Li Dingguo opened the curtain and walked into the Chinese army's tent. He saw that the tent was full of people, and sitting at the top was Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong was not in a good condition at this time, his eyes were red, and he looked like he had stayed up all night.

Looking at the military advisors next to them, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were all sitting upright, and the two behind them were also wearing armor at this time, and there was a faint aura of killing.

"Dingguo is here, sit down."

Zhang Xianzhong then stretched out his hand to ask Li Dingguo to sit down. Li Dingguo sat down calmly, but looked at several people and felt that the atmosphere today was not right.

However, Li Dingguo did not speak and sat there waiting for Zhang Xianzhong or Sun Kewang to attack.

Sure enough, as soon as Li Dingguo sat down, Zhang Xianzhong spoke: "Okay, Dingguo is here too, let's discuss it next."

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong finished speaking, Sun Kewang stood up and said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Father, regarding the details of yesterday's battle, the third child and I have a few doubts. Please ask the second brother for permission."

"allow."

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, and Sun Kewang turned to look at Li Dingguo and said: "Second brother, I am asking you on behalf of my foster father. You must not hide anything. Let me ask you, yesterday, in the battle at Mangdangkou, did your army have any conflict with the Lantian army?

In the battle, are there really any casualties?"

I have to say that Sun Kewang is still very shady. The first question he came up with was to submit the proposition. The unnecessary battle in Mangdangkou yesterday was a sinkhole dug by Li Dingguo for himself that could not be filled.

Because this battle was made up, it was full of loopholes. If you try to quibble, you will definitely not be able to get past it, and it will leave an even worse impression on the adoptive father.

But admit it frankly, this will also leave a very bad impression on Zhang Xianzhong. At least he cannot escape the charge of deceiving his adoptive father. This charge is nothing, but it will give Zhang Xianzhong an extremely bad impression, which will make the next

It seems even worse to blame myself.

It can be said that Li Dingguo's truthful answer to this question will deepen Zhang Xianzhong's bad impression of him. If he quibbles, it will deepen Zhang Xianzhong's disgust and distrust of himself. I have to say that this question is really vicious.

Li Dingguo looked at Sun Kewang who was staring at him without blinking. He knew that this was a trick Sun Kewang had set for him, but Li Dingguo had to follow it.

"Li Dingguo, why don't you answer my question? Did you deceive your adoptive father in this matter?"

Seeing that Li Dingguo didn't answer him, Sun Ke took the lead and became aggressive. Li Dingguo said with a dark face: "Yes, I lied about this matter. I'm sorry for my adoptive father. I did not engage in any formal battle with the Lantian Army in Mangdangkou.

No casualties."

Hearing Li Dingguo's personal admission, Zhang Xianzhong's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and he said in a cold voice: "Dingguo, why did you do this?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo smiled bitterly and said: "Because of Sun Kewang, I led my troops to Mangdangkou that day. I was originally going to raid Mangdangkou. Unexpectedly, there was an ambush in Lantian. General Li Chaomeng was sent to guard there and ambush us. However,

They did not take action, but surrounded and refused to attack, allowing us to evacuate safely. After retreating, Mangdangkou has been heavily defended. If our army were to attack forcefully, we would definitely suffer heavy casualties, and we would not be able to capture Mangdangkou."

"So I was ready to withdraw my troops at that time, but when I was about to withdraw my troops, I remembered what Sun Kewang said to me the day before yesterday, saying that I had colluded with Lantian. If I had withdrawn my troops at that time, Sun Kewang would definitely sue me when I came back.

I didn't want to waste my time with him, and I didn't want my soldiers to die in vain for their useless work, so I asked the soldiers to camp on the spot and eat breakfast. As for the number of casualties, that's what I wanted to see in this matter.

Some, just made up."

Li Dingguo was upright and spoke out exactly what he was thinking. After hearing this, the coldness in Zhang Xianzhong's eyes obviously faded a lot, which was in line with Li Dingguo's logic.

It's not like you lied to him. Sun Kewang was very angry after hearing this. So you took it clean, but you put yourself in it.

Sun Kewang was furious at this time and glared at Li Dingguo: "Li Dingguo, OK, you said you were afraid that I would frame you, but flies don't bite seamless eggs. If you behave properly and sit up straight, how can I frame you?" You, there is something you can't do, and there are loopholes in what you just said. Let me ask you, since Lantian has surrounded you in the canyon, and the other party is absolutely capable of destroying you, why can they still let you leave unscathed? ?”

After hearing this, Li Dingguo looked coldly and said, "Then you should ask the Lantian people what I am doing."

After hearing this, Sun Kewang looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said: "My foster father is aware that Li Dingguo's words are obviously shirking responsibility."

After hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong said: "I understand, do you have anything else to ask?"

Sun Kewang heard this and said: "Also, yesterday the Lantian Army pursued Liu Wenxiu and I. Li Dingguo led more than 2,000 cavalry to block the front. Lantian coach Li Dezhen told another coach Shi Dalei that Li Dingguo had promised to find an opportunity to lead his men to defect to Lantian County, so That’s why they will stop fighting, is there such a thing?”

Li Dingguo looked at Sun Kewang and said: "If others are talking, they can say whatever they want, and I can't stop them. This is just a frame-up."

"Okay, okay, let's talk back."

Sun Kewang said here: "I have a witness. Your subordinate Wang Wancai can prove the authenticity of this matter. If you don't believe me, call this person and we will confront you in front of your adoptive father."

"Sorry."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo was very adamant and responded directly with one sentence.

"Why?"

Sun Kewang looked at Li Dingguo. Li Dingguo heard this and said: "Wang Wancai was tortured and tortured by me on the spot."

"you!"

Sun Kewang was furious when he heard this. Li Dingguo glanced at Sun Kewang without saying a word.

"Second Commander, this is your fault. This Wang Wan is an important witness that can prove your innocence. Now that he has been killed, how can you clear your innocence?"

Seeing that the time was almost up, the military advisor took advantage of every opportunity and spoke out against Li Dingguo. After hearing this, Li Dingguo glanced at the military advisor and then said coldly: "Huh, don't be pretentious here. In fact, my adoptive father knows best whether I am innocent or not. , foster father, do you think I will betray you?"

Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong. In fact, Li Dingguo saw it very clearly. This was a trust game. All the evidence against him, including Mang Dang's false battle report and the words Li Dezhen said to sow discord during the subsequent pursuit, were not considered his betrayal. Strong evidence for Zhang Xianzhong.

If you look carefully at the various evidences in these aspects, you can see that it is entirely Lan Tian who is deliberately framing Li Dingguo. If Zhang Xianzhong trusted Li Dingguo, he could shut everyone up with just one sentence.

And Li Dingguo also knew that the key was not evidence. In fact, Sun Kewang and the others could not produce any direct evidence, because Li Dingguo was not prepared to defect to Lantian at all.

Just like Qin Hui harmed Yue Fei, at the end of the day, you can't just put the shit basin on Yue Fei's head for what Yue Fei didn't do. People like Yue Fei and Li Dingguo have already reached the ceiling of power within a regime. They personally The influence is also very high within this force.

This is not like ordinary people like Zhang San and Li Si. In this era, if you want to frame you, you really can't defend yourself, but people like Yue Fei and Li Dingguo can't.

After all, at this level, countless people are watching, and if you arrange an untenable charge, it will cause huge damage to the credibility of the people in power, and it will be difficult to convince the public from now on.

Therefore, we can only lay an unfounded charge, or even say that we can only use this charge.

At least you can tell the world that I just want to kill him, but I don't want to make up any accusations. I will tell you directly and openly, and it's unfounded.

The same goes for Li Dingguo. Lan Tian's plan is not flawless. There are several intentional or unintentional overtures and sowing discord on the battlefield. If you really believe that Li Dingguo is innocent, you will definitely find many flaws in this sowing discord.

It's just a joke.

The reason why Li Dingguo is so sure that Zhang Xianzhong will not really punish him is based on this confidence. This is a clear way to sow discord.

At this time, Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong. He believed that his adoptive father would not believe such rumors.

Zhang Xianzhong's face was as dark as water at this time. He looked at the way Li Dingguo looked at him, looked away slightly, and then said: "Okay, first of all, let me make it clear that I don't believe that Dingguo will defect to Lantian."

After Zhang Xianzhong said this, no one said anything, but waited for the next step. When the leader spoke, he usually liked to say "although" but.

Now he first expresses his trust in Li Dingguo, and the next step is to see whether he trusts Li Dingguo.

Sure enough, Zhang Xianzhong's following text was: "But, Dingguo, everyone has doubts about you now. Not only hope, many brothers outside also have many doubts about you, so in order to eliminate everyone's doubts, don't let

If there is trouble within us, you should first hand over your 10,000 troops to Lao San. You can rest for a while, and after a while, when the news from outside has passed, let Wenxiu return the troops to you."

Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Dingguo and said. After hearing this, Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong blankly: "Father, you don't believe me!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Dingguo and said: "Dingguo, don't misunderstand me. How could your adoptive father not believe you? But you also have to think about your adoptive father. We have hundreds of thousands of rebels and hundreds of thousands of pairs of eyes are watching.

For the adoptive father, the adoptive father must be responsible for them and cannot be selfish, otherwise how can he serve the public?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo still looked at Zhang Xianzhong and said, "Father, do you really want to deprive me of my military power just because of a little rumor?"

Zhang Xianzhong heard this and said: "Dingguo, there are some things that my adoptive father is also in trouble for."

"Li Dingguo, now that the situation is so obvious, don't embarrass your adoptive father. Give me the tiger talisman and I will take over your army."

Liu Wenxiu stood up and asked Li Dingguo for the Tiger Talisman.

Li Dingguo glanced at Liu Wenxiu and said, "You are worthy of commanding my army."

"Li Dingguo, what do you mean?"

"Second brother doesn't call me anymore anymore!"

Li Dingguo glared at Liu Wenxiu, and Liu Wenxiu said with a dark face: "I did not secretly communicate with the second brother of the Lantian bandit."

"You secretly communicated with the Lantian thieves, hahaha... My adoptive father didn't even say this, but you decided on me. Who do you think you are?"

"you……"

Liu Wenxiu's face turned green and white after being scolded by Li Dingguo. Sun Kewang couldn't stand it anymore. He stood up and said: "Li Dingguo, it is your adoptive father's order to hand over the army. Do you want to disobey, or do you really follow the order?"

Lan Tian colludes and is really ready to rebel!"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo suddenly stood up and said, "Sun Kewang, do you want to die?"

"What do you want to do?"

Sun Kewang looked at Li Dingguo with a stern expression. Li Dingguo clenched his fists tightly at this moment. Just when Li Dingguo could not help but take action, Zhang Xianzhong said: "Dingguo, don't make trouble!"

At this time, Li Dingguo looked back at Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong said: "Li Dingguo, since the suspicion on you has not been cleared, I will now deprive you of your military power and temporarily imprison you in Camp A. Please wait for my news when you will be released."

"Father, you..."

Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong with disappointment in his eyes. Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Dingguo: "If you still think that I am your adoptive father, put down the tiger charm and go to Camp A. If you are unjustly accused, I will let you out."

Zhang Xianzhong's voice was very cold. Li Dingguo looked at Zhang Xianzhong, his eyes full of disbelief. At this time, Zhang Xianzhong looked at Li Dingguo, his eyes were full of coldness, but there was no warmth or kindness in the past.

At the same time, Li Dingguo heard the rustling sounds outside the camp. He knew without asking that there must be a swordsman ambushing outside. At this time, Li Dingguo watched Zhang Xianzhong pick up a cup of tea and take a slow sip, but did not put down the teacup in his hand.

.

Break the cup for the number!

Li Dingguo suddenly thought of an idiom. At this time, Li Dingguo suddenly laughed and said in a sad voice: "Okay, okay, I will hand over this tiger charm."

Li Dingguo took out a tiger talisman for troop mobilization from his arms. With this tiger talisman, Liu Wenxiu could mobilize his troops. Li Dingguo slapped the tiger talisman on the table, then stretched out his hands and said, "My foster father needs a chain."

.”

Zhang Xianzhong didn't speak at this time. Sun Kewang on the side took out a pair of chains and locked them. Li Dingguo didn't struggle, but just looked at Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong didn't say a word from beginning to end, just so quiet.

He watched quietly as Li Dingguo was taken out of the camp by Sun Kewang and others.

Li Dingguo left the camp, feeling as if he was dead. His foster father, whom he trusted the most, did not trust him so much. This was a huge blow to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo was driven to Camp A in despair, without any resistance. Looking at his back, he looked like a lion that had lost its fighting spirit.

Liu Wenxiu looked at Li Dingguo's back and snorted coldly: "Humph, are you still fighting with us just these two times?"

Sun Kewang looked at Liu Wenxiu and said: "After the secret operations of you, me and the military advisor, plus Lan Tian's actions intentionally or unintentionally, we succeeded in taking him down. Do you think Li Dingguo is a simple person?"

"We were able to defeat him this time because of luck. We won't have such good luck next time."

Sun Kewang said, Liu Wenxiu nodded and said: "Yes."

When Sun Kewang heard this, he looked at Liu Wenxiu and said, "Do you understand what I said? What I want to say is that there will be no next time for him."
Chapter completed!