After Zhao Yi took Le'an City, he did not rush to replace the flag on the city tower with the flag in his own army, but everything went as usual, and let all the defenders on the city tower change into the clothes of Zhao Gui's army, just waiting for Zhao Gui to come, and then come to catch turtles.

"Zhong Ai, tell me, will Zhao Gui come to the rescue in person?" Everything was ready, and Zhao Yi sat comfortably in the general's mansion in the city.

Zhong Ai shook his head and said: "Lord, the minister thinks it won't, although Zhao Gui is a relative of the emperor, but he is often drunk and dreams of death and accompanied by wine and wealth, and he is timid by nature, it is estimated that he will only guard Runan City, as for the reinforcements, they must be sent, but the general who is the leader must still be the one who goes to ask for help." ”

"No matter who comes, I just hope to bring a little more soldiers and horses, otherwise this bureau we set up will be wasted, how many soldiers and horses are there in Runan City now?" Zhao Yi rubbed his hands, and couldn't wait to go to Runan City to scold now.

"Runan City is high, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the garrison in the city is only 40,000, and the number of people who come to the rescue is not more than 10,000, it is not difficult for us to swallow this 10,000 reinforcements, the important thing is how to set up an ambush in the city, and rush to Runan in the shortest time, so as not to have a long night and many dreams." Zhong Ai continued.

"The three generals led 5,000 soldiers and horses, and after the enemy entered the city, they entered from the south gate, the north gate, and the west gate, leaving only the east gate to let the enemy flee, and there was a forest twenty miles outside the east gate, so that Taishi often led five thousand soldiers and horses to wait there, if he was willing to surrender, then congratulations to the lord for getting a fierce general, if he did not surrender, there was no way, he could only kill."

"Okay, according to what the military advisor said, I'll let them go now with their own orders." Zhao Yi ordered people to invite the generals and let them each take their orders.

Late at night the next day, Ju Liao led 10,000 soldiers and horses to the rescue, led the troops to the south gate downstairs, raised the fire and shouted: "I am Ju Liao, I specially lead the troops to come to the rescue, quickly put down the drawbridge." ”

The defenders of the city saw it, they were very happy, Ju Liao did not find anything abnormal, so he ordered to put down the drawbridge, Ju Liao shouted the order to enter the city, and led the troops into the city, but after entering the city, the city shouted to kill the earth, Ju Liao hurriedly ordered the city garrison to raise the suspension bridge, but the city garrison suddenly changed a wave of people and horses, a bunch of archers shot arrows at the city Ju Liao soldiers and horses, suddenly people turned over on their backs, five thousand people outside the city arrived, Ju Liao broke and fled, except for the east gate, each exit has continuous soldiers and horses rushing into the city.

"Deus Ex! Go out through the East Gate! Ju Liao is not afraid of danger, he sees death as home, and only hopes to bring more people back.

Ju Liao killed dozens of people one after another to kill a way, and after rushing out, he found that only a few hundred remnants were left with him, and the rest of the men and horses were folded inside, Ju Liao led hundreds of remnants to escape from the east gate.

After the three generals killed the enemy troops in the city, they did not stop, and marched directly to the direction of Runan, Zhao Yi led the large army to take the first step, and the matter of defending the city was handed over to Tai Shichang.

Taishi Chang led his troops to guard in the woods twenty miles outside the east gate, and when he saw the fire in the city, he expected that Ju Liao had been decided, and he was determined to wait for the arrival of the defeated army.

Ju Liao fled all the way into the woods, and when he saw that the enemy was not pursuing, he wanted to stop here for a while to see how many soldiers and horses had been lost.

How could I not fulfill people's wishes, just turned over and dismounted, and drank heavily: "The enemy has fallen for the plan of my military division, why don't you hurry up and arrest it!" ”

Ju Liao hurriedly got on his horse and prepared to flee, a sharp arrow shot straight into the horse's head, Ju Liao fell off the horse, Tai Shi often rode out of the woods and held a gun against Ju Liao's neck.

"Zhao Gui is weak, it is better to take refuge in my lord, the good birds choose the wood and perch, the virtuous ministers choose the lord and do things, my lord has promised to reuse you, you are just a Yamen general in Zhao Gui and cannot be reused, think about it yourself, it is a waste of your good martial arts, but to leave it in the future history!" Tai Shi Chang said everything that the general gave him to speak.

Ju Liao closed his eyes and thought for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "I am willing to be loyal to Zhao Yi, and he will be my lord from now on." ”

Tai Shi Chang took away the spear, picked up Ju Liao and said: "You won't regret today's decision, the lord has personally led his troops to Runan, and it won't take long to take Runan." ”

Ju Liao said with emotion: "Although Zhao Gui is said to be the lord of mediocrity, after all, he is also the person I once served. ”

Tai Shi Chang led the troops and Ju Liao to return to Le'an City together.

After the destruction of Le'an City, the news had already reached the neighboring Beihai County, but it was not possible to receive Zhao Yi's letter at that time.

"This Zhao Yi agreed with us that he would capture Le'an, and we would capture Chengyang, but now it's good, if it weren't for the fact that our army's spies found that Le'an City had been taken down by Zhao Yi, we didn't know until now." Meng Liu was very annoyed by Zhao Yi's alliance agreement.

"What are you afraid of, he deceived us, didn't we also deceive them, it is estimated that Zhuang Ran will arrive in Chengyang City in a few days, and now we can order the eighteen Qu Shuai to rush to Chengyang, and then transfer 20,000 people from Qi County and Donglai to round with Zhuang Ran, and then wait for the Northern Barbarians." Zhang Taibai offered advice.

Meng Liu nodded and said with a smile: "I have Taibai alone, so I have a lot of peace in my heart, I just feel that everything is a lot simpler." ”

"There are too few strategists around you, not many can enter my eyes, and then there is that our strength is too poor now, no one is willing to help us, as long as we can promise the Northern Barbarians, there will inevitably be people following." This is where Zhang Taibai worries, in terms of military generals, whether it is Meng Liu, or Li Xianliang, Zhuang Ran, or Eighteen Qu Shuai, they can all lead one side alone, but if it is a strategist, it seems that he is the only one.

At this time, Zhuang Ran led 30,000 soldiers and horses on the way.

Zhuang Ran surrounded the entire Chengyang City, and then stationed in a low-lying place thirty miles outside Chengyang City, and ordered people to spread the news of the loss of Le'an City into the city. It lasted for half a decade, and there was not much grain and grass in Chengyang City, so there was really no grain and grass to use at this time.

Another day in the city fire cooking, the city food and grass has been empty, the soldiers mutinied, quarreled with each other, and even moved, the guard general Gong Zhi angrily pulled out his sword and killed the two people who were fighting, and scolded angrily: "Whoever dares to quarrel again, I will be the first to kill them, eat and drink today, and follow me out of the city tomorrow night to attack." ”

On the second day, Zhuang Ran ordered someone to come to Chengyang City with wine and meat, and shouted in his mouth: "Open the city gate and surrender, good wine and good meat are beckoning, if you wait for the city to be broken, what you are waiting for is to add a knife and axe, and you will be dead!" ”

Suddenly, the drawbridge of the city gate was lowered, and the city gate was opened, and thousands of light horsemen were killed from it, and the soldiers fled one after another.

Gong Zhi thought in his heart that since he had already left the city today, the enemy army would inevitably think that I would not go out of the city again, and the garrison would inevitably be relaxed, and I was attacking the camp at night, and I would definitely be able to break the enemy army!

At night, Gong Zhi took thousands of military horses out of the city and went straight to Zhuang Ran's camp, and saw that Zhuang Ran's military camp was very unprepared, except for the night patrol personnel who patrolled, there was no more fortification, and he was secretly happy.

Went straight to the camp, who would have thought that after entering the barracks, there was no one in the tent, Gong Zhizheng was puzzled, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses rushed down from the mountains everywhere.

"Boy! I expected you to attack the camp, and I set it up here to lure you over! Zhuang Ran couldn't stop laughing, Zhang Gong shot Gong Zhi off the horse with an arrow, and then drew his sword and jumped high from the horse, jumped down, and killed Gong Zhi with a sword through the throat.

The rest of the soldiers and horses went straight to Chengyang City, and by the next day, Chengyang City had already hung the banner of the Taiping Army.