Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

As the members of the staff in the tent and the generals listening in browsed the distributed intelligence, everyone's anger erupted uncontrollably.

Previously, the news of Cao Cao's massacre of the city had spread, but the details were unknown.

Previously, everyone was indignant about it, but they were only angry that Cao Cao's actions were too cruel and tyrannical, unlike a Han official, violating benevolence and righteousness.

However, as the Embroidered Uniform Guard and dispatched spies continued to investigate, various details began to be collected in Li Ji's hands.

The degree of cruelty was appalling.

It just so happened that Liu Bei went to Xia Pi City and had not had time to see this information, otherwise Liu Bei would have been even more furious.

And with Liu Bei's character, he would have been willing to send troops to attack Cao Cao at all costs, how could he have endured setting up a defensive position in Xia Pi and waiting for Cao Cao's army to attack?

Therefore, from the beginning, after Li Ji saw this information, the only option was to take the initiative to attack Cao Cao's army.

"Cao Thief! Truly a Cao Thief! I will never coexist with him!!!"

Among them, the most reactive was Zhuge Liang, whose hands holding the intelligence were trembling uncontrollably.

It should be noted that Zhuge Liang is from Langya State, adjacent to Donghai County.

Some of the cities Cao Cao massacred were also part of Langya State, which was tantamount to attacking Zhuge Liang's hometown, so Zhuge Liang was both angry and hateful.

After the others browsed the details and felt touched, they also couldn't help but scold Cao Cao on the spot, even Sima Yi, who was usually gloomy, shouted, "Cao Thief, inhuman!"

Li Ji deliberately released these details for everyone to browse, and his intention was naturally to strengthen everyone's determination to attack Cao Cao.

In Li Ji's view, marching into Donghai County to attack Cao Cao could even be described as urgent.

If Jia Xu had also been with the army as a consultant, he might have noticed a horrifying possibility like Li Ji.

The Yi River was blocked by a large number of corpses, and it is still cut off, which is very abnormal!

The width of the Yi River in the section of Donghai County is generally between three hundred and four hundred zhang. It is impossible for a large number of people to escape to the Yi River and be killed while trying to cross it, causing a blockage. It is more likely that Cao Cao's army threw the corpses into the river.

It is July, and the weather is hot...

In addition, the Yi River originates from Mount Tai, enters Langya State, goes south all the way, passes through Donghai County, Xia Pi State, and may even flow into the Huai River.

Among them, Xia Pi City is located right at the lower reaches of the Yi River.

This made Li Ji have to suspect that Cao Cao was deliberately creating a plague, intending to artificially create a plague source through a large number of corpses, and then spread the plague completely in Xia Pi State through the Yi River.

Once the plague spreads, it may even cause the deaths of millions of people, turning Donghai County and Xia Pi State in Xuzhou, as well as neighboring areas, into a dead land.

It was because Li Ji had such a guess that he constantly sent a large number of spies to Donghai County to further investigate the news.

A large number of corpses are still in the Yi River, and this result made Li Ji shudder.

Cao Cao is by no means a bad fighter. He would not be unaware that a large number of corpses left unattended could easily cause a plague.

However, after the massacre of the city, not only were a large number of corpses not buried, but they were also actively thrown into the Yi River to block the river, allowing them to stink and rot.

In Li Ji's eyes, the possibility that Cao Cao was deliberately creating a plague was as high as ninety-eight percent.

Of course, Li Ji also had to admit that this plan was a good plan to subdue people without fighting, but it was too poisonous and too harmful to nature.

It was because he had been with Jia Xu for a long time that Li Ji's sense of smell in this regard had become much more sensitive. Before entering Xuzhou, Li Ji felt a taste of poisonous plan.

Once a plague forms, Xia Pi City will bear the brunt.

Even if Liu Bei is not careful, the army is likely to be infected with the plague.

In this way, not to mention that the army maintains its combat power, it is unknown how many people can survive smoothly.

Therefore, if he wants to prevent the formation of the plague, Li Ji can only choose to march into Donghai County as soon as possible, at least to properly bury and dispose of the corpses in the Yi River to avoid the plague from spreading on a large scale through the Yi River in an instant.

However, in the eyes of people in this era, the "plague" is often shrouded in a lot of mystery, and many people will think that it is a disaster sent by God.

It is even more impossible for Li Ji to inform the entire army that the place they are preparing to go to may be forming a plague, which will only shake the morale of the army and make everyone afraid.

Therefore, even if Li Ji has made a judgment in his heart, he cannot say this matter, he can only stabilize the morale of the army through other means and quickly go to Donghai County.

Various thoughts flashed through Li Ji's mind, but his face was still so calm. After seeing the people in the tent gradually calm down, he continued to speak.

"Therefore, if we want to break the predicament in Xuzhou, we should try to defeat Cao Thief before Yuan Jun arrives in Xuzhou."

"Speed is of the essence in war. The sooner we enter Donghai County, the more time we will have to defeat Cao's army."

After a pause, Li Ji's expression became solemn and he shouted.

"After you generals return to your respective camps, summon your troops to explain the disaster of Cao Thief. We must not allow such a thief to grow stronger. We should quickly attack him to avenge the thousands of people."

"From tomorrow onwards, speed up the march. Light the fire to cook at the end of Yin time, and pull out the camp to march at the beginning of Mao time. Are there any doubts?"

As soon as these words came out, there were quite a few generals in the camp who showed a bit of embarrassment.

According to the time concept of later generations, the end of Yin time is four o'clock in the morning, the time when people are most sleepy, and the sky may not have started to brighten at the beginning of Mao time.

Judging from Li Ji's attitude, the army's marching time would probably be more than doubled, which is a considerable test for the soldiers' condition and morale.

However, looking at Li Ji's unquestionable tone, the generals did not dare to object.

"Yes."

The generals obeyed the order.

Li Ji nodded slightly and said.

"Now that you understand, please return to your camps as soon as possible to make proper arrangements, and then rest as early as possible, and there must be no trouble."

Immediately, everyone cupped their hands towards Li Ji and saluted before retreating, and then hurriedly returned to their respective camps to make arrangements, stabilizing the morale of the soldiers in each department, so as not to cause complaints in the army, resulting in a decline in morale.

The next day, before dawn.

Under Li Ji's order, the army re-departed and marched, urging each department to march quickly all the way, until the sky was completely dark at Xu time, before they rested and cooked.

However, since Tao Qian's internal worries had been eliminated, and he was in the territory of Xia Pi State, there was no need to worry about being attacked by the Xuzhou army.

Therefore, in addition to sending a large number of scouts to be on guard around, Li Ji did not add any burden to the soldiers to set up camp, trying to leave enough rest time for the soldiers.

The next day, he marched in such a hurry for another day.

The journey that originally took nearly five days was forced to arrive outside Xia Pi City on the second night.

Under the circumstances that Li Ji had sent someone to inform Liu Bei in advance, Liu Bei had prepared a lot of meat in Xia Pi City to send to the army, rewarding the soldiers for their hard work in marching.

......

And as Li Ji led the army to Xia Pi City.

The spies Cao Cao sent to Xia Pi City also sent the information about Liu Bei's arrival in Xia Pi City to Tan County at this time.

When Cao Cao saw the "One Yield of Xuzhou" information that the spies sent back from Xia Pi City, he was so angry that he overturned the table on the spot.

"Liu Da'er!!!" (End of this chapter)