After defeating Ma Ye, the 5,000 Chu army under Li Tang itself suffered a lot of casualties, and it was relatively tired, plus although he defeated the Wu army, he didn't have time to chase and kill the rout, Liu Chongjing came.

At this time, Liu Chongjing was leading the troops outside the camp, and there were a small number of Wu troops who were still resisting in the camp.

Therefore, the situation faced by Li Tang is equivalent to being attacked by the enemy on his back, and it is naturally difficult to resist.

He quickly ordered the entire army to retreat to avoid the advance of the Wu army.

Liu Chongjing naturally would not let go of such an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, and even led his troops to pursue.

Unfortunately, he had some infantry under his command, and it was difficult to achieve much success unless the enemy army was surrounded.

"Being able to thwart the enemy's attempts, wipe out nearly two thousand Chu troops, and rescue so many friendly troops, this credit is not small!" Looking at the figure of Chu Jun gradually moving away, Liu Chongjing secretly thought in his heart.

In the end, the Chu army that escaped was nearly 3,000 people, and Liu Chongjing also had more than 3,000 people after gathering the defeated troops, so it can be said that the casualties of the enemy and the enemy were about the same.

Of course, even the commander of the Wu army, Ma Ye, was captured by the enemy, and the soldiers lost were more elite, so strictly speaking, the Wu army was defeated in this battle.

But these losses are nothing to Liu Chongjing.

Wu Jun's overall failure, but it can better set off his credit, isn't it? Moreover, Ma Ye was captured, but he led his troops to turn the tide, shouldn't this vacant commander be given to him in the future?

Thinking of this, Liu Chongjing looked back at Chen Fen, who was closely following behind him, and couldn't help nodding at him.

"Sure enough, this time I made the right bet, with today's credit, presumably General Liu will also regard me as his own, right? From now on I am not without a back. The Man of the View! Chen Fen was secretly excited.

"The general will order, and all the troops will return to the camp with the general as soon as possible! Since the Chu army can send people to make a detour to attack, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not take the opportunity to send people to attack our army's original camp! ”

I have to say that after experiencing the defeat two years ago, Liu Chongjing is really mature now, at least in today's situation, he can still think about the overall situation.

Now, if he only talks about ability, it is enough for him to serve as a guard commander.

When they quickly returned, Yao Yanzhang had indeed led the rest of the Chu army to attack Liu Chongjing's original camp.

Fortunately, the reinforcements from Yuezhou cooperated with the naval army and firmly blocked the offensive of the Chu army.

When Liu Chongjing led his troops to arrive, Yao Yanzhang saw that he couldn't do anything, so he could only retreat.

Qiaokou Town is still in the hands of the Wu army, and the Chu army is still out of reach if it wants to break through the defense line of the Wu army!

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"Ma Ye was captured by the Chu army? Liu Chongjing actually led his troops to repel the Chu army at a critical time, which is a great achievement! ”

Outside Tanzhou City, in the camp of the Wu army, all the generals of the National Army in Youzhen looked at the recent news with some surprise.

"Ma Ye is also a veteran, when the former king and Sun Ru were in a fierce battle, he served as a captain under the first king, experienced in a hundred battles, I didn't expect to be captured now, it's a pity!" Liu Xin sighed.

The general inevitably died before the battle.

For veterans like Liu Xin, they are also used to seeing life and death, so they only sigh about Ma Ye's capture.

Of course, no one could have imagined that although Ma Ye was captured, Ma Yin did not kill him, but was sent back to Wu after the two countries negotiated peace.

Of course, that's all for later.

"Now that Ma Ye has been captured, Liu Chongjing, as the deputy commander, has just made this great achievement, and the last general thinks that he can temporarily take over the position of commander!" At this time, Tao Jingzhao, the deputy commander of the capital, stood up and asked for his life.

As a friend of Liu Chongjing, I will naturally be happy to see him make contributions.

"The last general seconded the proposal, and Liu Chongjing could be ordered to temporarily serve as the commander and be responsible for the war on the Qiaokou side; If the battle is properly commanded, the appointment can be officially given at that time! Li Chengding also stood up and said.

Although his relationship with Liu Chongjing is not as good as Tao Jingzhao, after all, after all, after all they are meritorious services, the two fathers still have a lot of friendship.

What's more, with the current situation and Liu Chongjing's contributions, it is only natural for him to serve as the commander, and Li Chengding is just pushing the boat.

Several other generals either agreed or acquiesced, but none of them stood up against it.

Seeing this, Liu Xin nodded and said, "That's it, let him be the commander!" The book will be written to the king, and the king will approve it! ”

According to the military law of the State of Wu, if it is in peacetime, generals of this level such as commanders generally need to be personally confirmed by Yang Wu before they can be promoted, but generally the governor has the right to recommend.

For the candidates recommended by the governor, Yang Wu will not reject them under normal circumstances.

What's more, now that it is wartime, in order to ensure the authority of the governor, Yang Wu will not easily reject the commander recommended by Liu Xin.

Therefore, with Liu Xin's words, Liu Chongjing's command can basically be confirmed.

After confirming the personnel appointment in a few words, Li Chengding continued: "Governor, this sudden surprise attack by the Chu army on a long detour has also reminded our army, although Qiaokou is the most likely route for the Chu army, but it can't be careless. ”

"Yao Yanzhang may choose to make a detour when he sees that he can't break through our army's defensive line."

Li Decheng nodded and responded: "Well, what you said is right, if they really decide to take a detour, our army is not very familiar with the local terrain, and it is difficult for the naval army to support, and Liu Chongjing is afraid that he may not be able to continue to block the Chu army at that time!" ”

Heading south from Qiaokou Town, this is not only the closest road from Yiyang to Tanzhou, but also the most convenient road for marching.

However, there are other routes that can reach Tanzhou in addition to this road, but in that case the distance is much farther, and those trails have to pass through some rugged mountain roads, which makes the march more difficult and there are difficulties in supplies.

So before that, Yao Yanzhang didn't choose those paths.

Liu Yin frowned, turned to the long sword agent in charge of intelligence and asked, "What happened to General Zhu's side now?" Did they break through Hengzhou? ”

"Governor Qiqi, the defenders on the Hengzhou side are resisting fiercely, although General Zhu leads the troops to attack, but it should take a few days to break the city!"

"How many more days?" Liu Xin was obviously dissatisfied with this result, but Zhu Siqing was at the same level as him, and he was Yang Wu's henchman, so Liu Xin couldn't interfere no matter how he fought.

"And what about Wang Twist? Ben will send him to intercept Qin Yanhui, why hasn't he had any news until now? ”

Wang Twist was another Wu army general sent by Liu Xin to Xiangxiang to intercept the Chu army, but unlike Yao Yanzhang, who had been fighting with the Wu army in Qiaokou Town for many days, Wang Twist's side had not encountered the Chu army so far.

"Could it be that the Chu army is still not dispatched in Shaozhou? Or did Qin Yanhui expect that our army would intercept in Xiangxiang at the beginning, so he didn't take the road of Xiangxiang, but chose to take a detour? Li Decheng frowned.

"It is impossible for Qin Yanhui to still be in Shaozhou! Now whether it is Tanzhou or Hengzhou, the Chu army is in urgent need of rescue, so the general thinks that it is impossible for the Chu army to stay in Shaozhou! They must be hiding, ready to attack our army at any time! Li Chengding shook his head and said.

Before the war, the spies of the Longsword Capital were able to find out some news and try to get it back; But now that the war is raging, all roads are blocked, and even if the secret agents find out, it is difficult to get the news back.

So now they can only guess at the deployment of Qin Yanhui's troops in Shaozhou, and no one can make a definite judgment.

After Liu Xin pondered for a while, he summoned the herald and ordered in a deep voice: "Order all departments to increase vigilance, especially to inform Wang Twist, so that he should always be careful and not be attacked by the Chu army!" ”

"In particular, I would like to remind General Wang Tuo that not only should you pay attention to the vigilance in front, but also send scouts to investigate in other directions, even in the direction behind you, and there must be no loopholes, the enemy may attack them from any direction!" At this time, Li Chengding added on the side.

"Yes, that's something to keep in mind!" Liu Xin nodded and gestured to the military commander.

"In addition, send another messenger to Hengzhou to remind General Zhu that Qin Yanhui did not come to Tanzhou, but ran to Hengzhou to sneak attack the right Tengxiang army! Well, that's all, have you written it all? Liu Xin said.

"Yes, it's all written down, and my subordinates will do it!" The herald replied with a bow.

After sending the herald out, Liu Xin said to himself: "I hope there won't be any problems on the Hengzhou side, if Zhu Siqing can't successfully take Hengzhou, then it will be difficult for Benjiang to take Tanzhou alone!" ”

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Outside Hengzhou, Wu Jun camp.

"General Zhu, the enemy army is obviously no longer able to support it, why doesn't the general invest more troops and quickly break through the city?" Taking advantage of the fact that there were no other generals, Yang Longyan asked Zhu Siqing in a low voice.

After this period of training, he is a little guy who is now much more knowledgeable than before, and he is more accustomed to the battlefield.

Especially after seeing the siege of Hengzhou in the past few days, I have a better understanding of the cruelty of the battlefield.

The soldiers besieging the city advanced in groups, but they were killed and wounded by the defenders under the city with arrows, boiling oil, wood, rolling stones, etc., all of which made the four people who entered the battlefield for the first time feel extremely shocked.

However, their minds were still firm, and it only took a few days to get used to it, and they began to ask Zhu Siqing some doubts in their hearts.

Of course, in order not to disturb Zhu Siqing's command, they only dared to ask their doubts when Zhu Siqing was free.

And right now, what makes Yang Longyan and others feel the most strange is that after such a long siege, the defenders in the city have obviously reached the time when they have run out of oil.

In fact, the Wu army has only invested less than 10,000 troops in each siege so far, and the rest of the army is either resting nearby or strengthening vigilance, as if it is always guarding against a surprise attack by the enemy.