At night, the envoy came and said that Fangling was in danger of besieging the city, and Gong Zhijun was afraid that he would be cut off of grain and grass. And Cai Maojun broke Gong Zhi's cavalry again, hoping that Huang Zhongjun could send troops to rescue Fang Ling. Huang Zhong was still undecided after receiving this, so he immediately asked Pang Tong to come to the account to explain the situation. It seemed that after hearing about the big thing, Pang Tong smiled indifferently and said: "If you fall for the trick of encircling Wei to save Zhao, the matter of the eldest prince will be over." ”

"But at least we have to help defend Gong Zhi, right?"

Pang Tong, who shook his head, said with a smile: "After closing the gate of the village, we will not leave the village." ”

"What!" Huang Zhong was shocked when he heard this. "But if you don't save him, it's unkind and unjust. He raised an army to destroy the thieves with us, but we sat idly by. Where does this make me put Huang Zhong's face? ”

Pang Tong, who still maintained a confident smile, said calmly: "At this time, Cai Mao's army is still relatively majestic, and there are many elite cavalry. If we help defend Gong Zhijun, who may be broken at any time, when he is sharp, then both armies will be in crisis. After all, there is a hungry wolf watching the battle in the east. And we don't go to help defend Gong Zhi, because there is a crisis in Fangling and there are enemy soldiers in the east, Gong Zhi's army will inevitably fight to the death, and the courage is even greater. On the other hand, since we did not come to the rescue, the enemy must have thought that we were pinned down by Wei Yanjun in the east, and gave up rescuing Gong Zhi in order to protect ourselves. They will definitely approach rashly and annihilate Gong Zhi's men and horses at one time, so as to extinguish the momentum of the people who help our army, and no one will be willing to help the eldest prince in the future. ”

After gasping and exhaling heavily, Huang Zhong said, "Feng Xiao can be calculated to such an extent, I really opened my eyes." So what to do after that? ”

"I have my own way to act when the opportunity arises."

Soon after Pang Tongjun closed Dazhai. Cai Mao's army really supported an army of 250,000 to attack the west. The situation is critical, and Gong Zhijun may be completely annihilated at any time. More than a dozen of Huang Zhong's subordinates knelt outside Huang Zhong's tent and cut their hair to ask for battle. But because he promised Pang Tong, Huang Zhong patiently ignored it. There was even a general who knelt outside the tent with tears streaming down his face, and this kind of grief and indignation immediately infected the entire Huang Zhong army, and more and more people knelt outside Huang Zhong's tent. Wen Ping didn't understand what he wanted to do, and went to Huang Zhong. But Huang Zhong only said: "Feng Xiao has a clever plan, so that I will not move." Brother Wen, please bear with me. ”

Wen Ping heard that it was Pang Tong's plan, so he left silently. But looking at the soldiers who asked for their lives to rescue Gong Zhijun, Wen Ping clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, as if there was also a beast full of fighting desire in his chest that was rushing around.

Cai Mao's army began to attack Gong Zhijun's Dazhai, but because Gong Zhi's army fought against the water, it was very brave, and it was almost impossible to enter the gate. There are three ditches around the village, which are filled with water from the river, and it is obviously thankless to cross the past and attack the wooden fence. Under this stalemate, the battle continued, and the night was full of fire, murderous and bloody.

"If the general doesn't fight, the last general will die!"

In Huang Zhong's camp, Pang Tong and Wen Ping were there, and they could hear this heroic voice outside, and the three of them walked out, only to see people kneeling under the light of torches. One of the generals drew his sword and stuck it on the ground, and said loudly: "Our side is weak, Gong Zhi will make a righteous move, in the eyes of others, this is a stupid thing to hit a stone with an egg." Today, Gong Zhi's army has the power of total annihilation, but our army is alone in the camp and cannot come out, this is a great shame for us! Seeing that Gong Zhijun is perishing, it is better for me to show righteousness with death! So as not to be laughed at by the people of Jingzhou! ”

"I'm going to die!"

The people should be in peace.

Huang Zhong, who was frowning, looked at Pang Tongyi impatiently. Pang Tong nodded after looking at everyone and said, "That's it." Immediately whispered to Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was relieved when he heard this, and immediately said loudly: "Soldiers, now Cai Mao's army is attacking the village with all its might, this is a good time for us to rescue Gong Zhijun and attack Cai Mao's side!" ”

For a while, the pride was churning, and the mental and physical energy of the soldiers of the whole village who had been accumulating for a long time were boiling. Under the dispatch of Pang Tong, Huang Zhong led 80,000 people out of the village and rushed west to help. Wen hired 10,000 people to run east. Pang Tong led two thousand horsemen to the east.

Wei Yan, who learned that Huang Zhong's army had left the village, knew that the time for meritorious service had come, so he immediately waved his troops out of the nest and marched westward. At a position one mile away from Huang Zhongjun's Dazhai, looking up from the horizon, the moon behind the horned helmet reflected the body of this military general more majestically and transparently. Wen Ping raised the three-pointed two-edged gun in his hand, waved it forward, and 10,000 people galloped away. Wei Yan's horse infantry army, which was marching rapidly, was shocked when he saw this. Wen Ping's gun swept and slashed for a while, killing several enemies, and he and all the soldiers rushed to kill the enemy formation.

At this time, Pang Tong's 1,000 cavalry had already broken through Weiyan Dazhai. The 500 defenders in the village resisted for a while and then abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Pang Tong ordered the captives to carry grain and grass to the south and then to the west, deliberately avoiding Wei Yan's army, which might suddenly retreat. An hour later, the stragglers of Wei Yanjun fled back one after another, seeing that it was an empty village, knowing that the general trend had gone, most of them ran away with the mentality of abandoning their armor and returning to the field.

When the most tragic battle of Gong Zhijun Dazhai, even the people in the village thought that they would die and fought hard, and the more violent shouts of killing sounded in the rear of Cai Mao's army, like the most ferocious beast on the plain, Huang Zhong's army was like a bamboo, cracking the formation of Cai Mao's rear army, and the cavalry was directly killed into the Chinese army, Cai Mao was shocked. He ordered the army to fight on both sides. However, Huang Zhongjun regarded death as home, and the murderous spirit spread heavily in Cai Mao's dilapidated military formation. When Cai Mao's men and horses were in a panic, they saw that the enemy soldiers were rushing to kill their surrounding front regardless of life or death, and they were so frightened that they knelt directly on the ground and begged for mercy.

Cai Mao's former army, which originally wanted to rush into Gongzhi's military village, had already been harassed by Huang Zhong's army, and he didn't know where to fight. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gong Zhi waved his troops to rush out of Dazhai and besieged the enemy with Huang Zhongjun. The men and horses of both sides were unstoppable, and they swept Cai Mao's army almost like autumn wind sweeping leaves. In the clerical office dozens of miles away, after Wei Yan's army was defeated, Wei Yan fled alone, and more than 10,000 people surrendered.

In this battle, Cai Mao's army was defeated, with nearly 180,000 casualties, and the rest surrendered. This battle was later called the "Bloody Battle of Xiangyang", and it was also a classic battle in which fewer won more, and it was an important battle for Liu Qifang to counterattack Cai's henchmen.

Pang Yi, the word phoenix, this person's prestige immediately spread throughout Jingzhou. In Liu Qi's front, the generals almost bowed to him, regarded him as a military god, and even Huang Zhong was willing to bow down.

Cai Mao's body was later found in the corpse pile, and Pang Tong ordered people to carry his head to the city of Xiangyang, and asked the army to surround the four gates. There were more than 50,000 guards in the city, and they were at a loss when they saw this. Cai asked Cai Zhong, the only military attache around him who could be relied on, to lead the troops. After Cai Zhong got the military power, he didn't come out.

Huang Zhong and others saw that the enemy would not fight, and they all proposed to attack, but Pang Tong thought that this was the next strategy to lose troops and lose generals, and suggested not to attack strongly. He said: "Sun Tzu's art of war has a cloud: 'Therefore, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the city is attacked; The siege of the city is a last resort. 'The enemy soldiers are a ruined army, Cai Mao's generation has been killed in battle, and the person who leads the troops will not be a general, it is when the donkey skills are poor. In the face of an enemy whose morale has already been severely defeated, a strong attack will only provoke their fierce resistance. At such a time, only a soldier who surrenders without a fight can show the power of our army. Give me a little time, Xiangyang City is at your fingertips. The people were convinced of it and gave up the idea of attacking. One day, Pang Tong thought of a plan and ordered people to write 10,000 documents, which were shot into the city from all sides of the wall at night, writing: "You wait for the soldiers of Jingzhou, there are still children and old people at home." Our army is a righteous army, and if you can't stick to the Cai thief party anymore, you will only be ridiculed. If anyone can open the gates, he will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold. ”