Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Seeing everyone's reaction, Li Yi smiled, and then said: "It's not impossible to kill the Yellow River, but there are too many casualties, and if the soldiers cross the Yellow River, the enemy is no longer just Yuan Shao's family, so let's not talk about defeating them." How many lives will our army have to pay? Even after victory, if the land of Hebei wants to be stable, it will only take hundreds of officials, or more than a thousand, otherwise it will be difficult to restore order in a few years, and in these few years, the people of Hebei How much more suffering will we have to suffer? The casualties may be dozens of times that of our soldiers, so Hebei still has to wait."

Everyone was not very disappointed when they heard the words, because the feasibility of directly attacking the Yellow River was discussed a long time ago, Li Yi personally denied it, and it is completely reasonable not to agree now, but Sun Ben will say it because he is not high enough to participate in the discussion. .

"It's the last general who is reckless."

Sun Ben was worried that Li Yi was dissatisfied with his outburst, so he hurriedly apologized.

Regarding his position in Li Yi's camp, Sun Ben still has a good idea. After all, Sun Ce would not surrender until his death, and even tried to plot against Li Yi in the end. very sensitive position.

After that, the Sun family knew that it was impossible for them to gain the same trust as others, but Li Yi was so powerful that they didn't dare to have any bad thoughts, so they could only do their best and didn't speak up. They do whatever they want, for fear that Li Yi will be suspicious of them.

This time, Sun Ben didn't mean anything else, it was all because he was a little too excited after hearing about Li Yi's brave deeds from the fanatical soldiers who were withdrawn, so he suggested that Li Yi should fight the Yellow River. go.

Li Yi waved his hands and said with a smile: "Boyang dares to speak up, how can this be reckless? However, since you have the courage, I will give you a chance. After this battle, you will be transferred to Dong'e. If you want to cross the Yellow River in the future, Hehe, you might not be able to compete for the first place!"

When Sun Ben heard this, he was overjoyed immediately, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for your trust, my lord. Ben will definitely live up to my lord's expectations!"

Li Yi laughed, stretched out his hand and raised it lightly, and said: "There is no need for this. Victory on the battlefield is never achieved by one person and one general, but by you and all the soldiers in the army working together. In fact, I should thank you all." It is!"

With that said, Li Yi drank a toast, and everyone drank together after being humble. However, they had other ideas about Li Yi's words.

Although Li Yi has raised a large number of civil servants and military generals, Li Yi decides on the general direction. Although they have played a lot of roles, they are not irreplaceable. Only Li Yi himself is really irreplaceable Indispensable, just like today's battle, with Li Yi leading the battle, as long as the people behind are not stupid pigs, they can eat the rest of Yan Liang's troops.

In addition, what is even more surprising is that Xuzhou and Yangzhou soldiers who were only good-looking but not very useful at first seemed to have changed after just half a day. The morale of the whole army was high. Zhang Liao, when will he attack the city?

This was simply unimaginable before.

After putting down his wine glass, Kuai Yue said to Li Yi: "In today's battle, we captured Yan Liang's camp and defeated over [-] enemies. Yuan Tan must be a frightened bird at this time. His subordinates thought that Tian Feng's life could be used as the most important thing. Take the initiative to withdraw from Qingzhou, if successful, you can win Qingzhou without a fight."

Li Yi didn't answer, and Zhang Liao asked, "How confident is the military master in this plan?"

Kuai Yue knew that Zhang Liao wanted to attack the city, so he laughed and said: "Success or failure, half and half, anyway, it is not a loss to the lord. If it is successful, it will take Qingzhou for nothing. If it fails, not only Yuan Tan will lose his reputation, but Yuan Shao's It won't look good on the face either."

After all, Kuai Yue looked at Li Yi, and he knew that Li Yi would definitely agree.

Sure enough, Li Yi was about to nod immediately, but just as he opened his mouth, a personal guard hurried in, ran to Li Yi and said, "My lord is not well, the gentleman captured by my lord is dead!"

Li Yi was stunned, and everyone was surprised. After all, he was talking about Tian Feng just now, and Tian Feng died suddenly, which is too coincidental.

After being surprised, Li Yi's face darkened a bit, and he asked, "Didn't I tell you to treat me well, why did something happen?"

The personal guard was afraid, and hurriedly explained: "Mr. Tian kept crying loudly after he was taken into custody, saying that he was ashamed of General Yuan of Hebei, and that he could not live on. Fortunately, he was stopped, but we had no choice but to tie him up. Later, Mr. Tian said that he was hungry and wanted to eat. We did not doubt that he was there, so we fed him. Unexpectedly, Mr. Tian bit the porcelain bowl into pieces. After swallowing a large piece of broken porcelain, he began to vomit blood, we didn't dare to delay, but it was already too late to call for a miracle doctor."

The big tent was suddenly so quiet that a needle could be heard. When Tian Feng was carried by Dian Wei to show the public in front of the battle, some people looked down on Tian Feng, thinking that Tian Feng's going to the battlefield was a joke, but now no one dares to fight. I despised Tian Feng.

After a long time, Li Yi sighed, and sighed: "I knew Tian Feng couldn't be used by me, and I planned to keep Yuan Tan in custody, or kill him directly, but I never thought that Tian Feng would be so staunch. , use this method... that's all, restrain him well, and send him to Yuan Tan together with Yan Liang."

"Here!"

The personal guard took the order and was about to go down to make arrangements, but just after taking two steps, Li Yi said again: "Don't return it to Yuan Tan. After the city is broken, find a place with good Fengshui outside the city and bury them directly." , one piece of paper and one weapon, it can be regarded as a companion."

The personal guard took the order again, and paused for a while. Seeing that Li Yi really had nothing to say, he bowed and left.

Lu Su asked softly: "My lord didn't return the body to Yuan Tan because he was worried that he would become a mourner?"

Li Yi looked a little gloomy, and said frankly: "Now there are only ten thousand soldiers and horses in the city at most, and after the defeat, people are panic-stricken, and they are already unbearable to fight, but Yan Liang is a fierce general in the army, and he is quite prestigious among the soldiers. They are resourceful men from Hebei, sending their corpses into the city, is it a deterrent? Or is it a humiliation? I am worried that one who is not good enough will make them stand together and fight with their backs. Although I am not afraid, I don’t want to let the soldiers touch the hard bones for no reason.”

Xun You echoed, "My lord's words are true!"

Kuai Yue nodded in the same way. He was very touched when he heard that Tian Feng committed suicide, because the two had similar identities and were important ministers under the command of their respective lords. kind of respect.

But Li Yi's words made him wake up suddenly, but he soon turned into joy. Although Li Yi's plan seemed a little ruthless, it was the performance that a qualified owner should have

Chapter 723 Everything is silent

The celebration banquet outside the city was full of joy and laughter, but inside the Dongping Mausoleum, people were in panic. Not only the soldiers, but even the people above were in a mess.

"Eldest son, why didn't you send troops at the critical moment! Why did you just sit back and watch our defeat!"

It was still the place where the discussions were held a few days ago, and Yuan Tan was still sitting at the top, but the two seats to the left and right of Yuan Tan were already empty. Anxiety is written all over it.

In the end, there was another person who was standing, pointing at Yuan Tan's nose and questioning him loudly, without any intention of giving face to his eldest son.

Normally, Han Meng would not have had the guts to question Yuan Tan, but today he couldn't care less about anything.

Yan Liang's 2000 people, his [-] people, and the left-behind troops in the camp, a total of [-] people, were all gone in one afternoon. How could Han Meng accept this?

Han Meng knew that his performance in this battle was not outstanding, but Han Meng asked himself, in such a desperate situation, even if those famous ancient generals came over, it might not be much better than his performance.

Although Han Meng also had his own little thoughts in his heart, when he decided to rescue Yan Liang, he really tried his best to save him. As for the fact that he could escape in the end, he worked hard until the end, using the money of two thousand Han family children. In exchange for life!

However, he worked so hard on the battlefield, what did Yuan Tan do in the rear?

Obviously holding [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, even if he couldn't defeat Li Yi's army, he should support his own soldiers and save the defeat a little bit, but what did Yuan Tan do?

did nothing!

When fighting in the front at first, Han Meng didn't see his own reinforcements. He thought that Dongping Mausoleum was also besieged, and he was worried about Yuan Tan for a while, but after he escaped from the siege, he realized that there were Li Yi's soldiers outside Dongping Mausoleum. Horses, but no more than 4000 people at most. Although Han Meng himself was able to flee to the city with a hundred or so people, he didn't believe that the more than 1 Jizhou soldiers under Yuan Tan's command could not kill them!

Even if they couldn't be killed, at least those who jumped to the door had to be brought in, but in the end, Yuan Tan didn't do anything, just watched them being captured by Li Yi.

So, Han Meng was furious, and regardless of the disparity in status, he came to question Yuan Tan as soon as he entered the city, asking him why he didn't send troops to rescue him.

Yuan Tan pursed his lips tightly, and glanced at Han Meng, only to see that Han Meng was covered in blood, his hair was disheveled, his armor was half untied, his chest was wrapped with a bandage, and there were some bright red blood stains, obviously he had suffered serious injuries.

So Yuan Tan looked away.

Of course, Yuan Tan didn't just decide to die, he had his own reasons, and he thought the reasons were sufficient. However, seeing Han Meng in such a state of distress, and thinking about the tens of thousands of soldiers outside the city, there were still people who didn't know whether they were alive or dead. Tian Feng and Yan Liang, Yuan Tan just felt like a stick in his throat, unable to speak.

Seeing that Yuan Tan didn't answer, Han Meng became even more angry, and took a big step forward. The scales on his body rattled, and the wound he had just bandaged burst again, but Han Meng didn't seem to notice it, and continued to ask loudly : "Why didn't the eldest son send troops!"

Yuan Tan took a deep breath, he knew that he had to express something now, otherwise, looking at Han Meng's appearance, it is not difficult to imagine the mood in the army, if he does not get it right, he is afraid that something will happen.

"General Han, be safe and don't be impatient. The Eldest Young Master has always acted with benevolence and righteousness. How could he refuse to save his own robes? The General has misunderstood the Eldest Young Master!"

Before Yuan Tan spoke, Hua Yan stood between Han Meng and Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan immediately breathed a sigh of relief, secretly saying that he really deserved to be his confidant.

He didn't make a sound before, but he was actually waiting for someone to rescue him. There were some things he couldn't say himself, but it was much easier for others to explain. Moreover, this matter was indeed related to Hua Yan.

However, Han Meng was quite unkind to Hua Yan.

Han Meng has been following Yuan Tan for a while, knowing who Hua Yan and Kong Shun are, he was startled and angry just now, and only wanted to ask Yuan Tan why, but now that Hua Yan showed up, Han Meng immediately thought, probably Some villains were afraid of war and slandered Yuan Tan.

Being stared at by Han Meng, Hua Yan felt guilty for a while and wanted to back off, but he still pretended to say earnestly: "General Han, don't get angry, the eldest son didn't want to save the soldiers and horses outside the city, it was really a last resort. "

Han Meng looked at Hua Yan coldly, if Hua Yan was messing around, Han Meng would not be easy to bully.