Chapter 1 Lee Fusheng's Reaction

Hearing this, Li Fusheng's face turned completely red, as if he had drunk too much and was completely drunk.

"General Zheng, what should we do about this matter? Please come up with a plan quickly, and I will follow it."

Once Li Fusheng's emotions were stirred, it was really difficult to restrain him.

In particular, the two words "Li Bao" that Zheng Fan mentioned were like a sharp stab, directly piercing into the depths of Li Fusheng's heart.

The seven generals of the Zhenbei Army were said to be as close as brothers, which wasn't realistic, but Li Fusheng and Li Bao were indeed brothers who had gone through life and death together, and could completely trust each other with their backs.

Li Bao died in battle here, covering the retreat for the First Prince, surrounded and killed by those Chu people sitting on the ground demanding food!

A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late;

This is an excuse for scholars to be cowards;

The best time for a true soldier to take revenge is that very night!

Agreements, state relations,

Li Fusheng no longer cared much about them.

And he wasn't as simple-minded as he appeared; old Li was actually meticulous despite his rough exterior.

Zheng Fan's attitude,

Zheng Fan's words,

Just based on the fact that Zheng Fan was sitting on the Pixiu, that strong shadow of the Jinnan Marquis,

Li Fusheng knew who was really giving the orders.

Whatever happened, with that man backing him up, nothing would go wrong.

Moreover, he understood Zheng Fan. He had even once advised Zheng Fan to inject more killing intent into himself. If it weren't for that man's request and order,

Would this kid have gone crazy and run over to fake an order to kill prisoners?

However, the deepest layer, Li Fusheng didn't think of it for a while. He would have to slowly savor it later to figure out what exactly the Jinnan King was seeking by having Zheng Fan come forward.

It was something that could have been done with a single royal decree,

Why did he have to go through this extra step?

At this moment, Mao Mingcai, the Minister of War of Great Yan, who heard these conversations, was completely dumbfounded. What was going on!

He was here to urge for food for the Chu envoys, how did the situation suddenly change so much?

In fact, Mao Mingcai didn't feel sorry for these Chu people. As the Minister of War of Great Yan, he couldn't possibly side with the Chu people, no matter how biased he was.

But he was here to announce an imperial decree. Regardless of his personal feelings, the imperial court had already made a decision.

The crown prince led a group of ministers to repeatedly revise the agreement for so long before it was released,

The emperor also used the imperial seal, and the decree was approved by the central government.

This was the will of Great Yan, the will of the court, and it must not be violated!

Everyone has their own principles to adhere to. Sometimes, it's not so lofty and can also be called the basis for one's existence.

Since you are sitting in the position of Minister of War of Great Yan, what is the point of your existence if you don't maintain the laws and dignity of the court?

"What are you talking about!"

Mao Mingcai roared and took two steps forward.

Li Fusheng turned his head, looked at Mao Mingcai, didn't speak, but had a smile on his lips.

Although the Zhenbei Army was dismantled, it was still somewhat untamed, and the so-called respect for these court officials was only superficial.

Most importantly, the killing intent in Li Fusheng's heart had been aroused, and he had a posture that he wouldn't recognize anyone, even the King of Heaven.

A smile appeared on the corner of Zheng Fan's mouth.

At this moment,

He had completely let go,

Or rather,

Had entered the state.

Mao Mingcai looked at Zheng Fan,

And shouted:

"Earl of Pingye, what are your intentions just now!"

Zheng Fan said calmly:

"Debts must be repaid, and lives must be paid for, it's just such a simple principle.

How many Yan children did the Chu people kill here? That day, the Wangjiang River was filled with the corpses of my Yan brothers;

Lord Mao,

I just want to get justice for them."

"But now the alliance has been reached, Earl of Pingye, do you want to disobey the imperial decree!"

"A general abroad is not bound by his orders!"

"I'd like to see who dares!"

Mao Mingcai spread his arms and said loudly:

"The alliance has been established, and the people need to recuperate. Anyone who dares to start a war can, but only after stepping over my dead body!"

Zheng Fan shook his head,

Stuck out his little finger,

Picked his ear,

Then put his little finger to his mouth,

"Whoosh… whoosh…"

Blew on it twice.

"Lord Mao, if we don't kill the wolves, if we don't scare the wolves, and we let the tiger return to the mountain, can this peaceful life, can this recuperation, succeed?"

"As a Yan minister, how dare you defy the imperial decree!"

Zheng Fan raised his hand,

Pointed at Mao Mingcai,

And said:

"Lord Mao is tired, help Lord Mao down to rest."

"I'd like to see who dares!"

Mao Mingcai roared again, looking around.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a saber hilt smashed into Mao Mingcai's knee.

Mao Mingcai knelt on one knee,

And then,

A palm pressed down on Mao Mingcai's shoulder.

It was Ran Min who made the move.

"You………"

Ran Min ignored Mao Mingcai's gaze, but looked at Zheng Fan and said:

"Earl Zheng, this humble general escorted Lord Mao all the way from the capital to here. This humble general can testify that Lord Mao has caught a cold along the way, is weak and feverish, and needs rest."

Zheng Fan noticed this clever soldier, looked at him a few times, and said:

"What's your name?"

"This humble general is Ran Min, a squad leader of the Second Army of the Jinnan Army's New Army."

"Ran Min?"

Zheng Fan nodded and said:

"Take good care of Minister Mao for me."

"This humble general obeys!"

As he said that, Ran Min forcibly supported Mao Mingcai. Mao Mingcai was about to burst into swearing, but the words that Ran Min said in his ear while supporting him made Mao Mingcai temporarily silent.

"My lord, do you want to force the Jinnan Army to rebel right here!"

You die, of course you can die.

But you, a dignified Minister of War, actually died here, in the hands of the Jinnan Army soldiers;

Let alone how the court would punish you, because there was no need to worry about that at all,

Because if that was the case,

The Jinnan Army would have to rebel even if they didn't want to!

Relatively speaking, offending the Chu people was a small matter. If the Jinnan Army rebelled, the country of Great Yan would……

Just like that, Mao Mingcai was helped down by Ran Min, Mao Mingcai's steps were a little unsteady and staggered.

"Heh heh."

Li Fusheng smiled, looked at Zheng Fan, meaning, what to do next, tell me quickly.

When you really decide to do something, in fact, the other thoughts in your heart instantly fade a lot.

Zheng Fan was also like this,

At this moment, what he was thinking about had changed from the guilt of killing prisoners to how to do this well, and at the same time, do it beautifully.

"The Chu people want food, don't they? Give it to them."

Li Fusheng was stunned and shouted;

"Really give it?"

At this time, even the landlord's family had no surplus grain.

The Great Yan Eastern Expeditionary Army had been fighting for so long, thanks to the Cheng Kingdom still barely supporting half of its territory. At the same time, it also had to thank the First Prince for maintaining the local order step by step when he led the Eastern Expeditionary Army into the Cheng Kingdom.

But even so, the Cheng Kingdom was almost exhausted for this war, otherwise there would not have been refugees from the Cheng Kingdom fleeing to Shengle and Litian City.

Even their own Yan army's food was a little tight, Li Fusheng naturally didn't want to send precious food to the Chu army to eat, even if it was a last meal, he was reluctant!

They were all people who were going to die, did they still want to be full ghosts?

Bah, you wish!

Zheng Fan pointed to the back, which was the direction of Wangjiang,

And said:

"There, set up pots, cook, and then tell those Chu people to go there in batches to eat."

Hearing this, Li Fusheng,

The smile on his face bloomed again,

And praised:

"High, high, you kid, your brain is really good."

Zheng Fan said slowly:

"Just using their own methods against them."

"By the way, should I go and say hello to the other generals?"

Zheng Fan shook his head and said:

"No need, after your unit makes a move, can they hold back?

Even if they can hold back, can the soldiers under them hold back?"

"Understood."

Li Fusheng rubbed his hands,

"Let's do it?"

Zheng Fan stretched,

"Let's go."

……

"Food! Food!"

"Where's the food, where's the food!"

The Chu people were still shouting for food.

Qu Tiannan was also sitting there cross-legged, not accepting the treatment that belonged to him alone.

In the Chu Kingdom, when the two major clans fought, if a noble on one side was captured, he would be treated with great hospitality, and even beautiful concubines would be offered.

But here in Yan, Qu Tiannan was not in the mood to enjoy this.

Of course, the Yan people didn't seem to have prepared this, and the Chu people were too embarrassed to write these items in the detailed rules of the alliance.

At this moment, the Chu people sitting on the far west side keenly discovered that the Yan people had set up stoves on the Wangjiang River and had already started burning firewood.

At the same time, groups of Yan people were carrying bags of grain towards there.

For a time, there was a burst of cheers here. This cheer would be contagious. Many Chu people also figured out the situation. The Yan people finally began to prepare food for them.

Some impatient Chu people wanted to run over ahead of time. At this time, not to mention the rice was not cooked yet, even raw rice, they wanted to go up and bite into their stomachs.

Several Chu people ran over, and then, a group of Chu people ran over. Seeing that the Yan people didn't seem to have any intention of stopping them, more and more Chu people began to run towards the position where the stoves were set up on the Wangjiang River.

Everyone was extremely hungry, so hungry that their eyes wanted to glow green. For a time, a large number of Chu people stood up from the ground and began to run towards there.

In fact, there were less than twenty pots and less than a hundred bags of rice set up there, but the Chu people didn't care. They rushed over madly, and even started fighting each other in order to grab that little bit of food.

Seeing this scene, Qu Tiannan's mouth opened slightly, but he didn't know what to say.

"Help the Pillar General get some rice." A confidant said to the guards beside him.

During this period of food shortage, Qu Tiannan's treatment had been equal to that of the soldiers. In fact, he hadn't eaten a full meal for a long time.

Qu Tiannan's guards also immediately got up, shouting the name of the Pillar General and scolding the compatriots in front to make way.

The Chu envoy Jing Yang was still looking for Mao Mingcai's figure, but when he saw the Yan people starting to distribute food over there, he felt relieved.

Just looking at it, he found that the Yan people were distributing a little less food, and the Chu people over there were scrambling for it.

Jing Yang frowned slightly, wanting to find Mao Mingcai again and let the Yan people distribute more food.

Because according to the alliance, the Chu Kingdom would compensate the Yan Kingdom with food in addition to money and goods.

Rather than saying that they were eating the Yan people's food now, it was better to say that they were eating their own food in advance. At worst, these consumption would be recalculated and supplied to the Yan people after this group returned home.

In fact, the Chu envoy Jing Yang's train of thought was similar to Mao Mingcai's.

They were just implementers of the policy, adhering to the will of the king and court behind them. They had no time to consider personal preferences. They just had to do their job well.

More and more Chu people began to gather towards the Wangjiang River. The scale of thirty to forty thousand people was really not small. Looking west from the Yupan City wall at this time, it really felt like a sea of people;

The waves of people mixed with the river waves, like two rivers merging together.

Nearby, many Yan soldiers were looking at the Chu people scrambling for food with extremely indifferent eyes.

Some people initially laughed at these Chu cubs for grabbing food like dogs fighting for food;

But slowly, the people who laughed at the beginning slowly stopped laughing.

Because most of the Yan soldiers' hearts were actually very depressed.

The Chu people were trapped in Yupan City for several months, and these Yan soldiers had also been guarding them here for several months.

They wanted to see the Chu people starve to death, cannibalize each other. The more miserable they were, the more happy the Yan soldiers would be.

After all, they were once opponents who had fought on the battlefield. How could they put down their weapons and smile and forget their grievances?

Even if the Yan court often promoted that the Yan people and the Jin people were both descendants of the Zhuxia and were all descendants of the Huaxia, it was not applicable to the Chu people here.

The Yan army was here to fight alongside the Cheng army to defeat the barbarians, so what were the Chu people, who actually colluded with the barbarians!

From the moment the Jinnan Marquis defeated the main force of the barbarians at Wangjiang and ordered the siege of the city, everyone was actually looking forward to the Chu people's doomsday.

But the Chu people were now released,

And they even dared to openly ask for food from them,

And now they were even eating their own food!

"Damn it, what kind of bird alliance is the court tossing about!"

"That's right, are we just going to provide these Chu slaves with good food and drink like this, and then let them swagger home?"

"Then how will I avenge my revenge?"

In the Yan army formation, the dissatisfied hostility had been mobilized.

At this moment, nearly 3,000 cavalrymen of Li Fusheng's unit stationed here began to slowly mobilize, detouring to the side of Yupan City.

This scene was actually seen by many people.

The Chu people thought it was a normal mobilization of the Yan army, so they didn't pay much attention to it.

Even Qu Tiannan, who had just taken some food from his guard and was eating, noticed it out of the corner of his eye, but for a while, his mind couldn't figure out what it meant.

It wasn't that he was stupid,

But he simply hadn't thought of that possibility,

And,

He didn't even dare to think about that possibility!

Because he could no longer resist. All the soldiers had put down their weapons, and at the same time, they had left the protection of the city walls.

……

Li Fusheng rode his Pixiu beside Zheng Fan,

Although Li Fusheng's eyes were already red, like a gluttonous eater about to have a feast, he was actually able to smile and ask Zheng Fan at this moment:

"I used to tell you before, kid, that when I can't control my desire to kill, you have to remember to stop me. Now, you still have a chance."

"It's already at this time, what's the point of saying this."

"I know who gave the order, and that person really has the courage to give this order, but what about you? I thought you, kid, wouldn't agree.

From the first time I saw you, I knew that you, kid, were actually a little soft-hearted.

You're fierce, you're fierce in battle, and you're naturally fierce as a person, but I still think you're soft-hearted, that kind of inexplicable soft-heartedness.

Tell me one last time, should we kill them or not?"

"We should kill them."

"Oh, why?"

Zheng Fan turned his head to look at Li Fusheng, somewhat surprised:

"Brother, this isn't your style."

"Heh heh, if there can be a justified reason to kill people, then killing people will be even more enjoyable."

"For the brothers who died in that battle, for the Great Yan soldiers who are still alive and standing here, these Chu people must never be let go.

The court's meaning is the court's meaning, but the court is not always right. They think they see very high and see very far, but in reality, sometimes seeing too high and seeing too far is not a good thing.

We have to tell the Great Yan soldiers who are still alive, and at the same time, we have to comfort the brothers who died here. We have to give them an answer;

Before the Black Dragon Flag,

Anyone who dares to block will be ground into powder!"

Li Fusheng smiled "heh heh" and said:

"I just asked casually, but I didn't expect you to say so much."

"I have to convince myself first."

Zheng Fan spoke his heart.

"Then, I'll order the men to charge?"

"No, wait a little longer."

"Wait for what?"

"Wait for me to go through the motions again, and I ask my brother to lend me a hand."

"Okay, I'm going to be happy anyway, and I don't mind helping you set the stage. No matter what, you can be considered half a soldier I brought out."

"That's right."

Zheng Fan drew out his saber,

In fact,

He wanted to learn from Tian Wujing and pull the sword out of the Pixiu's mouth,

But he didn't know if the Pixiu under him had just come of age and its throat was not deep enough,

Or if it looked down on the ordinary sword in his hand, so it just didn't want to swallow it.

After drawing his sword,

Zheng Fan urged the Pixiu under him to start galloping forward,

When passing through a Yan army formation, he reached out and grabbed a Black Dragon Flag directly from the hands of a flag-bearer.

At this time, Zheng Fan,

Holding a knife in his right hand and carrying a flag in his left hand,

Riding a Pixiu,

Galloping in front of the Yan army formation,

He roared:

"Chu slaves colluded with barbarians, violated our territory, poisoned the Xia land, and killed our brothers. Can the sons of Yan and Jin sit idly by!

Today, I, Zheng Fan, the general commander of Xuehai Pass, and His Majesty's appointed Earl of Pingye, am here,

I ask the sons of Yan and Jin,

Follow me to avenge!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

Zheng Fan waved his saber,

And cut off the head of a Chu person who was running back excitedly with a handful of raw rice he had just snatched, and blood immediately splattered all over Zheng Fan.

This scene,

Shocked the surrounding Yan soldiers, and even more so, it shocked the nearby Chu people.

Zheng Fan raised the Black Dragon Flag,

And shouted with all his strength:

"Zhenbei and Jinnan armies, listen to my command!"

Just as the Yan army in the surrounding formations had not yet reacted,

From the rear,

The three thousand riders of Li Fusheng's unit had already raised their sabers high, and shouted in unison:

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

"Tiger!"

Zheng Fan pointed the Black Dragon Flag forward,

And roared:

"Follow me to slaughter all the Chu slaves!"

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