Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 504 Rapid March

   Li Yan's injury was not serious, but it was not light, at least in a short period of time, there was no way to go to the battlefield, Li Shen personally helped him back to the Hanzhong General's mansion, and asked the doctor in the mansion to give him medicine.

  After the dressing, Li Yan was half sitting on the bed, his face pale.

   No matter how brave he is, he will inevitably be weak after shedding so much blood. The southwestern general glanced at Li Shen who was sitting next to him, and lowered his head.

   "Brother, this Ye Ming is amazing."

   Originally, they were ambushed in the city this time, and even Li Yan personally led the team to rush to kill. Naturally, the purpose was to win a victory, or even a big victory, in the first battle.

   That's why Li Yan is so fierce and not afraid of death.

However, the premise of wanting a big victory is that Ye Ming is willing to fight them recklessly in the first wave of battle, but that Ye Shaobao wisely chose to retreat, resulting in a short battle just now, and Ye Ming's troops suffered a total of casualties. No more than a thousand people.

  You must know that Li Yan's department also suffered hundreds of casualties.

That is to say, this first encounter can be regarded as a victory for the Pingnan Army, but it is definitely not a big victory, not even a small victory, because not only did Ye Ming's team not hurt his bones , not even injured.

   It can only be considered a scratch at best.

  Li Shen slowly closed his eyes, lowered his eyebrows and said, "No matter what the result is, we won after all. When we talk to the outside world, we just need to say more about the result."

"But let's not stay in Hanzhong. I will leave 10,000 Pingnan troops here, plus Meng Qi's own 20,000 people and 30,000 people to defend Hanzhong. As long as Meng Qi can't hold on, he should be able to support a few. moon."

   Having said that, Li Shen glanced at Li Yan lightly.

   "I will leave Hanzhong tomorrow and go to Jiange."

   "You stay in Hanzhong to recuperate, and when you can move, go to Jiange to find me."

Jianmen Pass is the most important place in the southwest, and it is also the easiest place to defend and difficult to attack. Li Shen never thought that he could stop Ye Ming's footsteps in Hanzhong. Cui Wei, one husband is the gate of the sword that Wan Fu Mo can open.

  From ancient times to the present, this place has hardly been breached frontally. In those days, Li Zhijie was also hard-wearing to open the Jianmen Pass, which shows that the terrain is dangerous.

  Li Yan took a few deep breaths and said, "The eldest brother should be in Jincheng. As for the Jiange, the younger brother will set off to defend the Jiange in a few days..."

  Li Shen stood up and glanced at him slightly.

   "If the sword pavilion is lost, and Jincheng can't keep it, then what am I doing in Jincheng? I'm not the emperor who sits in court, can't I return to Jincheng and wait for death?"

   Li Yan was speechless when asked by these two sentences.

   Li Shen left with his hands behind, glanced at Li Yan when he walked to the door, and took a deep breath.

   "You heal well, don't think too much."

   "My father told me before he died that you are the second child of the Li family, and you are no different from his own son. Since you are a family, I will not hold any grudge against you."

   Speaking of Li Zhijie, Li Yan, who was lying on the hospital bed, instantly became solemn.

He was an orphan since he was a child. He was left in the dust and almost starved to death when he was a child. The world often said that he was brave and dared to kill when he was twelve years old. Do you really stab someone with a knife?

  In the beginning, Li Yan was also a poor person who couldn’t survive several times. Later, he was brought under Li Zhijie’s command, and then he was taken as an adopted son, and he took him with him for training. From this aspect, Li Zhijie can be said to be the father of Li Yanzheng’s Eight Classics.

   "Brother, Li Yan will not disappoint his adoptive father's rebirth."

   He gritted his teeth.

   "In any case, Li Yan must die first."

  Li Shen stopped, then returned to Li Yan's bed, and gave him a dark look calmly.

   "As I said just now, you are not a retainer of the Li family, nor are you a servant of the Marquis of Pingnan. You are the second child of the Li family and the second son of your father."

   "Frankly speaking, this time the uprising, our chance of winning is not very big. If the incident fails, I will definitely not escape death."

   "But you have to live well."

   Li Shen patted his shoulder.

   "If I die, you will leave the southern border. With your skills, you can have a meal wherever you go. As long as you don't go to the capital, you can live well."

   In today's Southwest, the odds of winning are indeed low, and even Li Shen himself has no confidence in himself.

   After he finished saying this, he turned and left without stopping.

  Li Yan was lying on the bed dumbfounded and didn't speak for a long time.

  …

   One day after Ye Ming and Hanzhong collided head-on for the first time, the military report of the war was finally delivered to Li Xin, who was on the march. Li Xin opened the letter and read it, then frowned slightly.

   "The first collision, after only half an hour, Senior Brother Ye was defeated?"

   "This style of play is too unlike the Ye family."

As Li Xin's dog-headed military advisor, Zhao Jia was naturally at the side at this time. He took the military newspaper and looked at it, and then said with a smile: "It was written in the military newspaper that Li Yan hid in Hanzhong City, and suddenly he came out, only to find out. The army of General Ye was reluctantly dispersed, and General Ye retreated very decisively. In the end, only a few hundred people died. In this process, it seemed that General Ye was defeated, but in fact, not many people were lost. It was Li Yan who lost his spirit."

   "The subordinates have said before that the first battle of the Pingnan Army is bound to win. Now that the first battle is over, the Pingnan Army has won, but it is a small victory that cannot be more small."

Zhao Jia pointed to the military report and said firmly: "So General Ye was at a loss on the surface, but in fact he took advantage of it. His subordinates deduced that if the Pingnan Army did not do stupid things, General Ye should be able to do it. Hanzhong can be won in about a month or two.”

   "A month or two..."

  Li Xin threw the military report aside, pulled out the map he had sent from Ye Ming before, then pointed to Dido's location, and said solemnly, "Let's speed up the march."

   "Before Senior Brother Ye takes Hanzhong, we must reach Didao and prepare to go to Yinping."

   Didao is the starting point of the ancient road of Yinping. From Didao to Yinping, it is a long mountain road.

   Li Xin means that while the attention of the Southwest is now all in Hanzhong, they must leave Li Shen's sight as soon as possible and reach Dido.

After   Jing'an Hou thought for a moment, he gave the order directly.

   "Send the order, and from today onwards march more than 50 miles a day, no mistakes are made, and those who violate the order will engage in military law!"

   Marching for fifty miles a day, even the elite Imperial Army would be a little overwhelmed.

   Zhao Jia frowned and said, "Master Hou, I feel like the soldiers will complain when I travel like this."

   "Then at least forty miles, try as far as possible fifty miles."

  Li Xin is also a very talkative boss, he said indifferently: "If anyone can't reach this number, let him go back to the capital now, and the Marquis will give him the travel expenses."

   Zhao Jia slowly lowered his head.

   "Yes, this subordinate will go down and send orders!"

   I'm so sleepy, Chapter 4 should be in the early morning or tomorrow...

   (end of this chapter)