An Liqi didn't know that he struggled forward to make meritorious contributions and stabilize the situation, but he was quickly killed, which led to further chaos in the situation, and many soldiers were deeply shaken by his death, and they didn't dare to resist anymore, so they turned around and ran.

However, they didn't expect, or even forgot when they subconsciously fled, that behind them was the city of the Han army, and they realized it when their army came under the city wall, but it was too late, only to see the city gate opened, and Xu Rong personally led three thousand soldiers to slaughter them.

"Kill! Brothers, now that the Middle Route Army is invincible, we cannot afford to lag behind, and now is the time to show our bravery. Seeing the rapid progress of the middle route army, Zang Ba was not willing to lag behind, he roared, took the lead, personally charged ahead, and the morale of the whole army rose sharply for a while, and the soldiers bravely stepped forward, killing the enemy in fear, not daring to fight again, turning around and fleeing backwards.

At the same time, Zhang Chao also led his army to launch a fierce attack, although Zhang Chao's own combat power is not strong, but his subordinates are all Zhu Jun's elite, no worse than the Xiliang army, plus the middle route army has achieved an overwhelming advantage, the enemy army has no intention of fighting, so their progress is not slow compared to Zang Ba's left wing army, it can be said that they are advancing hand in hand.

Originally, under Pei Qing's onslaught, the Xiliang army could not support it, but Xu Rong led the army to kill from the city, so the imperial army's army launched a front and rear attack, the Xiliang army had no intention of fighting, suffered heavy losses, and fled one after another, and those who were dumpled by the imperial army's army and could not escape, could only throw away their weapons and surrender.

This time, the general of the Xiliang Army who was responsible for coming to attack the city was named Wang Fang, he led 10,000 troops to come, the original intention was that even if he could not capture Xinfeng City, he could also contain Xu Rong in the city, and he was also continuing to consume his military strength, once the main army arrived, Xu Rong would soon be defeated, but he didn't expect the reinforcements of the imperial court to come so quickly, almost the front foot of Wang Fang arrived, and Pei Qing's reinforcements arrived on the back foot, Wang Fang just started the siege, and was immediately attacked by reinforcements from behind, and then was attacked by Pei Qing and Xu Rong's abdomen.

In this case, the 10,000-strong army suffered heavy losses, and the soldiers scrambled to flee for their lives, and the king knew that nothing could be done, so he had no choice but to sigh secretly and order the whole army to break through.

Fortunately, Wang Fang's personal soldiers were loyal enough to protect him and fight his way out, and finally succeeded in breaking through.

But when it was safe, he counted the number of people, and there were only a few hundred people with him, and the 10,000 army was either killed, surrendered, or dispersed, and it was gone.

Wang Fang fled back in despair, and happened to meet the main general of the army, Li Dao, on the way, so he fell to the ground and pleaded guilty and reported the news of the defeat to Li Dao.

When Li Wei heard the news, he immediately said angrily: "When you asked you to attack the city, you said that you would definitely take Xinfeng and kill the traitor Xu Rong, but now how can you explain it?" You were defeated in the first battle of the army, which seriously disturbed the morale of our army and lowered my morale. ”

Then he shouted the order: "Drag this guy out for me and behead it for public display!" ”

At this time, a middle-aged scribe stopped: "Wait." General, now is the time to employ people, it is not appropriate to kill the general, what we should do most is the reason for General Wang's defeat, who is the main general of the reinforcements, and how many soldiers and horses did he bring? Only in this way will it be targeted, so as not to be defeated again, otherwise, although we may not be defeated, but once Chang'an cannot be attacked for a long time, the morale of the army will inevitably collapse, and at that time, we can only be slaughtered. ”

Li Wei thought for a moment when he heard this, and immediately said with admiration on his face: "Wen He's words are reasonable, since the military advisor is interceding, let's spare his life." ”

Then Li Wei looked at Wang Fang and asked slowly, "How many reinforcements have come?" Who will the Lord be? You've been fighting with them anyway, you can't even know about this, right? ”

Seeing this, Wang Fang hurriedly thanked him, and then said: "General Hui, this point has been investigated clearly, the enemy's main general is named Pei Qing, and there are estimated more than 20,000 people under his command. ”

"Pei Qing? Who is this? How come I haven't heard of it? Li Wei asked in surprise when he heard this.

But I saw the middle-aged scribe and said: "This Pei Qing was originally a bandit leader, and later because of his poetry and writing, he was promoted to Maocai, and was appointed as Nanyang Taishou by Taishi, because Nanyang could not take office, I don't know why he was welcomed by Yingchuan Shishu, and temporarily served as Yingchuan Taishou, and later was invited by Zhu Jun to lead the army to Zhongmu, but at that time he only brought 500 people, and it seemed that he was not hostile to Taishi, but later after Taishi was killed, he came to Chang'an again, and on the way he led the army to break General Dong Yue, Even the death of General Niu Fu has something to do with his expedition, and he seems to have some friendship with Na Lu Bu after he arrived in Chang'an, and the rest of the rumors are not very clear. ”

When Li Wei heard the middle-aged scribe Jia Xu say this, he immediately said angrily: "This Pei Qing was originally favored by the Taishi to become a Taishou, but he didn't expect to betray the Taishi in a blink of an eye, a traitor like this really deserves to be killed, Wenhe, you give me a way to get rid of this thief, so as to deter the unrighteous people in the world." ”

Jia Xu suddenly smiled bitterly and said: "This Pei Qing is also a resourceful person, it is not an easy thing to defeat him, we must find a suitable opportunity." ”

Then Jia Xu asked again: "General Wang, who else is there in the imperial army this time besides Pei Qing's headquarters?" ”

Wang Fang thought for a while and said: "The last general also saw the banner of Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian, as well as the banners of Li Su and Hu Zhen, but Li Su was hiding behind the battle, but Hu Zhen led the army in front and killed our brother with Pei Qing." ”

"What? Huh? Does he want to die? When Li Dao heard this, he was immediately furious and said, "Isn't he afraid that I will retaliate against his people?" ”

However, he saw Jia Xu and said: "Don't be angry first, this matter is not so simple, General Wang, think about it carefully, what was Hu Zhen himself doing when he launched an attack?" Have you always been by Pei Qing's side? ”

Wang Fang was only a hundred steps away from Pei Qing and Hu Zhen at that time, so he saw it very clearly, so he said without hesitation: "That's true, Hu Zhen was surrounded by Pei Qing and his own soldiers, and it could be seen that he was a little uncomfortable at that time. ”

"That's right." Jia Xu nodded, and said to Li Wei: "General, this is our opportunity, I dare to predict that this Hu Zhen must have been coerced by Pei Qing, so he launched an attack on us, he is different from Li Su, this Li Su personally participated in the assassination of Taishi, and he is not from Liangzhou, so there is no possibility of reconciliation with us, but Hu Zhen is different, he was forced to surrender, I believe that as long as the time comes, we can still fight for it." ”

Li Wei was overjoyed when he heard this: "Hu Zhen was originally a member of my Liangzhou team, as long as he is willing to surrender, when the time comes, we should cooperate inside and outside, and fight inside and outside, can Pei Qing's thief be undefeated?" What a godsend. ”