Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

The messenger said: "This subordinate claims to be Tai Shici's personal guard. Because Tai Shici was suspicious by the envoy, he wanted to defect and sacrifice the city. He planned to lead Li Yi's troops into the city at the east gate tonight. Talked to Li Yi, and then his subordinate was called to have a drink by Li Yi's personal guard captain. The man was named Yu Fan, and it was he who repeatedly drank alcohol to test the authenticity of the matter. Show your feet."

After a pause, the messenger continued: "I didn't see Lu Su again until it was getting dark, and then I was told that Li Yi agreed to accept Tai Shici's surrender and promised a high position as the prefect of Runan, but he had other requirements. Let Tai Shici kill the envoy tonight!"

"Madman! Shameless madman!"

Kong Rong felt furious and scolded as soon as he opened his mouth. He didn't know whether he was scolding Li Yi or Tai Shici.

Liu Yao ignored Kong Rong and asked again, "Then how did you answer?"

The messenger lowered his head and continued: "Naturally, my subordinates dare not agree, so they used the excuse that Tai Shici was alienated by the envoy and his troops were too small, but Lu Su said it was all right. It turned out that Li Yi decided to pretend to attack Xujiazhuang tonight to lure the envoy. Sending troops to rescue Xujiazhuang, and then the city is empty of troops, Tai Shici can take the opportunity to attack the envoy and kill the envoy."

"Bastard!"

Kong Rong slapped heavily on the short table in front of him, his face was full of anger, he was not calm now, although the messenger was sent by him, but for some reason, Kong Rong always felt that Tai Shici was really colluding with Li Yi When he got up, he almost wanted to kill him.

The messenger shrank his neck, and didn't dare to continue speaking for a while. Seeing this, Liu Yao could only ask again: "What about the future, what are Li Yi's plans?"

The messenger glanced at Kong Rong and replied: "According to what Lu Su said, Li Yi should have cut off the connection between Xujiazhuang and the envoy, and carried out a feigned attack after nightfall. , and then Tai Shici took the opportunity to act in the city, and after he succeeded, he would raise a fire at the south gate to lure Li Yi into the city."

After the messenger finished speaking, he took the initiative to step aside.

After a while, Kong Rong just suppressed the anger in his heart, let out a long breath, and said in anger and fear: "Fortunately, Tai Shici showed his feet early, otherwise the old man and everyone here will definitely do it for him." The victim!"

Now that Kong Rong's affection for Tai Shici had dissipated completely, he said to Fan Neng without thinking: "Arrange more people, if Tai Shici dares to go out, you can deal with it yourself!"

Fan Neng clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry!"

Liu Yao sighed secretly, and said: "Tai Shici is still a trivial matter, the key is tonight, Li Yi is going to feint to attack Xujiazhuang, this is different from our plan, and we need to rearrange it."

Kong Rong frowned and thought. He is not good at military affairs, and his mind is a little restless. He will not be able to think of any good countermeasures for a while.

Fortunately, after waiting for too long, Wang Xiu patted his hands lightly and said, "Although things have changed, we can still use our tricks!"

Kong Rong hurriedly looked at Wang Xiu, and asked expectantly, "How do I follow the plan?"

Wang Xiu said slowly: "Since Li Yi is pretending to attack Xujiazhuang, then Xujiazhuang itself is not in danger. Therefore, when there is a change in Xujiazhuang, the Lord only needs to arrange a small number of soldiers and horses, let them plant more flags, make more noises, and march slowly. Li Yi's soldiers and horses can retreat."

Kong Rong nodded and asked, "And then?"

Wang Xiu continued: "Then it's even simpler. My lord can gather the main force at the north gate. After the reinforcements leave the city, let people create some noise in the city, pretending to be civil strife, and then set fire at the north gate to attract Li Yi. Then take advantage of the unpreparedness and strike head-on!"

Wang Xiu suddenly sighed: "It's a pity that time is too tight to arrange more, but this battle should be won by surprise, and once Li Yi retreats, the king may be able to cover up the kill along the way, and it may not be impossible to win."

Kong Rong and Liu Yao pondered for a while, and Liu Yao was the first to make a judgment. He stood up and bowed solemnly to Wang Xiu, saying, "Uncle Zhi is talented, and you admire him so much. If you win this battle, Uncle Zhi will take the lead!"

Wang Xiu hurriedly returned the salute humbly, shook his head and said, "It's too important to say formal etiquette. Since Xiu is a minister of the Han Dynasty, he just did what he should do. How can he say meritorious service?"

Kong Rong also wanted to understand at this time, and also thought that what Wang Xiu said was a clever plan, and said with emotion: "Fortunately, Uncle Zhi is here, otherwise Kong will be in danger, and Yuzhou will be in danger!"

Wang Xiu returned the salute again, but he sighed in his heart. He was really not good at military affairs. He could think of these things because he was forced to do nothing by reality.

Moreover, although Wang Xiu felt that there should be no major problems with his strategy, his opponent was Li Yi after all, and he was not very confident. He was about to advise Kong Rong to think more about it, but Kong Rong said fiercely: "Li Yi, today For the humiliation, I will ask you to repay it twice tonight!"

Seeing this, Wang Xiu felt inexplicably uneasy, but he didn't speak again, because Kong Rong had lost his former calmness.

As the sky was getting darker, both Li Yi and Kong Rong were quietly making their own arrangements, making the original night more chilling than quiet.

In such an environment, Tai Shici is one of the few people who can "leisure", but he is under a lot of pressure.

Tai Shici was indeed contemplating his mistakes behind closed doors, but the movement of soldiers and horses in the city was too great, even if Tai Shici didn't know it, he couldn't do it.

Uneasy, Tai Shici bribed the soldiers who guarded him, and soon learned about the mobilization of soldiers and horses in the city. Although he still didn't know the specific intention of Kong Rong, as a rare general, Tai Shici immediately felt something wrong. good guess.

He was so anxious that he wanted to talk to Kong Rong, but the one who faced him was not Kong Rong, but twice as many guards, and the thick swords in the guards' hands. So, the number one warrior in the Three Kingdoms platoon was in front of him. When the war comes, in the end, you can only "get drunk and rest".

Compared with Tai Shici, Zhang Ying who is stationed in Xujiazhuang is another person who is suffering in his heart.

Zhang Ying naturally knew that Kong Rong was scolded so much by Li Yi that he couldn't help himself, but Zhang Ying blocked the news from the ordinary soldiers below, so the morale of the soldiers in Xujiazhuang was far better than that in Qiao County.

However, this situation changed after Li Yi cut off the connection between Xujiazhuang and Qiao County.

As a general, Zhang Ying naturally understands that he and Qiao County must cooperate with each other in offense and defense, so as to effectively contain Li Yi. If the connection is cut off, Qiao County is fine, and he will easily become "blind".

Therefore, Zhang Ying responded decisively and sent a group of about fifty infantry out to test it out. As a result, he encountered the cavalry led by Zhang Xiu before he had gone far. I caught half of them, but none came back anyway.

Chapter 652

A small defeat did not frighten Zhang Ying, he decisively sent out half of the only [-] cavalry, and confronted Zhang Xiu again.

Although this time was not as helpless as the first time, but shortly after the battle, he entered an obvious weak position, especially after Zhang Xiu shot through the leading lieutenant, Zhang Ying's cavalry was even more powerful. The formation was completely messed up, and in the end the result of the more than 200 cavalry was not much better than that of infantry.

Losing two battles in a row made the Yuzhou soldiers in Xujiazhuang very frightened. Although Zhang Ying was unwilling, he could only close the door and stop fighting.

Because Zhang Ying could see very clearly that the two defeats were not due to his command, nor was it due to the number of troops, but the actual combat power gap between the two sides. After seeing Zhang Xiu's actions, Zhang Ying felt that only Tai Shici could fight against him. As for himself, hehe

Therefore, Zhang Ying judged the situation and decided to wait for Kong Rong to send troops to clear the way, and then he would cooperate, but what Zhang Ying did not know was that under Li Yi's deliberate inducement, the situation around Xujiazhuang had been identified by Kong Rong as Since it was a feint attack, Xujiazhuang would not be in real danger, so why would Kong Rong send people to fight?

It's just that the actual situation in Xujiazhuang is completely different from what Kong Rong and the others thought.

Those two conflicts were just a small foreshadowing. As the night darkened, the entire Xujiazhuang was surrounded by densely packed torches that kept appearing all around.

Zhang Ying was extremely nervous about this, thinking that Li Yi might attack the city at night, and he was anxious, but he couldn't get in touch with Kong Rong, so he could only cheer up his soldiers and strengthen their defenses.

Although Kong Rong couldn't contact Zhang Ying, he could still know that Xujiazhuang was surrounded by Li Yi through watching from a distance, and he was a little uneasy, but thinking of the follow-up plan, he finally sat firmly on Diaoyutai.

It's just that Zhang Ying is suffering. Li Yi's army is besieging the city, beating the war drum every once in a while, and howling a few times. What's more hateful is that some people touch the city and shoot cold arrows. It seems that they may launch an offensive at any time, let him Can't relax for a moment.

But it was still night, Zhang Ying couldn't see clearly, and couldn't tell whether Li Yi was bluffing or really mobilized tens of thousands of troops.

Intuition told Zhang Ying that the former was more likely, but Zhang Ying didn't dare to gamble, so he could only spend time with Li Yi like this.

Finally, when it was midnight, Zhang Ying couldn't hold it anymore, and didn't even take off his armor, so he hid under the parapet with ordinary soldiers and hid under the parapet with his armor in his arms, but what he didn't know was Just as he was taking a nap, the mansion in the center of Zhuangzi had quietly changed hands.

"click"

After twisting the throat of a sentry post, Dian Wei turned around and asked, "Are you sure this is the last one?"

While observing the situation outside through the crack of the door, Xu Chu whispered, "All the places in the yard where people can stay have been gone, and there will definitely be no other people."

After that, Xu Chu said again: "It's also thanks to Zhang Yinggeng's manpower being transferred to the front, otherwise it would be really inconvenient for us to come in."

Dian Wei said with a smile: "The one outside is the lord himself, so Zhang Ying dare not be cautious?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Dian Wei's face darkened again, and he said: "He is lucky, otherwise, someone would have to kill him with his own hands. This tunnel is really difficult!"

The soldiers behind Xu Chuhe and Dian Wei couldn't help laughing, because Dian Wei was too big, but the tunnel was very narrow, and Dian Wei had to squeeze through many places, and he was the most difficult along the way.

After complaining, Dian Wei did not forget the business, and asked behind him: "How many brothers are there?"