Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

Along the way, several soldiers were moved to tears by Yuan Shu.

Such a situation gave Yang Hong great confidence. He felt that Yuan Shu was becoming more and more like a real enlightened master. As long as he could survive this crisis, Yuan Shu would definitely lead them to rise again!

After meeting Chen Lan, Yuan Shu continued towards Yicheng. Many people gathered intermittently on the road. There were already [-] soldiers and horses.

What made Yuan Shu even more happy was that Yan Xiang, Lei Bo, Han Xian and others all joined him one after another, which made Yuan Shu's heart that had been hanging on him finally drop. Even after that, Yuan Shu came up with a bold plan, that Just wait for Chen Ji to be found, rectify the soldiers and horses, and then take advantage of Li Yi's unpreparedness, kill him and return the carbine!

Although Yuan Shu's idea is bold, it is extremely feasible. He has already learned that in order to keep his soldiers and horses in Jingzhou, Li Yi sent out troops to pursue them. The real army can only dodge, and Yuan Shu just wants to gather 5000 people to teach Li Yi a hard lesson.

Yuan Shu did not do this simply to vent his anger. He knew that with the current situation, he could only return to Yangzhou, and when he returned to Yangzhou, there would still be a mess of defeat to be cleaned up, which would be very troublesome. But if he could hit Li Yi hard before returning, one One is to weaken Li Yi, and the other is to boost morale, deter those who intend to take the opportunity to attack Yangzhou, and then free up more time to recuperate.

After Yuan Shu expressed this idea to everyone, the generals of the Yangzhou Army around him expressed their approval. However, just when Yuan Shu was about to order the implementation of this plan, Chen Ji's messenger found Yuan Shu and brought him There was a news like a bolt from the blue.

"What, what did you say, you say it again!"

Although he had heard the messenger repeat it twice, Yuan Shu still had a face full of disbelief, feeling that there must be something wrong with his ears.

The messenger was afraid, lowered his head, held a letter in both hands, and repeated again: "A few days ago, Lu Kang from Lujiang gathered young and strong men in Wan County to rebel against the king. Kejuchao, Tongxiang, and Shuxian, and they are continuing to advance northward, it seems that they intend to live a long life."

The faces of the civil and military officials around who heard the news were ashen.

If the defeat at Xiangyang City was a heavy hammer in front of Yuan Shu, causing Yuan Shu pain and embarrassment, then Lu Kang's sudden attack was a sharp knife behind his back, piercing his heart and lungs, wanting Yuan Shu's life! "

With trembling hands, Yuan Shu slowly picked up the emergency letter sent by Yuan Yao, his eyes gradually began to lose focus.

Yuan Shu felt that he was calm enough in the face of the crisis, cheered up enough, and even came up with a counterattack plan to make Yangzhou army angry, but why is it so unfair? It is not enough for Li Yi to harm him. With the addition of Lu Kang, could it be that this god really won't give Yuan Shu a way out?

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu suddenly felt tightness and pain in his chest, as if he couldn't breathe, subconsciously exerted a little force, but his face turned pale, and then screamed, Yuan Shu lost consciousness and fell on Yang Hong's body.

"My lord, my lord!"

"The King"

A group of Yuan Shu's courtiers turned pale with fright, and immediately surrounded him, with worries written all over their faces. Yan Xiang had a little understanding of Qihuang's art, pushed away the people standing in front of him, stepped forward to turn Yuan Shu's face, and gave him another Yuan Shu felt his pulse, his lips trembled for a while, and suddenly he asked loudly, "Your Majesty is always in good health, why is this so? Could it be that he was injured during the journey?"

Everyone looked at Yang Hong one after another. Only Yang Hong had been with Yuan Shu and knew the situation best.

Yang Hong wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said truthfully: "After the king vomited blood in the barracks that day, he waded across the river in order to save his life. Later, because General Ji Ling was captured by Zhang Liao, he vomited blood for the second time in anger."

While Yang Hong was talking, he suddenly felt the back of his hand was wet. He looked down and saw that the corner of Yuan Shu's mouth was bleeding again, which happened to be dripping on his back.

For a while, the tent fell into silence, but it was so quiet that it made people feel confused.

"How should I wait?"

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Lan couldn't help asking, her voice trembling. Although Yuan Shu had vomited blood for the first time, any fool could see that the situation this time seemed to be particularly serious.

Zhang Xun and Ji Ling were gone, Yan Xiang and Yang Hong were the highest officials here now, and everyone looked at them, hoping they could come up with an idea.

Yang Hongxian asked in a low voice: "My lord is in the end?"

Yan Xiang didn't answer in a hurry, but thought for a while before saying: "Everyone, we are here, it can be seen that we are all the king's confidantes, so, don't let outsiders know about the health of the king, otherwise, Yangzhou may be born again. misfortune!"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, without saying anything, they all nodded.

Yan Xiang then continued: "The lord was angry at first, and his body was weak from the journey, and he suffered from the cold poison. You should adjust your breath and don't get angry again. In this way, you can recover after three months, so"

After a pause, Yan Xiang sighed: "I'll go back to Yangzhou directly. Although Li Yi is hateful, he is no longer a serious problem."

The generals heard the words, although they were unwilling, but Yuan Shu's health was important, so they could only nod in response.

After finishing speaking, Yan Xiang asked many generals to retreat on the grounds that Yuan Shu needed to rest, but Yang Hong did not leave, and as soon as they retreated, he firmly grabbed Yan Xiang's wrist and asked: "My lord How is the body!"

Yan Xiang opened his mouth, his eyes were full of sadness, and whispered a few words in Yang Hong's ear. After Yang Hong listened, he seemed to be dumbfounded, and he could no longer see any anger

In a blink of an eye, four days had passed since the night attack outside Xiangyang City. Yuan Shu withdrew quickly, almost to Anlu, and judging by the momentum of his retreat, it was very likely that he would withdraw directly to Jiangxia.

On Li Yi's side, after a few days, the Yangzhou army near Xiangyang has been basically cleaned up. The current results are very gratifying, and a total of nearly [-] soldiers have been surrendered. Come out to help, otherwise, among other things, such a large number of captives alone will overwhelm Li Yi.

As for the mobilization of soldiers and horses, Li Yi has already removed Zhang Liao from the vanguard, and then Cai Mao drew [-] elite soldiers from the Xiangyang garrison and allocated them to the Central Route Army. Let Wenpin, Xu Shu, Gong Du, Pei Yuanshao and others lead , Continue to drive Yuan Shu eastward.

Li Yi knew that according to the secret letter he had sent to Lu Kang in Wan County, Lu Kang should have started an incident by now, and as long as there was a fire in Yangzhou's backyard, Yuan Shu's retreat might be even faster.

It's just that Li Yi was very worried that Yuan Shu would coerce the people when he evacuated Jiangxia. Although it was unlikely, Li Yi didn't want such a situation to happen, so he asked Wenpin to follow Yuan Shu, not giving Yuan Shu the time to act recklessly. As for why he added troops to Wenpin, he was worried that Yuan Shu would be forced to fight back in adversity.

All in all, the overall situation on Li Yi's side is very good. Even the officials in Xiangyang City, under Li Yi's victory, almost all of them selectively forgot the fact that Liu Biao was imprisoned, which shows Li Yi's reputation.

This is still in the officialdom, and the support of Li Yi from the people of Xiangyang is unprecedentedly warm. If someone dares to jump out to block Li Yi at this time, let alone Cai Mao's methods, even the people in Xiangyang can drown people with their saliva .

However, not everyone is so well-behaved. For example, Li Yang, someone made Li Yi unhappy.

Outside Liyang City, among Li Yi's army, he pointed to the city wall ahead and asked sideways, "Wen Yuan, what did they say?"

After Zhang Liao was withdrawn from the vanguard by Li Yi, he was originally asked to recuperate, but he did not expect that He Man and others, who were arranged by Yuan Shu to station in Liyang, broke up with Yuan Shu, did not withdraw, and wanted to switch to Li Yi.

This was a good thing, but He Man and the others had some thoughts in their hearts, and they didn't want to open the door to surrender directly, but planned to negotiate terms with Li Yi first.

Because He Man's gang had besieged Mi's food team before, and they were bumped into by Li Yi, Li Yi didn't like them at all, so although Li Yi came outside Liyang City in person, Instead, he asked Zhang Liao to order five thousand soldiers and horses, telling He Man and others that if they didn't know what to do, he would attack by force.

"My lord, the last general had talked with He Man in the city before, and they hoped to get the lord's public promise that they would not kill them after surrendering, and that they would keep the current sequence."

Zhang Liao became famous this time, beheading or capturing several generals under Yuan Shu's command one after another. Given time, Zhang Liao's reputation will inevitably move the world, but when facing Li Yi, Zhang Liao's attitude is more humble, and he did not show the slightest because of his meritorious service. arrogant.

Li Yi squinted his eyes. He had roughly understood why He Man and the others were separated from Yuan Shu. In all fairness, people like He Man were very sad. After two days of being whitewashed with Yuan Shu, they went black again, and even lost all their belongings. If you go in, you will lose a lot on this deal.

But Li Yi is not a loving person, as long as he surrenders, it’s okay not to kill He Man and others, but if he wants to keep the trilogy, it means using Li Yi’s money to raise private soldiers for them, haha.

Zhang Liao looked at Li Yi's expression, got a general idea in his mind, and continued: "They also sent two boxes of jade wares to General Mo in private, hoping that General Mo would say something nice to them and try to keep their current official positions for them."

Li Yi couldn't help laughing, and asked, "How old is the official?"

Zhang Liao also had a smile on his face, and said: "He Man was appointed by Yuan Shu as Yangzhou Zhonglang General, and He Yi and Huang Shao are both captains."

After all, before Li Yi could answer, Dian Wei, who was listening behind him, stared and said, "Those people are even bigger than our officials!"

Everyone burst into laughter, Li Yi couldn't help giving Dian Wei a blank look, and then said to Zhang Liao: "Tell them, as long as they open the city and surrender, I can keep them alive. If they want to put down their weapons in the future, I can give them fields and houses. If you want to stay in the army, the three of you are military lords, but as for private soldiers, hehe, you can ask them for me if their necks are hard enough!"

"Here!"

Zhang Liao responded, and took a group of soldiers to the city gate to shout. After a while, Zhang Liao came back, his face was not very good-looking, and he said to Li Yi: "My lord, the general has sent a message, but they obviously don't want it. It won't work out with them, they want to talk to the lord."

Li Yi shook his head subconsciously, secretly thinking that a group of idiots, this is the time, a lonely city, two thousand soldiers, don't quickly surrender to gain some favor, but want to sit on the ground and raise the price, is this too slow for fear of death?

Dian Wei said angrily from behind: "Master, give me a thousand soldiers and horses, and promise to kill the top of the city in half an hour. Let's see if they dare to be so ignorant!"

Zhang Liao was more stable than Dianwei. He didn't cry out for a fight, but he looked at Li Yi firmly. Obviously, he also wanted to fight.

Li Yi looked at Liyang City in front of him. Because Huang Zhong resisted desperately at that time, the city wall was severely damaged, especially a section of the city wall in the northwest collapsed in half, and it has not been repaired until now. It is really not difficult to attack by force.