Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

In fact, not only Liu Biao, but also many people are also sneaking glances at Li Yi.

Now in Xinye City, apart from Liu Biao, Li Yi has the highest position, and he is not only good at his head, but also a fierce man who can take advantage of Sun Ce. Therefore, if you really want to choose a general now, Li Yi will definitely be ranked first.

But Liu Biao didn't speak easily, because he didn't know whether Li Yi would agree, and now the situation outside the city was unclear, and he didn't know whether Li Yi had the ability to rescue Cai Mao.

After being silent for a while, Liu Biao ordered: "Inform all departments in the army to be on guard. The guards at the top of the city will send another thousand soldiers to guard against someone attacking the city tonight. In addition, send more scouts to investigate the situation outside the city. If there is news from the military division, the first Tell me the time!"

Although Liu Biao's order was nothing special, it was relatively safe and made many people feel at ease.

However, Liu Biao's anxiety did not diminish in the slightest, he sighed, raised his hand and said, "The military officer is on standby in the army, the rest of you should leave."

After finishing speaking, Liu Biao went straight to the back hall without waiting for everyone's reaction. Everyone looked at each other, nodded to each other after a while, and then retreated.

Li Yi also left, although he really wanted to show off, and even wanted to personally save Cai Mao from danger, but this time the defeat was too sudden, and Li Yi had no way of recovering, and Cai Mao was not worth the risk. I still decided not to jump for a while.

However, Li Yi wanted to keep a low profile, but some people refused to let him. As soon as he reached the gate of the county government office, a servant stopped him from behind, saying that Liu Biao had invited him.

Li Yi smiled wryly in his heart, and went to the study room where he talked with Liu Biao during the day, only to see that there was another person besides Liu Biao, and it was Jingzhou general Wang Wei.

Liu Biao was obviously in a hurry, and without waiting for Li Yi to greet him, he pulled him and said, "Now the only people available in Xinye City are Yunlong and Zizhong, does Yunlong have a plan to deal with the current crisis?"

Wang Wei stood aside with his head lowered and frowning, he didn't speak, Liu Biao asked Li Yi for his opinion before Li Yi came, although Wang Wei was a little tricky, but the current situation is really a headache, he can only say that he is willing to go out of the city and fight to the death war

It's as if he didn't say it, so Liu Biao can only ask Li Yi.

Li Yi insisted on saluting, and then said: "Yi is the prefect of Nanyang, and he has a duty to share the worries of the state shepherd, but"

Li Yi looked at Liu Biao's ugly face, and said with a bitter face: "It's just that the other party's situation is unknown, and it can even be said that he doesn't know anything. Yi really doesn't dare to speak nonsense, let alone send troops, otherwise he may lose again. ah."

Liu Biao also understood this situation, felt sad, couldn't help but sighed, "If Zhongye was here, An Neng would tell Yuan Shu to bully me like this!"

Wang Wei's face was serious, as if he didn't hear it, but Li Yi frowned, thinking that Liu Biao was also in a hurry, and he said such a thing. If Cai Mao knew about it in the future, he would be dissatisfied.

But Liu Biao was right. If Wenpin was here, Xinye's good cards would never be so badly played.

As the original leader of Xinye, Wenpin had a high prestige in the army, but after Liu Biao came, Wenpin complained of illness and returned home. Although he was only expressing his dissatisfaction with Liu Biao, many people in the army believed that Liu Biao deliberately made trouble for Wenpin. As a result, the morale of the army fell sharply, and Liu Biao was inexplicably blamed.

Wen Pin did not intentionally trip Cai Mao for this change of command, but the delivery of tens of thousands of troops, as well as the defense inside and outside the city, these matters are so cumbersome, how can they be done in a day or two?

However, Liu Biao wanted to dispatch troops as soon as possible. As a result, under the influence of various factors, Xinye's army was like an unoiled machine. It seemed solid, but in fact it was full of loopholes, which indirectly led to Zhang Yun and Cai Mao's losing streak.

Liu Biao wanted to understand this now, but it was a bit late. He sighed, asked Li Yi and Wang Wei to sit down, and then took out a map of Xinye's surroundings, hoping to figure out a way with Li Yi and Wang Wei.

The three of them studied the map for half an hour, and a sergeant came to report that nearly a hundred Jingzhou troops had escaped and returned. After confirming their identities, they had entered the city. At the same time, they brought news that the other party's commander It was Ji Ling. As for the number of soldiers and horses, he still didn't know.

As for Cai Mao's situation, there was also no news, because when Xinye sent scouts, Ji Ling was not idle at the same time, and also sent scouts widely, and the two sides blocked and killed each other. Liu Biao's side could not touch Ji Ling's soldiers in a short time The movement of the horse.

Liu Biao asked someone to arrange for the fleeing defeated army, so he couldn't sit still and didn't look at the map anymore. After dressing up, he led the two of them to the top of the city, and called the two generals Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng along the way. .

A group of people stood at the head of Xinye City, looking at the boundless night sky in the distance, feeling powerless,

After a long time, Liu Biao slammed his fist hard on the blue bricks at the top of the city, and said angrily, "Could it be impossible to just sit and watch!"

Everyone was silent again. Seeing that Liu Biao's good self-cultivation was about to be exhausted, Li Yi suddenly said: "Zhou Mu, Yi has a plan, just ask Zhou Mu to move."

When Liu Biao saw that Li Yi had something to say, he was overjoyed and took Li Yi to the side for a few steps, saying, "What good strategy does Yunlong have for defeating the enemy, tell me quickly."

Li Yi said with a wry smile: "It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, so how dare she talk about defeating the enemy, but she suddenly thought of a way, which might win a little more life for the military division."

Liu Biao was not disappointed, although he was a little jealous of Cai Mao's weight, but without Cai Mao, Jingzhou would not be able to impress him, so he immediately said, "Speak quickly, Yunlong."

Li Yi nodded, and whispered for a while, seeing Liu Biao's face was a bit tangled, Li Yi had no choice but to persuade: "A military commander is a pillar of Jingzhou, so you must not lose anything, and the famous generals in ancient times pay attention to loving soldiers like sons and using them like mud. Although this method will be somewhat compromised, it is also an upright way."

Finally, Liu Biao weighed it and decided to adopt Li Yi's method. He ordered two thousand soldiers and horses to be divided into twenty teams, and then went out in three gates, each choosing a different direction, and then turned back after rushing for twenty miles. .

In addition, Liu Biao ordered another 2000 troops to stand by, and only waited for the [-] men to find their way back before making a decision on whether to send troops.

Li Yi's method was actually not clever at all. After Liu Biao gave the order, the rest of the generals immediately understood that Li Yi used the 2000 people as scouts.

There were too many scouts under Ji Ling, and when the Jingzhou army cleared out the scouts step by step, I am afraid that Cai Mao would have been cold for a long time, or even cold now.

So, in order to buy time, Li Yi simply sent 2000 people there at once. He didn't believe that Ji Ling's scouts would be able to bear it.

But doing so is a bit ruthless to the soldiers, because they are not so much as scouts, it is better to say that they are thunderstorms.

Because Li Yi didn't need them to inquire about the news at all, as long as the team in the last direction had more deaths, or even the entire army was wiped out, Li Yi would naturally know where Ji Ling's main force was.

And Ji Ling's main force is probably not far from Cai Mao.

Fortunately, the Jingzhou Army is not owned by Li Yi for the time being, otherwise he would really be reluctant to use troops like this.

Although this method is not kind, but the effect is indeed good. After less than an hour, there are fast horses from each team returning to report the news one after another.

Most of the twenty teams just fought against Ji Ling's scouts, with little loss, but the three teams in the northwest were ambushed, with more than half of the casualties, while the other three teams that were closer to them were not at all No one turned back, and most of them were gone.

Zhang Hu suddenly stood up and said: "Master, I know that there is an unnamed hill twenty miles to the northwest. It was occupied by bandits in the early years. Although it is not high, it is steep on three sides. There is only a small road on the east side leading to the top of the mountain. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It's very dangerous!"

Liu Biao and the others already thought that Cai Mao should be trapped there, but now that Zhang Hu told him about the terrain, they felt that he was right. After all, there were many locals in Xinye in the army. After the defeat, it was very likely that Cai Mao would be lured to the mountain to stand by and wait for help.

Immediately, Liu Biao said to the crowd: "I want to send troops to rescue, what do you think?"

Naturally, everyone would not have any objections, but Li Yi thought about it, and said: "It is reasonable to send troops, but because of the previous probing by soldiers and horses, Ji Ling may have guessed our intentions, so it is okay to send reinforcements, but at the end It is best to avoid direct contact with him, otherwise he may be surrounded by Ji Ling."

Liu Biao nodded and said, "Yunlong is right. Ji Ling hastily dispatched troops to fight, and there must not be too many troops. As long as the three thousand soldiers are stationed on his flanks, Ji Ling will not dare to attack the mountain before dawn. That's it."

Afterwards, Liu Biao asked again, "Who can lead the army?"

In Xinye City, there are only a few who can lead three thousand soldiers. Wang Wei is willing to fight but can't fight. Somersaulted.

Liu Biao was helpless, and he was worried about Zhang Chenlian personally, so he looked at Li Yi, and the meaning was self-evident.

Li Yi cupped his hands and said, "I would like to report to Zhou Mu that although Yi has commanded more than a thousand soldiers, he has not been able to fight in real battle, and today he is marching at night, so his strength may not be enough."

Liu Biao frowned slightly, suspecting that Li Yi was deliberately evading, but he didn't know that Li Yi was telling the truth.

Although Li Yile liked Liu Biao making a fool of himself, it didn't mean he wanted to watch Jingzhou be beaten into a dog by Ji Ling.

Therefore, when Li Yi saw Liu Mian's expression of dissatisfaction, he had no choice but to say again: "However, if Zhou Mu sends a regular general to lead the army, I can serve as a staff officer with the army."

"Ah, this"

Liu Biao was a little surprised, but also a little ashamed. He felt that he was a villain, so he persuaded: "Isn't this wronging Yunlong?"

Li Yi shook his head and said: "I am the prefect of Nanyang personally appointed by His Majesty. Now the military commander is in a dangerous place for Nanyang, and his life and death are unknown. How can I abolish justice because of a little private name?"

Liu Biao was overjoyed immediately, and no longer cared about other people's opinions, he pointed at Zhang Hu directly and said, "Zhang Hu, hurry up and send troops to meet the military division. Remember to ask Taishou Li for advice on the way!"

"The last general takes orders!"