Chapter 54: Busy Yet Leisurely Picking Flowers

  Seeing the enemy army fleeing in disarray, the defenders on the city wall burst out laughing and jeering at them, for this battle was too easy, it was simply a slaughter.

  Tai Shi Zi returned to Li Chong's side and said with great admiration: "My lord defending the city is unparalleled in the world."

  Li Zhongxin said, I just blindly encountered a dead mouse, who knew such a situation would occur? This is in winter, if it were summer, I'd be helpless too.

  Tai Shi Zi Na knew Li Chong's mind and thought he had already made up his mind.

  Zhang Cai and others also greatly admired Li Chong's tactics. If they had five parts of confidence in defending the city at first, now they have at least nine parts of confidence.

  This time it was Jiang Qin's turn to stand guard on the city wall, and Li Chong returned to the county government office with a smile. He was in an extremely good mood today, so he called Shun Niang to heat up a pot of rice wine and started drinking leisurely.

  There's a saying that goes "when the belly is full, one thinks of lust". After Li Chong drank several cups of rice wine, he couldn't help himself and reached out to pull Shuniang into his arms, fondling her up and down.

  Shun Niang was a young girl chosen by Guan Hai to serve Li Chong, who had not experienced the world. How could she bear Li Chong's methods? In less than a moment, she was panting, her cheeks flushed red, and her body went limp on Li Chong's. Her eyes seemed to be welling up with tears as she kept squeezing into Li Chong's arms.

  But at this time the sky was still early, Li Chongsheng feared that someone would disturb his own good things, and could only forcibly suppress the thoughts of White Day Xuan 2 Yin, and pass by hand.

  "Come to my room to rest tonight." Li Chong drew out his palm and said with a lustful smile.

  The Shuniang raised her head and said in a trembling voice: "But I will follow your orders, sir."

  This is not Shuniang being forced by Li Chong's lustful power, but rather her own willingness. In the society at that time, women had a very low status, and finding a strong man to rely on was already considered good fortune for a woman.

  After lunch, Li Chong came to the city wall for inspection. Since the king had withdrawn his troops early in the morning, the soldiers guarding the city didn't have much to do and were chatting with each other in twos and threes.

  As soon as Li Chong arrived at the city wall, these soldiers immediately stood up straight, puffed out their chests and looked at Li Chong with admiring eyes.

  They sincerely admired Li Chong, and in the battles of these days, due to Li Chong's ingenious ideas, the casualties of the soldiers defending the city were extremely small. It can also be said that Li Chong used his own wisdom to save the lives of these people.

  Li Chong stood on the city wall, looking towards Zhang Yan's large camp. Compared to when he first arrived, Zhang Yan's camp gave off a gloomy and lifeless atmosphere, with the intense killing aura almost disappearing without a trace.

  Li Chong didn't know if his feelings were real or not. He took a deep breath and strolled down the city wall.

  Teased little loli Cai Yan for a while, Li Chong returned to the county government office and secretly studied Han Dynasty characters for an afternoon, killing time.

  It was almost time for dinner, Li Chong leaned on the bed, holding a volume of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu and reading it carefully.

  Suddenly hearing the sound of pulling the door, Li Chong raised his eyes and saw Shun Niang wearing a white dress as light as gauze, with a head of black long hair hanging down her back, tied up with a pink silk ribbon, lowering her head and walking gently to the bed.

  "Shunniang has arrived... to attend to Master." Shunniang lowered her head and spoke softly.

  Li's nose twitched, and he caught a whiff of a faint fragrance. Upon closer inspection, Shunniang's skin was radiating a soft, rosy glow - she had just bathed! Ah, if only I'd known to take a mandarin duck bath earlier!

  "Whatever..." Li Zhong said lightly, but in fact he was already rock hard below, intentionally pretending to be calm and collected, not wanting to be looked down upon by Shun Niang, the underlying message being, I've seen many beauties before.

  Li Chong had seen many beautiful women before, all of whom he had seen in Japanese romantic action films. He had learned many moves from them, but hadn't had the chance to practice them.

  Shunniang responded with a soft "en", gently lifted the quilt, and slipped into bed. Li Chong only felt that his chest was burning like a raging fire, this raging fire surged throughout his body, and he felt that all the blood in his body was about to boil over.

  With a flick of his hand, he tossed the book aside... A night of spring radiance.

  The next morning, Li Chong looked at the delicate woman on the bed and felt refreshed and invigorated. He couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder: "This is the kind of life that a transmigrator should have!"

  In the following days, Li Chong and Zhang Yan fought on and off, with blood staining the ice layer on the walls of Guangwu City a pale red. The accumulated snow in Guangwu County was almost all melted by the defenders into water to pour under the city, forming a slope, with the closest point now only one zhang high from the top of the city wall.

  As the siege became much easier, Li Zhong's army also began to suffer heavy casualties, nearly collapsing, with over 300 losses.

  However, Zhang Yan's army suffered even heavier losses, with at least 2,000 soldiers killed under the city walls. In addition to nearly 2,000 wounded and sick (who were chilled by cold water and could not be used), Zhang Yan can now mobilize only over 5,000 people, of which 2,000 cavalrymen cannot be used for engineering purposes.

  At this time, a major piece of news reached both Zhang Yan and Lü Bu's camps simultaneously: Yuan Shao had suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Gongsun Zan at Jie Bridge. Upon receiving the news, both sides immediately began discussing military affairs, first examining the situation within Guangwu County.

  Li Chong, Tai Shi Ci, Liao Hua, Jiang Qin, Chen Lin, Zhang Cai and Wang Shen all gathered in the county government office. According to Li Chong's analysis, whether Gongsun Zan or Yuan Shao won or lost, it would be beneficial for them. These people also felt that what Li Chong said was not wrong, so their faces were all very relaxed.

  Li Chong said with a cough, "Now that Yuan Shao occupies Ji Province, Zhang Yan's foundation is unstable and will certainly return to defend his base. Let's discuss how we can expand our gains from this battle."

  Tai Shi Zi replied in a low voice, "Zhang Yan's soldiers are of mixed quality, even if some prisoners were captured, they would be of little use. Moreover, Guangwu was not a place with abundant wealth and resources to begin with. Even if these defeated troops were absorbed, it is feared that the burden of their consumption could not be borne."

  Chen Lin nodded and smiled bitterly: "General Zi Yi's words are reasonable, I won't deceive the master. At present, the stored grain in Guangwu is almost all allocated by the grain, two thousand soldiers, which is our limit."

  "Not bad!" Li Zhong said with a nod, he knew that Chen Lin was telling the truth. Guangwu was a small county and it was really hard to support too many soldiers. This was still relying on buying a large amount of grain from Zhang Cai to guarantee the food for the soldiers, which was also the most worrying problem for Li Zhong.

  So as soon as he thought of the wealthy Hebei province, Li Chong's eyes gleamed with a green light.

  Chen Lin smiled lightly and said: "So, Master, you should still focus on those war horses. Spring is approaching quickly, and the war horses can eat grass."

  Everyone echoed in agreement, Chen Lin thought this was nonsense. Li Chong had long been eyeing Zhang Yan's 2,000 war horses. Who wouldn't be tempted by that? Li Chong wasn't asking for much, getting his hands on just 500 of them would be enough.

  If Zhang Yan knew Li Chong's idea, he would definitely spit on the ground and draw his sword to fight with Li Chong to the death. You're so shameless! Do you have any face? These 2,000 war horses were accumulated by Zhang Yan over several years, and he cherished them so much that he was afraid of losing them if he put them in his mouth or let them out of his hands. How could he let others touch them?