"Where is Li Jin?! Let Mr. Li come to see me! Why don't you come to see me in front of the battle? Don't you dare?!"

In early winter, the grass and trees were withering. At a narrow bend on the south bank of the Zhang River, seven or eight miles east of Yecheng City, under the setting sun, the newly minted Pingyuan Marquis, Zhendong General Ju Yi, was wounded in many places, covered with blood, and had long since lost his life.

There was no hope of escape, but he still led more than ten personal guards to resist stubbornly and refused to surrender. Moreover, his arrogance and arrogance were still the same as before. He actually shouted at the enemy general and his former colleagues and made rude remarks.

The man shouted several times, but no one responded. However, the few remaining Li soldiers who surrounded him and the few remaining soldiers in the front mostly stopped and looked back to somewhere behind them... It was obvious that Li Jin was actually on the front line.

"After all, my colleagues are here. General Li might as well go and see him. If he has any support behind his back, it's okay to come." The person who spoke was Guo Tu, who was standing in the shield formation behind a small slope on the left side of Ju Yi.

Inside, Li Jin was speaking kindly to persuade him.

It turned out that not to mention Li Jin, Ju Sue, Cheng Wu, and Guo Tuju, the chief secretary accompanying this trip, were only a hundred steps away from Ju Yi. At this time, the latter screamed with all his strength, but all four of them listened.

Be clear.

However, Li Jin was a bit disapproving of the fact that Guo Tu, who was obviously here as a supervisor, was so kind: "Master Guo, why are you joking? Everyone knows the origin of Ju Yi... He was born in a wealthy family in Pingyuan, but he was sent to Xiliang by his entire family for crimes.

It has been decades, and he seems to be a criminal Qiang. After Dong Zhuo's rebellion, he took advantage of some desperadoes in his hands and took the opportunity to move back to his hometown. However, he followed Han Fu halfway, and then he was taken in by our Yuan Cheqi, so who should he follow?

We don't get along with each other, and we have no friendship with anyone... Calling me now, what kind of funeral can you entrust me with? It's nothing more than making me disgusted before you die!"

"I heard people say that people who are about to die can also speak well." Guo Tu sneered. "Besides, after General Ju made great achievements as a savior from Hanoi, he conquered Hulao, annexed Qing, Yan, and surrendered the Yellow Turbans of Mount Tai.

, the bitter battle against Jiudu, the march into the Bohai Sea, the two battles against Handan, and the previous battle... all the credit is due to the hard work. If you really have good words, you can explain it when you go back to see your lord. As for saying bad words before you die,

What's so bad is that General Li is the one who wants you to kill him anyway, so why are you afraid of bad words?"

Li Jin shook his head for a moment, but after looking at Ju Shou and Cheng Wu who looked very expressionless, he still held on to the saber in his waist and went up the slope.

On the other side, Ju Yi saw the neatly dressed Li Jin appearing far away on the hillside full of corpses, but he stood with a knife and raised his head and laughed. After laughing, he said jokingly: "I thought you were shameless.

How dare you come to see me?"

Li Jin felt a little irritated, and immediately raised his voice and asked: "Why don't I dare to come? Do we have old friends or something? And didn't you bring it upon yourself for what happened today?"

"Why am I the one to blame?" Ju Yi immediately stopped laughing and asked sharply. "Although your soldiers and horses are special and can be restrained properly, they are also leaders. Don't you really know my difficulties? After the defeat, Bu Qu

There were so many casualties, how could we restrain them? The defeat was like that... Yu Jin had no choice but to surrender in order to survive, and I had no choice but to let them rob me in order to survive, but once they rob Yecheng, what else can be done?!"

Li Jin couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "What's the point of talking about this now? General Ju, if there is any funeral for our colleagues, for example, if you are young and weak among the tribes in the plains, I will do my best."

"I have nothing to say about my future affairs. Don't you know about Yuan Shao? He is generous on the outside and jealous on the inside. I almost put him in a desperate situation this time. He must hate me extremely, but he doesn't hate me. Under the situation of defeat, for

If we, the leaders of the army, are restrained from following suit again, our people will definitely be severely punished..."

"Then why are you calling me?" Li Jin became increasingly impatient.

"Of course I want to question you face to face... We are both warriors, why did you help them kill me?" Ju Yi finally asked angrily, expressing his deepest resentment. "Cheng Wu did it because I took away soldiers from Xue Fang, a foreigner; Ju Shuo did it because

Because my tribe robbed and killed his relatives and friends in the same city; even if Yuan Shao wanted to destroy my tribe, I would not hate it, because I betrayed him after all; as for Guo Tu, Xu You and others who made suggestions, I don’t care even more, because they have different ways.

Conspiracy... But what about you? What's the benefit of killing me to you?! If I become the Marquis of Pingyuan, wouldn't I be able to separatize half of Yanzhou with the power of your Li family? If I die today, I will die. I just won't accept it.

Death by your hands... Everyone in the world can kill me, but you alone should not!"

"General Ju, who do you think I am?" What Li Jin heard was hilarious. "Martial men? Separatist regimes? The world is in such chaos now, with people dying everywhere and fighting everywhere. Isn't it just because they have some soldiers and horses in their hands that they act recklessly?

Are there too many people? But starting from Dong Zhuo to the bandits who took over the counties, any warrior who doesn’t care about production and doesn’t understand people’s hearts will end well?”

"What kind of production? What kind of people's hearts? That's because they are not strong enough!" Ju Yi's face was ferocious. "If he is as strong as Gongsun Xun, can't he do whatever he wants? And that Yuan Cheqi, why did I trust him when he promised me a marquis before?

Because he has an army of 100,000?! In troubled times, everyone is the same! And you, should have taken this opportunity to stand on your own, but you are worried about the overall situation and dare not stand on your own, so you can bargain with Yuan Shao, how can you help him kill me?

?”

Li Jin completely lost his patience: "I am here as a colleague to hear your last words, not to listen to your nonsense... No one says that force is useless, but it does not matter whether it is General Wei or General Chariot.

Forget it, how can we just rely on force? And if we just talk about strength and weakness, our Li family can separate the three counties of Dongyan from the beginning, why do we have to wait for you, a Pingyuan Marquis, to take action? "

"That's it!" Ju Yi looked up to the sky and sighed. "I really didn't expect that you are so stupid that you can't see yourself clearly. You are obviously a martial artist, but you pretend to teach yourself about righteousness and human nature, and then you think that those people can see you.

You, treat you as a kindred spirit... But don’t you really know that the reason why these people use you, respect you, and fear you is just because they fancy the soldiers and horses in your hands, how can they really treat you as a human being? It’s ridiculous that I actually

I have to reason with stupid people like you..."

"How could I not know this kind of thing?" Li Jin was about to turn around, but when he heard the words, he turned back to face each other sternly, sternly reproaching him. "General Ju... Our Li family has been in the hinterland of the Central Plains for a long time, and I myself have been in the hinterland of the Central Plains for a long time.

I served as a county magistrate in Yingchuan. How could I not know that those scholars were polite on the surface, but in fact they never thought highly of me? But just because of this, can I let myself do whatever I want? In troubled times, I, Li Jin, am just a warrior.

I dare not say that I have great ambitions and intend to help order; I dare not say that my life will live up to my heart and people, and I will be selfless and fearless; but the situation has become like this, no matter what, I can never imitate people like you and rebel.

Come here and become the source of trouble? Scholars look down on warriors, and people in the world fear soldiers. It’s people like you who are causing trouble!"

Ju Yi was stunned for a moment.

"Shoot him to death with random arrows." Li Jin turned around, held up his knife and slowly walked downhill, and ordered at the same time. "After killing him, hang his head on the gate of Ye City to let the people of Ye City know that the person who committed the rebellion is dead!

"

The densely packed Li clan soldiers on the left and right did not dare to neglect and prepared arrows one after another.

But at this moment, a relieved sneer came from the river behind him: "You talk as if you are really clean. The world is in chaos, don't you also pick up a knife and strangle it? Have you killed few people? On one side.

You talk about the order of the world while killing people. Although I was born in Xiliang since I was a child and have never entered school, I still know the saying "Mencius", "Laughing at fifty steps and laughing at a hundred steps, isn't that what you are talking about?"

Li Jin stopped on the side of Xiaopo and turned around, his face already ferocious... As soon as he turned around, the soldiers around him did not dare to neglect, but they immediately fired arrows.

For a moment, I dare not say that thousands of arrows were fired, but thousands of arrows were flying across the sky. There was a muffled sound from the other side, but there was no movement anymore.

Li Tuizhi took a long breath and didn't bother to look any further. He just slowly returned to the disbanded shield formation. At this time, Ju Shou, Guo Tu, Cheng Wu and others who were waiting here looked at the third person in the Central Plains.

When he was a 'thug' in a powerful family, his eyes were already different.

"I never thought before that there would be someone like General Li hidden in the army." Guo Tu twirled his beard and smiled. "I must be disrespectful first."

"General Li has a keen eye for fire and understands righteousness. He is already a famous general." Jushou also sighed with emotion. "I only saw Dian Wei when I was defeated and fled. Only after today's incident did I know where to stand... Think about it, our army is sitting on three

There are 19 counties in the state and a hundred thousand soldiers. How could there be fewer heroes? If a general had been appointed as the commander-in-chief earlier, the defeat would not have been like this that day."

As for Cheng Wu, perhaps because he was younger and had a lower status, it was difficult for him to imitate the gestures of the other two. Therefore, he hesitated to speak but bowed his head as a gesture of expression.

"What's the use of making gestures at this time?" Li Jin faced the compliments of the three people, but his expression was extremely gloomy. "Ju Yi has already been executed, so you three can do it for yourself... I will check the casualties, clean up a little, and then prepare."

According to Duke Ming's previous instructions, I went to station in Pingyang, a small town in the east, so you don't need to worry about me."

After saying this, he ignored the three people and walked away directly with his knife in hand.

The three of them looked at the man's back and were silent for a while. When Li Tuizhi was gone, Guo Tu just came back to his senses, put his hands behind his back and said with a smile: "At this time, it seems that he has not only underestimated General Li, but also died."

General Ju also has his own reasons... The world is in chaos. The so-called warriors have taken advantage of the situation and climbed on top of us. But it is normal. After all, in troubled times, only strong soldiers and horses can suppress the world. General Wei also

Well, we Ming Gong, although we all have our own reasons, we still have to rely on swords and guns to explain things."

Ju Shou frowned and asked, "What exactly does Mr. Guo want to say?"

"Nothing else, I just feel that our army has so many talents..." Guo Tu chuckled and then became solemn. "Then I also wanted to ask Jujun by the way. Now that Ye City has been recaptured in one fell swoop, our army has made a slight turn, but

Guan Yu advanced rapidly. Not only did he capture Shexian County, but he was still heading south eagerly. He seemed to be going back to Chaoge via Linli, and then to Liyang to cut off our army's path southward from Guandu. He also wanted to seize the opportunity to march south to Guangzong.

, there is a vague intention of delivering it to Dongjun and outflanking the entire Weijun... Jujun is a native of Weijun, can you teach me how to deal with it now? Should I urgently divide my troops and go south to rob Neihuang and Liyang?

What? Then should we send troops to the east and take a brief response at Guangzong?"

"It's too late for Li Yang." Hearing the other party ask about business, Jushu became more or less serious. "But Neihuang must ask Ming Gong to send troops to rob as soon as possible, otherwise Yecheng will lose its southern barrier, and Guang Zong will be more serious.

Needless to say, we must confront each other immediately..."

"Jun Jun!" Guo Tu interrupted the other party directly, and then said seriously, ignoring Cheng Wu. "I am not actually asking this, but I want to ask you for an accurate answer on this matter... There are no outsiders here.

, Lord Ju, please tell me frankly. Liang Qi was so defeated in the first battle, and people's hearts are so bad, can Wei County be able to defend it?"

Cheng Wu next to him immediately showed a look of astonishment. This seemed to be what Guo Tu really should ask.

"I think that if we can do our best, it will be possible to have one winter and one spring!" Jushou also gave the answer without hesitation. "First of all, although Wei County has a flat river, it has Fu River, Zhang River, and Dang River.

Rivers and lakes such as Shui, Huangze, and Jize are slightly obscured and delayed; secondly, not only is Yecheng itself tall and tall, but it is also surrounded by several branch cities. Further away, there are Neihuang in the south, Liang Dynasty in the north, and Wei in the east.

Castle, Katsuragi, Kuqiu, Yuancheng, Guantao and many other cities... It is not a lie to say that the cities are densely packed and connected to each other to form horns; it is not just that, General Wei's soldiers and horses are invincible in field battles because of their sudden cavalry in the north, but

How can the Northern Assault Cavalry attack the city? Finally, we have to consider the season. Winter is about to begin. How hard it is to attack the city in winter. Will General Wei be willing to do so? And after spring, with General Wei's long-term concern, will General Wei be willing to do so?

How to arrange spring plowing in case of famine? And if there is a large area of ​​spring plowing behind him, will his logistical support be limited? Therefore, let’s talk about one winter and one spring, which means there is a city loss, but Yecheng can be saved

It is still feasible to control the core of Wei County by ourselves! But it is really hard to say after next spring and summer solstice..."

"That's enough!" Guo Tu couldn't help but chuckled. "We can also catch our breath next summer solstice. Maybe we will go find him then..."

Jushou was noncommittal.

"Jun Ju." Guo Tu hesitated for a moment, then suddenly took a step forward and approached the other party. "I need you to say something to calm my mind a little bit, but there is one more thing... I wonder if I can describe the Weijun you just mentioned.

Please sort out the defense strategy and present it to our lord in the name of you and me?"

Jushou was a little wary.

"Jun Ju." Guo Tu didn't care when he saw this, but simply revealed his identity. "Let me be blunt... there are many factions under the lord's command, but in the final analysis, they are nothing more than the local faction and the outsider faction. Most of the outsiders have qualifications.

However, the locals do not want outsiders to live in their land. This is a natural competitive trend that cannot be avoided. Originally, our protagonist gained momentum too quickly, so he had to rely more on the local people from the three states to appease him.

This means that Chen Gongtai was in charge of the power of the three states like a deputy king before. But now that the army is defeated, Chen Gongtai has also gone. The lord seems to have used Feng Yuantu, a person from Yuancong, but after the defeat, it will only become worse.

Relying on you, the natives of the Three Prefectures, will never be weakened in the slightest. Using Feng Yuan Tu is just a last resort to show the authority of the lord. In fact, with Chen Gongtai's last words before his death, Xin Zhongzhi was unable to do anything.

Everyone knows that the only people who can take over the real power of the shogunate are you and Duke Ju..."
To be continued...