Outside Lingling City, Guiyang soldiers are busy setting up camp, soldiers are cooking while making a few large bonfires, the soldiers patrolling on the Lingling city wall look down, the curling green smoke dims the winter dusk sunset, the fresh aroma of rice and several large piles of blooming bonfires remind them of the warmth of home. However, the patrol captain thought more that the besieging army would soon be defeated, and glanced at his lips, and said to himself mockingly: I am afraid that tomorrow there will be no lights.

In Lingling City, Liu Du and Liu Xian were having a small celebration banquet with Xing Daorong and other generals.

"General Xing knocked the Guiyang thief general to the ground in front of the battle today, which severely broke the morale of the enemy army and increased the prestige of our army." Liu Du showed unusual boldness, laughed and poured wine for Xing Daorong, and said, "Come, I'll toast you first." ”

Xing Daorong's face looked like he wanted to say something, but when he saw that Liu Du was in high spirits, he happily touched the wine with Liu Du, and then raised his head and took a sip of the wine, and when he saw that Liu Du had finished drinking, he said:

"The martial arts of the enemy commander are really no less than Dao Rong, but"

Xing Daorong still wanted to continue, but Liu Du had already poured the wine with him again, and said, "I already saw your talent when I handed over all the military power of Lingling to you. Then the other generals also echoed it, saying out that Xing Daorong was strong in martial arts, and Liu Cheng was a well-known person, and he was the Bole Yunyun of Maxima, and Xing Daorong didn't find a chance to say that it would be difficult to predict if he and Hu Che'er would win or lose again.

At this time, some immature words interrupted everyone, and Liu Xian, a young man sitting on the side of the main seat, said: "I think General Xing still made some mistakes in this battle. The generals who were complimenting Xing Daorong all turned their heads to look at Liu Xian, although they were a little disappointed, but the other party was a young master after all, and they didn't dare to refute it out loud, "If General Xing charges the whole army when the enemy army has not yet set up the formation at the beginning, then it will be easy to defeat the enemy army, and I am afraid that the enemy army has broken up at this moment." ”

When Xing Daorong heard Liu Xian's words, he lowered his head slightly and considered whether it was necessary for him not to attack the style of a famous general in ancient times when the enemy was arrayed. And Liu Du loudly reprimanded Liu Xian: "General Xing is a famous general in ancient times, confident that he can defeat the enemy army, he will not take advantage of the danger, what do you know?" Let's go to the back hall for a meal. ”

Liu Xian's lips were contemptuous, and he wanted to be cunning, but he thought about it, and was about to walk from the gate to the back hall, when a soldier rushed to the door and shouted: "Report!" Big things are not good. "What's the matter? Don't you see that I'm celebrating General Xing's achievements? I'll talk about it when the banquet is over. Liu Du was discouraged again, it was his son who was unwilling to be harsh before, but now the soldier was angry.

"I can't wait," the soldier continued, holding back Liu Du's anger, "the enemy is attacking the city." ”

Liu Du and the generals were panicked, and then packed up their armor and weapons and went to the city wall to resist the enemy.

It is said that the Guiyang army attacked the city after eating a full meal, and they rushed directly to the city on the city gate bridge that they had never mentioned, and then the scarce Lingling soldiers on the city wall realized the tension of the situation, and went to inform Liu Xian, Xing Daorong and others, and at the same time went to move back the arrows, feathers, wood, blocks, fire oil and other city defense tools that were stationed under the city. However, when the soldiers who carried the arrows and feathers returned to the wall, they found that the soldiers of both sides were already fighting on the wall, and no one had come to greet them.

At this moment, Hu Che'er and Zhou Cangzheng led the Guiyang soldiers to start a battle for the city wall, Xing Daorong came to the city wall, and there were no more Lingling soldiers in sight, he ran straight to Hu Che'er, the halberd swept across the semicircle and swept towards Hu Che'er, Hu Che'er kicked over the Lingling soldiers beside him, and the tip of the spear provoked a direct attack on the halberd blade. Suddenly, a big knife was across the halberd blade, Xing Daorong then rebounded the halberd handle and took a step back, and the dwarf black Dunhan Zhou Cang in front of him said: "I am the commander of the Guiyang Army on this road, do you dare to fight with me?" ”

Xing Daorong immediately brandished his halberd and slashed at Zhou Cang, attacking it with a wide opening and closing like playing Hu Che'er in the afternoon, and Zhou Cang also slashed at Xing Daorong with a big knife, and when the halberd met, both sides would inevitably lose. But it seemed that Zhou Cang's accuracy was a little worse, and the blade did not collide with the halberd blade, but slashed at the wooden halberd handle close to the halberd blade, so the weapon in Xing Daorong's hand changed from a halberd to a wooden stick.

The halberd blade that flew out slammed into Zhou Cang's feet, and Zhou Cang put the big knife in front of him and dodged to the left and back. Xing Daorong saw that the weapon had turned into a wooden stick, and secretly scolded the opponent's master for not talking about the rules of the battlefield (how can there be any rules for the battlefield), and he couldn't retreat, so he could only take advantage of Zhou Cang's retreat to defend and use the wooden stick as a halberd to press Zhou Cang between splits and strokes.

Zhou Cang had already calculated to cut off Xing Daorong's halberd blade, but when he saw Xing Daorong attacking the wooden stick as a halberd with anger, he still couldn't help laughing. Hu Che'er, who was watching the battle while fighting small soldiers, saw that the wooden stick in Xing Daorong's hand was getting shorter and shorter, and the wooden stick that was cut off galloped under the city wall, and there was a sound of collision and cursing. The wooden stick in Xing Daorong's hand was already close to the palm of his hand, he didn't expect this to happen, he was stunned for a moment, Zhou Cang was not polite, and in the moment Xing Daorong was stunned, he kicked him under the city wall horizontally, and then there were a few curses and a few exclamations.

After that, Zhou Cang Hu Che'er led the army to capture from the city wall, and the momentum was like a bamboo, capturing Liu Du, Liu Xian, Xing Daorong, and occupying Lingling, which is not mentioned here.

It is said that four or five days after Zhou Canghu Che'er occupied Lingling City, Wuling Taishou Jin Xuan had received the news that Changsha City was occupied by the Guiyang Army, and was discussing the current situation with Gong Zhi, a military general under his command. At this time, a message came from the communication soldiers, and Jin Xuan was shocked when he saw it: "What! Gong Zhi hurriedly asked, "City Lord, what's wrong?" Jin Xuan handed the information to Gong Zhi and said, "Lingling City has also been occupied by the Guiyang army. Gong Zhi was also shocked when he heard it, you must know that there are only four counties in the south of Jingzhou, and now that the three counties are occupied by the Guiyang army, they have to panic.

"What now?" Jin Xuan asked Gong Zhi, but he didn't expect to receive a satisfactory answer from him.

Gong Zhi seemed to see the slight disdain in Jin Xuan's eyes, stared at the information and thought for a while and said, "Don't worry too much, Lord City, although we in Jiangnan are actually doing our own things, we are all subordinates of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao in name. Guiyang Zhao Fan (now Zhang Quanjun is still nominally Zhao Fanjun) Even if he is very strong, he will not be the opponent of Lord Liu Biao. We only need to truthfully report the current situation to Liu Biao, and ask Liu Pan, who is stationed in Jiangling on the other side of Wuling, to drive away Guiyang Zhao Fan, and your position as the city lord will be kept. ”

"General Gong is a good plan." After hearing this, Jin Xuan suddenly had no worries, so he asked the soldiers to go to Xiangyang to report the situation to Liu Biao.

However, it was said that Zhang Quan invited Zhao Yun to the city lord's mansion for tea that day, but he actually asked Zhao Yun to lead a thousand men and horses, pretend to be merchants, and take a boat from Guiyang to Wuling Dongting Port. At this time, Zhao Yun led the army to change into armor and disembark from Dongting Port and go straight to the gate of Wuling. On the city gate bridge, there are some small merchants and hawkers are bargaining with the peasants entering the city, pedestrians come and go bustling, when the Wuling defenders found that there is an army attacking the city, Zhang Huang was at a loss, but it was too late to mention the city gate bridge.