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After 37 days of bloody battles, the 23-year-old Xu Sheng matured as quickly as a phoenix in the baptism of blood and fire, and quickly grew into the mainstay of the Langya Army with his general demeanor who was not afraid of danger and command, and his heroic spirit of courage and tenacity and death.

Xu Sheng, like Tai Shici, who led 3,000 cavalry to fight the rebels in fear, was deeply loved by the soldiers of the whole army and the people of Qingzhou, and the fame of the two of them had spread all over Qingzhou, to the Luoyang court, and quickly spread to all directions of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Cun pointed to the rebel camp eight miles north of the country: "Zhang Chun is playing with us, planting flags everywhere, and within two days, he will inevitably slip away in embarrassment!" ”

Xu Sheng's spirits lifted: "Really, my lord? ”

Liu Cun nodded: "I went to West Pingchang before I came, and found that the rebels on the opposite side had pulled out of the camp, Fu Min personally led the ranger scout camp before dawn, and launched a strict search within a radius of fifty miles, and successively captured more than 100 rebel deserters, and after interrogation, it confirmed my and Ziyi's previous inference: Zhang Chun couldn't stand it, he had to abandon Qingzhou, detour west to join up with his right flank of 60,000 horses, and gather on the front line of Jingxian (now east of Guangzong County, Hebei), it is estimated that they will take a short rest, that is, they will launch a full-line attack on Qinghe County in the south and Wei County in the southwest, Gongsun Chan and the new Jizhou assassin Han Fu had a hard time. ”

Xu Sheng immediately shouted: "Does the lord want to help Gongsun Zhan?" Don't forget, if Gongsun Chan hadn't suddenly retreated one hundred and fifty miles and led the main force of the rebels to the direction of our plain, our army would not have suffered the fierce attack of the main force of the 80,000 rebels at once, and Gongsun Chan actually ignored the lord's repeated requests, avoided fighting, sat on the mountain and watched the tiger, watching our army independently support the two hundred and fifty miles of defense line, fighting very hard, many brothers who should not be lost were killed in a hurry during the retreat of his Gongsun Chan troops, and now it is his turn, let him experience it himself! ”

Han Tan and Li Zai echoed the voice, and were very angry at Gongsun Zhan's practice of retreating more than 100 miles without saying hello.

Liu Cun signaled them not to get excited: "Listen to me, there is something you don't know, forty days ago, the former Jizhou assassin Wang Fen committed suicide because of the rebellion, his death, the Jizhou army suddenly had no leader, morale was completely lost, and most of them fled that night, when Gongsun Zhan led 15,000 soldiers from the west of the Jizhou army more than 80 miles, received the news was too late, and the shock did not have time to think about anything, and retreated to the south before dawn, which was able to avoid the two copies of the 30,000 horses on the right wing of the rebels. He had to retreat a hundred miles before he dared to stop, but the rebels' 8,000 cavalry then arrived, and Gongsun Zhan hurriedly set up a maze array, and once again took advantage of the heavy rain to retreat south to Qinghe, and there was no time to inform our army. ”

Xu Sheng, Han Tan, and Li Zai were very shocked, and their resentment towards Gongsun Chan immediately faded a lot.

Liu Cun continued to explain: "Since most of our army are newly recruited soldiers, if you hear this news, you will definitely panic and fear, and be cowardly without a fight, so I strictly seal the news, Fu Min who guarded West Pingchang, Sima Ju who guarded the city of Tici, and all the cavalry and navy did not know about this, and I only knew a rough idea, until five days ago, the angel Zhang Dun sent by the emperor to announce the decree told me the details, and I didn't know what happened." ”

"Now the state officials have changed a lot, in addition to Han Fu taking over as the Jizhou Assassin History, Xuzhou Assassin Zhu and because of the lack of thieves and embezzlement of huge military salaries, has been questioned by the imperial court, Danyang Yang Wu Captain Tao Qian took over the Xuzhou Assassin History, Yanzhou Assassin Qiao Mao ran to be the East County Taishou, Zhongmu Liu Dai under the strong recommendation of the Yuan family, successfully took over the Yanzhou Assassin History...... At this critical time, there is such a big change in the governors of the states, and there will definitely be chaos. ”

"What shall we do? Why don't you start the repair plan of Plains City immediately? Xu Sheng still didn't want to support Gongsun Zhan, so he would rather stay on the plain and build a city.

Xu Sheng's mind was with Liu Cun's mind, but he was embarrassed to say it, and after listening to Xu Sheng's suggestion, Liu Cun happened to borrow the slope to get off the donkey:

"This city can not be repaired, although the people have escaped, but after all, we have to come back, we must hurry up, in this devastated plain city, quickly build a strong city wall within a radius of ten miles, this is the most important forward position of our army north of the Yellow River, as long as it is repaired, it can echo with the Gaotang in the south of the river, no matter how the situation changes in the future, my Langya army will take root here!"

Xu Sheng puffed up his chest: "Lord, my subordinates are willing to stick to this city for Lord!" ”

Liu Cun nodded: "Just keep it for half a year, there are more important things to hand over to you after half a year, you lead the troops to assist Mr. Huo in building the city in this half a year, and the ninety students of the first phase of the martial arts academy are under your command, although they have all experienced the war, but it is not enough, and they must learn how to build the city." ”

Liu Cun pointed to the city at his feet and said loudly: "The outer circle of the city wall adopts the design of the concave city gate, the four corners of the city wall must be able to be placed with fifty repeating crossbow beds, or twenty trebuchets, the width of the moat cannot be less than twenty steps, the easternmost city is the same, the city wall of the second is dilapidated and low, after many fierce battles, the four walls less than four miles long collapsed nearly half, although the attacking rebels are only 20,000, but Sima Ju fought more fiercely than your side, and more than half of his eight thousand brothers were killed and wounded, If Ziyi and I hadn't led the cavalry to support us many times, and attacked the enemy's rear several times to make them lose sight of one or the other, I'm afraid that our eastern front would have been opened a big hole by the rebels long ago. ”

Xu Sheng immediately realized Liu Cun's deep intentions, located in the two cities of Pingyuan County, one east and one west, is the foundation of guarding the land of 300 miles long and wide on the north bank of the Yellow River, after 37 days of hard fighting, Xu Sheng deeply realized the superiority of the navy, it is precisely because of the timely support of the navy, sending him weapons, food and replenishment of soldiers again and again, he can command the battle without worries.

Therefore, Xu Sheng asked: "Tatecheng (now south of Lijin County, Shandong) on the south bank of the estuary of the river is very important, it is in the key area connecting the Bohai Sea Road, and there are wharves in the east, south and north of the city. ”

"Don't worry, after two months of hard work by more than 20,000 people, the new city of Tatecheng and the southeast bay wharf within a radius of ten miles have been repaired soon, and the more than 20,000 craftsmen and people who participated in the construction of the city will be transferred to you to build the city within half a month." After Liu Cun finished speaking, he looked at the dusty horizon in the east.

Xu Sheng, Han Tan, Li Zai and other officers looked over one after another, and soon saw the red and black battle flag at the front of the five thousand cavalry, which was the general flag of Tai Shici, the commander of the cavalry, and the thousands of soldiers on the city wall immediately cheered after seeing it.

When Xu Sheng saw Liu Cun starting to sort out his armor, he immediately knew what Liu Cun wanted to do, and he was so excited that he couldn't care about etiquette, so he grabbed Liu Cun's hand and begged: "Lord, let your subordinates follow and have fun!" ”

Liu Cun happily agreed: "Then let's go and meet Zhang Chun together!" If you anger me, Langya Jun wants to slip away, there is no such cheap thing in the world! We must not let his more than 20,000 soldiers and horses after the break easily withdraw, let's lean on him and hang him, rush up and bite him when we have the opportunity, and follow him from a distance if we don't have a chance, pestering him like a wolf pack, dragging him to death! ”