Seeing that Lu Yi had adopted his strategy, Zhou Yu turned around and left without saying a word.
Zhang Hong and others looked at each other.
Lu Yi said: "Don't worry about him, everyone can go about their business!"
Everyone responded in unison.
After Huang Gai left Shu County with five thousand soldiers and went to Shiting Road to set up an ambush, at noon that day, while Lu Yi was having dinner with Sun Ren, Lu Xun, Lu Ji, Zhu Ran, Zhou Fang and others, he ran outside A soldier came in and said breathlessly: "Old General Cheng is here to report that Ji Ling's army is less than twenty miles away!"
"The number of enemy troops is not only 30,000, but probably around 40,000!"
The soldier's words made Lu Xun, Lu Ji and more than a dozen teenagers stop eating one by one, with some panic on their faces.
forty thousand?
Ten thousand more than thirty thousand!
Thirty thousand is enough.
This forty thousand is too scary.
The total of all the defenders in the city, including the 6,000 Lujiang soldiers who surrendered before, is just 10,000!
Moreover, these prisoners may rebel at any time!
Lu Xun and other young men all looked at Lu Yi.
They have the idea of retreating.
Lu Yi also secretly took a breath.
The attack of so many enemy troops is indeed scary.
However, in this current situation, there is no room for retreat.
Once they retreat and lose Shu County, they can only watch Cao Cao and Lu Bu encroaching on Yuan Shu's territory.
How is this different from the original history?
How could Lu Bu be Cao Cao's opponent?
This also means that we have to face the powerful Cao Cao again.
Lu Yi stood up.
He definitely didn't want to see this situation.
If he couldn't even deal with Yuan Shu, he couldn't imagine facing Cao Cao!
Defeating Yuan Shu's army is a good start for facing Cao Cao's army in the future!
Lu Yi walked outside and said, "Notify everyone to go up to the city wall and prepare to defend the city."
Lu Yi himself, with Lu Xun, Lu Ji and a dozen other young men, left the government office first and rushed to the city wall.
The originally empty Shuxian City was now filled with people coming and going.
They are all soldiers guarding the city.
These city defenders gathered from all directions.
Someone moved the stones up the city wall.
Someone was refining gold juice at the foot of the city wall.
Someone ran to the fortifications on the city wall for a final inspection of the fortifications.
Cheng Pu led a group of generals and constantly encouraged the defenders on the city wall.
Seeing Lu Yi coming up, Cheng Pu came forward and said to Lu Yi with a serious face: "There are more people than the intelligence received earlier! It seems that this time Ji Ling set out from Hefei, it was Qingcheng. If we can If we hold on, then Zhou Yu's plan is likely to succeed, and we are likely to easily win Hefei."
"but--"
Cheng Pu did not continue.
But Lu Yi knew what he was going to say.
What Cheng Pu wanted to say was that what he was afraid of was not being able to hold on to this wave.
The enemy's strength is four times our own!
A large number of troops on our side are still prisoners, and there is a possibility of rebellion.
In such a dangerous situation, the outcome is unpredictable.
Lu Yi patted Cheng Pu on the shoulder and said, "Do your best and obey fate."
Cheng Pu nodded.
Not long after, Zhang Hong, Zhuge Jin, Wei Jing and other civil servants also rushed over.
Shu County is almost an empty city.
The common people had been exposed by Lu Yi before.
What is left now are only some old, weak, sick and disabled people who cannot leave and cannot help at all.
Therefore, even if they are civil servants, they have to go to war at this moment.
Once Shu County cannot hold on.
The consequences could be disastrous.
Zhang Hong, Zhuge Jin, Wei Jing and other civil servants followed Lu Yi.
Wherever Lu Yi goes, they go.
Towards evening, outside the originally peaceful Shuxian City, a piercing scream made everyone tense up.
"coming!"
Everyone looked to the north.
On the horizon, a thin black line appeared strangely, spanning half of the sky.
No one dared to make a sound.
Lu Yi also looked extremely ugly.
This scene is comparable to when he led his army to assist Xuzhou under the orders of Governor Lu Kang and faced the siege of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's coalition forces in Tancheng!
The difference is that at the beginning, Liu Guanzhang was the one who made the decision, and he was just a supporter.
Liu Guan and Zhang are both veterans of the battlefield.
Now, it is you who calls the shots!
Moreover, on his side, there is no strong general like Liu Guanzhang.
Although Cheng Pu is also a veteran on the battlefield, how does he compare with Liu Guanzhang?
But now in this situation, he can no longer think too much.
As time progresses little by little, the black line on the horizon gradually enlarges, turning into enemy troops all over the mountains and plains!
At a glance, there is no end in sight.
Behind Lu Yi, Zhang Hong seemed to have aged more than ten years instantly.
Under his thick beard, his mouth was trembling slightly.
So many enemy troops.
This terrifying momentum.
He never imagined that it was possible for him to defend the city!
Thinking that he was going to die in battle today, Zhang Hong couldn't help but feel a little cold inside.
Lu Ji and several other young men's legs and feet were trembling.
Cheng Pu looked at Lu Yi seriously and said, "Lord."
Lu Yi took a deep breath, nodded and said, "Notify everyone to prepare for battle!"
Cheng Pu then left quickly and kept giving orders.
The generals who were originally following him also dispersed and stood at their respective posts.
Xu Sheng, Ling Cao, and Zhou Tai each took a hundred dead men, and they also left Lu Yi and dispersed.
Shi Huan divided the eight hundred Danyang elite into three teams.
He led fifty people himself, and together with Nangong Yan, protected Lu Yi, Lu Xun and others.
The others divided into two teams to help defend the city.
The army outside the city quickly approached.
Finally, they stopped about two hundred steps outside the moat.
Ten square formations: spearmen, swordsmen, archers, slingers, and siege ladders, all available.
Especially the twenty tall catapults, like giant beasts from the wild, with their mouths wide open, ready to devour anyone at any time.
Lu Yi thought about the war games he played before time travel, and the one he disliked the most was the catapult.
Now, when facing these catapults, he felt the trembling from his soul!
Not long after the army stopped outside the city, a dozen generals rode forward on their war horses.
The leader was known to Lu Yi.
Surprisingly, it was Ji Ling who had led an army to attack Ou A before!
Ji Ling rode a tall horse and led his generals straight to the edge of the moat.
Looking up at Lu Yi and others on the city wall, Ji Ling roared: "My dear Lu Yi, I remember that when you came back from Xuzhou, His Majesty received you cordially and gave you a huge amount of wealth. Now, this white-eyed wolf wants to repay kindness with hatred. He actually killed Governor Liu Xun and seized the Lujiang River. He deserves death for his crime!"
"Now, quickly tie your hands, open the city gate, and lead the people from Jiangdong to surrender to His Majesty."
"Otherwise, when the city is defeated, I will disembowel you and execute you in Lingchi!"
"Your woman will become a commodity for thousands of people to taste."
"Your child will become a slave!"
"Listen to the people on the wall. Who can tie up Lu Yi's son? Kaicheng surrender, my general."
Lu Yi looked down at Ji Ling and said to Nangong Yan beside him: "Brother Nangong, can you shoot him?"
Nangong Yan took off the bow from his waist, and then took out the arrows from the quiver.
While Ji Ling was still chattering, he bent his bow and arrow and suddenly let go.
A cry of "ouch" rang out.
However, the feather arrow hit Ji Ling's helmet just above his forehead, making a crisp sound.
Ji Ling was so frightened that he quickly rode back.
Other generals gathered around him.
Nangong Yan frowned.
distance is too far.
It was his limit just now.
This is even if he is proficient in bow and arrow.
Other soldiers probably wouldn't be able to hit the target at this distance.
Nangong Yan was about to bend his bow and arrow again.
Seeing Ji Ling retreating far beyond his attack range, he stopped, looked at Lu Yi and said, "It's too far."
Lu Yi nodded.
Outside the city, Ji Ling was furious.
Lu Yi's son.
I persuaded you with good intentions.
He actually let people shoot him in the back, which is a crime worthy of death!
Since he is so eager to die, let him do it!
Ji Ling pulled out the sword on his waist, pointed at the city wall, and roared: "Ignorant of promotion, attack the city and leave no one behind!"
Suddenly, the flag bearer kept waving the flag.
Outside the city, deafening horns sounded.
Behind Ji Ling, two infantry phalanxes surged up instantly, carrying ladders and rushing up.
Cheng Pu also roared: "Archer!"
On the city wall, roars sounded one after another.
The archers stepped forward one after another, bent their bows and arrows towards the moat, and raised their hands to shoot!
The ladder has just been set up.
The soldiers galloped forward on the ladder.
On the city wall, arrows rained down.
Soldiers were constantly hit by arrows, screaming and falling from the ladder and into the moat.
However, more soldiers rushed up the ladder and rushed to the bottom of the city wall carrying the siege ladder as if they were desperate for their lives.
Ji Ling had a gloomy face and said sternly: "Catapult!"
Suddenly, a loud and loud sound sounded.
Twenty tall catapults were pushed to the edge of the moat.
(End of chapter)
