Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 135
"Why didn't the enemy attack?" Lu Bu asked in bewilderment looking at Li Song's army outside the city, who were only in formation but not attacking.

"I don't know!" Chen Gong was also puzzled!

"General, sir! This is the enemy's temptation! The enemy will attack our army with a rain of arrows later! Please, general and sir, hide for a while!" Hou Cheng experienced it once yesterday and said very experienced.

Although Xiapi City is not a great city, it has the danger of Surabaya as a barrier.

After hearing this, Lu Bu and Chen Gong looked out of the city and saw that in the enemy's camp, the shieldman was in front, holding his shield high, carefully guarding against the archers in the city, and behind the shieldman were archers waiting in formation.

The archer draws a feathered arrow from the quiver on his body, draws the bow and sets the arrow, draws the bow into a full moon, waits for the commander's order, and is then able to shoot the arrow in his hand at the enemy on the top of the city.

Lu Bu and others hurriedly hid behind the bunker to prevent the enemy's bows and arrows, while some recruits poked their heads out to see what was going on outside!
"Squat down! I'm tired of working!" The veterans on the side hurriedly scolded these recruits, teaching them how to survive on the battlefield!
"Hou Cheng! Why don't we shoot arrows at them?" Lu Bu was puzzled, how could his soldiers and horses be so useless, watching others shoot arrows, but he had no choice but to hide.

"The general doesn't know something!" Wei Xu explained to Lu Bu, "Our army lacks feathers and arrows! There are very few bows that can be drawn! In addition, the enemy is only using arrows to test the reality of our army. ! Naturally, there was no order to release arrows!"

"Put" an order!The archers loosened the bowstrings in their hands and shot arrows towards the city. The dense feather arrows slapped the shields, towers, and everything on the city walls like a torrential rain.

"Woooo!" The attack horn resounded through the sky. After the rain of arrows, the archers retreated, and the infantry launched an attack on Xiapi City carrying ladders, pushing siege vehicles and other equipment.

The few archers in Xiapi City finally had a place to use at this time, they used local materials, took the arrow rain from the enemy army, and shot them at the enemy army below the city.

The two sides launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle, which lasted until evening, when Li Song ordered the withdrawal of troops. Looking at the enemy troops retreating like a tide outside the city, cheers erupted from Xiapi City.

The battle of Xiapi lasted for three days. After three days, Li Song did not launch an attack on Xiapi as he did a few days ago, but surrounded Xiapi city.

Li Songjun's camp, inside the camp of the Chinese army, Li Song said to Wen Wu: "After these days of attacking Xiapi City, it is not an easy task to capture Xiapi City! The only solution for now is to siege This is the way down to Pi."

In fact, Xiapi City is not difficult to break through. The important thing is that Xiapi City has the danger of Surabaya as a barrier. Li Song's army attacked several times, but most of them were lost soldiers in Sishui.

"My lord! Our army has been attacking the city of Pi for a long time in recent days and has lost a lot of troops. The morale of the army is low! If this continues, I'm afraid..." Li Song just finished speaking when Tan Daoji stood up and said "I'm afraid" It stopped abruptly and did not continue.

Everyone naturally understood what he meant!The low morale of the army will cause the soldiers to have no intention of fighting, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced!If it is serious, it will lead to mutiny in the army!

No matter which one it is, Li Song is not willing to see it, but he is not reconciled to giving up this opportunity to wipe out Lu Bu and seize Xuzhou. After all, there is such an opportunity at any time.

"Xiapi City must be captured, and Lu Bu must be eliminated. Otherwise, there will be no peace in the east of Yanzhou! Anyone who dares to disturb the morale of our army will be killed without mercy!" Li Song's face was determined, not to be resisted!

Tan Daoji, Xue Tong and others looked at Li Song's resolute attitude, hesitated to speak, they understood that it was useless to say anything at this time, Li Song was determined to take down Picheng.

Li Song didn't have the time to care about their mood at this time. He looked at Pei Yuanqing, and Pei Yuanqing hurriedly got up, and saluted Li Song, "Master!"

"Yuanqing! How did you do what I asked you to do?" Li Song said.

After being unable to attack Xiapi City for a long time, Li Song wanted to imitate Cao Cao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, leading Sishui and Yishui to flood Lu Bu's Xiapi City, so he ordered Pei Yuanqing to lead troops to build embankments in the upper reaches of Sishui and Yishui. Used to submerge Xiapi City.

"My lord! I will follow your instructions! Build embankments upstream of Sishui and Yishui to block the river. After the river overflows the embankments, we will dig embankments and release water, irrigate the city of Xiapi, and flood the city. Go down to Picheng." Pei Yuanqing said.

"Well! Good! You did a good job in this matter! I will give you a credit!" Li Song nodded in satisfaction, pointed at Pei Yuanqing and said.

"My lord! If you want to flood the city of Pi, you can't do it in a short period of time with only the Sishui and Yishui rivers." Luo Cheng got up and went out.

"I look at the water flow of Sishui and Yishui. If I want to store enough water to submerge Xiapi City, I am afraid that it will not be able to submerge Xiapi in a few months. What's more, Sishui and Yishui are not the only tributaries of Xiapi. There are many tributaries."

At this time, the sun is shining brightly!Luo Cheng was not a time traveler, so he would not have known in advance that Li Song was waiting for the heavy rain from the heavens, and then he would break the embankment to divert water and submerge Xiapi City.

After Li Song heard this, he laughed and said, "Luo Cheng, you don't have to worry about this!" Li Song pointed at the top of his head, "God will help our army."

"My lord! How can Tiangong help our army?" Luo Cheng asked, not only Luo Cheng was puzzled, but everyone was also puzzled.

Li Song got up, walked to the crowd, and said with a smile: "Last night! I watched the sky at night! In the past few days, there will be heavy rain, but it is a heavy rain!"

"It only needs to rain heavily, can't the city be flooded? Hahaha!"

Everyone was stunned after hearing this!When did the lord learn how to watch the sky at night?Isn't this Master Liu's skill?Everyone turned their attention to Liu Bowen.

At this time, Liu Bowen was also in a daze. The so-called sky observation at night is just to infer natural changes based on astrology and so on. It takes a long time to invade this way to judge natural changes based on these natural changes.

"Okay! That's the end of this meeting, let's go down first! When our army diverts Sishui and Yishui to submerge Xiapi City, it will be the time for us to break through Xiapi City!"

"No!" The counselor and general stood up and saluted.

When everyone was about to turn around and leave, Li Song said, "Oh! That's right!" Everyone looked at Li Song, waiting for his next words.

"Before that, the most important thing is to appease me. The morale of the soldiers must be improved when the water is flooding the Pi. You should think of ways to do these things!" Li Song said.

"No!" Everyone took orders, turned and left, and Li Song also returned to his bed tent.

(End of this chapter)