Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Moreover, the system of recommendation was prevalent in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, whenever Sun Ce met any outstanding talent, he would recommend them to his superiors, not out of personal desire but out of public interest.

However, if Wei Yan develops rebellious thoughts in the future, Sun Ce, as the person who recommended him, will also be implicated.

However, Sun Ce was a man who valued his promises. Having already promised Wei Yan, it would be difficult for him to go back on his word now.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Sun Ce’s mind and he smiled.

"Gongjin may not know what the teacher is talking about. The teacher loves reading, and the books in the Guoshihou Mansion are all selected by the teacher's wife for the teacher, so the books that Gongjin reads must be memorized by the teacher."

"Since Gongjin can tell that Wei Yan has a rebellious mind, the teacher will also know it clearly. When the time comes, tell the teacher about Wei Yan's affairs, and the teacher will make the decision. Gongjin does not need to worry."

At the end of his speech, Sun Ce showed a hearty and relaxed smile on his face, while Zhou Yu's handsome face looked a little gloomy.

At an angle that Sun Ce couldn't see, Zhou Yu curled his lips and muttered with a somewhat dissatisfied look.

"What do you mean that if I, Zhou Gongjin, can tell, Li Zikun can also see it at a glance?"

However, after Zhou Yu and Sun Ce retreated all the way to a wooden bridge that was ten feet long, Zhou Yu suppressed his distracting thoughts and commanded his soldiers to ignite the bridge, which had been piled with a lot of combustible materials in advance, as planned.

This ensures that a fire will quickly burn the wooden bridge to the point of leaving nothing behind.

And this is not an isolated case.

Or, in other words, this was Sun Ce's real mission. After capturing Yufu City and Wei Pass, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu led a detachment of troops to advance along the plank road in order to destroy it.

And in the process of rushing here, Zhou Yu made preparations for places along the plank road that were easy to destroy.

Either set it on fire, or cut it down, or push down trees and rocks to block the road...

In order to maximize the 300-mile plank road leading to Yufu City and Weiguan, the marching speed of the Yizhou army was hindered.

The plank road is easy to destroy, but it is not so easy to repair.

The reason why the King of Chu, Xiang Yu, fell into the trap of "openly repairing the plank road and secretly passing through Chencang" was that Emperor Gaozu of Han made a big fuss about repairing the plank road that he had burned, which made the King of Chu subconsciously believe that it would take at least a year and a half to repair the plank road.

Due to the existence of Yizhou's natural barriers, the repair of the plank road cannot be accelerated by simply piling up manpower, but requires sufficient time.

Li Ji had no intention of sending troops to block the Yizhou army head-on. Instead, he was preparing to use the natural barrier of Yizhou that protected Yizhou to intercept the Yizhou army from entering Jingzhou.

Liu Yan had set up a good strategy of "luring someone into a trap". While Liu Yan was cooking his brothers, Li Ji simply sneaked in like a thief and helped Liu Yan lock the door.

……

noon the next day.

Upon hearing the news, Liu Yan hurried to the place where Liu Biao died. After seeing the poems written in blood by Zhou Yu on the stone wall, he felt dizzy, his eyes turned black, and he almost fainted on the spot.

Liu Yan stepped back a little, trying to hold back the sweet feeling rising in his throat, and asked loudly, "Where is Liu Biao?! Where is my cousin Liu Biao?!"

A scout was brought in front of Liu Yan tremblingly, then pointed at the headless body of Liu Biao lying on the ground and said.

"My lord, that man is Liu Biao?"

Liu Yan's eyes widened and he shouted, "Did you see it with your own eyes?"

The reason why Liu Yan was so confident that Liu Biao could not escape from Yizhou was naturally not because he was unprepared.

In fact, although Liu Biao seemed to have temporarily escaped the pursuing Yizhou army by fleeing, in fact, there were many people in Yizhou who were good at crossing mountains and rivers.

These scouts grew up in the mountains of Yizhou, and they could cross mountains and rivers as if they were walking on flat ground.

Therefore, more than ten scouts followed Liu Biao from a distance along the way, confirming Liu Biao's whereabouts and reporting to the pursuing force behind.

"Yes."

The scout replied, stuttering a little.

"At the time, I was hiding behind a tree fifty steps away, and I witnessed with my own eyes Liu Biao being beheaded by a man who claimed to be Sun Bofu of Jiangdong."

After hearing this, Liu Yan felt short of breath and had difficulty breathing. In order to seize Jingzhou and the imperial seal, Liu Yan had put in so much thought and paid such a high price to make the princes of all parties believe that Yizhou was in a state of internal and external troubles.

Jingzhou and the jade seal, these two things all depend on Liu Biao, so Liu Yan deliberately spared Liu Biao's life, and was even afraid that if he pushed Liu Biao too hard, Liu Biao would rather commit suicide than be captured.

I never expected that after the seeds were planted and fertilizer was applied, they would thrive and soon bear abundant fruit.

As a result, the fruit tree was directly cut down by Sun Ce.

If Liu Yan had not always been extremely cunning, he might have drawn his sword and killed the scout in front of him to vent his anger.

"You, tell me everything you saw without leaving out a single detail."

Liu Yan shouted with gritted teeth.

"Yes."

The scout did not dare to hesitate and immediately told everything he had witnessed.

It was only fifty steps away, and it was not yet completely dark.

The scout witnessed everything clearly and even heard most of the conversation between the two sides.

After the scout repeated it in detail, the slightest suspicion in Liu Yan's heart that Liu Biao had faked his death and escaped was completely gone.

This scout did not lose track of Liu Biao throughout the whole process, and since Sun Ce and Liu Biao had a grudge against each other for having killed their fathers, it was only natural that Sun Ce would chop Liu Biao to pieces without hesitation.

What made Liu Yan even more desperate was that Liu Biao never revealed the location of the jade seal until his death. Sun Ce even chopped Liu Biao to death without giving him a chance to tell him.

"So the whereabouts of the Imperial Seal is completely unknown?!"

When he thought of this, Liu Yan felt a little dazed and his body was about to fall.

At this time, the other scouts who were sent by Liu Yan to explore the way ahead hurried back to report.

"My lord, a wooden bridge about ten feet long on the plank road ten miles ahead has been burned and damaged. We cannot pass it for the time being. Please make a decision, my lord."

Liu Yan was stunned at first, then he strode up to the scout, grabbed the scout by the collar, and asked with a ferocious look.

"What did you say?!"

The frightened scout replied in a panic, "A ten-foot-long bridge ahead has been burned down. I'm afraid it will take some time to repair it."

Liu Yan stared at the scout intently, then suddenly looked up at the poem on the stone wall and repeated the second half of the sentence hoarsely.

"It is difficult to cross the 300-li Shu Road..."

Is it just the plank road bridge ten miles away?
I'm afraid the plank road three hundred miles from here has been destroyed...

repair?

repair??!!
By the time it is repaired, I'm afraid Jingzhou will have changed its owner.

The conquest of Jingzhou in the south suddenly became a fantasy that was within reach, and the exit of Hanzhong in the north had completely turned into a feud with Zhang Lu...

Yizhou, Yizhou is undoubtedly completely trapped in this natural barrier with no way out!

Liu Yan's expression first became more ferocious, then dull, and finally pale...

Until his face became as pale as gold paper.

"Alas, God does not bless me, Liu Yan, and God does not bless me, Yizhou!!"

“Hahahaha, Liu Xuande, Li Zikun, you are too cruel, too cruel. Everything I have done has been to prepare wedding dresses for you…”

The next moment, Liu Yan vomited blood and fell backwards, right next to Liu Biao's body.

For a moment, many of Liu Yan's subordinates, who were unable to react in time, screamed and rushed towards Liu Yan.

"Lord!!" (End of this chapter)