Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

"Thank you"

Guo Tu saluted Li Yi again, and left in a hurry. Li Yi looked at Guo Tu's back, and shook his head first, feeling the complexity of human nature, but after a while, Li Yi's expression was replaced by seriousness.

Xun You glanced at Li Yi, thoughtful. He understood some things in the conversation between Li Yi and Guo Tu just now.

However, later Huang Zhong became more confused, and stepped forward to ask, "My lord, is he sincerely recruiting Guo Tu?"

Li Yi glanced in the direction of the pier, Guo Tu was nowhere to be seen on the road, and said: "Of course not, although Guo Tu is loyal to Yuan Shao, his talents, especially his character, are not on the table. When I asked, I just wanted to set an example for Jizhou officials, but Guo Tu refused."

Huang Zhong laughed and said, "Guo Tu doesn't know how to praise, I'm afraid he will regret it in the future."

"It doesn't have to be too far in the future. Ten days is enough to make Guo Tu regret it!"

Li Yi's tone was a bit meaningful, and Huang Zhong was taken aback when he heard it, but immediately his eyes lit up again, and he asked, "Qingzhou is going to do something?"

Li Yi didn't answer, and turned to look at Xun You. Xun You's expression was serious, and he bowed and said, "My lord, please give me instructions!"

"Immediately summon Chen Dengweiyan and tell them that Yuan Shao's center of gravity will shift slightly to the northwest. The next ten days is an opportunity. If there are no accidents, the previous plan can begin."

Li Yi's tone was not passionate, but everyone was excited and got up together.

With hundreds of thousands of troops but no action, many people were anxious and wished to kill them as soon as possible. It was just that Li Yi procrastinated day by day for stability, and now, the opportunity finally came.

"Please don't worry, my lord, this subordinate will do it now!"

Xun You was also a little excited, and was about to go down to pass the order, but Li Yi stopped him again, and said: "After the time is set, let Chen Deng send it back to me as soon as possible. At that time, I will go to Qingzhou to create pressure from the hinterland of Jizhou." , forcing Yuan Shao to give up the defense line of the Yellow River, and then, you can calmly cross the river and divide your troops to seize the city, so that Jizhou is settled!"

Qingzhou, Gaotang.

Whether it is going south from Jizhou or going north from Qingzhou to attack the plains, Gaotang is the first to bear the brunt.

Before Yuan Tan attacked Qingzhou, it was Gaotang who left. Therefore, after Qingzhou fell into Li Yi's hands, Gaotang should have become the forefront of Qingzhou's military deployment.

However, it is difficult for Yuan Tan and Chun Yuqiong to look at such a place that was supposed to be a military hub, even if Li Yi has already begun to sharpen his sword against Yuan Shao.

Don't blame them for being careless, because the current Gaotang really has no threat at all!

Chapter 761 Making Contributions Today

To make Yuan Tan relax his vigilance towards Qingzhou in his heart is not as simple as talking about it, let alone relying on Wei Yan's attitude alone.

At the beginning, the focus of Qingzhou's troop deployment was on Gaotang. After Li Yi withdrew his troops, he left [-] elites for Qingzhou. These people were all stationed in Gaotang, which shows the importance of Gaotang.

However, following Li Yi's withdrawal, it might be Chen Deng or Wei Yan, who seemed to think that the sky was high and the emperor was far away, and it didn't take long for Li Yi's arrangement to be completely changed.

Gaotang, which was supposed to be heavily garrisoned, had only 3000 people left after being mobilized several times by Chen Deng, and more than 1000 of them were recruits recruited by Wei Yan. Gaotang's military strength was discounted several times at once.

As for the transferred elites, it would make sense if Chen Deng put them in other places to defend along the river, but Chen Deng concentrated them all in Linzi, and Linzi didn't fight, so many people couldn't understand Chen Deng's operations.

At the beginning, Yuan Tan was still confined by Yuan Shao, and Chunyu Qiong was in charge of Pingyuan. Chunyu Qiong was also puzzled, worried about fraud, and specially sent people to Qingzhou to investigate the matter, but after a lot of hard work, he couldn't find out why. The big-hearted Chun Yuqiong gave Chen Deng a yellow-mouthed evaluation, and let it go.

And this is just the beginning of Hebei's contempt for Qingzhou.

After Yuan Tan returned to Pingyuan, Chen Deng also employed Wei Yan and arranged for him to be stationed in Gaotang. Yuan Tan attached great importance to this.

Although Wei Yan lost to Yan Liang, judging from Wei Yan's previous performance, whether it was taking the two counties lightly in Jingnan or following Li Yi to conquer Yangzhou, his performance is definitely worthy of the word "good general".

Therefore, Yuan Tan was very worried that Chen Deng's arrangement had other meanings and wanted to take the opportunity to do something to Hebei.

Then, Yuan Tan was stunned by Wei Yan's operation.

Wei Yan's mind seems to have gone into the eyes of money. After taking office, the things he has been thinking about all day are not only making money but also making money. The warship was changed to a cargo ship, such a move can be described as insane.

After the wooing failed, Yuan Tan sent someone to investigate Wei Yan, and even found out that Wei Yan himself was depraved? They did private work for Wei Yan? The transportation of goods? Moving, escorting?

If it wasn't for Xi Zuo's swearing by his head, Yuan Tan wouldn't even know there was such a way to play.

So much so that Yuan Tan was a little lucky later, he felt that such a Wei Yan had dug into Hebei? Was it a small blow to Li Yi?

The defenders of Gaotang were tossed so hard by Wei Yan? The combat power can be imagined, and they can no longer pose a threat to Yuan Tan, even? As long as Yuan Tan wants to, he can take the initiative to attack and easily cross the river to attack Gaotang.

It's just that Yuan Tan didn't do this.

Defeating Gao Tang is certainly majestic, but he will inevitably face Li Yi's massive counterattack afterwards. Yuan Tan can't defend it at all. It is conceivable that after he withdraws his troops, Li Yi will take Gao Tang's defense seriously and become a real hero. An important military town can go north to threaten the plain at any time, which is what Yuan Tan does not want to see.

Therefore, although Yuan Tan and Wei Yan did not discuss, they maintained the situation in the north and south of the Yellow River at a very friendly level in an extremely tacit understanding. On the surface, they went through each other with closed doors, and they communicated with each other from time to time in private, which was not an ordinary harmony. .

However, this "harmony" is about to be broken

"Meet the General"

"Meet the General"

On a school field behind Gaotang Wharf, Wei Yan beat drums and gathered generals. A total of [-] soldiers gathered in the school field to salute Wei Yan. However, the voice was a little sparse, not at all the bloody and masculine spirit of the past.

Wei Yan looked at this scene on the stage of a simple general. As a qualified general, it stands to reason that he should be dissatisfied, but Wei Yan smiled, because he felt that those guys could still salute him instead of spitting on his face. On, it is already his creation.

The defeat at the hands of Yan Liang back then did not deal too much damage to Wei Yan's reputation. On the contrary, many people sympathized with him, but after Wei Yan was activated again, and then all kinds of misdemeanors, Wei Yan's reputation was really bad. Now Wei Yan is in Qingzhou, especially in the eyes of those veterans who were left behind by Li Yi, the word Wei Yan is an existence that even dogs despise.

Standing beside Wei Yan were the two generals Xu Sheng and Xu Kun, as well as Dian Wei who had arrived four days ago as Li Yi's messenger.

Looking at the situation in front of them, the three wanted to laugh somewhat, but when they thought about what would happen next, their smiles were quickly covered up and replaced by the excitement of making great achievements.

"Tsk tsk, you are all veterans when the lord was in Jingzhou. The lord said that you are the best in terms of combat power and military discipline, and you are the best of the elite. But what happened today? Did you not eat? Even You speak so weakly, see you in the future, my lord, do you still have the face to call yourself an elite?"

When Wei Yan spoke with sarcasm, coupled with his usual bastard behavior, the soldiers below were immediately a little emotional when they heard this, and many of them glared at Wei Yan.

They are still the elites they used to be, but Wei Yan is no longer the Wei Yan he used to be. With such a person who hates dogs, who can be motivated?

As if feeling the resentment in the air that was about to condense into substance, Wei Yan smiled, then his face became serious, and he said loudly: "I know, because of military discipline, you dare not offend me, but I know what you say behind your back My, what pigs and dogs are not as good as, what kind of wolf-hearted dog, I feel disgusting just looking at it, I want to go back and wash my eyes, right?"

There was complete silence on the school grounds, but the soldiers were quite shocked. It was not surprising that Wei Yan heard these words, but what happened when Wei Yan said them in public?

For a moment, the eyes of the soldiers were full of doubts.

"I also know that some of you are dissatisfied with me and speak to me, but I don't care, and then you go to Chen Inspector Chen if you are bold, and there are even capable people, who even contacted General Dianwei of the lord's personal guard camp. , ready to file a complaint directly with the principal.”

As he said that, Wei Yan glanced at Dian Wei, who was expressionless, but Wei Yan was deeply moved. Although he knew what he did was a jerk, he never thought that these soldiers could be so troublesome. If you beat him, you can sue wherever you can.

Taking a deep breath, Wei Yan continued: "However, I have been sued for impeachment many times, and I, Wei Yan, have always been safe and sound. Do you know why?"

"The gangster!"

Suddenly, there was a loud roar in the queue, which was extremely ear-piercing. Everyone looked like that voice, and it turned out to be a village head full of righteous indignation.

Wei Yan was not angry, nor corrected the military discipline, but asked the person who scolded him: "It is reasonable for me to be in collusion with Governor Chen, but some people have reported to the lord. Why has the lord not dealt with this matter because the lord is wise and powerful?" Speak up, tell me, why is this?"

The head of the village who had just shouted was silent, and continued to glare at Wei Yan, but he really couldn't figure it out, why did Li Yi indulge Wei Yan so much?