Knock knock!

There was a hurried knock on the door, followed by Li Zhi's voice: "Lord, General Zhou Yu sent someone to report urgently, and there was an abnormal movement in the Cao army of the North Shore Camp late at night!" ”

"Uh-tom-tom!"

In a stunned voice, Li Li quickly turned over and got out of bed, ran over barefoot, and opened the door with a "poof".

"What's going on? I have given Zhou Yu permission to act cheaply, so why ask! ”

Li Zhi responded: "My lord, it is not only Cao Cao's soldiers and horses who move in the middle of the night. The defenders of Yecheng are also frequently mobilized, and the city is brightly lit and noisy, and there seems to be a major event. When General Zhou Yu discovered that there was something wrong with Cao's camp, Cao Cao and his soldiers and horses had already left the camp on the north bank and were nowhere to be seen. Soon after, a fierce battle broke out at the south gate of Yecheng, and Cao Cao ordered Zhou Yu to be summoned, claiming that tonight was a good opportunity to attack Yecheng, and asked him to send reinforcements. It was General Zhou Yu who ordered his own soldiers to come to ask the lord for advice, whether to send troops to reinforce Cao Cao and attack the city overnight? ”

"Yuan's army moves frequently, and the city is brightly lit?" Li Li's voice changed when he heard this, and anger suddenly surged up on his cheeks, and he reprimanded: "Why has such important news not been reported for a long time, and it has not been reported until this moment? Zhou Yu 、、、 "In anger, Li Li wanted to criticize Zhou Yu, but the words came to an abrupt end.

Immediately, he tried his best to restrain his anger, forced himself to calm down, turned around and walked into the inner room, and while beckoning Li Zhi to step forward to help him put on his battle armor, he muttered in confusion: "Zhou Yu has always acted cautiously and thoughtfully, why did there be a mistake tonight." Doesn't this look like Gongjin did it? ”

Seeing Li Li whispering to himself, Li Zhi didn't dare to say more. Quickly took out the dragon scale soft armor and battle armor from the mezzanine of the wall, and carefully put it on Li Li's body, the movement was very skillful. Apparently often dressed for Li Li. But tonight was different. Li Zhi was extremely careful, first dressing Li Li in a suit of soft armor as thin as silk, then draping him in battle armor, and finally putting on knee-length combat boots for him. After doing this, he held Li Li's pocket, followed behind him lightly, and followed Li Li out of the inner room step by step. Step into the big tent.

Li Li, who was fully clothed, slowly walked to the back of the handsome case and sat down, the anger on his face had already dissipated, and his expression turned calm. Without saying a word, he sat in the wide and soft handsome seat, contemplating and contemplating.

Tonight is indeed extraordinarily long. Before he saw off Guo Jia, who had no sleep late at night, and then Gongsun Zhan and Kebineng came again, talking for half an hour. The two bowed and left. So far. Li Li was able to go back to his room to rest. Unexpectedly, less than an hour after falling asleep, he finally fell asleep, and Li Zhi knocked on the door again, bringing such a surprising news.

It's so unusual! The atmosphere is abnormal, things are abnormal, even Zhou Yu, who has always reassured him, is extremely abnormal, and there must be an inevitable connection behind these abnormalities, hiding an unpredictable crisis.

This is Li Li's speculation. But it comes from his keen intuition of impending danger, that is, the stress instinct for danger. Although this feeling is unfounded. But he was convinced that his instincts could not be wrong, and he believed in his instinctive premonition when faced with a crisis.

Inexplicably, Li Li sat in the empty tent and faintly smelled a strong aura of slaughter, and these extremely oppressive breaths were all coming for him. But he couldn't figure out the source of the danger, let alone guess where the danger lurked in the darkness.

As of now, Li Li is most worried about Cao Cao. He was sure that Cao Cao must not be willing to be driven by him, and that a huge conspiracy must be brewing under his docile and easy-going demeanor, or that Cao Cao was planning a bottomless trap, trying to lure him Li Li to the edge of the trap step by step, and then push him down. But this is just a kind of speculation without any basis, and it is purely a suspicion of treating others with oneself, which is inexplicable and unreasonable, and has no reason.

In fact, until now, Cao Cao has not shown the slightest sign of betraying the Yuan Alliance, turning his back on Li Li, and defecting to him. On the contrary, Cao Cao has been doing his best to attack Yecheng, more than 50,000 soldiers and horses have been wiped out, and now there are only a few thousand people left, but he still has not given up the siege. Even, in the middle of the night, the third watch led the troops to attack the south gate of Yecheng.

This is what Cao Cao did. Although Cao Cao's sneak attack on Yecheng overnight was a bit abrupt, he did not overstep his authority. Because Cao Cao was the former army commander, he had the right to decide to launch an attack on Yecheng at any time, even if it was a siege in the middle of the night, it was within his authority. What's more, since ancient times, there have been workarounds that will not be subject to the orders of foreign monarchs.

And Zhou Yu, who was ordered to lead the army into the camp on the north bank, was only defending the camp for Cao's army, and he would not send a single soldier to assist Cao Cao in attacking the city before receiving Li Li's military order. Moreover, Zhou Yu also shouldered the mission of secretly monitoring Cao Jun, and he left the camp with Cao Jun's front foot, and he immediately knew about it.

And this is where Li Li is very annoyed with Zhou Yu. In the evening, he ordered Li Zhi to go and give an order, strictly ordering Zhou Yu to keep an eye on Cao's every move, and besiege it at the slightest movement, and even wipe it out. But now that Cao Jun had left the camp silently, Zhou Yu realized that he didn't know where Cao Jun was going until Cao Jun launched an attack at the south gate. What is this? Negligent or dereliction of duty, or flagrant disobedience to military orders?

Li Li roughly guessed the reason why Zhou Yu made a mistake. This qiē is all because Zhou Yu has a sense of resistance to him, or is dissatisfied, and the source is that he led the army to the south before, coercing Sun Ce to ask Sun Quan as a hostage, so that after Sun Ce's army was defeated in Jiangbei, he also had to bear the pain of separation from his brothers. And in this matter, Li Li is indeed vicious and unfair. In addition, Li Li didn't care about the previous agreement with Zhou Yu at all, as if he broke his promise and insisted on going his own way, without taking into account Zhou Yu's feelings.

At the same time, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are good brothers, he and Sun Ce are like brothers, and Sun Quan is naturally his younger brother. But now, Sun Quan was escorted to Chang'an as a hostage, although he was named a student of Tai Academy, but in fact, he was imprisoned after entering Chang'an, and has been isolated from the world since then. And Li Li also specially issued a strict order for this reason, no one is allowed to visit, including him Zhou Yu and his wife Da Qiao.

In fact, when Zhou Yu learned that Sun Quan was sent to Chang'an, he immediately wrote a letter to ask Da Qiao to try to give Sun Quan some care, but Da Qiao couldn't see Sun Quan at all, even if he asked Xiao Qiao to help, it would be useless. It seems that Li Li's strict order was specifically aimed at him Zhou Yu. In this way, if Zhou Yu doesn't have any ideas, it is undoubtedly self-deception. After all, he is also a human being, and if he is a human being, he has feelings, and it is reasonable for him to give Sun Quan some care appropriately when he remembers his past feelings. But such a small request was strictly stopped by Li Li, which made Zhou Yu embarrassed, how could he not have a little affection?

If there is affection, it will be willful, and the consequences of willfulness will inevitably be negligent. Just like now, thousands of Cao troops quietly left the camp, but Zhou Yu learned about it afterwards and then hurriedly reported it.

Every qiē is accidental, and behind the accident lies the necessity. This has led to disagreements and suspicions, and when they all converge at a certain point in time, they will inevitably lead to catastrophe.

?????? At dawn, Li Li ordered Gao Shun's troops to stay in the camp and leave 10,000 cavalry to listen to his call, and then he personally led 80,000 cavalry from the camp of Jin Yiwei, the Tiger Ben Battalion and the Flying Bear Battalion to leave the camp and go straight to the north bank of the Zhanghe River.

"Newspaper! Last night, a large group of men and horses appeared thirty miles southeast of Yecheng, and hundreds of scouts of our army were all killed! Less than three miles out of the camp, a bloodied scout colonel rushed to him, and when he reached Li Li, he flew off his horse, but his feet were unsteady and fell to the ground. Even so, he still reported the heavy military situation outside the east gate of Yecheng for the first time.

Li Li's expression changed slightly after hearing the sound, and he instantly regained his calmness, and asked quietly: "All the scouts were killed last night, why did you report it at this time, and how did you escape?" As he spoke, Li Li clearly saw that the military marquis had three sharp arrows stuck in his back, and there were several bloody wounds on his shoulders on both sides, and at this moment, the armor on his body had been soaked with blood, and he was already on the verge of fainting.

"Yu 、、、 lord, when the last general led the team to inspect an hour ago, he found that the scouts outside the east gate had been killed for a long time, and learned from a seriously injured team leader that there was an army of tens of thousands of people before and after the time went to the east gate of Yecheng. Then the army attacked the city in a big way, and our scouts were killed by a group of unknown men in black. On the way back to report the news, the last general led the team to intercept and kill this group of black-clothed men, and only the last general and more than ten personal soldiers of the 300 soldiers in the team broke out of the encirclement, and the other brothers 、、、 died. ”

"Huh? That tens of thousands of horses are attacking the city? Surprised, Li Li's face was no longer calm, but instead had a solemn face, his brows were furrowed, and there was a thick doubt in his eyes.

"Unidentified man in black?" Li Li was deeply surprised by this, since it was not a sudden appearance of the army to besiege and kill the scouts, then where did this group of black-clothed dead soldiers come from, and who was the manipulator behind it? Could it be??? Yuan Shao?

Just as Li Li was about to ask further questions, the scout colonel had already passed out, "Take him down to heal, you must save him!" ”

Waving his hand to signal his soldiers to take him back to the camp, Li Li muttered: "At this time, there are still tens of thousands of troops coming to attack Yecheng, and only Cao Cao's soldiers and horses are left. It's just that this army came so quickly, Cao Cao only issued a military order three days ago, but he didn't expect two days and nights of reinforcements to arrive. Is it really fast? ”

Guo Jia, who was dressed in armor, continued: "It's really a little strange. Outside the east gate of Yecheng is the hinterland of Jizhou, how did this Cao army sneak into Jizhou, and where did it come from? ”

"Well, instead of speculating, let's go and see for yourself." Li Li shook his head slightly, and immediately waved his hand, signaling the army to continue advancing.

―――――― To be Continued ―――――――――――― (To be Continued......

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