Xiaoqi

With a sound of shock, Li Li quickly turned over and got down on the bed, ran over barefoot, and opened the door with a bang.

"What's the change? I've allowed Zhou Yu to act cheaply, so why ask for instructions!"

Li Zhi replied, "My lord, it's not just Cao Cao's troops who are moving in the middle of the night. Yecheng's defenders are also frequently mobilized. The city is brightly lit and noisy. It seems that something major has happened. When General Zhou Yu discovered the difference in Cao's camp, Cao Cao He and his soldiers and horses had already left the camp on the north shore, and they were nowhere to be seen. Not long afterward, a fierce battle broke out at the south gate of Yecheng. Cao Cao ordered someone to send a message to Zhou Yu, claiming that tonight was a good opportunity to attack Yecheng, and asked him to send troops for reinforcements. Therefore, General Zhou Yu ordered The soldiers came to ask the lord, whether to send troops to reinforce Cao Cao and attack the city overnight?"

"Yuan Jun is frequently mobilized, and the city is brightly lit?" Li Liwen's expression changed, and anger rushed to his cheeks, and he reprimanded: "Why did such important news not be reported until now? Zhou Yu,,," Li Liben was furious. He wanted to criticize Zhou Yu, but the words stopped abruptly.

Immediately, he tried his best to restrain his anger, forced himself to calm down, turned around and walked into the inner room, while beckoning Li Zhi to come forward to help him put on the armor, he murmured suspiciously: "Zhou Yu has always acted cautiously and thoughtfully, why tonight? There will be mistakes. Doesn’t it look like Gongjin did it?”

Seeing Li Li whispering to himself, Li Zhi didn't dare to say more.He quickly took out the dragon scale soft armor and battle armor from the interlayer of the wall, and put them on Li Li carefully, with very skillful movements.Apparently he often puts on armor for Li Li.But tonight was different.Li Zhi was very careful, first put on Li Li a piece of soft armor that was as thin as silk, then put on the battle armor, and finally put on knee-length combat boots for him.After doing all this, he held Li Li's pocket, followed lightly, and followed Li Li out of the inner room step by step.Step into the tent.

Li Li, who was fully dressed, walked slowly behind the desk and sat down. The anger on his face had dissipated, and his expression turned calm.Sitting on the large and soft handsome seat without saying a word, contemplating.

It's been a really long night.Before he sent away the sleepless Guo Jia, Gongsun Zan and Ke Bineng came again after talking for half an hour.The two bowed and left.so far.Li Li was able to go back to his room to rest.Unexpectedly, he had just fallen asleep for less than an hour, he finally fell asleep, Li Zhi knocked on the door again, and brought such news that he was deeply surprised.

It's so abnormal!The atmosphere was abnormal, things were abnormal, and even Zhou Yu, who had always reassured him, behaved extremely abnormally, and there must be an inevitable connection behind these abnormalities, hiding an unpredictable crisis.

This is Li Li's conjecture.But it stems from his keen intuition of approaching danger, that is, his instinct to respond to danger.Although this feeling is baseless.But he firmly believes that his intuition will not go wrong, and he believes in his instinctive hunch when he is facing a crisis.

Inexplicably, Li Li faintly smelled a strong murderous aura while sitting in the empty handsome tent, and these extremely depressing auras were all rushing towards him.But he couldn't figure it out, couldn't find the source of the danger, let alone guess where the crisis lurking in the darkness was lurking.

So far, Li Li is most worried about Cao Cao.He was sure that Cao Cao would not be reconciled to let him dictate, there must be a huge conspiracy brewing under his meek and easy-going demeanor, or Cao Cao was plotting a bottomless trap, trying to lure Li Li to the edge of the trap step by step, and then Push him down.But this is just a conjecture without any basis, it is purely a kind of suspicion that judges others by oneself, it is unclear, and there is no reason.

In fact, until now, Cao Cao has not shown the slightest sign of betraying Yuan Lianmeng, Li Li, or rebelling against him.On the contrary, Cao Cao has been trying his best to attack Yecheng, and more than 5 soldiers and horses have been wiped out. Now there are only a few thousand people left, but he still did not give up attacking the city.What's more, in the middle of the night, he led troops to attack the south gate of Yecheng.

This is what Cao Cao did.Although Cao Cao led the troops to attack Yecheng overnight, it was a bit abrupt, but he did not exceed his authority.Because Cao Cao was the former general of the army, he had the right to decide to attack Yecheng at any time, even if it was midnight, it was within his authority.What's more, since ancient times, there has been a flexible method to accept the orders of the emperor abroad.

And Zhou Yu, who was ordered to lead the army to the camp on the north bank, was only defending the camp and raiding the camp for Cao Jun. Before receiving Li Li's military order, he would not dispatch a single soldier to assist Cao Cao in attacking the city.Moreover, Zhou Yu also shouldered the mission of secretly monitoring Cao Jun, so he immediately knew that Cao Jun had left the camp.

And this is what makes Li Li very angry with Zhou Yu.In the evening, he ordered Li Zhi to pass the order, strictly ordering Zhou Yu to keep an eye on Cao Jun's every move, and to surround Cao Jun if there was any abnormality, and he could even wipe out all of them.But now that Cao Jun left the camp without a sound, Zhou Yu realized it later. He didn't know where Cao Jun was going until Cao Jun launched an attack at the south gate.what is this?Negligent slack, dereliction of duty, or flagrant disobedience to military orders?

Li Li roughly guessed the reason why Zhou Yu made a mistake.All of this is because Zhou Yu has resistance to him, or dissatisfaction, and the source is that he led the army to the south before, coercing Sun Ce to ask Sun Quan as a hostage, so that after Sun Ce was defeated in Jiangbei, he still had to bear the burden of separating his brothers pain.In this matter, Li Li's methods are indeed insidious, and he is not upright.In addition, Li Li didn't take into account the previous agreement with Zhou Yu at all, as if he broke his promise and went his own way, regardless of Zhou Yu's feelings.

At the same time, brothers Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are good family friends. He and Sun Ce are like brothers, and Sun Quan is naturally his younger brother.But now, Sun Quan was escorted to Chang'an as a hostage. Although he was a student of the Imperial College, he was actually imprisoned after entering Chang'an, and has been isolated from the world since then.For this reason, Li Li specially issued a strict order that no one should visit him, including Zhou Yu and his wife Da Qiao.

In fact, when Zhou Yu learned that Sun Quan was being sent to Chang'an, he immediately wrote a letter asking Da Qiao to try to take care of Sun Quan. Unexpectedly, Da Qiao would never see Sun Quan, even if he asked Xiao Qiao to come forward to help, it would not help.Therefore, Li Li's strict order seems to be specially aimed at him, Zhou Yu.In this way, if Zhou Yu has no idea, it is undoubtedly deceiving himself.After all, he is also a human being, and as a human being, he has feelings. It is reasonable for him to give Sun Quan some care in consideration of his past affection.But such a small request was stopped by Li Li's strict order, how could Zhou Yu feel so embarrassed, how could he not have any emotions?

If you have emotions, you will use your emotions, and the consequences of your emotions will inevitably lead to negligence.Just like now, thousands of Cao troops left the camp quietly, but Zhou Yu learned about it after the fact and hurriedly reported it.

Everything is accidental, but the inevitable is hidden behind the accidental.This led to differences and suspicions, and when these all converged at a certain point and broke out at the same time, it was bound to lead to catastrophe.

At dawn, Li Li ordered Gao Shun's troops to stay in the camp and leave [-] cavalry at his command. Then he personally led the [-] cavalry from Jinyiwei, Huben Camp, and Feixiong Camp to leave the camp and head straight for Zhanghe North. shore away.

"Report! At midnight last night, a large group of troops appeared [-] miles southeast of Yecheng. None of the hundreds of scouts in our army survived, and they were all killed!" Less than three miles away from the camp, a blood-soaked man rushed towards him. Xiaoxiao, the scout, walked in front of Li Li, and he flew off his horse, but his feet were unsteady and he fell to the ground.Even so, he reported the major military situation outside the east gate of Ye City as soon as possible.

Li Li's expression changed slightly after hearing the sound, and he regained his composure in an instant. He asked calmly, "All the scouts were killed at midnight last night. Why did you report it now? How did you escape?" Seeing that there were three sharp arrows stuck in the back of this military marquis, and there were several bloody wounds on both shoulders, the armor on his body was soaked in blood at this moment, and he was already on the verge of fainting.

"I,,, my lord, when I led a team to patrol an hour ago, I found that the scouts outside the east gate had been killed for a long time, and I learned from a seriously injured team leader that there was an army of tens of thousands going to the east of Yecheng around the time The door. Afterwards, this army attacked the city aggressively, and our scouts were killed by a group of unidentified men in black. The last general led his team back to report and was intercepted and killed by these men in black. Of the [-] soldiers, only the last general and more than a dozen personal soldiers broke out of the siege, and the other brothers,,, all died."

"Huh? That tens of thousands of horses attacking the city?" With a start, Li Li's face was no longer calm. Instead, his face was solemn, his brows were tightly frowned, and deep doubts appeared in his eyes.

"Unidentified men in black?" Li Li was deeply surprised by this. Since it wasn't the sudden appearance of a large army besieging scouts, then where did this group of dead men in black come from, and who is behind the scenes? ?Could it be Yuan Shao?

Just when Li Li was about to question him further, the scout Xiaoxiao passed out, "Take him down so that he can be treated, and we must save him!"

Waving his hands to signal his soldiers to take him back to the camp, Li Li murmured: "At this time there are still tens of thousands of troops coming to attack Yecheng, and only Cao Cao has soldiers under his tent. It's just that this army came so fast, Cao Cao The military order was only issued three days ago, but I didn't expect the reinforcements to arrive within two days and nights. Is the march really fast?"

Guo Jia, dressed in armor, answered, "It's really strange. Outside the east gate of Yecheng is the hinterland of Jizhou. How did Cao's army sneak into Jizhou, and where did they come from?"

"Forget it, instead of guessing, it's better to go and see for yourself." Li Li shook his head slightly, and immediately waved his hand to signal the army to move on.

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Chapter 062

The south bank of Zhanghe River.

Xi Yuyu!

When Li Li led [-] warriors to the bank of the river and was about to cross the river, the horses walking in front suddenly screamed and neighed, and instead of advancing, they retreated, causing more than [-] Jinyi guards to lose their positions and become confused.

"Roar!"

At this moment, Li Li's seated King of Beasts suddenly roared.Its front claws, which are sharper than a sharp sword, swept out like lightning, and then a black snake more than ten meters long was hit by the sharp claws, and then fell heavily on the stone wall not far away, smashed to pieces. Splash, broken into several pieces, the dead can't die anymore.

After seeing this scene, Li Li, Guo Jia, Gongsun Zan, Huan Fei and others noticed that many toads, poisonous scorpions and colorful snakes appeared in the grass on the bank of the river at some time, and the one who was walking ahead with torches to open the way It was these sudden poisons that startled the cavalry and caused confusion.

"Huh! It's only April, how come there are so many poisonous substances, and even the snakes hiding in the ground come out? What a strange thing!" Gongsun Zan said in surprise.

Indeed, Jizhou is not like a water town in the south of the Yangtze River. The climate is colder. April is the most comfortable season of the year. The spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the sun is warm, neither hot nor cold, very pleasant.This season, there are many frogs and toads in the river, which is their peak breeding season, but there are not many snakes.Only in late April or around the Dragon Boat Festival, snakes will crawl out of their caves and prey on the hatched frogs or toads.

Because of this, Gongsun Zan, who lived in Youzhou all year round, was amazed and amazed.

If you occasionally see a small snake or poisonous scorpion climbing up the shore.Not surprising, but such ubiquitous visions as at this moment are indeed extremely rare.Especially at this moment when the sky is getting bright, it is quite cold.Moreover, the morning dew is very heavy, so it is really strange that such a poisonous thing climbed onto the shore at this time.

However, Gongsun Zan's exclamation did not attract the attention of Li Li, Guo Jia and others.Because they were still thinking about the military situation reported by the scouts just now in their minds, their thoughts were chaotic, and they had no time to take care of these obtrusive toads, poisonous scorpions and small snakes.After all, these little poisons pose no threat to the army, and throwing a few torches scares them away.

After a small episode, the army quickly crossed the river.The river is very wide.The river is not deep, and the horses can wade through it.So the generals took the bridge on the river, and the soldiers rode their horses directly across the river.Go straight to the south gate of Yecheng.

Bang bang bang!

"Whoosh whoosh!"

"kill"

The south gate of Yecheng.On the top of the city, stones fell and logs flew.But one by one, the huge boulders the size of a dustpan were thrown down from the top of the city by the defenders, and the rolling logs that were more than ten feet long were moved to the top of the city one by one.Then push it down hard.While these defenders are busy.The piles of rocks and the piles of rolling logs are rapidly decreasing, but the city is full of rocks and rolling logs scattered all over the ground, causing great damage to the soldiers attacking the city below the city, and seriously hindering the marching speed of the attacking soldiers. .

Not only that, but the densely packed arrow stacks on the top of the city are full of strong bows and crossbows.Five thousand archers were striding their bows and stringing their bows, without even looking at the situation below the city.Then he shot the arrow in his hand straight down.As a result, all within 150 steps below the city are within the shooting range of the archers, and arrows like dark clouds form an impenetrable flow of arrows and arrows in this area, shooting and killing the attackers below the city recklessly. City soldiers.

However, in the face of such a high-density threat of arrow rain and rocks and rolling trees, tens of thousands of Cao Jun soldiers were not afraid. Door.

Amidst the rolling stones and rolling trees, and under the rain of arrows and arrows, the heroic soldiers of the Cao army set up a ladder on the city wall, holding a shield in their left and a weapon in their right, and climbed up one by one. Ladder, go straight up and attack the city bravely.

At the same time, under the cover of thousands of giant shield soldiers, the two city-charging vehicles rammed into the city gate again and again, taking turns almost non-stop.The first city rushing vehicle was pulled aside when its strength was exhausted, and the second city rushing vehicle followed and slammed into the city gate.

However, such a violent attack on the city will inevitably result in heavy casualties for the soldiers on the attacking side.The ladders erected on the top of the city were overturned and smashed one by one, and dense arrows enveloped the soldiers of Cao Jun under the city like a big net, harvesting fresh lives one by one.As a result, the siege soldiers fell in batches, or were stabbed to death, shot, or hit by stones and rolling logs, either dead or injured.The horrific screams and cries of pain, the long neighing of war horses, and the continuous shouts of killing made people tremble with fear and shudder.

This siege battle for the south gate was truly an extremely rare and fierce battle.So much so that Zhou Yu, who was leading the army to watch the battle two miles away, and his soldiers were filled with righteous indignation, and they all showed the same hatred, because the tragedy under the city wall was really horrible.

It was so tragic!

At this time, the sky was dim, and it was the time when Li Lili's army left the camp to cross the river.However, the generals of the Cao army had already stormed Yecheng in the middle of the night, starting at midnight, and continued until now, for a full three hours before and after.In addition, the Cao army who attacked Yecheng this time no longer attacked the south gate alone, but attacked the west gate and east gate at the same time, encircling three people, leaving only the north gate.

After officially learning the news, Zhou Yu knew that Cao Cao's [-] reinforcements had arrived. In addition to Cao Cao's headquarters, there were [-] infantry troops and more than [-] tiger and leopard cavalry, a total of more than [-] soldiers, close to [-] troops.Even so, the strength of a [-] army facing the city gates on three sides at the same time is still not enough. After all, there are many defenders in Yecheng.

According to the intelligence report, there are no less than 10 defenders in the city, and this is only limited to the number of soldiers and horses that the elites have seen with their own eyes. Presumably there must be some Yuan Jun soldiers that the elites have not seen.Therefore, the 12 defenders are only a conservative estimate. In fact, the Yuan army in the city should be more than 15 cavalry, roughly between [-] and [-].

Therefore, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to attack a strong city defended by an army of 10,000+ with less than [-] soldiers under Cao Cao's account, and it is almost impossible to capture Yecheng.But Cao Cao insisted on going his own way, insisting on attacking the city overnight, and kept claiming that tonight was the best chance to capture Yecheng.So Zhou Yu didn't intend to send troops to reinforce Cao Cao at first, but seeing Cao's soldiers fall one after another, and the battle was extremely fierce, Zhou Yu was really disturbed and couldn't bear to witness.