After Mi Fang surrendered, Li Yan easily took Dangyang, still let Mi Fang garrison Dangyang, and told Mi Fang that the army of Zhang Xiu, the assassin of Jingzhou, would arrive later, and asked him not to forget to greet him, and then led the army directly to the southern suburbs of Jiangling.

"I really didn't expect General Li to trust me so much!" Seeing that Zhang Xiu did not leave a single soldier behind, and still put himself in charge of Dangyang's soldiers, horses, money and food, and at the same time was in charge of the original army, Mi Fang's heart was very shocked, and at the same time, he also had an impulse to die for his confidant.

Of course Mi Fang didn't know, although Li Yan looked on the surface

He trusts Mi Fang very much, but there are spies around Dangyang and along the road to Jiangling, as long as Mi Fang dares to have any dissent, he will definitely be discovered as soon as possible, and then he will personally lead his troops to Pingding.

If he is allowed to make a move this time, he will definitely be ruthless and kill Mi Fang.

Fortunately, Mi Fang did surrender sincerely this time, and was moved by Li Yan's words, there was no abnormal action at all, and he honestly led the army to wait outside the city gate, and did not even enter the city again to welcome the arrival of Zhang Xiu's army.

And Zhang Xiu's army did move quickly, and came to the outside of Dangyang City early the next morning.

"The last general, Mi Fang, the guard of Yang City, has seen Zhang Tingshi." Mi Fang saw Zhang Xiu's banner and hurriedly went to meet him.

Of course, Zhang Xiu had already gotten the news from Li Yan, and when he saw Mi Fang's gift, he hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Don't dare, General Mi has been waiting for a long time, and General Mi has worked hard." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries again, and then Mi Fang ordered the army to open the granary to entertain Zhang Xiu's army, and waited until Zhang Xiu's army left for a long time, and stood there respectfully.

"Master, you don't need to treat that Zhang Xiu like this, right? It's a big deal that we resign from the military and continue to do business, why bother to lower our status and deliberately curry favor with each other? ”

Mi Fang was talking to Mi Fang was his personal army captain, and Mi Yuan, who had been following him when Mi Fang was doing business in Xuzhou, so he spoke very casually.

However, Mi Fang sighed softly and said: "You don't know, even if you are in business, if you want to make a lot of money now, you can only go to Chang'an, and Chang'an is the territory of the Duke of Qin, if I offend the generals of the Duke of Qin, even if I go to Chang'an, I can't make money, not to mention that I betrayed Guan Yu and offended the Shu State, and now Guan Yu of the Shu State is in power, even if my sister is still there, how dare I go back?" Later, he was despised by Sun Quan, so there is no need to mention it in Wu State, and his hometown Xuzhou is occupied by Cao Cao, even he is in danger, what is the point of me going to take refuge? Therefore, the world is so big, there is only one Duke Qin who can tolerate me, even if I have wronged myself, if I can beg for a bite to eat here, it will be worth it. ”

At this time, I saw Mi Yuan say softly: "My subordinates heard that Mrs. had been to Chang'an and had an ...... with the Duke of Qin."

"Mi Yuan, shut up! You must tell your good Xiang'er, don't tell anyone about this matter", Mi Fang heard this, and suddenly became frightened, and said in a low voice: "This matter involves a great secret, my sister has told me that it must not be leaked out, we only need to be patient, and we will definitely get rich in the future, but if we dare to leak it out, not only will it be difficult for my sister to live, but even we will have to be hunted down!" If we annoy that one, you say that the world is so big, where can we flee to? ”

"This master can rest assured, Xiang'er is not a person who does not know how to advance and retreat, and will never say it casually, just mention it to his subordinates, but is this really deliberate?" Mi Yuan was also taken aback by Mi Fang's serious expression, and hurriedly made a guarantee, but he still couldn't help but ask softly.

Mi Fang suddenly smiled bitterly, shook her head and said, "How do I know if it's deliberate?" But we can't control that much, anyway, as long as this secret can be kept, we will be safe, and once the secret is leaked, none of us can escape, it is estimated that even the entire Mi clan will be uprooted, this is not a joke. ”

Mi Yuan also nodded solemnly, and then said softly: "Please rest assured that the subordinates will definitely let this secret rot in their stomachs, and no third party will know about it." ”

However, it is said that after Zhang Xiu left Dangyang, he immediately led the army to hurry, and it took less than a day to come to the southern suburbs of Jiangling, because they destroyed all the enemy's beacon towers along the way, and blocked all the roads to the south, so the news did not reach Jiangling at all, and Cheng Pu, the Taishou of Nanjun appointed by Sun Quan, knew nothing about it.

"Our army has an army of 50,000 troops, and its actions are secretive, this attack must be effective with one blow, as fast as thunder, and take Jiangling City in one fell swoop, and we must not give the other party a chance to react, otherwise, once the other party sticks to help, our entire plan will fail, and the anger of the lord will be unbearable."

After Zhang Xiu arrived, he immediately summoned all the senior generals in the army, held a military meeting, emphasized the importance of the attack, and then formulated a detailed and thorough battle plan and decided to launch a fierce attack on the generals.

At this time, Cheng Pu didn't know that Zhang Xiu's army had come outside the city, because Jiangling was a transit point from Jiangdong to Ba County, and a large amount of grain and grass materials transferred from Jiangdong had accumulated here, and he had to transport these materials to Ba County as soon as possible, so he was busy doing these things now.

However, at this moment, the soldiers who were staring at the beacon tower suddenly reported that they saw the ignited beacon fire from the north.

Cheng Pu was shocked when he heard the news, because it meant that the Dangyang area in the north was attacked by foreign enemies.

"Now that the thieves have been pacified, who else would dare to attack my city? Now it seems that there is only that Liu He's team, hmph, what Zhou Gongjin said is right, Liu He Xiao'er really can't believe it! ”

Cheng Pu got the news and immediately led an army of 8,000 to support, although there were only 2,000 men and horses left in Jiangling City, but in his opinion, it was enough.

In fact, even if he expected Liu He's soldiers to attack Dangyang, Cheng Pu also thought that this was just a small fight, after all, the relationship between the two in-laws was still there, and Liu He would not suddenly dispatch a large army to start a full-scale war with the Jiangdong Army, so he felt that he was enough to repel the invading enemy on his own, and there was no need to report to Sun Quan again.

And it was precisely this that made him make a fatal mistake.

Cheng Pu didn't expect that not long after his army left the city, it was suddenly besieged by Zhang Xiu's tens of thousands of troops, Cheng Pu led the army to rush left and right, and was never able to break out of the encirclement, and in the process of his last breakthrough, he was stabbed to death by the enemy's main general Zhang Xiu, and the eight thousand soldiers collapsed and surrendered one after another.

At the same time that Cheng Pu's army was surrounded, Li Yan led 8,000 soldiers to Jiangling City, at this time, the city gate had not had time to close, and the soldiers did not have the slightest defense, so this very strong defense city was easily captured, and even many materials to support the Bajun front line fell into the hands of Liu He.