Although Liao Li was extremely resolute and resolute when he was tortured, he let the execution of the criminal law be imposed by the soldiers, but he did not say a word from beginning to end, which amazed the Jizhou army, but afterwards, the fierce general still lay on his stomach in the tent for a few days, even when he was on the march, he was lying on horseback, unable to move.

It's no wonder that after all, Liao Li has been whipped and punished with a hundred strokes this time, and the blood on his back is red when he finishes the beating, and if he were an ordinary person, I am afraid that he would have been beaten to death.

It's not that Xie Anxin is ruthless, it's just that the Lou Zi that Liao Li poked out this time was too big, and indirectly killed a senior general in the army.

If it weren't for the fact that Qi Zhi had not been officially included in the Jizhou Army by the imperial court, but was only with Liu Qing's general, even Xie An might not be able to protect Liao Li this time.

But even so, Liao Li paid a heavy price for his unauthorized departure and self-assertion.

As for what Liu Qing said to Liao Li, Xie An did not go out of his way to get to the bottom of it, because some things can still be ignored without mentioning them, whether it is for Liu Qing or Liao Li.

But no matter what, it's good that Liao Li's surname is saved, after all, Xie An does favor this fierce and resolute general, because Liao Li has followed him for many years, earlier than Fei Guo.

"Let's rest well these two days, and talk about everything when the injury is healed!"

When visiting Liao Li's injury, Xie An said.

"Yes, sir!"

Lying flat on the straw couch, Liao Li tried hard to hug his fists, but was stopped by Gou Gong beside Xie An. "General Liao is resting and recuperating from his injuries for the time being......"

Walking out of the makeshift tent with Xie An, Gou Gong turned around and forgot to glance at the tent, played with the golden fan in his hand, and said suspiciously, "General Liao's surname seems to have changed a little......

"Oh? Really? Xie An looked at Gou Gong in a little surprise, then sighed and shook his head and said, "The so-called not breaking or standing, this time he lost a general because of him, presumably he also has all kinds of feelings in his heart...... Let's hope for it! ——Xiangyu once commented that if Liao Li can hone his surname, his future achievements will never be under Fei Guo and Ma Dan! ”

"That's ......" Gou Gong nodded approvingly, after all, he also knew Liao Li's great feats so far. It is no exaggeration to say that Liao Li has the most military exploits in the Jizhou army, and even surpasses Fei Guo, but Xie An and Changsun Xiangyu have never dared to be promoted to Liao Li as the commander of the partial division, the reason is that Liao Li's performance is extremely unstable, and the downwind battle can be called an impeccable famous general, but in the case of headwinds, judgment and calmness are even worse than Su Xin and Li Jing.

However, after this incident, Liao Li does seem to have changed slightly, but as for what has changed and how much has changed, Xie An and Gou Gong can't see it for the time being.

"What's next?"

Walking with Xie An in the temporary camp, Gou Gong asked suspiciously.

Today's Zhou army has marched towards Jinling City, one of the few important cities in the south of the Yangtze River, because when Wei Hu successfully rescued the withered sheep, the Taiping army gave up Niuzhu and withdrew into Jinling.

In all fairness, Xie An was not very happy to see this, because there were more than 20,000 troops of Wei Hu stationed in Jinling City, and this time, with about 15,000 wounded and defeated soldiers of withered sheep, the strength of the army almost reached 30,000, not to mention that Jinling City is the premier city in the south of the Yangtze River, and the city wall is solid, with a wall of seven or eight zhang high, which is rare in the country, and it is not difficult to guess how heavy the price needs to be paid to conquer such a strong city.

"Not ideal, not ideal......" Walking in the temporary cantonment with his hands behind his back, Xie An looked up at the still clear sky and let out a long sigh.

Don't think that Xie An privately made an appointment with his brother-in-law, that is, the commander of the Niuzhu Taiping Army, that is, the performance of private feelings overshadowing justice, and it was for his own benefit, but in fact, Xie An had another important purpose in the war with Withered Sheep, that is, to divide the forces under the respective commands of Niu Zhu and Jinling, that is, Withered Sheep and Wei Hu.

The so-called siege of the city is not as good as attacking the camp, attacking the camp is not as good as attacking the field, and attacking the field is better than not attacking, if it is not necessary, who is willing to attack a city with a towering wall as a cover? The art of war, the husband and the fighter, five times the siege, ten times the siege. When the strength of the army is similar or even inferior to the enemy's army, it is natural that the city will not be attacked without attacking it.

Therefore, Xie An originally planned to solve the withered sheep in Niuzhu first, and it was best to completely annihilate the Niuzhu Taiping Army, and capture the withered sheep of his brother-in-law and return his wish, and then go to Jinling with the victorious soldiers. But unfortunately, the world is unpredictable, God knows how Wei Hu would have the courage to ignore the heavy land of Jinling and come to the aid of the withered sheep with half of his troops. If it were any of the other generals in the Taiping Army, Xie An didn't think they had the courage and righteousness.

"You can't lose a ...... by stealing chickens," Xie An shook his head and sighed.

Gou Gong smiled bitterly when he heard this, and suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and said in a low voice, "Anyway, the agreement between the adult and the little uncle is supposed to be won by the adult, right?" ”

Gou Gong said well, according to the agreement between Xie An and the withered sheep before the war, it was obvious that Xie An won, after all, Wei Hu belonged to an external force, and his intervention was not included in the previous agreement, otherwise, Xie An did not want to divide his troops with Li Xian, the king of the eight sages, as long as he attacked Niu Zhu with one brain, the withered sheep would definitely not be able to stop it.

"This kind of thing...... Who knows! Glancing up at the sky, Xie An said, "It depends on how the withered sheep thinks about this...... This time for him, the government is almost going to lose two generals, even if the withered sheep is the wife and uncle of the house, if it is stubborn, the government will have to apologize to Yiyi in the future......"

Gou Gong obviously heard the meaning of Xie An's words, his face changed slightly, and he said in a loud voice, "Don't make a decision first, I think that the little uncle will definitely feel the kindness of the adult, and he will not be obsessed and fall deeper and deeper......"

"I hope so!" Sighing lightly, Xie An said in a deep voice, "Ming said that when our army arrived in Jinling, we will start attacking the city. - By the way, this government asked you to send someone to Guangling to contact the king of the pit, this government wants to know the exact situation in Guangling at the moment, can you send someone? ”

"Don't worry, sir!" Arching his hand, Gou Gong Zhengse said, "The humble post has sent a few good players to Guangling, and there will be a return in three days!" - Your Excellency is worried about His Royal Highness the Eight Sages? ”

"Hmm......" Xie An nodded, frowned and said, "Wu Heng is a hero, the threat level is not below that of King Li Shen of Qin, this mansion is worried that the king of pit people will suffer......

"Not really, right?" Gou Gong was stunned, and said in surprise, "There are 50,000 soldiers on the side of the Xianwang Palace, and there are two people, Fei Guo and Ma Dan, ......."

"Then doesn't Wu Heng also have those five-party heavenly generals? Don't forget, Qi Zhi made it clear before his death that he was not the opponent of the left army's heavenly general Wei Zhuang...... If this is the case, there will be Wu Heng and the other four generals on the Taiping Army's side, a total of five handsome talents, and next to the King of the Pit Man, there are only three people, Ji Hong, Fei Guo, and Ma Dan...... Li Xian, that guy doesn't know martial arts yet...... Not optimistic! ”

Gou Gong nodded when he heard this, and said, "In this case, I will send a few more brothers to meet the ......."

"Hmm...... By the way, by the way, call Ding Qiu over. When Li Xian took the Jinling people to Guangling, the government had instructed Ding Qiu to send some brothers to Jinling City to spy on the situation, Jinling was the foundation of the Jinling people, and it had been operating for a long time, and the government was thinking that the Taiping army should not completely control the city. You tell Ding Qiu to think of a way, it's best to open a ......"

"I'm afraid this is not easy to ......" Gou Gong shook his head and said disapprerovingly, "Even though Jinling has been operating in Jinling for many years, and I also understand that the people of Jinling have their own doorways and paths in the city, but my lord must know that I slaughtered more than 100,000 people in the south of the Yangtze River in Jinling thirty years ago, and I want to come to Jinling more than my army...... As for the adults asking Ding Qiu to find a way to blend in with the guards at the gate, it is also as difficult as the sky, unless the Taiping army in Jinling City is completely stupid, otherwise it ......"

"This government also knows about this, so let's go and give it a try!"

"Yes!" With an arch of his hand, Gou Gong turned and left.

Glancing at the back of Gou Gong leaving, Xie Ancheng looked up at the sky with his hands behind his back, and couldn't help but see the faces of the two sisters and brothers, Yiyi and Withered Sheep, in front of him.

"But you can't do it again, so you know what's wrong, dry sheep......"

Xie An muttered.

At the same time, in the hall on the west side of the city guard mansion in Jinling City, the withered sheep was sitting at the head of the left side, calmly listening to a large group of Jinling Taiping army generals chattering in the house to state the facts of the defeat of the withered sheep.

To put it simply, it was to belittle and suppress his withered sheep, elevate his general Wei Hu, force the withered sheep to hand over his military power, and integrate the Niuzhu Taiping Army into the Jinling Taiping Army to meet the Xie An army that was about to arrive in Jinling.

"Why?!"

Finally, Zhang Feng, the general of the withered sheep side, couldn't help it, took the case, glared at the generals in that row, and said angrily, "Why do you want me to be all integrated into your Jinling army and obey you and wait for the Jinling army?" ”

"General Zhang, don't be impatient, the last general is just judging things by facts!" A general also stood up on the opposite side, and after glancing at the withered sheep, he said in a deep voice, "If it weren't for my general's night trip to the rescue, your Niu Zhu army would have been annihilated by the Zhou soldiers!" - You don't deny this, do you? ”

"Jizhou soldiers have always been difficult, and you don't know it!" With a sneer, Xu Chang, the general of the Taiping Army of Niu Zhu, said lightly, "At the beginning of the Battle of Jiangling in Jingzhou, Li Xian, the King of the Eight Sages, faced Li Shen, the king of Qin, and Li Yan, the king of Chu. The combined strength of the rebellious Three Kings and the Zhulu Vassal Kings was nearly 180,000, but Li Xian relied on 100,000 Jizhou soldiers under his hands, and when the grain route was cut off, he fought evenly with the Three Kings......"

As soon as he said this, one of the generals of the Jinling Taiping Army sneered and said, "How can the Three Kings Rebel Army be compared to my Taiping Army?!" ”

"......" Withered Sheep glanced at the man who spoke, and sneered in his heart.

[It's really arrogant and tight!] ]

The withered sheep shook his head secretly.

Indeed, that general's words are too arrogant, you must know that the Baishui Army under the command of Li Shen, the King of Qin, is not only not weak, but even stronger than the Jizhou Army, where can the Taiping Army be compared? What's more, there is also a great hero in the Baishui Army, who is comparable to Liang Qiuhao, the third generation commander of the Taiping Army, not to mention that the Jinling Taiping Army is not an opponent, even if it is the direct elite under Wu Heng, I am afraid it will not be able to defeat it.

After all, the biggest reason why Li Shen, the king of Qin, was defeated was that Liu Qing was lucky enough to get rid of the thunder.

Ah, just a fluke.

If it weren't for the fact that Jin Lei was so conceited of his own martial arts that he strayed into the trap set by Liu Qing and Xie An and was finally killed by thousands of Zhou soldiers, how could the White Water Army be defeated so easily? And the White Water Army was undefeated, and Li Shen, the king of Qin, was not afraid at all.

It is no exaggeration to say that at that time, Xie An and Liu Qing took a lot of effort to get rid of Li Shen, the king of Qin, but now the general of the Jinling Taiping Army said that Li Shen, the king of Qin, and the Baishui army under his command are vulnerable, which is simply arrogant to the limit.

But because the other party is a subordinate under his good brother Wei Hu, it is not good to speak up about this matter.

Moreover, he really has no qualifications to talk about this matter at the moment, after all, he has just been defeated by Xie An, if it weren't for Wei Hu leading the army to rescue, his subordinates would obviously only be wiped out.

But the problem is that these generals of the Jinling Taiping Army relied on the grace of saving his Niu Zhu army, and made several disrespectful remarks, which really made the withered sheep feel unhappy.

Seeing that the withered sheep closed his eyes and did not say a word, the generals of the Jinling Taiping Army thought that the withered sheep was speechless, and his words were even sharper, and he only heard that the hearts of the generals such as Wang Jian, Zhang Feng, and Xu Chang under the command of the withered sheep were on fire.

"My general is not good at military affairs? Fart! Following Zhang Feng, Xu Chang also took the case and rebuked angrily, "My general has repeatedly prevented Li Xianqiang, the eight sages of the Zhou State, from crossing the Yangtze River in Hengjiang, and it is impec......cable to sit in Niuzhu to defend the Yangtze River."

"How could the invulnerable be succeeded by that Xie An? - Could it be that seeing that the commander of the Zhou army is his brother-in-law, the Tianshu God General deliberately defeated the army? As he spoke, the general glanced at the withered sheep with his eyes closed.

"What did you say?!" Xu Chang was furious when he heard this, and his right hand was holding the sword on his waist.

"Isn't it?" The general also stood up, grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist with his right hand, and said coldly, "It is rumored that the Heavenly Divine General is the wife and brother of Xie An, the commander of the Zhou Army, is this true?" ”

Xu Chang was furious, and just drew his sword but was stopped by Wang Jian, and immediately, Wang Jian looked at the general and said in a deep voice, "This matter belongs to this matter, and that matter belongs to that matter, how can it be mixed up?" - Even against my own brother-in-law, my general has never spared his hand! ”

"I'm afraid not!" That will sneer.

Wang Jian frowned when he heard this, and Xu Chang beside him was even more angry, and reprimanded angrily, "Wang Jian, you let go of me, and wait for me to slaughter this bloody bastard!" ”

"Didn't General Ben tell him about the central matter?" Seeing this, the general did not panic, drew out his saber and said with a sneer, "It's okay, and ask Chu to come and see Your Excellency's martial arts!" ”

Xu Chang pushed Wang Jian away when he heard this, and was about to face the general angrily, but the withered sheep suddenly opened his eyes and said lightly, "Xu Chang, this place is Jinling, not my Niuzhu." We are guests, so how can we quarrel with our hosts? - Put away your sword and sit down! ”

"But the general ......," Xu Chang said with an unwilling expression.

"Sit down!" The withered sheep said calmly, "Isn't it just to be ridiculed for a few words, after all, we are the generals of the defeated army, since ancient times, the generals of the defeated army have not been treated, this is not an uncommon thing, it is commonplace!" - As for what you said to co-opt my Niu Zhu Army, what do you say to them? The generals here don't have the power to decide on this matter! ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the generals of the Jinling Taiping Army changed drastically, after all, the withered sheep turned around in their words to express a fact, that is, they were not qualified to talk about the matter of incorporation.

"God will be so proud......"

The general of the Jinling Taiping Army, whose surname was Chu, couldn't bear it, and said in a weird manner, "Even after the defeat of the army, he is so arrogant, could it be that the commander of the Zhou army is his brother-in-law?" ”

"......" Under the indignant gaze of Wang Jian, Xu Chang, and Zhang Feng, the withered sheep glanced at the general indifferently and asked calmly, "What is your name?" ”

Seeing that the withered sheep was calm and calm, Na Jiang seemed a little uneasy, frowned and said, "Chu Ping...... How? ”

"Chu Ping......" muttered, the withered sheep suddenly looked at him, and asked in a deep voice, "Did Wei Hu tell you to treat me so rudely?" ”

Seeing the sharp gaze of the withered sheep, the general of the Jinling Taiping Army named Chu Ping changed his face slightly and remained silent.

Glancing at Chu Ping, the withered sheep said coldly, "I'm asking you, Chu Ping!" - Or do you want me to ask Wei Hu in person? ”

Chu Ping's face changed slightly when he heard this, he gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice, "My general has not ordered ......."

"Lord God!" The withered sheep said lightly.

Chu Ping was stunned when he heard this, looked at the withered sheep suspiciously, and asked, "What?" ”

I saw the withered sheep glance at Chu Ping, and said lightly, "Call the god general!" ”

Hearing this, Chu Ping's complexion changed suddenly, and he looked at the withered sheep with a little anger, but after all, he still didn't dare to offend too much, and said in a reluctant voice, "God will ...... your lord."

"Say it again!"

“…… My general has not commanded it, and the god will ......"

"Then absorb my Niu Zhu Army, but what does Wei Hu mean?"

"No...... God will be your lord! ”

"Then what are you waiting here to chew on the root of your tongue?"

"I ...... The end will be convicted! Chu Ping clenched his fists and apologized, although he was angry in his heart, he didn't dare to say anything. After all, no matter what you say, the withered sheep in front of him is also the Heavenly Pivot Divine General of the Six Divine Generals, and it is not something he can offend.

Seeing that the withered sheep taught this Chu Ping a lesson with a plain sentence or two sentences, Wang Jian, Xu Chang, and Zhang Feng were proud in their hearts, but on the other hand, they were all shocked and restless when they faced the generals of the Jinling Taiping Army.

They never imagined that even after the defeat of the withered sheep, they would have this momentum and courage.

At this moment, a soldier came out of the side hall and knocked on the ground at the withered sheep, "Lord God, my general asked Lord God to go to the inner room to discuss something......

Withered Yang frowned slightly when he heard this, of course he knew that the general in the mouth of this soldier was Wei Hu, and this time Wei Hu also sent someone to invite him to come, but he didn't know why he didn't arrive.

[Could it be that he is seriously injured?] ]

The withered sheep felt a little guilty in his heart, after all, Wei Hu was injured by Mo Fei and many Zhou soldiers in order to save him, although it was a skin injury, it was indeed extremely serious.

With uneasiness in his heart, the withered sheep followed the soldier to the house where Wei Hu was recuperating from his injuries.

However, before he could take a step into the house, the withered sheep chuckled in his heart, because he saw Wei Zhuang standing on the wall of the house and beckoned to him.

Looking at the strange smile on Wei Zhuang's face, the withered sheep had a vague bad premonition.