The afterglow of the setting sun dyed the sky red, shining directly into Qichun County, where the smoke had gradually disappeared, and under the red light, the blood all over the city was extremely red, as if telling the sorrow of this city that had changed hands several times.

In this battle, the Han army can be said to have won a complete victory, with more than 300 casualties, defeated the rebels in the city, beheaded nearly 2,000, and captured more than 500 people, which made the rebels frightened. After they entered the city, the rebels fought wolf rush, although the rebel commander Ma Hu led the troops to counterattack several times, but finally because of the unfavorable armor, the quality of the soldiers was not as good as the Han army, etc., they were repelled several times, and finally led the remnants of the army to withdraw from Qichun County, and fled east to Yangzhou.

Since the city has been broken, it is natural to recruit the people and stabilize the people's hearts, and at the same time send people to check the remnants of the rebels in the county and arrest the rebels. After Fuquan arranged everything one by one, he ordered the army to enter the city to rest, of course, affirming military discipline is also inevitable, in a strict order, after the Han army entered the city, there were no soldiers to do illegal things, and it can be regarded as those who hid at home because of the war in Qichun County, and did not dare to open the door, and the people of Qichun County who were trembling were appeased.

On the second day, before dealing with some trivial government affairs in Qichun County, he received an urgent news from the scouts that the Jingzhou army besieged Exian County, and had not achieved an inch of success for several days.

The letter is very brief, but the meaning revealed is not relaxable, but the signature on the letter is only a Lingling Taishou Yang Xuan, which made Fu Quan a little surprised, and secretly said that what happened to Zhao Kai, the commander of the Jingzhou Army, and asked his subordinate Taishou to communicate with him.

After all, Fuquan is a guest army who has been ordered by the imperial court to come from afar to reinforce, although his authority is not as good as Zhao Kai, but after all, he is not under his jurisdiction, and he is still the commander of the first army. Now it is a Taishou under Zhao Kai who contacts him, which is a little wrong with reason, so Fu Quan can't help but wonder if it is Zhao Kai, the commander of the Jingzhou Army, who has a problem.

Of course, as for why the Jingzhou army asked for help so quickly, Fu Quan originally thought that the news of his own attack on Qichun County reached the ears of the generals of Exian County, and then they immediately asked for help from him. Later, I thought about it, I broke the city yesterday, and I haven't sent anyone to report to contact the generals of Exian County, and now they are so eager to ask for help from them, obviously the matter is very urgent.

After thinking about it, Fuquan decided to support immediately, no reason, on the one hand, the Jingzhou army was so eager to ask for himself, and there must have been a disaster in Exian; On the other hand, he still has the will of the emperor Liu Hong to "destroy the thief in January", seeing that June is coming, if he only breaks a Qichun county town, it is obviously not easy to explain, he wants to quickly quell the Jiangxia rebellion, and quickly lead the troops to Yangzhou to sweep the thief Huang Sui.

Leaving Ganning Town to guard the county seat of Qichun, leading his hundreds of sailors and the wounded soldiers of the Han army after yesterday's battle, a total of more than 800 people to guard, Fuquan led the remaining more than 4,000 people all the way to Exian.

On the way, the Han army found a "thief army" and wanted to fight quickly, only to find out later that they had misunderstood, these "thief army" were none other than the old and weak women and children who pretended to be thieves before. Now they are still dressed like that, and the Han army has not paid attention to them, but they have misunderstood for a while.

They are all Han people, although there are some bad deeds similar to thieves, but Fuquan because of the military situation, and the heart can not bear to punish these people who have to choose in order to survive, hastily asked some things, then let them leave, look at the direction they left, but they all ran to their hometown Qichun County.

Of course, Fu Quan also got some information from them, it turned out that the thief army Qu Marshal Liang got the scout news before the Han army broke through the city, so he never entered the city again. Later, after learning that the Han army had broken through the county seat of Qichun, Na Liang simply abandoned those Han people, took dozens of rebel soldiers, and ran directly to the east, thinking that he would defect to their leader Huang Sui like Na Mahu.

The south is hot fast, it is almost the end of May at this time, it was very hot when Fuquan came to Jiangxia County, and it has become hotter and hotter in the past few days, the temperature has been high, and even the wind has a trace of fire.

However, the heat is hot, and there is a lot of rain in the south, so it comes and goes quickly. The day after separating from those "thief army", a heavy rainstorm suddenly ushered in, which was not cool, which made a group of Han soldiers ecstatic. However, they were not happy for long, but complained that the rain was so heavy that the road was muddy, and every step they took brought out a foot of muddy water, which was very troublesome. Later, these barbarians simply took off their boots and marched barefoot, but fortunately, they had been walking in the mountains since they were children, and they were able to adapt to it for a while.

Five days later, as the ground gradually dried and hardened, and the Han soldiers put on their leather boots again, a city in the distance that looked dilapidated and hung with rebel flags appeared in front of everyone, which also indicated that the destination of this support had finally arrived.

Sent scouts to Tongyu first, and it didn't take long for Fu Quan to see a tall camp in front of him, and when there were countless familiar banners with the word "Han" in the camp, he knew that it should be the camp of the Jingzhou army. When I got closer, I saw that a lot of people had gathered in front of the camp at this time, and looking at their robes and armor, Fuquan knew that these should be the commanders and generals of the Jingzhou Army this time.

Jingzhou Assassin Zhao Kai below, and Lingling Taishou Yang Xuan and other generals and officials all greeted in front of the camp, about dozens of people, Fuquan and everyone talked to each other one by one. Originally, he thought that there were many talents in the land of Jingchu in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and he could get to know him well today, but in the end he was very disappointed, because he had never heard a familiar name in this group, and Zhao Kai didn't see anything at all, which also made Fuquan very strange.

"When I learned that the prince and the marquis had set a spring, Kai was very happy, and now the army is far away, it is better to go into the camp to rest and then make other decisions." Zhao Kai is less than forty years, his body is medium, his facial features are warm and soft, his skin is fair, and his scribe temperament is rich, but the armor on his body makes him look a little nondescript, especially surrounded by a group of five big and three thick generals, this feeling is even more obvious.

At the same time, although Zhao Kai seemed to be very polite when he spoke, Fu Quan heard a hint of strangeness from it, as if this Jingzhou assassin had a disgust for himself in his words, which really made him inexplicable.

This is exactly the case, after Zhao Kai finished speaking, he didn't wait for Fu Quan's reply, he turned around and entered the camp by himself, not caring about other people's thoughts at all.

Seeing this, Fu Quan felt a trace of anger in his heart, and secretly said that this Zhao Kai really didn't know how to be polite, and at the same time, he was also very curious about why he was so directed at him, he had no grudge against him, why was he so?