Seeing that summer is going to autumn solstice, the sun is getting hotter and hotter.

Liu Bi was wearing a thick fish-scale armor, even if he stayed in the barracks, sweat soaked the back of his clothes under the armor, and his body was wet.

The temperature in the barracks is also very high, and most of the soldiers who are not on duty around them go in and out shirtless, but they have to pay attention to their appearance, which is really tiring.

In the past, when I was a thief, I wanted to wear it and wear it, and if I wanted to be bare-chested, I was bare-chested, how could it be so troublesome?

It's just that now, as the captain of Dayuan, he always has to set an example more in the army, and it's not good to be as casual as before.

It's too uncomfortable in the high temperature, this ghost weather, how good it should be to cool down in a heavy rain.

It was a little better to carry a water bladder and pour a few sips of cold water into the stomach, but I was impatient to sit and stand, and I thought that my own family was like this in the barracks, and what about the subordinates on duty under the scorching sun on the city tower?

"Guards, send two buckets of cold water to each city tower!"

After the order, Liu Bi felt that the barracks really couldn't stay anymore, so it was better to go around and inspect and blow the wind by the way.

The captain had fifty guards, and in addition to the more than ten people who delivered water, he shouted at the remaining horses and prepared to leave the camp again.

In such hot weather, the horses were also impatient, and several horses even resisted with their heads held high, refusing to leave the shady stables.

"Whew!"

The two guards were still fighting with the horses, but Liu Bi seemed to hear a horn in his ears, and shouted urgently: "Silence!" ”

Is it the high temperature that causes dizziness and hallucinations?

"Woo! Woo! ”

The two more sounds in the back will no longer be suspected, and it is in the direction of Nancheng Tower, Liu Bi suddenly jumped up in fright, and immediately roared: "Babble! Honk, soldiers! ”

After being stable for a long time, there is an enemy situation today?

After Liu Pi's order. The horn of the bull in the camp sounded immediately, and the thunderbolt in the distance also responded.

Seeing that the soldiers were still in a panic and were still putting clothes and armor on their bodies and extracting halberds, and they couldn't gather the team for the time being, Liu Bi was impatient and shouted again: "After the assembly of each song, go to the defense area!" Guard, go! ”

The guards raised their whips. After a few blows on the neck of the resisting horse, several horses were honest, and everyone immediately got on their horses and left the camp.

There were not many pedestrians on the street in the heat, and when I heard the sound of horns and the rumbling of horses' hooves, the few scattered to escape. Liu Piyang whipped the horse and galloped at the front, and his mouth couldn't help but scold: "Avoid!" Quickly dodge! ”

The enemy situation came suddenly, and he was so anxious that he couldn't wait to rush to the south city tower immediately.

Xinye was the center of the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu's early army. It is also the hometown of Deng Yu, the ancestor of the Deng family, although it is only a small county, but it also has four gates.

Liu Bi and Lei Bo guarded Xinye, and each of them stationed a song of people and horses at the head of each city, but on weekdays, only one tun of people was left in the city, and the rest stayed in the barracks, and a few returned home.

As in the past, there is a halberd riding school in the south city. A sound school can deal with general accidents. I'm just afraid that the enemy will come strangely and suddenly.

Fortunately, he led his guards to the south gate quickly, and he had not heard the sound of fighting.

Seeing that the city gate was closed, Liu Bi still felt tight, and hurriedly dismounted and rushed up to the city tower.

The two hundred generals who did not need to be on duty said anything else. As soon as he boarded the passage of the city wall, Liu Pi was still panting, but he could already see from the wall battlements that on the river channel in the south direction, one after another warships were pulling their sails and paddling against the current.

Jingzhou Water Division!

Presumably, the river is not very wide, and it is not easy for larger buildings to turn around. There was no trace of the building ships, all the ships that came were ships and first boarded, and there were already seventy or eighty ships in the field of vision, and the tail end of the fleet could not be seen yet.

After seeing the enemy's situation clearly, Liu Pi didn't panic anymore, and said to a personal guard who ran up: "Quickly go to Wancheng to report to General Yu, Liu Biaoshui has committed a crime in the north, and he has arrived in Xinye!" ”

"No!"

The guard received the order, turned around and ran down, and took his horse and went out of the city at the north gate.

Liu Pi glanced at the flags flying backwards on the head of the city, and knew that at this time, the southeast wind was blowing, and although the enemy ships were going upstream, they were downwind, and the speed was not slow.

At the end of the line of sight, the Jingzhou Navy warships were still heading towards Xinye.

Not long after, Lei Bo and Li Gui, the recently appointed magistrate of Xinye County, rushed to the upper floor of Nancheng and counted the number of boats coming from Liu Biaojun.

The two soldiers guarding the south gate also gathered their headquarters and rushed to the city tower.

"Nearly three hundred!"

When the front team of the Jingzhou Navy Division was two or three miles away from Xinye City, the warships behind were finally no longer seen, Li Gui gently reported the number of enemy fleets in his mouth, and then asked Liu Bi: "Can the enemy pass?" ”

This Li Guizi Boyu is an old man in Sizhou, Deng Ji was rescued from the Hun riders and Tang Luo and others, but unfortunately his knowledge is very limited, and he has only been appointed as a county magistrate until now. At the same time as him, only Han Hao was outstanding in the civil and military affairs who defected to Deng Ji for the same reason, and the rest were rarely rewarded for his political achievements: Chun Yujue served as the commander of Gongxian County for many years, and only after the founding of the Great Yuan Dynasty was he rewarded with the four-grade Hanoi County Cheng because of his qualifications; Zhang Ye was originally appointed as the commander of Huayin County, but abandoned his official position and fled to Zhang Sheng during the Hanoi Sect Rebellion, and Zhang Sheng committed suicide after the defeat; Chen Yu is only a five-grade official like Li Gui, and now he is the magistrate of Chencang County.

Zhang Liao and others have deduced before, if Liu Biao's water army goes north, Liu Pi and Lei Bo will defend Xinye, as long as it is delayed for a day or two, when the Hengjiang army arrives, it will be carried upstream with chain boats, and the fire will be burned downstream.

Although Sun Guan's Hengjiang Army had not yet taken shape, the people who sailed 100 small boats could still be found.

Wancheng has the Weilie Army Zhang Liao's three colonels, as well as the Hengjiang Army, the rest of the Hengye Army in Shunyang, the Xiao Cavalry Army stationed in Luyang, Liang County, the less two or three days, the more than ten days can come to help, how can you not hold on to the two or three days? Liu Biao is going to send troops to die!

Although Liu Biaojun is numerous, nearly 300 warships can transport at least 20,000 sergeants, as long as they are prepared, Liu Pi and Lei Bo are not afraid, and when they heard Li Gui's question, they replied to him in unison: "We are afraid of the enemy?" ”

After speaking, Lei Bo sent the sergeant to report the approximate size of the enemy army in Zhang Liao.

Li Gui asked again: "I am afraid of rushing to break the door, and the city should be guarded with sand and stone to fill the door hole, should I send people to act?" ”

Liu Bi shook his head: "Don't worry, let's watch again!" ”

However, Liu Bixiao's next hundred generals named Li Wuxian interjected: "The rest don't need to worry, but the big clans in the city should secretly communicate with foreign enemies!" ”

Lei Bo nodded and said, "This is very true!" ”

Liu Pi also woke up to the fact that in the newly occupied land of Nanyang, the big clan had a close relationship with Liu Biao, and after the implementation of the fourth-class people's policy, most of the big clans moved away, but there were also some who stayed, although they had been dismantled and resettled, and the strength to gather together should not be underestimated, and if there was chaos in the city, it would be bad.

After Li Wu's illness woke up, Liu Pi hurriedly sent people to the north gate and east gate where the enemy situation had not yet been discovered, and sent two halberd cavalry soldiers to assist the officers in the city to inspect various places to prevent chaos, and asked Li Gui to mobilize the people to help defend the city.

Knowing that there were only two guards in Xinye City to defend, the Jingzhou Navy Division swaggered and stopped the boat two miles south of the city.

It took two hours, and more than 10,000 soldiers disembarked before and after, and then set up camp outside the city, and the warships were all parked in the water.

It was the end of noon when Liu Biao's warship was discovered, and it was almost dusk when he set up camp, and the offensive and defensive battle probably would not begin until tomorrow.

His own reinforcements will arrive in less than two days, Liu Biaojun is dragging his feet, and Liu Pi and Lei Bo are even more happy to see it.

Fortunately, Li Wuxian reminded that in the evening of the same day, the inspector died near the house in the west of the city and found that someone was secretly gathering, and stepped forward to ask, which immediately triggered a fight.

If it was really the Wen family and the Ma family in the city who secretly communicated with Liu Biao, they were ready to cooperate with the outside world, but they were recognized early, and the number of people gathered was not much, and more than ten people at the scene were quickly surrounded and killed by the soldiers who rushed to the scene.

The officers led the soldiers to search for the rest from house to house, and those who dared to resist were killed on the spot.

The person in charge was also captured, and he was an indifferent person, and he was soon interrogated, and he was ready to light fires in the city at night, leading the Sizhou army into chaos, and then stealing the west gate to help Liu Biao's army take the city.

Liu Biaojun is still far away from the city, and the movement inside the hunt is not big, and most of the people outside the city can't hear it. ”

Lei Bo bowed his head, ordered the soldiers to find the houses in the remote parts of the city that were not connected to the surrounding houses, and after ensuring that the official temple compensated everything afterwards, he forcibly requisitioned seven or eight houses, moved out the furniture and materials, and lit a fire at midnight.

Liu Pi and Lei Bo ordered the soldiers to shout and scream in all directions, making a chaotic fight, and put the corpses of the thieves on the armor of the soldiers, and displayed them all under the West Gate, and the captured prisoners were also killed under the West Gate.

Not long after, the West Gate City Gate was opened, Liu Biao led the troops of Lu Gong first, and the remaining Sizhou soldiers fled in panic to open the West Gate, and only hundreds of people dressed like the people should stay.

At this time, it was dark, and Lu Gong only borrowed torches to see the corpses, bloodstains, and discarded weapons on the ground, how to distinguish them in detail? Rush into the army.

As soon as the 2,000 men of his department entered, a trumpet sounded behind them, and the inner responders who had led the way before rushed into the houses beside the road to take refuge, and thousands of archers had already stood on the city walls and on the roofs of the houses, shooting with arrows and arrows.

In the desperation of Lu Gong, he heard the rumbling of the war horse, and Liu Pi also led the halberd riding school iron cavalry to crush him.

The west gate of the cave was closed again not long after, and more than 2,000 people entered the city, and none of them survived.

Liu Pi and Lei Bo greatly frustrated the spirit of the Jingzhou soldiers that night, but they climbed the city tower in the morning to look again, and overnight, Liu Biaoshui's division on the Weishui River had lost most of the warships.

The two of them were immediately shocked, but after last night's setback, Liu Biaojun's army outside the city only stayed in the camp honestly and never came to attack the city again.

On the evening of the same day, Zhang Liao quickly reported to the horse, he heard that Liu Biaojun had committed a crime in the north, so he led the troops to aid Xinye, on the way, he suddenly reported to Wen Ping, Zhang Yunxin field through the turbulent mouth into the turbulent water tributary of the water turbulent water, and then through the turbulent water into the Nieshui (note), to Nieyang to get off the boat, after taking Nieyang lightly, and then kill to Wancheng, its army has ten thousand five, I am afraid that Sun Guanshui army can not stop it, and he led the department back to rescue Wancheng.

One day after this news, the magistrate of Biyang County also sent a fast horse to report that Jiangxia Huangzu led Su Fei to kill tens of thousands of troops by land, and he could only mobilize the people to hold on, but Su Fei's army went around the city and went to Wancheng.

Note: Turbulent water, now a tributary of the White River, is named because of the turbulent water flow in the upper reaches; Nirvana, the Zhao River, a tributary of the present-day White River, flows into the White River in Xinye after flowing into the Turbulent River. (To be continued.) )