Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

As soon as these words were spoken, Chang Xi's expression changed drastically.

Do not……

its not right!
This is completely different from what Chang Xi had imagined.

Seeing Xu Chu walking towards him with a knife in hand, Chang Xi quickly reminded him.

"If the Marquis does not allow me to surrender today, he will surely provoke others to fight to the death in the future!"

In Chang Xi's view, there was no reason for Li Ji to refuse his surrender.

And as long as Chang Xi successfully surrendered, all his previous actions could be explained to the outside world as him surrendering to Liu Bei early on, and he just pretended to surrender to Yuan Shu's army as an internal support.

However, Li Ji still watched coldly in response to Chang Xi's reminder.

Perhaps what Chang Xi said makes some sense. This is why it is often necessary to accept prisoners and treat them well. This can greatly undermine the enemy's determination to fight to the death.

In the long run, it will be more beneficial to the war.

However, the situation at this moment is different from the usual acceptance of prisoners.

Chang Xi was a treacherous and cunning person. He betrayed his master twice in a row. First, he rebelled against Zang Ba, and then he attacked Ji Ling from behind. He did extremely shameless things.

The destruction of the army led by Ji Ling means that Yuzhou will soon be within Liu Bei's grasp, and Liu Bei will begin to unify the world and dominate the Central Plains.

At this time, accepting a treacherous and cunning man like Chang Xi would bring him some slight advantages in warfare, which was far from making up for the fundamental impact on Liu Bei.

Li Ji did not want Liu Bei to revive the Han Dynasty, and he could only say, "I hope the holy dynasty will rule the world with filial piety."

The words "loyalty and righteousness" will also be the foundation of Liu Bei's country.

But accepting a fickle person like Chang Xi would only send a wrong signal to the world.

In this era, there are many treacherous and deceitful people, but there are even more people who admire loyal and righteous people.

In Li Ji's view, cunning people are not useless, but they must maintain the respect for loyalty and righteousness on the surface.

Chang Xi is undoubtedly a piece of shit-stained chicken ribs. If you eat it, you will get smelly, and if you throw it away, it will at most be considered a waste.

As long as Li Ji didn't speak, Xu Chu would not stop.

Seeing Xu Chu approaching within ten steps, Chang Xi was completely panicked. He didn't understand why Li Ji would not accept his surrender when he had clearly killed Ji Ling as a token of his loyalty.

"My Lord, Chang Xi surrendered sincerely and has no second thoughts..."

"I have long admired Uncle Liu, and I am willing to serve him to the death!"

"I joined Ji Ling's army in a false surrender, hoping to find an opportunity to help Uncle Liu. My intentions were good, my intentions were good..."

The closer Xu Chu got, the more panicked Chang Xi spoke, until Xu Chu was only three steps away and Li Ji was still watching coldly. Chang Xi could no longer bear the pressure and quickly stood up and tried to escape.

However, the next moment, Chang Xi's neck was clamped by Xu Chu's big hand like a palm leaf fan.

Chang Xi subconsciously raised his knife and chopped behind him, shouting.

"Let go!"

But Xu Chu casually raised his sword and knocked it, and Chang Xi felt his right hand go numb, and the weapon flew backwards instantly.

Then, Xu Chu pinched Chang Xi's neck, lifted Chang Xi directly from the ground in a "lifting" posture, and then raised his knee to hit Chang Xi's abdomen.

Even though Chang Xi was still wearing armor, Xu Chu's knee strike instantly caused a large dent in Chang Xi's abdomen that was visible to the naked eye.

"Wow!"

The blood spurted out of Chang Xi's mouth, and his struggling movements suddenly became like a shrimp. Then, Chang Xi seemed to have lost all the strength and means to resist, and his whole body went limp.

Obviously, Chang Xi's martial arts skills are completely not on the same level as Xu Chu's.

As a result of being approached by Xu Chu, Chang Xi's resistance seemed no more effective than that of a weak woman.

Immediately, Xu Chu stripped off Chang Xi's armor with his bare hands, and then handed him over to the Tiger Guards to be taken away for "lingchi".

As Chang Xi's cries for mercy rang out, most of the nearly 900 remaining soldiers who had followed Ji Ling to break through here showed expressions of satisfaction on their faces.

Faced with the frequent ambushes, those who are still willing to follow Ji Ling are all people who respect and are loyal to Ji Ling.

In other words, these remaining soldiers no longer had the strength to fight. Not to mention that they were incomplete in armor and weapons, they could barely stand steadily. Otherwise, after Chang Xi attacked and killed Ji Ling just now, they might have suddenly jumped up and chopped Chang Xi into meat paste.

Now, Chang Xi was being tortured to death by Li Ji, which made many of the remaining soldiers feel grateful.

Li Ji turned to look at the nearly nine hundred remaining soldiers and spoke.

"Are you willing to surrender?"

The nearly 900 remaining soldiers looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then expressed their willingness to surrender.

"Very good."

Li Ji had always been quite tolerant towards these surrendered soldiers who were also Han people, so there was naturally reason for him to accept them.

After conquering Yuzhou, the hometowns of these surrendered soldiers will also be under the rule of Liu Bei. These surrendered soldiers will be the best seedlings for expanding the military force in the future, and they can become usable combat forces after a little reorganization.

As for Ji Ling whose head was separated from his body, Li Ji thought for a moment and then gave orders.

"Ji Ling is also a loyal and righteous man. He collected the body, sewed up the head, and sent someone to send it back to Yuan Shu."

At this point, the Battle of Pengcheng came to an end.

The 90,000-strong army under Ji Ling's command was ambushed repeatedly in one night, and the morale of the army was low, with various units already scattered.

Therefore, even if it was necessary to further deal with the scattered Yuan troops to prevent them from escaping back to Yuzhou and being used by Yuan Shu again, it was already a minor problem and not a big deal.

However, Li Ji returned to the original Ji Ling camp to meet up with Tian Yu, and then waited for good news from other tribes to be reported back.

A piece of information from Qingzhou made Li Ji's face change slightly, and he quickly sent someone to invite Liu Bei back.

When Liu Bei heard that there was something important to discuss, he hurried back to the camp, only to see Li Ji standing in the central military tent, looking at the map with a frown on his face.

This was undoubtedly a rare situation for Li Ji, who was always wise, and it also showed that something big must have happened.

"Zikun, what happened?"

Liu Bei hurried forward and asked.

After Li Ji came to his senses after staring at the map, he first bowed to Liu Bei, then handed the information that had just been delivered from Qingzhou to Liu Bei and spoke.

"After Cao's army returned to Qingzhou, they did not disband their army. Instead, they entered Qi and Le'an, and were about to head north to Pingyuan County."

While listening, Liu Bei quickly glanced at the intelligence, and the content was almost the same as what Li Ji said.

This situation is obviously abnormal.

Cao Cao was already short of food, and he did not disband his army after returning to Qingzhou, which only shows that Cao Cao still had plans to use military force.

Combined with the movements of Cao's army noticed by the Jinyi Division, Liu Bei instantly came up with a guess, and he blurted it out.

"Could it be that Cao Cao intends to go north to Jizhou to help Yuan Shao, and join forces with Yuan Shao to capture Youzhou, thereby cutting off our source of war horses?" (End of this chapter)