Li Bin woke up suddenly. Before he could rub his eyes, the memories of the battle emerged in his mind.
"Hurry and defend the city!"
Li Bin shouted outside the tent.
Um?
No, I'm not on the city wall directing the battle, why am I in the tent?
Looking around again, Li Bin was even more shocked.
"Why am I in bed?"
"I had a nightmare?"
"Here comes someone!" Li Bin breathed a sigh of relief, but felt undecided in his heart and wanted to go out and take a look at the city wall, "Give me your armor..."
Li Bin lifted the quilt and was suddenly stunned.
This quilt is wrong...the scene in my tent is also wrong with the current moment.
This is not my camp!
Cold sweat suddenly soaked Li Bin's clothes. He suddenly thought of something and quickly wanted to get out of bed, but he heard a sound of iron ropes colliding.
Then, he was pulled back to the bed by a force.
Li Bin was shocked to notice that both of his arms were tied around his wrists with iron ropes.
"It's not a dream!"
Li Bin instantly realized: "Am I captured?"
"But……"
Covering his still buzzing head, Li Bin didn't know what happened. It took him a long time to remember.
"Am I fainted?"
"Yes... who knocked me out?"
"No, it seemed like a thunder. Yes, the thunder happened to fall next to me and knocked me out?"
Li Bin only remembered that the crash made his body and soul tremble.
Immediately, he lost consciousness.
Being captured... Li Bin blushed. As a general, he did not die in battle. Being trapped like this is really an insult to the monarch's kindness.
"The Northern Liang Army has occupied Tuzhou..." Li Bin immediately realized that the city had been broken, and since he was captured, it meant that the enemy troops had entered the city.
Now that they entered the city and lost their leader, the soldiers of the first battalion were leaderless, and it was obvious that they were defeated in panic.
"General Li is awake?"
A playful voice came from outside the door, and Wei Ran appeared in front of Li Bin with a smile.
He is wearing the Xia Army armor.
"Who are you?"
Naturally, Li Bin had never met Wei Ran. The border troops on the northern front and Western Chu had Beiliang as a buffer, so they had very little contact with them.
Neither of them had met each other before.
But after Wei Ran inquired, he could naturally learn from the prisoners that the man wearing the general's armor was Li Bin.
"Xia Army?" Li Bin saw Wei Ran's armor, which was the armor given by the emperor to the Xia Army.
Even if someone in the Beiliang army captured this kind of armor, they would not dare to wear it, as it would be considered treason.
"It was the Xia army that attacked the city last night?" Li Bin suddenly thought of this possibility.
Wei Ran walked into the camp calmly with two soldiers. He looked at Li Bin, who had been stripped of his armor and was only moaning about his clothes, and said:
"General Li, I have admired his name for a long time, but I didn't expect that when I saw him today, I was a little disappointed."
"Why was it so easy for the Beiliang Army to capture the city?" Wei Ran shook his head.
"What?"
Li Bin was confused again.
"How long have I been sleeping?" Suddenly, Li Bin thought of a possibility and felt incredible.
Wei Ran said: "The night before yesterday, the Beiliang Army attacked Tuzhou. Our army heard the news and followed closely. I watched you fight all day. Yesterday, our army captured Tuzhou from the Beiliang Army."
"Sit back and watch the tiger fight, and the fisherman will gain..." Li Bin is also a general and a veteran, so he naturally understands this not very clever method.
Wei Ran smiled and said: "By the way, I got you, General Li, from the Northern Liang Army."
Li Bin frowned, but after knowing this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
If he is captured by the Beiliang Army, his fate can be imagined, and it will be difficult to explain to him when he returns.
But now, being taken over by Xia Jun, it can actually take some time off.
Because so far, Daxia and Xichu have not turned against each other and started a war, so they can barely be regarded as harmonious allies.
"That's very clever. I wonder what you call me?" Li Bin was naturally displeased at being taken advantage of, but he still raised his hand and asked.
"I am Wei Ran, the commander-in-chief of the Liangzhou camp. I am the vanguard commander of this expedition to Tuzhou." Wei Ran also handed over and reported his family status.
"General Wei, what do you mean?" Li Bin raised his hands and showed the iron rope in his hands.
"Oh, this is because I am worried that the general will suddenly wake up, find himself in a difficult situation, and then go on a rampage and kill people... If you kill someone, it will be difficult for us to explain, and things will be in trouble."
Wei Ran said it very officially, but also very reasonable.
Under this situation, Wei Ran would naturally not do anything to Li Bin, but after all, he was still a trophy.
And if he was "rescued" by Xia Jun and killed Xia Jun's people, even if Wei Ran wanted to release them, it would be difficult to explain to his brothers.
"Now that the words are clear, General Wei, can you let me go?" Li Bin said with a smile.
Wei Ran nodded: "That's natural. Go and untie General Li."
The two soldiers stepped forward, but did not lean over to unlock Li Bin. Instead, they threw the two keys on the bed and returned behind Wei Ran.
It is essential to be on guard against others.
"Brother Wei is really cautious." Li Bin didn't mind. He picked up the key and opened the lock with two clicks.
After twisting his two wrists and patting his muscles and bones, he found that there was indeed no damage. Li Bin handed over his hand again:
"Thank you very much."
After that, he asked again: "I don't know what brother Wei is planning to do, when will he send me back to the Chu army?"
Wei Ran smiled and said: "This matter is a bit difficult. I have to ask the superior officer for instructions."
He cannot release people directly.
After all, Li Bin is considered a trophy and a prisoner of war. Whether he should sell Xi Chu a favor or take the opportunity to ask for some conditions from Xi Chu... This is not something Wei Ran can decide.
"Brother Wei, you want to detain me?" Li Bin's face turned cold.
"Don't get me wrong, let's go through the process. Daxia and Xichu are still in harmony. Although the Yue Pingchuan incident happened, there is no war at all... General Li should be able to go back, but the time to go back is probably not now. "
Wei Ran is not stupid.
Now put Li Bin back to help the enemy?
If you go back and take the people back to Tuzhou, won't you trip yourself up by then?
"Brother Wei, you mean to wait until the overall situation is decided before you can send me away?" Li Bin felt uncomfortable in every possible way, but being under the eaves, it was still a sign of gratitude, so he shouldn't take it too seriously.
He naturally understood that Xia Jun was just worried that he would confront Tu Zhou after he returned.
Taking advantage of himself as a bargaining chip to make the Western Chu army abandon Tuzhou, this should be Xia Jun's true thoughts.
Li Bin felt helpless. He could only secretly hate himself for why he fainted.
Wei Ran said: "Brother Li, don't worry, maybe you won't have to wait too long. The war between Luoyang and the Northern Liang court has ceased. We have no chance to take advantage of the autumn wind."
"What?" Li Bin was surprised when he heard this, "They stopped fighting? How is that possible!"
Wei Ran said confidently: "This is the news bought from Emperor Zun Pavilion."
"Then it can't be wrong..." Li Bin nodded matter-of-factly, giving up his doubts.
Li Bin immediately realized something:
"I understand. It was the persecution of us from Xi Chu and Da Xia that made both Luo Yang and Emperor Liang feel in danger. If they continue to fight, it will only be an advantage for us, so they stopped fighting."
"Next, I'm afraid Luo Yang will return to support the border troops. We have to shrink the front and consolidate the results, otherwise we will have to spit out everything we have gained."
Li Bin looked at Wei Ran and suddenly understood why Xia Jun was also eyeing Tuzhou instead of the more fertile states in the north of Linzhou.
Because the battle line is too long, Luo Yang may come back at any time. Rather than risk going deep, it is better to consolidate the prefectural capital city gates that have been obtained.
Tuzhou is a strategic location, as important as Linzhou. The Western Chu army suddenly attacked Tuzhou to score a blow in Beiliang.
"Of course."
Wei Ran nodded: "Brother Li is indeed a famous general of Western Chu."
"What's so hard to know about this?" Li Bin said calmly.
"But I don't understand, with Brother Li's talent, how could the Beiliang army easily break through the city and capture you alive?" Wei Ran looked very confused and curious.
Li Bin thought it was sarcasm, but after seeing Wei Ran's eyes clearly, he immediately thought that he really didn't know.
"I……"
Li Bin wanted to explain that as a general at the same level, he did not want to be looked down upon by Wei Ran.
But he couldn't tell the reason.
Could it be that I was struck by lightning and knocked unconscious?
It sounds too much like an excuse, but it can't be beat when people say the number of days?
What if Wei Ran believed me and suspected that I had no moral character, and was knocked unconscious by thunder from heaven... my reputation would be ruined.
Li Bin was in a dilemma.
"When the Beiliang Army attacked the city, I and my scouts were watching the battle from the outside. They broke through the city so fast that it was beyond my imagination. I thought you could resist it for at least a few days, or at least a few hours..."
Hearing Wei Ran's extremely incomprehensible words, Li Bin didn't understand either, but he felt more ashamed. This chapter has been completed!