Seeing the majestic city of Ezhou City again, Teng Jian couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. It's only been half a year since I left here, but I've been in a trance for most of my life.

Not much seems to have changed here compared to when they left.

The same goes for the big rivers.

The causeway is still there.

The only difference is that there are a lot more pyrotechnic smells.

On the pier, large and small ships come in and out. On the gravel-paved makeshift roads, horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and mule carts kept transporting all kinds of goods to the city. Shirtless laborers carried sacks one by one, walking steadily on the gangplank.

Inside the embankment, half-green and half-yellow crops were rippling in the breeze, apparently replanted after the war, so that when it was harvest time, they were still a little less interesting. In such a situation, a bumper harvest is naturally unimaginable, but it is much better than no harvest at all.

There were no soldiers guarding the gates, and people came and went freely, and there were no fees for entering and leaving the city at the gates. On the top of the city wall, Liao Liao's few soldiers stood solemnly with guns, and occasionally a group of patrolling soldiers could be seen walking by with neat steps.

Looking at the protruding corner platforms at the two corners, Teng Jian's pupils shrank slightly, and on the left and right, there were two black hole cannons placed on each side, this thing, for him, can be described as unforgettable.

In the first battle of Ezhou City, he commanded 15,000 young and strong, and it was under the bombardment of this kind of artillery that he panicked, and bombed the battalion almost without any resistance.

Now, the Tang army has placed him at the head of the city, but he has become a sharp weapon to defend the city.

Teng Jian knew very well that within the attack range of this kind of artillery, any equipment attacking the city wall would basically not survive.

Walking on the streets of Ezhou, I found that the city of Ezhou has basically restored its past prosperity.

In fact, in the past two years, Ezhou City has been calm. The trauma caused by the massacre after Zhu Youzhen broke through Ezhou City has been gradually healed by time, and although Ezhou City changed hands twice, it did not cause much damage to him, the first time was Liu Xinda's surrender to Xiang Zhen, and the second time was Tengjian's hasty escape.

Compared with the current prosperity of Ezhou City, and thinking about the scene where Jiujiang is like a Shura hell now, Teng Jian couldn't help but shake his head.

"Now the city of Ezhou is cleaner than you were then, right?" Qin Kuan, who accompanied him back to Ezhou City, looked at Teng Jian with a smile, and stepped the bluestone slab with his feet.

Teng Jian didn't expect that Qin Kuan didn't show off anything else to him, and actually talked about hygiene, he couldn't help but be a little stunned, and for a while, he didn't know how to answer him.

"In the past, when the relationship between our two families was not bad, I went to your military camp and also went to the city where you were stationed!" Qin Kuan said: "After seeing the scene inside, I know that if we turn against each other one day, you will definitely not be our opponent." ”

Teng Jian didn't know how Qin Kuan connected the victory or defeat of the war from the perspective of cleanliness and hygiene, but he didn't want to show weakness, turned around and pointed to the artillery above the city, and said lightly: "If we use that thing too, we won't necessarily lose!" ”

Qin Kuan laughed loudly: "Even if we don't have this thing, we will beat you without effort." Forget it, there are some things that I can't tell you clearly, let's go, the General's Mansion is just ahead. ”

Teng Jian naturally didn't want to argue with the other party, in the past two days, he and Qin Kuan had been walking together, and naturally there were a lot of conversations, the other party was just a general, but in terms of military literacy, he was not worse than him at all.

When he saw Li Mi, Teng Jian only felt that his eyes lit up.

Li Mi did not put the grandeur of General Youqianniuwei to officially receive him, but let people directly lead the general to the small school field in the backyard of the General's Mansion, where Li Mi's personal guards were practicing.

And Li Mi is wearing a cyan tights, and his vigorous and heroic figure is really unobstructed.

Li Mi is not the kind of beauty that makes people look hard at first sight. But he has been practicing martial arts for many years, his body is repairing, and he is full of heroic spirit, but he belongs to the kind of person who is extremely good-looking, and the longer he looks at it, the more he feels good-looking.

Li Mi, who has just crossed the threshold of thirty years old, has become a general all the way to the Tang Dynasty, naturally not only because she is Li Ze's henchman, and the general He Fanfan from the secret camp, but she is the only one who sits in this position, and she is a woman, which is even more surprising.

Of course, Liu Ruyan has to be removed.

Teng Jian stood there, watching Li Mi shoot arrows.

The hard bow of one stone was easily pulled by Li Mi, and as soon as his hand was loosened, the arrow was like a meteor, and it was in the center of a target hanging on the tree in the middle and distance.

Three arrows in a row, among the arrows, applause and cheers sounded all around, Teng Jian couldn't help but applaud, first, it was etiquette, and second, Li Mineng was fifty steps away, and the arrows hit the vital point, which was indeed rare.

"Good archery!" Teng Jian cheered loudly.

Li Mi turned his head, looked at Teng Jian and smiled slightly, threw the bow to the guard on the side, tore off a handkerchief from his belt, and walked over while wiping the sweat stains on his forehead.

"Teng Jian under the command of General Liu Xinda, I have seen General Li." Teng Jian saluted with his hands and was meticulous.

Li Mi smiled: "Tengjian, we are also old acquaintances, but we don't have to be formal." ”

Teng Jian smiled slightly, straightened up, followed behind Li Mi, and walked to the bottom of the corridor.

"Sit down!" Li Mi pointed to the bench under the corridor, "What did Liu Xinda send you for?" ”

Teng Jian looked left and right, and stopped talking.

Li Mi laughed: "In my place, there is nothing to avoid, just say it!" ”

"General Liu has a great merit to give to General Li!" Teng Jian said.

Li Mi looked at the other party sarcastically and smiled: "Whenever a lobbyist comes to the door, the first sentence at the beginning is almost the same, right, Qin Kuan?" ”

Qin Kuan coughed dryly and said, "General, I've watched some dramas, anyway, the people there are all arranged like this." ”

Teng Jian glanced at the other party a little embarrassed, and for a while, he didn't know what to say.

Li Mi looked at Teng Jian lightly and said: "I, Li Mi, have received the great favor of His Majesty, and I am already a great general, and I am already a very popular minister, to put it bluntly, I don't need to prove myself with any credit." Now I do things, just to see whether it is beneficial to my Datang and His Majesty, and no other reason can impress me. So, I suggest you get straight to the point and don't come to this nonsense, or I'll feel like you're wasting my time. ”

Teng Jian nodded and said, "General Liu is already preparing to withdraw from Jiujiang." Before leaving, I want to hand over Jiujiang completely into the hands of General Li, I think, this should be of great benefit to General Li, for Chang'an, for Li Xiang, oh, for Your Majesty. ”

Li Mi's expression did not move, and he looked at the other party calmly: "You have caused a lot of harm to Jiujiang, such a good place, in half a year, you have tossed it into hell on earth." Why, enough looting, there's nothing left to loot, it's time to move places, where is your next target? ”

Teng Jian, who was stabbed by Li Mi and his face was flushed, but he was speechless, he knew that the matter of Jiujiang could not be hidden from Li Mi, and for him, there was always some dignity as a soldier, and he had no way to defend it and did not want to defend it.

He took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down, and said, "On our side, the autumn harvest has basically been completed, and we also have enough food. General Liu was unwilling to be an enemy of General Li, so he decided to leave Jiujiang, and we were ready to move to Xiangtan. ”

"Xiangtan?" Li Mi glanced at the other party with some surprise: "Then on this road, I'm afraid it won't be so peaceful, and it won't be so easy to walk." I don't think Ding Taiyi will welcome you into Hunan. ”

Teng Jian nodded and said: "Yes, so we came to ask General Li for help, we handed over Jiujiang to General Li completely, but we also wanted to get some support from General Li." ”

Li Yu nodded: "You want to get some weapons from me, right?" ”

Teng Jian said: "General Li, the Ming people don't say secret words, we will definitely kill all the way to Hunan this way." And isn't that what you want? But with our strength, even if we get there, the losses will definitely be very heavy, and the gains will outweigh the losses, but if we can get some sharper weapons from you, then we can easily achieve the goal. ”

"What you want are grenades, fire bombs, and other sharp weapons, right?" Li Mi said.

"Great General Mingjian!" Teng Jian bowed slightly, but acquiesced to this.

"What if I don't give?" Li Mi smiled slightly and asked.

"If the general doesn't give it, we think that it will be difficult to achieve the goal, so we can only stay in Jiujiang. Because there is no way out, there is no way out, so I can only repair fortresses, castles, and fight for trapped beasts in the following days. Teng Jiandao.

Qin Kuan, who was standing behind Li Yu, was furious: "You dare to threaten us? ”

"This is a threat, it's just a statement!" Teng Jian shook his head and said: "General Qin, we are begging everywhere like wild dogs now, if we have to hit a wall everywhere, then what else can we do except guard this bone in front of us?" Unless there's a little better flesh and bones waiting for us somewhere. ”

Qin Kuan was choked by the other party, and only felt that the Venus in front of him was chaotic.

"I have something, you want it, it's not impossible." Li Mi looked at the other party with a smile and said, "But you can't take it for nothing." ”

"Jiujiang is the reward!" Tengjian Road.

"Joke, how can Jiujiang be considered a reward, don't you know what you have made Jiujiang look like? When I entered Jiujiang, I had to lose a lot of money, how much did it cost to appease the people there, restore production there, and rescue those people who were plagued by you? ”

"What does General Li mean?"

"If you want, you can, take the money to buy it. Our weapons are all at a clear price. Li Mi smiled.