Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Zhang Song drew out his sword and answered.

"Prime Minister, are you underestimating me? Song may be a scholar, but he boasts that his sword skills can easily deal with three or five barbarians, and he can also kill the bandits in battle."

Seeing that Zhang Songju understood and still made such a choice, Li Ji stopped trying to persuade him and just smiled.

"Then I'll have to trouble Zi Qiao."

Zhang Song looked back at Li Ji, and his mind suddenly became open and he made up his mind to fight to the death.

Not only Zhang Song, Gu Wei also drew his sword and even held a shield in his hand to protect Li Ji.

On the contrary, Li Ji did not look nervous at all. He put one hand on the hilt of the sword and observed the direction of the battle as usual.

At this moment, as the situation of the palace wall became more and more critical, Xu Chu and the three hundred tiger guards were also pressed forward by Li Ji to try to stabilize the situation.

But the palace wall is not the city wall of Luoyang after all, and the Huns who are determined to fight to the death are also fierce and sharp enough.

As time went by, the western palace wall was in danger.

The west palace gate in particular finally reached its limit under the impact of the Huns who desperately carried load-bearing columns that were dismantled from some unknown mansion.

"Oh!"

With a loud bang, the palace gate was forced open.

"kill!"

Among them, Yu Furuo was the most excited and shouted loudly.

"The Prime Minister of the Han court is right there. If you don't want your wife and children to become slaves of the Qiang, capture him for me."

As the son of Yu Furuo, Liu Bao led the charge and rushed into the palace gate where Li Ji was not far away.

"Go! All the Xiongnu warriors, follow me!"

The distance between the platform where Li Ji was standing and the palace gate was no more than a hundred steps, so he could see the faces of both sides clearly.

However, almost as soon as the palace gate was broken open, Xu Chu led the Tiger Guards to block the gap.

Liu Bao, who was rushing in the front, was chopped back a dozen feet by Xu Chu's sword, his knuckles were cracked, and even the weapon in his hand was almost broken in two by such brute force.

Xu Chu's extremely burly body did not retreat but instead moved forward. He took a step forward to block the passage to the palace gate as much as possible and shouted angrily.

"The great Han Tiger Marquis Xu Chu is here. Anyone who takes a step forward will die!"

Such power made even the Huns, who were already extremely excited, pause for a moment.

However, this stagnation lasted only a moment. Under the constant urging of Yu Furo and Liu Bao, a large number of Huns once again poured into the palace gate and attacked Xu Chu and Li Ji who was protected by Xu Chu in the rear.

"die!"

Xu Chu, who was covered in armor, roared angrily and swung the sword in his hand, like a nail that pierced the spot.

Facing the attack of a large number of Huns, they had a momentum of one man blocking the pass from ten thousand.

Li Ji looked at Xu Chu leading the Tiger Guards blocking the palace gate, narrowed his eyes slightly, and spoke.

"Bow here."

Upon hearing this, Gu Wei quickly handed a longbow to Li Ji.

Li Ji took the longbow, drew the bow without hesitation, aimed at the direction of the Huns and shot.

Li Ji naturally didn't have the ability to shoot an arrow through a target from a hundred paces away.

But Li Ji was by no means a weak scholar. On the contrary, after years of unremitting training, Li Ji's archery, riding and swordsmanship were definitely outstanding among scholars.

At least, even if the distance between them was a hundred steps, Li Ji could ensure that the arrows he shot would hit the Huns.

Even so, Li Ji knew that with his arm strength, he would not be able to shoot many arrows before he ran out of energy, but now that things had come to this, Li Ji was not someone who could be bullied.

I would rather fight to the death than be taken prisoner.

Moreover, Li Ji's presence was like a pillar that stabilized the army's morale. If the soldiers were in normal circumstances, facing the Huns who had already broken into the gate, their morale would have plummeted, and they might even collapse on the spot.

But the morale of the Han army at the moment was not low. On the contrary, when Li Ji drew the bow, the army's morale was boosted and the morale was even higher.

Kill kill kill!

As the battle gradually turned into a more brutal hand-to-hand combat, the scene became more bloody.

The Huns, who had the numerical advantage, were determined to fight to the death, and the Han army also did not retreat at all.

Even though there was not enough space in the palace for the Han army to deploy their best formation, they still fought hard to resist the Huns' offensive.

At this moment, there is no doubt that both sides are in a stalemate, maintaining the stalemate with their last breath.

What the Xiongnu were waiting for was for the Han army, which was already outnumbered, to begin to collapse, and then capture Li Ji alive;
What Li Ji was waiting for was to delay the Huns, which would buy time for the people to evacuate and also buy time for the fire to subside.

As soon as the fire died down, Ma Chao and Sun Ce on the east and west walls of Luoyang would be able to lead their troops to the rescue and completely put an end to the Huns' final counterattack.

Although Xu Chu was extremely brave, as the number of tiger guards continued to decrease, he alone could not completely block the entire palace gate, so he had to keep fighting and retreating to stop the Huns.

The distance between Li Ji and the Huns was also getting closer.

From one hundred steps to fifty steps, and then to thirty steps.

Gu Wei, who had little experience in actual combat, could hardly hide his nervousness as he looked at the Huns approaching him.

On the contrary, Li Ji was still drawing the bow and shooting arrows at a certain rhythm.

"middle!"

Another arrow was fired and hit a Hu man sixty steps away.

After drawing the bow nearly twenty times, Li Ji felt a little exhausted, and all the arrows in his quiver had been used up.

More importantly, as the Huns continued to try to bypass the troublesome Xu Chu and approach, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to only ten steps away.

Li Ji threw the longbow in his hand to the ground, then reached out to lift up his robe and tied it up, then slowly drew out the sword from his waist.

Li Ji knew that if he turned around and ran away while exposing his back when facing the Huns, he would only die faster.

At this point, all Li Ji could do was to protect himself as much as possible while fighting bloody battles with his soldiers in an effort to wait for reinforcements from Sun Ce and Ma Chao.

"Fight to the death!"

Li Ji shouted angrily and pointed his sword, which boosted the morale of the Han army.

Even though there were probably only 3,000 Han troops left around the entire western palace wall, they were still quite scattered in order to prevent as many Huns as possible from rushing in.

However, the Han army guarding Li Ji were still very excited. They shouted "We are willing to fight to the death with the Prime Minister" and fought hard, even forcing the Huns to retreat a few steps.

But soon the Huns continued to approach...

Xu Chu, who was always at the forefront, had to retreat to a position only five steps away from Li Ji while fighting a bloody battle.

At this distance, the swords in the hands of Zhang Song and Gu Wei, who were protecting Li Ji, had already started to bleed.

As the axe seemed to be about to strike him at any time, Li Ji's expression became tense. He held the sword tightly and kept his eyes on his left and right.

As the number of Han troops guarding on the left and right continued to decrease, a gap inevitably appeared that could not be blocked in time. A Hun man rushed towards Li Ji with a scimitar in his hand and excitement on his face.

At this moment, Li Ji calmly responded with the sword in hand. Just as he was about to stab the Hun to death with one sword, he heard shouts in his ears.

"Prime Minister, be careful!"

"How dare you, thief?"

"Zi Kun!!"

The next moment, Li Ji had just blocked the Hun's scimitar with the sword in his hand, and before the tip of the sword could pierce the Hun's neck, a whistling arrow pierced into the Hun's head.

Li Ji reacted and turned his head to the north, only to see a royal flag fluttering in the strong wind. (End of this chapter)