In the southeast of Chaohu Lake, at the junction of Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, nearly 10,000 bandits besieged a fort dock in the south of the mountain, and there was a pile of corpses under the fort, but those bandits were not afraid, hooking ladders, arrows, hitting wood, and messing with everything.

There were also countless tents not far from the fort, and it was clear that the bandits were preparing to wear them out with the garrison inside.

On the fort, Zhang Jian looked at the bandits outside, his brows furrowed.

Two days ago, there were 20,000 or more bandits besieging the fort, but today they have decreased at once, and there are less than 10,000 left.

This time the bandits came too suddenly, and they came in the tens of thousands, so he had to send someone to ask his brother in Yuzhou for help.

However, although the attack was tight in the first two days, Zhang Jian keenly felt that the other party did not do his best, and now he has gone most of it, where did those departing bandits go?

There seems to be a conspiracy behind this.

Just thinking about it, a guard came to report: "The second master, the spy has been caught." ”

Zhang Jian perked up: "Let's go, let's take a look." ”

In the past few years, Zhang Jian's whereabouts have been uncertain, either in Guangling, or in Danyang, or on the river, or in Chaohu, but this time he was arrested so accurately, Zhang Liao suspected that something was wrong inside, and asked his cronies to investigate secretly, and now he has really caught the spy.

When he arrived at the fort, Zhang Jian looked at the person who was arrested in front of him, a trace of regret flashed in his eyes, and then his expression turned solemn: "Chen Hong, why do you want to betray everyone?" ”

He is very familiar with this Chen Hong, this person is very capable, he has followed him since he started in Guangling, he is very trustworthy to Chen Hong, but he didn't expect him to betray.

After Chen Hong was arrested, he was also stubborn, knowing that there was no hope of survival, and he was not convinced, and said hehehe: "The second master, or General Zhang, is not a person who is a person with you." ”

Zhang Jian's face changed greatly, he was in Jianghuai under the pseudonym Wen Qiang, but this Chen Hong knew that his surname was Zhang, obviously things were very wrong, he couldn't help but turn his voice stronger: "Who are you?!" ”

Chen Hong seemed to know that he had lost his mouth, and sneered silently.

Zhang Jian was a little anxious in his heart, but he couldn't see it on the surface, he just wanted to dig out more news from this Chen Hong's mouth, snorted, and said: "Chen Hong, don't do a good job, but you want to go to the thief, you are willing to be obscene, and Quan Dang was gone at the beginning." ”

Chen Hong's face turned red: "A certain is not the same as those thieves, they are just ears for everyone." ”

Everyone? Family?

Zhang Jian's heart moved, but he still sneered on the surface: "What if you collude with thieves?" A group of rabble, even if they tried their best, could not break through the fort, and retreated sooner or later. ”

Chen Hong sneered: "It's not for you, do you know what Xiang Zhuang is dancing the sword, which is intended for Pei Gong?" ”

Zhang Jian's complexion changed suddenly, and he pulled out his long sword sonorously and pointed it at Chen Hong: "You want to harm my brother?" ”

Chen Hong sneered: "It's not dull. ”

Zhang Jian's whole body trembled, and he finally understood why most of the bandits had gone to intercept and kill their brother.

"Damn it!"

Zhang Jian's face turned pale, and a sword stabbed into Chen Hong's chest, shouting at the guards beside him: "Quickly send someone out to deliver the message!" ”

The corners of Chen Hong's mouth showed a hint of sarcasm: "It's late...... Zhang Liao will die......"

At this time, Zhang Jian, an honest man, also revealed an unprecedented murderous aura in his eyes, and said word by word: "If my brother goes on a business trip, he will definitely wash the Jianghuai family with blood and wipe out the three clans!" ”

Looking at Zhang Jian, who was so angry that he was almost crazy, Chen Hong's eyes finally revealed a trace of fear, he knew that as long as Zhang Jian did not die, he had this ability, he suddenly didn't know if the families behind him could bear the consequences of murdering Zhang Liao this time, but at this time, he was powerless to say anything.

……

Kill!

Thundered!

The sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder, blood splattered, and howls, and an iron horse stepped out of the crowd of bandits and headed straight to the south.

On the back of the elephant dragon, Zhang Liao was covered in blood, and his expression was not relaxed.

A day ago, he crossed the Huaishui with 10,000 cavalry, bypassed Shouchun, and went south to Chaohu.

When passing through Hefei, there were not many defenders in Hefei City, and seeing so many cavalry, they did not dare to go out of the city at all, Zhang Liao was anxious to save Zhang Jian, and he would not go to attack Hefei in many matters, but bypassed Hefei City, crossed the river, and continued all the way to the south.

After passing the water, it has approached Chaohu Lake, the road is complicated, there are many large and small rivers, it is not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations, 10,000 cavalry gather together and move inconveniently, cross the river is crowded, and the battle can not be used.

In addition, the cavalry can not take the small road, can only take the avenue, from Hefei to Zhang Jian besieged there are two avenues, Feidong and Feixi, so Zhang Liao divided the 10,000 cavalry into two roads.

Seven thousand riders all the way, led by Xu Chu, took the Feidong Road, the Feidong Road was open, and Xu Chu rescued from the front as the main force.

The other road of 3,000 cavalry was led by him personally, taking the Feixi Road, with a slight detour, Xu Chu was the main attacker, and he went around to the flank to take the opportunity to save people, which could be more miraculous.

As for the route, Zhang Jian had already drawn a topographic map in Chaohu Lake and handed it to Zhang Liao, so Zhang Liao was not confused about the terrain in this area.

Chaohu Lake is curved, nearly 150 miles long from east to west, and more than 400 miles around the lake.

To Zhang Liao's surprise, not long after entering the Chaohu area, they were subjected to a large-scale attack, because the scouts found the ambush in time, they did not enter the narrow encirclement, but from the mountain roads on both sides rushed up countless bandits, enough to tens of thousands of people.

On such a scale, it was obviously a premeditated ambush, and these bandits also carried a lot of stumbling ropes, pushing carts, rejecting horses, and messing with wood, which were obviously used to deal with cavalry!

If Zhang Liao didn't realize that the target of this incident was likely to be him at this time, then his court in the past few years would have been in vain.

It seems that Zhang Jian's identity has been exposed, and this identity has been used by some people, and Zhang Liao has also guessed the identities of these people.

He knew that after the implementation of the imperial examination, many political families in the eastern part of the country were extremely dissatisfied with him, because the imperial examination system threatened the political monopoly of these families, and not only the political position, with the implementation of the imperial examination system, a new batch of bureaucratic families would appear to contend with them and weaken their local influence.

In this way, Jiang Huai's hatred of him the most is not only Yuan Shu, but also those family forces.

And Zhang Liao knows that there is an inexhaustible list of local thieves, and a big reason is that the local heroes collude with the thieves, and even the heroes themselves become thieves, and the thieves are very common in the counties of Kwantung Prefecture, and these attacking thieves are undoubtedly instigated and even participated in by those families.

Seeing these thieves, Zhang Liao understood that the trip to Chaohu Lake was not easy, how could these families have been brewing for so long without a little means.

But in any case, the younger brother Zhang Jian must be saved, and here in Chaohu, Zhang Liao must have a fight to the death with these family forces.

In the face of the besieged bandits, Zhang Liao gave a bloody order to the 3,000 cavalry accompanying him, greeted him with three waves of cavalry, and then stepped over on the horse and killed all the blockers in front of him!

Regardless of whether these thieves know the truth behind it or not, the situation in Chaohu is either you die or I live, there is no innocence, and mercy is self-digging.

What's more, they touched Zhang Liao's reverse scales.

The princes were furious and shed blood for thousands of miles.

Under Zhang Liao's order, the murderous aura of the three thousand iron horsemen was completely released, and they formed a formation of arrows, like a fierce beast, galloping and roaring, swallowing towards those bandits.

How could these bandits in Chaohu have ever seen such a scale of cavalry, even if they are fierce, but they are shocked by this momentum, the invincible momentum and iron-blooded power of the three thousand iron horsemen swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger are enough to crush the ferocity of these bandits, just as Qin Wuyang dared to kill people at the age of thirteen in Yan Kingdom, but when he arrived at the palace of Qin State, he was frightened by that majestic momentum.

Three thousand iron horsemen rode through the blood, and those bandits hurriedly avoided it.

Passing through the encirclement of bandits, the iron cavalry continued to move forward, but Zhang Liao was more vigilant.

This is just the periphery, maybe just a temptation of the enemy, since Chaohu Lake is a trap that must be followed, there is an even more powerful ambush ahead.

The cavalry has an absolute advantage on the plains, but it is very difficult in such a place where mountains and rivers are intertwined, and it is necessary to be careful not to capsize in the gutter.

Zhang Liao empathized and sent more scouts to inquire about the situation.

At the same time, he was also a little worried about the situation of Xu Chu's way, but Xu Chu's Zhang Liao let the golden eagle follow, and he had more advantages than this side in exploring the route and the enemy's situation.

What made Zhang Liao unavoidable was that after approaching Chaohu Lake for dozens of miles, it ushered in dusk and night.

Crises tend to be more intense at this time.