"It is already a felony for you to guard the water village, and you don't think about it with your heart and mind, and you even dare to drink and get drunk in the camp, so that only 300 enemies will disrupt our sailor camp, burn our warships and baggage, kill hundreds of my soldiers, and severely defeat the prestige of our Jingzhou army! So incompetent, what's the use of you waiting?! ”

After the Xuzhou army succeeded in taking advantage of the robbery camp, as Yang Zheng expected, under the condition that the loss was not particularly large, Liu Qi, who got Yang Changshi to frame the true legend of Zhongliang, really seized this God-given opportunity, and unceremoniously pointed the spearhead at Zhang Yun and Cai Zhong, Cai He brothers, who were hostile to him, and passed them to the Chinese army's big tent early in the morning to be held responsible, and although Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers were angry in their hearts, the handle was firmly grasped by Liu Qi, and Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers could only bow their heads and confess their guilt no matter how angry they were. let Liu Qi scold and didn't dare to fight back, but he hated Liu Qi more and more in his heart.

Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers' helpless forbearance, in exchange for Liu Qi's son's sudden roar, after scolding Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers to the blood, Liu Qi suddenly slapped the case in front of him, and angrily took the opportunity to roar: "Zhang Yun, as the deputy governor of Jingzhou Navy Division, the chief general of Beiying, dereliction of duty and loss of soldiers, should be beheaded!" Cai Zhong Cai He, as Zhang Yun's deputy, should also be responsible! Someone came, pushed Zhang Yun out and beheaded the public, Cai Zhong Cai He, dragged out to fight eighty military sticks! ”

"No!" Liu Qi's chief guard, Han Xi, waved his hand without hesitation, and the six guards immediately pounced, dragging Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers out and walking out, Zhang Yun was shocked, and hurriedly roared and shouted: "Liu Qi, what qualifications do you have to kill me?" Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? ”

"As the commander of the whole army, you are guilty of violating military law and deserve death. How am I not qualified to kill you?! Liu Qi asked rhetorically with a blue face, and said coldly: "Of course I know who you are, you are my father's nephew, my cousin, but it is because you are my relative that I can never forgive you, otherwise, how can the military spirit be convinced?" Hugh has to say it again, push it out and cut it! ”

"Liu Qi, Liu Qi. You declare a personal vendetta! Communiqué personal vendetta! Zhang Yun screamed in frustration. You hate me for being friendly with my second son, and refuse to support you to inherit the throne, you declare your personal vendetta! You declare a personal vendetta! But Liu Qi's guards, controlled by Han Xi, didn't listen at all, and dragged Zhang Yun and Brother Cai, who were also shouting, to the outside of the tent.

"Wait!" OK. Deng Yi stood up in time in Jingzhou. drank Liu Qi's guards first. Then he hurriedly pleaded with Liu Qi and said: "Son, although Zhang Yun and the two generals Cai are guilty, they are both important generals in Jingzhou. Too heavy a punishment is afraid that the morale of the army will be unfavorable, and I hope that the prince will be extrajudicial and merciful, spare the life of General Zhang Yun, and spare the two General Cai once. ”

"No way!" Liu Qi, who finally caught this handle of eliminating dissidents, categorically refused, and said eloquently: "I was ordered by my father to command an army of 80,000 to seize Jiangdong, how can I cast a spell for favoritism and shield for personal gain?" Zhang Yun's crime should be put to death, and there is no forgiveness! Immediately dragged out and chopped! ”

"Childe, please think twice!" Deng Yi knelt down on Liu Qi's knees, kowtowed and said: "The army has just arrived in Chaisang, and the general will be killed before the battle, and the army will be at a great disadvantage. Please also ask Gongzi to have the right to remember the crime, and after the city is broken, it will not be too late to behead Zhang Yun. ”

"Please be extrajudicial to your son." All the civil and military officers in Jingzhou in the big tent knelt down and pleaded for mercy - it was not that Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers were particularly popular, but all the civil and military forces in Jingzhou felt that Liu Qi was a little too much, because a small setback would kill the deputy governor of the water division, and the punishment was too heavy. and Yuan Yin and Liu Xun, who were allies, also followed the generals of Jingzhou to intercede with Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers in order to sell favors.

"Childe, please be extrajudicial." Kuai Yue also stood up and pleaded for mercy - of course Kuai Yue knew what kind of ghost Liu Qi was fighting, and he also admired Liu Qi's power tricks in his heart, but seeing that so many people were against the execution of Zhang Yun, Kuai Yue didn't dare to offend the anger of the public too much, so he could only quietly give Liu Qi a look and pleaded: "Although Zhang Yun and Er Cai are guilty, please look at the prince's affection and give them a chance to make meritorious contributions." ”

Looking at the subordinate Wenwu who was kneeling in a tent, Liu Qi, who originally wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of Cai Mao's deputy Zhang Yun, was also a little helpless, because even if Liu Qi was the commander of the whole army, it was impossible for him to do this against almost all his subordinates, so after thinking about it again and again, Liu Qi had no choice but to change his tone and shout: "Okay, for the sake of the generals, the right to spare Zhang Yun's life!" But the death penalty can be avoided, and the living sin cannot be escaped! Come on, push Zhang Yun out, and beat eighty military sticks! Cai Zhong Cai He, each fight forty military sticks! In the future, if there is any neglect of military aircraft and dereliction of duty, the two crimes will be punished together! ”

The generals of Jingzhou originally wanted to intercede for Zhang Yun and the three of them, but before the words came out, Liu Qi had already brushed his sleeves and left, and did not give the generals a chance to intercede, Han Xi, who did not belong to the Cai family, did not hesitate, and immediately led the guards to drag Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers out of the Chinese army tent, and executed Zhang Yun in front of the soldiers in the camp, and beat Zhang Yun with eighty military sticks, and Cai Zhong and Cai He each beat forty military sticks, only the pampered Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers were beaten to the point that the skin was open, blood flowed, and they fainted several times during the execution. After finally receiving the military stick, Zhang Yun and the Cai brothers also fainted again, and they were carried back to Shuizhai by their respective soldiers together.

As an important minister of Jingzhou, Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers were unlucky together, and naturally spread throughout the camp of the Jingyuan coalition army in one day, and the scouts of the Xuzhou army, who closely monitored the movements of the Jingzhou army, carefully investigated the situation and quickly sent the news to Chaisang City, Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng were overjoyed together, and then Qiao Rui hurriedly asked Yang Zheng: "Virtuous nephew, did you immediately send a messenger to contact Zhang Yun and others overnight and take the opportunity to act?" ”

"Uncle, don't worry." Yang Zheng replied: "Zhang Yun and the Cai family brothers are too seriously injured, they may not be able to have the spirit to receive our envoy tonight, wait a few days, let them recuperate from their injuries first, and make them hate Liu Qi even more." Moreover, the morale of the Jingzhou army is still strong, and Liu Qi's mentality is not yet anxious, and it is not the time to make a move. Qiao Rui agreed with Yang Zheng's judgment and decided to wait patiently for a few more days.

Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng first waited for a fierce city attack and defense battle, after more than ten days of patient preparation, the thirteenth day of the winter moon. Liu Yuan's coalition army finally launched the first large-scale siege of Chaisang, and Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng did not dare to slack off, and went to the main battlefield of Chaisang West Gate, where the moat had been filled in for most of the time, to supervise the battle. In addition to commanding the siege in front of the battle, he also arranged for Yuan Yaojun to be responsible for attacking the south gate of Chaisang, his godbrother Liu Hu was responsible for attacking the east gate, and the general Wen Ping was responsible for attacking the north gate.

Just over halfway through the hour, the siege team of the Jingzhou army was already arranged. Liu Qi couldn't wait to get on the platform and send troops. The general Lai Gong was the vanguard, led 4,000 infantry to attack the West Gate of Chaisang, and issued a heavy reward, promising a reward of ten catties for those who ascended the city first. Those who cut off the head of the bridge will be rewarded with 30 catties of gold. Lai Gong's team was uplifted when they heard this. As soon as the war drums sounded, the first wave of 2,000 people immediately launched an attack on the west gate of Chaisang, and at the same time, the allied forces of Liu Yuan outside the three gates in the southeast and north of Chaisang also immediately attacked. Pushing all kinds of siege weapons of all sizes and rushing to the city of Chaisang.

The situation of the partial division battlefield of the southeast and north three gates of Chaisang is better, there is a moat to defend and a sheep and horse wall buffer, forcing Liu Yuan's coalition army to cross the river with a bridge and car to attack the city, the possibility of danger is not big, the west gate is the most dangerous, the moat is filled by the Jingzhou army at any cost, the sheep and horse wall built by the bridge has lost its buffer effect, and the various siege weapons of the Jingzhou army can also reach the city of Chaisang West Gate, so the war of Chaisang West Gate has also entered the white heat from the beginning, the sound of killing up and down the city wall is shocking, the arrows are like locusts, and the stones are falling like hail.

In the earth-shattering shouting of killing, the Jingzhou infantry withstood the dense arrow rain of the Xuzhou army, and launched an attack with the most regular siege tactics, first suppressing the defenders of the city with Xiangyang cannons, and then using long shields to form temporary fortifications, continuing to suppress the archers on the city with bows and arrows, and finally attacking with large siege weapons such as ladder cars and ramming vehicles, and at the same time, supplemented by hundreds of light flying ladders, quickly and not impatiently rushed to the city wall of Chaisang, and set up the flying ladder on the city wall to carry out the ant-attached siege.

Speaking from the heart, the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou Army, which was once drawn all over the ground by Deputy Director Tao, was not too bad, but it was very unfortunate to encounter several of the most elite teams in the Xuzhou Army, and it was beaten to the point that it could not be defeated, but in front of the second-line team of the Xuzhou Army, the Chaisang defenders, the Jingzhou Army was not inferior in terms of combat effectiveness and will. Especially when it came to the most test of combat effectiveness and willpower, the Jingzhou army played a morale and fighting spirit that the veteran Qiao Rui appreciated, and in the dangerous situation of arrows and stones, Fei generally put one flying ladder after another on the city wall, biting the weapon and quickly climbing towards the upper end of the city wall, to compete with the Xuzhou army for the city's head position, and also to compete for the ten catties of gold promised by Liu Qi.

As I said before, the more formal tactics are, the more difficult it is to break, and it is unfortunate for the Jingzhou army that their regular siege tactics have just met Qiao Rui, the opponent who likes to use regular tactics to defend against the enemy, so their regular tactics have also been cracked by the most formal response tactics. As soon as the flying ladder of the Jingzhou army was put on the city wall, several Xuzhou soldiers immediately smashed the big wood lifted by the joint efforts, and even the people with the ladder knocked to the ground, the Xiangyang cannon used the Xiangyang cannon on the city wall to suppress, the ladder car was burned with rockets and dovetail torches, and the city truck was smashed with a big stone with an iron chain.

What is destined to make the Jingzhou soldiers sad is that their siege methods go back and forth like this, completely relying on the number and human lives to pile up, but the means of defending the city of Qiaorui are eye-opening and distressing, seeing that the Jingzhou army's flying ladder is a large number of set up on the city wall, the bridge Rui's order flag waved, and the hundreds of yaksha at the top of the city wall immediately smashed down, both heavy and heavy and full of spikes volleyed, of course, the Jingzhou soldiers who were hit were either killed on the spot, or screamed and fell down the ladder.

When the Yaksha was used, and when the Xuzhou soldiers began to pull it up, the Jingzhou soldiers hurriedly used the hook to drag back, delaying the Xuzhou soldiers' retraction time, and covering their companions to climb up again; However, countless hot gold juice was poured on the city wall, and the Jingzhou soldiers who were splashed were either burned to the point of crying wolf, or were so hot that the crying father shouted that the grain skin and flesh were soaked, and a few lucky people were burned to the top door of the head, and even the scalp was scalded, and even the belt hair fell off when it was pulled, revealing the white skull, howling and dying miserably.

There is also a fire curtain, this kind of extremely expensive Mojia city defense weapon is very rare in this era, but it is used to deal with a large number of enemies attached to the city by ants is extraordinary, the fire curtain of several zhang wide and long is burning and falling from the sky, as if the Chaisang city wall has become a piece of fire wall, swaying back and forth, the Jingzhou soldiers who were burned by the fire have been on fire. Crying and screaming, he fell from a height, and a large number of flying ladders were ignited by the fire curtains, turning into fire ladders that were completely scrapped, and the Jingzhou soldiers above continued to fall down.

In addition, the Xuzhou army's defense weapons must also have sheep's head stones, flails and quicklime bottles and other things, but compared with these common city defense weapons, what makes the Jingzhou army even more miserable is the unique Chaisang city under the sharp iron hammer in the whole world, this expensive iron stab is extremely difficult to destroy, which interferes with the orderly siege of the Jingzhou army. It has also become the biggest nightmare for every ant-attached soldier. Once they fell from the city and smashed on this sharp iron stick, the Jingzhou soldiers were seriously injured even if they did not die, and more than 100 Jingzhou soldiers died tragically on this sharp iron hammer in just over an hour. There are two lucky ones who sit on the sharp iron with their butts. Nailed alive into the abdominal cavity. Sitting on the ground and crying and shaking the sky, he died of pain.

Two hours after the siege, the 4,000 infantry under Lai Gong had already taken turns to launch an ant-attached siege. However, the results achieved were almost completely zero, except for the killing of some defenders in the long-range weapons fire, not a single soldier rushed to the head of Chaisang City, and the self-army paid nearly 1,000 casualties, and most of the large siege weapons such as ladder trucks and siege engines were also burned. Seeing this scene, Liu Qi, who was anxious to win and get a good start, was inevitably furious, and sent someone to Lai Gong and said: "Within an hour, you can't climb the city wall again, and military law will be engaged!" ”

Hearing this death order, Lai Gong had no choice but to charge in person, with the whole army that had just returned from rotation, and took the lead in killing the city wall of Chaisang, and then Liu Qi did not hesitate to order Gan Ning to lead an army of 5,000 to follow, and when Lai Gong's team rushed to the city wall, he would attack immediately.

It's a pity that Lai Gong's charge is still equivalent to a suicidal charge, in the case of tight garrison and extremely sufficient materials to defend the city, Lai Gong's team even has to pay the price of countless lives for the opportunity to meet the city wall, let alone rush to the top of the city wall, the condescending Chaisang garrison occupies the geographical advantage, with a variety of city defense weapons to strike the enemy in an orderly manner, Lai Gong's team under the Chaisang city wall can not raise its head at all, and at the same time, the last two ladder cars of Lai Gong's team were quickly burned by the swallowtail torch and rockets of the Xuzhou army, on the edge of the moat turned into two huge fires, completely lost the opportunity to storm the city wall.

Seeing that there was no hope of ascending the city, Lai Gong had no choice but to order a retreat, not letting the soldiers continue to die in vain under the city of Chaisang, but Liu Qi was not ambiguous, and immediately beat Lai Gong in public with fifty military sticks, and ordered Gan Ning's team to charge, requiring Gan Ning to attack the city wall before sunset, opening the way for the army to advance. At the same time, the offensive and defensive battles of the remaining three gates of Chaisang were also very intense, but because the Xuzhou military fortifications of the remaining three gates were more perfect, Liu Qi, who was somewhat self-aware, did not even dare to ask about the battle situation of the other three gates - in the face of such a tight defense, the possibility of opening a breakthrough in the battlefield of the partial division was too small.

When it was Gan Ning's turn to attack the city, the beginning of the battle was similar to that of Lai Gong's siege before, it was all an offensive and rejection battle between you and me, although the offensive of the Jingzhou army was fierce, but it was always helpless to stop the well-guarded Chaisang defenders, and they were blocked from advancing under the city. And when the defenders were accustomed to it, the wise Gan Ning made a move, handed over the reserve to the deputy, led the third wave of siege teams to join the battlefield, and led more than 100 elite soldiers to carry five light flying ladders, holding iron chains in the melee to take the handsome flag of the bridge.

Relying on the cover of the soldiers of the army, Gan Ning and other more than 100 Jingzhou elites were very smooth to touch the city where the bridge Rui Shuai Banner was located, and then Gan Ning waved his hand, five flying ladders immediately set up the city wall, Gan Ning rushed up with iron chains, and rushed to the middle and upper part of the city wall in the blink of an eye, when the Xuzhou soldiers on duty in this section of the city carried the wood and hit the flying ladder, Gan Ning quickly threw out the iron chain in his hand, and the eagle claw hook at the top of the iron chain accurately hooked the arrow stack, Gan Ning swayed, like a peng spread his wings and flew up to the city wall, and finally the first to climb to the top of the Chaisang city wall, He also landed near the left side of the Qiaorui Shuai Banner.

"Rush up!" The Jingzhou soldiers under the city thundered with joy and their morale was greatly boosted.

"Kill!" The Xuzhou soldiers on the city wall were shocked, and hurriedly raised their knives and guns, and rushed to Gan Ning from all directions, Gan Ning flew around like a spinning top, and also swept around with iron chains, knocking over several Xuzhou soldiers, and then rushed to the right Qiao Rui wearing fish scale armor without hesitation, and shouted, "Qiao Rui Pifu, suffer death!" ”

"Protect the marshal!" Qiao Rui's personal soldiers were shocked, and hurriedly rushed over to intercept Gan Ning, but were overturned by Gan Ning's continuous swing of the iron link, and at the same time, Gan Ning's footsteps did not stop, and continued to rush towards the unprepared Qiao Rui, and the half-iron chain in his hand had also been raised............

"Whew!" Seeing that Gan Ning was only one step away from swinging the chain to smash over the bridge, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot next to him, diagonally shot at Gan Ning's chest, Gan Ning hurriedly dodged a little slowly, and the bridge Rui who reacted had already strode back, and at the same time the Xuzhou soldiers also rushed up to surround Gan Ning, and the failed Gan Ning was furious to see the person who released the dark arrow, but saw a gray-haired Xuzhou veteran holding a crossbow in his hand and quickly retreated, and disappeared into the crowd in the blink of an eye, Gan Ning scolded angrily, "Old horseman, it's a big deal for me!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" At this time, the Xuzhou soldiers who were almost beheaded by Gan Ning have also been shot indiscriminately, and some people are desperate to wave knives to cut Gan Ning, Gan Ning is outnumbered, so he has to quickly smash away the Xuzhou soldiers next to him, retreat to the side of the arrow battlements and fight with the Xuzhou soldiers with his back against the arrow battlements, trying to hold a section of the city wall and cover the self-army soldiers below to go to the city, but at this time, at first, the Xuzhou veteran didn't know to drill out from that horn, and he didn't care whether he would accidentally hurt his companions, and raised his hand and shot a crossbow arrow at Gan Ning. Gan Ning hurriedly dodged, and the Xuzhou soldiers had already rushed up, and they rushed to stab Gan Ning with guns.

"Old puppet, Lao Tzu has an enmity with you?!" Gan Ning scolded helplessly, had to quickly turn over and jump off the city wall to avoid the gun, when he was about to go down the wall, Gan Ning was unwilling to swing the chain to smash the bridge handsome flag that happened to be within the target range, but when the chain hit the flagpole, a pair of thin hands suddenly stretched out, firmly holding the bridge handsome flag, did not give Gan Ning the opportunity to smash the handsome flag to shake the morale of the Xuzhou army, Gan Ning was angry to see the person holding the flag, but saw that it was a thin young man in a Confucian shirt who ruined his own good deeds, and the obscene thin face was full of relieved smiles.

After seeing this obscene face, Gan Ning had also fallen off the city wall, the Xuzhou soldiers hurriedly raised their heads and went out to check the situation, hoping that Gan Ning would fall on the sharp iron and be stabbed to death, and some people picked up the sheep's head stone and smashed it at Gan Ning, who knew that when Gan Ning fell to the middle of the city wall, he kicked the city wall with both legs, and a backflip fell to the rear of the iron column and landed safely, and then a body disappeared into the crowd of the Jingzhou army, so that the Xuzhou soldiers had no chance to snipe with arrows.

"That's amazing!" Seeing that Gan Ning was so powerful, Qiao Rui, who was almost beheaded, first praised it from the bottom of his heart, only then did he find that his whole body was soaked with cold sweat, and he hurried to find Li Lang who had saved his life by releasing the arrow just now, but saw that Li Lang had already come to the side of the arrow stack with Yang Zheng and leaned over to look down, Qiao Rui hurriedly dragged Li Lang and Yang Zheng back one by one, and said angrily: "Don't die? Dare to poke half of your body out, what if there is a stray arrow? ”

"It's this Gan Ning again!" Yang Zheng's obscene face gritted his teeth for the first time, and said: "If this person is not removed, it will be difficult for our Chaisang to keep it." ”

"It's a pity that General Xu Huang and General Zhao Yun are not here, otherwise it would be arrogant to get this puppet in that round." Li Lang was also a little angry, "Holy shit, it seems that you wanted to whip me with an iron chain just now, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's rich experience in escaping and hiding quickly, this old life would have been handed over to him." ”

"Uncle Qiao, Uncle Li, did you find out just now, in addition to this Gan Ning Pifu, are there any other Jingzhou soldiers rushing up the city wall and seeing the situation in the city?" Yang Zheng suddenly asked.

"Nope." Qiao Rui and Li Lang shook their heads together, Yang Zheng nodded, and began to think quickly in his heart.

"In this way, there are already two doubts that can be exploited, one is that there is a chance to enter the city, and the other is that Gan Ning goes up to the city alone and goes down the city alone." Yang Zheng pondered hard when the two armies were fighting, "However, there is still one less opportunity to make my senior brother suspicious, what should I do to make my senior brother suspicious?" (To be continued......)