Before Li Quan could reply when Yu Man'er said these words, several subordinates around him had already shown happy expressions.
That's right, surrender first to save everyone's lives and so many relatives and family members. Let’s talk about other things, okay?
Li Quan's rise as a local tycoon in Weizhou has been going on for several years. However, in order to make it easier for him to swing between different forces to obtain benefits, apart from giving himself the title of marshal, he did not follow the example of a certain force and establish a stable and detailed system.
In this way, the entire force will have very little historical baggage, and no matter where it goes, it will be very fast, and it will not be fatal in a wrong direction.
But precisely for this reason, when Li Quan's soldiers really reached a critical moment, they immediately thought of lowering their bodies and surrendering, without any psychological burden at all. This is true even for a close confidant like Yu Man'er. In his opinion, it's not like his side has never bowed before. This is just a strategy, so there's no harm in using it.
Li Quan smiled bitterly.
When he first stopped, he wanted to encourage his subordinates and tell them that he still had a chance, as long as he could rush to the Tieling Platform and capture any one of Pusan Anzhen and Guo Ning... But there was no need to say those words again.
On the battlefield, once the anger is exhausted, it is difficult to be inspired again. What's more, this guy, Yu Man'er, is thinking about surrender, let alone other people? Even if Li Quan himself is willing to bravely rush forward, who will follow?
He leaned on his spear and looked up at the heights of the mesa.
In a little while, he was wearing heavy armor, holding an iron gun, and with long strides, he had already rushed to the bottom of the Tieling platform. A few steps further, it would be roughly within the coverage area of local arrows.
He has already made up his mind that this Tieling is not a famous mountain or river, but just a hillock. It would not be difficult for thousands of our own armored warriors to use the cover of the trees on the edge of the hillock to rush across the slope with arrows fired at them.
On the Tieling platform, the servants Anzhen and Guo Ning were having a meeting. Since they had to distribute their manpower to all directions to guard, there were not many subordinates left around them. The total number of the two families is more than three hundred at most, and the two families are wary of each other, so it is impossible for them to fight hand in hand without any grudges.
Li Quan used more than a thousand elite men to attack a small number of suspicious people. How could he miss?
Moreover, Li Quan himself is a master of fighting. I have heard for a long time that Guo Ning used an iron bone flower to run rampant in Shandong and beat countless powerful enemies to their knees. But Li Quan also has a powerful iron gun in Shandong, and he has long wanted to compete with Guo Ning!
Li Quan originally thought so, but at this moment, he suddenly became discouraged.
No matter how proficient his marksmanship is, what's the use without his subordinates to follow him? Is it possible that one person can be worth a thousand and his family rushes to Tieling to kill them all? That's just sending yourself to death.
But surrender is not an option either.
Others can surrender, but Li Quan cannot.
Pusan Anzhen had just been betrayed. This kind of Jurchen high-ranking official had a mind smaller than the eye of a needle and would never accept another traitor with all his intentions.
And Guo Ning... He was tricked by Li Quan the last time the Mongolian army invaded. That day, Guo Ning made a pact with Yang An'er at the foot of Moqi Mountain, and one of his demands was that Li Quan must be killed. It's just that Yang An'er deliberately kept Li Quan, hoping that he would contain Guo Ning.
By this time, our own plans had been completely shattered by Ding Haijun. How could it be possible if Guo Ning hadn't already planned it? Not to mention anything else, just the tens of thousands of elite navy personnel cannot be quietly transferred to the west of Anding Town!
This guy must have used some method to win over a group of traitors in Binzhou! This group of people worked together to trick me!
Perhaps Guo Ning also knows that both of them started out in the rough and tried to rise in troubled times. Their methods and goals are actually very similar.
But precisely because the two are so similar, once they compete with each other, there is no room for concession. Only one person can walk this road, so out of two people, only one can survive.
Li Quan looked up and noticed that someone was looking down on the Tieling platform.
Hehe, who is Pusan Anzhen and who is Guo Ning? Are they here to laugh at me, a loser?
Li Quan tightened his grip on the iron gun and straightened his once stooped body. He raised his face and laughed.
No matter what others think, he does not feel like a failure. A mere local tycoon, in less than ten years, has gained such a great reputation, occupied the territory of four or five states, commanded thousands of people, and almost has the ability to influence the general trend of the world. Isn't this enough?
Not to mention wealth, what kind of wine and meat have you not eaten in the past few years? What kind of singing and dancing have you not seen? What kind of woman hasn’t slept with him? Not to mention myself, everyone who followed Li Tiejian lived happily!
That's enough, that's enough!
Just as I was thinking of this, someone called out: "Marshal! Marshal!"
Li Quan turned slightly sideways: "Huh?"
Yu Man'er came closer and whispered into Li Quan's ear: "Marshal, don't you want to surrender?"
"At this point, you can surrender, but it's hard for me." Li Quan chuckled twice: "What, you want to take my head to ask for credit?"
Yu Manger's face turned red and he shouted angrily: "Am I such a person?"
He hesitated for a moment and then said: "I want to... ahem, Marshal, the morale of the army has been lost at this moment. If we continue to fight, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win..."
He looked at Li Quan's face and plucked up the courage to continue: "However, the soldiers and horses that have dispersed Anzhen and Guo Ning's family on the platform are just this, and the rest of the tribe can't catch up with them in a hurry. Let's immediately Retreat and flee to the coastal beaches. They have limited manpower and cannot catch up with us! We just have to hide in the salt people's territory for a while, maybe three months, or half a year. When the situation changes, we will definitely find an opportunity..."
Li Quan was a little moved, patted Yu Manger's shoulder, and shook his head.
After thinking about many things, he regained his composure and his judgment.
"Who is most familiar with the coastal beaches here in Binzhou? Who is the leader of the salt people?"
"It's Yin Chang."
"After we decide to raid Tieling, who is the person responsible for arranging the raid route for us? Now that Ding Haijun suddenly appears to the west of the camp in Anding Town, it cannot be by flying. Whose territory do they have to pass to arrive? And who? Whose cover allowed tens of thousands of people to move so quietly?"
"...It's still Yin Chang!" Yu'er's face changed: "Then we have nowhere to escape? Damn it, this guy betrayed us? I, I must..."
"Everyone has their own ideas, don't worry about it."
Li Quan laughed so loudly that he almost burst into tears: "Compete with each other and use their own methods. Just focus on victory or defeat. Don't worry about the rest."
After laughing for a while, he said softly: "Although I don't resent Yin Chang, I don't want to give Yin Chang my head to make meritorious service in front of the new master."
Guo Ning stood on the edge of the platform with a relaxed expression, looking down slightly.
The soldiers of the Ding Navy gathered around him. As for the hundreds of elite Jin troops in Hebei, they were all on alert, guarding An Zhen in Gaixin to guard against Li Quan's trapped beast.
In the direction where Guo Ning was staring, the man holding an iron gun and running at the front of the team suddenly stopped and said something to his companions. Then, he put the iron gun on the ground, suddenly pulled out his saber, turned over his hand and cut his own throat.
Until the man's body collapsed to the ground, dozens of people stared blankly, as if they didn't react. After a while, some people were wailing, some were roaring, some were rushing to hug the body, and some were suddenly drawing their swords, intending to commit suicide.
"The way this person acts is completely shameless, but when he is about to die, he has a bit of a heroic spirit." Zhao Jue said in a deep voice.
Guo Ning nodded: "You will come forward soon so that the body can be collected and buried. Don't wait any longer."
Although Li Quan's subordinates cannot compare with Ding Haijun, they are also quite good at fighting. Guo Ning was about to recruit them as soon as possible to expand the strength of Ding Haijun. Therefore, he had no intention of humiliating Li Quan, and there was no need to trigger hostility between Ding Haijun and the grassroots officers of the Red Coat Army.
Zhao Jue bowed and agreed, and when he was about to say something else, Pusan Anzhen's satisfied laughter came: "Hahaha, that guy is Li Quan, he is dead! He died well!"
Guo Ning frowned slightly, turned around, and saw Pusan Anzhen striding towards him with great momentum.
"Now that Li Quan is dead, the matter is settled. Let's do what we said before. I will take Bozhou, Dezhou, Dizhou and half of Jinan. The other military states in Shandong will be slaughtered by Guo Xuan. How about that?"
The previous words "Pu San Anzhen" meant that in addition to these military states, it also included Binzhou and the complete Jinan Prefecture. At this time, he watched Guo Ning take Li Quan's life lightly and deftly, and his tens of thousands of elite troops were still sweeping through the Anding Town camp, so he lowered his demands a bit.
