On the first day of April and May in the fifth year of Jian'an, the sun set in the west, and on the upper floor of Xinye City, Li Yan personally tied the forty-seventh head to the city tower. Then he waved his hand at the people below the city and shouted, "Folks, the robbers who have infiltrated have all been killed by us, and you can live in peace."

The people are ignorant, you just have to tell them the result, they don't care if you kill enemy soldiers or robbers, or even make up the numbers from the heads of the homeless. Of course, the forty-seven human heads hanging on the tower were all northern soldiers who had mixed in. The people downstairs were buzzing and talking, not knowing what to say? Li Yan turned around and looked out of the city, the night before yesterday, he Li Yan led three hundred cavalry back to Xinye overnight. When Li Yan rushed back to Xinye, the city was still in chaos, Ma Hong was slightly injured, and Liu Qi was not injured but frightened.

How to get rid of the enemy soldiers mixed in with the displaced people is not a difficult task. Now knowing that there are enemy soldiers among the homeless people is like knowing that there are red beans in a pot where rice is boiling, and you can tell the difference between rice and red beans with a little snack. Soldiers are not assassins, and it is easy to see through the disguise of soldiers among ordinary outcasts. Because soldiers are trained, their discipline is stronger than that of ordinary people, and in Li Yan's eyes, the better the soldiers, the easier it is to be recognized, because their discipline is too strong.

But even if you can see the red beans in the rice, it takes a lot of effort to pick out all the red beans, and the best way is not to pick the red beans, but to make the red beans with long legs gather in a pile. The northern soldiers who want to wreak havoc on Shinno Castle will certainly have a next move, and they will do whatever it takes to succeed, including one of them: inciting the outcasts. So Li Yan used his own way to treat his people, Li Yan selected some spies who were good at spying on intelligence to blend in with the homeless people and gathered 47 people in one day. Of course, this can't be all, there are always one or two fish that slip through the net, but one or two fish that slip through the net can't make a big deal.

It was slowly getting dark, Li Yan stood on the tower with his sword and looked down, and a soldier behind him walked towards Li Yan. He was just getting close to Li Yan's body, and Li Yan's sword was already on his throat.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time." Li Yan said.

"Have you already seen through me?" The soldier said.

"I remember every face of the fifty soldiers I chose to guard the city gates." Li Yandao.

"I still want to cut off your head to avenge my men? It's a pity. The soldier said.

"It's a pity." Li Yan's sword pierced through the soldier's throat.

Lujiang County, Sun Mansion, Sun Ce sat on the steps of the courtyard with a cloth dipped in wine and wiped the Gudian knife left by his father. Da Qiao sat next to Sun Ce and beat her legs, the sun squeezing out a bead of sweat on her tender white face. Sun Ce looked at the face of the beauty next to him and was slightly intoxicated.

Suddenly, the child came to report, and Zhou Yu came to visit. Sun Ce hurriedly got up and went to greet Zhou Yu in person.

"Gongjin, you're here, go and prepare wine, I want to drink with Gongjin." Sun Ce commanded.

Zhou Yu hummed, and then stopped talking, his hearing was very sensitive, and the cicadas on the tree kept chirping, and the call made him a little confused.

Sun Ce saw Zhou Yu's gaze sweeping over his head and finally landing on the banyan tree behind him, he immediately understood what Zhou Yu meant, and hurriedly invited Zhou Yu into the room to speak.

Sake was poured into the wine glass along the spout, and Zhou Yu's hand suddenly appeared below the spout, and the sake was spilled on Zhou Yu's hand. Sun Ce's hand did not stop pouring wine, and he remembered the scene of his first encounter with Zhou Yu.

It was also the height of summer that year, the cicadas were chirping non-stop, Zhou Yu leaned against the tree with his hands on his chest, chewing a piece of grass in his mouth, and the sun was shining on his face through the leaves. That face that was so delicate that it could not be described as beautiful jade, looking at Sun Ce's horse with dark and deep eyes.

"Your horse is thirsty." This was the first thing Zhou Yu said when he saw Sun Ce.

Sun Ce still wants to laugh a little when he thinks of that picture now, he doesn't understand why Zhou Yu said that your horse is thirsty, maybe Zhou Yu can see that Sun Ce is thirsty! If you drink too much wine, you will inevitably be thirsty, Sun Ce was looking for water to drink that day, Zhou Yu didn't know how to drink that year, but now Zhou Yu's amount of alcohol can be calculated by the altar.

"Bo Fu, do you know why the cicadas keep calling?" Zhou Yu rubbed his forehead with his wine-stained palm and said.

"After the summer, the cicadas are silent. So when we wait for the summer to pass, should we also let the sound of war stop for a while? After Zhou Yu finished speaking, he rubbed his lips with his wine-stained palm.

Sun Ce said: "The knife is often pulled out to dry, so that it will not rust." ”

"But knives are always seen and break." Zhou Yu said.

Sun Ce laughed and said, "Gongjin, you are too cautious, now is a good opportunity." A great opportunity, Yuan Shao contacted us and asked us to be his foreign aid, if we take the opportunity to attack Xuchang, we can control the Han Emperor. ”

"Right now, the land of Wuyue is surging, and the suppressed wealthy families are still playing tricks in secret, and those barbarians in Shanyue are also waiting for an opportunity. We have just fought a decisive battle with Huang Zu in Shaxian, and the losses are not small, if we want to gather troops to attack Xuchang, we need to march again when Yuan Shao and Cao Cao are fighting to the death. ”

"Well, the opportunity can't be missed, Yuan Shao's third son Yuan Shang secretly sent a letter, saying that there will be a rebellion in Runan in two months, and if we take this opportunity to march from Runan to Xuchang, we have a great chance."

"Yuan Shang contacted Bo Fu privately through his father, it seems that this person is not simple. Regardless of whether his news is true or not, I recommend waiting and seeing what happens, and first the roots of the tree are firmly rooted and the leaves are lush, so that more cicadas will choose our tree. ”

"I have a strategy, I led my troops to Guangling, so that Cao Cao mistakenly thought that I placed the main army in Guangling, and if I wanted to capture Xuzhou, I would inevitably gather troops to defend Xuzhou. At that time, Gong Jin led the army from Jiujiang to Runan and directly took Xuchang. ”

Sun Ce raised his glass and said, Sun Ce has arranged for Zhou Yu to go to Dongting Lake to train the water army to prepare for Liu Biao, on the surface, he actually wants Zhou Yu to march into Runan.

"What Bo Fu is planning is in line with mine." Zhou Yu raised his glass and drank with Sun Ce.

Wine, power, beauty. This pair of young talents already have them at their age, which is how enviable. The human heart may be the deepest gulf in the world, and it is difficult to find something to fill this ravine, because the human heart is deep.

When Zhou Yu walked out of the house after drinking the last glass of wine, Da Qiao was helping the drunk Sun Ce back to the back room to rest. Zhou Yu stretched out his hand, touched the lock on the door, smiled slightly, stood on tiptoe and walked out.

Walking on tiptoe, will be more cautious, at first Zhou Yu followed Sun Ce's cavalry sword to Jiangdong as if walking on tiptoe, relying on Sun Ce's personal charm and Yuan Shu's influence, Sun Ce's sword swept the entire Jiangdong. By the time they had swept Jiangdong, Sun Ce had forgotten to walk on tiptoe. Walking on tiptoe will be tiring and unsteady, but will walking normally be very stable? Zhou Yu didn't think so. Sun Ce's knife was always on, and his knife slashed at the intricate Jiangdong wealthy clan, turning this place into his own territory. But even if the big trees on the ground are cut off with a quick knife, the roots of the big trees are still deep into the ground, and those roots will still stumble their feet.

Sun Ce's vision is very accurate, and the strategy is also correct, now is indeed the time to enter the Central Plains, if you miss this opportunity, I am afraid it will be difficult to enter the Central Plains in the future. But now Sun Ce is not stable in Jiangdong, and the situation is still very turbulent, which is also what Zhou Yu is worried about.