The sudden news also caught Liu Chen of the City Lord's Mansion by surprise, more than 60,000 people, this is not a small number, and now Liu Chen has more than 13,000 city defense troops in Yaxi County, and there are still some deficiencies in the face of 60,000 people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Liu Qi, what is the enemy's advance route? Also, when will the Dongying people return? Liu Chen said with a solemn expression.

"The Dongying people marched by land and water, the army totaled 4,000 people, marching from the direction of Weihai County, two days ahead of the vanguard of Weihai County, the navy originally stopped at Weihai Port, more than 6,000 people, mainly 27 warships, it is expected to be able to reach the mountain military port in four days, the troops of Weihai County and the march route of the Dongying army troops are the same!" Liu Qi replied.

"General, the enemy is menacing, and time is pressing, you have to prepare early, why don't you place all the residents of Chengshan Military Port in the county seat and fight according to the city?" Xiao He suggested.

Liu Chen shook his head and said: "No, the time is too tight, if you walk, Chengshan Military Port will be at least three or four days away from here, at that time the enemy is already approaching, and the city wall of Yaxi County is too short to effectively defend, we have only one choice in this battle, that is, to attack head-on!" ”

"General, you mean a battle with the enemy in the field? But we don't have enough troops! Guan Yu also spoke.

"I know this, but we can't hold it, our only chance is that the enemy is not attacking together, if we can quickly defeat the army forces of the Dongying people, and defeat the vanguard troops of Weihai County, then we still have hope of victory!" Liu Chen said solemnly.

Everyone in the hall looked at each other, although Liu Chen's idea was crazy, but they also knew that this was indeed the only choice, otherwise they could only escape.

"I intend to let Zhou Ji lead his brigade of soldiers and 300 infantry soldiers in Xiao Mansion to guard Yaxi County, and Zhou Xiong, Wang Yuan, Shi Dong, and Li Yun will each lead their headquarters to meet the enemy army with me, what do you think?" Liu Chen opened his mouth and said.

So far, they don't have any good way, so they can only clench their fists and say: "It's all up to the general's orders!" ”

Liu Chen nodded, and then said to Xiao He: "Sir, I will take away your two hundred knights, in the field, cavalry is indispensable, there are a lot of armor and weapons in the city lord's treasury, after I take the troops away, Mr. can recruit soldiers with Zhou Ji, if we can defeat the enemy army, it is naturally the best, if not, then Yaxi County is our final decisive battle!" ”

Xiao He's expression was solemn, and he solemnly promised: "Now there are no people from the Xiao Mansion, some are from the Han army, the soldiers are transferred, and the general can arrange it by himself, as for recruiting soldiers, the general can rest assured, Xiao He will definitely not live up to the general's trust!" ”

"Since this is the case, then without further ado, Zhou Xiong, Wang Yuan, Shi Dong, and Li Yun, give you an hour to prepare, and then gather outside the east gate, and we will rush to Chengshan Military Port!" Liu Chen began to give orders.

"Subordinates obey!" The four of them received the order and quickly went to prepare at the moment.

"Guan Yu, Guan Ying, you two lead two hundred knights to the east gate, don't slack off, I'll be there later!" Liu Chen continued to speak.

"No!" The two of them took their own orders and left.

Liu Chen looked at Liu Qi again and said, "Liu Qi, launch a reprimand, I want to know the enemy's every move, and understand the terrain of their march route clearly, and then report it to me!" ”

"Command!" Liu Qi also went out.

In the end, Liu Chen looked at Xiao He, Cao Shen and Zhou Ji, and said, "Yaxi County will be handed over to Mr. and the two generals!" ”

"We will not fail in our mission!" Xiao He and the three of them responded in unison.

An hour later, Liu Chen saw more than 4,000 soldiers outside the east gate of Yaxi County, Liu Chen issued a simple speech, very simple answer, fight against the Dongying people, protect our own homes, protect our whole family, roughly meaning this, these soldiers themselves admired the newly rising Han army, and there was no slightest resistance to joining the Han army at this moment, and Liu Chen's simple speech made them even more imposing.

In the face of these more than 4,000 soldiers, Liu Chen was a little surprised, because he found that each brigade had a squadron of cavalry, and finally Liu Chen collected all the cavalry of each brigade, and even asked Zhou Ji, who was defending the city, to send a cavalry squadron under his command, plus the knights of Xiao Mansion, a total of more than 700 cavalry.

Considering the speed of the march, Liu Chen asked Zhou Xiong, Wang Yuan, Li Yun and Shi Dong to lead the infantry to march towards the Chengshan Military Port, which needed to be reached within three days, while Liu Chen and Guan Yu, Guan Ying, Luan Bu and seven hundred knights took the first step, with the speed of the cavalry, nearly two hundred miles, and it would arrive in a few hours.

After nearly three hours of hurrying, Liu Chen and his entourage of more than 700 people finally rushed to Chengshan Military Port, and at this time, Chengshan Military Port had already taken action, because they all knew that the war was coming.

"You can summon all the commanders and deputy commanders to the barracks tent!" As soon as he returned to the Han army barracks, Liu Chen said to the soldiers who were specially responsible for interrogation.

Liu Chen also has a wooden house in Chengshan Military Village, but Liu Chen usually doesn't live there, and most of them live in the barracks.

In just half an hour, all the commanders and deputy commanders under Liu Chen were in place, Li Xin, Meng Tian, Meng Yi, Ding Fu, Chen Ying, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Sima Xin, Xiahou Ying, Liu Qi, Luan Bu and Guan Ying gathered in Liu Chen's tent.

A map of Weihai County drawn by Director Liu Qi was spread on the ground, and Liu Chen's expression was extremely solemn: "Everyone, I believe you all know that the cholera of Weihai County and the Dongying people sent 60,000 troops to attack, and the Han army will usher in the most severe test!" ”

"General, the county guard of Weihai County colluded with the Dongying people, it is really damned, even if the enemy is strong, but we have to fight hard!" Li Xin said loudly.

"That's right, general, let's fight, it's enough to kill one, and you can earn it by killing another one!" Zhang Fei shouted excitedly, this guy's favorite thing is fighting, and when he heard that he was going to fight, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"General, if we want to fight, we must plan well, although we have 8,000 people, but 3,000 of them are sailors, and there are only 5,000 soldiers on land, 5,000 against 60,000, we must be cautious!" Meng Tian spoke.

Hearing this, Liu Chen interjected and said: "There are two things to tell you, one is that the enemy is advancing on two fronts, the army is formed by 4,000 Dongying people and 50,000 soldiers from Weihai County, and the naval army is 6,000 Dongying people, so we also need to fight on two fronts in this battle." ”

"The second is, today we killed the city guard of Yaxi County and occupied Yaxi County, 5,000 of the 6,000 city guards joined the Han army, I left 1,000 people to defend the city, and 4,000 people are rushing here, it is estimated that they will arrive in three days!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, they were not stunned that the enemy was attacking from two directions, but that their Han army had already occupied a county town, and there were thousands of more soldiers, which was good news for the next war.

"Haha, I'll just say why the general suddenly led six or seven hundred cavalry back, it turned out that he was in Yaxi County, the county town guards Yongya, I Zhang Fei can't get used to him for a long time, if my brother hadn't stopped me, I would have stabbed him with 10,000 transparent holes!" Zhang Fei laughed and said, "General, what you brought back is cavalry, you should join our cavalry brigade, we only have three hundred cavalry brigades now, which is too cold." ”

"Second brother, don't make trouble!" Seeing that Zhang Fei was always interrupted, Guan Yu frowned and scolded Zhang Fei.

"It's okay!" Liu Chen waved his hand and said, "The cavalry was originally to be assigned to the cavalry brigade, this war, my 100 personal soldiers were also assigned to the cavalry team, a total of 1,100 knights, my idea is to lead the soldiers and the enemy to fight in the field, I don't know what the meaning of the monarchs?" ”

"But by the general's orders!" Everyone got up at the same time and said with their fists at Liu Chen.