The south gate of Xiapi City, because its city tower is all made of white building materials, it is called "White Gate Tower".

After the rain, a rainbow crosses the sky, colorful, gorgeous and colorful, like a dream, and it is very beautiful.

However, this rainbow is not well known to the world today, and very few people actually know its origin.

Therefore, despite its incomparable beauty, it is one of the most magical and beautiful beings in the world, but most people do not know how to appreciate its beauty, let alone that this natural wonder is extremely rare and precious.

Not only that, but it is also seen as a bad omen for the heavenly vision, believing that bad luck will befall the place where it appears.

Coincidentally, this rainbow appeared over the south gate of Xiapi City at this moment, because the heavy rain did not stop until the afternoon.

However, there are no absolutes.

While most people can't understand the rain over the rainbow, some people know how to appreciate its beauty and know its preciousness. It was he who stopped in the wilderness, quietly looking up at the brilliant rainbow, watching its color fade until it completely disappeared into the blue sky. The only person who knows how to appreciate the rainbow and is willing to postpone the war for it and stop to quietly admire its beauty is Li Li and Li Wenchang, the commanders of the Xiliang Army.

By the afternoon, after eight hours of bloody fighting, Xiapi City had fallen into the hands of Li Li, but not all. To be precise, most of Xiapi City is already under the control of the Xiliang Army, but there is still a small area and a small number of people who are still resisting. Moreover, this small remnant force also threatened to fight to the death. Claiming that if there is still one breath left, he will not sit idly by and watch Li Li occupy Xiapi City.

Review the process of Li Lili's army capturing Xiapi. Early this morning, when the rain was a little lighter, he ordered the besieging soldiers and horses to surround the city three times, and besiege but not attack. and the soldiers and horses of Lei Bo's troops in the city who captured the governor's mansion also withdrew. In this way, Lu Bu, who was defeated at the East Gate, mistakenly thought that the situation was not irreparable, and there was still room for maneuver. So after Lu Bu led more than 10,000 cavalry back to the city, he returned to the state pastoral mansion as soon as possible, and when they arrived, they happened to encounter Lei Bo's retreat.

Seeing that the rebels attacking the city took the initiative to retreat, Lu Bu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and ordered the army not to pursue. so as not to be ambushed by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. For the next two hours, Lu Bu's army was stationed around the governor's mansion, while he and his subordinates racked their brains to think of countermeasures to break through the siege. But in the end, there is nothing to be done.

Near noon, Lu Bu resolutely decided to lead his troops to break through the undefended south gate and retreat to Guangling. In his mind. As long as you can break through. He can gather the soldiers and horses of all counties, regroup, and gather all the soldiers and horses, so that he will not need to be afraid of the Xiliang army, and he is fully capable of fighting the Xiliang army head-on.

However, at the same time that Lu Bu led his troops to leave the state governor's mansion, the situation changed abruptly. Jia Xu, the left division of the Western Liang Army, led tens of thousands of infantry troops to the east gate of Xiapi City, and placed many siege ordnance in front of the battle, as if it was a large-scale siege posture. Seeing that the Xiliang army was menacing. The defenders of the East Gate were terrified, and even hundreds of soldiers abandoned the city and fled. As soon as it was out of control, the defenders of the East Gate ran clean in a moment, thus giving the East Gate to Jia Xu's army.

After easily taking the East Gate, Jia Xu immediately dispatched troops and divided his troops to capture the West Gate and the Prefecture Governor's Mansion. Immediately, Jia Xu's army drove straight in, and in less than half an hour, he wiped out more than 4,000 enemy troops, captured 5,000 or 6,000 surrendered soldiers, and conquered the state pastor's mansion.

After Li Li, who was stationed at the north gate, learned that Jia Xu had arrived with his army, he immediately divided his troops into two routes and launched a full-scale attack. Among them, generals such as Huan Fei, Ji Ling and Zhang Xun led 20,000 foot cavalry directly to the south gate, set up an ambush outside the city, and intercepted and killed Lu Bu's defeated army. The rest of the soldiers and horses were led by Li Li to go straight to the Prefecture Governor's Mansion, and fought with Jia Xu's army before and after, capturing most of Xiapi City in one fell swoop.

Sure enough, when Lu Bu learned that reinforcements from the Xiliang Army had arrived, he hurriedly led the army out of the south gate and tried to flee to Guangling. As a result, he was ambushed, and the armies of Huan Fei and Ji Ling, who were rushed to the south gate to set up an ambush, attacked head-on, and Lu Bu was defeated, and had to retreat to the south gate and defend the city.

However, Lu Bu, who retreated to the south gate, was not a good type, and brazenly ordered his soldiers to forcibly demolish hundreds of houses and block all the roads leading to the south gate in the city, thus transforming a large area south of Xiapi City into a relatively independent city within a city, that is, Nancheng. Subsequently, Lu Bu and thousands of remnants of his army defended the southern city, resisted stubbornly, fought the trapped beasts, and claimed that they would fight to the end and swear not to surrender.

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As the rainbow faded, the afternoon sun shone on the earth, and the outside of Xiapi City was lush and green.

Outside the south gate, in front of Li Lile's horse formation, on the left and right sides were Jia Xu, the left army division, and Guo Jia, the right army division, and more than 20 army generals behind him lined up in turn, and then there were 50,000 foot horses. And in the eyes of the defenders of the city, it is the banner hunting, the soldier Gosensen, as far as the eye can see, the city is full of dense Xiliang army, the military is like a prison, murderous.

"The lord waited for a while, and then the last general stepped forward and shouted, and let Lu Bu come out to answer!"

Huan Fei, who was standing behind Li Li, saw his lord looking at the south gate, and immediately raised the reins and rode his horse to shout, but was stopped by Li Li waving his hand.

"No need, don't speculate for more than half a sentence. Now, Lone and Lu Bu have nothing to say, so why bother! Li Li sighed softly. Huan Fei, Xu Chu and other generals changed their expressions slightly after hearing this, and a flash of joy flashed in their eyes, but they didn't dare to express themselves, because Lu Lingqi was beside them at the moment.

Obviously, generals such as Huan Fei and Xu Chu all have deep prejudices against Lu Bu, or they are deeply ashamed of what Lu Bu has done over the years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they hate it. It was because they were very worried that their lord would show mercy to Lu Bu's subordinates again this time, or they would cherish their talents, and they wanted to include Lu Bu in their accounts. But now after hearing Li Li's words, they couldn't help but feel relieved, and they could finally rest assured.

Since Li Li has nothing to say to Lu Bu, it means that Li Li has no intention of subduing Lu Bu. Since then, Lu Bu has died this time, and no one can save him, even if Lu Lingqi opens his mouth to plead, it is in vain. This is because Li Li is not a soft-eared person, he never takes a position lightly on many things, but once he shows his attitude, he cannot be changed, and no one can make him change his mind and take back his life. At this point, Huan Fei, Xu Chu and others were convinced, and they were sure that no one could make their father-in-law change his original intention.

Just when Huan Fei and the other generals were secretly happy, Guo Jia said softly: "Since the lord has no intention of talking to Lu Bu, there is no need to go to the south gate in person. At present, our army has besieged the southern city, and it only needs an order from the lord to completely destroy the entire southern city in less than two days, making it a ruin. Obviously, Guo Jia has completely different views from Huan Fei, Xu Chu and others, he doesn't think that Li Li's words just now are a public statement, but he feels that Li Li's words are insincere.

Li Li shook his head slightly, and said calmly: "Take another look, take a look at it less, and you should see off your old friend." Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer old people in the past, and most of the princes have been ambushed one after another, and now it is Lu Bu's turn. Lone has known him for many years, and now he has come to visit, and it is not in vain to get acquainted. Guo Jia looked surprised when he heard this, his eyes were quite dazed, so he turned his head and glanced at Jia Xu, but saw Jia Xu shaking his head slightly, and he was also unsure of Li Li's intentions.

However, there was a word in Li Li's words that made Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Huan Fei and others tremble, and their eyes flashed with brilliance. This extremely crucial but easily overlooked word is "lonely". In fact, they had heard this extremely special word from Li Li's mouth before, but they didn't care, it was just a mistake in their own father-in-law's speech. However, in recent times, they have repeatedly heard Li Li call himself "lonely", and they are very real at this moment.

Since ancient times, those who are qualified to be called lonely are emperors and generals. Since the first emperor ruled the world, it is the exclusive title of the emperor to call the lonely and widowed, and others resolutely dare not trespass, otherwise it will be a great crime of disrespect, and even will be labeled as a rebel and beheaded all over the house.

Fang today, if in terms of power status, there are only two people who are qualified to "call lonely", Li Li is the first, followed by Cao Cao, who is the prime minister of the Han Dynasty. However, even so, the two of them are still suspected of trespassing by calling themselves "lonely", which is equivalent to rebellion, as if they are plotting against each other, and hiding the will of the emperor.

As soon as he thought of this, Guo Jia couldn't help but think to himself, Huo Ran remembered that Li Li had called himself "Lonely" since the defeat of Yecheng. Suddenly, Guo Jia nodded to himself in understanding, and had already guessed Li Li's intention to call him lonely.

After the defeat of Yecheng, the morale of the whole army was low, and even the generals in the army were a little sluggish. At this time when the morale of the army is fluctuating, Li Li, as the commander of the whole army, his words and deeds directly affect the morale of the army. Because of this, after the defeat, Li Li was not depressed, but as calm and cheerful as ever, with a bright smile on his face at all times, and openly called himself lonely, unabashedly publicizing his imperial ambition in the world. This move seems to have little effect, but in fact it has a huge impact, and the most direct effect is to let the military generals who follow him at all times sweep away the spirit of decay and boost their confidence.

In fact, this inadvertent change had a very good effect, greatly boosting the morale of the generals and thus affecting the officers and men of the whole army. The capture of Xuzhou this time is a strong agent to reorganize the army's prestige, and to fight a turnaround battle cleanly, so as to boost the morale of the whole army, so that the officers and men of the whole army can come out of the haze of the defeat of Yecheng, regain their fighting spirit, and reproduce the iron-blooded majesty of the invincible division.

Just when Guo Jia was thinking about it secretly, Li Li's voice came to his ears again: "Han Xian and Yang Feng died on the battlefield last night, although they did not capture the East Gate, they still made great contributions. The affairs of the two of them were handed over to Fengxiao, and they were buried with their former officials and properly arranged their wives and children. ”

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