Mu Jing has been in Fancheng for many days, the two armies have been frequently mobilized, and the main forces have appeared around Deng County one after another, but he has never launched an attack on Deng County, and he doesn't even touch the nail of Deng County.

This made the Jingzhou army in Deng County scratch their heads.

Deng County's current town guard is Zhang Hu.

Zhang Hu did not have many soldiers and horses, except for the thousands of soldiers and horses in the Jiangxia camp, that is, the thousands of remnants left by Wenpin, less than 6,000 soldiers and horses, and it was very difficult to hold Deng County.

But he can only keep.

After all, without Jingzhou's order, he couldn't go back.

"Lord Captain, just now the scout came with the news that the pastoral army has set up camp fifteen miles east of our city, and the siege equipment is constantly entering the city!"

Adjutant General Zhang Dongyu reported: "I'm afraid it won't be long before the pastoral army will attack!" ”

"Give the order to go down, and all the departments go up to the city wall!"

Zhang Hu observed the past at the head of the city, and it was already faintly visible, a camp rose in the distance, and his heart became solemn: "Be on guard day and night, and you must not relax!" ”

"Captain, do we really have to defend it?"

A military marquis asked in a low voice.

"Han Laobazi, what do you want to say?" Zhang Hu squinted.

"Jingzhou doesn't treat us as human beings at all, so why should we ......?"

"Shut up!"

Zhang Hu snorted coldly: "I, Zhang Hu, never force people, you can choose to leave, but this Deng County, I will definitely stick to it, I Zhang Hu can die, and I will never return to the herding army!" ”

Pang Ji is not a simple Confucian in his heart, but a teacher, a master is like a father, Pang Ji's death, in his heart, left a rift, he may not fight to the death for Jingzhou, but would rather die here than surrender to the pastoral army, this is the bottom line, but also the principle.

"Our lives are all saved by the captain, the captain wants to fight to the death, we can only fight to the death!"

Several military marquis glanced at each other, a little helpless, but they did not waver.

They did want to surrender, but they could convince Zhang Hu, but they would not force Zhang Hu.

"Don't worry!"

Zhang Hu's face relaxed a little at this time: "We still have a glimmer of life, I believe in Wenpin!" ”

Now he can only gamble his fate.

The gambling is credible.

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Outside the city, the herdsmen camped.

The main account of the Chinese army.

Mu Jing went to inspect the front line, just came back, dressed in a military uniform, took off his helmet, and threw it directly to a personal soldier next to him, and then took a towel to wash his hands, then sat down and said: "This Zhang Hu is a bit interesting, with thousands of people, stubbornly guarding Deng County, it is clear that he wants to fight with us!" ”

"Lord, Zhang Hu is very stubborn!"

Huang Zhong said: "This Deng County, it is not difficult to conquer it, but if you want to take it skillfully, it is a little difficult!" ”

"It's normal to be hard to fight!" Mu Jing smiled and said, "We have to give Jingzhou some time to react!" ”

"This is already the defense line of Xiangyang City!"

Huang Zhong said: "I'm afraid that Jingzhou won't give us a chance!" ”

"Are you afraid that they will set up an ambush here and drag our main force here?" Mu Jing squinted.

"Lord, I think it's better to invite Sima to take charge as soon as possible!"

Huang Zhong said: "On the confrontation between the two formations, whether it is me, Zhang Liao, or Zhou Cang, they are all invincible, but when it comes to strategic deployment, figuring out the enemy's deployment is still the strength of the drama division!" ”

"Only the drama will have the task of the drama Zhicai!"

Mu Jing said: "There will be a military division in a few days, and then we will discuss it again to see if we can understand the defensive line around Xiangyang City!" ”

"Who?"

"You'll know when the time comes!"

"A military advisor who can preside over a battlefield?" Huang Zhong squinted, how many marching generals there were in the Minghou Mansion, he knew very well, according to what he pointed out, there were military commanders, but there were only two military divisions who wanted to preside over a battlefield.

"Meet the Lord!"

Zhang Liao opened the curtain from the outside and entered, and then bowed his head.

"Get up!"

Mu Jing helped him and said: "Where have you been in the past few days, the gods are mysterious, is there a strategy to break the city, say it earlier, and let me feel at ease, this army has been showing off its power for a few days, if there is no strategic deployment, it will be attacked!" ”

"There is no way to break the city!"

Zhang Liao shook his head: "But the person who can break the city has found one!" ”

"Who?"

"He's outside, the lord wants to see him!"

"Please!"

Mu Jing was interested and said loudly.

A young man walked in.

Very young, even a little younger than Mu Jing, he looks only fifteen or sixteen years old.

"The last general, Deng Zhi, meet the prince!"

The young man bowed his head and saluted, and it was a military salute.

"Deng Zhi?"

Mu Jing squinted slightly.

Why is this name a little familiar, but I can't remember it, it's not someone who is familiar with each other, that is, someone who should leave a mark in the history of the Three Kingdoms.

"Do you have a plan to break the city?" Mu Jing asked.

"The last general will be able to convince the Deng clan in the city to turn against each other!" Deng Zhi said.

"The Deng clan?"

Mu Jing frowned: "If I remember correctly, the Deng clan should be the clan of Deng Long, the general of Jingzhou, Deng Long is the favorite general of Liu Biao, why did you persuade his clan to open the city gate for us!" ”

"Deng County Deng's originates from Xinye Deng's!"

Deng Zhi said: "Now that the soldiers are coming to the city, the Deng clan will panic, I have gone to persuade them as a child of the sect, and I am seventy percent sure that they can open the city gate for us!" ”

"It's quite a big tone!" Mu Jinglai became interested: "You are a young man, even if you are a child of the Xinye Deng clan, I am afraid it will be difficult to be trusted, you are so confident that you can convince the Deng clan of Deng County!" ”

"I originally had the seal of the Deng clan, and the order of the seal of the clan was a clan order, if I forget, their branches are still the same, and they may not obey orders, but now that my army is coming to the city, if I have the threat of slaughtering, they will definitely go down the slope!"

Deng Zhi is neither humble nor arrogant, and under the authority of Mu Jing, he has always maintained an arrogance.

"You actually have the seal of the Deng clan?" This made Mu Jing curious.

The seal of a family is equal to a jade seal.

Nanyang Deng family is a wealthy family in Nanyang, even if it has been in decline for some years, but in Nanyang and the entire Jingzhou, the influence is extraordinary, and the Deng clan seal can command the children of the Deng family.

In this era, the order of the clan is sometimes even more useful by the decree of the imperial court.

The clan is bigger than the sky.

No one wants to be cut off from the clan and removed from the clan name, and from then on, there will be no roots and no fate, and those buried cannot be buried in the ancestral grave.

"I'm the Xinye Deng clan, the patriarch of this generation!" Deng Zhi arched his hand and said.

"You're so young, you're actually the patriarch!"

Mu Jing's eyes burst out with a touch of coldness, and he shouted angrily: "Isn't there anyone in the Xinye Deng clan?" ”

"There are people in the Xinye Deng clan, but they are all dead, three hundred Deng clan soldiers, buried in the bones!" Deng Zhi said word by word.

That battle caused the Deng clan to suffer heavy casualties, and the Xinye Deng clan also plummeted because of this.

"In that case, I owe you the Deng family!"

Mu Jing smiled very evilly, but there was an unknown sadness hidden in his pupils.

"Deng Shi chosen, never regret it!"

Deng Zhi bowed his head and kowtowed respectfully: "My father chose the first lord, he never regretted it, I chose the lord again today, I will not regret it, the last general Deng Zhi, meet the lord!" ”

"Your father?"

Mu Jing was slightly moved.

"Father Deng Hong!"

Deng Zhi said.

"I once sent someone to Xinye to look for you, didn't I say you died?" Mu Jing's eyes narrowed.

Deng Hong was a general under Mushan back then.

One of the main generals of the Storm Bear Army.

In the battle that escaped from Guanzhong, the Violent Bear Army was almost wiped out, seven battalions, went to four, Deng Hong was one of them, and hundreds of Deng soldiers around Deng Hong were also wiped out, and none of them escaped.

After Mu Jing returned to Nanyang, he sent people to look for Deng Hong's family, but they did not find it.

"I was traveling in Bashu at the time!"

Deng Zhi replied.

"Lord, last year, I fought in Xinye, he led twenty townsmen to join my battalion, but the pastoral army conscription has its own rules, so I didn't accept it!" Zhang Liao replied: "Later, I heard that they were the soldiers of the Deng family, so I relented and took them in the gangfu camp!" ”

"Military regulations cannot be broken, go to the Military Judge Advocate Division to lead the military law!"

Mu Jing said lightly.

"No!" Zhang Liao gave up his hand.

"Deng Zhi, give you another chance, I can arrange for you to go to school, you don't have to stay on the battlefield!" Mu Jing said in a deep voice: "After you are loyal to the martyrs, I owe you something!" ”

"My father restored the glory of the Deng clan from the battlefield!"

Deng Zhi persistently: "I can too!" ”

His father was almost famous, but in the end, he was defeated, because of the defeat of the Mu family.