There's no need to pretend to be kind
The crowd dispersed, and Li Juchuan sneakily followed.
It wasn't until Li Ye had two personal guards around him that Li Juchuan said: "If Your Majesty attacks strongly, it will inevitably lose troops and generals, even if you destroy them, Li Maozhen only loses some soldiers and horses, and it will not be damaged in the overall situation, but it will prompt the people of Fengxiang to be hostile to the imperial court, if Your Majesty lets them go back, it can win the hearts of Fengxiang's people." ”
Li Ye stared at him, if there were only these things, Li Juchuan wouldn't need to be so mysterious, right?
"I don't want to hear anything unpopular, to be honest." When there are two people, Li Ye doesn't need to pretend to be benevolent.
Li Juchuan laughed dryly, "Li Jihui and Li Maozhen are not in unison, Li Jihui is quite strategic, deeply suspicious of Li Maozhen, this time after leaving the break, he must be forced to be helpless, if His Majesty marches, then the Fengxiang army will work together to fight to the end, our army's losses are too great, but Your Majesty let them go back, in fact, Li Maozhen raised a tiger, the tiger is not hurtful, and people are hurtful to the tiger." Li Ye looked at him suspiciously, and half-jokingly: "How do you know everything?" Could it be that you are Feng Xiangjun's meticulous work? ”
Li Juchuan's expression twisted, "The minister was an official under Yang Shouliang in the Xingyuan Festival, he was captured by the Fengxiang Army, and he stayed in the Fengxiang Army for a while, and he had some friendship with Li Jihui, and he knew a little about the inside of the Fengxiang Army. ”
Not to mention, I almost forgot that Li Juchuan's life experience is quite rich.
This guy can mix up, and when he is a prisoner, he can still make friends with the high-level of the Feng Xiang Army.
"Since you have a relationship with Li Jihui, why don't you persuade him to surrender?"
Li Juchuan shook his head and said: "If Li Jihui could descend, he would have descended a long time ago, and he must have a handle to be held by Li Maozhen, so he had to resist to the end." ”
As soon as he said this, Li Ye also broke off his mind of surrendering.
In fact, he didn't want to fight for a long time, not out of buying people's hearts.
It's that Li Jihui is determined to be an iron-headed baby, and it's not cost-effective to fight him with the life of a soldier. Of course, it's not that there is no way, such as besieging but not attacking, making him hungry and thirsty for two days, even the gods can't bear it.
But time does not allow, a big war, the soldiers urgently need to rest, Wang Xingyu and Li Sixiao are still relying on it.
Li Ye was short of a reason to convince himself.
And now Li Juchuan gave him this reason.
Li Ye groaned for a while, and then nodded in agreement, Li Maozhen ran away, and he couldn't break the blood flow for an iron-headed baby. "Feng Xiangjun listen, Your Majesty is benevolent and righteous, let you go home, don't help you in the future." Hundreds of Janissaries shouted.
Feng Xiang's remnants looked at each other, and just let themselves go?
They were ready to die, and they were actually released.
Who wants to die if they can live?
"Thank you, long live Your Majesty!" The remnants of Fengxiang were thunderous.
But they have not forgotten that a few hours ago, someone said that the person who surrendered was the king of Qi to punish his clan.
Li Jihui couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.
Secretly sighing that the emperor's hand is clever, laying a hidden danger for Li Maozhen, how can these people return to Fengxiang, how can they be willing to be enemies of the court in the future?
But he quickly thought of another question.
King Qi didn't want him to go back alive, if he went back in a good manner, King Qi really gave half of Fengxiang to himself?
Li Jihui sneered in his heart. I'm afraid that King Qi's life will not be easy, this battle is defeated, and Feng Xiang's luck is interrupted, which will lead to a series of consequences.
In this troubled world, you can be shameless and cruel, but you must not be weak, because once you are weak, the evil wolves around you will pounce!
The river is the best example of this.
The release of the remnants of Fengxiang made the whole army breathe a sigh of relief.
In particular, Feng Xingxi, after asking Li Ye for instructions, led the army back to the gold merchants.
Li Ye didn't have time to appease him, a fierce battle, countless wounded, corpses everywhere, the weather was about to turn hot, and if it was not cleaned up in time, it would cause a plague.
Plague is more terrible than war in this era.
Li Juchuan mobilized the people of Huazhou to bury the corpses and clean up the battlefield.
Armor, weapons, war horses, it's all money.
Li Ye was tired and injured, and after the battle, he only felt pain all over his body, and fell asleep in the Fengxiang army camp.
I slept fairly soundly.
When I woke up, it was noon.
More than a dozen guards dutifully guarded their side, looking at their complexions, they should have not slept all night.
Seeing that the emperor was awake, someone immediately brought water and salt to wash himself.
After a short while, another team of guards came to change the guard.
As soon as he was about to leave the camp for a walk, Li Juchuan came in to offer treasures, "Your Majesty, the inventory of the Fengxiang Army's camp has been completed." ”
"Oh?" Li Ye also became interested. "There are 3,000 stones of grain and 1,000 stones of forage." At this point, he paused deliberately.
Li Ye thought that he had heard it wrong, the grain and grass added up to only 4,000 stones, which was not a fraction of the Pei family in Hedong.
Has Li Juchuan never seen the world or what's going on?
Wouldn't it be better to know that Li Maozhen was so poor, wouldn't it be better to delay it for a few days, and when he ran out of food, Fengxiang's army would collapse without a fight?
Seeing that Li Ye's eyes were wrong, Li Juchuan hurriedly said: "More than 5,000 prisoners and more than 1,000 war horses." ”
This is barely acceptable.
"What about our casualties?" This is what Li Ye is most concerned about.
"More than 6,300 were wounded, and more than 4,700 were killed in battle."
"So much?" Li Ye was distressed for a while.
"Back to Your Majesty, more than 3,800 of the dead were the Hezhong Army, more than 300 of the Shence Army were killed, and more than 500 of the Praetorian Guards were killed."
"Can you finish it all at once?" Li Ye felt that it was very difficult to talk to him.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Juchuan bowed.
Li Ye saw that he didn't leave, and knew that he still had something to say, this guy is this kind of character, and he has a lot of flowers and intestines in his stomach.
But then again, if he and Tuoba Yungui hadn't defended Huazhou, Li Maozhen would not have been defeated so quickly, and snatched the Fengxiang camp with the last hand, directly helping him lock in the victory.
"There are no outsiders here, there is something to say." There are no outsiders, even you, Li Juchuan, are also your own people. How could Li Juchuan not hear the meaning of Li Ye's words, and his face could not hide his joy, "The minister has a plan, which can make Li Maozhen irreversible." ”
And such a good thing? Li Ye's heart was raised again, "Say it quickly." ”
Li Juchuan smiled sympathetically and said: "This time Li Maozhen attacked Huazhou, he was disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty, and His Majesty can deprive him of his official title." ”
Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it for a while, he understood the key and was overjoyed.
Li Maozhen's King of Qi is the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty, and his Fengxiang Festival envoy is also the Fengxiang Festival Envoy of the Tang Dynasty. Although the Tang River is now declining and has become a mud bodhisattva in the temple, the world's feudal towns still recognize this bodhisattva.
The world of Datang in the past three hundred years is still orthodox in the hearts of the people of the world!
Now the Tang court does not recognize you Li Maozhen as the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, nor does it recognize you as the king of Qi of the Tang Dynasty.
The problem is very serious, and if the name is not right, it will not be good.
If Li Maozhen wasn't the envoy of the Fengxiang Festival, what would the martial arts leaders under him think? What will his men think? followed Feng Xiang to fight for life and death, and in the end became a nameless and shareless savage?
What do the surrounding feudal towns think? Since you Li Maozhen are not Fengxiang's envoys, isn't it a little inappropriate to stay in Fengxiang?
When Li Maozhen was strong, these were not problems.
The point is that Li Maozhen has just been defeated, and it is the weakest time.
Li Juchuan is digging a pit for Li Maozhen.
This feeling of joining forces to trick people makes Li Ye seem to return to the sales company in the future.
Of course, to say that Li Maozhen will never recover, it is bragging, and it is possible to make him scramble.
The pain of the enemy is the source of one's own happiness.
If you don't take advantage of his illness to kill him, what are you waiting for?
Wait for him to recuperate, lick his wounds, and stab himself again?