Liu Bei fled to Nanhai County in embarrassment, and his mood relaxed slightly; At this time, Xu Sheng fell into a bitter battle.

Several counties in the northern part of Guiyang County had been occupied by Dong Zhuo, and Xu Sheng had to take the people of Chenxian, Nanping, Linwu and Hanning counties to the south. The people were afraid of the brutality of Dong Zhuo's officers and soldiers, and most of them, except for those who hid in the mountains, were willing to accept Xu Sheng's protection, and the number of people who went south together reached more than 50,000.

Xu Sheng sent someone to contact Huang Gai, who was stationed in Qujiang County, in advance, hoping that he would be ready to respond.

After sending the army Sima Yang Huai to bring 3,000 officers and soldiers, the army Sima Liu Yong led 3,000 officers and soldiers to open the road in front, and Xu Shengqin led 6,000 officers and soldiers in the center, which could echo from north to south and carry logistics baggage.

The distance from Chenxian to Qujiang County is not far, and everyone is not worried, and there is intelligence that Jiangdong Jiling's subordinate Li Feng and others have withdrawn from the Qujiang front line to Nanchang and stationed, and will not threaten their safety in the south for the time being.

Qujiang County originally belonged to Guiyang County, but it was later occupied by Sun Quan's forces.

At this time, Pan Zhang inadvertently found a more convenient road, although it was still difficult to walk, but it was many times better than the path Sun Quan took when he went south.

This road is from Ganxian County to Nanye County, continue south, cross the low hills to the west, and then continue along Zhenshui to the west, you can reach Qujiang County. The advantage of this road is to bypass the Great Yuling and the Great Yuling Fortress, all the way to the flat ground, there are low hills in between, and more importantly, it can spare the rear of the Huanggai army, and divide and surround the Great Yuling Fortress and Qujiang County where it is stationed.

Yang Hong was overjoyed and ordered the army to step up the construction of roads and prepare for a surprise attack on Huanggai.

Da Yu Ling Fortress: That is, Yu Ling Fortress, a fortress built by General Yu Sheng during the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so the local mountain is also called Da Yu Ling.

In order to confuse Huang Gai, Yang Hong ordered Ji Ling to personally lead some officers and soldiers to garrison Hengpu Pass to monitor and attract enemy soldiers stationed in the Great Yuling Fortress.

Because Yang Hong was busy building new roads, even Xu Sheng was confused, thinking that Jiangdong had withdrawn part of the army and there was no threat to them, so he moved south boldly with confidence.

The difficulty of relocating so many people can be imagined, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the transportation conditions were extremely backward, which bought time for Yang Hong to build roads.

In order to stimulate the enthusiasm and morale of those Jiaozhou soldiers to build roads, Yang Hong promised them that after building roads, defeating Huang Gai, and occupying Qujiang County and Zhenyang County, he would set up a separate county, resettle them, and distribute at least 100 acres of land to each of them.

This made those Jiaozhou soldiers extremely excited, especially the officers, for their own interests, and even urged the soldiers to desperately build roads.

The location where Yang Hong was going to set up a county was the later Nanxiong, and he planned to use the new county as the southern barrier of the Great Yuling Fortress.

Suddenly, the north and south were attacked, and the 1,000 defenders of the Da Yuling fortress were easily broken under the attack of the Jiaozhou soldiers, and all the officers and soldiers surrendered, and not a single person ran.

Subsequently, Yang Hong gathered troops and horses at the location of Nanxiong County in the later generations and prepared to raid Qujiang County, but Huang Gai, who was stationed in Qujiang County, did not know anything about it.

Yang Hong was very happy, pointed to the land under his feet and said: "From now on, a county will be set up here as your station, and each person will have at least 100 acres of land." ”

Seeing that Yang Hong fulfilled his original promise, Sima of the other department asked, "Military Division, what is the appropriate name?" ”

Yang Hong smiled: "Haha, they are all majestic people from Jiaozhou in the south, so let's take Nanxiong as the name!" ”

The officers and soldiers of Jiaozhou were overjoyed, and at this time, the military division recognized their merits.

Perhaps this is a historical coincidence.

Nanxiong County is located at the southern foot of the Dayu Mountains, with mountains on both sides in the north and south, and the central basin is an alluvial plain and hills, through which Zhenshui passes.

Subsequently, Yang Hong ordered the soldiers to divide into two roads and march across the water; Sima Le, the commander of the North Road, led his officers and soldiers of his headquarters and two thousand Danyang soldiers along the north bank of Zhenshui, with the aim of attracting Huang Gai's attention; Yang Hongqin led the Jiaozhou soldiers and the crossbow soldiers to take the south road, along the south bank of Zhenshui, which was to prepare to insert into the south of Qujiang County by surprise, cut off the back road of Huanggai, and surround Qujiang County.

Ji Ling and Liang Gang led the officers and soldiers of their headquarters, cavalry and most of the Danyang soldiers to temporarily stationed in Nanxiong to protect the rear road of the army, ensure the supply of logistics baggage, and provide support at any time.

Pan Zhang followed Yang Hong to act together, and Ma Zhong acted with Le.

The reason why Yang Hong did not increase his troops without giving Le was that he was afraid that Huang Gai would escape, and he would not even be able to attract Xu Sheng to the south, so he had to give them a little hope so that they could be led into the encirclement and annihilated in one fell swoop.

According to Yang Hong's order, Le set up camp in the north of Zhenshui, opposite Qujiang County, and made wooden rafts and rafts to prepare for crossing the river.

Huang Gai was shocked, happy on the arrival of the army, the fortress of Da Yuling must have been lost, but the other party only had 5,000 soldiers and horses, and let him feel a little at ease, he could defend by the river and the city, so he ordered some officers and soldiers to go out of the city, defend along the river, and avoid the enemy from crossing the river.

Yang Hong and Pan Zhang discussed a surprise attack on Qujiang County, and Pan Zhang's soldiers took advantage of the night to sneak attack, and then opened the city gate and enlarged the army into the city; Since Huang Gai had a total of 4,000 officers and soldiers, except for the main force defending the riverbank, there were not many defenders in the county, and there were even fewer officers and soldiers on duty at night.

Yang Hong also made arrangements for the army: 2,000 Jiaozhou soldiers were responsible for occupying the county seat after Pan Zhang opened the city gate; After the battle of the county town began, 2,000 Jiaozhou soldiers attacked the enemy troops deployed along the river; He personally led 1,000 Jiaozhou soldiers and 1,000 crossbowmen to ambush on both sides of Chengxi Avenue to cut off the enemy's southward retreat.

There are many bamboos in the south, Pan Zhang made a long bamboo ladder, bamboo row and other materials, and under the cover of night, he sent two officers and soldiers to ride the bamboo row, cross the moat, climb the river bank, and transport the bamboo ladder, everything was completed quietly, and then three more crossed the moat and arrived at the city; and Dub, fifty-one in all.

They chose to climb the city wall far from the city gate, and then marched towards the south gate; The south gate was the most relaxed gate, and Huang Gai focused his defense on the north gate.

At the south gate, there were a few enemy troops, who were easily killed, but their shouts had already alarmed the rest of the city.

The city gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and Pan Zhang led more than 400 other people to successfully occupy the south gate.

Huang Gai was shocked and immediately organized officers and soldiers to counterattack, hoping to recapture the south gate.

The Jiaozhou soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, saw that the city gate was wide open, and immediately launched a charge and successfully rushed into the county seat; Huang Gai's officers and soldiers were unable to communicate with the enemy and were defeated by the slaughter.

Seeing that the situation was impossible, Huang Gai abandoned the city and fled from the north gate, preparing to join the officers and soldiers guarding the river, and at this time, two thousand Jiaozhou soldiers had launched an attack on the Huang Gai soldiers guarding the river; The officers and soldiers guarding the river were distributed in a long and narrow area, and they were very scattered, and they could not be assembled smoothly, and were broken by the Jiaozhou soldiers.

The soldiers guarding the river were defeated and fled, and Huang Gai could not stop, so he had to flee southwest with the army, preparing to go to Zhenyang County.

The morale of the Jiaozhou soldiers was high, and they chased after them and expanded the results of the battle.

Huang Gai rode first, at the forefront of the rout, very conspicuous.

Yang Hong estimated that this was the main general of the defenders, so he ordered the crossbowmen to prepare, and when the time came, all the crossbowmen fired together, and they would be able to get rid of them; There is no cavalry around him, let alone a powerful general, Yang Hong does not dare to confront it head-on, otherwise, it is likely to let Huang Gai break through and escape, it is better to shoot directly and kill directly.

Sure enough, as Yang Hong expected, when Huang Gai was less than thirty steps away, he gave an order, and a thousand crossbowmen shot three thousand sharp arrows in an instant, all of which went straight to Huang Gai, Huang Gai was hit by dozens of arrows, killed instantly, and even the war horse was shot into a hedgehog.