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On a stormy night, the rain curtains covered the swords and swords in the lightning and thunder, swept away the bright red in the pool of blood, leaving behind a refreshing and refreshing city.

The next morning, the rain passed and the sky was clear, and the sky was clear.

After one night, there were no obvious changes in the city except for many more puddles and accumulated water, and everything was the same.

Outside the North Gate City, the city gate was wide open, and a team of light cavalry galloped over and ran out of the city gate without stopping.

"Wow!" The horses crossed the suspension bridge. With a light shout of lifting the reins and pulling the horses, the team of light cavalry, which had about a hundred people, stopped and stopped on the moat outside the north gate.

"Zilong doesn't have to send him far away, go back quickly."

On the bank of Zhuma River, Li Li, wearing a red robe, looked up at the big flag of the word "Liu" fluttering in the wind on the top of the city, and the rows of soldiers standing straight, all wearing silver-white armor, which was dressed in armor that only Yizhou troops had.

Seeing this scene, Li Li nodded slightly with satisfaction, and then told Zhao Yun who was following him: "When Zilong returns to the city, remember not to make a statement, and strictly order the soldiers not to act rashly, and do not take off the armor of Yizhou army without authorization before receiving the order. Those who violate the order should be severely punished. In addition, Zilong must always keep a close eye on Liu Zhang, beware that he still does not give up, and try to resist again after reviving. He must also pay attention to his temporary intentions and be lucky."

After a pause, Li Li reached out and patted Zhao Yun on the shoulder and whispered: "If there is no abnormality in Liu Zhang's tent, it will be fine. If someone notices an abnormality and instigates trouble in public, Zilong does not need to worry, and can make a quick decision and resolutely eliminate it. Remember, you must not be merciful and ruthless. Do not have the kindness of a woman, and you should break it if you should break it; just take into account the overall situation. No one else or matter, and all the consequences are borne by me."

After saying that, a cold light flashed in Li Li's eyes. Zhao Yun immediately understood and nodded and agreed: "My lord, please rest assured. I will definitely live up to my lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord's lord in the afternoon with Liu Zhang."

Li Li nodded slightly and smiled and said, "It's so great. This time, the military advisor (Kong Ming) called Zilong to stay in the city because Zilong has always been steady, smart and courageous, and can bear the heavy responsibility. I deeply agree with this, which coincides with what the military advisor saw. Since this is the case, the big and small matters in the city will be handed over to Zilong."

Before he finished speaking, Li Li waved his hand gently, then lifted his reins and rode his horse, leading more than a hundred light cavalry to Ma Chao's camp three miles away.

Watching Li Li and his whip and jump off the suspension bridge, Zhao Yun turned around and looked at Shi A beside him and said softly: "The military advisor respects me and has given me such a heavy responsibility, but he stayed in Wu Yi's mansion to hide from leisure and was very lazy. In this way, you and I dare not relax at all times. They must open their eyes and stare at Liu Zhang and the officials of Yizhou. In case Liu Zhang suddenly resigned and jumped over the wall. Especially Zhang Ren, the guard general of the East Gate. This person and I are brothers of the same school and have met several times earlier. Therefore, this time, I have to trouble Brother Shi A with him to follow Liu Zhang, to protect his safety and not to let him get into trouble. If you have any work, I will ask you for me to make a contribution to you after you get done!"

After hearing this, Shi A looked grateful and said humbly: "General, please be polite. This is the duty of the last general, how dare you make a contribution? Before leaving, the military advisor told the last general that he would obey the general's orders, but if he had a order, he would obey all the last generals!"

Shi A has always been taciturn and very similar to Li Zhi's personality. He is calm and persistent, has excellent martial arts skills, and is both a natural personal bodyguard. This sentence is an exception for him. Before that, he has always been cherishing his words and never speaks after he promises. This time, Zhao Yun's enthusiasm for treating others with sincerity touched him, so that he said a few more words without any prior experience.

Before he finished speaking, Shi Ah did not forget to explain to Zhuge Liang: "The military advisor stayed in the Wu Mansion not to hide from leisure, but to the wife of several lords stayed in Changle Garden. In order to avoid accidents, the military advisor personally took charge of the Wu Mansion."

Zhao Yun was stunned when he heard the sound, and then smiled heartily: "Brother Shi has taken it seriously. I am just a joke. It is a great honor to be appreciated by the military advisor and recommended to the lord. I am too happy for this, so how can I blame the military advisor? Hahaha!"

While laughing, Zhao Yun pulled his horse and turned around and greeted Shi A back to the city: "Okay, you and I have both have important responsibilities, so we should not delay it. The North Gate will be handed over to Longxiang Camp to take over, and we will return to the city immediately."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Yun and Shi A and his two men turned into the city with their own soldiers and rushed straight towards the provincial governor's mansion.

Outside the north gate, Ma Chao's camp.

As the sound of horse hooves approached the central army's tent, Ma Chao and the generals of Longxiang Camp walked out of the tent quickly and lined up outside the tent to welcome Li Li's arrival. This was the order they received in advance. After seizing the North Gate, the army was on standby on site and could not make any statement. Naturally, they could not walk out of the gate to welcome Li Li, and could only wait for the order in the tent.

"The last general will pay homage to the lord!"

Before Li Li could turn over and get off the horse, Ma Chao led more than 20 generals under the tent to meet him quickly and bow to him.

Flying off the horse, Li Li threw the reins to Li Zhi, reached out to help Ma Chao up, raised his hand to signal the generals to stand up without rituals, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen each other for several months, Meng Qi is becoming more and more polite. There is no need to be polite in the future, and they are all their own brothers. Why should they be so polite?" As he spoke, Li Li stepped onto the steps and walked into the big tent with dragons and tigers. Ma Chao followed closely behind and led the generals into the tent.

The master of the lord sat down, and Ma Chao said respectfully: "The general of the last night wanted to lead his army into the city, but was blocked by the military advisor of Kong Ming. He ordered us not to wait to enter the city, so we just need to guard the city gate. Then he ordered the general of the last to leave five thousand armored soldiers to defend the city, and to replace the armor of Yizhou. All the remaining soldiers and horses were withdrawn from the city gate and stationed in the camp on standby. I wonder if the lord knew about this?"

"Well, I already know this." Li Li had known that Ma Chao had asked this, and after Kong Ming led his army to the provincial governor's mansion last night, he reported it to him.

At the third update last night, Kong Ming met with Pang Xi, the commander of the Dongzhou army, and successfully took over the North Gate, then opened the city gate and welcomed Ma Chao's troops to the city. After Ma Chao led his army into the city, Kong Ming ordered him to leave five thousand soldiers to take over the city gate, and then led his army back to the camp outside the city. Ma Chao couldn't figure out why he finally entered the city, so why he wanted to withdraw his troops again. So he refused to retreat. In order to persuade him to withdraw his troops, Kong Ming explained it with great painstakingly, and finally had to move Li Li out and strictly ordered him to lead his troops to withdraw from the North Gate. At this point, Ma Chao retreated reluctantly.

It was this negotiation that delayed some time, so that Zhuge Liang led his army to the prefecture half an hour later than expected, almost delaying the major event. At that time, Dong He had already noticed something was wrong, but fortunately he was stopped by Zhang Song and Wu Yi in time. Liu Zhang was also alert, but he was cowardly and timid and dared not take risks. This made Li Li hold on for half an hour without any danger. Then, Kong Ming led the Dongzhou troops to arrive, quickly controlled the prefecture palace, quietly took over the Yizhou capital, and controlled Liu Zhang and his family.

At the same time, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong's troops stationed outside the South Gate and the West Gate took advantage of the rainy night to transfer their troops and horses, leaving only 3,000 troops to stay, and the remaining troops were all transferred to the East Gate camp. The main generals such as Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong entered the city from the North Gate as soon as possible, waiting for Kong Ming to dispatch them, which naturally included Ma Chao. As of the time when the heavy rain stopped, Kong Ming left only 20,000 Qin Gong Camp and 500 personal soldiers led by Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun's troops, as well as 5,000 Longxiang Camp soldiers stationed at the North Gate. All the remaining Xiliang troops entering the city retreated from the city one after another with the help of the sound of wind and rain.

The generals of each battalion were very confused about this and were extremely dissatisfied with Kong Ming's arrangement. If it weren't for Kong Ming's claim that this was the lord's military order, the generals would probably not follow it. Even so, many generals still questioned this. Ma Chao was one of them and the strongest general in the army that caused Kong Ming the most headache. Fortunately, the Western Liang army had strict military disciplines. Although these generals were doubtful about Kong Ming's order, they did not dare to openly disobey the order, and finally they accepted the order and implemented it.

Li Li has already understood the whole thing clearly. In this matter alone, Zhuge Liang and Ma Chao and other generals were not wrong, but Li Li himself. He did not inform the leader and generals of each battalion in advance, and he was insufficient to estimate the consequences of passing on military orders on behalf of others, and overestimated Zhuge Liang's prestige and influence in the army. This caused the military orders conveyed by Kong Ming Dynasty to be insufficient to convince the generals of each battalion, which caused chaos and almost caused a disaster. Fortunately, after the generals of each battalion learned that he was alone to Liu Zhang's mansion, they immediately calmed the dispute and obeyed Kong Ming's orders. Finally, it was not too late to make up for the siege, and a disaster was eliminated.

Otherwise, if Liu Zhang bets hard and would rather fight to the death than surrender, Li Li would be in a very dangerous situation; even if he and Li Zhi joined forces to rush out of the mansion, an unprecedented melee would be inevitable. If this is true, his original intention of regaining Yizhou without bloodshed will be completely shattered, and the strategic planning of the entire Yizhou battle will eventually evolve into a desperate battle, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The root of this emergency is that Li Li did not give Zhuge Liang a written military order, but all dispatched troops through oral communication.

If the military advisors were any of the four people including Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Li Xuan and Zhou Yu, this would not have happened. Because they had a lot of prestige in the army, and were very familiar with the leaders and generals of various battalions, and even had a close relationship with them.

In comparison, although Zhuge Liang was Li Li's brother, he was too young, too short of experience, and did not have enough outstanding achievements. He had only one experience in commanding the army, which was the Lu Longsai battle three years ago. However, although the military achievements of that battle were recorded on Kong Ming, the generals in the army did not recognize it and still regarded it as Li Li's record.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang took office as the left military advisor this time (the right military advisor is Fa Zheng), and he was quite nepotism in the eyes of the generals of each battalion. He was able to take up the position of military advisor because he was Li Li's wife's brother and brother of righteousness. But in fact, the generals did not recognize him from the bottom of their hearts, so they were skeptical about the military orders he conveyed and made things difficult for him. If it weren't for the ruling situation, maybe some young man would dare to act roughly against him.

This is the biggest disadvantage of a arrogant soldier and powerful general

—————— (Note: Mo Shang Sang, the name of the poem in the Han Yuefu, this article is derived from the original meaning: the mulberry forest on the small road in the field. Metaphor: The forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds.) ———To be continued—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

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