Ye Tianpei is a somewhat fat man with a bald head and two thick beards.
He is the commander-in-chief of the Gyeonggi Province, with 50,000 troops, 16 cannons, two heavy machine guns, and 3,000 of the latest muskets under his command.
However, Ye Tianpei only felt despair.
Because Jinmen was in a dead end, he was destined to go to hell with 50,000 troops and be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.
In the early morning, the princess sent him a letter, telling him to wait in a garden for someone who could increase his chances of winning.
Ye Tianpei gave the princess this face, but he firmly believed that no one could solve his current predicament.
So he decided to teach this troublesome character a lesson.
The guard commander came forward and whispered to Ye Tianpei: "My lord, we are all ready."
"Okay."
Ye Tianpei nodded, "I will throw the cup on the ground later, and you will come out and capture that madman."
"Yes!"
The commander made a promise, but remained where he was.
Ye Tianpei glanced at him, "Do you still have questions?"
The commander nodded, then shook his head.
"Just say it!"
"Yes!"
The commander clasped his fists in salute and said with some hesitation: "My subordinates believe that if we want to stop the Eight-Nation Allied Forces in Tianjin, it is always good to have more manpower.
In particular, I heard that the leader of the Kyushu Society killed more than 10,000 foreign devils by himself. Although the rumors must have been exaggerated several times, his subordinates actually saw the heads of foreigners hanging on the streets of Jinmen.
This subordinate is a stranger on the ground in Jinmen. There are nineteen rivers in Jinmen. Those who can take root here and make a name for themselves are not ordinary people.
Since they also want to fight against foreigners, my subordinates thought..."
"I know what you want to say."
Ye Tianpei interrupted him, "Soldiers, national affairs, related to the prosperity and disgrace of the country, should be controlled by the imperial court.
Now these warriors, relying on their skills with swords, guns and sticks, want to use force to violate the prohibition. This is something I cannot tolerate.
Warriors are stragglers who act only with passion and fire. They have no discipline and are incompatible with my army. What else can they do except cause sudden changes in the battlefield?
Even if they are determined to fight against the enemy, what happens next? They will only rely on this merit to become a powerful existence, and it is more likely to be like the White Lotus Sect..."
Speaking of the White Lotus Sect, Ye Tianpei didn't say any more.
The commander also thought of the terrible future that Ye Tianpei had not mentioned. There were many rebel parties in the past who were born and became stronger because of their resistance to foreigners.
"I am ignorant!"
The commander apologized and then stepped back and began to deploy.
Ye Tianpei poured the rice wine into the glass and enjoyed the rare leisure time before the war.
After a while, a soldier reported that a man asked to see him.
Ye Tianpei, the commander-in-chief of Gyeonggi Province, knew that the visitor was an uninvited guest introduced by the princess, so he waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to bring him in.
Soon, Yin Xiu came to Ye Tianpei under the guidance of the soldiers.
However, he could not come forward because soldiers came up and searched him all over without politeness, and found two daggers and several talisman papers.
After the soldiers reported that there were no more weapons, Yin Xiucai was able to step forward and sit down opposite Ye Tianpei.
Ye Tianpei couldn't help but frown, "Are you famous?"
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "I remember that the imperial examination has been cancelled. No one may recognize my previous identity."
"Are you a scholar or a scholar?" Ye Tianpei asked again.
Yin Xiu shook his head, "I don't know how to do that."
Ye Tianpei immediately shouted angrily: "Then you have no fame and are not an official of the imperial court. How dare you not kneel down when you see me!?"
Yin Xiu smiled, "I don't have such a habit."
"Can this be explained without a habit?"
Ye Tianpei glared at Yin Xiu, "I have never seen anyone come to ask for help with such an attitude."
Yin Xiu was already a little impatient at this time, and he felt more and more that Ren Qi's words made sense.
A person will become a lone wolf, either because his ability is too outstanding, or because he is too stupid.
However, there are a lot of stupid people in the world. They can all find their own group, why can't Ye Tianpei?
Either it's because he's more domineering than many people, or it's because he's just incredibly stupid.
So Yin Xiu said herself: "I'm not here to ask for help from the Commander-in-Chief."
"Then what do you mean?"
"Request."
Ye Tianpei was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly, "Request?"
After the laughter stopped, Ye Tianpei raised the wine glass in his hand and was about to throw it to the ground. He was no longer interested in talking to Yin Xiu.
However, Yin Xiu stopped him, as if she had seen his intention from the beginning.
"The Commander-in-Chief is indeed an expert at leading troops in battles. He can ambush men at every corner and form an encirclement without anyone noticing. It's really hard to fly."
Ye Tianpei paused and looked at Yin Xiu with his eyes, "Leader, you are indeed not simple, but you saw the ambush and you were willing to come? Are you stupid or arrogant?"
"Neither."
Yin Xiu pointed to the roof. Ye Tianpei turned his eyes and saw a swordsman standing on the ridge of the roof. There were several masters surrounding him. They were very afraid and did not dare to take action.
Ye Tianpei didn't know that it was Ren Qi, but he saw his strength at a glance and knew that the few people on the roof couldn't stop him.
I'm afraid even those ambush soldiers hiding in the dark will be knocked down by him alone.
He narrowed his eyes, "Are you threatening me?"
"I never threaten others. I am a straightforward person. I will kill if I want to and leave if I want. I will not do unnecessary things."
"Then you are just like me. I don't like to talk too much."
Ye Tianpei pointed to the door, "Please go back."
Yin Xiu frowned, "This is not the answer I want."
"Then what do you want?"
Yin Xiu knocked on the table, "I just want to guard Jinmen."
"Guard Jinmen?"
Ye Tianpei sneered, "Even a three-year-old child can say such a thing, but to do it is more difficult than reaching the sky."
"Since it is more difficult than climbing to the sky, why did the Commander-in-Chief appear here again? Is he here to bury the people of Jinmen?"
Yin Xiu stretched out his hand, and the wine bottle that did not appear during the body search appeared out of thin air in his hand.
Without waiting for Ye Tianpei to answer, he slowly unscrewed the bottle cap and filled the wine glass with soju.
"Master General, I know that you are different from others. You are confident that you are a loyal and good general, and you are willing to use your life to realize this ambition.
But what if I say that failure, although tragic, is meaningless? No one cares about the rhetoric of a loser, because people hate failure and are afraid of failure.
When I hear something bad happens to someone, I want to cover my ears, let alone the failure of the entire country. ""You mean..."
"That's right, even if you are defeated here, it's just a joke, Mr. Commander."
Yin Xiu's outspokenness was obviously unacceptable to Ye Tianpei, but he could not refute it.
"What you said makes sense."
Ye Tianpei smiled bitterly, "But even if I join forces with you, we can't defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance, right?"
"It can't be defeated, but it can give you a little more fighting power."
"You don't even call it odds."
Ye Tianpei looked at Yin Xiu, "Tell me honestly, how much energy do you have?"
So Yin Xiu explained to Ye Tianpei all the men and horses he currently had on hand, without hiding anything. Of course, he did not classify these people as members of the Kyushu Society, but gave them the identity of a local martial artist in Jinmen.
First of all, what surprised Ye Tianpei was not that Yin Xiu gathered so many people, but that so many people did not look for him as the general soldier, but instead looked for an "outsider" like Yin Xiu.
"What do you want?" Ye Tianpei was already a little wary.
"I want foreigners to be stopped here."
"This is just a process, not your goal."
Ye Tianpei said bluntly: "You are a smart person, but smart people are often cold-blooded and are destined to have no feelings of family and country or ambition.
Because people who hold such thoughts often do not live long, so you must have some purpose that makes you come here and risk your life. ”
"What if I say that this is to gain recognition and enter the official career? Mr. General, you know that we warriors always have one less chance to serve the court, and now the foreigners have given me such an opportunity. I will fight for it with my life. It’s not a bad chance to have a successful career.”
After hearing this, Ye Tianpei stood up, put his hands behind his back, and snorted coldly: "I thought I respected you enough just now. I called you a smart person and respected your bravery. However, you didn't treat me as an equal." Looking at it from a human perspective, do you think you are smarter than me and I am stupider than you?
Oh, how can it be so simple! ”
Ye Tianpei pressed his hand on the stone table with such force that he left fingerprints on the table.
"You'd better recruit them from the ground up. Otherwise, I won't care about the foreigners. I'll gather troops first and knock down all the local meetings and doors in one fell swoop."
Yin Xiu also stood up after him, but his face was not angry, "Master General, then why do you think I did this? Not because of enthusiasm, nor because I want to gain fame?"
"It's very simple."
Ye Tianpei glanced at Ren Qi on the roof, and then at Yin Xiu.
"Because you are someone who wants to conquer the world."
"Why?"
"You have the skills and courage to come here. A person who is just a hot-headed rebel will never bring himself to the front of the Gyeonggi General Soldier.
This is the stupidest and most reckless behavior in the world.
But as I said, you are a smart man, so you must be here because you are absolutely sure.
And this confidence is not because you brought a master here, but because you thought you were confident in convincing me. ”
Yin Xiu spread her hands, "I was somewhat sure at first. However, General Soldier, you regard me as someone who wants to compete for the world, and all these points are gone."
"Then what are you going to do?"
Ye Tianpei seemed to be very interested in Yin Xiu's next plan.
Yin Xiu sighed, "It depends on what you plan to do, Commander-in-Chief."
"You gave me the right to choose from the beginning to the end. Even when I asked you something, you kept asking me what I thought."
Ye Tianpei was very unhappy, "What if I said, I will send troops to attack you?"
"Then let's fight."
Yin Xiu spread her hands, "Let's not worry about the foreigners. Let's fight with our own people. Before the foreigners come, we will wash out Jinmen's blood first. Whether they are the righteous soldiers who are preparing to fight against the foreigners or the officers and soldiers, we will fight to the death first."< br>
Ye Tianpei couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "You think I don't dare?"
After looking at Yin Xiu for a while, he finally asked: "What are you going to do? I mean dealing with foreigners."
"You don't care if I want to compete for the world?" Yin Xiu was a little curious.
"That's none of my business."
Ye Tianpei smiled bitterly, "I am the commander-in-chief of the Gyeonggi Province, not the marshal of the army. This time I am only responsible for fighting against the foreigners. I don't care about other things, and I can't control the future."
After saying this, he sat down again, took the soju that Yin Xiu handed him, and drank it all in one gulp. He felt his chest was burning and tears were about to flow out.
"General, don't you know how to drink?"
"Who said everyone in the army has to know how to drink?"
Ye Tianpei said this, but he still pushed the wine glass over and motioned for Yin Xiu to pour him another glass.
Yin Xiu poured the wine and said: "Did the commander-in-chief read the battle report of the last battle at Jinmen?"
“I was watching it on the way here.”
Ye Tianpei shook his head and said: "The fight was a complete mess. Our army was obviously several times stronger than the foreigners, and our troops and horses were stronger. However, in the end, only a few foreigners died and more than a dozen were injured.
Our army was already in disarray before reaching the formation. After all, the foreign firepower was too fierce. ”
"The foreigners have strong firepower, and it is one thing to have large and dense heavy firepower, but I don't think this is the main reason for their victory."
"Oh? What do you think?"
"It's not really an opinion."
Yin Xiu scratched his face, "I think the most powerful thing about foreigners is not their anger, but their skill on the blade."
"Oh?"
This was the first time Ye Tianpei heard such a statement.
Yin Xiu continued: "When fighting on the plains, the opponent's hands are much longer than ours. Our soldiers have a short training time and lack of willpower. They are killed by cannons before they get close. By this time, their morale has been reduced a lot. .
The soldiers could still withstand firearms fire, but at this time their morale was already shaky. When the enemy launched a hand-to-hand charge, they were naturally frightened and each one ran faster than the other. ”
Ye Tianpei pondered: "However, I consider myself to be good at training soldiers, maybe..."
Yin Xiu interrupted him, "What kind of soldier do you think can be called a good soldier?"
"Of course they are soldiers who move forward bravely and kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds. Such soldiers are the dream of a general."
Yin Xiu has a different view.
"Such soldiers no longer exist today. They only exist in legends and historical stories.
I believe that the best soldiers are those who stand still like a wall on the battlefield and carry out orders.
The second best soldier is one who can face the enemy face to face and fire three shots without being defeated.
Commander-in-Chief, do you think your soldiers can be the best? ”
Ye Tianpei has no confidence in this.
So Yin Xiu continued: "Then let them be the second best soldiers. As for where the battlefield is, I have made a sketch."
Yin Xiu put the drawings on the table.
Ye Tianpei only glanced at it and felt the veins on his forehead jumping, "You are trying to turn Jinmen into a living hell." (End of Chapter)