Zheng Xiong was so moved that he almost shed two lines of old tears.

Many people were drunk between pushing the cup and changing the lamp, and the voice in the hall gradually became louder, some people began to complain with the strength of the wine, and when they began to hear it, Liu Qi was very angry, and his heart said that this group of people was simply too shameless, and they were all turtles with shrunken heads during the battle, and after others made meritorious contributions, they stretched their necks to fight for merit, and if they couldn't fight, they would commit pink eye.

Liu Hong, who was sitting diagonally opposite, heard such a complaint and looked at Liu Qi's face to know that he was not far from getting angry, for fear that Liu Qi would do something out of the ordinary like the last time he beat Zhu Chong, so he hurriedly took the opportunity of the toast to make Liu Qi look hard.

Liu Qi had no choice but to suppress his anger and turn his head to drink with Zheng Xiong, Wu Tao secretly sneered and leaned over again to raise a glass to each other, and after drinking the wine in the cup, he said: "General Ziyuan, Tao doesn't know whether to say a word or not!" ”

Liu Qixin said in his heart, you finally started to get down to business, and said with a boost of energy: "Don't dare, it's okay for you to please speak." ”

"The general has repeatedly swept away the thieves, it can really be said that the soldiers are like gods, compared to the ancient famous generals are not much let, but with all due respect, I am more than 20 years longer than the general, and I have seen countless good talents, but unfortunately they are all trapped in the mediocre people around them to compete for fame and fortune and have been smoothed out of ambition, and finally or do nothing with the same stream, or have not been depressed for a long time, if the general lives in a county for a long time, it is like a dragon trapped in a pond, a tiger is imprisoned in a cage, there is no place for amazing talents!"

Speaking of this, Wu Tao habitually paused, and when he talked about the surprise and expectation in the other party's eyes when he was trying to win over the available people in the past, and even being flattered, Wu Tao felt very enjoyable, but now in Liu Qi's eyes, Wu Tao couldn't see any fluctuations.

But the words have already come to this, Wu Tao held on to the last glimmer of hope and said bluntly: "I and General Ziyuan hit it off at first sight, and I would like to promote General Liu Jiyu to my lord as the general of the left army, and with the talent of the general, I will definitely be reused by my lord in the future. I don't know what the general wants? ”

Wu Tao did not lower his voice, and the people not far away heard these words clearly, and many people were stunned, how could this kid be so good!

It's really more popular than people, the general of the left army is not only in the fourth grade, but also a permanent general, the gold content is much higher than that of the miscellaneous general, it is a position that is difficult for most people here to reach in this life, Zheng Xiong next to Liu Qi has survived all his life to get into the position of a permanent general, even if there are only five grades, it is enough for others to look up for a lifetime, seeing that Liu Qi, a young man in his early twenties, has just emerged for a few months, he has risen to the high position of the standing general of the fourth grade, and the eyes of all the people present are red.

Liu Qi smiled faintly, and said: "Thanks to the love of the envoy, the last general is very grateful, but the last general is only shallow and still needs to be experienced, and he really doesn't dare to take on this important task, so that the last general can only understand it." ”

Wu Tao's gift is indeed very weighty, for any person will be excited, but unfortunately Liu Qi's heart has already flown to Jiangdong, if he successfully occupies Jiangdong, then Liu Qi's self-proclaimed state pastor, what general is a piece of cake, not afraid of not knowing the goods, afraid of comparing goods, in contrast, although Liu Qi is completely ignorant of official ranks, but will not have any interest in the commitment given by a person with his own height and his limitations.

Seeing such a good thing, Liu Qi refused without hesitation, and while secretly saying that Liu Qi was simply stupid, he was greatly relieved, people's psychology is like this, and they don't want others to get what they can't get, and their jealousy has weakened a lot.

And Yan Yan, who had been sinking like water, seemed to be indifferent to this, but the surprise that flashed in his eyes was still captured by Liu Hong, who had been secretly observing.

Wu Tao secretly said in his heart, but he still kept a smile on his face, and said pointedly: "General Liu has lofty ambitions, admire!" Come, drink this cup to the fullest, please! ”

After the banquet, Liu Hong hurriedly said goodbye to his colleagues and hurried back to the camp to find Liu Qi, Wu Tao's strange behavior made Liu Hong feel uneasy, how could there be such a blatant bribery, he concluded that Liu Zhang behind Wu Tao was likely to make a big move.

When he entered the tent, Liu Hong found that this gentleman had fallen asleep, and he couldn't wake up even if he pushed it, the taste of wine in this era was not spicy, Liu Qi really drank a lot, but although the degree of this wine was low, it had a lot of stamina, where did the five big and three thick guards know how to boil the sobering wine soup for him to drink, so Liu Qi would inevitably get drunk every time he drank wine, and he would not wake up if he didn't sleep until the next day.

Liu Hong had no choice but to give up, anyway, he couldn't come up with any ideas to wake up Liu Qi, if it was about the way to use soldiers, Liu Qi was full of wisdom, but in the equally bloody battle for power without using knives and guns, Liu Qi was too immature.

Now it seems that the two armies will meet and forbear, and the rebels will be wiped out in a few days to recover the fish, but what ordinary people think is natural, once it comes to politics @ struggle, the results will often become jaw-dropping.

Although the rebels were defeated, their strength was not greatly damaged, Yan Zhan still had at least more than 20,000 troops in his hands, if Yan Zhan really went out to fight to the death, just the pension of the casualties would also empty Liu Zhang's treasury, and the real threat to Liu Zhang was not Yan Zhan, the reason for Yan Zhan's rebellion Liu Zhang should be very clear, the two sides actually did not have a deep hatred, what Liu Zhang was really afraid of was that the monarch was light and the ministers were heavy, like Zhao Wei did back then, and he teamed up with the important ministers to abolish the establishment.

It was so easy for Liu Zhang to wait for such a God-given opportunity to bring Guling County, the gateway to Yizhou, under his control, how could he allow Zhao Zhen and Pang Xi to put their hands in?

Yan Zhan, the old fox, did not understand this, as long as Liu Zhang gave a way to live, Yan Zhan only needed to push Zhao Wei out of the guilty and replace one person as the head of the family at most, he could turn the identity of a rebellious thief into a victim who was framed, and it would not be long before he could regain control of Guling.

If Liu Zhang really has this intention, then Yan Yan's recovery is not difficult to understand.

Liu Zhang will send a group of people who are completely loyal to him to serve as the main officials of Guling, and continue to use the Yan clan and other local clans to firmly hold the origin of salt and iron, the origin of these two important materials, and the gateway to and from Yizhou.

Note 1: During the Han and Wei dynasties, military merits abounded, and it was more difficult to confer official positions. Therefore, he often takes a certain name in front of the "general" as his official position, this kind of name is not certain, and there is no subordinate relationship between the names, so it is called the miscellaneous general, and the four marches, four towns, four an, and four ping are also among the miscellaneous generals.

The other is the heavy general, such as the general, the hussar general, the chariot general, the Wei general, the front and rear left and right generals, etc., are the senior military attachés with a fixed name in the imperial court, so they are also known as permanent generals, in addition to the army and participate in political affairs, and also retain a fixed name in the local military attachés at all levels, such as the backbone general, the cavalry guerrilla general, the left army general, the partial general, the partial general, the partial general and so on.

We must not let the Yan family resurrect!

Otherwise, Zhao Zhen would not be able to give any support to Liu Qi at all, because the Yan family would soon know that the people who forced them to rebel were Zhao Zhen and Liu Qi, and they didn't want to try to retaliate against the two of them.

Liu Hong sat in front of several cases and spread out the pen and paper, sometimes closed his eyes and pondered, sometimes wrote hard, he had no good way to make the situation develop in a direction favorable to Liu Qi, so he had to write everything that happened to Liu Ren and his own worries on behalf of Liu Qi on the letter to Zhao Zhen for advice.

"General, wake up......!"

Before dawn, Liu Qi, who was having a nightmare, was woken up by the guards, and suddenly sat up and habitually grabbed the shock next to him: "What's the matter?!" ”

The guard replied: "General Ji Sheng asked to see him, saying that he had something important to say." ”

Liu Qi hurriedly put on a piece of clothing and walked out of the big tent, Zhao Rong stepped forward and saluted: "General Qiyu, the thief leader Yan Tong was captured by our army's ambush, and he is rushing back from the waterway, and he will arrive in half a day." ”

"Great!"

Liu Qi jumped up excitedly, Yan Tong is Yan Zhan's only grandson, Yan Zhan has cultivated him with all his strength over the years, if he cuts this single seedling, Yan Zhan must be angry to death, even if Yan Zhan is not angry, the boss is captured by the enemy The blow to the army is undoubtedly extremely huge, it seems that the recovery of the fish is just around the corner!

"Go tell Zhenxiang and Xingba, and Mr. Ji Xiu! Come on, come on, come in and sit down, and talk about the details. ”

Liu Qi put Zhao Rong and the two messengers behind him into the tent, and one of them said: "General Qiyu, our department was ordered to rush to Baiquan and Yufu to ambush the enemy, and found the enemy's brigade at three o'clock (1:45 p.m.) three days ago, and the enemy army was neatly lined, and our soldiers did not dare to move lightly, until the enemy army set up camp and then went out of the cavalry at Yin Shi (three o'clock in the morning) to raid the camp tent of the enemy army, and captured the enemy general Yan Tong alive, killing seven people and wounding 22 people. ”

Liu Qi was very distressed to hear that there were twenty-nine casualties, these cavalry are the elite of a hundred battles, there are only two hundred people in total, and the loss is half of a percent, no wonder the casualties are larger, the rebels are not panicked when they have no food and grass, and they can retreat in an orderly manner, which shows that Yan Tong is not a straw bag, and he will definitely not be paralyzed after camping, and it is not as easy as these few words say to rush into his Chinese army and capture it in one fell swoop.

Liu Qi said to the two: "Okay, pass the order, and give double the reward to the brothers who went deep behind the enemy line this time, and triple the compensation for the casualties!" ”

The two of them were extremely grateful, and when they saw Zhao Rong nodding slightly, they quickly knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Thank you, General!" I'm waiting to retire! ”

When facing Zhao Rong alone, Liu Qi was a little awkward, because Zhao Rong always had a straight face, as if he owed him hundreds of taels of gold, and talking to him was also a question and an answer, one word can explain it, never say two words, and after a long time, Liu Qi finally breathed a sigh of relief when Liu Hong and others arrived.

Hearing the news, Gao Hong and the others hurried to Liu Qi's camp to say goodbye, they all thought that the day of counterinsurgency was not far away, only Liu Hong knew in his heart that the development of the situation was by no means as simple as people imagined, and after thinking about it repeatedly, they couldn't think of a good way, so they had to invite Liu Qi, Gao Hong, Zhao Rong and Gan Ning to a tent to discuss.

Gan Ning became famous in a fight, except that Liu Qi thought that he was shocked by the miracle created by Gan Ning, and at the same time, he no longer strongly rejected Gan Ning from entering their circle.