Chapter 208: Siege of Guangxin
After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he looked at Huang Zhong and Xu Huang.
He did not directly order the two of them to act, but let the two of them decide for themselves, who would follow him to besiege Guangxin City, and who would ambush Zhu Fu.
The two glanced at each other, but Xu Huang took the initiative to stand up.
"The matter of the lord ambushing Zhu Fu is more dangerous, so leave it to me. The soldiers and horses under my command are more elite, and they are all elite soldiers of a hundred battles. ”
After Xu Huang finished speaking, before Liu Zheng could agree, Huang Zhong immediately shook his head and interrupted Xu Huang's words.
"General Xu Huang's words are wrong, it is precisely because the ambush of Zhu Fu is more dangerous that I should be allowed to do it, the soldiers under my command are well-trained, but they have not been sharpened, and this great opportunity should be handed over to me."
"Hey, Old General Huang Zhong, most of the soldiers under your command are new recruits, they have no combat experience, and the ambush of Zhu Fu is so important, if something goes wrong, wouldn't it be a shame for the lord?"
As soon as Xu Huang saw that Huang Zhong seemed to have plans to rob him, he immediately said again, wanting to persuade Huang Zhong not to compete with him.
"General Xu Huang, don't worry, just Zhu Fu, I don't care about it yet. Let's see that with a battalion of soldiers and horses, I will defeat that Zhu Fu! ”
Huang Zhong didn't back down, but still said a word to Xu Huang.
Liu Zheng saw that the two of them were competing for the qualification to deal with Zhu Fu, in fact, he also knew in his heart that no matter who Liu Zheng sent to deal with Zhu Fu, it was bound to be much more dangerous than the side that besieged Guangxin City.
They didn't want the other party to be in danger, so they took the initiative to recommend themselves to Liu Zhengmao to take on the important task of ambushing.
Liu Zheng thought about it again and again, but still opened his mouth and ordered Huang Zhong to take on this important task.
"Don't fight between the two of you, since General Huang Zhong intends to go, then the task of this ambush will be handed over to General Huang."
As soon as Liu Zheng opened his mouth, Xu Huang, who was originally going to continue to say something, stopped saying more, and immediately agreed to Liu Zheng's order.
"It's up to the lord to decide!"
"Okay, since this is the case, without further ado, our army will immediately move to Guangxin City, find a suitable place for ambush on the way, General Huang Lao will lead people to ambush in the middle, remember to order the cavalry to send a message to keep in touch at any time."
After Liu Zheng gave orders to Xu Huang and Huang Zhong. He began to order a large army and went to Guangxin City.
Guangxin City and Cangwu City are actually not far apart, but only dozens of miles.
Speaking of Cangwu County, in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the seat of governance in the history of Jiaozhou, but it was later, after Shixie became the assassin of Jiaozhou, that the Jiaozhou governance office was moved from Jiaozhi County to Cangwu County.
The original Jiaozhou administrative office was in Jiaozhi County in the central part of Jiaozhou.
That place was later known as Vietnam.
The 40,000 troops led by Zhu Fusuo were basically Jiaozhi County, Yulin County and Hepu County, and the soldiers and horses of the three counties.
At this time, it was also a long-distance expedition stationed in the county seat of Cangwu County, and Guangxin City was the territory of the Shi family.
There is a gap of dozens of miles in the middle, and Liu Zheng wants to do some tricks and feet on this distance of dozens of miles.
His soldiers and horses set out from Yangshan County, Guiyang County, Jingzhou. After a day, he went to the mountains outside Guangxin City.
Between the two cities, there are often some people coming and going, and even caravans go to trade, not far apart, the profit of trade is not large, but it is the road that is easy to walk, and the entire Cangwu County is in the hands of the scholars. It is one of the most prosperous states and counties in the entire Jiaozhou.
After Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses arrived near Guangxin City, they did not hesitate at all, and immediately divided their troops into two routes, one led by Liu Zheng and Xu Huang to go directly to Guangxin City, and the other road fell in the middle and looked for an ambush location on their own.
In order to ensure the ambush, Liu Zheng also transferred his cronies, Zhou Chao and Zhou Cang, all these generals to Huang Zhong for dispatch, and even Yuan Zhou, the only strategist, let him follow.
And he himself only brought Gan Ning and Xu Huang to kill directly to Guangxin City.
Guangxin City is just a small city under Cangwu County, because it is not far from Cangwu City, the city defense facilities here are not too good, and even the city wall is only more than a zhang high.
Those who are a little better can go up directly from outside the city.
And a small city like Guangxin City generally has two or three thousand county soldiers.
However, because this is the birthplace of the Shi family, the Shi family has a lot of people here, so there are nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Guangxin City.
Although 5,000 men and horses are nothing in Zhu Fu's army of 40,000.
However, the 5,000 people were all with the Shi family's money, and the Shi family was responsible for providing money and food, and their combat effectiveness was much more powerful than the 40,000 soldiers and horses that Zhu Fu put together.
When Liu Zheng led his men and horses, a battalion of 10,000 troops, to Guangxin City, he immediately blocked all the four walls of Guangxin City.
He did not attack the city immediately, but as Huang Zhong had discussed before, he besieged Guangxin City first, besieged but did not fight, and asked the people of Guangxin City to go to Zhu Fu of Cangwu City for help.
Guangxin City Shijia mansion.
A middle-aged man hurried briskly to the hall of the house.
As he walked, he shouted loudly into the hall.
"Big brother! Big things are not good! ”
The man shouted a few words, and soon an old man in his fifties walked out of the hall.
"Shiwu, you kid, what are you doing in a panic, didn't I let you go to Cangwu City to stay with that Zhu Fu."
"That Zhu Fu already has some complaints about our Shi family, if we don't express our support for him, maybe after exterminating those bandits who gathered outside Cangwu County this time, Zhu Fu will turn against our Shi family, our Shi family is not strong enough, and we can't turn against him."
"Big brother, I plan to go to Cangwu City according to your instructions, but as soon as I got out of the city gate, I saw a large number of soldiers and horses frantically pouring in from outside the city, as if they wanted to rush towards our Guangxin City, so I had to return to the city again."
"What? What's going on with a large number of soldiers and horses? ”
The middle-aged man hurriedly said something to the old man in front of him, causing a solemn look on the old man's face and immediately asked back.
"I don't know, I don't know who they are, they don't look like Zhu Fu's hands, they are more like those Shanyue people hidden in the mountains, but they don't look like the outfits of the Shanyue natives."
The old man in front of him is Shi Xie, the current head of the Shi family, and the middle-aged man who answered the conversation with him is Shi Xie's youngest brother Shi Wu.
Although the Shi family didn't pay much attention to Jiaozhou Thorn Shi Zhu Fu on the surface. But their Shi family is a member of Jiaozhou after all.
Even if you ignore Zhu Fu, you still have to do a good job on the surface. Two hours ago. Shi Xie ordered his youngest brother Shiwu to go to Cangwu City, wanting Shiwu to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to Cangwu City, and he and Zhu Fu would wait for Zhu Fu's dispatch.
Only in this way will Zhu Fu not attack their scholars, and it is also a form of support for the scholars to Zhu Fu.
Before Ke Shiwu's men and horses left Guangxin City, they were besieged by Liu Zheng's army, so they could only return halfway.