Dark clouds covered the moon, and I couldn't see my fingers.

This is really a good time to rob homes and steal homes.

Liu Huang and Deng Xian led their troops in the dark and approached Li Qi's camp. Not far away, they saw bright lights in the camp, figures of people, and sounds of cheers and entertainment.

Deng Xian said happily: "Li Qi's brother deserves to die tonight."

Liu Xuandao: "You need to be careful."

Deng Xian pointed to the camp in front and said, "Look, the bandits are all having fun and are completely unprepared for battle."

Liu Huang nodded, raised his hand, and led the soldiers towards Li Qi's camp.

The camp was built on the back of a mountain. Zhuge Liang, who was halfway up the mountain, pointed at the camp and said to Li Qi: "Fires at different distances illuminate people with different brightness and darkness. Firelight with different brightness and darkness shines on people from different directions, which can form multiple

The imaginary and solid figure was designed by Yueying based on the principle of linear propagation of light in the Lord's "Physics" book. Seeing the numerous figures in the camp tent, the Shu soldiers thought that our entire army was stationed here, so they must have taken it lightly."

Li Qi smiled and said: "It's good if you can learn and use it. After Yizhou is pacified, I plan to set up a school. All teenagers over six and under fifteen must receive cultural education and military training. By the way, Yizhou Year

Years of war have caused the population to drop sharply. I plan to advocate more births and provide a certain reward for each child. What do the military advisors think?"

Zhuge Liang asked: "Do you have so much money?"

Li Qidao: "Find a way to squeeze out some money from those big dogs."

Zhuge Liang hissed and said: "This matter can be discussed later. We are at war now. Can my lord be more serious?"

Li Qi: "Okay!"

However, when Liu Huang and Deng Xian rushed into the camp, they found that only a small group of enemy soldiers threw down their torches and ran towards the mountain.

When Deng Xian was about to lead his army to pursue him, Liu Quan stopped him and asked, "Why are there so few people here? That's weird."

Upon closer inspection, the tent was filled with fire starters.

"No, I've fallen into a trap!" Liu Suile turned his horse's head and shouted loudly: "Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

It was too late, tens of thousands of flames shot down from the mountainside, and the fire starters in the tents burst into flames in an instant. One battalion was connected to the other, and soon the fire formed a circle and engulfed the two armies of Liu Wei and Deng Xian.

The horses were trapped inside.

The arrows were like locusts and the fire was fierce. The besieged Shu army panicked and trampled on each other and many people were hit by arrows. They escaped from the fire camp only after suffering heavy casualties.

Before they could stop for a moment, they encountered two more troops and horses charging out from the front and back.

There was Liao Hua in the front and Shen Mi in the back. The two armies and horses sandwiched Liu Sui and Deng Xian in the middle, making it impossible for them to look at each other.

After fighting for more than an hour, both sides collected their troops.

When Liu Quan and Deng Xian dragged their tired and painful bodies back to their camp, they saw that the camp head had changed its flag.

Gan Ning: "Thousands of arrows fired together!"

Liu Quan and Deng Xian had no choice but to abandon the food, grass and baggage in the camp and seize the road, retreating to Yanting County.

Li Qi then led his troops to move into Liu Quan and Deng Xian's camp, pushing the front line further forward.

Zhuge Liang said: "Yanting is a small county town. The city wall is not high. We can order our soldiers to attack it in the future."

Li Qi had seen the brutality of the siege, and felt sad that it was not easy to earn such a small fortune, so he asked: "Is there any clever plan that can reduce the number of people killed?"

Zhuge Liang said: "My lord is a truly benevolent and virtuous gentleman. You can first ambush your troops outside the city and ask Wu Yi to open the city gate, so that our army can march straight in."

Li Qi followed this and asked Wu Yi to come here.

That night, Wu Yi rode alone to the gate of Yanting City and shouted to open the door.

Liu Quan asked him to raise the torch and see that it was indeed Wu Yi, so he asked, "How did Ziyuan escape?"

Wu Yidao: "Li Qi wanted to persuade me to surrender with nice words, so he didn't tie me up. I took advantage of the jailer's delivery of food and killed him with a knife, and finally escaped back to Yanting."

Wu Yi was well-known in Shu and was Liu Zhang's in-law (Wu Mei and Liu Si brother were married). Liu Huang and Deng Xian discussed that if Wu Yi was not allowed to enter the city, it would be difficult to explain to Liu Zhang in the future, so he ordered the city to be opened.

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As soon as the city gate opened, Li Qi's army and horses rushed out.

Liu Huang hurriedly asked the soldiers to close the city gate, but he saw Wu Yi raised his sword and killed the soldiers at the city gate.

Liu Huang was furious: "Wu Yi is a common man, the seller seeks glory!"

Li Qi's army rushed into Yanting and captured Liu Huang and Deng Xian together.

Liu Suan vowed not to surrender, and when he was dragged out and beheaded, he loudly insulted Wu Yi, which made Wu Yi feel ashamed.

Li Qi beheaded Deng Xian again and comforted Wu Yi, saying: "A wise minister chooses his master. Liu Sui did not know the current affairs and lost his life in vain. It did not benefit him or the people of Yizhou at all."

Wu Yi had no choice but to fight for himself: he was not greedy for life and afraid of death, but he really wanted to keep his body useful and do more things.

Liu Zhang, who was far away in Chengdu, was almost frightened to tears when he heard that four generals had been defeated and that Li Qi's army and horses were approaching Mianzhu.

Wang Lei, Xu Jing and others comforted him and said: "Don't worry, my lord, you can quickly send the county guards and generals to lead their troops to Chengdu to defend against the enemy."

Suddenly someone came to report that Zhang Ren had defeated Zhang Lu in Zitong.

Liu Zhang was overjoyed. It had been such a miserable life, and finally there was good news.

Wang Lei said: "You can quickly send Zhang Ren back to Mianzhu. When reinforcements from other counties arrive, Li Qi will not be able to care about each other."

Liu Zhang immediately sent someone to deliver a message to Zhang Renchu.

Li Qi naturally also heard the news about Zhang Lu's retreat. He laughed at Zhang Lu and lost a handful of rice because he failed to steal the chicken. He was also worried that Zhang Ren's return would create a flanking attack on him.

Zhuge Liang suggested: "We can send Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi to send troops from Brazil to attack Zitong. Now most of Zitong's grain has been transferred to Brazil by the second son (Li Fu). Zhang Ren and Zhang Lu have been separated for a long time, and there must be very little food left with the army.

, will be defeated by Zhao Yun."

Li Qi immediately wrote a letter and ordered Pang Xi, Zhang Song, and Pei Yuanshao to assist Li Fu to further stabilize the situation in Brazil, and ordered Zhao Yun, Deng Zhi, and Lei Tong to send troops to Zitong.

It was four hundred miles from Zitong to Chengdu, another four hundred miles from Zhang Ren's victory message to Chengdu, and another four hundred miles from Chengdu's orders to Zhang Ren's office, for a total of eight hundred miles.

It was only 160 miles from Zitong to Yanting. After learning the news of Zhang Lu's retreat, Li Qi sent an order from Yanting to Zhao Yun in Langzhong, which was only 200 miles away, totaling 360 miles.

In other words, when Zhao Yun received the order to attack Zitong, Liu Zhang had not yet received Zhang Ren's victory report.

By the time Liu Zhang sent the order, Zhao Yun and Deng Zhi had already organized their troops and marched towards Zitong.

Langzhong is about two hundred miles away from Zitong. Since the speed of Chengdu's messengers must be faster than the large army of horses, Zhang Ren still received the order before Zhao Yun arrived at Zitong.

However, when he was reorganizing his troops and was about to lead Liu Xun and Huang Quan back to Mianzhu, Zhao Yun happened to arrive at the stronghold thirty miles outside Zitong.

Deng Zhi suggested: "My lord ordered us to send troops to Zitong, but the actual purpose is to prevent Zhang Ren from returning to Chengdu. Furthermore, the food of the people in Zitong has basically been sent to Brazil, and the food in Zitong's warehouse is not much. Zhang Lu will go in and out.

It may not be consumed. Therefore, we only need to besiege but not attack. The enemy is short of food and cannot be ordered to return to Chengdu. As time goes by, his mentality will be chaotic. When the time comes, we can take action in the center and defeat it with one blow."
Chapter completed!