When he woke up, a hubbub of voices vaguely drifted in from outside, and the light of dawn filtered through the window lattices. It was early morning. Remembering \[WanBenShenZhan] in a second, mobile users enter the address:
Ning Yi sat up, rubbed his forehead. Xiao Chan, wearing only a bodice, also got up beside him, rubbed her eyes, and was about to get dressed. Ning Yi patted her shoulder: "It's okay, you continue to sleep."
However, Xiao Chan nodded and got up, whispering, "I'm not sleepy..." She went to fetch water for Ning Yi, serving him as he brushed his teeth and washed his face, and so on.

It had been about two hours since the end of last night's great battle over the Birthday Tribute. The outside was noisy, mostly with people cleaning up the aftermath, and the pursuit of those who had slipped through the net had not stopped. The army was spread all over the mountains and fields. For them, this was clearly a great victory, but for Ning Yi, his mood was noticeably low.

"Does Master seem unhappy?"

"These guys' profession is killing. If they were in my company, I would have fired them all long ago... told them to go home and fend for themselves. Two or three thousand people surrounded two hundred, and some still escaped..."

He muttered to himself, but in reality, he might not have known that the current situation was already good. After washing up and going out, someone was already peeking out from the door diagonally opposite, probably Yuan Jin'er, who hadn't finished dressing in the morning, showing a head with slightly messy hair: "Did you win?"

"Won." Ning Yi walked over. Jin'er nodded with a smile, and waited until Ning Yi had left before wrinkling her nose: "Tch, won and still pulling a long face." Then she went back to report to Yun Zhu.

Going out of the boat, he could already see the situation on the dock. Many soldiers were going back and forth, and many prison carts were already prepared, and the Birthday Tribute that had been recovered was being reloaded onto the ships. It was another scene of gongs, drums, and firecrackers. Ning Yi's face was a bit displeased. He was woken up by the noise. He pulled over a member of the Secret Intelligence Division: "What are you doing? There are people sleeping on several boats. It's too disturbing... go and tell them to stop."

"Understood, Mr. Ning, we need to be low-key. I'll go tell them right away."

"Uh..."

Ning Yi scratched his hair, feeling a little helpless. Before long, Wen Ren'er, Chen Jingui, Qi Xinyong, and others came over, saying, "That's a big thing, and Li Heng can still sleep. Truly, he has the demeanor of a great general."

Ning Yi cupped his hands in greeting, then stared at Wen Ren'er and said, "I've been thinking about it, and yesterday's events were all your fault. You were too harsh." As soon as he said this, everyone around laughed, clearly agreeing.

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In the battle in the early hours of the morning, the preparations couldn't be considered fully adequate, but if every battle had to be fully prepared, there would be no battles to fight. Through the combined forces of three parties, the Xuzhou military mobilized a total of two or three thousand men, preparing to use absolute superiority in numbers to surround and capture the Liangshan group. This number had already reached the standard of "ten to one."

However, considering that the Liangshan people all had good skills and alertness, in order to avoid alarming them and letting too many escape, the entire encirclement was initially very large. Led by generals familiar with the surrounding terrain, they first blocked the necessary paths in the distance, and then silently narrowed the encirclement all the way, trying to connect it as much as possible. But when these two hundred people were discovered, the entire large encirclement still had certain gaps and weak points.

Letting Yan Qing enter directly was precisely because they wanted to prolong the battle as much as possible. If they had prepared to shoot Yan Qing from the beginning, it would inevitably cause a commotion, and the two hundred or so people inside would definitely take immediate action. Therefore, they let him go in to speak, and then the military line advanced, and Ning Yi and others went out to applaud ostentatiously, perhaps to make others look foolish and give the other side a reason to postpone the start of the battle to put psychological pressure on them.

During the scattered applause, it was Wen Ren'er who spoke last. At that time, he seemed to be saying boredly, "Everyone, come and see, someone here has robbed the Birthday Tribute." This sentence was quite lethal. Ning Yi and others had to turn their heads to look at him, praising him for saying it well. Then someone on the opposite side broke down, and the strong man holding a heavy spear roared "Ah—," and the war began. For this reason, Ning Yi and others said a few words to Wen Ren'er at the time: "You're too much." "I wouldn't be able to stand it either." "Unbearable..."

Of course, in fact, perhaps it was because the other side also saw the urgency of the situation at the time and was unwilling to let the time be dragged on any longer. When those people began to cut the reins and remove the outer frames of the carriages to use as shields, the first thing on the battlefield was a rain of arrows like locusts. Ning Yi actually didn't know much about warfare. He had never participated in such a formal battlefield, and at least didn't understand too much of the situation. Even though he had turned the tables single-handedly during his escape in Hangzhou, he was only manipulating human nature and boosting morale. When Chen Jingui and others told him that the other side had chosen the best direction and that there was indeed a talented general among them, he could roughly understand the development of the situation.

The encirclement of nearly three thousand people, but at each point, there might not be a huge thickness. This time, all of Liangshan's true elites were mobilized, led by leaders such as Lu Junyi. At this time, they were completely surrounded and became desperate soldiers. When they suddenly chose to break through, the Xuzhou soldiers who were blocking them were killed and retreated repeatedly, which even Ning Yi could see from afar. In the end, a gap was torn open, allowing some people to escape.

For the generals leading the troops here, it seemed to be a great victory. To be honest, the Liangshan group suffered a lot of casualties in this battle, leaving behind more than a hundred corpses. Later, thirty or forty people were captured sporadically due to covering the rear or being separated from the group. However, only twenty or so of the seventy or eighty people who escaped were killed in the subsequent tailing pursuit, and fifty or sixty people, including several leaders, still escaped.

Even though Wen Ren'er, Qi Xinyong, and others would talk about the difference between elite soldiers and ordinary soldiers, Ning Yi was quite dissatisfied with this result. After painstakingly arranging the layout and using various resources, an encirclement of three thousand people still allowed fifty of the two hundred people to escape. Ning Yi felt as if he had been slapped in the face. He had originally expected to capture all of them without leaving a single one.

Of course, since the facts were as they were, and one professional after another was saying how strong these two hundred Liangshan people were, there was nothing to be done. After sleeping for two hours, Wen Ren'er's side had already roughly finished organizing things. At this time, he pulled Ning Yi aside: "Forty-three people were captured, and four of them should be Liangshan leaders. Among them... that big guy you said was very powerful is Lu Junyi."

Ning Yi was slightly stunned: "The one with the long spear covering the rear?" At that time, on the battlefield, the Liangshan side tore open a gap in the encirclement, and a tall and burly man led the people to cover the rear. Ordinary soldiers were knocked down and scattered in front of him. Ning Yi had praised him at the time, and discussed with Qi Xinyong and others who was more powerful, this person or Chen Fan, and then said that this guy must be someone with a name, and must be caught. In fact, Qi Xinyong and others didn't quite know what he meant by "someone with a name," and could only treat him as a leader.

Wen Ren'er nodded: "It was him."

"I said it before... when tricking Yan Qing... I didn't expect to actually catch him... Okay, let's go have breakfast first, and after eating, find some time to decide on the next course of action. Oh, and who else are there?"

"There's Jin Maohu Yan Shun. This guy was tripped and fell to the ground while running away, and we caught him. And some Chen Da, Zheng Tianshou..."

"Well, capturing so many loyal and righteous people makes me feel like a big villain..."

"What?"

"Nothing, let's go have breakfast..."

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The cicadas chirped, and in the morning, the summer sun dried up the water stains left by the heavy rain last night. Soldiers gathered in the small docks, and the large-scale pursuit operation that had started last night had come to a temporary end.

With the clanging sound of iron chains, Lu Junyi, half-covered in blood, was brought into the room and made to sit in the seat. He opened his tiger eyes wide and scanned the people in the room. The two people responsible for watching him were both experts. Opposite him was a desk, and a young man was writing with his head down behind the desk, occasionally looking at some information, and then looking up and making eye contact with him. It was the person he had seen on the battlefield, named Ning Liheng.

"This is Lu Junyi."

He said a sentence, but not as a question. Lu Junyi made himself sit up straight: "That is me." The person opposite him seemed not to have heard him. The man beside him pointed: "It's him." The other party nodded, picked up a piece of finished Xuan paper, and put it aside. Then he stood up, went to the back to open the window, letting in a little breeze, before turning back and sitting down.

If it were an ordinary interrogation, it would usually put great pressure on the other party, and the environment chosen would often be dark and depressing. But at this time, with the window open, bright sunlight shone in, and there was a breeze blowing. Lu Junyi even thought that the other party wanted to do something to show respect for scholars. Behind the desk, Ning Yi had already opened his mouth.

The tone was not high, but a plain statement of facts: "You already know my name. Let me tell you about the situation first. You people went to my house and killed many people, old people, women, and children. None of them knew martial arts, so don't expect me to treat you like human beings. I can take a small knife right now and cut off pieces of your flesh."

Lu Junyi immediately laughed: "Then come on!"

"You don't have to speak." Ning Yi had been looking down at the information and making statements, but at this time, he also raised his head and glanced at him. "I brought you here because Yan Qing will definitely come back to save you—I guess he will. So I'm telling you what I'm going to do. I'm going to have people break both of your legs... all the bones from your thighs to your calves, and then hang you on the flagpoles of the ship until all of you are slowly roasted to death. Your Liangshan values loyalty. I believe you. I'll see how many people come to save you... Anyway, even if they save you, you'll be cripples, and they won't be able to take you away. They'll only be able to die together. Then, let's see your luck..."

Ning Yi raised his head and looked at him coldly. This time, he looked for a little longer.

"I'm threatening you. You don't have to speak, but you can commit suicide, break your tendons or something... if you know how. And even if you die, Yan Qing will come to me for revenge. If he's unlucky and I catch him, I'll skin him..."(To be continued.) Vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation.)

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