Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Xia Houyuan couldn't care about anything else, and shouted: "Decree, the front army is behind the palace! The Chinese army has changed to the front army, and everyone breaks out to the northwest!"

After Xia Houyuan finished speaking, he tried his best not to look at Cao Hong, pulled his horse and was about to leave, but he heard someone around him cry out in pain, and when he turned his head to look, his eyes were tearing apart, but it was Cheng Yu who fell off the horse with an arrow.

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Xia Houyuan shouted loudly, although Cheng Yu's personality is not very pleasing, but after spending so much time together, Cheng Yu has been conscientious and dedicated to giving him advice, and there is also a relationship between the two of them.

"General, hurry up and leave me alone!"

There was an arrow still trembling on Cheng Yu's thigh, although it was not a vital point, but for Cheng Yu, he could no longer mount the horse, so naturally he could not escape.

After Cheng Yu said that to Xia Houyuan, he stopped looking at him, but called the servant who jumped off the horse to help him under a nearby tree stump, so as not to be trampled to death by the rebels behind.

Xia Houyuan stretched out his hand on the horse's back, as if he was going to bring Cheng Yu back. At this moment, a deputy general couldn't help shouting: "General!"

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Xia Houyuan turned his head with difficulty, gritted his teeth and said, "Go northwest at full speed!"

Not far from Xiahouyuan, Li Yi stood on a high slope, surrounded by Dian Wei, Xun You, Kuai Yue and others, watching the flames of war ahead in the night.

To be honest, Li Yi has also experienced some battles, but this time is the most relaxed, because he can't think of how he can lose.

After Li Yi decided to teach Xia Houyuan a lesson, he approached Liu Bei, asked Liu Bei to feign surrender, and lured Xia Houyuan out of the city to attack the camp. Liu Bei agreed decisively, and then followed Li Yi's instructions in his own right.

Li Yi naturally didn't believe Liu Bei, but the facts proved that Liu Bei didn't give him any tricks, and very smoothly led Xia Houyuan into the encirclement, and Liu Bei also took the lead in the subsequent charge, and he didn't mean to release the water at all. .

Of course, besides Liu Bei, others contributed a lot.

The encirclement was laid down by Xun You. Almost all of Li Yi's [-] troops were mobilized, and they set up eight ambushes at the expected ambush site, layer by layer. After Gan Ning disrupted Xiahouyuan's army, he fought a positional battle with Xiahouyuan's deserters. This may not completely destroy the opponent, but it can avoid losses to the greatest extent.

Seeing Xia Houyuan heading to the northwest, and Wei Yan's army formation lighting up torches, Li Yi couldn't help admiring: "Mr. has a good plan, then Xia Houyuan really went to the northwest."

Xun You said with a smile: "Yanzhou is located in the northwest. If it was a daytime battle, Xia Houyuan might do the opposite, but now it is night, and Xia Houyuan has no choice but to go to the northwest. Otherwise, even if he escapes, this army There are not many horses left."

Li Yi nodded clearly, but felt a little ashamed in his heart. Xun You placed the superior force in the northwest direction when he set up the formation. At that time, Li Yi was still a little reluctant. According to his own thinking, it is natural to distribute the force equally. It is safe, but not only Xun You, but the whole family of other counselors think that it is unnecessary to do so, and should focus on the northwest, so Li Yi gave up his opinion.

Hearing the fighting and screaming in front, watching Xia Houyuan's soldiers and horses slowly rushing towards the northwest direction little by little, at the same time, Xia Houyuan led fewer and fewer people, Li Yi felt neither sad nor happy, He still cherishes human life, but compared to before, his blood is colder.

Seeing that Xia Houyuan had broken through the two lines of defense, Li Yi shook his head and said, "After dawn, treat our wounded first. As for those on the opposite side, those who are seriously injured, let them have a good time, and treat the rest who can be cured. In addition, Don’t forget to let them know that it’s not me who plotted against Xia Houyuan tonight, but Xia Houyuan betrayed my promise and failed my good intentions, if they want to hate, let them hate Cao Cao.”

Chapter 494 The End of the Hero

In the early morning, on the outskirts of Cheng County.

The battle last night was over before dawn, but for the sake of safety and in order not to cause unnecessary damage, Li Yi didn't let his soldiers start cleaning the battlefield until dawn.

Although these soldiers hadn't rested all night, their faces were full of excitement. Except for the obvious red eyes and greasy faces, it was impossible to tell that they had been fighting all night. .

It was still on the dirt slope where he watched the battle last night. Li Yi looked at the energetic look of the soldiers below, but he understood very well.

The specific statistics of last night's battle situation have not yet been released, but according to the rough data reported by the generals of various ministries, the people Xia Houyuan finally broke through and took away, plus some sporadic people who ran out, at most no more than 4000 people, and the rest were more than 2000 people was beheaded, and the rest were taken as prisoners, but the loss on Li Yi's side was very small, and the casualties of Li Yi's troops and horses were almost negligible, but Liu Bei's side suffered more than 600 casualties, which was quite heavy .

With such a great victory, the soldiers under Li Yi's command were naturally full of energy. Some time ago, Xia Houyuan was locked up in the city and went crazy. The soldiers on Li Yi's side were also very anxious, but they were eager to fight. Li Yi deliberately released the water, Xia Houyuan would definitely not be able to leave.

In addition to this time, Cao Cao slaughtered several cities in Xuzhou before and plundered countless times. Not only the soldiers above were full, but the ordinary soldiers below would not be hungry either. Property, now all the money is naturally seized by Li Yi's side.

Li Yi's military discipline has regulations, which strictly prohibit soldiers from looting the property of the people. If they are less than [-] boards, they will lose their heads if they are too heavy. However, this is only limited to ordinary people, and the property of the enemy is not included.

Large-scale supplies, soldiers, horses and equipment, all these seizures belonged to Li Yi, and the private property of the ordinary soldiers of the enemy was divided equally between the soldiers who succeeded and Li Yi. Now, it is time for Li Yi's soldiers to stuff money into their pockets , Pity those Yanzhou soldiers who have carried countless infamy and saved their family fortunes, and now they all fall to Li Yi's side.

His eyes lingered on those soldiers for a while, Li Yi set his eyes on the direction of the somewhat broken "Liu" general flag in the center of the battlefield, sighed softly, and asked, "Did the matter not be done?"

"The final general is not doing well, please punish the lord!"

Hearing this, Gan Ning nodded his head and bowed down in front of Li Yi.

Seeing this, the people around him didn't plead for mercy. It wasn't that Gan Ning was not popular, but that he really couldn't handle the errand well.

Last night, Liu Bei, as a sharp knife, took the lead in attacking Xiahouyuan's army, disturbing Xiahouyuan's army morale, followed by Gan Ning, who also led his troops to support Liu Bei, in order to disrupt Xiahouyuan's army and horses. Drive Xiahouyuan to the northwest.

However, this was only a task on the surface. Li Yi also gave Gan Ning an arrangement in private, that is to let Gan Ning shoot Liu Bei with a cold arrow after the battle situation stabilized!

Although Liu Bei obeys Li Yi's orders recently, and there is nothing wrong with what he says or does, but the more Liu Bei is like this, the more Li Yi must kill him. It's just that Li Yi is inconvenient to do it clearly, so he wants to take advantage of this night attack , Liu Bei was killed in secret, and the matter was pushed to Xia Houyuan afterwards. Anyway, it was late at night, and no one could see what was going on.

For this reason, Li Yi was ready to cry a lot after Liu Bei died, and then ask for merit and titles for him, but he didn't want to, Gan Ning actually missed, which made Li Yi's originally happy mood a little bit more depression.

Li Yi still looked at Liu Bei's banner, and asked, "Why?"

Gan Ning was a little ashamed, and said unwillingly: "Last night, the general asked Lu Gong, a famous archer in Jingzhou, to shoot arrows at Liu Bei. He shot three arrows in a row, but Liu Bei dodged all of them. Seeing that things were not going to work, the general shot one arrow himself, and shot again. Blocked by Liu Bei's guards, Liu Bei seemed to be aware of it at the time, and the general was afraid that he would turn against him and spoil the major event of the battle, so he didn't dare to make another move for a while."

Li Yi shook his head regretfully. He missed all four arrows. He didn't know whether to say Liu Bei was lucky or Gan Ning was too unlucky.

Lu Gong was recommended by Huang Zu to Li Yi. His martial arts are ordinary, but he is good at archery, and Gan Ning himself is not bad at archery, but he doesn't think that the two of them will kill Liu Bei together. Could it be Liu Bei's life? Shouldn't it?

Just thinking of this, a personal guard ran over from a distance and bowed to Li Yi: "Master, Liu Bei asked his subordinates to report to the Lord. Last night, Liu Bei and his deployment killed more than 100 people and captured [-] people."

Li Yi nodded, feeling complicated. His thoughts were quite dark last night. He wanted to let Liu Bei die, but Liu Bei handed him the best homework. Li Yi couldn't bear to kill him.

The guard continued: "In addition, Liu Bei also captured Cao Cao's brother, Xia Houyuan's deputy general Cao Hong, and a counselor named Cheng Yu."

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Li Yi couldn't help letting out a sigh of relief. He knew that Liu Bei's contribution to this battle had overwhelmed Xu Huang and the others.

Li Yi paid attention to Xia Houyuan, Cao Hong and Cheng Yu last night. It was just that the night was chaotic. In the end, except for Xia Houyuan who had escaped, the other two were missing. Originally, Li Yi thought where they came from It was a surprise that he left, or died in the chaos, but all of them fell into Liu Bei's hands.

Li Yi waved to Gan Ning to get him up, and then told his personal guards: "Let Liu Bei come to see me, bring Cao Hong and the others, I have something to say to them."

Although he is not reconciled, Li Yi knows that in the current situation, the impact of killing Liu Bei will be too bad. It is best to keep him by his side first, and not give him a chance to spread his wings. As for the rest, he can only do it later Intend.

Taking advantage of the time when the guards went to call for someone, Xun You asked, "My lord, how will Cao Hong and Cheng Yu deal with it?"

Although he just learned that the two were captured, Li Yi already had an idea in his heart, and said directly: "Cao Hong is close to Cao Cao, and he cannot be used by me. Take him back to Xiangyang directly, so that he can be taken care of. In small matters, he must be taken care of." Treat each other with courtesy, don't be negligent, but also be very careful, don't let him escape."

"As for Cheng Yu, let him stay here and be a companion with Mao Jie, and see if he is willing to submit to me."

Everyone had no objection to Li Yi's idea. They all thought that Li Yi wanted to keep Cao Hong to bargain with Cao Cao, but they didn't know that Li Yi was worried that he would lose the battle against Cao Cao in the future. Which cheater was caught by Cao Cao, and Cao Hong could just be used as a replacement.

Li Yi and Liu Bei were not far away. Soon, a group of people separated from Liu Bei's side and walked towards Li Yi. Li Yi raised his eyes and saw a man with disheveled hair restrained by seven or eight ropes. He yelled and cursed as he walked, and wanted to kick people, but there were people pulling at the ends of the ropes, no matter how hard the man struggled, he couldn't hurt anyone.

Looking at this appearance, it must be Cao Hong, but what Li Yi wondered was, is it possible that Cao Hong's force value is much stronger than he knows, otherwise he is obviously trapped, why do he have to be pulled by seven or eight people?

This question just passed in Li Yi's mind, and he didn't think too much, because he immediately saw a stretcher carried by four people behind him.

Li Yi asked the guard, "What's going on?"