Chapter 908: Plan Broken
"ah!!"
The screams from the top of the city wall were terrifying. Zhan Meng's hands and feet were limp on the ground, and his body was covered in blood.
However, Tu Bai did not stop. After cutting the tendons in his hands and feet, he raised his hand and inserted the dagger into his scapula. After hearing the sound as if bones were piercing, Zhan Meng's screams became louder. He trembled with pain and fell to the ground, howling with his head raised.
"impossible……"
How is that possible!
How did they find out?
How could these people be on guard against him? He had been with Di Shuangcheng all the time during this period of time, and even Shi Changan had never doubted him. The Great Wei's marching formations and plotting against Beiling had never been hidden from him. How could they know that he wanted to take action?
And the person next to Shi Changan, isn’t that Hang Li? Didn’t he lead his troops to Pingtou Valley to ambush Sang Qina and the others? How could he be here!
Zhan Meng's eyes were bloodshot from the pain, and the weakness from having his scapula pierced almost made him faint, but all this was far less than the panic in his heart.
He looked up at Shi Chang'an who was standing motionless not far away, then at Di Shuangcheng and Hang Li who were standing beside him with indifference and disdain, and at the generals who were further away with their eyes wide open in surprise at the sudden change. Something flashed through his mind.
From the moment he appeared at Luoyan Pass, to everything that happened afterwards, and then to the plans that Shi Changan and the others had mentioned before...
Zhan Meng's eyes grew wider and wider, and he finally screamed ferociously at Shi Changan and the others in disbelief: "You have been lying to me all along. Is the Dragon Jade Order fake?!"
Di Shuangcheng sneered: "Who told you that the Dragon Jade Order is fake?"
Zhan Meng was stunned: "It's not fake? Then how could you find out..."
"What did you discover? Did you discover that you are a spy from Beiling? Or did you discover how your master wanted to use the affairs of Southern Qi and the capital to deceive us and break through our northwest border to allow Beiling to set foot in Wei territory?"
Di Shuangcheng's words made Zhan Meng feel as if he had fallen into a cold cave, and the word "master" shattered all the hope in his heart.
"You already knew it..." Zhan Meng's lips trembled and his words were incoherent: "Then why do you still do these things..."
"Of course, it's to lure you into a trap."
Hang Li said coldly: "Although the Dragon Jade Order is real, the others are not."
Zhan Meng looked at him in a daze, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
Hang Li looked at him with his eyes lowered and said:
"Your master has foreseen everything, believing the world is his chessboard, at his disposal. But he never realized that the news he sent you to deliver was precisely what our Majesty and the Empress wanted him to know."
"This Dragon Jade Token was originally the bait left to you by His Majesty and His Majesty. If it weren't genuine, how could they have deceived your master's men and persuaded Ming Ke to risk his life to ensure his men could deliver the news from the capital? And how could they have persuaded your master and Ji Rongqing to put aside their past grudges and work together?"
"There's already been a grudge between the two of them, which has made it difficult for the Beiling army to work together, but it also provides a way out. Only by uniting them, by making them believe that we're risking everything to plot against you, and by making them want to seize the opportunity to take over Wei, will they use our tactics against us and use their ambition and greed to bring demise to your Beiling army."
As Hang Li spoke, he was playing with the token in his hand, and he couldn't help showing a sarcastic look on his face when he mentioned Xiahou Ling and Ji Rongqing.
Shi Changan glanced at the pale-faced Zhan Meng and spoke calmly.
"Your master loves to plot against people and judge them by their own interests, believing that everyone in the world is like him. But he doesn't know that the Great Wei was able to command the northwest army with more than just a token, and that the Emperor of Wei was able to gain people's loyalty not because of the protection of Wei Taizu, but because he himself deserved it."
"Even if this token really falls into the hands of someone else, it will not affect the Emperor of Wei's mobilization of the capital. Xiahou Ling has underestimated the Emperor of Wei and overestimated himself."
As Zhan Meng listened to their words, he felt that all the warmth in his body had disappeared, and at that moment he understood everything.
The news coming back from the capital of Wei was false, and the news about the war in Southern Qi was also deliberately misleading. Ming Ke and even the people sent by Prince Consort Ji had already been discovered by the people of Wei Dynasty and fell into their trap.
The so-called unrest in the capital of the Wei Dynasty, the rebellion of the royal family, the various chaos before, and even the disappearance of the Queen of Wei later, all of these were false.
No, more than that...
I'm afraid that even the news of the disappearance of the Emperor of Wei and the defeat of the Wei Dynasty at the hands of the Southern Qi Dynasty was deliberately passed on to them by them.
The national teacher was deceived.
So does Prince Consort Ji.
All of them were deceived by the people of Wei!
Zhan Meng felt cold all over, and his eyes were bloodshot with fear. He wished he could kill everyone in front of him.
He couldn't imagine that if all this was a setup, then how much of what he had reported back before about the troop movements in the northwest of the Great Wei was true?
The Imperial Master and his men believed the "strategy" of the Wei Dynasty, believed that he had gained the trust of the people of the Wei Dynasty and learned all their plans, so they wanted to take advantage of the situation and lead their troops out in full force.
But now all of this is fake, it was all their calculation from beginning to end...
Zhan Meng turned his head abruptly and roared towards the city wall: "Retreat, retreat quickly, don't come over, quickly... ugh!"
He was hit hard on the chin, and the broken teeth and blood immediately flowed out.
Zhan Meng had his jaw removed by Tu Bai and was pushed down onto the city wall, and his half-smiling voice came to his ears.
"It's too late to back out now."
"You have been so proud for so long, you should be buried with the men of the Wei Dynasty who died in battle."
Zhan Meng looked at the tribesmen who had already reached the city wall with horror in his eyes. He kept shouting incoherently, "How dare you! Let me go... Di Shuangcheng, you dare to plot against my people? Do you know your daughter..."
"How is my daughter? Are you trying to say that Fang Yun is in your hands?"
Di Shuangcheng said this lightly, leaving Zhan Meng frozen in place.
He turned his head to look at him in disbelief, and saw this man who had always been brave but rough sneer:
"Do you think I would dare to put you in the general's mansion without being on guard against you?"
Since they already knew who Zhan Meng was, they put him in the general's mansion just to gain his trust and monitor him. No one followed Zhan Meng openly in the general's mansion, but secretly, they knew clearly his every move and every word in the general's mansion.
How could Di Shuangcheng give him the opportunity to use his female relatives to control him?
Seeing Zhan Meng's pale face after losing his last support, Tu Bai reached out and patted his cheek: "You have been so proud for so long, it is time to pay it back. I will treat you to a fireworks display."
Zhan Meng looked up blankly, and the next moment his eyes widened suddenly.
Suddenly, there was a rumbling sound that shook the earth. The Beiling army that had rushed to the city wall was instantly surrounded by smoke and dust, and then cries and screams tore through the sky and earth.
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