du Ji is from Jingzhao and Zhong Yao is from Yingchuan. Everyone is not familiar with each other.

Besides, everyone is a neighbor. Du Ji, the prefect of Hedong, has lost his links at a critical moment this time, so Zhong Yao naturally cannot not know about this.

Du Ji said, "Yu Gong, Hedong and Henoi are all facing the coalition forces of the high-ranking officials in Bingzhou and the Huns. You and I have lost their lips and teeth. You and I have a cold face. Because you and I are in similar situations and have similar situations, you, the governor of Bingzhou, are not much better than me, the prefect of Hedong. Now that the autumn harvest has ended, the high-ranking officials will definitely arrive first than the reinforcements in Nanyang. You can be sure that the same thing in Hedong will not happen in Hanoi County? Shouldn't we support each other?"

This was what Zhong Yao said. In fact, since he learned that Du Ji was cheated by the powerful people in this county, he had no emotion of gloating, and was full of sadness from the death of a rabbit and fox.

After all, he was obviously promoted. His current position is not the prefect of Hanoi, but the governor of Bingzhou. However, he was not allowed to take office by Yuan Shao.

Du Ji took over Wang Yi's squad, while Zhong Yao took over Zhang Yang's squad. Zhang Yang was one of the most famous princes in the world. If he hadn't been able to suppress the situation and could not survive, how could he leave his troops and join Xudu?

The situation in Hanoi is actually much more serious than that in Hedong. His butt is completely sitting on the crater.

"What do you want me to do for you?"

Du Ji was silent for a while and asked, "Do you... have a backup plan?"

"What?"

"If a high-ranking official fights over and some of your subordinates don't accept your order, but instead treasons and surrender to the enemy, do you have a backup plan?"

Zhong Yao frowned and said, "What are you asking about this?"

"Just there is one? Can you lend me your backhand? I plan to..."

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Here in Hedong.

After walking to the place, Pei Mao directly acted as an attacker, ordered the army to prepare more flags and horns, and blew and beat them under the city. He even asked people to use a broom behind the army to try their best to sweep out some smoke and dust. There were only more than 5,000 people, but he was still posing as 50,000 people.

Then Pei Mao rode alone and shouted to the city, with the content being similar to Du Ji's words to persuade them to raise an army: "Can you count the heads of your direct relatives? Is it enough for 40,000 to let that bastard Lu Bu cut off?"

At this moment, the news of Liu Xie defeating the Huns at Huoshankou has been sent back, and the local tyrants in the pass are actually a little panicked.

After all, these people were not really determined to rebel. They simply thought that the Huns were powerful and could not stop them, and wanted to hide.

Of course, some of these people were really bought by high-ranking officials or had just defected to Zhao State, such as Wei Gu and Fan Xian himself were leading the rhythm, but more people were just simply trying to protect themselves. They were all crazy and were fooled by Wei Gu and Fan Xian and hid here in a confused way.

If the Han army that went south this time was not the Huns but the high-ranking officials, they would not have run away at all. At worst, they would have to surrender.

If they fight, it is not a big deal. After all, they still have a reasonable reason to pay attention to the overall situation. The new prefect Du Ji has no prestige, and he can really make things difficult for them? He also needs to have this ability.

As a result, they never expected that the emperor would personally lead troops to support him.

After all, Guandu is the main battlefield in the mid-line battlefield. Even if the emperor wants to lead the army in person, shouldn’t he go to Guandu?

As a result, the so-called "the overall situation is the most important thing" will naturally not be valid. After all, the overall situation is no less important than the safety of the emperor himself.

What made them even more frightened was that the emperor actually won.

Du Ji couldn't deal with them, but the emperor definitely could.

Now many people simply want to abandon Hedong and take their entire family to go to the party and join the senior officials.

At this time, the county-level family in Hedong, Wenxi Pei’s most respected former minister of the Pei family, came to the city to scold them personally. How could they not be ecstatic?

The two initiators, including Wei Gu and Fan Xian, dared not be disrespectful to Pei Mao at all. Seeing Pei Mao shouting, the pass naturally opened the door and asked the old man to come in and speak.

The old man was not guilty, but he actually went in. He knew very well about the mentality of these powerful families. He believed that no one would dare to be unfavorable to him. After he entered, he would just express his past refusal to the court, these people would surrender honestly.

This matter is left in history. This is what Pei Lingjun went to the meeting alone and quelled the chaos alone. This is the shining page on their Pei family genealogy!

Haha, even if I retire, I still have to do some big things vigorously.

Isn't this better than Du Ji's infatuated method?

To be honest, it is indeed as Pei Mao thought. Now they only ask for forgiveness from the court, so how dare they treat Pei Mao? Therefore, after Pei Mao entered the city, he closed the door and the soldiers guarding the pass put down all their weapons to show their sincerity.

However, Pei Mao had just entered the city less than a quarter of an hour. To be precise, he had just sat down after entering the city. Wei Gu ordered people to prepare a banquet to invite him to sit down. He had just taken a sip of wine and had not had time to speak, but suddenly he heard the shouts of killing as he shouted to death, which scared everyone in the hall to pale.

But a Wei family servant stumbled over and shouted loudly: "Not good~Not good~, Du... Du... Du led his men to attack the city~"

"What?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then looked at Pei Mao in unison.

Pei Mao stopped at his mouth with a glass of wine, and suddenly Parkinson trembled as if he was shaking.

Then he shouted and angrily: "Nonsense! Du Ji was not in my army at all. After a big fight between us, I drove him away."

"He...he attacked the city from behind! He was from Hanoi!"

"Where did he get the soldiers? I only gave him one thousand men! Are Zhong Yao's soldiers?"

"In addition to the Du and Du flags, there is also a big flag with the word Zhang written on it."

"Zhang? Which general in Hanoi has the surname Zhang?"

Pei Mao first thought of it, put down the cup with a very stiff movement. Looking at Mantang's eyes that were obviously malicious and even murderous, he smiled bitterly: "It should be the Black Mountain bandit Zhang Yan, I said... I don't know anything about Du Ji's actions. Do you believe it?"

Before he finished speaking, he saw the sound of shouting and killing became louder and louder. This time it came from the front. Not long after, a clear sound like a tiger roar came into their banquet hall not far from the front and said, "Don't panic, my son is here to save you~"

Everyone still looked at Pei Mao.

Pei Mao showed a uglier smile than crying: "My son is not very sensible."

Wei Gu pulled out the knife and roared angrily: "Old guy, I'll kill you!"

Pei Mao jumped up and shouted: "If I die, your whole family will not survive! Your quick surrender is your only way to survive!"

After saying that, Pei Mao simply closed his eyes and waited for death.

After a while, without a knife or axe, Pei Mao opened his eyes and saw that Wei Gu had been held down by everyone, he breathed a sigh of relief.

He knew he wouldn't have to die this time.

Then, with a bitter smile in my heart, I felt a huge anger.

Du Ji, you are the bastard with the number one name in Tianzi!

At this point, Pei Mao had roughly guessed what Du Ji had done, but he was a little confused about the purpose of his doing so.

He also admitted that he had misunderstood this time. This boy who was promoted was not only a fool, but also a courageous and conspiring official.

but!

Can't you tell me clearly if you have any plans? You don't care about my life and death as the Secretary of the previous dynasty!

Little bastard, wait for me, I have to make up this grudge with you!
Chapter completed!