Hearing this, Qin Li, who had sat up straight, leaned back and said lazily, "You can find it yourself. I'm not interested."
Zhao Feng, who was looking down for his daughter, felt unhappy.
"What do you mean by 'not interested'? Dawei respects you the most on weekdays. He has never failed to call you uncle when he saw you. We haven't even seen Dawei's heroic performance on the battlefield. You have a rare opportunity, but you don't know how to cherish it? Humph! Humph!"
Qin Li: “…”
I don't want to argue with a childish old man about this.
There are more than 2,000 enemies and our own people on the sand table, all fighting together. Who can tell them apart? This scholar's way reflects the real world, with all the mountains and rivers scaled down and placed on it. In the same proportion, people are smaller than ants.
Zhao Feng was now trying to find his daughter among more than two thousand ants. This request was really too much to ask.
All they could see were little black figures.
As expected, Zhao Feng's eyes were sore from watching, but he still couldn't find Zhao Wei. He had no choice but to ask his colleagues for help.
"Gongsu, this is your way of being a scholar after all."
Qin Li half-closed his eyes, looking lazy and relaxed: "The way of the scholar is not omnipotent. It is not easy for you to see the battle situation on the front line from the rear. Don't ask for too much."
If he gets further ahead, he will take back the ways of the scribes.
Zhao Feng was so angry that he pulled out several strands of his beard and pouted in anger.
Because he couldn't find his own daughter, Zhao Feng now thought that any strange-looking little man was Zhao Wei, and he encouraged each of them equally. In the tense and exciting moment, he couldn't help but fiddle with it with his fingers, as if this could block the enemy's attack for the little man. He was nervous when the little man was injured, and he was nervous when the little man lay down, and he was sweating on his forehead unconsciously.
call-
This was more tiring than going to the battlefield himself: "Gong Su, why can't external forces interfere with your way of being a scholar?"
Qin Li closed his eyes and asked, "What external force is interfering?"
Zhao Feng stretched out his index finger and gestured to point it at the battlefield: "Just like that, I stretch out a finger here, and a huge finger shadow will fall from the sky over the battlefield. Hey, this way, I can bounce anyone I want away."
"… I'm a human, not a god." Qin Li said unhappily, "It's not dark yet, it's not time for you to dream." Even if he could perform such a magical skill, it would cost him at least three to five years of his life.
Zhao Feng sighed and kept saying "what a pity".
Qin Li: “…”
After a while, he heard Zhao Feng say "Huh".
Qin Li opened his eyes: "Something happened?"
Zhao Feng pointed at another group of black figures approaching the battlefield and said, "Another group of soldiers is coming, and they have hoisted the flags."
The flag on the sand table was very small, but Zhao Feng squinted and could barely recognize the outline of a group of words. His face changed slightly.
Qin Li asked: "Whose troops are these?"
Not many people knew about Chen Tang's ambush.
This also includes people like Qin Li.
She did not hide it from her ally Wu Xian, but Wu Xian did not tell Qin Li and the others, only saying that Chen Tang had recently dispatched troops. If it were not for Qin Li's literary skills, Zhao Feng would not have known that Chen Tang had done this. The flag displayed by this third army -
Zhao Feng glanced at Qin Li's face and hesitated.
Qin Li sighed and said in a statement: "Mr. Wu's?"
Zhao Fengdu grumbled: "My lord, this is too—"
He couldn't think of a more appropriate word for a moment.
Wu Xian must have discussed with Chen Tang before sending out troops. Once the ambush troops entered the ambush range and the two sides started fighting, Wu Xian would send troops to attack from both sides, because the military merits had to be shared with the allies. However, Zhao Feng and his men were unaware of this. Before Wu Xian's troops appeared, they thought it was a unilateral military action by Chen Tang, which made people feel a little uncomfortable.
Zhao Feng nodded: "It is indeed the lord's army, but we don't know who is leading the army. Most likely it is those people from Tianhai. Gongsu, this must be them deliberately hiding it from us again."
They avoid them whenever there is any benefit of meritorious service. Such childish things can only be done by people like Tianhai...
He scratched his hair and racked his brains to comfort Qin Li.
Regardless of whether the concealment was Wu Xian's or the Tianhai faction's, Qin Li felt bad. Zhao Feng was not sensitive to emotions, and he had climbed up from the bottom, so he had been benched many times, but Qin Li was different.
How could Qin Li, who had been spoiled since childhood, have ever experienced this
Qin Li just smiled and smoked without saying anything. His expression behind the smoke was hard to read: "If Mr. Wu likes it, just let him do it."
Zhao Feng was worried for Wu Xian in his heart: My lord, you really hurt Gong Su this time.
Or the kind that is hard to coax.
Thinking back to a few years ago, if Gong Su suffered injustice and grievances, Wu Xian would come to explain and comfort him at night, and the conflict would never be left overnight. Times have changed, and people's hearts are easily changed. Why is it different now? Has the lord changed, or has he always been the same
Zhao Feng spoke out his thoughts without thinking.
He was so scared that he quickly observed Qin Li's expression out of the corner of his eye.
Qin Li exhaled a puff of smoke and slowly added tobacco to his pipe: "It has probably always been like this. People change, but not so easily. Otherwise, where does the saying 'It is easy to change a country but difficult to change one's nature' come from? Change means changing everything that is original and shaping another different self. And laziness is a bad root that cannot be eliminated by humans. Not many people have the willpower to change themselves."
Whether this change is good or bad.
Zhao Feng: "...but the lord..."
Qin Li's eyelashes trembled: "Pretend."
Disguise oneself to achieve a goal.
A typical example is Qi Yuanliang back then.
The difference between the two is that Qi Yuanliang really put a lot of effort into dealing with himself, and he created a "person" who was completely like Qin Li's preferences, successfully cheating him out of food and drink and fooling him; while Wu Gong's disguise was aimed at the public.
He wasn't the only one who saw his disguise.
From this point of view, Qi Yuanliang is still a human being
Qin Li sneered in his heart.
Sooner or later there will come a day—
What he smoked was not a cigarette, but Qi Yuanliang's face! Look at what's real and what's fake on this guy!
When Zhao Feng heard this answer, he felt that he had let out all the anger he had accumulated in the last year. My lord is so stupid!
Regardless of whether it was a pretense or a sincere one, if he could always maintain his scholarly ways, as long as the two sides were not absolutely different in military strength, who could he not fight? No matter how cleverly he deployed his troops, he could not defeat his scholarly ways.
"What do you think, my lord..."
Zhao Feng looked at the enemy's surprise troops who were surrounded on the sand table and felt that he could not come up with an answer even if he scratched his head.
Is it just because you don’t want to pretend and expose your true nature
Qin Li said: "Because there is no profit."
Zhao Feng pricked up his ears: "No profit?"
Qin Li smiled wryly: "Dayi, didn't you notice? Tianhai and we have completely different political views. They reject us not only because of our origins. In terms of origin, I am a prince of the royal family and the future head of the clan. How am I weaker than them? Of course, it's not just because we are outsiders. How many of the Tianhai families have ancestors who fled here to avoid disaster? They reject us because our pursuits are completely different. We have been drifting for many years, rootless and floating around, and the world is our home. They are more content with the status quo..."
Choose to rely on Qin Li, or choose to value the Tianhai family? Behind the scenes, these are two different strategic choices.
Choose the former, be radical and expansionist.
Choose the latter, be conservative and steady.
"The Tianhai family's roots are in Tianhai. Even if they are in trouble, they can still guard their one-third acre of land. But we are different. We have no choice but to expand outward to have our own roots, our own land, and the basis of survival..."
Zhao Feng was a little confused.
He felt like he understood, but also felt like he didn't.
Qin Li smoked calmly, "Lord Wu has only so much arable land. The nobles take a portion, and the common people take a portion. The remaining wasteland is not easy to cultivate, and most of the cultivated land is inferior land with little value. The land that goes into their pockets cannot be in our hands, and we cannot embarrass the common people. We can only find ways to help the lord conquer other places to gain benefits..."
He concluded.
"It is inevitable that the lord chooses to rely on the Tianhai gang, because now that Chen Jun is becoming more powerful, he will have to compete with Chen Jun if he mobilizes troops in the future. He is not sure and is worried about losing miserably. The Tianhai gang is more afraid than he is."
Therefore, the choice tends to be conservative.
Qin Li sneered, "Even if your adjutant hadn't died, the lord would still have sided with them and alienated us. It just wouldn't have happened so quickly and in such an ugly way."
After all, Wu Xian is also a person who cares a lot about his reputation.
If he wanted to put Qin Li on ice, he would make up a reasonable excuse so that Qin Li would not complain too much and would swallow his grievances.
After hearing this, Zhao Feng was so shocked that he opened his mouth slightly: "But..."
He looked at the sand table beside him.
Qin Li's way of being a scholar does not mean that one cannot fight.
Even if we can't win, we can still gain enough bargaining chips, at least the benefits we gain will be greater than Wu Xian's conservative choice.
Qin Li exhaled smoke: "My lord, don't you know this?"
I don’t know now, and I won’t know in the future.
He will tell Zhao Feng and others about his trump card, because they are friends who have lived together for a lifetime and are willing to sacrifice their lives for each other. Is it possible for Wu Xian? The greatest wealth Qin Li learned from Qi Shan is not to believe in men who speak sweet words!
No matter how moved you are, you should always leave some room for yourself.
Zhao Feng sighed again.
While the two were talking, one or two thousand enemies on the sand table had been wiped out. The terrain that was originally suitable for ambush had completely changed under the destruction of the army of Wudan warriors. Most of the cliff on one side was also cut off, and the boulders that rolled down buried the mountain road.
The old mountain road disappears and a new "mountain road" appears.
Looking at the busy little man, Zhao Feng felt distressed.
"Gong Su, is our Dawei injured?"
Qin Li: “…”
Zhao Feng's eyes scanned each little person, and they were all mumbling.
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"Ahem—ahhem—"
On the battlefield, Zhao Wei's simple ghillie suit lost all its leaves and grass during the charge, leaving only the bottom layer of plain cloth soaked in leaf juice. Because there was no color fixing method, the juice dried up, mixed with sweat and blood, and faded while brewing another suffocating smell.
At this moment, Zhao Wei was cleaning the battlefield with his weapon, stabbing the enemies one by one to make sure there were no survivors.
I don't know when it started, but I started sneezing constantly.
"Xu Wenshi, are you scolding me?"
Xu Quan happened to pass by and was grabbed by her braid and scolded.
"Who are you?"
Xu Quan was about to get angry.
His current braids are made by asking his idol Gongxichou for advice, and the idol personally taught him the unique braiding techniques of the Gongxi people. It is the same style as Gongxichou's, and the similarity is 100%. It achieves the visual effect of making the top of the skull higher and the head fuller.
What Xu Quan hates most now is being grabbed by the braids!
"Dawei?"
Zhao Wei stabbed the weapon into the corpse at his feet.
"It's me."
"Your face..."
It's all sap and plasma, who can recognize it
Zhao Wei said: "My lord said this was a disguise. Ah-you're sneezing again. Are you scolding me?"
Xu Quan: “…”
He has to take the blame for this
She thought it was no big deal, but she couldn't stop sneezing and her face felt itchy. When she found some water to wash off the stains on her face, she was horrified to find that her face was covered with small red spots and her neck also started to itch.
The military doctor took one look and said, "It should be ringworm."
It's actually an allergy.
But Zhao Wei is a brave warrior, so it's not a big problem. You can encounter all kinds of diseases during the march, and the military doctor is also experienced: "I just don't know what caused it. To be safe, I suggest that the centurion should not participate in the future."
Because time was tight, we had to use local materials.
The materials of the ghillie suits are made of whatever is available. It is unknown what kind of material is used for the one Zhao Wei is wearing.
Zhao Wei: “…”
The military doctor picked up a pen and wrote a prescription.
Zhao Wei was still dazed when he came out of the wounded soldiers' camp.
The operation was successful. Although the enemy's number was four times theirs, they caught the enemy off guard. With the Lord leading the charge, the two armies soon fought, and Wu Xian's troops came from the rear to provide support. The ambush troops had only seven casualties and 51 wounded, most of whom were lightly wounded. Zhao Wei was not careful enough to add one more person to the list of wounded. It was a great shame!
"Pfft—your face?"
Xu Quan was twirling his pigtails with his fingers in boredom. Seeing Zhao Wei's expression, he laughed like a hen and clucked non-stop.
Zhao Wei was annoyed: "What are you laughing at?"
Faced with the axe that Zhao Wei pulled out, Xu Quan chose to act accordingly: "Ahem, I won't laugh anymore."
Only then was Zhao Wei satisfied.
"You buy me a drink to make amends."
As soon as Xu Quan heard this, he knew that the other party was trying to blackmail him again, and he pouted and complained: "Don't you have a salary yourself?"
Zhao Wei said confidently: "Wine is so expensive!"
How many times can she drink with that little salary
Xu Quan was the richest military general she knew.
"Do you want to cover your face?" Girls all treasure their faces, and now it's covered with red rashes, which looks scary.
"Cover up your ass! There are so many men with scars on their faces, and I haven't seen any of them hiding in the inner house and not daring to come out. What's there to be ashamed of?" Zhao Wei didn't care about her appearance at all. She even regretted that she didn't have a single scar on her face to show off her military exploits. At this time, Xu Quan secretly took out an object from his armor and put it in her hand.
Zhao Wei was puzzled: "What are you giving me?"
Mysterious, could it be—
"Hey, a love letter written to me?"
Xu Wenshi has vision and understands aesthetics.
"Zhao Dawei, you wish!" Xu Quan rolled his eyes, put his arm around Zhao Wei's shoulders, leaned close to her ear and whispered, "My cousin used his connections to secretly pass it to me, and asked me to hand it to you personally. Find a chance to give it to your father."