Early in the morning, the Gangneung garrison had just opened the city gates. At the head of the city, a sergeant shouted, "Captain Wang, look, there is a detachment of men and horses coming from the official road." Do you want to close the gates? ”

Captain Wang raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and after a while, he kicked the sergeant who had just spoken, and said: "You rabbit cub, close the gate of the city, see clearly, that is our Nanping banner, it is our own people, presumably Zhang Liang, who went out to invite the envoy of the King of Chu back the day before yesterday." ”

The sergeant was kicked, but his face was happy, and he actually laughed a few times with a shy face.

"Let's go, go down to meet Zhang Liang. Damn, why every time this kind of good thing comes to the person with his surname Zhang. This kid must have played a lot of autumn winds in the county town outside. Let's go and share some benefits with him. So saying, he came down from the tower with a group of sergeants and came to the gate to meet him.

At this time, it was the morning time, and there were very few people in and out of the city, whether the Nanping army could fight or not, the people didn't know, but they oppressed the people, it was full of tricks, and bones could be found in the eggs. At this moment, I saw a large group of people coming, and these people were so frightened that they did not dare to enter the city, nor did they dare to go out of the city, and they slipped away with oil under their feet.

Only Captain Wang led a team of men and horses, and he smiled at the Nanping army who was about to walk in front of him: "What about Zhang Liang? Hurry up and give Lao Tzu out. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the leader of "his own people" on the opposite side, riding a tall horse, and subconsciously clutched the big knife in his hand on the horse. Captain Wang had a trace of doubt in his heart, and scolded: "Fuck, Zhang Liang, don't come out yet, if you don't come out, Lao Tzu will close the door." ”

The man on the other side, hearing this, seemed a little surprised, stretched his neck forward, looked at the situation in the city, and then looked back, as if he was about to call someone to find Zhang Liang.

Captain Wang looked at this person's performance and wondered in his heart: When did Zhang Liang find such a stunned young man. At this moment, the man suddenly slapped the horse's buttocks with a big knife, and the horse was frightened and galloped towards Captain Wang. Then, the man shouted: "Brothers, follow Lao Tzu and occupy Nanping City, and the five princes will be rewarded." "This person is Zhang Wenbiao. Zhang Wenbiao has a short temper and a temperament like fire, and his skills in dressing up and covering up are much worse than Chen Xu. However, he was thick and fine, and seeing that he was only a stone's throw away from the officer opposite, and very close to the city gate, he relied on his martial arts and killed him directly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Captain Wang turned around and ran, saying as he ran: "Go and report to the king, there are thieves attacking the city, hurry, close it quickly... Before he finished speaking, a cold wind whistled behind his head, and Captain Wang's heart and gall were broken, and he couldn't care about talking anymore.

Zhang Wenbiao no longer pursued him, picked up a big knife and slashed a few Nanping soldiers alive, and rushed into Jiangling City first. Cao Yun, who was in the back, commanded the army to storm Jiangling City, and sent someone to send a signal to tell Ma Yun, who was backing, that the city gate had been successful.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang, something is wrong."

Nanping Wang Gao Congzhi was discussing with Liang Zhen and Wang Baoyi in the palace chamber how to issue military salaries, give relief to the state, and then seek peace with the "Seven Villages". With the 100,000 taels of silver contributed by the King of Chu, Nanping could barely survive this difficult period in front of him. Wang Gao of Nanping has been in a rare good mood for two months.

At this time, hearing this chaotic scream, he couldn't help but sink his face when he was still full of excitement just now.

"Wei Lan, what's the matter? What a fuss! Seeing that the person who walked in was Wei Lan, the commander of the forbidden army, Xiangguo Liang Zhen asked in surprise.

Wei Lan was panicked, and he stammered: "King, something is wrong, this and this, a group of thieves have entered Jiangling City." ”

"Ahh

Seeing that Gao Congxue was a little dizzy in surprise, Liang Zhen hurriedly asked, "Wei Luan, have you found out, who dares to sneak attack Jiangling City?" ”

Now Wei Lan asked, he had just received a sneak attack on Jiangling, and he had already occupied the east gate and rushed in, and there were a large number of thieves outside the east gate who were coming in in a steady stream. At that moment, Wei Lan was anxious, and he ran to the palace in fear to report this big bad news, and by the way, he heard what the supreme instructions were.

Wei Lan said with a little hesitation: "Xiangguo, this, I only know that a large number of thieves have occupied the east gate, and I don't know where they came from." ”

Liang Zhen was trembling by his gray beard, pointed at him and said, "Then how many of them there are, I guess you don't know?" What's the use of asking you for this waste? ”

Wei Lan blinked a little aggrievedly and didn't dare to speak.

Liang Zhen suddenly woke up and said, "Wei Luan, you ran to the palace, who is responsible for commanding the battle?" ”

Wei Xuannuo said: "Jingmen military general Li Duanzai is in command. ”

Liang Zhen pointed at him with a flushed face and said, "You, you, you... "I'm actually angry behind my back.

Wang Baoyi was beside Liang Zhen, seeing that Liang Zhen's expression was wrong, he was about to fall backwards, so he hurriedly supported him and called "Xiangguo!" ”

Nanping Wang Gao Congyu also woke up from the initial shock, hurriedly ran over, and said again and again: "Xiangguo, Xiangguo, you are about to wake up." Quick, get a doctor. ”

"Great King," Liang Zhen woke up and said, "How did Li Duan, the general of the Jingmen Army, command the forbidden army?" The thieves came to the city, presumably there are not many soldiers, for the minister, please ask the prince to personally command, and lead the soldiers to fight to the death in the thief alley, on the other hand, the minister asked the prince to send a fast horse to Jingmen, to Xiazhou, and mobilize two armies to quickly come to the rescue, otherwise I will not be able to protect Nanping. ”

Gao Congyu nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, okay, Wei Lan will immediately send someone to rescue as Xiangguo said." ”

Wei Lan had just gone out, and someone helped Xiangguo Liang Zhen to rest in the side room, Wang Baoyi came over and said: "King, the matter is urgent, although Xiangguo's words are good, but the king personally supervises the battle, if there is a loss, it will be a catastrophe." ”

Gao Congzhi glanced at Wang Baoyi with doubts on his face.

Wang Baoyi continued: "It's better to let Wei Lan command, and then leave the prince to swear and fight a decisive battle, and you should retreat to Jingmen first." ”

Just when Gao Congzhi was hesitating, someone ran in with a shout.

"Father, the big thing is not good, Li Duan, the general of the Jingmen army, has been killed in battle, and the vanguard of the thieves is very powerful, and he is already about to kill in front of the palace." The person who came was Gao Congxue's fifth son, Gao Baoxuan. Gao Baoqiao has been a good soldier since he was a child, and has been holding an official position in the forbidden army, just now the Chu army sneak attacked, he has been fighting to the death, and now seeing that the Nanping army can no longer support it, he came to the palace to persuade his father to flee quickly.

Gao Congxue's eyes jumped, and he said: "Okay, Bao Xuan, you quickly lead 800 royal soldiers to go out of the city from the west gate with me, we will go to your eldest brother Baoxun's Jingmen army first, and then make plans later." ”

"You can't go, King. The thieves stormed the palace, indicating that they were not numerous, and now there are 6,000 soldiers in Jiangling City, and there are 1,000 garrisons in Shaxian County outside the city, maybe they have come to the rescue, as soon as you leave, the situation will immediately collapse. At this time, you have to fight to the death, maybe there is still a chance. ”

"Old Xiangguo, the situation is critical, you should go to Jingmen with the king, there are still 3,000 Jingmen troops, and then meet the 7,000 soldiers in Xiazhou, it may not be impossible to recapture Jiangling City."

Liang Zhen used all his strength and said sharply: "Wang Baoyi, you... YOU THIS ... You life-hungry fool. My lord, once you lose the city of Gangneung, which is thick and easy to defend and difficult to attack, where in the world will you still have a place to live. Although the Jingmen army is elite, the number is too small. Without Jiangling, as soon as the Xiazhou soldiers who had been in arrears for a long time left the city, it might be a mutiny. King, at this time, you can't hesitate, lose Gangneung, there is nothing. This is only a hundred miles away from Jingmen, as long as you hold on for a while, then Jiangling will be in danger. ”

looked at Liang Zhen's anxious face, and then looked at Wang Baoyi and Gao Baoxuan's panicked expressions, Gao Cong's heart was like lightning, and he couldn't make a decision. At this moment, Liu Zhiqian, the palace guard covered in blood, ran and said: "Lord Wang, that thief didn't fight anywhere else, and attacked the palace desperately, and now he has killed the gate of the palace, if you don't leave, it's too late." ”

What, so fast.

At that moment, Wang Baoyi and Gao Baoqiao glanced at each other, set up Gao Congxuan and ran from the palace to the back door, only Xia Liang Zhen was behind, his face was full of tears, and he muttered: "King, you can't go, it's all over as soon as you leave." ”