Since Deng Ji begged Liu Bei to return to Nanyang, although Liu Biao did not dare to use troops in the north of Hanshui because of the strength of Sizhou, Sun Ce, Liu Zhang, and Zhang Jin were constantly harassed, the scouts had sent countless people, and they had already explored the situation in Beinanyang.

Therefore, Liu Biao also knew that there was indeed some resistance in Nanyang at the beginning of the implementation of the fourth-class people's policy, but after all, the local clan power had weakened too much, and with Deng Jitun's heavy troops here, no clan dared to jump out to be a thief. With the strength of the local clans, Deng Ji could not be resisted, and as time went by, the fourth-class civil system had the momentum of taking root in Nanyang.

As long as Deng Ji takes root, it will be extremely difficult for outsiders to try again, and Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others are a lesson from the past. And he actually built a dock in Wancheng, the speed of shipbuilding is unbelievable, and it seems that it will soon be the third force with a regular naval army up and down the river, and the threat to Nanjun and the entire Jingzhou has become more and more great.

Deng Jifei is comparable to Zhang Ji and Liu Bei, and now Nanyang has made Liu Biao uncomfortable.

Deng Ji officially established the country as emperor in June, and the people of the world, who claimed to be loyal to the Han family, all scolded bitterly, and not long after, the Son of Heaven had an envoy to pass the edict, ordering Liu Biao to beg the rebel and pseudo-Yuan.

It turned out that after Sizhou helped the original return to Yecheng, Yuan Xi was ordered by his father to return to his post and defend Bohai County with Youzhou Army, Yecheng had Xu Huang's help, and Cao Cao only took one Qinghe country in Jizhou, as long as Yecheng was not broken, he did not dare to continue to use troops to the north.

Now Deng Ji is Yuan Benchu's backing, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xu You and others have come and discussed to discuss, and only by harassing Sizhou itself and being unable to save Yuan Shao can they completely eat the two states of Youji.

For this reason, Cao Cao asked the Son of Heaven to issue an edict to Liu Biao, Liu Bei, and Pang Zhen. Let them beg the thief to rebel against Deng Ji.

The old thief Pang really got the order. Laughing. After Yuan Shao was defeated by the White Horse, in order to show goodwill, when Deng Ji was called emperor, he still sent an envoy to congratulate and invite himself to be a foreign vassal, and got the edict of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, which was passed directly to Luoyang, and asked the envoy to ask Deng Ji: "Gong has become the emperor, and now General Pang is the Great Yuan Fu and the state, can he be called the king?" ”

Deng Ji was speechless at the time. Reluctantly replied: "You can do whatever you want." ”

After the envoy left, the cabinet deliberated again and agreed with Deng Ji's reply as a result.

Not long after, Pang Zhen proclaimed himself King of Zhao.

And the angel to Hanzhong, Liu Bei replied after the edict: "I can't wait to beg for the thief for the Son of Heaven, but the plank road has been destroyed, and it is difficult to enter the army for a while. ”

After procrastinating the word, Liu Bei sent people to send tribute with the angel several times back to Dingtao. Later, Zhong Xuan suggested to Cao Cao: "Liu Xuande is difficult to attach to the Yuan, and he is properly encircled." It's better to caress it. ”

Cao Cao agreed, asked the Son of Heaven to check the royal genealogy, and then sent an envoy to recognize Liu Bei as a relative of the Han family, the uncle of the Son of Heaven, and the official title of Hanzhong Taishou and Liangzhou Mu.

The last vacant Liangzhou pastor had already instigated Liu Bei to attack the Yuan Kingdom in the north, but unfortunately after it was transmitted to Hanzhong, although Liu Xuande was very grateful, the Northern Expedition was never mentioned.

Pang Zhen and Liu Bei's reactions are all later, and the three edicts that came out are only Liu Biao who earnestly fulfills them, first, to reunite people's hopes, and secondly, they are already enemies with Deng Ji, and the Nanyang Navy is growing stronger day by day, and is about to break the threat.

After careful planning with Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang brothers, they sent the water army to the north to Xinye to divide the troops, Cai Mao, Huo Jun, and Lu Gong led the army to take Xinye, Zhang Yun, Wen Ping, Jing Tuan, and Ni secretly attacked Wancheng, and ordered Jiangxia Huangzu to send troops to attack Wancheng directly from the land.

Liu Biao and others also knew that the Yuan army was good at fighting and difficult to fight, so Xinye and Wancheng had already contacted and had an internal response, and Wancheng also planned to lure out Zhang Liao and then secretly attack, and the two cities could get the natural good, and the Jingzhou army had the most archers, and it was very advantageous to defend after winning the city, and it was possible to expel the Deng army from Nanyang on the basis of this; If you can't take the city, at least you have to destroy the dock of Wancheng.

Wen Ping is actually a native of Wancheng, but as early as when Zhang Ji entered Wancheng, his clan had moved to Nanjun. The Jingzhou army is very familiar with the Nanyang waterway, he and Zhang Yun took advantage of the night to secretly enter the turbulent water, Nieshui, when the river is getting narrower, get off the boat and change to the land route, the day is not clear that Nieyang is encircled, and the county seat is easily captured, and even the officials in the city are not allowed to get rid of one, and then open the city gate, and they are not allowed to enter or exit.

For this secret attack, Liu Biao had already spread his work in Nanyang, and the scouts lurking outside Wancheng were soon reported, and Zhang Liao left the city to go south to rescue Xinye.

At this time, the soldiers were very fast, Wen Ping and Zhang Yun left 2,000 sailors to defend the ship and Nieyang, and the army immediately flew to Wancheng.

Nieyang is adjacent to Wancheng, according to the unit of measurement of later generations, the distance between the two is 28 kilometers.

This time it was really calculated or unintentional, and the Wenpin army was found by the countryside people on the way, so that the Hengjiang soldiers who returned home from Mu Xiu told Wancheng, but at this time, Wenpin was less than an hour away from Wancheng.

After Zhang Liao left, Sun Guan was in charge of military affairs in the city.

Sun Guan got the report and urgently ordered the scouts to go out of the city to investigate again, and the rest only had time to move many shipwrights and carpenters in the dock into the military camp in the city, and ordered Zhang Hu to sail all the warships to the other side of the river to take refuge.

In the midst of the chaos, the shipwrights, carpenters, and soldiers only moved all the lighter and ordinary ship materials, and the keel was rushed back to five or six articles, and the army of civil servants had arrived.

At this time, Han Song and the new Wanxian Commander Yin Kui had just led the county officials out of the official temple and began to mobilize the people everywhere, and the officers had not had time to inspect and prevent chaos.

Liu Biao's previous preparations were to secretly transport troops back and forth on the Han River by small boats to prevent them from being detected, that is, to catch Nanyang off guard, highlight a fast word, the Wenpin army came quickly, and the actions in the city were also fast.

Liu Biao should be the Zhang clan in Wancheng, and he is the same clan as Zhang Yun of Nanjun.

Zhang's is not like Xinye's Wen and Ma's, and Sun Guan still doesn't know that Wen is hired to Niyang, so he has already prepared first.

When the Wenpin army arrived outside the city, it was immediately divided into three roads, each going to the south gate, west gate, and north gate of Wancheng.

Wen hired to immediately divide the troops to besiege the city, the last garrison outside the north gate was still in rotation carrying a total of more than ten zhang long keel, desperately rushing to the city gate, but the defenders on the city tower had seen the Jingzhou army surrounding, shouting in unison that they would abandon the giant tree and quickly return to the city.

Liu Tong, the general of the soldiers who was responsible for carrying this keel, saw that it was less than a mile away from the city gate, and now the sailors were scarce, so he refused to give up, and only urged the soldiers to speed up their pace.

According to the Han system, this keel weighs about seven or eight thousand catties, and the soldiers use more than 20 wooden poles to share the weight.

Although the Jingzhou army had few horses, there were nearly 100 cavalry at the outpost, and when they entered the field of vision, they found that the city gate was not closed, and there were soldiers outside the city who were still carrying dragon bones, and they immediately drove their horses to pounce over.

Although the keel is rare, the lives of the soldiers are more precious, and if they hesitate any longer, they can only lose both men and trees, the situation is already like this, Liu Tong is helpless, and finally shouted loudly in his Liangzhou dialect: "Stop!" Wait for the order to three, abandon the wood! ”

The more panicked he is, the more he will make mistakes, if he is too anxious to overturn a few, he first shouted loudly twice, and when the soldiers stop their pace and are ready, he will drink again: "One, two, three, abandon!" ”

"Boom!"

The heavy wood fell to the ground, the ground shook, no one was injured, and all the people carrying the wooden poles had to unload their shoulders safely, Liu Tong sighed, and finally reluctantly glanced at the wood on the ground, and then pointed to the city gate urgently: "Return to the city quickly!"

The Jingzhou army outpost had galloped in, and the soldiers all let go of their feet and ran wildly towards the city gate——— in order to carry back the heavy wood in this hot weather, they were all naked, and no one had weapons to hinder their hands and feet, and they ran fast.

The robes above and below the city gate were sweating for them, but fortunately they were close to the city gate before, and they should be able to enter the city before the enemy rode at a speed.

The hundred generals on duty under the northern city are Peng Lin, Peng Hu's clan brother, and he stood at the front waving his arms and urging loudly: "Quick! Fast! Fast! ”

The soldiers behind Peng Lin were all ready, just waiting for Liu Tongtun to enter and close the city gate.

The archers on the tower had already bent their bows and mounted their arrows, ready to shoot the cavalry that was chasing after them.

Liu Tongtun ran at the front of the city gate only more than 20 steps, but the cavalry behind had not yet entered the range of the archers, Peng Lin was already relieved, but Liu Tong, who was rushing towards him, suddenly turned pale, but he couldn't shout complete words in the rush, and stopped and roared: "There is a thief behind you!" ”

With a roar, he raised his feet again and ran wildly.

Peng Lin turned his head to look, and at some point on the street, three or four hundred people with knives and guns were rushing towards him, and a few in the front row had already entered the doorway, and the moment he turned his head, he just stabbed his spear into the backs of the two soldiers who had been paying attention to the outside of the city.

"Ahh

Pao Ze's dying screams woke up the other soldiers of Peng Lin's department, and when they looked back, their eyes were split.

Hearing the horns sounding everywhere in the city, the head of the Zhang clan knew that the Jingzhou army had arrived, and almost all the men who could hold knives and guns in the He clan were mobilized, and they had agreed to receive the Jingzhou army at the north gate to enter the city.

The incident happened suddenly, and the Zhang boys easily let go of a few more pawns, and Peng Lin adjusted to the following, gritting his teeth and dancing with swords and shields.

It's just that although Peng Lin is a hundred generals, most of his subordinates have been sent to the city tower for defense, and there is only one team of one hundred generals and thirty-two people left under the door.

The sound of bowstrings on the city wall and the sound of horses' hooves at the outpost of Jingzhou soldiers could already be heard, and Peng Lin struggled to block Rulin's swords and guns, shouting in his heart that it was not good.

At this time, Liu Tongtun flocked to the door.

But they were all shirtless, empty-handed, without armor or equipment! What can be done?

When Peng Lin thought this, Liu Tong had already run past him, rushed forward like a madman, grabbed the arm of a person who should hold a knife with one hand, and then hit the opponent's nose with a headhammer, and the splitter had already snatched the knife from the opponent's hand.

Peng Lin didn't have time to cheer, Liu Tong didn't hold the knife in his hand steadily, and another person on the side had already swung a knife at his neck, and the congestion on the left and right was too late to avoid.

In the blink of an eye, Liu Tong hurriedly raised his empty left hand to block his neck, and the knife slashed at his forearm, instantly breaking his flesh and bones.

"Woo!"

Liu Tong, who had a broken arm, howled angrily, but the knife in his right hand did not hesitate, and stabbed the opponent's abdomen with his backhand first, and then pulled it out hard.

The people around could see it clearly, and the severe pain made Liu Tong's eyebrows and nose instantly covered with sweat.

There is still a layer of skin attached to the broken arm of the left hand that shakes on the elbow and does not fall, and the broken wound that is exposed is white bone, red is flesh, and slightly black is blood.

The single knife from the right hand is also dripping blood.

The crumbling body did not fall, Liu Tong roared loudly: "The back row closes the city gate, and the rest move forward, kill all the thieves!" (To be continued.) )