Fu Zhi glanced at the moat again, and saw that most of the water in the moat had gone down, and only a small part of the water at the bottom was stagnant, so he smiled and said, "If you want to flood the city with water, I will definitely teach you in vain." ”

The Yan and Jin coalition armies were all over the north gate of Yecheng, and the soldiers shuttled through the gaps between the deep ditches and high bases not far from the drawbridge, densely arranged, and at first glance, they looked like long human dragons.

On the side of the suspension bridge, Yanhou Lin Nan and Jin Marquis Lu Bu stood side by side, Lin Nan rode a dark cloud snow horse under his crotch, wearing a steel armor, holding a dragon gun in his hand, looking at the dilapidated north gate of Yecheng heroically, looking in from the north gate, and seeing countless white flags with "revenge and hatred" fluttering, he frowned and said to himself: "Could it be ...... Yuan Shao is dead? ”

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse, holding Fang Tian's halberd tightly, and when he heard Lin Nan's casual words, he hurriedly turned his head to look at Lin Nan, and asked suspiciously, "What did you just say?" ”

Lin Nandao: "Early this morning, the soldiers in the entire Yecheng are wearing linen and filial piety, if it weren't for Yuan Shao's death, there would be no such big movement in the city......"

"Hahaha, no matter whether Yuan Shao is really dead or not, once Yecheng is breached, I will kill him with my own hands, it doesn't matter if he dies at this time, I will save me from doing it after he dies. He is dead, Yecheng must be leaderless, and it is the right time to attack at this time. Lu Bu laughed out loud with a happy face.

Lin Nan seemed much calmer, since he accidentally saw Yuan Xi on the city tower yesterday, he vaguely felt that something had happened in Yecheng, and the white flag in Yecheng was hung this morning, and the soldiers were wearing linen and filial piety, which invisibly confirmed his guess. It's just that he can't understand why Yuan Shao died suddenly.

He turned his head to look at Lu Bu beside him, and saw that Lu Bu was in high spirits. I secretly thought in my heart: "Yesterday, Wen Chou surrendered to Lu Bu, which means that Lu Bu has one more fierce general, and if you want to deal with Lu Bu in the future, there will really be one more troublesome person." But it's a pity, a fierce general like Wen Chou actually surrendered to Lu Bu, if it comes to my account. I will definitely be able to become a rare general in our army......"

Lin Nan was thinking about it, but suddenly heard Lu Bu's hearty voice: "Gao Shun and Zhang Liao began to attack the city, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy was leaderless, and attacked the city in one go." ”

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao hesitated slightly, and asked in unison: "Lord, the situation in the city is unknown, if our army dares to attack the city, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses." The subordinates thought that they could send a small group of soldiers to get a glimpse of the strength of the Zhao army. ”

"How can there be so much trouble, directly attack the city in one go, let those soldiers of the Zhao army experience the strength of our army, and let them be terrified when they see our army in the future!" When Lu Bu said this, he paused, turned his head to Lin Nandao, "Our army has fewer siege equipment. If you need the help of your army, please use catapults to cover our siege. Once Yecheng is breached, I will share half of the grain and grass in the city! ”

Lin Nan nodded, but there was a sneer in his heart, and he thought secretly: "It's easy to say, as if this Yecheng has become something in your pocket, although Yuan Shao is dead." But the city is not leaderless, Yuan Xi and Fu Zhi control the overall situation, even if you go to attack and fight, you will not let you suffer a little, you will not understand how difficult the siege war is. ”

Lu Bu's face was full of spring breeze. With a wave of the Heavenly Painting Halberd in his hand, he shouted loudly, "Siege!" ”

Crisp and neat orders, in exchange for crisp and neat actions, Gao Shun was the first to "promise", leading Cao Xing, Hao Meng, Li Feng and more than 1,800 soldiers in the trapped camp jumped off their horses, holding various blades to quickly pass through the drawbridge, scattered on both sides of the city wall outside the north gate, and carefully looked inside the urn city through the damaged north gate.

Lin Nan raised his right hand and waved it downward, and Huang Zhong, who was standing behind him, immediately understood, rode his horse and ran backwards, loudly giving orders to the hundred catapults that had already been prepared.

"Push all the catapults to the moat, aim at the urn city behind the north gate, and smash it for me!" Huang Zhong shouted loudly.

Chen Zhi commanded the catapults with full authority, each catapult was composed of five strong soldiers, and five hundred people pushed the heavy catapult to the moat at the same time, fixed the position of the catapult, and then began to divide labor, fixed the launch angle of the catapult, and filled the boulder into the leather trough.

"All in place! Preparation...... Launch! Chen Zhi held the mandarin duck double knife in his hand, and as the soldiers who controlled the catapult were ready, he gave the order.

After the order was given, a hundred catapults simultaneously launched the boulder in the leather trough and threw it far into the air, and the boulder crossed the wall of the north gate and smashed it into the urn city behind the wall of the north gate.

Lin Nan noticed that Gao Shun, who had crossed the city wall, began to move, with the sword and shield soldiers in front, the crossbowmen in the middle, and the pikemen behind, passing through the door of the north gate in an orderly manner, and rushed inside.

Lu Bu was full of joy, and when he saw Gao Shun rushing in first, he immediately said to Zhang Liao behind him: "Wenyuan, be ready to attack at any time!" ”

Zhang Liao said "promise", turned the horse's head, and said to Hou Cheng and Song Xian who were leading behind him: "Follow me!" ”

Hou Cheng and Song Xian each beckoned a thousand cavalry, followed behind Zhang Liao, and galloped under the city wall of the north gate of Yecheng through the guò suspension bridge, waiting there, as a reserve for the trap camp led by Gao Shun.

Gao Shun held a shield, held a long knife, and his subordinate soldiers just walked out of the door of the north gate, and saw that the soldiers of the Zhao army on the urn city were all waiting for each battle, and only a very small part of the city wall of the urn city was hit by a large stone, and the wounded soldiers were even more minimal, the city wall was full of crossbowmen, all the arrows were wound, but they did not fire, but waited there quietly.

"Stop!" Gao Shun realized a hint of an unusual aura, and immediately raised his arm, stopped, and gave orders to his subordinates.

Cao Xuan held a bow and arrow, leading the archers to follow closely behind Gao Shun, and as soon as he saw this formation on the wall of the urn city, he immediately pulled out the bow and arrow, aiming at the Zhao soldiers on the wall of the urn city.

Li Feng was still in the door of the city gate with the pikemen, and when he saw the troops in front of him stop, he didn't know what was going on, so he hurriedly asked, "Why did you stop?" ”

The sound is like a stone sinking into the sea. Li Feng didn't get the answer he wanted, and he didn't ask anymore after that.

Gao Shun's eyes were blazing, and he glanced at the Zhao soldiers on the urn city, and saw that the faces of the Zhao soldiers were full of resentment and anger, that kind of spirit was not what a leaderless soldier should have.

The two sides were tense, but there was no fighting. The soldiers of the Zhao army relied on the powerful arrow array, which brought Gao Shun a lot of pressure.

At this time, Fu Zhu showed his head, pressed his hands on the battlements, looked at the trap camp led by Gao Shun below, and said loudly: "Is the person who came from Gao Shun, the general of the Jin army?" ”

Gao Shun stared at Fu Zhu, and saw that Fu Zhu was very elegant and quite an elder, so he replied: "Exactly, who is Your Excellency?" ”

Frustrated said: "I am Zhao Guoguo's frustrated minister. It's a privilege to be able to see General Gao's face today. It's just that I advise General Gao, you have been surrounded by crossbowmen on three sides, if you dare to take half a step forward, I will let you taste the power of my Jizhou strong bow and hard crossbow. Your army and our army do not have any grudges, but the Yan Hou deceived you with clever words, if your army is willing to retreat, our army will definitely offer a large amount of gold and silver treasures as your army's labor expenses......"

"Less nonsense! My father-in-law has already made up his mind. If you don't capture Yecheng, you will not give up. If you want to sow discord, save it! Gao Shun directly interrupted Frustrated's words and shouted loudly.

Fu Zhu shook his head, sighed, and said to Gao Shun: "Since General Gao doesn't know the current affairs, then don't blame me for not dissuading him. Shoot the arrows! ”

With a frustrated order, the crossbowmen on the three walls of the city unleashed their long-winding arrows, which rained like dense raindrops near the opening of the north gate.

When Gao Shun saw such a dense rain of arrows, he immediately made a decision and shouted loudly behind him: "Quickly retreat!" ”

The words shouted though. However, the speed of propagation in the air is never as fast as that of an arrow, and the soldier who hears the order still has to think in his brain for a while, and after he really reacts, it will take a second or two, let alone a long way away. In this short period of time, the arrows of the soldiers of the Zhao army had already pierced the sky, and they flew towards the soldiers in the camp with a "whoosh".

Gao Shun and the sword and shield soldiers in the front row immediately raised their shields, forming a tight shield wall. However, the archers led by Cao Xing suffered a loss, as soon as they released the arrows, they had no time to dodge and retreat, and they were shot by a dense number of arrows, and some of the archers in the front row were hit by dozens of arrows, and were shot like hedgehogs by the soldiers of the Zhao army.

Cao Xing's reaction was quite fast, and seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately shrank behind a soldier, used the soldier's body as his shield, and escaped by luck.

After a burst of arrows, the sword and shield soldiers trapped in the camp were basically unharmed, while the archers lost more than 300 people.

Gao Shun saw that Zhao Jun had already prepared, so he shouted loudly again: "Retreat to the door!" ”

After an order, the soldiers did not have time to retreat, they saw many big stones flying in the air, some of them were not strong enough, and before they hit the city wall, they fell on a large open space in front of the gate of the urn city, and immediately fell to pieces, only a dozen big stones hit the target, but it was already the end of the crossbow, except for smashing a few soldiers to death, it did not play any role in the city wall of the urn city at all.

Gao Shun and the soldiers just retreated into the door hole, suddenly heard the sound of people turning over their horses outside the city gate, as a reserve Zhang Liao led the cavalry team retreated to the moat, the sound of the neighing of war horses in the north gate of the door is endless. He was shocked and hurriedly asked, "What happened behind the scenes?" ”

Li Feng hurriedly ran over from behind, with a panicked face, and shouted to Gao Shun: "General, it's not good, we have been tricked, this ruined city wall is full of soldiers of the Zhao army, they suddenly appeared, and smashed to death many cavalry led by General Zhang with stones that had been prepared for a long time......"

After Gao Shun listened, he immediately frowned, and said loudly: "We are too careless, no wonder we were frustrated just now, retreat quickly, retreat outside the city......"

"Kill—"

The gate of the city of Wengcheng suddenly opened, and Han Meng, the general of the Zhao army, rushed out first, followed by Jiang Yiqu, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, and Zhang Nan. The cavalry rushing out of the city gate was rushing towards Gao Shun's camp at great speed.

Gao Shun's words were completely covered by the shouts of the Zhao soldiers, and he saw that the Zhao soldiers were full of energy and high morale, coupled with the menacing momentum, he felt that this seemed to be a trap that had been laid out a long time ago. He made a decision immediately and immediately ordered: "Cao Xing, Li Feng." Lead your subordinates to retreat, and I'll cover your retreat in the back! ”

Cao Xing and Li Feng immediately led the archers and pikemen to retreat, while Gao Shun led 600 sword and shield soldiers to block the door of the city gate and wait.

The trapping camp is the elite of the Jin army, and all the soldiers are carefully selected and experienced in battles. The most ordinary soldier is the position of the military commander in the Jin army, and there are countless people with official positions of lieutenants and captains, so it can be said that the trapping camp is a collection of outstanding officers who are brave in battle in the Jin army.

Six hundred sword and shield soldiers formed a tight wall, and twenty people in a row were across the wide opening of the north gate, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the Zhao cavalry to rush over quickly.

Gao Shun frowned tightly, and when he saw Han Meng rushing over first, he immediately shouted, "Capture the thief and capture the king." Kill the enemy general first! ”

"No!" Six hundred sword and shield soldiers replied in unison.

At this time, Li Feng and Cao Xing led the soldiers to quickly run out of the gate of the city gate, as soon as they showed their heads, there were countless arrows on the city wall from their backs, many soldiers were killed by arrows, and some soldiers were killed by arrows, although some soldiers were not killed by arrows, but they could no longer move, and fell to the ground and could not get up. More arrows awaited him.

"Ahh

Li Feng was using his spear to flick the arrows, but in the face of such a dense number of arrows. No matter how strong the martial arts are, it is impossible to be exhaustive, an arrow passes through the gap he is blocking, directly through his chest, his body feels a sharp pain, and his actions will become hesitant. Before he could experience the pain, dozens of arrows shot directly through his body, shooting him directly to the ground, never getting up again, and crying for his life.

Cao Xing retreated. While counterattacking with a bow and arrow, he is a professional archer, and when fighting, he always likes to shoot his bow and arrow in the back, so that he has developed the habit of never charging, and even his ability to escape from defeat is also first-class. As soon as he walked out of the gate of the city gate, he saw that the arrow array of the Zhao army was so fierce and dense, so he had an idea, and casually picked up a corpse, which was used as his meat shield to block a lot of arrows for him, and at the same time did not forget to use the interval time when the archers opened their bows and arrows to counterattack, he counterattacked while retreating, and his accurate and fast archery allowed him to shoot seven enemy archers in a short time.

By the moat, when Lu Bu saw this scene, the whole person jumped like thunder, constantly waving the Fang Tian Painting Halberd in his hand, and even the red rabbit horse under the seat became extremely irritable, panting and spinning in place.

When Lu Bu saw that Li Feng and many soldiers trapped in the camp were killed by random arrows, and Gao Shun was still blocked in the doorway, he shouted loudly: "Damn! Yuan Shaodu is dead, why is Zhao Jun's defense still so tough? The whole army obeyed the order and followed me to kill ......"

"Lord!" Wei Xu, who was leading Lu Bu's personal guards, suddenly interrupted Lu Bu's words, and immediately shouted, "Don't be rash, Zhang Liao, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian's wolf cavalry have suffered a lot of losses, and Gao Shun's trapped camp has also suffered more than half of the casualties, it can be seen that the Zhao army has already taken precautions, and our army will inevitably have greater losses if it attacks rashly, so we should retreat and think about it in the long run." ”

Lu Bu turned his head, his eyes glared at Wei Xu, and he roared loudly: "You dare to teach me a lesson? ”

Wei Xu is Lu Bu's brother-in-law, he knows Lu Bu's temper well, and he also has Lu Bu's trust, although he knows that it will be dangerous to offend Lu Bu like this, but with his sister here, Lu Bu will not treat him well, he has always come over like this. When he saw that Lu Bu was angry, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "My subordinates don't dare, it's my sister who ......."

Although Lu Bu is short-tempered, he is tender to women, Wei Xu's sister is his wife, she can be regarded as a very beautiful beauty, and he is also very satisfied with this lady, so Lu Bu loves Wu and Wu, and is also very good to Wei Xu.

As soon as Lu Bu heard that Wei Xu had moved his sister out, his mood suddenly became much quieter, he stared at Zhang Liao, Song Xian, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing and some infantry cavalry who had retreated from under the city wall, and then turned his head to Lin Nan and said: "Our army has been traumatized and can no longer fight, it seems that the strength of the Zhao army is still there, and our Jin army's unilateral siege of the city can not achieve any results. ”

Lin Nan had his own plans, knowing that it would not be him after Yecheng was captured. He doesn't need to be so desperate, after all, he is still waiting for Yuan Tan's arrival and the realization of the flooding of Yecheng, which will slowly drag down the Zhao army, so that the Yuan clan's forces will collapse little by little, and the strong attack will be a loss to him. He didn't want too many casualties. He smiled and said to Lu Bu: "Don't worry about the Marquis of Jin, I have my own clever plan, as little as ten days, as much as half a month, Yecheng will inevitably be captured, and please don't be impatient." ”

Lu Budao: "What do you mean by delaying the time and not taking a quick attack?" ”

Lin Nan smiled: "Hit the snake and hit seven inches." If it's just for a simple Ye City, I can take a strong attack. But what I want is the collapse of the entire Yuan clan's forces, don't forget it, the Yuan clan still has some soldiers and horses in Qingzhou, Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan should now be crossing the Yellow River on the way back, I want to surround and send reinforcements, completely eradicate the Yuan clan's forces, in this way. You and I ruled half of Jizhou alone to last for a long time. ”

Lu Bu pondered for a moment and felt that what Lin Nan said made sense. Then he asked: "Then I will lose my troops in vain today?" ”

"That's not it, it's dog days now, the weather is hot, the heat is unbearable, and the dead are not without a little effect, the key is to see if the Marquis of Jin will use it?"

Lu Bu heard Lin Nan playing dumb riddles with him. Then he asked, "Be clear, don't beat around the bush." ”

Lin Nandao: "When will Chen Palace arrive?" ”

"About two days later."

Lin Nan pinched his fingers and counted the time, nodded lightly, and said to Lu Bu: "Well, the time is just right." Things must be reversed, the weather is too hot in the past two days, the air is also very dull, I estimate that there will be a heavy rainstorm coming, after the arrival of Chen Palace, as long as our two armies work together, it will not be long before we will be able to capture Yecheng, and according to the time, Yuan Tan will almost be able to rush to the vicinity of Yecheng. ”

Lu Budao: "Okay, that's it, within half a month, clear the Yuan clan's forces, and let the Yuan clan disappear from this world from now on!" ”

Lin Nan nodded, and said to Huang Zhong behind him: "Pass the order, let Chen Zhi attack the north gate city wall, and be sure to smash a gap in the outer city wall!" ”

Huang Zhong said "promise", and rode his horse to deliver the order.

Zhang Liao arrived at Lu Bu's side and arched his hand: "My lord, the last general did not notice the enemy's ambush and damaged the soldiers and horses, please punish the lord!" ”

Lu Budao: "Don't mind, now that Gao Shun is still in the doorway, you will lead a cavalry to meet Gao Shun, and you must rescue Gao Shun!" ”

Zhang Liao hugged his fists and said: "No! ”

At the same time, in the north gate cave, the six hundred sword and shield soldiers led by Gao Shun were directly collided by the cavalry led by Han Meng, and the sword and shield soldiers guarding the front row were immediately knocked away by the huge impact force brought by the horses, some were hit with fractures, and some were directly knocked to death, and they fell backwards two or three rows in a row to stop the force of the horses' collision.

Gao Shun was originally standing at the front of the team, but the soldiers were worried about his safety, so they let him stand in the middle and command. He saw that the soldiers in the two or three rows in front of him were rushed out of formation, and when he turned around and saw that his soldiers had withdrawn to the other side of the moat, he said loudly: "Fight while retreating!" ”

As soon as the two armies collided together, a scuffle suddenly began, Han Meng's long sword in his hand, the sword danced in a group, the sharp blade did not know how many people's necks were cut, only felt that there was a pillar of blood gushing out, and behind him Jiang Yiqu, Zhang Nan, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and many cavalry generals were also high-spirited, and they used spears, spears, halberds and other weapons in their hands to fight with the soldiers trapped in the camp.

The soldiers in the camp were well-trained, and they raised their shields and swords regularly, and formed a perfect unity, with the first row raising their shields as blades to cut the cavalry, while the second row cooperated with the soldiers in the first row to cut the horse's legs through the gaps between their legs.

After the cavalry of the Zhao army approached, the advantage of the cavalry could not be revealed, and the soldiers who were trapped in the camp were blocked in this hole, a little unable to show it, the front could not advance, and the rear could not rush in, except for a few generals and captains, the rest of the soldiers with sparse martial arts fell off their horses one after another, and the ground was a piece of blood.

Blood stained the doorway of the city gate, and the corpses of the soldiers in the trapped camp and the soldiers of the Zhao army were mixed together, and the corpses of the horses made this area bloody.

Zhang Liao rushed over from behind with more than 100 cavalry braving the arrows of the Zhao army, and when he saw the scuffle in the doorway, he shouted loudly: "General Gao, retreat quickly, and I will cover the pursuers!" ”

Gao Shun heard Zhang Liao's shout, and turned around to see Zhang Liao with more than a hundred cavalry to the door, scattered on both sides. He immediately ordered: "The whole army retreats!" ”

With an order, Gao Shun retreated sharply with the remaining trapped soldiers. Zhang Liao led the cavalry to rush forward from both sides of the door.

When Zhang Liao rode past Gao Shun's side, he said loudly: "General Gao, the Yan army is using catapults as cover, please retreat quickly, and the pursuers will be handed over to me." ”

Gao Shun and Zhang Liao cooperated tacitly, and the two of them tacitly agreed. He only smiled at Zhang Liao, and then immediately withdrew from the door with his subordinates.

Zhang Liao led the cavalry to quickly block the way, he immediately crossed his sword, stared at Han Meng who was chasing over, and shouted: "Who is coming?" ”

Han Meng saw that Zhang Liao was very young, but his face was hideous, and he was even more vocal under a loud shout, and saw that the other party was majestic, although he only brought more than 100 cavalry. But there was no cowardice towards him, and he was secretly surprised in his heart. He reined in his horse, held his long sword in his hand, and shouted loudly: "In Xia Han Meng, did you not consult Your Excellency's name?" ”

"Yanmen Mayi people, Zhang Liao is also!"

After Han Meng heard this, he secretly thought in his heart: "I didn't think that he was Zhang Liao, and he was such a young offspring." can be as famous as Gao Shun, and the force is naturally not low. If he cuts off his head, Lu Bu will also be equivalent to cutting off his arm......"

As soon as he thought of this, Han Meng sneered and said loudly: "Do you dare to fight alone with me?" ”

Zhang Liao saw that Han Meng was outnumbered, and the four generals behind him, Jiang Yiqu, Zhang Nan, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang, all showed fierce eyes, and he came to rescue Gao Shun from the predicament. Feeling that he was not suitable for fighting, he thought: "Han Meng is a famous general of the Zhao Army, as famous as Yan Liang and Wen Chou, plus there are many others, now is not the time to fight alone......"

"Humph! The two armies clashed. It's more courage and resourcefulness, as a general, how can you duel with people at will? Zhang Liao said coldly.

After hearing this, Han Meng felt that what Zhang Liao said made a little sense, he was not good at horse warfare, after all, his weapons were too short, he just wanted to try Zhang Liao's force, he saw that Zhang Liao was unwilling, and he did not force it, he waved the long sword in his hand forward, and shouted loudly: "There is no forgiveness for killing!" ”

Jiang Yiqu, Zhang Nan, Lü Kuang, and Lü Xiang rushed out, and the cavalry behind them also pounced on Zhang Liao like wolves.

Zhang Liao frowned, did not order a retreat, but raised his sword and rode his horse, directly met him, and scuffled with the cavalry of the Zhao army. After he cut down three or four cavalrymen in a row, he fixed his eyes and saw Jiang Yiqu with a spear, and ran quickly to Jiang Yiqu's side coldly, shouted loudly, raised his knife and slashed.

Jiang Yiqu was taken aback, caught off guard, and saw that he was about to die, so he screamed loudly.

"When ......"

A long sword stabbed out diagonally, directly pushing away Zhang Liao's broadsword, and the long sword attacked Zhang Liao lightly, taking advantage of the convenience of the short soldier, and forcing Zhang Liao backwards. The person holding the sword was Han Meng, he turned his head to look at the frightened Jiang Yiqu, and asked loudly, "Are you hurt?" ”

Jiang Yiqu shook his head, still a little frightened.

Han Meng turned his head suddenly, looked at Zhang Liao, and shouted loudly: "Hugh is rampant!" Watch me take your head! ”

Zhang Liao only fought with Han Meng for two moves, and he knew that Han Meng's swordsmanship was very exquisite, he looked back and saw his subordinates and the cavalry of the Zhao army fighting together, although he would not be defeated for the time being, but after all, there were many cavalry of the Zhao army, he immediately made a decision, turned the horse's head, went back to kill, and shouted loudly: "Retreat!" ”

More than 100 wolf cavalry are Zhang Liao's personal entourage, all of them are battle-hardened people, as soon as they heard Zhang Liao's order, they killed a few Zhao cavalry nearby, and then they withdrew from the doorway, ran towards the outside of the north gate, came and went in a hurry, and one hundred and eight cavalry went back.

Zhang Nan, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang wanted to lead troops to chase after them, but they were stopped by Han Meng: "Poor Kou Mo chase, go back to the city!" ”

The battle ended hastily, Lu Bu lost more than 2,000 infantry cavalry, and Li Feng, a strong general under his account, also died, and he regretted it.

Seeing that Gao Shun and Zhang Liao had retreated safely, Lu Bu finally felt a little relieved in his heart, and said loudly to Gao Shun and Zhang Liao: "Temporarily withdraw from the army, and fight again another day!" ”

Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and the others didn't say much, arched their hands towards Lu Bu, and retreated.

Lin Nan also ordered the withdrawal of troops at this time, and at the same time said to Lu Bu: "These two days are caused by the unfavorable defense of the West Gate by the Marquis of Jin, I hope that the Marquis of Jin will strictly guard the West Gate before the arrival of the Chen Palace, and wait for me to clean up Yuan Tan first, and then attack Yecheng together to completely eliminate the Yuan clan's power in Jizhou." ”

Lu Bu lost his troops and lost his generals, so he nodded, turned the horse's head, and bent the red rabbit horse under his seat. Walked away with his subordinates.

Huang Zhong rode his horse to Lin Nan's side, saw Lu Bu's distant back, and said to Lin Nan: "Lord, Lu Bu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, today he only lost a few of his men, and only one Li Feng died." The real main generals Gao Shun and Zhang Liao have not been damaged, and they must pay more attention in the future. ”

Lin Nan nodded and said to Huang Zhong: "I have my own measure, Lu Bu is far more dangerous than Yuan Shao, I must do my best to clear Yuan's forces in Jizhou, and then encourage Lu Bu to occupy Sili, so that our army can hold the main road and cut off his way back." ”

Huang Zhong smiled: "The lord is wise! ”

……

Plains County. Gaotang County.

On the bank of the Yellow River, Zang Ba took the soldiers to guard the ferry strictly, and he took Chang Xuan, Sun Guan, Sun Kang, Yin Li, Wu Dun, Guo Ying, Chen Shi and others to wander on the bank of the Yellow River, pointing to the earthen wall on the bank and said: "Here it needs to be heightened, reinforced a little more, and more archers are deployed to prevent the Zhao army from crossing north." ”

Guo Ying, who was in charge of guarding this section of the river, hugged his fists and said: "No, my subordinates understand. ”

Zang Ba pointed to the shallows not far away and said, "Arrange more wooden stakes on the riverbed, once Zhao Jun's ferry ships land at night." The stakes would block their progress, and the stern ones would pierce the bottom of the ship. Chen Shi. It's up to you to do it, and it's important to be perfect. ”

Chen Shi said: "No! ”

As soon as the words were finished, the crowd heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from the northwest, and a knight galloped from the northwest.

Everyone turned their heads to look and saw that no one was a stranger, it was Wei Yan.

Chang Feng pointed to Wei Yan, who was galloping. said to Zang Ba: "Big brother, Wei Yan is here." ”

Although Zang Ba surrendered to Lin Nan and became a general of the Yan Army, and was listed as the eighteen hussars of Yanyun as General Yokono, he had been a bandit before. The leaders are also their own brothers, and everyone is basically called brothers. He turned his head to look over, and when he saw Wei Yan getting closer and closer, he said to himself: "No matter why he came, I should go to greet him personally, and you all go with me to meet Wei Yan." ”

"No!" The crowd replied in unison.

Wei Yan rode his horse and galloped wildly, looking at the winding river full of soldiers of the Yan army, there would be a long earthen wall every other distance, except for the boiling Yellow River water in the river, there was not a single drifting boat in the river, he saw the distribution of soldiers, and couldn't help but secretly admire Zang Ba.

Seeing each other, Wei Yan turned over and dismounted, and Zang Ba and the others said in unison: "General Wei has come from afar, we have lost our welcome, please forgive me." ”

Wei Yan is not the kind of polite person, his body is full of arrogance, as soon as he jumped off the horse, he patted Zang Ba's shoulder, and then said happily: "You don't have to be polite with me, I, Wei Yan, am not the kind of person who is formal, let's be called brothers in the future." ”

Zang Ba has always been a new member of Lin Nan for a long time, and when he gets along with Lin Nan's original team, he will be a little estranged, he saw that Wei Yan was so bold, and he also went a little pretentious, and said loudly: "Since this is the case, then I am not welcome." Brother Wei, didn't you go to Changyi, when did you come back? ”

"I've been back early, it's been a few days, didn't Cao Cao go to attack Qingzhou, it's all me...... My credit is that I persuaded Cao Cao with my incorruptible tongue. Wei Yan originally wanted to tell Xu You's exploits together, but he didn't like Xu You very much, and he also intended to show his merits in front of Zang Ba, so he deliberately concealed it.

Zang Ba didn't care about this, he was concerned about the things in front of him, and asked, "Brother Wei, did the lord send you?" ”

Wei Yan slapped his head and shouted: "Oh, look at my head, I almost forgot about it, it was indeed the lord who asked me to come over, and the lord asked me to come to assist you, let us send troops from the plains together to attack Qingzhou counties that have not yet been occupied by Cao Cao." ”

Zang Ba pondered: "But in this way, Yuan Tan will cross the Yellow River north and bring troops to Jizhou, do these lords know it?" ”

Wei Yan said with a smile: "The lord knows better than anyone that the lord did this to deliberately let Yuan Tan cross the river, and wanted to surround and send reinforcements to clean up Yuan Tan." ”

"......I see," Zang said domineeringly, "The lord is really clever, now Cao Cao and Yuan Tan are fighting on the south bank, Yuan Tan can't resist Cao Cao's offensive, several times I want to cross the river, but I stopped me, according to the scout's report, Yuan Tan has almost more than 10,000 people stranded on the south bank and Cao Cao......"

"So what are you waiting for? When I came, the lord had already explained to me clearly, and the lord asked us to attack the counties and counties of Qingzhou, occupy them first, and then talk about it, and when Yuan Tan was defeated, the lord wanted to use Qingzhou's territory to make a big deal. Wei Yan said.

"What's the big deal?" Zang is domineering.

Wei Yan looked uncomfortable and said slowly: "I don't know, the lord said that I will naturally know when the time comes." General Zang, when will we start attacking Qingzhou County on the south bank? ”

Zang Ba said: "Brother Wei is coming from afar, you should rest first, I will inform the coastal defenders one by one, and I can march to the south bank early tomorrow morning." ”

Wei Yan said with his hands in his hands: "Great, General Zang, the lord asked me to be your lieutenant, you give me a soldier and horse, and I will be the vanguard, and I will ensure that all the remaining Qingzhou counties and counties will be occupied." ”

Zang Ba smiled: "That's very good, Brother Wei, let's go back to the camp and talk about it." ”

Wei Yan followed Zang Ba back to the barracks, was warmly welcomed by Zang Ba, and after being full of wine and food, he slept in the camp all night.

Early the next morning, Wei Yan woke up when he heard the rumbling drums, and when he left the camp, it was just getting dark, and many soldiers had already gathered outside the camp, and Zang Ba was dispatching troops.

Wei Yan saw that Zang Ba was strict in governing the army, and couldn't help but praise: "No wonder the lord asked me to be his deputy general, probably because he wanted me to learn his method of transferring troops and sending generals, right?" ”

Zang Ba concisely dispatched his troops, whether it was his old subordinates, or the troops and generals who had been recruited from Gongsun Zhan, they all carried out the orders very clearly.

"Scatter!" Zang Ba raised his right hand and waved it down, and the generals standing in front of him all dispersed.

Wei Yan saw that Zang Ba had the demeanor of being a general, he silently counted the eighteen hussars of Yanyun alongside him in his heart, and secretly thought: "Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Zhang He, Xu Huang, Chen Zhi, Liao Hua, Lu Heng, these eight people are all people who can lead troops to fight alone recognized by the lord...... The lord's vision is really unique, although Zang Ba has just been attached not long ago, he can see so quickly that Zang Ba has the talent to lead troops, and let him command the battle against Qingzhou alone, it seems that I can't blindly fight and kill, I must stabilize the key points. ”

Zang Ba turned around and saw Wei Yan standing behind him, so he arched his hand and said, "Brother Wei, did you sleep well last night?" ”

Wei Yan said: "Okay, very good, thank you for General Zang's hospitality." ”

Zang Ba said with a smile: "Brother Wei, I originally had 13,000 soldiers here, and 1,000 people were killed in the battle when attacking the plains and blocking Yuan Tan crossing the river, and only 12,000 people remained, I divided 10,000 of them into five divisions and handed them over to my five sworn brothers to command, and I gave the remaining 2,000 people to Guo Ying and Chen Shi respectively, and now I let Guo Ying and Chen Shi's two thousand troops under your command, and you will be the vanguard, cross the river, and attack Qingzhou County, do you think this arrangement is satisfactory?" ”

When Wei Yan heard that he was asked to lead the troops to fight and let him be the vanguard, of course he was satisfied, and he couldn't stop nodding and said, "Okay, I'm your lieutenant, you can arrange whatever you want." ”

Zang Ba said with a smile: "Okay, then you will lead these two thousand people as the vanguard, take the lead in crossing the river, and first capture Jinan County, Cao Cao's elite troops are fighting fiercely with Yuan Tan in the Licheng area of Jinan County, and there is no time to care about other counties in Jinan County." I also received news that Liu Bei joined Cao Cao and successfully persuaded Kong Rong, the minister of Beihai State, and some counties of Donglai County and Qi County, but Liu Bei did not have soldiers, even if those counties were convinced, it did not mean that there was any meaning. I mean, let you carry ten days' dry rations, first capture the counties of Jinan, then collect the counties of Le'an County to the east, and then wave your troops south to capture the city of Linzi in Qi County. (To be continued......)