Li Yi said with a smile: "They are not elites, but the military situation is of great importance and must be investigated clearly. If Brother Wang wants to develop such a personal entourage, he can have more contact with Li Si."

"How much contact do you have with the fourth brother Li?" Wang Kui was slightly startled and looked at Li Yi in surprise.

"What?" Li Yi looked at Wang Kui with some confusion. What's all the fuss about?

Wang Kui saw that Li Yi really didn't have ulterior motives, so he explained: "The method of military training has always been a secret that is not passed down by each family. Even in the army, it needs to be kept secret. Brother Li is really willing to hand it over to me?"

Li Yi couldn't help laughing after hearing this, but then he thought about it and sighed.

You must know that small things can lead to big things. From Wang Kui's actions, we can see how closed the ancient family tradition and inheritance method are. Think about how many geniuses have been born in China's thousands of years of history. They may have ingenious skills.

, or insights that are beneficial to the world, but in the end they stuck to their feet and let these things disappear in the great wheel of history.

After sighing, Li Yi said: "In the future, Baiyangdian and Anxin will be friendly to each other, and I admire Brother Wang's courage and loyalty very much. Once the method of military training comes into your hands, it will definitely be of great benefit to the people and Baiyangdian.

What's the point of being reluctant to give up?"

As soon as these words came out, Wang Kui couldn't help but change color on his face, and sighed: "Brother Li thinks so highly of me, I will definitely help Miss Chen in the future, don't worry."

"Brother Wang, what are you talking about? Why are you helping me to reassure him?" Chen Hongyan blushed with shame when she heard this.

Li Yi also felt very embarrassed and had to turn his head and pretend not to hear.

Although Wang Kui was brave, he couldn't see clearly about this kind of thing, and he said with a confused face: "What's wrong? Miss Chen, aren't you and Brother Li..."

"Brother Wang, don't mention it again at this time, otherwise I will ignore you in the future."

After Chen Hongyan said this, she hurriedly pulled Li Yi to leave. After walking a few steps, she realized that this was inappropriate. Her face turned red with embarrassment, and she quickly let go of Li Yi's arm and left as if running away.

"What's going on?" Wang Kui hadn't reacted yet, so he had to chase after him.

In a blink of an eye, the three people left, leaving only Zhao Youlin standing there. He clenched his hands into fists and looked at the direction where Li Yi left with a gloomy look. His eyes flashed coldly. After a long time, he gritted his teeth and shook his arm, hating.

's departure.

The group of people returned to the Juyi Hall and sat down separately.

Compared with the first time when I came here, there were the burly and fierce Chen Tielong and many palms, today there are only four people, Li Yi, Chen Hongyan, Wang Kui, Zhao Youlin, and three palms.

This is the way of the world. As long as there is a war, people will die. If you died yesterday, you will not be able to see their arguments and hear their hearty laughter today. The living people still have things to do. The only thing they can do is

, is to remember those who died.

The current bandits in Baiyangdian are unwilling to fight. Too many people have died in the battle between them and the officers and soldiers. Many people are unwilling to fight another losing battle.

The reason for fighting the officers and soldiers is because officers and thieves are natural enemies. Either you die or I live. However, the evil thieves who came back are the same kind. As long as they are willing to bow down and show submission, they can survive, although this is very undignified.

Chen Hongyan is sitting firmly at the top, with the support of the two gangsters Wang Kui and Zhao Youlin. She is still the controller of Baiyangdian. And because of this, Sishanhu will attack here as soon as possible and catch her.

As long as this happens, this battle will end with a perfect ending.

Each side that wins will have complete control over Baiyangdian, while the losing side will be completely destroyed.

Wang Kui stood up, presented the booklet in his hand to Chen Hongyan, then looked at Li Yi and said: "We now have 800 bandits, 150 ruthless bandits, and the rest are newcomers without much combat power. This time

The battle is difficult to fight..."

Wang Kui's intention was not to simply introduce the situation, but to warn Li Yi that they were not sure of victory. If Li Yi retreated now, they would not complain at all.

Li Yi could tell that this was what Chen Hongyan and Wang Kui meant. An Xin's situation was not stable yet, and he still had a lot to do. It would be a huge loss to waste Yongying's strength here.

But Li Yi did not choose to leave, because the battle in Baiyangdian was equally important to An Xin. Chen Hongyan and Wang Kui only saw that this battle was a moment of life and death for themselves, but they did not expect that An Xin was around Baiyangdian. If the evil thieves took control of Baiyangdian, they would

Among the 20,000 refugees, not only Anxin, but also surrounding counties and cities will be destroyed.

This competition among the major forces in Baoding has left no stone unturned, except that they did not expect that there were so many refugees in Baiyangdian. If he had known, Zhang Zhide would not have dared to raise an army, while the big players in Baoding would have considered this in the long term. This is ridiculous.

The battle will not begin.

Each force thought that it was the final winner and the one in control of the situation, but they did not expect that the situation had gone beyond expectations and had led to a disaster.

Whether it was for Chen Hongyan, Anxin, or Baoding counties, Li Yi decided to curb this disaster.

With eight hundred bandit troops and two hundred brave battalions, this battle does not seem to be inevitable. As for the reinforcements guaranteed by Li Wensheng, Li Yi did not attach much importance to this matter. If he could really count on this group of officers and soldiers, he would not have done so in the previous battle.

Losing so miserably.

Several people sat down to talk, and Chen Hongyan said: "Zuoshanhu has some dealings with the Taihang thieves. We are here to seize Baiyangdian this time. We must have a lot of manpower. Are we defending or attacking? What do you think?"

Before the others spoke, Zhao Youlin stood up, glanced at Li Yi with cold eyes, and said: "Let's not talk about this for now, I think we should discuss Brother Li."

One of the bosses looked at Zhao Youlin with a puzzled look on his face and said, "Jin Bao, is there anything wrong with Brother Li?"

Zhao Youlin smiled coldly and said: "Think about it, everyone, brother Li is the brave leader of Anxin Township and has close ties with the government. Why has he helped me so many times? If there is no intention, I don't believe it."

After saying this, everyone else was stunned, and the three bosses also turned to look at Li Yi.

Zhao Youlin's attitude suddenly changed. Li Yi didn't expect it for a while and didn't know what his intention was.

Zhao Youlin turned around and looked at everyone, pointed at Li Yi and said loudly: "Everyone, we are all from Baiyangdian and have known each other for several years. Only this Li Yi came from nowhere and has no idea why he wants to help us.

At the beginning, Brother Chen focused on fighting against the officers and soldiers. He had already defeated the front camp and penetrated directly into the central army. However, the officers and generals, as if they had expected it, actually gathered a heavy force and defeated my army of ruthless bandits. There must be something fishy in this."

Before the words could even be finished, everyone's eyes were focused on Li Yi.

You must know that everyone present knows the basics. Only Li Yi is not a thief. He leads Yongying as the leader of Xiangyong and has always been in contact with the government. He is not suspected. Who else can be suspected.

"Zhao Youlin, without real evidence, you can't make such wild guesses and shake the morale of the army." Chen Hongyan stood up and said loudly, with confusion and anger in her eyes, which made the jealousy in Zhao Youlin's heart even more intense.

"Haha, the evidence. The evidence is the spies' report. Yesterday Li Yi rushed to the Baoding government office, and today he immediately came to our An Xin to point fingers and spy on the information." Zhao Youlin's handsome face was already condensed, full of anger.

Look at Li Yi.

After everyone heard this, they couldn't calm down immediately and started talking one after another.

You must know that Li Yi is not one of his own, but he tried his best to help Baiyangdian without any benefit. Now that he thinks about it, there are indeed some problems. Now Zhao Youlin said that he paid a visit to the prefect yesterday, which meant that he had colluded with the government. The meaning of this is,

It has to make people think deeply and doubt it.

"Brother Li, is it true what Brother Zhao just said, that you went to Baoding City yesterday?" A waiter couldn't help but confirm.

Li Yi glanced at him, knowing that once suspicion is aroused, it is difficult to eliminate it. Everyone begins to doubt themselves. At this time, any explanation will turn into sophistry, and any concession will turn into guilt.

He nodded and said: "I did go to Baoding yesterday, and I did go to visit Magistrate Li. What I was talking about was indeed the current situation in Baiyangdian..."

"Everyone, please listen clearly. This Li Yi must be a spy sent by the officers and soldiers. When the officers and soldiers arrived last time, he suddenly came to visit, and then Brother Chen died in the hands of the officers and soldiers. Now he has come to interfere with Sishanhu and others.

If there's nothing fishy about people coming back, I won't believe it." Zhao Youlin said with a smile.

Chen Hongyan was shaking with anger. Although she didn't know Li Yi well, she had no doubt that he was a government spy.

"Brother Youlin, please calm down for now. Don't think too much. Let Brother Li tell you what happened first."

With Chen Hongyan stepping forward, all the people in charge who had been unable to sit still calmed down and wanted to hear Li Yi's explanation or sophistry.

Zhao Youlin sat back in his seat bitterly.

Li Yi raised his head and glanced at Chen Hongyan, nodded slightly towards her, and then said: "I did go to Baoding yesterday to visit Magistrate Li, but it didn't mean there was any conspiracy as Brother Zhao said, but I wanted to ask Magistrate Li to help us deal with it.

Then sit on the mountain tiger."

"It's just wishful thinking to ask the government to help us," Zhao Youlin said sarcastically.

Although he didn't know why Zhao Youlin targeted him like this, Li Yi still frowned and said: "It's not just wishful thinking, it's the fact. You all think that you have gathered into bandits and are proud of the mountains and forests, but you don't know that you have provoked

The Baoding officials and gentry, whether it was the previous encirclement and suppression by officers and soldiers or the current attack by sitting tigers, there are shadows of the Baoding officials and gentry behind them."

In the previous battle with the officers and soldiers, everyone knew that the Baoding officials and gentry sent servants to help in the battle. In the end, if the servants were not well-equipped, the bandit army would not have been defeated so miserably.

Thinking of this, everyone concentrated their attention and wanted to hear what secrets it contained.

Li Yi continued: "Although this tiger sitting on the mountain is a tough bandit, it is not strong enough. He only has five hundred men. How can he gather more than a thousand bandits so quickly? In this world, people die for wealth and birds die for food. If there is not enough

With his wealth, those thieves would be willing to sacrifice their lives for him?"

"Brother Li, what you mean is that the Baoding officials and gentry are secretly supporting Sishanhu and paying him to gather these bandits just to deal with me and others?" Wang Kui asked, just now everyone was doubting Li Yi.

, only he didn't get up to speak.

Li Yi nodded, looked at the crowd and said, "This money must have come from the officials and gentry, so that the mountain tiger could recruit more than a thousand thieves."

"Brother Li is thinking the same thing as me. We specialize in robbing big families and have long been a thorn in their side. It's not surprising that this happened." Chen Hongyan spoke in support.

Zhao Youlin became even more jealous when he saw that the two of them agreed with each other and cooperated tacitly.

"Li Yi, please don't be pretentious. You were saying before that what conspiracy did you have with Li Wensheng? Why did you interfere with our Baiyangdian matter?" Zhao Youlin focused everyone's attention on Li Yi's conspiracy with the government.

Li Yi smiled softly, looked at Zhao Youlin with mocking eyes, and said: "Don't have him, I just negotiate with Magistrate Li to give everyone in Baiyangdian a chance."

"Opportunity?" Wang Kui asked doubtfully.

"Yes, an opportunity." Li Yi looked up at Chen Hongyan and said, "I have agreed with Magistrate Li to recruit you and wait."

"Recruitment? I'm afraid you're going to trick us out of Baiyangdian and catch them all." Zhao Youlin stared at Li Yi fiercely, anger rising in his heart.

The rest of the people were also talking about it. You should know that the imperial court rarely recruits bandits. Although the troops are weak, bandits who dare to cause trouble will be killed without mercy.

Is there really any conspiracy as Zhao Youlin said?

Chen Hongyan nodded slightly, "Although Brother Youlin is impatient, what he is considering is not impossible. Brother Li, are you sure the prefect wants to recruit us?"

Li Yi smiled softly and said: "Recruitment is just empty talk, and the court will not agree to it. What Governor Li said was to work with you and others to exterminate the bandits such as Zuoshanhu, and then claimed that the bandits in Baiyangdian had been eliminated in order to gain political achievements. And

He will promise to lift the embargo on Baiyangdian."
To be continued...