Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

In fact, the improvement in range is not very big, but Li Yi's requirements are not high, as long as he can shoot farther than Yuan Shu.

Moreover, when Li Yi asked people to collect stone bombs, they took all the sizes. The ones of fifty or sixty catties were not too big, and the fists were not too small, because these trebuchets certainly threatened the opposite city wall, but Li Yi's more purpose was It is to harass the inner city. By throwing stones into the city non-stop day and night, Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses can be kept in a relatively tense state of mind for a long time. They just collapsed.

There are many people and strength, and Li Yi's various arrangements have been ordered. In less than ten days, the fortifications against Shouchun have been initially completed, and nearly a hundred catapults have begun to throw stones into the city.

Here, Li Yi moved his mind and asked the people below to use a larger stone to smash it in the early stage, and then change to a smaller stone after a few days are used up, and continue to change to a smaller stone when it is used up. If he wanted to evacuate the people near the city wall to reduce losses, he would have to evacuate at least several times, because the range of Li Yi's trebuchet was constantly increasing.

After the "bombardment" started, Yuan Shu also installed catapults on the city wall, but the width of the city wall is limited, and the catapults that are too large can not be arranged. In addition, Li Yi's side has been improved, so the range is higher. Yuan Shu suffered a loss. In less than two days, the trebuchet erected by Yuan Shu was destroyed.

Yuan Shu was naturally not reconciled to this, and sent people to cross the river at night, trying to burn Li Yi's catapult, but Li Yi had already prepared, but Yuan Shu lost more than 500 people in vain.

Chapter 526

After trying to destroy Li Yi's catapults failed, Yuan Shu also seemed to realize the impossibility of this method, so he took no follow-up actions. Even a few days later, he simply gave up fighting back against Li Yi's catapults. The whole thing looked like he was holding his head and squatting in defense.

Regarding Yuan Shu's reaction, although Li Yi was not very clear about the situation in Shouchun City, he had some guesses in his mind, so he made certain adjustments and reduced the number of stones thrown every day. After all, his purpose was only to harass , not to hurt the enemy, in the situation where no one can be seen, throwing a hundred and fifty cannonballs has almost the same deterrent effect, so Li Yi is naturally willing to accumulate more cannonballs, and give Yuan Shu a wave of ruthless shells when the real battle comes. .

In this way, Shouchun's offensive and defensive battle has entered a relatively stable stage, and neither side can cause effective damage to the other party in a short period of time. Therefore, Li Yi's tens of thousands of troops, except those responsible for daily security and operating catapults, In addition, a large number of idlers are vacated, and they can only eat and train every day, which is very wasteful.

Li Yi saw this situation in his eyes and felt it was inappropriate, so he consulted with a few think tanks, and after a few deliberations, he decided to start farming.

Li Yi set aside nearly 2 people to reclaim wasteland around Shouchun City. Although it is a little bit late tonight, as long as you hurry up and if this autumn is not too cold, you can still get a batch of harvests. If you are lucky, let It is not impossible for his [-] army to be self-sufficient, which will greatly reduce the pressure on Chen Deng and Mi Zhu in the rear, and at the same time make his army more stable, thereby enhancing its combat effectiveness.

After all, in this Shouchun offensive and defensive battle, Li Yi is confident of winning, but he is not sure of a quick victory. The ghost knows how long Yuan Shu can last. To be on the safe side, Li Yi must be prepared to spend two years with Yuan Shu, and the importance of food is naturally Needless to say.

Moreover, even after the war is over, these reclaimed fields will not run away, and they will still provide Li Yi with food continuously. Therefore, why not let those idle soldiers farm the land?

Soon, the time entered the second half of May, when Li Yi was getting a bit bored with the construction of workers and peasants, Zhang Liao sent good news to Li Yi.

Zhang Liao sent troops from Jiangxia with 2 troops. For the attack on Yuzhang, this force is completely enough. He was arranged to be Zhang Liao's deputy general.

These two people should not take it easy when dealing with Yuzhang's Liu Xun. It was only because of Li Yi's advice that they should be careful, so they slowed down a lot.

According to Li Yi's plan, it was enough for Zhang Liao to win Yuzhang by the end of May. Now it was almost a month earlier, not because Zhang Liao used too much force, but because Liu Xun messed up.

Liu Xun was trapped in Nanchang, unable to ask Yuan Shu for help, and fearing that Zhang Liao would attack with a large number of troops, he had no choice but to recruit young and strong men to defend the city.

After Yuan Shu took Yuzhang from Zhuge Xuan, Liu Xun's attitude towards the people was far worse than Zhuge Xuan's, so the local people were very dissatisfied with them. Now that Liu Xun forced the young and strong, people's resentment skyrocketed.

But after all, it is wartime. If Liu Xun arranges it properly, it is not impossible for the people to defend the city. However, Liu Xun is a bit confused. His rations were only a little more than half of the soldiers under his command, which made the people exhausted and starving in the end. Therefore, there were great conflicts between the people and the defenders, and there were even several conflicts, but because It calmed down quickly, but none of them attracted Liu Xun's attention.

Until one day, more than 200 hungry men finally couldn't take it anymore and broke out. They secretly contacted Zhang Liao, then killed the captain guarding the city gate, opened the city gate and let Zhang Liao enter the city. After Liu Xun reacted, the situation was over.

After Zhang Liao won Nanchang, he sent his troops to other counties. Because Li Yi had the reputation of righteousness and Yuan Shu was unpopular, there was almost no resistance in those counties, and Zhang Liao easily occupied the whole territory of Yuzhang.

After that, Zhang Liao quickly told Li Yi the good news, and asked Li Yi to arrange the next task for him.

Li Yi was very happy to receive Zhang Liao's victory. For Li Yi, winning Yuzhang directly put Sun Ce in a state of being attacked. Under such circumstances, as long as he is not blind, several local families will be here Time to show loyalty to Sun Ce?

After careful consideration, Li Yi appointed Zhang Liao as the prefect of Yuzhang, and asked Zhang Liao to follow Li Yi's decree in Jiujiang, with the same main task of resuming production and appeasing the people.

In fact, at first Li Yi wanted Zhuge Xuan to go back to be the prefect of Yuzhang, but Zhuge Xuan's health has become worse and worse recently, Li Yi was afraid that he would not be able to withstand the bumps, and Kuai Yue reminded Li Yi to let Zhuge Xuan return to Yu Zhang Liao was not suitable, because the local people would be afraid that Zhuge Xuan would retaliate against them, which would not be conducive to appeasement. Therefore, after weighing, Li Yi simply left Zhang Liao in Yuzhang.

However, Zhang Liao is a general, and he is still young. Now it is difficult for him to let him preside over the military affairs of a county. Therefore, Li Yi sent Zhang Zhao to Yuzhang to assist Zhang Liao. When the war in Yangzhou is over and Yuzhang is stable, Zhang Liao can resign with honor and let Zhang Zhao take advantage of the situation.

Regarding the military aspect of Yuzhang, Li Yi also has arrangements.

Li Yi asked Wei Yan to divide up [-] troops, collect ships, and station them along the Yangtze River waterway to Shicheng in Danyang County.

However, according to Li Yi's estimate, Shicheng is just an ordinary small county, and it should not resist Wei Yan.

In addition, Li Yi allowed Zhang Liao to recruit young and strong men in his name, incorporate Liu Xun's defeated troops, and make up [-] troops under his command, and then the main force of troops and horses went northward and stationed on the front line of Pengze and Chaisang, putting pressure on Sun Ce in Lujiang, making Sun Ce Can't fully develop.

Originally, Li Yi also thought about asking Zhang Liao to send some troops to Danyang, but he gave up after thinking about it, because Danyang was a bit chaotic, and the aristocratic families in several places were not in the normal mind, and they all wanted to be the emperor of the land, which made them Yuan Yin was killing chapters in the backyard, and would come out every few days to show his face to appease people's hearts. As a result, the order in the city became more and more chaotic. Even with Yan Xiang Yang Hong and others in charge, Yuan Shu was exhausted physically and mentally, and his condition became more serious. .

Li Yi invited Yuan Shu to meet him today. Although Yuan Shu seemed to be standing upright, there was a guard hiding under the female wall on his left and right, supporting his arms so that Yuan Shu's figure would not sway and weaken his momentum.

Hearing Li Yi's voice at this time, Yuan Shu really wanted to scold back directly, but the distance between the two sides was too far, and they all relied on shouting, Yuan Shu really didn't have that strength now.

However, Yuan Shu was also prepared for this situation. Ji Ling, who had escaped from Zhongli, was beside Yuan Shu at this time. After asking in a low voice, he stepped forward, pointed at Li Yi and said loudly: "Li Yi Yi, you sent troops to Yangzhou for no reason, massacred the soldiers, and killed the people, so you are not afraid of retribution, if you retreat quickly, my lord can not care about you, or you will die in the future without a place to bury you!"

Ji Ling's tone was very angry, it sounded like a righteous man scolding the villain, and judging from the expressions of the soldiers on the top of the wall, they also recognized Ji Ling's words.

Because those words were not slander, even though Li Yi didn't intentionally kill people, the people in Shouchun City suffered the most from his recent catapult tactics, so it is reasonable for those soldiers to agree with Ji Ling's words.

Li Yi is also aware of this situation, but he is not soft-hearted, let alone stop the catapult attack, because this is a war, and the mentality of the silly, white and sweet Virgin is not good.

Moreover, Li Yi felt that he was being kind. Yuan Shu took away many young and strong people in Xiquyang before. coercion

But Li Yi didn't do that, partly because of his reputation, and partly because he still had a bottom line in his heart.

Hearing Ji Ling's scolding and feeling the eyes of those people on the top of the city, Li Yi didn't answer, because in his current capacity, it would be a shame to have a verbal battle with Ji Ling.

Li Yi made a slight gesture, and a person came out from among his personal guards, first saluted Li Yi, then turned around, pointed at the top of the wall and cursed: "Ji Ling, don't believe me!" Nonsense, after Xianghou arrived in Yangzhou, he encouraged farming and cared for the people, but no one died of starvation in any city under Xianghou's rule, but no one in the army under Xianghou dared to move the people's property, but what was Yangzhou before Xianghou? Look, you forced the young and strong, looted the people's food, caused countless people's homes to be ruined, and countless old people had no one to take care of. Such a serious crime, you don't know how to repent and wake up, but instead blame Xianghou. Lei has never seen such a thing Brazen man!"

Chapter 527 My lord, save me!

"Lei Bo, you traitor who betrayed the lord, you still utter wild words and slander the lord in front of the lord today, how can your conscience be at ease!"

Characters like traitors are always the most hated, even to a certain extent, far surpassing the original enemy. Therefore, as soon as Lei Bofang appeared on the stage, Ji Ling stared him to death.

For Lei Bo, Ji Ling really hates his teeth. As a general with rich combat experience, Ji Ling is not a fool. Easy to win?

Therefore, seeing Lei Bo, Ji Ling was really jealous. If the city wall wasn't too high, he would have jumped down to fight him.

Compared to Ji Ling, Lei Bo was much calmer. Even if Ji Ling pointed at him and called him a traitor to his master, even if he was despised by thousands of people in the city, he didn't show any shame on his face. Instead, he showed a somewhat mocking smile.

I saw Lei Bo cupped his hands towards the northwest, and said loudly: "I, Lei Bo, am loyal to the Son of Heaven. In the past, I was a minister of a great man, and today I also receive the salary of a great man. How can I contradict the Lord?"

The corner of Ji Ling's mouth twitched. He was very angry, and he didn't know how to refute Lei Bo's words for a while.

Don't blame Ji Ling for being stupid, even those debaters around him like Yan Xiang and Yang Hong don't think it's good to face such words.

Because as long as things related to righteousness are mentioned, Yuan Shu really has no advantage at all.

Li Yi on the side smiled slightly when he saw the misfire above. In order to maintain his demeanor, he didn't go off on the stage himself, but this didn't prevent him from letting others go on the stage, and the effect was very good. I didn't see that Yuan Shu's face had become Is the liver color?

Lei Bo took a few steps forward, pointed at Yuan Shu and said, "Everyone in the city is Lei's former colleagues. Lei dare to ask you, Yuan Shijun first arrived in Yangzhou, did he care about the well-being of the people in Yangzhou, and the livelihood of the people?"

Lei Bo shook his head and sighed: "No, not at all! After Yuan Shijun arrived, he used tens of thousands of labor to build the palace, and then had banquets every day, spending tens of thousands of money every day, and removed from the banquet every day. The wine, water and minced meat are enough for hundreds of households, and you are all participants, Lei Mou's words are half a lie!"

"Lei Bo, the lord treats you well, undressing and pushing food, this is how you repay the lord!"

Someone in the city was annoyed by Lei Bo's words, and couldn't help scolding, but it was Yuan Shu's general Qiao Rui.