On the night of October 24, Liu Ji stayed with the black spider Xu Jie, and fought with Xu Jie in bed for five rounds before Mingjin withdrew his troops and slept with Xu Jie until noon the next day.

"You enemy! It seems that the four sisters around me, and the eighteen butterflies who are still innocent, will not be able to escape your poisonous hands! Xu Jie said with a sigh.

"Haha, your Black Butterfly Commander is so generous, not only did he send me eighteen beautiful butterflies who had just come out, but also sent his five women to me Liu Ji, if I don't eat you all cleanly, it will be tantamount to disappointing the Black Butterfly Commander's heart!"

Xu Jie glanced at Liu Ji, "If you get cheap, you still sell well, and the concubine is worried that Zhang Xiang will not give up." ”

"General Ben hopes that Zhang Xiang, the commander of the Black Butterfly, will send me more beautiful assassins."

Xu Jie suddenly sighed and said: "Leaving Black Butterfly, I don't have anything else to worry about, but my sister Xu Yuan is still in Black Butterfly, I don't know when I will be able to see Xiaoyuan again?" ”

Liu Ji immediately said: "I will ask Heishuitai to find a way to contact your sister, and your sisters will always meet one day." ”

After Liu Ji and Xu Jie ate something in the room, Liu Ji took a few puppet bodyguards to the place where the three deputy envoys of Black Butterfly were imprisoned.

For the three deputy pacification envoys with the strength of peerless generals in Black Butterfly, Liu Ji did not talk nonsense with them, and directly asked the puppet bodyguards around him to feed a puppet pill to these three deputy pacification envoys.

Next, Liu Ji asked the puppet bodyguards to forcibly feed a puppet pill to the other seven Black Butterfly assassins with peerless military strength and the twenty-four Black Butterfly assassins with the strength of top military generals captured last night.

In the end, the number of puppet bodyguards under Liu Ji's command suddenly increased by thirty-four, of which ten had the strength of peerless generals and twenty-four had the strength of top generals.

Originally, Liu Ji still had forty puppet pills in his hand, and these thirty-four puppet bodyguards were added, and thirty-four puppet pills were consumed, but Liu Ji obtained ten puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength, and the system rewarded Liu Ji with a total of twenty puppet pills, so that after Liu Ji had another thirty-four puppet bodyguards, the number of puppet pills in his hand still reached twenty-six.

However, Liu Ji did not continue to use the puppet pill on the other captured Black Butterfly assassins, in addition to the women in this assassin team, this Black Butterfly assassin team also has fifty first-class generals and ninety second-rate generals, but the puppet pill is worth a lot of money, in the system mall, a puppet pill is priced at 30,000 soul points, Liu Ji is not willing to use the puppet pill on the body of a first-class general.

Now among the many puppet bodyguards under Liu Ji's command, the weakest one also has the strength of a top general, and Liu Ji can't look down on the puppet bodyguard with the strength of a first-class general.

The fifty first-class generals and ninety second-rate generals in the Black Butterfly assassin team were finally handed over to Heishuitai by Liu Ji, and as for how to deal with the one hundred and forty elites of Black Butterfly, it was all up to Heishuitai to consider.

Jia Xu, the commander of Heishuitai, was very interested in the fifty first-class generals and ninety second-rate generals of Heishuitai, and later the 140 elites of Heishuitai joined Heishuitai under Jia Xu's various means.

And after using the puppet pill to subdue ten puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength, Liu Ji also received sixteen groups of Han Dynasty Tiger Ben Army, sixteen groups of Tang Dynasty Xuanjia soldiers, sixteen groups of Tang Dynasty heavy armor Mo sword soldiers, sixteen groups of tiger and leopard cavalry, and sixteen groups of white horse Congyi rewards from the system.

Liu Ji had not yet received the benefits of the Black Butterfly Assassin team, and on the afternoon of October 25, Liu Ji arrived in the room of Zhou Ziyi, one of the eighteen new butterflies.

Zhou Ziyi, who was also tied to the bed, saw Liu Ji walk in, and a trace of blush flashed on his face, "General Liu Ji, since the little woman has fallen into your hands, the little woman will accept her fate, and ask General Liu Ji to untie the rope on the little woman, and the little woman will definitely serve General Liu Ji well." ”

While Zhou Ziyi said this, a trace of murderous aura welled up in her heart.

Looking at Zhou Ziyi, whose charm value was 96 points and his force value had reached 101 points, Liu Ji said with a smile while undressing: "It is necessary to untie the ropes on your body, but you have to wait until you become my Liu Ji's woman." ”

Liu Ji is not stupid, Zhou Ziyi's force value is as high as 101 points, if he unties the rope on her body now, Zhou Ziyi wants to kill himself, it is too easy.

Hearing Liu Ji say this, Zhou Ziyi sighed secretly in his heart, it seems that his innocence cannot be kept today, but Zhou Ziyi secretly made up his mind that as long as the rope on his body was untied afterwards, he would definitely cut Liu Ji with a thousand knives.

However, after Liu Ji changed Zhou Ziyi from a girl to a woman, Zhou Ziyi suddenly became obedient to Liu Ji, and Liu Ji also completed a hidden task of subduing the peerless fierce general from Zhou Ziyi, plus Zhou Ziyi's charm value of up to 96 points, the system rewarded a total of ten groups of Tang Dynasty Xuanjia soldiers and two groups of white horse Congyi.

In the next few days, Liu Ji forcibly took possession of the other seventeen new butterflies and the four beautiful female guards around Xu Jie.

The other seventeen new butterflies have a charm value of more than eighty points, and five of them have a charm value of more than ninety points, and seven of the seventeen new butterflies have the strength of top generals, helping Liu Ji to complete the hidden task of subduing the top generals seven times, so that Liu Ji finally obtained a total of twelve groups of Tang Dynasty heavy armor Mo sword soldiers, twelve groups of tiger and leopard riders and twelve groups of white horse Congyi from these seventeen new butterflies.

Liu Ji got eight groups of Han Dynasty Tiger Soldiers and eight groups of Tang Dynasty Xuanjia soldiers from the four beautiful female guards whose charm value and force value were above 90 points.

The team that assassinated Liu Ji not only did not bring any losses to Liu Ji, but instead expanded several elite troops under Liu Ji's command.

The size of the Tiger Ben Army has expanded from more than 30,000 to more than 46,000, the size of the Xuanjia soldiers has expanded from more than 30,000 to more than 51,000, the scale of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry has also expanded from 35,000 to 59,000, the scale of the White Horse Congyi has expanded from 43,000 to 67,000, and the scale of the Modao soldiers has expanded from more than 40,000 to more than 57,000.

In addition, Black Butterfly's assassin team also sent Liu Ji twenty-three beautiful women with charm values above eighty points, which made Liu Ji wish that Black Butterfly could send a few more such assassin teams to assassinate him.

On the morning of November 1, in the governor's mansion of Qudeng City, Liu Ji summoned a large number of civil ministers and military generals under his command to discuss the matter of returning to Qianzhou.

Liu Ji said loudly: "Now that the grassland ceded to us by the Xianbei clan has been taken over by the Beiting Legion, and the nine states that have been added to the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate this time have also appointed new state pastors, this trip to the grassland can be regarded as a success, and the general is ready to lead seven elite troops and the Guards Corps to return to Qianzhou in the near future." ”

The armies that originally gathered here in Qudeng City, belonging to the Western Regions Legion and the Western Frontier Legion of the Broken Army, have all withdrawn to the Western Regions Protectorate first, and the various brigades belonging to the Native Legion have also returned to Qianzhou, so now the troops of the Broken Army in Qudeng City, in addition to the Grassland Legion and the Beiting Legion, only the Seven Elite Troops of the Guards Army and the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuanjia Soldiers, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, the White Horse Congyi, the Modao Soldiers, the Trap Camp, and the Wei Wushu are left.

Chen Gong said at this time: "My lord, it is indeed time to return to Qianzhou, but now that the army of the Lu State is invading the southeast of our Great Jin, do we need to transfer some more troops from the Beiting Protectorate to Qianzhou?" ”

Liu Ji pondered for a moment, turned his head to Jia Xu and asked, "What changes have occurred in the situation in the southeast recently?" ”

Jia Xu said: "Tell the lord, at present, the army of the Lu State invading the southeast region of our Jin State is still blocked by Zhang Mingqi's southeast Xiang army, relying on the advantage of the terrain, in the territory of Zhejiang and Fuzhou. ”

Liu Ji immediately said: "Since the army of the Lu State has been blocked by Zhang Mingqi's southeast wing army, then our army does not need to rush south, maybe the governor of the southeast does not want our army to enter the southeast region now." ”

Zhang Liang continued: "Although our Broken Capture Army has successively defeated the coalition forces of the Western Regions and the coalition forces of the various tribes in the grassland, but our Western Regions Protectorate and Beiting Protectorate are not at ease, there are still many enemies around the two Metropolitan Protectorates, and it is best not to mobilize the troops of the four legions in the territory of the two Metropolitan Protectorates for the time being. ”

On November 3, the Guards Regiment and seven elite troops of the Broken Army, under the personal leadership of Liu Ji, embarked on the journey back to Qianzhou, accompanied by more than 100 beauties of various tribes in the grassland, including Princess Murong Xue, Xianbei, and 23 beauties of Black Butterfly, such as Xu Jie and Zhou Ziyi.

Just when Liu Ji led his troops on the way back to Qianzhou, in a palace in Mengyuan City, the capital of Lu State, Zhang Xiang, the commander of Black Butterfly of Lu State, said to Emperor Jiang Sheng with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty, the team sent by our Black Butterfly to assassinate Zhang Mingqi and the team to assassinate Liu Ji all ended in failure, and the team that assassinated Liu Ji was even wiped out, and Xu Jie, the pacification envoy who led the team, also ...... Nowhere to be found. ”

After Qian Bao, a hundred households of Black Butterfly, helped Heishuitai wipe out nearly 200 Black Butterfly assassins, Jia Xu, the commander of Heishuitai, did not break his promise, not only gave Qian Bao another 5,000 taels of gold, but also created a false impression that Qian Bao and nearly 200 Black Butterfly assassins were all wiped out by the Broken Army, and then a general banner under Qian Bao sent the news of the destruction of the assassin team back to Lu using carrier pigeons.

And the general flag under Qian Bao has now become an internal response of Heishuitai in the black butterfly.

Emperor Jiang Sheng also knew that Xu Jie, one of the five major envoys of Black Butterfly, was Zhang Xiang's mistress, Jiang Sheng sighed and said: "You must do your best to find out Xu Jie's whereabouts, since she is your woman, you must save her no matter what." ”

Zhang Xiang said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now the millions of troops of our Lu State are still trapped in Zhezhou and Fuzhou of the Jin State, and the subordinates have no energy to take care of the personal affairs of their children, these two elite teams have failed, and it is impossible for us to send people to assassinate Liu Ji and Zhang Mingqi in a short period of time, and the subordinates suggest that our Lu State withdraw its troops from the Jin State as soon as possible, and the annexation of the Jin State needs to be considered in the long run." ”

Emperor Jiang Sheng nodded and said: "Judging from the current battle situation, we can only let the troops that entered Zhezhou and Fuzhou in the Jin Kingdom temporarily withdraw." ”

After the Black Butterfly Commander Zhang Xiang left the palace, he returned to the Black Butterfly headquarters in Mengyuan City with a large number of guards.

In a secret room at the Black Butterfly headquarters, Zhang Xiang said to a veiled woman: "Xiaoyuan, now your sister's life and death are unknown, brother-in-law hopes that this time you can personally go out to find out your sister's whereabouts, if your sister has had an accident, you will do whatever it takes to kill Liu Ji to avenge your sister!" ”

"The commander reassures your lordship, even if you don't tell me, I will definitely go to find out my sister's whereabouts and find a way to rescue my sister, if my sister ...... I'll definitely avenge my sister too! ”

"Do you need my brother-in-law to mobilize some people for you?"

"No, it's enough for me alone, but it's easy to be exposed when there are too many people."

On the afternoon of November 6, 429 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in the governor's mansion of Ningbo City, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, said excitedly to the strategist Tang Yan and his cousin Liu Fengbao: "Retreat!" The people of Lu have finally withdrawn! News has come from the front line everywhere, and the Lu army has withdrawn from the front line since yesterday, and it is directly retreating to the border direction of Lu and our Great Jin! ”

Strategist Tang Yan immediately said, "Congratulations to the lord! Congratulations to my lord! This time, our southeast chamber army repelled the invading army of the Lu country, and the lord's rule in the southeastern seven states will become solid, and in the future, the southeast seven states will only know the lord and our southeast chamber army, and will no longer care about any court, and the lord will become a veritable southeast king! ”

Except for half of Suzhou, which was also controlled by the Jin court, the other six and a half states of the seven southeastern states have all fallen into the hands of Zhang Mingqi, and it is not an exaggeration to call Zhang Mingqi the king of the southeast.

Liu Fengbao then said with a smile: "Lord, it is better to take advantage of the power of our southeast Xiang army to defeat the army of the Lu State, send troops to the Northern Expedition again, conquer the capital in one fell swoop, and let the lord ascend the throne and become the emperor!" ”

Strategist Tang Yan hurriedly said: "Now is not the time to send troops to the Northern Expedition, after all, there is still a vicious tiger entrenched in the north of the Jin Kingdom, once we send troops to attack the capital, but the Broken Army will send troops to support the imperial court, then our southeast wing army will not talk about the capital, and if we don't do it, we will provoke the Broken Army to the southeast." ”

Zhang Mingqi nodded and said: "The matter of sending troops to the Northern Expedition really cannot be rushed, and the top priority is to recover the lost territories in Zhejiang and Fuzhou." ”