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In the silence of the barracks, occasional groups of patrolling soldiers walked by, and the sound of the carapace of the clashing of the armor leaves echoed the sound of the flood crashing on the shore below the heights.

In the imperial tent, Liu Bei was reading a book with candles, and the night was already deep, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

It's not that he doesn't want to sleep, it's that he can't.

Since last year, his body has been getting worse and worse, and the speed of aging is getting faster and faster, and the older this person is, the more he can't sleep.

"Ahem-" Liu Bei, who was watching the book, suddenly felt an itch in his throat, as if phlegm suddenly gushed up from his lungs.

The eunuchs serving beside him hurriedly offered the decoction prepared in advance to clear the lungs and throat, and Liu Bei poured several sips in a row, and the itching and pain gradually subsided, and the agitated breath improved.

Liu Bei let out a long breath, put down the scroll in his hand, put on his robe and walked out of the tent.

The imperial tent was built on the highest part of this highland, and the tent gate was facing Yecheng several miles away, standing here, Liu Bei could look down on the panoramic view of the highland.

Illuminated by the torches, the edge of the highland shimmered with scales, a fantastical glow reflected by the flood. The head of Yecheng City in the distance was brightly lit, and he looked far away, and even saw the shadow of the Wei army moving vaguely under the lights.

The water level in the high ground is already a little lower than yesterday, and it seems that after this large-scale rainfall, the water level of the flood will soon be gone, and the so-called "clever plan" of flooding the Zhanghe River that Fa Zheng came up with has not been able to achieve the expected results after all.

Perhaps, it is not that the strategy is not effective, but that the enemy's will to resist is far higher than Liu Bei's imagination.

'Cao Ying, Cao Ying, it's really time for you to wake up, you want to go against me, hmph, don't worry, I will definitely take your head sooner or later. ’

Just as Liu Bei sighed, suddenly, there was a loud bang from the bottom of the hillside, as if the mountain had collapsed.

The loud noise immediately alarmed Liu Bei, and he hurriedly sent someone to check what was happening.

And the loud noise also woke up the familiar soldiers, and the surrounding military tents immediately lit up, and the sleepy soldiers came out of the tents one after another, and when they saw the scene in front of them, not only their faces were swept away with sleepiness, but the whole person was also stunned.

What they saw was a large pit with a radius of three feet, and for some reason it suddenly fell, and the two military tents and dozens of sleeping soldiers fell together, and the onlookers could faintly see the sound of crying for help, and looked down by the firelight, and saw that in the deep bottom, the surviving soldiers were struggling in the earth and rocks.

"Your Majesty, it's not a big deal, it's just that the ground over there suddenly collapsed, and more than a dozen soldiers were trapped underneath." Sergeant Yulin, who was rushing back, reported to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei breathed a sigh of relief, but the look of alertness on his face turned into a suspicious expression.

This is a high ground far from the flood, and the ground is still solid, how could it suddenly fall?

The instinct of years of war made Liu Bei feel that something was not quite right, but for a while he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

When the fox was suspicious, suddenly there was a rumbling sound of collapse on the east side, and when someone was sent to investigate, it turned out that another piece of ground had collapsed.

"It's a coincidence that there are two sudden ground collapses." The suspicion in Liu Bei's heart became more and more intense.

Just when I didn't know what to do, the rumbling sound was like a toppled domino, one after another, and the pits appeared one after another in the south, south, west, and northwest, and the scope of the collapse was actually all over the entire highland where the camp was located.

"How so, what the hell is going on?" Liu Bei looked left and right, and saw that the camp was collapsing everywhere, chaos was everywhere, and the whole person turned from suspicion to consternation.

Before the words fell, only seven steps away from him, there was another roar, and a large tent collapsed with the collapsed south side, and a large pit more than three feet wide appeared, engulfing all the dozen or so soldiers who had no time to dodge around.

Seeing the athletes fall into the bottomless abyss, Liu Bei's expression suddenly changed, as if he realized something in a trance.

"Your Majesty, the camp is collapsing everywhere, and it is no longer safe here, so get on the boat and take shelter for the time being." Escort Chen Zhi shouted and ran over, as one of the commanders of the Yulin Army, protecting Liu Bei's safety was his most important duty.

"How can I abandon the army and leave, I will not leave." Liu Bei took care of the emperor's face, and stood still in place.

"Your Majesty, at this time, we can't delay it any longer."

At the same time as Chen Zhi was urging urgently, he felt that the ground under his feet began to vibrate, and it seemed that there was a tendency to collapse.

Seeing this dangerous situation, Chen Zhi couldn't care much, waved his hand, and shouted: "Come on, don't take Your Majesty away quickly." ”

After giving the order, he took matters into his own hands, and carried the persistent Liu Bei away with a few Yulin soldiers, and took him to the edge of the high ground without saying anything.

The collapse has reached the point of uncontrollable, the ground continues to settle, and there are constantly military tents and soldiers are swept into the bottomless abyss, and with the collapse of the ground, the surrounding flood began to invade the camp, and those Han soldiers who were lucky enough not to fall into the pit were swallowed up by the icy flood before they had time to rejoice.

The Beida Battalion, where more than 20,000 people were stationed, fell into endless panic.

………… Yecheng, a secret military camp.

Cao Ying anxiously waited for the news of Xu Yi and the hundred dead soldiers, he was not worried about the lives of the hundred people, he was worried that Jia Xu's plan was too dangerous, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to implement.

However, Cao Ying's anxiety disappeared with Xu Yi's appearance.

"Your Majesty, you're done!" Xu Yi, who climbed up from the bottom of the pit, shouted excitedly, his face was covered with mud, but it was difficult to suppress his excitement.

"Okay, great, worthy of being the son of a tiger idiot!" Cao Ying was also delighted, praising and patting the dirt off his body with his own hands.

Behind Xu Yi were the more than 100 dead soldiers, because the alley was narrow, only one person could pass at a time, and the situation of each person was different, so the soldiers came out slowly.

When the number of soldiers who came out was less than forty, the observation post at the head of the city, Pegasus, reported that the Han camp on the high ground northeast of the city seemed to be in chaos.

The heart hanging in Cao Ying's throat immediately fell, and he knew that Jia Xu's plan had succeeded.

In a moment of ecstasy, Cao Ying immediately ordered to immediately seal the tunnel.

Xu Yi was taken aback and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, there are still dozens of brothers behind who have not come out." ”

Cao Ying frowned and said categorically: "As soon as the thief camp falls and the flood overflows, it will definitely come to Yecheng along the underground passage, I can't wait, hurry, seal the pit mouth immediately!" ”

"But......" Xu Yi still wanted to intercede for the few brothers who had followed him for many years, but to no avail, the surrounding soldiers received an order from the emperor to fill the pit with the sand that had been prepared long ago.

Looking at the mouth of the pit that was gradually sealed, Xu Yi could only shake his head and sigh.

After supervising that the mouth of the pit was completely blocked to ensure that the flood would not pour into Yecheng along the tunnel, Cao Ying left with peace of mind and went straight to the northeast city wall.

At this time, the originally brightly lit Han camp was already dim, and Cao Ying's heart became more and more ecstatic.

Although he could no longer see the enemy camp clearly, Cao Ying could imagine the horrors that were happening in the darkness, and his eyes seemed to see the Han camp being swallowed up in the landslide, and countless Han troops were either submerged in the earth or drowned by the overflowing flood, and he even saw the familiar figure, the enemy of fate, struggling and wailing in the cold flood, and then, like the tens of thousands of Han soldiers, swallowed up by the vortex of death.

Thinking of this, Cao Ying couldn't help but laugh wildly, and there was a kind of pleasure in that laughter that was avenged and wronged.

"Liu Bei, Liu Bei, you are not my opponent Cao Mengde after all, haha-"

The arrogant and wanton laughter, accompanied by the night wind and the rolling tide, drifted towards the dark sky.

Liu Bei, who fled in the chaos, seemed to hear the familiar laughter from afar, and he couldn't help but look stunned and slightly sluggish as he fled.

"Your Majesty, the southern camp has been completely flooded, let's take shelter to the north."

Liu Bei's momentary fugue was awakened by Lie's anxious cry, and he raised his eyes to see that the entire camp had been divided into isolated islands by the only remaining lights, and the flood was pouring down the collapsed ground in all directions, and in the current, those soldiers who couldn't swim were struggling and wailing.

And those remaining islands are also sinking, and the surviving soldiers on the islands are more pitiful than those comrades who died in their sleep in an instant, because they have to wait for death to come while they are conscious.

Waiting for death is often more terrible than death.

Looking at such a hellish tragic situation, Liu Bei's heart swelled with a sourness.

It was only at this moment that Liu Bei realized that he had fallen into the game that Cao Ying had already laid out, he deeply regretted his light enemy, and he was dizzy after winning consecutive battles, completely forgetting that person was Cao Ying, and there were still many scheming people around him, how could he be slaughtered so easily.

But what makes Liu Bei painful is that he is just careless once, and he will face the threat of life and death, could it be that God's protection of my Liu Bei is over today?

Liu Bei, who was in pain and thought, could only let Chen Zhi lead his horse around to find a safe place.

He was unfortunate enough to fall for such an incredible plot as Jia Xu.

He was also lucky, because there was a loyal and agile general like Chen Zhi around him, so when more than 20,000 soldiers almost all died in the flooding, Chen Zhi took Liu Bei to avoid left and right, and actually escaped one danger after another, and escaped to the last piece of high ground that had not yet collapsed.

When Liu Bei could finally take a breath, he looked around, there was already an ocean, the Han camp and the highland of Nuoda no longer existed, only a piece of high ground less than seven or eight zhang long and wide under his feet, and twenty or thirty embarrassed soldiers. And the isolated island under his feet is also being swallowed up by the flood little by little.

Seeing this scene, Liu Bei couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "Could it be that I, Liu Bei, will I die here today?" ”

(To be continued)