Huang Jin had never experienced a real war, and he was already frightened when he saw this scene, and when he came to his senses, the soldiers under the city had already erected the long ladder to the city wall. Huang Jin, who had just woken up from a dream, shouted: "Hurry up and release the arrow, hurry up and release the arrow!" ”

Seeing this, Liu Xin was about to order the siege troops to retreat, but a scene with a drama occurred on the city.

In addition to the defenders, there were many people who had been temporarily forcibly recruited from the city. For the people of Jiangxia County, they have long hoped that Xiangyang's policies can also be implemented here, whether it is tax reduction or rent reduction is the most beneficial for those of them who live at the bottom of society. These people went to the city, and they originally had the intention of not working hard, they were still waiting for the Jingzhou army to enter the city, and they could live a good life in the future, who wants to be a vain ghost at this time.

And those defenders are not much better than them, they are already lacking in training in normal times, and the officials often deduct food and salary, and now they are asked to risk their lives to deal with such a wolf-like new army, how can they be?

First of all, the people retreated one after another, refusing to carry the rolling logs and stones, and several officers came over with whips to urge, but they were pushed to the ground by the people and beaten half to death. When Huang Jin saw the rebellion of the people, he was even more panicked, and hurriedly asked the defenders to drive the people down the city, and the city was suddenly in chaos. Those soldiers began to listen to Huang Jin's words to drive away the people, but after three and two years, the soldiers and the people became a gang, and turned around and arrested Huang Jin.

Liu Xin was thinking about when it would be just right for Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but he saw that a white flag had been erected on the head of the city, and then the city gate was opened, and a group of soldiers spontaneously walked out of the city, threw down the swords, guns, bows and arrows in their hands, and lined up on both sides to welcome the army into the city. Liu Xin turned his head and smiled wryly at the generals around him, and his carefully planned siege point reinforcements were in vain.

Since the situation had changed abruptly, Liu Xin had to temporarily change his plan, so he left half of the men and horses to be stationed outside the city, and led the generals to enter Xiyang County. Huang Jin was escorted up left and right, and Liu Xin did not interrogate, and directly ordered him to be beheaded for public display, and all Huang Jin's family members were used as official slaves, and all family property was confiscated.

Liu Xin didn't dare to take it lightly, after all, several messengers had fled to Jiangxia City to report the news yesterday. Dozens of scout teams were immediately sent in all directions, and they kept scouting the situation in Jiangxia all night. As a result, to Liu Xin's surprise, until the fifth watch of the next day, there was still no movement in Jiangxia City, as if nothing had happened.

Jiang Xia's abnormal behavior made Liu Xin cautious, and he did not personally lead the army directly to the city, but asked Zhang Fei to lead 5,000 people as the vanguard to fight under the city. Huang Zu got the news of the attack of the Xiangyang army in a drunken dream, which was the 5,000 vanguard led by Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei came too quickly, and at this time, Jiang Xia had not yet reached the time to open the city gate. And Liu Xin was worried that Huang Zu was cheating, so he repeatedly told him not to attack the city rashly, so Zhang Fei had to let the soldiers shout and curse under the city. After Huang Zu discussed with the civil and military forces for a long time, he didn't come up with a result, so he had to come to the city first. At this time, Liu Xin's army had already arrived.

It turned out that the soldiers sent out by Huang Jin to report the news yesterday did not go to Jiangxia City. One of them, several relatives are the people in the area under Liu Xin's jurisdiction, and they naturally have contacts with each other during the Spring Festival, I heard that they are living better and better day by day under Liu Xin's jurisdiction, and their income is much higher than that of him, who eats imperial grain, and they are a little moved when they know that Liu Xin is calling. Along the way, he was persuading several of his companions to surrender to Liu Xin.

Several people saw the momentum of the Jingzhou army and knew that Xiyang County must not be defended, but their families were all in Xiyang County, so Huang Jin would be relieved to send them out. If they surrender to Liu Xin now, their families will definitely die, but if they go to Jiangxia to report the news, and wait for Liu Xin to conquer the county seat, their families will not be able to survive. As soon as a few people were combined, they simply didn't go anywhere, first found a place to hide nearby, waited for Liu Xin to defeat Xiyang County, and then changed into civilian clothes and sneaked back, so as to be a stable common man from now on. As a result, their troubles caused Liu Xin to be suspicious for a while, and he only thought that Huang Zu had some powerful conspiracy.

In the past two years, Huang Zu withheld taxes, and he had plenty of money, and it was indispensable to recruit troops and horses, and he already had an army of nearly 20,000 people in his hands, in addition to the counties stationed in various counties, there were more than 10,000 people in Jiangxia City.

Under the guidance of the left and right, Liu Xin already knew that the person in the middle of the city tower was Huang Zu, so he urged the war horse under his crotch, took more than ten steps forward, and said loudly: "Huang Zu, in the name of Jingzhou Mu, I remove your Taishou position, you hurry out of the city and surrender now, you can still keep your whole family safe, otherwise you will regret it." ”

Huang Zu held the arrow stack with one hand, pointed at Liu Xin with the other and said: "Liu Xin, you declare personal vendetta and raise sword soldiers in vain, I will go to the emperor to sue you!" ”

Liu Xin laughed: "Huang Zu, the so-called person who knows the times is Junjie, you only have a lonely city in Jiangxia left, I just don't attack, and see how long you can last?" Give you a pillar of incense time, and think about your own retreat! ”

After saying that, he waved his hand back, and a soldier ran forward and placed a copper incense burner on the ground in front of him, and the cigarette smoke rose from it.

There was chaos in the city for a while, and Huang Zu asked the people around him, "You say, what should I do now?" ”

Changshi Deng Long said: "Lord Hui, if all the counties are conquered by him, for the sake of today's plan, either go out of the city and surrender, or fight him to the death, there is no third way to go." ”

The fat man said hatefully: "Dad, everyone else can surrender, but you can't surrender!" ”

Huang Zu glanced at his son, who was still wrapped in bandages on his arm, and said angrily: "You are the one who caused this great disaster!" Without surrendering, what can you do to get him to retreat? ”

Huang Jian looked at Liu Xin under the city, there was fire in his eyes, and said: "Dad, it doesn't matter to others, surrender Liu Xin, and if you are not good, you can still get a petty official to do it." And if you ignore Liu Xin's orders again and again, he will definitely hate it to the core, if you go out of the city and surrender, he will be the first to kill you! If it is a desperate battle, it is not known who will kill the deer. ”

Captain Zhang Hu also jumped out, he was originally a captain of the Jingzhou Water Army, and this time he was the one who helped Huang Zu capture Cai Mao. He knew better than anyone else what would happen to him if he fell into Liu Xin's hands, and when he heard Huang Jie's words, he hurriedly said: "My lord, there are still more than 10,000 people in the city, if you don't surrender without a fight, it will be a shame, and the end will not be talented, I am willing to lead the army out of the city and fight him to the death!" ”

Chen Sheng, another lieutenant under Huang Zu, also stood up and said, "My lord, the last general is willing to go with General Zhang!" ”

At this time, Liu Xin saw that the pillar of incense in front of him had burned out, but there was no movement on the city, so he raised the horse whip in his hand and said loudly: "Listen to the officials and people in the city, this official came this time just to arrest Huang Zu and not offend the rest." There are those who capture Huang Zulai and reward 1,000 taels of gold! Those who take the head of Huang Zu will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold! Help the abuser to be the same crime as Huang Zu! ”

After Liu Xin finished speaking, he hit the horse and returned to his own position.

At this time, the gate of Jiangxia City suddenly opened, and a group of people rushed out, led by two generals. One of them, armed with a big knife, shouted: "Jiangxia Zhang Hu is here, who will fight me to the death!" ”

Fu Zhu said to Liu Xin: "This person was originally a naval captain, and it was he who led the troops to capture Cai Mao. ”

Liu Xin couldn't help but be furious, looked around and asked, "Who is going to capture this person with me?" ”

Xu Huang and Dian Wei said in unison: "A certain wish!" ”

Zhang Fei had already urged the war horse and rushed out of the formation.

Zhang Hu saw that the opposite side had killed a general, with a black face and a steel beard, and a big knife in his hand, and shouted: "Come and be able to die!" ”

Zhang Fei didn't answer him, and as soon as the spear of the eight snakes was raised, he stabbed it. Zhang Hu was shocked and waved his knife to greet him. Unexpectedly, Zhang Fei just made a false move, and the spear turned and stabbed at his wrist, shouting: "Let go!" Zhang Hu only felt that his wrist was cold, and he couldn't hold the big knife, and when he screamed, he fell to the ground. Zhang Fei lightly stretched his ape arm, shouted "Come here", and captured Zhang Husheng alive in just one round.

Zhang Fei put Zhang Hu on the saddle bridge, and the horse returned to the main formation. Chen Sheng saw it from behind, clenched his spear in both hands, and rode his horse over. Xu Huang saw it in the formation, took off his bow, and shot an arrow at Chen Sheng. I saw Chen Sheng shaking on the horse and falling down, with the feather arrow stuck in his throat.

Dian Wei had a rare opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy, and seeing that both of them had made meritorious contributions, he couldn't hold it back, waved the big iron halberd, and shouted loudly: "Kill!" ”

Without waiting for Liu Xin to stop him, he had already rushed forward. Liu Xin was worried that Dian Wei would lose, so he hurriedly ordered the drums of war to be beaten. Xu Huang waved his big axe and led the three armies to move forward together.

Zhang Hu took out of the city of about 3,000 people, saw Zhang Hu captured, Chen Sheng was shot, the army was already shaken, not waiting for the opposite army and horses to kill, they retreated one after another, in a mess.

Huang Zu saw it really at the top of the city, and he was frightened, and hurriedly ordered the suspension bridge to be pulled. Jiangxia is different from Xiyang County, there is a moat more than three zhang wide outside the city, the suspension bridge is pulled up, and the more than 3,000 people who go out of the city can not enter Jiangxia, and are crowded by the moat. Dian Wei had already rushed to the front and rushed into the crowd, and wherever the big iron halberd went, there were countless casualties. Xu Huang then also led the army to arrive, Jiangxia City showed a one-sided massacre, more than 3,000 people out of the city, dead, wounded, and some panicked, jumped directly into the moat.

Deng Long was still witty and shouted at the head of the city: "Hurry up and release the arrows, release the arrows!" ”

The arrows are scattered on the head of the city, and there is no enemy or friend anywhere. Liu Xin hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the strict training of the Jingzhou army in peacetime was revealed. Those who fell under the chaotic arrows were mostly the Jiangxia army.

Liu Xin looked at Dian Wei, who was covered in blood, and asked with a frown, "Hurt?" ”

Dian Wei grinned and smiled: "It's all their blood." ”

Liu Xin's face sank, and he said: "Next time, if there is anyone who dares to attack without authorization, military law will be engaged!" ”

Dian Wei still smiled and muttered: "Pay attention next time, but this time I will also be killed." ”

Liu Xin ignored him anymore, turned his head to look at Jiangxia City in front of him, frowned slightly, and asked Xu Huang: "Gongming, there is this moat in front of you, how sure are you of attacking the city?" ”