Thundered!

"Whoa!"

In the low roar of thunder, the first rain after the beginning of summer came unexpectedly.

On the hill a few miles away from the north gate of Tancheng, there are four people on the top of the mountain at this moment, looking high and looking into the distance, looking down on Tancheng in the rain and mist.

"Under a big war, corpses are everywhere, blood flows like rivers, blood spreads for dozens of miles, people don't collect corpses every day, it's really a timely rain!"

Li Lilema Mountain, looking down at the rushing blood under Tancheng City, frowned slightly, let the raindrops fall on his body, and groaned with feeling.

At this moment, the other three people who stopped on the top of the mountain like him were Li Zhi, Huan Fei and Guo Jia.

On this trip to the south, Li Li and his entourage just passed through Xuzhou, and did not come to join in the fun.

Along the way, I heard that Xuzhou Mu Taoqian and Cao Cao under the city of Tancheng fought fiercely for four consecutive days, and they are still in the midst of a fierce battle. So Li Li made a temporary decision and took Huan Fei, Guo Jia and others to come over to take a look, that's all.

Seven days ago, a group of four people left Sili, interspersed with southward from Nanyang County, and went straight to Jiangnan. This time, there were no guards to accompany him, and there were no female dependents to serve, just four people and four horses, lightly armed, and hurried along the way in the starry night, without any fetters, and the speed of running was extremely fast.

At noon, Li Li and his entourage quietly climbed to the top of the mountain north of Tancheng, condescendingly, watching the bloody battle between the Cao army and the Xuzhou army, attacking and defending to the death.

The purpose of Li Li's trip to watch the battle is to see what the hero Cao Cao looks like, if he can see Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, it will be worth the trip. After all, since the rebirth of the late Han Dynasty, Li Li has been thinking about Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang in his heart.

As a person with the soul of the next generation, he was lucky to return to the great chaos of the princes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, perhaps Li Li was very unfamiliar with many princes in this era. I only heard his name but did not see his person, and I knew his deeds but did not know the authenticity. However, the names and deeds of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are really thunderous and familiar to Li Li, and they have been friends for a long time. But this concern is not motivated by goodwill and friendship, but by another purpose.

In the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty, if there were no these four people, there would not have been the subsequent Three Kingdoms. There will be no era of war that will last for hundreds of years. Without these four people, the history of the late Han Dynasty might have become bleak and hidden in the dust of history. If there were no three brothers, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, there would be no dark history of chaos in China and chaos between the north and the south on the land of China, and there would be no return to the once powerful Han nation. The Han Chinese suffered greatly from slavery.

The thick history allows future generations to forever remember the rise and fall of the Han nation, and also remember the biographies of the heroes and heroes of the troubled times who were shining in this history. Among them, the most striking people are Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Reborn in the chaotic times of the late Han Dynasty. After hundreds of battles, large and small, Li Li. Finally gained a firm foothold in Xiliang, took charge of the Xiliang army, and held the authority of the world. However, this qiē is a momentary brilliance, and the picture has its name but not reality. Because the Eastern Han Dynasty has collapsed, all states and counties in the world have been divided by princes. One by one, they ignored the decrees of the imperial court, sealed their territories, supported their own troops, and went their own way. Always trying to dominate the world and win the country.

Therefore, although Li Li is now in a high position and powerful and dominant, he is limited to a corner of Xiliang, and all government decrees cannot cross the Yellow River, let alone cross the Yangtze River, and he is beyond the reach of the governors of the Central Plains and the states and counties in the south of the Yangtze River, making the Chang'an court useless. Even Li Li, the general Wei who is in charge of the world's conquest power, came to inspect the states along the Yangtze River, and he had to sneak in secretly, and he could not reveal his whereabouts at all, so as not to encounter accidents.

Because of this, Li Li always felt the great pressure on his shoulders, and did not dare to slack off at all, while stabilizing the overall situation of Xiliang, he secretly sneaked into the Central Plains and Yanjiang Prefecture to travel, hoping to memorize the situation and topography of various prefectures and counties in the Han Dynasty, and prepare for the future domination of the world. For this reason, he temporarily put aside the tense situation faced by his subordinates, and was willing to risk his life, insisting on traveling all over the north and south of the river, and looking at the beautiful mountains and rivers of China.

However, things in the world are easier said than done.

The experience of the previous two months or so is better to say, it is called "travel", to tell the truth, it is a secret agent, hiding all day long, mysterious, hiding head and tail, and always facing the danger of being robbed and killed along the way. However, as Li Li, who has the thoughts of a soldier in later generations, has always been very disdainful of such things as talking about soldiers on paper, and he will not believe in the nonsense that he knows the affairs of the world by sitting in the grass, compared to these nonsense, he only believes in his own eyes, and firmly believes that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

Because since ancient times, everyone has traveled all over the north and south of the country, is well versed in geography and people's conditions, has rich experience, and is well-informed, so that they can survive a hundred battles and achieve a great cause. Even Zhuge Wolong, a celebrity in the annals of later generations, traveled to Xuzhou, Jingzhou, Jiangdong and Xichuan Bashu before he came out of the fledgling, so as to set a three-point world for the ages. After that, although Zhuge was invincible in a hundred battles in his life, he was limited to the places he had visited, and the prefectures and counties that he had never set foot in had never captured in his life. However, the world tends to pay more attention to military achievements and merits, and it is easy to ignore the details hidden behind the merits, but for those who make good use of soldiers, these seemingly inconspicuous details are often the key factors in the final victory.

Although Li Li is the overlord of Xiliang, he was born in troubled times. For him, governing the government is not his primary responsibility, but it is his unshirkable duty to take charge of the army and conquer the army, and his life's achievements and net worth are all dependent on this. Therefore, he may not be able to do every battle himself, but he must memorize the topography, climate characteristics and customs of the Han states, so that he can make relatively correct decisions.

In this southward journey, Li Li still held this purpose, temporarily pressed the military and political affairs of Xiliang on Li Xuan, Li Ru, Jia Xu and others, arranged the military defense of the counties under the division, and sent the Zhen family to Chang'an, he set off again and went straight to Jing and Yang.

In view of the fact that there were no overly strong princes in the states and counties along the Yangtze River, and there was no grudge against the Xiliang army, and it was far away from Xiliang, Li Li did not arrange a large group of personal soldiers to accompany him on this trip, and only took Guo Jia, Huan Fei and Li Zhi to the south, and changed his outfit slightly before leaving. All four of them took off their brocade robes and jade belts and took off their jade crowns. put on a coarse cloth coat, brought some gold and silver coils, and then quietly left Sili, officially starting this trip to Jiangnan.

Three days later, Li Li suddenly changed his itinerary halfway and diverted to Xuzhou, just in time to meet Cao Cao's army leading the fifth attack on Tancheng.

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"Whoa!"

The rain became heavier and heavier, and the bean-sized raindrops fell straight down, drenching the four Li Li who had never left on the top of the mountain, and the wet coarse cloth clothes stuck to their bodies. It's not uncomfortable.

"Lord, everyone who wants to see it has also seen it, and now we have all become soup chickens. Don't sigh anymore, let's go, it's important to find a place to hide from the rain now! ”

Seeing the heavy rain getting heavier and heavier. But the lord Li Li looked at the Tancheng City Tower in a daze, so that everyone stood on the top of the mountain in the rain. This time. Guo Jia and Li Zhi naturally didn't bother Li Li's thoughts. But Huan Fei is an exception. He didn't care what the lord was thinking, anyway, he only knew that it was not pleasant to stand on the top of the mountain in the rain, and it was imperative to find a place to hide from the rain.

Hearing Huan Fei's urging, Li Li woke up suddenly, and when he turned his head, he saw that Guo Jia, who was thin, was already shivering from the cold. The soaked cloth was attached to the body, and the rain flowed down the body and flowed out of the trouser legs.

"Hehehe!" Seeing that Guo Jia's lips turned purple after being drenched in the rain, Li Li couldn't help laughing: "Feihu is right. Let's go now, find a cave to shelter from the rain, so that we don't get wet from the change of clothes. Let's go! ”

As he spoke, Li Li immediately turned around, waved his big hand, and took the lead in riding his horse along the mountain road that had gone up the mountain before.

Fortunately, in less than a cup of tea, Li Li and the four of them found a very hidden cave, which was enough to accommodate more than ten people to take shelter from the rain and rest.

"Snort!"

On the bonfire, the dry branches that were soaked in heavy rain were not easy to burn, and they snorted, the fire was not strong, and the black smoke was not small.

Li Li and Guo Jia each drank the spirits in the water bags to ward off the cold, while Huan Fei and Li Zhi took out the dough cakes they had prepared and baked them on wooden sticks.

After taking a sip of Jiuquan wine, a touch of rosy appeared on Guo Jia's white cheeks, and his expression gradually returned to normal. Then he whispered to Li Li: "My subordinates have something to understand, and I ask the lord to give me advice, I don't know why the lord insists on coming to Xuzhou?" ”

"Hmm." Li Li smiled and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Fengxiao has wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he didn't ask it until he arrived in Xuzhou at this moment, and it was difficult for Fengxiao to ask it." ”

"The Lord is serious. His subordinates are ministers of the lord, and they should act according to the will of the lord, so how can they obstruct the whereabouts of the lord at will. Guo Jia replied with a solemn expression.

Li Li nodded happily and said with a smile: "This trip to Xuzhou has no special purpose, it is purely a temporary move that I am interested in. Cao Cao and Tao Qian's battle for Xuzhou is the most eye-catching war among the states of the Central Plains at present, and the princes from all walks of life sit on the wall and watch, waiting for the success or failure of the two of them, and some people even hope that they will lose both, and then sit back and reap the benefits of the fisherman.

Prior to this, the six counties of Xuzhou were one of the few rich places in the Central Plains states, and the two counties of the Middle East Sea and Guangling were among the best places in the world. However, under the fire of a war, Xuzhou, which was once regarded as the peaceful paradise of the Central Plains, has ceased to be peaceful, and the people are in a panic, there are no pedestrians in the city, and the corpses are everywhere, full of devastation.

It can be seen that it is not easy to be alone in the troubled times and shepherd the people, and Xuzhou Tao Qian is a living example. Compared with Xuzhou, the goal that I want to achieve in Xiliang is the previous Taiping Xuzhou, maybe we can't achieve the prosperity of the six counties of Xuzhou, but we can try to maintain the hard-won peaceful days in Xiliang.

Look at how Xuzhou is declining, and you will know what we should do in the future. Be prepared for danger in times of peace, be vigorous in the army, actively train the soldiers, and never relax at any time; When the war comes in the coming day, our Xiliang army will not move, and if it moves, it will win! ”

After a little explanation, Li Li took a sip of spirits before revealing the true purpose of this trip to Xuzhou: "The four of us have no special intentions when we switch to Xuzhou this time, and we don't need to deliberately pay attention to the situation in Xuzhou, because the situation is already very clear. Although Xuzhou is an important town in the Central Plains, it is located in a corner of the East China Sea, easy to attack and difficult to defend, far from Xiliang, and has nothing to do with us at the moment. If we want to capture Xuzhou in the future, we only need to sweep away the surrounding states and counties, and the army will overwhelm the border, and Xuzhou will naturally be able to fight in one battle.

I came to Tancheng for only one purpose, that is, to see the three brothers Cao Cao and Liu Guanzhang in Yanzhou with my own eyes. For these four people, I have long had the heart to meet with them, but I am struggling to sit in Xiliang, and I am entangled in everything and have no chance to see each other; This trip south happened to have the opportunity to taste the long-cherished wish, so naturally I had to stop by to take a look. Fortunately, I waited for this trip worthwhile, and when I first arrived in Xuzhou, I encountered the battle of Tancheng, and I could take a panoramic view of them by sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight. After seeing them, we don't have to stay here, and when the rain weakens, we will immediately set off for Yangzhou. ”

After Guo Jia heard this, his heart became more and more puzzled, and his expression was dazed, and he immediately said: "From the perspective of his subordinates, although Cao Cao in Yanzhou has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are county soldiers, and their combat power is not strong, and the strongest combat force is the Qingzhou soldiers who attacked Tancheng today. However, although the Qingzhou soldiers under his command claimed to be 100,000, they were actually only more than 70,000; In the past, he collected 300,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban thieves in one fell swoop, and after excluding the old and young, women and children, and the weak and disabled, there were only 70,000 or 80,000 young and strong left.

At the same time, Cao Cao's current situation is not optimistic, although he led the Yanzhou pastor, but did not get the title of the Son of Heaven, the name is not right, it is difficult to convince the people of Yanzhou. In addition, there are also Chen Liu, Zhang Miao and Jiyin Lu Bu forces in Yanzhou, waiting for an opportunity to move, because Cao Cao has not been able to recover the entire territory of Yanzhou so far. In addition, Yanzhou is adjacent to Qingzhou, Jizhou, Sili and Xuzhou, which is actually the place of four wars, and has always been under the front of the surrounding princes.

Compared with Cao Cao, the three brothers Liu, Guan, and Zhang, who were famous in the past, are not at all significant. At present, Liu Bei is in the plain phase, and his soldiers are only a few thousand, and the soldiers are not more than 10,000, and he is also subject to the jurisdiction of Gongsun Zhan, which prompts him to dare not recruit soldiers and horses privately, otherwise Gongsun Zhan will definitely be suspicious. In the past, although the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang became famous in the first battle, they were just the courage of the horseman, and they had their name but not the truth. If his subordinates are not mistaken, this time Liu Bei led his troops to Xuzhou in the name of aiding Tao Qian, in fact, he wanted to take the opportunity to break away from Gongsun Zhan, and then rely on Tao Qian, so as to achieve the goal of self-reliance.

Therefore, the subordinates really can't see that these four people have any merits, and it is worth the lord to come to Xuzhou to visit them. Could it be that the lord has another deep meaning? ”

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