After the capture of Anyang County, Chen Lin almost did not stay, and immediately waved his army to Nanzheng, converging Cai Yang and Yang Ren, a total of 6,000 troops to surround Nanzheng. Chen Lin repeated his old tricks, and began to build a siege tower three miles outside Nanzheng City, and only waited for the siege tower to be completed, and he could attack the city wall and fight a decisive battle with Zhang Xiu. After several days of actions, this time Zhang Xiu couldn't hide it. Zhang Xiu climbed the city wall to take a look, turned around and asked his subordinates: "What is this kid going to do?" Zhang Xiu's subordinates were not all ignorant, and one of them came out of the crowd and said to Zhang Xiu: "Master, this is the official army building a siege tower." Then he explained the purpose of the siege tower, ** not far from ten.

Zhang Xiu was shocked after hearing this, and said in his heart that he was afraid that the county seat of Anyang County had been captured by the enemy, and I had become a lonely city in the south of Zhengcheng. Hasn't this official army been besieging the city under the city, it turned out that it was just a small number of soldiers and horses to confuse me, and it was a child's plan. But Zhang Xiu didn't dare to say it to hurt his morale, so he pretended to be relaxed and asked: "You actually know this siege tower, can you break it?" ”

The man said, "Master, if there is a ballista, you can smash it to pieces." But now there is no crossbow in the city, and there is no person who is skilled in this technique, in order to have a plan to break the siege tower of the official army, the siege tower is huge and heavy, and it is extremely inconvenient to move, so you can send troops to storm the siege tower and destroy this thing outside the city. ”

Zhang Xiu hesitated, now there are less than 20,000 defenders in the city, and there are five or six thousand people in the posture of the official army, and there is a terrifying cavalry on the side, Zhang Xiu didn't know how to choose, so he delayed. In another three or four days, the siege towers in Chen Lin's camp became taller and taller, and they were about to be completed. The defenders in the city began to have all kinds of uneasiness, Nanzheng had been besieged for a month, and the people's hearts were tired, except for Zhang Xiu's thousands of elite sect members, the other soldiers were all fluctuating.

Zhang Xiu saw these in his eyes, Zhang Xiu himself was just a Taoist in the mountains, but seeing the weak and corrupt officials of the Han Dynasty, his ambition suddenly exploded, thinking that he could occupy the mountain as the king. Now the successive failures have made Zhang Xiu unable to raise the ambition he had before, especially after killing thousands of scholars in Nanzheng, although the city is calm, everyone is afraid of the Five Doumi Sect. Zhang Xiu knew that even if he defeated Chen Lin, he was afraid that the Wudou Mi Sect would be difficult to gain a foothold in Hanzhong. Zhang Xiu didn't know what to do in his heart, Wudou Mijiao or himself, where should he go?

Zhang Xiu stood at the head of the city and looked at the ten mighty siege towers in the distance, and then looked back at the defenders all over the city, all of whom were blank, and suddenly Zhang Xiu seemed to have made up some kind of determination. Suddenly, he ordered his subordinates: "Send someone to the officer and soldier camp to spread the word, and say that our division will have a dialogue with the officers and soldiers tomorrow at noon." ”

Chen Lin was also stunned for a moment when he received Zhang Xiu's message, he didn't know what to do, looked at Jia Xu, Jia Xu opened his mouth and said: "Lord, since Zhang Xiu asked the lord to meet outside the city, although Xu thought of what Zhang Xiu's purpose was, but what if he went to see him, maybe there would be unexpected gains. So Chen Lin went to the appointment as scheduled on the second day, followed only by Huang and Zhou, the two commanders and Jia Xu, and a group of guards stopped behind Chen Lin.

Chen Lin saw that Zhang Xiu only came out of the city with dozens of people, and he was not afraid, Zhou Cang secretly said: "Young Master, if you don't catch that thief just like that." It aroused Jia Xu's appreciative eyes, but Chen Lin was unwilling to do this, so Huang Yan had to put the longbow on his back again, it turned out that Huang Yan and the other three had the same idea, but Chen Lin was alone.

The two men were a stone's throw apart, stopped the horses' hooves, and looked at each other. Or Chen Lin spoke first: "This official is Chen Lin and Chen Bozhi, the new Hanzhong county guard of the imperial court, but the person who came is General Zhang?" After hearing this, Zhang Xiu replied loudly: "I didn't expect Lord Taishou to be so young, it is Zhang Xiu, I have seen Lord Taishou." ”

Chen Lin took a serious look at it at this time, and saw that Zhang Xiu had no characteristics, but at this time, he was wearing a Taoist robe inside, but he was wearing a pair of light armor outside, which was a little weird. Chen Lin asked: "I don't know what General Zhang asked the official to come here to teach, you must know that now the soldiers are fighting each other endlessly, could it be that General Zhang wants to abandon the secret and repent and reform himself, so the official will definitely plead to the court for General Zhang." ”

After Zhang Xiu listened, he laughed, laughed a little desolate and tragic, and said sharply: "The court has no virtue, the master just wants to make a lost people happy, how can he abandon the secret and cast the light, Lord Taishou, don't gossip, this master wants to make an appointment with Lord Taishou in person today, I don't know if the Lord dares to take it?" After speaking, he looked at Chen Lin defiantly.

Jia Xu looked at Zhang Xiu's appearance, and thought that he had caused the siege tower from the army, presumably because Zhang Xiu felt powerless to resist, so he made this move, so he signaled to Chen Lin again and again, not to fight, and when the siege tower was built, he could take Nanzheng in one fell swoop. Chen Lin saw Jia Xu's gesture, but he had a plan in his heart, and asked, "I don't know how General Zhang is going to fight?" ”

Zhang Xiu saw that Chen Lin had made an appointment, and was overjoyed, and said: "At this time tomorrow, you and I will each send out 4,000 infantry troops to kill, if the division loses, open the city gate and let the Taishou enter the city, if the master loses, let the way and the division leave Hanzhong County, and the division will never return to Hanzhong County." "It turned out that Zhang Xiu had this idea, and he knew that he couldn't resist Chen Lin's attack, so he wanted to use his elite to get a Bo, if he won, the Five Dou Mi Sect still has a chance to breathe, if even the four thousand elites lost, then he could only resign himself to fate, and besides, no matter what, he could save the other sergeants from difficulties, which was also a great achievement. Zhang Xiu is a cultivator after all, and he still has some compassion, and in the end, he finally thinks about the more than 10,000 ordinary soldiers in the city.

When Chen Lin heard this, he didn't think about it, and immediately agreed: "Okay, a word is a certainty." Completely ignoring Jia Xu's anxious expression, Chen Lin also had his own calculations, although Zhang Xiu's proposal was beneficial to Zhang Xiu in this situation, but it could reduce the number of casualties and many young people, Chen Lin was still willing, and Chen Lin never doubted the trapping camp in his heart.

After returning to the barracks, Chen Lin told Jia Xu what he thought in his heart, Jia Xu: "The lord is merciful, so since the lord has already responded, he should be prepared, and tomorrow's battle must not be lost. Tonight, it is necessary to strictly prevent Zhang Xiu's sneak attack, the so-called soldiers are not tired of cheating. "Jia Xu has done enough of the work of a strategist, and has thought of every aspect.

Zhang Xiu did not rob the camp at night, and at noon on the second day, the trapping camp and Cai Yang's 1,000-knife team were ready early, and under an order, the whole army of 6,000 men and horses drove out of the camp, and Chen Ze's cavalry and Yang Ren were far away. This battle was commanded by Gao Shun, Gao Shun divided the trapped camp into two, one on the left, and Cai Yang on the right, and Gao Shun personally led the two thousand trapped camps behind. The whole team marched forward in three neat steps, lined up.

Chen Lin saw from a distance that four thousand foot soldiers had been quite different from the city from the opposite side, these people were dressed in Taoist clothes, only the chest, abdomen, and shoulders were covered with cloth armor, and their eyes were red in a line. Chen Lin said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, you see that those people are full of madness, it must be difficult to deal with." Chen Lin and Jia Xu can both see that this is probably Zhang Xiu's most trusted and close lineage, and his combat power is naturally good.

Gao Shun who went out to fight didn't care about this, there was only one thing in his eyes, that is, all enemies who dared to appear in front of the trapped camp had to die. Gao Shun closed his eyes and was in the center, the enemy did not move, he did not move, at this time, the Nanzheng city wall was full of dense heads, all looking down, although they did not know the agreement between Zhang Xiu and Chen Lin, but the battle under the city still made them pay attention.

Suddenly, in the end, it was Zhang Xiu's troops who moved first, and Zhang Xiu's troops were divided into two parts, three thousand in the front and one thousand in the rear. Unlike Gao Shun, who is the left and right rear three, that is, Zhang Xiu's front moves, then Gao Shun's two thousand people on the left and right will directly face the three thousand enemy troops. Seeing that the enemy army moved, Gao Shun opened his eyes, waved the flag, and shouted at the same time: "Immovable as a mountain" The left and right parts formed a formation on the spot, and they were bound to resist Zhang Xiu's attack.

As soon as you make a little contact, you can see the difference between the trap camp on the left and the Cai Yang knife team on the right, the trap camp is that the first row stabs the enemy forward, and then quickly retreats, and the second row immediately fills up from the gap, so that the enemy is received alternately. The Cai Yang Knife Team is different, the Cai Yang Knife Team is a team of several people, forming large and small battle groups, letting the enemy troops come in through the gap, and then attacking together. That is to say, Cai Yang's tactics are to fully engage the enemy, while Gao Shun's camp is to die in front and make up for it later, or to fight to several rounds, and the first few rows are replaced by the back rows, such a rotation method has quite strict requirements for soldiers, especially physical strength.

Jia Xu shouted in shock: "How can Captain Gao put the second general in front." It turned out that the trapping camp on the left side of the big array was led by Chen Zhi, and Jia Xu shouted loudly. Chen Lin looked at it, and sure enough, Chen Zhi had already fought with Zhang Xiu, although he was a little worried, but he said: "Gao Shun commands the army freely, and the battlefield should be based on the battle situation, how can you take care of your own personal feelings, Uncle Zhi must have something outstanding to be Gao Shun reused." "At the beginning, the reason why Chen Lin handed over Chen Zhi to Gao Shun was to let Chen Zhi learn more experience in leading soldiers, and now it seems that Chen Zhi should have done a good job.

Two thousand people withstood Zhang Xiu's army of three thousand, and although Zhang Xiu's sect guards were inferior to Sergeant Chen Lin in terms of skills and combat experience, these armies wearing Taoist clothes were extremely crazy. Completely unafraid of death, forward, forward, and forward, because the order they received from the Heavenly Master was to rush under the banner on the opposite side, so they rushed forward one by one, regardless of the broken arm and being shot. The two thousand people in front of him showed signs of defeat and retreat, which made Gao Shun's eyes narrow, and he could see that the actions of the enemy on the other side were not trapped in the camp or Cai Yang was not good.

Chen Lin was also taken aback, and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, the trapped camp was also beaten so violently, but it is nothing, these four thousand enemy troops are really unusual.

Gao Shun moved, this time Gao Shun moved first, Zhang Xiu's rear army did not move, Gao Shun moved first, Gao Shun knew in his heart that the front army was considered to have lost by himself, but the rear army's 2,000 trapped camp was the real trump card, and the thousand people led by Chen Zhi were only forty percent of the old trapped camp, of which sixty percent were newly added. Gao Shun raised his gun and shouted: "The will to fall into battle, there is death but no life, there is advance and no retreat." ”

The rear army of 2,000 shouted in unison, and the momentum was overwhelming.