Take a look at the sky.

The sun is west and it is almost dusk.

The army did not even bring the necessary torches to travel at night. If you return the same route at this time, you will definitely not be able to reach your destination before dark.

In ancient times, night blindness was very serious. If you don’t prepare for the night marching, you don’t need to fight. The team may disperse as you walk. After all, his Yulin Army is not an elite.

Besides, Liu Xie himself is indeed tired, hungry, and a little sleepy.

So Liu Xie had to laugh a little to relieve his embarrassment and said, "I finally arrived in Xiping. I just want to come to Xiping. Brothers, let's go to the city."

At the same time, they are also reminding themselves to be calm and calm. As long as I pretend to be like them, they will not know that I am embarrassed.

Anyway, Nanyang is well-connected and can enter from anywhere, so what happened to me from Runan?

Don’t you know how to make up for it? Hurry up for it!

In fact, several people really discussed briefly whether the emperor really took the wrong path or had other profound meanings.

Zhong Ji firmly believed that the emperor must have gone from Runan on purpose and wanted to go to Sui County to fight Huang Zu. Didn’t Huang Zu go upstream from Jiangxia? Believe me, among us, I have followed the emperor for the longest time and know the emperor the best. The emperor’s strategy is like this. The emperor likes to say half of it and keep half of it. Being a close minister by the emperor, you must be able to understand it. If you understand it thoroughly, you will grow up.

Guan Yu believed that there was nothing to understand about this fact. Not to mention taking a strange route through Runan to fight Huang Zu in military tactics, it was purely a trouser fart. In terms of strategy, Huang Zu came from where the 20,000 navy troops went north, and even bragging to the sky. Who can't tell that it's a smoke bomb?

Although we also know that the emperor's strategy is unparalleled in the world, strategy and military strategy are not the same after all, and no one is born to know it. No matter how talented the emperor is, he has never brought soldiers or went to the battlefield. This is completely different from the conspiracies and tricks of political struggles. Everyone is in the industry.

Therefore, this matter is really hard to say.

Sima Yi, who had known Liu Xie for the first time for the first time, thought that you two were fighting for a bad situation. I don’t know whether the emperor has the ability in strategy, but he is obviously a fool in war!

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And just after they almost went to bed at night, half of Runan knew that the emperor was coming.

Li Tong, who was not far from Xiping, naturally knew that they were coming. When he learned the news, Li Tong was finishing his meal and was so scared that he even spit out the meat chewed in his mouth.

(The Three Kingdoms only said that Li Tong's troops were garrisoned in the west of Runan, but did not say where it was. Xiping is the closest county to Yingchuan and the most western one. The author speculated that it should be garrisoned in this area of ​​military farming. If any bigwig knows that I guessed wrong, please forgive me. After all, the author is not a major in history.)

"Brothers, the emperor must have come to Xiping to find us. What should we do now? Do you think I want to go to the city overnight to meet the emperor? But he didn't issue an edict to me! What do you think the emperor is thinking? What should we do?"

Li Tong sat on a stool in the head position, revealing his tattooed arms full of his upper body, and his face was filled with sorrow.

Li Tong and Liu Bei have similar backgrounds. They are both born as gossips. In later generations, they are gang bosses. There will always be more outstanding people who stand out in troubled times, but people of this kind of background are also difficult to be recognized by the gentry. They can basically only be generals but not in the generals. There are even fewer people who can fly alone.

Li Tong was not a person who was as benevolent and righteous as Liu Bei, and was really capable. Therefore, although Li Tong was already a Marquis of Confucianism and was even promoted to General, becoming one of the generals who were still very valuable in the early days of Jian'an, there were still not many scholars under his command.

When something happened, I could only discuss it with his brothers before.

A little brother said, "Didn't it mean that the emperor wants to personally conquer Liu Biao and resolve the siege of Wancheng? Why did he run away? The news is reliable? He won't be lost."

The other younger brother immediately sneered: "What are you kidding? Xu Du is only a little further away from Xinye. How could the army be lost when going to war? Do you think the emperor is as stupid as you? He is clearly coming to us."

"What do you mean when he comes to us without issuing an edict?"

"What does it mean? When our Tinghou takes the initiative to visit him, our Tinghou joined the Taifu after the Jian'an year. Oh, now he is called the Grand Sima. Now Xu Du has changed the world. Who knows whether people like us are loyal to the Grand Sima or the Emperor? This is the emperor testing us. If we don't issue an edict, we will leave a step for both sides."

So at this time someone asked a key question: "Then are we... the emperor's people, or the grand tutor, ah, the great sage?"

This question was really a surprise to everyone in the hall, because they were far away in Runan, and their mission was to suppress the Yuan family of Runan and wipe out the Yellow Turban thieves in Runan. They also had a certain degree of military autonomy. The battles in the court have never had anything to do with them.

This has led to them never considering this issue.

They really don't know who they are loyal to.

So everyone turned their heads in unison and looked at Li Tong.

Li Tong sighed helplessly.

"My pavilion is the pavilion of the great man. We came to join Ming Gong because he could give us rewards. After so many years of fighting, we have also changed from a ranger and a bandit to a destiny of the court. I have also been named a pavilion, and have been licking blood on the edge of the knife for most of my life. Isn't it just for this?

But... in the past three years, Ming Gong has been good to us. If it weren't for Ming Gong, I wouldn't have been this general, and I wouldn't have been able to become this official position."

When everyone heard this, they nodded, saying that the boss was right.

I just recovered and thought, isn’t this the same as saying nothing?

Someone simply cheered up and said, "I don't want to get involved in the affairs of the court at all. I just want to stay in Runan and continue to support my soldiers, be my official, and I love anyone in Xudu City. We have soldiers in our hands, and everyone has to be polite to us."

But the emperor suddenly came over this time, and no one knew what he wanted to do. What if he wanted to accept our military power? I told me that since he had no edict, we wouldn't go and pretend not to know."

Another man said, "All the nonsense is said. The emperor personally led the army to fight. It is just under our noses. The chefs who are cooking fires in the kitchen know that the emperor is coming. You say you pretend that you don't know that this is not a joke. Besides, it may not be the one who came to withdraw military power. Maybe they just want to try to see if we listen to his dispatch. If we don't go, wouldn't it be a mistake?"

Another person continued, "Besides, even if he takes military power, we can give it to him at most. We have never done anything to sorry to the emperor and the court. If he wants to withdraw military power, he will not have to exchange for high-ranking officials and generous salaries. Is it reasonable to not give my elder brother a position as a village marquis? If my elder brother is granted a village marquis, maybe we can all be a Guannei marquis."

Not long after, the two groups of people quarreled together.

What everyone said makes sense, but no one can come up with a solution that has the best of both worlds. After turning it over and over, Li Tong said nonsense.

So Li Tong became impatient, slapped the table and said:

"You guys go out. I want to be quiet. It's superfluous for me to ask you about this kind of thing. Oh~, let me think about it myself."
Chapter completed!