Deputy Director Tao once again led the army south to conquer Jingzhou, held high the banner of revenge, attacked the north and south roads, and attacked Jingxiang counties with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai. The news spread, of course, the people of Jingxiang counties were panicked, the army and the people were frightened, and Liu Biao, who was old and sick, held a military meeting for several days to discuss the strategy of defending against the enemy, but the result of the discussion surprised the soldiers and civilians and officials and generals of Jingxiang counties, Liu Biao actually used his eldest son Liu Qi as the commander of the whole army again, and led the troops of Jingzhou to resist the barbaric invasion of the Xuzhou army!

Of course, Liu Biao is helpless to do this, among the few generals in Jingzhou who can take charge alone, Wenpin guards Jiangxia can not be mobilized, Huang Zu has long been afraid of Deputy Director Tao, hearing that the Xuzhou soldiers do not want to resist, the first thing is to persuade Liu Biao to ask Deputy Director Tao for peace, without the determination and courage to fight to the end, even if he risks entrusting all the troops of Jingxiang to him, it is useless. Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are even more desperate, in order to remove Liu Qi's stumbling block for Liu Cong's heir, they even put forward the bad idea of persuading Liu Biao to follow Yan Wangxi and kill his eldest son, which made Liu Biao furious, and scolded Cai Mao's brothers and Zhang Yun together, and naturally it is even more impossible to use Cai Mao and Zhang Yun and others as the commanders of the whole army.

So Liu Biao has no choice, he can only use his eldest son again, and Liu Qi is also the only available candidate, the first is of course absolutely reliable, the second is determined to resist the Xuzhou army to the end, and the third is that Liu Qi also has the support of the Kuai family, and the Kuai family tied to a rope with Liu Qi has no choice but to fully support Liu Qi and the Xuzhou army to fight to the death. At the same time, in order to let Liu Qi suppress Huang Zu and Cai Mao, the veterans of Jingzhou, Liu Biao also entrusted his sword seal letter to his eldest son. Let Liu Qi do the reward and killing for himself.

In view of the two-way march of the Xuzhou army, after carefully discussing with Kuailiang, Kuai Yue and other supporters for a long time, Liu Qi also quickly announced his strategy to resist the enemy, and ordered Zhang Yun to lead half of the naval division to reinforce Xiakou, Jiangxia Wenpin's team was divided into two, the naval division and Zhang Yun jointly defended Xiakou, Wenpin led the army to defend Wuchang, and sent Liu Xianhe to engage in Deng Yi to rush to Jiangling, the capital and grain land, to defend the city, layer by layer, to delay the northward pace of the Xuzhou army on the southern front, and stay up until the winter wind direction turned to Jingzhou Shui Division. And then try to fight back. This side of the Northern Front. Liu Qi ordered Cai Mao to lead the army to defend Deng County, Hanshui, and led the main force of 60,000 to Xinye in the north, together with Huang Zu's army of about 40,000 troops, and a combined army of 100,000 to take Xinye as a strategic support point. Resist the brutal invasion of the Xuzhou army.

Mid-October. The main force of Xuzhou led by Deputy Director Tao arrived in Wancheng. He joined forces with Chen Zhi and Tai Shici who were stationed here, but what puzzled Liu Qi, Kuai Yue and others was that Deputy Director Tao arrived in Wancheng. He didn't take the next step south for ten consecutive days, but only sent Chen Zhi to lead an army of 20,000 to the west to attack Anzhong, Qicheng and other places in the southwest of Nanyang, and the main force was immovable in Wancheng.

After hearing about this incident, Liu Qi and Kuai Yue were inevitably puzzled, because according to the analysis of Liu Qi and the Kuai family brothers, the Xuzhou army, which had just pacified the three northern states for only one year, should not be sufficient in terms of follow-up grain and grass, and should seize the fighter plane to fight a quick victory. Under the surprise, Kuai Yue inevitably suspected that Deputy Director Tao was trying to induce the main force of Jingzhou to leave the new field defense line with the deep wall and high base, and took the initiative to go west to fight Chen Zhi, and then immediately dispatched the main force to fight a decisive battle with the main force of Jingzhou in the field, so Kuai Yue strongly persuaded Liu Qi to stay still and wait and see what happened.

Because there was no reinforcement from the main force, the two small cities of Yanyang and Anzhong, which were not much garrisoned, were quickly broken and surrendered by Chen Zhi, and Chen Zhi, the general of Huang Zu's department stationed in Qiancheng, repeatedly sent envoys to Liu Qi for help, and Huang Zhong and Deng Long and other generals also asked Liu Qi to send troops to rescue Yucheng as soon as possible, so as not to be cut off by the Xuzhou army from the main force of Jingzhou and all parts of the northwest of Nanyang, but Liu Qi was also afraid that this was Deputy Director Tao's strategy to lure the enemy, and said that he would not dare to send a soldier to save Chen Qi. Chen Zhi took the opportunity to wave his army to surround the city, cutting off the direct connection between the main force of Jingzhou and Shunyang, Champion and Liguo, and at the same time storming the city, Chen asked for help again and again, but Liu Qi just refused to send troops to rescue.

At this time, the Xuzhou army finally made another move, Tai Shi Ci led an army of 20,000 directly south, crossed the thorn yang from the west bank of the river to take Yuyang, and directly attacked the Huang Zu team stationed in Yuyang. Liu Qi and Kuai Yue saw that Deputy Director Tao's use of troops was even more unreasonable, and they didn't dare to leave Xinye Chongdi without permission, but they just ordered Huang Zu to stick to Jianyang, sit back and watch the fighter miss, and Huang Zu was so angry that he flipped the table on the spot, and scolded Liu Qi for being cowardly and incompetent than his father, and then Huang Zu also angrily gave up the plan of mobilizing the soldiers and horses of Jianyang to trap Tai Shi Ci before and after, and only guarded Yuyang according to the order, and did not fight with Tai Shi Ci.

Tai Shi Ci's team successfully gained a firm foothold on the battlefield of Yuyang, and when they received the news that Deputy Director Tao sent Zhao Yun to lead an army of 20,000 to attack Jianyang, Liu Qi and Kuai Yue realized that the army had fallen into the trap of Deputy Director Tao, and the three major towns of the northern defense line of the Jingzhou Army, Yucheng, Yuyang and Jianyang, were either surrounded by Xuzhou divisions, or had been contained by Xuzhou divisions, giving full play to the advantages of Xuzhou's army with many generals and generals, and Jingzhou troops unconsciously fell into absolute passivity. Either they have to be broken by each one, or they can only bite the bullet and let the main team leave the new field battlefield with deep ditches and high bases to rescue the three major military towns that are surrounded or pinned down - and then naturally have to meet the field decisive battle with the main force of the Xuzhou army.

It's too late to scold Deputy Director Tao for being treacherous, and the weak Jianyang Su Fei and Qiancheng Chen can only be supported by the onslaught of the Xuzhou army and desperately ask for help, while the original Nanyang main force Huang Zu's team was firmly pinned down by Tai Shi Ci and could not send reinforcements. Forced to have no choice, Liu Qi could only lead an army of 50,000 to Yuyang to reinforce Huang Zu, in a vain attempt to drive Tai Shici away first, help Huang Zu get rid of the entanglement, and then try to relieve the siege of Qicheng and Thornyang.

Of course, Deputy Director Tao was waiting for the main force of Jingzhou to leave Xinye and find out that Liu Qi led the army to rescue Huang Zu. Tai Shi Ci, who has been operating in Nanyang for three years, released a flying pigeon, and it took only one day to send the news to Wancheng, Deputy Director Tao immediately led the main force south to Yuyang, and at the same time, Tai Shi Ci adopted the tactics of not being able to defend the camp to delay time, and restrained the main force of Liu Qi and Huang Zu, three days later, when Deputy Director Tao personally led 60,000 main forces to the Yuyang battlefield, Liu Qi just didn't want to fight a field decisive battle with Deputy Director Tao and had no choice - Yuyang was too small, but there was no way to let nearly 70,000 Jingzhou main forces all retreat into the city to hold on.

When he was forced to fight a decisive battle, Huang Zhong, a veteran of Jingzhou, offered Liu Qi a plan. That is to ask Liu Qi to come forward to induce Deputy Director Tao to come out and answer. Hide in the flag array and wait for the opportunity, and when Deputy Director Tao plans to come out of the battle, he will immediately fly out and kill Deputy Director Tao with an arrow! Liu Qi listened to it and thought it was good. It was immediately adopted.

Pity. The two armies are in front. When Liu Qi personally came forward to win Deputy Director Tao to answer, the Xuzhou army only rushed out of Ma Zhong, laughed at Liu Qi and said, "Young Master Liu." What kind of official position do you have in the court, and what kind of title do you have, are you worthy of answering in front of my lord, Taiwei Tao? Don't waste your strength, if you have the guts, send the generals out, fight happily, if you don't have the guts, immediately put down your arms and surrender, for the sake of the face of our army's important minister, Mr. Zhongming, my lord may spare your life. ”

Deputy Director Tao deliberately despised Liu Qi so much, of course, in order to provoke Liu Qi to make him swing his army to a decisive battle, and Liu Qi, who was young and vigorous and held back his anger in Chai Sang, also really hit the plan, and immediately arranged for Huang Zhong to fight, Deputy Director Tao saw that it was Huang Zhong who came out of the Jingzhou army to fight, but he did not dare to slack off, while making Wei Yan go out to fight Huang Zhong, and at the same time arranged Huang Zhong's nemesis Ma Zhong's secret arrow to serve the marquis.

As a result, a very interesting thing happened, Wei Yan went out of battle with Huang Zhong for thirty or forty times without winning or losing, Huang Zhong found that the enemy on the opposite side was piercing, so he also gave birth to a secret arrow to hurt people's hearts, pretending to sell a flaw and pulling the horse away, secretly taking the bow and arrow in hand, taking Wei Yan to chase when he suddenly turned back and released the arrow, Wei Yan was caught off guard and hurriedly dodged, the shoulder socket of the arrow almost fell off the horse, when Huang Zhong returned to the horse to kill Wei Yan, Ma Zhong had also released a secret arrow, the same arrow hit Huang Zhong's shoulder socket, Huang Zhong screamed and returned to the horse, fought with Wei Yan and lost both.

After shooting and wounding Huang Zhong, Ma Zhong abandoned the bow to the ground, raised a gun and rode a horse to kill Huang Zhong, and hurriedly rushed out of Deng Long in the Jingzhou formation to answer, but when the two generals fought again, Deng Long was a little unable to carry the little monster Ma Zhong who could fight Guan Xing and Zhang Bao together, and was soon killed by Ma Zhong left and right, embarrassed, and couldn't resist and hurriedly turned the horse away, but Ma Zhong caught up from behind, stabbed Deng Long under the horse with a shot, and the morale of the Jingzhou army was greatly discouraged.

Then to the battle between the two armies, the combat effectiveness advantage of the main force of the Xuzhou army was also suddenly revealed, the boss was injured by the hidden arrow of the Danyang elite soldiers in a resolute rage, under the leadership of Wei Yan, who was wounded, rushed to the front of the Jingzhou military formation, Ma Yan led an army to knock on the back of the Jingzhou military formation, Lu Kuang's team hit the left flank of the Jingzhou army, and the three-way pincer attack the Jingzhou military formation with strong defense but serious lack of mobility, although the Jingzhou army resisted desperately, but the morale was low and the first cowardice did not fight, and soon some could not parry, and the formation began to shake, Liu Qi was in a hurry, so he had to order the general Zhao Chen to lead an army, and the right flank, which had never been attacked, wanted to attack the flank of Wei Yan's team, which was the most fierce, to slow down the offensive of the Xuzhou army and regain its position.

Deputy Director Tao refused to attack the right flank of the Jingzhou Army, of course, not because he had insufficient strength and not enough soldiers, because first, the right flank of the Jingzhou Army was close to the water, which was not conducive to the deployment of troops, and second, Deputy Director Tao of course also wanted the Jingzhou army to leave the Fangyuan Formation with strong defense - and then let it go! Therefore, Zhao Chen's team had just come out of the battle, and before he had time to outflank and kill Wei Yan's team, Deputy Director Tao gently put his mouth on his face, and Jiang Qi, the general of Jizhou who had not made any contributions after surrendering to the Xuzhou army, couldn't wait to lead the army out and catch Zhao Chen's team to fight.

Jiang Qi's team is indeed not the elite opponent of Xuzhou, but it is more than enough to bully the Jingzhou water monkeys, the two armies are mixed together to fight for a while, Zhao Chen's team can't bear it, Zhao Chen, who was stared at by Jiang Qi, took the lead in fleeing back to the main formation, thousands of Jingzhou soldiers followed, and when the Jingzhou soldiers holding shields hurriedly got out of the way, Jiang Qi's team also took the opportunity to kill into the Jingzhou army's phalanx, and the latter came first to disrupt a Jingzhou army's phalanx, killing more Jingzhou troops to other phalanxes, Playing as a striker for the Xuzhou Army for free, Jiang Qi, who has been rolling and crawling on the battlefield for decades, took the opportunity to chase after him. A number of Jingzhou military formations were broken one after another, and a large number of Jingzhou soldiers abandoned the formation, and the formation quickly became chaotic.

In this way, a chain reaction was naturally formed, the more the thousand-man phalanx of the Jingzhou army was crushed, the more Jingzhou defeated soldiers in the Jingzhou army phalanx, the more chaotic and defeated soldiers, and the more the policy of being disturbed by their own defeated soldiers was naturally more, and the military heart was of course more and more panicked. It was quickly affected. Wei Yan, Ma Yan and Lu Kuangsan took the opportunity to attack with all their might, and they quickly crushed the strict ranks of many enemies, and the Jingzhou phalanx, which was extremely well-organized before the battle, gradually collapsed by nearly half.

If Deputy Director Tao doesn't know how to seize such a good opportunity, then Deputy Director Tao has been in vain on the battlefield at the end of the Han Dynasty all these years. The drums of war are beating. General Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu each led an army to rush out again. Frontally entering the already chaotic Jingzhou Army Array, the slogan of directly taking the Jingzhou Army Command Banner Formation and capturing Liu Qi alive shook the heavens and the earth. The Jingzhou army couldn't parry the chaos in the formation, and the armies in Xuzhou drove straight in, and the six roads marched together to refer to the flag formation where Liu Qi was. Seeing this scene, although Liu Qi still wanted to try to restrain the team from rout, Kuai Yue quit, and quickly pulled Liu Qi to ask Mingjin, Liu Qi argued a few words, and finally couldn't bear Kuai Yue's persuasion and ordered Mingjin to retreat.

In fact, since the moment when Liu Qi and Kuai Yue were forced to start a decisive battle with the main force of Xuzhou, no matter how much Liu Qi commanded the battle, the Jingzhou army was already doomed to a fiasco, because the Jingzhou army was far from the main force of the northern front of the Xuzhou army in terms of quantity and quality, even if Liu Qi refused to order Mingjin, sooner or later he would be defeated by the Xuzhou army. However, the main force of Xuzhou, which finally seized the opportunity of the decisive battle, said that he would not let go of the opportunity to behead and make meritorious contributions, and when the war drums sounded, the Xuzhou army rushed together in six directions, pursuing with all his might, and killed the Jingzhou army to the point that the ghosts were crying wolves, and the corpses were all over the field.

This can not be regarded as a decisive battle, can only be said to be a massacre, in the pursuit of the battle, neither the fighting spirit nor the fighting spirit of the Jingzhou army soldiers threw the flag and dragged the ge, the horses galloped, trampled on each other, the bow and armor were all over the ground, fled all over the mountains, the dead were countless, the morale of the Xuzhou team was soaring, the infantry closely chased the ass of the Jingzhou defeated team and slashed and killed, and the cavalry continued to outflank and detour, repeatedly rushing to the front to intercept the Jingzhou defeated brigade, forcing these soldiers to disperse again in fear, and they could not resist the pursuit of the Xuzhou army, Liu Qi and Kuai Yue and others had no intention of fighting, and they just fled for their lives to the Yuyang camp.

After getting the news of Liu Qi's defeat, Huang Zu, who stayed in the Jingzhou army camp, saw that Liu Qi had been good to him over the years, and led the army to respond. However, Deputy Director Tao quickly issued an order, ordering Wei Yan, Xu Huang and Zhang Xiu and other six armies to bypass the flank of Huang Zu's team, and ordered Xu Chu to lead a new force to attack the front of Huang Zu's team, from the beginning of the battle, Deputy Director Tao strictly ordered Xu Chu, who tied his hands and feet, out of the cage, and killed Huang Zu's six generals in the formation, Huang Zu's team was horrified, Huang Zu first turned around and fled, Xu Chu led the army to chase closely, with Huang Zu's team as a free forward, and went straight into the Jingzhou camp, Deputy Director Tao personally led the army into the enemy camp, and kicked over the Jingzhou camp, Huang Zu and Liu Qi couldn't resist, and were forced to abandon the camp and Yuyang City to flee south, and the Xuzhou army chased for forty miles, until it was completely dark, and Huang Zu and Liu Qi's team escaped through the water before they stopped chasing.

Finally escaped the water in the slow current, Liu Qi and Huang Zu's team did not dare to stop, and fled all the way to Xinye City, only to be frightened, but when the people around them were counted, there were less than three thousand. Seeing that the 70,000 troops on the battlefield of Yuyang were only so little stronger, after all, the young Liu Qi couldn't help crying loudly, but Huang Zu, who often suffered defeats, was accustomed to it, and while sending people to gather the defeated soldiers from all walks of life to gather in Xinye, he sent people to report to Xiangyang urgently and asked Liu Biao to deal with it. Kuai Yue also comforted Liu Qi again and again, saying that the terrain around Yuyang was open, and there was a water to resist the pursuing soldiers, although the self-army was defeated, it would never really defeat so many troops at once, and the scattered soldiers would definitely return to Xinye to return to the team, so that Liu Qi could stop crying.

As Kuai Yue expected, the Yuyang battlefield was open after all, and there was water that could allow the Jingzhou team familiar with the water to flee, so more than a day later, the Xinye area quickly regathered nearly 40,000 Jingzhou defeated soldiers, the Jingzhou army recovered, and Liu Qi had some confidence, but there was bad news from the west of the city, and Chen who was guarding the city heard that the main force of Jingzhou was defeated, and finally accepted the persuasion of his friend Wei Yan's letter, and opened the city to surrender to Chen Zhi. Then news also came from Yuyang in the north, because seeing the main force defeated, the defenders in Yuyang City also opened the city gate and surrendered, so that the Nanyang defense line carefully arranged by the Jingzhou Army collapsed instantly, and north of Xinye, only Su Fei's lone army in Jianyang City was left.

Hearing these news, Liu Qi was frightened and asked Kuai Yue for advice, Kuai Yue suggested to abandon Xinye and retreat to Dengcheng, and Xiangyang became a corner to strangle the Han River, Huang Zu, who had been lucky to kill Sun Jian between Xiangyang and Deng, also agreed with this suggestion, but Liu Qi felt a little pity and hesitated. After a little hesitation, but there was bad news coming, the scouts in the upper reaches of the turbulent water reported urgently, after Deputy Director Tao took Yuyang, he urgently made Zhang Xiu, who was familiar with the situation in Nanyang, lead the army through the turbulent water, bypass Xinye and take Chaoyang, cut off Liu Qi's way back, and put on a posture to block Liu Qi and Huang Zu in Xinye.

Hearing the news, Liu Qi was shocked, and quickly sent Huang Zu to save Chaoyang to ensure the way back, but when Huang Zu led the army to Chaoyang, the Xuzhou Army Brigade suddenly appeared in the north of Xinye, and the forward was the Xuzhou general Zhang Xiu who should go to Chaoyang, and the scout who originally reported that the Xuzhou Army divided troops to take Chaoyang was originally the Jingzhou surrender on the battlefield of Yuyang, because he was greedy for the reward of Deputy Director Tao and ventured into the Jingzhou camp to make a false report, and deceived Liu Qi After dividing the troops, the Xuzhou Brigade that crossed the river in Yuyang naturally couldn't wait to take advantage of the fire to rob.

found that he had fallen into the trick of Deputy Director Tao again, Liu Qi didn't even have the courage to hold on to the city and wait for Huang Zu to come back, so he directly retreated to Chaoyang with the army. After learning that even Xinye was lost, Su Fei, who was beaten by Zhao Yun and had no power to fight back, also honestly chose to surrender in Kaecheng, and there was no Jingzhou army in Nanyang that could resist the hooves of the Xuzhou army.

The news of Liu Qi and Huang Zu's successive defeats reached Xiangyang, Liu Biao, who was already sick, panicked in his heart, his condition suddenly worsened, and it was difficult to get up in bed, in order to prevent him, Liu Biao urgently summoned Liu Qi and Huang Zu to return to the division, ordered Huang Zu to guard Deng County, and ordered Liu Qi to go straight back to Xiangyang, and then summoned all the civil and military forces in Jingzhou in front of the sickbed, and set up his beloved son Liu Qi as the heir in public, and entrusted the military affairs to Liu Qi together, claiming that once he was seriously ill and died, Liu Qi would be the lord of Jingzhou, and asked the civil and military people in Jingzhou to fully assist Liu Qi, not to give birth to two hearts, and everyone wept and worshipped for their lives. When the news reached the Xuzhou Army, Deputy Director Tao, who was reorganizing his troops to the south, immediately laughed loudly and laughed wildly: "Jingzhou, you have to decide!" (To be continued......)