Liu Yuliang's words made Li Xin silent for a while, he boasted that he had thought about it very well, but after all, he still missed the fact that there would be countless people in the DPRK and the local government to compete for credit. Saying that, how can he be so shameless, he believes that Zhang Sizhi and his ilk will never let go of any opportunity to suppress themselves, but Sun Chengzong will never do such a thing.

However, Liu Yuliang's words made him speechless for a moment, "Sun Zhisheng may not have the intention of fighting for merit, but have you ever thought that the generals under him will definitely not have this kind of thought?" Don't forget, Keding Jinzhou restored the Guanning Jin defense line, this is an unprecedented thing since the Wanli Dynasty Jianzhou Jurchen Xing Rebellion, those generations of warriors in western Liaoning suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Guanning Jin, how could they watch the great achievements of Hualuo Farewell? ”

Li Xin gasped and was silent. Liu Yuliang followed with a sneer, "After all, Sun Zhisheng is half paralyzed and has difficulty moving, and many details of power are already difficult to control one by one, so those martial artists will naturally look for opportunities to act." When the raw rice is ripe, how can he suppress his subordinates and administer justice for you? ”

This made Li Xinshi unable to find any reason to refute Liu Yuliang, this kind of cognition made him very uncomfortable, but Liu Yuliang still didn't finish speaking. This is not to say that Sun Zhisheng disregards his feelings, but in front of the overall situation of the imperial court, he can no longer choose, and many times necessary personal sacrifices are inevitable...... So, if you still remember Sun Zhisheng's kindness back then, don't let him fall to the point where he has to make this choice. ”

Li Xin immediately bowed and saluted, "Li Xin is stupid, please teach me the elder pavilion!" ”

How do you know that Liu Yuliang suddenly smiled, his face full of disapproval, "If you are still stupid, then there are few people in the world who are not stupid, since you have already made up your mind, why bother the old man to do this?" ”

Liu Yuliang is really cunning, Li Xin saw that his mind couldn't hide this person, so he told the truth: "Don't hide it, Li Xin has already sent his henchmen to hold Li Xin's handwritten military newspaper, and hurry to Beijing for 800 miles, and go straight to Da Nei!" Even if the young people have the heart to rob the Three Guards of the credit, they have to see if they have the ability. ”

After Liu Yuliang heard this, his eyes suddenly dimmed, and they were full of worry. "I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with it so lightly."

Li Xin didn't know who they were in Liu Yuliang's words, but they would not go beyond Zhang Sizhi and the others, "Elder Ge doesn't have to worry too much, what they can grab is nothing more than to take over the work of planning first, and second, to send a large army to recover the fortress along the way, if it becomes an established fact, the DPRK and China will naturally not be able to distinguish it...... However, no matter how much you look at the center, those who have ill intentions can't reach out after all......"

"It seems that General Li understands very well in his heart, but you ignore that Shanhaiguan is stationed near Liu Wan's army...... At the beginning, the old man insisted on letting them send troops, but no one responded, do you think about it, how can you let go of the fat on your lips right now? ”

Li Xin immediately denied Liu Yuliang's conjecture and bluntly said that Sun Chengzong would definitely not sit down for such a thing. Liu Yuliang did not refute, and after sneering three times in a row, he continued: "The old man only asks you one thing, if you can answer, you can know a qiē." ”

"So Elder Ge, please ask!"

"Okay, the old man asks you, how many people are in the Three Guards, how many fortresses are there in Guan Ningjin, and how many people are needed to restore these fortresses one by one?"

Li's confidence jumped suddenly, but his heart gradually sank. The Three Guards were no more than 10,000 people, including cavalry and artillery, and there were more than 3,000 auxiliaries, but they could not restore the dozens of fortresses in the western Liaoning corridor one by one under any circumstances.

And six or seven of these fortresses were destroyed and repaired by Hong Chengchou, and later although they were captured by the Qing army, they were not all burned, so these fortresses are very important to the imperial court, and they are also very important to the Qing army.

Therefore, the control of these fortresses must have become the top priority of the Ming army. But the size of the Three Guards is obviously not suitable for this task, so ......

Seeing that Li Xin was stunned, Liu Yuliang smiled: "How? If you have figured it out, since this is the case, you should also know the urgency of the current situation! ”

Li Xin suddenly felt extremely depressed, these pillars of the Ming Dynasty, one by one, were outsiders in foreign wars, insiders in civil wars, resisting the Tartars one by one, but fighting for power and profit internally were more enthusiastic than one another. Liu Yuliang has been immersed in the Ming officialdom for decades, and he is naturally familiar with this set, for him, these may be just one of the ordinary ones, but for Li Xin and the Three Guards, this is extremely chilling. The Three Guards sat in a lonely city, and no one rescued them, but now that the situation is clear, the people who grabbed the merit are planning to rush up.

This only aroused Li Xin's anger, since these shameless people want to rob the merit, then he just wants to let these people succeed, he wants to see whether it is a foot higher or a foot higher.

"How? Does General Lee have a plan? ”

Li Xin suddenly came back to his senses, looked at Liu Yuliang, who was still very weak on the sickbed, and was suddenly moved. This old man was also one of the many ministers who suppressed him before, and now he has this encounter in Liaoxi, but he didn't expect that he also has a temperament, which can be said to be a determination to die that not everyone can have.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Xin took a few steps back, his hands were dressed, and he solemnly shook Liu Yuliang to the ground, "Pavilion Elder Gaoyi, willing to save Li Xin from fire and water, please accept Li Xin's worship!" ”

Liu Yuliang didn't shirk either, and after receiving Li Xin's worship, he suddenly smiled bitterly: "The old man accepted your worship, and you and I will be cleared, and from now on, you don't owe me Liu Yuliang." In fact, the old man brought these thousands of people to no importance, and the old man still has self-knowledge......"

Li Xin disagreed, "The elder of the pavilion is fallacious, the only one who is willing to come here regardless of his own safety, such kindness is as heavy as a mountain!" ”

"In the Ming officialdom, the thing of grace and righteousness is the least valuable, the old man might as well say it bluntly, what can bind people tightly together is neither kindness nor affection, only the word benefit!"

Li Xinzhong moved, and suddenly realized that Liu Yuliang had a lot of words today, but he was not like the cunning person he used to be. Looking at Liu Yuliang again, he suddenly coughed suddenly, as if he had endured it for a long time, and this cough coughed for most of the day, as if he wanted to cough out the whole lung.

Liu Yuliang finally stopped coughing, and when he raised his head, Li Xin found a trace of blood at the corner of his mouth. This coughing up blood is said to be light and light, and it is said that heavy stool can be life-threatening at any time.

"Ge Lao, you are ......" Li Xin pointed at Liu Yuliang and stumbled. Liu Yuliang raised his hand with great effort, wiped the blood off the corner of his mouth, and said with a wry smile: "The old man's situation, the old man knows that this injury is indefinite." ”

Li Xin had carefully asked Junzhong Langzhong about Liu Yuliang's injury before, but he had lost too much blood, since the bleeding had stopped, and he had survived a few days and even the fever had subsided, why did he cough up blood again? Could there be something else going on?

"Someone!" Even though Li Xindang passed the general Zhonglangzhong, Liu Yuliang waved his hand and said: "No need to pass it on, they can't cure the old man's injury." ”

Li Xin's heart gradually sank, "Can Elder Ge bluntly say where the injury is, and if you don't say it, how can you know that it can't be cured?" ”

Liu Yuliang laboriously lifted the quilt, lifted the close-fitting middle coat again, and a bloody hole was revealed on his chest, which seemed to be still bubbling with pus.

Li Xin was taken aback, this was obviously a wound caused by the musket projectile, he hurried up a few steps, and asked with concern: "Has the projectile ever been taken out?" ”

Liu Yuliang put down his middle coat, covered the cup again, and showed a wry smile: "That Langzhong is also very good, Shengsheng deducted the projectile, but the old man's cough is worse day by day, and it is difficult to breathe......"

The soldier roared into Liu Yuliang's bedroom, kneeling in front of Li Xin and begging for mercy again and again. Seeing this, Na Langzhong naturally knew that Li Xin must have come to ask him for guilt. Liu Yuliang pleaded for him.

"I have to complain about this matter, it was the old man who made him keep his mouth shut." Liu Yuliang paused for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "Not only for you, but even for anyone, no one knows about the old man's injury." ”

Li Xin was surprised, it seems that Liu Yuliang cares a lot about the leakage of his injury, will other people know about his injury, will there be any adverse effects? Li Xin thought about it for a while, but there was no result, so he didn't think about it deeply, but turned his attention to Liu Yuliang's wound.

According to Liu Yuliang, it seems to hurt the chest, could it be that there are symptoms of pneumothorax? But he is not a doctor, even if he knows some symptoms, he can't diagnose them, and he doesn't know how to deal with them, maybe it's really like Liu Yuliang's hunch, whether he is dead or alive can only depend on God's will.

Li Xin turned his head to look at the kneeling soldier Langzhong on the ground, and knew that he couldn't be blamed for this, so he ordered him to get up and asked carefully. Lang Zhong replied worriedly: "The projectile in the wound of the elder has been taken out, according to the villain's experience, since the projectile has been taken out, as long as you are careful to raise it in the future, it will be healed nine times out of ten, and the general does not need to worry too much." ”

After all, Lang Zhong is more experienced than Li Xin, and this person can say so, which proves that Liu Yuliang's chance of recovery is still very high, and as for Liu Yuliang, as a patient, he is injured and troubled, and it is understandable that he has a little despair. Thinking of this, Li Xin put his mind at ease, if Liu Yuliang died because of this, he was afraid that he would feel guilty for the rest of his life.

"I wonder who General Li sent to Beijing?"

At the same time as Liu Yuliang asked this sentence, dozens of horsemen and horses were crossing the breach less than ten miles west of the entrance of the Great Wall Yiyuan.

One of them sighed: "I can't imagine that the Great Wall has been broken everywhere by the Tartars, General Niu, do you think this Ming can still be saved?" ”