Did you give any explanation before you died? ”

Yanzhou observed that Li Bin bowed to the body of Gao Yunquan, who was still parked in the bedroom without decoration, and slowly withdrew, while turning his head and asking, Gao Shaoji, who had been replaced with a "decrepit" on the side.

Gao Shaoji, who had long lost his previous arrogance, replied while crying and squeezing tears: "Daddy is fine for the next day, and he used an extra bowl of porridge for dinner, and his complexion looks much better, but a mouthful of phlegm is about to come up, and it is difficult to get down the medicine, so he left......"

Li Bin nodded with a calm face, and ordered: "Take care of it carefully, be careful not to miss anything, those things since last year, the Gao family has been on the cusp, if you are not careful, a few words on a piece of paper will be revealed, and the whole Yu Ru clan will be a disaster, understand?" ”

Gao Shaoji trembled in shock, and hurriedly said: "Rest assured, you can't break it!" ”

Li Bin and Gao Shaoji walked out of the outer room, glanced at the Gao family, where they were standing and watched, a group of old and young, and beckoned Lu Xun.

"Go to the Yan'an County Bureau, ask Gaoming Mansion to come over, and say that it is the old man's order!"

"Commanded by Humble Duty——!" Lu Xun turned around and went.

Li Bin cleared his throat and said to the Gao family: "Send someone who can be in charge of each room, and come to the study with the old man to discuss!" ”

At the moment, the person in charge of the eighth room of the Gao family followed Li Bin to the study, and Li Bin was not polite as soon as he sat down, and said: "The waiter went in a hurry, everything has not been arranged properly, the old man invites you to discuss the future affairs of the waiter, in addition, the Gao family is the county of Yanzhou." There is always a new patriarch who can meet the expectations of the people, and you must be invited to work together in these matters......"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Gao Shaoji and said, "The seal of the funeral report to the imperial court must also be drafted in the name of the virtuous nephew." Both the old man and the general will be named on the left. The old man thought, the gift of a prince is inevitable, and the rank is reduced, and the hereditary position of the Yan'an County Commons is naturally inherited by the virtuous nephew, the position of the patriarch. Don't fight, you're too young, and you're in a gap with the loyal general, you're the patriarch, and the clan's houses are only afraid of unease! ”

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Gao Yunquan's younger brother Gao Yunwen, and asked, "Is this good?" ”

Gao Yunwen and others are indeed worried about this issue, and almost everyone in Yanzhou understands the relationship between the Gao family and Li Wenge. This grievance is about to come to an end with Gao Yunquan's death, if Gao Shaoji takes over as the head of the Gao family, he is the person Li Wenge hates. Maybe it will affect the Gao family, and it is not known. Now that Li Bin raised this question, he was obviously thinking about the Gao family, and he was purely kind. Although it is taboo for outsiders to decide the housework of the Gao family, at this moment, Gao Yunwen is afraid that Li Bin will stay out of the matter and ignore it, so the Gao family is really dead, so after listening to Li Bin's words, he immediately said: "Make Junde highly respected." He is also the most important person in the service during his lifetime, and the king is in charge, and the villains are all convinced......"

Li Bin nodded: "In this case, I will say a few, if you think it is feasible, you will do what the old man says, if you think it is inappropriate, you will think of it yourself." The things in the Gao family, the old man doesn't talk much! ”

Gao Yunwen took the lead, and a group of Gao family members bowed down and said in unison: "The king is polite, but he commands." I'll do it all! ”

Li Bin nodded: "This first thing, Yanzhou can't be left without an owner for a day, originally Shaoji was a member of the Yanei, and it stands to reason that he is the only one who stays behind in this section." However, now that Shaoji has completely fallen out with the army, it is very inconvenient to stay in the future, and it may not be a good thing for him...... Therefore, the old man thought that he should ask Shaoji to go to the court and ask General Zhongwu to stay for the Yanzhou Festival, what do you think? ”

This is an obvious matter, whether it is the imperial court or the Yanzhou locality, they are ready to replace Gao Yunquan with Li Wenge. Now it's nothing more than a matter of paper, Li Bin discussed this matter with them to promote everyone, in fact, there is no need to discuss this matter at all, at this moment there are Li Wenge's soldiers inside and out, and the Gao family himself recommended Li Wenge to give the Gao family face, and also to give the Gao family a chance to draw a line with the past. There are no soldiers and no power in his hands, and it is still unknown whether Gao Shaoji's life can be finally saved, and it is not his turn to sit in this position left by Yanzhou Jiedu anyway.

Therefore, Gao Yunwen led everyone to bow down and said: "It's all up to Li Yuanjun's arrangement, and the villains have no objections!" ”

Li Bin pretended to look at Gao Shaoji, Gao Shaoji hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and bowed and said, "My nephew has no objection!" ”

Li Bin nodded, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, in order to save the lives of the Gao family's father and son, he and Qin Gu had already broken their brains. If Gao Shaoji is still not interested, it is really difficult to save the immortals.

“…… Such a big event is almost settled. The last thing is the position of the patriarch......"

"The old man thinks that the grandson of the king of Beiping, Erlang Shaoyuan, can take over the position of patriarch!"

Li Bin said with a smile.

Gao Shaoyuan had just been appointed by Li Bin as the commander of Yan'an County a month earlier, and Li Bin and Li Wenge had studied this issue for a long time. There are too many wealthy families in Yan'an County, and if you support a passer-by who has no background to come up, I am afraid that I am not familiar with the situation in the county, but it will be a bad thing. Gao Shaoyuan is the grandson of the Gao family, the grandson of Gao Wanxing, the king of Beiping County, in terms of background, there are not many people in the Gao family who are more prominent than him, but this person is the only one in the Gao family who has strong ability and is worthy of being a great weapon, so with the support and recommendation of Li Wenge, Li Bin appointed Gao Shaoyuan as a county order.

This is the only one that makes Li Wenge feel a little more acceptable to the Digao family, and only when he is the patriarch can he have the ability to protect the entire family from being wiped out.

However, although Li Bin's idea is good, not all Gao family members can understand it.

In order to clear the way for his son to succeed to the throne, Gao Yunquan has been alienating and guarding against this younger brother in the last few years of his life, if it were not for the sudden rise of Li Wenge, Gao Yunwen would not have had a chance to make a comeback. Now I finally survived this calculation all my life. Even if the festival envoy doesn't have his own share, the world position can only be inherited by his son, and the patriarch should always be qualified to sit for a few days, right?

Unexpectedly, Li Bin was not polite, and pulled Gao Shaoyuan out with one mouth, that unlucky boy has been unlucky at home for many years, is he going to turn over now?

Gao Yunwen coughed lightly. Said: "Envoy, your old man also knows that Erlang has no prestige in the clan since he was a child, and in recent years, he has simply moved to other counties to live, and he has no contact with his own clan, which is equivalent to splitting up his family." The Gao family has a century-old hairpin family, and some rules always have to keep the land, and you can't ask a child who has been separated to be the patriarch, right? I'm afraid it's unreasonable! ”

As soon as he spoke. Immediately, several Gao family members next to him echoed the voice, and said yes again and again, the seventh master made sense.

Li Bin watched coldly, more than half of the people who entered the room were echoing Gao Yunwen, and the remaining few looked at each other, although they could see that they were not in the same faction as Gao Yunwen, they didn't seem to agree with Li Bin's proposal.

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On the contrary, Gao Shaoji on the side looked at this farce with a flat face, his eyelids drooped, as if an old monk was in a trance.

Li Bin twisted his beard. said lukewarmly: "The old man is for the sake of your family's plans, so he brought out Erlang to shelter you from the wind and rain." If anyone thinks that the patriarch is comfortable to sit in, as long as your Gao family closes the door and thinks it is successful, the old man will not say much, but if there is an incident later, don't come to the old man again......"

As soon as these words were spoken. Gao Yunwen hurriedly laughed: "I misunderstood, how could Yunwen mean this?" It's just the patriarch's business...... Old envoy, you know, the matter of the eldest brother back then, there were some things in the clan and Erlang's mother and son. If Erlang comes back and takes over as the patriarch now, I'm afraid that some people in the clan won't be at ease......"

"Confused ——!" Li Bin scolded Gao Yunwen and said coldly: "Erlang is now the Ming Mansion of the first county, so he won't come back to be the patriarch." and the life and riches of your whole people shall be in his hands......"

He pondered for a moment and said slowly, "...... Seeing this, the state government was about to abolish the poll tax and acquire land to build public land...... At that time, the Gao family, the Yao family, the Han family, these states are second to none. But it's all in the palm of Erlang's hand...... At that time, I'm afraid that if you want to ask Erlang to come back and sit on this patriarch, Erlang may not agree......"

"You don't have to wait until then, the lowly position can be said at this time, the lowly position has no interest in the position of the patriarch of this Laoshzi, so the king should ask another master!"

With this loud voice, Gao Shaoyuan, the former Jinming County Lieutenant and the current Yan'an County Commander in a green official robe, strode in from the outside.

……

At sunset, the shouting and killing stopped, and the sound of horses' hooves faded away. Shen Chen stood on the tower of the sappers hastily set up by the sappers of the box barracks to look out for the enemy, his eyes chasing the last figure of the black dot in the distance, completely ignoring the afterglow of the setting sun. The wooden watchtower swayed for a while, but Shen Chen didn't move, still looking thoughtfully at the west.

Wei Xun climbed up to the lookout while scolding, and said a little anxiously: "This is the third batch since the establishment of the village, is this group of party pigs still finished?" ”

It was decided to set up a village here before the next hour of the morning, and in less than an hour and a half so far, the cavalry of the party men came to harass them three times. Although four corpses were thrown under the dense crossbow fire of the defenders, it caused the entire army to have not been able to eat so far. Wei Xun's worries are not unreasonable, if this group of bastards comes to toss like this every hour at night, they don't want to sleep this night.

Although the scout team of the fine seal Minda now has a scale that is the envy of the Zhi family, the actual combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning. On weekdays, when the army marches and camps, it spreads out to the surrounding areas to reconnoiter the enemy's situation in the interior at a depth of 20 miles, and is barely competent, but to achieve battlefield intelligence shielding and completely block the enemy's intelligence infiltration, it is basically nonsense. At present, the scouts who have just mastered the basic riding skills have no ability to go one-on-one with ordinary party cavalry, let alone professional harriers, so Xi Feng Minda absolutely forbids these scouts under his command to go up and fight for their lives when they see party harriers - the most important duty of scouts is to collect accurate information on the battlefield and bring it back intact, so the scout's combat exploits cannot be simply calculated by the number of beheadings.

I watched as several soldiers ran over and dragged back the bodies of the two party cavalrymen. Shen Chen didn't talk to Wei Xun either, pursed his lips tightly, climbed down the simple wooden ladder from the enemy's upstairs, and walked quickly towards the corpse.

Wait to get there. Fine-sealed Minda was already looking through the two dead ghosts' ground canes and bags of clothes and dry food, and Kang Shi commanded a few scouts who were dragging the corpses of the two horses back.

"How? Is it the Tuoba family? ”

Xifeng Minda nodded, but did not speak, holding the bulging bag of dry food in his hand.

"How far do you think the other party's camping place will be from here?" Shen Chen asked.

Xifeng Minda shook his head and said bluntly: "You can't sneak attack, we are not familiar with the terrain here." You will get lost at night. ”

He asked rhetorically, "This group of enemies has been walking with us for three days, right?" ”

Shen Chen nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "In the past few days, we can only walk twenty miles a day, and even the speed of the Chinese army has been slowed down by us!" If this doesn't work, we won't be able to solve the left-wing threat, and we can't go on with our heads like this anymore! ”

Xifeng Minda shook his head: "That's not something you can decide, and the master can't decide!" ”

frowned and said, "I'll talk to the general ......"

Xifeng Minda shook his head and said: "He has already made it very clear in the military discussion before the expedition, this expedition is a transaction made in exchange for the support of the Diggers. Therefore, we must show our fighting ability and not let the diggers think that we are waste that can only be dragged behind. ”

Shen Chen was speechless.

At this time, the war horse had already been dragged back, and the fine seal Minda pulled out the flat knife in the Kang stone sheath and cut the horse's belly without hesitation......

Shen Chen knew that this was a person who loved horses very much, and he was extremely opposed to eating horse meat at any time and under any circumstances, so he almost paraded in the camp with a cloth belt on his head.

However, at this moment, this horse lover did not hesitate to cut the horse's belly.

Fine-sealed Minda carefully examined the stomach of the dead horse, slowly stood up, and said with a frown: "...... They knew with great certainty that our cavalry would not dare to pursue! ”

Shen Chen looked at him and didn't speak.

"These harassing rangers are running around most of the day today. Their horses basically don't have much time to graze during the day today. ”

“…… The horses don't have much food in their stomachs either......"

Shen Chen's brows also twisted: "What do you mean?" ”

"These Tuoba warriors had very bulging bags of dry food, but they refused to feed the horses, even when the horses did not have time to graze......

Shen Chen reacted: "You mean their food is very limited?" ”

"Yes, it means that they know that there will be no food replenishment for a long time, so they try to save as much as possible. It is better to sacrifice horsepower than to save rations while harassing us. ”

Shen Chen said: "According to the prior information, a large amount of grain and grass from their land has been concentrated in the direction of Yinzhou, and it is not uncommon for them to lack grain. The question is why they do it! ”

"Just now, if our cavalry pursues, there is no need to engage in battle, as long as we run for about ten miles, these horses will fall back, even so, they still have to run to harass." ”

"That is to say, there will be no more enemies to harass after nightfall!" Shen Chen said.

"Yes. It would be dawn to-morrow at the earliest, when it was just dawn, when our soldiers had not yet gotten up, and the sentries were at their most exhausted after a night of guarding. That's when the harassment is the best time. ”

Shen Chen said: "They are very familiar with the terrain, won't they sneak attack at night?" ”

"No...... It is difficult to see the road clearly at night, and it is impossible to easily get around our barricades and pitfalls at night, and the cavalry with torches will become the target of our crossbow arrows! ”

Shen Chen was silent for a long time and asked, "Why are they doing this?" ”

Fine Feng Minda shook his head: "I don't know! ”

Shen Chen said: "Before sending troops, including Zhi Linggong, they all thought that there would be a fierce battle on the front line of the Qingling Gate of the Great Wall, but we didn't encounter anything there. The Tuoba family actually gave up this natural danger and retreated to the outside of the Great Wall to play hide and seek with us! ”

Xifeng Minda didn't speak, he didn't think that the so-called Great Wall was a natural danger, but he knew that what Shen Chen wanted to emphasize was not this.

"According to your reconnaissance, the enemy Harriers have been watching our marching column almost all the time, but they have never come forward to harass us!"

"Yes!"

"It wasn't until we set up camp that the harassing Rangers were late, not to mention that there were not many troops, and there were no elite warriors like Harriers among them!"

"Yes!"

"What does that mean?" Shen Chen muttered.

"Do you want to say that the Tuoba family wants to ambush or sneak up on us? I told you, it can't be! "Seal Minda Dao.

Shen Chen shook his head and asked, "Do you know who in the Tuoba family likes to cut off the enemy's grain routes?" ”

Thin Feng Minda shook his head and said, "As far as I know, no. We have been fighting with Yanzhou for many years, and the army of Yanzhou has never dared to go out of the city to fight us, so we cannot cut off the enemy's food routes, and no one in the Tuoba family I know has done so. In the past twenty years, we have not encountered a Han army that dared to fight with us out of the city. ”

Shen Chen asked without hesitation, "Are you sure there is absolutely none?" ”

"Absolutely not!"

"What about twenty years ago?"

"What?"

"I've heard adults say that there was a battle between the Central Plains and the Tuoba family twenty years ago, when the Han army advanced to the city of Xiazhou, and no one cut off the grain route of the Han army at that time?" Shen Chen asked with blazing eyes.

Xifeng Minda raised his head suddenly, and a look of realization flashed in his eyes: "I understand!" ”

“…… You're right, the army stationed at Qinglingmen didn't hold out for long that time, and our party didn't like to guard the Great Wall. That time, our army waited until tens of thousands of Han troops advanced to the city of Tongwan, and then suddenly sent troops to cut off the Han army's food routes, and finally won the victory......"

He took a deep breath, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "The most exciting thing is...... The nobleman of the Tuoba family, who was responsible for garrisoning the Qingling Gate but did not defend it, but finally led the army to cut off the enemy's grain route, is still alive today......"

Looking at Shen Chen's inquiring eyes, he said word by word: "Tuoba Renlu, the uncle of the current head of the Tuoba family, the guardian of the Qingling Gate back then, the legendary hero of the eight major tribes of the party, nicknamed King Luo, is he-"

Shen Chen turned around and left.

"Where are you going?" Fine-sealed Minda asked in surprise. "I'm going to see my lord—" Shen Chen didn't look back.