Li Xingchen's tone was quite deep. How much helplessness and how much threat there was in it were enough to make people, especially Fan Chang, think about it.
And Fan Chang also made up his mind, no matter where Li Xingchen came from or what his intentions were, today's matter must be reported to the Jingzhou governor as soon as possible. Regardless of whether he was given food or grass, he, Fan Chang, could not bear this responsibility.
Li Xingchen grasped Xiao Shilian's wrist tightly and shook his head slightly at him, telling Xiao Shilian not to be impulsive.
"What Brother Shizhong said is what I want to say," Pei Zilie said in a deep voice at this time. "We can understand General Fan's difficulties. After all, the army came in a hurry, and the three of us were ordered by General Zuowei.
, I led the partial division ahead of the main army, and my original intention was to go to Songzi to wait for General Zuowei's order. Since General Fan is in trouble, there is no big harm in waiting here for two more days."
Hearing Pei Zilie's explanation, Fan Chang suddenly felt enlightened. No wonder these people were not in a hurry. They were brave because they did not want to go alone. After all, with their army of three thousand people, it was not enough to charge directly in front.
The Jiangling garrison had a gap in their teeth. I am afraid that when they accepted Xiao Mohe's order, they had to bite the bullet and follow through.
Therefore, now that we are encountering a problem of military rations, it is better to seize this opportunity and stay at the police station for two days. Fan Chang nodded solemnly, smiled and handed Pei Zilie and others, his smile was more sincere than before.
too much.
After all, it would be best if we could get the best of both worlds and avoid any conflicts.
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As soon as Xiao Shilian walked into his residence, he slapped his sword on the table angrily. It was obvious that he had been holding it in for a long time: "Master, Shizhong, are you two crazy? If we wait here stupidly, we will have to wait here."
In the Year of the Monkey, even if I kill you, I will not believe that Fan Yi, the governor of Jingzhou, will be so kind as to selflessly dedicate the food and grass he has been hoarding for many years to us!"
"We came out this time. In order to bring more arrows and crossbows, the brothers didn't bring much dry food, so they could only last for two or three days. Do you think we can end this war in two or three days? Or
Do you really plan to eat and die in this police city?"
Li Xinchen and Pei Zilie looked at each other. Li Xinchen smiled first and said, "Who said we would just wait and do nothing? Do you believe the rhetoric given to Fan Chang?"
"Ah?" Xiao Shilian was startled, "Shizhong, you mean?"
Li Xingchen stretched out his hand and dragged Xiao Shilian to the door, pointed to the surrounding barracks and said: "Look, this is the largest barracks in the entire public security city. Generally, warehouses and granaries must be placed outside such barracks, so that they can be prepared for emergencies."
Need, and think about it, how many soldiers and horses of Fan Chang are there in the entire city?"
After a pause, Li Xingchen then said: "And don't you think there is a big omission in Fan Chang's words? If there is a shortage of military rations in this public security city, then why did Fan Chang fully agree to our plan to stay here longer?
You know, it is much more troublesome to provide three meals a day when the army is stationed than to provide dry food for the stomach and intestines when marching. Why does he, Fan Chang, do this?"
Xiao Shilian's face suddenly showed joy: "In other words, there should be enough food in the public security city, but that guy Fan Chang doesn't want us to continue marching to Jiangling so easily. And there are three thousand of us, even if we open the granary
Fan Chang can't stop him even if he robs us by force!"
Li Xingchen nodded seriously and patted Xiao Shilian's shoulder at the same time: "And this burden really belongs to you. Think about it, what are Brother Da Shi and me? One is a powerful general with high authority.
, it is a bit unreasonable to send troops to grab food; and as a small war leader, a certain Li Xinchen would definitely not do such a bold thing without orders from above, so among the three of us, this matter
You really have to do it.”
"Don't worry, I can't do other things well, but you really have to look at me for this use of force." Xiao Shilian said confidently. If he was to play intrigues with the governor of Yangzhou, he really couldn't do it.
Come on, but Xiao Shilian can do something like this directly.
"Okay, Shizhong, please stop fooling me." Pei Zilie on the side couldn't stand it anymore and said in a deep voice, "Boqing, you are known to be reckless, so I leave this matter to you.
It's reasonable, and more importantly, I'm afraid neither of us can escape the responsibility, but you are different. You are the eldest son of General Zuowei. Even if you send troops to grab food, Fan Chang is still far away in Yidu.
Even if Fan Yi wants to launch an attack, he has to think carefully."
Xiao Shilian immediately understood that the most important thing was his identity. Xiao Shilian not only joined the army, he was also Xiao Mohe's son. If he really made any mistakes, everyone must also consider Xiao Mohe's feelings when holding him accountable.
"What should we do?" Xiao Shilian got to the point directly.
Li Xingchen narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice: "Come here."
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"These three guys are not as difficult to deal with as I thought. I originally thought that these three guys were not afraid of tigers, but now I know that they are just three cowards." A battle leader said with disdain.
"Yeah, I really didn't expect that." Another general also nodded repeatedly.
Originally, they were quite wary of Pei Zilie and others. After all, he was under Xiao Mohe's command, and Pei Zilie was the youngest general in Nanchen. In any case, he had to have some courage and ability. They didn't expect that he would become the leader so quickly.
He gave in and even obeyed the arrangements of a lieutenant general like Fan Chang.
"Don't let your guard down." Fan Chang still frowned. Xiao Shilian was obviously unhappy, but Pei Zilie and Li Xingchen did not consider his feelings and directly chose to accept Fan Chang's arrangement, which was somewhat unreasonable.
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Although the reasons they gave were reasonable, in Fan Chang's view, although Xiao Mohe was leading an army for the first time, he should not be the kind of commander who doesn't know how to judge people. Since he arranged such a partial army, he should not choose this
A cowardly general leads an army.
"General Zhonglang, I think you are over-concerned!" A battle leader said nonchalantly, even with a hint of dissatisfaction and ridicule towards Fan Chang in his words. After all, Fan Chang, the Zhonglang General, is also a warrior in their eyes.
The relationship with Fan Yi has only reached this point. In fact, there is no difference between them and the cowardly Pei Zilie.
If it weren't for the governor of Jingzhou, everyone wouldn't be so polite to Fan Chang, the middle-ranking general who fell from the sky.
Fan Chang didn't pay attention to these battle leaders and generals, and slowly turned his head to look out the window at the dark night.
Suddenly, a flash of fire illuminated the night.
Immediately afterwards, half of the Public Security City was illuminated by torches, and the sound of rapid footsteps sounded like a heavy rain.