"Elder Van Lunding, you don't want to joke with me, do you? With that Demps 'skill' in defending the city, how could I possibly take Ogden from his hands?!" After receiving Fan Lunding's confirmation, Li Zijun's eyes widened, and he looked at him puzzled and asked.

"You only know that Demps is good at defending cities, but there is another distinguishing characteristic of him that you may not know. ”

"What characteristics?"

"Demps is afraid of his wife!"

"Afraid of his wife? What is the characteristic of being afraid of his wife? Besides, does being afraid of his wife have anything to do with whether he can keep Ogden? Elder Van Lunding, what do you want to say? I am getting more and more confused by what you say now!" Li Zijun really felt that he couldn't cry or laugh now.

"'Afraid of his wife' and 'defending the city' are indeed two different things that can't be beaten with eight poles, but if the wife of this guard is particularly greedy for money, she always coerces her husband to secretly open the checkpoint and let her carry out some smuggling activities. I'm afraid there will be some correlation between the characteristic of 'being afraid of my wife' and 'defending the city'!"

"Smuggling?" Li Zijun touched his nose and whispered, hearing this, he finally heard some taste.

"Once this matter is made public, how can Demps save face? I really don't understand, how could Demps allow his wife to do such a thing? Is he very short of money?"

"Very lacking, and not ordinary! Compared to the speed at which he and his wife spend money, the speed at which he makes money is simply slower than a snail crawling! In such a situation, Demps had to acquiesce to his wife's behavior!"

"How is this possible? As far as I know, Demps himself was from a noble family, and he was known for his military exploits over the years. and constantly getting promoted, how can he be short of money to this point?"

"Demps was of noble origin. But it is a family that is gradually withering and declining. In fact, Demps only inherited the title of 'knight' from the family. In addition, he himself is almost poor! Without the help of his wife's family, to this day, he can only serve as a squad leader in the royal guard, and he will not get the opportunity to defend the city at all! This is also one of the reasons why Demps is afraid of his wife. ”

"Over the years, Demps has made a lot of achievements, but the rewards he has received are not as rich as you think. Because of his specialty, he was always assigned to guard important cities or sensitive checkpoints in war. As a result, his military exploits often appear less illustrious than those of the generals who charged. Coupled with the lack of people in the upper echelons to speak for him, the reward he received was not so satisfactory!"

"What about his wife's family?"

"Although his wife's family still has some status in the Fengqi Empire, because his wife is a concubine, and Demps is not very good at monopolies, people naturally don't need to work hard for him!"

"I didn't expect Demps's situation in the Fengqi Empire to be so embarrassing, is it possible for us to buy him?" Li Zijun prefers to use money to solve problems rather than human life.

"Impossible! Demps is not only loyal to the Fengqi Empire, but also quite fair and incorruptible. Since leading the army, he has never done anything to 'drink the blood of soldiers'. He loves his men very much. ”

"At the beginning, those 5,000 soldiers were able to accompany him to fight bloodily for a month without surrendering when they were isolated and helpless, which shows the prestige and love of Demps in the army!"

"This Demps is still a moral 'model', it seems that he can't be used by me!" Li Zijun heard that there was no possibility of bribing Demps. Sighing with a little regret.

"Demps is definitely a very good general, and I firmly believe that he will not be bought! But if you want to say that he is a 'moral model', I think it is a bit wrong!"

"His wife's smuggling certainly has something to do with his greed for vanity. But at the end of the day, I think it's mainly because Demps got into the gambling habit!"

"Demps has contributed a lot every time he has led the troops, but he has not won many awards. Although he didn't show anything on the surface, he was also indignant in his heart. In time. In despair, he began to embark on the road of gambling. ”

The casino operators were all hands and eyes, and they easily recognized Demps's identity, and they continued to provide him with gambling funds. ”

"Most of the people who have lost for a long time are in a mess, and when Demps wants to leave, he realizes that he is already in debt!"

"Here I want to praise his wife Nancy, this woman not only did not complain about Demps in front of outsiders in the face of the creditor who came to collect debts, but also returned to her parents' house to borrow a huge amount of money to help Demps repay the debt!"

It was this terrible debt that drove Nancy down the road of smuggling, and Demps felt that he was at a loss, so he couldn't say anything more on the subject. ”

Nancy, a woman, also had some means, and in a few years she made the smuggling business prosperous, not only paying off all her debts and accumulating a certain amount of wealth, but also helping Demps establish a closer relationship with the families of her superiors and colleagues. ”

"This time, Demps was able to garrison such an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack danger as Ogden, and it was completely operated behind Nancy's back!"

"Due to its special military status, the troops stationed here enjoy the most sophisticated equipment of the Fengqi Army, and for the same reason, there is less chance of fighting here than at other levels!"

"According to records, Ogden hasn't had any decent battles in almost a decade!"

"What's more important is that it's also more convenient for Temples's wife to run her smuggling business! Temples is really lucky to marry such a good wife!" Li Zijun frowned, what he wanted to express was obviously not what he meant in his words.

"Will Demps allow the smuggling team into Ogden?"

"No! Every time, someone from the customs will pick up the goods, and at most five people can accompany them, and after entering the customs, Nancy's men will check the goods and settle the bill with these five people. ”

"Most of these transactions take place at night, and the five people who enter the customs are allowed to stay overnight. It's just that before dusk the next day, these five people must leave!"

"According to the custom, they will trade every fifteen days, and the late night after seven days is the trading time for both sides!" said Fan Lunding, looking at Li Zijun with deep meaning.

"Well, would you be interested in seeing how indestructible Ogden really is?"

"When did you get involved with smuggling again?

"Ed is a stranger, wouldn't his involvement in the smuggling team arouse Demps's suspicion?" Shamantha asked with some concern when she saw Li Zijun's eagerness.

"The occasional new face in the smuggling team is nothing new, and they should not suspect it, and Demps has always been deaf and dumb about Nancy's smuggling, he has never met anyone in the smuggling team before, and he is sure this time will be no exception. ”

"There is another important reason why I dare to make this suggestion to Ed: that is, ordinary people don't even notice that Ed is a cultivator!"

"To be honest, if it weren't for my intimate knowledge of Ed, I would really think that he was a rich kid with nimble hands and feet, but he didn't know how to learn, and I would never have thought that he was a Saint Rank master!"

Hearing Van Lunding's description of himself, Li Zijun raised his head slightly proudly to Shamantha, causing a wry smile from the two people.

"There is still a big gap between being able to enter Ogden and actually occupying it!" Li Zijun's expression became solemn after joking.

"Back then, the Fengqi Empire took advantage of the internal turmoil in the Dongyu Empire and mobilized an army of 100,000 to attack Ogden, who was isolated at that time and had only 5,000 defenders. Under such unfavorable circumstances, the Dongyu defenders still held out for a month, and it was not until they ran out of ammunition and food that Ogden was finally defeated! And for this, the Fengqi Empire paid a huge amount of 60,000 casualties!"

"But even so, Grand Duke Bichier, the commander of the Fengqi Empire at the time, still thought that he was able to capture Ogden entirely because he was favored by the gods!"

"After so many years of improvement, Ogden's defense capability has been further improved in the hands of the Fengqi Empire. ”

"And at this moment, it is the 'No. 1 Defender of Fengqi' like Demps who guards Ogden, and the elite level of the army he leads is not only far above the Dongyu Army back then, but the strength has increased to four times that of that year!"

"Elder Van Lunding, if you don't tell me something valuable, I'll really think you're hurting me!"

With Li Zijun's understanding of Van Lending, he must have mastered some excellent hole cards or thought of some operational jihua when he encouraged himself to attack Ogden! He was looking forward to Van Lendin giving him a surprise!

"Before I say Jihua, I'm going to introduce you to an old friend!" said Van Lunding as he walked out, and in a few moments he was back to the tent with a man.

This person used Fan Lunding's body to avoid Li Zijun's sight very deliberately, and it was not until he was in front of the desk that this person jumped out suddenly:

"Wow!"

"Hey, where did Ed go?"

"How many times have I told you, how can you hide such heavy steps from my ears?!" Li Zijun first shouted in the man's ear, and then said slowly behind him.

"Why is it like this every time, you can't pretend that you don't know it's me and make me happy?" Bingham grumbled loudly at Li Zijun as he picked his ears. His loud voice lifted the somewhat gloomy atmosphere in the camp, and Li Zijun's slightly depressed mood suddenly became relaxed. (To be continued......)