Chapter 37 White Emperor

Li Yi, the prefect of Badong, was in great trouble these two days. He first heard that Cao Chong, the general of Zhennan, led a mere 10,000 people to go up the Han River and conquered Chenggu, the gateway of Hanzhong, in one battle. Then Zhang Lu surrendered. Just when he tried his best to figure out the specific way to conquer Chenggu, he also heard that there was something strange about Yiling in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The guard general Wei Yan was searching for ships everywhere, as if he had the intention of going up the river. He did not dare to neglect, so he immediately sent people to check and sent two thousand people to Zigui downstream to guard against Wei Yan's sudden attack.

The soldiers were sent out for only two days, but before they could hear the reaction from Yiling, Li Yi sat in the mansion to think about the war. Recently, news came from Brazil that tens of thousands of Banyan Man surrounded Langzhong City and asked Pang Xi to return all the extra taxes to them. Pang Xi was trapped in Langzhong and urgently mobilized the troops from various Brazilian counties to gather in Langzhong. At the same time, he asked for help from the general Cao Chong, the governor of Yizhou, Liu Zhang.

Li Yi felt that Pang Xi was not properly dealt with. How many people could Ban Ximan fight? It was the limit of how many people could be? The number of people who could concentrate about 10,000 in their villages was the limit. Those tens of thousands of people were suspicious soldiers. Pang Xi was old and had not experienced many wars. He was frightened by the barbarians and acted inappropriately. General Zhennan was determined to enter Bashu, and Liu Yizhou had conflicts with Pang Xi. They would not leave easily when they came. No matter which of them laughed to the end, I was afraid that Pang Xi would not have a good end at that time.

When Li Yi remembered the possible outcome of Pang Xi in the future, he couldn't help laughing. Pang Xi was a former general of Liu Yan, and later became a kinship with Liu Zhang. He was a tough and arrogant person who followed Zhao Wei to rebel. He just changed his position as the prefect of Badong with Zhao Wei, which was incomparable to Pang Xi. Pang Xi bullied him a lot for this, and now Pang Xi has also ended up like this, and he is happy.

"Brother..." Li Le held the knife in one hand and walked in with sweat on his face, with a panic tone.

"What's the matter? So panicked." Li Yi looked at Li Le with some dissatisfaction: "Is Wei Yan here?"

Li Le stood up and gasped for a few breaths, shook his head, licked his dry lips and said, "Wei Yan didn't come, he didn't know what he was doing. He prepared for many days in Yiling and had no movement. However, I just received the news that an army crossed Daba Mountain from Shangyong Fangling and rushed to Wu County along Yanshui."

Li Yi's scalp suddenly became numb and he stood up suddenly: "Wu County? Where did the people come from? How many people are there?"

"I don't know, I just know that there are a large number of people, and there must be at least seven or eight thousand people in a row." Li Le shook his head and said, "Brother, don't worry, I have sent someone to inquire, and I will soon find out the accurate news."

"No hurry?" Li Yi smiled bitterly: "There are only a few hundred defenders in Wu County. Once they are lost, the Three Gorges will fall into the enemy's natural danger. My Baidi City will be in danger. How can I not be anxious?" He stood up, turned his hand behind his back and forth in the house for a few times, stood still, looked at Li Le with his head, and asked in confusion: "The Daba Mountain is high and the road is difficult to move, so how could a large army come out from there?"

Li Le shook his head confusedly. He didn't know how there were large troops in these Daba Mountains. It was because Daba Mountain could not march, so there were only a few hundred guards in Wu County. These people came in an extremely unexpected way.

"Can there be mountain people leading the way?" Li Yi suddenly thought of a question, and his brow immediately condensed into a lump. "General Cao Chong, the general of Zhennan, took Shangyong and Fang Ling. I heard that he was very good to those mountain people and formed a Jingshan Army. Could it be them?"

Li Le suddenly realized and clapped his hands and praised, "Brother is right. I heard that the Jingshan Army is good at walking on mountain roads, and they are all mountain people. They cross mountains and ridges like walking on flat ground. Although Daba Mountain is steep, they are familiar with the road. However, the Jingshan Army has only two thousand people, and they are still following Cao Zhennan in Nanzheng. Will they suddenly appear here, right?"

"You are so stupid. Shangyong, there are tens of thousands of mountain people in Fangling. What's the point of expanding a few thousand people?" Li Yi waved his hand and thought for a while and said, "Wu County cannot be lost. You can take five thousand people to Wu County immediately. Be sure to guard Wu County, otherwise we will be all done."

"No!" Li Le responded loudly and said with some confusion: "Brother, two thousand people have been transferred to Zigui two days ago. I will take another five thousand people to Wu County. There will be less than two thousand people here, if..."

"There's nothing wrong." Li Yi shook his head: "I will recruit troops from the surrounding counties, and it's not a problem to gather 2,000 more people. If you guard Wu County, I will be very safe here. Liu Yizhou has transferred all the troops from Chengdu to Brazil to deal with Pang Xi, and he has no strength to deal with me for the time being."

Li Le thought about it and said nothing more. He led 5,000 people out of the city and rushed to Wu County. Li Yi strengthened his defense in the city and issued conscription orders to the surrounding villages. Things went smoothly. Two days later, the first group of mountain citizens arrived in the city. Although the number of these mountain citizens was not large, they were extremely strong. Li Yi was very satisfied and arranged them to guard the west gate.

In the middle of the night, the city was already dark. Because Li Yi issued a curfew, there were no people on the streets after nightfall, and ordinary people turned off the lights early and hid at home. They knew that there was war in Wu County east these days, and although there was no news about Baidi City, the prefect had already conscripted many mountain people into the city. It seemed that they were going to fight. It was safer to stay at home at this time.

The news about Hanzhong and Brazilian County has spread to Badong in sporadic ways. Although the prefect Li Yi did not allow the people to spread these messages, the rumors were still spreading silently between people like the humid air in Baidi City. Some people knew that the Mi thief in Hanzhong had been conquered by Cao Chong, the youngest son of Prime Minister Cao, and the Mi thief's teacher Zhang Lu had surrendered. As for the battle of Chenggu, it was already so popular that it was amazing. The people who said it themselves did not believe that 10,000 people could capture the city guarded by 10,000 people, so they tried their best to find some reasons to convince those who listened. After several retweets, the matter was beyond recognition. Recently, it has become that all Cao's army flew to Chenggu City in a thunderbolt chariot.

It was late at night, and the scattered lights were turned off one after another, and even the prefect's mansion could not see the lights. The moonlight in early April gently scattered on the top of Baidi City. The mountain wind brought the river water day after day, and the rustling sounds of year after year urged people to fall asleep like nursery rhymes. The soldiers guarding the city opened their mouths and yawned, looked at the mottled mountain shadows in the distance, sniffed, reached out to wipe the clear nose on the battlements, and said to their companions around them: "Oh, I really hope General Cao will come over, maybe we can live a good life like the people in Xiangyang."

His companion chuckled softly, "Be careful, you will die when the prefect hears you."

"Besides, the prefect has already been raising her newly-acquisitioned concubine to bed, how could she come here to listen to our gossip?" The soldier smiled enviously, and still lowered his voice. He glanced around and leaned into his companion's ears and said, "I heard from the mountain people who entered the city that the mountain people on the Daba Mountains are no longer worried about the sale of mountain goods. Every month, merchants come to receive goods, and the price is very fair. You said that our place is more convenient than them. You can go straight along the river and go to Jiangling in one day. Wouldn't it be faster to do business?"

The companion glanced at him: "You just want to get rich. No wonder you always ask about the price of mountain goods these days, don't want to join the army anymore?"

The soldier spat: "Well, who wants to join the army? I am working hard. Those fools want to join the army because those who make money are worthy of money."

The companion was about to say something again, and he heard footsteps coming from his ears. He closed his mouth and looked back. He saw a small officer walking over with a team of soldiers. He quickly poked his companion who was still immersed in his dream of making money. He held the spear in his hand tightly and straightened his body.

"On duty well, don't let someone touch the city at night, be careful that the prefect will ask for your head." The general seemed to be a new mountain citizen, looking a little arrogant, with a strong earth sound in his accent. The soldier curled his lips secretly, but did not dare to refute, so he nodded humbly, but cursed in his heart, "Damn the barbarian, you have been the team leader for only one day. It's not because you have too many barbarians to lead, but you really think you are an official. If you have more military achievements, I'll be more arrogant than you.

"Sir, we have always been very careful." said his companion.

"Well, that's good." The team leader responded with great dignity. He strode to the edge of the city, held the city wall and looked out, pointing to a dark valley outside and said, "Look at what place it is, something seems wrong."

When the soldier and his companions heard this, they immediately widened their eyes and looked in the direction pointed by the team leader. However, there was nothing in the dark valley. They looked at them with some confusion, but they saw a ray of light from each other's eyes. Before they could figure out what was going on, they were covered with their mouths, and then their necks cooled down and a sharp short knife swept past them.

Tiele glanced around and waved his head. The Jingshan soldiers besieged the city next to him immediately put the two unlucky people in the shadow of the city corner. The other two Jingshan soldiers took the spear and headed to the posts of the two. Tiele shouted loudly and said something in a good manner. Then he led his men down the city ramp along the city wall, and walked around a few times to the city gate.

"Sir, the city gate has been cleared." A soldier from Jingshan came up and whispered a few words in Tiele's ear.

"Send the signal and prepare to open the city." Tiele waved his hand and gave a short order. Immediately someone ran to the city to send a signal, then stirred the wheel and hung up the heavy stone door bolt. As soon as the city gate opened a crack, the black fish that rushed towards Tiele squeezed in and smiled at Tiele: "You have made your first contribution this time, and leave it to me for capturing Li Yi alive."

Tiele gave him a blank look: "Your mother has fought so many battles but she still doesn't have any knowledge. She knows how to compete for me. She will fight as she arranges it. Can you and I have the final say?" Heiyuer smiled and rushed straight to the city wall with her men. Tiele opened the city gate, and the Jingshan army flocked in, led by Sima to go straight to the predetermined positions, and disappeared into the night.

Xu Yi appeared at the city gate with his personal guards, and Liu Pan followed him with murderous aura. Xu Yi looked at Tiele with satisfaction, turned to Liu Pan and said, "Zi Ju, I will take people to seize the city gate, and I will leave the matter of the prefect's mansion to you."

Liu Pan was so excited that his eyebrows jumped straight, and bowed to Xu Yi: "Thank you, Zhengli, I will help you."

Xu Yi laughed and patted Liu Pan on the shoulder and said, "There is no time left. Li Yi understands that it will be a problem for you to come here. I will talk about it after the war."

Liu Pan has not taken advantage of the opportunity to fight a tough battle since he sent troops to Fangling, and was very unwilling to accept it. This time, Cao Chong sent him and Xu Yi to attack Badong together. He was mostly helped by Xu Yi's Jingshan Army in the mountains. Now Xu Yi sent Tiele to Baidi City, but gave him the great contribution of besieging the prefect of the prefect's mansion to him, which made him feel a little disgusted. However, taking Li Yi is the first task now, and he didn't care about anything else. After breaking up with Xu Yi, he quickly surrounded the prefect's mansion and ordered several capable generals to attack separately. He brought five hundred of the most elite soldiers and roared into the prefect's mansion from the main gate.

Li Yi processed the official documents for the middle of the night. It was not until the hour of the 19th that he got off the bed at the urging of the newly-acquired concubine. After a while of the first taste of the taste, he was so thirsty that he drank and fell asleep. He woke up by a nightmare less than half an hour after he fell asleep. He sat up sweating all over, stared at the dark window with his eyes staring with fear, and was hearing Liu Pan's roar outside, and then he heard the yelling and screams of killing.

"Come!" Li Yi shook off the concubine's slippery arm, shouted and got out of the bed, and rushed to get the armor hanging on the side. A personal guard hurriedly ran in, knelt down on one leg in front of him, and said in a panic: "Sir, the mountain people in Ximen have opened the city gate, and the enemy has entered the city."

"Enemy? Where did the enemy?" Li Yihan was so rainy that he pulled the coat on the clothes hanger and pulled it twice without pulling it off. He was so anxious that he exerted force. The clothes hanger fell down and hit the lamp stand next to him. The oil lamp fell to the ground and smashed it to pieces. The oil inside was spilling everywhere. The tent rose by the flames. When the guard saw it, he didn't bother to reply and quickly rushed up and stepped on it a few times. Seeing that the fire was too big, it was useless to step on it with his feet. He saw the quilt on the bed, and he didn't care about the concubine's eyes and mouth hiding inside. He pulled the quilt and rushed over to slap the flames. The concubine was blown by the cold wind and finally came back to her senses. She held it in her throat for a long time and screamed suddenly: "It's on fire--"

"Fuck." Li Yi was furious and pulled out the long knife, cut off the concubine's neck with one knife, turned around and shouted to the guard: "Who is it? How many people are there?"

The personal guard threw down the brocade quilt and wiped his cold sweat: "It sounds like the sound of General Cao, the leader, is Liu, and is named Liu Pan."

"Liu Pan?" Li Yi was shocked, and tucked his clothes randomly. With the help of several guards who rushed in, put on their armor, lifted up their long swords and rushed out of the door. Standing on the small building, he looked down, and complained in his heart. After a while, Cao Chong had already broken through the door of the mansion and killed the door of the backyard. Under the reflection of the fire, a middle-aged general danced his long sword with his hand, and was unstoppable. He led several guards like tigers to drive away the sheep, killing the guards in the mansion step by step. The Cao army behind him was like a group of evil wolves, pressing step by step, and the war was in a one-sided situation.

Liu Pan also saw Li Yi. He slashed the last enemy soldier in front of him with a knife, and let out a long roar. The soldiers next to him heard the roar and quickly moved closer, forming a small attack formation behind Liu Pan. Liu Pan raised his sword and shouted, and rushed towards Li Yi. He waved his sword to knock down several enemy soldiers coming up one after another, and soon rushed to Li Yi. Li Yi shouted loudly and waved his sword to meet him. Liu Pan smiled disdainfully, raised his shield with his left hand and smashed it hard. With a thud, Li Yi's long sword was knocked away, his arms were sore and numb, and then Liu Pan's long sword came like the wind.

"Give me your life!" Li Yi was so desolate that he screamed subconsciously, and knelt down on the ground with a thump. Liu Pan's long sword suddenly stopped, resting it steadily beside Li Yi's neck, and grinned: "It's so fast to see."

Li Yi felt that the edge of his neck was cold and frightened, and cold sweat came out of his body. He swallowed and then stammered: "Thank you, General, for your spare time, Li Yi is willing to surrender."

"Then let them stop, so that they can save them from being innocent." Liu Pan flipped his wrist and picked Li Yi's chin with a long knife. Li Yi looked at the snow-lit sword and stood up tremblingly, moved carefully to the railing step by step, and issued an order to stop resisting in a trembling voice. The guards in the mansion were already so angry that they were killed that they were criticized. At this time, they saw that the prefect was captured and they had no intention of fighting. Before they could hear Li Yi's orders say something, they threw down their weapons, hugged their heads and knelt aside.

Not long after, Xu Yi, who had already controlled the city defense, rushed over with his personal guards, glanced at Li Yi who was stunned, and Xu Yi smiled and bowed: "Zi Ju, you have a great achievement, it's a gratifying congratulations."

Liu Pan was in a very good mood. He laughed and stepped forward to hug Xu Yijian: "Zhengli, I will give you such a great contribution to me this time. I will definitely not forget your benefits. Hahaha, love is supplemented, affection is supplemented..."

Xu Yi smiled, looked at Li Yi, bowed and said, "Under the tent of General Zhennan, Xu Yi, the captain of Jingshan Military Academy, has met the prefect of Li."

Li Yi raised his head in surprise: "You are the Jingshan Army, who is Wu County?"

"Haha, that's Lord Le Jinle, General Zhe Chong." Xu Yi smiled, "Since Lord Li surrendered, please write a handwritten order to send it to Brother Ling to avoid hurting the harmony. If you know Le Zhe Chong's reputation, I don't need to remind you too much."

When Li Yi heard that Le Jin, who liked to massacre the city, had long lost his temper. He was afraid that his younger brother Li Le would be in danger, so he quickly wrote a warrant and ordered Li Le to stop resisting. Xu Yi did not delay and immediately sent his warrant out.

"General," Li Yi asked with a complacent question: "Where did the general come from?"

When Xu Yi and Liu Pan saw Li Yi's appearance as a villain, they looked at each other and couldn't help but burst into laughter. Xu Yi covered his fists and coughed falsely: "General Liu and I are ordered by General Zhennan to come from Nanzheng." When Li Yi heard this, his expression changed drastically. He had nearly a thousand miles from Nanzheng to this place, and it was all mountain roads. According to the time, it was about a month ago. He knew nothing about it. The marching ability of these Cao troops was really amazing. No wonder he was hit by it without realizing it. He looked at the long sword on Liu Pan's waist and was afraid. Fortunately, he screamed quickly today, otherwise his life would be gone.
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