Li Yan's injuries were not serious, but they were not light, at least there was no way to go to the battlefield in a short period of time, Li Shen personally helped him back to the Hanzhong General's Mansion and asked the doctors in the mansion to give him medicine.

After the bandaging was completed, Li Yan half sat on the bed, his face a little pale.

No matter how brave he is, he will inevitably be weak after shedding so much blood, the southwest general glanced at Li Shen, who was sitting next to him, and lowered his head.

"Big brother, this Ye Ming is so powerful."

Originally, they were ambushed in the city this time, and even Li Yan personally led the team to rush and kill, the purpose was naturally to seek a victory in the first battle, or even a big victory.

That's why Li Yan is so fierce and not afraid of death.

However, the premise of wanting a big victory is that Ye Ming is willing to fight with them in the first wave of engagement, but that Ye Shaobao wisely chose to retreat, resulting in a short battle just now, and the total casualties of Ye Ming's troops will not exceed 1,000.

You must know that Li Yan's department also suffered hundreds of casualties.

In other words, this first encounter can barely be regarded as a victory for the Pingnan Army, but it is definitely not a big victory, not even a small victory, because Ye Ming's department not only did not hurt his muscles and bones, but he was not even injured.

At best, it can only be regarded as a bruise.

Li Shen slowly closed his eyes, lowered his eyebrows and said: "No matter what the results are, we have won after all, and it is enough to talk more about the results when we talk about them to the outside world." ”

"But let's not stay in Hanzhong, I will leave 10,000 square meters of southern troops here, plus Meng Qi's own 20,000 people, 30,000 people to defend Hanzhong, as long as Meng Qi can't hold out, it should be able to support for a few months."

Speaking of this, Li Shen glanced at Li Yan lightly.

"I'll leave Hanzhong tomorrow and go to the Sword Pavilion."

"You stay in Hanzhong to recuperate, and when you can move, go to the Sword Pavilion to find me."

Jianmen Pass is the most important place in the southwest, and it is also the easiest place to defend and difficult to attack, Li Shen never thought that he could stop Ye Ming's footsteps in Hanzhong, and the place where the two of them finally played should be known as Cui Wei, who is known as the Zhengrong Pass, and the Jianmen Pass that is not open by a husband.

From ancient times to the present, this place has hardly been breached head-on, and Li Zhijie also grinded hard to open the sword gate, which shows that the terrain is dangerous.

Li Yan took a few deep breaths and said, "The eldest brother should sit in Jincheng, as for the Sword Pavilion, the younger brother will leave to defend the Sword Pavilion in a few days......"

Li Shen stood up and glanced at him slightly.

"If the Sword Pavilion is lost, Jincheng can't be defended, then what am I doing in Jincheng? I'm not the son of heaven sitting in the court, can't I go back to Jincheng in a daze and wait for death? ”

Li Yan was speechless by these two sentences.

Li Shen left with his hands down, glanced at Li Yan when he walked to the door, and then took a deep breath.

"You take care of your injuries, don't think too much."

"My father told me before he died, you are the second child of the Li family, no different from his own son, since you are a family, I will not hold a grudge against you."

Speaking of Li Zhijie, Li Yan, who was lying on the hospital bed, instantly became solemn.

He has been an orphan since he was a child, he was left in the dust when he was a child, and was almost starved to death, the world often says that he is brave, and he dares to kill people at the age of twelve, but try to ask a twelve-year-old child, if he can't really live, who will really stab someone with a knife?

At the beginning, Li Yan was also a poor person who couldn't survive several times, but later he was taken under Li Zhijie's command, and he was accepted as a righteous son, and he took him with him to train him.

"Big brother, Li Yan will not live up to his father-in-law's grace of rebirth."

He gritted his teeth.

"In any case, Li Yan will inevitably die before the eldest brother."

Li Shen stopped, then returned to Li Yan's bed, and looked at him calmly in a dark tone.

"As I said just now, you are not a retainer of the Li family, nor are you a disciple of the Pingnan Hou Mansion, you are the second eldest of the Li family, the second son of my father."

"Frankly speaking, this time, our chances of winning are not very good, if we lose, I will definitely not be able to escape death."

"But you have to live well."

Li Shen patted him on the shoulder.

"If I die, you will leave southern Xinjiang, with your skills, you can mix a meal wherever you go, as long as you don't go to the capital, you can live well."

In today's southwest, the odds of winning are indeed not great, and even Li Shen himself has little confidence in himself.

After he said this, he did not stop and turned to leave.

Li Yan lay on the bed in a daze and did not speak for a long time.

……

A day after Ye Ming and Hanzhong collided head-on for the first time, the military report of the battle was finally delivered to Li Xin, who was marching, Li Xin opened the letter and looked at it, and then frowned slightly.

"The first collision, only half an hour later, Senior Brother Ye was defeated?"

"This style of play is too unlike the Ye family."

As Li Xin's dog-headed military advisor, Zhao Jia was naturally on the side at this time, he took the military newspaper and looked at it, and then said with a smile: "This military newspaper wrote that Li Yan was hiding in Hanzhong City, and he suddenly came out, only to barely disperse General Ye's army, and General Ye retreated very decisively, and only a few hundred people died in the end. ”

"My subordinates have said before that the Pingnan Army will inevitably win the first battle, and now that the first battle has passed, the Pingnan Army has won, but it is a small victory that cannot be smaller."

Zhao Jia pointed to this military report and said firmly: "So General Ye suffered a loss on the surface, but in fact he took advantage of it, and his subordinates inferred that if the Pingnan Army didn't do stupid things, General Ye should be able to take Hanzhong in about a month or two." ”

"A month or two......"

Li Xin threw this military report aside, flipped out the map he had received from Ye Ming before, and then pointed to Di Dao's location with his finger, and said in a deep voice: "We have to speed up the march." ”

"Before Senior Brother Ye takes Hanzhong, we must arrive at Di Dao and prepare to go to Yinping."

Di Dao is the starting point of the Yinping Ancient Road, from Di Dao to Yinping, and then there is a long mountain road.

What Li Xin meant was that while the attention of the southwest was now all in Hanzhong, they had to leave Li Shen's sight as soon as possible and reach Di Dao.

After pondering for a moment, Jing Anhou directly gave the order.

"Pass the order, march more than fifty miles every day from today, there must be no mistake, and those who violate the order will be engaged in military law!"

Marching fifty miles a day, even if it is an elite forbidden army, it will be a little unbearable.

Zhao Jia frowned and said, "Master Hou, if you are in such a hurry, I feel that the soldiers will complain." ”

"Then forty miles at the minimum, fifty miles as far as possible."

Li Xin is still a very talkative boss, he said indifferently: "If someone can't reach this number, let him go back to the capital now, and the marquis will give him the money to go back." ”

Zhao Jia slowly lowered his head.

"Yes, my subordinates will go down and give orders!"