Killing system of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 171 Xia Houyuan Attacks Xia Cai

Li Jing was very relieved to see that both of them had reached the city wall.Lu Meng and Tang He are all promising young men. This Lu Meng has a resolute personality, but he is a fierce general.But rigidity is easy to break, this Lu Meng is a bit too aggressive, the attack just now, it is a meritorious service if it is attacked, if it cannot be attacked, then it will lose troops.

On the contrary, Tang He did a good job this time. In order to help Lu Meng relieve the pressure, he also ordered someone to step up.If Tang He hadn't gone up to the top just now, Lu Meng might really not be able to go up.

Li Jing intellectually felt that Tang He was a useful talent, but he felt that Lu Meng was not to his liking.He himself is also a person who likes to take risks. He feels that Lu Meng is very similar to himself. People always like people who are similar to themselves!

At this moment, the gate of the city was opened, and Li Jing immediately waved the command flag, "The whole army enters the city!"

Zhang Yi's soldiers rushed into the city immediately, and Li Jing also went to the top of the tower, and then commanded the soldiers to occupy the surrounding gates and surrounded all the defenders in Yandu.The defenders in the city were also resisting, but after three or four hours, they were all put down by Lu Meng and Tang He.

After taking Yandu, Li Jing asked Tang He to station in Yandu, and temporarily handed over the power to him to manage.Then Li Jing took Lu Meng and pressed the captives to go west to Sheyang to reunite with Zhang Yi.

After arriving at Sheyang, Zhang Yi quickly led Li Jing into the military camp and said to him: "Physician, it will be difficult to conquer Sheyang for a while. Chen Deng and Yu Jin are both heroes for a while. If they were dragged to the freezing point of the Huai River, At that time, I was afraid that Cao Cao’s reinforcements were coming.”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone outside shouted: "Report! Send Cai Junqing!"

Zhang Yi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled at Li Jing: "It's true that Cao Cao will be here soon, and I don't know who Cao Cao sent to capture Cai!"

Li Jing also laughed, "Timed Shen County Xiahouyuan!"

Zhang Yi nodded, let the soldiers outside the door come in, then took the military newspaper, opened it, and said, "Xia Houyuan stayed with 5000 people to attack Xia Cai. It seems that Cao Cao has also finished harvesting the food."

"This is inevitable!" Li Jing said: "Cao Cao is a man of great talent and will not let his lord occupy all the land in Huainan. Although the Huai River is wide, the weather has been cold in recent years, and the Huai River has a freezing period of about a month. This gives Cao Cao the opportunity to support."

Zhang Yi said: "I can delay the freezing of the Huai River, but this method can only delay for three to five days. It is impossible to delay for a month."

Li Jing didn't feel curious, "I don't know what the master can do?"

Zhang Yi said: "To freeze the Huai River, you need to accumulate a lot of time. As the saying goes, three feet of ice does not freeze in a day. If you want to freeze it to a thickness that is extraordinary, it will not be possible in ten and a half months. As long as the Huai River freezes at the beginning When the time comes, boats can be used to push the thin ice away from the Huai River, thus delaying the ice formation."

"This way!" Li Jing was noncommittal, he was still skeptical about this matter.

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "This is just common sense. It should belong to a physical phenomenon. After the establishment of the Academy of Arts, I will let people study it. You must know that there are many secrets in this world, and we need to keep Only by exploring can we know what the truth is.”

Li Jing also has some knowledge of some books written by Zhang Yi, but he is not very interested in these things.He asked: "Xia Houyuan attacked Xia Cai, why is my lord not worried?"

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "I have already made preparations for Xiacai."

That's right!Zhang Yi had already made preparations when he came to Huainan.It can be said that Wang Jian was the first group of people summoned to guard against Cao Cao, and Zhang Yi forced Wang Jian to Xiacai for two years.In two years, other people have been promoted not only to three levels, but also to one level and two levels. Only Wang Jian is still standing still and still issuing Cai orders.

And what about Wang Jian!He was not in a hurry to see someone being promoted.To be honest, he was also in a hurry, but he didn't have any special credit for Xia Cai, and he couldn't reach the level of promotion after hard work.Moreover, he also offended the aristocratic families in Jiujiang County. When he led troops to loot the counties, many aristocratic families were destroyed.And there are so many people talking, how could they not know that he did it!
Therefore, he must have convincing merits to avoid being impeached.

So he was most looking forward to Cao Cao's coming to attack, so that he could make great contributions with his own ability.But after waiting for two years, Cao Cao didn't come.Now that it's finally here, he's overjoyed.

He quickly found Zhu Wu and said to him: "Xiacai's defense is enough for me alone! But I am worried about the water village. If the water village falls, Xia Houyuan will cross the river to attack Shouchun. You will go to the water village immediately to replace Xu Sheng guards the water stronghold. If Xu Sheng comes back, let him pay more attention to the upper reaches of the Huai River, and don't let Xia Houyuan find a chance to cross the river."

"No!" After Zhu Wu agreed, he immediately went up to lead people to the water village and began to organize the defense.

Xia Houyuan came to Xiacai City, but saw that Xiacai City was strictly guarded.But Xia Houyuan didn't care, he had already expected it, because he already knew that Xia Cai had found them on the way.

Xia Houyuan didn't come by himself this time either, he also brought Liu Fu and Cao Xiu with him.Liu Fu was originally appointed by Cao Cao as the governor of Yangzhou.But before he took office, Zhang Yi occupied Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, blocking the road and preventing him from taking office.So this time Liu Fu came with the army, so that after Xia Houyuan occupied Cai and even Shouchun, he could handle government affairs.

As for Cao Xiu, he followed him to practice.The last time he followed Cao Ren, he was injured in Runan.Now that his injury was healed, he immediately applied to go to the front line, and Cao Cao asked him to follow Xia Houyuan.

Xia Houyuan said to Liu Fu: "Master Liu Yuanying, do you understand Cai Ling and Wang Jian now?"

Liu Fu said: "This Wang Jian is also Zhang Yi's old subordinate. When Zhang Yi first arrived in Shouchun, he was his subordinate. When Zhang Yi captured other counties in Jiujiang County, he was his subordinate. Zhang Yi used him to tangle The bandits were killed, the counties were looted, and many families were ruined. This allowed Zhang Yi to occupy the entirety of Jiujiang County, and even robbed the East City of Xiapi and the Juchao of Lujiang. You must know that Juchao belonged to Sun Ce in name at that time. Yes, the head of the nest is Zhou Yu (Zhou Yu has different official positions in history. He served as the head of the nest, but he was in Liyang when he took refuge in Sun Ce, but Liyang is a county in Jiujiang County. So he can only be the head of the nest. Zhou Yu’s going to the county means leaving with a seal, and then occupied Liyang to wait for Sun Ce).”

Xia Houyuan was stunned. It turned out that there was another story like this, "This Wang Jian can cause harm to more than ten counties. He is also a rare talent!"

(End of this chapter)