He Jin was puzzled: "Benchu, what do you mean by this? It was clearly Liu Wei who fled in panic, but we trapped him at Mengjin Ferry. How did it become that he did it on purpose?"
“General, he had clearly arrived at Mengjin Ferry long ago. He could have easily used his status as a prince to have the ferry guards let him cross the river. But as far as I know, he is on that hill, waiting for us to arrive!”
Yuan Shao said leisurely.
"Now that you mention it, I find it strange too. He clearly lied to me and said he went to Fu County, and a whole day has passed since I came to Mengjin from Fu County. Yet he's still here, as if he's really waiting for us!"
He Jin slapped his forehead. "What does he intend to do?"
"General, who are the people who came with us?" Yuan Shao asked.
"That goes without saying, they are our trusted private soldiers in the capital!" He Jin seemed to understand something!
“That’s right, he wiped out my hundred Wuhuan soldiers! Last night, half of our three captains’ six hundred personal guards were also killed!” Yuan Shao roared. “He’s deliberately trying to weaken our trusted forces!”
To mobilize other troops in the capital on a large scale, one would certainly need a tiger tally issued by the emperor.
The troops that the two were able to mobilize to surround and kill Liu Wei were their trusted private soldiers, as well as Northern Army soldiers who had been bribed with large sums of money.
"He killed our private soldiers and then waited for His Majesty to send Jian Shuo with troops to mediate. In this way, we suffered a huge loss without being able to speak out!"
"So what should we do now?"
Thinking of all this, He Jin was furious.
However, Liu Wei's hundred-odd cavalrymen, despite being at a severe disadvantage in numbers, managed to gain the upper hand in the morning's battle against Yuan Shao's more than a thousand men.
Who can I complain to about this?
"General, I have an idea!"
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