In the early morning of August 23 in the second year of Shun, the vanguard of the Guanbei Army marched to the Yan'an Regiment, commanding two infantry battalions and a cavalry scout brigade to conquer Rulin County, the administrative office of Yinzhou, and the elite troops of the Yan'an Regiment Scout Brigade were responsible for landing the city and lowering the drawbridge to open the city gate, and the right battalion immediately followed up and covered the battle into the city, and the left battalion bypassed Rulin County to control the Wuding River ferry wharf, completely cutting off the enemy's escape route. It took just over an hour to end the battle. When the Yanzhou defense envoy Li Wenge led the first section of the Xiangbing Regiment from the southwestern mountains into the alluvial plain the next morning, he was greeted by a Yinzhou city that had been planted with the banner of the Yan'an Regiment.

After receiving Shen Chen's report last night, Li Wenge broke out in a cold sweat. He didn't care much about the deployment of troops in Yinzhou City and the comparison of forces between the two sides, but he was very concerned about the defenders of Yanzhou.

The defense envoy of Yinzhou knows what the military ability of Tuoba Guangyan is not very clear, but this old man, an unborn son Li Wenge, has been known for a long time. Therefore, he privately speculated that from the perspective of genetics and genetics, Li Jiqian's father, no matter how bad his military ability is, there should not be too much of a problem in easily knocking down ten or eight people like this.

Therefore, after receiving the report, Li Wenge sent a herald to convey the order of "holding heavy use of troops" to Shen Chen in the front, and urged the team to get up and march in the direction of Yinzhou.

There was a gap of about ten miles between the main force led by Zhecong Ruan and him, but it was only before the fifth watch got up, and by the time the meal was finished and on the road, the sun had already risen high. Li Wenge had already walked out of the mountains at this time, less than five miles away from Yinzhou City.

When he entered the city, he still felt a little confused, Yinzhou, an important town in the hinterland of the party, was so easily taken down by a guy who was only a squad leader a year ago with hundreds of soldiers. This kind of thing doesn't want to be true, even if it is written into a book, Li Wenge thinks it is too bizarre.

Could it be that this is the legendary YY?

Shen Chen cleaned up the boats and intercepted materials at the ferry port in the north of the city, and by the way, he screened and selected those captured boatmen, and it was Wei Xun of the prison army who was stationed in the city and reported the results of the battle to Li Wenge.

The results of the battle made Li Wenge even more dizzy, conquering such a state city as Yinzhou, and beheading him was only sixty-eight levels.

That's a little too little!

How many ......

Two hundred and ninety-three prisoners.

Well, that's all there is to the city. It's understandable to play a little easier and a little easier.

The defense of Yinzhou prevented Li Guangyan's family from running away, and the whole family was captured.

Accidentally...... It was purely accidental......

As a traverser, Li Wenge kept warning himself when digesting the news - all this was purely accidental!

As for the other gains, it is already difficult for Li Wenge to pay attention to them.

Besides, the harvest is really not much.

5,000 sheep, 3,000 cattle, 30,000 stone of grain, 200,000 quintals of grass...... Conquering a state city is just a "little" thing that has been captured, oh. By the way, there are about a thousand horses of silk, which is a fraction......

It is no wonder that Li Wenge was confused, when he decided to march to Yinzhou, no one expected to be able to take this important military town so easily, although Li Wenge knew that decades later, the waste wood defense that was captured by himself made that great son once relied on a small number of troops to capture Yinzhou in one fell swoop. However, this was achieved under the advantageous conditions that Comrade Tuoba Jiqian had served as an envoy for many years, had high prestige among the surrounding tribal people, and basically spread all over Yinzhou.

And this battle of Yinzhou, except for the strategic suddenness, he almost didn't occupy anything.

Among the four states of Yinxia, the distance between Yinzhou and Yanzhou is the farthest, and there is also the impassable Hengshan Mountain Range, which is not easy to pass, from a strategic point of view, unless the giants of the Guanbei Army show off their heads, they will never risk being ambushed halfway to attack Yinzhou. The Great War more than twenty years ago. After having an absolute superiority in troops, the Tang army had never had the idea of fighting Yinzhou, who would have thought that the Guanbei Xing Battalion, which now has only a few thousand soldiers and horses, would dare to take such a dangerous move?

As a result, Li Wenge's original idea of coming to Yinzhou to show off his military might was turned into a hastily decided siege by a few front-line officers, and the main force of the Zhejia army had not yet arrived. Yinzhou has been occupied, capturing a large number of people, including the future parents of the Western Xia Taizudi, and making a fortune, and the price of all this is only 21 dead and eight wounded, with a total of less than 30 casualties.

Shen Chen returned to the Yinzhou Defense Envoy's Mansion in the city from the north of the city, and was meeting Wei Xun walking out with his head down, Shen Chen shouted Wei Xun, Wei Xun raised his head and saw him, his eyes lit up, and then said, "Are you going to see your lord?" ”

Shen Chen nodded, and said tiredly: "One hundred and ninety-eight large and small ships...... We basically don't have to walk the road below......"

Wei Xun nodded and said, "Your Excellency has given an order, and Li Guangyan will be......head all sixteen men and women."

"Ah——?h Shen Chen's eyes suddenly widened.

Wei Xun shrugged his shoulders helplessly: "Yes—including women and children!" ”

"Is this an order from an adult?" Shen Chen stared at Wei Xun and asked.

"Yes, it's the adults who squeeze out between their teeth word by word!"

"My lord......" Shen Chen's lips squirmed, but the words below did not come out.

Wei Xun said: "...... My people are all counting the spoils of war and counting the military merits, and they are too busy to do so......"

Chen looked at Wei Xun and said coldly: "I'll go to see the lord now, don't you want it first."

Wei Xun smiled: "You go, before you come out, I can't draw out manpower......"

Shen Chen strode towards the inner courtyard, suddenly stopped after a few steps, turned around suspiciously and asked, "Why don't you refuse to advise your lord?" ”

Wei Xun said without looking back: "I am the supervising army, and my duty is to maintain the army's loyalty to the adults, obey the command and dispatch of the adults, administer military law, and punish officers and soldiers who violate military law; Maintain the prestige of the Lord in front of the whole army. unconditionally carry out the orders of the people; This kind of thing is not what I should do! ”

Shen Chen was silent.

Li Wenge crouched on a few cases and looked at the map, but his mind had already flown to nowhere, the hand holding the water cup was shaking uncontrollably, the autumn was high, but his head was full of sweat. The eyes were slightly closed, lest once they were opened, the fierce confrontation in their hearts would be revealed through their eyes.

When Shen Chen came in, he didn't even notice it.

—

"My lord, why do you want to kill prisoners?"

Shen Chen came in and saluted with a flat chest, and asked directly without any euphemism at the moment when Li Wenge looked at him.

"Oh——?" Li Wenge was stunned for a moment, and then his face became more and more pale. "The Tuoba family burned and looted in Yanzhou, and they were in a lot of blood debts, and now it's time to be full of evil......"

Although this sentence was said with insufficient confidence, it suddenly stopped Shen Chen, and Shen Chen vaguely remembered that Li Wenge also said the same thing to Xifeng Minda a few days ago.

When Li Wenge ordered the grass to be burned, it seemed that the excitement of Xifeng Minda was much higher than that of himself at the moment, but in the end he still carried out Li Wenge's order.

Could it be that this time, as usual, did you fail to understand the good intentions of adults?

Wrong. Something must be wrong.

Although Li Wenge gave a reason that made Shen Chen speechless, this young captain of Zhiguo was not convinced. Although he didn't know what to say, a voice in his head told him that this must be wrong, that something must be wrong.

"So—why kill women and children?"

This time, Li Wenge was asked.

He scratched his head in pain, a knot that even he hadn't resolved. How to convince Shen Chen?

He could not be told directly that one of these women would give birth to a good child in the future, and that he would become a terrible enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty, and that the grandchildren of this child would establish a new nomadic empire on this land......

After all, he is a general, and this kind of god-like language is not suitable for him.

"Cutting the grass will always be cut to the roots, leaving these women and children behind, but killing their husbands and wives, who will always seek revenge on us in the future...... Don't kill these people. I'm afraid that there will be endless troubles......"

Li Wenge spat out such words from his mouth with difficulty.

He himself has always disbelieved in this kind of thick black philosophy, but at this moment, he wants to use this logic to convince his most powerful subordinates.

Speak uncomfortably. It's painful.

"My lord, we are soldiers, which one doesn't put his head under his armpit to beg for food and clothing? Do we still think about dying on the couch in the future? We are not even afraid of their local male fathers, and are we afraid that these women and children will take revenge in the future? The adults were soldiers in the streets of Yanzhou that day, and they were not afraid of hundreds of rebels, but they were afraid of these unarmed women and children? ”

Shen Chen retorted disappreciatively.

"It's an order - don't talk about it anymore!" Li Wenge waved his hand at Shen Chen weakly.

"My lord—what are you afraid of?" Shen Chen asked extremely indignantly, "The adult is not a timid person, why did he become so afraid and cowardly today?" ”

This is quite serious, and the subordinates accuse the superiors of being afraid and cowardly, which is an act that greatly damages the prestige of the superiors in the army.

Li Wenge looked at Shen Chen in astonishment, this was the first time in a year that Shen Chen had said such rebellious words to himself.

Shen Chen looked at Li Wenge without fear, without the slightest timidity or shame in his eyes.

I'm defending you, though I can't say what I'm defending you.

"The ...... of the Imperial Court"

“…… You don't understand."

Li Wenge sighed and said, "Except for me, no one will understand!" ”

Shen Chen said without discouragement: "...... My lord, although I know that my humble duty is dull, but my lord didn't say it, how do you know that my humble duty will not understand? ”

Li Wenge smiled bitterly: "If you know that your softness at this moment will lay hidden dangers for the future, and it is enough to cause millions of people to die, make the war continue, and make the people miserable, if you know that your softness will result like this, can you still calmly let go of these future banes?" ”

Shen Chen was a little puzzled, Li Wenge shook his head and said: "I have said that you will not understand, killing these dozen people now, but in the future, you can save hundreds of thousands of people...... This kind of thing, only I know deeply......"

"My lord, I don't understand your words!"

Shen Chen was very confused. "However, I think that what you said is not a murderous reason!"

"Uh-huh——?"

Li Wenge glanced at Shen Chen, but did not refute.

"My lord, killing these women and children will not help to eliminate the Dingyan army and the party members, and it will not help to defeat the Pingxia tribe thoroughly. The adults said that they would spare these dozen people today. It will lead to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in the future. Although the lowly office does not understand the deep meaning of this, the lowly position thinks that even if it is true

Finding a way to prevent the hundreds of thousands of people from dying in the future is the big husband's doing; Can the slaughter of women and children save the hundreds of thousands of lives in the future? Although I don't understand it, I think it's far from it! Even Li Guangyan can be captured alive, are we still afraid of his wife and concubine and son? ”

"Hmm——! Go on! Li Wenge's helpless bitter smile at the beginning disappeared from the corner of his mouth, and he began to think seriously about Shen Chen's words.

"Humiliation – lowly means to say. With the heroes of adults, even if these women and children become the climate in the future, will adults still be afraid of them? ”

Li Wenge took a deep breath and asked, "What if I was already dead by then?" ”

Shen Chen said: "Not to mention that adults are now younger-oh-just youth, and their longevity is far from the time to talk about life and death." Even after a hundred years, what can be done? The world is so big, there are many heroes, even if these dolls become amazing characters in the future, what can they do? There are heroes in the party, so don't we Han people have heroes? There are heroes in the Pingxia department. Could it be that with the size of the Central Plains, there is no way to find a good man who can compete with these dolls? I don't believe it! ”

"And - is it true that the adults have killed these women and children, and that is the end of the matter? Won't there be any more heroes in the Pingxia Department because of this? Even if there are no characters in the Pingxia Department, Yeli family, Fang Dangjia, what about these tribes? Do you want to kill all the party and clans? Even if they are killed, there are still Khitan and Tibetan. There are also Goryeo, Tianzhu, and Dashi that adults say...... If we can't do these people in the future, we don't have the ability, can we still complain that there are too many people who have the ability? ”

"If we can pick out all our heroes and heroes, then none of us have to be afraid, even if there is really no hero, can't we cultivate training? It's not like I haven't seen what our C team used to look like, but now it's only been a year. Isn't it still a good man who can fight like a tiger and a wolf? As long as we are united, many people in the Central Plains are still afraid that they will not be able to raise a few heroes? If we really can't even raise a hero, it will be cut down and cut down by others like wheat. It should also be shared, who let us have no interest? ”

In peacetime in the army, Shen Chen rarely spoke at length like this, but in a hurry today, he actually said this truth for most of the day.

The traverser complex in Li Wenge's heart began to loosen and dissolve slowly, Shen Chen was right, now the situation is very different from the history he is familiar with, in history, Li Guangyan has never been captured by a traverser called Li Wenge, whether he can still give birth to Li Jiqian after being a prisoner is not easy to say, but it is certain that as long as he brings this Yinzhou defense envoy back to Yanzhou, he will no longer have any hope of taking over as the envoy of the Dingyan Army Festival in his life, Then his son is destined to have no chance to serve as the envoy of Yinzhou at a young age, so as to accumulate rich political and military resources. Without these resources, even if Li Jiqian was born, even if he was still as brave and heroic as the Western Xia Taizu in history, he would never be qualified to become the great chief of the Pingxia tribe.

Even if there is no Li Jiqian, and there is no Li Yuanhao, no matter how hard he tries to clear up the troubles, if the descendants are still so unlucky, the Central Plains Dynasty will still die in the hands of ethnic minorities. It has nothing to do with how strong others are, what really matters is whether you are strong enough.

Li Wenge remembered that in the last years of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan, he was ordered to go out with Jiecheng to conquer the five countries of the Western Regions, and the commander of the Kunqiu Dao march was named Ashina Sheer, who was a Turkic royal family.

The general who opened up territory and conquered thousands of miles for the Tang Dynasty is a Huer-

The commander-in-chief of the Celestial Empire's army is a foreigner—

What kind of open-mindedness is this, and what kind of confidence is this?

Only when future generations are strong will they not be afraid of these nomadic minorities; If future generations are not strong enough, they will be enslaved by these peoples, which is the simplest law of nature, and will not be changed by the existence or death of an individual.

Those who complain that their ancestors have left endless troubles for future generations may seem reasonable at first glance, but in fact they are the most shameless logic in the world. If the descendants work hard enough, no matter how weak the ancestors are, the nation will gradually become stronger; If the descendants do not work hard enough, no matter how powerful the ancestors are, they will not be able to shelter such descendants.

A truly confident and energetic nation will never sit on the ground and complain that their ancestors did not leave a good foundation for themselves......

A truly confident and energetic nation cannot become truly strong by relying only on the hard work and efforts of one generation......

A self-confident and energetic nation can only become strong by relying on the inheritance of the national spirit and the unremitting struggle and hard work of generation after generation......

The real strength is not that my grandfather is stronger than you and my father is stronger than you, but it should be - I am stronger than you!

I am better than you - as long as these four words can be passed down as a spirit and culture, this nation, even if there are only a few people today, will become the master of the whole world in the future......