King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 140 Attacking Changli City

Everyone in the room was amazed when they heard it. Li Lin stood up from his seat in surprise and exclaimed, "What? How is my uncle?"

The soldier said, "Liu Yu was not injured, he was escorted away by the guards early on, and now he has fled to Juyong City!"

Only then did Li Lin feel relieved. Although he didn't like Liu Yu very much, Liu Yu was Liu Ying's relative after all, so he treated him well. It's been a long time here, and he has some feelings.

Li Lin immediately ordered, "Send an order to Tai Shici to immediately send troops to attack Changli City to distract Gongsun Zan, and order Yan Rou, Yan Zhi, and Xu Liang to lead the army to Xiangping City and attack Gongsun Zan with a certain one!" Li Lin also knew , After such a move, now I have to stand up and make a statement, and I have to fight Gongsun Zan to fight to the death. Gongsun Zan was suddenly attacked by Liu Yu, so he might not have any defense against himself.

In a few days, Li Lin led Xu Liang, captain of Huben, Yan Rou, captain of Kou, and Yan Zhi, captain of Dangkou, led an army of [-] to Changli.

After arriving in Changli, what surprised Li Lin was that Tai Shici hadn't taken Changli yet, and Tai Shici's army of more than 1 men couldn't take a single city of Changli.

"My lord, I...I tried my best, but Tian Yu, the guard of Changli City, is very charismatic. He not only organized militiamen to defend the city, but also made a lot of tricks, making it impossible for me to take this city!" Tai Shici told Li Lin plead guilty.

Li Lin asked, "How many defenders are there in Zechangli City?"

"A total of [-] defenders! The defender is Yuyang Tianyu Guoren!" Tai Shi said kindly.

"Crack!" Li Lin slapped the table angrily, "There are only 8000 people, and you can't take down 1 people!" Li Lin blamed Tai Shici for something.

Tai Shici quickly knelt down, "My lord! Please punish me!"

"You! Someone!" Li Lin immediately ordered someone to take Tai Shici down.

The soldiers at the side hurriedly stopped, "My lord, don't! Although General Tai Shici did not take Changli City, but now our army has just entered the battle, we have to punish the general, which is not good for the battle!" Xu Miao quickly knelt down in the tunnel.

"Hmph! Do you think you are not at fault? You should be punished too!" Li Lin said angrily.

"My lord, this Yuyang Tianyu is indeed a resourceful thing, and General Tai Shici's men are mostly cavalry, and they are not good at attacking the city. I hope the lord can understand!" Xu Miao said.

"Okay! Hmph! Order troops immediately, I'll meet Yuyang Tianyu for a while!" Li Lin stared.

With the order of the army, the three armies immediately assembled. Li Lin only needed [-] troops to fight, and ordered the four gates of Changli City to attack together, and he was sure to take Changli City.

Sure enough, as soon as the two armies collided, Li Lin saw how powerful this Yuyang Tianyu was, and watched his soldiers attack the city one after another, and were beaten down again and again, Li Lin smacked his lips, "This Tian Yu, I don’t seem to have heard of it before! How amazing is it!”

Xu Miao said from the side, "General, I have dealt with this Tian Yu. This Tian Yu is not very old, but he is very mature. He is familiar with military books and has extraordinary resourcefulness. I heard that when Liu Bei first joined Gongsun Zan, Tian Yu was still young. When he was young, he entrusted himself to Liu Bei, who valued him very much. Later, Tian Yu asked to return to his hometown on the grounds of his mother's old age. Liu Bei still wept and said goodbye to him. Bing told him that he only wished to build a great cause with you. Later, Tian Yu Yu's mother died of illness, Liu Beiyou went to Qingzhou, and Tian Yu came to Changli. He didn't stay in Changli for a long time, but he was loved by the people. There were only 5 defenders in the city, but we didn't go out to fight. Soldiers and horses from the other two counties in Changli were mobilized, and tens of thousands of civilians were conscripted to defend the city, and the soldiers and civilians responded one after another, so General Tai Shici did not capture it for a while!"

Li Lin nodded meaningfully, "Oh...but the person Liu Bei likes must not be an ordinary person!" Li Lin still trusts Liu Bei's vision, and of course Zhao Yun has not yet shown his awesome strength At the time, Liu Bei had already followed him. There was Tian Yu, but he didn't follow Liu Bei later. Maybe if he followed Liu Bei, another powerful character would come out.

Li Lin looked at the stalemate of his own soldiers and the soldiers defending the city. In order to reduce the casualties, Li Lin gave the order "Send the order! Retreat!" Then he rode back to the camp, the army retreated, and there were cheers from the city...

"Okay, stop kneeling! Aren't you making me ugly, get better...this Tian Yu is hard to deal with!" Li Lin said kindly to Tai Shi who was still unable to kneel.

Tai Shici was still unwilling to get up, "I beg my lord to punish me!"

"Hey there... Ziyi! Get up! Come on, pull him up!" Li Lin gave Yan Rou and Yan Zhi a look.

The two quickly pulled Tai Shici up, and Yan Ju said, "We've been brothers for so many years, you don't know Yuan Jie's temper! Well, don't be so sad!" Tai Shici was still pulled up, but still Bitter gourd face.

This is the atmosphere in Li Lin's barracks. They are all brothers who have been born and died for many years. Although Li Lin is the master in name, Li Lin rarely has airs with them in private, especially Tai Shici. Li Lin was angry just now. , That's why he said that he should be punished. Tai Shici was the first person to follow Li Lin. How could Li Lin be willing to punish him!

"Okay, for a while, I want to say, let's not fight this city of Changli!" Li Lin stroked the beard under his nose and said.

All the generals were very curious about why Li Lin said such words. Xu Liang said, "General, now that Gongsun Zan has sent an army to surround Juyong, if we don't attack Changli and distract Gongsun Zan, the prefect Liu Yu will probably break the city sooner or later." Capture!"

Li Lin smiled and said, "Hehe, Xu Liang, you misunderstood my meaning! I didn't mean not to beat Gongsun Zan, but I said not to beat Changli!"

Xu Miao rolled his eyes, and said, "The lord has a heart for talents, so you want to recruit Tian Yu first?"

Li Lin still waved his hands and said, "Hehe, if we think of a wise general like Tian Yu, we have to subdue him, otherwise he won't surrender to us, but what Jingshan said is good, if this Tian Yu is killed by us It would be a pity, but now if we want to storm Changli City, we will lose our troops, and Gongsun Zan is still far away, so we can't consume too many soldiers here!"

Xu Miao asked suspiciously, "What does the lord mean?"

Li Lin smiled and said, "I mean to encircle but not fight! And let's take a detour to fight here..." Li Lin pointed to the attacking position on Tushan.

"My lord! No!" Xu Miao exclaimed.

"Oh? Why can't we attack this place? Does Jingshan think it's wrong?" Li Lin frowned.

"I don't know, the general, but this Leyang is the prefecture of Liaoxi County. There are [-] elite soldiers of Gongsun Zan, and the current guard is Guan Jing, Gongsun Zan's brain trustee. Every time Liaoxi County contacted this person, they didn't get much benefit! The most important thing is that this Leyang City is very obvious. He is a city near the sea. There is a deep and big moat, if we want to attack by force, our soldiers will not be able to reach the bottom of the city at all!" Xu Miao said.

Li Lin nodded, and suddenly laughed, "What Jingshan said is very true. I have already thought of this. If we send troops to attack Leyang, we might as well attack Changli here, but Jingshan, have you ever thought that this Changli lost? Well, for Gongsun Zan, it is irrelevant. If we can’t defeat the whole army, we will return to Leyang. At that time, we will still face the city of Leyang... Everyone is watching, Leyang has been managed by Gongsun Zan for many years, and the city can be regarded as a city It’s not small, and the city wall is getting higher year by year, the most important thing is his four city gates, as Jingshan said, his moat is very deep and wide! And you look here!” Li Lin only pointed at one point, and everyone’s eyes They all looked at Li Lin's fingers.

"Look, everyone, this is the south gate of Leyang City!" Li Lin said.

Everyone nodded, "Hehe, this Leyang relies on the sea. As the saying goes, you rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water, so the people in Leyang get enough food and clothing from the sea every year. For the convenience of sea transportation, Gongsun Zan moved Leyang The south gate of the city has become a gate to the sea. The city gate is made of solid wood stakes. It is a wooden gate, which is very heavy. When the gate is pulled up, ships can pass through, and seafood can be transported into the city. Go to sea here!"

After hearing Li Lin's words, everyone asked questions at the door. Li Lin said so much, it seemed that it was useless to the current war?

Xu Miao asked suspiciously, "Master, what do you mean? Do you want to break through here?"

Li Lin smiled and nodded, "That's right, it's here!"

Xu Miao said, "Then... how can we break through?"

Li Lin suddenly showed a sinister smile, looking at Tai Shici, Xu Liang said, "Hehe, everyone who is doing it, one of our good brothers should be back!"

Tai Shici and Xu Liang looked at Li Lin's eyes, they were taken aback for a moment, and then they immediately realized that Xu Liang smiled, and Tai Shici clapped his hands, "Hey! Why did you forget that kid, it's all right with him!"

Yan Rou, Yan Zhi, and Xu Miao were all confused. They didn't know what Li Lin, Tai Shici, and Xu Liang meant. Li Lin came over and patted Xu Miao on the shoulder and said, "Hehe, follow my lead." The time is later, so there is another person you don't recognize, after you followed me, I assigned you to work, hehe, it's all up to him to attack Leyang this time!"

Xu Miao nodded. He really didn't understand who Li Lin was talking about, who could be so capable...

Li Lin immediately ordered, "Leave an order to leave Xu Liang's [-] troops and surround Changli to death. The rest of the generals will lead our troops and detour to Leyang with me from now on!"

"Promise!" Yan Rou, Yan Zhi, Tai Shici, Xu Liang, and Xu Miao bowed down one after another.

Li Lin ordered the whole army to move out, but the defenders at the top of Changli City saw the enemy leaving, and they were still very puzzled. They thought it would be a long tug-of-war, why did the enemy suddenly withdraw?
(End of this chapter)