"This person's martial arts are not far from mine!"

After the sword parity, Guan Yu's eyes, which had been squinting, suddenly widened a little.

The two quickly exchanged several moves, all of which were powerful, neat and fierce moves, without fancy embellishments, and then each took a step back, slightly widening the distance.

Guan Yu quickly judged that the strength of the person in front of him, especially his explosive power, was on par with him.

As for stamina, the opponent should be slightly inferior, because after a desperate series of misses, the man has shown a slight impetuousness.

And relatively speaking, Guan Yu is best at the long weapons of horse warfare. At this moment, he couldn't give full play to his martial arts with a short saber, and it was completely caused by showing weakness and luring the enemy in the first place.

If he used a long weapon to fight a head-on battle on a war horse, Guan Yu asked himself if he could defeat the opponent within fifty moves.

Of course, this is only Guan Yu's own estimate, because he still doesn't know what weapons the opponent uses in the horse battle. It's just from the analysis of the opponent's moves, it shouldn't be a master who is used to using long soldiers, but a routine like the eldest brother Liu Bei who double-wields two short soldiers.

Guan Yu knew that he couldn't clean up the other party for a while, so he took the time to give the soldiers next to him a look.

The soldiers had followed him for two or three years, and they immediately understood, protected Li Su behind him, slowly bypassed the two, and retreated to the entrance of the alley. During the battle just now, Guan Yu had already skillfully adjusted his position with the other party, blocking the side of the alley, so that the opponent could not volley.

As for Gu Yong's entourage, they were obviously not the opponents of Liu Bei's henchmen and soldiers, and it was impossible to stop them.

Li Su gradually retreated to the entrance of the alley, and behind him was the boat on the dock, which was enough to ensure safety.

The strong man on the other side also knew that Gu Yong no longer had the intention to kill directly, so he didn't want to fight for his life to volley, seeing this, he just lowered his sword and dagger slightly, and first complained to Gu Yong casually:

"The surname is Gu, you said that as long as you deal with ten pro-soldiers and capture a scholar who deceives the world and steals his name, where did this fierce man come from? Just hardware, I can't do this chivalry, I have to add more hardware. ”

"You, you...... If you call yourself a ranger, how can you be untrustworthy? Gu Yong suddenly became angry. After all, he was only twenty years old, and he had not yet developed the calm work that he later had, and he was temporarily blackmailed to increase money, and he was quite angry.

"Who doesn't keep his word? It's that you didn't inquire clearly. The strong man justifiably defended himself, and Gu Yong didn't mean to add money, so he simply took the opportunity to stop and found a step down by himself.

"The red-faced man, I'm here to capture people today, and I don't take advantage of the blade. Since they don't have a grudge to fight for their lives, let's stop at it - if you have a sword, you may not be able to defeat me."

What he thought in his heart was: Just that deposit, the information is still wrong, we made a move, and we are worthy of that little money, and the two cakes of the deposit do not need to be refunded.

Guan Yu raised his eyebrows: "If you can't hurt people, you want to leave?" You say that the blade is not in your hand, but my blade is in your hand? If you call yourself a chivalrous warrior, change your weapons and fight me again! I am Hedong Guan Yu, dare to leave my name! ”

The strong man laughed: "If you want to ask for the benefit of your tongue, just let you go, and I will stay until you can't calculate?" ”

The strong man knew in his heart that he was now a person who collected money to commit crimes, and Guan Yu was like an officer, even if he could fight, he should not delay.

Thieves do not fight with officials. Mixing in the rivers and lakes, how can you stay in danger for a provocative word, the kind of person who can't bear the anger of the moment has long died, and those who can survive will be more or less flexible.

However, in order to prevent Guan Yu from chasing, he still had to take the weapon in his hand, so the strong man protected himself with a sword and dagger, slowly retreated to the ox cart, quickly took two blades, and ran away.

Li Su has been hiding behind his own soldiers and watching, he has not guessed the identity of the other party until the other party takes out the weapon, he is slightly surprised.

Because that weapon is really rare.

"Twin halberds? Could it be Dian Wei? Li Su's heart was spinning, and he immediately asked Guan Yu, "Yun Chang chase quickly!" ”

When Guan Yu saw Dian Wei approaching the ox cart, he had already judged that the other party was going to take weapons, but Guan Yu was arrogant and did not stop it directly, but turned around and ran back to the dock, got on the boat, took the Qinglong knife, and led the war horse.

With this delay, the other party has escaped nearly 100 zhang away.

But fortunately, Xiangyi City is on the south bank of Suishui, close to Suishui as a moat, and the wharf is outside the north city gate. Dian Wei ran along the river to escape, there was no fork in the road, Guan Yu, Li Su and others took the horse, and immediately ran after it.

"You...... You said you were going to my teacher to make amends! Doesn't the untrustworthy villain even count what he says? Gu Yong next to him watched the two groups of people run away one after another, and he himself was hung in place, not knowing how to end for a while.

It's like a farce.

Even if Li Su refuses to go to Cai Yong's residence and kowtow to make amends, begging Cai Yong for forgiveness, he might as well give a gift and say a few soft words! That's what Li Su mentioned himself just now!

Gu Yong stayed on the spot, stomped his feet and sighed, and kicked the fragments of several empty wine urns that had just been touched on the ox cart into the river.

One of them accidentally kicked his toe to the sharp corner of the broken pottery shard, and he immediately squatted on the ground, covering his feet and saying nothing.

……

Dian Wei was very strong, carrying two heavy halberds, and his running speed was still faster than Li Su's 100-meter sprint. But this kind of speed and endurance can't last, even if you are dozens of feet ahead at the beginning, you are still caught up without escaping a mile.

Obviously, Dian Wei didn't expect that Li Su, Guan Yu and the others would obviously get off the dock ship, but they would have war horses with them - most of the merchants who took the waterway would not make another move.

Dian Wei knew that running had no future, so he simply gave up, holding a double iron halberd to protect himself, ready to face Guan Yu.

"I just took that Gu Yong's money, and I heard that you are an unrighteous person who insults people's reputation, so I came to help you, and I didn't hurt you. You don't even hold Gu Yong accountable, what are you chasing me for? Dian Wei took the words and squeezed it first, and took the opportunity to breathe, so as not to really use his hands and suffer physical losses.

"You said that if you take advantage of the blade, you will not be afraid of me, and this will give you a chance." Guan Yu just met his opponent and wanted to divide the victory.

He is now an official and a soldier, and there is no psychological pressure at all to compete with others. If it is found that the other party has bad deeds, you can still take it.

Li Su persuaded on the side: "We don't care about the strong man, but I see that you have a little martial arts, and you have fallen into the share of collecting money and seeking revenge for others, which is quite a pity - the world is in chaos, and there are Hu people in each of the three northern states, why doesn't the husband kill the enemy to serve the country and gain fame?" ”

Dian Wei laughed when he heard this: "Haha, the faint monarch is a corrupt official, and he still kills thieves to serve the country?" Can you kill it! You don't know how many of those who won the Yellow Turban back then are still officials? It's not that I can't afford to pay for the repair of the palace, and after a year and a half, I will be sand again! ”

Dian Wei's words are actually reasonable.

Take the matter of Liu Bei's Anxi County Lieutenant being sand eliminated in history, Zhang Chun is certainly the reason for one thing, but when the imperial court first issued the general sand tide order, a very important consideration was that they felt that these officials who killed thieves and won the official position had been doing it for too long.

The officials sold by the imperial court all had to pay rent every year. And the newly awarded officials who killed the Yellow Turban thieves for meritorious service will not be given money in the future.

Liu Bei, the county lieutenant, has been in office for more than two years, and he has not renewed the rent.

From the perspective of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, as soon as the number of officials of the military merit faction is large, the financial resources of selling officials will lose their sustainable development.

Dian Wei actually learned about the number of ways to kill thieves and become officers a few years ago, and even thought that if he couldn't clear his name because of his identity, he could do a few big votes first and save some money to buy a background.

But later I found out that even if you take a risk to save money for a few years, what you end up with is only a one-year lease, so who would do it!

It's not a freehold thing, you can't make a head, don't work your belt!

Li Su listened to Dian Wei's indignation, and immediately figured out Dian Wei's appeal.

He has been a negotiator for so many years, and he is still very keen on touching the opponent's hole cards. Therefore, Li Su also made a decision immediately and changed the rhetoric of persuasion.

He originally wanted to mention how Liu Bei recruited talents and was eager to seek talents, but when the words came to his mouth, they immediately turned into blowing Liu Yu:

"Hehe, the frog at the bottom of the well, generalize. You haven't met anyone with clear rewards and punishments, you can only say that you have shallow knowledge and the officialdom of Yuzhou is dark - let me ask you, have you ever been to the border states of You, He, and Liang? Most of the officialdom in the border states are truth-telling, and those who rely on flattery to spend money to buy officials, even if they take office, the Hu people don't recognize their knives! As long as you meet the master, why worry about meritorious service!

said that this Guan Du Lieutenant was just a ranger in exile three years ago, who fought hard to kill thieves as a soldier, and he has been promoted to the military Sima in three years! It may not be possible to do it elsewhere, but it can be done under Liu Youzhou's account!

Liu Youzhou's rewards and punishments are clear, benevolent and trustworthy, and he served as a great sect before him, and the Son of Heaven heard his advice and was also a good color. Liu Youzhou took office with Zhuojun filial piety and Liu Bei abandoning officials and righteousness, killing thieves regardless of his own honor and disgrace, and urged the Son of Heaven to pardon and forgive the money of the palace. The edict of the Son of Heaven is well known to the world, when he goes to Youzhou to join the army, as long as he really has the ability to make meritorious contributions, he will definitely not have no official to do! ”

The reason why Li Su persuaded him like this was because he felt that with Dian Wei's reaction just now, if he directly persuaded Liu Bei in the name of Liu Bei, the other party would not trust Liu Bei's ability to make officials for his subordinates, and it was inconvenient to say some insiders.

Secondly, if Li Su really compromises, it is not that he cannot be convinced, but in that case, it is easy to hurt the unity of the team and make Guan Yu feel unhappy.

A team should also pay attention to cohesion, and should not lower its posture too much in order to attract new people, so that the elderly feel uncomfortable.

Li Su believes in Liu Bei's ability to win people's hearts. What he has to do is to get Dian Wei away in the name of Liu Yu's recruitment, and then make specific arrangements under Liu Bei.

If Liu Bei can't win over Dian Wei in this way, and can't let Dian Wei follow him all the time, it will be Liu Bei's own business.

Of course, this trick can only be used when recruiting martial artists, and if it is recruiting scribes, it must not be done like this.

Because Liu Yu has always liked to engage in "diplomatic victory" to quell the rebellion, and does not attach importance to martial arts, it is because of this that Gongsun Chan has a bad relationship with his boss Liu Yu in history.

Therefore, even if the martial artist nominally goes to Liu Yu, Liu Yu may not be able to reuse it with courtesy, and in the end, most of them are cheaper than Liu Bei, who is good at entrapping heroes.

But the scribes are completely different, Liu Yu attaches great importance to the scribes who are really talented, if Li Su persuades the scribes to do things in the name of Liu Yu, maybe in the end people will really follow Liu Yu all the time, even if Liu Bei is transferred, he will not go with Liu Bei, wouldn't it be self-defeating?

Dian Wei was really moved when he heard this: "You mean that the Son of Heaven pardoned Liu Bei, the good hometown of Naxiu Palace's money?" It turned out that Liu Youzhou fought for his subordinates, and Youzhou is really a good place to make meritorious contributions - if you are willing to let me go, I will go to Liu Youzhou to join the army. ”

The news that Liu Bei is exempt from repairing the palace money is really exciting, after all, it is the first time in the world that an exception has been made, so that the scholars in the land of Yuzhou are also legendary, envious, jealous and hateful.

Although Dian Wei doesn't read, he can't help but hear about it, at least yesterday Gu Yong's employment was envious and complained, and everyone in the world thinks that this is a model for a scholar.