Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

"Stop, what are you doing!"

"Stop him!"

Li Yi was thinking about something when there was a sudden commotion behind him. Looking back, he saw Xia Houyuan holding a dagger and being pinned to the ground by several guards.

Without waiting for Li Yi to ask, Xu Huang hurriedly replied: "Just now Xia Houyuan snatched the guard's sword and tried to kill himself, but was stopped by the soldiers."

Li Yi walked towards Xia Houyuan, only to see Xia Houyuan's eyes were tightly closed, with tears on his face, and he looked completely lifeless.

Li Yi cast a glance at Kuai Yue, and Kuai Yue looked around. Obviously, Xia Houyuan suddenly wanted to die, probably because he was stimulated by Kuai Yue's words.

At this time, the depression in Li Yi's heart has dissipated a lot. Moreover, Xia Houjuan is his man, and Xia Houyuan treats Xia Houjuan even closer than his own daughter. It's fine if he lost his life in the chaos. If he died, it would be unreasonable.

So, Li Yi thought for a while and asked, "Does General Xiahou know about the enmity between me and Guan Yu?"

Xia Houyuan closed his eyes and said nothing, but in his heart he lamented that Guan Yu had probably died in battle.

Li Yi didn't mind Xia Houyuan's attitude, and continued: "Guan Yu died in battle. I ordered people to find Guan Yu's family members and send them to Jingzhou. After that, I will personally take care of their upbringing, study, marriage, and official career. Do you understand?" ,what does that mean?"

Xia Houyuan couldn't help but slowly opened his eyes, looking at Li Yi with a puzzled look on his face.

In Xia Houyuan's mind, Guan Yu and Li Yi don't care who is right and who is wrong, but the feud is certain. Li Yi may not care about Guan Yu's descendants, but there is no need to give them extra care.

Li Yi didn't explain too much, but said: "I have my ambition in the world, so I can't tolerate Cao Cao, and I can't tolerate Liu Bei. However, because I have my ambition in the world, I can tolerate many things that I couldn't tolerate before." People, Guan Yu's descendants are like this, Cao Cao, Xiahou's descendants are also like this."

Speaking of this, Li Yi changed his mind, and said again: "But if General Xiahou makes a mistake, and Juan'er will embarrass me in the future, making me unhappy, and I can't blame Juan'er, then tell me, who should I turn to?" Get angry?"

Xia Houyuan also reacted quickly, his expression fluctuating, how he couldn't tell that Li Yi was threatening the juniors of the Cao family and Xiahou's family.

As long as he dared to seek death, Li Yi would dare to kill the juniors of the two families.

Xia Houyuan himself was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that the two families would lose their children and grandchildren.

As for Li Yi's caring, Xia Houyuan didn't care, because he knew that it might be easy for their descendants to become officials, but the way up would definitely be blocked, unless they were Li Yi's loyal dogs for several generations. Only then will things change, but by then, they will be true loyal dogs

At this moment, Xia Houyuan thought a lot. He was very angry and helpless, but in the end, he slowly let go of the hilt of his sword. From what Li Yi said, it was good for his niece. It's a consolation.

Chapter 680: The Dog That Bereaved

After capturing Xia Houyuan, Li Yi didn't talk too much with him. After all, the relationship between the two parties was rather awkward. They were both in-laws and enemies. Yu, Cao Ren and others arranged together.

Then Li Yi continued to chase Cao Cao. Although Li Yi felt that he might not be able to catch up, he couldn't slack off in his actions. If he caught up, even if he couldn't catch Cao Cao, he could catch some small fish and shrimp.

As a matter of course, Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu became the main force in chasing Cao Cao. Who let them admit the wrong person, delayed the time, and caused other generals to make misjudgments. If Cao Cao escaped, they were all at fault. The crime of meritorious deeds.

However, Li Yi's feeling came true. Tens of thousands of troops chased him for a long time, but he didn't see Cao Cao's shadow. Watching the sunset was approaching, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, Li Yizong could only order Mingjin to withdraw his troops no matter how unwilling he was.

Up to now, it can be concluded that Cao Cao really ran away, but fortunately, this battle itself was an out-and-out victory. Cao Cao's affairs can only be said to be flawed, and Li Yi is still relatively happy overall, although It's not easy to hold a big celebration banquet for the time being, but it's okay to call the generals and have a small celebration. By the way, Li Yi also called those famous captives over and made corresponding arrangements.

First of all, it is naturally Cao Cao's family, among which Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren are the most important. However, Cao Ren is too seriously injured and needs to stay below to cultivate. four people.

In fact, there shouldn't be so few people in the two families. However, the young people are so angry that they can't stand being wronged. They either died in battle, or they scolded Li Yi in various ways after being captured, and then they were beheaded. Now the head is still in the prisoner of war Hanging at the gate of the camp.

Li Yi is not a psychopath, he has no intention of humiliating or abusing the captives, and then he copied their property and made them be honest people for 20 years. It is kinder to say, but kindness does not mean that Li Yi is Don't kill people anymore, those people have been captured and haven't realized the consciousness of being a prisoner, so why keep them?

For the people of these two families, Li Yi just looked at them, recognized their faces, and gave them a few words of warning.

Naturally, there are talents among them, but unfortunately, none of them can be used by him. Their destination can only be to live a life of confinement in Jingzhou.

Then there is Xun Yu.

Many people thought that Li Yi would recruit Xun Yu. Xun Yu was a great talent and surrendered voluntarily. In addition to Xun You's relationship, no matter how you look at it, Li Yi should have great confidence in recruiting Xun Yu.

However, to everyone's surprise, Li Yi just sighed, toasted a glass of wine, and handed Xun Yu over to Xun You, asking him to send Xun Yu to Jingzhou to be taken care of by Xun You's family. The Xiahou family is so strict, but they also strictly ordered Xun Yu not to leave Xiangyang.

Many people were puzzled by this, but Xun You thanked Li Yi for his generosity.

In fact, Li Yi was very regretful in his heart, Wang Zuozhi was talented, could he not want to?

However, Xun Yu was a loyal minister of the great man, and in the end he even turned against Cao Cao, who he had served for most of his life because of this. He had made great contributions to Cao Wei, but he ended up in a miserable end when he was old. It is admirable but a pity. I like him, but I can't use him, let alone dare to use him. Instead of giving him a chance to be a moth and forcing myself to kill him, it's better to let him go home and retire.

And Xun You thanked Li Yi, and he understood this after thinking about it.

It's just that the majestic Wang Zuozhi was reduced to an unknown person, and Li Yi felt a lot of emotion.

After Xun Yu, it was Yu Jin.

Yu Jin was captured by Tai Shici. According to the battle report at that time, Yu Jin was exhausted in the battle, his soldiers and horses were exhausted, he was covered with dozens of wounds, and could not stand, so he was captured by Tai Shici.

At first Li Yi thought it was Tai Shici's rhetorical technique, but after seeing Yu Jin, Li Yi knew that Tai Shici's words were true. Fortunately, it was not fatal.

Li Yi had to sigh with emotion that Yu Jin in his youth and Yu Jin in his later years were really two people, otherwise, with his body full of scars, who would scold him?

In the end, although Yu Jin had an arrogant attitude towards Li Yi, Li Yi didn't make it difficult for him, but just asked him to go back to recuperate first, and then see if he was willing to surrender after his injury healed.

After arranging the backbone of Cao Cao, the remaining people will be easy to handle. Many middle and low military officers immediately expressed their willingness to serve after seeing Li Yi. Li Yi is very happy, but he will not directly hire him. Instead, they asked someone to send them to Jingzhou for "training", and wait for the transformation to be completed.

However, two of them were given special preferential treatment by Li Yi and directly ordered to stay in the army.

One was Man Chong Man Boning. After seeing that he had no resistance to him, Li Yi directly incorporated Man Chong into the guard camp.

Although Li Yi treats his own people very gently, and his subordinates make mistakes, Li Yi often offends them, but Li Yi is not fatuous. Those kindness is just a way for him to show his kindness. Benefits, how could Li Yi back down?

However, Li Yi is unwilling to directly attack his own people, which will affect his generosity. Then, Li Yi needs some people to play a bad face for him, such as Zhuge Xuan in the early days, and Mao Jie who later surrendered. And the man in front of him who can be called a cruel official.

With them, Li Yi was able to control the talents of his subordinates better with the cake in one hand and the whip in the other.

Therefore, for Man Chong, Li Yi completely cultivated him as a first-line talent.

Another person who was treated preferentially by Li Yi was Li Gan from Yanzhou.

Li Gan was born in a Yanzhou family, and he was quite influential, and he also had a very good nephew, that is Li Dian, the later famous general of Cao Wei. Now Li Dian is still young and has a lot of room for training. For Li Dian, Li Dian Yi is naturally happy to give Li Gan more care. In addition, Li Gan's son is called Li Zheng. It is said that his talents are not bad, and he is also available.

In addition to these people, there was another special prisoner, Zhu Ling, Yuan Shao's general.

The collapse of Cao Cao's right-wing army was precisely caused by Zhu Ling's escape. According to Li Tong's description, even Le Jin's death in battle was caused by Zhu Ling, so Li Yi was not interested in Zhu Ling, and Zhu Ling's identity was relatively In particular, he belongs to Yuan Shao. Although Li Yi and Yuan Shao are already at war, they haven't completely torn their faces apart. It doesn't make much sense to kill Zhu Ling. So, after Li Yi thought about it, he didn't even see him, so he called someone directly. Release Zhu Ling in private.

Li Yi didn't do this out of kindness, but because he thought of Cao Cao's fiasco, quick defeat, and failure to buy time for the war in Qingzhou. At that time, Yuan Shao must be held accountable, so after Zhu Ling returns, there is a high possibility that all Pushing the blame on Cao Cao, although it shouldn't kill Cao Cao, it can still make Cao Cao feel bad.

Therefore, why would Li Yi not do this kind of beneficial and harmless idle chess?

Just when Li Yi and his subordinate Wu Huanxi were very happy, a group of seven or eight people were running for their lives on a mountain road more than 60 miles north of Changyi, regardless of the darkness and unclear road.

Suddenly, the front horse let out a whine, its front hooves went limp, and it fell to the ground. The knight behind it was caught off guard and thrown more than ten steps away.

"who!"

"There is an ambush!"