The man's words immediately aroused public anger, and the audience was scolded, and the soldiers all shouted for Captain Zhao to teach this arrogant person a lesson.

Zhao Chou didn't have any expression, he arched his hand and said, "Then let's start!" ”

Huang Zhong said to Wang Heng: "Shuping, what do you see?" ”

Wang Heng said: "I think this man deliberately wants to provoke Zhao Chou. ”

Huang Zhong nodded approvingly and said: "You are right, although this man is young, he has been instructed by a famous teacher, his steps are steady, his eyes are also very calm, and he is not frivolous, he just said this to provoke Zhao Chou, so as to make Zhao Chou impetuous." But Zhao Chou was not fooled, and now Zhao Chou's temperament is becoming more and more calm. ”

Wang Heng said: "Master, do you think Zhao Chou is this man's opponent?" ”

Huang Zhong shook his head and said: "In terms of martial arts, this man is still higher, but Zhao Chou's martial arts have also made great progress recently, as long as he is not greedy for merit, he can support dozens of moves." ”

Just when the master and apprentice were talking, the two on the stage had already begun to make moves, the man's offensive was quite aggressive, his fists and feet were windy, and Zhao Chouchun was on the defensive, and it could be seen that he wanted to drag the man's body to the exhaustion and then win in one fell swoop.

It stands to reason that this is a bit of a danger to others, because the man has already competed a few times, and the body must be consumed more, and the light heroes in the audience have begun to shout Zhao Chou shamelessly, and the soldiers who cheered for Zhao Chou also felt that their faces were dull, and seeing that Zhao Chou's shape seemed to be unfavorable, the voice of cheering was much quieter.

Huang Zhong praised: "This is a smart approach, deeply in line with the art of war, that man himself is big, so that Zhao Chou has this advantage, so he naturally has to use this advantage to the maximum." ”

Huang Zhong's comments made Wang Heng have a new understanding of martial arts, they are in the army, not in the rivers and lakes, pay attention to dignified and upright, the man tried to provoke Zhao Chou, so he secretly combined the art of war, and Zhao Chou will calculate, use his own physical advantage to drag down the opponent, and also use the art of war, if Zhao Chou loves face, it may be a crisp defeat.

For Zhao Chou's practice of delaying time, the man was not afraid, his offensive became more and more fierce, but his body did not have the slightest intention of exhaustion, he was still very abundant, fortunately, Zhao Chou was also very stable, so he was not defeated for a while.

Huang Zhong said solemnly: "This man has also practiced his true qi, but he should have practiced his true qi for two years, otherwise he would have won Zhao Chou a long time ago!" ”

After practicing True Qi, his endurance can be greatly enhanced, so it's no wonder that the man doesn't need to rest.

The two sides dismantled to more than 50 moves, Zhao Chou was negligent, there was a flaw in the boxing, he was bullied by the man, grabbed Zhao Chou's arms, exerted force on his shoulder, and hit Zhao Chou's chest, Zhao Chou's foothold was unstable, he took a few steps back, and retreated from the earth platform.

The man's attitude at this time was not frivolous, he also knew that Zhao Chou was really a strong opponent, he arched his hand and said: "Captain Zhao, admit it!" ”

Zhao Chou generously admitted that his skills were not as good as others, and suddenly, the light heroes in the audience gave sky-shaking cheers, and the soldiers were silent one by one, and there was a dead silence.

At this moment, the group of soldiers beside Huang Zhong shouted: "General Huang went up and taught him a lesson!" ”

Huang Zhong has been appointed as a lieutenant general in this rebellion, so he is qualified to be called a general.

Everyone's eyes were on Huang Zhong's direction, and Zhao Chou also saw Huang Zhong, and there was shame and joy in his eyes.

The man's gaze also fell on Huang Zhong, and when he saw Huang Zhong, his eyes narrowed suddenly, which was a natural reaction of animals when they found danger.

Huang Zhong smiled slightly, and did not make a gesture, and easily stepped onto the earthen platform in one step, this hand immediately made the soldiers cheer, you must know that although this earthen platform is not very high, but it is also five or six feet high, ordinary people either honestly go up from the steps, or they have to squat down and even run to jump, but Huang Zhong just naturally stepped up with his legs, as if he was stepping up a step, this hand is really handsome, and it also suddenly puffed up the low morale of the soldiers.

The man's expression also became solemn, although he was young, he had been instructed by a famous teacher, and it could be seen that Huang Zhong was indeed a master.

Huang Zhong smiled and said, "You can rest for a while." ”

The man hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said, "No need." ”

Huang Zhong said: "It's better for you to take a rest." ”

This time the man did not refuse again, he sat down on the spot, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Huang Zhong's face showed a strange expression, which seemed to be the Taoist method.

Huang Zhong didn't speak, his feet were not bad, he stood in place casually, and the onlookers under the stage also held their breath and didn't make a sound, they seemed to want to see a master duel.

After about a quarter of an hour, the man opened his eyes, stood up, and said, "All right." ”

Huang Zhong nodded and said, "Then you can make a move." ”

The man was not humble, he stepped forward and punched Huang Zhong's chest, Huang Zhong raised his hand at will, sealing the man's fist outside, and the man immediately kicked Huang Zhong's crotch again, Huang Zhong still blocked it with his hand, sealing the man's foot.

Several moves in a row, Huang Zhong only used one hand to resolve the man's fierce offensive, everyone could see that Huang Zhong did not exert all his strength, and the man was even more secretly frightened, Huang Zhong's hand was just like that, he felt like being beaten by a strong man with an iron rod with all his strength, his hands and feet felt painful, how can this be beaten?

The man tried his best to regain the decline, but the gap between him and Huang Zhong was too big, after ten moves, Huang Zhong figured out his bottom line, and pushed a palm on the man's hips, and the man suddenly flew down the earth platform like a cloud, the man was at a loss, and he felt that he was already down-to-earth, Huang Zhong used very skillful strength, and did not hurt him at all, and let him immediately eliminate all the momentum after he landed, and did not move in place, even if he used a few people to support him and put him on the ground, it was nothing more than that.

The man was stunned, he thought that with his martial arts, he would definitely be able to defeat the crowd if he came to join the state soldiers, but he lost so badly under this officer, if the opponent used all his strength, he could not even support five moves.

He saluted Huang Zhong and said, "Thank you for your mercy!" Then he turned and wanted to leave.

Huang Zhong stopped him, and then took him to his tent with Wang Heng and Zhao Chou.

Huang Zhong asked, "What's your name?" Where are the people? ”

The man replied: "My name is Deng Zhan, and I am the new savage. ”

Huang Zhong said: "But the children of the Nanyang Deng family? ”

Nanyang Deng is a big family in Nanyang, its ancestor is the founding hero of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai Deng Yu, and then the Deng family has been a lot of ministers, queens have been out of a few, faintly have become the first clan in the world, but later the Deng family also lost in the power struggle, and now the momentum is not as good as before, but in Nanyang is still a big family.

Deng Zhan said with a smile on his face: "I am a side branch of the Nanyang Deng family!" ”

Deng Zhan is indeed a little ashamed, he is a child of the Deng family in Nanyang, but now he has become a light knight, which is equivalent to an unemployed vagrant, this is the purpose of his desire to join the army, he wants to get ahead.

Wang Heng opened his mouth and said: "Brother Deng doesn't need to be ashamed, with your martial arts, the Deng family will be proud of you in the future!" ”

Deng Zhan looked at Wang Heng in surprise, and Zhao Chou introduced: "This is our son Heng, but the son of Wang Thorn Shi." ”

Wang Heng has a great reputation in Jingzhou recently, Deng Zhan has also heard of it, he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "I have seen Heng Gongzi!" ”

However, he shook his head again and said: "If it weren't for the mercy of this general's subordinates, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to support even five moves, what kind of good martial arts can I talk about?" ”

Wang Heng smiled dumbly: "Who are you saying my master?" My master's name is on Huang Xia Zhong! ”

Deng Zhan's face was shocked: "Ah! Is it Nanyang Huang Hansheng? ”

Huang Zhong nodded and said, "It's Huang!" ”

Deng Zhan said with relief: "It turned out to be General Huang, no wonder, I thought that in this small ring today, General Huang would not make a move!" ”

Although Huang Zhong is low-key, among the martial artists in Nanyang, his fame is quite large, and he can even be called the idol of many Nanyang martial artists, including Deng Zhan, of course.

Deng Zhan's words were a little unconvinced, how could such a small assessment ring alarm Huang Zhong, a great god?

Huang Zhong said with a smile: "If I don't make a move, you will fight all over my battalion, and others will say that there is no one in our army!" ”

Zhao Chou said suddenly: "The last general is incompetent!" ”

Huang Zhong shook his head and said, "It's no wonder you, you haven't met the Master, and now your bones have grown, and your current achievements are already the result of your hard work." ”

Huang Zhong asked Deng Zhan again: "Who did you study with?" ”

Deng Zhan shook his head and said: "I don't know my master's name, he is a wandering man, three years ago when I was fourteen years old, he traveled to Xinye, met me, said that my roots are not bad, so he stayed in Xinye and taught me for a month, taught me some luck methods, and a set of boxing techniques, a month later, he left Xinye." ”

Huang Zhongqi said: "After that, you practiced it yourself?" ”

Deng Zhan nodded and said, "Yes." ”

Huang Zhong praised: "You can practice to this point by yourself, you can indeed be regarded as talented." Since you can defeat Captain Zhao, then you can stay in our army! ”

Deng Zhan was overjoyed and bowed to Huang Zhong: "Thank you, General Huang!" ”

Huang Zhong said: "Although your martial arts are good, but you have never been in the army, let alone learned the art of war, and you can't lead the army, so follow Heng Gongzi first and be Heng Gongzi's personal guard!" Remember, you must protect Heng Gongzi. ”

Deng Zhan said solemnly: "The subordinates obey the order!" ”

Deng Zhan is also very satisfied with this result, he wants to get ahead, but apart from martial arts, he has nothing to boast about, and it is a shortcut to be able to follow the assassin Shi Gongzi.

On the way to take Deng Zhan back to his account, Wang Heng has been recalling the name Deng Zhan, this name is very familiar, it seems to have been seen in a book, and later it was a brave general under Cao Cao, but he didn't expect that now he has come to join the army, but let himself get another talent.

Of course, Deng Zhan is known for his bravery, and he may not have any outstanding performance in the art of war because he has not received systematic education, but he can strengthen him in this regard in the future, isn't it too late to be seventeen years old, Lu Meng studied so late, didn't he also become a generation of famous generals?

When he came to his tent, Wang Heng asked Deng Zhan, "Have you read any books?" ”

Deng Zhan said: "My subordinates read the Analects when they were young, and they also read some Spring and Autumn Period, but when my father passed away, I couldn't afford to read. ”

Wang Heng nodded, opened a bamboo basket, which was full of books, and said to Deng Zhan: "In the future, you can read books if you have nothing to do, you can read all the books here, if you don't understand anything, you can just ask me!" ”

Deng Zhan knew that this was a precious opportunity, and his gratitude to Wang Heng in his heart was beyond words, and he snorted for a long time before he gave a salute and said, "My subordinates have thanked Gongzi!" ”

Deng Zhan and most of the more than 100 light heroes who came with him to join the army were recruited into the army, and hundreds of able-bodied people were also selected from the refugees, so that the number of the army to quell the rebellion has reached more than 13,000 people, and the army is even stronger.

The scouts sent out came back, and they also brought back several scouts of the Nanyang County soldiers, and these scouts brought news of the Nanyang County soldiers.

At present, Zhao Ci's rebellious army has occupied five counties in the southeast of Nanyang, including Suixian, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, Pingshi, and Fuyang, and is now fiercely attacking Huyang County.

After his arrival, he reorganized the county soldiers, and with the support of the Nanyang clan, he gathered more than 7,000 troops to build a defensive line in Huyang and Caiyang counties southeast of Xinye.

The 7,000 people under Yang Xu were stationed in the two county towns of Huyang and Caiyang, with 4,000 in Huyang and 3,000 in Caiyang, and Zhao Ci personally led the main force of the rebel army of more than 10,000 people to storm Huyang, wanting to open up the road to Xinye and Wancheng in the north, but Yang Xu with the assistance of the local Zhuang Ding in Huyang, he firmly held the city.

Wang Rong asked about the situation of Zhang Ling again, he was most concerned about whether the tomb of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu had been destroyed, and the answer he got also made him feel a lot more relieved, the rebel army may be in awe of Liu Xiu's prestige, or fear of ghosts and gods, in short, they did not destroy any of the mausoleums.

After learning of the military situation, Wang Rong immediately summoned all his staff and generals to discuss the matter.

When everyone gathered in Wang Heng's big tent, Wang Heng brought Deng Zhan, Han Da and others in with something to carry it, and everyone's eyes focused on such a thing, what did Wang Heng come up with?

This is actually a sand table, and the topography of the area southeast of Nanyang County, northeast of Nanyang County, and northwest of Jiangxia County is controlled. This sand table is after the departure of the rebellion army Wang Heng let the craftsmen of the baggage battalion make zuò, the blueprint of the zuò is the military map carried by the army, in fact, the military map is not accurate, Wang Heng let some soldiers in the army in these places to correct the map, he himself along the way to see the terrain and the map to compare and correct, now the completed sand table is not very accurate, but can also roughly reflect the terrain of this area.

Now that he is on the ground, Wang Rong wants to discuss the military situation, and this sand table just comes in handy.

Wang Heng commanded a few people to put the sand table in the center of the big tent, and Wang Heng asked with some curiosity: "Shuping, what is this?" ”

Wang Heng smiled a little mysteriously and said, "Father, you can take a closer look." ”

Wang Rong walked to the side of the sand table, and the others also came over curiously.

Kuai Yue was the first to see the clue, he pointed to the lower left corner of the sand table and said, "This is Xiangyang City?" ”

Wang Heng nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

Huang Zhong also pointed to a few places on the sand table and said: "This is Hanshui, this is Zhangling, this is Tongbai Mountain?" ”

Wang Heng nodded and said yes, everyone came to the spirit at once, of course they knew how much military value this thing had, this was a specific and subtle recreation of a battlefield, which was much more convenient than a map, and they could see it much more clearly.

Wang Rong's hand pointed to the south of Xinye County, an area between Shuishui and Bishui, and said, "Then we are in this place now?" ”

Wang Heng nodded yes, and planted a red flag representing his own army in this area, and planted two yellow flags representing friendly troops in Huyang County and Caiyang County, and then planted the green flag representing the enemy army in Suixian, Zhangling, Xiangxiang, Fuyang, Pingshi and other cities, and explained to everyone on one side.

When all the flags were planted, the battlefield situation was very clearly visible, and everyone was amazed.

The current battlefield situation is that the rebel army occupies this area in the southeast of Nanyang County, the right side of the rebel army is Tongbai Mountain, and the left is Hanshui, if the rebel army wants to hit Nanyang County to govern Wancheng, it is necessary to open up the first line of Huyang and Caiyang, they also concentrated the main force to storm Huyang, and Yang Xu also almost all his soldiers and horses are concentrated in Huyang and Caiyang line, if this line of defense is lost, then the rebel army will directly enter the most densely populated Jinghua land in Nanyang County, and can directly threaten Wancheng, This is too damaging to Nanyang County.

At present, there are 4,000 friendly troops and more than 10,000 rebel troops fighting fiercely in Huyang, 3,000 friendly troops are stationed in Caiyang, and more than 13,000 state soldiers of Wang Rong are stationed in the southern area of Xinye, more than 100 miles west of Huyang.

Seeing the current battlefield situation clearly, Wang Rong asked his staff and generals to express their opinions.

It was the first time for Zhao Chou to participate in such a large-scale military conference, he seemed a little excited, and he said: "Envoy, the rebellious army is just a group of rabble, what is there to discuss?" Just drive the whole army to Huyang and fight a decisive battle with the rebel army. Now that our army and the soldiers of Nanyang County have combined more than the chaotic army, there is no reason to lose again. ”

Although Zhao Chou's words are more direct, but they are also very reasonable, this is also the most dignified way to use troops, it is the safest to crush the opponent with strength, and now the rebel army is full of food, and the number of people is more than the chaotic army, this is a battle to win, including Huang Zhong, several people nodded yes.

Kuai Yue let out a long laugh and said: "I have a plan, it is effortless to sweep away the rebellious army!" ”