Since the Xuzhou army went south, Jiangdu County only looked at the city gate twice a day, one morning and one night, each time as long as less than half an hour, the time is limited, such as the next morning after the Jiangdu County gate was opened, a team of businessmen followed the flow of people in and out of the city gate, two columns of county soldiers in front of the city gate, bright armor, spears, one by one eyes coldly scanned every pedestrian in the past, every expression and every subtle movement will not let go, in Guangling County now when the smoke of gunpowder is everywhere, although they are in the southernmost Jiangdu but do not dare to have a trace of relaxation, everyone tensed their heartstrings, out of instinctive vigilance against everyone, as if they were all sent by Xuzhou.

Strictly speaking, Jiangdu can be regarded as a strategic place for soldiers to fight, and the south of Jiangdong is rushed by Xuzhou, but because of the key defense of Zhenrong in Gaoyou and even Guangling County, the strategic significance of Jiangdu is not so important, so Zhenrong only arranged less than 1,000 troops to garrison, counting the county soldiers are only 3,000 people, the county order is Xue Li, and the general who defends the city is called Xue Wei, more than 30 years old, is Xue Li's nephew, and can be regarded as a young brave general who is newly promoted in the Danyang Army.

Xue Biao is routine, every day at this hour, he will come to the city tower in advance to inspect, never stopped, although it is only half an hour, of course, it is not Xue Biao who is really conscientious, but Xue Li received the Rong Express, Liu Lan's Xuzhou army has defeated Zhangbei, and it will soon go south to attack Guangling, as a strategic place, and even the only way to escape into Moling, Jiangdu City must not be lost, so Xue Biao has to be more vigilant in case of accidents.

Of course, he didn't believe that the Xuzhou army led by Liu Lan would divide his troops to Jiangdu before the Battle of Guangling began, it didn't make any sense, although Jiangdu was a big rear, but that would not really block the back road of Zhenrong, but it would make him go west to Shouchun after hearing that Jiangdu had fallen, so it seemed that Jiangdu County was heavily guarded. In fact, it has not entered a state of combat readiness, it is just tight on the outside and loose on the inside.

At this time, he suddenly saw a long line in the distance, as many as three or four hundred, holding sticks, walking towards the gate of Jiangdu.

Xue Biao immediately became nervous. Instructed the officers and soldiers defending the city: "Quick, go up and see where they come from!" ”

"No!"

A team of soldiers went up to stop the convoy, and after asking their identities, one of the soldiers hurried back to report, and said: "General, they are the members of the Zhao family's Zhao Fuzi's mansion, and because Zhao Fuzi has something important to go to the city to meet the county monarch, but the road is not quiet, so he will bring so many guards to the courtyard." ”

"Is that so?" Xue Biao didn't dare to let him go easily, if he pretended to be the Zhao family and mixed into the city, it would be terrible. He shouted to the soldiers of the city, "Then go and let their stewards come." ”

"No."

It can't be fake, it can't be fake, if there is a real problem, it will inevitably be exposed.

For a moment, to Xue Wei's surprise, the person who appeared in front of him was none other than the old butler of the Zhao family, only to see him clenching his fists under the city tower and saying, "General Xue." It is indeed the head of my family who has something important to visit now, so please make it convenient. Let us go into town! ”

Xue Wei, the old housekeeper of the Zhao family, is very familiar, if he comes with another person today, he will not necessarily let him go easily, but if he comes in person, it means that Mrs. Zhao will definitely come to Ziche, if she changes places. Maybe no one will sell Zhao Fuzi's face, but in Jiangdu, the relationship between his uncle and Zhao Fuzi immediately stopped embarrassing them, and shouted to the soldiers: "Go and empty the city gate." Let the old master and his party enter the city as soon as possible! ”

Xue Biao opened the door for Zhao Fuzi and his entourage, and three hundred people escorted the Ziche to just enter the city gate, when suddenly the Ziche stopped, and at the same moment, a thunderous roar suddenly sounded in the distant wilderness.

Looking up, I saw the dust in the distance, the sound of hooves one after another, a few miles away, the black dots were as dense as cow hair, it was a large group of cavalry to kill, shouting murderous spirits to the sky, the war horses galloped like spring thunder, swept towards the gate of Jiangdu, Xue Wei was stunned, the soldiers of Jiangdu County were stunned, when had they ever seen such a scale of cavalry charge?

"Quick, quick, close the gates!"

Xue Biao shouted frantically above the city tower, but soon a terrible news came, the city gate could not be closed, and Zhao Jiazi's car broke down inside the city gate and could not be moved.

"Hurry up and ask Master Zhao to get out of the car, even if you smash it, close the city gate as soon as possible." Xue Wei roared to convey the order, and until this moment he had not doubted Zhao Rong.

The soldiers of the county stepped forward to destroy the Ziche, but it was not the old master Zhao who waited down, but Guan Yu, and the family guarding the side took out the blade from the Ziche for the first time, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Jiangdu County soldiers, far away from the Ziche, and the soldiers who were still staying in front of the drawbridge were wielding sticks, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the city could not lift the drawbridge, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the city could not close the city gate, but if they wanted to resist, they only had to be slaughtered in the face of the elite soldiers of the dragoons, just in the blink of an eye, The counter-attacking forces under the command of Xue Wei were completely slaughtered, and almost before the dragoons had no support, they were defeated and retreated, and almost lost control of the north gate.

Guan Yu, who was in charge of the gate, danced the Qinglong Yanyue Knife in front of the city gate, which was extremely powerful, and all the Jiangdu soldiers who appeared beside him were killed, and seven or eight lying corpses had fallen beside him in a moment.

Just when Guan Yu completely mastered the control of the north gate and was about to lead the troops to kill the city tower, he saw the arrows raining down under the city tower, and dozens of soldiers in the dragoon army instantly screamed and fell down with the arrows, Guan Yu was furious, waved the green dragon glaive knife, and shouted: "Follow me to the city tower!" ”

After speaking, he led the dragoon army to quickly rush towards the city tower, and the glaive sword waved like the wind, and in a moment, he killed a bloody path at the Yongdao. The cyan robe was dyed red, like a killing god, the Jiangdu guards saw him and fled, in the fleeing crowd, Guan Yu saw Xue Yu at a glance, roared, rushed up to intercept him, and fought with him, both of them fought on foot, and as soon as they fought, they were captured alive by Guan Yu's blow to the spear.

At this same moment, Zhang Fei led the dragoon army to kill in front of Jiangdu City, and then joined Guan Yu and swarmed to kill the county commander's mansion, but in an instant, the county commander's mansion, which was guarded by less than 500 people, broke through and captured Xue Li alive, while the rest of the city defenders all surrendered at this moment.

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However, it was said that Zhang Bei could not escape all the way since he was defeated by Liu Lan, and he fought and left, and finally got rid of the pursuers in Dongyang County, and there were less than 100 soldiers around him at this moment. After the negotiation, Zhang Bei gave up and returned to Guangling, changed to Jiangnan, when he was in Liaodong, he had a personal relationship with the fallen Tai Shici, especially not long ago I heard that he is now a general in front of Liu Xuan's account. simply crossed the river to vote for him.

The group took off their armor, changed into people's clothes and went all the way south, before coming to the ferry, but saw that there were troops crossing the river in the distance.

Tai Shici, who was on the ferry, suddenly saw a soldier come forward and said, "General, there is a person in front of the ferry who claims to be a general, and the old man asks to see him." ”

"The deceased?" Tai Shici doesn't have any old people in Guangling County, but there are so many people who have friendships. But these people are the last thing he wants to see now, otherwise they would have to ask him for help to defend Liu Lan, and then they would have to tear their faces, because he chose to take a detour to cross the river at this ferry after Liu Lan separated, because he would never dare to meet anyone rashly when he didn't know the identity of the other party. But he was a little worried, if the person who came was a messenger sent by Liu Lan, if he really had something important, once it was delayed, how could he get it.

Tai Shi Ci turned to the soldiers. He said, "Did the man who claimed to be my deceased say who his name was?" ”

The soldier said: "General, that person seems to have said that his name is Zhang Bei!." He also said that when he was in Liaodong, you had a life-saving grace for him. ”

Tai Shici said "um", the name is a little unfamiliar, but he did save a life in Liaodong back then, nodded and said, "Go, bring him to see me." ”

Not much. A man came to the ferry, but it was Zhang Beiqi, and Tai Shici laughed heartily the moment he saw her: "Sure enough, it was you, you concealed your name and surname back then, and you didn't know your name until today!" ”

"Please don't blame the general. There was really an inside story back then, so he didn't dare to show his true face, and today I heard that the army of Engong passed by, and the kid was entangled in the township and came to serve. ”

Seeing him kneeling in front of him, Tai Shici stepped forward to help him up and said, "Since you intend to join the army, and I, Danyang, am a major general in short supply, then well, you can stay by my side from today on." ”

"Thank you, General!"

"I know your abilities very well, but I still need to introduce you in front of the lord, for the time being, you will be in my personal guard camp, and your township party will be scattered in the army."

"Thank you, General Taishi!"

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When Zhen Rong left Guangling to go to Gaoyou to support, he got the military information of the defeat of the forward general Zhang Bei, and more than half of the army surrendered, and all this was because of Cao Bao, which made Zhen Rong extremely angry, and at the same time very afraid, this is not just the loss of tens of thousands of people, but Cao Bao actually has such prestige in the Danyang army led by him, once, if he fights with the Xuzhou army, Cao Bao comes forward to persuade surrender again, will the Danyang army surrender again?

And there is also an important point is that the grain and grass in the Guangling army are insufficient, and the so-called three armies did not move the grain and grass first, so the grain and grass troops that went to Gaoyou with Zhang Bei took almost half of the grain, and now he has less than a month left with the army's grain and grass plus Guangling, and the current situation he can only send troops to Jiangdu to order Xue Li to raise grain, but when he was about to retreat to Guangling County, he got information that a Xuzhou cavalry raided Jiangdu, captured Xue Li, and completely cut off his way to retreat south. But before entering Dongyang County, I heard that Liu Lan had ordered Zhang Jaw to lead 10,000 troops to settle in Dongyang early in the morning, which had already blocked its way to the west, but the real danger was that at this moment Liu Lan led 30,000 infantry to pursue rapidly, and I was waiting for the latest express, and now the distance between the two is less than 20 miles.

There is no way to go to the sky, there is no door to go down, and now there is no hope of returning to Guangling, and is forced to garrison on a hill in Guangyang County, which is called Qingsonggang, which is a hill only a few dozen zhang high, and is named after the green pines planted all over the hill.

The reason why they settled here is that the grain is about to run out, especially in Guangyang, there are few people, and there are a few pavilions nearby, once they can't hold on, they can also send troops to fight the autumn breeze and grab some grain and grass from the hands of the people.

At sunset, Zhenrong received the latest news that the cavalry that had entered Jiangdu in Guangling County had successfully attacked again, and was rushing from the south at the moment, while the Xuzhou army in Guangyang was still standing still, firmly controlling the westward march of the Danyang army, while in the north, Liu Lan led the army to march slowly, and it took less than three miles in half a day.

The sudden slowing down of the march is not a good thing, it can only show that Liu Lan is waiting for something? And from now on, I'm afraid it's the cavalry that came from Guangling, as long as the cavalry arrives, not to mention that the infantry led by him will be the first to kill, I'm afraid that the open jaw guarding Guangyang will also attack, and at that time it will really be surrounded on three sides.

Liu Lan, you are forcing me to a dead end!

Time passed, and soon it was sunset, the sunset was like fire, before the sky was completely dark, the infantry led by Liu Lan appeared in front of the Danyang army, did not attack, but quickly arranged the camp tents, and the military flags were erected one by one, flying in the wind in the wilderness, and issued the most **** provocation to the Danyang army.

Soon the officers of the Danyang Army were furious, and one by one they came to Zhenrong to ask for battle: "Lord, fight, at this time, if you don't fight, there will be no hope for the Xuzhou army to be surrounded on three sides, and now while there is still a glimmer of hope, as long as the Xuzhou army in front of us can be defeated, we can not only harvest the much-needed grain and grass, but also take advantage of the situation to break through the cage of the Xuzhou army surrounded on three sides, and then all the way to the west, no one will be able to stop us from arriving in Shouchun." ”

Zhen Rong hesitated, the enemy army has at least 20,000 people, and he is also 20,000 people, it is definitely a tragic battle under the number of men and horses, not to mention defeat, even if he wins in the end, the price he pays is also something he can't afford, and at that time it doesn't mean that he will be able to go to Shouchun safely, don't forget that the Xuzhou army still has cavalry, once the cavalry pursues, even if there are still 10,000 people left at that time, what resistance can there be in the face of the attack of the three thousand dragoons? What's more, the strongest combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou army is the vanguard battalion of Zhangbei, and even Zhangbei was defeated, so you can see how terrifying the Xuzhou infantry is now, and his 20,000 people want to defeat them, which is undoubtedly a fool's dream. ”

Seeing that the lord was hesitant, Captain Mu Chong became more and more anxious, and said: "Lord, you can't hesitate, hurry up and make a decision, now I don't want to find a way to come out, and as soon as the dragoon army arrives, we will be completely finished, completely finished!" ”

"Yes, my lord, Captain Mu, what he said is right, it's better to fight with the Xuzhou Army now, and I don't know if I can't fight a way to live!"

"Wait, wait!" Zhen Rong hesitated.

"My lord, what are you waiting for now?" (To be continued.) )