Chapter Twenty-Seven: Defeat Liu Bi Again
Li Sheng's residence in this Fucheng is also the county government of this Fucheng. www.biquge.info When Pang Tong and Fa Zheng rushed to Li Sheng's residence with Peng Yi to see Li Sheng, Li Sheng was lying on the desk and constantly gesturing something on a piece of paper with his hand. He was so attentive that Pang Tong and the others entered the house without any reaction.
"What is the lord doing?" Seeing that Li Sheng was so focused, Pang Tong couldn't help but ask.
"Shiyuan, you're here. Oh, and filial piety? Li Sheng raised his head and looked at it, then lowered his head again, and just said casually: "You guys sit down first." I'll have to do the math here. β
"Solution? What's the solution? Pang Tong and Fa Zheng were very surprised by this.
"It's a plan for that morning incident." Li Sheng raised his head and was about to explain to Pang Tong and Fa Zheng in detail, when he suddenly saw Peng Yi's tall figure, and immediately took his own topic. He straightened up, stood up with a smile, walked up to Peng Yi and asked, "Who is this gentleman?" didn't wait for Peng Yi to answer, but turned his head to Pang Tong and Fa Zheng: "Shiyuan, filial piety, is this the one you recommended to me Daxian?" It looks pretty good. β
When Li Sheng said this, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng looked at each other with a wry smile, and they felt that what the lord said was somewhat strange. They were about to introduce Peng Yi to Li Sheng, but they saw that Peng Yi stood in front of Li Sheng with great strides, and said with his finger to his face: "What does it mean to look good?" I'm pretty good at all. β
"Oh?" Li Sheng smiled, "Then this very nice gentleman, I don't know if you have anything to teach me at this moment?" Li Zixu is waiting here. Saying that, Li Sheng bowed to Peng Yi to the end and gave this gift to the fullest.
For Li Sheng's respect for himself so much, Peng Yi is undoubtedly very satisfied. He nodded, walked to the table where Li Sheng was lying on his stomach just now, glanced at the drawings on the table, and asked with a smile: "General Li is having a headache because of Liu Sheng's entrenchment on the edge of the water?" Let me guess that General Li was worried that Liu Bi would attack the rear north of Fushui by himself? β
"Whew! Sir knows what worries I have in mind? That's great, please sir teach me. I'm thinking too much about it. Li Sheng said happily and scratched his head and said. Because he was in his own room, he did not wear a crown like outside, but his hair was drooping from his shoulders and full of flowing appearance.
"Why should the general be worried? What you're thinking about can't be possible. Peng Yi shook his head with a smile, "The general is really worried. He smiled.
"Huh? Is this a matter of unfounded concern? Hearing Peng Yi say this, not only Li Sheng, but even Pang Tong and Fa Zheng, two people who had already known his personality of not being shocking and dying, couldn't help but open their mouths wide about this. Among them, Fa Zheng even pulled Peng Yi's sleeve and asked him: "How could Yongyan say that?" Don't you know that Liu Bi collects a large number of ferries at Fushui Ferry? β
"Collect the ferry? I think that's just a faΓ§ade. As long as Liu Bi is still Liu Zhang's subordinate, and Liu Bi is still loyal to Liu Zhang, then it is impossible for him to make such a battle plan. Peng Yi said with a smile.
"Why?" Li Sheng, Pang Tong, and Fa Zheng asked in unison.
"There are a total of seventy or eighty thousand soldiers in Yizhou. Liu Zhang was counting on them to stop the general. A while ago, the 50,000 troops brought by Liu Bi had eaten 20,000 for the general, and now the 30,000 reinforcements that have been supplied to Liu Bi, it can be said that the elite soldiers of the entire Yizhou are concentrated here. If Liu Bi is very bold to use these soldiers and horses to attack the place north of Fushui, what do you think will happen to the general? Peng Yi smiled and confided in Li Sheng such a news.
"Are you saying that it is impossible for Liu Bi to lead his troops alone for the defense of the CD?" Li Sheng's eyes lit up when he heard this, but he had some understanding in his heart.
"Exactly." Peng Yi nodded: "If Liu Bi goes to the north of Fushui, then there will be no elite from Fucheng to the south to the front line of the CD to stop our advance. I think the timid Liu Zhang definitely didn't have the courage to allow Liu Bi to do this, so General Mo didn't need to worry about this matter at all. β
"Since this is the case, then why do you say that Liu Bi has been delayed on the edge of the Fushui for so long, and he still looks like he wants to cross the river? You must know that at the moment they are short of troops, and their combat strength is not as good as ours, then the best way should be to shrink their forces in the fortified city, and before our army has a big attrition, as far as possible not to allow our army to fight in the field, how can it be? Li Sheng shook his head and looked very incomprehensible.
"The general is right. Liu Bi really has no intention of fighting with us in the field. He's going to enclose us all in this Fucheng and eat it all in one bite. Peng Yi nodded seriously, and said something that made everyone feel a little strange when they heard it.
"It's not a joke, is it? With Liu Xuanjun's actions, with their strength similar to ours, it's like surrounding us in Fucheng and eating us? It's also incredible. Li Sheng, Fa Zheng, and Pang Tong shook their heads again and again when they heard this, and said, "I don't believe this. β
"Don't believe me? That's not going to work! Liu Bi invited an army of millions to help. If the offensive is launched, I am afraid that the troops inside and outside the city and the people of the whole city will find the protection of Liu Xuan's army. The original Fucheng Ling Yan Yu was the nephew of Bajun Taishou Yan Yan, and he was close friends with Liu Bi and Wu Yi. Now that Yan Yu has died in this Fucheng, Liu Bi and Wu Yi are angry and regard the people of Fucheng as murderers. After this revenge battle, I don't know how many people in this city will be left in the end. β
"Huh? An army of millions? Where do they still have so many centaurs? Fa Zheng and Pang Tong were surprised by this, but Li Sheng was different from them: "Does Liu Bi want to slaughter the city?" Doesn't he know that the people of this Fucheng are also the people of Yizhou? β
"The people who are already determined to help the general or the people of Yizhou? Even if this is taken to Liu Zhang's side, it doesn't make sense. As for the matter of where Liu Bi got a million-strong army. Hehe......" Peng Yi laughed incomprehensibly, and he asked Li Sheng, Pang Tong, and Fa Zheng: "Several of them are all masters, do you know the conditions that you must have to be called a general?" Liu Bi's million-strong army is about to be found from this. β
"Oh?" After listening to Peng Yi's question, Li Sheng, Pang Tong and Fa Zheng all fell silent, and they all put this question in their hearts and pondered: "If a general does not know astronomy, he will not know geography for mediocrity. Since he has said that the reason why Liu Bi has an army of one million must be searched from the conditions that a famous general must have. Then the reason must be above astronomy and geography. Astronomy and Geography ...... Astronomy and geography ......" Li Sheng pondered this, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. He raised his head, just in time to meet the equally enlightened gazes of Pang Tong and Fa Zheng, and nodded slightly, understanding that they had also thought of the crux of the problem.
"Sir, but you said that Liu Bi will build an embankment to store water, and when this rain comes, he will break the water to flood us?" Li Sheng guessed such a possibility, but he didn't look very happy, he thought of the viciousness of this strategy, and his forehead immediately oozed this full of sweat, "So he gathered a large number of ferries, and it was just a cover?" β
"Gathering ferries is not necessarily a front. These ships can also be used after the launch of the water attack. It's just that the appearance he posed of wanting to cross the river after the attack was a deep disguise, in order to make the general pay attention to the safety of his rear, and not dare to act rashly against him. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of what had happened after crossing the river, but that he couldn't have done it at the risk of the CD being breached. But he also has some ability, and he can actually think of using this trick to be a suspicious soldier, to contain you, and make you have some scruples. Alas, Liu Bi, a famous general in Shu, is really extraordinary. Peng Yi sighed, gently tapped the back of his left hand holding his chin with his right index finger and said: "The weather has been stuffy these days, and it looks like a heavy rain is coming." It can be seen that the completion of Liu Bi's layout is also in the past few days. If the general doesn't find a way to solve it quickly, I'm afraid it will be too late. β
"Hmm. I know! Li Sheng nodded heavily and bowed: "Thank you, sir." I don't know how Mr. Daimyo is! Li Sheng talked with this Peng Yi for a long time, Peng Yi has been giving him advice for so long, and he remembered that he hadn't asked Peng Yi's name yet, which was really .......
Pang Tong and Fa Zheng also seemed to have discovered this, and they were all shocked in their hearts, and they were a little worried that Peng Yi would throw his sleeves and leave. After all, Li Sheng's behavior is somewhat rude. They were trying to take a few steps forward and talk to Peng Yi for their father-in-law, so as to redeem some goodwill. But before he had time to speak, he saw Peng Yi Shi Ran getting straight to the point: "Why did the general ask my name at this moment?" Didn't the general think this was rude? β
"Well, that's a bit of a faux pas. I also make amends to my husband here. Li Sheng said without any awkward appearance and bowed to Peng Yi.
"I don't dare to apologize. But I want to know why, why didn't the general rush to ask my name? If you talk about it and forget it because you care, then you may not have the opportunity to speak later. Peng Yi asked again, but he clung to this question and didn't let go.
Li Sheng knew that Peng Yi was so urgent to ask himself what was the reason - he did not have to give him a satisfactory explanation, but wanted to understand his own standards and views on talent recruitment through this question. So, Li Sheng groaned slightly, and replied: "As far as I think, the name is just a person's codename, just to call others, and it does not represent what the person is." The reason why I never asked for his name was because I wanted to measure his talent. For me, knowing that Mr. is a matter of great talent, and it is more important than knowing his name and reputation. This is a troubled time, in the troubled times is the first, virtue is the second, as for the reputation, as for the appearance, as for the name, it can be regarded as an inconsequential trivial. β
"It doesn't matter if that person is a subordinate?" Peng Yi asked again. He asked for himself, because he angered Liu Zhang, and he was a subordinate disciple in his current identity.
"Does talent have anything to do with identity? I'm Jun, and I can decide who a person is. It's something in my own hands, what does it have to do with the talent I value? In the past, Yi Yin was a merchant for slaves, and Taigong became a Zhou master for Yusuo, did his past status reduce their talents? Although Zixu is not talented, he is also willing to follow Shang Tang and Zhou Wen to accept all talented people in the world for his own use. Li Sheng explained with a smile.
"The general is really the master. If you don't dislike Peng Yi as a disciple, then Peng Yi is willing to serve the general with the courtesy of his subordinates. Saying that, Peng Yi knelt in front of Li Sheng, and bowed in his mouth: "Guanghan Peng Yi Peng Yongyan greets the lord!" As he spoke, he was about to kowtow to the ground, but was held up by Li Sheng.
"It is a blessing for me to have eternal words! Why should Yongyan be so polite? Li Sheng said that when he pulled him up, he was very considerate to help him dust off the dust on his body: "In the future, you and I will be a monarch and a minister, Yongyan only needs to help me wholeheartedly, and I will try to avoid these false courtesies." It's too tiring to play tricks on this every day. β
"What the lord said, I am lucky." Peng Yi is also a wild person, so naturally he doesn't like this set of wordy and troublesome things very much.
It was getting late, and the four of them were all happy with the monarch and the ministers, so at the invitation of Li Sheng, the lord, they ate wine and ate in Li Sheng's residence. Therefore, Li Sheng was eager to arrange the plan, so he planned to convene the generals overnight to discuss the matter, because he did not drink the wine of the meal he ate with Pang Tong, Fa Zheng, and Peng Yi, but only ate a few cups, and then dispersed to beat the drums and gather the generals.
Li Sheng's army had its own strict general orders, which had been determined as early as the time of Xiping. At this moment, Li Sheng beat the drums to gather the generals, but the drums were not more than two links, and several generals under Li Sheng came to Li Sheng's front to listen to Li Sheng's orders.
Li Sheng hung the map on a high place behind him, and smiled slightly at these generals who were suddenly called over by him, but in a very calm voice, he told them about Peng Yi's judgment and his own judgment, and said: "Since Liu Yi's army is such an idea of flooding the army, then we should take the initiative to attack and give them the most violent blow when he is not finished and tries to confuse us with the preparation of the ferry." You must know that fire and water are ruthless, and once they build the embankment, we will die without a place to bury. β
"What the lord said is very true, but I am a little worried." As soon as Li Sheng's words fell, Zhao Yun over there reminded Li Sheng: "Then since Liu Sheng will come up with a strategy for suspicious soldiers, then he must also be worried that we will attack them." Now they have 60,000 horses, and if they build a dam with half of them, and defend the camp with other ordinary men, it will be very difficult for our army to make a surprise attack. In such a situation, please think twice. β
"What is this......" Li Sheng was asked, and it turned out that he had listened to Peng Yi's story. He was full of thoughts on how to solve Liu Bi's problem, and he didn't think much about Liu Bi's possible defense. In his opinion, Liu Bi must have pulled everyone to build the embankment, and it was impossible to defend his own camp at all. Therefore, as long as you launch an attack yourself, you will definitely be able to attack the city in one battle, which is a very simple thing to think. However, for now, it is not so simple - Liu Bi is not a mediocre general, and he is very likely to do the corresponding defense.
"Is there anything the general can do?" Li Sheng's face stiffened, and he just wanted to say this, but Peng Yi laughed when he heard it on the side. This made Li Sheng feel strange, so the words became: "Why is Mr. Yongyan laughing?" I think what Zilong said makes a lot of sense. β
"My lord." Peng Yilang smiled and arched his hand at Li Shengyi and said, "General Zilong is certainly very reasonable, but at this time, I think that such worries are impossible to realize. The lord and the generals are not from Sichuan, so they are naturally not familiar with the climate in Sichuan. The weather is so dreary at the moment that it can be expected that the heavy rain will only be a matter of a day or two. At present, Liu Bi is busy building the embankment, and all the 60,000 soldiers in his hands are still a little insufficient, where can he still have the heart to do defensive things? If it weren't for that, they wouldn't have done this suspicious plan so meticulously. β
"Do you dare to pack a ticket?" Li Sheng was still skeptical when he heard this.
"I'm willing to make a bet with my lord." Peng Yi looked at Li Sheng without flinching, and he was also very strong at the moment.
"In that case, I'll believe you once." Li Sheng stood solemnly and ordered loudly: "Zhao Yun! β
"In!" Zhao Yunshan's body was tall and profound.
"Order your 5,000 cavalry to be the vanguard of the starry night to attack Liu Xuan's camp, remember to prepare more things to ignite the fire, I want to see the west in Fucheng red in the middle of the night." Li Sheng quickly ordered, and then took out an order from the token sign and handed it to Zhao Yun.
"No!" Zhao Yun's answer was clean and powerful, he took the token from Li Sheng's hand, and after giving Li Sheng a military salute, he turned around without looking back to leave the house.
"General Huang." Li Sheng shouted loudly. For this master of his own, although he is different from a monarch and a minister at this moment, he still does not dare to call Huang Zhong's name directly, but only respectfully calls him "Old General Huang" - in Li Shengjun, only this Huang Zhong is called "Old General Huang".
"In!" Huang Zhong also stood in front of Li Sheng with great momentum.
"The old general can lead the army of the new battalion of 20,000, follow General Zhao and attack Liu Bi's army Dazhai in the starry night, and use a strategy to cover up and kill him." Li Sheng said the order, and also handed over an order to Huang Zhong.
"No!" Huang Zhong also responded firmly, saluted, and turned to leave.
"The rest of the generals will be followed by me with a large army, and there must be no mistake." This time, Li Sheng ordered all the people in this house, except for Pang Tong and Fa Zheng, because Li Sheng had another task assigned to them: "Shi Yuan and Xiaozhi led 20,000 troops to guard the city, and they all played under my banner, so that Liu Bi's detailed work could not find out the truth of our army's actions." β
"No!" Everyone bowed down to receive the order and paid the highest respect to Li Sheng with the military salute that Li Sheng had prescribed at the beginning.
Fucheng, which had gradually quieted down under the dark night, was once again full of hustle and bustle. The gates creaked open, and teams of soldiers and horses came out of the city and ran into the darkness. They did not raise the flag, nor did they beat the sound of the drums and horns, but they ran silently, and no one knew where their destination was, except for a few people.
As Li Sheng's order explained, the 5,000 cavalry led by Zhao Yun was the first wave. He quickly walked out of the city, running to the vast west, and did not know how many hours he had been running, but when the morning star of the sky had reached the west of the middle of the sky, he finally saw the large camp standing by the river in the dim darkness. The camp formed a semicircle that covered the entire riverside of the bank. Zhao Yun knew that this was his target enemy's camp.
"Looks like you're quite acquainted." Zhao Yun looked at it and thought like this, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, revealing a mocking meaning that seemed to be a smile but not a smile: "I just don't know what the fire performance of this camp is." Zhao Yun pondered for a moment, and didn't want to be too cautious about it, he put his finger in his mouth and whistled fiercely, and then led his men and horses like a gateway to a tiger descending the mountain, and rushed straight to the camp oppositeβthe camp was still silent at the moment, without a single light.
From far to near, the sound of horses' hooves gradually blended into a thunderous roar, and it didn't bring much to the people here. Perhaps they were too tired from working during the day, and the soldiers who had been sleeping soundly did not notice that the enemy was approaching outside the camp. This is true outside a hundred zhang, and within fifty zhang is no exception, even if Zhao Yun led the army to gallop within a hundred steps outside their gate, the camp was still as quiet as water.
It's kind of weird. Generally, this situation occurs for two reasons: first, the enemy has already prepared to use such an empty battalion to lure himself into the bait; The second is that the enemy is simply too tired and sleeps so dead that they have already arrived on their side, and they don't know anything about it.
"What's going on right now?" Zhao Yun was skeptical. Although it seemed more likely that the latter case was in his own judgment, he did not dare to confirm it anyway. So, Zhao Yun planned to use a trick to test whether the other party really slept so deeply, or set some kind of trap to wait for him.
"Shoot around the camp! With rockets! Zhao Yun quickly gave the order, and then under the running of the soldiers, the order reached everyone's ears.
The horse galloped, and the cavalry on the horse followed closely on the back of the horse, undulating with the height of the horse. The bow, the three-foot horned bow, had already appeared in their hands at some point. Right now, they are steering the direction of their horses with only one hand, and with the other hand the bowstring is hanging between their mouths. They began to draw arrows, and the long arrows drawn from a small bamboo tube at the back of the saddle were special arrows with white phosphorus wrapped in the front. At this moment, as soon as the arrow left the special bamboo tube containing half a jar of water, it spontaneously combusted. The flames danced brightly and hotly on the tarpaulin at the tip of the arrow. At this time, the cavalry even jumped to a high point with the war horse, which was a good opportunity to shoot, and the cavalrymen who had been trained for a long time were very bold to free up the other hand that was originally used to control the war horse, took off the horn bow from the mouth, quickly drew the bow and arrow, and shot the arrow that was burning with flames in this breath. For a while, 5,000 arrows with flames fell in Liu Xuanjun's camp like a meteor shower that pierced the sky, and the fire quickly spread in the camp. The scorching speed of burning can be seen directly with the naked eye, and it is obvious that there are many flammable materials hidden in Liu Xuanjun's camp.
"What the hell is going on? Is it a trap? Seeing that the fire was spreading so quickly, Zhao Yun was slightly stunned, but he was a little glad that he was cautious. However, this was fortunate to last for less than a moment, but Zhao Yun was a little anxious. Because he saw the countless shouting and wailing soldiers in Liu Xuan's camp running out of his own tent that was burning with fire. They panicked, some of them kept beating their bodies that had been burned by the fire, that miserable appearance, it didn't look like a disguise, nor did it look like an obvious victim - by this time, the whole camp was boiling, some people shouted, some people put out the fire, some people wailed, some died, everything was so real, so that Zhao Yun quickly overturned his original idea that this was a "trap".
"Maybe they accidentally put a lot of material in the camp to cause this situation?" Zhao Yun quickly found an explanation, and then quickly completed the transformation of his thoughts, and loudly ordered to the five thousand iron horsemen behind him: "Charge!" Horses trample on enemy camps! β
"No!" The cavalry under his command responded with a bang. If someone had excellent eyesight, they could see that the soldiers' eyes had turned red in the light of the fire. After several battles, they have become an old army, and at this moment they are exuding endless killing intent, and they are rushing through the Yuanmen that has been burned by the fire.
"Enemy attack!" The advance of Zhao Yun's cavalry made such voices resound in the camp one after another. Because of the sudden encounter with such a change, the whole camp was chaotic like a pot of boiling rice cereal, and no one organized to resist Zhao Yun's assault at all, and Zhao Yun himself also closely followed the main points of cavalry combat, in order to ensure that he maintained his own mobility, and did not aim to kill or injure the enemy, but only through his own movement, the enemy's already chaotic situation became worse, so that the other party could not form an effective resistance.
Under the dark curtain, in the firelight, there were human figures everywhere, and everywhere the cries of the enemy were heard. "Where exactly is the enemy? How many of them there are. The four generals of the Yizhou Army gathered together, staring at each other with big eyes, but they didn't know anything. The sudden attack made them feel stunned as well. The news that Li Shengjun had been confused by their suspicious soldiers had given them a higher estimate of their safety, and they were much more lax than they had been at the beginning in using a large number of soldiers to reconnoiter the area between Fucheng and the camp. Their reconnaissance was carried out during the day, and at night, the scouting soldiers, like the ordinary dam building soldiers, returned to the camp to rest. No one found out at all that Li Shengjun would actually rush for hundreds of miles in one breath at this night to attack the place where he was. This is their mistake, and the consequences of this mistake are now being borne by them.
"What should I do?" The shouting of killing was getting closer and closer, and Liu Bi obviously felt that the situation was critical, and he asked Wu Yi loudly with sweat on his forehead.
"What else can I do? In this situation, I can only run away. If it's any longer, I'm afraid we'll all be stuck here. Liu Wei said anxiously. At this moment, he has no courage at all, and he only thinks about running for his life. In his opinion, the war he experienced was not as passionate and romantic as he had heard about it on CD.
"Young master, you ......" Wu Yi became anxious, he felt that things had not come to such a bad point, so he still wanted to persuade Liu Wei. But when he saw that Liu Wei had already spread his legs and ran away, he rode away on the reins of the war horse handed to him by the guards above and below, and fled with him the five thousand Qiang soldiers under him.
"Damn it!" Liu Bi spit out this sentence fiercely. He sent it to the back of this Liu Wei.
"What should I do?" This time it was Wu Yi who asked Liu Wei.
"What else can I do? The general here is the eldest son, not us. And he also took so many people from the rear battalion, and made the morale of our army vulnerable, what else can we do? Withdraw, that's all there is to it now. Luckily, our camp is divided into several levels. Liu Bi shook his head helplessly, then turned around and left. He was already aware of the irreversibility of the battle at this moment. [bookid=3676858,bookname="The Legend of the Otherworld"]