Chapter 68: Strange Inspiration
Since the night before, Li He suggested to Liang Ji that Liang Ji would be asked to play the piano and sing for the soldiers in the city to boost morale. Liang Ji's solo has become the most anticipated program for soldiers in Dongliang City.
When the sun sets, except for the soldiers on duty, patrol, and other soldiers will spontaneously wait in the central streets of the city after receiving the rice, waiting for Liang Ji to appear, while listening to Liang Ji play the piano and sing. If Dong Liang Jun is not here, there will be bold soldiers trying to tease the cute girl and ask her about the love between men and women, deliberately making her face flushed. Then all the soldiers burst into laughter, and the hard work and fatigue of the day disappeared.
But today, the soldiers seemed to be unintentionally listening to Liang Ji's music and singing. Even if Liang Ji finished playing a song, when he had the chance to tease the girl, no soldiers spoke for a long time. All the soldiers present held the bowl of rice in their hands, silent, and looked numb and depressed, as if they were full of thoughts.
"Can't hold on..."
In the building on the side of the central street, Xia Yangjun stood at the window and looked at Liang Ji, who was surrounded by soldiers in the open space below. He frowned and sighed: "Even Liang Ji can't arouse morale, it seems that it is really..."
As he said that, he whispered to Ying Qian.
In his opinion, Ying Qian's disagreement outside Dongliang City today was very targeted. He did not count the fact that "Wei State abandoned Shao Liang" and also revealed the incident of "Wei State abandoning Wei soldiers for 7,000 yuan". He was so shocked that he stood upright at that time and angrily scolded Ying Qian for talking nonsense.
But in fact, Wei State did abandon both, and Xia Yang Jun knew this very well.
In addition, Ying Qian also intends to create a gap between Li He and the guards in the city. Thanks to Li He's quick reaction, he immediately ordered the crossbowman to shoot arrows at Ying Qian and express his position. Otherwise, the guards in the city would have a little doubt about Li He. Who made Li He personally promised that he could defect to Qin at any time?
In this regard, even though Ying Qian is irritable, he can be called brave and resourceful, and cunning.
"Can't you really be able to hold on?"
Dongliang doctor Fan Hu turned to Zhai Hu and said, "Why don't you invite General Li Wubai to inspire morale? With the courage of General Li Wubai, you will definitely be able......"
Zhai Hu hugged his arms, touched the stubble on his chin with his right hand, and remained silent.
Although Li He is his beloved general, Zhai Hu didn't think Li He could do anything about this situation. After all, the damage to morale in the city was not simply due to casualties, and the series of blows of "abandoned by Wei State". I didn't see that even Liang Ji could no longer boost morale?
When a woman can no longer inspire men's morale and arouse men's desire to protect herself, there is almost no other way - especially a girl with a noble and beautiful personality like Liang Ji.
Dong Liang Jun also understood this and said in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, I will lead the army to retreat tonight... I will take Shaojun first."
Even his family king agreed to retreat and gave up Dongliang. Fan Hu wanted to speak but stopped and sighed disappointedly.
At this moment, Zhai Hu, who was embracing his hands, suddenly raised a finger: "Wait."
Everyone was puzzled and followed Zhai Hu's gaze and then saw Li He walking to Liang Ji with a bowl.
"Li He..."
Liang Ji also saw Li He who was walking beside her, raised her face, her beautiful little face full of depression.
After all, a few days ago, whenever she finished playing a song, the soldiers around her would applaud, even cheer and whistle. Although her behavior was a bit rude, Liang Ji could feel the enthusiasm of the soldiers to her.
But today, the soldiers around were like a pool of stagnant water. Even after she played a song, she did not react at all, which made Liang Ji feel a little panicked.
As if seeing through the panic and helplessness in the girl's heart, Li He smiled and said affirmatively: "You played well, really."
Hearing the praise, the girl breathed a sigh of relief, and then looked at the soldiers around her worriedly: "But..."
Li He pressed his hand towards her, indicating that she didn't have to worry. Then he looked around at the soldiers around him and smiled calmly: "Today, Dongliang defeated the Qin army twice. This should have been a thing worthy of joy and cheering, but why are everyone dejected, as if they were defeated?"
Hearing this, the soldiers around him looked at each other a few times, but no one spoke.
Suddenly, a Wei soldier said in a depressed voice: "Li Wubai General, do you know how many brothers died today?"
Before he finished speaking, another Wei Zhu said sarcastically: "We are not as brave as General Li Wubai. With just one arrow or a spear, we can easily take our lives..."
"Hey! You two, be careful when speaking!" The shouts of two thousand Wei soldiers general Zheng Hou came from afar.
Li He waved his hand to Zheng Hou in the distance and handed the ginger soup in his hand to Annu who was standing behind Liang Ji: "Anu, take it for me."
"Yeah." Annu took Jiang Tang and looked at Li He in confusion, but saw Li He pull out the sharp sword from his waist and slashing a thread on his palm. Blood immediately poured out
"ah!"
Liang Ji and Anu all exclaimed, and the soldiers around them were also full of shock.
At this time, Li He's cut palm was hanging on everyone, and he said with a smile: "The Qin army thought that my strange soldiers were ghost soldiers and generals recruited by witchcraft. They would not die or bleed. Could it be that you also feel that way?... It's a pity that I disappointed you. Li is just an ordinary person. It would be great if he was really a ghost soldiers and generals. Even if he was scared, he could scare the Qin army outside the city to death, so there would be no need to fight."
A sneer rang out from the crowd around him, and the leaders were the surprise soldiers.
The soldiers from the side laughed, even though a few Wei soldiers were a little embarrassed, they were also amused by Li He's words.
Seeing this, Li He turned his eyes to the two Wei soldiers who spoke sarcastically before.
Just looking at the blood on the bodies of these two Wei soldiers, we know that the two of them had also fought bloodily on the city wall. They were just talking sarcastic, and most of them were not feeling well.
As for why he was not feeling well, he could roughly guess.
Sure enough, a Wei Zhu soon asked with a complicated expression: "Li Wubai General, we... I am a guard guard of seven thousand yuan, and I have really been abandoned by the country?"
To be honest, this question is hard to answer. Xia Yangjun, who heard the sound of asking in the building next to the street, suddenly became nervous, and Zhai Hu, who was beside him, couldn't help but sneer.
“Yes, but not.”
After pondering for a while, Li He chose to answer the question of the Wei soldiers honestly: "It depends on how you view this matter... If we start from you personally, then the Wei State may have given up on you and asked you to stay here with me Shaoliang and fight against the Qin army hard; but from the overall interests of the Wei State, this is only for strategic considerations. Whether you have a 7,000-yuan junction or a 100,000 military and civilian army in Shaoliang, the Wei State needs us to hold back the Qin army as much as possible and fight for him to defeat Zhao State..."
Xia Yangjun, who was in the building on the street, heard this and took a breath of air and shouted angrily: "How could he say that?"
"Is there anything wrong?" Zhai Hu glanced at Xia Yangjun and said lightly.
From the side, Dongliang Jun and Fan Hu also looked at Xia Yang Jun with expressionless faces, which made Xia Yang Jun not easy to get angry.
After all, this is the case.
At this time, in the open space below, Li He vaguely heard Xia Yang Jun’s reprimand and sneered: “It seems that Xia Yang Jun hates me so much…”
The Wei soldiers forced a few laughs.
In fact, these people had already guessed something. Ying Qian's provocation and Li He's words only confirmed their guesses.
Looking at these Wei soldiers whose morale was low, Li He said seriously: "I have no intention of sow discord, but I want to tell all the soldiers from Wei that even if Wei abandons you for national interests, you are not fighting alone. You and I, Shaoliang, and I, Shaoliang, will regard you as a robe for sharing joys and sorrows, including Shaojun..."
He pointed at Liang Ji, and the smart Liang Ji nodded vigorously. His cute appearance made many Wei soldiers laugh out loud.
At this time, Li He said seriously again: "So, there is no need to be depressed or panic. From the moment you hold weapons in your hands to fight for me, Shaoliang, I, Shaoliang, have regarded you as my robes. If you unfortunately die here, the Shaoliang people will pay tribute to you; if the Wei State does not want to support your family, I, Shaoliang, are willing to support them, thank you for your selfless efforts and sacrifices for me, Shaoliang."
After saying that, he asked loudly: "Shaoliang people, did you agree?"
"promise!"
Many soldiers from Liang shouted.
Seeing this, Li He turned his head to look at Liang Ji and asked, "Shao Jun, have you agreed?"
"Yeah!" Liang Ji nodded vigorously.
A burst of cheers rang around, and many soldiers from Liang reached out to hug the Wei soldiers beside them, expressing their intimacy.
Seeing this, the Wei generals, who were originally depressed, showed sincere smiles on their faces, and the atmosphere in the venue also quickly rebounded.
Seeing this scene, the people in the building next to them looked different.
Is this... winning the hearts of the Wei army?
Zhai Hu, Dongliang Jun and Fan Hu looked at each other in a sympathetic manner, and glanced at Xia Yang Jun at the same time, but saw Xia Yang Jun's face sometimes blue and white, sometimes red, as if he was angry or worried, which was very exciting.
It has to be said that the morale in Dongliang City today is not the only one of Wei soldiers, but the Wei soldiers are undoubtedly the lowest part of morale. The morale of these people has improved, and the overall morale will naturally be raised.
But if you want to defend Dongliang, this morale is far from enough.
Just when Li He was thinking about how to further inspire morale, a Wei soldier asked, "Li Wubai General, I heard that you are also from Wei, why didn't you join the army in Wei State, but chose to fight for Shaoliang? With the courage of Li Wubai General, even in Wei State, it is enough to be a general..."
Li He didn't think much about it and said casually: "Because Young Master..."
The soldiers around were stunned, and then they made a stir and looked at Liang Ji.
Liang Ji's face was flushed, she covered her face with her hands, her heart was pounding, and she secretly looked at Li He through the gaps of her fingers.
Not to mention her, even Anu, who was standing behind her, blushed as the soldiers cheered, and looked at Li He with a strange look.
"Uh, I don't mean that..."
Li He also realized that his words were ambiguous and explained loudly, but the soldiers did not listen to his explanation and started cheering loudly.
Chapter completed!