Chapter 471: The Zhou Family Brothers
Zhou Xin didn't know the plan in Liu Zheng's heart, and was still waiting for Liu Zheng to attack the city here in Poyang.
And Liu Zheng only worked hard in two days to kill from Poyang to Danyang County.
The person in charge of garrisoning Danyang is Zhou Xin's younger brother Zhou Ang.
Zhou Xin is a total of three brothers, he is the largest, the historical Zhou Xin traveled to the capital when he was a teenager, worshiped Taifu Chen Fan as a teacher, he was well-read, clear in the wind corner, good at pushing disasters. Later, it was requisitioned by the Taiwei Mansion, raised to the high rank, and moved to Danyang Taishou.
When Cao Cao Chen raised troops to defeat Dong Zhuo, Zhou Xin once sent more than 10,000 elite soldiers to help Cao Cao. When Yuan Shu was in Huainan, Zhou Xin refused to associate with him because he didn't like him. Yuan Shu hated Zhou Xin for this, and privately appointed Wu Jing as the Taishou of Danyang and sent Wu Jing to attack Zhou Xin.
Zhou Xin didn't want to harm the people, so he disbanded the army, returned to his hometown of Huiji, and attached himself to Wang Lang's men.
Zhou Xin's two younger brothers, Zhou Ang and Zhou Qiao. Zhou Ang once served as the Taishou of Jiujiang. He was once sent by Yuan Shao to capture Sun Jian's Tunyang City, and cut off Sun Jian's grain and grass.
Zhou Qiao was the assassin of Yuzhou. During Cao Cao's recruitment of volunteers, he invited Zhou Qiao, and Zhou Qiao gathered 2,000 people to follow. After Sun Jian repelled Dong Zhuo, he instinctively promoted to the assassin of Yuzhou, and Zhou Qiao was sent by Yuan Shao to replace him. Zhou Qiao later went to war with Sun Jian and was defeated. turned to help his brother Zhou Ang defend Yuan Shu, and was defeated again. Returned to Huiji and was killed by Xu Gong.
The three brothers are all ill-fated people.
Liu Zheng didn't have much impression of these three people, and led his soldiers and horses to kill Yixian, and easily defeated Yixian. Then I went all the way up to Lingyang County, Lingxian County, and on the third day, I arrived at Wanling City, the seat of Danyang County.
In Wanling City, there are also 4,000 garrisons left by Zhou Xin. Led by Zhou Xin's younger brother Zhou Ang, they seem to have known that Liu Zheng's army was killed from Poyang, and when they arrived here, the gate of Wanling City was closed, and the city tower was waiting for a strict battle, all of them were soldiers and horses, and it looked like there were a lot of people, but because they were gathered together, the other city gates seemed a little empty.
Liu Zheng came to the city and shouted at the people on the city tower very politely.
"Listen to the people inside, Kaecheng surrenders, I will spare you from death, obsessed, and when my army steps on the city wall, it will be the time when you die."
Although Liu Zheng didn't think that the other party could say that he could say in a few words would surrender directly, such a move was still needed, in case the other party couldn't think of it, he would be directly frightened and Kaecheng surrendered.
Zhou Ang hurriedly walked into the city and walked up to the city tower, he never thought that his eldest brother had obviously led people to attack Liu Zheng's territory, how could he still be killed by the enemy, and now he was in a difficult situation.
"Who are the people outside the city, you know that this is where the imperial court is located, you are rebelling, do you know?"
Zhou Ang just knew that there was a group of soldiers and horses from Poyang, but it was really unclear who the person who came, after all, his spies in Danyang were all taken away by his eldest brother Zhou Xin.
Liu Zheng didn't care, and replied to Liu Zheng and Zhou Ang.
"Rebellion? Maybe this is a rebellion, since you know that it is a rebellion, why don't you open the city gate quickly to avoid the suffering of the sword soldiers. ”
Liu Zheng saw Zhou Ang on the city tower, but he didn't have much interest in knowing Zhou Ang.
"If you want me to surrender, don't think about it!"
Zhou Ang also had backbone, so he rejected Liu Zheng's proposal in one bite, and directly took a longbow from the guards beside him, and then raised his hand and pulled out a sharp arrow, aiming at Liu Zheng under the city is arrow.
The arrows flew over, and even if Liu Zheng found out about the arrow shot by Zhou Ang at the first time, he was also frightened.
Fortunately, Liu Zheng has an archery master by his side, and Tai Shici, who came with the army, already knew what he wanted to do when he saw Zhou Ang on the city tower pick up the bow and arrow, and Tai Shici's archery skills were superb enough.
When Zhou Ang's arrow came out, Tai Shici also pulled out the arrow at the same time, and also pulled out two arrows at the same time, and then shot an arrow at Zhou Ang.
Tai Shici's archery skills are superior, and after the arrow is shot, the arrow in Zhou Ang's hand is directly supplemented with an arrow, and the arrow is missed. Knocked down in mid-air.
At the same time, Tai Shici's arrow was actually two arrows, one interrupted Zhou Ang's arrow, and the other was straight to the city tower, and with a pop, it shot on Zhou Ang's helmet.
Then with a ding, he shot Zhou Ang's helmet directly down and nailed it to the wooden pillar of the building behind the city tower.
Although Zhou Ang has a bit of backbone and martial arts, he is also a person who is afraid of death, where has he seen this kind of battle, and he was also frightened by the superb archery skills shown by Tai Shici.
He didn't dare to stay on the battlements at all, and took a few steps back.
Liu Zheng turned his head and glanced at Tai Shici.
"Ziyi, thanks to you, otherwise this arrow will be unfavorable to me."
Although this arrow may not really be able to hit Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng still has to appease Tai Shici, after all, for the sake of Liu Zheng's safety, a few words of praise are still indispensable, and they can win people's hearts.
"Lord, it's okay, I'm by your side just to keep you safe!"
"Since the guards in this city are so ignorant, then let's go into the city, Wen hired you to lead three thousand soldiers and horses to charge, Zhou Cang, your people began to attack the city gate, be sure to break the city gate within one day, by the way, the Zhou Dynasty dispatched three thousand people, go to several other city gates, attract the attention of the defenders in the city, as long as we can contain these people, we can directly break the city gate!"
Along the way, Liu Zheng attacked the county seat of Danyang County, almost all of which were taken by force.
There are only one or two thousand county soldiers in these county towns, and when they are surrounded by Liu Zheng's army, a few of them still have a little resistance, and they can stalemate for an hour or two.
Therefore, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses did not lack experience in attacking cities, and under the leadership of Wen Ping and Zhou Cang, they were still good at attacking cities.
The defenders in the entire Wanling City are only 4,000 people, including four city gates, although there is the protection of the moat, reducing the scope of the siege, but the 4,000 defenders want to defend this city, it is also more difficult.
In addition, these soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng are all elites who are not afraid of death, and with Liu Zheng's order, they will charge into battle at any cost.
After just over an hour of charge, under the fierce impact of the huge city hammer, the city gate was quickly broken, and Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses directly entered the city.
Zhou Ang was on the city tower, panicked and remedied, but he couldn't stop Liu Zheng's army at all.