Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Moreover, the Han Dynasty favored the Recommendation System.

Therefore, when Sun Ce encountered any heroes or talents, recommending them upwards was not out of personal desire but from a completely selfless heart.

However, if Wei Yan were to develop rebellious intentions in the future, Sun Ce, as the recommender, would also be implicated.

It's just that Sun Ce was a man who valued his promises, and having already agreed to Wei Yan, he found it difficult to go back on his word now.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck Sun Ce's mind, and he smiled.

"Gongjin probably doesn't know much about our teacher. Our teacher loves to read, and the books in the Marquis of Guo's residence are all selected by our teacher's wife. Therefore, the books you've read, Gongjin, our teacher must know them by heart."

"Since Gongjin can judge that Wei Yan has rebellious bones behind his head, our teacher will naturally see it at a glance. When the time comes, inform our teacher of Wei Yan's affairs, and our teacher will make the decision. Gongjin doesn't need to worry."

As he finished speaking, a hearty and relaxed smile appeared on Sun Ce's face, while Zhou Yu's handsome face had a few more traces of gloom.

From an angle that Sun Ce couldn't see, Zhou Yu curled his lips and muttered with some dissatisfaction.

"What do you mean, I, Zhou Gongjin, can judge it, and he, Li Zikun, can also see it at a glance?"

However, after Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce all the way to a wooden bridge that was fully ten zhang long, Zhou Yu put aside his distracting thoughts and directed his soldiers to light the bridge, which had been prepared with a lot of combustibles, according to the plan.

This was to ensure that a large fire could quickly burn the wooden bridge to ashes.

And this was not an isolated case.

Or rather, this was Sun Ce's real mission after receiving the order. After occupying Yufu City and Weiguan Pass, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu led a partial army to continuously penetrate deep along the plank road in order to destroy this plank road.

Moreover, during the process of rushing to this place, Zhou Yu had prepared the places along the plank road that were easy to destroy.

Either set them on fire, or cut them off, or push down trees and boulders to block the road…

To the greatest extent possible, they hindered the Yizhou army's marching speed in the three hundred li plank road leading from here to Yufu City and Weiguan Pass.

It was easy to destroy the plank road, but it was not so easy to repair it.

Back then, the reason why King Xiang Yu of Chu fell for the "Openly Repair the Plank Road, Secretly Cross Chencang" plan was that Emperor Gaozu of Han loudly announced that he wanted to repair the plank road that he had burned down, making King Xiang Yu subconsciously believe that it would take at least a year and a half to repair the plank road.

The existence of Yizhou's natural barriers made the repair of the plank road impossible to speed up with simple manpower, but required enough time.

Li Ji didn't intend to send troops to directly block the Yizhou army. Instead, he planned to use the natural barriers protecting Yizhou to block the Yizhou army from entering Jingzhou.

Liu Yan set up a good "Inviting the Lord into the Urn" scheme, and Li Ji simply took advantage of Liu Yan's cooking of his clan brothers to sneak in quietly as a thief and help Liu Yan lock the door from the inside.

…

The next day at noon.

After hearing the news, Liu Yan rushed to the place where Liu Biao died. After seeing the poem written in blood on the stone wall by Zhou Yu, he only felt his brain dizzy, his eyes darkened, and he almost fainted on the spot.

Liu Yan took a few steps back, endured the sweetness that surged into his throat, and loudly questioned. "Where is Liu Biao?! Where is my clan brother Liu Biao?!"

A scout was brought before Liu Yan somewhat tremblingly, and then pointed to the headless corpse of Liu Biao lying on the ground, and said.

"Lord, is that person Liu Biao?"

Liu Yan widened his eyes and shouted. "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

The reason why Liu Yan was so confident that Liu Biao could not escape Yizhou was naturally not without preparation.

In fact, Liu Biao seemed to be temporarily escaping the pursuit of the Yizhou army, but in fact, there were many people in Yizhou who were good at crossing mountains and ridges.

These scouts grew up in the mountains of Yizhou since they were young, and crossing mountains and ridges was like walking on flat ground.

Therefore, a full dozen scouts had been following Liu Biao from a distance all the way, confirming Liu Biao's whereabouts and reporting to the pursuing main force behind.

"Yes."

The scout answered somewhat stammeringly.

"At that time, I was hiding behind a tree fifty steps away, and I witnessed Liu Biao's head being chopped off by a person claiming to be Sun Bofu of Jiangdong."

After hearing this, Liu Yan felt short of breath for a while and had difficulty breathing.

In order to seize Jingzhou and the Jade Seal, Liu Yan spent so much effort and paid such a high price to make the princes believe that Yizhou was in a state of internal and external troubles.

Jingzhou and the Jade Seal were all tied to Liu Biao alone, so Liu Yan deliberately spared Liu Biao's life, and even feared that forcing Liu Biao too hard would make Liu Biao commit suicide rather than be captured.

He never expected that the seeds had been planted, the fertilizer had been applied, they had grown vigorously, and it was about to bear fruitful results.

As a result, this fruit tree was directly chopped down by Sun Ce.

If Liu Yan had not always been extremely scheming, he might not have been able to help but draw his sword and chop the scout in front of him to vent his anger.

"You, tell me everything you saw, without missing a single detail."

Liu Yan gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Yes."

The scout did not dare to hesitate and immediately told everything he had witnessed.

The distance of fifty steps, plus the fact that the sky had not completely darkened.

Allowed this scout to clearly witness everything, and even heard most of the conversation between the two sides.

After this scout retold everything in detail, Liu Yan's slightest suspicion that Liu Biao had faked his death to escape was completely dispelled.

This scout did not lose track of Liu Biao throughout the entire process, and Sun Ce had a feud for killing his father with Liu Biao, so it was normal for Sun Ce to chop Liu Biao without hesitation.

What made Liu Yan even more desperate was that Liu Biao did not say where the Jade Seal was until his death. Sun Ce did not even give Liu Biao a chance to say it before directly chopping Liu Biao.

‘That is to say, the Jade Seal has completely disappeared?!’

At this thought, Liu Yan felt a little dazed, and his body swayed.

Just at this time, the other scouts sent by Liu Yan to explore the road ahead hurriedly ran back and reported.

"Lord, a wooden bridge about ten zhang long on a plank road ten li ahead has been burned and damaged. It is impossible to pass for a while. Please make a decision, Lord."

Liu Yan was stunned at first, and then suddenly strode to the scout, grabbed the scout's collar, and asked with a ferocious expression.

"What did you say?!"

The frightened scout answered with unconcealed panic in his voice. "A bridge ten zhang long ahead has been burned down, and it may take some time to repair."

Liu Yan stared at the scout, then suddenly looked up at the poem on the stone wall, and repeated the second half in a hoarse voice.

"It is difficult to cross the three hundred li of the Shu Road…"

Only the plank road bridge ten li away?

I am afraid that the three hundred li of plank road from here onwards have been destroyed…

Repair?

Repair??!!

When it is repaired, I am afraid that Jingzhou will have changed owners.

Swallowing Jingzhou to the south suddenly became a dream that was close at hand, and going north to Hanzhong had completely broken off with Zhang Lu before…

Yizhou, Yizhou is undoubtedly completely trapped in this natural danger with no way out!

Liu Yan's expression became more and more ferocious, then dull, and finally pale…

Until it reached the point of being as pale as gold paper.

"Alas, heaven does not bless me, Liu Yan, heaven does not bless my Yizhou!!"

"Hahahaha, Liu Xuande, Li Zikun, you are too ruthless, too ruthless. Everything I have done has been a wedding dress for you…"

The next moment, Liu Yan spat out blood and fell straight backwards, falling next to Liu Biao's corpse.

For a time, Liu Yan's many subordinates, who were too late to react, exclaimed and rushed towards Liu Yan.

"Lord!!" (End of this chapter)