The ice and snow in the north are picturesque, and the plum blossoms in Huainan are waiting to be buddhist.

In the north of Shouchun City, the top camp behind the Allied camp quietly retreated, leaving bare hills, and grass buds waiting for the arrival of the spring breeze were hidden under the soil.

A clump of plum blossoms grows in the cliff not far from the top of the mountain, with its branches towering and buds waiting to bloom. Perhaps, when winter snow comes again, it will bloom angrily and become the most dazzling existence and most beautiful scenery in this forest.

That evening, Chen Yu encouraged Lu Lingqi to go to bed, but unexpectedly, after dinner, Li Li went down the mountain.

A romantic event eventually evolved into a resentment and self-appreciation.

This disappointed Chen Yu, Xiao Qiao and Bu Lianshi, who were interested in causing good things, and even more hurt Lu Lingqi. The beauty shed tears and sobbed until dawn.

Three days later, the four girls returned to the camp together, and the camping on the top of the mountain was demolished.

At this time, the battle of Shouchun's siege was still in full swing. The Allied troops guarding outside the four gates continued to attack the city, harass, attack strongly, attack at night, and attacked the city without interruption. Since then, the Yuan army guarding the city was exhausted and panicked. After a few days, they were exhausted both physically and mentally and complained.

After siege for seven days, although Shouchun City is in danger, it is still in Yuan Shu's hands. The city walls are still tall and stand firm.

On the eighth day, Li Li personally led 60,000 Xiliang battle cavalry, 10,000 wolf cavalry and 3,000 Jinqiuwei to the city. The Allied camp moved with the previous one and re-established camp five miles outside the southern gate of Shouchun.

Li Li led his army to come, causing Sun Ce and Jiangdong generals stationed outside the South Gate to be very nervous. For this reason, Sun Ce immediately led the generals under the tent to greet him. He also volunteered to send Jiangdong Army to assist the soldiers of the rear army to build a camp. Obviously, Sun Ce was careful everywhere and had a comprehensive manner. He was afraid that Li Li would glance at Lujiang and Shouchun would lead his troops to take Lujiang County before he could break through. If this was the case, it would be a big deal for Sun Ce.

In fact, Sun Ce has not completely occupied the entire territory of Lujiang, and the Lujiang prefect Liu Xun led the remnants to resist stubbornly. The source of all this is that Yuan Shu is still alive, so Liu Xun is still unwilling to give up. Unwilling to surrender to Sun Ce, he still resists stubbornly. If Li Li uses this as an excuse to send troops to Lujiang, then Sun Ce will be helpless even if he is unwilling to do so.

With the strong combat power of the army under Li Li, Liu Xun could not resist it and even surrendered to Li Li on his own initiative. However, in this way, all the heavy casualties Sun Ce had paid before were wasted. Once Lujiang was lost, he had no place to settle down in Jiangbei. In the end, he could only retreat back to Jiangdong and trap a corner. This was a situation that Sun Ce did not want to see, so he had to try every means to dispel Li Li's idea of ​​urging troops to attack Lujiang. When he had no choice, he even turned against Li Li, immediately evacuated Shouchun and led his troops to retreat to Lujiang.

Fortunately, Li Li didn't seem to have the intention to advance to Lujiang. This time he led his army to attack Shouchun City, and there was no other intention. This made Sun Ce feel a little relieved. He had to organize troops to attack the city again. After all, Li Li sat behind him to watch the battle. He had no choice but to do his best.

This was another extremely tragic siege.

After one day, Sun Ce's troops were lost to another 4,000 people. Sun Ce was so distressed that he shivered and his heart was bleeding. Up to now, he led his army of 50,000 to the alliance, but he lost more than 20,000 people in the eight-day siege battle, so that his troops were less than 25,000, and more than half of them were lost, causing heavy losses.

So that night, the Central Army's tent was discussing matters. Sun Ce gritted the bullet and asked Li Li for reinforcements or to add some soldiers to him, otherwise the Jiangdong Army under his tent would have suffered too much loss and would have no power to fight again.

Seeing that Sun Ce proposed to supplement the troops, Lu Bu, who was sitting beside him, was immediately moved. He stood up and agreed, and also asked for the replenishment of troops. He also asked for the replenishment of troops and openly asked for the supplies of weapons, claiming that the weapons were incomplete and there were not enough arrows.

As Sun Ce and Lu Bu complained one after another and asked for troops and supplies in public, the central army commander's tent suddenly became quiet. Nearly a hundred generals sitting under the tent sat upright, looking at their noses and their hearts, holding their breath, silent.

"There are many casualties among the soldiers of each battalion in recent days, which is obvious to all." Li Li smiled with a calm expression on the stairs of the big tent, and said without any haste.

But what he said was all the official words, which was equivalent to nonsense. The reason why nonsense was said was because Li Li was far from as calm as he seemed on the surface, and he was already angry. However, Sun Ce and Lu Bu were unaware of this, and they were not aware of it. Only Guo Jia and Dian Wei, who had been with Li Li for a long time, keenly noticed Li Li's abnormal expression, and then tensed up, glaring at Sun Ce and Lu Bu who were like a slogan.

After a brief tone, Li Li stood up and said with a smile: "I think you all know that there are 80,000 surrendered soldiers in the camp, so it is not difficult to add troops. But have you ever thought that it is not easy to let these surrendered soldiers attack the city. You must know that most of the surrendered soldiers are from Huainan, born and raised here, and many defenders in the city are related to them, some even their fathers or brothers. Therefore, you don't have to worry about these surrendered soldiers. Since Bo Fu and Fengxian's troops are no longer able to fight, the next battle will be taken over by our Xiliang Army. I wonder what the two of them mean?" After saying that, Li Li looked at Sun Ce with a smile, then turned his gaze to Lu Bu. His smile was very good, but his eyes were very sharp, even a little cold, with indescribable deterrence.

"Hehehe!" Lu Bu did not dare to look at Li Li's gaze, he stammered and said awkwardly: "The leader is so serious. Lu just said it, so don't take it seriously. The leader of the alliance is not the leader of the cavalry after all, so it's better to leave it to the subordinates. Although our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, they can still fight again. It's no problem to capture Shouchun." While speaking, Lu Bu said and retreated. After finishing his words, he sat down immediately, lowered his head and pretended to raise a cup to drink, and did not dare to follow Sun Ce to take the opportunity to make a fuss.

Indeed, Lu Bu was just waiting for an opportunity to make trouble and join in the fun. In fact, he knew that Li Li could not replenish Sun Ce's troops, but he was still lucky. He thought that if Li Li suddenly changed his mind and agreed to Sun Ce's request, wouldn't he missed the opportunity? So he followed Sun Ce's opportunity to make trouble, raised the old things again, and asked for troops and supplies again.

However, when he saw Li Li's sharp eyes, Lu Bu's eyelids twitched and he immediately became obedient. He took advantage of the situation and made a statement early to avoid being misled by Li Li, and the consequences would be unimaginable. What's more, half of the 30,000 infantry he commanded are under Li Li's command. If he still has the power to fight, how could Li Li not know?

Li Li refused to comment on Lu Bu's speech that he was taking advantage of the situation. He still had a faint smile on his face. Sun Ce, who looked at the surprised face, seemed to be waiting for his reply.

But Sun Ce was confused by Lu Bu's arrogant attitude at the beginning and respectful attitude. He could hardly believe his eyes, and his mind was full of questions: "Is this the invincible Wen Hou Lu Bu who is invincible in the world? A moment ago, he stood in front of Li Li with confidence and openly asked for troops and supplies; the next moment, he turned 360 degrees and Bingzhou's tiger suddenly turned into a 'sick cat' that was flattering. This became too fast, right? What's the situation?"

No matter how Sun Ce wanted to break his head, he couldn't understand why Lu Bu was so afraid of Li Li. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was afraid of him like a tiger. But Lu Bu himself was the Bingzhou tiger that was so powerful that he wanted to show weakness to Li Li?

In addition to being surprised, Sun Ce was extremely indignant and angry at Lu Bu. He thought to himself: "Damn, since you are so afraid of Li Li, why do you still follow him and make trouble? Now, right? As soon as Li Li said something, you are a timid, but you are a bad boy, but you have caused me Sun Ce. What is the matter of leaving me alone here?"

Indeed, as strong as Lu Bu, he surrendered in front of Li Li, what else can Sun Ce do? Do you have to hold on to the end?

"Since General Fengxian can still fight, then how could I be a coward who is timid? Don't worry, even if Sun sells his money, he will definitely conquer Shouchun City!" Sun Ce said firmly. This was so tough, and he said it like the other person, and he also cursed Lu Bu as a coward, a soft man, and has no backbone.

This is also unreproached by Sun Ce, who was so angry that he cursed Lu Bu in accusations.

In fact, during the last eight days of continuous siege, Lu Bu often cheated and did not work hard, and most of the time he used a feint to attack. Therefore, the loss of troops under Lu Bu's tent was not large, and it was far from being unable to fight again. But the Jiangdong Army was different. In recent days, Sun Ce had repeatedly organized troops to attack the South Gate and East Gate, and he led his troops to attack the city many times. Since then, Sun Ce's tent suffered heavy losses, and the casualties were five times that of Lu Bu.

Therefore, if Sun Ce only asked Li Li for reinforcements and supplies, it would be difficult for Li Li to refuse in public. Even if Sun Ce did not add troops, he would have to give him some food and supplies to cover up the population. After all, he was still the leader of the Alliance for the Yuan Dynasty. It was his duty to provide his allies with troops and supplies. How could he ignore them?

However, because Lu Bu thought it was profitable, he took the opportunity to get a kick, which made the situation completely ruined. So much so that Sun Ce was implicated by him, and he didn't get any benefits, and he even made him look sexy.

This is really not afraid of opponents like gods, but teammates like pigs.

When he was with Lu Bu and listened to him, Sun Ce had been in trouble for eight lifetimes. He did not expect Lu Bu to help him, but was still dragged by Lu Bu. This made Sun Ce full of indignation, but he could not help Lu Bu and could only ask the heavens speechlessly: "God, just open your eyes. Why didn't Lu Bu die yet?"

No matter how angry Sun Ce was, the matter was still ongoing, and the focus of the discussion was on how to break through Shouchun City. The year is approaching, and if it drags on like this, it will inevitably affect the morale of the entire army.

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