Thief Emperor

Chapter 212: Becoming tough!

Two young men dressed as civilians were tied up tightly and taken into Li Yun's tent.

Li Yun took a look at the two men, then waved his hand, signaling to untie them.

After the two men were released, they first looked up at Li Yun, then fell to their knees with a plop and kowtowed, saying, "Sir, I am innocent, I am innocent!"

Li Yun lowered his head to drink water, then glanced at the two people calmly and said, "How did I wrongly accuse you?"

The one who looked smarter looked up at Li Yun and said, "Your Excellency, we are both from Yuezhou. We were just wandering around here for a few times when we were caught by the official. He said we were spies. This is a huge injustice!"

He cried and begged, "Please, sir, please look into this matter!"

Li Yun smiled and said, "If you are not a spy, why are you wandering outside my camp? Are you not plotting something bad?"

"no no."

The two men knelt down and said, "I heard that Yuezhou is recruiting new soldiers. We both have no livelihood now, so we wanted to come here to join the army. Before we could say anything, we were tied up and brought here by the officials!"

Li Yun glanced at Zhou Liang, and then said, "The Yuezhou Camp is recruiting soldiers. It is full. You two are late."

The two raised their heads to look at Li Yun, and kowtowed again, saying, "We don't know, we don't know!"

Li Yun said calmly: "What are your names and where do you live?"

"We are both from Shanyin County, Yuezhou. My name is Cao Yuan and my companion's name is Cao Bing."

"We are from Caojiazhuang, Shanyin County."

Li Yun touched his chin, thinking, and then asked: "Is there any evidence?"

"Yes, yes."

The two of them quickly took out their ID cards from their pockets and said, "Sir, please look, these are our ID cards. We are both ordinary people, not spies at all!"

Li Yun took it and read it carefully, then looked up at Zhou Liang and frowned, "What's going on? Why are you arresting people randomly?"

"We are government troops!"

Li Yun shouted, stood up, and said impatiently: "Let him go, you're wasting my time!"

Li Zheng responded, stepped forward and escorted the two away.

After they left, Li Yun looked at Zhou Liang and said calmly, "Uncle San, send someone to follow them and see if we can find any clues."

Zhou Liang finally understood. He looked up at Li Yun and said, "General, they..."

"There must be something wrong with them."

Li Yun narrowed his eyes and said, "If an ordinary person was tied up in the army, he would be scared and stammer. But this man answered fluently, obviously he was well prepared."

Zhou Liang clenched his fists and whispered, "General, since we have confirmed that they are spies, we might as well just arrest them. We have people from our village, and we have ways to make them talk."

Li Yun smiled and said, "If we ask them the way you do, they will probably not be human anymore. We might alert the enemy by then. Besides, these two people may not really know anything. We should follow the clues and arrest more people."

"I need to know..."

Li Yun narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Where are Zhao Cheng's troops now and how many people are there?"

Assuming that these two people were spies sent by someone else, then there is no doubt that it must be Zhao Cheng.

Apart from him, even if there were other forces eyeing Yuezhou at this moment, they were the kind of forces that had not yet been organized and established. Only Zhao Cheng had established his own military system early on.

How to deal with this battle with Zhao Cheng is very crucial for Li Yun.

Only by completely defeating Zhao Cheng can Li Yun sit firmly in Yuezhou without having to worry about Zhao Cheng's return every day.

Of course, if he could take advantage of this opportunity to capture Zhao Cheng alive and use him for his own purposes, that would be the ideal situation for Li Yun. After all, he is actually in need of a professional general now.

However, Li Yun also knew that the probability was not high.

When Zhao Cheng's troops fled Yuezhou, their number was twice as many as Li Yun's current number. Even though some of his subordinates left his army because of the failure of Yuezhou, their number would not be less than Li Yun's current number.

In addition, those who will survive in the end must be Zhao Cheng’s diehard fans, and the combat effectiveness of this part of the army may be even more terrifying.

Therefore, what Li Yun wanted in this battle was only to defeat Zhao Cheng, or at least make him give up Yuezhou. By the way, he also wanted to train his newly raised army.

Zhou Liang bowed his head and clasped his fists: "I will personally do this matter and try my best to find out everything."

Li Yun shook his head slightly: "Let Li Zheng go, he is familiar with this job."

Zhou Liang nodded silently and went downstairs to do his work.

After sitting in his tent for a while, Li Yun walked out and came to the training ground.

The training ground of Yuezhou Camp is much larger than any training ground Li Yun had seen before. There are already quite a few people on the training ground, training in progress.

When Li Yun walked to the parade ground, everyone who saw him bowed their heads and greeted him. Some called him Sima, some called him General, and those who were from the old anti-theft team still called him "Boss."

Li Yun walked to the middle of the parade ground, picked up a big gun and flexed it for a while, then pointed at a few acquaintances from the anti-theft team in the parade ground. "You, you, you."

"And you."

"Come here together, let's fight."

Li Yun pointed at six or seven people, then dropped his spear and said with a smile: "If you beat me, I will reward you one tael of silver!"

These people who came from the anti-theft team were basically bandits, and they had all been beaten by Li Yun. Upon hearing this, no one dared to step forward. The braver ones shouted, "Boss, you are not allowed to use too much force!"

Li Yun grinned: "Okay, I know my limits."

Someone else said, "Then add a few more people, let's make it ten!"

Li Yun glared at him and scolded him with a smile: "I gave you all this meat, but it was all in vain? You have no ambition at all, come on, come forward!"

"Don't shrink your eggs!"

The seven people looked at each other, then mustered up the courage and stood opposite Li Yun. Before starting, they gathered together and discussed tactics for a while, then dispersed and surrounded Li Yun.

At this time, there were already two to three hundred people gathered on the parade ground to watch.

Li Yun glanced at the soldiers who were watching, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

This is the effect he wants.

Starting today, he will set the tone for Yuezhou Camp bit by bit.

Martial, martial, martial!

Thinking of this, Li Yun threw off his coat, revealing his muscular body, looked at everyone, and shouted, "Come!"

The seven people all breathed a sigh of relief, shouted loudly, and rushed towards Li Yun.

The eight men quickly started fighting. After only a few breaths, two of them were grabbed by Li Yun from behind and thrown out of the battle circle, causing the onlookers to exclaim in surprise.

The two people who were thrown out also felt ashamed. One of them tore off his clothes, naked from head to toe, and shouted to the other person: "Take off your clothes, or he won't be able to catch you!"

The other one rolled his eyes at him.

"He has that kind of weird strength. If he hadn't grabbed your collar or the back of your neck, you'd be dead!"

The man was frightened after hearing this, and picked up the clothes on the ground, put them on randomly, and rushed into the battle again.

At this time, Li Yun had already kicked two people away, and then he leaned over to knock another person to the ground. In a few seconds, he knocked everyone on the field to the ground.

Although he was hit a few times during this process, he was thick-skinned and didn't care at all.

When the two men wanted to rush forward again, Li Yun had already finished the fight and was looking at the two men leisurely. The two men quickly shrank their heads and raised their hands to admit defeat.

Mr. Li laughed and said, "Great!"

"That's all for today. If you're not convinced, you can come find me tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll allow ten of you to come at me together!"

After saying that, Li clapped his hands and went to the side to practice shooting.

The seven of them looked at each other with dismay on their faces, then turned to look at the onlookers, and couldn't help but get angry and embarrassed.

"What are you looking at! Go train, go train!"

After being shouted at by them, the crowd watching on the parade ground dispersed with laughter, and at the same time, they felt more awe towards Li Yun!
Especially those new recruits who have just entered the camp.

Our general is too fierce!
The seven people who were knocked down have gathered together and started discussing tomorrow's strategy.

Under Li Yun's deliberate guidance, these Jiangdong young men and the spirit of the Yuezhou Camp gradually began to become more tough.

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On the other side, Li Zheng personally brought two familiar subordinates and followed all the way. After following for almost half a day, they finally saw the two brothers of the Cao family in a farm outside Yuezhou City, interacting with several people with equally suspicious behavior.

Li Zheng watched for a while, then waved his hand and said to his followers, "Go call someone to take them all away."

Soon, twenty or thirty people came to the vicinity of the farm. At Li Zheng's command, everyone immediately surrounded it and Li Zheng shouted loudly.

"You are on duty at the government office. Surrender and save your life!"

Upon hearing this, several people who had contact with the Cao brothers fled in all directions. Li Zheng led his men to chase them, but in the end they only captured the Cao brothers and three or four people who had contact with them.

Two men fled on horseback.

Seeing that he could not catch up, Li Zheng grabbed Cao Yuan by the collar and said coldly: "Who is running away?!"

Cao Yuan trembled and lowered his head and said, "It's... Zhao..."

"General Zhao..."

(End of this chapter)