Dahan first prince

Chapter 255 Hi~ Can I just say no?

"Where does the aid come from?!"

Accompanied by Lu Shizhi, she quickly ran up the city wall. Liu Ying only stood on tiptoe and scanned the outside of the city.

——I can't blame Liu Ying for not being calm enough. The news of 'reinforcement arrived' is really surprising!
In the past, when Liu Ying encouraged the defenders, although she said that "reinforcements will arrive soon", in fact, even if Yongcheng is already "deaf" and "blind" at this moment, when the reinforcements from all walks of life arrive, Liu Ying will not It is clear to the chest.

——Except for the Qi army under Cao Shen who has already arrived on the battlefield and has not been able to gain a firm foothold, the rest of the reinforcements will take as little as three or two days and as long as ten days!

In particular, it took at least ten days for the Guanzhong reinforcements under Xuanping Hou and Zhang Ao to reach Yongcheng.

In this case, the news of 'reinforcement arrived' came from outside the city before dawn?

At this moment, Liu Ying only subconsciously felt: Grandpa System's time-traveling gift bag has finally been delivered...

"Your Highness."

But soon, Li Shang's understatement overturned Liu Ying's guess again.

"Your Highness, let's see."

Seeing Li Shang raised his head slightly outside the city, Liu Ying followed Li Shang's gaze and turned around.

In an instant, Liu Ying's eyes widened unbelievably!
"Rebels!!!"

Subconsciously shouted, Liu Ying hurriedly lowered her voice, and asked in a tone full of uncertainty: "Retired...retired?"

Unashamedly asking such a question, before Li Shang could answer, Liu Ying hurriedly looked outside the city again.

"Could it be that the thief wants to rectify a little bit, and then fight again?"

Seeing Liu Ying's appearance, Li Shang smiled slightly, lowered his upper body slightly, and pointed his finger away from the city.

"Your Highness, look again."

Hearing that Li Shang said 'take a good look' again, Liu Ying turned her head subconsciously.

In order not to miss any key points, Liu Ying even lowered her head slightly to the side, so that she could follow the direction of Li Shang's fingers and see something.

After seeing that the sky tens of miles south of the city wall was faintly lit up by a burst of deep yellow, Liu Ying straightened her back a little hesitantly, as if she wanted to see more clearly.

"This······"

"But it's three o'clock..."

"The time is far away, how can there be light in the sky..."

"Furthermore, even if it is dawn, the sun should rise in the east and set in the west..."

Muttering a few times in a slow tone, Liu Ying's hand also involuntarily supported the wall.

"Light······"

"Could it be the firelight?!"

Suddenly thinking of this possibility, combined with the previous news that "reinforcements have arrived", Liu Ying only widened her eyes suddenly!

—what sky, what sunshine!
The yellow light in the sky in the distance is clearly the flames of the rebel army camp twenty miles south of the city, which is burning! ! !

In the past, Liu Ying couldn't figure out where the reinforcements arrived and how Yongcheng found out about it, which is understandable.

But at this point, if Liu Ying still couldn't figure out what happened, it would be a bit unreasonable.

——After the support army arrived on the battlefield, the first thing they did was to burn the rebel camp to the ground!
The big camp was engulfed in raging fire, and the rebels fighting at night with the lights on were naturally shocked. They couldn't care less about continuing to attack the city, so they had to turn around and go back to the big camp to fight the fire.

And the defenders in the city can also get the news that 'reinforcements have arrived on the battlefield' from the weird behavior of the rebels and the looming fire in the distance.

However, even though she was delighted with the arrival of the reinforcements, Liu Ying still had no answers to her doubts.

"Well······"

Standing on the edge of the city wall, leaning on the wall stack with her hand, watching the rebels leaving back and pondering for a long time, Liu Ying finally turned her head slightly.

"The reinforcements have arrived, and the danger of Yongcheng has been relieved."

"There is only one thing, I still can't figure it out..."

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Li Shang finally stopped beating around the bush, just grinned, and walked up to Liu Ying's side.

"Your Majesty's concerns, I should know a thing or two."

"However, Your Highness is delighted that the reinforcements are coming, but I don't know who they are and where they come from?"

After Liu Ying nodded suspiciously, Li Shang smiled again, then straightened up, put his hands behind his back, and sighed out of the city.

"Your Highness, have you ever heard a saying about the temperament of people and clans from all over the world?"

Hearing this, Liu Ying shook her head, and saw Li Shang slowly stroking the messy beard under his jaw, and said in a leisurely tone, "Exactly the so-called~"

"Yan and Zhao, there are so many generous and sad singers, and Zhao has many singing and dancing girls, so the men of Yan and Zhao are heroes, but the daughters of Yan and Zhao are many prostitutes;"

"Jing and Chu have fierce folk customs, and nobles oppress the heads of Guizhou. Therefore, there are many assassins and knights in Chu, who either oppress the heads of Guizhou for the sake of power, lackeys of nobles, or act chivalrously to eliminate harm for the people;"

"Wu Yue's folk customs are a bit more peaceful and peaceful, but his men are so generous and careless; Wu Yue's daughters are more gentle and gentle in housekeeping, and they are really a good match for marriage."

"It is also said that Qi and Lu are many chivalrous and righteous people, but the people of Lu are extremely stingy and do not take out any hair; the people of Qi are fond of profit, but they are not stingy about profit, they are more timid in group fights, but brave to fight... ··”

Self-consciously shooting the 'map gun' against most of the Kanto vassal states, when Liu Ying's expression became more and more confused, Li Shang couldn't help but smile awkwardly, and brought the topic back.

"Don't lie to Your Highness."

"As the saying goes, one mu of millet is full of hundreds of people, and the people in all parts of the world have different natures and customs."

"The poor people in Guizhou have different temperaments and lodgings, and the generals who are good at fighting have different ways of fighting the enemy."

With that said, Li Shang couldn't help but put on an unpredictable smile.

"The people of Yan and Zhao are so generous and heroic. Therefore, the generals of Yan and Zhao like to open up and join forces to meet the enemy head-on, and don't like to plan and plan;"

"The people of Wu and Yue seem to be peaceful, but they also hide their wits. Therefore, the generals of Wu and Yue are kind, honest and honest, and they are dangerous men in desperate situations."

"The folk customs of Jing and Chu are aggressive, and their generals are arrogant and aggressive generals;"

"Ji Qi, Lu..."

Speaking of this, Li Shang didn't forget to look at Liu Ying's expression for a while, and smiled thoughtfully to the outside of the city, before continuing: "As for Qi and Lu, it's based on the Qi people's love for stabbing and vicious group fighting. It is well known in the world."

"Therefore, the generals of Qi prefer to engage in plots and tricks rather than fight to the death with the enemy."

"In Qing history, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, such as besieging Wei and saving Zhao, fire bull breaking Yan, etc., all came from the hands of Qi generals."

After saying that, Li Shang finally raised his head with a smile, and pointed at the enemy camp dozens of miles away from the city, which was still burning with fire.

"The old minister observed: Although the source of the reinforcements on this route is unknown, they attacked the enemy's rear and burned the camp. It is quite similar to Sun Bin's encirclement of Wei and rescue of Zhao in the evening Qi."

"And now the Han Dynasty is in the world, and those who have the ability to plan and plot like this..."

As he spoke, Li Shang pretended to be deep and dragged his voice, and finally expressed his guess firmly under Liu Ying's urging eyes.

"I think that I am afraid that the only one will be Pingyanghou: Cao Shen and Cao Gong..."

Hearing Li Shang's words, Liu Ying finally looked confused and nodded thoughtfully.

Earlier, when Li Shang talked about the customs of the people all over the world, Liu Ying was a little confused.

When she heard the phrase "Wu and Yue's daughters are more gentle and housekeeping, they are really good matches for marriage", Liu Ying even mistakenly thought: Li Shang is disregarding the current enemy and wants to give herself a girl... ···
It wasn't until the end that Liu Ying finally understood Li Shang's intentions when she heard that Li Shang came to the conclusion that 'the general's character is also related to his hometown' through the previous foreshadowing, and guessed that the reinforcement general outside the city was Cao Shen, Prime Minister of Qi. .

——Don’t you just want to say that the reinforcements outside the city are the troops of Qi State brought by Cao Shen~
What are you talking about 'Qi people are timid to fight in groups and brave to stab'? Just say it?

Furthermore, it is true that Cao Shen is the Prime Minister of Qi, and his generals are also from Qi; but Cao Shen himself is a true Chu man!

Like Cao Can, Zhou Bo, Fan Kuai, Xia Houying and others, Cao Can is also a well-born Yuan Cong of today!
He is clearly from Chu, but he just set fire to the enemy's camp, and then beat around the bush to classify him as a "Qi general". This is too far-fetched...

But having said that, whether Cao Shen is from Chu or a general of Qi, no matter how you say it, the details of this reinforcement army are finally clear.

——There is only Cao Shen, and it can only be Cao Shen!
As for the reason, it is also obvious: Looking at Yongcheng for hundreds of miles, the only one who can appear behind the enemy at this time and set a big fire on the enemy's camp can only be Cao Shen's troops who have already arrived on the battlefield.

Only in this way...

"The meaning of Qu Zhouhou, Pingyang Hou has a good opportunity to set up camp tonight, but instead of setting up camp, he led his army to detour behind the enemy's rear, attacked the enemy's camp and burned it?"

Seeing Liu Ying's eyebrows furrowed for a moment, Li Shang couldn't help but sighed a little, and then nodded with emotion.

"Except for the Marquis of Pingyang, I am afraid that no one can rush to help at this moment, and go straight to the enemy camp and burn it..."

Hearing Li Shang's words, Liu Ying's brows were finally tightly knit together, and the little joy that had appeared just a moment ago because of the "reinforcement arrival" disappeared without a trace at this moment.

——Cao Shen, what kind of reinforcements are you? !

Yes, it is true that Cao Shen led his troops and arrived around the battlefield around noon.

But the situation Yongcheng is facing at this moment is entirely thanks to Cao Shen!
——If it wasn't for buying time for Cao Shen to set up camp, there was no need for Liu Ying to send people out of the city to prevent Yingbo from attacking Cao Shen, who was not firmly established!
If it weren't for the appearance of Cao Shen, Yingbo would not have jumped the wall in a hurry. On the third night after arriving in Yongcheng, he would have devoted all his efforts to the night battle and sounded the charge for the decisive battle in advance!
Liu Ying led the army to stick to Yongcheng, and even went to battle in person, for what?
When inspiring the soldiers in the city, why did Liu Ying say, "As long as you stay there until dawn, you're done"?
——Isn't it because in Liu Ying's plan, Cao Shen will be able to plant his heels on the side of the battlefield after dawn tomorrow, and attack the Yingbo army with Yongcheng on both sides, making it a dilemma?

This is good: Liu Ying led tens of thousands of soldiers in Yongcheng to fight to the death, just to buy Cao Can one night to set up camp;

In the end, Cao Shen was lucky, he slapped his head and lifted his ass, and stopped camping!

Although Cao Shen's surprise attack on the enemy's rear, burning the camp and leaving, solved the predicament of Yongcheng tonight, but it was really not a good thing for the direction of the normal battle.

——Yongcheng is fine tonight, what about after dawn?
Originally, with Cao Shen watching and Liu Ying waiting in Yongcheng, Yingbo would still worry about one thing and lose another, so he dared not deploy all his troops easily;

What now?
Yesterday, Cao Can's foothold was not stable, and he was almost chased and hacked by Yingbo; after dawn, Cao Can's troops who still failed to set up camp will still be chased and hacked by Yingbo!
At that time, what should Liu Ying do?
Send another group of people out of the city to share the pressure on Cao Shen and draw Yingbo's attention back to Yongcheng?

——Yingbo is not a fool!

No matter how stupid Yingbo is, he can't fall into the same pit twice!

So tomorrow, Yingbo will inevitably dispatch the main force again, trying to drive Cao Shen out of the battlefield.

At that time, if Liu Ying sent someone to stop her, there could only be two situations.

——Or, they were stopped by a team of old, weak, sick and disabled with low combat effectiveness but too large to be able to chew, and could only watch tens of thousands of people under Cao Shen's command being chased and hacked by 10,000+ people of Yingbu!
or...

"Pretending to attack Cao Shen, the main force is set up outside Yongcheng; once the gate of the city is wide open, they will seize the gate and break Yongcheng..."

With a gloomy expression, Liu Ying let out a soft murmur, and Liu Ying's complexion suddenly sank.

Standing only two steps away from Liu Ying, Li Shangzi also heard Liu Ying's 'self-talk', and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded sternly.

Frowning and thinking for a long time, Liu Ying finally turned sideways and cast a probing look at Li Shang.

--How to do?
Although she didn't speak, Liu Ying's anxious eyes clearly carried these three bright words.

Understanding the hint in Liu Ying's eyes, Li Shang couldn't help but sighed for a while, and finally raised his head with mixed feelings.

"Your Highness."

"The matter has come to this, and for the current plan, I am afraid that the only way is to let Pingyanghou's troops enter Yongcheng, and the two armies will guard together for the future..."

After all, Li Shang did not forget to add a sentence confidently: "Pingyanghou deeply taboos the way of battle, and because of his martial arts, his majesty granted him ten thousand households. That is to say, Pingyanghou decided to attack the enemy and burn the camp. and this."

"If your expectations are correct, the Marquis of Pingyang's troops will arrive at Yongcheng in a short while, and enter the city through one of the east and west gates."

Hearing Li Shang's words, she was filled with boredom, and Liu Ying could only shake her head helplessly.

Cao Shen made his own claim to attack the enemy and burn the camp to solve the siege of Yongcheng, which undoubtedly disrupted Liu Ying's plan of "being each other's horns and restraining Yingbu".

In order not to be kited out of the city by Yingbo, for the current plan, Cao Shen had to bring his troops into the city and wait for help in Yongcheng.

Logically speaking, such a change would have hit Liu Ying hard.

But soon, Liu Ying seemed to think of something, and recovered from the short-term depression.

"It has to be like this~"

With a sigh full of sobs, Liu Ying turned sideways, and said to Wang Ling and Zhang Cang not far away: "On the evening, the Marquis of An Guo, the Marquis of Beiping and the Marquis of Pingyang have many contacts. The east and west gates are used to welcome the troops of the Marquis of Pingyang into the city."

After saying that, Liu Ying looked at Li Shang relaxedly again, and there was only a strange smile that made people think about it quietly.

"Huan Lao Qu Zhou Hou told the soldiers in the city, and said: The thieves have all retreated!"

"This battle, our army has won!!!!!!"

Leaving aside the phrase 'tell the soldiers that we have won' without changing her face, Liu Ying ignored the suspicious eyes behind her and walked towards the city wall...

(End of this chapter)