Thief Emperor

Chapter 271 The battle between black and white!
Li Yun comforted the King of Chu for a long time before the King of Chu finally left his tent.

Originally, Li Yun was planning to find a house nearby for him to stay temporarily. After all, most people are not used to living in a military camp. However, His Royal Highness the King of Chu insisted on living in the military camp and did not want to go anywhere else. Li Yun had no choice but to have someone clear out a separate tent for him to live in.

After sending him away from his tent, Li Yun first asked someone to call Zhao Cheng over. Then he picked up the document written to him by Wu Yuanyou on the table, looked at it left and right, and was very satisfied.

As far as Li Yun is concerned at this stage, he is not short of military force. At least in the Jiangnan area, no one can be his opponent in terms of the combat effectiveness of his subordinates.

And because he still has to continue to develop under the banner of Wu Zhou, what he needs most now is actually status.

And this document is the best status.

If it falls into Li Yun's hands, it will be no different from a legal license to kill in the Jiangnan region!
After watching for a while, Li Yun quickly began to collect his thoughts.

After another contact, he found that although Wu Yuanyou did not have much social experience, he was not stupid in any aspect and was even quite spiritual.

The fact that he so decisively issued this document to himself and gave part of the title of imperial envoy to Li Yun was not as simple as it seemed on the surface. He must have his own considerations.

Therefore, we cannot take it lightly.

Just when Li Yun was lost in thought, Zhao Cheng had already crouched down and entered the tent. He clasped his fists and bowed to Li Yun: "Envoy, are you looking for me?"

Li Yun came back to his senses and said with a smile, "Sit down and talk."

Zhao Cheng nodded and sat opposite Li Yun. Li Yun then said, "According to the Imperial Envoy's instructions, tomorrow morning, our troops will move to Haiyan County to quell the rebellion in Haiyan. This matter..."

"General Zhao is mainly responsible for this. I will just follow and watch. The specific combat arrangements and command will all be handled by you, General Zhao."

Zhao Cheng lowered his head and pondered for a while after hearing this, then looked at Li Yun and asked, "Envoy, do you really obey the orders of that Wu family member?"

"Can't talk about it."

Li Yun smiled and said, "It's just mutual cooperation. General Zhao feels uncomfortable?"

"No."

Zhao Cheng shook his head and said, "Just asking."

He stood up, took a deep breath, clasped his fists and said, "I will arrange it immediately, but there is one thing I want to correct, Your Excellency."

Li Yun looked at him and said calmly, "You say."

"Before Zhao Cheng can't appear in public..."

Zhao Cheng bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency, please address me by my pseudonym, so as not to cause trouble for you."

Li Yun touched his chin, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll remember that."

"Captain Li."

Li Yun shouted, then looked up at Zhao Cheng and said in a deep voice: "I will not participate in this battle. This is the first large-scale battle that I will not participate in since my army was established. I hope you can fight beautifully."

All along, from the previous anti-theft team to the later Yuezhou Army, Li Yun himself was part of the combat force.

Even when he was in the anti-theft team, he alone was able to represent a large part of the team's combat power. After all, in small-scale combat, the advantages that could be brought about by a "fierce general" like Li Yun joining the battlefield were truly too great.

Until the last Battle of Wuzhou, Li Yun participated in the war throughout.

But...this is just a temporary phenomenon in the early stages of entrepreneurship.

After all, as the strength of his subordinates grows, Li Yun's share of the overall strength will become smaller and smaller. Although he will not deliberately avoid participating in wars in the future, it is time to train his subordinates as a normal army's combat effectiveness.

Zhao Cheng looked at Li Yun with a complicated expression.

He knew very well what Li Yun meant!

After all, when he was a rebel before, he fought with Li Yun twice, and both times it could be said that the situation was turned around by Li Yun, the killing god on the battlefield!
His breathing quickened a little, and he lowered his head and said, "I understand!"

After saying this, he bowed his head and saluted, then quietly retreated.

In his own tent, Li Yun took out the imperial envoy's document and looked at it for a while, lost in thought.

His plan to dominate Jiangdong became much easier with the acquisition of this document!
Although this was due to Li Yun’s own efforts, it also involved a lot of luck.

"Could it be..."

Governor Li looked up at the sky and couldn't help but mutter something under his breath.

"Is there really such a thing as receiving the destiny from heaven?"

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The next morning, before Li Yun woke up, the team, under the command of Zhao Cheng, had already set out from outside Gusu City directly towards Haiyan County.

Because Li Yun had given notice in advance, Deng Yang also completely followed Zhao Cheng's arrangements. This time, there were a total of twelve brigades, eleven of which set out before dawn, leaving only one brigade for Li Yun.

In other words, when Governor Li woke up, there were only about a hundred people left by his side.

When Li Yun stretched out his tent with a smile on his face, Wu Yuanyou, the King of Chu, was already waiting outside the tent anxiously. Seeing Li Yun coming out, he hurried forward in two or three steps, a little anxious: "Li, where are your soldiers? How come they disappeared so early in the morning?" Li Yun smiled and said: "According to your Highness's orders, they went to Haiyan County to quell the rebellion."

His Royal Highness the King of Chu scratched his head and looked at Li Yun: "Then... Governor Li, you are not going?"

"I'll go as well."

Li Yun bowed slightly and said, "I will go to Haiyan County with Your Highness and personally protect Your Highness's safety."

At this point, Li Yun looked around and ordered in a deep voice: "Prepare a car for His Highness, let's go!"

Meng Hai, who was right beside Li Yun, nodded immediately and went to prepare the carriage. His Royal Highness the King of Chu looked left and right, still feeling a little uneasy. He pulled Li Yun's sleeve and said, "Li, the situation is urgent. It may be too late to take a carriage. Let's ride together and catch up with the main force as soon as possible."

Li Yun took a quick glance and found that compared to last night, Wu Yuanyou now had more than twenty followers. All of them were strong and powerful, but they did not look like people from Jiangnan. Most of them were the guards who accompanied Wu Yuanyou from the capital.

Li Yun looked at them, then at the King of Chu, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, don't worry. The rioters in Haiyan County should be able to be dealt with by my brothers. Your Highness, just get in the car. By the time we get to Haiyan County, the battle in Haiyan County may have been almost over."

Wu Yuanyou pulled Li Yun aside, turned around and pointed at Gusu City behind him, and said anxiously: "Li Governor, what I am really worried about is not the rioters in Haiyan, but the people in Gusu City!"

"They must have discovered that I left the city last night. If they knew that Li Shishi's main force was not here and that I was only a dozen miles outside the city, they would definitely chase me out. By then, I'm afraid that both me and Li Shishi would be taken into Gusu City by them!"

Li Yun frowned when he heard this: "Do they have the guts to kidnap the prince, the imperial envoy?"

"The salt roads are complicated and tangled. Among the high-ranking officials in Gusu City, three or four out of ten families are related to the salt roads. If they are intermarried, they have already become one."

"Knowing that I have disciplined so many people in Mingzhou and that I want to completely clean up the salt roads in Jiangnan, how can they not be anxious?"

"Even a desperate dog will jump over the wall, let alone, let alone..."

Wu Yuanyou shook his head and sighed, and didn't continue.

Moreover, after the rebellion in the Central Plains, the prestige and ability of the imperial court were no longer as strong as before. Even when the imperial court was at its peak, there were still cases where imperial envoys died in local areas, not to mention that the imperial court is now weak.

What can't they do?
Li Yun looked calm and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Your Highness, just get on the carriage. I will make sure you leave Gusu City in a dignified manner and arrive in Haiyan County to vent your anger."

Wu Yuanyou hesitated for a long time, but finally got on the carriage prepared for him by Li Yun. After getting on the carriage, the carriage slowly drove along the official road towards Haiyan County.

Li Yun brought a brigade and more than twenty guards from the capital, who followed the carriage and protected His Royal Highness the King of Chu.

Wu Yuanyou still felt insecure. From time to time, he would stick his head out and look back in the direction of Gusu City.

Li Yun and his companions had only walked less than ten miles on the official road when they saw thirty or forty riders coming from the direction of Gusu City, galloping along the official road.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu poked his head out of the carriage and looked back. Seeing dozens of riders approaching, he could not help but look at Li Yun and shouted, "Governor Li, they are coming!"

Li Yun also looked back at them, narrowed his eyes, and said nothing.

The speed of these cavalrymen on horseback was naturally much faster than that of carriages, and they soon stopped in front of Li Yun and others. The leader, a man in his forties, got off his horse and clasped his fists towards Li Yun on the horse, saying, "Is it Governor Li?"

Li Yun did not dismount, but just looked at him quietly, and said lightly: "You guys, stop the imperial envoy's carriage, do you know what crime it is?"

The middle-aged man exchanged glances with his companions, then looked up at Li Yun, bowed his head and clasped his fists, and said in a deep voice: "Li Governor, it is precisely because the imperial envoy is in the team that we have to stop the horses!"

He looked up at Li Yun and gritted his teeth, saying, "Governor Li, the 500 soldiers from Yuezhou accompanying the imperial envoy secretly took the imperial envoy out of the city overnight. At this moment, Governor Li took a thousand soldiers and broke into our Wujun territory without authorization!"

"We suspect that Governor Li wants to kidnap the imperial envoy and hold him hostage, and he has bad intentions!"

He said in a deep voice: "Please, Governor Li, hand over His Highness to us and let us take him back to the city!"

As he spoke, he looked up at Li Yun and gritted his teeth and said, "Please, Governor Li, come back to the city with us. If there is any misunderstanding, we can sort it out in person after we see our master!"

"it is good."

Li Yun clapped his hands and smiled in anger.

"Good good."

He looked at the man and asked, "Who is your master? Is he the governor of Wu County or the Duke of Zheng?"

The man said in a deep voice: "After Li returns with us, he will know!"

Upon hearing this, Li Yun turned his head to look at the carriage where Wu Yuanyou was. The curtains of the carriage were drawn tight, and His Royal Highness the King of Chu never showed his head to speak again.

"I understand."

Li Yun looked at the dozens of riders in front of him and stretched out his right hand. The man who was holding the gun for him immediately threw a big gun into his hand. Li Yun grabbed the big gun and held it tightly, looked up at the dozens of riders in front of him and sneered.

"It turns out that you are not confusing right and wrong, but you have to fight in Wu County first."

"Only then can we clearly distinguish who is black and who is white among us."

He held the gun in both hands, expressionless, and said only one word to a group of subordinates.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)