People of different eras have different dreams. The biggest dream of the people of the pre-Qin Dynasty was to advance from the dispossessed proletariat to the "doctor" class who owned land and slaves, the dream of the scholars of the Han Dynasty was to be able to rank among the "three dukes" and even their children and grandchildren to be ranked as the "three dukes", the dream of the scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties and the north and south dynasties was that their families could "share the world" with the emperor's family, and the biggest dream of the scholars of the Sui and Tang dynasties was to be able to become the prime minister who enjoyed the real seal, and then patted his bed to boast to the younger generations of young people, as for the two Song dynasties until the Ming and Qing dynasties, the biggest dream of the scholars is nothing more than the champion, the Hanlin, and the ancestors of the Xiangguang Sect in the cabinet......

However, in the second year of Guangshun, the most glorious and comfortable thing in the world at this time was neither to be a duke nor to worship the prime minister, but to have a semi-divided territory, a relatively independent army, and become a de facto feudal town. Generally speaking, to become a party of the festival of the envoy, is definitely a person living in the five generations of troubled times in this life, the people who can become the festival envoy, basically in that era of more outstanding and more successful people, as for the very few in the festival of the envoy can get the level of the chapter or even the servant, the book order to promote to the "minister" of the people, is some more outstanding people, they are outstanding talents among the outstanding talents, is the successful people of the successful people. This was the public opinion of the time.

In his life, Li Bin never thought that he might one day become a feudal town in Yanzhou. This powerless civil leader of Yanzhou has been committed to the political status of local civil officials all his life, for which he can choose to cooperate with Zhou Mi, he can also choose to compromise with Gao Yunquan, and he even does not shy away from openly cultivating his own power in the Zhangwu army, all for the same purpose - to let the civil officials of Yanzhou have a greater say in the coming years, so that Yanzhou, which is controlled by rude and simple military generals, can be more rational and less manic, and the purpose of this effort is only one - So that the displaced people can live a slightly stable life.

In this era, civil officials may have to change masters frequently in order to save their lives, but compared with those military generals who rarely consider Li Shu's livelihood and fight for power and territory, civil officials are undoubtedly a more politically ethical group, and their political integrity is reflected in the fact that even in the darkest and most obscure years, they have not forgotten their duties and missions, and they are still doing their best to maintain the foundation of human society's survival and reproduction. If it weren't for the efforts of these civil officials, and allowing the one hundred and seven feudal towns to fight back and forth unscrupulously, the human race would have been killed by themselves in this land long ago......

For Liao Jianzhong, Zhang Tu and others, getting rid of Gao Yunquan and letting Li Bin be the envoy of Yanzhou Festival is just a change of person to give everyone food and salary, although Liao Jianzhong himself feels a little difficult to speak, but in fact, he has never felt that there should be anything in his heart. When a feudal town has neither food nor salary, it is natural that the feudal town should be overthrown.

In fact, the internal logic of this idea is not wrong at all, but here the Zhangwu Army, from officers to soldiers, seems to ignore one point, what kind of obligations and responsibilities the army should bear while eating food and receiving salaries.

Perhaps in their eyes, you pay us food and pay, and we support you as a feudal town, and this is the only obligation that the army should fulfill while enjoying the food and salary.

The biggest difference between Li* and the previous Yanzhou officers was that he never regarded whether the soldiers supported him or not as a quid pro quo, and no one in his ranks dared to use this condition to blackmail food. In fact, the fundamental reason for this is that Li himself never withheld the soldiers' salaries and rations, nor did he allow his officers to do so, and at the same time, he himself would not deduct the officers' salaries and rations. This matter seems simple, but it is by no means simple to really do, if you don't have enough money and food in your hands, Li * is not in a position to do so.

Li*'s luck was only that he initially had only one squad of soldiers, but behind him there was the full support of both Li Bin and Qin Gu. And after the great expansion of his troops, he already had a large amount of floating wealth plundered by raiding the treasury of the Gao family - although this is not really a fight against local tyrants to divide the land, the actual effect is the same, Li * himself has the money to raise soldiers, so naturally he does not need to deduct the military salaries and rations of officers and soldiers. As long as the officers and men who had sufficient food and pay did not want to smash their own jobs, it was impossible for them to take the initiative to betray Li*, who paid them food and salaries.

In an army where there is basically no problem of deducting food and wages, whether it is military discipline or combat effectiveness, it is impossible to steadily improve, and it is impossible for any individual's dissatisfaction to provoke a chain reaction in the barracks, so there may be a deserter or a traitor, but a rebellion or mutiny in the whole system is absolutely impossible.

In the same way that it is natural for soldiers to receive adequate rations, he also believes that it is natural for soldiers to obey military discipline and fight bravely on the battlefield, with or without him*. This idea may have been put into words by few in his troops, but it has been gradually established invisibly.

It is precisely because of this that the wall-head soldiers led by Liao Jianzhong and others are almost a group of paper-paste rabble in front of the soldiers led by Li *, and Liao Jianzhong and others are also very aware of this, so they will put forward the proposal of promoting Li Bin as the festival of the Zhangwu army.

It was a rare compromise, the first time in the history of the Yanzhou military that it had made a compromise with the civilian clique, which itself had an intimidating armed force.

Li Bin sighed secretly in his heart, even he didn't expect that it had only been a little more than half a year since he promoted Li * as an officer of the team, and the situation in Yanzhou had changed so dramatically......

If the power comes out of the barrel of the gun, it will win the world immediately, believe it......

If it was a decade or two in the morning, when Li Bin was still a little young, maybe he would really agree to it as soon as his mind was hot, and the temptation to become a feudal town was irresistible for anyone, and Li Bin was also a mortal, and it was impossible not to be tempted.

However, after so many years of ups and downs, Li Bin has long passed the age of naïve impulsiveness.

This group of big-headed soldiers is not afraid of themselves at all, they are afraid of Lee*.

No matter how much Li * respects himself now, this person has become a climate in the army, and Luziguan was beheaded by more than 200 people in the first battle, which is a great victory that Yanzhou has not won in 20 years since the Dingyan army, and it is impossible for such a famous general to live under the people for a long time. At present, this person's attitude towards himself and the civilian clique is quite close, but he has a deep grudge against the Zhangwu military Jiedu government, which is the basis for the alliance between the civilian clique and it.

This foundation alone is not solid.

Li Bin himself knows very well that in this year, don't say that the original master-servant relationship between himself and Li *, even if it is a relative of Weng's son-in-law, it is useless, otherwise Gao Yunquan would not have raided his father-in-law's house for that little floating wealth, and killed those people in Gao Shaoji's maternal line.

Only by achieving a convergence of interests and purposes can the alliance between Li* and the Yanzhou civil officials be sustained for a long time. Fortunately, Li*, a murderous martial artist, is quite gratifying in his attitude towards Li Shu. Not only was he able to resolutely support all the civil officials' measures related to the people's livelihood and economy, but he was even willing to use force in order to rescue a few displaced people......

Such a warrior is a warrior who can cooperate for a long time......

Zhangwu Jun is the envoy, and only Li * can replace him - this is a consensus reached privately between Li Bin and Qin Gu and other Yanzhou magistrates.

It's just that the support of the civil officials is far from enough, in the political structure of the military, the scholars, the civilian officials, and the trinity of Yanzhou, the attitude of the wealthy families of the scholars towards Li * has always been not very good, and it is normal for these big nobles to look down on a person who was a slave in the civil government half a year ago, but at present, these people are afraid of the bright swords and guns in the front camp and dare not openly scold Li *.

In addition, before today, the attitude of the military was also extremely ambiguous, the active soldiers were almost crippled by Li *'s troops in the mutiny a year ago, although not many people died, but now when it comes to Li * and the army under his command, everyone has changed, and the attitude of those military veterans who have retired is even more disdainful, Li Bin originally thought that the army would have deep hostility to Li * and his maverick army, but today's result surprised him greatly.

After thinking about it for a while, he understood that Li * had given the whole army half a year's salary in one fell swoop, which made the soldiers extremely happy and extremely grateful to him; At the same time, he emptied the treasury of the Gao family, so that Gao Yunquan's father and son could not send a grain or a penny for several months, and the soldiers naturally became more and more disappointed and dissatisfied with the Gao family.

Maybe that kid expected this result in the first place......

Li Bin thought to himself.

So among the three major forces, the army and civilian officials have already sided with Li *, and the remaining wealthy forces are simply lonely, if there are no external factors involved, Li Bin believes that the time for Li * to replace the Gao family as the envoy of the festival should be almost ripe.

However, there are external factors, and the attitude of the Bianliang court and Sanshui's Zhi Congruan on this matter is quite important in the current situation......

In the past, as an observer judge trusted by the imperial court, Li Bin believed that he had the ability to influence the court's hearing and hearing on the Yanzhou issue, but the imperial court's trust in him was not unconditional, it was due to his transcendent position in the battle for the Yanzhou domain. And now, due to the inextricable connection between Li * and himself, he has lost this transcendent position, and the reason why Bianliang sent six houses to Yanzhou is of course because there were two mutinies last year, but more importantly, I am afraid that it is because he can no longer judge the real situation in Yanzhou through his own seal, otherwise Zhang Juma really has no need to go on such a journey.

And the old fox......

So far, no one can understand whether this old guy is coveting Yanzhou and Zhangwu Army, judging from the performance of Zhe Deyuan, the old guy doesn't seem to have this idea for the time being, but the hearts of the people are separated from the belly, who knows if the old guy will suddenly change his mind?

Therefore, in order for Li * to succeed in the position, the obstacles in front of him seem to be not small.

"Commander Liao—"

Li Bin's silence made Liao Jianzhong quite uneasy, he sat on the stool and twisted for a long time, but he never saw the observer make a statement, and he was worried about himself in his heart, but he heard Li Bin speak softly.

Liao Jianzhong sat up straight all of a sudden, and pricked up his ears to listen to Li Bin's words.

"Please Commander Liao to bring a message to all the commanders, commanders and military leaders, the old man is very grateful for your support to the old man......

Li Bin's gentle tone made Liao Jianzhong's heart suddenly feel relieved, but he didn't prevent Li Bin's tone from changing, and said categorically: "However, the old man is old and weak, and the Zhangwu Army is in the position, and it is difficult to take the ......."

“…… Please apologize to the princes in the army on behalf of the old man......"

“…… The old man thought that the Jiedu envoy was the master of the army, and it was better to have a general from the army to serve as ......"

“…… Commander Liao, please be sure to convey the old man's words to you......"

“…… If there is a suitable candidate in the army, the old man and the state and county officials will naturally work with the princes to promote the ......"

Although Liao Jianzhong has never read, he is not a fool, Li Bin said that he still couldn't hear it, and immediately stood up and bowed to his fists and said: "I understand the humble position, it's just a matter of food, and I want to observe the ......good offices of the adults."

Li Bin nodded slowly: "This matter is to be discussed with Inspector Li of the front camp, and the old man can help you say a few words, but how to act is all up to you......"

Liao Jianzhong immediately said: "That's nature, please observe and rest assured, I will tell everyone what it means to observe......

Li Bin nodded: "When Li comes back from Luzi Pass, the old man will naturally make proper arrangements for you......"

Liao Jianzhong took a reassuring pill and resigned with a happy face.

Li Bin looked at his back, shook his head slightly, thoughtful......

……

Outside Luzi Pass, in front of the labyrinthine six trenches, hundreds of war horses stopped to watch, spewing hot air from their mouths and noses, and kept smashing on the ground on all fours, but the owners of the horses always clutched the reins tightly and refused to let go easily......

About 240 party cavalrymen, uniformly dressed in standard cavalry armor, carefully examined the enemy situation in the direction of Luzi Pass in front of the trench, and around them, harriers with superb horsemanship returned to the team from both sides of the main road, reporting the enemy situation in the surrounding direction to the superior officers like a stream of water.

Lee* and other officers who were hidden on the wall could only see these cavalry at the moment, but they could not see the enemy's camp. The enemy in front of him was obviously more sophisticated and cunning than the wild family fools who came last time. They kept the camp out of sight of the defenders of Luguan, which could effectively prevent the camp from being attacked by surprise and confuse the enemy army.

Since three scout soldiers were killed in the hand-to-hand encounter with the party harrier, Li * ordered the withdrawal of all the scouts in the face of Shen Chen's resolute opposition, these young scouts who had just learned to ride horses were extremely valuable seeds, such a loss method Li * could not bear it, not to mention, at present, only the scout team could operate the crossbow machine, if they died, then the trenches that had been dug so hard would be meaningless.

Already knowing that the enemy army on the opposite side was about two Tuoba cavalry, and knowing that its leading general was Tuoba Guangyuan, who was known as the first warrior of the eight tribes of the party, Li * thought that he had already known enough. On the opposite side is a force composed of hundreds of veterans who have survived the battle, and it is undoubtedly extremely unwise to engage them in hand-to-hand combat head-on, and it is the correct way to make full use of trench obstacles and crossbow weapons to inflict maximum damage on them.

Lee* believes that getting more soldiers through the baptism and tempering of the battlefield is the only shortcut to military training, but no one has the right to force these soldiers to die.

Sacrifice and death are two different things!

Tuoba Guangyuan looked at it with his eyes slit.

The patrol flag and command flag on the head of the city indicate the identity of the enemy commander and the defender of Luzi Pass.

The monster that swallowed the two pivotal forces of the Yeli family in one bite is now hiding behind this not very tall and majestic pass.

It was already very strange that there was such a fierce enemy in the Zhangwu army, and it was even more strange that he had never heard of this person.

Tuoba Guangyuan knew that many people in the clan were interested in this guy surnamed Li - or wary.

Although he had not yet confronted this person head-on, the six extremely strangely dug trenches in front of the pass had already shown the insidiousness and viciousness of this person.

Tuoba Guangyuan had already found out the conclusive news from the Yelijia rout who had fled back to Qinglingmen, and that the enemy troops at Luzi Pass were equipped with an unknown number of crossbow machines that could fire continuously.

Tuoba Guangyuan believed that once his cavalry carefully stepped into the death zone composed of dense trenches and vicious passages, it would not be long before all his cavalry either fell down the trench or became a live target on the narrow and winding passage.

This trench line deliberately left a road to lure its cavalry warriors into the area.

Within the range of the crossbows, the cavalry was forced to move slowly in order not to fall into the trench, and had to move forward in line one horse at a time—even if all the troops were filled, Tuoba Guangyuan would not be able to fill the sunset.

Only when the sun sets, when the enemy's crossbow machines can no longer be effective, and when it gets dark, can the obstacle formed by this trench cease to be an obstacle......

Hopefully, tonight will be a moonless night......

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