Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Although Guo Yuan is still relatively young, she may not fully understand the meaning of the word brother-in-law, but this does not prevent her from instinctively judging that this matter is not a trivial matter for her family, let alone something she can agree to, so she immediately waved her hand to explain, Just as soon as she raised her hand, she was grabbed by Li Yi, and then Li Yi stuffed a jade pendant again, and said before she said: "This jade pendant is a pair, you give it to your sister for me, you know?" , or I will be angry."

When he said this, Li Yi can guarantee that he did not put on a vicious look to deliberately scare the little girl, but Guo Yuan still couldn't help shrinking her neck, and if she wanted to justify, she could only "woooo" Swallowed it back into the stomach.

"Okay, that's it."

Li Yi got up, pinched Guo Yuan's face lightly, and said, "I'm here, your father may not eat well, so I'll leave first, and come to see him another day, so you don't have to send it away. Don't bother your father."

After all, Li Yi held down Guo Yuan who was about to get up, and left the small courtyard with Lu Su and others.

As for Guo Yuan, she stared at Li Yi's back for a while, then as if suddenly regained her senses, she turned around and ran back to the camp. Inside, Guo Yong and his family were eating, but the food in front of Guo Yong was not touched. , he just lowered his head to think about something, he raised his head when he heard Guo Yuan coming in, after being slightly surprised, he asked, "Why did you come in, where is the Marquis Xiang?"

Guo Yuan looked at her father, then at her sister, then stretched out two small hands, revealing two jade pendants, and said with a tug on her face, "Xianghou has already left, but he gave me two jade pendants before, one of mine is mine. , a piece of sister's, and said "

After hesitating for a while, Guo Yuan whispered, "Say you want to be my brother-in-law."

"what!"

Guo Yuan's sisters, Guo Yu and Guo Fu, let out a low cry. One blushed like blood, covered his mouth lightly, and couldn't help himself in shame. The other was shocked at first, but the shock soon turned into surprise, and then looked at the Looking at his father, it seemed that he was afraid that his father would do something bad.

Compared with the emotions shown by these children, Guo Yong's reaction was not big. He just frowned, lowered his head, and squinted his eyes. It seemed no different from his usual reaction to things.

The calmness of the head of the family quickly made the children quiet down, they stopped making any noise, and quietly waited for their father to speak. Guo Yuan also walked over obediently, as if she had made a mistake, and knelt down with her head down. Guo Yong's side.

After a long time, Guo Yong took the jade pendant from Guo Yuan and looked at it in his hand. Seeing this, Guo Yuan somehow said, "Xiang Hou said that these jade pendants are a pair."

Guo Yong's expression froze, he smiled wryly in his heart, and then couldn't help sighing: "It's the Marquis Xiang after all. Although he is a good man, he is also cunning like a ghost."

Guo Yuan showed a puzzled look on her face. At her age, it was still difficult to connect the words good person and cunning like a ghost, which are obviously pros and cons.

After sighing, Guo Yong's expression gradually returned to calm, he lowered his head and took a sip of the hot soup, savored the taste, nodded, then put down the bowl, and said slowly: "Mr.

Hearing this, Guo Yu's face was blushed again, while Guo Fu was relieved. Before, he was always afraid that Li Yi would kill his family. Now, there should be no need to worry.

Both of them were thinking about their own affairs, but they didn't notice that although Guo Yong's tone just now was indeed filled with pity, which well expressed a father's reluctance for his daughter, but when he spoke, his gaze was It fell on Guo Yuan.

Guo Yuan noticed something, and looked up at her father. Guo Yong didn't explain to her, but just stuffed a jade pendant into her hand, and then continued to eat the meal Li Yi sent, but it didn't matter how it tasted. People can know.

After Li Yi left Guo's small courtyard, he asked Lu Su, "What is Liu Ye doing now?"

Lu Su replied: "Assist the military division, allocate supplies, and prepare for the decisive battle."

Li Yi nodded, and then ordered: "You should remember something. After Liu Ye's work is almost done and he is not busy, you can ask him to hire Guo Taishou for me. The time is set after the city is broken. , it can be regarded as a double happiness, ha ha cough, of course, don’t publicize it for the time being, it’s not good to spread it.”

"Please rest assured, my lord, this matter will definitely be settled!"

Lu Su smiled. Close ministers like them are very willing to help their lord with some private affairs. After all, this is the only way to appear close.

Li Yi said with a smile: "Okay, Zijing, Ziyi, you two walked with me for a long time, which delayed a lot of things, go your own way, and I will walk around casually."

Because they are in the barracks, and Dian Wei is with them, there is no need to worry about Li Yi's safety. Pulling out all kinds of shopping and talking about work is only half the reason. More is to show the closeness and value to the newcomers, so that they can devote themselves to work with a harder attitude.

When the two walked away, Li Yi bowed his head to Dian Wei and said, "You need to find someone secretly to see if Jiang Gan has any contact with Guo Yong."

There was a faint look of doubt in Dian Wei's eyes, but he never compromised on Li Yi's orders. He immediately clasped his fists hard and replied, "This subordinate understands."

Li Yi waved his hand lightly and said, "Don't worry, I'm just curious."

Dian Wei nodded heavily, he understood that Li Yi was telling him not to become hostile to Jiang Gan because of this.

Afterwards, Li Yi continued to walk forward, thinking in his heart what expression Guo Yong should have now.

Whether today's meeting was specially arranged by Guo Yong, Li Yi doesn't know how sure he is, but this does not prevent Li Yi from taking the opportunity to do some things, some things that only earn but not lose.

If Guo Yong is dedicated to doing things for the court, setting up a situation today is just to use the little girl's words to win his favor, or to paralyze him, it doesn't matter, as long as Li Yi gets married with him, it will be directly broken Guo Yong's character design, what would the court think if they knew about it, maybe they would call Guo Yong a traitor who sells girls for glory?

Guo Yong, who bears the name of a traitor, as long as he is not the kind of ruthless person who throws his head and blood for a big man and doesn't even blink, he can only choose to fall to Li Yi's side.

As for what happened today was entirely a coincidence, Guo Yong's "good guy evaluation" of Li Yi was also from the heart, so that would be even better. Naturally, it is necessary to use more force for this kind of force that can be united by his side. In this day and age, what better way to unite than marriage?

Therefore, although what Li Yi did today is a bit dirty, but in the overall situation, it is indeed beneficial and harmless.

And it's not bad for Guo Yong. Originally, Li Yi wanted to arrange for Guo Yong and Sun Ce to go head-to-head. Now, as long as Guo Yong doesn't go too far and does something stupid, the wealth of the Guo family for several generations is already high. landed.

Time passed quickly, and Li Yi finally felt nervous when the decisive battle with Yuan Shu was about to come. You must know that if what happened this time came to fruition, and Yuan Shao did not take all of Hebei, he would be the real He is really the number one prince in the world, and Li Yi naturally has to devote 100% of his energy to deal with it.

Before the decisive battle, Li Yi ordered Zhang Liao to send [-] troops to march from Chaisang and Pengze to Lujiang in two routes. It went smoothly, but couldn't go down to the city quickly, and then Sun Ce sent troops to harass the rear.

At the same time, Li Yi also ordered Gong Du to lead 4000 troops to defend the front line of Chengde in Hefei. Once Sun Ce's troops are found, he needs to defend with all his strength. Even if all [-] people die, he must stop Sun Ce for ten days.

Li Yi even told Gong Du in private that if he blocked Sun Ce under the premise of Sun Ce sending troops, he would be named a Marquis after the war.

Li Yi's arrangements may be redundant, or even make a big fuss, but such things as war cannot be neglected. Li Yi would rather make his own preparations useless than have any accidents at critical moments.

The first of October.

Outside the east gate of Shouchun City.

The deep ditch in the earth wall that was originally used to guard against Yuan Shu's breakout and sneak attack has been completely restored to level. Soldiers outside the city can walk up to the stone bridge leading to the city gate through here. Arrows, first clear the suspension bridge close to the city gate, so that they can reach the bottom of the city gate, and then either choose to break through the city gate to enter the city, or directly attack the city wall.

Li Yi is now standing at the original earthen wall, next to him is general Xu Huang, and behind them are five thousand elite infantry, two thousand archers, and nearly five hundred catapults densely distributed along the moat .

At the end, there are [-] troops as backup for the siege.

In fact, Li Yi can put up a larger formation, but because of the terrain constraints, even if Li Yi is attacking the city with all his strength, he can only dispatch a thousand people at a time. Therefore, he has enough soldiers and horses, no matter how many more It doesn't make much practical sense, and he has other plans

Chapter 556 Siege

The movement of the army outside the city could not be hidden from the eyes of the defenders at the top of the city, or more accurately, when Li Yi released the declaration of war more than ten days ago, they already knew what would happen today.

Standing in the center of the tower, Ji Ling, as Yuan Shu's confidant general, once upon a time, he was majestic and vigorous, even when Yuan Shu's subordinates were full of talents, he was one of the most dazzling existences, but now

Ji Ling's face was unshaven, and he was obviously still young, but his eyes were full of vicissitudes. If it weren't for that armor, he would be more like a middle-aged scholar who failed the ranking than a general.

"Ugh."

Ji Ling sighed softly, watching the mobilization of people outside the city, he was full of worry.

Yuan Shu was seriously ill and could no longer manage affairs. Everything in the city was supported by him, Yang Hong, Yan Xiang and others. It's just that although they could barely maintain order in the city, they couldn't control the hearts of the people in the city.

Ji Ling once pinned his hopes on the eldest son Yuan Yao, hoping that he could take over Yuan Shu's burden, but Yuan Yao's prestige and methods were far from Yuan Shu's, and he didn't even have much courage. Ji Ling secretly suspected that once Yuan Shu Unexpectedly, as long as Li Yi's conditions are a little more relaxed, this eldest son is likely to choose to surrender!

This is true of Yuan Shu's eldest sons, let alone those who inherited soldiers. Under Li Yi's soft or hard methods of persuading surrender, people's hearts are really fluctuating. Soldiers and low-ranking officers supervised each other. Ji Ling couldn't even imagine how many soldiers were left in the city.

However, although they kept people behind, the combat power of these people

Ji Ling looked around. At this time, there were more than 2000 defenders on the top of the city. When these people looked at Li Yi's army outside the city, what appeared on their faces was not fighting spirit, but fear.

Of course, it doesn't mean that all the soldiers under Yuan Shu's command are so unbearable. Ji Ling holds an elite who is absolutely loyal to Yuan Shu and can fight to the death for Yuan Shu, but that is his trump card, and it is also Yuan Shu's trump card, at the most critical moment. It is very stupid to put it on the city wall to confront Li Yi as soon as it comes up.