"Father, do you think that Li Bin deliberately allowed his subordinates to be defeated?"

Mu Yan felt a little unbelievable, "This is too ridiculous, this, how is this possible?"

"From what I know about Li Bin, this person is a very utilitarian person, he has the ability and brains, he can fight on the battlefield for three days and three nights for fame, and he can also climb the ice and lie in the snow to endure the bitter cold. It's really possible for him to do this kind of thing."

Mu Cheng said in a deep voice, "Think about it, after the last southern expedition, the remnants of the southwest were beaten into a plate of scattered sand by the King of Qi and Zhang Fu at that time, Li Bin has been working in the south for many years, he knows very well that although the Ming Dynasty at this time seems to be strong, if it really starts a war, it is okay in the north, but there are not many troops in the southwest at all.

It is impossible for Your Majesty to pay too much for an Annam Province, if you really have to do your best to conquer the south at all costs, and in the end you will not be able to make ends meet, even if you recapture Annam Province, it will not be of much benefit."

pinched the seven inches of the imperial court, you say, Li Bin, will he do this?"

If he really let him become, then the imperial court will lose his wife and soldiers this time, and cultivate a southwest king in the southwest in vain."

Mu Yan muttered, "If this is the case, it is equivalent to the imperial court removing all the obstacles for Li Bin, spending a huge amount of silver food and troops, and planting a thorn in his pillow. The point is that this thorn can't be pulled out, but if it is plucked, it will be the blood that pierces his own hand."

Mu Cheng waved his hand and said, "Of course, this is all my own cranky thinking, there is no real evidence, it is all my blind guess."

Although he said that, Mu Cheng felt more and more that it was very likely.

But he didn't want to believe it, he would rather believe that Li Bin had really committed a military taboo, rather than premeditated.

He didn't want to believe that his comrades-in-arms, who had fought side by side, had now turned their backs on the court for utilitarian gain.

……

Thanh Hoa Annam, Blue Mountain.

Wang Lili of Pingding was a little surprised: "Li Bin, the general of the Ming army, wants to negotiate peace with us, what does he mean by this, isn't he afraid of being questioned by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty in the name of collaborating with the enemy?"

At this time, Li Li can be said to be proud of the spring breeze, he has just started the army, and he led his troops to win a complete victory, outnumbered many enemies, and even killed two high-level generals of the Ming army, causing heavy losses to the Ming army.

The rebels of Annam were extremely rampant in Thanh Hoa Province, and even surrounded the western capital of the former Jiaozhi State, and the Ming army did not dare to fight back. And the nature of the remnants of Jiaozhi has also soared at this moment, more and more people have joined the rebels, and the entire province of Annam is now regarded as a pulp lake.

But Li Li did not lose his eyes because of the short-lived victory, and he knew very well that the Ming army was not easy to provoke.

Putting aside the frightened Qi King Zhu Gaoxian and the British Duke Zhang Fu who fought before, let's just talk about the current commander of Annan Province, Li Bin, who is not a good stubble.

But now, the Ming army actually took the initiative to apply for negotiations with them, which is really a bit weird.

After all......

Zhu Gaoxian and Zhang Fu before had always pressed them to the ground and beaten them, how could there ever be peace talks?

The Ming people called their Jiaozhi people "barbarians", but in the eyes of their Jiaozhi people, the Ming people were more like a group of fierce and cruel barbarians.

"My lord, could it be that the Ming people are using tricks to coax us into the city, and then ...... us" The person next to him made a throat-slitting gesture.

The man who spoke was named Ruan Diao, who was both civil and military, proficient in Chinese, and his father was captured by the Ming army and sent to the Central Plains for exile, and when Ruan Diao sent his father to Zhennan Pass and returned to Thang Long, he was arrested by the Ming army and placed under house arrest for many years.

After returning to the southwest, Ruan Diao defected to Le Li, and assisted Zuo Qi to start an incident in the Blue Mountains, and was Li Li's most powerful adviser and close friend.

Li Li frowned slightly: "It shouldn't be, that Li Bin of the Ming Army is not a stupid person, he also used such a simple method?"

Ruan Qian shook his head: "King, sometimes the more profound the means, the more deliberate, the more humble the means, the more confusing the enemy, this makes me prejudge the prejudgment of you and my prejudgment."

Li Li closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Since he was a child, he felt that he was the son of destiny, the one chosen by God to redeem Jiaozhi, and he was destined to become the emperor of the southwest.

He didn't have a brilliant mind, and he didn't know much about the esoteric art of war, but he had amazing courage and strange luck.

He wants to follow the example of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and fight from the south to the north to unify the world!

The corners of Li Li's mouth hooked up with a smile, and he said confidently: "Contact the leaders of my various armies in Jiaozhi, and in the name of my pacification of Wang Li Li, call on them to go to the meeting with that Li Bin!"

……

"What is this idiot doing here, does he think that he has won a battle, and he is invulnerable?"

Pan Feng looked at the letter in his hand, a little confused, "Let's go and talk to Minghe together, is he crazy?"

When the Southern Expeditionary Army captured Yi'an, Chen Jikuo's Taifu Pan Ji surrendered to Cheng, and died of illness before he could enjoy the good days. His son Pan Feng became a "Yue Nu Gan" and was appointed by Zhang Fu as the prefect of Yi'an. In order to ask for merit from the new master, Pan Feng took the risk of the mountains and rivers of Chenhua Prefecture, just like that Zhang Song presented the "Topographic Map of Western Shu" to Liu Bei.

As soon as he saw that the situation in the southwest was not good, he immediately served the country loyally and became a thief, and the rebel army under his command is one of the most powerful rebels in the southwest today.

The general beside him asked, "General, should we go to the peace talks?"

Pan Feng hesitated for a moment and nodded: "I have to go, even Li Li, a fledgling little ghost, dares to participate in this peace talks, if I don't go, won't it damage my prestige and make others think that I am cowardly?"

The generals next to him were numb when they heard General Pan's words, when did you have a prestige?

first became a national sinner, and then became a Ming Erwuzai, either as a traitor or on the way to be a traitor, and Pan himself felt that he was loyal to the country, in fact, this person has become a laughing stock in the southwest.

……

Outside the Western Capital, a strange picture appeared.

The Ming army commanded Li Bin, the Marquis of Fengcheng, to sit on the main seat, and the other seats were all rebels and thieves from all walks of life in Annan Province, and the officials and bandits sat at the same table.

Not long ago, they were fighting to the death, but now the brothers are happily discussing peace talks.

However, within a radius of a few miles of this table, tens of thousands of troops were stationed, including the Southwestern Army and the rebels, and the slightest spark would kill these tens of thousands of troops.

Li Li asked first: "Master Li, if you have something to say, just say it, what is it to ask us to come over to discuss?"

He used the Central Plains dialect, to be precise, the Jiaozhi people present more or less knew some Central Plains dialect, but they were not too proficient, but they could understand it.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not set up a Chinese academy in the southwest, it was still working hard to promote the Chinese language, trying to tame the Jiaozhi people, although the effect was very small.

Li Bin bowed his head slightly, and said, "You are straightforward, I won't talk nonsense, I got together with you to tell you that I, and you, have an enemy that needs to be dealt with together. I think we should unite and deal with this enemy first, and then discuss other things."

Pan Yi smiled disdainfully: "What bullshit enemy, just kill it all together!"

Li Bin glanced at Pan Feng and said, "General Pan, the enemy I'm talking about is the Ming court, Zhu Gaoxian, and the Ming Emperor Zhu Di, are you sure you can kill them?"

In his words at this time, he no longer had the slightest awe for the imperial court, and even dared to call the crown prince and the emperor by name.

Pan was stunned for a moment and obediently closed his mouth.

He already has a shadow on Zhu Gaoxian.

After Pan Ben descended to the Ming Dynasty, he helped the Ming people to fight the Jiaozhi people, and he knew better than others how terrifying it was for Zhu Gaoxian to fight.

He can accurately deploy the battalions of each army to the nearest hundreds, or even dozens of steps! Let each soldier have a clear division of labor, and be able to do a drop of water on the battlefield, this Nima is too terrifying!

went to the battlefield,

Who cares who you are, you can't listen to anything after killing the red eye, but under the command of that Qi prince, it seems that everything is like a chess piece on a chessboard, let you go wherever you go, Pan Feng can be regarded as a person who has seen the world, but he has never seen such an outrageous scene.

After seeing the horror of King Qi's troops, Pan Bang's heart had a heavy burden, at that time he was still friendly with the Ming army, but what if he and that King Qi were enemies?

I don't even know how to die!

Li Bin said seriously: "Although our relationship is not harmonious, for us, Zhu Gaoxian is our common enemy."

Li Li felt a little ridiculous: "You want to join forces with us to force the Ming army back...... Hmm, forcing back the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty?"

The generals of the Ming army gathered together the leaders of these rebels to join forces with them against the Ming army?

This sounds a bit ridiculous!

Li Bin nodded: "Your Excellency is really smart, and that's exactly what you mean."

Li Li was a little puzzled: "You...... Aren't you Mingren, why do you want to fight with us against the imperial court?"

Li Bin smiled bitterly and said, "It's not a secret, Ben Hou has now become a sinner in the imperial court, if Zhu Gaoxian comes to the southwest, the first thing he will do is to cut off my head to stabilize the morale of the army."

Li Li suddenly realized, and at the same time a little proud.

Hey, our Jiaozhi people are still very promising, and if the enemy is torn apart, doesn't it mean that my Jiaozhi people have the qualifications to win the world?

Pan Feng asked with some uncertainty, "You mean, that King Qi of the Ming Dynasty is going to go out to conquer our southwest?"

Li Bin corrected: "To be precise, he is no longer the King of Qi, but the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty."

Pan Feng asked, "Don't care if he is the king of Qi or the crown prince, is that Zhu Gaoxian coming to attack our southwest?"

"Well, it should be like this, after all, if the imperial court wants to recover the southwest now, only Zhu Gaoxian is the most suitable." Li Bin said, "But it's not a big problem, although the imperial court should send Zhu Gaoxian to the southwest, but he can't bring many troops, I am the chief general of the Ming Dynasty in Annan Province, I know the situation of the Ming Dynasty better than you, he Zhu Gaoxian came to the southwest, at most he will bring thirty or forty thousand troops, or even less than thirty or forty thousand, and we have a total of 130,000 troops."

In any case, the battle strength is 130,000 against 30,000, and the advantage is mine!"

This battle, he Zhu Gaoxian can't win even if he comes!"

Hearing this indignant and passionate remark, Pan immediately stood up and clapped his hands: "That's good, it's so good, you guys go and fight, I'll withdraw first as respect."

With that, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Li Bin frowned and asked, "General Pan, what do you mean by this?"

Pan Bang turned around and said in a surging voice, "Being an enemy of Zhu Gaoxian is the stupidest choice, in the words of you Han people, this is called self-defeating. I am willing to send you to death to die, and I will not be with them, and I will take my leave."

He didn't hesitate at all, and just ran.

Are you kidding!

Fight with someone like that who can command the army to be deployed at dozens of paces in wartime?

Are you afraid that the left brain is not fully developed, and the right brain is not fully developed?

Life is so wonderful, isn't it good to live, why do you have to find death yourself?

……

Pan Fang's departure made everyone present fall into silence, and the atmosphere was a little awkward.

Before the battle, the people said that the morale fell into a trough.

Faced with this situation, Li Li said in a loud voice: "Haha, Pan Bang, this timid guy like a mouse, has always been like this, the liver and gallbladder that he was afraid of when he saw the enemy were broken, when that Zhang Fu came to attack us, he surrendered without hesitation, and now it seems that Pan Bang's courage is just getting smaller and smaller!"

"Hahaha!"

"Haha."

"Huh?"

Although everyone present laughed, there was not the slightest hint of joy.

Pan is indeed cowardly, but it does not mean that Pan is really stupid.

The opposite is true

Pan is very far-sighted and can make the most correct choice every time.

When Zhang Fu led his troops to come, Pan Bang surrendered without a fight, and it turned out that his choice was very correct, because in addition to Pan Bang, most of the rest of the Jiaozhi Chen Dynasty generals died at the hands of Zhang Fu, and even Chen Jikuo, the emperor of the Chen Dynasty, was captured by the Ming army.

[In view of the general environment,

can scare Pan Bang like this, no matter whether there is anything greasy or not, it is enough to see that the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty has real skills.

Li Bin said calmly, "The matter has come to this point, I don't think you have a better way, unless you are willing to wait for Zhu Gaoxian to come to the southwest and defeat us all. Otherwise, we'll have to join forces."

Li Li seconded: "I think so too, do any of you object?"

Everyone looked at each other, hesitated again and again, and finally responded.

Li Bin was right, they had no other way.

Unite, and the court of the Ming Dynasty will come to fight them.

If they don't unite, the court of the Ming Dynasty will fight them the same.

The difference is that if they don't unite, they have no chance of winning.

Before the storm arrived, the eighteen rebel generals in the southwest formed an alliance with Li Bin, the Marquis of Fengcheng, which was supposed to be the "20th Route Alliance" according to Li Bin's plan, but due to Pan Bang's first departure, only the "19th Route Alliance" remained.

These 19 Route Alliances do not have a common alliance leader, but each commands its own troops, and the Ming and the remnants of Jiaozhi have fought for so many years, even if they are united, they cannot trust each other much, and they are suspicious of each other one by one, where are they willing to obey each other's orders.