In the midst of the earth-shattering shouts, countless Cao troops rushed down from the mountain, like hungry tigers and wolves, and went straight to the north gate of Wuxian County.

When Cao Xiu saw the situation at the north gate clearly, his sweat-stained face couldn't help but flash a smug smile.

The immediate location is not wrong with what the intelligence says.

Less than half a year ago, when Liu Feng entered the Battle of Shu, he used the tunnel to collapse the entire north gate of Wuxian.

Since the pacification of Shudi, the strategic position of Wu County is not as good as before, and this county is a small county, the people are scarce, in the absence of the above allocation of money, the county order can only slowly repair the north gate city wall.

Thus, within five months, the collapsed North Gate was only a prototype of the building, which was far less tall and sturdy than before.

When the Cao army was killed all over the mountains, the panicked county commander immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and led hundreds of county soldiers to the city to garrison.

However, how could such a fragile city wall withstand a tiger and wolf enemy?

Cao Xiu was the first to climb to the head of the city, waving the ring knife in his hand like the wind, and chopping a group of extremely weak county soldiers to the ground like chopping vegetables and melons.

In an instant, the north gate of Wuxian County was breached.

Five thousand Cao troops, like the tide of a broken embankment, rushed across the slashed suspension bridge and slaughtered into the city in one fell swoop.

These elite Northern [***] Han, even Liu Feng's elite regular army are afraid of three points, not to mention these basically untrained county soldiers.

The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the seat of Jianping County fell.

…………………… Yidu County.

On the mountain road up the river, a dusty army is galloping.

The man at the head, with a silver spear and a white robe, is majestic.

It's just that there is a certain worry in his eyebrows.

He is Liu Feng, the lord of Jingyi Erzhou.

Just a few days ago, Liu Feng, under the reminder of Pang Tong, suddenly saw through Cao Ying's conspiracy and serial scheme.

Liu Feng knew very well how serious the consequences would be once Cao Ying's raid on Wuxian was successful and his Jingyi two states were cut in two.

Regardless of Cao Ying's strategy, he transferred all the Yizhou troops to the area of Sword Pavilion, and Cao Ying's army penetrated into the Shu realm from the three eastern counties, and no one could stop him all the way.

Yizhou has not been new for a long time, and if you hear that the passage to Yizhou has been cut off and you have lost contact with the supreme ruler, people's hearts will inevitably fluctuate at that time, and some clowns who jump off the beam are more likely to take advantage of the situation to make waves.

Although Liu Feng arranged Liu Ba, Huang Zhong and Ma Tan in Yizhou, who were loyal to him, but after all, the number was very small, whether they could rely on them to suppress the indigenous scholars in Yizhou, and the floating hearts of the people, Liu Feng really sweated.

Therefore, in the face of such unexpected changes, Liu Feng immediately gathered 30,000 soldiers and horses, including the barbarian army of Samo Conan, and rushed to Jianping day and night.

The soldiers and horses were constantly moving, and from time to time they could encounter people fleeing east from the Jianping area, and the information obtained from these people had already made Liu Feng faintly feel a hint of foreboding.

When he was still seventy miles away from Jianping, Liu Feng finally got the news he didn't want to hear:

Cao's army raided Jianping, and Wuxian was lost.

The information that followed was that more and more Cao troops were coming from the three eastern counties over the mountains and mountains.

At that time, Liu Feng took a lot of effort to win Wuxian County, but now, just because of a momentary negligence, it was easily taken by Cao Jun.

The loss of Wuxian County was a big shock to Liu Feng.

Shocked, Liu Feng did not dare to stay for a moment, and immediately continued to urge the troops to advance, trying to recapture this Jianping administrative office.

It's just that this time Liu Cover is not facing Jiang Wan back then, but Cao Xiu, who has an elite Northern Army.

The young general of the Cao family did not plan to defend Wu County at all and wait for Liu Feng to attack, but led 4,000 Cao troops to the east for twenty miles out of Wu County, and took the initiative to meet Liu Feng's Jingzhou army.

Although Liu Feng's 30,000 Jingzhou army had an absolute superiority in numbers, the Three Gorges line, with its rugged roads and dense mountains and forests, was not suitable for a large army to carry out operations at all, and the numerical superiority was completely offset by geography.

After three days of fierce fighting, Cao Xiu relied on the strong camp built on the mountain side and easily defused several strong attacks by the Jingzhou army.

Liu Feng's army was blocked twenty miles east of Wuxian and could not advance further.

Just when the western aid was blocked, an urgent report came from Xiangyang, and the 100,000 Cao troops who retreated to the front line of Xinye poured out again and launched a new siege on Fancheng, and the offensive was fiercer than before.

Cao Jun's attack on Xiangfan was also expected by Liu Feng.

At the beginning, it was precisely because the 100,000 Cao army led by Yu Ban and others was stationed in Xinye and did not retreat that Liu Feng and Pang Tong suspected that the reason why Cao Ying was so arranged was because his real attempt was still to capture Jingzhou.

The facts at present prove Liu Feng and Pang Tong's guesses.

It's just that Cao Ying's serial plan is too subtle, and it has repeatedly misled Liu Feng's judgment, although he finally saw through Cao Ying's trick, but in terms of action, Liu Feng was one step late.

The loss of Wuxian, and for a while, Liu Feng's situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

…………………………………… Xiangyang City, wind and rain.

Across the Han River, the people in the city seemed to be able to hear the fierce fighting in Fancheng on the other side.

Standing at the head of the city and looking into the distance, I saw a line on the opposite bank, and the banner of Cao Jun was hidden from the sky.

Cao Ying, which stretched for more than ten miles, not only surrounded Fancheng to the ground, but also stared at Xiangyang on the other side, and that strong sense of oppression made the soldiers and civilians of a city breathless.

In the city, all kinds of rumors are flying all over the city like snowflakes.

Some people say that Yizhou has been lost, some people say that Cao Ying's army has reached Jiangling, and some people say that Liu Feng, the governor of the state, died in the battle of the Three Gorges...... All kinds of rumors made Xiangyang, which was already shrouded in clouds, more and more panicked.

Jingzhou alone originally had nearly 70,000 troops.

Among them, 30,000 have been taken away by Liu Feng and went west to attack Jianping, and another 20,000 were deployed on the front line from the public security to Jiangling to prevent Eastern Wu.

At present, the army left behind in Xiangfan has been sharply reduced to 20,000.

At this time, the Cao army on the other side of the river had 100,000 people.

The ratio of five to one between the enemy and the enemy made this battle of Xiangfan extremely difficult.

In the state capital, Sun Shangxiang sat cross-legged on the steps, watching a group of female soldiers in the courtyard practice their formations.

Originally, at this time, she would always dance and practice swords, but now, because she was pregnant, Liu Feng told her not to dance with knives and guns again, so as not to move the fetus.

There was no way to get over it, so Sun Shangxiang had to make the female soldiers practice against each other and have a good time.

Sun Shangxiang had also heard the rumors outside the mansion and the situation in Fancheng, but there was no trace of worry on her face.

She deeply believes in her husband, the wind and waves have come over at the beginning, and now this little twist and turn is nothing.

After a round of formation practice, the female soldiers were tired enough, but Sun Shangxiang couldn't watch it, and wanted to wait for them to perform another set of formations.

At this moment, a noise suddenly sounded outside the house, and in an instant, smoke rose from the direction of Dongcheng, and it seemed that a fire suddenly broke out.

Sun Shangxiang stood up, Liu Ye frowned, and shouted: "Go and investigate, what's going on outside?" ”

Several female soldiers were about to leave according to the order, when a person from outside hurriedly came, it was Pang Tong.

"Master Pang, I see that there is a lot of noise outside, and there is a fire, I don't know what happened?" Sun Shangxiang asked.

Pang Tong's expression was slightly solemn, and he arched his hand: "The Cai family in the city is entangled with the family and the guests, and suddenly there is chaos, I have sent someone to quell the chaos, and now I have transferred some people to increase the security of the state capital and ensure the safety of my wife." ”

The Cai family that Pang Tong said in his mouth is the Cai family among the four major families of Jing Xiangkuai, Cai Pang and Huang.

In the Liu Biao era of that year, the Cai family and the Kuai family were two powerful and prominent families that were relied on by Liu Biao and Jingxiang were equally famous.

After Cao Ying invaded the south, Cai Mao and others advocated the surrender of Cao Yougong, and was reused by Cao Ying, and the Cai family's power in Xiangyang was even stronger.

After Liu Feng conquered Xiangyang before, the Kuai family, led by Kuai Liang, gradually fell to Liu Feng, but the Cai family has always been cold.

Now, at such a special time, the Cai family, who had been silent, suddenly launched a riot in Xiangyang City, obviously, this was a well-planned conspiracy, in order to respond to Cao Ying.

At present, most of the more than 20,000 troops left behind in Xiangfan have been transferred to Fancheng, and the defenders in Xiangyang City are only thousands, which is why Pang Tong is worried about Sun Shangxiang's safety and is in such a hurry.

"The Cai family's gang of dog thieves want to take advantage of their husband's absence, which is really hateful. Come on, go and prepare a horse for me. ”

Sun Shangxiang gave the order, strode back to the house, and when he came out again after a while, he had already changed into a red uniform, wearing a red robe, a sword hanging from his waist, and a silver spear in his hand, even majestic.

Seeing this, Pang Tongyi couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly said, "Madam, what are you going to do?" ”

"The traitors take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, if they are not quelled quickly, they will surely set off even greater waves, and I will personally go out and kill this group of dog thieves."

While speaking, Sun Shangxiang had already turned over and got on the horse, and he didn't wait for Pang Tong to persuade him again, surrounded by a group of female soldiers, he rushed to the murderous Wangfu.

Pang Tong was a little dumbfounded at this time, he originally brought people to protect the safety of this Mrs. Sun, how could he have imagined that people would disregard the danger and want to personally kill the enemy and quell the rebellion.

Pang Tong's heart shook, but when he thought about it, Mrs. Sun's surname was strong, except for the lord Liu Feng, who could stop her.

In desperation, Pang Tong had to shout to the more than 100 soldiers he brought: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and protect the master's mother, if the master's mother has a little difference, you just ask!" ”

Under the order, more than 100 soldiers hurriedly followed behind the buttocks of a group of female soldiers, and hurriedly killed out of the house.

Sun Shangxiang picked up his gun, hesitated in a burning fire, and went straight to the place where the chaos was judged in the east of the city.

From afar, I saw a group of servants with sharp weapons, who were setting fire to themselves everywhere, shouting, and a originally prosperous street was full of fireworks and chaos.

Sun Shangxiang let out a low roar, and killed the rebels with a silver spear in his hand.

(To be continued)