Chapter 57: Analysis and Decision-making
With a belly full of wine and food, the messenger of the Yellow Turban Army staggered away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Looking at his departing back, Huangfu Song asked Li Qin very strangely: "Yuan Hua, you asked me to set up a banquet to entertain such a traitor, and asked him what those messages were?" ”
"Lord Huangfu, don't you think that you can judge the true situation of the other party from talking to each other? You know, our scouts can't really sneak into their barracks to find out what they're really doing. Li Qin explained with a smile.
"You mean?" Cao Cao's eyes rolled, as if he had thought of something.
However, he carefully recalled the words that Li Qin asked Huangfu Song to ask, but he frowned tightly: "Yuan Hua, it is a good way to find out the truth of the enemy from the mouth of the messenger. However, the questions you are asking are too simple. At least, I didn't hear anything useful from it. ”
"Well, it does! Yuanhua was careless. Cao Cao said this, which attracted everyone's approval.
"Do you really think those questions are useless?" Listening to everyone's response, Li Qin shook his head amusedly.
"What's the use? It's just some common words. It's weird to ask a bunch of traitors about that. Sun Jian rolled his eyes at this and said in a rough voice.
"Hehe......" Li Qin didn't say anything directly to Sun Jian's rebuttal, but just smiled faintly. He shook his head lightly while laughing, but showed his disapproval to the fullest.
"Yuanhua still has an opinion?" Liu Bei saw Li Qin's performance like this, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Please try to say it!" ”
"Yes, my lord!" Li Qin arched his hand towards Liu Bei, and then straightened his waist again: "Actually, I already have a guess in my heart about the current situation of the Yellow Turban Army. I asked General Huangfu to ask the enemy messenger a question, in fact, to test whether such a guess was appropriate. You must know that there are only a few possibilities for the current Yellow Turban Army and Zhang Jiao......"
"How many possibilities? I'd like to see what you can say. Sun Jian snorted softly.
As a martial general, he believed more in the power in his hands, and he may have admired the knowledge of the literati, but he was not very optimistic about their ability on the battlefield.
A literati in a military tent? He thinks that they are just talking about settling accounts, and they are not capable at all - this is actually a kind of prejudice, but it is precisely because of this prejudice that Sun Jian's eyes are full of coldness when he looks at Li Qin.
"He looks down on himself a little...... "Li Qin secretly knew in his heart.
But what does it matter? Sun Jian, for now, is a comrade-in-arms. But in the end, he is just a stranger to himself.
As for the future, he may be his enemy. The enemy looks down on him, and this may be good news for him.
"Hehe......" Li Qin smiled faintly at this.
He brushed his head aside, didn't pay attention to Sun Jian, and only calmly opened his mouth after his gaze swept over everyone's faces: "The logistics of the Yellow Turban Army has always been a big problem. They don't know how to run their territory, and their grain and grass are plundered and stored. I estimated that Zhang Jiaojun's grain and grass should not be too much left, so I asked Lord Huangfu to ask about the food of the generals in their army.
Although Zhang Jiaojun has all kinds of equal statements, Zhang Jiao may not be able to do this himself. In general, the food of the generals should be much better than that of the soldiers, and they should be mainly meat-based. But the messenger told us that the meat of their generals was scarce, and that did not mean that their food and grass were already a little tight. ”
"Huh...... This is true. Li Qin explained the matter clearly, and everyone agreed with Li Qin's statement after thinking about it.
"Admire! It is really amazing to be able to verify whether Zhang Jiaojun's food and grass are abundant from this little thing! For a while, everyone's gaze towards Li Qin changed, and there were many fewer doubts, and admiration became the mainstream.
With Li Qin's words proving his strength in front of everyone, Cao Cao's gaze at Li Qin suddenly became hot.
His eyes, which were eager to swallow himself, made Li Qin very uncomfortable. Although he understood what Cao Cao was thinking, he didn't want to respond to Cao Cao's thoughts. Because Li Qin always felt that Liu Bei seemed to be more suitable for him.
"Wife Cao ...... His suspicion is still too ......" Li Qin shook his head in his heart, and his gaze suddenly jumped from Cao Cao's position.
Li Qin ignored himself, which cooled down the heat in Cao Cao's heart somewhat.
However, he had no intention of giving up. After all, Li Qin didn't directly reject himself! He felt that perhaps he should talk to Li Qin and win him over to his command.
"If you want to achieve military merit, I should have such talents under my command." Cao Cao was vaguely aware of this. However, that's all for later. For now, Cao Cao felt that he was still listening to Li Qin explain the secret behind another issue.
“…… As for the question of Zhang Jiao's cultivation time. I see from what the man told us. Zhang Jiao was not out of the threshold that the man said he was about to break through, but as if he was in big trouble. Li Qin calmly expressed his opinion.
"What do you mean?" The crowd was a little puzzled.
"Please think back to the history you have learned. There are not many immortals recorded in history, but you see which legendary immortal would use Dao methods to deal with mortal armies at will. Except for the antiquity of the era when humans and gods lived together, basically no one dared to say that. And even in ancient times, the immortals who dared to do this were because the enemy also had extraordinary strength. In response to everyone's doubts, Li Qin smiled and said the key he had summarized from the history books.
"You mean......" Li Qin said that the matter seemed to involve some kind of secrecy, except for the elders like Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, most of the people here basically did not understand what this meant.
"God to God, man to man." No one shall be disrespectful to God, nor shall God be directed against mortals. Anyone who uses Dao techniques to target mortals, he will kill happily for a while, but after killing, he will inevitably encounter the punishment of heaven. This is the so-called celestial rule. Heaven and man are separated, so after Zhang Jiao used the Dao method, he was in big trouble. Li Qin spoke his judgment.
"You mean Zhang Jiao is injured?" Susan, who was following behind Cao Cao, heard Li Qin say this, and suddenly grasped the key to Li Qin's words.
She was dressed as a man and followed behind Cao Cao, and everyone thought she was a handsome man, but now she suddenly spoke, and her shrill voice suddenly exposed her gender.
This exposure made everyone's eyes suddenly focus on Cao Cao's body. These are all kinds of strange and slightly reproachful glances.
Cao Cao didn't care much about these gazes, because they didn't have much to do with Cao Cao. But the gaze of Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun made Cao Cao a little unbearable. After all, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were Cao Cao's bosses. The official level crushed people to death, and Cao Cao did not dare to be indifferent to the reproaches of his superiors.
At that moment, he could only weakly argue: "She is a general under my command, and she was sent by her family to protect me." Last time in Changshe, it was she who killed Qu Shuai of the Yellow Turban Army. ”
"Oh......" Huangfu Song replied, and said nothing more.
He seemed to have decided to let it go gently.
The boss didn't speak, and the others didn't dare to say more, so the matter was skipped for the time being. Everyone turned to Li Qin again, and everyone wanted to know how much Li Qin agreed with the woman's statement.
"Perhaps, Li Qin will refute it." Everyone felt that Zhang Jiao's statement that he was injured instead of using Taoism to win was really unreliable.
"He killed his enemy, but he wounded himself...... Is there such a drawback to this method? But they did not believe.
They all waited for Li Qin's rebuttal.
But I don't want Li Qin to agree, Susan's statement: "Hurt? The same can be said. The monks have great power, and their every move is watched by the heavens. Heaven will regulate their behavior, and if they have done too much, Heaven will give them good feelings. This is also the reason why very few monks walk the world and participate in human strife. In short, Zhang Jiao often retreats and is alone, not because the breakthrough is imminent, but because he is attacked by God. ”
Li Qin finally made a categorical decision.
Although everyone was still a little puzzled by Li Qin's judgment, they also understood that it was not easy for Li Qin to judge so much from such a small matter. Moreover, they can also see that Li Qin's judgment is somewhat self-justifying.
"Yuanhua shouldn't lie to us. If what he said was true...... Then we should ...... right now" Out of trust in Li Qin, Huangfu Song has unconsciously thought about the situation that Li Qin said.
"Yuan Hua, do you think we should confront the Yellow Turban Army as soon as possible?" After thinking quietly for a while, Huangfu Song suddenly asked.
"No, I don't think so." Li Qin shook his head lightly, "I think that the confrontation between us and the Yellow Turban Army should be extended a little longer. ”
"Why?" Huangfu Song was puzzled: "Aren't you afraid of Zhang Jiao's recovery?" ”
"If the punishment from heaven is so easy to solve, the Taoists in the world will not be far away from the mountains and forests." Li Qin shook his head and sighed: "Zhang Jiao's behavior of using the Dao method can be said to have forced him to a dead end." ”
"Ah...... Is it that serious? The crowd was amazed.
"That's right, it's that serious. Maybe Zhang Jiao can suppress it for a while with his own strength, but suppression does not mean that it is solved. The more it is suppressed now, the greater the trouble that will erupt in the future. To everyone's surprise, Li Qin nodded in affirmation.
"Then all I have to do now is ......" Huangfu Song hesitated slightly.
"We will further strengthen our own foundation and prepare for the final battle. In fact, I think we need to prepare pigs, sheep, and dogs...... Something should come a little more. ”
"Yes! I understand! Huangfu Song nodded: "I will explain this matter to others." After all, this is the only thing we can do against the Dao Fa. ”