When Sun Jian ordered people to attack Gaolang, Lu Zhi's army had already completed the siege of Lishi City. Zhao Xing and Lu Zhi, the two head coaches, finally met again after seven years of separation.

Thinking back to the time when Lu Zhicheng and Zhao Xing said, "When we meet on the battlefield in the future, we will never stop until we die!", the words that have come true now, really make people sigh that things in the world are impermanent and cycled.

Zhao Xing has thought more than once or twice about how to deal with Lu Zhi. As a political enemy, Lu Zhi is Zhao Xing's number one opponent that must be defeated or even eliminated. With Lu Zhi in the court for one day, Zhao Xing will have to bear a great threat.

Political struggles often have no morality and bottom line to talk about, especially among the Han people who are good at intrigue, Shang Yang's reforms, burning books and burying scholars, and the disaster of party corruption... Too many examples can prove that not only should we eliminate political enemies spiritually, but we should also eliminate them from the ** and relatives and friends. As the saying goes, "The root of the root must be eliminated." Zhao Xing understood this truth very well, but it is still difficult to overcome the bottom line in his heart when he started to take action.

Zhao Xing's shadow team members are spread all over the country, with many talented people emerging. Especially Xue Lan, Hou Cheng, Bian Xi, Hua Weiguo, Zhao Hu and others, they are definitely good at intelligence assassination. If they deliberately want to attack Lu Zhi and others, there is no chance. At worst, they will lose some people. Even if Zhao Xing is willing, they can appoint top experts like Zhao Yun and Dian Wei to Luoyang, and I believe the two of them will not refuse.

But Zhao Xing was just unwilling to do this. He vaguely remembered that someone once said that the general idea was that any regime obtained through improper means would eventually be eliminated by others using improper means. Zhao Xing deeply agreed. In fact, playing politics also requires moral bottom line and ethics. Through disgraceful means, it is just cruel and arrogant to eliminate dissidents. This practice has been proven countless times by history to be undesirable.

Especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when technology was underdeveloped and productivity was low, cultivating a politician as excellent as Lu Zhi would cost a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. Just because he was Zhao Xing's political enemy, he had to take action to eliminate it. Not only was it wasted talents, but also a very important point was that if you don't want others to know, you should not do it yourself. In order to eliminate Lu Zhi today, Zhao Xing used some shameful means, and others would follow suit in the future and use more hidden and intense means to deal with Zhao Xing and the people around him.

Since he could not start secretly, Zhao Xing had to find a way to defeat Lu Zhi on the frontal battlefield. Zhao Xing even imagined that in the future, all opponents who held opposition were exiled to an island country in the east, so that they could see the great man become stronger in their own hands, and that the people could live a stable and down-to-earth life, and would no longer be bullied by foreign races, and would not be starved to death and freeze to death.

But Zhao Xing thought about it again. When the First Emperor sent Xu Fu, a charlatan, to Japan with 500 boys and girls, it caused such a great disaster to China. If he exiled the ruthless characters like Lu Zhi, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei, it might be a big mess. So Zhao Xing thought to himself: In the future, all the political enemies should be blocked in the Wohu City to accompany Ding Yuan. At least he was not killed, and he would provide them with delicious food and drink, which could be explained to the people of the world!

Lu Zhi's army has been besieged, and Zhao Xing is still thinking about these things. It's really speechless.

In fact, it was more than just Zhao Xing who was speechless. Lu Zhi and his group of generals were speechless when they saw Lishi City with tight defense for the first time. Zhao Xing had just repaired Jiguan and Huguan like an iron barrel, but he actually built Lishi City tall and strong, which was daunting, and his confidence in his heart would be less.

In fact, Zhao Xing did not build Lishi City so strongly because of the siege of the imperial army. He recruited a large number of civilians who had nothing to do during the slack farming period to reinforce and build cities in various places, with only two purposes. One is to prevent problems before they happen. After all, the north of Bingzhou always has the threat of nomadic people; the other is to solve the employment and income problems of the people so that young and strong laborers will not be idle or waste.

Although Lu Zhi led 70,000 people to Lishi City, and there were 20,000 people led by Pang De and Yan Yan not far away, he still seemed very cautious and careful when facing Lishi City, which was guarded by Zhao Xing himself. After all, where Zhao Xing was there, not only would the morale of the army and the people be more stable, but the people and Zhao army in other cities would also be encouraged and infected. Judging from Zhao Xing's previous performance of almost no defeat, he had never fought blindly with others. This time he dared to trap Lishi alone, and he would definitely have a backhand waiting for the imperial coalition.

Looking at the high-flying Zhao flag on the head of Lishi City and the soldiers with calm expressions standing on the city wall like mountains, Lu Zhi felt no confidence for the first time. If he paid the lives of 70,000 Northern Army soldiers, he could get rid of Zhao Xing, the biggest hidden danger of the Han Dynasty. Lu Zhi could definitely make up his mind to do this. However, if 70,000 soldiers died, Zhao Xing was still not destroyed, and the elite of the court lost all the losses in this battle. I wonder how many Zhao Xing would appear.

It was not Lu Zhi who was worried about the world. Now he felt that what Zhao Xing said was not unreasonable. The Han emperors were always obsessed with playing with power, playing with relatives, eunuchs, party members and aristocratic families in their hands. Few people really care about the lives and deaths of the people in the world. Moreover, the emperors were weaker than the other, and they wanted to play tricks but often brought themselves into it. It was really worse than a nest. On the contrary, Zhao Xing governed the Bingzhou area in an orderly manner, and the people were happy and prosperous, comparable to the most prosperous state of the Han Dynasty. Sometimes, Lu Zhi couldn't help but think that if the Han Dynasty was under the rule of Zhao Xing, it might be much better than now.

Although Lu Zhi had some doubts in his heart, it was just doubts, which did not shake his determination to firmly and completely eliminate Zhao Xing. After the 70,000 Northern Army arrived at their respective attack positions, Lu Zhi did not delay for a moment and immediately ordered the army to attack the city at the same time, and the posture was to break the death.

The person responsible for attacking the south gate of Lishi City was Gao Lan and Deng Zhi, with 15,000 men under his command; Zhang Fei and Yang Yi, with 15,000 men under his command; the person responsible for attacking the east gate of Lishi City was Deputy General Secretary and Han Meng, with 15,000 men under his command; the person responsible for attacking the west gate of Lishi City was Lu Zhi himself, with young generals Fu Zu and Zhu Ling, with 25,000 men under his command.

Lu Zhi decided to arrange the distribution of the generals in these four gates after careful consideration. Not far outside the south gate is Zhongyang County, where Pang De and Yan Yan are in this direction, and it is safer to hand it over to Gao Lan; far away from the north gate is Gaolang City, which is handed over to the powerful general Zhang Fei to attack, so that Zhao Xing can prevent the attack from the Zhao army coming from Gaolang, and he does not worry about Zhao Xing walking through the north gate; far away from the east gate is the hinterland of Bingzhou. If Zhao army comes to reinforce, the clan and Han Meng can resist it. The most dangerous thing is naturally the Ximen, who is personally responsible for Lu Zhi, because the Ximen has to bear the pressure from Lin County, Gaolang and Zhongyang, so the most troops are arranged.

With the 14,000 vanguard army, Zhao Xing had to defend against the four walls at the same time, so he could imagine how huge the pressure he was under.
Chapter completed!