Liu Yi's camp outside Duchang City.
"Report!" A messenger rushed in hurriedly: "General! An army of about 5,000 people appeared on the official road on the west bank of the Weihe River, fifty miles south of the city, and is marching towards Duchang!"
"Oh?" Liu Yi frowned and asked, "Does this army have any equipment?"
"Yes! There are hundreds of carts in the army, pulled by oxen and horses. They look extremely heavy!" the ordering soldier replied.
"Okay!" Liu Yi slapped his thigh!
Have the reinforcements carrying the baggage finally arrived?
"Pass an order from my general to have Wang Shao from the north of the city quickly mobilize 5,000 men and horses to join me, set up an ambush halfway, and snipe this team. We must seize their baggage! Even if we can't seize it, we must set it on fire!"
Just as the messenger was about to go out, someone else rushed in angrily.
"Wei Yong? If you are not stationed in Huang County, why are you here? As a military general, you leave your post without authorization. Do you know your crime?"
Liu Yi's face suddenly darkened when he saw that it was Wei Yong who was in a state of embarrassment.
Wei Yong knelt down and said: "General! Something bad happened! The day before yesterday, Lu Bu suddenly landed in Huang County with thousands of troops by boat..."
"Lu Bu?" Liu Yi stood up suddenly: Why is Lu Bu here?
Even if he comes, shouldn't he come overland from Xuzhou? How could a boat suddenly appear behind him?
Wei Yong continued: "General, Lu Bu can use magic. The ship he is riding is so tall and big. He can also spit out clouds and fire, and throw gold and stones..."
Hearing that Wei Yong's words were getting more and more outrageous, Liu Yi couldn't help but cursed: "Fart! Where is such a ship? Why didn't you say that Lu Bu has three heads and six arms, and can soar into the clouds and ride the mist?"
Wei Yong trembled with fright and said: "I didn't see him flying in the clouds and mist with three heads and six arms, but I saw with my own eyes that he could use sorcery...
Lu Bu also used sorcery to throw such a big iron ball hundreds of steps, smashing the city walls and gates to pieces..."
Liu Yi reacted immediately, stepped forward, grabbed Wei Yong's lapel, and asked, "You kid...have you lost Huang County?"
"General, Lu Bu's magic is so powerful that the soldiers and civilians in the city were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. They had no fighting spirit at all. How could they defend the city..."
Liu Yi pushed Wei Yong to the ground and shouted: "Come here! Drag out and chop this coward who abandoned the city!"
Wei Yong trembled with fright, rushed up and hugged Liu Yi's thigh, begging for mercy:
"General, spare your life! General, spare your life! It's not that I'm a coward and afraid of death, it's just that Lu Bu's magic is so powerful that I can't defend it! General, you know this, and I don't dare to tell lies!"
Liu Yi kicked Wei Yong away and shouted: "As a general, you dare to abandon the city and escape without fighting when the enemy attacks the city, and you still have the nerve to see me?
Not only did you lose the city, but you still dare to confuse the public with your lies here and disrupt the morale of the army. If you don't kill you, it will not be enough to enforce military law!
What are you still doing? Drag him out and chop him! Hang the head on the camp gate to show the public! "
The guards on both sides rushed forward and dragged Wei Yong out without any explanation. After a while, a freshly baked good man's head was hung on the flagpole.
The anger in Liu Yi's heart did not dissipate.
Huang County is the seat of Donglai County, my base camp! Just lost it?
Since Donglai was surrounded by the sea on three sides and Huang County was next to the sea, Liu Yi thought that no one would attack his rear, so he only left a thousand men to defend.
But the county seat of Huang County is strong, and even if someone comes to attack, they can still come to him for help!
No matter how hard things go, we can still survive for ten days and a half with a fortified city!
Although his hometown was raided, Liu Yi didn't want to give up so easily!
At least we should try to grab the baggage brought by the Qamdo reinforcements!
However, the tactic of sieging the city on three sides obviously needs to be changed. Now we should concentrate our forces. It is best to attack the three forces of the defenders in Qamdo City, the reinforcements from the south, and Lu Bu!
The defenders in the city were afraid that there were only ten thousand people, and they were huddled behind the city wall, so it was naturally difficult to break through.
Lu Bu is well-known, and now he has captured Huang County. If he fights all the way, he will have to pass through the four counties of Yin (jiān), Qucheng, Ye (yè), and Dangli. Although the troops in these four counties have been allocated by him Once it's empty, it should be able to withstand it for a while.
Even if he went around these four counties, it would still be a distance of four to five hundred miles, which would be enough for him to walk for several days.
After careful consideration, Liu Yi decided not to sit still and wait for death, but to join forces and capture the troops coming from the south to transport the baggage first!
I have 30,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 civilians. There are only a few thousand troops on the opposite side, which is almost ten times the number of the enemy. How can I still not defeat them?
He robbed their baggage and then retreated to Dangli. Although Dangli County is small, as long as there is sufficient food and grass, so many people are defending the city, and even Lu Bu can't do anything to him!
After making up his mind, Liu Yi sent people to issue a new order: the camps in the west and north took advantage of the night to pull out their camps and move closer to him!
Although the plan was good, Taishi Ci sent out scouts day and night to closely monitor the enemy camps on three sides.
No matter how dark the night is, torches must be lit for lighting when breaking out of camp.
When Zhang Liao received the report that the military camps on the west and north sides were moving out at night, Taishi Ci roughly guessed that Zhang Liao's reinforcements must have arrived. Liu Yi received the information and prepared to unite his troops to either break out of the encirclement or concentrate their advantages. The troops must attack Zhang Liao.
Because he was busy, he called Ji Ling over for a discussion. Ji Ling naturally agreed when he heard that there was an opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
So in the middle of the night, when the two groups of enemy troops outside the city had just loaded their supplies and food into their vehicles and were preparing to assemble with Liu Yi, Ji Ling led 3,000 infantrymen out of the west gate, and Taishi Ci led 1,000 cavalry and 1,000 infantry out of the north gate. Door.
Both men and horses did not light torches, but took advantage of the dark moonlight to advance. When the enemy troops left the camp, they suddenly lit torches and rushed out with a shout of death.
How did Liu Yi and his two men think that someone would come out to chase them away at night?
He was killed for a moment and his position was in chaos. It was dark again, the military flag could not be seen, and the command system was almost completely paralyzed!
In addition, Taishi Ci and Ji Ling deliberately created momentum and deliberately made people beat gongs and shout to kill, which made Liu Yi's soldiers panic.
After a little resistance, he left the baggage behind and fled for his own life.
The people in the north of the city naturally wanted to go east to meet Liu Yi. Liu Yi also received the news and hurriedly brought people out to meet him.
It was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the darkness. We saw that the enemy was both cavalry and infantry. There seemed to be torches everywhere. It was so noisy that we didn't know where the main force was.
Liu Yi had no choice but to have his men line up to meet the enemy, leaving a hole for his own people who escaped first to enter.
Taishi Ci's sneak attack out of the city was not to drive out the enemy. Seeing that the goal was achieved, he still deployed a few troops to beat gongs and drums to create momentum, and on the other hand, people quickly transported in the baggage dropped by the enemy troops in the north of the city. Go to the city.
Chengxi Ji Ling was even more relaxed and rushed directly into the civilian husband from the beginning.
After all, civilians are recruited at short notice. When the enemy suddenly appears, who will resist you? They will run everywhere and disrupt the army's formation.
In addition, Ji Ling properly used the "Sparrow Tactics" taught by Lu Bu, and used 3,000 people to stir up a team of nearly 20,000 people like a pot of porridge.
After driving them six or seven miles away, Ji Ling also called for gold to withdraw his troops, and returned to the city with a cartload of baggage.
"General, you are really a god with your troops!" Kong Rong personally toasted the two of them with a sour tone.
Taishi Ci originally came to seek refuge with him, but Lu Bu snatched him away...
However, he also knew that with his little strength, even with Tai Shici under his command, he would be useless as a hero.
It's better to give Lu Bu a favor. It's a good deal to get close to Lu Bu's thick legs!
