Chapter 54: Conquering Dian Wei is just the beginning
Li Su laughed when he heard this: "Let you go?" Let you go to Youzhou to join the army? Who knows if what you said is true or false, besides, since you committed a crime and were bumped into by us today, even if you didn't hurt anyone, it is only natural to take you-
But I can show you a way, and I will be ordered by the general Jun and Liu Youzhou to recruit Danyang soldiers to fight the thieves. If you are willing to surrender, I will not blame the past. ”
Now that Guan Yu has a horse, Dian Wei has no horse, taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Su must of course use both soft and hard, and he can't lose his prestige. Especially for those who regard themselves as heroic warriors, they must be completely convinced, and they can rest assured that they can use good words and ask for good words, and the effect may not be good.
What's more, Li Su also has to take into account the unity atmosphere of the team.
When Dian Wei took refuge in Cao Cao, Cao Cao was able to give courtesy regardless of the "treatment difference ladder", that was because Xu Chu had not yet taken refuge in Cao Cao at that time, and the martial arts of other warriors under Cao Cao were inferior to Dian Wei.
But if he takes refuge in Liu Bei, Guan Zhang Zhao's martial arts are still slightly better than Dian Wei after all, not to mention that there is a first come, first come, too much exaltation of Dian Wei will make the old man mutter.
Hearing Li Su say so hard and so confident, Dian Wei's eyes rolled a few times, weighed the pros and cons, and bowed: "I am Dian Wei, a person from the neighboring county." Are you really sent by Liu Youzhou to recruit troops? Vouchers are available. ”
Dian Wei also dared to introduce his identity at this moment, which can be regarded as a hint of sincerity.
Li Su also pretended not to know the identity of the other party until this moment, turned his head and said to Guan Yu: "Yun Chang, take out the order of General Jun Ming and Liu Youzhou." ”
Guan Yu took out the official court document written on the silk silk from his arms, and shook it with the handle of the short saber.
Seeing this, Dian Wei quickly calculated in his heart. Those who can mix the rivers and lakes know more or less how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, and they are not mentally retarded. He knew that surrendering in this situation was not easy for the other party to believe in his sincerity, and it was easy to think that he surrendered because he was afraid, which was not conducive to gaining trust. Second, the starting point will be relatively low, with his martial arts, if he can't even get an officer's background, he will definitely be unwilling.
After thinking about it, Dian Wei asked vigilantly: "If I come to vote sincerely, can you give up your previous suspicions?" You won't hold a grudge against me, will you? What military rank can I be awarded? I'm a man who likes to put things in front of me. ”
Guan Yu's eyes narrowed: "You haven't hurt anyone, as long as you come to vote sincerely, I don't bother to remember such a trivial matter - as for the official position, you dare to speak." In this way, you can take me three times in foot combat, and then I will give you the position of tun chief, and you will be promoted in the future, and then look at military merits, do you dare? ”
Dian Wei breathed a sigh of relief, Guan Yu was still willing to compete with him, it should be that he didn't regard him as a threat at all, so he wouldn't take the fight just now too seriously, and there was still hope that he would "not fight and not know each other".
"Okay, it just so happens that everyone uses the most advantageous blades, and I just want to see it."
Dian Wei said that he set up the double iron halberd. His halberds, each twice as long as his sword, about six or seven feet long, could still resist the onslaught of cavalry as long as the posture was correct.
I saw that his left hand was held at the end close to the blade of the left halberd, and there was a halberd pole more than four feet long behind his hand, and he squatted down slightly, so that the halberd pole was directly supported on the ground.
The right hand is held in the middle of the right halberd shaft, and the right halberd is placed on top of the left halberd, and the angle between the horizontal branch and the oblique blade of the halberd is just stuck. This move can not only maintain a certain flexibility, but also transmit most of the momentum against the cavalry charge to the left halberd shaft against the ground.
Guan Yu squinted, observed it carefully, and showed a slightly approving look. It was the first time he had seen the unloading move of using two seven-foot blades to form a pikeman to resist cavalry, but the specific effect depended on the opponent's martial arts.
Guan Yu didn't bother much, he didn't sprint too far, but just started to accelerate from a dozen steps away.
There was a loud bang, Dian Wei also roared, his body was lowered, and he was not repulsed.
However, the halberd pole in his left hand that was holding the ground was actually slammed into the dirt by Guan Yu's charge, and it was stabbed half a foot deep into the dirt.
"It's very stable, it's obviously a double halberd, but after it is set up, it seems to be one. The next two knives have to do their best. Guan Yu approved slightly, and with two swords in the back, he was ready to strictly ensure that the war horse rushed up from thirty steps away.
"Bell, bell."
After three moves, Dian Wei's left halberd was smashed into the dirt a foot deep, and he had already left his hand in place. He himself held the halberd in his right hand and fell backwards a few feet away, and his chest was surging with blood as if he had been hammered.
Guan Yu put away the knife: "Although I take advantage of the horsepower, after all, I just want you to take three moves." Let's be a team leader first, and when you go to the battlefield and get ten thief army heads, you will be promoted to the commander. ”
Dian Wei gasped, got up and patted the soil, pulled out the left halberd inserted in the ground, held the double halberd upside down, put the halberd blade backwards, and bowed his hand to Guan Yu and Li Su: "The general's martial arts are indeed above me, and his subordinates admire them." Even if I have horses, I'm not a general's opponent, I just hold a hundred more moves. ”
Guan Yu smiled proudly at this time, and didn't care whether the other party could hold up a hundred moves: "Since I have been served, I will not mention the past again, just if I don't fight and don't know each other, in the future, everyone will count their colleagues, and work hard to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions." When you get to Danyang and recruit new soldiers, you will first divide dozens of them into your command. ”
The two sides chatted for a while, and this can be regarded as completely abandoning the previous suspicions, in order to show sincerity, Dian Wei also sincerely explained to Li Su and Guan Yu the case records he had made before.
It turned out that he had been walking the rivers and lakes for many years, and there were no less than seven or eight cases of vendetta killings for others, basically in Chenliu and Liang County.
Two years ago, Dian Wei took a revenge list from Liu Jian, a native of Xiangyi, and went to Suiyang County, Liang County, next door, to kill a retired official named Li Yong (former magistrate of Fuchun County)
This time, it was Gu Yong who came to him last night, promised him five gold cakes, and gave him two deposits first, saying that there were people who deceived the world and insulted his teacher.
The original intention was not to let Dian Wei kill, but just let him protect by the side. Wait for Gu Yong and Li Su to reason first to figure out the situation, if they really want to capture Li Su to make amends, and then let Dian Wei subdue the personal soldiers around Li Su. Because Gu Yong knew that his servants couldn't beat Li Su's personal soldiers.
After hearing this, Li Su couldn't help but be angry and funny: "This matter was just invited by Gu Yong, or did even Cai Yong know about it?" ”
Dian Wei replied truthfully: "It's not clear, but it's just a person surnamed Gu who came to the door, and his teacher surnamed Cai may not know." ”
Dian Wei is not a scholar, and he does not have much respect for the world-famous scribes, and Cai Yong's name is difficult to pronounce, he doesn't know the word, so he only says "surnamed Cai".
Li Su nodded, he also felt that Cai Yong should not care to this extent, most of the people below were careless, and when they saw some conflicts, they wanted to make meritorious service first and wait for the teacher to fall.
He asked: "In this case, do you know where Cai Yong lives in the city: one thing is one thing, since Zhong Miao rubbed Cai Yong's famous book, I didn't stop it and shared the money, so I divided some of the profits from the oversale, and bought gifts to make amends, and this matter is settled."
As for Gu Yong offending me, I ask Cai Yong to uphold justice. However, how did Cai Yong live in this Xiangyi County? Is this where his ancestral home is? A few years ago, he should have taken refuge in Wu County and started school to teach apprentices. ”
Dian Wei respectfully replied: "Then Cai, Gu and others came to Xiangyi, it should not be more than ten days, Cai Yong is from the next county of Yu, forty miles away from here. He should have returned to his hometown from the south to come here, as for why he stayed here, I don't know, maybe he felt that Xiangyi was close to Suishui, and it was convenient to come and go. ”
Li Su felt that this truth should make sense, just like Dian Wei's hometown Jiwu County, which is also twenty or thirty miles away from here, and it is also because it is not close to the waterway from east to west, so he can't get business, so he came to Xiangyi to mess around.
It seems that after Cai Yong returned to his hometown, he was not completely without ideas. If you really plan to continue to live in seclusion, you can go back to the small county town where transportation is inconvenient.
Li Su asked where the Cai family had recently lived in the county, prepared a little gift, and went to the door.
He didn't have the intention of "recruiting Cai Yong", Cai Yong was old and his reputation had spread for a long time, so it was impossible for Liu Bei to use him.
However, Li Su also had some dragon-slaying skills in the political philosophy and theory of later generations in his mind, and he had nowhere to use it, and he could not redeem it for fame and fortune before the death of Emperor Ling of Han.
As a top student of the Foreign Affairs Academy in later generations, when Li Su was studying, he did not miss courses equivalent to the "orthodox theory" of all dynasties, which was also a compulsory course for majors in the study of international relations, that is, the study of the source of the legitimacy of the rule of various regimes.
This kind of political philosophy class was also useless in later generations, but when it returned to the Han Dynasty, it could shine. It can also be exchanged for huge fame and official positions, and even this kind of credit will not be less than quelling a rebel army, and it can be used as an opportunity for Liu Bei's group to make the last class jump before the death of Emperor Ling after the end of the Juchun Rebellion.
To put it mildly, even if the troubled times are approaching, Li Su is sure that he will operate another Gongsun Hongjia Dong Zhongshu, and it is definitely not Confucianism, and it is not necessarily Confucianism that needs to be used, but the imperial technique that is absolutely in line with the times, and can even demonstrate the god-level philosophical destiny thesis of "why the Han family must be able to prosper".
It's just that he is only known in terms of strategy and diplomacy now. But his academic foundation is still too shallow, and he is not known for his studies, so he needs a collaborator.
One person puts forward ideas, one person provides arguments, just like when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, there was Gongsun Hong first, and then Dong Zhongshu, Gongsun Hong put forward a general idea of the source of legitimacy in the Han family, and Dong Zhongshu perfected and refined it into a set of philosophical systems.
If Cai Yong does not cooperate, then he will wait for the time when Zhang Chun is pacified and Emperor Ling of Han has not yet died, and then find another famous master to cooperate in the court. It can be Dong Fu or Lu Zhi, it depends on who is on the road and who has the right opportunity.
Since Cai Yong bumped into each other first today, let's go and meet the other party for a while.