On the second day of Chen Gong's attack on Guandu, Zang Ba led the army under Bo Cai to conquer Xiyang.

And this is, of course, the reason why Zang Ba transferred Guan Hai to Xiyang.

With siege masters like Guan Hai, why is a little fine yang enough to worry about?

After the loss of Xiyang, part of the defeated army crossed the river in embarrassment and ran back to Wuping, while the other part of the defeated army died in the northwest and went to Shangqiu to report the news.

Shang Qiu's defenders were greatly shocked, and they didn't understand why Xiyang had held out for many times, why they suddenly lost it, could it be that the number of enemies on the front line of Xiyang had increased greatly?

As if to prove this, a large number of Yanzhou troops appeared outside Shangqiu's city and began to besiege the city on all sides, attacking Shangqiu.

Shang Qiu Shou General successively sent five ways to ask for help, only to break through successfully, the news of Shang Qiu was besieged soon after Yuan Shu learned, Yuan Shu was shocked, Xiyang has been lost, if Shang Qiu is lost again, then his back road will be completely cut off.

Now there are 110,000 defenders in Dongjun City, and the supply of grain and grass is completely dependent on the rear.

In desperation, Yuan Shu had no choice but to order General Yang to lead 20,000 horses to rescue Shang Qiu.

The news from Chen Liu also made Yuan Shu extremely uneasy, Chen Gong and Zhang Xun's suspicions of Zhang Yan were very convincing, so Yuan Shu was very jealous of Zhang Yan now, but he was helpless to take Zhang Yan, after all, Zhang Yan had 50,000 people in Jiyin City, and his strength was strong, and Zhang Yan himself was a fierce general with extremely high martial arts and dominance, so Yuan Shu was unwilling to provoke Zhang Yan as a last resort. The only thing that could be done was to send someone to replace Chen Gong's manpower in Jiyin and monitor Zhang Yan.

During this period. A big incident also happened to Chen Liu, the Yanzhou Phantom Shadow Army, which had caused countless troubles to the Chen Palace in Guandu, actually disappeared out of thin air.

The scouts sent by the Chen Palace to monitor this army were killed one by one. Chen Gong saw these scouts and never returned. I felt strange and hurriedly sent people again. Look at what happened, who knew that the corpses at those times were placed in the middle of the main road by the Yanzhou military capital, as if to mock the ignorance of Chen Gong.

Chen Gong was furious, but there was no way, because this army had disappeared.

The most annoying thing for Chen Gong is that this army has lost its trace, which means that he can't catch Shi A, who commands this army, in a short period of time, and it means that he can't use Shi A to exchange for Zhang Miao, who was captured by the Yanzhou army.

However, Chen Gong didn't have time to pay attention to these things, because what he was worried about had finally happened. Now on the edge of the river in Wuchao's Liaohua army made Chen Gong restless, since the Liaohua army crossed the river to attack Chen Liu, Liao Hua divided a part of the army back to Wuchao, began to be busy by the river, every day of logging constantly, it seems to be making a variety of tools for crossing the river landing, and this army every day uninterrupted to send a fleet to harass, every time to make an attempt to land, Chen Gong had no choice but to mobilize most of the archers in Guandu City to the river for defense. Because it depends on the development of Yu County. Liao Hua was able to carry out these acts at any cost, and this is also the reason why Chen Gong had to pay attention to it in detail, Zhang Miao in Chen Liu's territory could only control the north, and Chen Liu's in the south had almost been completely transformed by Xu Ji. This made the power of the Shi clan almost completely disappear, which was also Xu Ji's original plan, he wanted to use this battle to wipe out all the Shi clans in Yanzhou who disagreed with him. It's not that Xu Ji didn't have this plan before, but the Yanzhou clan is everywhere. On the surface, he surrendered to him, but he wanted to do it but had no chance. This time, however, it was a no-brainer.

And Zhang Xun is not having a good time there, Liaohua's army seems to be outnumbered, although Liaohua has divided a part of the army to return to Wuchao, but the soldiers outside Chenliu City are still attacking Chenliu day and night.

Zhang Xun kept in mind what Chen Gong said to himself, no matter how Liao Hua fought the enemy outside the city, Zhang Xun just didn't fight, that is, Liao Hua had nothing to do, who knew that although Liao Hua's army was not as large as the number of troops in Zhang Xun's city, the means of Liao Hua's siege army were varied, which made Zhang Xun annoyed. Every day, I have to rack my brains to think about the deep meaning of Liao Hua outside the city today.

Zhang Xun didn't know what to say, it was precisely because he listened to Chen Gong's words that he withdrew all the manpower sent to Zhang Yan Jiyin City back to help defend the city, just when Yuan Shu's manpower had not fully launched the surveillance of Zhang Yan, Xu Shu had already secretly come out of Jiyin City, and came to Wuchao after crossing the river, and personally presided over the battle situation of Liaohua's army against Chen Liu and Guandu.

Under the auspices of Xu Shu, the Yanzhou army first attacked this Chen Liu from a distance every day purely with the Divine Arm Bow and the Yanzhou Strong Crossbow, which made Zhang Xun anxious.

First of all, the Yanzhou strong crossbow, due to the ultra-long range, Zhang Xun's archers completely did not have a condescending advantage, and the result of shooting with the Yanzhou army's strong crossbow every day was extremely high casualties.

Although Zhang Xun's army had a city wall as a fortification, the strong crossbows in the hands of the Yanzhou army were extremely accurate.

Although the Yanzhou army did not have a fortress as a support, Zhang Xun's archers' bows and arrows did not have much strength when they shot in front of them, and the equipment of the Yanzhou army was already very good, so the number of casualties was less than that of Zhang Xun's army.

Zhang Xun was worthy of being a famous general under Yuan Shu, and he had already discovered this phenomenon on the first day, so he ordered the craftsmen in the city to make huge wooden shields as a defense.

The next day, the strong crossbow of the Yanzhou army was indeed defeated in front of this tall wooden shield. Zhang Xun's archers could calmly hide behind the wooden shield and fire bows and arrows at the Yanzhou army.

Just when Zhang Xun thought it was foolproof, the Yanzhou army came up with a novel gadget, and actually used a divine arm bow with a newly invented rocket from Yanzhou to "throw" Chen Liucheng's head.

Of course, these rockets were brought by those newly trained Phantom Shadows, because they were siege weapons, so most of them were left in the Liao Hua Army and the Du Yuan Army that had crossed the river and were hidden in the camera outside Guandu City, as for the Phantom Army led by Shi A, there were not many rockets at all. After all, in the course of field battles, the power of rockets is not very great.

But Zhang Xun asked him to make the wooden shield, and when he saw the rocket, where was there any reason not to burn? When he landed, a raging fire ignited at the head of Chen Liucheng, and Zhang Xun's soldiers were caught off guard and suffered a lot of burns.

Although most of the injured were not life-threatening, the fire poison blinded many people. There are also people whose skin is infected and begins to fester. Howling day and night in the city, unspeakably miserable. This had a great impact on the morale of Zhang Xun's soldiers in the city. Annoys Zhang Xun.

In desperation, Zhang Xun ordered the surface of the shield to be smeared with thick soil, and a large amount of water and sand was prepared at the head of the city to extinguish the fire. On the other hand, he sent someone to Chen Liu's plan to ask Chen Gong to find a way.

In fact, Zhang Xun should feel very lucky, because the Yanzhou army he encountered was not the kind of well-trained Yanzhou regular army, and his proficiency in various weapons was not high, otherwise his casualties would have been even heavier.

Of course, Chen Gong was helpless against the sharp weapons of the Yanzhou army, but Chen Gong passed a speculation from Guandu that almost scared Zhang Xun's courage: the Yanzhou army might attack the city by digging tunnels.

The Yanzhou army now has this long-range shooting method, which is clearly to distract Zhang Xun's attention and make a feint on the ground first. Another army secretly infiltrated Chenliu City underground, and then controlled the city gate and captured Chenliu.

Zhang Xun hurriedly sent people to the four city walls to lie on the ground and listen, and sure enough, he faintly heard the sound of someone digging underground, obviously very close to Chen Liucheng.

So Zhang Xun hurriedly ordered someone to dig a tunnel at the corresponding position where the sound came, and when the Yanzhou army had already dug the tunnel, Zhang Xun ordered the soldiers to light some poisonous plants and throw them into the tunnel, obviously wanting to choke the Yanzhou army in the tunnel.

Who knew that the Yanzhou army had already prepared. They carried a lot of clear water with them, and when the smoke filled the tunnel, these Yanzhou soldiers soaked their handkerchiefs with the water according to Xu Shu's instructions, and then covered their mouths and noses and quickly retreated.

The battle was fought on equal footing. No one took advantage of anyone.

Zhang Xun's army was greatly boosted, and he had been passive in fighting with Liaohua's army for several days, and now he had seen through the Yanzhou army's scheme. Of course, the morale of the army is inspired, and the morale is like a rainbow.

On the surface, there seems to be no movement on the part of the Yanzhou army. But in fact, there is a good plan.

Just after Zhang Xun "saw through" the plot of the Yanzhou army in Chenliu, Liao Hua began a large-scale mobilization of troops. Every day, there are boats coming and going between Wuchao and Chenliu.

At the same time, the Liaohua army's attack on Chen Liu became more and more fierce, and more and more troops were invested.

Zhang Xun was taken aback, so he explained the situation to Chen Gong, and Chen Gong also noticed the situation.

Frankly speaking, Chen Gong wanted to send troops to cross the river to attack Wuchao, but he was afraid that this was the strategy of the Yanzhou army, so he kept his troops in Guandu.

Zhang Xun was helpless, and could only endure the attacks of the Yanzhou army on Chen Liu every day.

Because Zhilu Dao couldn't count on Chen Gong, Zhang Xun ordered the guards of Xu Tiancheng in the rear to send troops to rescue, but who knew that Lu Dao's reinforcements encountered the mysterious disappearance of Shi A's leader on the way.

Caught off guard, he was killed and injured countless times by Shi A's army, and fled back to Xu Tian in embarrassment.

Zhang Xun was not waiting for Xu Tian's reinforcements, but the meeting of Shi A's army and Liaohua's army.

In this way, there is the army of Liaohua in the north of Chen Liu, and the shadow of the elusive Shi A in the south, making Zhang Xun live under the high pressure of suspicion every day.

Zhang Xun wanted to ask Dingtao for help, but he knew that it was impossible, after all, Zhang Yan was in Jiyin City, who knew if Zhang Yan would directly attack Dingtao after the army of Dingtao was evacuated?

If you think about this idea with your toes, you can know that Yuan Shu will not agree.

In desperation, Zhang Xun could only pin his hope on Chen Gong's change of heart, and sent people to Guandu for help every day.

Of course, Chen Gong knew that the battle situation of Chen Liu was tight, and he also wanted to send troops to rescue Chen Liu, but the actions of the Liao Hua army in Wuchao on the other side of the river really made him angry.

After all, the Liaohua army's river crossing operation between Wuchao and Chenliu was too blatant, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like the Yanzhou army is tricking itself into crossing the river from Guandu to attack Wuchao.

It was for this reason that Chen Gong hesitated. It was at this time that Chen Gong's weaknesses were exposed.

Of course, the various Yanzhou armies in Yanzhou had long known that there would be such a situation in the Dao Dao, so no one paid attention to Chen Gong, and according to the plan, they mercilessly launched a local attack on the Yuan Shu army in various cities in Yanzhou.

The army of Zang Ba, who had been slightly repaired in Xiyang, had a clear purpose of waving his army north and directly attacking Shangqiu.

At this time, General Yang of the Yuan Shu faction was leading 20,000 men to march in the direction of Shangqiu. Out of suspicion of Zhang Yan. General Yang did not cross Jiyin, but came to Juancheng at the expense of the near and far. Then set off from Juancheng and went straight to Shangqiu.

Of course, all this could not be concealed from Xu Ji in Liuxian County and Gao Shun's army in Qi Township. Thus, an encirclement was formed.

General Yang has a lot of experience. Knowing that the Yanzhou army is scheming, it is impossible to speculate on common sense when fighting, so it is extremely careful along the way.

Unfortunately, however, he ran into three of the most mobile armies in the Yanzhou Army.

The shadows are haunting, scattered and impermanent, and the action is like a whimsical movement, leaving no trace.

Although the army led by Zang Ba was Bocai's army, the Yanzhou army he sent this time was his old department, that is, the former Taishan bandits, and what they were best at was guerrilla warfare. The hidden technique can be said to be unparalleled in the world except for the shadow.

The 5,000 Yanzhou cavalry that Gao Shun left in Qixiang was the elite cavalry under Chen Zhi, and they were also capable of both light and heavy cavalry, and were the best at lightning tactics in short and medium distances.

Therefore, General Yang's scouts could not guarantee the accuracy of their intelligence at all, and the encirclement was formed unconsciously.

General Yang had only arrived to the north of Shangqiu when he encountered the resistance of Ji Ling, who had surrendered to Xu Ji.

When General Yang saw Ji Ling, he knew that the other party had surrendered, so he couldn't help but scold, and even stepped forward to invite the battle.

Ji Ling didn't bother to pay attention to him. Command the part of Zang Ba's army under his command to charge General Yang's army.

Because General Yang went to Shangqiu to rescue, most of the infantry were infantry, and most of them had long weapons.

Yes, the Zangba army is a very special army. The soldiers of this army are flying one by one, agile in shape, and extremely agile in tactics. They didn't pay any attention to Yuan Shujun's long-weapon battle formation, and they just left as soon as they touched it. General Yang's army was a little overwhelmed.

In the midst of continuous testing, the soldiers of the Zang Ba Army finally found many flaws in the battle formation of the Yuan Shu army in front of them. Immediately using these flaws as a breakthrough, they swarmed up, like a school of sharks in the ocean, and when they saw a wound on the body of their prey, they began to bite and tear the wound frantically, making the wound bigger and bigger.

What's more, there are fierce generals like Ji Ling who are constantly rushing to the side.

Those who have slightly poor physical strength and are not quick enough to react are the breakthrough targets of Zang Ba's army and Ji Ling, and if one is killed, the people around him will be killed immediately.

So soon, General Yang's army was soon cut into several sections, fighting separately.

General Yang and Le were so angry that they were angry, although they knew that it was just a tie for the two of them to join hands and fight Ji Ling, but Ji Ling in front of him didn't pay attention to them at all, just avoided the soldiers who killed Yuan Shu as easily as the two of them breathed.

The purpose of this is of course obvious, Ji Ling is using his own bravery as a breakthrough point for the army, and the direction of Ji Ling's attack is always in the place where the strength of Yuan Shu's army is relatively strong on the battlefield, and after disintegrating the enemy's advantage in this place, it will immediately and quickly shift.

This Ji Ling is worthy of the qualifications of a famous general, and soon after joining the Yanzhou Army, he has already understood the characteristics of the army in front of him, and let himself integrate into this army, living up to Xu Ji's trust.

General Yang and Le naturally wanted to stop Ji Ling from doing this, but between themselves and Ji Ling, there was always the Yanzhou Army constantly harassing the two, making it difficult for the two of them to take every step forward.

These soldiers did not fight to the death at all, but attacked one after another like butterflies wearing flowers, and after a few entanglements, they immediately retreated backwards, disappeared among their companions, and after a little trimming, began to attack from another angle.

Therefore, the distance between General Yang and Le and Ji Ling is getting farther and farther, and they can only watch Ji Ling on the battlefield, but they are helpless.

However, the number of troops brought by Ji Ling was not large, only about 6,000 people, so the two sides fought evenly in a short period of time.

At this moment, the five thousand Yanzhou iron cavalry of the Gaoshun army that set out from Qixiang appeared on the battlefield.

Gao Shun was not in this army, but this did not affect the terror of the Yanzhou cavalry in the slightest.

General Yang and Le understood the true meaning of the most terrifying cavalry in heaven and earth in an instant.

A single charge kills all the confidence of your own army.

Rout, unstoppable rout.

The soldiers of Yuan Shu's army scattered and fled like homeless and panicked birds.

At this time, the task of Zang Ba's army immediately changed, from killing the enemy just now to starting to collect and surrender the enemy.

General Yang and Le saw the Yanzhou Iron Cavalry, and immediately had no intention of fighting, so they turned their horses and left.

Because there were enemies on the east, south, and north, General Yang and Le opened a bloody road to lead the remnants of the defeated army to flee to the west in embarrassment. As long as they escape to Dingtao, they will be safe.

Of course, Ji Ling would not chase after him, but was just busy collecting the army.

In this battle, the Yanzhou army captured a total of 8,000 people, killed more than 2,700 enemies, and more than 4,000 people scattered and fled without a trace.

When General Yang and Le fled, there were only more than 4,000 remnants of the army around them.

The two of them originally thought that even if they met the enemy, it could only be Zang Ba's army, but they didn't expect that there would be Yanzhou cavalry here, and there were many of them, which was clearly Gao Shun's troops, which meant that their own information on the distribution of Gao Shun's army was wrong.

General Yang and Le wanted to tell Yuan Shu the news, but unfortunately they didn't have this opportunity, because not long after they escaped from Lu to the west, the two met Xu Ji, who had been waiting for them for a long time.

For the two of them, what could be more unfortunate in the world than this one? (To be continued......)