Chapter 124 "You lied to me, and I lied to you too. Isn't this normal?"
Tian Song did manage to sneak out of the city while chasing Huang Wensheng.
At that time, Huang Wensheng and several of his trusted aides rushed out of the city gate. The entire East City was in turmoil at once, with soldiers and horses surging and arrows raining down. Following closely behind Li Qixun and Lin Zhun, the generals of the Central Army, were Yuchi Lin's troops who were stationed at the East City Gate at that time.
Tian Song received a message from his uncle Tian Jian early in the morning. He changed into his military uniform early and was at the rest and duty camp on the top of the city. He took advantage of the chaos and rushed out with the team. Later, he successfully left the team when the detachment was chasing him.
He would have been too conspicuous riding a horse, so he hid in the bushes, took off his armor, and wearing only an inconspicuous old cloth, he collected the letters and bamboo tube and ran south.
The boy was only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was not smart, but he listened to Tian Jian's words very much. He ran forward desperately while crying.
He didn't know the deeper reason, but he knew that his uncle who stayed in the city must be in trouble.
——Tian Jian told him to leave and never come back.
Li Yi quickly caught up. Based on Huang Wensheng's position and patrol route, he quickly determined that Tian Song must have run south, towards the upper reaches of Yishui.
Chase after me with great speed!
The armor in the grass was soon discovered, but fortunately Tian Song remembered the instructions on the paper and took the forest paths and swamp areas with lush grass and water plants where it was difficult for cavalry to chase. The tall grass and water plants made it very convenient for him to conceal his whereabouts and block the pursuers.
In the end, Tian Song arrived at Yishui almost a quarter of an hour earlier than his pursuers.
He did not go into the water. Instead, he broke off a piece of dry bamboo and hooked out a water gourd. He counted and pulled out a bunch of eight gourds. Then he stuffed a very narrow piece of paper that he had been hiding in his arms into the bamboo tube, covered it with a lid, and carefully sealed it with wax. He tied the small bamboo tube to the bottom of the water gourd with a string and threw it out of the river with force.
The rest were also divided into clumps of different sizes and thrown away.
Water hyacinths swirled in the turbulent water, which had begun to turn slightly yellow due to the flood season, and drifted downstream.
After doing all this, Tian Song breathed a sigh of relief.
He also had a sheepskin bag in his arms. According to the instructions on the note, he could use the bag to dive into the water and sneak through the Confederate defense line. One or two people, it was still possible.
If he is afraid, he can go to the mountains to the west and northwest. Hide there for a month or two, or even a month or two. The war will surely be over, and he will be safe when he emerges.
But Tian Song lowered his head and rubbed the paper into the water, dissolving it completely. He then put the sheepskin bag into stones and sank it into the water, without escaping to the mountain.
He ran towards the swamp to the east just to cover up the original location of the water hyacinth.
He was soon caught up, and the stack of secret letters he had prepared for his escape was in his arms, but he didn't use them.
The young man Tian Song fell to the ground. Li Yi dismounted and walked quickly to him.
Tian Song's eyes were red, but he managed to sit up. His hands and knees were burning, but he held the dagger tightly in his hands.
This dagger was not meant to assassinate Li Yi, and he couldn't assassinate Li Yi.
Tian Song's young, fair face still had a hint of childishness. He said, "You are a bad person. You lied to my uncle and said he was sick."
He fell in the swamp, about ten feet away. Before he was captured, he said this, wiped his tears with his hand, held the dagger in both hands, and cut his throat hard.
He committed suicide.
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The water hyacinths floated and floated downstream.
The Southern Army's defenses of the key waterways and passes were extremely tight, almost airtight. The waterways in particular were brightly lit day and night and watched closely. Sailors in water jackets constantly dived underwater to patrol, and bows, crossbows, and tung oil warships on both sides of the strait were ready for action, stuck in the two narrowest and most dangerous sections of the waterway.
But no matter how strict the defense is, duckweed and water hyacinth that drift with the water are exceptions.
If it's a large cluster, you might cross over to take a look to see if there are people hiding underneath, but if it's a small cluster, you can just go straight over.
So, Xie Ci downstream successfully harvested the eight duckweeds and the small bamboo tube.
When the bamboo tube was fished out, Gu Guan had just returned.
In fact, compared to the fancy intelligence provided by Huang Wensheng and Tian Song, this small bamboo tube was the secret message that Tian Jian really wanted to give to Xie Ci. After all, the deployment of defenses and military arrangements could be adjusted, and Li Yi had already made rapid adjustments.
So what is Tian Jian’s thank you letter?
When Xie Ci returned to the big tent, Gu Guan had already changed her clothes. She was wiping her wet hair with a dry cotton cloth. Her hair was half draped over her head. Her face was fair and moist, and her figure was tall and slender. She looked beautiful and casual.
Xie Ci was happy when he saw her, "Are you back?" He casually opened the wax seal of the small bamboo tube and unfolded it. Gu Wan leaned over and saw only eight words on it, "The alliance at Honggou was destroyed; we were defeated and fled to Maicheng."
This is a word puzzle.
The word has a double meaning, which not only evokes the sadness of half a lifetime in the fields, but also serves as a message.
Gu Wan: “…”
Damn, she understood Tian Jian’s Half Life Feelings, but she didn’t understand the riddle.
"What does he mean by that?"
Is this bullying the semi-literate people?
Xie Ci laughed heartily, and he also laughed and scolded: "These literati are troublesome."
But he had a rough idea of it at a glance.
Xie Ci was a man of both literary and martial talents. Back then, when he was still a teenager, his knowledge was comparable to that of his third brother Xie Bian, who was the top scholar in the imperial examination. Although he was not a man of profound learning, he had a wide range of interests.
Xie Ci quickly pulled out a brown sheepskin map from the side of the commander's desk. It was a copy of the Pengcheng map and military report map kept in Zhongdu, which Zhang Yuanrang had just sent by express horse.
The military hardware inside and outside Pengcheng remains unchanged despite all the changes.
"The Honggou Alliance was broken, Xiang Yu committed suicide at the Wujiang River; Guan Gong was defeated and fled to Maicheng, where he was also killed soon after."
Xiang Yu and Guan Yu died at the same time.
The character "翠" is composed of "羽" on top and "徒" on the bottom.
There are 32 sluice gates in Pengcheng, namely gold, wood, water, fire, and earth; green, red, white, black, and yellow; two each of Qian, Kun, Kan, and Li; one or three each of Zhen, Xun, Gen, and Dui; in addition, there are eight sluice gates named after the connected streets or waterways, namely Wu, Meng, Ze, Cui, and Shi.
These gates are made of fine iron and sandwiched between large bluestones. They are very strong and comparable to city walls.
But what can I say? It is pig iron after all. After using it for a long time, it will rust and become decayed, and it may even become vulnerable to any attack.
These sluice gates that were considered in the battle points that I thanked you for considering earlier.
After all, it was a peaceful time, and the Wei officialdom was so deeply ill that it was very likely that neglect, reporting without repair, and embezzlement of funds would occur.
No matter how capable Li Yi was, he probably couldn't have predicted that he would be defeated and retreat to Pengcheng one day, so he couldn't have taken care of every detail.
However, Xie Ci only considered it for a moment and did not make this decision, precisely because he did not understand. After all, the corrosion degree of pig iron is different, and people come and go, so it is impossible for it to be corroded to the point of being completely destroyed without replacement.
Therefore, there will still be replacements. Xie Ci cannot be sure which sluice gate will be severely decayed and can be used for the advance charge when the army reaches the city of Pengcheng.
The sluice gate strategic plan requires very heavy pre-arrangement, and it is very dangerous to advance deep into the hinterland under the huge pressure of the Southern Army. If you are not careful, the vanguard army will be wiped out and even the entire morale and battle situation will be affected.
But there are too many sluices in Pengcheng, so we can't just guess.
That's right, the mystery was solved. Tian Jian gave Xie Ci a very important piece of information, which Li Yi could not make up for by making adjustments.
After all, repairing a sluice gate is not a simple project, and it is even more impossible to repair it now. If you do, the whole thing will be in vain.
The information Tian Jian sent to Xie Ci was not much. When Tian Qing learned about it, he said, "So little?"
"That's enough."
Tian Jian's mood was also complicated, but he had to admit that Xie Ci was indeed a rare general in history. Even if there was only one loophole, it was enough for Xie Ci.
…
Dusk was falling and it was getting a little dark inside the tent.
Xie Ci blew the fire stick and lit a lamp.
The dim yellow light illuminated the desk and enveloped the small space.
Xie Ci took Gu Wan's hand, held her in his arms, leaned on the armrest of the armchair behind the desk, and looked at the small piece of paper and the large picture with her.
Tian Jian’s handwriting is very beautiful, with elegant strokes, vigorous and powerful, giving it a sense of grandeur and calmness.
In fact, both of them understood that Tian Jian only sent the letter, which meant that he wanted to accompany Li Yi through life and death, so as not to let down Li Yi's many years of affection and trust.
Xie Ci could actually understand Tian Jian. It had to be said that the two people's initial ambitions and subsequent encounters were somewhat similar.
Gu Guan felt a little sorry for Tian Jian, but when Xie Ci put himself in his shoes, he felt quite calm. He could understand Tian Jian.
Death is not that scary.
Of course, the light was soft, shining on Gu Wan's beautiful white jawline. She was still sighing, and Xie Ci couldn't help but smile. He put his chin on her shoulder, feeling the warmth of her neck pulse, and he couldn't help but close his eyes slightly.
Feel the tranquility and beauty of this moment.
Of course, with Gu Wan, everything became different.
He admitted that in a sense, he was afraid of death, he wanted to protect himself well, and he wanted to love her and stay with her forever.
The mountains and rivers are where his father and brother spent their entire lives, and it is also where he spent half his life.
The mountains that span the world are the surface, and she is the inside.
The most personal, the most profound, embedded in the very bones of his soul.
She had had enough of the turbulent and frugal days with him, and hoped that after the Battle of Pengcheng was over, he could give her a peaceful life where conditions were no longer so dependent on the circumstances.
He gently kissed the side of her neck.
…
On February 23, the final battle between the North and the South finally broke out.
The moonlight was dim, shining on the city walls, the arrow tower in Pengcheng, and the Northern Army camp a hundred miles away. Xie Ci and Li Yi were both in a solemn and murderous mood.
Xie Ci did not become careless even in the slightest because of his superiority. He despised the enemy strategically and took him seriously tactically. Regardless of the size of the battle, as long as he was on the battlefield, he never took it lightly.
What's more, he is now facing a super war with nearly two million soldiers.
Four hundred thousand elite soldiers are not a small number, and battles in which the outnumbered side defeated the larger force are not uncommon in history.
During these ten days, the military horses galloped back and forth continuously, and the sentries on both sides tried their best to spy on the enemy's military intelligence.
However, when Gu Guan, Yin Luo and Huang Wensheng and others returned, Huang Wensheng immediately wrote down the two military deployment maps given to him by Tian Jian, and restored most of what he still remembered, as well as his original understanding of his military position.
After receiving these two military deployment maps, Xie Ci almost immediately decided to advance! !
Xie Ci read ten lines at a glance, then stood up suddenly, his brows sharpened to the extreme. He said in a deep voice: "Beat the drums, marshal the troops, summon all the generals to the platform! Go immediately-"
Soon, the rumbling of cowhide drums sounded, and the huge camp that stretched for nearly a hundred miles was like a tide following the thunder of the signal. Millions of troops came out in full force, and that very night, the vanguard army had already marched out in a hurry.
This super battle, which made countless people hold their breath and would determine whether the war would come to an end, officially began at night in late February!
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Pengcheng.
Dozens of scout horses rushed into the city from all directions. The sound of horses' horseshoes echoed throughout the entire central street. Many people near the city gates woke up from their sleep and became nervous all of a sudden.
"Report—"
The messenger dismounted and rushed to the arrow tower, panting and shouting, "Shimen Gate report, the Yishui Northern Army warships are moving rapidly. As of the beginning of the evening, they are already fifty miles away from the Shimen Gate!"
Then the second messenger rushed up: "Ningshan Pass report, at 6:00 PM, the Xieci army, led by Qin Xian, has reached 30 miles east of Ningshan Pass!"
"Report, Caoqu soldiers, at 2:15 pm, we've spotted two enemy fleets, with approximately 80,000 soldiers and over 20,000 warships!"
"Report, at dusk at 5 p.m., Xie Ci's army, led by Su Zhen and Lu Liang, is approaching Qixia Pass, less than 40 miles away!"
“…”
A million northern troops were mobilized on all fronts, marching straight to the border of Pengcheng, advancing on both land and sea routes simultaneously.
The morale is high and the momentum is strong.
Like a tiger released from its cage, it shakes the mountains and rivers.
The atmosphere on the huge arrow tower suddenly became extremely tense. Not a sound was heard, and everyone was in a state of solemnity.
Li Yihuo stood up suddenly.
He had been adjusting the military deployment overnight, but he was not yet satisfied with the adjustment. However, at this moment, his voice became hoarse, and his handsome face suddenly became gloomy, his eyes became sharp to the extreme, and burst with cold and fierce murderous intent.
He exhaled deeply from his chest and said sharply, "Just in time!!"
Thanks!
This time, either you die or I live!!
…
The war drums rumbled, and the battle between the two armies immediately entered a white-hot state.
Arrows shot down like rain, and the burning tung oil poured down like water. However, when the tung oil spilled to a certain extent, the Northern Army immediately retreated, quickly untied the wet cotton layer tightly wrapped around the hull and stretched it out to separate the tung oil.
Several wet cotton threads were pulled out to block the tung oil on the water surface in the area under the gate. When it reached a certain thickness, more than a dozen rockets were fired and the tung oil on the water surface was quickly ignited with a "boom".
The tung oil burned fiercely, and the blazing flames spread five or six feet, setting a large area on fire. The smoke made the Confederate soldiers on the gate extremely uncomfortable, but no one retreated and they stayed in their positions.
At the moment when the Northern Army's navy retreated, a long-awaited ambush suddenly appeared from the side. Feng Shaoqin, the only son of Feng Qizhou, the Southern Army's naval general, led the troops personally. The assault boats changed as fast as lightning, and the spikes were inserted fiercely, killing a lot in an instant. The fire was blazing and the fighting was deafening.
The main general of the Northern Army who attacked Shizhamen was Huang Zongxi. He shouted loudly, waved the flag, and quickly took control of the situation, engaging in a stalemate battle with Feng Shaoqin's troops!
At this time, the stone gate that had been waiting for a long time immediately opened the sluice gate, and the assault boats rushed out to attack Huang Zongxi.
Fortunately, Huang Zongxi was well prepared. Fan Dongyang quickly sent troops to recruit reinforcements. Xie's army had many soldiers and the generals were very powerful, and they quickly turned the situation around.
The entire stone gate was smashed into pieces in an instant.
The battle lasted for three days. The two routes of water and land advanced simultaneously. Xie Ci advanced very steadily, approaching the city walls of Pengcheng step by step.
The fighting between the two sides has entered a white-hot stage, and the conditions for the surprise attack plan on Cuimen Water Gate have gradually matured.
But the thanks at this moment smelled unusual.
"Commander! In an hour at most, our Third Fleet Division will be approaching Pengcheng!"
The battle of Shimen Gate was very fierce. After fighting for more than two days, Huang Zongxi, Fan Dongyang and Chen Yan finally joined forces to capture this first water gate in Pengcheng.
The Fanyang army, after a fierce battle and desperate defense of the pass, was forced to retreat. Feng Qizhou was killed in action, while Feng Shaoqin and his remaining troops held the water gate tightly, refusing to leave, shedding tears of blood. As generals, Huang Zongxi, Fan Dongyang, and Chen Yan all admired them and paused for a moment of silence before fully retaking the stone gate.
After breaking through the first line of defense of Pengcheng's navy, the Northern Army shouted like a tsunami, and the navy rushed out from the stone gate. There were 72 waterways in Pengcheng, and the Northern Army launched a full-scale attack on the large and small passes and the Southern Army's navy in an instant. Fierce fighting, they advanced inward.
At this moment, the entire Northern Army, including Xie Ci's trusted generals, were in extremely high spirits.
This high spirit of hope for victory in the final battle was directly reflected in the morale on the battlefield, which made the million-strong army of the Northern Division have the ability to fight forever without defeat.
If the plan goes well, they are very likely to end this final battle within three days.
Capture of Pengcheng.
But just as the night deepened and the fighting spirit and the atmosphere of victory reached their peak, Xie Ci sensed a quiet crisis amidst the high spirits of victory.
At this moment, he was on the large boat of the central army, with the crimson and black general flags fluttering in the dark night. The fighting was fierce in the front, and the small boats were swaying back and forth, making a very noisy and earth-shaking sound of war.
The big boat where Xie Ci was was very stable, and the ripples on the water were almost imperceptible. He stood behind the desk without moving. Chen Yan, Zhang Shen and others came in one after another, and Fan Dongyang also came. After everyone reported loudly and excitedly, Xie Ci did not respond, and everyone fell silent at the same time.
The hall was silent for about three breaths. Xie Ci suddenly raised his head and said, "Li Yi is not someone who would be willing to be buried with 400,000 soldiers!"
It was already completely dark by then. A drizzle had fallen all day, and dark clouds obscured the stars and the moon. Looking out the window at the waterways and forests on the earth, there was not a trace of night light. Only the raging flames of war were burning fiercely, illuminating half the sky red. Where the flames could not reach, only dark shadows with vague outlines could be seen.
Everyone was startled.
…
Xie Ci quickly ordered someone to bring the waterway strategic map.
A large sheepskin map about ten feet long was immediately spread out on the desk. All the things were moved away and laid flat on it. Xie Ci's sharp eyes like cold lightning quickly fell on the large map of the waterway.
Gu Guan hurried back from the deck and stood beside the desk nervously.
This large map of the waterway was based on the map filed with the court. She ordered Xie Jiawei and Liuyunwei to make every effort to survey it during this period of time. It was recently drawn and adjusted, and it is the most accurate.
Xie Ci is a natural born general, he has an extremely keen sixth sense about war.
At this point in the war, the Southern Army was fighting fiercely. Li Yi and his generals were engaged in an all-out fierce battle. They would rather die in glory than be defeated. Li Yi would rather die with his 400,000 troops.
This is also very consistent with the current situation and war situation.
But is this really the case?
Xie Ci didn't believe it. From his understanding of Li Yi, he knew that until the moment the sword cut his neck, this man would never stop trying to turn defeat into victory!
He still has an army of 400,000 and Pengcheng as his base, so how could he just sit there and wait for death?!
Xie Ci's eyes quickly swept across the waterway map, almost like lightning, and he stopped at a small, unmarked waterway northeast of the Quyin waterway in the large lake behind the stone gate that had not been affected by the war.
Xie Ci suddenly asked, "What is the name of this waterway?"
There were too many small waterways to be written on the map, so Gu Guan and Xie Yun quickly flipped through it.
"It's called Cuilin Waterway."
Very close.
Xie Ci’s central army is currently located in the Quyin waterway. If they advance another seven or eight miles, they will reach the Cuilin waterway.
The march of a navy is very different from that of a land army, and is restricted by hydrological conditions. For example, in a large river, a large formation can be deployed to protect the enemy, but when entering the 72 waterway battles that are similar to street fighting, only a long and narrow conical charge formation can be deployed.
Pengcheng is connected to the Yangtze River in the north, and the Yishui River flows from north to south. Within the stone gate, there are also large lakes and a crisscrossing water network.
Xie Ci turned his head to look at the wide-open window. The direction was Cuilin Waterway. Cuilin Waterway was actually a general term, which actually referred to a large network of small waterways. The reeds and aquatic plants were extremely lush, which was just right... for hiding the army.
If the triumphant Northern Army attacked here, as long as the commander of the central army, Xie Ci, got a little carried away and relaxed the defense a little, the ambush troops would suddenly launch a sharp attack, which would almost always hit the target.
Once Xie Ci dies, it is still very likely that Li Yi will turn defeat into victory.
Xie Ci couldn't help but smile.
As he saw through it, he immediately thought of that "Cui".
Cuilin Waterway, Gu Guan and his team spent a lot of effort to research the real names and aliases of those large and small unknown waterways.
It can be seen that Tian Jian was contradictory until the last moment, and he hid this information very deeply.
So many complicated emotions, but unfortunately they were all in vain.
Xie Ci threw the blue pen and said, "No need to say more, this is it."
He gave the order in a deep voice, "Pass my secret order to summon Chen Luo, Xun Xiao, and He Rong from Qinguan. They must flee immediately. Select five hundred assault boats, load them with tung oil, gunpowder, arrows, and other military equipment. Immediately circle northeast, south, and west to encircle the southern exit of the Cuilin Waterway!"
Xie Ci pondered the Cuilin waterway for a moment and immediately gave the order.
From the commander's boat down, there was a huge movement in an instant.
Gu Guan followed him out. As they stepped off the deck, the rumbling of battle suddenly became even more deafening. Ahead, the sky was filled with crimson flames. Neither of them looked toward the Cuilin Waterway. Gu Guan couldn't help but feel a little anticipatory: "If everything goes well tonight, can the war be over?"
Xie Ci smiled faintly: "It should be fine."
Amidst the darkness and crimson of war, Gu Guan revealed a genuine smile: "That's great!"
Yin Luo and Tian Yu stood outside the deck, their arms folded, by the side of the cabin pillar. The curtains and the night shadows obscured their figures, and they exchanged a few words in low voices. After Gu Wan finished speaking, she turned and quickly pulled Yin Luo and Tian Yu along. She slipped quietly from the shadows of the curtains behind the gangway and said, "Let's go together!"
"Well, what do you think? If I go to visit my cousin after the war is over, will he be unhappy?"
Yin Luo shook her hand off angrily, "Who knows? How can you know if he's happy or not if you don't try?"
The murmuring voices gradually faded away and soon disappeared under the secret ladder leading to the bottom cabin.
Chen Yan, Huang Zongxi, Chen Lang, Qin Yong and others who were standing behind Xie Ci looked at each other and couldn't help but smile sincerely.
…
Five hundred assault boats entered quietly and quickly approached the upper southern section of Cuilin Waterway through the winding small waterways.
Everyone crouched low, hiding among the long reeds and thatch.
The boat cuts through the water silently.
During this period, they captured a total of 23 scouts in the waterway.
If it weren't for Xun Xiao, Qin Guan, Yin Luo, Tian Yu and others, it probably wouldn't be so easy.
Finally, they approached the front part of the southern section, and in the dark night, they finally saw the sterns of the enemy ships.
After seeing the 300 brand new assault boats, and the huge amount of gunpowder and tung oil loaded on the central 100 boats, everyone was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.
Xun Xiao and Chen Luo exchanged a glance, and Xun Xiao waved his hand with a stern expression, "Archers, aim at the enemy ship in the middle, light the fire, and shoot!"
"The rest of the assault boats, follow our original plan and immediately land and surround from both sides! Quickly—"
A sudden and extremely important battle broke out in the Cuilin Waterway! Soon, the entire Quyin Waterway was engulfed in a huge battle!
…
Within Pengcheng.
Li Yi personally led his troops to resist the enemy, fighting bloody battles, and then hurried back to the arrow tower to supervise the battle.
But compared to every time before, he was particularly agitated tonight.
Tonight, this will be his last confrontation with Xie Ci.
A battle between life and death!
Li Yi put everything on the line, a last-ditch effort, even including his trusted confidants Li Qixun and Lin Zhun, and most of his personal guards followed him. Most of the personal guards around him were transferred from Yuchi Lin's trusted confidants, and before they even arrived, they didn't know they would be serving as his temporary personal guards.
He even sacrificed Feng Qizhou and his son.
Time passed by minute by minute. According to the time, Xie Ci should have reached the Cuilin section of the Quyin waterway.
His heart began to beat violently, and Li Yi's expression became extremely fierce, even a little ferocious.
However, at this moment, there was a burst of violent sound of galloping horses under the city!
Lin Zhun was covered in blood and tears, with burn marks and sword scars on his cheeks. He climbed up in a hanging basket amidst the flames of war and rushed to the arrow tower.
The moment he appeared in the arrow tower and was about to walk down quickly, Li Yi suddenly turned around and held his breath for a moment.
Lin Zhun stood straight, but suddenly, he fell to his knees, wailing loudly: "Master, Master! I, your subordinate, am incompetent—"
His cries were deafening, blood was flowing from his forehead, mixed with the blackened skin on his face, he was crying and in extreme pain.
Li Qixun is dead.
I risked my life to protect him from leaving.
Cuilin Waterway Scheme.
Failed!
At that moment, Li Yi's head buzzed. He rushed forward, grabbed Lin Zhun by the collar of his armor, and shouted, "What do you mean?! Explain clearly, explain clearly!"
Both the master and the servant were greatly shocked.
Lin Zhun was as upset as Li Yi himself. He blamed himself bitterly, sobbing intermittently: "...before Xie Ci's boat reached the Cuilin waterway, about seven or eight miles away, we were ambushed..."
We were ambushed! !
completely annihilated.
Lin Zhun burst into tears: "Master, our plan has been leaked ahead of time——"
In an instant, Li Yi's eyes were bloodshot: "How is this possible?! Impossible——"
His eyes were bloodshot from the intense emotion he felt! He absolutely could not leak this plan. Apart from him, Li Qixun, and Lin Zhun, even the soldiers who were carrying it out only knew the specific steps of the operation after they reached the Cuilin Waterway. And Li Qixun and Lin Zhun would never betray him.
Before this, even former trusted advisers and generals like Tianjian and Yuchi Lin did not know any news about it.
Lin Zhun's expression was extremely gloomy. He murmured for a long while: "...Maybe, maybe Mr. Tian guessed it."
Tian Jian is resourceful and has predicted many things in the past. He has made an indelible contribution to Li Yi's current achievements.
And it just so happened that Tian Jian had just sent a message to Xie Ci.
Perhaps, not all of the letters were intercepted.
At this moment, Li Yi's expression was extremely ferocious, almost distorted. This was the last chance for him to turn defeat into victory, the result of his life's hard work and painstaking planning!
"Fields, fields."
He said in a hoarse voice.
At this moment, huge resentment surged in his heart, almost driving him crazy. Li Yi stood frozen for a moment, then suddenly turned around and rode his horse straight to the governor's mansion.
A quarter of an hour later, he arrived.
Holding a blood-stained sword, Li Yi walked into the governor's mansion with a stern look on his face.
Thanks to Li Xun, Yu Manzhen was not restricted in her movements within the mansion and was even waiting at the gate, ready to evacuate and hide at any time.
She watched helplessly as this familiar yet unfamiliar man walked past her quickly. She had seen him dignified, unrestrained, majestic, powerful, and even gloomy and unhappy, but she had never seen him like this today.
He was horrified, ferocious, murderous, and like a madman.
She felt extremely unfamiliar, horrified and stunned, her heart and soul trembling. Li Xun seemed to recognize her father, but she was not sure if it was, and she screamed in fear.
Yu Manzhen quickly covered her mouth with her hand.
Li Yi rushed into Tianjian's yard quickly, kicked the door open, and woke up Tianjian, who was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, wearing only his undershirt.
In order to minimize the impact on military morale, Li Yi made Tian Jian really fall ill and fall into a coma. After drinking two bowls of medicine, he would be in a coma for a whole day.
In a short period of time, the medicine made Tian Jian's face turn blue, his cheekbones slightly visible, and he looked emaciated and sickly.
With a "bang", the whole door was kicked away and Tian Jian woke up immediately.
When he saw Li Yi holding a sword and wearing armor with a murderous look, he knew that Li Yi had failed.
Li Yi was filled with hatred: "Why? Tell me why?!"
Yes, he had people watching the fields, but not just the fields, just for an extra layer of insurance.
Besides, no one in the field knew about it at that time.
He had always treated Tian Jian with great courtesy, treating him like a mentor and a close friend. Why did he suddenly betray him?!
Tian Jian smiled faintly: "You lied to me, and I lied to you, isn't this normal?"
Li Yi's teeth chattered, and he suddenly swung his sword. A snow-white sword light flashed, and the sword light cut Tian Jian's neck, and his throat was cut off with one sword!
Bright red blood splattered on the bedding and the floor.
Li Yi really hated it to the extreme, "Why? Tell me why?!"
He shouted loudly, not knowing whether to ask the sky, the earth, or the corpses in the field before him.
In fact, he also heard Li Xun's scream just now.
Li Yi really couldn't understand why he ended up being deserted by everyone after all his painstaking planning.
He gasped heavily, and couldn't help but wonder, if he died, how would Yu Manzhen teach her daughter? Would she say something bad about him?
Suddenly, hatred filled his heart and lungs, as if it was about to burn and burst through his veins. He hated it so much: "Ahhh, thank you! I want to fight you to the death!!"
Li Yi suddenly turned around, rushed out of the gate, jumped on his horse, and rushed towards the arrow tower.
However, the situation is really over.
Three days after breaking the ambush at Cuilin Waterway, Xie Ci's eight armies arrived at the city of Pengcheng one after another.
With a loud "bang", the "Cui" gate of the East Water Gate was blown open, and the tung oil paved on the entire waterway burned violently.
Starting from Cuimen, Pengcheng was captured on the same day.
Lin Zhun, along with his personal guards and Li Yi's remaining confidants, dragged him down from the city wall. Everyone knelt down, "Master! Master! Let's go—"
It’s not too late to leave now, any later it will be too late!
Li Yi's eyes were bloodshot, his expression ferocious, the sword in his hand was stained with blood and even bent. He struggled a bit, but Lin Zhun held his thigh tightly, "Master, Master, please leave!"
He shouted anxiously: "As long as you are still young, you will make a comeback sooner or later!"
"Please, please! Go—"
The author has something to say:
In fact, what Li Yi showed before was all fake, because Gongsun Kang let him know that those around him might not be truly safe, and he would never give up and turn defeat into victory until the last moment.
But now it's all almost over!
Good afternoon, my dears! Haha, today's a fat chapter too, so I'm giving you a big kiss! ! See you tomorrow, my dears~ (*^▽^*)
Finally, I also want to thank the baby who voted for the thunder, pen refills, pen refills!
An unknown squirrel spirit threw a grenade
sasa threw 1 mine
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And the big babies who watered Wenwen, muajujuju~
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