The sound of "Ding ......" sounded helplessly again, once again causing the already exhausted Shixie army to retreat like a tide. It's been two days since the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info, except for the first temptation, it's been two days since they officially launched the attack. In the past two days, they have beaten all three walls of Huai'an, and the number of attackers used each time is at least 15,000 or more, and the equipment used in the attack, although it cannot be compared with the princes of the Central Plains, is not as simple as the first temptation.

Every time they thought that with a little more strength they could take the damn stone of Huai'an City, and then enter the city to enjoy all the good things, but each time they came with excitement and went away with exhaustion. Although Huai'an's city defense was lost again and again under the attack, he still stood there firmly under the insistence of Yang Lei and other defenders. In the past two days, they have sacrificed nearly 5,000 brothers under Huai'an City, but the hope of breaking through Huai'an City is like an extremely thin white veil that can be seen at a glance, but it is like the thick steel plate that people can't break through. The successive setbacks in the attacks had already dealt a great blow to the morale of the Shixie army, who were no longer as brave as they were on the first day, and there was already a lot of confusion in their eyes.

"Big brother, we have to change this situation. Although on the surface, we can take Huai'an with a little more effort, which will only take three or five days at most, but the actual situation is that Huai'an City's defense is much more solid than we imagined. With Li Shengjun in Changping on our flanks, it is impossible for us to stay here for long. If it only takes more than ten days to attack Huai'an, I am afraid that our people and horses will face the danger of being flanked by the enemy. You must know that Huang Zhong still has about 15,000 Shanyue troops in his hands, and these people are Li Sheng's elites, and they are the men and horses who followed him and Cao Cao in Chibi. The day's battle was over, and the battle situation without any progress gave Shi Yi a headache, and he decided to persuade his brother to make some changes to the current decision to attack Huai'an City, and not to hold on to this city. In his opinion, the act of holding on to Huai'an City is undoubtedly a dead end.

"What do you think?" Shi Xie, who was looking at the map under the oil lamp, looked up, his hair and bloodshot eyes that looked a little messy without his helmet made him look very different from the demeanor he had when he met with Li Sheng. In fact, he didn't want to do this, but the chaos of the battle situation and the pain of not being able to take revenge when he saw that the killer was in front of him made him so upset that it was really difficult for him to have any other mind to get his current appearance right.

Shi Xie is not unclear about what his brother said, but how to solve this mess? Do you want to break through Huai'an City with more strength? I don't know how many more days it will be wasted. The time it takes to move is the same as the time it takes the enemy to mobilize troops and horses to surround him. If Li Sheng's side really had any plans, then what he did under Huai'an City undoubtedly gave Li Sheng the opportunity to surround himself. So just like this, first withdraw the order to Tutafa? It might be a good idea, but is that? Shi Xie was a little reluctant.

"It's hard to decide." He sighed heavily and looked at his strategically ill brother: "Brother, how do you think we should deal with this battle situation right now?" ”

"I think we should put on hold on to the siege of the city. After all, Changping, Anguang, and Huai'an Shangcheng are a triangular situation. Two of the three cities are on the other, and Huai'an and Changping can be each other's horns. Now that my whole army is pressed here, the emptiness of the rear is really very worrying to me. Shi Yi glanced at his father-in-law lightly and whispered his suggestion: "The eldest brother is saying that he is avenging his nephew, but the actual situation is that we fell out with Li Sheng because of this." Therefore, the eldest brother should not only focus on the corner in front of him, but should look further. The situation in Jiaozhou as a whole should be directly followed. ”

"The situation in the whole Jiaozhou?" Shi Xie was startled and his eyes widened. Attacking Huai'an would mean breaking with Li Sheng, something he had realized at the beginning of his army. It's just that when he realized this, he focused all his energy on how to avenge his eldest son, and he didn't think much about how to open the chessboard of Jiaozhou in the entire Jiaozhou, seize Jiaozhou for his family, and thus become a prince. Although things have come to this point, there is no room for him not to think about it.

"Brother, please keep talking." Shi Yi's words undoubtedly woke up Shi Xie's heart that was blinded by hatred, and suddenly his thoughts became active, and his horizons suddenly widened.

"Fear of being hit back and forth is our weakness. And once we get the hang of it, take advantage of it a little. On the contrary, this may become the key to our army's victory. Shi Yi said with a smile: "The army brought by Li Sheng is a total of 20,000 people, which is the strongest combat effectiveness in the entire Jiaozhou except us." In order to defend Changping, Li Sheng put 15,000 of the 20,000 people there. If we can eat these 15,000 people in one go, it should be easier for me to capture Jiaozhou. ”

"Eat these fifteen thousand?" Shi Xie's eyes widened, and his face was full of disbelief: "How do you eat them?" They are all hiding in Changping City. You won't let us ignore this Huai'an City and turn around and attack Changping. Want to come to Huai'an City like this, let alone Changping? It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate. Shi Xie shook his head repeatedly.

"It's naturally inappropriate to attack Changping, which is heavily defended, but what if it's just a field battle with the other party, and ambush the other party on the way that the other party intends to encircle Wei and save Zhao?" Shi Yi smiled and narrowed his eyes, a ray of light appeared in his eyes that seemed to be closed, but with a deep chill, "The journey from Changping to Anguang is much more familiar than the other party." It's not hard to find a place to ambush each other. ”

"That's true, but are you so sure that the other party will do this trick to save Zhao? Will they definitely rescue this Huai'an City? I heard that the army in Huai'an City and the army in Changping have not yet been unified. Shi Xie was still a little hesitant. Because the master of the army in Huai'an City is Han Xuan, and the army in Changping City is Li Sheng's own descendant. Will Li Sheng do his best for such a small Huai'an City? It was a thankless decision. After all, no matter how much you rescue, only those 1,500 people will be saved in the end. Mobilizing ten times as many troops for the sake of fifteen hundred men, such a decision was made by Shi Xie, who thought he could not do it. It was because he expected his brother's affirmation of this.

"If Li Sheng wants to take over the world, he will not sit idly by and watch his brother's slaughter of Huai'an." Shi Yi said affirmatively, completely ignoring his brother's slightly changed face when he heard him say this: "In today's world, all those who have great ambitions have their own ideas: Cao Cao's idea is to sweep away the troubled times and dominate the world; Liu Bei's proposition was to support the Han dynasty and revitalize the rivers and mountains; Sun Quan's proposition is to protect the territory and the people, and to defend the south of the Yangtze River; As a newly rising force, if Li Sheng wants to participate in the chess game of the world, he must also have his own call, that is, to abide by benevolence and righteousness and put the people first. You can say that he is really righteous or hypocritical. Anyway, up to now, the policies he has implemented in Changsha are not for the sake of those small people. Let the people get rich first, and then drive the prosperity of their own forces, which is what makes him different from other places. Do you think that such a person who values the small people would allow his subordinates to do the slaughter of the city? Knowing more about Li Sheng, the more I admired this young man. ”

"Brother, are you accusing me of not ordering the slaughter of the city?" Although Shi Yi did not explicitly say this in his words, Shi Xie undoubtedly heard a little bit of this taste from the faint affection that Shi Yi showed to Li Sheng.

was really silent for a long time, and then Shi Yi nodded: "Yes, big brother......"

"Yes?" Shi Xie smiled very sadly, "I didn't expect it...... Unexpectedly, my dearest brother could not understand what I was doing. Don't you know what Hui'er's death means to me? ”

"I know." Shi Yi nodded slightly, he looked at his eldest brother's bitter face, and naturally felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart, but he was still a ninja, and he felt that he still had to say something: "I can understand my eldest brother's mood very well, and I also understand why my eldest brother did this." If the person who killed Hui'er was from another county, I naturally wouldn't persuade you to stop. But Huai'an is also my Jiaozhou local, and its people are also the people of my Jiaozhou, if the eldest brother insists on this, I am afraid that I will lose the hearts of the people of Jiaozhou. ”

"The hearts of the people? How much is the people's heart worth? Shi Xie couldn't listen to this, and shouted angrily. Only when you really experience it can you understand how sad that heart-rending pain is. Originally, Shi Xie had always looked down on Cao Cao's kind of slaughter of the city, thinking that it was purely the act of the butcher devil, but now, when he really lost his son, he understood what the annoyance and pain of his relatives dying unexpectedly was. Therefore, he was just on his belly, and he could not listen to the persuasion of his brother. Although he also understands that what his brother said also has a reason.

"Brother, don't persuade me. Without crazy venting, the fire in my heart really can't be extinguished. You might as well discuss with me how to solve this problem at hand. With a wave of his hand, Shi Xie turned the subject away. He didn't want to be entangled with his brother anymore, because that would not do him any good.

"Well, well." Shi Yi sighed, then turned his gaze to the map on Shi Xie's case, and began to explain the plan carefully: "I plan to ...... like this"

The lights in the camp went out, and a team came out of the camp and quietly ran into the night, disappearing.

*****

The mountains and forests of the unitary period are full of the strange beauty of the time when yin and yang are at the junction. The golden sunlight in the sky sprinkled like smooth silk threads, making the huge mountain as if it were covered with golden silk cloth. The gold of the evening and the gold of the morning are different, the gold of the morning is as happy and cheerful as a newborn baby, and the gold of the evening is full of luxury and grace like a calm old man.

The scenery is so beautiful, but the people walking on the mountain path are not in the mood to appreciate such beauty. Although they secretly cheered in their hearts for the appearance of the sun in the sky, all this only made their march smoother. After all, without the pouring rain that covered the sky, the road on the ground was still muddy, but the field of vision became wider, allowing people to see distant existence.

More than 10,000 troops walked on the mountain road in this forest, and the sound of feet stepping on broken leaves became the only melody in this forest. As the saying goes, "there are more than 10,000 people and horses, boundless", although the one walking in the mountains and forests at the moment has not really reached the point of boundlessness, but because of the narrowness of the mountain road, the team is several miles long. From a distance, it looks like a giant python circling along the mountainside, full of majesty that cannot be looked up to. This majesty comes from the momentum of their troops, from the agility of their movements, from the strength of their leaders.

Huang Zhong is the number one general in Li Sheng's army, this is an unquestionable fact. Even if Li Sheng's brother-in-law Zhao Yun can fight to a draw with Huang Zhong, even if Wei Yan, who has not seen him for many years, creates such an admirable situation in Runan, it cannot shake Huang Zhong's position in Li Sheng's army at all. This is not for any other reason, but because of Huang Zhong's ability, qualifications, and contributions to Li Shengjun.

Because of these, Li Sheng trusted Huang Zhong unusually much, and he would directly hand over most of the troops in his hands to him. This is very rare, among so many generals under Li Sheng, there is only Huang Zhong who can command more than 10,000 troops in a grand manner.

“…… That's a bit of a heavy responsibility. Huang Zhong looked at the boundless team in front of him and behind him, and muttered to himself. The greater the trust, the greater the right and the greater the responsibility. As a veteran, Huang Zhong naturally understands this. When his lord Li Sheng handed over the fifteen thousand soldiers into his hands, he clearly felt the weight of this courage.

"You need to be careful and careful in everything you do, and you have to think from all angles about every situation. After all, this is fighting in a place where you don't know your life. After the burden was pressed, Huang Zhong always warned himself so cautiously. Because he understands what the 15,000 people in his hands mean to the lord who only has a total of 20,000 troops on the southern expedition, "If the 15,000 people here are disabled by the enemy, it means that the failure of the lord's southern expedition means that the situation in Jiaozhou, which has been stabilized, will undergo new changes." This is undoubtedly a trouble for the great cause of the lord. Thinking of this, Huang Zhong looked up at the sky that was gradually becoming clearer, and couldn't help complaining in his heart: "This thief God, won't you make the rain rain longer?" Unlike ordinary soldiers who always look forward to sunny days, Huang Zhong really hopes that the rainy days will continue, because the heavy rain is definitely a very wonderful cover for the team he commanded to sneak attack An Guang.

"Trouble." Huang Zhong whispered. Riding on the horse, he gently stroked the snow-white beard under his chin, thought for a moment, and quickly gave an order: "The whole army is slow, send all the Hou to me, and patrol farther." In such a place, it is better to spend a longer time and walk slower, and you also need to give me a good future. ”

"Is it necessary? Wouldn't that be a little too cautious? The order was given, and Hou Xun set off quickly, and there was a commotion in the army. They were still a little puzzled by Huang Zhong's approach. In their opinion, they have only crossed the river into the mountain not long ago, and they are still far away from their destination Anguang, so it is really unlikely that they will encounter an ambush by the enemy, not to mention that there is still a steady stream of information coming from Huai'an, saying that Shixie's army is still attacking the city day and night. Where would they have thought of us their hometown? The lieutenant generals in the army objected to this as the commander-in-chief.

"Don't say it's too cautious. Right now, we are in a place of crisis, and we are in a place of extreme danger. If the enemy really lays down here, it will be difficult for our army to escape from the Ascension. Strange soldiers, strange soldiers, as strange soldiers, we are most afraid of the enemy who is also a strange soldier. Don't underestimate the world. Huang Zhong sighed and waved his hand, still insisting on his opinion: "Shi Xie is also a hero, is it possible to deal with the overall situation with only one tendon for the present?" ”

"This ......" the crowd was speechless. If they want to say that Shi Xie is just a straw bag with no ability, they will not believe it. After all, the Shi family's large foundation in Jiaozhou was laid by Shi Xie alone. Maybe he is not as good at leading troops as Lord Liu Biao, but at least in terms of employing people and planning the overall situation, he is not much worse than a Wenchen like Lord Liu Biao. “…… Remember, it is impossible for people without ability to survive in this troubled world, so you should not underestimate any opponent in front of you......" In an instant, they all remembered what their lord had warned them at the beginning, and they all blushed with shame, lowered their heads, and were silent.

The advancing army was thus slowed down. In the woods, which were gradually darkening, they did not light the torches, but the former took the latter's arm and moved slowly. Hou Zhen had already been dispatched, and with their unique sensitivity and swiftness as Shanyue people, they explored within the two miles of the mountain road where the army was moving, and constantly reported all kinds of situations to Huang Zhong, so that the old and cautious general gradually had a clear judgment of his future.

For the entire two hours from the time of unitary time to the time of the second hour, Huang Zhong's army was spent in extreme nervousness. Walking on this winding mountain road, both eyes were pitch black, there was no light in front of them, and they were not allowed to say those easy words, and the fear of the unknown directly shook their hearts. If it weren't for the rigorous training in Li Sheng's army earlier, I'm afraid they would have scattered and fled long ago. How unbearable such silence, boredom, and boredom are for a person, Huang Zhong knows very well. To be honest, for all this now, even if he is as strong as others, he really can't stand it, if he doesn't have a responsibility in his heart, I'm afraid he will also escape.

"I really admire these people." Looking at the team in front of him and behind him, with his keen eyes to capture the resoluteness on the soldiers' faces, Huang Zhong was full of admiration for these ordinary soldiers walking beside him, and even sighed more and more about the wisdom of his lord, "Everything in the past turned out to have a reason. ”

"My lord, the future is worry-free, ten miles ahead is a small valley, which can be used as a camping place for our army." The repulsion sent by the vanguard continued to report the road conditions ahead to Huang Zhong's side, which made Huang Zhong's always vigilant heart a little calmer.

"Hold on a little longer. As long as you cross this mountainside, you can rest and camp. The rare Huang Zhong shouted a loud order. Although the sergeants below did not complain, he could see their exhaustion in their slightly cloudy eyes. So, he said it out loud, intending to make them cheer up a little more and hold on a little longer.

When everyone heard this, they were shouting at each other for a while, and they were also cheering. Although they had secretly suppressed their voices, otherwise their cheers would have become louder, the sound of tens of thousands of people rising at the same time still resounded with a roaring echo, which suddenly startled countless birds in the forest.

The valley is not big, and it can accommodate the ten thousand people in Huang Zhong's hand, it is not so steep, the surrounding mountains are higher, but there is a gentle slope that can lead obliquely to the top of the mountain. There is a forest on the mountain, so dense that I don't know how many people can hide, and there is a stream in the valley, cool and clear, so that the soldiers who have walked for a day can feel that comfortable existence from afar.

"Set up your own camp, you can sell pots and cook rice to treat your belly. Well, if you still have some strength to go to the stream to soak in the cool, soak in the cool, and go to the summer heat of the day. "It was already on the ground, and it was so quiet all around, and it was not surprising that there was no sign of human activity, and the soldiers, who had been tired for a day, naturally relaxed. Although the officers above had not yet called for disbandment, they still stood up straight, but their tense heads inevitably became a little out of shape and deserted.

Although Huang Zhong had thought of this idea in the hearts of the soldiers, he had no intention of doing it immediately. Looking at the suddenly enlightened terrain in front of him, what he estimated in his heart was not how to quickly set up camp and let the entire team be repaired, but how to quickly control this area in the portrait, so that he could take the lead in a battle that he didn't know if it would break out.

"Be careful and don't go wrong. Even if it is an adventure, it must be done with caution. As a veteran, Huang Zhong can talk to the young and mature Zhuge Liang, and he is naturally influenced by the military advisor who emphasizes caution in his words and deeds. Sitting on his mount, he raised his eyes and looked at the mountains on both sides, and he suddenly ordered his subordinate Shara: "You bring me my men and horses to search the mountains on both sides for me, and then set up two outposts on the mountain for me." We're tired from marching these days. It's not that far from Anguang, and I'm going to spend a day here before I set off. ”

"Yes!" Sha Lei nodded in response. He is a Shanyue person, a Shanyue person who refuses to submit defeat in front of the Han people. Although he followed his leader and followed Li Sheng, he still did not give up his dignity as a Shanyue person. He believed that the Shanyue people were definitely much stronger than the Han people in warfare. He didn't tell others about this cognition, but deliberately told himself in his usual silent actions that he had to complete everything properly. Although he was already very tired at the moment, since the general above had given such an order, he naturally didn't want to be looked down upon, so he immediately agreed in one breath.

The team rushed out and disappeared into the darkness of the mountain forest. Looking at their backs, which were gradually becoming blurred, Huang Zhong let out a long sigh of relief, but he did not order the dissolution of the team standing in place. "Now is not the time for them to disband." Huang Zhong thinks so.

Waiting is undoubtedly painful, especially in the utter silence of darkness. Looking at the dark world and listening to the unique sound of the wind in his ears, Huang Zhong sometimes longed to pray that God would open his eyes and send a large number of enemies and unexpected events to him, so that he could relieve this painful wait. Of course, this can only be imagined, in fact, if there is a real enemy, he will definitely complain about why he thinks the way he does. It's not that he's afraid of the enemy, it's that his army is tired and it's not right to encounter the enemy.

However, "there are nine times out of ten that things in the world are unsatisfactory", I don't know if Huang Zhong's fleeting delusion moved the heavens, or if God didn't like Li Sheng's pacification of Jiaozhou so easily, in short, at the moment when Huang Zhong and his men were most tired, they confronted the enemy, the group of enemies who had been in ambush for a long time.

Shouts of killing sounded on both sides of the valley, and just as Huang Zhong instinctively reacted and ordered his soldiers to set up a defensive formation, Sha Lei rushed down the hillside with hundreds of embarrassed routs, followed by countless torches and unknown enemy soldiers lurking in the mountains and forests.

"Enemy...... They had already laid an ambush on the mountain. Sha Lei, who had finally escaped with his life, rushed to Huang Zhong, and before he had time to catch his breath, he briefly explained the enemy's situation: "It was Shixie himself who commanded the army, and I saw his brown handsome banner. ”

"What?" Huang Zhong couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: "Isn't Shixie still under Huai'an City?" How could he? "He felt that something was wrong. After all, Shi Xie had a full army of 30,000 in his hands, and even if he put some of his men and horses there in order to contain the location of Huai'an City, the team he himself brought here would definitely be more than 15,000. "The main general's banner is full of heavy soldiers", this is common sense, and Huang Zhong doesn't think that Shi Xie will violate this common sense at all.

"What should I do?" Looking at the enemy's troops coming from top to bottom, Huang Zhong thought anxiously about this question in his heart, "The enemy has more troops than us, and they are waiting for work, so it can be said that we are left in terms of strength." At the moment, the only thing we can fight with them is to cooperate with each other. Luckily, we found out where they were before we set up camp. If they take it while we are encamping, I am afraid that we will be defeated. Well, that's a blessing in disguise. Thinking of this, Huang Zhong's mood recovered slightly, he looked at the enemy who had not lined up the formation but rushed down all over the mountains, and a strange smile was slightly lifted on the corner of his mouth: "Let's see who is stronger." Although you can be regarded as waiting for work, but the rain of the day must have consumed a lot of your energy, and I would like to see how much strength you still have to spend with us after a day of rain. ”

"The whole army is arrayed in a ladder, scattered to meet the enemy." Huang Zhong commanded loudly. In the silence of the night, this clarion became an unusually striking existence.