Although Cui Yu was defeated and retreated, he made a start, and the other powerful family heads of the lords spoke one after another, demanding that Li Yi must lead the army to hold Yecheng, the reason is naturally that he is the commander of the Hebei battlefield designated by the imperial court, and it is his duty to defend Yecheng.

Li Yi is indifferent to these powerful ideas, so he is indifferent. These guys' ideas are too good, they want to keep their family business, but they also want to pay nothing, how can there be such a good thing in this world?

Li Yi's meaning is very clear, everyone is now a grasshopper on a rope, one is prosperous and the other is lost, if you want to keep Yecheng, then use your strength to help; If you want to sit back and enjoy it, let's finish it together. If you want me to be the first bird, I will pay my five thousand iron horses to help you get the chestnuts in the fire, but there is no door!

Anyway, his Li's family business is in Youzhou, even if Yecheng is broken and occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, there is no loss. Besides, he has 5,000 iron horsemen in his hand, as long as he wants to leave this Yecheng, even if Zhang Jiao uses all his forces to deal with him, he can't stop him from leaving.

These people were a little dumbfounded when they saw that Li Yi did not enter the oil and salt, whether it was touted or squeezed, it had no effect.

This is completely different from what they imagined before. In their opinion, Li Yi is just a young offspring who has just reached the weak crown, coupled with the ambition of the young man and his high spirits, as long as they put a high hat on his head, he will naturally be able to fool him willingly go out to fight and defend Yecheng for everyone.

Moreover, these people also believe that Li Yi has this ability, after all, this previous record is there, exterminated the 400,000 Yellow Turban army in Youzhou, and even killed Zhang Bao, the No. 2 person in Taiping Dao, and made him a general. Since it entered Jizhou, it has also attacked the city and broken the pond all the way to the south, and all the way to recover Zhongshan Kingdom, Boling Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom, Zhao Kingdom and most of Julu County occupied by the Yellow Turban Army. Such a record, throughout the entire Han Dynasty, no one can stand out. Even the famous generals Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Lu Zhi and others, the light was covered by him.

However, now they found out that this young man they thought was stunned turned out to be a demon with the attributes of a turtle and a fox.

These powerful family heads are not stupid people, otherwise they would not be able to reach their current status. They knew very well that as long as Li Yi was freed, with almost 20,000 remnants of the Northern Army and 5,000 iron cavalry in his own hands, he would be able to defend Yecheng, but he would have to pay a heavy price. He is not letting go now, undoubtedly in order to preserve his own strength and defend Yecheng with the smallest loss of his own.

After some verbal swords, these powerful old foxes were a little frightened, they had already seen it very clearly, Li Yi's determination not to go all out was very firm. If they don't make compromises, Li Yi may really lead the army to break through and leave.

And they also know very well that if Zhang Jiao knew that Li Yi decided to break through, I am afraid that he would not do much to intercept him. What Zhang Jiao really wanted was the huge amount of wealth in Yecheng. Here are the top powerful men in Jizhou, and most of the wealth in Jizhou is also gathered.

And Li Yi is the biggest obstacle for Zhang Jiao to break through Yecheng, as long as Li Yi can leave, it is too late for him to welcome, how can he stop it? As for Li Yi killing his younger brother Zhang Bao, this hatred is a bird compared to the endless wealth in Yecheng.

Eventually, these old foxes had to make a compromise. They will take out half of the family's private soldiers and hand them over to Li Yi to defend Yecheng. In addition, each family will also set aside a certain amount of money, food, and goods as military funds for the army.

Although each family doesn't take out too much money, food, and goods, it can't withstand too many big families in Yecheng. Li Yi calculated in his heart, and all of these added up, totaling 1,000 catties of gold, 5,000 catties of silver, 10,000 yuan of money, 200,000 pieces of grain, and a number of other miscellaneous belongings such as jade, calligraphy and painting, and medicinal materials.

That's definitely a huge asset. A thousand catties of gold is 10 million dollars, the ratio of gold and silver is about 1:8, and 5,000 catties of silver is about more than 6 million yuan. In other words, these precious metals and coins alone are nearly 120 million. Not to mention the 200,000 grains, which is an immeasurable wealth in this era when the turmoil will become more and more intense. As for those miscellaneous items, the value is also not small. Anyway, the merit points given by the system are in the early 30,000s. Coupled with the merit points obtained bits and pieces since Zhuojun went south, Li Yi's total merit points are now approaching the 100,000 mark again.

However, no one knows what the total value of this property is, except for Li Yi and Tian Feng of statistics. Because Li Yi is cunning, when he first promised those powerful lords to replace their troops with property, he had already made it clear that these assets were donations from various families and would not be announced to the public.

Tian Feng was even more impressed by Li Yi. This lord not only has a brilliant record on the battlefield, but also has the ability to scavenge money, and he is also a first-class master. Even, he had a feeling that he promised to go out of the mountain to help Li Yi, as if he had been deceived.

However, Tian Feng didn't have much energy to think about this, because in the days after that banquet, he was busy with his feet not touching the ground, not only counting the "donations" of each family, but also helping to defend the city.

Although the major families have taken out half of their troops to defend the city, after all, each family has not taken out many troops, and the city wall that can be defended is only a dozen or dozens of zhang long, which is undoubtedly unable to cover an entire city wall. Therefore, each wall needs a commander-in-chief who is responsible for coordinating the defense of each section of the wall.

In today's Yecheng, there are not many generals that Li Yi can trust now, that is, Guan Yu and the other three brothers, and Tian Feng, the military advisor. The city wall has four sides, and Li Yi, as the main general, is definitely impossible to fix on one city wall. Therefore, Tian Feng can only take on the task of defending and coordinating a city wall.

After getting the private soldiers from the major powerful lords to help defend the city, Li Yi's heart finally let go. Although he was a little far from his original goal, the number of troops he received was still considerable, and the total number reached fifteen thousand. This is because he eventually expanded his target to have two hundred private soldiers, which added more than fifty families. Each family has a hundred private soldiers, which adds up to more than five thousand.

Seeing the equipment of these family's private soldiers, Li Yi was a little red-eyed, and even thought of robbery. Without it, it's a luxury. Almost half of them are heavily equipped with fish scale armor, and the rest are equipped with piercing armor. The weapons are even more sophisticated, and the swords, guns, swords, and halberds are all made by the best craftsmen. Such equipment is even more sophisticated than the Northern Army carefully built by the imperial court.

"These big dogs!" Li Yi didn't know how many times he cursed in his heart with red eyes. If these powerful gatekeepers used all their strength to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, he believed that with the situation of the Yellow Turban Army, they would definitely not be able to make much waves. It's a pity that these powerful men and women only care about looking at their own bowls, turning a blind eye to the interests of the country, which is why there is such a chaotic situation today.

However, Li Yi immediately understood that although each of these powerful men and heroines had raised an elite private army, after all, the number was not too large, at most three or two thousand people. If they can't join forces, they will be outnumbered in the face of tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of the Yellow Turban Army, and it will be difficult to resist the Yellow Turban Army's troops.

And with the urine nature of these powerful gatekeepers who have the mentality of each person sweeping the snow in front of the door, who of them is willing to hand over their private soldiers to others to command? Now Li Yi can force them to come out with half of their troops, but they are all desperately squeezed out of the face. In addition, there is also the deadly threat brought by the 150,000 Yellow Turban troops outside the city, which is like a knife hanging over their heads, otherwise it is impossible for them to compromise.

In fact, in another time and space, if it weren't for the fact that the major powerful lords felt the immediate threat and each showed their strength to fight the Yellow Turban Army, with Huangfu Song and the tens of thousands of northern troops in the imperial court, how could they have exterminated the Yellow Turban Army in just a few months?