Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Li Yi knew very well in his heart that although Yuan Yin did betray some favors in this matter in terms of relationship, in the final analysis, Yuan Yin still felt that he couldn't beat him and wanted to end in a more decent way.

The strength of Danyang County is mediocre. After Yuan Yin supported Yuan Shu's main force, there were only a few thousand soldiers left in his hands, and most of them were old and weak. So much so that wherever Li Yi's army passed, cities opened their doors to ask for surrender.

This situation is like a vicious circle. As Li Yi approached Wanling, more and more cities surrendered, and the morale of Yuan Yin's subordinates became lower and lower. Yuan Shu was unable to protect himself. Therefore, the people in Wanling City Panicked, even Yuan Yin himself has no fighting spirit, and feels that if he resists to the end, it is probably no different from asking for death directly.

Just at this time, the brothers of the Yan family came to join Yuan Yin, but these people looked like refugees. They were scared and ran all the way before they had fought with Li Yi. They couldn't bring Yuan Yin much confidence at all. It made Yuan Yin feel more and more difficult for Li Yi to resist.

Therefore, Yuan Yin rejected the brothers of the Yan family, and instead directly excluded the envoy to ask Li Yi to surrender.

Yuan Yin's request to surrender is also conditional. He can give up Danyang, but Li Yi must not harm his family members. He is planning to return to his hometown in Runan in the future, and Li Yi must not harm or stop him.

To Li Yi, Yuan Yin's request was nothing at all. He didn't want to fight and kill people. Since Yuan Yin was interested and the two had no personal enmity, there was no need to see life and death. So Li Yi told the envoy that Yuan Yin's request could be done. I promised that even Yuan Yin's personal belongings could be taken away, but Yuan Yin must ensure that there will be no chaos in Wanling City, and important places such as government government granaries must be properly protected so that he can take them over smoothly.

The demands of both parties were not too much. After the envoys went back and forth twice, the matter was settled. However, Li Yi was worried that Yuan Yin was deceitful, so he did not enter the city to accept the surrender, but stationed fifteen miles outside the city until Yuan Yin Yin led the people to withdraw from Wanling, and then sent Gan Ning into the city to take over the defense of the city and recruit soldiers and horses. He did not enter the city until everything was confirmed.

After all the arrangements, Yuan Yin naturally met with Li Yi. According to Li Yi's help to Yuan Wei at the beginning, the two should have a lot to talk about, but now, there is really nothing to talk about. After a hasty meeting, Yuan Yin handed over the seal of the prefect of Danyang and some household registration books to Li Yi, and left Wanling with his family and seven or eight hundred servants and guards.

Li Yi didn't turn back and embarrass Yuan Yin, but instead sent an order to Jiujiang to give Yuan Yin a green light so that he could leave Yangzhou smoothly, and even provided them with rations, which can be regarded as setting an example for future enemies.

On Wanling’s side, after Li Yi entered the city, he only sat in the town on the bright side, and the specific government affairs were handed over to Gu Yong. In terms of military affairs, Li Yi appointed Gan Ning as the captain of the cavalry, and Xu Shu as the Sima, and scattered the Danyang soldiers and horses. After editing, 8000 people were allocated and handed over to the two commanders.

Li Yi originally didn't plan to divide his troops, or to divide his troops as little as possible, and concentrate all the main force on Shouchun to put pressure on Yuan Shu, but after walking half a circle in Yangzhou this time, Li Yi had to keep more people to suppress The place even kept Gan Ning and Xu Shu.

Because there are too many aristocratic families in Yangzhou that Li Yi doesn't want to see, and even encounters Li Yi's taboo.

It is a well-known fact that the powerful families in the late Han Dynasty were very powerful. For example, Cai Mao, Kuai Liang, and Mi Zhu who were very close to Li Yi, the number of servants in their families and the size of their land will not be mentioned. When it was time, it was not a difficult operation to grit your teeth and pull out a small ten-thousand-man armed force.

For the government, this kind of situation is naturally not to be seen, or even feared, but those people in Jingzhou still know how to measure, and they didn't really rely on this kind of influence to mess around, and those servants are usually honest In real farming, after Li Yi occupied Jingzhou and showed strength, they were more sensible and took the initiative to give up a lot of benefits to Li Yi. For example, Cai Mao directly left his hometown and ran to Jingnan.

Because of the knowledge and cooperation of the Jingzhou family, although Li Yi had heard many rumors about the family's cancer before traveling, Li Yi did not have any impulsive thoughts to cleanse the family. Time has contributed to it, and it can't be solved overnight. Therefore, Li Yi's idea for Jingzhou is that the world will be settled in the future, and then slowly change them, guide them, and let the development of the aristocratic family try to avoid the minefield of harming the country and the people.

However, after arriving in Yangzhou, many things he had heard about the aristocratic family made Li Yi unhappy, and even exceeded Li Yi's bottom line.

All the aristocratic families in the world will raise some private soldiers, but Yangzhou simply raises private soldiers and official soldiers together, and the official soldiers are private soldiers. What's the matter?

Let’s talk about Zhu Zhi in Wu County, many of the local soldiers are actually his private minions. If it wasn’t for Zhu Zhi being disheartened and unwilling to do it, then according to the “rules”, he doesn’t care who he goes to from now on. Those soldiers under his command are all Those who followed him were the first to obey Zhu Zhi's orders.

On Sun Ce's side, Cheng Pu and Han Dang had private soldiers under their command, and there were a lot of them. Otherwise, Han Dang's death would not have had such a big impact on Sun Ce, so he retreated back to Wan County.

Even Lu Kang is no exception. He is a loyal minister, but he also has many private soldiers in his hands.

In short, this kind of "rule" in Yangzhou is unacceptable to Li Yi. His subordinates, whether they are ministers or soldiers, must obey his orders. People, Li Yi will also regard them as enemies, and they are endless enemies!

Yuan Yin was a victim of this "rule". After supporting Yuan Shu, Yuan Yin's control over Danyang was very weak, because those soldiers were from some local families, and Yuan Yin told them to fight bandits. It's okay to maintain local law and order, but if they are asked to fight Li Yi desperately

Hehe, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Yuan Shu is going to die, who would be willing to pay someone for it?

It is precisely because of knowing these things that Li Yi really had the urge to bring up the butcher knife to the family for the first time, but he knew that he could not do so for the time being, and the whole world is not like this. To generalize, it would be too stupid to go up against the aristocratic family because of this reason.

Especially since Yuan Shu hasn't taken it yet, if under pressure, the aristocratic families of Wujun and Danyang make trouble for him and restrain Li Yi's troops, that would be a really bad thing.

Therefore, what Li Yi did was to take advantage of the prestige of the army passing through the border, directly and forcibly recruit local soldiers and horses, regardless of whether you are official or private, all of them will be broken up, some will be kept for deterrence, and some will be sent to the front line of Shouchun. If those aristocratic families are interested in the future, let’s leave things like this. If some people feel that Li Yi is being fooled and want to reach out to Li Yi’s army, Li Yi will not care about them for the time being, but after Shouchun wins, Li Yi will be the first Time to charge them with the crime of colluding with Yuan Ni and intending to rebel, and then the family will be ransacked and exterminated.

Yuan Shu has won, Li Yi still cares about a few disobedient families?

In history, Sun Ce was able to kill people in Jiangdong, but Li Yi couldn't for no reason.

However, although Li Yi was full of malice towards many people in Danyang, Li Yi was still very kind on the surface when getting along with the representatives of the local families. Anyone who saw Li Yi's performance would have to say that this is A very easy to deal with.

Li Yi stayed in Wanling for a little longer, more than ten days, and then set off again after the government operations returned to normal. At first, many people thought that Li Yi would go to Lujiang to deal with Sun Ce, or go to Kuaiji for a while. However, Li Yi didn't go to these two places, but chose to return to Shouchun.

Although Sun Ce suffered a blow, Li Yi decided to wait for everything to be perfect before taking action. As for Kuaiji, Tang Hao did not make any mistakes, and he was still the father-in-law of the young emperor. Li Yi would only move him if he had a hole in his head. In order not to appease Tang Hao and prevent him from thinking wildly, Li Yi also specially sent a letter to him, basically saying that the situation of this conquest of Yangzhou has become clear, and the flames of war will never spread to Kuaiji, so he can rest assured. Don't be careless, I hope Tang Mao can treat the refugees who fled into Kuaiji kindly, provide more relief, don't let bandits appear in the place, if there is any difficulty, just speak up.

As for Tang Mao, Li Yi's strategy was entirely to appease him. As long as the court did not attack Kuaiji, Li Yi would not take any action. After all, Kuaiji was not a critical area.

In short, this trip to Wu Jun and Danyang, except for the Yan family brothers running away, other aspects can be described as smooth sailing. As for the regulations, Li Yi felt that nothing would happen, until one day, someone stopped Li Yi Yi's frame, to Li Yi, asked Li Yi to take advantage of the prestige of taking Wu Jun and Danyang, go directly westward, and take Lujiang Sun Ce in one go.

The person who blocked the way was very courageous and well-known. His surname was Zhou Mingyu, and his surname was Gongjin.

Li Yi's circle around Wujun and Danyang, although he didn't directly use the banner of recruiting talents, many people still came to him, hoping to squeeze into Li Yi's big ship and achieve a career.

For the arrival of these people, Li Yi is naturally very happy. As long as the visitors are not too crooked, Li Yi will accept them first, and then take a look at the list. If there are celebrities, pay attention to them. For older people, pay due attention. If neither is the case, then follow the procedure and let Kuai Yue and Xun You worry about it.

However, even with Li Yi's casual attitude, Zhou Yu, a big fish, jumped into his net pocket without even baiting. This is no one's luck.

Zhou Yu's uncle, Zhou Shang, was Yuan Yin's previous prefect of Danyang. After being dismissed, he originally planned to return to his hometown in Shu County, Lujiang. However, because Sun Ce was fighting with Lu Kang in that area, Zhou Shang stayed in Danyang for safety. The same is true for Zhou Yu in Wuhu County. When Li Yi was passing through here, Zhou Yu blocked the way and persuaded Li Yi to send troops to Lujiang.

In the carriage, Li Yi was reclining on the couch, squinting his eyes, propped his legs, and swayed up and down from time to time as the carriage moved forward, looking very leisurely, but Zhou Yu, who was beside Li Yi, sat cross-legged on a guqin in white, At first glance, although he is very handsome, upon closer inspection, the gloom in Zhou Yu's eyes is very obvious.

Yesterday, Zhou Yu blocked the way to speak. Although Li Yi was very enthusiastic about him and even invited him to ride in the same car, but enthusiasm is enthusiasm, Li Yi smiled and said nothing to Zhou Yu's suggestion of sending troops to Lujiang, and did not give it at all. respond.

Zhou Yu also knew that it was not easy, so he planned to take it slowly, but after one night, he was told that the more than 1000 young men he brought with him when he went to Li Yi had been broken up by that guy named Wei Yan. Edit, it is said that it was arranged to go to the forward side, leaving Zhou Yu with no acquaintances except for a few personal followers.

This is not a good sign.

When I met Li Yi yesterday, Zhou Yu felt very uneasy when he met Li Yi's eyes. Now that his subordinates are gone, it made him feel heavy in his heart. He felt that Li Yi might have guessed his plan, but after thinking about it , I feel that this is really unreasonable.

Especially today in the car, the undisguised joy and admiration in Li Yi's eyes when facing him made Zhou Yu even more uncertain.

"Why did the sound of the piano stop? Hey, does Gongjin have something on his mind?"

The carriage shook slightly, and Li Yi's figure shook slightly. He opened his eyes and saw Zhou Yu distracted while pressing the piano, so he immediately expressed his concern.

Zhou Yu withdrew his hands, bowed to Li Yi and said, "Mr. Xiang is worried. Yu is not worried, but just thinking about the current situation in Yangzhou."

"Oh?"

Li Yi showed a very interested look, and asked, "I don't know how to think, if Gongjin has realized something, you can't hide it from me."

"How dare you."

Zhou Yu smiled, and said to Li Yi, "It's just some superficial thoughts, how dare you hide it, just ask the Marquis Xiang not to make jokes."

"Haha, feel free to tell Gong Jin, um, I'll pour wine for Gong Jin first."

Immediately Li Yi reached out to fiddle with the wine utensils, and Zhou Yu also wanted to do it, but it was not easy to compete with Li Yi, so he could only sit down and watch Li Yi's movements, a trace of complexity flashed in his eyes, but waited for Li Yi to deliver it to him. After drinking, the complicated color was immediately drawn away, and the original sunny appearance was restored again.

Chapter 550 Invite Marquis Xiang to send troops

"Thank you, Marquis Xiang!"

Zhou Yu drank the wine in his glass, and Li Yi also drank a glass, and then Zhou Yu said, "In Yu's opinion, the chances of winning in Yangzhou are [-]% for Marquis Xiang!"

Li Yi put down his wine glass, shook his head, and asked with a smile, "Why is there only seven points? Wujun, Danyang, wherever my army goes, there is no city that does not open its doors to welcome the king, and no one dares to meet my swordsman. The white tiger didn't listen to discipline, and just kept fleeing, all the way from Wucheng to Lujiang. Although it hasn't been wiped out now, it's just a short-sighted bandit after all. In the current situation, I think I have a nine-point chance of winning, as for the remaining one point."

Li Yi stretched out his hand and pointed upwards, saying, "The last point is God's will!"

Li Yi's words felt good at first, which made Zhou Yu somewhat uncomfortable, but after thinking about it for a while, he had to admit that what Li Yi said was all the truth, and now he is indeed unstoppable, without any exaggeration .