Chapter 69: The Fierce Battle (I)

The city of Philadelphia is a square old city, the four walls are two miles long, two miles wide, and three feet five feet high, and the more than 2,000 Yellow Turban soldiers who stayed behind were defenseless, and were quickly taken down by Zhai Yue's 3,000 elites and instantly killed into the barracks.

When Zhai Yue led 500 brothers to kill into Xu He's base camp in Chengzhong County, only dozens of Yellow Turban soldiers screamed to resist, and there were still more than 200 people who had just gotten up from the warm bed, and saw the bloody and murderous Langya soldiers rushing madly, and immediately panicked into a mess, and a few "surrender without killing" made the Yellow Turban soldiers who were scattered fall to their knees, and the whole process was so smooth that Zhai Yue and other officers felt incredible.

Three quarters of an hour later, the 3,000 cavalry led by Mi Zhu arrived in time, and under the guidance of the Langya soldiers, they rode into the streets and alleys, and the chaotic scene was quickly controlled, and the sporadic resistance was quickly suppressed.

An hour later, Mi Zhu led 5,000 foot soldiers finally arrived from the long stream twelve miles away in the south, Mi Zhu and Zhai Yue quickly took over the city defense after meeting, arranged the city wall and four gates of defense, Zhai Yue who freed his hands immediately pacified and screened tens of thousands of people in the city.

Mi Fang, who was greatly confident, was reminded by his brother Mi Zhu and immediately led his 3,000 cavalry to rush to the Xucun battlefield in the east.

Since then, Feixian County has completely fallen into the hands of the Langya Army and the Xuzhou Army.

There was tension in the camp of Xucun, 5,000 of the more than 10,000 young and strong people put on their armor and picked up spears, bows and arrows, and took over the defense task of the camp under the leadership of 500 veterans.

The more than 3,000 Langya cavalry were divided into two parts, and the 2,000 cavalry standing silently in the wilderness south of the camp were led by Yan Shen, and Xu Sheng, who had grown up rapidly, was the deputy general; The 1,300 cavalry in the camp were led by the newly promoted soldiers Hou Tai Shici and Fu Min, and six young fake soldiers stood in a row behind them.

On the central tower, the commander Liu Cun saw three puffs of thick black smoke rising from the northwest ten-mile mountain, and immediately excitedly announced in a loud voice: "Immediately inform the officers and men of the whole army that the combined forces of Captain Zhai Yue and Lord Mi Zhu have captured Fei County!" As long as we work harder, we can defeat the rabble outside the camp! ”

The exciting news quickly spread inside and outside the camp, cheers continued one after another, and the officers and men howled and blushed to their heart's content, and no one was afraid of the black and oppressive Yellow Turban army formation to the west of the camp.

The eight drawbridges to the west of the camp were lowered, and the various units of the Langya Army, inspired by the victory, continued to drive out of the camp and marched to a place two miles away from the Yellow Turban Army formation and quickly lined up.

The two thousand rangers led by Yan Shen carefully guarded the right flank of the army formation, and while guarding against the surprise attack of the Yellow Turban Army, they constantly sent teams of cavalry to launch a tentative attack on the Yellow Turban right flank gun array, forcing the Yellow Turban Army to shrink its formation and not dare to launch easily, while the left flank array of the Langya Army was close to the river bank, leaving no room for the Yellow Turban Army to froze around.

The 38,000 Yellow Turban Army discharged a dense formation, the spears were fluttering like a forest battle flag, the Yellow Turban Commander Xu He and more than ten generals rode horses and stood on the central slope of the array, seeing the Langya Army's dark armor The Langya Army held high the battle flag and quickly set up the formation, and the 2,000 cavalry on its right flank were extremely active, but they did not make further movements, and they were immediately confused by the actions of the Langya Army.

The Yellow Turban Army was ready to storm the enemy camp, but when it was mobilizing the heavy siege vehicles that had been rushed overnight, the Langya Army, which had only 8,000 troops, dared to abandon the strong camp that had the advantage and boldly went out to camp and array.

The sudden change in the battlefield surprised Xu He and Sima Ju, and they were also deeply puzzled, and the two got together to make a nervous judgment, but they couldn't see the true purpose of Langyajun's move.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Langya army had already set up a formation, and the cavalry that kept coming forward to harass all retreated to rest, Xu He suddenly woke up, but lost the best opportunity to attack in this battle.

"Big brother, look, two horses ran out of the Langya army formation, and it is estimated that they are here to call the formation." Sima Ju reminded loudly, pointing to the thunderous Langya army array in front of him.

Xu He hurriedly looked ahead, and found that two generals of the Langya Army in silver helmets and black armor rode horses, and slowly stopped after running five hundred steps ahead, and the generals in front of him were tall and majestic, and the generals behind him held a big flag with a red background and black edge, and there was a striking "Liu" word on the big flag that hunted and fluttered in the strong wind.

"Could it be Liu Cun?"

Sima Ju exclaimed, he had never seen the commander of the army come out in person to call for battle.

Xu He nodded admiringly: "There must be no doubt that Liu Cuntian, it is rumored that Liu Cuntian is full of strange materials, both civil and military, it seems that it is right, can the virtuous brother go with me to meet him?" ”

Sima Ju laughed proudly: "Big brother, I've always wanted to see what Liu Cun looks like." ”

Xu He didn't say a word, walked down the dirt slope and rushed forward, Sima Ju followed closely with a long knife, and came to Liu Cun more than ten steps in front of him in a few breaths to stop the horse, and at the same time raised his arrogant head, and carefully looked at Liu Cun, who was the first to hold his fists and salute.

Sima Ju saw that Liu Cun did not have a long weapon, and Ying Wuzi, who was holding a big flag behind him, was also just hanging a horizontal knife on his waist, and then looked at the strong and tall mounts under the two of them, and suddenly felt embarrassed, staring at Liu Cun with bright eyes, but quietly moved the long knife behind him.

Xu He smiled and raised his hand in return: "In person, is it Liu Cun and Lord Liu Zijian?" ”

Liu Cun smiled heartily: "General Xu He, I can finally see you, you are a hundred times more heroic than the legendary hero!" ”

Xu He, who was accustomed to hearing the officials and soldiers scolding him for being shameless thieves and lowly thieves, was stunned, Liu Cundignified was a county guard, the commander of an army, and in front of him, a thief who was scolded by tens of thousands of people, he humbly called him Xu He a general, and he smiled cheerfully and behaved humbly, which suddenly made Xu He's heart rise a little warm, and his tone became kind:

"Liu Yuanjun has won the award! Xu He is just a lowly thief, and he can't afford to be praised by adults! Ha ha! The adults rode out on horseback, and I don't know what to teach? ”

Liu Cun replied very sincerely: "General Xu, to tell you something from the heart, I, Liu Cun, never think that the Yellow Turban Army is a heinous thief, in my opinion, most of them are poor people who are forced to live, if there is still food to eat, and there is a field that can feed the family, the government and the landlords and gentry should not be forced too badly, no one is willing to rebel at the risk of killing their heads and exterminating the clan, the vast majority of the people in the Yellow Turban Army are suffering fathers and villagers in my Liu Cun's eyes!" ”

"General Xu, I really don't want to fight this battle, because after the first battle, the land under our feet that should have been planted with crops will be stained red with blood, and the corpses of thousands of Yellow Turban Brothers and Langya Army soldiers will lie down, and even myself or General Xu may be one of the countless corpses!"

Xu He and Sima Ju were extremely moved, silently looking at each other speechlessly.

Seeing this, Liu Cun stepped up his efforts: "Liu Cun implores the two generals to quit the army, if General Xu is willing, he can join my Langya army and continue to lead the troops as generals, with the general's experience and military talent, he will definitely be famous all over the world in the future!" General Sima Ju, I know that you were a disciple of the Mo family, good at navigation and shipbuilding, before the chaos in the world, General Sima drove a self-made boat from the mouth of the river many times, and commanded more than 100 hometown brothers to go up the river to Luoyang, the people of Beihai now mention General Sima, still talk about it, and miss it very much, what my Langya Navy lacks is a general like General Sima Ju! ”

"In addition, for the brothers under the command of the general, my Langya army will treat them equally, and they will not blame the past, and they are willing to continue to serve as soldiers, and in the future, they will be brothers in life and death who will eat the same pot of rice, and those who do not want to continue to serve as soldiers will be given land, farm tools, and ploughing cattle, so that the brothers can live and work in peace and contentment, and multiply."

Xu He's heart turned back and forth, the waves were churning, he believed in Liu Cun's promise, the hundreds of thousands of victims had lived a stable life under Liu Cun's rule, and he would not doubt Liu Cun's character and intentions, otherwise Liu Cun would never be able to win the support of all the people, and the name of benevolence would not spread all over the world.

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