Chapter 55: Dunzi attacks Langya at night, Liu Bei is in a dilemma

Under the city wall, in the newly built camp, Ji Ling held a banquet to celebrate the completion of the camp. He drank until midnight before returning to the tent to rest.

I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. I felt like I had overlooked something.

But after thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure out what was wrong.

So he ran to his own private toilet, squatted on the toilet and started thinking.

The rice field fell to the ground, and the ground suddenly shook. The sound was getting louder and louder, which made him wonder: "Isn't it that heavy? After I fell to the ground, there was an earthquake!"

But he was a great general after all, and one of Yuan Shu's most capable men.

After a moment, he reacted.

Shouting: "Enemy attack!"

But it was too late. When the "Dragon-Breaking Stone" was lifted up by the pulley and rose into the sky, Xiahou Dun took the lead and led two thousand people out of the city gate and headed straight for Ji Ling's camp.

Without waiting for the other side to react, he rode his horse into the camp and directly cut down the military flag.

The five hundred soldiers who stayed behind lowered the Dragon-Breaking Stone and restored the city gate to its original state.

Ji Ling, who was hiding in the toilet, saw this with his own eyes and was stunned. He never expected that he and others had been attacking for so many days but could not shake it at all. He thought the city gate was a fake gate, but it turned out to be a real gate.

But this is no longer important. What is important is that the enemy has escaped from the city.

To attack Langya City.

"Ji Hao is not here, and an unknown young general dares to attack the city? You dare to open a dyeing factory if I teach you a lesson!" Ji Ling jumped on his horse, grabbed his fifty-jin three-pointed, double-edged sword, and rushed towards Xiahou Dun.

Want to teach him a lesson.

"Look at the knife, thief!"

But would Xiahou Dun be afraid of Ji Ling?

He was blind in one eye, but he was not afraid of Guan Yu, let alone a mere Ji Ling!
"Come!"

Dunzi also used a big knife. When he saw Ji Ling rushing towards him, he swung his weapon and attacked.

Normally, there is no problem for the two to fight for dozens of rounds. Ji Ling and Guan Yu are both able to fight each other, and their strength is even stronger than Hua Xiong, both of them are top-notch.

Although Xiahou Dun is strong, he is not top-notch after all, and not as brave as Zhang Fei and Ma Chao.

But there are two people, one to attack the camp and the other to defend it.

There was a group of soldiers on the Chengtian Army side, but Ji Ling looked around and couldn't see a single soldier of his own.

Naturally nervous.

In addition to the difference in martial arts, Xiahou Dun chopped him off his horse in just a few rounds. He cut off his head and hung it on a flagpole, then rushed into Langya City, shouting, "Your commander is dead, surrender immediately!"

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On the other side, Liu Bei led his army along the Xia Pi official road and headed straight for Guangling.

We arrived at the border of Guangling County where the foundation was being laid.

"The depth of the dig is at least two meters. No moat was built. The foundation was compacted with something called 'cement' and filled with gravel. This is exactly Ji Hao's style!" After Jia Xu dismounted and checked the foundation, he said to Liu Bei: "Although it is a little unbelievable, it is true that Ji Hao's army bypassed us and occupied Guangling County!"

After these words were spoken, Zhang Fei, Yuan Shu, Guan Yu and others all looked at Lu Bu.

Liu Bei was guarding the front, so Ji Hao could only go around to the left and right, but Guan Yu was guarding the east, so it was impossible for Ji Hao to get in.

Then, the only possibility is to pass through Yanzhou and launch a surprise attack on Guangling.

"You bastard, are you secretly colluding with Ji Hao again?" Zhang Fei asked with glaring eyes.

But before Lü Bu could respond, Liu Bei scolded him: "Shut up, third brother. Fengxian made the exchange with Ji Hao only out of helplessness. If you and Yunchang fall into the hands of others, I will do the same!"

Zhang Fei stopped talking immediately after hearing this. But Lu Bu asked, "But how did they get here?"

Only he himself knew that Yanzhou was definitely well guarded. He had been running back and forth many times these days, conducting various inspections, and there was no way he would let Ji Hao pass by.

But unfortunately, the other party crossed it.

"By sea!" Jia Xu said, "Ji Hao started his career in water transport. The Chengtian Ferry he built is already the largest ferry in the world, and it almost controls the entire Yellow River Basin. In this case, if he is determined, he can definitely build a sea-going ship and cross the sea to Guangling!"

At this point, he paused and continued, "He has been in charge of Chengtian Ferry for many years, and the money he earned is enough to build the treasure ship that Xu Fu used to cross the sea!"

People used to think Ji Hao was very poor because he built a lot of infrastructure.

But after learning about the existence of "cement", he guessed that the cost of Ji Hao building the Great Wall might be lower than he imagined.

In this case, the amount of money he had in his hands was immeasurable.

Chengtiandu controlled water transportation, Qingzhou produced refined salt, and he was also the "Fa Qiu Tianguan" in charge of mineral deposits, so he could legally mine gold and silver mines.

No one knows how much money he has.

"Water transportation, sea vessels, we were all deceived by him!" Liu Bei said gritting his teeth.

He thought he saw through Ji Hao, but it turned out that he didn't.

"But now, I won't give him any more chances. As long as I find Ji Hao, it will be a decisive battle. I, Liu Bei, will fight him to the death!" Liu Bei said.

Yuan Shu also laughed and said, "Since we discovered it in advance, his plan to take Guangling has failed!"

But at this moment, a scout came running over.

"Eight hundred miles urgent!"

"What's the matter?" Liu Bei asked puzzledly.

"After our army withdrew, the rebel general Xiahou Dun opened the city gate at night and led 2,000 Chengtian troops to charge out, killing the defending general Ji Ling on the spot. They have already captured Langya City." The scout said: "Now they have dispatched a large number of civilians to build the city wall, and they said it will be completed within a month!"

After hearing this, Liu Bei was immediately confused.

He stared for a long time without saying anything.

As for Yuan Shu, he only felt his eyes go dark and his blood flow unstable. It was only with Sun Ce's support that he did not fall. He said in an angry voice: "You must be lying to me. Come on, get out of here!"

Lu Bu hurried to stop him.

"Highway calm!"

After joining forces to fight against Ji Hao for so long, Lu Bu had some friendship with Yuan Shu and didn't want to see him lose his composure.

"How can I stay calm?" Yuan Shu said, "I left 8,000 elite soldiers for Ji Ling! Even if it was 8,000 chickens, it would take Xiahou Dun a month to catch them. How can they just disappear like that?"

What frightened him most was that his defeated troops had not returned before the scouts brought the news.

This means that eight thousand people were either killed or captured alive, all gone.

How much does he have?

In addition, a general had died, and my heart was broken at this moment!

"That was obviously a fake door. We couldn't even break it open with our chariots. How did they open the door and launch a surprise attack?" Liu Bei said calmly and thoughtfully.

He really couldn't understand what kind of door could be so strong.

But that was not the most important thing. What was more important was that he was now in a dilemma: if he did not go back, he would not be able to deal with Ji Hao for a while, and by the time he took back Guangling, he was afraid that the entire Langya County would have been surrounded by high walls.

The Langya Wang family, the Langya Zhuge family, and so on, will never come out again.

The foundation of Xuzhou will be shaken!
However, if they went back to attack Xiahou Yuan, Ji Hao's Guangling County city wall would have to be repaired. By then, he would be attacked from both sides, which would only cause more trouble.

(End of this chapter)