Xing Daorong returned to Lingling City and told Liu Du about the past.

Xing Daorong said: "That fellow Li Qi asked me to take the head of the prefect, which is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Do I, Xing Daorong, look like someone with a traitor behind his head?"

Liu Du said: "I know that General Xing is loyal and courageous. I have asked Han Xuan, the governor of Changsha, for help. I believe reinforcements will arrive within a few days."

Xing Daorong paused and said, "It's too late!"

Liu Du asked: "There are still five to six thousand armored soldiers in the city, which is enough to hold on, so why say it too late?"

Xing Daorong said: "Li Qi asked me to take the head of the prefect within two days. If there is no movement after two days, he must be suspicious. Before that, I visited the military camp and granary of the Shu army.

The deployment is well understood. If he does not take action within two days, he will definitely make other preparations."

Liu Du: "So?"

Xing Daorong said: "So tonight I will invite three thousand troops to rob the camp and burn his food and grass. Even if we cannot capture Li Qi alive, we can still teach him to retreat without food."

Liu Du thought for a while and asked: "Li Qi raised 30,000 troops, and also got 30,000 to 40,000 Wuxi barbarians, for a total of 60,000 to 70,000 horses. How could he not have heavy troops to defend the granary?"

Xing Daorong said with a smile: "What the prefect said is true, but I think that Li Qitu has a false reputation and doesn't know how to fight at all. The general who guards the grain is a drunkard, and I can smell the smell of alcohol even ten feet away from him. Prefect, this is a rare opportunity."

Ah! Don’t you want to avenge Mr. Liu Xian?”

When Liu Xian was mentioned, Liu Du couldn't hold back the depression in his heart. He almost choked out a mouthful of blood and said angrily: "Okay, I will give you three thousand soldiers and horses, and go to burn his food and grass tonight."

Xing Daorong was so eager to achieve success that he was so excited that he couldn't rest.

Burning Li Qi's food and fodder was a basic operation. If he could take advantage of the chaos and capture Li Qi alive, he would be world-famous and his name would go down in history.

But if you think about it carefully, it may not be easy to capture Li Qi alive. If you can shoot him to death with a hidden arrow, it will be enough to make you famous in the world and go down in history.

At that time, anyone who says my name will be shocked!

At about the fourth watch, Xing Daorong led 3,000 men and horses to set off, and ordered the soldiers to each carry straw handles.

When we arrived at the Shu army camp, we saw that the layout of the camp had not changed at all, with only a few soldiers holding torches patrolling outside the camp.

Xing Daorong was overjoyed. Such an opportunity was very rare.

When he found the location of the granary, he ordered his troops to set fire to the granary.

Shu army patrols had long ago discovered Xing Daorong, but they did not come forward to fight. Instead, they shouted "enemy attack" and fled the camp.

Xing Daorong was able to break into the location of the granary and successfully set fire to the grain storage camp account.

The scattered flames illuminated Xing Daorong's face with a red light, as if something was about to turn around.

But just in an instant, Xing Daorong's expression turned serious: "Something's wrong!"

Xing Daorong finally discovered the problem: no matter how unbearable the Shu army was, they wouldn't watch the granary being burned without any movement, right? This was an ambush!

"Retreat, retreat!" Xing Daorong shouted, and he was the first to rush towards the outskirts of the camp.

Suddenly there was a sound of cannon fire, and the Shu army came from the outside of the camp.

Li Qi took the lead, with Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao on the left, Meng Huo and Shamoke on the right.

Li Qi pointed his whip at Xing Daorong and said, "I spared your life and asked you to bring Liu Du's head to see me. But now you are burning my food and grass. What else can you say?"

When Xing Daorong saw that the general who captured him alive the day before was not there, he felt relieved and took up his ax to attack Li Qi.

Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, Meng Huo, and Shamoke all rushed out. How could Xing Daorong be a match? He probably didn't even know who was mauled to death.

But with one against four, death will be glorious.

The Shu army captured the remaining two to three thousand Lingling soldiers and ordered them to take off their clothes and armor and put them on for the Shu army.

Li Qi found another soldier who looked similar to Xing Daorong, put on Xing Daorong's clothes and armor, rode Xing Daorong's horse, and went to Lingling City to capture the city.

When they arrived at the foot of Lingling City, a soldier shouted: "The food and grass of the Shu army have been burned. General Xing has returned in triumph. Open the city gate to welcome him."

The soldiers in the tower asked them to take torches to see clearly what "Xing Daorong" looked like. They saw horses, clothes and armor that belonged to General Xing. The figure was also very similar, but the facial features were too far away and the light was too dark to see clearly.

"Xing Daorong" pointed at the city tower with his big axe, but said nothing.

The soldier next to him shouted again: "How dare you neglect General Xing? Are you too impatient to live?"

The city guarding sergeant repeatedly identified him, and found that except for the details of Xing Daorong's face, he was no different from his own people, so he opened the city gate.

More than two thousand Shu troops disguised as Lingling soldiers quickly rushed into Lingling City and took control of the city gates.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yun led his army into the city and beheaded the panicked Liu Du.

The next day, Li Qi entered the city to appease the surrendered soldiers and the people in the city. He also opened a warehouse to provide food supplies and gained the people's support.

Yang Ling, who came from Changsha, saw that Lingling had fallen, so he had to go back to Changsha County.

However, it was said that the combined forces of Cao Cao and Sun Liu had more defeats than victory in the battle on the river. Some people reported that the soldiers in the north were not accustomed to the climate and the soil, and many of them were sick.

Cao Cao inspected the camp and saw that the situation was indeed not optimistic, but he could not find a good strategy.

The marching doctor reported to Cao Cao: "The symptoms suffered by some soldiers are not ordinary acclimatization. It should be that the acclimatization leads to physical weakness, and thus they are infected with malaria. The most terrifying thing about malaria is the contagion."

Cao Cao asked: "Is there a cure for malaria?"

The marching doctor sighed: "It's difficult. The main reason is that malaria has a certain incubation period and is not easy to detect at ordinary times. When it really reaches a large-scale infection, it is already too late. Even if I can cure one or two, I can't cure a thousand or ten thousand."

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Cao Cao asked: "So why are the Jiangdong navy not infected with malaria?"

The marching doctor said: "Perhaps it is because the Jiangdong navy has lived here for a long time and will not be weak due to acclimatization."

During the discussion, Li Qi suddenly reported that he was sent to Wuling and Lingling counties.

Cao Cao sighed: "I regret that I didn't listen to Guo Fengxiao's words, so I fell into a dilemma."

As the saying goes, a small boat can easily turn around, but Cao's army has hundreds of thousands of people. Even if he wants to turn his guns to deal with Li Qi, it will not be that easy.

What's more, if he turns his gun around, what will he do if the Sun-Liu coalition forces attack his rear again?

The only solution now is to find a way to capture Jiangdong as soon as possible - at least to defeat the Sun and Liu coalition forces before deploying the war against Yizhou.

At this time, Cai Zhong and Cai He's two brothers on the other side of the Yangtze River sent a letter to report that Huang Gai had been beaten severely by Zhou Yu for no reason and was rebellious.

Cao Cao was overjoyed, there was finally good news!

As long as Huang Gai defected to Jiangdong, it would undoubtedly be a great help to Cao's army. The most important thing is that the defection of veterans from the three dynasties may directly undermine the fighting will of Jiangdong's soldiers.

It seems there is hope to capture Jiangdong!

However, Cao Cao had always been suspicious, and he did not fully believe Kan Ze's letter and the Cai brothers' letters, so he sent Jiang Gan across the river again to find out the truth.

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