In other words, more than ten years ago, Liu Pi would not be so embarrassed, after all, he was also a small landlord with a good family background, and it was not a problem to raise a few beautiful women. Since I believed in the Taiping Tao and followed the great sages and good teachers, I have been a little unable to make ends meet. After the first year of Zhongping, he did not become the founding general, but became a rogue, this standard of living plummeted, and now even eating has become a problem, and the beauties are not counted on, so they can only be selected from the families of the Yellow Turban Army.

The Yellow Turban Army is mainly landless and homeless, dragging families with them, there is no shortage of women, and occasionally beautiful young women can be found, but after all, they are born in a peasant family, and they cannot be compared with Haoqiang's family members in terms of appearance and temperament. Even when Liu Bi was the most powerful, he was a grade behind Kuai Yue.

Seeing the female dependents of the Kuai family at this moment, Liu Bi couldn't hide his greed, and was somewhat embarrassed.

"General, do you like it?"

"Hey, hey, hey."

"Kuai Yue's family will be escorted to the front of the battle tomorrow, and it is really uncertain whether they can come back alive. If the general likes it, keeping them can be regarded as saving their lives. ”

As soon as he heard that it was Kuai Yue's family, Liu Pi didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore. No matter how stupid he is, he knows that this is Sun Ce's trick on him. If he slept with the daughter of the Kuai family, in case Sun Ce lost, Kuai Yue would make a comeback, and he would not be killed?

"This ...... Not suitable, not suitable. Liu Bi swallowed hard. Such a beauty should be reserved for the enjoyment of the general. ”

"My father has stayed." Sun Ce smiled slightly. "Are you afraid that Kuai Yue will retaliate against you?"

"No, it's not."

"That's right, if Kuai Yue really turns defeat into victory, he will definitely not spare us, not only to recapture these women, but also to recapture those lands. General, of the 1,300 hectares of land I gave you, more than 300 hectares belong to the Kuai family, and this is all the property of the Kuai family. ”

Liu Pi gasped and suddenly felt his scalp tingle. He stared at Sun Ce with a frightened look in his eyes. Sun Ce's meaning is very clear, you are afraid that it is useless, even if you don't enjoy these women, Kuai Yue will not spare you, unless you give up those lands and leave Xiangyang. But in this way, whether the Yellow Turban soldiers are willing to go with him or not, it is uncertain, and no one can guarantee whether they will switch to Sun Ce for the land.

If you want to be peaceful, there is only one way, kill Kuai Yue, so that the Kuai family will never turn over.

"By the way, there's one more thing that you may not know." Sun Ce glanced at the young women. "Who is Kuailiang's family?"

Two young women walked out and reported to their homes. One is Kuailiang's concubine and the other is Kuailiang's daughter.

"Kuai Liang colluded with Yuan Shao, intending to be unfavorable to General Hou, and has been executed by General Hou."

When Kuailiang's daughter heard this, her legs weakened, and she sat on the ground, covered her face, and cried loudly. Kuailiang's concubine just lowered her head and remained silent. Liu Pi saw it, gritted his teeth, and pointed at Kuailiang's concubine. "This woman, I want it."

Sun Ce nodded and glanced at the woman. The daughter smiled sadly, walked up to Liu Bi, sat down obediently, and forced a smile. Sun Ce smiled, but it was also a little unnatural. In order to cut off Liu Bi's hesitation and force him into his camp, he had to use such means. But to be honest, seeing these innocent women being used as bargaining chips made him feel bad in his heart.

But what about him?

Liu Bi knew that these women could not go back, so he simply went ruthless and distributed them to his generals. These generals are either from small landlords in the poor family, or from farmers, and they have a kind of hatred for these women from rich backgrounds.

"Don't thank me, you should thank Captain Sun." Liu Pi said: "Including those lands, they were all raised for us by Captain Sun, and you must not forget Captain Sun's kindness." Tomorrow I will go into battle with me, slaughter Kuai Yue, and capture Xiangyang. ”

The generals thanked Sun Ce one after another. Sun Ce didn't dodge like Liu Pi, and accepted it calmly. "Brave men, there is no need to thank you. You follow General Liu to fight hard, and in the future, the world will be peaceful, and you will be crowned as a wife and son, how can you compare it to a few captured women? ”

The Yellow Turban Army has been in an embarrassing situation in recent years, and has been working hard for survival, but now not only has land, women, but also hope, and is in a happy mood, talking and laughing around Sun Ce one by one, and grateful. Liu Bi saw it in his eyes and smiled bitterly to himself. Sun Ce's methods are clever, if he is half-hearted, it is difficult to say whether these subordinates are willing to follow him in the future.

It's really depressing to think about it, after holding on for so long, even Sun Jian couldn't do anything to them, and was finally leveled by a teenager. While lamenting the impermanence of the world, Liu Pi told Sun Ce that he would personally lead the elite of the Yellow Turbans to fight tomorrow to repay the great kindness of the general's father and son.

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After getting Liu Pi done, it was already the middle of the night when Sun Ce returned to his big tent, Huang Yueying fell asleep on the desk, her face crooked, and a trace of saliva slipped out of her small mouth and flowed onto the book. Sun Ce laughed, took off the big hat, wrapped her up, and carried her to Huang Chengyan's tent next door. Huang Chengyan was writing and drawing, so he hurriedly got up and took it, put Huang Yueying on the marching couch, and covered the quilt.

"What did Liu Bi say?"

"He promised to fight, but he couldn't expect much." Sun Ce said softly: "The Yellow Turban Army has struggled for too long to survive, its morale has been seriously damaged, its confidence is low, and it is unrealistic to suddenly have to fight a tough battle. ”

"It's great that the lieutenant is mentally prepared like this." Huang Chengyan turned around and picked up the silk book on the case. "General, I drew a sketch of Xiangyang City Defense from memory, marking the possible location of the crossbow machine, you remember it carefully, be careful of cold arrows."

Sun Ce was grateful, hurriedly took it, and leaned in front of the lamp to take a closer look. The most terrible thing in the chaos is not the opponent with the sword, but the crossbowman. In this era, a crossbow is a sniper rifle, and a crossbowman is a sniper, especially those strong crossbows with a long range, and it is likely that you will be killed by him with an arrow before you see him.

"Thank you, sir."

"Wait." Huang Chengyan turned around and pulled out a small package from the couch. "General, this is a brocade armor, you will wear it close tomorrow, just in case."

"Jinjia?" Sun Ce was surprised. He knew that in later generations there would be armor woven from silk, which was said to be able to entangle the arrow and prevent it from penetrating. Did there already be such a thing in the Han Dynasty? He shook it open and saw that this brocade armor was not large, like a horse clip, without a collar or sleeves, and the center of gravity of protection was the torso. It's not very thick, but it's much thicker than ordinary silk weaving, and at least twenty layers, some weight. He touched it and found that there was something inside, so he leaned in front of the light and looked at it, only to find that there were several layers of gold threads inside, shining in the light.

"Gold is soft, malleable, able to dissolve the power of arrows, and does not rust."

"What a clever thought, sir." Sun Ce was grateful. Although he felt that it was better to use gold wire than steel wire, the current iron control technology could not pull the steel wire, and the gold wire should be the most applicable. "Thank you, sir."

"Don't thank me." Huang Chengyan glanced at Huang Yueying, who was sleeping soundly on the marching couch, with gentle eyes. "It was sewn by the little girl and her aunt together, one for you and one for Sun Guoyi."

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