Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Li Yi doesn't know about Jiang Gan's matter for the time being, otherwise, with Li Yi's bad taste, he will definitely arrange some confidential tasks for Jiang Gan to tease his old classmates.

Although the news of Li Yi's return was not announced deliberately, the banner erected high in the barracks was enough for the people on the top of the city to see clearly. A little more dull.

Many officials in the city did not recognize the previous news about Wu Jun and Danyang's change of ownership, thinking that Li Yi was in Hu, but now that Li Yi has returned, it is obvious that the matter over there has been completed and went very smoothly. It doesn't matter if you don't admit it, and this also shows that Shouchun City will be a real lonely city in the future. How can the people in the city not panic?

On the second day of Li Yi's return, several phalanxes of five hundred people gathered on all sides of Shouchun City, and they began to shout at the city early in the morning, telling the defenders and people in the city very bluntly and rudely, Yuan Shu Severely ill, dying soon, Shouchun lonely city, sooner or later it will be difficult to defend, the soldiers and officials in the city, their future has been cut off, if they continue to resist stubbornly, on the day the city is broken, all the generals and above will be beheaded. Ordinary soldiers, although not dead, will be killed Involving the family and confiscating the land, from now on you can only make a living as a coolie

At the same time as deterrence, preferential treatment was also given in the shoutout. For example, those who left the city and surrendered before the city was broken, let everything go, and they are absolutely different. Fields, or money, choose one of the two.

If it is a general siege, Li Yi's persuasion to surrender may not have much effect, but it will make things worse for Shouchunlai. Now everyone with a discerning eye knows that Shouchun City can't stand it anymore, and Li Yi told the people in the city People, following Yuan Shu is a dead end, the only way out is to surrender, how many people can not be shaken?

What's more ruthless is that Li Yi directly offered a price to buy the head, which was enough to shake Yuan Shu's already unstable army morale again, and even lead to chaos without a fight.

Chapter 553

Soon, the time will enter mid-September.

In the past month, more than [-] people have escaped from Shouchun City. Among them, the highest-ranking officer is Ji Ling's deputy general, and he is a young general with real power. However, in the face of cruel reality, he still chooses He bowed his head, he didn't want to be buried for Yuan Shu meaninglessly, so he ran out looking for an opportunity, and before he came out, not only did he lose a batch of arrows that Yuan Shu used to defend the city, but he also gave Li Yi a birthday cake. deployment map of troops.

Li Yi was very satisfied with this, he bestowed a lot of money and cloth, and named a general who sounded nice but didn't have much real power, and then let him walk around the moat every day, trying to lure a few more senior officers out.

In addition, Li Yi's act of buying heads also had some effects. Two school lieutenants have already been killed by their subordinates, and then they got a bounty from Li Yi. Yi didn't receive any heads. After all, those people had guards around them. Especially after Li Yiming bought the heads, everyone became more vigilant. It was not easy to get out of the way.

Li Yi didn't care much about this. His purpose in this matter was not human life itself, but to make Yuan Shu's subordinates suspect each other and be unable to cooperate well. This was Li Yi's biggest gain.

At the end of August, there was a strong wind in Shouchun, and the weather was dry. Li Yi asked Xu Huang to set fire to the city. Although Yuan Shu responded in a timely manner, the fire did not become too big in the end. The sergeants in the city are also miserable.

It may be because the pressure has reached a limit. On the last day of August, a serious internal strife occurred in Shouchun City. Li Yi didn't know the specific reason for the internal strife. A section of the gate tower in the east city was burned, which shows how powerful it is. It's a pity that Li Yi blocked the east gate too much at that time, and all kinds of fortifications could not be demolished for a while, and the army could not move forward. Li Yi is likely to directly attack Shouchun due to civil strife in the city.

However, although it is indeed a pity to miss an opportunity, Li Yi is not too upset. After all, internal strife has already begun. Can the city be far away?

Aside from Shouchun, a lot of things happened in other places during this period.

The war in Yanzhou was full of twists and turns. Boss Cao killed Lu Bu in a wave in late July. He killed two generals under Lu Bu and took back several cities. The situation was good for a while, but Boss Cao was extremely happy and sad, and was beaten by Lu Bu in a blink of an eye. After returning, there was another city left.

Fortunately, when Boss Cao's situation was in jeopardy and he was about to die, Yuan Shao took action.

Because of Yuan Shu's relationship, Yuan Shao could not continue to attack the city for the time being, and entered a short period of peace with Gongsun Zan of Youzhou. Therefore, Yuan Shao gave some spare power to Cao Cao, so that Cao Cao not only withstood Lv Bu's offensive, but even faintly There are signs of another counter-kill.

There are also some situations on Sun Ce's side, but this situation is somewhat different from what Li Yi expected.

The letter that Li Yi deliberately let Zhou Yu see that day was naturally a forgery. It contained the content that Sun Ce's young general Jiang Qin expressed his loyalty to Li Yi and was willing to find an opportunity to capture Sun Ce alive for Li Yi.

According to Li Yi's idea, if Zhou Yu passed the fake news back, even if Sun Ce didn't directly kill Jiang Qin, he would definitely make some noise. But in fact, although Lujiang was not peaceful, Jiang Qin was always Well, he was neither captured by Sun Ce, nor was he captured by Sun Ce.

This made Li Yi suspect that the strategy was seen through by Sun Ce. After all, this strategy itself is not clever, and the main purpose is not to deceive Sun Ce, but to make it easier for Li Yi to show off to Zhou Yu. I have already seen through you and the like

However, under Li Yi's attention, not only did Sun Ce not respond, but even Sun Ce and Zhou Yu lost contact, which made Li Yi very puzzled.

But if you don't understand it, you can't understand it. After all, this matter is not an important and urgent matter, so Li Yi didn't pay too much extra attention. Moreover, the new actions of the court also attracted Li Yi's attention.

After Wang Lang served as the prefect of Wujun, the imperial court made another decree, and they appointed Guo Yong as the prefect of Lujiang and Hua Xin as the prefect of Danyang.

Although Li Yi had already learned about it from Wang Lang before that, the imperial court had a great appetite and was prepared in his heart, but the court's actions still made Li Yi very angry.

Yangzhou six counties, Jiujiang, Lujiang, Yuzhang, Danyang, Wujun, Kuaiji.

Li Yi only occupied one Yuzhang among them, but the court moved its mouth, and it was obvious that four of them would be occupied, and this was because Yuan Shu was still in Jiujiang, otherwise the court might even join the Jiujiang prefect. appointed.

Not only Li Yi was angry about this incident, but Li Yi's subordinates were also very annoyed. You must know that if the imperial court hadn't intervened in such a hand, these prefects would definitely have been theirs, and Guo Yong and Hua Xin didn't have any credit for the pacification of Yangzhou. , why let them take over these places?

For a while, the crowd was raging, and some even proposed the idea of ​​killing Guo Yong and Hua Xin.

Li Yi also wanted to do this, but he was no longer a brat. Although he was unhappy, he was not so impulsive. His opinion was to sharpen it with a soft knife.

Soft, ground into one's own person.

Hard, ground, where love goes.

At the beginning of September, when Hua Xin arrived in Yangzhou, Li Yi didn't take the initiative to contact him, as if he didn't know such a person, but Hua Xin was not stupid, and knew that this errand would be difficult, so he took the initiative to come to Daying to pay a visit to Li Yi. easy.

During this meeting, Hua Xin did not intend to take the initiative to join Li Yi, and Li Yi did not intend to win over Hua Xin. Although Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty abdicated and Hua Xin was one of the important standard-bearers, it is clear that Hua Xin does not have that kind of idea now. However, it is unlikely that Li Yi will win over directly, otherwise it will be counterproductive, and he has not attacked Hua Xin for the time being, anyway, Hua Xin will not be able to make a fuss when he goes to Danyang.

Danyang is the hinterland of Yangzhou, and Li Yi has a lot of arrangements there. Gu Yong, Gan Ning, Xu Shu, these three people are there. Hua Xin was the result of being ostracized in the past. We can only check whether Gan Ning and Xu Shu are counterfeit.

Li Yi didn't completely ignore Hua Xin. Wang Lang and Hua Xin were friends. Li Yi wrote to Wang Lang to tell Wang Lang that when Hua Xin was in trouble, he would take the initiative to talk to him about his experience in being an official in Yangzhou and enlighten Hua Xin. Let Hua Xin carefully realize that the emperor has the final say on this place in Yangzhou, or he, Li Xianghou, has the final say.

According to Li Yi's guess, Hua Xin should not let herself down in the future.

After Hua Xin, Guo Yong also came to Shouchun Camp, but unlike Hua Xin, Guo Yong really had no place to go, because Sun Ce was still occupying Lujiang. Guo Yong didn't dare to go there, the ghost knows if Sun Ce will kill him.

So, Guo Yong had the cheek to live in Li Yi's camp, and also met Li Yi, but Li Yi felt that Guo Yong had nothing special besides his good looks, so for the time being, he just Leave him alone, if Guo Yong is sensible, he should find an opportunity to show his loyalty. If he is not, Li Yi will give him a pioneer hat when he fights Lujiang in the future, and let Guo Taishou try to pick the bully. What if it happens?

Regarding the arrangement of these two eunuchs, Li Yi probably has an arrangement in his heart, which will basically not affect the structure of Yangzhou, but Li Yi is not the kind of person who will not fight back when he is beaten, so Li Yi asked Lu Su to write the letter to the emperor Jia Xu, the prefect of Nanyang, worked hard. After taking office, Nanyang officials were governed by Qingming, and the people were stable.

Anyway, Li Yi just praised Jia Xu in all kinds of ways, whether he threw all the credit on him, and finally said that he recommended Jia Xu, the prefect of Nanyang, as the governor of Yangzhou, and hoped that the emperor would agree.

Li Yi never thought that the imperial court would agree to this recommendation. Anyway, it was just a response, so let me express my attitude by the way.

It’s just that I’m sorry for Jia Xu, because Jia Xu has complained to Li Yi many times. I asked Li Yi for advice.

In addition, Li Yi also wrote to Kuai Liang and Cai Mao, asking them to imply that the Jingzhou aristocratic families and merchants had many transactions with Chang'an Sili, which should be broken as soon as possible.

Li Yiduan's business route over there is certainly due to his narrow-mindedness, but Li Yi also wants to promote the development of the situation in Chang'an, so that there will be more chaos there. There is no time to manage the affairs of Yangzhou.

In short, although a lot of things happened during this period and consumed some of Li Yi's energy, what Li Yi really paid attention to was still Shouchun's war.

Since September [-]th, Li Yi began to order the earth wall outside the east gate of Shouchun to be pushed down to level the road, and the earth walls outside the other three gates were also lowered to prepare for the army to attack the city. One of the content of those daily slogans has also changed: On the first day of October, the army attacked the city, and if they did not surrender, they would be punished as rebels after the war.

As Li Yi announced the date of the siege, people in Shouchun City were once again panicked, the number of deserters increased significantly, and the atmosphere in the camp outside the city was also tense. However, Li Yi himself was relatively relaxed, because the recent There have been several internal strife. Although the scale is not large, it can be seen that the situation in the city is severe. According to the inference of Kuai Yue and others, the pressure will continue at the end of September, and there is a good chance of breaking the city on the first day of October. Just show up a few more times with a calm and calm image to boost morale and increase the determination of the soldiers to win.

At noon that day, Li Yi took his bodyguards, his new secretary, and the second secretary of his military division to talk to Zhou Yu first. , Li Yi did not put on airs, and lined up with the soldiers, filled the broth, soaked the soup cakes, and then sat down cross-legged to eat with the soldiers.

"call"

After drinking the soup at the bottom of the bowl, Li Yi snorted comfortably, especially when he saw the neat cooking team under the porridge shed, his eyes were even more satisfied. He remembered that the first time he served in the army When eating at lunch, the scene of swarming bees makes people feel unappetizing.

Just thinking about it, Li Yi suddenly noticed a scholar in his twenties not far away who had eaten and went to line up again. This made Li Yi a little curious, and the man was unfamiliar, so he asked: "Do you know who that is?"

Dian Wei and Lu Su shook their heads, they didn't know the man, but after Jiang Gan narrowed his eyes, he said, "My lord, this man is the eldest son of Guo Taishou, Guo Fu."

Li Yi thought for a while, nodded, and said nothing more.

Although Guo Yong is a person who is not valued by Li Yi, even Li Yi is ready to send him out as cannon fodder, but Li Yi is not stingy when it comes to some small things in life, so he arranges for Guo Yong to have servants who are responsible for his life. Daily life, but judging by the appearance in front of him, Guo Yong should be useless to those people.

Jiang Gan is quite clever. Although Li Yi didn't ask, he still explained to Li Yi in a timely manner: "Guo Taishou has just lived in, and the food is indeed served, but one day Guo Taishou saw the lord and the soldiers queuing together. After eating, he seemed to be touched, so he asked the servants to go back. After that, Guo Taishou's own family took care of all the chores. I feel guilty for this, so I dare not let the master's people work on his private affairs."

Li Yi smiled and said, "It's better to be self-reliant than I thought."