On a dirt slope near Wu'an, Jizhou, Jiang Qi's gaze swept over a circle of soldiers of the Pingcheng Army gathered around. Everyone looked up at him with their heads tilted and looked at him quietly and solemnly.

Jiang Qi opened his mouth, and his voice was loud and powerful:

"Brothers, I know that many of you are exhausted. There are people who are depressed, and we can't avoid the fact that we have abandoned our wounded comrades in the state. They gave us the hope of living, and from then on, our lives were no longer just our own, but also those of our comrades and brothers who were willing to give their lives so that we could survive. Everyone now understands our situation, although we escaped from Lu Bu's pursuit, but broke into the Longtan Tiger's Den in Jizhou, no matter what, everyone must maintain the belief that we must live, because only by living can we not live up to those dead brothers and comrades, and maybe one day we can avenge them! ”

Jiang Qi paused, took a breath and said in a deep voice: "We were defeated in Bingzhou, and the lives of many of our comrades were left there. But we don't always fail, we don't train hard, we don't let the blood and sweat we shed allow us to continue to fail. Now, Wu'an City is there, let's rush over, take it, and from there, fight our way to survive. Tell me if you can do it? ”

"Yes!" The Pingcheng army around the slope shouted in unison.

The soldier led the war horse, Jiang Qi jumped, drew his saber on the war horse, and waved it in the air.

"Come with me and eat them!"

Thousands of troops rushed to Wu'an City like a torrent.

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Wu'an belongs to Wei County and is considered a large county in Jizhou.

After Yuan Shao supported Liu He as emperor, although politically he fought against the Luoyang court, he still focused on the decisive battle with Gongsun Zhan militarily. For the southern court, the military arrangement was mainly defensive.

Although the focus of the military was not in the south, Yuan Shao still worked the vigilance of the imperial court. Yan Liang, one of the four court pillars of Hebei, appointed his close general, one of the four court pillars of Hebei, as the Taishou of Wei County to guard the gate of Jizhou.

And the general guarding Wu'an was Yan Liang's subordinate Han Juzi. Wu'an is already the hinterland of Wei County in the field, and there are no major military moves in the southern court at this time, so Han Juzi is still relatively idle in Wu'an with a thousand soldiers under his command.

He didn't expect such a strange army to come out from the side of Bingzhou, and when the soldiers came to him to tell him that an army had appeared outside the city, he thought it was the Black Mountain Bandit Army.

At this time, the Montenegrin Army was very rampant in Jizhou, but the scale of Wei County was not large, basically they were mountain bandits under the banner of the Montenegrin Army, and most of them were active in the Fanyang area, and it was rare to see Wu'an.

Lu Juzi thought that the army outside the city was a mountain bandit that had come over, and he did not pay attention to these peasants with wooden sticks and hoes. Just as he was about to gather his troops and horses to sweep them down, the soldier who came to report the news was still very responsible to remind him that the army was not very similar to the Black Mountain bandits, and there were thousands of them.

Han Juzi was confused. Could it be a nearby friendly army? But he didn't hear any orders for the movement of troops!

At this time, he was still not vigilant enough, and finally took the soldiers and horses out of the city. That army was already very close to Wu'an City, and an army of thousands of people launched a charge, like a huge red wave sweeping towards them.

Han Juzi returned his hand and was slapped by the soldier who reported the news.

"This is the army of the damn southern court, only they will wear this red and narrow military uniform!" Han Juzi scolded angrily.

"Get back to town! Enemy attack! Han Juzi roared.

However, it was too late at this time, and the soldiers arrived in an instant, and Han Juzi and his thousand soldiers were shattered by the red wave in an instant.

After the war, Han Juzi's head was cut off. The rest of his body was thrust into several weapons from different directions. The soldiers under his command were also killed, and the city of Wu'an fell.

After capturing Wu'an City, Jiang Qi did not stop, and led the Pingcheng army to attack Cixian County day and night.

Lu Weihuang, the defender of Cixian County, like Han Juzi, did not have any precautions against the arrival of the Pingcheng army, and was easily captured by the Pingcheng army, and Lu Weihuang was also beheaded by Jiang Qi himself.

The short-term destruction of two cities in a row greatly boosted the morale of the Pingcheng army. swept away the decadence and depression after being defeated by Lu Bu when merging states. The soldiers began to regain their self-confidence, and their morale was high in anticipation of the next battle.

The soldiers' thirst for war was a good thing, but Jiang Qi did not march non-stop to attack their next target, Yecheng, as he did when he took Wu'an Ci County, but instead made the army stop.

Jiang Qi was not carried away by the string of victories, and remained rational and cautious. He knew very well that the reason why the Pingcheng army was able to achieve such a great victory was completely dependent on the surprise of the enemy's advantage in the open and the dark, coupled with the bloody and brave spirit of the soldiers in the desperate road.

However, the rest of the battle will not be so easy.

Yecheng is not far from Cixian, and the appearance of the Pingcheng Army in Jizhou may not be hidden. It is impossible to come up with surprises, and Yecheng is the seat of Wei County after all, which is more solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack than Wu'an Ci County. In particular, it is the fierce general Yan Liang who guards Yecheng, which makes it more difficult to break through Yecheng, once the war falls into a stalemate, the blood and courage that the soldiers rely on cannot be maintained all the time, one drum, two drums are weakened, three drums are exhausted, and the courage of the soldiers who cannot be attacked for a long time will soon be wiped out, and they will be destroyed when they are in danger.

Jiang Qi stopped in Cixian for a day, sent scouts to collect intelligence, and at the same time replenished the grain and grass of the Pingcheng army on the spot. They entered Jizhou lightly, and the grain and grass were basically exhausted.

In the evening, the scouts brought back a young man named Mu Yan, who was a member of the Coordination Society.

After receiving Liu Wei's order to respond to the Pingcheng Army, Song Xin, the person in charge of the Jizhou Unified Investigation Agency, immediately sent all the members of the Unified Investigation Agency to inquire about the news of the Pingcheng Army entering Jizhou. This member named Mu Yan came immediately after hearing that the Pingcheng Army had appeared in Ci County.

Jiang Qi met with Mu Yan and asked about the information in Jizhou, in fact, the unified investigation agency has been paying attention to the movements of Jizhou, so he told Jiang Qi what he knew about Yecheng.

The news brought by Mu Yan was mixed. The good thing is that Wei County Taishou Yan Liang was not in Yecheng, but led a large army to extinguish the mountain bandits in the Fanyang area. Yecheng left his lieutenant Han Meng to guard it, and there were not many troops. And the bad side is the same as Jiang Qi expected, and Yecheng already knows about their arrival. Even Yan Liang got the news that Fanyang was not far from Yecheng, I am afraid that during the time they were talking, Yan Liang had already rushed over day and night.

The situation is extremely unoptimistic.

Mu Yan finally said to Jiang Qi: "The Son of Heaven is very anxious to learn that General Jiang is in danger, and he strictly ordered us to find General Jiang. It's a great pleasure to meet the general now. His Majesty said that if he found you, he would report back immediately, and His Majesty would send Captain Fang Yue of Hanoi and Cao Cao, General of Zhendong of Yanzhou, to meet General Chiang. ”

Jiang Qi said ashamedly: "The strange defeated army has lost its territory, and it is really shameless to see Your Majesty again!" I only want to leave my life, so that I can go back to receive punishment from Your Majesty. ”

Mu Yan said: "Your Majesty didn't say anything about punishing the general, but just said that he hoped that the general would go back alive no matter what!" ”

Jiang Qi's heart warmed when he heard this, his eyes instantly turned red, and he nodded vigorously.

After that, Jiang Qi expressed great gratitude to Mu Yan and arranged for someone to take him to rest. I sat alone in the county office of Ci County and meditated on countermeasures.

After a night of dawn, Jiang Qi, who had not slept all night, did not come up with a good solution. In the morning, Wang Yun came to find him.

Wang Yun fled with Jiang Qi and them along the way, and actually suffered a lot of crimes. He is already a sixty-year-old person, and he is still a civil servant, not as young and strong as Jiang Qi and Zhang Liao, and he has been in the army for a long time.

Originally, Jiang Qi arranged a carriage for him in order to take care of him, but Wang Yun insisted on sharing weal and woe with the soldiers to boost morale at the time of the life and death of this army, and always followed Jiang Qi and them on horseback. After walking into Jizhou, several blisters had already appeared on the inner thighs, and the old man did not cry out for pain. When the military doctor picked up the blisters on his legs and squeezed out the pus, he could still talk and laugh with Jiang Qi and Zhang Liao, and he felt a little like Guan Erye, who was scraping bones to cure poison.

Wang Yun showed such a tenacious character, but he also won Jiang Qi's improvement and respect for him. Seeing him walk into the county office, he hurriedly got up to greet him and asked, "Why did the prince come?" ”

Wang Yun looked dissatisfied, and accused Jiang Qi: "We are going deep into the dangerous land of Jizhou, why didn't Yun Lei lead the army to continue to advance, but stopped?" ”

In the face of Wang Yun's accusation, Jiang Qi was not angry, and patiently explained to him: "The matter of our entry into Jizhou has been known by Yuan Shaojun, and the direction of Yecheng is now heavily guarded, and our army can no longer achieve the effect of a surprise attack, so the wizards are stagnant here and thinking about countermeasures." ”

"I see."

Wang Yun, who understood what was going on, nodded, and then said to Jiang Qi: "The old man is a Confucian student, and he is not as familiar with military affairs as Yun Lei, but the old man has also heard the saying that soldiers are impermanent and water is impermanent. When water flows into ravines, it becomes a stream, when it flows into mountains, and at the end of the earth is a vast sea, but water is still water, but it changes differently depending on the situation. In the same way, the same is true with the use of troops, our army launched a surprise attack with the enemy's advantage of the enemy in the open and we are in the dark, and although it is now discovered, the strategy is still a strategy, why not change due to the change of the situation? ”

Wang Yun's words made Jiang Qi have a flash of inspiration in his mind, as if he had caught something erratic. While they were pondering, a soldier came to report that an enemy army was approaching them from the west, numbering about two thousand.

Jiang Qi's first reaction was that Yan Liang's army had arrived, but after calming down, he thought that Yan Liang's army would not arrive so quickly, and there would not be only such a small number of people. The troops in the direction of Yecheng are empty, and it is unlikely to take the initiative to attack. In this way, it is only possible that other armies are coming.

Jiang Qi hurriedly prepared his army for battle, and after the scouts found out the enemy's route, he set up an ambush in a mountain col on the road he had to pass. Apparently unprepared, the army was quickly dispersed and ended in less than an hour.

From the mouth of the captives to learn that their army is the defenders of Linzhang, when Cixian was attacked, Lu Weihuang sent people to Linzhang for help, this side got the news and then raised troops to come to the rescue, but I didn't know that Cixian had already been captured, so the ambush was defeated.

Linzhang's guards were also among the captives, and Jiang Qi ordered someone to bring him to him, it was an eight-foot-tall burly man with a similar figure to himself, and he glared angrily at the sight of him.

The other party looked like he was at home, and Jiang Qi didn't plan to give him a good color, so he asked coldly, "Who is the captured general?" ”

The general scolded angrily: "Grandpa Jiang Qi was captured by Er and other treacherous schemes, and if you want to kill, you will kill, grandpa ......"

"Wait, what's your name?" Jiang Qi was stunned for a moment, thinking that the other party was teasing himself.

"If the eldest husband doesn't change his name, he doesn't change his surname, Jiang Qi in the river is also!" The general still looked awe-inspiring.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Qi finally understood that the other party was indeed called Jiang Qi, and he felt a little funny for a while when he met an enemy general with the same name and surname as himself.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Wang Yun's words sounded in his head:

"Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent......"

Jiang Qi laughed.

The other Jiang Qi looked at the enemy general who had captured him with a strange smile, wondering why his name had provoked such a reaction.

After being captured, he didn't think that the other party would have any attitude towards him, or harsh words, or soft words to persuade him to surrender, but at this time, the other party's expression was completely unexpected, as if some kind of trick was about to succeed.

"You...... What exactly do you want? ”

"How? Hahahaha......" Jiang Qi looked at each other and laughed.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.) ）