King of Liao at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 950

Li Lin turned his head and looked at Zuo Ci firmly, as if he was speaking to himself, and said: "God also made me abandon my family, my friends came here, now you want me to abandon my lover, children, brothers? Tell you, I can't do it! Can't do it!"

"Haha..." Zuo Ci burst into laughter, and Li Lin only felt his head in a trance for a while...

"Uh..." A soft sound directly attracted the attention of everyone in the hall. Everyone tensed up and looked at Li Lin who was lying on the couch. Li Lin woke up.

"Ah! Do it! Your mother hurts!" Li Lin cursed as soon as he woke up, and felt as if he was touching his lower back behind him.

That's right, Li Lin's waist had a problem, and he fell ill without warning. He was on the bank of the Yangtze River, watching Liu Bei's army fleeing under his hands, and he fell ill just like that.

"King Liao, don't move! The old minister just applied the medicine to King Liao!" Li Lin heard an old man's voice, and when Li Lin heard it, he was very familiar with it. It was Hua Tuo, who stretched his back His arm was immediately taken off by a pair of old hands.

"Huh! It hurts!" Li Lin murmured, and then he heard everyone on the side excitedly saying, "My lord! My lord, you're awake!"

Li Lin blinked his eyes, looked back, and sure enough, many generals in front of the bed had completely surrounded the place, and Li Lin said speechlessly: "It's okay! Get out of the way, I'm almost suffocating if you are all surrounded here. Already!"

Everyone saw that Li Lin still had the strength to curse, so it must be nothing serious, so they all backed away quickly, while Zhao Yun cupped his hands at Hua Tuo and said, "Physician Hua, how is your lord doing?"

Hua Tuo sighed while tidying up, and said: "Hey... Liao Wang was a little better in Luoyang, but after going south, he ran all the way, and even rode a war horse for the battle, so he didn't get much better at first. His injury is getting worse, probably because he was too tired when chasing the enemy last night, so he suddenly broke out!"

"This..." Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, obviously not doing much with Hua Tuo's explanation. Li Lin turned his head away and saw that his lower back was exposed in the air, covered with a white cloth, and there were green and black traces oozing from the white cloth , It is estimated that Hua Tuo applied the medicine externally to himself, recalling Zuo Ci's weird whisper in his brain, Li Lin didn't know whether he had violated the rule of heaven, and he still had to suffer such a thing.

Li Lin looked at the brothers who were full of concern in front of him, and said silently in his heart: "Fart! The big deal is to die, at least before you die, you can give these brothers a good future and give their descendants six peaceful countries! Damn it! Isn't it Battle of Chibi! Fight!" Thinking about it, Li Lin kept his arms up.

"King of Liao, don't move around!" Hua Tuo hurried over to remind Li Lin, and patted Li Lin's back. Li Lin felt numb all over, and fell down again.

"What's the situation!" Li Lin looked back at Hua Tuo strangely, how could this old man still have this ability!

Hua Tuo warned: "King Liao, you are injured at home, and the environment in Jingzhou is humid, so don't engage in strenuous activities, let alone riding a horse for a short time!"

"What!" Li Lin said in amazement: "Now that Liu Bei is crossing the river, he must unite with Jiangdong. I won't be allowed to fight for a while, what should I do with this war!" Li Lin said with a terrified expression, expressing his reluctance.

Hua Tuo shook his head and sighed: "Hey... King Liao, this old man really doesn't understand the situation of the battle, but if King Liao is so tired and gallops on horseback, I can be sure! If it's not half a year, King Liao can only I will spend the rest of my life on this bed!"

"I..." Hearing this, Li Lin gritted his teeth in hatred.

Zhao Yun and other generals at the side immediately said: "My lord's health is important, and I will wait for the war!"

Li Lin looked up at the crowd, sighed, and lay on the pillow safely, could he not accept his fate?A little lonely said: "Okay!"

The hearts of the generals were finally relieved, and Li Lin asked slowly, "That's right! Where is this place? Jiangling?"

Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said, "It's the lord!"

"Yeah!" Li Lin nodded, of course he nodded on his stomach, and said, "It's called Shi Yuan, Yuan Zhi is here!"

Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said, "Several military advisers are patrolling outside the city. The Lord just woke up and sent someone to notify you!"

"My lord!" As soon as Zhao Yun finished speaking, he saw a large group of people walking in quickly, including Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Guo Tu, Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and other people from Jingzhou.

"Well! Good!" Li Lin waved his hands casually, and said, "I'm fine! It's just a relapse of my old injury!"

"That's good! That's good!" Everyone sighed for a while.

Li Lin asked: "Has Liu Bei arrived in Jiangxia?"

Pang Tong cupped his hands and said, "My lord, Jiang Xia's spies have already investigated clearly, Liu Bei has entered Jiangxia, and the incident along the Yangtze River has also been investigated clearly. In fact, there were only [-] people who came to welcome Liu Bei, some of them were under Jiang Xia Wenpin's command, and some It's Jiangdong Lu Meng's command!"

"Lu Meng!" Li Lin muttered, it was another familiar name!The future governor of Jiangdong is really not to be underestimated!
Pang Tong continued: "It's Lu Meng! In fact, Jiangdong brought more than 400 warships, and Jiangxia's warships were only 600, and most of those warships were empty, with straw figures standing on them to confuse My lord!"

After listening to Pang Tong's words, Li Lin looked at the crowd engrossed. Everyone lowered their heads with desolation in their eyes. Li Lin said slowly, "It seems that you all know it, and I was the last one to know it!"

Everyone was silent, and Li Lin murmured: "Hey! It's okay, isn't it just that the enemy has fooled you? It doesn't matter. We have been fighting for more than ten years, and the number of times we fooled people is still small? It is normal to be fooled once by others. , You will have to change sooner or later when you come out to play!"

"Yes!" Everyone saw that Li Lin was in good condition, and they felt better. After all, under Li Lin's nose, Liu Bei fled to Jiangxia safely. How could the generals feel better!
Li Lin continued: "Did my illness leak out?"

Pang Tongtong nodded and said: "Yes! I discussed with everyone and decided... decided not to block it!"

"Well done!" Li Lin applauded, and said, "Secretizing it will only confuse the soldiers even more! It won't have any motivating effect!" When Li Lin said this, the faces of many generals blushed involuntarily. Because at the beginning everyone wanted to hide Li Lin's illness from the army, but Pang Tong and Xu Shu, several civil officials strongly opposed it, and everyone even got angry. Now that Li Lin said so, all the soldiers felt embarrassed.

"Order!" Li Lin's complexion changed suddenly, and he lay down there and shouted.

"Here!" Everyone immediately stood up straight and bowed their hands to Li Lin to obey the order. It was the first time that the messenger in the room was lying there.

In June of the sixth year of Chengye, Li Lin defeated Liu Qi's army in Jiangling, and Liu Qi led the army to withdraw to Jiangxia and defend Jiangxia.

The news of Li Lin's sudden collapse on the bank of the Yangtze River spread across both sides of the Yangtze River because Pang Tong and others did not conceal it. The morale of the army will inevitably be greatly damaged, and the momentum of the soldiers will fade away in an instant, but I did not expect that on the third day before the news spread, Li Lin met with all the soldiers under his command on the Jiangling school grounds. Of course, he sat on a chair Then Li Lin ordered the army to march westward, approaching Jiangxia, and then of course it was Jiangdong.

Jiangxia is the largest county in Jingzhou. Apart from Nanyang and Jiangling, Jiangxia is another place where Jingzhou garrison troops and store food. However, Jiangxia has always been a battleground for military strategists. There are winners and losers for each other, but now that Liu Biao has died of illness, and Jingzhou has been invaded by Li Lin. Jiangxia only has Liu Qi's soldiers and horses stationed there. For this reason, Sun Quan gave up Jiang Xia, who was at his fingertips, and joined forces with Liu Bei to deal with Li Lin.

At the end of June of the sixth year of Chengye, Tian Yu swept across the north bank of the Yangtze River. Zang Ba and Che Zhou shouted at Sun Quan's general Cheng Pu in Jiangdu. So far, almost all Jiangdong soldiers and horses were driven to the south of the Yangtze River. Guangling merged into one place and waited for Li Lin's order. They wanted to jointly attack the south bank of the Yangtze River with Zhao Hu on the water. The official battle in the north and south of the Yangtze River was about to begin...

At the beginning of July of the sixth year of Chengye, Ma Chao and Tai Shici led the army to go down to Jiangxia smoothly. They stationed troops in Wulin and Hanyang in three cities north of the Yangtze River, and approached Shiyang, Yuzhang County, which was in charge of Jiangdong.

As for the [-] Jingzhou navy led by Cai Mao.A water plug was also erected on the water bank next to Hanyang, and the opposite of Hanyang and Wulin is a very famous place in history, over there is Chibi!
It has to be said that besides being good at speculating and being good at speculation, Cai Mao has some skills above the navy. He directly blocked the water in Hanyang and made it as solid as gold and watertight.Excluding the 30 sailors, nearly [-] troops are stationed in Wulin, and the camps stretch for more than a hundred miles. It is shocking to look at.

On the other hand, Liu Bei also commanded troops to station in Xiakou, facing the Liao army across the river. Every time he saw the Liao army camp and the Liao army water village, Liu Bei's army was secretly frightened. In Jiangkou, the armies of the three parties face each other far away, and the war is about to break out!
Hanyang, Shiyang, and Xiakou are located at the junction of the Xiangjiang River and the Yangtze River. Pang Tong's suggestion is that it is better to take down Shiyang, which is relatively weak.Immediately, both sides put pressure on Xiakou, and Li Lin was convinced after hearing this, but Li Lin didn't know that Shiyang was not that simple, because the name of the prefect here was Lu Xun, although he was only 24 years old, he was just Among the four major families in Jiangdong, the head of the Lu family is the one who will bring disaster to Liu Bei in the future...

On July [-]th of the sixth year of Chengye, Lu Meng, who was stationed at Sanjiangkou, received a request from Lu Xun for help. Like many generals, Lu Meng disliked Lu Xun very much, precisely because Lu Xun came from a wealthy family. Because of his relationship, he became the prefect of Shiyang. Lu Meng told Lu Xun a few times, and he directly thought that this person was just a small boy with no great skills. They were replaced, but Zhou Yu, Lu Su and others trusted Lu Xun very much, thinking that he was a great talent, and before Lu Xun's request for help arrived, they had already sent reinforcements to rescue Shi Yang...

"General! The reinforcements sent by General Lu Meng have arrived!" A soldier cupped his hands in front of Lu Xun.

"What! No way!" Lu Xun hurried to the city wall in shock, but he clearly saw thousands of Jiangdong soldiers standing outside the city.I just sent out a letter asking for help yesterday, and reinforcements arrived today?

Calling the general to enter the city and asking a lot of questions, Lu Xun was finally convinced, and while ordering to open the city gates to let the soldiers and horses from outside the city enter, he secretly calculated how long it would take to transfer troops from Sanjiangkou to this place. A little discouraged.This army of soldiers and horses probably set off a few days ago.That is to say, his request for help letter.It doesn't do anything.

"Annoying guy!" Lu Xun murmured secretly. After all, the son of the family, at such an age, is a very tempered person. Then he counted the reinforcements and was shocked.He is Zhou Gongjin.Actually sent a full five thousand soldiers?You know, there are only [-] to [-] soldiers and horses in Sanjiangkou!

"Thank you for a favor!" Mumbling, Lu Xun immediately shouted: "What are you still doing, the Liao army is not far away, but it is uncertain when they will come back to take Shi Yang, Lu Dang, arrange for the soldiers to rest for a while!"

"No!" Lu Dang is the general of Lu Xun's family, and he immediately obeyed Lu Xun's order.

At the same time, Hanyang Liao Army Water Village!Accompanied by Cai Mao, the commander of the water army, Li Lin inspected the newly settled water village in a wheelchair, looking at the various buildings and defenses in the water village. Although he didn't know much about the construction of the water village, he saw the vast The water camps are neatly arranged and very regular. They are placed on land. If their own army attacks, this type of camp can also be attacked or defended. Li Lin couldn't help but nodded in approval.

Taking a peek at Li Lin's actions, Cai Mao was delighted to find that it was worthwhile to get Li Lin's approval for what he had done.

"Well done!" Li Lin looked around and nodded again, and said in a concentrated voice: "The navy will be handed over to you, Degui!"

"No!" Cai Mao, who was secretly happy in his heart, hurriedly cupped his fists and saluted, then raised his hand and said, "My lord, why don't I go visit the water barrier defense!"

"No, no, I can trust you." Li Lin waved his hand and said, visiting the water stop is just a routine, but it is not his interest to see how Cai Mao is capable and whether he has the ability to fight Jiangdong.

Three days later, Tai Shici and Gao Lan led the army to attack Shiyang, and Zhang Yun led the water army to respond on the water. After three days of fierce attack but failed, Li Lin ordered to return to Hanyang.After a few people explained that Shi Yang had reinforcements arriving, Li Lin didn't blame the generals, but just told them to return to their respective battalions. Among them, Tai Shici told Li Lin some things in secret, but Li Lin's expression was serious. , Of course, told Li Lin the name of the Shiyang guard.

Speaking of this, I want to mention one thing. Except for the Liao camp from Hanyang to Wulin, except for the main camp and the navy water camp, which stretches for more than a hundred, many generals under Li Lin's command were all camped along the coast. After Yang, Li Lin immediately sent Xu Shu to Tai Shici's place to assist. Now Li Lin's body can only be sent back and forth. Even if he wants to go and see Lu Xun in person, there is no way, Hua Tuo will not let it!
It was night, after Hua Tuo had tortured Li Lin for a while, he let it go to treat Li Lin, and then Li Lin was making calculations in the account, and only heard a laugh: "My lord hasn't rested yet?"

Li Lin looked up and saw that it was Pang Tong and Guo Tu, so he put down his book, raised his hand and said with a smile: "Shi Yuan, Gong Ze, sit down!"

"Thank you!" Pang Tong and Guo Tu clasped their hands and sat down on the seats in the tent facing each other.

Li Lin said with a smile: "Come on! I just want to have a good discussion with you!"

"Okay!" Pang Tong cupped his hands and was about to say something when he saw the tent was lifted up. Kuai Yue walked in slowly and said to Li Lin, "My lord! A certain..." Then he looked aside Pang Tong and Guo Tu, Kuai Yue was slightly embarrassed, hesitated, bowed his hands and said: "Subordinate Meng Lang, I have disturbed the lord, and I am asking the lord to forgive me!" After all, Kuai Yue was in a dilemma, wondering whether he should stay here or not .

"Hehe! Aliens! It's all right! It's just time for everyone to discuss this war together! Come and sit down!" Li Lin waved his hand and said to Kuai Yue.

Then he looked at the three of them, and Li Lin said in a low voice, "The three of you came so late, you must come to me for something important!" Nonsense, it's nothing serious, these three people came to look for Li Lin at night!

"How dare you!" Ignoring Kuai Yue and Guo Tu, Pang Tong bowed his hands humbly and said first: "Dare to ask my lord, when will I use troops against Jiangxia and even Jiangdong?"

"Hurry up!" Holding the wine cup, Li Lin said hesitantly: "The water fortress has been completed recently, and the soldiers have also recuperated for nearly a month. The soldiers are in full swing, and they are just in time to use troops against Jiang Xia!"

"This..." Pang Tong hesitated, looked up at Li Lin and said: "I still have some concerns in my heart. Although our army has 40 soldiers and horses in this battle, it is a pity that those who are good at water warfare are at best no more than [-] sailors in Jingzhou. In contrast, the Jiangdong and Jiangxia coalition forces are no less than [-]. Moreover, the two have lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time, and they are deeply familiar with the subtleties of water warfare. The ministers think that it is better to station troops here, prepare for war, and train at the same time. Waiting for the spring of next year, our navy Naicheng, then use troops against Jiangdong again. According to my subordinates, Jiangxia is not something to be afraid of. The only thing to worry about is Jiangdong! However, taking Jiangdong with a mere [-] soldiers is considered too dangerous! Furthermore, the combat power of the navy How, we don't know yet, I have heard the name of the Jiangdong Navy for a long time, and my servants are afraid..." At this point, he secretly glanced at Li Lin.

"How about our army's navy, and Jiangdong's navy. Don't you know everything after a battle?" Guo Tu interjected with a laugh.

"Hmph!" Kuai Yue sneered at Guo Tu with contempt, and said with a sneer, "I don't know you and me, but trying to engage in war is a way of self-defeating! There is no plan!"

"What did you say?" Guo Tu was furious when he heard the words, and said with a sneer, "If you are as pedantic as you are, even if it is a hundred years, Jiangdong will not be able to take it!"

"You!" Kuai Yue was also furious.

"In front of the lord, don't be presumptuous!" Pang Tong shouted coldly, but Guo Tu and Kuai Yue looked at each other and sneered, turning their heads away.

Shaking his head helplessly, Li Lin frowned and said, "I don't know the enemy, it's troublesome, Shi Yuan. What I mean is, if you don't invite Jiangdong to fight. To test the strength of the enemy and us, what does Shi Yuan think?"

Guo Tu glanced at Kuai Yue proudly.But Pang Tong said hesitantly: "My lord, we have surrounded Jiangdong on three sides. I think that there is no need to take such risks in the mere land of Jiangdong. Since my lord insists on this, I have a plan. I can force out the Jiangdong navy. !"

Li Lin was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "As expected of Shi Yuan!"

"My lord is serious!" Pang Tong cupped his hands and said in a low voice: "..."

The Liao army set up a huge fortress on the other side of the river. The blow to Liu Bei's army was immeasurable. Just looking at the Liao army's water village on the other side that stretched for more than a hundred miles, Liu Bei's soldiers lost a little bit of fighting spirit in their hearts.

"Are you telling me to fight hundreds of thousands of Liao troops? How could it be possible?" A group of Liu Bei sergeants patrolling the bank of the river was stroked, and one of them looked at the other bank with horror on his face.

"Stop talking about the crime of disturbing the morale of the army, be careful!" the captain of the Jiangling Army who narrowly escaped his life in Hanyang [-] days ago shouted in a low voice.

"I'm just telling the truth!" the soldier barely defended.

Glancing at the soldier, the corporal sighed slightly, and secretly said in his heart: "Yes! There are such a large number of Liao troops. How can we fight? If it wasn't a fluke that day, the ten thousand Qingqi would have chased us down. Do it all!" Recalling the thrilling scene on the bank of the Yangtze River, the corporal leader was still in a cold sweat.

"Huh? What's that?" Suddenly.A soldier under his command exclaimed, and the corporal frowned, and saw countless bamboo pieces floating in the river, drifting down with the river.

"Quick! Get a few up!" Wu Zhang frowned and shouted.

"No!" After tinkering for a while, the crowd finally fished a few out of the shore, looked them over carefully, and there was a sentence engraved on them, but it's a pity, how can these soldiers know how to read!

"Today I command millions of troops, and I invite Marquis Wu to hunt in Jiangdong!" Liu Bei glanced roughly at the words on the bamboo slices. Liu Bei looked surprised, looked back at the people in the tent, and said with a frown, "Could it be that this is Li Lin's invitation to Jiangdong?" Gauntlet?"

"Yeah!" Nodding, Zhuge Liang stepped forward to take the cloth from Liu Bei, and said with concentration: "It is indeed a letter of war, but if such a large number of bamboo pieces go down the river, if they are picked up by the people of Jiangdong, the people of Jiangdong will be in chaos! Millions of soldiers! Li Lin really dares to say that!"

"Almost!" Cao Pi smiled wryly, and calculated: "Li Lin has about 40 soldiers and horses, and Tian Yu has no less than 50 soldiers and horses, plus Zhao Hu's navy army of [-] to [-], a million is impossible, [-] There should be an army of ten thousand!"

"Is Li Lin intending to disturb the hearts of the people in Jiangdong?" Jian Yong thought for a while, and interjected.

"Hmm!" Zhuge Liangliang nodded, and said solemnly, "Perhaps Li Lin is giving an ultimatum to Jiang Dong, whether to surrender or to fight!"

Liu Bei turned his head to look at the messenger in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "How many bamboo pipes are there?"

"This little one doesn't know..." The messenger lowered his head in fear, and said hesitantly, "On the surface of the river, there are all these bamboo pieces, and there are countless pieces of bamboo!" Yes, they are all pieces. The small bamboo slips, there is only one sentence on it, it can't be counted at all......

(End of this chapter)