In the second year of Xingping (195 AD), Chang'an.

Snowflakes were falling outside the window, and although the stove was lit in the house, I could still feel the cold blowing in through the cracks in the doors and windows.

Xi Yan draped the big coat on the young man sitting next to him holding a rattle, and looked at him lovingly. Although the boy was in his twenties, his expression and demeanor looked no different from that of a child of four or five years old.

This is the son of Xi Yan and Li Dao, named Li Shi. When Xi Yan was pregnant with him, she was not too restrained, and still prepared poison every day, which affected the fetus. He was born a fool. Perhaps because of this, Xi Yan loves him even more.

A cold wind blew in, Li Shi shivered, Xi Yan hurriedly took him into her arms, lowered her head and stroked his forehead with her hand.

Li Wei stood outside the house, looking at the mother and son inside through the crack in the door. But he didn't make a sound, and he didn't come in, because whenever he saw Xi Yan like this, he couldn't control his resentment.

Why did God treat him like this, why did his son be a fool, and his daughter was far away.

Li Dao is only in his thirties, but he is already full of silver sideburns. Years of hard work have overwhelmed him, but for the sake of his promise to Xi Yan, he can only persevere.

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It was seventeen years ago, and the young Li Wei first met Xi Yan who wanted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff.

"Girl, why did you kill yourself?" Li Wei's personality is dull by nature, and he will never do such a thing as rushing up to save Xi Yan.

Xi Yan was only sixteen years old at the time, and a sixteen-year-old girl was standing on the edge of the cliff crying and preparing to end her life, when suddenly someone next to her was talking to her coldly, which would be strange to anyone.

"What do you have to do with it!" Xi Yan wiped her tears and asked angrily.

"Oh, then I'll take my leave." After Li Wei finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"Stop! You're such a strange man! Ask me the reason for suicide, and be so indifferent, what do you want? Xi Yan picked up a stone and threw it over.

Li Dao didn't dodge and let the stone fall on his head.

Blood was left on his forehead, but Li Wei didn't wipe it, but asked Xi Yan calmly: "Since you still care about the feelings of others, why do you want to find a short-term view." ”

"I ...... I...... I have been abandoned by those who have a negative heart. As she spoke, Xi Yan squatted on the ground and cried.

And this was precisely Li Dao's most fatal weakness at that time.

When he was young, he could kill an adult without changing his face, but he was afraid of making a girl cry.

"That'...... That one...... You ......" Li Wei looked left and right helplessly, and stammered to persuade her.

"You what you! Won't it be coaxing? Xi Yan raised her head and glared at Li Wei with a pair of red eyes from crying, startling him.

"That'...... Then you follow me, I'm not a negative person. Li Dao said humbly.

"Huh?" Xi Yan looked at him with round eyes.

Li Wei scratched his head in embarrassment, turned away and didn't look at him anymore.

"Poof", Xi Yan laughed, "Just you?" What can you give me? ”

"I ...... I...... I will definitely become a general in the future and make you rich for the rest of your life! Li Wei blushed nervously.

……

Many things are so wonderful, at that special point in time, Xi Yan met someone who was really good to her. And Li Wei, in order to fulfill his promise to Xiyan, has been working hard all these years.

And just a year later, Li Shi was born. At that time, I couldn't see anything abnormal about him at all, and Xi Yan was pregnant with Ling Yuan at that time.

However, after she gave birth, someone found her.

It turned out that her master had already reached a cooperation with Ye Feng and ordered her to join with the visitor. The person who came to look for her was the night handsome under the old seat of the five sages of the Yefeng Northern Hall in the future, and her senior sister - Baili Yan.

Under her begging, she agreed to take Ling Yuan with her, but she had to keep her daughter's identity secret.

In this way, she didn't even have a chance to say goodbye to Li Wei, so Xi Yan reluctantly became the night handsome of Ye Feng.

What made her even more unbearable was that this world was so wonderful, and Han Yuan, who abandoned herself at the beginning, was also here. And the object of Han Yuan's empathy back then, Yuliu, turned out to be handsome!

In this way, in order to complete the master's order and protect Ling Yuan from growing up, Xi Yan spent an embarrassing and lonely ten years in Yefeng.

Until that day, she received a letter sent by Li Wei.

Ling Yuan has grown up, so she doesn't need to worry about it anymore. So, she left the Anyi branch, leaving behind her beloved disciple Long Yu, who had been "burned".

When Li Dao and Xi Yan met again, they were both middle-aged. That was the only time Li Dao's men wept when they saw their general.

alone with a congenitally mentally handicapped child, he had to go around to fight, torturing Li Wei's originally handsome face full of vicissitudes; And Xi Yan has also become cold-blooded because of the hard work of the past ten years.

But when they hug each other, it seems that time has returned to the day they met.

Now, after nearly 20 years, Li Wei has finally fulfilled his promise - to make Xi Yan unspeakably expensive.

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Youzhou, Yuyang County, north bank of the Lu River.

Yan Rou became Karasuma Sima under the recommendation of Xian Yu Fu, Xian Yu Yin, and Qi Zhou, and Yan Rou recruited Xianbei, Karasuma and other soldiers and horses, forming tens of thousands of Han and Hu soldiers and horses.

At this time, these soldiers and horses all rushed out and launched a fierce attack on the soldiers and horses of Zou Dan, the Yuyang Taishou appointed by Gongsun Zhan.

Mixed with the soldiers and horses of the Hu people, the combat effectiveness is always very strong. The war ended quickly without any suspense.

Xian Yufu walked up to Yan Rou's side and said to him, "I heard that his people are also coming, right?" ”

Yan Rou nodded.

Three days ago, he had received a secret letter that Yuan Shao's general, Lu Yi, had been ordered to lead his army to help in the battle. Everyone understands that this is just Yuan Shao's little trick, selling personal favors to gain some benefits.

Yan Rou suddenly turned her head, looked at Xian Yufu seriously, and said, "I have to bother you to go down." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Meet Liu Yu's son Liu He and the soldiers and horses of Ko Yi."

"Liu He?" Rarely surprising in the auxiliary.

"He's very prestigious here, and we deserve to work with him."

"That's fine. So I will set out, and you will camp here and rest for the coming of the king of the Ravan Cliff. ”

While the two were talking, a soldier reported that Zou Dan had been captured.

After a while, Zou Dan was brought up.

"Now that Gongsun Chan has become brutal by nature, why do you still want to help him?" Yan Rou asked with a smile.

"One day is the lord, and the eternal lord is the lord. Kill me quickly, Zou Dan will never surrender. Zou Dan yelled at Yan Rou.

Xian Yufu couldn't bear it in his heart, so he said to Yan Rou: "Such a loyal and righteous person really shouldn't be killed, it's better to imprison it for the time being, and ...... it in the future."

"Kill it." Yan Rou didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and said to the soldiers holding Zou Dan.

"You!" Xian Yufu glared at Yan Rou angrily, his heart was full of surprise, could it be that he had also become like Gongsun Zhan?

"As you say, he is a man of integrity, so should we not fulfill his good name? Do you want the history books of future generations to write how he was humiliated in prison and how he died a tragic death before he was willing? Yan Rou looked directly at Xian Yufu and asked.

"Alas!" Xian Yufu sighed. Indeed, if a loyal person cannot die a well-deserved death, it is the greatest insult to him.

"Behead Zou Dan for public display! Ordered all the soldiers and soldiers, Zou Dan's dependents are innocent, the supply is the same as before, and those who dare to disturb will be killed! Yan Rou looked at Zou Dan in front of her with red eyes and said loudly.

"Thank you." Zou Dan smiled at him and calmly accepted the killing.

Blood soaked the land outside the gate, and another righteous man left.

Inside the gate, a group of soldiers led by Yan Rou and Xian Yufu were all handed over.

To be able to gain the respect of the enemy is the highest level of a general......

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After burying Zou Dan, Xian Yufu ordered five hundred men and horses, ready to leave to pick up Liu He. But he didn't want Yuan Shao's messenger to arrive first, and the letter said: Lu Yi and Liu He have set up camp near Baoqiu, just waiting for them to go to meet.

After Yan Rou and Xian Yufu read the letter, they temporarily decided that Xian Yuyin and Qi Zhou would leave some of their men and horses to wait for King Wuhuanqiao, while the two of them led a large army to join Liyi directly.

Due to the large amount of baggage they had to carry, they were not very fast, and it was dusk the next day.

After a brief pleasantries, they finally got to know the situation.

Although Gongsun Chan is now brutal, his military talent has not disappeared. Just when Liyi and the others had just entered Youzhou, Gongsun Zhan had already begun to deploy.

He put all the troops around him on the main road at the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou, and Lu Yi didn't want to fall into his ambush, so he carefully sneaked around the border between Youzhou and Jizhou, and successfully avoided the layers of ambushes set up for him by Gongsun Zhan.

When Gongsun Chan learned about it, he immediately shrank his forces to chase after him, and finally encountered Ko Yi in Baoqiu.

When Yan Rou and the others received the letter, he had been in such a stalemate with Gongsun Chan for half a month, but no one wanted to attack rashly.

What Gongsun Zan was afraid of was that after the force shrank, Yuan Shao would secretly send people to Youzhou again. And what Koi Yi is worried about is that there will be reinforcements coming from Liaoxi County.

The main thing is that both sides believe that their food and grass are enough to consume the other.

After all, war is about killing people after all, and preserving strength is the first lesson to survive in troubled times.

But when Yan Rou and Xian Yufu arrived with their troops, Gongsun Zhan knew that he could only fight.

So, on the same night that Yan Rou and the others arrived, the strongest light cavalry in Youzhou, the overlord of cavalry and archery outside the Weizhen Fortress, the White Horse Yicong, attacked again.

It's just that he never expected that this divine army, which made him proud of the crowd, would be defeated in a mess.

In the face of Kojiyi's "first to die", Hakumayi's advantage in speed was completely ignored. Just like in the Battle of the Boundary Bridge, this agile "horse" once again lost to the "turtle" with a hard carapace.