Late at night, inside the Wu Army camp.
"This is what Li said. If the governor doesn't believe it, he can let you, a hundred thousand Jiangdong sons, freeze to death here. Or, if you give it a try, as long as you enter Yong'an, even Lu Xun, who is traveling across the Xichuan River, will not be able to compete with him. Generals are fighting." Li Yan, dressed in black, spoke slowly in the Wu army camp.
Obviously, Li Yan is not afraid that Quan Cong doesn't believe in him. Even if Quan Cong doesn't believe in him, he doesn't dare to kill him right here, because Li Yan is Quan Cong's only choice now. Of course, this is an absolute military The superiority gave Li Yan solid confidence. Only under a sharp sword can effective diplomacy be achieved.
Quan Cong was still silent for a long time, but still didn't know what decision to make. If he didn't believe Li Yan and couldn't wait for reinforcements, he would have to let all the 100,000 troops freeze to death in the wilderness. If he believed Li Yan, if he was hit by this With Li Yan's plan, Soochow no longer has a say in the army. After all, the previous Battle of Xiaoshiqiao has not gotten over it for many years.
"If the Governor doesn't believe it, then Li Yan will resign this time." Li Yan said again with his hands in hand, and then turned to leave.
Quan Cong finally spoke: "Why is General Li so impatient? Let me think about it for a moment and make a decision."
The candlelight in the tent began to sway slightly, and the only light that slowly came out of the tent was the sliver of light in front of the door. In the flickering tent, Quan Cong, Ma Zhong, and Li Yan were all speechless. The environment, and the cool autumn wind blew the fallen leaves outside the tent and made a rustling sound.
After a while, Ma Zhong was the first to speak: "General Li, if you want our commander-in-chief to trust you, you have to show some sincerity. Otherwise, how can my commander-in-chief trust you?"
When Li Yan heard this, his originally gentle face suddenly turned red, and bloodshot eyes were almost visible. He became furious and shouted: "Sincerity? General Ma, what is sincerity? Is it my nephew's life or me?" Li Yan has been infamous for generations? I left the city at starry night and entered the camp alone. What kind of sincerity do you want!"
Ma Zhong was overwhelmed by the sudden shout, but Quan Cong immediately waved his hand to signal Ma Zhong to shut up, leaving Ma Zhong speechless.
"Commander, if that's the case, if you still don't believe me, Li Yan, then I'll take my leave, but just watch all these 100,000 Jiangdong sons freeze to death here!" Li Yan waved his sleeves angrily and stood up again to leave, but was stopped by Quan Cong was stunned.
"General Li, General Ma Zhong are also outspoken. In this way, I will trust you!" Quan Cong looked at Li Yan who was about to leave angrily and said immediately, "We will agree on a date right now, do you think so?"
Li Yan turned around and immediately held up his hands and said: "It's not that Li Yan is unwilling, but that the general is really suspicious of me. If the general really believes in me, why should the stalemate last for so long? My son Li Feng will return in ten days. I don't know the general." Do you have ten days of army rations?"
Quan Cong immediately signaled to Ma Zhong, asking him to quickly persuade Li Yan to come back and sit down, and pour the wine himself to apologize.
"General Li, to be honest, our army only has five days' worth of food, and the rest is mostly due to General Ling Tong's Iron Masked Ghost," Quan Cong said.
Li Yan shook his head: "Captain, you must last until the tenth day. I have lost my nephew, and I must not be without this son again."
Quan Cong nodded: "As for the food and grass matter, I can personally dispatch it, but after these ten days, can the general dedicate the city?"
Li Yan nodded: "I have investigated and found out that after ten days, Xu Zhi will change his defense, so Zhao Tong has nothing to fear. Only ten days from now will be the best time."
Quan Cong immediately touched his palm and said: "Okay! Then in ten days, will the general have time?"
"Hai Shi. If you see a red flag raised on the top of the city at Hai Shi, the general will attack the city, but I will lower the drawbridge for the general." Li Yan still said without any expression.
"Okay! Then the Governor will make an agreement with the General!"
"It's a deal!"
The navy camp of the Kingdom of Wu.
Ling Tong was reading a book on the iron-faced ship. The Shu army had not launched an offensive for several days. He really couldn't think of a good strategy to break out of the siege for a while, so he could only stay up late and read at night, trying to find a way to break out of the siege from the book.
"General! There is a secret message!" A sergeant immediately removed the sharp arrow nailed to the ship and tied a brocade bag on it.
"Get it quickly!"
Ling Tong couldn't wait to open it, but he frowned slightly and looked closely at the clever idea in the bag. At the last moment, his brows suddenly relaxed and he said with great joy: "My fellow soldiers, Commander Boyan still has ten days to arrive. Today You have taught me how to get out of trouble, so don’t worry!”
In the early morning of the next day, Luo Xian, who was squatting at the entrance of Qutang Gorge, unexpectedly discovered that the ghost ships he had besieged were slowly docking, and the soldiers on board were almost one after another ashore.
"General? Are they not planning to pass through here?" one of Luo Xian's soldiers asked.
"Impossible, unless he really wants to climb over the mountain! Please be vigilant and never let down. Wu Jun has made some changes today. If you let a Wu Jun go, you are the only one to ask!" Luo Xian ordered.
But until noon, Wu Jun was still coming aboard the iron-faced ghost ship. Even Ling Tong got off the boat and began to build a stove on the shore. Soon, the smoke from Wu Jun's meal began to spread to the surroundings. Come.
"What's going on with the Wu Kingdom Navy? Why did they start eating at the mountain pass?" Gong Jie on the top of the mountain was puzzled for a moment, and even looked at the smoke drifting everywhere with the autumn wind and the aroma of the food that invaded his nostrils.
"General? They don't want to climb over the mountain, do they? The Wuling Mountains are full of cliffs. Are they planning to save up enough energy to climb over?"
"Fart!" Gong Jie glared at the officer who spoke, and cursed: "Are you a fucking Muggle? The Wuling Mountains will be so cold in winter that I will tremble. Do you expect them to start digging from now on, and they will not get lost. I'm so lucky to have to go over the fucking mountain."
The scolded officer shouldn't talk back, so he just looked at his helmet with a smile and was patted by Gong Jie.
What is even more helpless is that Wu Jun has been eating on the shore for seven or eight days, and the number of stoves does not look like the number of fifty thousand people at all, but like a scene of one hundred thousand people eating together. , by the eighth day, even Luo Xian began to doubt his own judgment. Ling Tong didn't really want to take these 50,000 navy troops to cross the Wuling Mountains, right? After all, Ling Tong has been on the shore for the past seven or eight days and has never boarded the ship.
Although Luo Xian didn't dare to let down his guard, he couldn't stand the soldiers below and had already started laughing. Everyone knew that being on duty at night meant haha, and what's worse, he was on duty after drinking.
In the end, such laxity brought them an almost desperate disaster.
Just at midnight on the eighth day, the captain on duty at night drank a lot of wine and came to his post on the deck with his eyes wide open in a daze. Before he could open his eyes, he was greeted by countless words. The lit torch almost blinded the eyes, and eight iron-masked ghost ships rushed over. This kind of sprint was an indomitable one. Even the soldiers of these eight ships had a certain death mentality from the moment they boarded the ship. Come on, this kind of movement woke up Luo Xian instantly.
"What's going on!" Luo Xian didn't even have time to put on his armor. He just put on a thin pajamas and immediately went out to check. He saw these eight iron-masked ghosts rushing over, even within the range of the crossbow. Inside, the soldiers on duty didn't even notice, and instead talked while drinking.
Luo Xian cursed loudly, kicked the sergeant away, immediately drew out his sword, and shouted loudly: "Wu Jun has broken through! Hurry! Press on!"
It was too late, everything was too late. The eight Iron-faced Ghosts fought hard and crashed into the Zhiyuan locked in the middle of the gorge at almost the fastest speed. I saw them shouting in unison in an instant: "Die for General Ling! For His Majesty!"
Not long after, the iron cables on the Zhiyuan came loose. It was obvious that the trebuchet was unable to produce effective damage at such a close range.
"Mobile crossbows!" Luo Xian was considered a famous general after all, and he immediately mobilized the continuous crossbowmen. However, the four giant shields of the Iron-faced Ghost played a great protective role, and these ships that struggled to ram the Zhiyuan finally stopped in Zhiyuan. A huge hole was cut out on the ship, followed by a loud noise. The Wu army, who fought desperately regardless of life and death, actually tore the Zhiyuan alive from the middle at the cost of the lives of eight Iron-Masked Ghosts and all the soldiers on board. The huge The movement finally woke up Gong Jie, who was sleeping soundly on the top of the mountain.
"It's broken! Fire the arrow quickly!" Gong Jie was also wearing thin pajamas. He immediately got up to check what was going on at the foot of the mountain. He was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat. Without the autumn wind blowing, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He let Ling go so easily. Tong and his navy, how should he explain to Li Xian when he goes back? He can only quickly remedy his loopholes.
"Hurry up and shoot the arrow! Hurry up and shoot the arrow!" Gong Jie felt the hurried order for the first time, and the divine arm archer who had already relaxed his guard was finally awakened by the noise on the top of the mountain. Coupled with Gong Jie's shouts, They all woke up and started shooting in three stages.
Ling Tong finally spoke: "Hold it to me, General! The gap is broken! We can go home!"
The eighteen large ships behind him once again flew out like arrows. At this time, the canyon was already wide open, and it could no longer be stopped by the divine arm bow and bed crossbow, although Luo Xian had already commanded the bed crossbow of the Dingyuan. and hurled stones at them wildly, completely sinking six Iron Masked Ghosts, and one was stuck in the mouth of the gorge by the Dingyuan. The remaining Iron Masked Ghosts had already rushed out under the command of Ling Tong. The mouth of the gorge.
"Hahahaha! Go back and tell your governor! This general will laugh at him forever!" Ling Tong laughed loudly.
When Luo Xian heard this, he became extremely angry and punched the deck angrily. Feeling that his efforts had failed, he looked up to the sky and cried bitterly: "I have failed the governor!" After saying this, he was about to draw his sword and kill himself, but was stopped by the surrounding soldiers, who immediately stepped forward. He advised: "General Luo, our gains this time are not small. We almost destroyed half of the Soochow navy. The governor will definitely understand the general. Besides, Gong Jie from the top of the mountain should have been the first to give the warning last night. We didn't even give the warning. It's not our fault." General!"
Luo Xian was speechless for a long time, and could only sigh...
