Yinbo came out of Linyuan City, like a bird that escaped from the cage, and hurried all the way.

He was really anxious, and he couldn't wait to have the legendary flying supernatural power, and he stepped under Xiangyang City in one step.

He didn't want to explain anything for Wei Ba, but because he saw a sentence in Li Yan's letter: Xiangyang City is broken.

It was this sentence that made Yinbo happily agree to Wei Ba, just to return to Xiangyang as soon as possible. Because it was really an unexpected accident.

It is not easy to attack the city, and it is even more difficult to attack Xiangyang. Since Cao Cao was defeated in Chibi in the thirteenth year of Jian'an, and Cao Ren abandoned Jiangling and retreated to Xiangyang in the following year, Xiangyang City is the place where the three kingdoms of Wu, Shu and Wei fought each other, and after more than 20 years of war, Xiangyang City has not been captured. Even Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, which was powerful back then, failed to conquer Xiangyang, and even failed to conquer Fancheng, the auxiliary city of Xiangyang.

According to pre-war estimates, even if the sailors of Shu Han had an absolute advantage and could cut off the Han River, divide Fancheng and Xiangyang into two, and turn Xiangyang City into a lonely city, it would take two to three months to besiege the city, plus one or two months of siege, and Li Yan would not be able to conquer Xiangyang in less than half a year.

For half a year, Wei had plenty of time to mobilize forces and launch a counterattack when Li Yan was being dragged upset. If most of the 50,000 or 60,000 people led by Li Yan can be annihilated under Xiangyang City, then most of the living Liliang of Shu will be wiped out, and Wei can calmly counterattack, recover Guanzhong, and even attack Yizhou, and then condescendingly, and then attack Eastern Wu, and complete the great cause of unifying the world.

Sima Yi estimated it this way, and Yinbo also thought so, and he also passed the news to Sima Yi in the same way. He only needed to report the composition and number of Li Yan's troops to Sima Yi. It can be roughly concluded that the progress of Li Yan's siege of the city can be determined, and Sima Yi can make corresponding arrangements. But now things are very unexpected, Li Yan actually conquered Xiangyang City in just over a month, which greatly surprised everyone, and it will definitely disrupt Sima Yi's Jihua.

Moreover, the rapid loss of Xiangyang would cause great fear to the entire Wei State. At the beginning, Guan Yu was just about to conquer Fancheng, and Cao Cao had already considered moving the capital, and if Xiangyang was lost, the consequences would be even more serious.

And all of this is inseparable from his report. Yin Fan was shocked, and he wanted to rush back to Xiangyang immediately to see what he wanted. He hoped that Li Yan just wanted to scare and scare Wei Ba. Show what you're made of. Let Wei Ba bow his head. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't understand how Li Yan could conquer Xiangyang City in a month's time.

It is more than 600 miles from Linyuan to Xiangyang, and there is a big river in the middle. It only took two days for Yinbo to arrive. When he was unkempt. Exhausted standing under the city of Xiangyang. Look at the big banner at the head of Xiangyang City, and then look at the earthen walls outside the city that are being demolished and there is still a little remnant left. He had roughly understood Li Yan's tactics, but he was already powerless.

This was something he didn't know beforehand, and of course he couldn't report it to Sima Yi. If he had known earlier that Li Yan would use such a tactic, his estimation might not have been so outrageous.

"Yuanfeng came so fast." Li Yan was in a good mood, his face was full of red light, and he was as kind as a spring breeze, even when he mentioned the topic of Wei Ba, his attitude was very relaxed. "It seems that he has not forgotten who he is. Yuanfeng, you have worked hard, when will Wei Ba leave? ”

Yin Fan put away his frustration, took out the Ming Jue Cui Feather that Wei Ba gave him from his bag, and put it in front of Li Yan. Li Yan glanced at it and smiled slightly: "Wei Ba is so generous, these are rare treasures." ”

"If you ask for something, of course you are willing to do it." Yin Fan said calmly: "He sent me these because he wanted me to say a few kind words for him in front of the general." ”

"Oh?" Li Yan said with interest: "What does he want you to say?" ”

"He wanted me to tell the general that there was still some grain in Jiangnan, just as promised to the general at the beginning, 50,000 troops, half a year's grain, and if necessary, a little more squeezed to provide one or two months more. However, he only has more than 20,000 soldiers now, and he has to guard against Sun Quan, so he can only draw out 10,000 people at most to support the general. He said that there were already 60,000 generals, and there were no more than 10,000 of him, and no less than 10,000. He didn't want to come and share the merit with the general. ”

The smile on Li Yan's face was even stronger, but the meaning was a little more sarcastic, and his eyes became sharper.

"And what do you see for yourself?"

"He's just taking advantage of the opportunity to blackmail." Yin Fan said bluntly: "I am under house arrest in Linyuan, and I can't see much at all. However, judging from the scene I saw, Wei Ba's so-called 20,000 soldiers all refer to the standing army that is more guarded all year round, and does not include those reserve troops who cultivate when they are busy and practice martial arts in their spare time, if he levies all these reserves, he can at least have another 20,000 people, or even 40,000. He didn't come to Xiangyang, but he just took advantage of the situation. ”

Li Yan crossed his hands in front of his abdomen, his fingers crackling, just like his flickering eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking. After a long time, he sneered: "He doesn't want to share the credit with me, then I'll let him lead the army alone." Young people, it is inevitable that they want to be more comfortable, not to mention that he is still a famous young man. ”

Li Yan specially said the word "famous general" very clearly, and a feeling of disdain was self-evident.

Yin Bo was surprised and delighted, and was surprised that Li Yan wanted Wei Ba to lead the army alone, which was obviously an unexpected situation. Wei Ba's surprise victory with his troops is already known to the world. If Li Yan leads the main force, Wei Ba leads other troops to be strange, and Qi is relying on each other, the pressure on Wei will inevitably increase greatly, which is even more dangerous than Wei Ba and Li Yan joining forces. Happily, he could hear that Li Yan was very dissatisfied with Wei Ba's attitude, and the contradiction between the two was heating up rapidly.

"The general asked him to lead a soldier alone, where will he point it?" Yin Fan carefully concealed his mood and asked with concern.

Li Yan glanced at him, a faint anger in his eyes. "Yuanfeng, as you said, it's not that Wei Ba doesn't want to come, he just wants to take advantage of the opportunity. I only remember now that he had proposed a plan to me before, but it was too risky and I rejected it. He didn't insist, I just thought he was just talking casually, but now it seems that he is a thief and still wants to take risks. In that case, let him take the risk, and he will not have a long memory without suffering. ”

When Yinbo heard this, he couldn't help but be anxious. He was responsible for most of Li Yan's correspondence, including his correspondence with Wei Ba, so why didn't he have any impression of it? Wei Ba has already had Jihua to surprise his troops, how can he go anywhere?

"Don't think about it." Li Yan said sullenly: "This is what he asked Zhao Tong to tell me." ”

Zhao Tong? Hidden Fan caught something at once. Zhao Tong is a miscellaneous general, and according to his level, he can't bring his family with him, not to mention that in order to enforce morale this time, Li Yan himself didn't bring his family. But Zhao Tong has a concubine by his side, and she is the princess of Wu State. Probably to take care of Wei Ba's face, Li Yan didn't say anything. Now that I think about it, this princess of Wu didn't bring it casually, probably for another purpose.

Yinbo suddenly thought of Zhuge Ke.

"General, Wei Ba...... Want to pass through the Wu realm? ”

"Clever!" Li Yan laughed, but did not continue to speak, but looked at him left and right: "Have you seen Zhao Yun?" ”

Although Yinbo wanted to ask the truth, he didn't dare to show too many traces, so as not to arouse Li Yan's suspicions. He knew very well that although Li Yan attached great importance to him, he still had some reservations in his heart, after all, he was a descendant. With Li Yan's character, it is already commendable that he can gain such trust from him in such a short period of time.

"General Zhao is in Xiangguan now, and I don't have a chance to see him."

"Zhao Yun is the person in the shadow of the prime minister, don't look at him now, the father and son are all very close to Wei Ba, but as long as the prime minister gives an order, Zhao Yun will immediately abandon Wei Ba. When he came to Jingzhou, it seemed that the prime minister's help to Wei Ba was actually just a hand stretched out by the prime minister. Li Yan smiled: "Since this is the case, then I will also give Wei Ba a hand and help the prime minister." ”

Yinfan frowned slightly, as if puzzled.

Li Yan smiled proudly: "You don't know, my Han also has a famous general, who is as famous as Zhao Yun, and now he guards Yong'an." Didn't Wei Ba want soldiers, that's good, the prime minister gave him a Zhao Yun, and I gave him a Chen Dao. ”

Yin Fan suddenly realized, and then smiled and arched his hand: "The general is really clever, pushing the boat down the river, without showing traces, it is really ...... It's really impressive. ”

Li Yan hahadaxiao.

Chen went to the official residence to protect the army, and once commanded Liu Bei's personal guard army, the Baiwei Army, and was Liu Bei's loyal minister. Between Li Yan and Zhuge Liang, he is also on the side of Zhuge Liang, who holds the name of righteousness. He was sent to Yong'an, not so much to strengthen Li Yan's liliang, but to be a wedge arranged by Zhuge Liang to divide Li Yan's military power.

Now Li Yan transferred him to Wei Ba's side, just like Zhuge Liang transferred Zhao Yun from Guanzhong to Jingzhou, it was a gentle knife. Liliang, which seems to be enhancing Wei Ba, is actually containing Wei Ba. In addition, Li Yan also took advantage of the situation to push away a containment arranged by Zhuge Liang by his side and took back control of Yong'an, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Yinbo complimented Li Yan so much, but it was not entirely superficial, Li Yan's hand was indeed beautiful.

You must know that like Zhao Yun's leading generals, Chen Zhi is a protector, and they are all people of the forbidden army system, and they are more noble than Wei Ba, the general of Zhennan. When he came to Wei Ba's side, if Wei Ba treated him as a subordinate, it would be rude. However, if he is not treated by his subordinates, he will not be able to completely control the direction of the battle.

Li Yan gave Wei Ba a heavy gift, so heavy that he had to accept it, but he couldn't swallow it.

"Yuanfeng, I have to work hard for you, and then I will return to Linyuan, tell Wei Ba my decision, and see what else he can say this time." Li Yan sneered: "In addition, you tell him that my patience is limited, the Northern Expedition is a major national event, and no one can be allowed to push back for a little personal profit." The prime minister is looking at us in Guanzhong, so he'd better not be confused. ”

Regarding the threat implied in Li Yan's words, Yin Fan understood it and bowed down to receive the order

(To be continued......)