The ice and snow in the north are picturesque, and the plum blossoms in Huainan are waiting to bud.

To the north of Shouchun City, the hilltop tent behind the Allied camp was quietly withdrawn, leaving a bare hill with grass sprouts looking forward to the arrival of the spring breeze hidden deep under the soil.

Not far from the top of the mountain, in the crevice of the cliff, grows a clump of plum blossoms, with towering branches and buds waiting to be released. Perhaps, when the winter snow returns, it will bloom and become the most dazzling and beautiful scenery in this mountain forest.

That evening, Chen Yu instigated Lu Lingqi to go to bed, but unexpectedly, after dinner, Li Li went down the mountain.

A stormy affair eventually evolved into a grudge and a lonely self-appreciation.

This disappointed Chen Yu, Xiao Qiao and the step trainer who intended to promote good things, and made Lu Lingqi very hurt, and the beauty wept and sobbed until dawn.

Three days later, the four women returned to the camp together, and the camping on the top of the mountain was dismantled.

At this time, the siege of Shouchun was still in full swing. The Allied forces guarding the four gates continued to attack the city, harassing, storming, and night raids, imaginary and real, and the endless siege of the city without interruption for a moment. Since then, the Yuan army defending the city has been exhausted, panicked and parried, and after a few days, they were tired physically and mentally, and complained of misery.

After seven days of siege, although Shouchun City was precarious, it was still in the hands of Yuan Shu, and the city walls were still towering and standing.

On the eighth day, Li Li personally led 60,000 Xiliang cavalry, 10,000 wolf cavalry and 3,000 Jinqi guards to the city. The Allied camp moved forward, five miles outside the south gate of Shouchun, and re-encamped.

The arrival of Li Li's army made Sun Ce and the Jiangdong generals stationed outside the south gate very nervous. For this reason, Sun Ce led his generals to meet him as soon as possible. And took the initiative to ask Ying, and sent the Jiangdong Army to assist the soldiers of the rear army to build a camp. Obviously, Sun Ce was careful everywhere and was courteous. All aspects are covered, but I am afraid that Li Li will take a glimpse of Lujiang, and Shouchun will wave his army to take Lujiang County before it is broken. If this is the case, it will not be a good thing for Sun Ce.

In fact, at present, Sun Ce has not completely occupied the entire territory of Lujiang, and the remnants of Lujiang Taishou Liu Xun are still resisting stubbornly. And the source of this qiē is that Yuan Shu is still alive, so that Liu Xun is not dead. Unwilling to submit to Sun Ce, he still resisted stubbornly. If Li Li used this as an excuse, he sent troops to Lujiang. Even if Sun Ce was unwilling, he was helpless.

With the strong combat power of the army under Li Li, Liu Xun will definitely not be able to resist, and will even take the initiative to surrender to Li Li. But in this way, all the heavy casualties that Sun Ce had paid before were lost. Lujiang is lost. He has no place to stay in Jiangbei. In the end, he could only retreat to Jiangdong and be trapped in a corner. This was a situation that Sun Ce categorically did not want to see, because he had to find a way to dispel Li Li's idea of waving his troops to attack Lujiang. As a last resort, he even did not hesitate to turn his face with Li Li, immediately evacuated Shouchun, and led his troops to retreat to Lujiang.

Fortunately, Li Li didn't seem to have the heart to enter Lujiang, and this time he led the army to attack Shouchun City, and had no other intentions. This made Sun Ce feel a little relieved. So he had to organize troops to storm the city again, after all, Li Li was sitting behind him and watching the battle. He couldn't help but give it his all.

This was another unusually tragic siege battle.

At the end of the day, Sun Ce's soldiers and horses under his tent lost 4,000 people, and the distressed Sun Ce trembled and his heart was dripping blood. Up to now, he had led an army of 50,000 to come to the alliance, but in the eight-day siege battle, he lost more than 20,000 men and horses, so that he had less than 25,000 soldiers and horses under his account at this moment, and more than half of the soldiers and horses were lost, and the losses were heavy.

So that night, the Chinese army held a big tent. Sun Ce stubbornly asked Li Li for reinforcements, or to replenish him with some soldiers, otherwise the Jiangdong Army under his account suffered too much loss and was unable to fight again.

Seeing that Sun Ce proposed to replenish the troops and horses, Lu Bu, who was sitting on the side, was immediately moved, and hurriedly got up to echo it, and also asked for additional troops, and openly asked for the armament, claiming that the weapons were incomplete and the arrows were not enough.

As Sun Ce and Lu Bu opened their mouths one after another, asking for soldiers and horses in public, the tent of the Chinese army commander suddenly fell silent. Nearly 100 generals present under the tent sat upright, watching their noses and noses, holding their breath, silent and silent.

"The siege of the city for several days, and the casualties among the officers and men of each battalion are very large, which is a fact that is obvious to all." When the big tent went up the stairs, Li Li smiled and looked calm, and said unhurriedly.

But what he said was official clichés, which was equivalent to nonsense. And the reason why the nonsense is said is because Li Li's heart is far from being as calm as it seems on the surface, and he is already angry. It's just that Sun Ce and Lu Bu didn't notice this, and they didn't know it, only a few people such as Guo Jia and Dian Wei, who had been following Li Li for a long time, were keenly aware of Li Li's abnormal demeanor, and then tensed their minds, glaring angrily at Sun Ce and Lu Bu, who were like forcing the palace.

After a pause, Li Li got up and was under the hall, and said with a smile: "I think you all know that there are still 80,000 surrendered soldiers in the camp, so ?????? It is not difficult to replenish the troops. It's just that you have ever thought that it will not be easy for these troops to attack the city. You must know that most of the soldiers are Huainan people, born and raised in Si, and many of the defenders in the city are related to them, and some are even their fathers or brothers. Therefore, you don't have to worry about these surrenders. Since the soldiers and horses of Bo Fu and Feng Xian are no longer able to fight, the next battle will be taken over by our Xiliang army. I wonder what the two of you think? After speaking, Li Li looked at Sun Ce with a smile, and then turned his gaze to Lu Bu, his smile was very good, but his gaze was very sharp, even a little cold, revealing an indescribable deterrent.

"This ?????? Hey, hey, hey! Lu Bu didn't dare to face Li Li's gaze, so he snorted and said with a sneer: "The alliance leader is serious. Lu is just joking, and the alliance leader must not take it seriously. This siege of the city is not the strength of the cavalry after all, so let's leave it to the subordinates. Although our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they could still fight again, and it was not a problem to capture Shouchun. While speaking, Lu Bu retreated as he spoke, and sat down immediately after speaking, lowered his head and pretended to raise his lamp to drink, and no longer dared to follow Sun Ce to take the opportunity to coax.

Indeed, Lu Bu was indeed just waiting for an opportunity to make trouble and join in the fun. In fact, he had long known that it was impossible for Li Li to replenish Sun Ce's troops and horses, but he was still lucky, thinking that if Li Li's mind changed suddenly and agreed to Sun Ce's request, wouldn't he miss the opportunity? It was because he followed Sun Ce and took the opportunity to coax, brought up the old matter again, and asked for the baggage of the soldiers and horses again.

However, the moment he saw Li Li's sharp eyes, Lu Bu's eyelids jumped, and he immediately became well-behaved, borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and expressed his position as soon as possible, so as not to be remembered by Li Li, and the consequences were unimaginable. What's more, half of the 30,000 infantry troops under his command are now soldiers and horses under Li Li's command, whether there is still the strength to fight, how can Li Li not know?

Li Li was noncommittal about Lu Bu's remarks about borrowing the slope to get off the donkey, still with a faint smile on his face, looking at Sun Ce who was surprised, as if he was waiting for his reply.

But Sun Ce was confused by Lu Bu's attitude at the moment. He almost couldn't believe his eyes, and his mind was full of questions: "Is this still the invincible Wenhou Lu Bu who dominates the world?" A moment ago, he was still standing in front of Li Li confidently, openly asking for soldiers and horses; At the next moment, it made a 360-degree turn, and the tiger suddenly turned into a 'sick cat'. Isn't that going too fast? What is the situation??????? ”

No matter how Sun Ce wanted to break his head, he couldn't figure out why Lu Bu was so afraid of Li Li, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was as afraid as a tiger. But Lu Bu himself is a powerful and powerful tiger in the world, why did he show weakness to Li Li?

In addition to being surprised, Sun Ce was extremely indignant and angry at Lu Bu. He secretly thought in his heart: "Damn, since you are so afraid of Li Li, why do you still follow behind and make a fool of yourself?" It's good now, as soon as Li Li spoke, you were a soft egg, but you hurt my Sun Ce. What's the matter with leaving me here alone? ”

It is true that if Lu Bu is as strong as he succumbed in front of Li Li, what else can Sun Ce do, does he still have to hold on to the end?

"Since General Fengxian is still able to fight, how can my Jiangdong Army be a timid breed? The alliance leader can rest assured, even if Sun smashes the pot and sells iron, he is bound to conquer Shouchun City! Sun Ce was categorical. How hard he said this, his words were like his people, and he cursed Lu Bu with insinuations that he was a bad seed, a soft egg, and a spineless person.

This also made Sun Ce angry and angry, pointing at Sang scolding Huai and cursing Lu Bu.

In fact, in the last eight days of continuous siege of the city, Lu Bu often cheated and played tricks, did not make any efforts, and most of the time it was a feint, because the losses of the soldiers and horses under Lu Bu's account were not large, and it was far from the point where he was unable to fight again. But the Jiangdong Army was different. In the past few days, Sun Ce has repeatedly organized troops to storm the south gate and the east gate, and has also taken the lead many times and personally led the troops to attack the city. Since then, Sun Ce's soldiers and horses have suffered heavy losses, and the casualties are five times greater than those of Lu Bu.

Therefore, if it was just Sun Ce asking Li Li for reinforcements to replenish troops and baggage, it would be really difficult for Li Li to refuse in public. Even if Sun Ce was not given additional troops, he would more or less have to give some grain and grass to cover up the truth. After all, he is still the leader of the Yuan Alliance, and it is his duty to provide soldiers and food and grass to his allies, so how can he ignore it?

However, because Lu Bu thought it was profitable, he took the opportunity to intervene, but as a result, the chickens and eggs were beaten, and the matter was completely messed up. As a result, Sun Ce was implicated by him, and he didn't get any benefits, and he made a commotion.

This is really not afraid of god-like opponents, but afraid of pig-like teammates.

Listening to it under Li Li's account with Lu Bu, Sun Ce can be regarded as having poured mold for eight lifetimes. didn't expect Lu Bu to help him, but he was still dragged back by Lu Bu, which made Sun Ce full of indignation, but he couldn't help Lu Bu, so he could only ask Cang Tian speechlessly: "God, just open your eyes, why doesn't Lu Bu die?" ”

No matter how angry Sun Ce was, the Shuai Tent discussion continued, and the focus of the discussion was how to break through Shouchun City. The end of the year is approaching, and if it drags on like this, it will inevitably affect the morale of the whole army??????

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