The arrival of Wang Jun, the assassin of Youzhou, re-raised the morale of the rebels. Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, was very happy to see Sima Yu, the king of Fanyang, and Wang Jun, the assassin of Youzhou, especially the arrival of tens of thousands of Xianbei cavalry, which would completely solve his urgent needs.

The king of the East China Sea was holding a banquet to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Wang Jun, Sima Yu, Duan Wumuchen and others, when he suddenly heard chaos outside the tent. Wang Jun was a little unclear, so he gestured to the king of the East China Sea and the others.

Sima Yue explained with some embarrassment: "Let Wang Tingshi and the others laugh, this is the attack of a small group of enemy troops. In the past half a month, the rebels have continuously sent elite cavalry to attack our army's grain routes and patrols, although the damage caused is very small, but it is more annoying. The widows also sent troops to encircle and suppress them, but because there were no strong cavalry troops, we were always led by the enemy. ”

The words of the King of the East China Sea made Zhang Fang and the others a little embarrassed, but Duan Wumuchen next to Wang Jun laughed wildly when he heard this, and said: "Lord Wang, don't worry, tomorrow I will see that thousands of Xianbei cavalry will be dispatched, and a small group of enemies will be wiped out!" ”

Wang Jun also solemnly said to Sima Yue: "King, the enemy's small forces have repeatedly created chaos in the rear of our army, disturbing the hearts of the army and the people, and I feel that if we don't wipe them out, I may cause a catastrophe!" ”

"Well, Wang Tingshi is right, this matter will be left to you, and you must wipe out those small groups of enemy troops!" Sima Yue was annoyed by those harassments earlier, and now that Xianbei people are willing to take on this responsibility, he is happy to do it.

"Come, a toast to everyone, everyone, please!"

"Lord Wang, please!"

While everyone was drinking and merry, suddenly a guard hurried in from outside. Bow down and bow to the ground, "King Qiyu." Outside the gate, a messenger who called himself Dunqiu Taishou asked to see him! ”

"Donqiu Taishou? Mr. Ziyu? Didn't he serve under the command of the king of Chengdu? What is the matter with sending messengers at this time? Sima Yue muttered to himself.

"Lord, lord, lord......" Xun Kai on the side saw his prince in a daze. Busy whispered a reminder.

"Uh, uh, ahem, the widow is distracted, come on, let the messenger in."

The person who came was indeed a messenger sent by Zheng Qiu, the Taishou of Dunqiu, who was the head of the Zheng family in Xingyang and one of the most active families against the prince. He strongly supported the princes in raising troops against the imperial court, because of his service in Dunqiu. Naturally, he became the commander of the king of Chengdu.

It's just that Zheng Qiu recently saw that the king of Chengdu was trapped in Mengjin and couldn't make an inch, so he couldn't help but be anxious. In order to let the princes of each family break the balance of power on the battlefield, he deliberately sent his henchmen to the Tiger Prison Pass, hoping to help the King of the East China Sea capture the Tiger Prison Pass. After all, the Xingyang region is still the territory of the Zheng family, and their power in this place can be described as intertwined.

"My lord asked the little one to say hello to the two princes." As soon as the visitor came in, he knelt on the ground and saluted the king of the East China Sea and the king of Hejian led by him.

"What did Mr. Ziyu send you for?" The King of the East China Sea asked casually, he thought that Zheng Qiu was going to ask for reinforcements for the King of Chengdu, so his attitude was relatively sluggish.

"Lord Qiqi. My lord told the little one that there was a plan to help the king break through the tiger prison. The person who came didn't mind the attitude of the East China Sea King, but just said his intention according to Zheng Qiu's instructions.

"Oh? What's the strategy? ”

The King of the East China Sea was moved when he heard this, and he couldn't believe that it was true. Today is really a double happiness! Everyone present also exclaimed, expressing deep suspicion of the visitor.

"That's right, everybody knows that. The Xingyang Zheng clan can be described as a local snake in this area, so one of us has already infiltrated the Tiger Prison Pass before. And he was also a junior officer in the defenders. Although his official position is not high, his position is extremely important. Responsible for one hour of East Gate vigilance every day. If we can make good use of this hour, we won't have to worry about not being able to take the Tiger Prison. ”

"Really? Are you telling the truth? Xun Kai couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, how dare my lord deceive you about this?"

Although the King of the East China Sea was a little suspicious, he also believed that Zheng Qiu would never dare to deceive him with such a thing, and he could more or less guess Zheng Qiu's thoughts, nothing more than wanting to please both sides, this kind of thing is too common in the family. Besides, if the Tiger Prison Pass is broken, it will be beneficial to the rebels on both the north and south fronts.

"Lord, in that case, what else do we have to fear! Why don't you just let go and attack? Wang Jun has never fought with the prince, and his heart is a little strong.

The King of the East China Sea thought for a while, looked at the letter in his hand, and said: "This way, the widow will send someone to try, if the surprise attack is successful, we will take the opportunity to wave our army straight down to the Tiger Prison Pass, if the defenders are recognized, we will not lose too much!" ”

Here, I have to say that the Military Intelligence Department is powerful, the rebels have just made a plan at the banquet, and in less than an hour, they were sent to the Tiger Prison Pass by the secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department. Knowing that the rebels wanted to surprise the Tiger Prison Pass, Sima Shu hurriedly summoned Li Teh and others to discuss.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the latest information, the rebels intend to use Neiying to open the Tiger Prison Pass, and then take the Tiger Prison Pass in one fell swoop. Lone plans to give a big gift to the rebels. ”

"Rite, Zuyo, you two are like this, like this."

"Yes!"

Sima Shu had prepared a large net early and waited for the rebels to throw themselves into the net. In this way, three or five days passed without incident, and on the night of the sixth day, after the king of the East China Sea contacted Neiying, he secretly sent Zhang Fang to lead thousands of elite soldiers to quietly ambush outside the city.

On the day of the third watch, the city should take advantage of the defenders' negligence, quietly come to the city gate, and secretly try to open the city gate, and the city gate will be opened with a twist. Zhang Fang was overjoyed when he saw it, waved his sword and pointed at it, and all the soldiers shouted, and then rushed up to the city tower, cut down the guards, and put down the drawbridge. The rebel army then rushed into the city!

Zhang Fang was cautious and wise, and did not lead the way into the city, but pulled the reins of the horse, stopped outside the city gate, and asked whether the pioneers had broken into the urn city. In ancient times, the city wall was divided into "inner city" and "outer city", and there was often an urn city in the middle. This tiger prison pass is built with an urn city, built with a tall arrow tower, set up a row of shooting holes, the defenders of the city will attack when they can assemble in the urn city, and then open the door to attack.

On the contrary, it can also lure the enemy army into the urn city and annihilate it. Zhang Fang was afraid of being ambushed, so he waited for the news of breaking into the inner city first.

After a while, news came back that the vanguard had broken into the inner city, and Zhang Fang was relieved. After a while, Zhang Fang estimated that one or two thousand men and horses had rushed into the city before they prepared to enter the city!

But just when Zhang Fang had just entered the city gate, countless defenders surged up from nowhere on the city, killing the rebel soldiers who had just rushed to the city. The defenders shouted and fired back the enemy troops outside the city gates with crossbow arrows and firearms. The drawbridge then rose again, cutting in half the enemy forces inside and outside the city. The torches on the city wall suddenly lit up, illuminating the city above and below the city!

The defenders ambushed a large number of elite soldiers near the city's head, and when the enemy army was let in, they quickly regained control of the city gates.

After Zhang Fang entered the city, he found that his 2,000 men had already entered the prince's ambush circle! Only then was he taken aback and said: "It's bad, Ben will be fooled!" ”

Quickly reined in the horse and turned around and galloped back, but the drawbridge had been raised, the iron gate had been closed, and the horse had to be turned back. At this time, although Zhang Fang's scalp was numb, he also had to rush into the city to fight to the death!

The rebels who were lucky enough to rush into the inner city were very excited at first, but they didn't expect to run for a while, only to find themselves squeezed into the narrow alleys.

The rooftops on both sides of the alley were already full of archers, and when they saw the rebel army coming, in an instant, Sima Shu's archers fired thousands of arrows, and the poor soldiers who crowded into the alley had no way out, either penetrated by bows and crossbows, or buried in traps, and the sound of wailing shocked the whole city!

For a while, the rebels who entered the city began to roll over on their backs.

Zhang Fang grabbed the reins of the horse, so anxious that he didn't know where to go, and the war horse that stepped down was also so frightened that his feet were in the air, and he kept neighing! A hidden arrow flew in the distance, hitting the left forehead of the war horse, and the war horse trembled in pain, and almost threw Zhang Fang off the horse!

At this moment, the crown prince led thousands of powerful soldiers to shout in all directions, covering and killing from all directions.

Li Teh killed from the right, holding a Mo knife, roaring again and again, rushing towards the rebels like the wind, turning left and right, flying up and down, the knife was bloody!

Zu Yue came from the left, and the fierceness and speed of the steel spears made the rebel soldiers shudder. Zu Yue was able to kill, so he simply held a knife in one hand and a spear in the other, slashed forward and back, rushed left and right, and actually killed a passage that everyone avoided.

Thousands of defenders were like tigers, horses were like mosquito dragons, everywhere they went, the cold light flashed, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, which shocked Zhang Fang to the heartbreak!

Seeing this, the hundreds of personal soldiers in front of Zhang Fang knew that the big thing was not good, so they hurriedly hugged Zhang Fang and desperately broke through outside the city gate! Zhang Fang was in a hurry, regardless of whether he could cash it out or not, and shouted: "Whoever kills out of the city will be promoted to 2,000 stones, and a reward of 1,000 gold!" ”

When the rebels saw that they were dying and retreating, they were united in their hearts and organized a surprise attack! Different from when they were in a panic just now, Zhang Fang's personal soldiers had the intention of dying at this time, and they were also red-eyed when they tore and killed, and they fought with the defenders for a while!

Sima Shu saw that Zhang Fang's hundreds of personal soldiers were all brave people, these people were skilled in martial arts, if they fought to the death, they would definitely kill and wound many defenders! Sima Shu felt sorry for his own men and horses, so he waved the command flag on the city wall, ordered the foot soldiers to retreat, and only shot them with all his strength with archers!

At the critical moment, Sima Shu suddenly had a counter-plot in his heart, so he secretly ordered everyone to relax the siege of Zhang Fang.

Zhang Fang's personal soldiers saw the defenders retreating, and hurriedly used their swords and shields to cover the main general to retreat to the city gate, climbed up to the head of the city with arrows and stones, and fought a bloody battle with the defenders. Zhang Fang saw that the general trend was gone, so he had to flee with the guards around him!

The rebels outside the city saw that although the hanging city was put down, they were frightened because of the shouting and killing in the gate before, but they did not dare to step forward. When they found that Zhang Fang had escaped in embarrassment, the army was in an uproar, and they quickly turned their horses' heads and fled. (To be continued......)