In the sound of the horn that resounded throughout the city, more than a dozen strong men with a large amount of dry firewood quietly came to an alley forty zhang away from the south city gate, a few days ago Li Le sent troops to this alley to rob women door to door, but encountered the brave resistance of the people living on this street, and killed more than ten Xiliang soldiers in a row, this move was extremely fierce Li Le, and then sent a large army to suppress, after snatching all the women from the age of fourteen to forty, he ordered to slaughter the entire alley, and then another fire burned the alley into ashes. Because there were too many victims, the people thought that the yin atmosphere here was too heavy, and no one dared to enter it day or night, and because of this, the whole city was full of shouts of killing at this moment, but this place was silent as usual.

These people quietly divided into three groups, twenty feet apart from each other, and they found large bundles of firewood that had been quietly hidden in them beforehand from the ruins, and built three large firewood piles with a diameter of three zhang together with dry firewood.

Liu Zhang's camp.

Ever since the shouts of killing rang out in the city, some people have been watching the movements in the city closely. When the soldier in charge of observation saw three neatly arranged flames lit in the city, he immediately reported it to Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang immediately went out of the tent with a group of civil and military officers to check.

After witnessing it with his own eyes, some people began to say hello to Liu Zhang.

Xun You said: "Since the signal has been lit in the city, it means that there must be major changes in the city, and watching the movement in the city, it is not like a small number of spies can do it, do they say that the lower-level generals of the Xiliang Army and Li Le are killing each other?" ”

Xi Zhicai said: "There is this possibility, but I think that it is more likely that the people will do something, Li Le has done a lot of bad things in the city these days, as long as our people use a little guidance with a three-inch tongue, it is easy for the people to organize themselves to take revenge on Li Le." Moreover, the Xiliang army in the city are all evildoers, and they know very well that once they fall into our hands, they will be imprisoned at the lightest, and beheaded at the worst, so I think they are unlikely to be easily rebelled! ”

Liu Zhang waved his hand and said: "No matter what the reason is, in short, it's a good thing, now that the signal is coming, we can't do it, let's discuss what to do, right?" ”

Hou Cheng immediately said: "In the opinion of the last general, we must immediately send troops to attack Wugong, take advantage of the chaos of Wugong, attack the city in one fell swoop, and eliminate Li Lehao to chase Dong Zhuo!" ”

Liu Zhang nodded and said.

Xun You said: "It's dark right now, and the vision is extremely poor, if you send troops to attack at this time, I'm afraid that you will accidentally injure your allies, and you may even fall into Li Le's trap." ”

Li Yan said: "Do you just sit back and watch? If we don't attack martial arts, Li Le will be able to solve the crisis in the city without worries, if he stabilizes the situation and attacks again tomorrow, our army's losses will be even heavier! ”

Xun You said: "I don't disagree with sending troops, but I hope everyone will be cautious, make more stone preparations, and let the soldiers die less...... There are too many unpredictable things in night battles, don't be careless! ”

Liu Zhang looked at Jia Xu, who was speechless, and said, "Wenhe, do you think it's better to deal with Lone Dang?" ”

Jia Xu gave a salute and said slowly: "My subordinates think that they can send troops immediately, but they can't just seek a breakthrough through the city wall, they must immediately send elite soldiers to quickly block the road from Wugong to Chang'an!" ”

Liu Zhang said: "What Wenhe means is that Li Le may be going to escape?" ”

Jia Xu nodded and said, "With his subordinates' understanding of Li Le, he will definitely retreat immediately, and when the chaos in the city occurs, he should understand that there is only one way to die if he stays in martial arts!" And it is very likely that Li Le will not order all the soldiers to retreat, but only protect him with a small number of henchmen, and he will use the others to delay our army and give him time to escape! ”

Hou Chengdao: "But the road to Chang'an has been blocked by General Hua's cavalry, even if Li Le escapes from martial arts, he can't escape from General Hua's palm, why bother to divide his troops again?" ”

Xun You said: "The infantry is already very difficult to fight at night, and the cavalry is not good at night fighting, once the cavalry attacks in the night, it is likely to trample on each other and collapse without a fight!" ”

Hou Cheng let out an "oh" and stopped talking.

Liu Zhang then said: "Be cautious, you will lead the First Independent Brigade to set off immediately, you must block Li Le's escape, and the crimes he committed in martial arts must be punished!" ”

Gao Shun bowed and said: "Yes, the last general will capture Li Le, and hand it over to the lord!" ”

"Be careful, let's go!" Liu Zhang nodded.

"Yes, thank you for your concern, the end will go!" Gao Shun bowed and turned to go.

"Gong Du!"

Gong Du, who had been looking forward to being able to put on armor again since he was injured last time, immediately stepped forward and bowed: "The end will be!" ”

"The armies of the battalion have been exhausted for a long time, and only your fourth division is a new force at the moment, and this attack on martial arts will be dominated by your fourth division, are you willing to take on this heavy responsibility?"

"Lord Lord, if you can't capture martial arts before dawn, you will let the Lord fall!"

"Okay, you go and gather soldiers and horses, and then you don't need to ask for instructions, immediately set off to attack martial arts, and I will send people to support you again!"

"Yes, the last general will retire!" Gong Du left overjoyed.

Liu Zhang also ordered Hou Cheng's Fifth Division, which had suffered relatively light losses in previous battles, and Wu Ban's Sixth Brigade assisted Gong Du in capturing martial arts.

Whether it was attacking martial arts or intercepting Li Le, the battle was very smooth.

When Gong Du began to attack the city, the spies of the Yizhou army in the city immediately asked the people to shout everywhere in the city, "Li Le has fled, you have all been abandoned, surrender quickly or avoid death", and at the same time organized hundreds of people to launch a surprise attack from behind the defenders. The defenders were first demoralized by the people's words, and were attacked from front to back, less than half an hour, the city wall was lost, tens of thousands of Yizhou troops entered the city, with the help of the people, the remnants of the city were quickly wiped out, most of the nine thousand Xiliang troops were killed, three thousand were captured, and about hundreds of people took off their clothes and armor to blend into the people. The fly in the ointment was that the Xiliang army saw that there was no hope of escape, so they actually lit fires everywhere in the city, not only igniting a large amount of loaded money and food, but also setting fire to many houses. With the desperate rescue of the Yizhou army and the people, although the spread of the fire was prevented, nearly half of the materials and more than 2,000 houses were still burned.

Although the Xiliang army was almost completely annihilated, the losses of the people were even heavier, and overnight, more than 14,000 innocent souls were added to Wugong City. The population of the city has dropped sharply from more than 50,000 people when Li Le entered Wugong to 23,000 people, and in less than a month, Wugong City lost nearly 30,000 people because of Li Le. After dawn, the surviving civilians, with the acquiescence of the Yizhou army, beat the 3,000 captives to death with fists of anger and revenge. The hundreds of Xiliang troops who changed people's clothes and wanted to fish in the water and escape from the city only found out after dawn that the four gates of martial arts were tightly guarded by the Yizhou army, and they were temporarily allowed to enter but not leave. It turned out that after Liu Zhang learned that there was a Xiliang army missing, he guessed that they were still hiding in the city, these people were all covered with blood on their hands, if they were allowed to escape, Liu Zhang thought that he had no face to see the martial arts people, so he ordered to strictly guard the city gate and strictly prohibit the people from leaving the city. Later, all the people in the city were gathered together and screened one by one with the household registration information seized from the county government, and finally none of these people escaped the net, and all of them were cleared out, and they were still faced with angry people.

Li Le's escape from Wugong was very smooth, but when he fled to a small forest five miles northeast of Wugong, countless arrows suddenly shot from all directions. Li Le was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. After the rain of arrows, the ambush soldiers immediately attacked, and finally annihilated Li Le's department, capturing more than 150 people under Li Le, only more than 30 people escaped by luck in the night, and the rest were all killed.

Then Li Le and these more than 150 people naturally did not escape the "poisonous hands" of the martial arts people, especially Li Le, who was ordered by Liu Zhang to be executed by Ling Chi. On the day of the execution, 50,000 people under the rule of Wugong County gathered in Wugong City (there were only more than 20,000 people in the city, and the people in the villages and towns outside the city came to watch when they learned that Li Le was going to be executed, and even many people from other counties came to see Li Le being tortured). He was bent on avenging his family and cut Li Le 4,347 knives, and finally peeled Li Le alive into a pile of white bones, even so, the executioner was still dissatisfied, because Li Le was seriously injured and died when he received 2,400 knives, and he was not able to experience the whole process. Since no one was willing to collect Li Le's body, his bones were taken away by several wild dogs that night......

Although Li Lebu was completely annihilated, in the night battle, the losses of the Yizhou army were not small, with nearly 1,000 killed and missing, and nearly 1,000 wounded.

The next day, Liu Zhang ordered the recruits brought by Li Yan's 1st Division and Gong Du, who had suffered the heaviest losses in previous battles, to stay behind in Wugong and the camp, take care of the prisoners and take care of the seriously wounded, and he personally led the 1st Huaxiong Cavalry Division, the 1st Independent Brigade of Gaoshun, and the 4th Division of Gongdu to pursue Dong Zhuo with nearly 50,000 people (including 10,000 lightly wounded).