The result of guessing the boxing was that Xu Chu won this rare opportunity to fight, brandished the ghost head knife Pegasus out of battle, and rushed towards the poor General Wenpin with cheers, the heartfelt shouts of joy, and the enthusiastic and sincere smile, not only did not look like he was preparing to fight with Wen Ping, but on the contrary, it was like pounced on a good friend who had a tendency to break his back.

Wen Ping fought hard with the spirit of twelve points, and did not dare to take it lightly, not only because of the magic arrows of the three generals of Xuzhou before, but also because of Xu Chu's famous reputation as the number one thug in Xuzhou in the past, fortunately, General Wen Ping also had some dry goods in his hands, and his martial arts were good, and he barely fought with Xu Chu for more than a dozen rounds without defeat, but he was also shocked by Xu Chu's strange power and was numb, and his weapon was unstable, and he secretly said in his heart: "Xu Hu is idiot, and he really deserves his reputation." ”

"Xu Laohu, it's been twelve rounds, and you haven't won it yet? No, change me! Wei Yan, Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici and the others shouted one after another, very dissatisfied with Xu Chu's occupation of the pit and not the rice field Gong, and Ma Zhong, a little hooligan with a bad nature, also whistled.

"Piff, wait!" Feeling insulted, Xu Chu jumped like thunder, sold a flaw and slapped the horse back to the flag array, Wen Ping was afraid of being cold arrows and did not dare to pursue, and it was extremely strange why Xu Chu returned to the flag array, but he was dumbfounded to see that Xu Chu actually restrained the war horse in front of the Xuzhou military flag array, threw down the ghost head knife and took off his armor, revealing a naked upper body full of pimple meat, and then lifted the ghost head knife again, and roared and re-entered the formation, "Wen Pingfu, suffer death!" ”

"Piff!" Wen Ping also scolded, and once again fought with twelve points of spirit, but in front of Xu Chu, who was already crazy. Wen Ping soon began to be difficult to parry, but Xu Chu was desperate with a knife, a knife is more ruthless than a knife, a knife is more fierce than a knife, the knife is the same fateful way of fighting, Wen Ping's courage is gradually lost, and the marksmanship is more scattered, after more than 30 battles, Xu Chu slashed the spear in his hand with a knife, his hands were bloody, and he screamed and went back to the horse. Xu Chu chased after him. Relying on the war horse to be a little faster, he caught up with Wen Ping and cut it down, Wen Ping heard the wind behind his head and hurriedly rolled off the war horse, and Xu Chu slashed on the back of Wen Ping's war horse. actually cut off the hips of Wenpin's war horse.

"General Zhongye, let's go!" Wenpin's two deputies, Wang Lai, rushed to the rescue together with Bi Li. Each raised a knife and shot to the death, and Xu Chu gave Wen Ping time to escape. Xu Chu exerted his divine strength, and slashed Bi Li to death with one knife without fighting, and grabbed the spear stabbed by Wang Lai. With a loud roar, Wang Lai lifted the gun from his horse, and fell heavily to the ground, until Wang Lai broke his tendons and fractured his muscles, spit blood in his mouth, and then trampled on the horse, and the horseshoe nailed with hooves stepped on Wang Lai's door, and the blood and brains splashed together, and the poor General Wang Lai was also killed on the battlefield.

Although relying on the cover of the sacrifice of two subordinates, Wen Ping still fled back to the Jingzhou army flag array, but the morale of the Jingzhou army team was still greatly discouraged, and General Cai Mao, who had always cherished his life, turned pale and began to regret that he had rashly come to fight with the Xuzhou team. But the matter is not over, after beheading the two generals in a row, Xu Chu did not relentlessly come to the Jingzhou army flag array, when the Jingzhou soldiers were in a hurry to shoot with bows and arrows, Deputy Director Tao had also ordered Zhang Xiu and Tai Shici to lead an army, one left and one right to charge the Jingzhou army battle array, Cai Mao had the courage to order the army to engage in battle, and the Xuzhou army started a melee of soldiers and soldiers.

The Jingzhou Army does have its own unique advantages in water warfare, but in terms of land warfare, the Jingzhou Army is similar to the Xuzhou Army when Deputy Director Tao first arrived in this era. After nearly ten years of southern expeditions and northern wars, the experienced Xuzhou army has already experienced countless strong soldiers, Deputy Director Tao brought this time is a selection of front-line soldiers from the Xuzhou army, almost all of them are through a hundred battles, many soldiers rubbed the dead and crawled out of the pile of dead people even I can't remember the number of times, using them to deal with the Jingzhou team, it can't be called fighting, it can only be called abuse.

The battle situation was one-sided from the beginning, the brave and good fighting Xuzhou soldiers were high-spirited, the tiger rushed down the mountain to the enemy group, the Jingzhou army team had the courage to meet it, but the Xuzhou army only used a charge to disrupt the team, forced to fall into a melee combat, Xuzhou soldiers in the melee like a fish in water, or cut or stab or split, wanton harvest the lives of Jingzhou soldiers, although Jingzhou soldiers also resisted, but in front of the skilled Xuzhou soldiers had no power to fight back, not by the front of the iron knife cut, It was pierced by the spear that suddenly stabbed from the side, screaming and falling in a pool of blood, those Xuzhou soldiers with short axes in their hands were even more brave, cutting down the enemy and cutting down and making up an axe on the head, as if it was not fun to cut out the enemy's brains, and the brave and fierce made the Jingzhou soldiers frightened, and they were already exhausted before they could fight.

It was purely vulnerable, Cai Mao sent four thousand troops under the impact of the Xuzhou army with the same strength, and it only took less than a pillar of incense to completely collapse, throwing the corpse on the ground and fleeing back to the formation, the Xuzhou army chased closely, rushed into the two wings of the Jingzhou army's round array on the left and right, and smashed into the two phalanxes of the Jingzhou army like a bamboo, and unstoppably pierced the Jingzhou phalanx composed of thousands of soldiers, cut it in half, and then wantonly slaughtered the Jingzhou soldiers who were scattered like chopping melons and vegetables. The screams echoed through the battlefield along with the screams, the Jingzhou soldiers scurried with their heads in their hands, and the Xuzhou team became more and more courageous.

At this time, Deputy Director Tao sent another 3,000 troops to Xu Chu to lead, directly impacting the solid front of the Jingzhou army's battle array, not playing the slightest trick of strong crushing, the Jingzhou army desperately released arrows, and the long shield hand also tried to tie up the position, in a vain attempt to block the impact of the Xuzhou army, but the experienced Xuzhou soldiers raised the round shield above their eyes, while blocking the dense bows and arrows thrown by the Jingzhou army, while roaring and rushing quickly, the tide rushed to the front of the Jingzhou army's battle array, Then Xu Chu, who was still shirtless, took the lead, quickly cut off the spear stabbed from the gap in the long shield, and collided with a long shield, and immediately knocked the long shield into a flying person, opening the first gap, and countless burly soldiers in Xuzhou with axes and hammers in their hands concocted the same way, or hit or smashed over the long shields, opening one after another forward gap. Rushing into the interior of the Jingzhou Chief's Shield Array, the Xuzhou soldiers behind swarmed in, and broke through the Jingzhou's Shield Array without much effort, and smashed into the interior to slash and stab the Jingzhou Commander's Shield Guard, and the frightened Jingzhou soldiers threw down their heavy long shields and fled for their lives, and the shield wall collapsed instantly.

Seeing that Xu Chu led the army to break through the enemy's shield array, Wei Yan couldn't wait to come over and ask for an order, asking to lead the Danyang hooligan soldiers who were good at melee to charge, and Deputy Director Tao shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Forget it." Your team has fought quite a few tough battles some time ago. You have to give the soldiers some time to rest and recover, just let Zhongkang and them fight in battle, and your team will retain their physical strength and fight a pursuit battle for a while. Wei Yan was helpless. had to sing a promise to retreat.

It is true that there is no need for spawned forces to join the battlefield. Although only seven thousand troops were sent to storm the enemy positions. But it was enough to form an overwhelming advantage over more than 30,000 Jingzhou troops, and from the sky, 7,000 Xuzhou soldiers entered the enemy formation in three ways. Just like three yellow torrents, rushing wantonly inside the Fangyuan array of the Jingzhou army, everywhere they went, the Jingzhou army column all collapsed, scattered, and quickly showed a trend of collapse, although Cai Mao, who was hiding in the middle of the Fangyuan array, kept shouting orders to play the banner and ordered all departments to stand firm, but nothing could stop the advance of the Xuzhou army.

Soon, the Xu Chu team that entered the enemy formation from the front had already approached the Jingzhou Zhongjun Shuai Banner, and the Zhang Xiu and Tai Shi Ci teams that entered the battle from both wings were also aimed at Cai Mao's Shuai Banner, and Tai Shi Ci, who had no chance to show his face after joining the Xuzhou Army, also rushed the most fiercely, and rushed out of a huge arc in the Jingzhou military formation, with an arc paved with flesh and blood, almost at the same time as the Xu Chu team that entered the frontal battle to Cai Mao Shuai Banner.

"Dog, why is the Xuzhou thief army so powerful?" Seeing that the situation was not good, General Cai Mao cursed a swear word, and then immediately turned his horse's head and ran away, shouting as he ran, "Mingjin!" Mingjin! Protect me from retreat! Protect me from retreat! ”

When the golden gong sounded, the Jingzhou Fangyuan array, which had already been crumbling, suddenly collapsed, up to Cai Maowenpin, down to the ordinary soldiers, all of them were scrambling to be the first, escaping all over the mountains and fields into formation, and no team dared to die in the back of the palace. Seeing this scene, Deputy Director Tao smiled and ordered: "Beat the drums, attack generally, and give orders to all armies, so that the enemy can escape back to Yuyang City, but they must not be allowed to escape on the warship." ”

Deputy Director Tao's order is a bit redundant, at the same time on the battlefield of Yuyang Wharf, the Xuzhou cavalry led by Lu Myanmar has used flying muskets to ignite dozens of Jingzhou ships, forcing Cai Cheng to lead the fleet to retreat to the lower reaches of Yuyang, so Cai Mao's defeated soldiers fled to Yuyang Wharf in embarrassment, not only did they have no chance to escape from the warship they were on, but they were also attacked head-on by the Lu Burma team, and the main force of Xuzhou, which was in hot pursuit, was also killed in an instant, and the Jingzhou army was defeated, and Cai Mao and Wen Ping were forced to helplessly, can only hurriedly flee into Yuyang City, but Yuyang is only a small city, which cannot accommodate so many Jingzhou troops, more than half of the Jingzhou army could not enter the city, and was surrounded by the Xuzhou army outside the city, either killed or surrendered.

In the battle, the Jingzhou army lost more than 10,000 soldiers and suffered heavy losses again, but Deputy Director Tao was not satisfied, and urgently ordered the rear army to bring 30 Xiangyang cannons to block the channel to deal with Cai Shen's fleet, which might turn back to the north, and then ordered the army to pull up multiple iron chains on the Huashui River, preparing to build a water fence to block the waterway, and divided the troops to cross the river to block the road between Yuyang and Jianyang, and put on a posture of trapping Cai Mao and the Wenpin team in the small city of Yuyang.

Cai Mao and Wen Ping saw that the situation was not good, knowing that Yuyang was too small once they were trapped and killed was the life of the whole army, so they had to break through to the direction of Xinye overnight, and the result fell into the calculation of Deputy Director Tao again, and was ambushed by the Xuzhou army when breaking through, the team was defeated again, Jingzhou soldiers rushed to jump into the water to escape, the Xuzhou army shot with bows and arrows, the Jingzhou soldiers died countless people, the corpses were piled up like a mountain, and the water did not flow, Cai Mao and Wen Ping were lucky to escape on the warship in the lower reaches of the water, and they fled south in a hurry before they could meet the rear army, and most of the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

After beating Cai Mao and Wen Ping, Deputy Director Tao was still not satisfied, and soon led the main army to turn around to find the bad luck of the old general Huang Zu, and joined Zhao Yunjun to join the army under the city of Nieyang, and transferred 20,000 rear troops from Wancheng, posing to forcibly uproot the Jingzhou army Nieyang, Anzhong, and the iron triangle of the city.

Now it's Liu Biao's turn to have a headache, the Nanyang battlefield has been defeated repeatedly, the land war is not the opponent of the Xuzhou soldiers at all, the water division can not give full play to the advantages of the water war because of the narrow river, and it is useless to send more reinforcements. Offensive and defensive dilemma, completely falling into passivity. Forced to be helpless, Liu Biao could only listen to Liu Xian's suggestion in Jingzhou, send an envoy to Xuzhou Daying to sue for peace, expressing his willingness to accept the three conditions offered by Deputy Director Tao, and only asked Deputy Director Tao to make a slight concession, let the second son Liu Cong stay in front of his knee to fulfill his filial piety, and refused Deputy Director Tao's kindness to bring Liu Cong to Xuchang to serve.

To the surprise of Liu Biao and others, Deputy Director Tao agreed to make concessions without any consideration, agreeing not to let Liu Biao hand over his second son as a hostage. only asked Liu Biao to immediately return Jiang Gan and Huang Shuo. Liu Biao's envoy Han Song was overjoyed, and agreed to Deputy Director Tao's request on the spot, and also agreed with Deputy Director Tao on the time and place for returning the hostages and signing the peace treaty. In this regard, Chen Ying kindly reminded Deputy Director Tao: "My lord. Do you insist on asking Liu Cong as a hostage? The first is to pave the way for Liu Qi. The second is to prevent Liu Biao from taking advantage of the opportunity of our army going north. ”

"Honest again, huh?" Deputy Director Tao smiled: "For our army." Only by staying in Xiangyang and staying by Liu Biao's side can Liu Cong be more beneficial to our army, if he really forces Liu Cong to Xuchang. Our army, on the contrary, will be very disadvantaged. ”

"Why?" Chen Ying asked in surprise.

"There are two reasons for this." Deputy Director Tao replied: "First, in order to create civil strife in Jingzhou, Liu Biao clearly established Liu Qi as his successor, Liu Cong, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others will definitely not be willing to give up, and will inevitably confront Liu Qi to the end, and the internal contradictions in Jingzhou will be more intense and sharp, the more chaotic Jingzhou is, the more beneficial it will be to our army, right?" ”

"As for the second, I have to guard against Liu Qihu." Deputy Director Tao sneered and said: "If I bring Liu Cong to Xuchang as a hostage, Liu Qi will take the initiative to provoke the Jiangdong war in order to get rid of Liu Cong, and force me to execute Liu Cong!" ”

"This ......, this can't be, right?" Chen Ying was taken aback and said, "I should have heard that Gongzi Liu Qi is a kind person, loyal and honest, how could he do such a thing?" ”

"Loyal and honest? Yuan Fang, you really underestimate Mr. Zhong Ming's tireless ability to destroy people. Deputy Director Tao laughed and said: "During the rebellion of Zhang Xian, Liu Qi took the opportunity of Huang Zu to lead the army to quell the rebellion, and pulled many cadres of the Jiangxia garrison to his side, while eliminating dissidents and promoting his henchmen and cronies, resulting in Huang Zu having no place in Jiangxia after the successful counterinsurgency, he could only come north to Nanyang garrison. ”

"This is also true, judging from Liu Qi's behavior before and after, Liu Qi's son-in-law has indeed changed a lot in recent years." Chen Ying nodded after thinking about it carefully, and said: "For example, the big-eared thief, the lord asked Liu Qi to find a way to kill him in prison, and Liu Qi must have done it without hesitation before he changed it, but this time Liu Qi not only refused to act on the excuse of being unable to control the affairs of Xiangyang City, and refused to take this risk for our army, but also begged Liu Biao to transfer Huang Zhong, who had outstanding performance in the battle of Yexian, to Jiangxia and listen to him under his command. ”

"That's why Yang Hong's guy is tireless in destroying people, and he has only been with Liu Qi for a few days, and Leng has trained an honest boy to become a treacherous villain, and even I admire this method." Deputy Director Tao nodded, and sighed again: "What I'm most worried about now is that Liu Qi will continue to grow up like this, and Liu Biao will really pass Jingzhou to Liu Qi, and it will be difficult for us to take Jingzhou in the future." ”

Chen Ying also sighed, and suddenly his heart moved again, and he hurriedly said: "Lord, in this case, should we properly show favor to Cai Mao and Huang Zu, and get closer to Cai Mao and Huang Zu again, and if necessary, we can use them to clean up Liu Qi?" ”

Deputy Director Tao raised his head violently and forced Chen Ying to look, Chen Ying was a little weak-hearted, and hurriedly said, "Lord, did I say the wrong thing?" If not, I take back what I just said. ”

Deputy Director Tao waved his hand and shook his head, but did not speak, but continued to think in his heart. At this time, a guard came in from outside the door, and presented a letter to Deputy Director Tao, the sender was none other than Deputy Director Tao and Liu Qigongzi mentioned by Chen Ying just now, after opening the letter and reading it hurriedly, Deputy Director Tao immediately made up his mind and said to Chen Ying: "Yuan Fang, what you just proposed is very reasonable, on the Jingzhou issue, we have to be prepared with both hands, and we must show favor to Cai Mao and Huang Zu appropriately and improve the relationship." ”

"Why?" Chen Ying was stunned at first, and then Chen Ying, who had also been taken a lot by Deputy Director Tao, also reacted, and said in surprise: "The lord, could it be Liu Qi's son, do you want the lord to insist on bringing Liu Cong to Xuchang as a hostage?" ”

Deputy Director Tao nodded with a wry smile, and then ordered: "Send a letter to Liu Ye and Xu Huang who stayed in Wancheng." Let them send Huang Jie to Niyang, and remember to write that they must take good care of their lives and not be abused. ”

"Understood." Chen Ying nodded, and said: "Lord, I should think that it is best to give Huang Jian another official title and give Huang Grandfather and son a little surprise." ”

Deputy Director Tao laughed loudly and said, "Yuan Fang, you are also ruined, when you first came to me, you didn't understand anything. Ask everything. Now, I'm just going to make a head, and you'll know what I'm going to do right away. It seems that our team is really a big dye vat. No matter how loyal and honest people come in. It's all going to be ruined. ”

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A few days later. On the more important battlefield of Yecheng, Yuan Tan Gongzi also fought a decisive victory.

The victory of Yuan Tan's army was like this, and the siege of Yecheng lasted nearly two months. Yuan Tanjun has always been unable to take the strong city defense of Yecheng, many sieges were repelled by Yuan Shangjun, in desperation, Yuan Tan Gongzi himself figured out a plan to break the enemy, deliberately released the rumor, saying that the Xuzhou army sent troops to Hanoi to threaten the party, and then ordered the troops to return to Huguan, and also burned the camp where they were stationed, pretending to be in a hurry to return to the party, in fact, it was to arrange an ambush in the narrow part of the road, luring the third brother to lead the troops to chase.

Yuan Shanggongzi really hit the plan, not only immediately sent troops to chase and kill, but also personally led the army to pursue, although the trial persuaded Yuan Shang to act cautiously, until it was confirmed that the Xuzhou army really sent troops to Hanoi, but Yuan Shanggongzi, who hated his brother and hated the eggs, refused to listen, fearing that the fighter would be delayed and insisted on sending troops, and as a result, Yuan Shang's team was attacked by the ambush of Yuan Tan's army in less than fifty miles, and was caught off guard and suffered a crushing defeat on the narrow road, and was forced to lead the army back to Yecheng.

Finally tricked the damned brother out of the city, Yuan Tan Gongzi of course said that he would not miss this opportunity, not only personally led the army to pursue, but also sent a team of cavalry to block the gate of Yecheng, as a result, the cavalry led by Gao Gan was also very competitive, and successfully rushed to Yecheng before Yuan Shang's defeated army returned to the city, forcing the trial to close the city gate to cut off Yuan Shang's way back, Yuan Shang's defeat to Yecheng when the main force of Yuan Tan's army also followed, and the trial was forced to be helpless, so he had to open the south gate and risk letting Yuan Shangjun return to the city.

After the city gate was opened, although Yuan Shang returned to the city with some defeated soldiers, a part of Yuan Tan's army also took the opportunity to kill and set fire to the city, killing people and setting fire to create chaos. At the same time, seeing that the situation was critical, Feng Li, the guard of the west gate of Yecheng, was greedy for life and feared death, and also opened the west gate of Yecheng to let Yuan Tanjun enter the city.

When abandoning the city, Yuan Shanggongzi, who hated his brother to the bone, did another thing that lacked morality, that is, let the army set fire to the Yecheng granary, set fire to the Yecheng grain storage, Yuan Tanjun, who was extremely short of food, was shocked and could only immediately put out the fire, unable to chase and kill Yuan Shang's defeated army with all his strength, Yuan Shangjun took the opportunity to escape, and most of the Yecheng grain storage of up to one million Hu was also burned, so that even if Yuan Tanjun took Yecheng, he still faced the dilemma of food shortage. However, in addition to worrying about the lack of virtue at the critical moment, Yuan Shanggongzi forgot another major event, that is, to take away his biological mother, Deputy Director Tao's mother-in-law, and the step-room of the eldest Yuan Sangong - Liu!

Yuan Shang burned grain when he abandoned the city, which completely angered Yuan Tan, so after entering the city, Yuan Tan Gongzi ignored the strong persuasion of Frustrated Hu and Xin Bi, and the first thing was to cut Liu with his own hand, and Guo Tu, the only one who could persuade Yuan Tan Gongzi, hurriedly came to stop it It was too late, and the Liu family in the first two sections of his body had already fallen in a pool of blood, Guo Tu was shocked, stomped his feet and screamed: "It's over!" Tao Ying's traitor must be fighting with us to the death! Although Liu Demon Woman deserves to die, she is the mother-in-law of the pottery thief! Her daughter is also the wife of the pottery thief! ”

"Fuck the potter! I recaptured Jizhou, and I still need to be afraid of him?! Yuan Tan kicked the corpse of the Liu family that he hated the most - in terms of hatred alone, Yuan Tan's hatred for the Liu family is definitely above Yuan Shang! Then he shouted: "Give Gao Gan an order, let him immediately send troops to Anyang, and be sure to block the road for Yuan Shangpifu to flee to Liyang!" ”

Yuan Tan Gongzi's judgment this time was wrong, Yuan Shang's defeated army did not flee to the nearest Liyang, one is that Yuan Shang knew that Yuan Tan would definitely block the road to Liyang with all his might, and it would only be more dangerous to flee to Liyang, and the other is that Guantao City and Qinghe County east of Yecheng are still under the control of Yuan Shang's henchmen, and the soldiers and horses of Wei County on the way were also taken to Yecheng by the traitor Gao Fan, and the troops were very empty, so Yuan Shang Gongzi did not flee south, but chose to flee east.

In addition, there is an important reason that also determines Yuan Shang's flight to the east, and he has seen some of the true colors of Deputy Director Tao that once the self-army escapes to the control of the Xuzhou Army, it must be the fate of being absorbed and annexed by the Xuzhou Army, and only by continuing to stay in Jizhou and staying in his own control can he be independent and gain hope of a comeback, so he also strongly persuaded Yuan Shang to flee to Guantao and Qinghe at any cost.

Yuan Shangjun's unexpected escape direction caught Yuan Tanjun off guard, and it was too late to concentrate his forces to chase eastward, Yuan Shangjun had escaped more than a hundred miles faster than a rabbit, and then when passing through Wei County, Yuan Shanggongzi took advantage of the opportunity that there were few defenders in the city to kill into the city, and killed the whole family of Gao Fan, who led the army to rebel, and executed many soldiers who followed Gao Fan's rebellion.

Knowing that Yuan Shang had fled to Guantao, Yuan Tan wanted to lead the army to pursue again, but the soldiers and horses did not move, and the bad news came from Liyang first - Chen Zhi, the general of Xuzhou stationed in Liyang, found that Yecheng had been broken, and heard that Yuan Tan had killed Liu, Chen Zhi, who was quite assertive, immediately led an army of 10,000 to attack Dangyin, and was the first to open the prelude to the decisive battle between the Xuzhou army and Yuan Tan's army. At the same time, Chen Zhi sent people to report to Xuchang, and at the same time sent messengers down the Yellow River to the plains to contact Zang Ba, and Zang Ba, the general of Xuzhou who was named the assassin of Qingzhou, did not hesitate, and immediately sent troops to Jizhou under the pretext of rescuing Yuan Shang, and the troops entered Qinghe County to take Ganling, and Chen Zhi joined forces to give full play to the robbery while the fire was carried out, and did not give the Yuan brothers a chance to breathe. (To be continued......)