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Yu Wenzhao frowned.

"Before my father died, he once said how powerful that Southern Jin God of War was, how he single-handedly wiped out the former Northern Zhou Dynasty..."

"I didn't really believe these words before. After all, personal bravery is not worth mentioning on the battlefield."

Speaking of this, Yu Wenzhao glanced at Ye Mao's direction again, and sighed faintly: "Now I am a little convinced that this new Duke of the Ye family is at most an enemy of a hundred people, but the body on him It is not an exaggeration to say that this momentum is the enemy of ten thousand people."

Fan Cheng stood behind Yu Wenzhao, lowered his head and said, "My lord, they are almost all infantry. Do you want to send more people to keep this head of the Ye family here...!"

"Send someone? Who to send?"

Although Jimen Pass has been laid down, Yu Wenzhao's face was not happy. He glanced at Fan Cheng faintly and said, "Over the past few months, about 8 or [-] people have died. More than [-]% of the people in my king's tent account for more than [-]%, and the other three departments have refused to send any more people, how many more people does Mr. Fan want from my king's tent?"

Yu Wenzhao was expressionless.

"Will Wang Zhang have the final say if he continues to die, or the other three departments?"

Although it took the Xianbei Department almost half a year to gnaw down Jimen Pass abruptly, but gnawed down this imposing pass, there must be a comeback price. In the past few months, Yu Wenzhao's king's tent sent people, and they repeatedly attacked the city regardless of life and death. , the result is that although Jimen Pass has been defeated, the Yuwen Department has already been injured.

Fortunately, after taking down Jimen Pass, there will be no more obstacles to the south of Jimen Pass for thousands of miles, all the way to the banks of the Yangtze River. Not worth it!

After passing the Jimen Pass, you can go to the Central Plains with your horse flat!

But now, after Yu Wenzhao occupied Jizhou City, he needed to rest for a period of time, first to recuperate the wounded, and then slowly move on to the next step. It was impossible to send troops to kill Ye Mao.

Fan Cheng sighed, did not continue, but cupped his hands at Yu Wenzhao and said, "Master, although we have occupied Jizhou City, if we want to restore the old Zhou Dynasty, we must not lose people's hearts. The meaning of this subordinate is that we entered Jizhou City. After the city, try not to disturb the lives of the people in Jizhou..."

Yu Wenzhao narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked back at Fan Cheng with an expressionless face.

"After fighting for half a year, tens of thousands of people died. At this time, I just got some results, but Mr. Fan asked me to restrain the people?"

He said slowly: "I can't restrain myself. If I continue to restrain myself, they will rebel against me."

Fan Cheng frowned deeply, looked up at Yu Wenzhao, and said slowly.

"Snatching money and grabbing things... yes."

"But at least... you can't kill people randomly..."

Yu Wenzhao lowered his head and wiped his binoculars with his sleeve, as if he didn't hear what Fan Cheng was saying.

Chapter 1003

Li Xin and Ye Mao, together with two people from Zhechong Mansion, searched back and forth around Jizhou City for three days. They were all brought back to Yancheng. After two days, more than 3000 people were found by the wounded soldiers alone. There were not enough doctors in Yancheng. Fortunately, the four Zhechong prefectures escorted a lot of spirits and disinfectant alcohol from the capital. There is no shortage, and the wounded will not die on a large scale.

On the third day, Ye Mao, who hadn't closed his eyes for two whole days and two nights, finally couldn't hold on, almost fell to the ground from his horse, and returned to Yancheng with the support of his family general. Li Xin helped Ye Mao to Yancheng. Rest in the state shepherd's mansion.

Ye Mao only slept on the bed for two hours before he woke up suddenly. He threw off the quilt and stumbled out of the door. There were members of the Ye family guarding the door. When he saw Ye Mao coming out, he quickly stepped forward to help him He then asked someone to inform Li Xin that not long after, Taifu Li, who had already removed his armor, walked into Ye Mao's yard with a food box. When he saw the unkempt Ye Guogong, Li Xin shook his head and sighed, and said: : "Let the people in this house cook some porridge for you, you can drink some."

Ye Mao was sitting on a stool in the yard, feeling completely lost.

He was a little confused now, and even wondered if the tragedy he had seen these two days was just a nightmare of his own.

After opening the food box and taking a few mouthfuls of porridge, he looked up at Li Xin with a hoarse voice: "Uncle Shi, Zhenbei Army..."

Li Xin shook his head and sighed.

"The remnants that should be gathered in the past two days have also gathered. I asked people to make a rough count. There are about 1 people from the Zhenbei Army who fled back to Yancheng. 1000 people."

In this case, once seriously injured, it is basically difficult to escape from the front line. Most of the 1000 surviving members of the Zhenbei Army came from Jizhou to Yancheng in the same robe.

Hearing Li Xin's words, Ye Mao's face turned pale.

The Zhenbei Army is the foundation of the Ye family, but for Ye Mao, the Zhenbei Army is not just a simple political capital. Laying the foundation for the Zhenbei Army, Ye Ming spent most of his life in the Zhenbei Army, and Ye Mao himself has been staying in the Zhenbei Army since the eighth year of Taikang, a full six or seven years.

In Zhenbei Army, there are his comrades, subordinates, and friends.

Today, among the [-] Northern Army, there is almost no one in ten, and there are only a few remnants and defeated generals left, which made it very difficult for this big man to accept for a while.

He bowed his head in silence for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth.

"If I had known...if I had known that I was in Ningling, I should have listened to my uncle!"

When Li Xin went to Ningling to mourn Ye Ming, he had explained this matter to Ye Mao. If Jimen Gate could not be guarded, he would ask the Zhenbei Army to preserve its strength and retreat temporarily. This would attract enough attention from the court , Second, most of the Zhenbei Army could be left, but Ye Lin refused with righteous indignation.

At that time, the Ye family's decision was to stick to Jizhou no matter what.

Later, the uncle and nephew of the Ye family were trapped in the capital. When they communicated with Wang Dun, the deputy general of the Zhenbei Army, he also asked Wang Dun to guard Jimen Pass no matter what. It's like this.

Seeing the tragic situation of the Zhenbei Army at this time, as the decision maker at that time, Ye Mao felt deeply guilty.

Li Xin got up silently, stretched out his hand and patted Ye Mao's shoulder, shook his head and said: "One more person killed by the Zhenbei Army, ten people in Northern Xinjiang will die less. Jimen Pass has been guarded for so long, and most of the people in Northern Xinjiang They all moved south for hundreds of miles, and their merits are immeasurable."

At this time, naturally, Ye Mao couldn't be provoked any more. With his temper, if he got impatient, he might just ride his horse into the Xianbei camp.

Ye Mao nodded, without saying a word.

Li Xin continued: "Although the Zhenbei Army has been disabled, the formation of the Zhenbei Army is still there. When the matter here is over, you can recruit some soldiers and reorganize the Zhenbei Army."

Ye Mao lowered her head, her voice hoarse.

"I'm afraid the imperial court will not give me another chance to recruit the Zhenbei Army."

Li Xin did not respond to this sentence.

Ye Mao is right. Even in Ye Cheng's era, the imperial court spared no effort to suppress the Ye family. Several generations of imperial courts have tried every means to weaken the Ye family's power, not to mention the fact that the Ye family and Li Xin are so close now. up.

If the Zhenbei Army only lost half and recruited again, the imperial court would have no reason to interfere with the Zhenbei Army, but now the Zhenbei Army has no survivors, and it is almost starting from scratch. Even if the Zhenbei Army recruits again, the imperial court will directly take over.

Li Xin's words were just to comfort Ye Mao, he knew better than anyone what would happen in Beijiang next.

Ye Mao sat on a chair in the yard, suddenly picked up the porcelain bowl on the table, gulped down the porridge in the bowl, then stood up, looked up at Li Xin, and said in a deep voice, "Master... I want the Xianbei to pay the price!"

He gritted his teeth.

"You give the order, when to attack, I will make those northern barbarians pay with their blood!"

Li Xin smiled wryly and said, "You think too highly of me. We don't have enough troops at this time. It's not easy for us to hold Yancheng and prevent the Yuwen Department from going south. Why don't we go to Jizhou to die?"

"Uncle, you must have a way."

Ye Mao looked at Li Xin, and said slowly: "In the past ten years, I haven't seen anything that can stop you."

"I do have an idea."

Now that the summer has passed, there is already a bit of chill in the Northland. Li Xin put his hands in his wide sleeves habitually, and said lightly: "But it will take a while to prepare."

Ye Mao's eyes flickered, and he understood what Li Xin meant by preparation, and he asked, "How long will it take?"