The huge trebuchet replaced the stones with fire oil, and eighty catties of barrels of fire oil were thrown one after another on the city, and the city began to burn a raging fire, the red flames flew up, and the smoke was billowing out, and the soldiers of the Cao army could not bear the smoke and fire, and ran down the city one after another, and even some soldiers took off their armor and ran directly into the city, hiding in the houses, and the trebuchets on the city were burned by the fire and were engulfed in the flames and smoke.

At this time, several guards brought the personal soldiers sent by Xu Huang to Liu Jing, and the guards saluted and said, "Qiqi Prefecture Mu, the chief general of the Cao army has sent someone over." ”

Liu Jing glanced at the soldier who delivered the letter, and asked coldly, "What did Xu Huang ask you to do?" ”

The soldier hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "General Xu is willing to evacuate Chencang, please let go of Dongcheng by Liu Zhoumu!" ”

Liu Jing sneered, "Why didn't he evacuate earlier, now that I'm going to seize the city, he only considered evacuating, it's impossible!" ”

Liu Jing immediately ordered: "Pass the order and attack on all fronts!" ”

The order was issued, the drums of the Han army around the city were loud, the rumbling war drums were earth-shattering, the 40,000 troops began to attack Chen Cang at the same time, the overwhelming soldiers ran in the wilderness outside the city, like cháo water rushing towards the city wall, countless soldiers set up wooden planks on the moat, arrows rained, densely shè to the city, one after another siege ladders reached the city, the soldiers bit the war knife in their mouths, held their shields high, and climbed hard to the city.

At this time, the soldiers on the head of the city were greatly reduced in order to avoid the flames, only more than 6,000 soldiers defended at the head of the city, the disparity in strength was huge, they could not resist 40,000 people attacking the city at the same time, the gap was opened in the west city first, and the six huge nest cars approached the west city wall, when the baffle of the six nest cars was on the head of the city, the four hundred heavy infantry in the nest car took the lead in killing the head of the city, and more than 1,000 Cao soldiers fought fiercely.

The sharp killing of the heavy infantry made the Cao army soldiers retreat, the defense of the head of the Cao army was broken, thousands of soldiers swarmed along the nest car to board the Xicheng, the Cao army in the west collapsed, turned around and fled, the Xicheng was finally lost in the whole line, thousands of Han soldiers quickly occupied the west city, shouting to the surrounding city to kill.

At this time, Xu Huang, the commander of the Cao army, was in a hurry, and bad news came one after another, when he heard that Xicheng was lost, he knew that Chen Cang was finished, and at this time, only by fighting hard to fight a bloody road, could there be a glimmer of life.

He pondered for a moment and said to one of the soldiers: "Go to Dongcheng quickly and tell General Wu to give up resistance and evacuate the city immediately." ”

Xu Huang arranged a retreat, and he immediately led three thousand soldiers to the eastern city.

A moment to run to the east city gate, at this time more than 1,000 soldiers on the east city have given up the city, have rushed down to the city, and thousands of Han troops are killed on the city, at this time, Cao Junya general Wu Zheng stepped forward to report: "General Qiyu, we have given up the east city, the Han army has nearly 5,000 people killed the city. ”

As soon as the words fell, the Han army at the head of the city found thousands of Cao troops in the city gate, and fired arrows at the Cao army together, and in an instant, nearly 100 people fell from the arrows, and the Cao soldiers raised their shields to resist, and some shouted: "General, it's too late if you don't leave." ”

Xu Huang was unusually calm, he was still waiting for an opportunity, only most of the Han troops outside the city were killed at the head of the city, so the number of Han troops outside the city was not enough to intercept him from breaking through, and after waiting for a while, Xu Huang estimated that seventy percent of the Han army had landed on the city, and he immediately shouted: "Open the city!" ”

The soldiers opened the city gate, the suspension bridge outside the city had already been lowered, Xu Huang saw that there were only a few thousand enemy troops outside, most of the enemy troops had climbed the city, this was his only chance to escape, he shouted, waved a big axe and rushed up, and thousands of Cao soldiers ran desperately with him behind.

Xu Huang was full of energy, led more than 2,000 soldiers to kill a bloody road, and fled in the direction of Chang'an in panic, Xu Huang's escape meant that Chen Cang was completely occupied by the Han army, and Chen Cang's occupation meant that the west gate of Guanzhong was opened.

The open fire at the head of the city has been extinguished, the Han soldiers are cleaning up the city, a team of Cao army prisoners of war were escorted down the city, Liu Jing slowly walked to the east city wall, looking at the direction of Chang'an from afar, it was his dream to capture Chang'an, but Chen Cang was captured, Chen Cang Road and Sanguan were occupied by the Han army, and there was no danger to defend in Guanzhong, and the army in Chang'an was already waiting for him.

"Don't you think that after taking Longxi, the situation began to change completely?" Jia Xu walked up to Liu Jing and said with a smile.

Liu Jing nodded, "After taking Longxi, the Han army was like a bamboo, all the way east, now that I think about it, although it took three years to capture Longxi, it was still worth it!" ”

Liu Jing turned around and smiled again: "Who does the military advisor think is appropriate to send to Jiangdong?" ”

Jia Xu pondered for a moment and said: "In the first battle of Hefei, Sun Quan pushed the responsibility for the defeat to the Jingzhou naval army, and there was a crack in the relationship between Sun and Liu, if the rift was not made up first, even if there were many benefits, Jiangdong might not agree, and it was not a big problem to send who to send as the messenger, the key was that the state pastor himself needed to make up for this rift." ”

"It's not a big problem for me to go to Jiangdong in person, but I'm a little worried about Guanzhong and Longxi."

"Rest assured, Cao Cāo was defeated in Longxi, his vitality was greatly injured, he can only protect himself now, and he has no power to counterattack, if the state pastor is not at ease, I am willing to guard Longxi."

With Jia Xu guarding Longxi, Liu Jing's heart was put down, and he smiled happily: "Since there is a military advisor in Longxi, then my son-in-law can visit his mother-in-law with confidence." ”

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Since the defeat of Hefei, Sun Quan's mood has been depressed for a while, Sun Quan is also a person with great ambitions, but the failure of the two western expeditions has caused Jiangdong heavy losses, the vitality has been greatly damaged, Sun Quan's authority has been seriously challenged, and he has watched Liu Jing open up the territory, and the world's reputation has been continuously improved, and even become the hope of the revival of the Han family.

Jiangdong became more and more marginalized, and he Sun Quan gradually faded into oblivion, which made Sun Quan extremely depressed, and it was driven by this mentality that he finally agreed to cooperate with the Jingzhou Navy to attack Hefei, which was also his attempt to enter the Central Plains.

It's a pity that Zhang Liao defeated his army in the first battle of Xiaoyaojin, and also lost the general Tai Shici, so that Sun Quan's northern expedition plan suffered another setback, and the continuous blows made Sun Quan depressed, and he indulged in wine all day long, and he couldn't hear the hard persuasion of Zhang Zhao, Lu Su and others.

But this morning, Sun Quan unexpectedly came to his official room early, began to seriously deal with government affairs, Jiangdong ministers do not know the reason, have inquired, the last one of the guards revealed the reason, just last night, Sun Quan received the Western Front Express, Liu Jing north of Longxi success, and captured Guanzhong Longxian and Chencang, Sun Quan was deeply stimulated.

Everyone suddenly woke up, but at the same time they were worried about Sun Quan, could it be that Wu Hou was stimulated again and had plans to go on an expedition?

Just after noon, Sun Quan sat in the room and slept for a while, when footsteps came from outside the door, followed by Lu Su's voice, "Please report to Wu Hou, I have something important to ask to see!" ”

"Lu Dudu, Wu Hou is resting, so it's inconvenient to disturb."

At this time, Sun Quan had already woken up, so he sat up straight and said, "Let Lu Dudu come in!" ”

After a while, Lu Su walked in quickly, bowed and saluted, "Weichen see Wu Hou." ”

"What's the matter with Zijing?" Sun Quan asked with a smile.

"Qiqi Wuhou, just now Liu Min found Weichen and said that there are important matters to discuss with Jiangdong in Chengdu."

Liu Min was appointed to the Hussar General's Mansion, Liu Jing sent him to be stationed in Jiangdong for a long time, Sun Quan was also very familiar with him, since Liu Min wanted to see him, there must be something big, Sun Quan smiled: "Did he say anything?" ”

"It seems to mean that Liu Jing wants to accompany Princess Shangxiang to visit Jiangdong."

Sun Quan stood up and asked nervously, "Is Liu Jing coming?" ”

He immediately realized that he had lost his temper, sat down slowly, stabilized his mind and asked, "Where is Liu Min now?" ”

"Just wait outside the palace."

Sun Quan immediately instructed the guards, "Go outside the palace and invite Liu Yuanjun here!" ”

The guards walked quickly, and then Sun Quan pondered for a moment, and then asked Lu Su, "Why does Zijing think Liu Jing came?" ”

Lu Su smiled and said: "Wechen has also thought about it, Wechen thinks that Liu Jing came to Jiangdong for two purposes, one is to accompany Princess Shangxiang back to her parents' home to save relatives, but in fact to make up for the rift in the relationship between the two sides in the last battle of Hefei." ”

Sun Quan nodded, he agreed with this inference, in the last battle of Hefei, the Jingzhou reinforcements came one step late, so that the Jiangdong army was defeated, the two sides broke up unhappily, and there was a rift in the relationship, as an alliance, Liu Jing would inevitably come to make up for the relationship between them.

"And next?" Sun Quan asked again.

"The second purpose, Wei Chen considered whether it would be related to Liu Jing's battle in the north, after all, he has not captured Guanzhong yet, the war is not over, he suddenly came to Jiangdong, do you want Jiangdong to cooperate with his strategy in the east."

Sun Quan was silent, Lu Su's second thought also came to his heart, Liu Jing wanted to form an alliance with himself, in the final analysis, he hoped that Sun and Liu's two families would fight against Cao Cāo, one in the east and one in the west, so that Cao Cāo would be difficult to care about, Liu Jing came to Jiangdong at this time, I am afraid that he hoped that he would make a move from the east, but this is something that Sun Quan does not consider for the time being.

Just thinking about it, the guards led Liu Min into the room, "Lord, Liu Envoy Jun is here." ”

Liu Min quickly stepped forward and bowed and said, "See Wu Hou!" ”

Sun Quan invited him to sit down, and smiled slightly, "How is the envoy living in Jiangdong, but someone is making it difficult?" ”

Liu Min hurriedly bowed and said, "Back to Wu Hou, Liu Min is very accustomed to living and is respected everywhere. ”

"Then I'll be relieved."

The two exchanged a few words, and the topic turned to business, Sun Quan glanced at Lu Su, and smiled at Liu Min: "I heard Zijing say that Liu Zhoumu plans to visit Jiangdong, is that so?" ”

"That's right, my father-in-law heard that the old lady was weak, and Princess Shangxiang was anxious about her mother, so he decided to accompany the princess to save her relatives and visit the old lady at the same time, which is also a human family, so I hope Jiangdong can agree to my father-in-law to come to Jiangdong."

"Huh! Of course I welcome, very much. ”

Sun Quan's smile was kind, and his tone was also very sincere, and he said: "Your lord is my sister-in-law, and he is also my family, and the Sun and Liu families are both neighbors and in-laws, so they should communicate from time to time. ”

Liu Min was overjoyed, "If this is the case, my father-in-law is preparing to arrive in Jiangdong in early August, does Wu Hou think it is feasible in terms of time?" ”

At this time, it was the beginning of May, and there were still three months left before the beginning of August, Jiangdong would definitely send an envoy to greet him, and once he came, three months was about the same, so Sun Quan nodded, "I completely agree!" ”

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