"I have never known Xu Shiren, and the Mengshan Rebel Army has never had any relationship with the heroes of Rencheng. Why did Xu Shiren come uninvited? Where did he know that our strength is the strongest among all rebels? He is from Qilu, and we are from Xuzhou. Qi and Chu have always been disagreeable and have no trust. Why did Xu Shiren not go to the commander of the Qilu Rebel Army to discuss it, but came to offer some advice and ask for his promise?"

Xiao Yi had no intention of finding the answer at all. What was the point of thinking? Didn’t you just not trust the other party? Since you don’t believe it, you have different opinions from me, why would I talk to you?

"Since you doubt Xu Shiren's motive for offering advice, then just refuse. Why do you still lie to him?"

Li Fengyun was too lazy to talk to Xiao Yi, and then turned his eyes to Yuan An.

"Xu Daxia's murderous intent is obvious, but the alliance strategy he offered was, as Xiao Lang said just now, was the best strategy to unite a loose Qilu rebel army and grow rapidly. This strategy can be used and there is a possibility of realization. If it is implemented, it will be beneficial to me, Mengshan, and it will also be beneficial to control the situation in Qilu. However, we are from Xuzhou, are from Chu, and have no absolute advantage in strength. In this case, it is impossible to implement the alliance strategy. The emergence of Xu Shiren helped us solve this problem. Of course, the difficulty of forming an alliance is still very high. Even if Xu Daxia has this ambition and does not hesitate to work hard day and night, the possibility of realization is still small. Therefore, in a certain opinion, if the alliance is successful, Xu Daxia will make great contributions. For this reason, he will naturally give him a promise, inspire his morale, and strengthen his determination."

Xiao Yi was a little overwhelmed. You white-haired thief, since you don’t believe in others, you have to use them and use their strategies, and then agree with what Yuan An said, saying that Xu Daxia does hide murderous intent, so what is murderous intent? Where is murderous intent?

After hearing Li Fengyun's explanation, Yuan An's uneasiness immediately dissipated. He only wanted to guard against the enemy's plot and distance himself from the enemy, but did not dare to boldly use the enemy, so he admired Li Fengyun's courage and courage very much.

"Do you tell Han Changshi and Chen Sima about this?"

Han Yao is currently active in the southern foothills of Mengshan Mountain, leading the main army to one south and one north, forming a siege attack on Xiaqiu, the capital of Lu County. Chen Rui stayed at Zhuan Yu to preside over the general's office and deal with daily military and political affairs. He had previously secretly rushed to Pengcheng to meet Cui Deben. The two sides agreed on cooperation matters, the most important point was the mutual communication. If the Mengshan rebel army forms an alliance with various rebels in Qilu, it will definitely have a significant impact on the situation in Qilu, so of course it must be told to Cui.

Li Fengyun nodded in agreement.

"General, where does Xu's murderous intent come from?" Xiao Yi changed his smile and asked without shame. He was arrogant and could not see the secret here. He was very dissatisfied and must figure it out.

Li Fengyun smiled but said nothing.

"Xu Shiren is from Rencheng, but he went north to Wenshui." Yuan An sneered, "Xiao Lang, think about it, where is he going to pass?"

Xu Shiren was going to pass Xiaqiu City. Xiao Yi suddenly realized that this was Duan Wencao's plan. Duan Wencao asked Xu Shiren to go north to find the Cangtou army to offer his plan. As long as the Cangtou army was trapped, Xu Shiren could use all his strength to gather the rebels in Lu County and its surrounding areas. The rebels were strong and they would attack Xiaqiu. Could it be that Duan Wencao wanted to fight to the decisive battle, use the decisive battle to wipe out the rebels and resolve all the crises at once? This is what Li Fengyun said about murderous intent?

"Duan Wencao?" Xiao Yi glanced at Li Fengyun and asked tentatively.

"Who else besides him?" Li Fengyun smiled, "A Rencheng hoped that even if he had the ambition of kings, princes, generals and ministers, with such vision and strategy, would not try to pull all the rebels together to form an alliance and grow under today's situation. Today, the heroes of the north and south of the Great Henan and the north, Liu Badao, Gao Shida, Dou Jiande, Hao Xiaode, Zhang Jincheng, Wang Bo, Meng Rang, Zuo Junxing, Guo Fangyu, and Han Jinluo in the south, are all local heroes, but look, who has come forward to form an alliance? Who can unite the rebels who fight each other and develop and grow together? Are they not like this?

Vision and strategy? Of course not. The reason is very simple. Everyone has the same status, identity, strength, and even their ideas. They want to be the boss, but they don’t want to be the younger brother. Although the future prospects are very bad, life and death are hanging between the front line. Alliance and development and work together are the best way to survive. However, selfish desires defeat reason and delusion defeat reality. No one is willing to bow down to be the younger brother. Therefore, although more and more people will rise up, they will eventually be a mess. If the Eastern Expedition is victorious, the expedition forces will return triumphantly, and quell the rebellion will be easy for the emperor and the central government. Unfortunately, there is no assumption in history..."

"The general also wants to be the boss." Xiao Yi interrupted Li Fengyun's "hypothesis" without hesitation. What if, assumption, there is no if, assumption, the Eastern Expedition will surely be victorious, and you rebels will definitely be killed, but what should I do? Has someone offended the Twelve Lady? Why did she have to kill someone?

"Of course." Li Fengyun said sternly, "not being the boss means giving his destiny to others. Someone would rather die than let others control their life and death."

"So you have selfish desires and delusions."

Xiao Yi laughed loudly, and then saw Xu Shisan's eyes that were almost fiery, and he was startled and changed his words repeatedly, "Of course, with the general's magical martial arts, selfish desires are justice, and delusions are great achievements..." He felt that this was even more absurd, and he mocked Li Fengyun, and immediately fled in panic.

Li Fengyun looked at Xiao Yi who was running away with his head in his arms, and his eyes showed murderous aura. Xu Shisanda was embarrassed and at a loss, and hated Xiao Yi with teeth.

"This guy is open and honest." Li Fengyun looked at Yuan An, then Xu Shisan, and sneered, "Today, there are too many people like the Divine Martial Arts, and the result is that the officials and soldiers are killing each other, annihilated each other, resulting in constant killing and suffering from creatures. In just a few years, the north and south of the rivers were sparsely populated, becoming a barren land with corpses everywhere. If you want to save thousands of innocent creatures, you will have to fight bloody today and write history. Only in this way can you build great martial arts and leave your name in history."

Yuan An and Xu Shisan said repeatedly, but they did not dare to have such fantasies in their hearts. Although Li Fengyun created miracles again and again, saving thousands of innocent creatures and building worldly martial arts is really a distance of 100,800 miles from the current rebel army. It is useless to create too many miracles.

"General, what will happen next?"

"Seeking for a decisive battle." Li Fengyun calmed down, but his words were thrilling.

Looking for a decisive battle? Fighting with the government army? Yuan An and Xu Shisan looked at each other, and a hint of shock flashed across their eyes. At the beginning of Xuzhou, Li Fengyun tried every means to avoid a decisive battle with the government army. Although he occupied Mengshan and had been trained for another winter, his combat effectiveness had improved, he still did not meet the conditions for a decisive battle. The rebel army had only a few troops, one less death, even if you won the decisive battle? Kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of them. How can you live your life next? Why did Li Fengyun's idea suddenly change, which was very different from his previous idea? Is it because of Cui's assistance, or was his self-confidence over-inflated and forgetfulness?

"General, who will you fight to the decisive battle? Duan Wencao?" Yuan An asked anxiously, "General intends to capture Lu County?"

Yuan An knew his own strength very well. Perhaps Li Fengyun placed his hopes on alliances with various rebels, but even if the alliance was successful, there would definitely be many contradictions within the alliance, and various rebels would not easily obey Li Fengyun's orders. If Li Fengyun wanted to obey orders and keep the orders consistent, it would be basically impossible.

Li Fengyun shook his hand, "With Duan Wencao's strength and current situation, he can only stick to the city, dare not fight, nor dare to take risks, but why did he assign Xu Shiren to form an alliance, gather various rebels in Lu County, and put himself in danger? Does he want to make a contribution to one battle and one battle? If he had such an idea, where would he have the power to fight?"

Xu Shisan suddenly thought of a sentence that Li Fengyun once said, and then recalled Duan Wencao's strategy of "finding his achievements in one battle", and immediately blurted out, "Zhang Xutuo, Qi County? General is going to fight Zhang Xutuo?"

Li Fengyun patted Xu Shisan's shoulder hard to show his praise.

Yuan An realized that after a long time, the alliance strategy offered by Xu Shiren was the plan to join forces to suppress the thieves planned by Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao.

Duan Wencao was eager to improve his situation, while Zhang Xutuo was eager to suppress the bandits to stabilize the situation in Qilu and ensure that the navy successfully crossed the sea and made a long expedition. From this background, Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao were of course eager to fight decisively. However, the rebels of each other were fighting each other, and they were dispersed. Zhang Xutuo surrounded and blocked him, exhausted and could not find a chance to fight. It happened that several rebels in the northwest of Shandong led by the Mengshan rebel army were invading Lu County. Duan Wencao had no choice but to ask Zhang Xutuo for help, so Zhang Xutuo had this alliance strategy to use Lu County as bait to gather all the rebel armies together. This alliance strategy obviously met the requirements for the development and growth of the Mengshan rebel army, so they concluded that Li Fengyun would definitely be deceived.

Li Fengyun was extremely talented and thoughtful, and saw through Xu Shiren's purpose at a glance. Since you want to fight to the decisive battle, then you will fight to the decisive battle. However, what Yuan An couldn't figure out was, what Li Fengyun would do to fight to the decisive battle?

"General, according to the news sent there, Zhang Xutuo's tent has ten village groups and tens of thousands of elite soldiers, plus the assistance of the Qi County Yingyang, and the right guard Zhou Fashang, who is very powerful. It is precisely because of this that Zhou Fashang entrusted the important task of suppressing the rebellion and suppressing the thieves to Zhang Xutuo, and he focused on the navy's expedition and deployed most of the Yingyang army in Qilu in the eastern part of Shandong to ensure the safety of the transportation channel from Jianghuai to Donglai."

Yuan An had to remind Li Fengyun that the strength of the two sides was too great and there was no chance of winning the decisive battle.

"The outcome of this decisive battle is not the number of troops on both sides, nor the strategy of the commanders on both sides, but who can know themselves and their enemies."

Li Fengyun was full of confidence and waved his hand and was extremely heroic.

Yuan An understood and secretly felt ashamed, and his confidence suddenly increased. "Does the general's plan be urgently reported to Sima Chen?"

"Mr. San, please tell me that this decisive battle only has one secret, one secret that is enough to defeat Zhang Xutuo."

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Zhang Xutuo rushed his troops westward and quickly advanced along the two sides of the Ji River to Jibei County, facing the bandit commander Han Jinluo, and Zhen Baoche launched an encirclement and suppression.

When Han Jinluo and Zhen Baoche heard the news, they led their troops to retreat quickly and entered Sucheng in Dongping County, and then joined forces.

Sucheng and Pinglu County in Lu County are dozens of miles apart, and are at the intersection of Jishui, Wenshui and Juyeze. Last year, the river flooded, and this area was seriously affected and became a yellow flood area, with people being deserted and not suitable for survival. Han Jinluo and Zhen Baoche had to make a choice in the critical moment, should they cross the Wenshui River and enter Lu County? After entering Lu County, should they join Shuai Rentai, who was stationed in Pinglu, compete for food with the fishermen in Juyeze, or continue to move east along the Wenshui River? It is said that

The Mengshan rebel army was sieging cities and camping on the Wenshui line. If the continued eastward advancement would inevitably lead to conflict with the Mengshan rebel army. Since the Mengshan rebel army could last for several months under the encirclement of Yingyang Mansions in Qilu and Xuzhou, it has now broken through the siege of the official army and went down the mountain to attack, which is enough to show that its strength is extraordinary. The Mengshan rebel army comes from Xuzhou and is a Chu person. Qi and Chu are not in harmony. When the two armies meet, the Chu people will definitely rely on their strength to attack the Jibei rebel army and annex it to strengthen themselves.

Han Jinluo and Zhen Baoche were worried and uneasy. While sending people to inquire along the Wenshui River, he sent envoys to Pinglu to inquire about Shuai Rentai's attitude.

Shuai Rentai welcomed the Jibei Rebel Army to enter Lu County, but Shuai Rentai also clearly told Han Jinluo and Zhen Baoche that Juyeze could not support so many troops. If the Jibei Rebel Army wanted to eat and wear, it would have to enter the hinterland of Lu County and make a living in Xiaqiu, the capital of Lu County and its surrounding areas. In addition, Shuai Rentai was also worried that Zhang Xutuo would chase after him and chase him all the way to Lu County. If all the rebel troops in the eastern Lu area ran to Lu County, wouldn’t it just give Zhang Xutuo and Duan Wencao a chance to join forces to defeat each other?

Han Jinluo and Zhen Baoche were very disappointed. At this time, the scouts who went east to inquire about military information along the two sides of the Wenshui River also returned. The Mengshan Rebel Army's vanguard troops had conquered Nanzhang City dozens of miles away. As for the Gangcheng, Schicuki, Wenyang and other cities further east, they had fallen. The road to advance east was completely blocked.

There is an obstruction in front and a pursuer behind, where can we go?

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