Chapter 523: Consecutive Battles and Victories
Countless spears galloped in the sky, with the sound of whistling wind, towards Pingyin City, after a crisp sound, the handle of the gun did not enter the city wall, and even the city gate was full of holes.
The spear made of stainless steel is so sharp that even a strengthened city gate cannot resist it, and only the wall that is dozens of zhang thick can prevent the spear from penetrating in the middle.
In front of the city gate, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei waved their weapons vigorously, breaking all the spears within a few zhang, and ensuring safety within a certain range.
But there are too many spears and too dense, and even the top generals will feel struggling.
This is the advantage of numbers, ten hundred handles are nothing, and thousands of handles will cost people's lives.
"Look at the move." Suddenly, a soft drink sounded in the ears of the two, which made the two of them break out in a cold sweat.
It was Zhao Yun's voice, and I saw Zhao Yun riding a white dragon horse, quickly rushing past the galloping spear, and attacking the two of them in the gap of the spear.
The bright silver spear in his hand flashed with a piercing cold light, and before the silver spear arrived, the cold hair had already exploded.
"Ah, dead." In the face of Zhao Yun's sneak attack, Zhang Fei mustered up all his strength and roared out.
The huge sound wave shook all the spears in a straight line, and the powerful roar also made Zhao Yun withdraw directly, even he didn't want to bear Zhang Fei's full roar.
After the roar of "Huhu ......", Zhang Fei gasped violently, the roar just now consumed too much of his strength, and at least fifty percent of his physical strength roared out with the roar.
Guan Yu looked at Zhang Fei's appearance, the cold sweat on his forehead was slowly dripping, if it wasn't for Zhang Fei's outburst just now, at least one of them would be injured, or even if both of them were injured.
"Third brother, be careful." The Qinglong Glaive Knife in Guan Yu's hand slashed at Zhang Fei's neck, and seeing the position of the knife, it was clear that he wanted to behead Zhang Fei.
Hearing Guan Yu's shout, Zhang Fei decisively rolled on a lazy donkey, dodging another killing move from Zhao Yun, and with a crisp sound, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun stood up.
The purpose of Guan Yu's attack was to intercept Zhao Yun's silver spear, otherwise Zhang Fei, who had a lot of physical exertion, would inevitably be injured.
The attack of the two was very intense, causing death, especially Zhao Yun's attack, which was very fast, exceeding Guan Yu by several percent, making it very difficult for Guan Yu to resist.
Seeing this, Zhang Fei's Zhangba snake spear began to tremble, and he also joined the battle group.
The fierce battle of the three of them set off huge fluctuations, and the vibration of the intersection of weapons even shattered the spears flying in the sky, and the bodies of the three people stained with a little debris were all there.
"Boom. Boom. The fierce drum beat of the ...... heralded the attack of Li Yi's army.
Although the three of them fought fiercely for a long time, the sound still entered their ears, and after Zhao Yun heard it, the attack was even stronger, except for the ultimate move that was not opened, the strength was fully opened.
When Guan Yu and Zhang Fei heard the sound of drums, their anger soared, and they were also worried about whether Liu Beijun, without them, could resist the other generals in Li Yi's army, it seemed that Pingyin City would not be able to resist.
Gradually, there were fewer and fewer spears galloping in the sky, but on the contrary, the sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder, and several people had found that Li Yijun had approached the city wall in the interval of the battle, and some sledgehammer soldiers picked up the sledgehammer in their hands and began to attack.
Because the city gate is the battlefield of top generals, no soldiers came, but three people walked out of Li Yi's direction, and they were Li Yi's generals.
The addition of Zhou Cangguan Hai Shi'a made Guan Yu and Zhang Fei completely extinguish their desire to fight.
With the support of Liu Bei in the city, he barely got rid of Zhao Yun's entanglement, and then Liu Bei and the others began to draw a large army, opened the city gate on the other side, and fled quickly.
Liu Bei's escape allowed Li Yi to easily take Pingyin City, this battle was very short and fast, counting Zhao Yun's bluff at the beginning, it was less than an hour, an hour and a city, even if it was not unprecedented, it was also very amazing.
After taking Pingyin City, Li Yi was not polite, distributed the army to the city, wiped out all the remnants of Liu Bei's army, cleaned the battlefield, and handed over some clean houses to the soldiers to live in, so that the soldiers could have a good rest.
Two hours later, when it was completely dark, a bonfire rose in Pingyin City, and some of the energetic soldiers began to roast meat, laughing loudly around the bonfire, which was their way of celebrating their victory, and laughing to send off the soldiers who died in battle.
That's right, the soldiers who died in battle, and although the cavalry suppressed the defenses of the city walls with throwing guns, there were still some unlucky people who lost their lives, and many of them, at least thousands, died because of such things.
In a luxurious residence in the south of the city, Li Yi and several people sat together to start today's summary.
"My lord, the total casualties of our army are less than 10,000, and more than 9.5 million enemies have been killed, most of whom were killed by spears, but our army's weapons are very seriously worn, and some spears are still ...... within the city walls."
Li Ru's long-winded words made the generals except Zhao Yun yawn, but they didn't dare to say anything, so they could only listen patiently.
When Li Ru finished speaking, they came to the spirit, and it was time to kill where to kill tomorrow.
"Wait. Are the residents of the city counted? Li Yi interrupted Li Ru's next words, making everyone very puzzled.
Did they hurt the inhabitants of the city, why did the lord ask? Is something wrong?
"Lord, Liu Bei is very insidious, originally Pingyin City was a small city, with a population of about 50 million, but he fooled seventy percent, and the rest of the ten percent fled to other places, and the residents in the city are now only about 10 million, and the residents in the city are very afraid of us." Xi Zhi began to explain the information in the city.
When everyone heard this, they were very contemptuous of Liu Bei, Liu Bei was not very good at fighting, but he was still very strong in winning people's hearts, and he could deceive more than half of the residents, which was not something that ordinary people could do.
"Well, no wonder that's the case, okay, Wen You continued." After Li Yi finished speaking, he closed the city management system.
When he opened the management system, he found a big problem, not only in terms of population, but also in terms of people's support and construction resources, etc., which are very scarce, it seems that Liu Bei has made a move to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and almost completely evacuated Pingyin City, and the materials and population that were moved away must have been transported to Yizhou to strengthen himself.
This is a good way to weaken Cao Cao and strengthen himself, who let him start the latest, if he doesn't do this, how to catch up with Cao Cao.
But Liu Bei's approach made Li Yi suffer a lot of losses, originally these things were his, but now they have become Liu Bei's things, and the enemy is not what he wants to see.
After summing up, the generals all went to prepare, and the strategists were left behind by Li Yi and began to discuss the future of Pingyin City.
"Lord, I think Pingyin City will be left behind, because his location is very special, it is the only way to Luoyang, and this city is best in our hands." Li Ru's words gave Li Yi a little headache.
In his opinion, except for the state and county cities, other cities are useless, it is better to leave them to the player to take care of, and he draws taxes according to a certain percentage, which is the best way.
However, his idea is very undesirable in the eyes of historical figures, in their eyes, the city is a lord must have, and the more the better, this is the idea of the ancients, not something that can be changed overnight.
"What do you think?" Li Yi looked at Xi Zhicai and Jia Xu, wanting to hear their opinions.
After the two finished speaking, Li Yi only shook his head, and the answer that was similar to Li Ru's made him a little speechless, and finally used the killer weapon of the lord and ordered directly.
"Handing over Pingyin City to Yiren to take care of, not only Pingyin City, but also other cities that have been laid, the entire Sili, except for Luoyang and the six county towns, are handed over to Yiren." Li Yi's order made the three of them look a little embarrassed.
wanted to refute, but Li Yi's next words calmed them down.
"Now that I have occupied Youzhou and merged with the state, and more than half of the divisions, such a huge territory, has long made the low-level officials insufficient, if every city is included in the hands, it will delay the pace of dominating the world, this is not what I want to see, for the whole world, it is nothing to give up some small cities, don't give up more for the sake of small profits."
Li Yi's words made the three of them think deeply, although Li Yi's words were a bit tricky, but this was exactly what they were willing to hear.
Which subordinate does not want the lord to be ambitious, only if the lord has a goal, they can play better as a strategist.
After that, it is up to whom Pingyin City will be handed over, and to that legion or individual.
After a night of negotiations, the next day Li Yi's army directly pulled out and handed over Pingyin City to others, and it was a player who took over the city lord of Pingyin City.
The name is "Lucky Home Run", he is the commander of a medium-sized army, he has been following Youzhou after Li Yi is strong, and he is one of Li Yi's irons, although his strength is not strong, but he can also manage a small city well.
When he knew that Pingyin City was going to be handed over to him, he was very surprised, and when Dauntless gave him the contract, he was stunned for a long time, if it wasn't for Dauntless who couldn't catch up with the battle and woke him up, I don't know when he would wake up.
Li Yi's approach has attracted more small and medium-sized legions, although he knows that he can't be as lucky as a "lucky home run", but everything has to talk about luck, and no one can stop luck when it comes.
In the remaining days of April, Li Yi won consecutive battles, killing Liu Beijun and retreating, losing more and more cities, but Li Yi was not happy at all.
Because Liu Bei's approach is too shameless, the faster Li Yi fights, the more people he abducts, judging from the eighty percent of Pingyin City, there are still more left, like Beiqu City, which directly became an empty city, making Li Yi's face cold and cold.
Gradually, Li Yi's army is about to reach Luoyang, as long as Luoyang is taken by Li Yi, then the entire Sili basically has no line of defense, Liu Bei also knows this, he has enough of population materials, and it is time to fight seriously.
After several days of exploration, he had a general understanding of Li Yijun's combat effectiveness, and Xu Shu and Pang Tong also made an analysis, although the chance of victory was small, but with the help of the Luoyang Imperial Capital city wall, he was seventy percent sure of defending against Li Yi's attack.
For this reason, Liu Bei gathered all the armies of the rest of the city to Luoyang and made a decisive battle.