It is said that Gongsun Zhan, under the protection of thousands of guards around him, finally took the lead in escaping back to Wuzhong County after a day and a night of non-stop running.

As soon as he arrived at his mansion in Wuzhong County, Gongsun Chan did not go to rest first, but hurriedly called the leader of his personal guards.

"You're going to count your men right away and see how many haven't come back?" Gongsun Chan anxiously commanded.

"Yes!" The guard answered, and hurried back to the troops.

The reason why Gongsun Chan cares so much about his personal guards is because these personal guards have been cultivated by himself with great effort for so many years, except for Tian Kai, Shan Jing, and Guan Jing, this team is his real henchman.

In so many years of warfare with the Hu people, Gongsun Chan knew and realized the importance of elite cavalry, so Gongsun Chan took those who were good at archery as the prototype and formed a light cavalry unit as his personal guard.

Because Gongsun Chan loves white horses, the members of his own personal guard force are also all white war horses, in order to express their loyalty to Gongsun Zhan, the members of this unit also chanted "Righteousness, life and death go hand in hand!" The sky can be learned, and the white horse is the proof! Therefore, he was called "White Horse Yicong" by the world, and Gongsun Chan was also called "White Horse General!" ”

Bai Ma Yi from this army from the beginning of a few hundred people, now there are 3,000 people, these people have admirable loyalty to Gongsun Zhan, in the battle between Gongsun Chan and the Hu people, Gongsun Chan many times can survive in a desperate situation is to rely on this team, so Bai Ma Yicong's name has slowly spread among the Hu people. At that time, there was a saying among the Wuhuan people, "It is better to meet several times the enemy than to meet the white horse general"

Bai Ma Yicong is very brave, but he is still a little powerless under the unpredictable array of drama talents, but in the end, he still protects Gongsun Zhan safely.

Gongsun Chan sat in the room with palpitations and waited for news outside, and several servants did not dare to disturb when they saw this, but carefully served Gongsun Chan a pot of hot tea and some wine and food and then withdrew.

"General!" The leader of Bai Ma Yicong ran to Gongsun Zhan's door and shouted with a gloomy expression.

Seeing this, Gongsun Chan hurriedly put down the teapot that was being poured in his hand, ran forward and asked, "How is it?" ”

When the leader of the white horse heard this, his eyes were red and he replied, "About half of the brothers have not come back yet!" ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, Gongsun Zhan's whole person was a little depressed.

It is said that among those who were besieged and killed by Wu Liang before, some of them were Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteous servants, and at that time, under the siege of Wu Liang layer by layer, none of the enemies surrendered because of this.

Just when Gongsun Chan was immersed in grief, Tian Kai and others behind also ran back, and seeing that Tian Kai and the others were safe and sound, Gongsun Chan could be regarded as having some comfort.

Seeing that everyone came back, Gongsun Zhan asked Guan Jing to go down and count the losses this time, and then took Tian Kai and others to his room.

At this time, everyone's mood was extremely heavy, not that how many soldiers died made their hearts ache, but for everyone who has always been arrogant and conceited, yesterday's defeat was simply a great shame in their military career.

Gongsun Chan was also extremely depressed at this time, but as the main general, he couldn't show his negative emotions, if he was sluggish, the morale of the soldiers outside would definitely plummet.

Gongsun Zhan, who is well versed in leading troops, can only pretend to be calm and comfort everyone at this time.

"Yesterday's battle was my light enemy, however, although the process is very different from what I thought, but the result is the same, Liu Yi's gang has already followed us in the scheme, as long as we can hold it in front of the endless city, within a month, Liu Yi will be defeated, and when the time comes, the entire Youzhou will be in our pocket!"

Hearing Gongsun Zhan's words, everyone raised their heads and looked at Gongsun Zhan with a confident look, and everyone was relieved in their hearts.

"General, the troops have been counted!" At this time, Guan Jing, who had completed the task, also came to the house.

"Tell me about it!"

Hearing Gongsun Zhan's words, Guan Jing hurriedly replied, "Returning to the general, there are still 32,000 soldiers in the city, including the wounded, and 1,700 of them are the general's personal guards!" ”

Seeing that he still had more than 30,000 people, Gongsun Chan was very determined.

......

In other words, on Liu Yi's side, because of the grain and grass that he had obtained in the Gongsun Zhan camp and later in Xi Zhicai and Wu Liang, Liu Yi simply ordered people to camp outside the endless city without doing anything.

At this time, with the people brought by Wu Liang, Liu Yi also had nearly 30,000 people on his side.

"Take a day off, and tomorrow we will send our troops without end!"

At this time, Liu Yi and others were sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army, and after a brief analysis of the current situation, Liu Yi gave the order to send troops tomorrow.

Early the next morning, a cold wind blew outside, and it was already November, and the weather was getting colder and colder.

In Liu Yi's camp, the soldiers had been assembled, and after Liu Yi simply did a pre-war mobilization, the army of 30,000 people marched in the direction of Wuzhong County.

After everyone arrived, before Zhang Fei stepped forward to fight, a soldier on the tower of the city hung a half-person high battle-free card.

Liu Yi and the others couldn't help frowning when they saw this.

"Huh? Wasn't Gongsun Chan quite heroic before? Why are you avoiding a fight now! Zhang Fei shouted loudly to show his dissatisfaction.

What Liu Yi and Xi Zhicai are most afraid of is that Gongsun Chan will avoid and not fight, if it drags on like this, when Qiu Liju and Gongsun Chan converge, he will definitely not be the opponent of the two.

Thinking of this, Liu Yi was a little anxious.

"Yide, you go up and scold! Scold all the ugly things you know, I want to see if Gongsun Zhan's guy can really calm down! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Fei shouted "Okay" and then ran to the city gate with a few guards, and began to greet Gongsun Zhan's ancestors for the eighteenth generation.

The soldiers on the city tower listened to Zhang Fei's insults and hated their teeth, and they all had the idea of rushing out.

At this time, Tian Kai and Shan Jing were in the middle of the city tower, and after hearing Zhang Fei's insults, they were furious, turned their heads and asked Gongsun Zan for their lives, saying that they would rush out to clean up Zhang Fei.

Compared with the angry crowd, the person concerned, Gongsun Zhan, smiled.

"Liu Yi'er is nothing more than that! If he can call his subordinates to come up and scold, it means that he has begun to be anxious! ”

After speaking, Gongsun Chan confidently instructed everyone, "The city is just a group of clowns jumping off the beam, tell the soldiers not to pay attention to them, just scold the past!" ”

After hearing Gongsun Zhan's order, the soldiers on the city tower began to scold Zhang Fei under the city, although Zhang Fei's voice was extremely loud, but in the face of the scolding of countless soldiers on the city tower, he was still a little powerless, and after a few rounds, Zhang Fei's scolding was covered.

I saw that Zhang Fei was so angry that his steel teeth were tight, and he took out a curved bow and shot at Gongsun Zhan, but because the distance was too far, the arrow grazed Gongsun Zhan's body and shot into the air.

Gongsun Chan laughed, and then began to order the archers in the city to shoot at the city, Zhang Fei and the others saw this, and used their weapons to resist the arrows that were shooting at them while retreating.

Seeing Zhang Fei and the others being shot back, the soldiers on the city tower raised their weapons and began to cheer, as if they had just won the battle.

Listening to the cheers behind him, Zhang Fei was even more annoyed.

"Gongsun Zhan, this guy is just a goddamn turtle with a shrunken head" As soon as he came to Liu Yi's side, Zhang Fei couldn't help but start scolding.

Liu Yi and Xi Zhicai were also a little uneasy at this time, so they ignored Zhang Fei's scolding.

"Lord, it seems that Gongsun Chan is not going to confront us head-on for a while, if you want to win, you can only attack!" Xi Zhicai turned his head and said to Liu Yi.

Liu Yi looked at Xi Zhicai when he heard this, and then said to the people behind him a little helplessly, "Let's respond first!" ”

Seeing that Liu Yi and the others had returned to the camp, Gongsun Zhan and the others also returned to their own mansions.

As soon as he entered the house, Gongsun Zhan called Guan Jing to his room.

"I have a letter here, you will immediately send someone to deliver it to General Zhang Chunzhang of Jizhou!"

After speaking, Gongsun Zhan took out a sealed letter from the bamboo slips of the art of war he had collected and handed it to Guan Jing.

Guan Jing didn't dare to ask more questions about the letter, so he hurriedly answered and went down to make arrangements.

......

About half a month later, on Liu Yi's side, under the leadership of Zhang Fei and others, the soldiers built dozens of ladders for siege.

In the past few days, Liu Yi has been instructing Cui Si to send people to find out the news from Qiu Liju's side, and when he learned that Qiu Liju had captured Feiru County and was joining forces with Zou Dan, who was staying in Youbeiping, to attack the Lingzhi on the edge of Youbeiping, Liu Yi couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Lord, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid it won't take more than two months, Qiu Liju will be able to get here, if we can't break the end in two months, then we can only withdraw to Zhuo County and make plans!" Xi Zhicai admonished.

Liu Yi thought about it when he heard this, and called Zhang Fei and the others into the big tent.

"I'm going to attack tomorrow, what do you think?" Liu Yi asked everyone.

"My lord, the siege equipment has been prepared, just wait for the order of the lord!" Wu Liang said respectfully.

"Good! Pass the order down, attack the city tomorrow! ”

The next day, Liu Yi and others attacked Wuwan with a large number of siege equipment, but after all, the number of people on both sides was about the same, and Gongsun Zhan's side still had the advantage of terrain, so under several waves of onslaught, Liu Yi still failed to capture Wuwan.

Seeing that the losses of his soldiers were not small, Liu Yi had no choice but to quit his troops and return to the camp.

As soon as he returned to the camp, Liu Yi called Zhang Fei and the others to the big tent.

"If it goes on like this, I'm afraid that we won't be able to conquer it without end, Qiu Liju and the others have already arrived here, and if they want to break the city as soon as possible, they can't rely on us now."

After speaking, Liu Yi looked at Guan Yu and ordered, "Yun Chang, you immediately leave to go back to Zhuo County, and let Mr. divide some soldiers and horses to support us!" ”

"Yes!" Guan Yu said respectfully.

After instructing his own people, Liu Yi looked at Wu Liang again and said, "General Wu, I wonder if you can go back and ask Lord Zhou Mu for some more people?" ”

Wu Liang knew what Liu Yi meant, and hurriedly stood up and said, "My subordinates, let's go back and explain this matter to Lord Zhou Mu!" ”

......

At this time, in Zhuoxian County, Liu Yi's mansion was up.

"Sir, my eyelids have been jumping lately, I don't know if it's good or bad, I'm always worried that something will happen to the lord!"

At this time, Wang San and Cheng Yu were sitting in the courtyard, and after hearing Wang San's words, Cheng Yu was also a little worried.

"San'er, how many recruits have we recruited now?"

Hearing this, Wang San thought for a while and replied, "The county has recruited about 5,000, and the rest of the counties are also trying their best to recruit troops according to Mr.'s orders.

Cheng Yu nodded when he heard this.

"San'er, I want to send some people out of the 10,000 elite soldiers under your command to support the lord, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Wang San nodded and said, "I also have this intention!" Anyway, there is no war on this side now, so why don't you send out all the 10,000 elite soldiers under me? ”

After Cheng Yu thought about it, he felt that what Wang San said was also reasonable, so he did not object.

"The lord has a big deal there, but we can't relax our vigilance here, although Zhang Chun's rebels in Jizhou have stopped in the Zhongshan area, but we can't be unguarded"

After speaking, Cheng Yu continued to say to Wang San, "In order to ensure the safety of Zhuo County, we have to increase our recruitment efforts, San'er, you may have to work harder recently!" ”

"Sir, where is that?"

After speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled.

......

At this time, the city of Wangdu County in Zhongshan (County) of Jizhou.

"You immediately send someone to closely investigate the news of Zhuo County, and report it as soon as there is any trouble!"

At this time, Zhang Chunzheng, the head of the Jizhou rebels, was sitting in the main hall of the mansion, and the soldiers who looked like horses under the hall turned around and walked out of the main hall after listening to Zhang Chun's order.

Seeing that the soldier had left, Zhang Chun looked at an open letter on the table and showed a cruel smile.

At the bottom of the letter, a familiar name popped onto the page.

"Gongsun Chan!"