One thing Sun Wu didn't understand was that now that the situation in Lu was a foregone conclusion, why did the Ji family try so hard to kill Li Ran?
Is it just because of Ji's hatred for Li Ran?
This time they came from the Lu State and were now at the border of the Wei State. Sun Wu counted them carefully and found that the Ji family sent at least ten waves and nearly a thousand warriors to pursue and intercept Li Ran!
This is a big deal. If the Ji family paid for this, it would undoubtedly bring greater pressure to the already stretched Ji family.
Moreover, even if they kill Li Ran now, there will not be any substantial change in their current situation in Lu State. Do they just want to "revenge" by paying such a heavy price?
When it comes to martial arts and military acumen, Sun Wu is a unique master, but when it comes to such intrigues and intrigues, Sun Wu is a layman. He couldn't figure this out after much thought, so he had no choice but to ask Li Ran for advice.
After hearing this, Li Ran smiled at first. He didn't expect that Sun Wu would follow him to Zheng State this time, surrounded by such dangers, and he would still have time to think about this kind of problem.
However, doesn’t this show Sun Wu’s sensitivity to suspicious things? If this kind of vigilance is placed on life and death, it is a very important magic weapon for victory.
Li Ran looked back at the way he came and said calmly:
"Actually, it's not difficult to guess."
He didn't dare to make a conclusion, he could only guess.
"Oh? Please give me some advice, sir."
Sun Wu bowed his hands and said.
Just listen to Li Ran continue to say:
"Previously in Qufu City, when the Ji family arranged for people to snipe us, I gave Ji family harsh words. I will definitely settle the debt with them in the future for Sun Su's death. The Ji family has always been ruthless, and I will eradicate this. They will understand this truth. If I are allowed to reach Zheng State alive, what they will face in the future will not only be the suppression of the Shusun family and the Meng family, but they may also face even stronger pressure from external public opinion."
"In short, it's just one word - fear"
"I'm afraid this is the reason why the Ji family will definitely put me to death. However, this is only one of them."
It is impossible for the Ji family not to know about Li Ran's ability. The Ji family is all too aware of how Li Ran weakened the originally powerful Ji family into what he is now in the Lu country.
Therefore, they were determined not to let Li Ran go to Zheng State alive.
You know, the State of Zheng is close to the two countries of Jin and Chu, and Li Ran had a good relationship with the Jin State's Sheep Tongue when he was in the Lu State. Now that he went to the Zheng State, wouldn't he have a closer relationship with the Sheep Tongue?
And if Li Ran used Zheng State as a springboard to go directly to Jin State, or even Chu State, would the Ji family still have something to gain? Wouldn't Li Ran have more and more methods to deal with Ji's family in the future? Aren’t the forces that can be exploited getting stronger and stronger?
This reason was indeed enough for Ji to kill Li Ran thousands of times. But I didn’t expect that this was only one of them.
Just listen to Li Ran continue to say:
"Secondly, now that the Shusun family and the Meng family are suppressing the Ji family, although the situation is great, any alliance of interests will eventually collapse. If I die, the Meng family will no longer have to worry about the non-existent Jin family behind me. National power, let alone fear that I will interfere with it."
"In this way, half of the foundation of their alliance with Dr. Shusun will be destroyed. And the Ji family can win over the Meng family. By then the two families will be reconciled as before, and the Ji family will be able to make a comeback."
The reason why the Meng family was willing to join forces with the Shusun family to suppress the Ji family was probably because they were afraid of the unfounded foreign forces behind Li Ran.
When Li Ran lobbied Meng Sunjie, he made it very clear that what Meng Sunjie was afraid of was not Shusun Bao or Li Ran, but the Jin State behind Li Ran.
"The third thing is Ji Sun Yiru's personal hatred for me."
"This man is extremely ruthless and decisive. Now that he has decided to kill me, no matter how high the price is, he will not be able to change his mind."
After saying this, Li Ran couldn't help but smile, his face full of lightness.
Some people in this world want him to die, but some people want him to live. Ji Sunyiru went to great lengths to send people to hunt him down, but now he still made it to the border of Weiguo, and the one who stepped on the doorstep was Zhengguo.
And Ji Sun Yiru's wishful thinking will most likely come to nothing.
"So that's it. After hearing what Mr. Ji said, I was really enlightened. I knew why Mr. Ji was so persistent in wanting to kill Mr. Ji, but I didn't expect it to be like this. It seems that this Ji Sun Yiru has some brains and knows what Mr. Ji is doing. Your fate now depends entirely on Mr.
Although Ji Sun Yiru is not as sophisticated as his grandfather Ji Sun Su, he is not a fool either. If it weren't for the fact that killing Li Ran would play a huge role in the Ji family's re-emergence, why would he have gone to such great lengths.
"Let's go. Since Ji is so afraid of me coming to Zheng, we can't let him down."
"Haha, sir, you are really in a good mood. He is calm in the face of danger, and he can still joke like this."
Just as the two were about to set off on their way again, unexpectedly there was a loud, rapid and deep voice on the road.
"General! General!"
Li Ran turned around and saw a burly man running towards him.
"Huh? Why is it him?"
Before Li Ran could speak, Sun Wu on the side exclaimed in surprise.
"Oh? Chang Qing, do you know this person?"
"I know him. This is a cook from Ju State."
Sun Wu scratched his head and laughed dumbly.
Even Li Ran couldn't help but be slightly startled when he heard the sound.
At this time, the man was close to the two of them.
I saw that this man was more than eight feet tall. He was burly and covered in flesh, but he was light-footed and moved quickly. He was holding a knife in his hand that seemed to be used to slaughter cattle and sheep. He looked very fierce.
The most important thing is that this person lived a very powerful life, with a full face and beard, two long and thick eyebrows like two knives hanging halfway on his eyelids, and a pair of piercing tiger eyes. Sun Wu immediately laughed when he saw it. Not from ear to ear.
"Oh, General, General! I finally found you!"
After saying that, the man knelt down directly towards Sun Wu and performed the military salute of their Ju people.
"Chu Dang, why are you here? Didn't you follow the team back to Ju Kingdom?"
Sun Wu called out the person's name, and Chu Tang immediately touched his head and giggled.
"The general saved the villain's life. The villain said that he would go through fire and water for the general. How could he keep his word?... The villain originally thought that the general was going back to Ju State, but he didn't expect that the general went to Lu State. So the villain had no choice but to follow him all the way to the Kingdom of Lu... But who would have known that the general would come to Weiguo after twists and turns... It would be easy to find a meal for me."
It turned out that Sun Wu had another story about Chu Dang that he had not had time to tell Li Ran.
When Sun Wu first arrived at Ju and Zhu, he led the armies of the two countries to attack Ji's city. On the way, he encountered an army sent by Ji to stop the coalition forces. Since the situation between the two parties was unclear, they were wary of each other and did not contact them immediately. So, they just set up camp separately, preparing to find out the truth before fighting.
But who knew that this guy Chu Dang had an internal emergency during the march, so he squatted in the grass. But squatting and squatting, he actually fell asleep. When he woke up and came out of the grass, he found that the army had already gone away.
This guy couldn't help but panic and ran wildly along the road. On this day, the night happened to be dark, and Chu Dang could not identify the direction of his camp. They all ran into Ji's camp opposite.
And he was stupid, he couldn't read a word, and he couldn't recognize the Ji family's flag. That night, he buried a pot and cooked rice in Ji family's camp.
If that's all it is, then there's really nothing outstanding about this story.
What comes next is the most ridiculous part.
Because the time set by Ji's troops to bury pots and make rice was different from the time set by Sun Wu for the coalition forces.
So when Chu Dang was making food in Ji's military camp. Other Ji's soldiers discovered him immediately, and of course none of Ji's cooks knew him. Therefore, he was immediately treated as a spy.
Only then did Chu Dang realize that he was in the wrong camp. He immediately overturned the pot, grabbed the two spurges beside him from the ground and started working.
At this time, God was also kind, and the fire pit that Chu Dang overturned happened to quickly light up a large camp with the help of a sudden strong wind.
And the most bizarre thing is that Chu Dang, a man with divine power and wielding two big halberds, can't even get close to him. Moreover, Ji's camp was on fire, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting at all. Therefore, Ji's army was turned upside down by him alone.
According to Sun Wu's description, when he saw the enemy camp on fire, he thought it was an undisciplined young general on his side who secretly carried out a night attack on the enemy camp behind his back, so he immediately ordered a rescue operation.
However, when he arrived at the place where the Ji family was stationed, he discovered that Chu Dang was the only one inside, charging and killing him. With two halberds in his hands, he was able to keep hundreds of people around him at bay with just his brute force. body.
Coupled with the strong wind blowing throughout the Ji's camp, the fire spread, and the camp with tens of thousands of people was suddenly in chaos.
This gave Sun Wu an excellent opportunity, and he immediately led his army to attack it, killing Ji's army of ten thousand people.
After this battle, Sun Wu saw that Chu Dang had natural supernatural powers, extraordinary bravery, and a very kind-hearted person, so he immediately appointed him as the right chariot and served him at his side.
Chu Dang was rescued by the general personally leading the army. He immediately burst into tears of gratitude to the general and swore a strong oath that he was willing to go through fire and water for the general from now on.
However, after the battle between Ju Zhu and the Ji family, Sun Wu returned to the State of Lu alone and had long forgotten about it.
How could he have imagined that this guy would chase him all the way from the Kingdom of Ju to the Kingdom of Wei, and then he would immediately join the Kingdom of Zheng!
This is definitely more persistent than Ji's killers who pay for their lives!
"Oh? From what Chang Qing said, this Chu Dang is really a fierce general!"
"If that's the case, then just stay. You've already followed me here, so you can learn from it."
As soon as Li Ran spoke, Sun Wu immediately asked Chu Dang to get up and follow him to the state of Zheng.
Chu Dang was so excited that he had achieved what he wanted. He hurriedly took over the heaviest and most tiring work on himself, including Owl Yi's share of cooking for Li Ran. He was a hard-working, loyal and down-to-earth person. .
So the group passed through a buffer zone on the border between Weiguo and Zhengguo, and finally set foot on the territory of Zhengguo.
But on the second day after they set foot on the territory of Zheng State, they encountered the most ferocious pursuit since they defected to Zheng State!
On a rainy night, there was thunder and lightning.
A sudden and massive attack began in such bad weather.
