The night, the stars, the cold light.

Pu Guoyi Huang secretly went out of the city at night from the north gate of Jianzhou and Hanyang Gate. Looking back at the five hundred soldiers behind him, the night breeze was blowing, he took a deep breath, and whispered to the soldiers around him: "Pass the order, everyone must follow the troops, and if there is no military order, those who speak without permission will be beheaded immediately." ”

The soldiers solemnly agreed and gave orders to the future. Pu Guoyi stopped talking, stepped on horseback, was in the front position, and led the army. Although he came out of the north gate, his destination was in the east of Jianzhou City.

Under the leadership of Pu Guoyi, the soldiers of the Zhao battalion who went out of the city first entered the mountains and forests to the north, and then turned southeast from the mountains and forests.

The number of officers and soldiers in this group was small, about twenty people, and the leader was a general banner. As soon as the general banner saw the brigade coming, he immediately led people to escape, and Pu Guoyi sent a few soldiers to chase after him, knowing the meaning of coming, although the general banner was suspicious, but he no longer fled.

Pu Guoyi stepped forward in person and talked to the general banner. There was a huge disparity in numbers, and the general flag was really a little frightened in his heart, but when he saw Pu Guoyi's kind face, he had the courage to ask: "Where did my brother come from?" ”

"Jianzhou." Pu Guoyi jumped off his horse and replied at the same time, "Garrison in Xiajianzhou City, and listen to the errand under Hou Shuai's tent." ”

Hearing this, the general flag asked, "Where is Hou Shuai now?" Although Hou Liangzhu died, the news did not spread in a short period of time. Because the official army did not find the body, there were many speculations, some said that Hou Liangzhu was killed in battle, and some said that he temporarily led his troops to retreat into the mountains, but there was no consensus.

"Hou Shuai died in battle a few days ago." Pu Guoyi responded in a slightly sad tone, "The city of Jianzhou fell, the army scattered, and most of them retreated to Zitong, but our troops retreated to the northern mountains. I thought that our army would make a comeback, but unexpectedly, the situation was difficult, and Zitong was gone. Our troops had a hard time in the mountains, and when they heard that Deputy General Kong was leading the troops, they came to surrender at night. ”

"Oh, Hou Shuai is dead...... the general banner sighed twice, and then remembered Pu Guoyi's identity, and arched his hand, "It turned out to be the garrison of Jianzhou City, I don't know what to call it?" ”

Pu Guoyi reported his name, the general flag nodded pretendically, looked at the soldiers behind Pu Guoyi, and then asked: "Master Pu has a lot of soldiers and horses." ”

"Yes, that day the Liukou attacked the city, Hou Shuai fought in the field with his back to the city, I was guarding in the city, and the situation outside the city was not right, so I led people out of the north gate first, and now there are still 500 brothers under my hands." Pu Guoyi said, changing the topic, "Hey, I see that the soldiers in Your Excellency's team hold less long and short weapons, but more gongs and drums, what does this mean?" ”

The general banner explained: "This is the clever strategy of Master Kong, in the middle of the night, he harass the enemy with a gong, and he does not need to spend a single soldier, but the effect is better than the sword." There was pride in his words.

Pu Guoyi naturally knew what these broken copper and iron were for, and asked this sentence just to distract the general flag. At present, seeing that the general flag has relaxed his vigilance, he lost no time in sighing: "Master Kong is like a god with soldiers, and his name is worthy of it, and he will be able to restore Jianzhou!" Our department wants to avenge Hou Shuai's shame just around the corner. Then he made a request, "I want to see Master Kong, and I would like to ask Your Excellency to introduce me on my behalf." With that, he took out the square half-seal of the garrison from his bosom and handed it to the general flag.

With the official seal as proof, the general flag is no longer suspicious. It's just that he is a humble position and can't make a decision, so he divided half of the people and continued to go to Jianzhou to carry out the task, while he took Pu Guoyi and other 500 people to the camp on the west bank of the Jialing River and let the main general Kong Quanbin deal with it.

The camp of the official army was not far from Jianzhou, and it was less than half an hour, and Pu Guoyi saw fire in the darkness in the distance. Getting closer, but seeing that outside the camp, hundreds of officers and soldiers were fighting with open fire, where was the Jinghou, Pu Guoyi's heart tightened, waved his hand to stop the troops from continuing to advance, and stayed in place and said to the general banner: "What do you mean?" ”

The general flag shook his head and said: "Presumably, Lord Kong has received a report, this army is in chaos, who is not vigilant in their hearts, don't worry, my lord, I will hand over the garrison seal for you to Lord Kong for inspection." ”

While the two were talking, Kong Quanbin's people over there also arrived, and the person who came rode a horse, sat on the horse and said proudly: "Is it Pu Guoyi, the garrison of Jianzhou?" "The voice was dragging and thin, and it was unpleasant to listen to.

Pu Guoyi hugged him and said: "It's Pu Guoyi below, and when I heard that Master Kong was raising troops, I came to meet him." ”

The envoy didn't look at him, stared into the distance and said, "What does Master Kong mean, one of the garrison seals the dead thing will not speak after all, you now take off your armor and abandon your sword, and go to Master Kong's side with me alone, and ask you a few questions." If everything is in his favor, then let the soldiers and horses behind you enter the camp. ”

"This ......" Pu Guoyi couldn't help but hesitate, he had thought that Kong Quanbin was not so easy to fool, and he didn't think that he was so cautious. If everything is really like what the annoying messenger in front of him said, if Kong Quanbin has more eyes and detains himself, it will really outweigh the losses.

The messenger waited for a while, and when he saw Pu Guoyi's hesitation, he was suspicious and asked, "You don't want to?" ”

Pu Guoyi smiled and said: "It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I am sincerely going to vote, and I want to help your ministry to overcome Jianzhou together, and Lord Kong doesn't want to accept it. ”

The messenger laughed dryly and said, "What kind of thing are you, and you dare to point fingers at Master Kong?" To be honest, without you, Lord Kong will still take Jianzhou steadily tomorrow. I've seen a lot of people like you, and they're in the limelight, so they gather like flies, and the limelight is not good, and they run faster than rabbits. Master Kong takes pity on you and gives you a chance to share your military exploits, but you still pick and choose? I don't know how to lift! ”

When Pu Guoyi heard this, he felt a lot more relieved. Listening to what the messenger said, Kong Quanbin did not have doubts about his identity, but was afraid that he would come over to snatch military merits. The starting point is this aspect, so you can't go directly to Kong Quanbin's side without missing your eyes. Pu Guoyi is also a veteran who has been in the army for many years, and he knows Kong Quanbin's thoughts: nominally, he will let himself join the siege of the city by looking at his feelings, and then divide the military merits. In fact, as soon as he is detained, he will hold his subordinates hostage and completely use them as cannon fodder during the siege of the city. After the deed is completed, the military merits will be mentioned? There are no doors.

The old rules of Liaodong ruffians, Pu Guoyi is not shallow, and he will not be fooled. He did not laugh at the arrogance of the messenger, but even claimed that it was. When the messenger saw that he had relented, he was even more disdainful, and urged: "Then hurry up, Master Kong will bring hundreds of people, and he will attack the city tomorrow." I don't have time to accompany you outside the camp to blow the wind! ”

Pu Guoyi smiled and nodded, and went to untie the waist knife, at this moment, his eyes lit up, and he looked up at the dark sky in the east, and his pupils suddenly dilated. The messenger said impatiently, "What do you see, why don't you quickly untie the sword?" As soon as the words fell, a dark shadow flashed in front of him, but it was Pu Guoyi who rushed up with an arrow and dragged him off the horse.

The messenger was about to call for help when the cold blade slashed through his throat. The whole process is done in one go and cleanly.

"You ......" the general banner who led the way was shocked when he returned to his senses, Pu Guo did not allow him to say any more, strode and raised his sword to knock him over, and at the same time shouted to the soldiers of the department, "General Fan has arrived, and tonight is the day of meritorious service!" At the sound of an order, the whole army suddenly began to kill.

The so-called "Fan Zong", the total Fan Jiwei is. However, at this time, Fan Jiwei was not on the ground, but on the river.

A few hours ago, Pu Guoyi proposed a plan to Wu Mingfeng. This strategy is simple to say, but if it weren't for a general like him who has been stationed in Jianzhou for a long time, he would not have thought of it at all. Because the key point of the strategy lies in the Jialing River.

At the beginning, Hou Liangzhu set up the base camp of defense in Guangyuan, and continued to collect grain and military materials from the north and south. Compared with the rugged and steep land routes, it is undoubtedly faster and easier to transport grain along the waterways of the Jialing River. Although Jianzhou is not near the river, there is also a small port in the north, and the grain and grass in the south are transported here from the lower reaches of the Jialing River to count and transit, and then transported by land to the small port in the north, and then continue to flow up the river to Guangyuan, which is built by the river.

Pu Guoyi is in charge of the work of crossing the river, knowing that there are ships in the small port, and because of his lively mind, he further thought that these boats could be used. His suggestion to Wu Mingfeng was to divide the troops into two routes.

One route was led by himself, approaching Kong Quanbin's camp with the identity of an old general in Sichuan-the news in Sichuan was sluggish, and even the news that Hou Liangzhu had died in battle had not yet fully spread, not to mention the whereabouts of a small garrison of him? Moreover, Kong Quanbin only rushed into Sichuan from Shaanxi, and he thought that the level of well-informed information would have to be lowered by a notch.

The other route was led by Fan Jiwei, and went out of the north gate in advance to the small port in the north, and went down the river.

There were about 500 people on each of the two roads, and Wu Mingfeng took the remaining 1,000 people to defend the city. Before Pu Guoyi left the city, he agreed with Fan Jiwei that he would use rockets as the signal and wait for the troops on the river to do it himself. After all, the other party is Kong Quanbin's regular army, and there is no response to the head-on confrontation, and Pu Guoyi is not sure to stabilize his position.

Although Fan Jiwei still has a problem with Pu Guoyi, after all, business is the most important, and he can also distinguish priorities, feel that the plan is feasible, and there is nothing to disagree. He came all the way down the river without any obstacles. It can be seen that Kong Quanbin focused on the direction of Jianzhou in the west, and did not expect that there would be a threat from the river in the east.

On the river not far from the official barracks, there were several pontoon bridges built by Kong Quanbin, and when Fan Jiwei arrived, he first fired three bright rockets into the sky, and then began to set fire to the pontoon bridges. By the time Pu Guoyi's troops began to attack Kong Quanbin, the east river of the official army camp was already in flames.

"The Rogue is coming!"

Except for the hundreds of people who were taken out of the camp by Kong Quanbin to "greet" Pu Guoyi, the vast majority of the officers and soldiers were recuperating for the battle after dawn. Kong Quanbin's camp was originally made of balsa wood and hay, but it was not strong, and the weather was dry and cold, and as soon as the rocket was fired, the fire spread instantly, and the officers and soldiers who were still asleep did not know where to go, and under the panic, it was inevitable to bomb the camp.

If there was only one Pu Guoyi to the enemy, the hundreds of officers and soldiers who were fighting in the melee would have been able to win the battle, but they could not escape the word "potential" in everything, Fan Jiwei killed from the river, causing a large area of chaos in the camp, the soldiers in the battalion did not have Kong Quanbin in command, and they had already become a pot of porridge, and the officers and soldiers outside the camp heard the exclamation and howl of the robe on their backs, although Kong Quanbin personally commanded, their morale still plummeted. Let's just say that Kong Quanbin himself is also frightened and retreating at the moment.

As Hong Chengchou's pioneer, he is well aware of his responsibilities. To capture Jianzhou City, it was just a temporary idea for him to reap the credit. Now that he was being attacked on both land and river, the first thought he thought of was to retreat.

He knew that Zitongtun was stationed with the main force of the Zhao battalion, and estimated the time that the reinforcements from the Zhao battalion would arrive at noon at the latest. In other words, he had to launch an attack early in the morning, capture Jianzhou before Zhao's support arrived, and then hold the city and wait for Hong Chengchou. Originally, according to the plan, this goal was not impossible to achieve, even if it could not be attacked, he could calmly retreat. But now, the pontoon bridge that was used as a retreat was burned, and now his army and camp have also been greatly hit, although he has the ability to repel this group of thieves tonight, but the siege of the city is no longer possible. Instead of packing up until daylight and waiting for the Zhao battalion reinforcements to arrive, it is better to withdraw in advance now to fight for a chance to buffer and breathe.

As a general, he can advance and retreat. Kong Quanbin has a lot of energy, and he knows that this time he is a bad move, but he doesn't have too many regrets. Under his orders, the officers and troops fought and left, and began to retreat south. At this time, Fan Jiwei's troops had landed and joined forces with the Pu Guoyi Association. After leaving part of their troops behind to continue arson and chasing down the scattered officers and soldiers, they led most of them to pursue Kong Quanbin. Who knew that once or twice, Kong Quanbin was repulsed. Fan Jiwei wanted to chase again, but Pu Guoyi stopped him and said: "The officers and soldiers have retreated, and it is useless to chase in vain." The city of Jianzhou is heavy, and it is advisable to return to the city as soon as possible, just in case. ”

Pu Guoyi is very well-educated and understands the truth that greed can't chew too much. Tonight's goal has been achieved, looking at this situation, Kong Quanbin will never return to attack Jianzhou, the focus of his army is on Jianzhou, not to kill the enemy, since he has been able to ensure that he can hold on until the arrival of Zitong reinforcements, doing superfluous things is just to add to the snake.

And he knew a lot of measure, and deliberately left some words not to say. In fact, what he wanted to say to Fan Jiwei was that tonight's victory was not so much that he and Fan Jiwei went all out, but that Kong Quanbin judged the situation and gave it up.