The soldiers captured a man who had changed into women's clothes, and although he had also applied powder, the unshaven beard on his long lanky face betrayed him.

The soldier held Liu Bi in front of Guo Song and reported to Guo Songyu: "This person was mixed in a group of palace maids, and some palace maids denounced him, saying that he was Liu Pi. ”

Jiangling County Ling Wu Hongyun whispered to Guo Song: "Back to Your Highness, this person is Liu Bi!" ”

Liu Pi was shocked and frightened, he guessed that the person in front of him was the King of Jin, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "I am willing to be a slave of His Highness, and I beg His Highness to spare my dog's life!" ”

Guo Song shook his head, "You originally had a chance not to die, but you gave up yourself, since you are determined to resist, then you should bear the corresponding consequences, I will leave you a whole corpse, drag it down, and hang this person!" ”

"Your Highness spares your life!"

"Your Highness spares your life...... Woo! Woo! ”

Liu Bi's screams suddenly stopped, his mouth was gagged, and the soldiers dragged him down, quickly strangled him to death with a rope, and his two sons died in the chaos.

At this time, Luo Ziyu, the chief general of the navy, hurriedly stepped forward with a general, he knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Your Royal Highness, Zhang Kecheng, the deputy general of the Jingzhou navy, killed the main general Liu Xiang and led five thousand sailors and hundreds of warships to surrender!" ”

Guo Song was overjoyed, he now valued the navy and warships the most, not only to attack Quanzhou, but also to involve many of his lofty ambitions in the future.

"Where is General Zhang?"

Zhang Kecheng hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and said, "Zhang Kecheng, the junior general under the command of General Hun Xuan, see His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”

He never admitted that he was Liu Pi's subordinate, Guo Song understood his thoughts, so he nodded and said: "The general has endured humiliation and has been wronged so far!" ”

Zhang Kecheng's nose was sour, tears almost fell, and he choked up and said: "Thank Your Highness for your understanding, the young general is willing to serve His Highness." ”

"I believe that there will be a chance for the general to show his ambitions!"

Ten years later, he led 100,000 sailors to land in Japan, Emperor Huanmu surrendered, Zhang Kecheng was named Ning Guogong and the champion general by the son of heaven Guo Song, and his life also reached the peak, which is not to be mentioned.

The day gradually dawned, Zhang Yun also escorted thousands of fleeing enemy troops back to Jiangling City, this is the city defenders last night, they opened the south gate to escape, ran out of more than ten miles and were intercepted by the 10,000 troops led by Zhang Yun, all surrendered.

The palace of Jiangling County has been cleaned up, Guo Song is inspecting the warehouse in the palace, when he was in Chengdu, he found that Huo Xianming's wealth was a lot less, gold and silver were gone, only the money was left in the Baoyuan cabinet, according to the Baoyuan cabinet, the gold and silver had been secretly sent away by Huo Xianming, and the whereabouts were unknown, Guo Song suspected that Huo Xianming had sent the gold and silver to his nephew Liu Pi first.

Now it has been confirmed that a large number of wooden boxes belonging to Huo Xianming were found in the underground warehouse of the Jiangling County Palace, which were filled with gold and silver, and the preliminary estimate was that the gold was 500,000 taels and the silver was about 3 million taels, which matched the account of the Baoyuan Cabinet Workshop.

Guo Song stood on the castle, watching from afar as the soldiers carried out the large wooden boxes from the cellar, when the marching Sima Lu Zhan hurriedly walked over, followed by several soldiers and a young man in white, who carried two cages in his hands, and inside were two carrier pigeons.

"Your Highness, the pigeon slave has been found!"

Lu Zhan pointed to the young man behind him and said: "This kid is a pigeon slave, he was so scared that he hid last night, and he just found it, and he is in charge of Liu Bi's pigeon management." ”

The young man hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and when Guo Song saw that he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, he asked, "Are the two carrier pigeons in your hand specially given to Ma Sui?" ”

"Yes, it was two carrier pigeons sent by Ma Sui at the beginning of the year, one was sent to Baling County, and the other was sent to Changsha County."

Guo Song nodded and said to Lu Zhan: "You immediately write two distress letters in the name of Liu Pi and send them to Baling and Changsha at the same time." ”

"Humble duty understands!"

Lu Zhan saluted and hurried with the young man.

After the Jin army captured Jiangling County, they blocked the news, and they laid a trap to wait for Ma Sui to be caught.

Guo Song immediately ordered: "Order the cargo ship to speed up the delivery of war horses!" ”

..........

On the big river, 200 big ships transported a boatload of war horses from the north bank of the Yangtze River to the south bank, and 30,000 war horses boarded the ship from the wharf on the north bank of Jiangling and walked in a straight line to Jiangling City on the opposite bank, the voyage was very short, and this kind of water transportation had little impact on the war horses.

At the same time, on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River in Changsha County, 10,000 troops were ready to go, the veteran Ma Sui rode on a black horse of a divine horse, looking at the west bank with deep eyes, just an hour ago, he received Liu Pi's distress pigeon letter, tens of thousands of Jin troops crossed the Yangtze River to attack Jiangling, Liu Pi was willing to pay for 100,000 yuan and 200,000 stone grain, imploring his support.

In fact, even if Liu Bi does not give money and food, Ma Sui will send troops to rescue Liu Pi, not only because he and Liu Bi have reached a military mutual assistance contract, but more importantly, he and Liu Bi have a cold relationship, Liu Bi is finished, and it is not far from his demise, Guo Song basically unified the south of the Yangtze River, and it is impossible to leave himself with a nail not to pull out.

If it had been twenty years ago, perhaps Ma Sui would have surrendered to the imperial court, but he is now in his sixties, old and stubborn, and it is difficult for him to listen to the advice of others.

The root cause is his disgust with Guo Song, although Chang'an has established a new court, and the Queen Mother is also in Chang'an, but Ma Sui believes that Guo Song is a thief, he is never willing to serve this kind of person, and he is unwilling to submit to his obscenity, and it is this stubbornness that makes the Queen Mother call him into the court several times, but he either refuses or ignores it.

At this time, a soldier rushed to report, "Old General Qiqi, the pontoon bridge has been built!" ”

Ma Sui nodded, turned back to a soldier and said, "Inform General Meng of Huarong County and let him enter the army synchronously!" ”

"Obey!"

Joined the army and saluted, and returned to the county seat to send a pigeon letter.

Ma Sui waved his sword and shouted: "The army is leaving!" ”

10,000 troops stepped on the pontoon bridge and marched to the other side of the Xiangjiang River.......

At the same time, another army of 10,000 troops, also led by the general Meng Jisi, set out from Huarong County and fought along the south bank of the Yangtze River towards Jiangling City.

On a gentle hill on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, a scout cavalry looked at the Xiangjiang army that was crossing from a distance, and when the army stepped on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, the scout cavalry team immediately turned its horse head and galloped northwest.

It takes about five days to travel from Changsha County to Jiangling City, but it only takes two days to travel from Huarong County to Jiangling, and Ma Sui is mainly worried that he is too far away to rescue, so he divides his troops into two routes, and the army of Huarong County can reach Jiangling first.

But this is also risky, mainly easy to be broken by the enemy army, of course, the premise is that the Jin army knows their plan, and their plan is only known to five high-ranking military officials, and even Liu Bi does not know that he has arranged an army in Huarong County.

It is precisely because of his secretive actions that Ma Sui is not worried that the Jin army will know his plan, Ma Sui can see through the enemy's arrangement in his life, but he can't see through people's hearts.

His trust in He Quan eventually brought him to an end.........

Yang Miao, the general of the cavalry, led 20,000 troops from Jiangxia and took a hundred big ships to Baling County, they arrived in Baling County at night, and the army quickly assembled after going ashore, and then rushed to the north of Baling County under the leadership of Yang Miao.

Jiang Xin has been under a lot of pressure in his heart these days, and according to the plan he discussed with He Quan, he arranged for more than a dozen of his subordinates to take turns on duty in Beicheng, paying attention to the signal of the innkeeper.

At the end of the watch, Jiang Xin, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up by an attendant, "General, there is a signal outside the city!" ”

Jiang Xin sat up suddenly, he estimated that there would be news in the next two days, so he didn't take off his sleeping clothes, he put on his shoes and ran to the city.

It can be seen clearly on the top of the city, three fires have been lit in the wilderness a mile away, but it does not mean that the city will be opened immediately when the signal is lit, the plan is not like this, it should be He Quan to open the city gate, which He Quan insisted on.

Jiang Xin immediately asked his subordinates to light three fires, and he was about to inform He Quan, but he didn't expect He Quan to come in a hurry, and he also got a report from his subordinates, knowing that the army from Jiangxia had arrived, so he hurried over.

"General He, do you want to open the city gate now?"

Jiang Xin looked at He Quan with a stern gaze, now is the test at a critical moment, if He Quan turns his face, his life will be lost.

In fact, Jiang Xin was also very wary of He Quan, he ordered his subordinates to pay attention to the movement of He Quan's army, if He Quan repented or deceived himself, then he would definitely secretly mobilize the army and prepare to ambush the Jin army.

But He Quan did not move the army, which means that until now, everything has been done according to the original plan.

He Quan nodded slowly and shouted, "Open the city gate!" ”

The city gate was slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, Jiang Xin ordered the soldiers to wave torches, and in a short time, 20,000 troops appeared under the city, and entered the city in a mighty formation under the leadership of the general Yang Miao.