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After a pause in his voice, noticing Liu Zhang's erratic suspicious eyes, Li Li continued: "In fact, the more than 200 armor soldiers you bought with a lot of money did not die on the battlefield, only more than 20 of them were killed, and the remaining 200 people all settled incognito. Not only did they hide in Yizhou, but even the other 700 or so armorers who pretended to leave also stayed in Yizhou, and they all gathered together to form a village close to the Nanban tribe.

In addition, in recent years, tens of thousands of Liangzhou or Sanfu migrants have entered Yizhou every year, and then they have been collectively repatriated to southwestern counties. These displaced people, mostly young and strong men, were placed on the southwestern border, and then joined up with the previous 1,000 warriors, and then formed larger villages, which grew over time to form Zhendian. For many years, in addition to resisting the raids of the Nanban tribes, they have been living a relatively peaceful life, marrying wives and having children, and the population has been increasing, and by the end of last year, there were more than 20,000 young and strong people.

Until two months ago, Yongnian and Ziyuan were ordered to recruit new troops, so more than 20,000 young men were all conscripted into the army, put on their armor again, and went to the battlefield again after many years, and won the victory, defeated Zhao Wei's rebels, and became the backbone of guarding Chengdu City, and now stationed at the north gate. This army, presumably Ji Yu should be no stranger, he is the 'Dongzhou soldiers' who helped you quell the rebellion, originally there were more than 40,000 people in the battalion, and after a few battles, there were still more than 20,000 elite armor soldiers, and more than eighty percent of them were 'Xiliang soldiers' who fled from my Xiliang. ”

As he spoke, the smile on Li Li's face became stronger and stronger, and the smile became brighter and brighter. Liu Zhang trembled with laughter, and his whole body trembled. His face was pale and bloodless, and he stretched out his hand to point at Li Li in horror. His throat was choked, and he seemed to want to say something but couldn't open his mouth.

"Ahh After being frightened for a long time, Liu Zhang finally screamed, and gasped rapidly, as if he was out of breath after a strenuous exercise, his face was like a red date, and his breath was like a cow.

Looking at Li Li with an incredulous face, Liu Zhang's eyes were full of fear, and the horror was beyond measure. Thousands of calculations are counted. But he never expected that the "Dongzhou soldiers" he had high hopes for turned out to be a "strange soldier" planted by Li Li'an in Yizhou.

At this moment, Liu Zhang's inner shock was indescribable, he was almost suffocated, and he almost fainted on the spot. Obviously, this strange army was the last straw that crushed Liu Zhang's camel, completely disintegrating his remaining fighting spirit, destroying the last glimmer of hope, and destroying his luck in one fell swoop.

It was so unexpected. What a surprise!

Liu Zhang couldn't accept this reality at all, and didn't believe that what Li Li said was true.

The Dongzhou soldiers were the last new force to rescue Yizhou from danger, and they were also the strongest battalion of soldiers and horses in the Yizhou army, and they put down Zhao Wei's rebellion in one fell swoop at the beginning of their formation. It can be described as a victory, and its combat effectiveness is unprecedentedly strong. For this reason, Liu Zhang has high hopes for it. He did not hesitate to equip the best weapons and armor in the treasury to the Dongzhou soldiers, and specially purchased more than 5,000 war horses from the Western Regions from the Xihai caravan. A team of 5,000 Yizhou warriors was formed.

This time, the Xiliang army besieged the city, and Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren to lead the men and horses of his headquarters to garrison the east gate. confronted Zhou Yu's army; Lei Tong led the soldiers and horses who retreated from Fushui Pass to garrison the south gate, and confronted Zhao Yun's unequaled iron cavalry; Deng Xian led 15,000 men to garrison Ximen and confronted the Qin Gong camp led by Huang Zhong; The north gate was the top priority, and Liu Zhang's teacher Pang Xi led the Dongzhou soldiers to garrison and confront the Longxiang battalion under Ma Chao's tent.

It was precisely because of this that Wu Yi was left out in the cold, and the Ximen garrison should have been led by him, but Liu Zhang replaced him and replaced Deng Xian as the guard. Since then, he has been excluded from the state government, so that he, the general with the oldest seniority, one of the five major lieutenant generals in Yizhou, has been reduced to a dispensable marginal general. It is no wonder that Dong He was quite surprised when he saw Wu Yi coming to the state governor's mansion late at night, because he was not qualified to participate in the secret meeting of the state government at all.

It is undeniable that Liu Zhang did have some foresight. Since the loss of Jianmen Pass, he has lost trust in Wu Yi and Wu Lan, the two generals of the same clan, and no longer entrusts them with important tasks, deliberately marginalizing them and leaving them idle, belonging to mobile generals who are ready to be dispatched at any time. As everyone knows, it is precisely because of his deliberate estrangement from Wu Yi that Wu Yi did not hesitate to take refuge in Li Li, and did his best to help Li Li seize the state governor's mansion.

Compared with Wu Yi, the most unacceptable thing for Liu Zhang was that he didn't drive Zhang Song to suddenly defect, and he abandoned him and secretly took refuge in Li Li. You must know that in the past two years, Zhang Song and Pang Xi have been his two most trusted subordinates, and they have to consult their opinions on all military and political affairs, and then they will handle them personally. It is because the two of them are well aware of the affairs in Yizhou, including the treasury and the defense of soldiers and horses in the governor's mansion, and they are also in charge. Now Pang Xi led the army to garrison the north gate, and the guards in the palace were taken over by Zhang Song, and the armor soldiers inside and outside the state capital were all arranged by Zhang Song.

But now, Zhang Song actually betrayed him, and in a blink of an eye, he became the internal response to Li Li's entry into the mansion.

In the face of such a great change, how can Liu Zhang accept the cold facts in front of him, and how can he be embarrassed?

In a trance, Liu Zhang's face was like ashes, his expression was gloomy, and he trembled in horror for a long time before he gradually calmed down. Then he slowly raised his head, looked indifferently at Zhang Song and Wu Yi in the hall, and said in a deep voice: "I never expected that the Dongzhou soldiers I painstakingly assembled were actually married to the general, and in an instant they became the biggest threat to subverting the state city. It's just that I really can't understand why the general is so sure that I will form the Dongzhou Army, and recruit displaced people to form an army? Could it be that the general really has the ability to predict the unpredictable and unpredictable prophet? Obviously, Liu Zhang still did not believe that the Dongzhou soldiers were a group of soldiers and horses that Li Li had planted in Yizhou in advance. If this qiē is true, then it is incredible!

Could it be that Li Li is really possessed by the gods as rumored, and the destiny of heaven returns? That being the case, why did he defeat Jizhou in the first place and bury more than 200,000 troops in one fell swoop?

After Li Li heard this, his expression changed slightly, a hint of brilliance flashed in his eyes, and then his expression was calm, with a confident smile on his face. After thinking about it for a while, he smiled and said: "Ji Yu praised it, Li is just an ordinary man, how dare he call himself a god and an unknown prophet." Speaking of which, the reason why I arranged for the soldiers of Liangzhou County to come to Yizhou in disguise was to defend Ji Yu against the raids of the Southern Barbarians, after all, you and I have a deep brotherly relationship, and we should do our best for my brother. However, in order not to make Ji Yu suspicious and cause unnecessary misunderstandings, I didn't know that I would meet you in advance. The reason for this, presumably Ji Yu should be able to understand, who made us brothers, I know that Ji Yu is suspicious and jealous, so there are some things that can be done but not said, otherwise you are afraid that you will have trouble sleeping for a long time, and you will be able to get rid of these tens of thousands of young people.

As for the civil strife in Yizhou, Ji Yu is a fan of the authorities, while I am a bystander, and I have long been a spectator, and I have a premonition that the civil strife in Yizhou will happen sooner or later, but Ji Yu is unaware of it and doesn't know it. Since Ji Yu took Yizhou, he has been obsessed with wine, neglected military and political affairs, and all military and political affairs have relied on Zhao Wei, who has long history, so that Zhao Wei is getting bigger day by day, as if one person is above 10,000 people, and one hand covers the sky. In the long run, Yizhou has formed a situation where the lord is weak and the minister is strong, and Zhao Wei has put you on the top of the pavilion, but he regarded himself as the lord of Yizhou, wantonly cultivating forces, and raising cronies.

After so many years of secretly developing their forces, their wings have been abundant, and the general trend has been achieved, how can they live under the people for a long time and be driven by them; So Zhao Wei's rebellion was expected, but it was only a matter of time. If it weren't for the battle of Hanzhong, which caused Zhao Wei to suffer a heavy setback and lose most of his soldiers and horses, presumably when he led the army from Hanzhong to Yizhou was when Ji Yu suffered a head-on blow. Because the reason why he tried his best to persuade him to send troops to Hanzhong was to take charge of the Yizhou army, and then borrow the victorious army to kill the lord and usurp the throne, replace Ji Yu, and take charge of Yizhou.

It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven. In the Battle of Hanzhong, Zhao Wei led an army of 60,000 to lose successive battles, suffered heavy losses in soldiers and horses, and finally the whole army was annihilated, and all the leading generals, including him, were defeated and captured. As a result, his wolf ambitions suffered a heavy blow, and he had to lie dormant and wait, continuing to secretly develop his power in order to wait for the times to change.

This time, he finally couldn't bear to launch a rebellion, because he had already seen that after the defeat of our Xiliang army in Jizhou, he was bound to rest for a period of time, recuperate, and regain his vitality. In this way, our army will not be able to send troops to Yizhou, and he will be able to take this opportunity to seize Yizhou; Otherwise, once our army regains its strength, he will completely lose his last chance, because he knows that sooner or later, our Western Liang Army will send troops to Yizhou to recover the counties of Southwest Prefecture. However, he didn't know that I had already gathered heavy troops in Hanzhong, and once the situation in Yizhou changed, more than 100,000 troops would move to collect Yizhou. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li paused, looked at Liu Zhang, and said, "You know what happened next." Zhao Wei mastered more than sixty percent of the soldiers and horses of the Yizhou army, and once he launched a rebellion, Ji Yu's troops were stretched thin and there were no soldiers available. So you have to recruit a new army to resist Zhao Wei's rebels and quell the rebellion, and the only new army you can recruit is the young and strong displaced people who were placed in the southwest in the early years, because they are all brave and brave men who have fled thousands of miles and survived, and their combat effectiveness is undoubted.

In addition, even if the new army was recruited, it would not help, so the soldiers of the county government that I had planted in the southwestern counties in advance naturally entered the new army and became the main force to quell the rebels of Zhao Wei. Nowadays, all the generals who command the Dongzhou soldiers are sergeants under my command, and this is due to the recommendation of Yongnian and Pang Xi, and they are also fortunate to have the beauty of Ji Yu's adulthood. ”

When it came to this, Li Li simply stopped hiding it, because he noticed a familiar figure standing outside the window, and vaguely heard the sound of weapons slamming and screaming in the storm. This qiē shows that Zhuge Liang has taken over the Dongzhou soldiers stationed at the north gate, and welcomed the Longxiang battalion of Ma Chao's department outside the city into the city.

"Of course, at this moment, Li can sit here, relying on Dongzhou soldiers?????? Now, they should be in the air! ”

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