"General Cheng is waiting for the army that entered Youbeiping to come back for reinforcements?"

Tian Yu's inquiry made Cheng Jian frown. Since there is already an ambush in Quanzhou, where he is located, it may not be easy for Gao Ran, who has entered Yuyang and Youbeiping. But even so, Cheng Jian still had a little luck in his heart, and held on to Quanzhou for two days, waiting for the return of the Gao Lan army. Cheng Jian stood on top of the city and replied a little tiredly: "What? General Tian is scared? ”

"Scared? Hahaha..."Tian Yu laughed loudly, and said in a slightly disdainful voice: "General Cheng knows why my lord has won a hundred battles?" ”

Cheng Jian frowned, and for some reason Tian Yu didn't answer what he asked, so he asked very indifferently: "Why?" ”

"The world is so big, and there are countless capable people. Whether it is a dynasty or a family, it is inseparable from the people at the bottom of the world. Our lord has done his best to treat the people, and has won the hearts of the people. In the opinion of General Cheng, can my lord be invincible? ”

Cheng Lian's face sank, and he quietly looked at the soldiers on the city wall who were wearing armor and waiting for him, and said in a deep voice: "Soldiers, treacherous." There are time, place, and people. Even if the thief army bewitches the hearts of the people and wins the people, but the state and Youzhou are so barren, and there are border nomadic troubles, how can they fight with our lord Yuan Shaozhou? ”

"If you can wait for a while, how can you last long?" Cheng Jian continued with a little disdain: "You should surrender as soon as possible and return to my lord, not only can you be prosperous and rich, but also let Bingzhou and Youzhou Baixin suffer less from the disaster of war!" ”

"Hahaha... Amusing! Tian Yu laughed wildly and said fiercely: "Since the general doesn't want to remember the hardships of the people, why do you want to raise troops and invade the boundary of Wuyouzhou?" ”

Cheng was stunned and didn't know how to answer. Under the confrontation between Yuan Shao and Xiang Ao, although the boundary of Youzhou is tense, there is indeed not much war except for Juyong Pass. However, the worries of Yuan Shao's forces made Cheng Lian, Gao Lan and others send troops to Youzhou, resulting in the fact that now it seems that Yuan Shao's forces are the invaders and the initiators of disturbing the peace of Youzhou.

"There's nothing to say!" Tian Yu chuckled proudly, and continued fiercely: "Since you are obsessed, accept my lord's judgment over there!" ”

Tian Yu said, waved his right hand lightly, and gave the order to attack the city. In the blink of an eye, the army under the city of Quanzhou swarmed up and began to launch a fierce attack on Quanzhou. Gao Ran looked at Tian Yu fiercely, reluctantly issued military orders to the surroundings, and continued to fight to defend Quanzhou.

The First World War was another full day, and in the evening, the order sounded, and the two armies unanimously withdrew their troops. Whether it was Cheng Lian, who was defending Quanzhou, or Tian Yu, who was in engineering, they all began to look a little anxious.

The summons scouts sent out by Cheng Jian did not reply to the letter for a long time, so that Cheng Jian and the others really didn't know how long they would have to hold on. And Tian Yu, who attacked Quanzhou, was even more anxious, two days had passed, if he couldn't talk about Quanzhou's capture, Jizhou reinforcements came, Tian Yu's soldiers and horses were less than 10,000 at this time, it was difficult to leave safely under the Jizhou soldiers and horses, let alone capture Quanzhou.

"General, let's break through!"

Without waiting for Cheng Lian to answer, another Jizhou general under Cheng Lian took over and roared angrily: "Break through? The main army's order is to capture Quanzhou, and assisting General Gao Ran to capture Lulongsai is the main topic. If we break through, what about General Gao Lan? ”

"Besides, it's only a few thousand soldiers and horses, so what's so terrible about us! You only need to hold on for another day, and you can wait for General Gao Ran to come back. Even if General Gao Lan can't come back to help, the scouts who were sent back to Jizhou to ask for reinforcements should be able to recruit reinforcements. ”、

When Cheng Jian heard this, his face was displeased. If there are really reinforcements coming, do you need to hold on to Quanzhou City for so long? Cheng Jian thought so, and silently looked down at the several generals in the tent.

Cheng Jian watched the quarrel of everyone in the hall, and his mood became more and more annoyed.

"That's it!" Cheng Jian shouted angrily in a low voice, interrupting everyone's quarrel and said, "Don't think about the reinforcements." The general's rhetoric to the enemy general Tian Yu during the day was just to stabilize the morale of the army. ”

"You don't want to think about it, the boundary of Quanzhou, whether it is from Jizhou or General Gaolan's army in the north, is only more than 100 miles away. Even if the scouts encounter harassment along the way, it takes so long to go back and forth? Gao Ran roared, sighed again and continued: "Don't talk about the lack of reinforcements tomorrow, even if there are reinforcements, do you think that Xiang Ao will be unprepared?" ”

"What does the general think we should do?" Cheng Lian's left-hand general, who seemed to be the most calm, squinted at Cheng Lian, and asked Cheng Lian in an unusual tone.

Hearing this, Cheng Lian turned his head to look at the general on the left, and his eyes also narrowed. This person is the commander of Yuan Shao's personal guard battalion and has followed Yuan Shao for many years. This time, he was sent to follow Cheng Lian, but in fact, he was just an overseer. Although Cheng Shao is a general under Yuan Shao, Cheng Shao knows that the suspicious Yuan Shao does not trust all the generals and strategists under his command too much.

Yuan Shao's suspicions were clear to the generals and strategists under Yuan Shao's command. It's okay for the scheming people in the family, anyway, when the children of the family get along on weekdays, they have their own thoughts. But for the generals under Yuan Shao's command, he had to be cautious and subtle every day, so as not to inadvertently offend the family.

Cheng Jian was originally a general under Han Fu, and when Han Fu planned to surrender to Yuan Shao in the past, Cheng Jian was the one who advocated raising troops to fight. Although Yuan Shao still treated him politely after Han Fu surrendered, Cheng Shao still saw that Yuan Shao was afraid of him.

Thinking so, Cheng Jian sighed secretly in his heart, and said to the general on the left: "What does General Li think?" ”

"General Cheng is laughing!" This person smiled indifferently and said softly: "The last general is the general under the general, and how the army plans is still up to the general to decide." ”

Cheng Jian heard this and smiled bitterly.

However, now that the battle situation is in full swing, Cheng Jian has no other way, he glanced at the general on the left again, and said lightly: "Now you also know the situation, even if you can defend again for a day or two, it is just a struggle." You'd better plan ahead! ”

After that, Cheng Lian ignored the reactions of the crowd, grabbed the long sword beside him, stood up, slowly left the camp tent, and walked towards his military tent.

The general, known as General Li, squinted his eyes violently, looked at the back of Cheng Lian's departure, nodded to the guards behind him, and then left the camp independently and disappeared in front of everyone. The rest of the generals, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do. Is Cheng Zhuo's early plan to surrender? Thinking so, the generals left with a little hesitation.

Before Cheng Jian returned to his military tent, he stopped and looked up at the night sky overhead. There was no moon in the night sky, but the stars in the sky made the whole night sky not too dark. Cheng Jian looked at the twinkling stars, sighed again, opened the curtain of the camp tent first, and prepared to step into the military tent to rest.

"Zheng!" The fierce murderous aura sounded in Cheng Lian's ears, making Cheng Lian, who had not yet adapted to the military tent from the dark night, break out in a cold sweat.

didn't have time to think about it, Cheng Jian easily pulled out the long sword he was carrying, tried his best to learn all his life, and waved countless sword shadows in front of him, trying to resist the sudden assassination.

"Humph!" A fierce snort made Cheng Chuan dimly lock on to the enemy's figure. In Cheng Lian's eyes, the hazy figure didn't seem to be resisted by Cheng Lian's sword flower, and he stabbed straight at Cheng Lian, avoiding countless sword shadows and stabbing straight at Cheng Lian's façade. In a panic, Cheng Lian's eyes widened, and his face was full of sweat staring at the long sword that was about to stab him in the face.

In a hurry, Cheng Jian bent back and raised his head, narrowly avoiding the long sword, and raised the long sword in his hand upward, trying to avoid the person who assassinated him. What Cheng Jian didn't expect was that the person who came to assassinate was not only good at swordsmanship, but also good at body. The assassin who was on top turned over, dodged Cheng Lian's sword move, and slashed at Cheng Lian's left shoulder with a horizontal slash.

only heard a pop, and a palm-length gap was split in Cheng Lian's left shoulder, leaking out of Sensen's white bones. After the two separated, Cheng Jian looked at his left arm, which was almost cut off by the assassin, and his head was covered in cold sweat.

"General Cheng is not only good at leading troops to fight, but it turns out that swordsmanship is also extraordinary!" The assassin seemed to feel that Cheng Lian was too much to escape death from his serious injuries, and after landing on the ground, he turned around and smiled contemptuously at Cheng Lian.

Cheng Jian gritted his teeth, stared at the visitor with a pale face, and suddenly said, "Hehe, it turned out to be General Li!" But come to assassinate the general and seize the military power? ”

"It seems that General Cheng is also an understanding person." The general surnamed Li raised his eyebrows, and said with some admiration: "Since General Cheng knows the intention of this general's coming, and asks General Cheng to hand over the tiger talisman, this general can also keep General Cheng's whole body." ”

"Yuan Shao really can't trust this general?"

General Li frowned slightly, and said with a little impatience: "General Cheng doesn't need to ask too much, just hand over the tiger talisman." ”

"Huh!" Cheng Jian smiled a little bleakly, and said indifferently: "Since Yuan Shaoxin is not a general, then there must be a backhand, why does General Li need a tiger talisman?" ”

General Li narrowed his eyes, stared at Cheng Jian deadly, and said in a deep voice: "To pay or not to pay?" ”

Cheng Jian put the long sword in front of him with his right hand, then covered his left shoulder, which was constantly bleeding, and said lightly: "Yuan Shao is also a famous person, I don't want to be so unbearable." Since Yuan Shao will treat this general like this, dare to ask General Li if he is confident that Yuan Shao has completely trusted General Li? ”

When the general surnamed Li heard this, his eyes narrowed even smaller, staring at Cheng Jian and not answering. Seeing this, Cheng Jian endured the severe pain and continued to say lightly: "Since General Li is not confident, why don't you surrender and merge with the general?" With General Li's swordsmanship, he will definitely be able to get the reuse of Xiang Ao. ”

"Humph! Clever words! The general surnamed Li snorted coldly, as if he didn't want to continue to listen to Cheng Lian's words, raised his long sword and bullied him, and slashed at Cheng Lian.

Cheng Jian looked at the general surnamed Li who came suddenly, and slowly closed his eyes, as if he had no intention of resisting. Seeing this, the general surnamed Li curled the corners of his mouth, snorted coldly again, and stabbed straight away.