A few days later, Liu Qi, Gan Ning, and Wenpin's three-way army converged under the city of Qu Ninja

As a result, Liu Qi now has more than 80,000 land and water troops, attacking Quren from the east, north, and south directions, and the army has surrounded three city walls, preparing to attack.

Looking at the tens of thousands of troops under the city like a tide, one by one, cold and solemn, murderous, even the two generals Ling Bao and Liu Bi, who were accustomed to seeing big battles, couldn't help but change color, on the one hand, they ordered to guard the city, and on the other hand, they urgently asked for reinforcements from Bajun Taishou Yanyan.

"Now the morale of the army under Liu Qi is high, we can only stick to the side waiting for reinforcements to have a glimmer of life, as long as Yan Taishou leads the reinforcements to come, we will definitely be able to defeat Liu Qi's army, hehe, although Yan Taishou is not young, but he is brave enough to champion the three armies, and he will definitely be able to thwart Liu Qi's attack." Ling Bao smiled faintly and said to Liu Bi a little respectfully.

Liu Bi nodded, deeply convinced. Although he is Liu Zhang's distant clan, he is low-key and calm, and he is not arrogant, so he was relied on by Liu Zhang, and was ordered to be the Taishou of Badong County, and led an army of 20,000 to garrison Yufu to prevent Liu Qi.

But I didn't expect that Gan Ning under Liu Qi was too powerful, 30,000 sailors had more than 200 huge building ships and fighting ships, and he destroyed his 10,000 sailors lightly, and then Wen Ping, the general of another army, also dug a mountain road from Wushan overnight, and the 20,000 army unexpectedly went around the back of Liu Bi's army, cutting off the grain road of Yufu, Liu Bi was shocked and had to lead the army to retreat to Qu Ren to continue to hold on.

Originally, they thought that the reason why Gan Ning and Wenpin's army was able to capture Yufu before was just relying on the elite of the navy and the surprise of Wenpin's army, but now they have 20,000 Dongzhou troops under their command, and they are still defending by danger, even if the enemy army comes to 100,000, but today when they saw those Jingzhou soldiers under Liu Qi's command, they obviously felt that their Dongzhou army was really far away from the other party, which also made them lose confidence in the Dongzhou army under their command for the first time in their lives.

At this time, Yan Yan, who was stationed in Jiangzhou, heard that Liu Qi's army was divided into two roads, captured Yufu and Fangling with lightning speed, and recruited Shangyong, and the news that 80,000 troops were besieging Qu Ren heavily, he was also shocked, and immediately raised 30,000 troops and rushed to support.

Once lost, Liu Qi's army can drive straight in, both attacking his own Ba County and Pang Xi's garrison, and whether Ba County or Brazil is threatened, the situation in Yizhou will fall into an unprecedented crisis.

Once Liu Qi and Zhang Lu join forces to attack Brazil, Pang Xi will definitely not be able to resist under the enemy on his back, so that Brazil will be gained by Liu Qi, and Chengdu will be threatened; And once Liu Qi enters and occupies Ba County, he will be able to echo with Pei Qian, the assassin of Jiaozhou, and the army of Yizhou Taishou Yonghong will be attacked by the enemy, so that Hugh will say that he will recover Qiqi, I am afraid that even self-protection is impossible.

Therefore, this time, no matter how big the price is, you must keep the forbearance.

"Although Liu Qi has an army of 80,000, but 20,000 of them are naval troops, although they are invincible on the water, but they don't care about it at all on land, so he only has 60,000 troops, even if these 60,000 troops are elite, can they be stronger than my Dongzhou army? What's more, as long as our army is killed under the city of Qu Ninja and flanked by General Liu Xuan's army, what if Liu Qi has an army of 100,000? A look of mockery flashed in Yan Yan's eyes, secretly calculating the chances of victory for both sides.

In fact, from an objective point of view, Yan Yan's army is indeed elite, not only has the strong combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the area of Guanluo Nanyang, but also adapts to the unique and complex geographical environment of Shudi, especially good at walking, the difficult mountains are like walking on flat ground for them, from Jiangzhou to Quren all the way more than 500 miles, the army only took ten days to arrive.

Even if it is marching on land, such a speed is surprising, not to mention that this road is a difficult and difficult mountain road, which also shows the elite of the army under Yan Yan.

At this moment, Yan Yan suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and couldn't help but look up, but found that it was Dubo Liu Xi, who was in charge of investigating the news in front, only to see him riding a fast horse from the front to the front of the formation, and said to himself: "Lord Qiqi, the head of the city is still our banner, it looks like it is still in our hands, Liu Qi's army is black and pressing, it looks like there are indeed seventy or eighty thousand people, but I don't know why, the last general looks like the defense of the city is intact, as if he has not experienced a siege battle, Could it be that the enemy army wants to besiege the city and force the people to surrender after they run out of food? ”

When Yan Yan heard this, he couldn't help but be slightly shocked, a glint shot out of his eyes, and he nodded in admiration: "It seems that this Liu Qi knows that the city of Qu Ren is strong, and it is not an overnight thing to conquer, so he ordered to besiege but not attack, in order to force Liu Qi in the city to surrender, but he is also full of confidence in himself, right?" Do you really take the elite of the Dongzhou Army of this general so lightly? Hehe, yes, it must be Liu Qi who wants to set up an ambush on the road ahead of our army, and then ambush our army when it passes, defeat our army, and cut off General Liu Qi's hope of asking for reinforcements, hehe, your plan is good, but how can I Yan Yan be so easy to deal with? ”

Immediately after, Yan Yan ordered the army to be on guard to prevent the enemy's ambush, and then led the army to slowly rush to the city of Shunin.

The army advanced for another thirty miles, but found that Liu Qi did not arrange any ambush soldiers on the way, and couldn't help but feel relieved, and at the same time secretly laughed at Liu Qi for being unwise, there were at least seven or eight places suitable for ambushes on this road, but Liu Qi did not arrange a single soldier, which can only prove that the other party is either unfamiliar with the terrain, or is pure arrogance, disdainful of using ambushes to fight against himself, and only thinks of defeating himself by head-on combat.

Yan Yan thought that it was actually a little close to the truth, but Liu Qi was thinking about defeating Yan Yan by frontal combat, but it was definitely not because of arrogance and pride, but because he thought that the battle of Tongguò completely made the Dongzhou soldiers frightened, so that the besieged defenders of Qu Ren lost the idea of resisting, and obediently surrendered to himself, and at the same time, in order to eliminate Yan Yan's team as much as possible, so as to reduce the pressure when attacking Ba County in the future.

No matter what he thought, Yan Yan's army rushed to the city of Qu Ren and immediately launched an attack on Liu Qi's army.

At the same time, Liu Bi and Ling Bao in the city of Qu Ninja saw the arrival of reinforcements, and immediately ordered the army to go out of the city to counterattack, preparing to join forces with the outside and defeat Liu Qi's main force in one fell swoop.

After some "discussion", the two decided to defend the city by Ling Bao, and Liu Bi led the army out of the city to meet the enemy.

This time, in order to ensure the victory of the army, Liu Bi directly took away 17,000 people in the city, leaving only 3,000 soldiers to defend the city.

Whether it was Yan Yan or Liu Bi, they all believed that this time they would definitely be able to break Liu Qi, so this time they were all full of confidence and courage, and they all roared angrily and rushed towards Liu Qi's army in the center of the two armies.

At this time, Liu Qi saw that the enemy army had really launched a flanking attack on his side, and he did not hurry to order the army to counterattack.

At the forefront of the team were naturally Huang Zhong's 10,000 crossbowmen. The 10,000-strong army was divided into two parts, one led by Huang Zhong himself, and the other led by Huang Zhong's son Huang Xu, who launched a block attack on the enemy army that rushed over.

Huang Xu was originally weak and almost died of illness, but fortunately, Liu Qi's medical academy had a medical saint Zhang Zhongjing in charge, and Liu Qi asked Zhang Zhongjing to treat him.

Huang Xu's father Huang Zhong was originally a famous general, plus Huang Xu studied in the Academy of Military Science for three years, and he was already quite proficient in the art of war.

"Launch." Huang Xu held the order flag, saw Liu Xuan's army come to the range of the crossbow, and immediately gave an order, and then saw the herald waving the order flag, and then saw the crossbow arrows that covered the sky and the sun were tilted into the opponent's military formation, and the dense sound of breaking the sky like rain reached his ears, which made his heart full of excitement.

"This is my first time on the battlefield, but I didn't expect to have the honor of commanding the most elite crossbowmen under my father's command, this is one of the most elite ace troops of the lord, hehe, such a killing weapon is too powerful, I can even see the shock and fear on the face of the enemy commander. But after all, this is my father's army, and I must build my own army in the future, and the hungry army must be as powerful and majestic as the lord's personal army. “

Huang Xu's heart was full of pride, seeing the enemy troops fall in rows, and even some timid soldiers who fled one after another regardless of military discipline, he rubbed his palms with excitement, feeling that he had become a generation of famous generals like his father.

However, the expression on the face of Liu Xuan, who was the enemy of Huang Xu, was diametrically opposite, he couldn't imagine that the other party only had 5,000 people, why he could throw so many crossbow arrows at one time, and his own soldiers actually lost 3,000 or 4,000 people in this round of arrow rain.

"Ahhh.......h Liu Xuan's bloodshot eyes were full of intense anger, and he immediately ordered: "The army will rush to me, and I will rush forward at any cost, the enemy army only has these crossbowmen, as long as we rush up, they can only be slaughtered by us like cattle and sheep." And if we retreat, the crossbow arrow does not have eyes, and the general's military law does not have eyes. ”

"Kill, ......" After hearing Liu Xuan's order, the soldiers who were originally a little frightened had no choice but to muster up their courage again and rushed towards Huang Xu's position.

"Huang Xu, your crossbowmen retreat, it's time to replace us at this time." Liu Shi had a hint of expectation on his face, his eyes were full of cold killing intent, and he said loudly to Huang Xu.