Chapter 0130 - Good Luck (Ask for the First Order)
White Sparrow saw a man with a disheveled hair striding into the courtyard. This person is tall and mighty, and there is a fierce murderous aura all over his body.
The white finch's heartbeat suddenly intensified. Is he the personal guard next to the cavalry general Li Yi who came to interrogate him?
Then the white finch heard the fierce soldier and the guard at the door of his study laughing loudly, as if they were familiar with each other.
Bai Que gently opened the door, and heard the man say aloud: "I am Li Yi, and I specially came to talk to General Bai." ”
Bai Que was taken aback, he didn't expect that this young and talkative man was the famous cavalry general Li Yi.
After hesitating, Li Yi had already strode in.
Bai Que hurriedly wanted to salute, Li Yi grabbed his shoulder, and said with a smile: "Excuse me, I still have something to ask you." ”
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This attack on Ganling City, Li Yi has been planning for a long time. He had been hesitating in Qingyuan for the previous time, on the one hand, he was waiting for food and grass and military salaries, and on the other hand, he was waiting for the opportunity.
His army was limited in number, and most of it was cavalry, so it was naturally impossible to launch a siege war, and he did not have the capital to lose. But they could not be left there without taking them. In such a situation, the only way to outwit is to surprise the soldiers.
Tian Feng was familiar with the terrain and roads of the Ganling Kingdom, and hundreds of soldiers in the private soldiers of the powerful men brought by Li Yi from Wei County were all from the Ganling Kingdom, and their speaking accents and habits were the same as those of the locals. Li Yi took advantage of the fact that they would not be suspected, and asked Zhang Jaw and other local generals in Jizhou to lead them to the county town and villages near Ganling City, inciting and gathering the displaced people along the way, all of whom gathered in Ganling City to beg for food. Once Ganling City is overcrowded, the Yellow Turbans' vigilance will decrease, and they will be able to find an opportunity to seize control of the city gates.
Li Yi ordered Yue Fei and Guan Yu to still camp in the Qingyuan camp, and went out of the camp every day to train and paralyze the scouts of the Yellow Turban Army. He took Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun to secretly rush to Ganling City.
Considering that after capturing the city gates, there may be street battles with the Yellow Turbans. So Li Yi deliberately brought 3,000 foot soldiers.
Before Zhang Jaw set off, Li Yi made an appointment with him to launch a surprise attack around the time of dinner in the morning, when there were the most refugees and the order was the most chaotic.
What he never expected was that at this time, Bai Que ordered the soldiers to drive the refugees out of the city, causing extreme chaos near the city gate. The extreme chaos of this scene helped the Youzhou army a lot, so that the Youzhou army captured Ganling City without blood.
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"Twice, why are you so lucky?" Bai Que sat opposite Li Yi and said with a wry smile.
"Twice?" Li Yi asked strangely. "When have we ever fought again?"
"In the Great River, Chu Shuai ambushed 50,000 horses, just waiting for you to pass."
Li Yi shivered all over his body, and a chill rushed from his vest to his head. His face became very ugly.
Bai Que continued: "If it weren't for the stupid guy Du Chang who took the people with him, you dare to say that your army would not have chased him down in the Great River? ”
Li Yi smiled bitterly. Good luck, really good luck. As a soldier who has experienced a hundred battles, Li Yi certainly knew how dangerous the situation was at that time. If it weren't for Du Chang's greed for life and fear of death, he let the people follow the Yellow Turban Army to act together, if it weren't for his own scruples, which caused a large number of casualties among the people. If the raid was not launched at the first time, if it had not been for the sudden change of wind and clouds at the most critical juncture and heavy rain, the whole army would have inevitably suffered heavy casualties. Even his own life is a little insecure.
Especially the heavy rain, not only created an opportunity for himself to take Ganling City with a plan, but also saved himself from a big defeat.
The reason why Li Yi was looking forward to the rain at that time was to take advantage of the heavy rain from the sky. Let the exiles from all over the country concentrate on Ganling City and Beiqiu City, and take the opportunity to seize these two cities by surprise to avoid heavy casualties of the army due to the strong attack.
But I didn't expect this sudden heavy rain. It also helped him a lot.
Of course, what helped him a lot was the Yellow Turban Army general Du Chang who was in Beiqiu City at the moment.
Li Yi nodded and said to Bai Que: "I was looking for you just for this Du Chang." ”
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Li Yi sent a letter to Pingyuan County, asking Liu Yu, the minister of Ganling, to return to Ganling to preside over the military and political affairs of the Ganling State, and at the same time sent a letter to Huangfu Song, the general of the thief Zhonglang, informing him of the next battle plan.
In fact, Li Yi's situation on the battlefield in Hebei is a little embarrassing now.
Nominally, he was the commander-in-chief of the Hebei battlefield appointed by the Son of Heaven, and his highest position was the general of the two thousand stone cavalry. However, the status of another general, Huangfu Song, was not inferior to him in the slightest. Although Huangfu Song is still a general, he is modest, and at a certain level, he represents the Son of Heaven. In this sense, he can even command Li Yi, a cavalry general.
Today, there are three main official and military forces in the Hebei battlefield, which can be described as a three-legged stand. Li Yi, the titular commander-in-chief, has nearly 20,000 horses under his command, and most of the cavalry can be said to be the strongest part of the combat power. And then there is Huangfu Song, as the general of the festival, he led an army of 50,000 imperial courts, which is the largest number of troops. Finally, there is Cao Cao, as the representative of both the hundred officials and the eunuchs, he leads the most elite 10,000 troops in the imperial court, and he is also a faction of his own.
It is precisely because of this reason that the command of the officers and troops on the Jizhou battlefield is chaotic, and no one can command anyone. No, even Cao Cao, a school captain, dared to ignore the orders of Li Yi and the Jizhou Assassin History Department, and led a large army to engage in armed tourism in Wei County.
Now facing the final decisive battle with the Yellow Turban Army, Li Yi, the commander-in-chief of the Hebei battlefield, can only discuss things with Huangfu Song.
On the other side, Bai Que was entrusted by Li Yi and rushed to Beiqiu City to persuade Du Chang to surrender.
The Yellow Turban Army of Ganling City was stationed in the prisoner camp outside the city.
Li Yi ordered the soldiers to set up a large camp outside the city, some tents to house the refugees, and some to house the cavalry of the Youzhou army. Zhang Fei's infantry were all stationed in the city, guarding the city.
Yue Fei and Guan Yu rushed to the city of Beiqiu with a large army. However, the army did not launch an attack on the city, but according to Li Yi's original instructions, blocked the road leading to the outside world in Beiqiu City, so that the Yellow Turban Army in the city could not escape.
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At the end of the month, Liu Yu, the minister of Ganling, rushed to Ganling first. He was very grateful to Li Yi for helping him recapture the county rule and several counties in the west of the Ganling Kingdom in such a short time, although the eastern and northern counties of the Ganling Kingdom were still in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, but with the power of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, it was a matter of time before they were recovered.
Liu Yu also talked about Qiao Mao, and he apologized to Li Yi on behalf of Qiao Mao, saying that Qiao Mao had misunderstood him at the beginning, and hoped that he would not hold a grudge against Qiao Mao.
Li Yi was noncommittal about this, anyway, this time Qiao Mao did not return to Ganling Country with Liu Yu, it is said that he led Liu Yu's thousands of soldiers to fight against the Yellow Turban Army with Huangfu Song.
Not only did Qiao Mao not come to Ganling, but even Dian Wei, who Li Yi had always wanted to poach, did not follow Liu Yu to Ganling, which made Li Yi feel a little regretful in his heart.
Liu Yu naturally didn't know what Li Yi had in mind, and after he arrived in Ganling, he immediately took the former officials of Ganling State to start his daily work, and the first thing he did was to appease the refugees in the camp.
Liu Yu respects Li Yi very much, not only because Li Yi is now his nominal boss, but also because Li Yi helped him recover the Ganling Kingdom, and there is another reason, that is, Li Yi's deceased grandfather Li Ying.
Liu Yu once served as the assassin of Youzhou, and it happened to be the early days when the Li family was assigned to Youzhou. Liu Yu takes care of the Li family very much, and when he deals with government affairs, many of his practices are also based on Li Ying's practices when he was the assassin of Youzhou. This made Liu Yu have high prestige among the Xianbei, Wuhuan, Fuyu, Huiqian and other foreign tribes, and he paid tribute at any time, and did not dare to intrude, and the people sang songs and praised Liu Yu's merits.
It can be said that the period when Li Ying and Liu Yu served as the assassins of Youzhou in Northern Xinjiang was a rare period of stability in the past hundred years.
However, Li Yi himself has no memory of these things, because he was just a seven or eight-year-old child at that time, and after so many years, the things at that time have long been forgotten.
Of course, there is another reason that the previous Li Yi is actually dead, although he inherited a lot of memories of that Li Yi, he will inevitably lose a lot of memories about that Li Yi.
Li Yi has always accompanied Liu Yu, likes to chat with him, and listens to him talk about the management methods and management experience of the internal affairs of the county government, which has benefited Li Yi a lot.
In his previous life, Li Yi had read many comments about Liu Yu, which could be described as a mixed reputation. Some people hacked him, saying that he was a traitor, which led to the growth of the northern Xinjiang Hu, which was the fundamental reason for the chaos in later generations. Some people also believe that he was an accomplished politician, who not only made Youzhou develop during his tenure, but also made Zhuhu return to obedience and stabilize northern Xinjiang.
Li Yi didn't want to judge, because he didn't know much, and a lot of loss was destined to change in this time and space, and he didn't need to think about those things that didn't happen.
However, as far as he has seen and heard during this period of time, Liu Yu is a good official who worries about the country and the people, and if the county government of the Great Han Kingdom is like Liu Yu, it is estimated that there will be no such thing as a rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army.
Liu Yu is erudite and talented, especially very proficient in scripture and history, and this aspect is undoubtedly Li Yi's flaw. In the dead of night, the two sat in the study, with candles lit, one talking endlessly, the other listening with relish, often all night.
But not everyone likes Liu Yu, no, Gongsun Zhan, who just came from Yecheng, doesn't like Liu Yu very much. He thought that Liu Yu was ruthless and scheming, and persuaded Li Yi to have less contact with him.
This made Li Yi very emotional, could it be that Gongsun Chan and Liu Yu are destined enemies, and they are born wrong? (To be continued.) )
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