Yue Fei, Zhang Fei, Gongsun Zhan and other generals who were still in Yuecheng in Youzhou were invited to Li Yi's residence by Dian Wei one by one.

Li Yi told them that he was going to take his army south to Anpingguo. Yuecheng City was temporarily under Yue Fei's command, and the 5,000 newly incorporated Yellow Turban Army soldiers were also led by Yue Fei and continued to train in Lecheng. He only took the battalion of guards and about 3,000 iron horsemen to the south.

After the wounded soldiers returned to the team one after another, today's Youzhou Iron Cavalry, there are about 9,000 people left, Zhang Jaw went to Chengping and took away a thousand horses, Guan Yu went south to Gonggao and also took away a thousand horses, Zhao Yun "escorted" Yang Feng to Taihang Mountain, and then took away 2,000 people and horses. Now there are only about 5,000 people left in Lecheng. A part of the men and horses must be left to guard Lecheng, so now there are less than 4,000 people who can be transferred.

"Lord, more than 3,000 people are going south, can they conquer the capital of Anping Kingdom? I heard that Xindu City is one of the largest cities in Jizhou. Yue Fei asked suspiciously, "I think it's better to wait for Zilong to return with his troops, and then go south to Anping Kingdom." ”

"According to the latest news brought by Liu Bo'an and Liu Yuanjun, the troops in Guangchuan City now have 3,000 troops and horses under the command of Huangfu Song, the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Captain Cao Cao, and 3,000 troops from Cao Pengshi, a soldier in Pingyuan County, with a total of 11,000 men and horses, if you add our cavalry, there are about 15,000 men and horses, and it is definitely not possible to attack Xindu City head-on, but it is still barely possible to surround Xindu."

"According to the news we got, after the Yellow Turban Army fought in the Gaotang Dynasty, due to internal contradictions, Yang Feng and Yu Poison left Zhang Yan, so Zhang Yan now has at most his and Zhang Liang's men, a total of about 70,000."

"And our 15,000 men and horses, with a total of 5,000 cavalry, 3,000 heavy infantry, and 7,000 light infantry, can defeat Zhang Yan and Zhang Liang's 70,000 Yellow Turban Army, which is still certain. What do you think? Li Yi asked with a smile.

"I'm against it." Zhang Fei said unceremoniously. "We went south from Youzhou, and all the way to Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom, and Zhao Kingdom, and rescued Wei County, and then recovered the southern counties of Julu County, Ganling State, rescued Qingzhou Plain County, and now recovered Hejian Kingdom. In just a few months, the army has fought nearly 10,000 miles, and the soldiers have lost more than half of the battles, and the soldiers must be allowed to rest for a while anyway. This is war. It's not a tour of the mountains and rivers, the soldiers continue to march, fight continuously, and are extremely tired physically and mentally, what is the benefit of this Youzhou Iron Cavalry? I am against it, I am firmly against it. ”

Tian Feng also said: "Lord, the soldiers really need to rest. Jizhou is far away from the northern frontier, and many soldiers and war horses are not accustomed to the water and soil, and it will take a while to adapt. Lord. Do you think about it again? ”

"Does the lord want to fulfill his promise to Liu Yuanjun and Fu Yuanjun?" Gongsun Chan said with a smile, "But I don't think it's in a hurry, let's wait for Zilong to come back, and let's go over with our six thousand troops." ”

Since Li Yi personally wrote a recital to the Son of Heaven to show him merits. And after asking Fu Xie to find a way to promote Gongsun Chan to the military position after returning to Beijing, Gongsun Chan was in a very good mood and felt energetic in everything.

It turned out that Fu Xie read out the will of the Son of Heaven to Li Yi. pulled Li Yi aside again, and quietly asked him to also write a recital for the Son of Heaven to help Huangfu Song say good things. It's just a favor. Li Yi agreed without hesitation, and immediately wrote a note, giving a detailed explanation of the critical situation in Suijiashan at that time, saying that the defeat of this battle was not a dereliction of duty by Huangfu Song, but a huge difference in the strength of the two sides.

At the same time, in this recital, Li Yi also asked Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty to give credit to his own generals, including Gongsun Zhan, hoping to promote them to official positions. In addition, Li Yi also asked Fu Xie to help run this matter after entering Beijing. Fu Xie readily agreed because Li Yi had helped him a lot.

Li Yi told Gongsun Chan about this, and Gongsun Chan also felt that he still wanted to be an official subconsciously, and even dreamed of fighting the world with Li Yi, and one day he could be a general, make a name for himself in the world, and glorify his ancestors.

He was born in a strong family in western Liaoning, has a lot of ability and ambition, and fantasizes about assisting the country and the people and doing a career. But in today's world, if you don't become an official or a big official, you can't do anything, let alone assist the country and the people.

Serving the country, everyone will say this. But in this era, even if you want to serve the country, you have to have the conditions, and not everyone is qualified to serve the country. It is not easy for a person like himself to be born in a strong place to do something real.

After he succeeded in his studies, with the help of his father-in-law, he worked as a small official in Zhuo County, Liaoxi, and Youbei Pingdi, and knew the hardships and helplessness of being an official, and even more so the power and prestige of being an official.

What is the purpose of studying and learning martial arts since childhood? In order to be an official. Now, he is finally looking forward to an opportunity to be a senior official with a rank of 2,000 stones.

This is all thanks to Li Yi. Without the talent and achievements of the person in front of you, there is no chance of promotion.

Therefore, all the battles that Li Yi fought, he had to analyze and figure out carefully afterwards, and later he realized a truth, he did not have the talent to fight. Li Yi's ideas and methods for fighting wars are very good at mastering the mysteries and know-how, and his own thinking is always confined to the shackles of the art of war, and he cannot reach Li Yi's realm of being easy to come by and unbridled.

That's the gap. So he always wondered, if he had been following Li Yi, would he be a general one day?

However, let him directly serve under Li Yi and become his subordinate, Gongsun Chan was a little unwilling. He wants to be able to maintain his independence and take control of his own destiny.

Of course, Li Yi couldn't tell his subordinates, he was worried that Huangfu Song and Cao Cao had taken Zhang Yan and won the great credit for finally destroying the Yellow Turban Army, but he quickly thought of a rhetoric to fool everyone.

I saw Li Yi nodding with a serious expression and said, "I thought about it for a long time, and suddenly figured out something. When we fight, we always shout for the sake of the Han Kingdom and the people of the Han Kingdom. Is it true that if the enemy is defeated and the enemy is killed, the Great Han Kingdom and the people of the Great Han Kingdom will be able to live a good life? No. Why not? Because we didn't do it like Liu Yuanjun or Fu Yuanjun, we always had the Great Han Kingdom and the people of the Great Han Kingdom in our hearts. Only when you have it in your heart and engrave it, then you will always think about it in your head. In this way, when you do anything, you will first think, is it beneficial for me to do this for the benefit of the Great Han Kingdom and the people of the Great Han Kingdom? ”

"Liu Yuanjun is a Beijing official, living comfortably in Luoyang, with brocade clothes and delicious food every day, why did he rush to Jizhou to fight. Is he really a madman? No, he thought that he could do a lot of things that would benefit the Great Han Kingdom and the people of the Great Han Kingdom when he went to the Jizhou battlefield, so he did not hesitate to ignore life and death. ”

"We also have to be like Liu Yuanjun, resolutely and courageously do what we should do, even if we die, what's the matter? On the Jizhou battlefield, we should quickly eliminate the Yellow Turban Army. This can reduce the pressure on the imperial court, reduce the tax expenditure of the people of Jizhou, and allow our soldiers to return to northern Xinjiang to graze horses and cultivate the fields one day earlier. ”

"Once the war drags on, for the people of the county and the country in Jizhou, which is still in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, it is not only a question of whether it may attract military disasters at any time, but also a question of whether there is hope. More people have no fields, no seeds, no hope of survival, and all that remains is despair. They are all desperate, what else can they do? Join the Yellow Turban Army, and take the risk to join the Yellow Turban Army again. Go with the Yellow Turban Army to rob, kill, and maybe have a way to live. At that time, joining the Yellow Turban Army was the only hope that he could continue to survive. ”

Saying that, Li Yi couldn't help but admire himself a little, the words he said, his current image, is really too great and noble, there is wood?

The generals didn't know what Li Yi was thinking, but they were really moved, and they were all silent, thinking about Li Yi's words. Indeed, the early elimination of the Yellow Turban Army is indeed a top priority.

"The Jizhou Thorn History Mansion and the Pingyuan County Shoufu have sent people to send documents three times and twice, and they are all talking about this problem. They wanted me to lead my troops south as soon as possible, and they even asked me to drive the Yellow Turban Army to Taihang Mountain. ”

"There's so much going on these days. The yamen of the county governments in various localities must be rebuilt, the officials should be equipped with history, the displaced people should be resettled, the fields should be measured, the seeds should be discharged, and the cattle and farm tools should be rented...... And so on, all of this work must be done before the beginning of spring next year. If these jobs are not done well, the displaced people will not be able to stabilize themselves, and they will run. When they run around, people's hearts will be in chaos, and people's hearts will be in chaos, who will settle down to farm and cultivate the land? If you don't plant in the spring, you won't have a harvest, so what should you do? ”

"Liu Yuanjun of that plain county almost wrote a book a day. Although I don't like this person very much, his heart for the public and the people is still only expressible. He hopes that the people under his rule will be able to eat next year, and for this reason, we should send troops. ”

Li Yi looked at everyone and asked again, "What do you think?" ”

"What if the lord and the army of the Yellow Turban Army are in a stalemate in Xindu City?" Tian Feng asked.

"As soon as the people of Zhao Guoxiang and the Prime Minister's Mansion arrived, Brother Peng Ju immediately rushed to Anping Country with other troops to support us." Li Yi replied, "When I arrive in Anping, I will ask several counties in the western part of Jizhou that are under the control of the imperial court to send troops to help. ”

"What if we withdraw and Yang Feng's Yellow Turban Army attacks Zhongshan and Hejian again?" Tian Feng asked again.

Li Yi was speechless. He could fool everyone into going south, but he didn't dare to conclude that Yang Feng would not lead the army to kill a horse pistol, after all, there were still seven or eight thousand men and horses under Yang Feng now, and Yang Feng himself was also an ambitious person, and the soldiers and horses left behind in Zhongshan and Hejian were very limited, and they were extremely untrained. (To be continued.) )