Li Yan sighed and said, "What am I careful about?" The red lady covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Be careful that I take away your military power, just like Bai Qi did to you......" Li Yan's face stiffened and lost his mind. The red lady's heart moved, and she secretly thought that she might have said something serious, and being betrayed by someone would leave some shadows in her heart, no matter who she was.

Thinking of this, the red lady hurriedly explained: "I'm joking, don't take it seriously." ”

Li Yan regained his smile: "How could it be? You are my savior, my life is saved by you, and you still care about military power, not to mention, our small team is really not worth mentioning. ”

The red lady tilted her head to look at him: "It's a small team now, can it be later?" Under your leadership, it may grow to 10,000, 100,000, or 1 million people in the future, and by that time, there will definitely be many people who want to seize your military power. What do you do? ”

Li Yan had a headache with this problem. He was originally born in a rich family, he has a kind nature, helps the needy, and has always been loved by others, and he also has this self-confidence, feeling that no one will make a black hand on him and make a conspiracy. But since being betrayed by Qin Jun, Li Yan's self-confidence has collapsed, and for a while, he feels that the people around him are no longer so cute, reliable, and credible.

This is the crisis of trust, which is still encountered for the first time in Li Yan's life. Compared with the various major crises he encountered in the future, this incident made him the most difficult to forget, this was the beginning, and it was also the enlightenment, so that he gradually understood that in troubled times, it is not easy for good people to survive.

If you want to survive and do great things, you have to be more calculating than others and ruthless than others.

Li Yan coughed a few times dryly, and changed the topic: "Zuo Liangyu came quickly, and the men and horses are fierce, and there are flat horses around Xi'an City, which is conducive to cavalry combat, so as long as he comes to the city, the coalition army of Zhang Luo and the two will definitely not be able to hold on." ”

The red lady said: "They can't hold it, our little bit of people is even less worthy of being swept away, we have to think of a way." Li Yan said: "I can only intercept halfway, find a good terrain, lure the left army into an ambush, and then divide and encircle." The red lady said: "The idea is good, but Zuo Liangyu is a fierce general, not only bold, but also extremely cautious, it is not easy to tempt him." ”

The two talked, returned to the camp and waited, but after a while, Zhang Luo and the others came back with their own soldiers, and as soon as they entered the tent, Zhang Xianzhong began to scold: "Fuck, this Lao Hong is better than a monkey and more slippery than a loach." Luo Rucai was beside him, he was hit by an arrow on his hat, and he hadn't pulled it off, the two of them sat on the big chair, and a personal soldier stepped forward to pull out the arrow for him, Luo Rucai pushed the personal soldier aside, pulled out the arrow himself, and threw it into the fire, it can be seen that he is not small.

The red lady hurriedly asked: "Zhang Dashuai, Luo Dashuai, what's the matter?" ”

Luo Rucai suppressed his anger and said: "The Eight Kings and I each ordered a few thousand cavalry, put on the official army uniforms, set up tens of thousands of horses, and began to pretend to fight, and then these cavalry rushed to the city and began to call the city. ”

Zhang Xianzhong continued: "We thought that this trick was full of good tricks, and some officials and soldiers wanted to come down to open the city, but Lao Hong came up to take a look, and he didn't let the city open at all, nor did he let the suspension bridge be put down, so he had to ask Zuo Liangyu to go to the city to reply." Our people replied that General Zuo was still clashing in the enemy camp and could not come for a while, but Lao Hong ignored it at all, and said that Zuo Liangyu would not come and would not open the city. ”

Li Yan couldn't help laughing: "If I were Hong Chengchou and did the same, you should find someone to pretend to be Zuo Liangyu." ”

Luo Rucai said: "It's not possible to pretend, in case Hong Chengchou says that let Zuo Liangyu come in alone, isn't it going to die!" ”

Li Yan nodded: "What happened later?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Later, my people shouted nonsense, the thieves rushed up, let us enter the city, the city still does not put a drawbridge, nor open the city gate, the brothers have no singing, so they have to turn over and come back, and I don't know how to come back, let the turtle grandchildren see the flaws, in the city random arrows, shot dead dozens of my brothers, Lao Luo is closer, also received an arrow, if not the hat is higher, this arrow will be through the scoop." ”

Li Yan said: "What am I talking about?" It didn't work. ”

Luo Rucai said hatefully: "I tossed in vain for half the night, and I also lost dozens of brothers, and now those officers and soldiers must be laughing and falling." Damn it. ”

Li Yan said: "Don't be angry with this, let's take care of tomorrow's affairs first, Zuo Liangyu is almost here, if we can't attack tomorrow, we will be attacked from both sides, the situation is not good." ”

Zhang Xianzhong also frowned: "Zuo Liangyu's kid is not easy to deal with, his subordinates are all cavalry, and there is no terrain to use in the left ......" Li Yan said: "Therefore, it is absolutely wrong to let Zuo Liangyu's men and horses reach the city." We're going to ambush halfway through. ”

Luo Rucai said: "But, where is the best place to ambush?" ”

Li Yan said: "On the way we came, I have taken a closer look, forty miles east of Xi'an, there is a place, called Luohua River, which may have been a big river, but then gradually dried up, only a stream remained, and there is still a very wide riverbed, there is the only way to come to Xi'an, there is a stone bridge on the river, the water under the bridge is also very shallow, horses can easily cross the river, let's ambush Zuo Liangyu in Luohua River." ”

Zhang Xianzhong asked: "What kind of ambush method?" ”

Li Yan said: "Luohua River is very close to the Bahe River, the nearest place, only less than five hundred steps, we can use a day's work to dig through the two rivers, lead the water, and then block the water in the upper reaches of the Luohua River, as long as Zuo Liangyu's men and horses arrive, we will release the water.!" ”

Luo Rucai clapped his hands: "Good plan, good plan." ”

Zhang Xianzhong also nodded again and again: "Come to a flooded official army, no matter how ruthless Zuo Liangyu's cavalry is, see if they will be gouged when they get to the river!" ”

Luo Rucai said: "Wait for Zuo Liangyu's men and horses to pass halfway, let's attack the enemy halfway, and the men and horses in ambush on both sides will rush, and discipline him to become dead fish and stinky shrimp." ”

Several people agreed, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai each sent a general, Li Dingguo and Sun Chengzu, led 3,000 cavalry, a total of 6,000 horses, and followed Li Yan overnight to dig the river and block the flowing water. Li Yan asked the red lady to also bring her 2,000 people and march together.

As for Cao Wenzhao's side, Zhang Luo and the others sent guerrillas, asking them to slow down Cao Wenzhao's march and buy time for the army to break through the city.

Everyone in the camp knows that tomorrow is the day of life and death to decide whether it is alive or dead, if Xi'an City cannot be broken, Cao Wenzhao's men and horses will arrive, and the combat effectiveness of Guanning Iron Cavalry is undoubtedly clear to everyone.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai arranged it very properly and carefully, but they only missed one way, that is, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou gave Sun Chuanting a secret order, which outsiders did not know, and Sun Chuanting's name was not known at that time, so the peasant army did not think of this way, it was this negligence, which caused very serious consequences.

When Li Yan and the Red Lady led the men and horses to Luohua River, it was already dawn, a thin winter mist shrouded the earth, and the wet and cold weather made people chill all around. As time passed, the fog gradually dissipated, the red sun rose in the east, and the big trees with lost leaves around the official road stood solemnly on both sides, like human bones that had been dead for many days, without any life. There is no noise of insects and birds on the land, and some are just abandoned wells and isolated villages, and corpses exposed to the dead grass from time to time.

The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

Li Yan remembered these two lines of Cao Cao's poems, of course, this Cao Cao is the real Cao Cao, not Luo Rucai. Luo Rucai doesn't have Cao Mengde's compassion.

In fact, Li Yan feels that people like Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong like the troubled times very much, and their ability is to show up in the troubled world, occupy the mountain as the king, kill people like mowing grass, rob like drinking porridge, and can act arbitrarily without scruples, without being punished by the law of the country.

Freedom also has a limit, and if it is too free, it will not be a world.

Li Yan looked at the red sun in the east, and he knew that Xi'an City at this time was already a world of blood and fire.