Wan Can suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

"Come on." Gao Kegong shouted violently, and stabbed straight with his spear.

Wan Can raised his gun to block, and when the two guns touched, he found that Gao Kegong's strength was far better than usual, and his hands holding the gun were faintly numb. Before he could come to his senses, Gao Kegong stabbed again as fast as lightning, Wan Can's body deviated, and the spear slashed against the clothes on his chest, leaving a long gap.

A shot missed, Gao Kegong didn't wait for the spear to be retracted, followed by a sweep, and the body of the gun smashed heavily on Wan Can's chest.

Wan Can was in pain and fell directly off the horse.

Boom..., Gao Kegong shook his wrist, and instantly shook out seven or eight spear flowers, enveloping Wan Can on the ground.

Wan Can didn't have time to stand up, so he had to roll against the ground before he could barely dodge the attack.

But Gao Kegong didn't give the other party a chance to breathe at all, jumped high from the horse, raised his gun and pounced directly.

This time Wan Can couldn't avoid it, and the spear in his hand was also lost when he landed just now, and when Gao Kegong's spear stabbed his chest, he could only close his eyes in despair.

"Dog thief, do you know that you are afraid?" What Wan Can was waiting for was not death, but Gao Kegong's cold voice.

"It turns out that you have been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, but unfortunately I only remember now that you could have killed me when we first met, why did you have to wait until today?" Wan Can opened his eyes and asked curiously.

"Hahaha, if you want to know, I'll not tell you, just to make you die." Gao Kegong hated Wan Can so much in his heart that he deliberately didn't kill him when he was desperate, and after arousing his curiosity, another shot stabbed him in the heart.

During the time when Gao Kegong led Wan Can away, Shi Luosheng, Liu Zixuan and Yang Yi attacked Cangzhou City with an army of 20,000, and the remaining defenders were defenseless.

By the time Gao Kegong returned to Cangzhou, the battle had already ended, but Taishou Mei Niansheng refused to surrender, and Shi Luosheng was inconvenient to kill him in order to appease the people in the city, so he had to order him to be placed under house arrest.

"Taking Cangzhou is only the first step for us to attack Qin, and now that Bai Mengqi has gone to Liaocheng, we must take advantage of Qin's failure to react and quickly take down the entire Jizhou County." As soon as Shi Luosheng pacified the people, he gathered all the generals together.

"Sect Master, after the Cangzhou troops are recruited, we also have 50,000 people, I propose that the troops be divided into two routes, and General Gao and I will each take one road to take Huang Ye and Renqiu nearby." Yang Yi stood up and proposed.

Shi Luosheng glanced at the map and promised: "Okay, Mei Niansheng refuses to surrender, I will stay in Cangzhou to defend the city for the time being, you and Zixuan from east to west, General Gao and Mr. Wang from south to north, half a year later, I want to see the entire Jizhou County planted with the banner of my Tianluo Sect." ”

"General, I just received a message from Wu Junshi, Xiang Chu has attacked our Zhoukou, and General Wenhao has rushed to Yingchuan to garrison." Under the city of Liuzhou, Zhou Yunjing was reporting to Deng Yuanjue on the battle situation in Chudi.

Deng Yuanjue took the letter and looked at it a few times, and said with a faint smile: "It is worthy of being my new opponent, I am looking for someone to sneak attack his rear, and he is also looking for someone to sneak attack my rear, but Xiang Chu is much stronger than Gao Lan, and I lost this game." ”

"Are you saying that Jiang Huanyan is planning all this behind the scenes?" Zhou Yunjing was slightly surprised.

"Not to mention Xiang Chu with such calculations, even Tian Wuji may not be able to think of it, who else can there be besides Jiang Huanyan?" Deng Yuanjue said firmly.

"Are we going to stay here, then? Penglai has been recaptured by the Qi army, Zhu Tingxun has lost the hearts of the people, and it is estimated that Anyang will not be able to hold it for a few days, except for attacking Liuzhou, we have no other way to enter Yandi again. Zhou Yunjing's back couldn't help but feel a little cold, he was not convinced by Jiang Huanyan before, but this time he really understood his horror.

Deng Yuanjue sighed: "When we were fighting Chu, we completely defeated the Qi country, and this time we were able to win back a game by them." Since you can't enter Yandi, there's not much point in staying here, so let's go back first. Xiang Chu is not incompetent, if he holds high the banner of reviving the Chu State, coupled with the help of the Qi State, he is afraid that the Wenhao will not be his opponent. ”

"Then we will go and order the camp to be raised, and we will go back to Jingzhou?" Although Zhou Yunjing was a little unwilling, he was helpless.

Deng Yuanjue shook his head: "The army is not in a hurry to withdraw first, Wen Jie and I will go back to Jingzhou to deal with Xiang Chu first, and you continue to confuse Jiang Huanyan here under my banner." ”

Zhou Yunjing understood that this was a general, and he was caught off guard by going back to kill Xiang Chu.

"Then if Jiang Huanyan goes out of the city to fight our army, will he fight or withdraw to Fuquan City?" Zhou Yunjing's heart was already a little afraid of Jiang Huanyan, and he didn't know how to deal with him alone?

"Don't worry, Jiang Huanyan will not go out of the city to fight our army head-on before I am sure I leave, if he goes out of the city, it must have been determined that I have returned to Xiakou, and then you will lead the troops back to Fuquan, hand over the army to the commander of Wu Shuang, and then come to Shouchun to find me." After Deng Yuanjue finished explaining, he quietly left the Liuzhou military camp with Deng Wenjie.

After Xiang Chu captured Zhoukou, he did not directly attack Yingchuan as Wu Shiqi expected. Instead, with the help of the local scholars, he found the youngest son of Xiong Xin, the prince of Chu State, who was only eight years old, and re-established him as the emperor of Chu and built the capital Zhoukou.

Relying on the banner of reviving the Chu State, Xiang Chu soon attracted the participation of pro-Chu forces from all sides, the most famous of which were his own clan brother Xiang Zhuang with 8,000 tribes, and Peng Yu, a prominent clan in Chu, brought 5,000 soldiers to vote, and finally Yingyue, a local clan in Zhoukou, brought 10,000 troops to join Xiang Chu's camp. Within a few days, the Chu army in Zhoukou exceeded 100,000.

While training the army, Xiang Chu sent an envoy to Beijing in the name of Xiong Yi, the new Chu emperor, to discuss with Jiang Wushuang the possibility of forming an alliance with Chu Qi and jointly defeating the Song Dynasty.

Deng Yuanjue had an army of 600,000 in Chu, of which 200,000 were in the hands of Wu Teng in Jingzhou, and he brought another 100,000 people to fight Yan, and then removed the garrisons of Shouchun, Xuchang and Xiakou, which totaled 200,000, and the rest of the country added up to only 100,000.

Originally, Deng Wenhao still felt that the annual military expenditure was a bit large, but now that Xiang Chu has raised the banner of reviving the Chu State, the defenders in various places are obviously not enough. If there was a riot in any place, it was likely to trigger a chain reaction that would endanger Deng Yuanjue's rule in Chu.

Two months ago, Deng Wenhao would never have thought that Xiang Chu would be able to make such a big move, when he first arrived in Yingchuan, he was still thinking about finding an opportunity to take back Xiakou, and now he is worried about whether Yingchuan can hold it. Fortunately, Wu Teng in Jingzhou sent 50,000 people to help him, otherwise he would really have to recruit a group of new soldiers.

Emperor Qi Jiang Wushuang had long known Jiang Huanyan's intentions, and naturally agreed to the alliance with the New Chu State, and after some discussion, the two sides quickly decided to jointly send troops to attack Xuchang and Xiakou.

Subsequently, Tian Wuheng of Yicheng and Tian Kangyou of Kaifeng each led an army of 50,000 to launch a new round of attacks on Chudi, and Xiang Yi of Suizhou and Xiang Zhuang of Zhoukou also responded with 30,000 troops each.

Xiakoucheng, with the cooperation of Lei Zhengming and Yue Shouming's land and water armies, could barely fight with the Qichu coalition army.

But Xuchang was not so lucky, after Xiang Zhuang arrived at the battlefield, he first sent Peng Yu with half of his troops to capture Liang County, cutting off the direct connection between Xuchang and Chudi. Then Xiang Chu sent troops from Zhoukou to take Chen Liu, making Xuchang a completely isolated city.

Taishou Xing Kan and Wu Daocheng, the commander of the city defense army, could only support in the face of the repeated attacks of Qi and Chu, and Deng Wenhao of Yingchuan also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of Xiang Chu to send troops to Chen Liu, but he was also blocked by the remaining Yingyue.

The battle situation in Chu is suddenly precarious, once Xuchang is lost, then the Qi-Chu coalition army can take advantage of the situation to kill under Yingchuan City, and then Shouchun will be in danger.

Xing Kan thought about surrendering Qi before surrendering to the Song State, but was later preempted by Deng Yuanjue. Now that he is in danger, seeing that the city is about to be unprotected, that little bit of caution is alive again. If it weren't for the fact that the military power was in the hands of Wu Daocheng, I was afraid that Xing Kan would have opened the city gate and surrendered by now.

"General Wu, the offensive of the Qi-Chu coalition army continues unabated, do you think this Xuchang City can be defended for a few days?" Xing Kan couldn't sit still in the Taishou Mansion, so he ran to the city to inquire about Wu Daocheng.

Wu Daocheng was concentrating on commanding the defense of the city, and when he saw Lord Taishou asking, he didn't pay attention to his strange appearance, and replied truthfully: "If there are no reinforcements, I will hold on for another ten days." ”

Xing Kan felt a chill in his heart, and asked again: "If we choose to break through, you can be sure to kill back to Yingchuan." ”

Wu Daocheng didn't reply, and gave the answer directly: "Liang Jun, Chen Liu, and Zhou Kou are all in the hands of Chu Jun, and if you want to return to Yingchuan, you have to pass through Xiang Chu Pass first." Now that there is a blockade in front and a pursuer in the back, it is almost impossible to get back safely. ”

Xing Kan didn't ask any more questions after listening, silently returned to the Taishou Mansion, locked himself in the room and thought about it for an afternoon, and finally made a decision.

After the armistice between the two armies that night, he asked people to prepare wine and food, and then invited Wu Daocheng to his mansion.

"Lord Taishou, when is this, how can the last general still have the heart to drink, this Qi army has finally retreated, I have to hurry up and sleep for a while." Wu Daocheng looked tired and came to the Taishou Mansion with a little dissatisfaction.

"Hahaha, General Wu, don't be surprised, this official also saw that you were tired for many days, so he prepared a little wine to entertain the general." Xing Kan poured a glass of wine as he spoke, and handed it over.

Wu Daocheng did not doubt him, so he took a sip and drank it.

The corners of Xing Kan's mouth showed a hint of imperceptible smile: "It's not a secret, I invited the general here today just to ask one thing, if Xuchang City is broken, how does the general plan to deal with himself?" ”

"Of course, it is a martyrdom, and there is just death." Wu Daocheng blurted out without the slightest hesitation.