Three Kingdoms Star System

Chapter 539 Zhuya State

Jiaozhou, Jiuzhen County.

After many days of fighting, Guan Yu regained most of the land that originally belonged to Shu. The entire Yizhou except Hanzhong was completely recovered. The four counties of Jingnan received the three counties of Wuling, Guiyang and Lingling, and the entire Jiaozhou except Outside Nanhai County, almost all of it fell into the hands of the Shu army. The current Shu Kingdom spans Jingzhou and connects three states. Although Jingzhou and Jiaozhou are relatively poor, there are millions of mountain people. The Shu Kingdom also learned from Liu He and used I believe that as long as we give the farming and equalization system more than ten years of development time, we will be able to build these places into prosperous countries.

Of course, the western area of ​​Jiaozhou is not completely in the hands of the Shu army, because Tai Shici and Lu Xun's army has not yet retreated. Now they are trapped in Wubian City, Jiuzhen County, refusing to surrender, and dying.

At this time, Guan Yu's adopted son Guan Ping came to him, raised his hands and said to him: "Father, a messenger just sent a letter from the Duke of Qin from Chang'an, saying that Sun Quan has led his troops to surrender, and now Taishi Ci He and Lu Xun are already generals under his command, and I beg my father to be lenient and let them return to Jiangdong, or send them back to Chang'an."

Guan Yu frowned immediately when he heard the words, and then said: "Tai Shici was a strong general at the time, and Lu Xun was young, but he was also the most intelligent man in the world. If these two people submit to Duke Qin, they will definitely make him even more powerful, and his strength will be greatly increased. Although my land in Western Shu is not small, I really lack talents. Now that the state of Wu has perished, our army has no one to ally with. Our army is already far away from Duke Qin. The gap between them will become bigger and bigger. Once the Duke of Qin leads the army to attack, then we will suffer even worse. Let’s suppress this letter first, and then I will put further pressure on Tai Shici and Lu Xun. If we can force them to surrender, our army will gain a peerless general and a top strategist. If we explain this to Lord Qin, even if he is unhappy, he can't blame us."

"No"!At this moment, military advisor Liao Li objected: "Junhou, although your worries are not unreasonable, the more we do now, the less likely we are to let Duke Qin find a reason to attack us. If the prince will send Taishi Ci and Lu Xun were handed over to Duke Qin. Duke Qin thought about our sincerity and probably would not take action against us. However, if the prince forcibly recruits Taishi Ci and Lu Xun to surrender, Duke Qin would definitely be dissatisfied, and he would then use this reason to attack us. It’s true. As the saying goes, there’s nothing wrong with wanting to commit a crime, and it’s really too easy for him to find a reason to attack us.”

"No, Gongyuan, you don't understand. With the demise of the Wu army, no matter what, the confrontation between our army and Duke Qin will happen sooner or later. There is no need for me to send talents like Tai Shici and Lu Xun to him at this time." Him." This time, Guan Yu rejected the proposal of cooking, which was very rare this time, and said decisively.

"But this will definitely bring the war forward. If our army does not make long-term preparations, there is no hope of winning." Liao Li said with a heartbroken look.

Guan Yu waved his hand, and said displeasedly: "Gongyuan, don't talk about it anymore, the matter is settled like this. The order will be passed on, the army will gather, and the general offensive will be launched the next day. No matter the cost, the opponent will definitely not be able to resist it, just now that Biyan Xiaoer has surrendered, and the opponent has no one to attack, this is the best time for our army to seize the opportunity to subdue him."

Hearing Guan Yu's words, Liao Li sighed secretly in his heart. In fact, why didn't he know?Guan Yu's judgment was actually correct. As long as he led a large army to attack for several days, the opponent would definitely open the city and surrender.But he couldn't just watch Tai Shici and Lu Xun surrender to Sun Quan. In that case, wouldn't Guan Yu benefit greatly in vain?

Therefore, Liao Li must find a way to secretly prevent such a result from happening.

Although Liao Li was not a top military strategist, after all, 96 intelligence was on display here, so he came up with a clever plan after thinking about it for a while.

Liao Li pretended to realize his mistake, admitted his mistake to Guan Yu, and then advocated personally going outside the city to investigate the military situation in order to make a decision.

Guan Yu was very happy after hearing Liao Li's words, but he said that it would be more dangerous to go in person, so he should send soldiers to go there. However, in order to "forgive", Cui Li insisted on going in person, and said that he could only go in person. , in order to formulate targeted strategies to defeat the enemy.

Seeing Liao Li's persistence, Guan Yu had no choice but to agree, and ordered Guan Ping to select a few soldiers with good skills and quick thinking to follow him in order to protect Liao Li.

Of course Liao Li knew that on the one hand, he was genuinely concerned about her safety, and on the other hand, he also meant to send soldiers to monitor him, but he didn't say anything about it, but pretended to be very grateful, and agreed to Guan Yu's arrangement.

At dusk that afternoon, Liao Li led several personal followers sent by Guan Yu to the city walls and walked around the city wall. As expected, they found that one part of the city wall was a little loose. Liao Li was overjoyed when he saw this and pointed out. Looking at this loose spot, he said: "Have you ever seen this? This is God's blessing for our army. I believe that if the army launches an attack tomorrow morning, our army will definitely win."

In fact, when Liao Li said this, he felt an interesting murderous aura here, and he knew that there must be an ambush of enemy soldiers here, but this was exactly what he wanted, so he said this.

Although Liao Li's voice was not loud, it was enough to be heard by the Wu soldiers inside the wall.

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, a person on the top of the wall shouted: "Who? You dare to spy on our army's reality. It's really hateful! Today I will let you taste my bow and arrow."

After saying that, the man stretched out his ape arms and was about to shoot an arrow.

But Liao Li said loudly: "Is this Taishi Ziyi on top of the city? I heard that you are good at shooting, so I came here to compete with you today. However, today's competition is different from the past. I will shoot you three arrows first to see if you can." Do you avoid it? I will catch you three more arrows next, but I don’t know if you dare to catch my three arrows first?"

Tai Shici chuckled when he heard the words, and said with a contemptuous smile: "Don't say it's three arrows, so what if it takes thirty arrows from you? Just shoot it, if I hide for a while, I won't be considered a good man."

Hearing this, Liao Li nodded, took out a bow and arrow from behind, and shot it at the top of the city, shouting loudly: "Can you catch this arrow?"

Unexpectedly, Tai Shici didn't even dodge at all, but grabbed the feather arrow with his hands, and said with a disdainful smile: "That's all you have?"

Liao Li smiled lightly and said, "My ability doesn't show up at close range. I'm best at shooting arrows at a distance of 150 steps. If it's far away, you can't hide."

"Then you go 150 steps away and I'll take a look at your magic arrow." Taishi Ci didn't think much and watched Liao Li escape 150 steps away.However, he didn't expect that when Liao Li arrived, he immediately ran away and laughed loudly: "Tai Shi Ci, you fell into my trap. See you later."

Then he ran away, Tai Shici sneered and said: "150 steps away, I will still make you inescapable." But when he took Liao Li's feather arrow and wanted to shoot it, he suddenly froze. A strip of cloth was tied to the arrow, on which was written a line of small characters: "Guan Gong will attack the city in three days, and if you defend for a long time, you will lose. It is better to go far away to Zhuya Prefecture."

(End of this chapter)