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At this time, Li Xin's expression was much colder.

"Go to attack the city with real swords and guns."

There is no way, if you don't fight this kind of thing, no one will believe you, but Li Xin can't bear to decide who will die, so he asked his three Zhechong mansions to send 5000 people each.

After Zhao Jia understood what Li Xin meant, he took a deep breath and continued to ask, "Then how do you decide when to attack the city?"

"Of course it's to see what's going on in Jincheng."

Li Xin lowered his eyebrows and said: "I will send a few people to bypass Mianzhu and stare at Jincheng. If we pretend to attack Mianzhu, Jincheng will definitely come to rescue. At the same time, Brother Mu will also make moves in Hanzhou. If Jincheng People from the city come to Mianzhu, so let's just pretend."

"If people from Jincheng go to Hanzhou, we will really fight."

With that said, Li Xin stood up from the main seat and pushed open the window.

The cold wind howled outside the window.

At this moment, it has entered the twelfth lunar month, and there is less than a month to go before the second year of Taikang.

Zhao Jia stood silently behind Li Xin and sighed.

"No matter which Zhechong Mansion went to attack the city, it is estimated that no more than half of the people will come back."

"I will make this point clear to the three Zhechong captains."

Lord Jing'an had a resolute expression on his face: "When you go out to fight, you are going to die. If you don't want to die now, all of our more than 4 people may die here."

Zhao Jia took a deep look at Li Xin in front of him, and then said with emotion: "Master Hou has grown a lot compared to before."

Li Xin turned his head, looked at Zhao Jia, and said with a smile, "Which aspect?"

"Don't treat human life as human life."

Zhao Jia lowered his brows and said, "This is what all great people have in common. Lord Hou now has the courage to guide the people of the world."

"Stop flattering."

Li Xin scolded with a smile: "What kind of bullshit is pointing to the generals of the common people?"

"I still regard human life as human life now. The death of 39 brothers in Xiaochenji is still a knot in my heart. It's just that I want to understand some things now."

Li Xin looked at the night outside and felt emotional.

"In the past, I also felt that those high-ranking people only regarded human lives as numbers, but now it seems that this is not always the case."

"Everyone is a real person. Except for the princes and grandchildren who grew up in the high gate compound, everyone has seen the common people."

"Very few people really don't take human life seriously."

Lord Jing'an let out a breath of cold air.

"It's just that sometimes, some people are sacrificed to keep more people alive."

Chapter 522 Dilemma

While Li Xin was busy up and down, Jincheng was not monolithic.

Humans are social animals, but everyone is an independent individual. No matter what kind of group it is, it is inevitable that some small thoughts will arise, even the Pingnan Army, which has been run by the Pingnanhou Mansion for two generations, is the same.

In fact, since the Pingnan Army began to raise the flag to support the deposed prince, there were already some different voices within the Pingnan Army, but at that time, Li Shen's personal prestige overwhelmed everything, and all discordant voices were suppressed Li Shen covered it by himself.

Of course, now that the flag has been raised, no matter whether the Pingnan Army is willing to rebel or not, they are forced to rebel at the moment. Therefore, there is no dispute about whether to rebel or not.

But now there is a new controversy.

Because there is an imperial army that has penetrated deep into the southwestern hinterland and even seriously threatened Jincheng. Now the controversy within Jincheng is whether to send troops to defeat Fucheng and encircle and wipe out this imperial army in Fucheng.

Even if they can't be encircled and wiped out for a while, at least they should be driven out of Fucheng, and then this huge threat should be completely wiped out in the wild.

The reason for this controversy was, of course, that Li Shen, who was the backbone of the Southwest, could not make up his mind for a while, so there was such a controversy within the Pingnan Army.

The internal structure of the Pingnan Army is a bit strange, it is a not-so-standard pyramid.

The spire of the pyramid is naturally Li Shen who is Marquis of Pingnan, and Li Shen is the only one in this position, which means that Li Shen's will can determine the will of the entire Pingnan Army to a certain extent.

As for the second echelon of the Pingnan Army, there was only one person, and that was Li Shen's righteous brother, Li Yan, the second master of the Pingnan Houfu.

Li Yan's position in the Pingnan Army is very unique, because he himself is very brave in battle, so in some respects his prestige is even higher than Li Shen's. The entire Pingnan Army Group, in the absence of Li Shen Now, Li Yan can completely control it.

At the beginning, Li Xin told Li Shen that when Li Shen stayed in the capital for a year or so, Pingnan Jun might still be named Li, but it might not be Li Shen's Li.

Fortunately, Li Yan is very loyal to Li Shen, or to Pingnanhoufu, he is willing to be the second master forever, so Li Shen can still be the ruler of the Southwest after returning to the Southwest.

In addition to these two, the Pingnan Army has three or four lieutenants, one of whom is Cheng Ping, the fat man Li Xin once met, Qin Li, who is in charge of infantry, and Li Chuan, who is in charge of the defense of the entire Southwest. .

Among them, Li Chuan was a member of the Li family in Zhao County, and had been with the Pingnan Army for more than ten years.

In addition to these lieutenants, there is also Li Shidao, the patriarch of the Li family in Zhao County, who can barely squeeze into the third echelon of the Pingnan Army.

Now, Li Shen is a little hesitant, and the number two of the Pingnan Army has no way to get out of Jiange, so there is some controversy within the Pingnan Army.

Cheng Ping and Qin Li are two people, one is in charge of the infantry and the other is in charge of the cavalry. As the generals who lead the troops, both of them are very hot-tempered. It was Cheng Ping, the lieutenant general who had received Li Xin, who had begged Li Shen no less than three times to lead troops to attack Fucheng.

But Li Shen never made a statement.

Therefore, more than ten days after Fucheng was lost, there was still no movement from Jincheng.

On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month in the second year of Taikang, the weather in the southwest was getting colder and colder.

At this time, in Li Shen's study in the Pingnan General's Mansion, a white porcelain teapot was set up on an exquisite copper stove. The fragrance filled the entire study room.

And the backbone of the entire southwest, General Pingnan Li Shen, sat opposite him.

Li Shidao poured a cup of tea on the tea set, and poured the second cup of tea into the teacup. He also poured a cup of tea for Li Shen, and then said slowly: "This tea is brought from Zhao County, it is quite mellow, Jin Chen has a taste."

The aristocratic family pays attention to the food and taste, and they are also very particular about drinking tea. People like Li Shidao who grew up in the aristocratic family are good at all kinds of elegant things.

Li Shen took the tea with both hands and lowered his head slightly.

"Thank you, uncle."

The age difference between the two is actually not that big, Li Shidao is probably only eight or nine years older than Li Shen, but in terms of seniority, even a big man like Li Shen should be polite in front of Li Shidao.

"I heard that Jinchen has a lot of troubles recently?"

Li Shen lowered his head and took a sip of his tea, then nodded: "That's right, I'm a little undecided."

"Is it about the Marquis of Jing'an?"