Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

"No!"

"My lord, be careful!!"

"How dare you, thief?!"

Zu Mao, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others who witnessed this scene almost all roared with anger.

However, the rain of arrows obviously would not be affected by will and stop.

On the contrary, Zu Mao, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others only felt a flash in their eyes, and then the dense rain of arrows all fell into the deep pit.

The next moment, Zu Mao, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and others almost crawled to the edge of the deep pit, and then looked down into the pit which was more than two meters deep.

Sun Jian's lower body was pinned down by the warhorse, and his upper body was almost pierced like a hedgehog, but he was completely silent.

"Ahhh!"

For a moment, Zu Mao, Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and other subordinates who were loyal to Sun Jian were almost sad and angry. They roared continuously and picked up their weapons to fight desperately with the pursuers who were approaching from behind.

At this moment, Han Dang was the only one who still maintained his basic rationality. He quickly stood in front of Zu Mao and others and said urgently.

"Now that the lord has been murdered by a villain, why would we want to die in vain instead of staying here to avenge him?"

"Han Yigong, are you afraid of death?!" Huang Gai, who had the most explosive temper, shouted angrily.

Han Dang cursed out loud. "Fool! The master still has a son in Wujun. The master is dead, but the young master is still alive. You should go to the young master as soon as possible instead of wasting your life here."

This scolding actually woke up Huang Gai and others.

Immediately, Huang Gai and others could only kowtow to Sun Jian who was lying in the deep pit with tears in their eyes, and then they mounted their horses and continued to flee towards the outside of Xian Mountain.

Moreover, after Sun Jian died at Mount Xian, Huang Gai and his companions did not continue to Changsha, but went straight back towards Wujun.

……

Just two days after the Battle of Danshan.

As intelligence was transmitted day and night, Li Ji, who had just arrived in Qiao County, received the corresponding news.

Although it was difficult for the spies of the Imperial Uniform Guard to get close to the battlefield of Xianshan, they witnessed with their own eyes that only four generals including Zu Mao escaped in a panic with dozens of their personal guards.

Sun Jian never showed up.

Later, after the Jingzhou soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and left, the spies found Sun Jian's horse and a large amount of blood in a deep pit.

Based on the description of various details in Mount Xian in the intelligence.

It was not difficult for Li Ji to infer the direction of this ambush, and it was even easier to infer that Sun Jian died at Mount Xian, and...

"Sun Wentai fell into a horse pit and was pierced by thousands of arrows. The imperial seal must have been on his body. Sun Wentai had no chance to hand the imperial seal over to his family generals to take away. In other words..."

"The imperial seal has most likely fallen into the hands of Jingzhou Governor Liu Biao?"

This made Li Ji frown slightly, he had never expected it to turn out this way.

Sun Jian died without even having the chance to hand over the imperial seal. This really made Li Ji feel a little uncomfortable.

According to common sense, as long as the four loyal generals under Sun Jian were not completely wiped out, even if Sun Jian died accidentally, the four generals would definitely "lick the bag" and take the jade seal back to Sun Ce.

This is also the approach that best suits Liu Bei's interests.

Even if Sun Ce had the jade seal, he would not have the idea of ​​becoming emperor, nor would he break with Liu Bei directly because of this.

At that time, the jade seal will be temporarily kept in Sun Ce's hands.

After Liu Bei completely dominates the world, Sun Ce will naturally be sensible and hand the jade seal to the hands of the true emperor.

In this way, it can not only avoid any accidents caused by the loss of the imperial seal, but also avoid the situation where greedy people like Yuan Shu would get the imperial seal and want to proclaim themselves emperor on the spot.

More importantly, the imperial seal was in Sun Ce's hands, which not only ensured that the seal was always kept under his rule, but also saved Liu Bei from having to bear the blame of hiding the seal. This was almost a best of all worlds choice.

In a sense, this is somewhat similar to what Yuan Shu did in the original trajectory.

When Yuan Shu had already imprisoned Sun Jian's entire family, he secretly colluded with Liu Biao to ambush and kill Sun Jian. Sun Jian's loyal generals had no choice but to bring the jade seal back to the imprisoned Sun Ce.

However, Yuan Shu was a person who was extremely concerned about his reputation, so even though the imperial seal was already in his hand, he did not snatch it away by force. Instead, he chose to let Sun Ce voluntarily offer the imperial seal to him, in order to fulfill Yuan Shu's self-proclaimed identity as the one who was destined by heaven.

'etc……'

After thinking for a while, Li Ji suddenly realized a blind spot.

Now Yuan Shu did not have Sun Jian's family in his hands, so he had no reason to ambush and kill Sun Jian with the help of the Jingzhou soldiers.

When Yuan Shu was about to leave Nanyang to take up the post of governor of Runan County, rather than letting the jade seal fall into the hands of Liu Biao, Yuan Shu would definitely prefer that the jade seal be kept by Sun Jian for the time being and then take his time to deal with it.

"But if it wasn't for Yuan Shu's collusion with Liu Biao, Liu Biao, who was far away in Jingzhou, had no deep hatred with Sun Jian, and the matter of Sili had not yet been fully reported to Jingzhou, why would Liu Biao set up an ambush so early in advance..."

Suddenly, a face that usually had no sense of existence and was full of dullness appeared in Li Ji's mind.

Liu Qi!

Among the princes who came to fight against Dong Zhuo, Liu Qi, who came on behalf of Jingzhou, had an extremely low presence. Unless Liu Bei took the initiative to talk to him, apart from the necessary etiquette, Liu Qi would almost always hide in the corner with a dull and peaceful look on his face.

"I have underestimated you. Is there really no honest person in the Liu family?" Even though Li Ji did not have any substantial evidence yet, he was almost certain that Liu Qi was not as dull and stupid as he appeared.

On the contrary, Liu Qi, who was also a relative of the Han royal family, might have discovered the problem with the seal on the edict, and then, based on the sudden break between Sun Jian and the two Yuans, guessed that the jade seal was in Sun Jian's possession.

In this case, it is not difficult to understand why Liu Biao would set up an ambush in Jingzhou so early.

Liu Qi must have quickly transmitted his guesses and inferences back to Jingzhou. Knowing that Sun Jian was carrying the imperial seal, how could Liu Biao allow Sun Jian to pass through Nanjun smoothly?

However, before Li Ji could carefully calculate the possible impacts of the jade seal falling into Liu Biao's hands, Liu Bei's excited voice suddenly came from outside the tent.

"Zikun! Get up quickly! Great victory! Great victory!!!"

The next moment, Liu Bei rushed straight into the tent, but went straight to the bed on the left without looking back, and did not notice Li Ji who was sitting at the desk on the right handling official business.

It was not until Liu Bei rushed to the couch with a few big strides that he noticed that there was no one on the couch.

Liu Bei's series of actions were so smooth and decisive that Li Ji couldn't react.

More importantly, Liu Bei was so familiar with the position of his bed in his tent that Li Ji couldn't help but feel it was too strange.

However, Li Ji's eyes twitched slightly, but he still quickly stood up and said.

"My lord, I am here."

When Liu Bei heard this, he turned around and couldn't help but smile awkwardly. Then he walked quickly towards Li Ji and said.

"Zikun, why are you up so early to handle official business? Can't you take a rest for a while?"

"got used to."

Li Ji asked as he answered while sitting down with Liu Bei.

"My lord, if you want to find Ji next time, just send someone to tell us. It's inconvenient to barge in like this."

However, in this universal view that closeness is often expressed through "long intimate talks" or "sleeping with feet touching each other", Liu Bei just smiled and didn't care.

"Hahaha, Zikun is a reserved person, and there are no women in the tent, so how can it be inconvenient?"

Last night, Liu Bei had a long talk with Xu Shu, discussing Xu Shu's recent work and had high expectations for him.

Even though Liu Bei was open-minded, he was still holding a grudge in his heart!

Liu Bei asked himself honestly, since he had Li Ji's assistance, when had he ever suffered such injustice?
The Yingchuan noble families and scholars looked down on him, even Zikun was looked down upon.

This made Liu Bei more and more unhappy the more he thought about it, so he wanted to train Xu Shu into a talented person and then intimidate all the aristocratic families and scholars in Yingchuan.

As a result, Liu Bei has recently paid more attention to and become closer to Guo Jia.

As for Liu Bei's outgoing nature, Li Ji really had no way to deal with him over the years.

In a sense, this also fully demonstrates that Liu Bei never treated Li Ji as an outsider who needed to be treated politely from beginning to end. Entering Li Ji's military tent was as comfortable and relaxing as returning home.

Therefore, Li Ji no longer bothered about this question and asked, "Then what great victory made the lord so happy?"

At this moment, Liu Bei was no longer as excited as he was just now, but instead said playfully, "Zi Kun, why don't you take a guess?"

Upon hearing this, Li Ji was at a loss whether to laugh or cry for a moment.

Except for Mrs. Gan herself, there was almost nothing that Li Ji didn't know about regarding Liu Bei.

Therefore, as long as Liu Bei mentioned the words "great victory", Li Ji had accurately guessed what the news was.

However, it was rare for Liu Bei to be so interested, so Li Ji naturally would not spoil the fun. He looked thoughtful, pretended to think for a few breaths, and then said.

"The great victory report that made the lord so excited, could it be that Marquis Wushuang led his army to break through Hangu Pass and wiped out the remnants of Dong the bandit?"

"No." Liu Bei shook his head.

"Then... could it be that some Hu people invaded the border and were defeated by Youzhou Mu Liu Gong, and then raised the power of our Han Dynasty?" Li Ji spoke again.

"Not really." Liu Bei shook his head again.

"Then... uh..."

Li Ji frowned, looking puzzled for a while, then sighed and said, "Please forgive my ignorance, my lord. I really can't think of where the great victory was."

Liu Bei couldn't help but smile, pointed his finger at Li Ji and said.

"It turns out that you, Zikun, are also good at coaxing people."

"Hahaha……"

Immediately, Liu Bei and Li Ji looked at each other and smiled. Then Liu Bei stopped playing dumb and took out a scroll of bamboo slips and handed it to Li Ji, saying.

"But I really didn't expect that Zikun left a clever plan thousands of miles away to defeat more than 100,000 bandit troops in Yangxian in an instant..."

"what?"

Li Ji was stunned for a moment. (End of this chapter)