The existence of artillery may have long been an open secret in the minds of the most elite people in the world, but to ordinary people, it is still a very mysterious thing.
A war may be fought very hard, or it may end very quickly, but this is only for the two warring parties.
For ordinary people, the trauma caused by a war cannot be so easily healed or eliminated invisible.
After capturing Jizhou, the army had to spend more time and energy to restore order in Jizhou city.
Fortunately, apart from the initial aftermath work, Wang Jianguo and Qi Zhen did not need to worry too much about other matters.
They finally had time to get together and have a good chat.
At this time, three days had passed since the army captured Jizhou.
"How are you doing there?" Qi Zhen asked.
"Fortunately, the basic order in Jizhou City is still there. The surrendered soldiers had no obvious intention to resist. They did not understand the thoughts of Youzhou. In fact, they fought a confused battle. No one understood what happened. Who are you fighting for? It’s not difficult to accept us." Wang Jianguo replied.
"As expected." Qi Zhen nodded.
"These vigilant soldiers have been arranged to restore order in various parts of the city. The main reason is that you bombarded the south wall too hard. Most of them went there to clean up the mess. But now it seems that it is not short-term. Time can recover.”
Qi Zhen thought about the ruins, felt a little embarrassed, and nodded.
"How are you doing there?" Wang Jianguo asked.
"It's almost the same as yours." Qi Zhen said in a deep voice: "The civil service system at the grassroots level in Jizhou City is not in chaos, but there seems to be no particularly famous person among those officials. After asking around, he found out about the situation in Jizhou City and even Jizhou as a whole. They also didn't know anything about it. It seems that Liu Bei didn't send a person with enough weight to take charge of the overall situation here. It feels a bit like the situation you encountered in Qingzhou before."
"What do you say?" Wang Jianguo asked.
"I don't know if you have a feeling. It seems that except for Youzhou, whether it is Qingzhou or Jizhou, they are just places that Liu Bei occupied but did not take over. It seems that he just occupied this place casually and then left. Nominally, these two states are still under Liu Bei's jurisdiction, but in fact, the two states still go their own way, like two orphans that no one wants," Qi Zhen said.
Wang Jianguo thought for a while and admitted that what Qi Zhen said made sense.
"This is the first abnormality I wanted to tell you before." Qi Zhen continued, "Remember the second abnormality carefully. After we set off from Luoyang, whether it was Yuzhou or Yanzhou, Jizhou or Xuzhou, you have traveled to so many places along the way, where did you start, do you firmly believe that Yan Gang is still alive?"
Wang Jianguo fell into deep thought.
"Don't be too busy thinking about this problem. After all, there has been such a long time interval and you have met too many people. Maybe who gave you this hint, but you may not have any impression at all." Qi Zhen said. road.
"I just don't understand why Yan Gang is really 'alive', and what's the point of that person telling me the news?" Wang Jianguo smiled bitterly.
"In short, we should be able to exclude people from our own family." Wang Jianguo added.
The family members here include everyone in the team and the four generals Feng Linhuo.
Qi Zhen was noncommittal: "Let's talk about the third anomaly. There was actually a bug when we invaded Jizhou that day. Did you find it?"
Wang Jianguo nodded and said softly: "This is what I want to tell you, but there were other people around at the time, so it was really not convenient for us to discuss this matter."
The others referred to here include Yan Gang who was present and other soldiers who attacked the governor's mansion.
"The strange thing is, if it is true that it is Zhuge Liang's arrangement for him to stay here as Yan Gang said, then why are there so many crossbowmen outside the governor's mansion to block our entry?" Qi Zhen pointed out. The doubts that have been lingering in the two people's minds for the past few days.
Wang Jianguo shook his head. If he knew, he wouldn't have to frown here.
"Three questions, let's take a look at the overall situation first, and then think about the possibilities." Qi Zhen suggested. "I said, you add."
"good."
"Since we separated from Luoyang, you have traveled among the central states, captured Yuzhou and Yanzhou, defeated Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and then harassed Jizhou, then went to Xuzhou, captured Xiaopei, and Zhao Yumifang Zang Ba and others have reached an agreement to march north to attack Qingzhou, then march westward into Jizhou until they meet me outside Jizhou City. Is this timeline correct?" Qi Zhen said.
Wang Jianguo nodded.
"The most critical time point in this process is before you attack Xuzhou. If you had not chosen to go eastward at that time, what happened later would naturally not have happened. And it was only after you completely controlled Xuzhou that you had the intention to go north to attack Qingzhou. , so if you think about it, what prompted you to go to Xuzhou?" Qi Zhen asked.
"You mean..." Wang Jianguo seemed to understand what Qi Zhen wanted to say.
Qi Zhen assumed the long-lost thinking posture again, with her left arm folded across her chest, her right elbow resting on top of her left arm, and she tapped her forehead gently.
"Yes, the reason why you chose to attack Xiaopei is because Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, who originally seemed impossible to live in peace, joined forces. It was at that time that Liu Bei was promoted to the throne by Gongsun Zan, so You just left in panic." Qi Zhen said.
"So the reason is that after Liu Bei came to power and Gongsun Zan reached an agreement, Qingzhou and Jizhou became what they are now?" Wang Jianguo asked.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out." Qi Zhen nodded, "And I think it was only after you captured Xuzhou that you had the opportunity to choose whether to continue the war, so the news that 'Yan Gang is not dead' should also come after It was instilled in you at that time.”
"Let's not think about Yan Gang's life and death. After we arrived in Jizhou, the latest information we got is that Yan Gang was not asked to do anything. He seemed to be waiting here for this day, but Liu Bei's attempt was not It's not clear, and it's hard to explain why there are so many enemy troops holding Zhuge Liannu to prevent us from attacking." Qi Zhen continued.
Wang Jianguo said softly: "Furthermore, it seems strange that order has been restored in Jizhou City in the past few days. The defenders are actually not very willing to resist."
"That's right, so we can make a bold assumption." Qi Zhen said lightly, "The enemies of the governor's mansion and the enemies who originally defended the city in Jizhou are not the same group at all."
Wang Jianguo knew that Qi Zhen had made the most likely judgment.
"As for Yan Gang, we might as well look at this issue in two." Qi Zhen continued.
"How to divide?" Wang Jianguo asked.
"If Yan Gang didn't lie, we assume that Zhuge Liang did arrange for him to wait for us here. What is the purpose?" Qi Zhen asked.
"I really can't think of this." Wang Jianguo smiled bitterly.
"Okay, let's not talk about Zhuge Liang's purpose. Then think about it, what do these crossbow-wielding soldiers guarding the governor's mansion mean?" Qi Zhen asked.
"Are you sure you want me to supplement you instead of crushing my IQ here?" Wang Jianguo glanced at Qi Zhen angrily.
"What I just said about looking at the problem in two is to let you look at Yan Gang and these soldiers separately." Qi Zhen stopped trying to be pretentious and directly expressed her guess, "If Yan Gang is motivated by Zhuge Liang’s arrangement, is it possible that the existence of these soldiers was ordered by another person?”
Wang Jianguo was horrified.
"And the big irrationality here is that the power of Zhuge Liannu is too strong. Something that is so powerful means that the system must be involved, either because of the emergence of guns in this world, or because of the system. Correcting the difficulty of the game, in short, I don’t believe that something stronger than a rifle can be developed so easily." Qi Zhen continued.
"Wait a minute, my thoughts are still stuck on your question above." Wang Jianguo interrupted Qi Zhen's reasoning, "You said that the appearance of these soldiers holding Zhuge Liannu here was not Zhuge Liang's arrangement?"
"Yes, but if I were Zhuge Liang, I wouldn't put this kind of murderous weapon into the hands of others, so there is only one possibility left. These soldiers are guarding here under Liu Bei's orders." Qi Zhen said.
"But...why?" Wang Jianguo didn't understand.
"Based on the information we have now, it is difficult to determine why Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang did not reach an agreement on this matter, but combined with what I just said, there may be some possibility of explanation." Qi Zhen said.
"I don't understand more and more." Wang Jianguo scratched his head.
"You must know that in the game, the system cannot directly interfere with the game process, but no matter what, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, even the four generals Feng Linhuo, even if they have their own ideas and life trajectories, in the final analysis, They are still NPCs in this game." Qi Zhen said word for word: "So my judgment is that if Zhuge Liang's arrangements for Yan Gang have exceeded the scope of what the system can allow NPCs to do, then the system will Intervention has begun.”
"I don't quite understand the system you are talking about, or the overall mechanism of this game." Wang Jianguo said frankly.
"It doesn't matter, someone knows." Qi Zhen said: "If my guess is correct, I'm afraid this is not an event that can be explained by the game itself."
"Xiao Bai." Qi Zhen sighed in her heart. She could only ask her for help in this matter.
"here I am."
