Thief Emperor

Chapter 736 Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight

Li Yun was stunned for a moment, but didn't say much. He just fixed his eyes slightly and continued to listen to Zhang Sui reading.

Of course he knew the name Sun Youtian, or the person himself.

There were more than 170 people who followed him in the anti-theft team. Among these 170 people, about 120 to 130 became generals later.

Sun Youtian has now become a deputy captain, and is already a prominent figure among this group of people.

Li Yun could name most of these 120 to 130 people. Li Yun even remembered Sun Youtian. When he was a bandit, he had no name, only a nickname, Qian Chuanzi.

It’s not that he is rich, but he likes to string his money together and count it every day.

When this man was in the mountain stronghold, he had little money because of his honest character. By the time Li Yun captured him, the "money man" who was already in his thirties had only two or three strings of money on him, which added up to less than a hundred coins.

Later, Xue Yuner changed the names of the brigade commanders under Li Yun. At that time, "Qian Chuanzi" was only a team leader, not a brigade commander, but he was brave enough to ask Xue Yuner for a name.

Xue Yun'er named him Sun Youlu according to his nickname. After hearing the name, Qian Chuanzi lowered his head and hesitated for a long time before he bravely stepped forward and called her "Madam", stammering that he wanted to call her Youtian.

It was only at this time that everyone knew that he was saving money in the village in order to buy a piece of land of his own.

At that time, few people present laughed at him.

From then on, Qian Chuanzi picked up the surname Sun left to him by his father and became the current Sun Youtian.

It was also because of this incident that Li Yun was deeply impressed by him.

Later, Sun Youtian's position rose. Last year, he was awarded the lowest level of military rank, sergeant, and was promoted to deputy captain. He was ecstatic.

Because of the soldiers, they could get one hectare of land.

He didn't care much about the title of deputy captain or not, but this one hectare of land really made him happy for a long time. For a long time afterwards, Deputy Captain Sun thought about what to plant on his one hectare of land every day. He was even scolded by Yu Ye for this matter, and only then did he put his mind back into the army.

Now, the familiar name from the past appeared in front of Li Yun, and it was accompanied by the cold words "died in battle".

Li Yun remained silent and just frowned.

This is what a battlefield is like.

After finally listening to Zhang Sui's report, Li Yun looked up at Zhang Sui, was silent for a moment, and said, "Send someone to Xin'an to see what the specific situation is now."

Li Yun's voice was a little hoarse: "How come the deputy generals all died in the battle?"

At this time, the main general of Xin'an was the captain Yu Ye, and Sun Youtian was his deputy, who was the deputy general on the Xin'an battlefield. The death of the deputy general in such an important battlefield was quite worthy of attention.

Zhang Sui lowered his head slightly and said, "Your Majesty, perhaps I did not read it clearly just now..."

He said cautiously: "Captain Yu reported that Xin'an is still stable and there will be no problems..."

"What nonsense?"

Li Yun patted the table and said in a deep voice: "I'm going to send someone to take a look!"

Zhang Sui was startled and fell to his knees with a thud. He bowed his head and said, "I will pass the message right away. I will pass the message right away!"

He got up and left tremblingly. Li Yun watched him leave. After a long time, he exhaled heavily. Looking under his palm, he saw that the wooden table had already cracked slightly.

Li Yun said expressionlessly: "Su Zhan, Su Zhan!"

Su Zhan trotted in, half-knelt in front of Li Yun, and bowed his head and said, "Take the seat!"

"Go find Meng Qinglai."

"Yes!"

Half an hour later, Meng Qing, who was still patrolling the army, appeared in Li Yun's tent. He bowed his head and clasped his fists, saying, "Take the position!"

"The troops should be tilted to the west of Luoyang to prevent the enemy from leaving the city and joining the main force in the west."

Meng Qing immediately lowered his head and replied yes.

Li Yun looked up at him and said slowly: "The new recruits from Shannan East Road and the 10,000 to 20,000 troops drawn from Lingnan should enter the Central Plains by the end of the month. The troops from Lingnan will be assigned to the western battlefield in Luoyang, and the new recruits from Shannan East Road."

"I'll leave it to you. By the second half of the year, all these new recruits will be brought out for me."

Meng Qing bowed his head deeply: "I obey your command!"

"Go and do your work."

"Yes."

Meng Qing took a few steps back, turned around and left.

Li Yun took a deep breath and murmured, "If we really fight to the end, I still have the entire Jiangdong rear area that has not moved."

"Come on."

His eyes were blazing, and he gnashed his teeth: "Don't let me enter Luoyang, or no one can drive me away!"…………

While Li Yun was gritting his teeth, General Wei, who was stationed in Shanzhou, was completely furious. He slammed the table several times in anger and almost broke it.

"What the hell did you say?"

"Five days, just five days!"

"How many of my men did He Xiong kill in Xin'an County?!"

Kneeling in front of him was a captain under General He Xiong, who was reporting military intelligence to General Wei. After being slapped on the table, he swallowed his saliva and lowered his head and said, "General, this is not General He's fault. The city wall of Xin'an County is different from that of ordinary counties, and the Jiangdong Army guarding the city are all crazy..."

"We brothers fought hard and finally reached the tower. They placed gunpowder barrels on the tower and they exploded, and our formation was scattered again!"

"Last time, the last time we had five thousand men fiercely attacking one of their city walls, and we were about to take it down, but a madman who looked like a general in the Jiangdong Army attacked dozens of us, sent gunpowder to the tower, lit it, and blew us down again!"

"Everyone in the Jiangdong Army is like they took crazy drugs."

The captain knelt on the ground with a bitter look on his face: "Sometimes, when we fight until midnight and have just withdrawn, they will open the city gates and take the initiative to chase us out of the city. Therefore, therefore..."

“That’s why the casualties were higher.”

He raised his head and looked at Wei Quanzhong carefully, then quickly lowered his head and said, "General, General He said that we must attack this kind of city with all our might. If we fail to take it down in one go, it will be extremely difficult to take it down later. That's why we have been trying our best to attack the city these days... There have been some heavy casualties."

“Is this a bit big?”

General Wei's face turned red with anger, and he shouted angrily: "It took five or six days to attack a county town, and I lost eight thousand elite soldiers. One thousand five hundred people died a day. I didn't have such casualties when I attacked the capital!"

"Now you have the nerve to come over here and ask me for reinforcements!"

The captain knelt on the ground and kowtowed, saying, "General, of the more than 10,000 men left in my army, more than half are injured, but the Jiangdong army in Xin'an City must have suffered heavy casualties as well."

"General He said that if there were no reinforcements, it would be impossible to capture Xin'an County, and the brothers who died in the battle would have died in vain!"

"Besides, the Jiangdong Army's firearms and gunpowder are weird, and this is not General He's fault..."

"Don't blame him. Don't blame him."

General Wei sneered and said, "Of course it's not his fault. It's all because I hired the wrong person. Go back now and tell He Xiong."

Wei Quanzhong took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, "Tell him that I will find a way to send him reinforcements. Tell him not to stop the offensive in Xin'an."

"No matter what, take Xin'an County for me!"

"Yes!"

The captain was overjoyed. After getting up, he turned around and ran out of the general's tent. Wei Quanzhong looked down at the document at hand with a gloomy face.

Mr. He, who was standing next to him, was also looking through the documents. When he saw Wei Quanzhong finally calmed down, he slowly said, "Shou'an asked for help, Xin'an also asked for help. General, we still underestimated the King of Wu. I don't know which Taoist priest's notes he found this gunpowder from."

Wei Quanzhong snorted, "I have seen gunpowder before, and their thunder bombs, too."

"It is certainly useful on the battlefield, but it won't be of much use. It is useful in the hands of the Jiangdong Army because these Jiangdong Army are fearless and unafraid of death."

"This Li Yun, this Li Yun..."

"It's fucking weird!"

Mr. He shook his head and sighed, "The two counties of Xin'an and Shou'an have taken up about 40,000 troops of the general. There is also Yang Hou in Ruzhou, who needs 10,000 troops to look after him. Even if we take into account the new recruits that have been added during this period, the general's troops should only be a little over 20,000 at this time."

Mr. He looked at Wei Quanzhong and shook his head slightly: "General, we are a little stretched."

Wei Quanzhong's face flushed, and he was about to speak when he heard Mr. He say slowly, "General, what you need to consider right now is whether the two counties of Xin'an and Shou'an are worth fighting for."

"If we keep fighting, we can definitely take it down. I'm afraid we'll have to lose more than 30,000 troops in these two counties. By then, the battlefield in the Central Plains..."

"Li Yun's military strength is definitely superior."

"If things go wrong, he is using these two portals to consume the general's troops."

Wei Quanzhong narrowed his eyes slightly: "Sir, what you mean is that he has never thought of saving Xin'an Shou'an."

Mr. He shook his head slightly: "I don't understand this Li Yun."

"But General, I have something to remind you."

"explain."

Mr. He lowered his head and sighed: "It's time for the Major General to move. If the Major General doesn't move, then..."

"It's just that the young general is sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers."

(End of this chapter)