After some consideration, Zhao Hongrun left Zhao Que to accompany Qin Shaojun. He first took the Zongwei Chief Lu Mu and the Zongwei Chu Heng to the back camp of the military camp and found the lieutenant responsible for managing military supplies.
He asked Chu Heng to take away a cart full of drinks, which he regarded as a gift for visiting Lian Pi.
The drink in the Wei army is, of course, Shangdang wine. It is not a good drink, but it is strong. One bowl of it makes people feel as if their chest is on fire. Therefore, it is very popular among Wei soldiers, and they are addicted to alcohol.
Lian Pi is obsessed with this high-concentration spirit.
Lian Pi's small tent is also in the middle camp of the Wei camp. The difference between it and Zhao Hongrun's small tent is only about a hundred feet. After all, Lian Pi's current position in the Wei army is actually "joining the army and serving as a general". To put it bluntly,
He is one of the military advisers for this combat operation. Unfortunately, he is well-equipped and well-trained.
In front of the well-trained Wei army, Lin Hu, who was once arrogant in the Hetao, was completely defeated in just a few months. This made Lian Pi, a "military general", become a decoration. In addition to drinking every day, he only watched
Wei Jun defeated Lin Hu again and again. To be honest, it was really boring.
When Zhao Hongrun and his party arrived at the small tent, there were about a dozen people from the Wei army dressed in different clothes, sitting or squatting, chatting and laughing next to a few empty carts.
These people are Lian Pi's followers. They were once the generals of the Taiyuan Army (Han) under Lian Pi's command. However, after Lian Pi was successfully replaced by the current Taiyuan Shou, these people turned against the Taiyuan Army and even assisted the Taiyuan Army.
Lian Pi, who was successfully imprisoned, escaped from the military prison.
Since they were all familiar with each other, Zhao Hongrun was quite familiar with these people, so he shouted: "Yu Xi" from a few feet away.
As soon as he finished speaking, a man sitting on the empty car turned his head when he heard the words. After seeing Zhao Hongrun, he quickly ran over, cupped his hands and said hello with a smile: "Your Highness Run."
Lian Pi and Yu Xi, these Koreans did not join the Wei State, so they naturally did not need to call Zhao Hongrun His Royal Highness. However, because they were grateful for Zhao Hongrun's generous treatment to them, these Koreans compromised by calling Zhao Hongrun "His Royal Highness."
, compared to the former "Mr. Run", he is obviously more respectful.
"Is General Lian Pi in the tent?" Zhao Hongrun asked with a smile.
"I have nothing to do. I am taking a nap in the tent." Yu Xi said with a smile, constantly looking at the cart behind Zhao Hongrun, which was pushed by Zongwei Chu Heng.
When he saw the car full of wine jars, he stared blankly.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun smiled and said, "This is a gift for you."
"Thank you, Your Highness, Run." Yu Xi licked his lips happily, and the Koreans who were lying lazily basking in the sun on the empty car also gathered around, swallowing their saliva.
Looking at their expressions, some people may misunderstand that Zhao Hongrun deducted from them and did not allow Lian Pi and others to drink. In fact, Zhao Hongrun had never treated them badly. It was just because of Lian Pi that Yu Xi and others had to go to the rear camp of the army every now and then.
After a long time of begging for a drink, Lian Pi made Yu Xi and others feel embarrassed.
After all, they were not members of the Wei army, at most they were military advisers. What was embarrassing was that in the war between the Wei army and Lin Hu, Lin Hu was completely defeated before they could give any constructive suggestions. Therefore, Lian
Refute, how can Yu Xi and others have the dignity to continue eating and drinking.
At Zhao Hongrun's signal, Yu Xi swallowed his saliva and patted open the seal of a wine jar. Immediately, the strong and almost pungent aroma of wine spread, making these Korean drinkers sniff it intoxicatedly.
But at this moment, as if a gust of wind was blowing in the plains, a sturdy figure rushed out of the small tent and said urgently: "Where does the aroma of wine come from?...Huh?"
This sturdy figure was undoubtedly incorruptible. I saw this heroic general from Korea, wearing a thin shirt at this moment, not even bothering to put on his boots, and rushed out of the tent.
Even Zhao Hongrun was stunned for a moment and didn't know what to say as a prelude.
A moment later, after inviting Zhao Hongrun, Lu Mu, and Chu Heng, the two clan guards, to sit down in the tent, they didn't even bother to wear cheap clothes and armor, and impatiently used a wine spoon to drink from the wine jar filled with wine.
I took a spoonful and drank it.
After drinking three tablespoons, Lian Piu put down the wine spoon. After wiping his mouth with his sleeve and taking a long breath, he laughed loudly and said, "I feel so happy!"
After hearing this, Yu Xi, who was serving drinks to Zhao Hongrun and others, said in a disgusting tone: "Now that you are happy, general, please put on your armor quickly... This is too rude."
After listening to Yu Xi's words, Lian Pi was very dissatisfied and complained: "I'll have to take off my clothes after drinking until I'm sweating... Your Highness Run is not an outsider, what's the big deal? By the way, Your Highness Run?"
Having said this, what else could Zhao Hongrun say, so he could only smile and nod.
At this time, Lu Mu had already ordered someone to bring some cooked mutton to drink for Lian Pi and Zhao Hongrun, so Zhao Hongrun, Lian Pi, Yu Xi, Lu Mu, and Chu Heng started eating and drinking around a small case.
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After drinking for three rounds, Lian Bu suddenly asked Zhao Hongrun about his purpose of coming: "Your Highness, Run, came here today. I must have something to do, right?"
Zhao Hongrun's purpose of coming this time was, of course, to persuade Lian Pi to serve his country of Wei, but how to propose solicitation without arousing Lian Pi's resentment? To be honest, Zhao Hongrun was not sure at all.
So, he said with a smile: "I just want to see how General Lian Pi's food and accommodation in the army are, and whether there is anything that I don't like."
When he heard this, he knew it was polite. No, Yu Xi smiled inexplicably when he heard the words and covered it up by pouring wine.
Lian Piu, however, looked at Zhao Hongrun with a half-smile, and suddenly said with a smile: "Does His Highness Run want to recruit Lian?"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun did not expect that Lian Pi would reveal the matter in advance. He took a deep look at Lian Pi, and after carefully weighing the latter's character, he simply nodded and admitted: "Yes!... I, the Wei Dynasty, need to be like General Lian Pi."
Such a brave general!"
Seeing that Zhao Hongrun didn't say anything like "I'm sorry for the general's abilities", but directly proposed the idea of recruiting, Lian Pi couldn't help but be a little surprised.
After taking a look at Zhao Hongrun, he quietly drank another bowl of wine.
To be fair, if someone else had come up with the idea of soliciting, Lian Pi would have given a lot of face by not lifting the table, but facing Zhao Hongrun, he was really embarrassed to keep a straight face. After all, as the saying goes, eating people is short-tongued and soft-handed, because
Under Zhao Hongrun's secret care, Lian Pio had been living in Wei for almost two years. He originally wanted to use Lin Hu's incident to repay his favor, but he didn't expect Lin Hu to be so aggressive in front of the Wei army. How can he be embarrassed when he has not made any achievements?
Keep a straight face in front of Zhao Hongrun.
Seeing that Lian Pi was silent and just drinking, Zhao Hongrun did not press him. After all, for a highly subjective general like Lian Pi, too much force would make the other party feel disgusted.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Hongrun did not urge him, but Lian Po's follower Yu Xi said: "General, what are you still hesitating about? If you defect to the Wei State, we will go to the rear army to ask for drinks in the future, so we won't do the same thing every time.
He's so embarrassed like a thief..."
"Asshole!"
Lian retorted and cursed, and then he couldn't help but laugh.
Indeed, Lian Pio and others were not very comfortable living in the Wei camp these days. The main reason was that every time they returned to the logistics and asked for drinks, the soldiers of Wei Wujun would say "Ah, these freeloaders are here again."
He looked at Lian Po and others with a look like "I'm asking for a drink", which made Lian Po, Yu Xi and others lose face and they were too embarrassed to ask for a drink again.
"It's..."Yunzhong County", right?"
Touching the stubble on his chin, Lian Bu asked Zhao Hongrun.
Zhao Hongrun was not surprised that Lian Bu could guess this, and nodded and said: "Shuo Fang has Yang Mountain as a barrier, Jiuyuan has Yin Mountain as a barrier, but in Yunzhong, we must guard against Lin Hu's comeback, and guard against the geese in the east.
I don’t dare to take that person from Yanmen County lightly.”
"Li Mu." Lian Piu smacked his lips and read out the name of Yanmen Guardian Li Mu, and then said melancholy: "In the past, although I kept saying that I wanted to compete with Li Mu, Le Yi, Ma She and others, I
I never thought that it would be in the form of each being his own master..."
Of course Zhao Hongrun can understand the emotion in Lian Pi's heart. You must know that if Kang Gong and Han Hu had not wanted to tear up the peace agreement with Wei and secretly called for success to replace Lian Pi, this would have been absolutely impossible given Lian Pi's character.
The one who betrayed South Korea - even though he had repeatedly cursed the country he lived in with unpleasant curse words, and kept complaining that this place was not good and that there was not good.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongrun said to Lian Pi: "I know that General Lian Pi is loyal to South Korea. Therefore, Zhao has never thought about letting General Lian Pi meet his former colleagues on the battlefield in the future. I only hope that General Lian Pi will sit in the clouds."
can ensure the stability of Yunzhong and even the Hetao area..."
"What loyalty do I have to it (South Korea)?" Lian Piu grinned, and he didn't know if he was being harsh or disdainful and said: "I won't say more about that old dog Han Hu. If I meet him one day, I will definitely
Kill him and serve him wine...Han Wu is also a bad guy. As for Han Ran, that coward, hey, coupled with those weak and greedy ministers, I don't see any hope for this country..."
"...King Han is not a weak person."
Zhao Hongrun muttered secretly in his heart, but his face showed a look of deep understanding.
At this time, Lian Pi drank another bowl of strong wine, and then opened his slightly red eyes from excessive alcoholism and said sternly: "That's all, I owe you two years of drinking money, so Lian will keep two years for you."
In the year of Yunzhong County, we will write it off from now on."
Hearing this, Zhao Hongrun was overjoyed.
He didn't care what Lian Piu said about "only staying in Yunzhong for two years". Could this alcoholic still get rid of his alcohol addiction after arriving in Yunzhong? As long as he couldn't get rid of his alcohol addiction, Zhao Hongrun would have a way to make Lian Piu owe more and more money.
If you have too much money, you will owe a debt that you will never be able to repay in your lifetime.
On the contrary, he was worried that if Lian Pi was so addicted to alcohol and was now addicted to Shangdang's spirits and drank all day long, I was afraid that this great hero would not live to be half a century old.
However, after thinking about it for a while, Zhao Hongrun gave up the idea of persuading him. After all, each person has his own way of life. Although he has good intentions, Lian Pi may not accept it.
Because Lian Piu accepted Zhao Hongrun's solicitation, the atmosphere in the tent became very harmonious. Zhao Hongrun also rarely drank from a large bowl and refused to accept anyone who came. Although this made Lian Pio, Yu Xi and others slap their thighs and shout that they were happy,
He was so heroic, but not long after, Zhao Hongrun felt dizzy.
After drinking until he was in a daze, Zhao Hongrun finally couldn't help but ask the question that had been buried in his heart for a long time: "General Lian Pi, I have never understood the ranking of the "Top Ten Heroes of Beiyuan". In the end, you, Li Mu, Le Yi
, who is the best general in commanding troops to fight?"
At this time, Lian Pio was so drunk that he couldn't tell the difference between north and south. He stared at his eyes and patted his chest and said: "Of course it's me. That coward Li Mu defeated the Xiongnu only by surprise. I have fought with Lin every time."
Hu, the Xiongnu fought head-on and killed the barbarians every time... Ah? You don't believe it? Just watch. When I get to Yunzhong County, I will train my soldiers and defeat Li Mu for you to see..."
That day, Lian Pi, who was dizzy from drinking, slapped his chest and issued a military order in front of Zhao Hongrun, who was also drunk, saying that he would capture Li Mu alive if there was a chance in the future.
After he sobered up the next day, when Lian Fu thought of the military order, he was so startled that cold sweat broke out on his back, and he secretly complained in his heart.
Because even if he faced Li Mu on the battlefield, he wouldn't have much confidence in winning.
But having said that, Lian Pi couldn't help but feel a little excited when he thought that he might have the opportunity to compete with Li Mu in the future.
At the same time, on the fortress of Yanmen Pass, Li Mu, the guard of Yanmen Pass, suddenly felt his eyelids twitching for no reason when he was inspecting the border pass.
"...Who is thinking about me?"
Blinking his eyes in discomfort, Li Mu felt vaguely as if he was being targeted by someone.