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"General Ji Ling, don't worry, this matter has long been expected."

Sima Yi raised his hand to signal Ji Ling not to be impatient, and said with an unfathomable smile: "When I was ordered to come to Yingchuan this time, General Hou (Zhuge Liang) had already sent a letter to His Majesty, asking His Majesty to dispatch General Zhang Liao, who was stationed in Hefei, to lead the Wuwei Battalion Iron Cavalry to the north for reinforcements, and ordered Zhou Yu, the governor of Yuzhou, to lead the troops to Yingchuan.

By this time, it had been two days since His Majesty's military order had been issued. If nothing else, wait for two more days at most, and the iron cavalry of the Shuofeng Battalion and 50,000 county soldiers under Zhou Yudu's account will arrive, and the Wuwei Battalion under General Zhang Liao's account will also arrive three days later. Because of this, I don't expect that either the Jingzhou army nor Cao Ren's army will attack the south gate, because they are afraid that General Zhou Yu will appear behind them at any time. Therefore, as long as we do our best to defend the city, it should not be a problem to hold out for two days. If the three of you have no objections, without further ado, I'll go our separate ways. After speaking, Sima Yi beckoned Guan Yu to step forward, and then whispered to Guan Yu.

The cold-faced Guan Yunchang nodded slightly after hearing the voice, and walked to Ji Ling's side expressionlessly, without saying a word, but Ji Ling knew that Guan Yu was waiting for him to send soldiers and horses. After all, before Sima Yi arrived, the 25,000 defenders in the city were all soldiers and horses under his Ji Ling's account. Who let Sima Yi just arrive?

Seeing Guan Yu standing beside him, Ji Ling felt pressured, especially Guan Yu's eyes that were as cold as frost and narrowed into a slit, which made him inexplicably frightened, and his heart was stunned and uneasy. So he originally wanted to ask Sima Yi. Could Governor Zhou Yu really be able to arrive within two days, but now Guan Yu was standing beside him coldly, making him uncomfortable. So he didn't say anything more, and took Guan Yu directly to the Nancheng military camp. Assign 8,000 soldiers to him, and send this plague god away as much as possible. What's more, Ji Ling also knew that the current battle at Ximen was critical, and he couldn't delay for a moment, so it was the right way to let Guan Yu lead the troops to reinforcements as soon as possible.

As soon as Ji Ling left on his front foot, Tai Shou Changlin and Sima Yi glanced at each other, and then said softly: "Yang Zhai City will be handed over to Brother Zhong Daxian." As long as there is still a slight possibility, please Zhong Da must stick to this city, and must not withdraw lightly. After all, this is a county town with more than 100,000 people. But if the shape is critical and undefendable, the virtuous brother does not have to hesitate, just lead the troops out of the city. Brother Fool is the county guard appointed by His Majesty, once the city falls, I have the duty to live and die with the people of the city, and die without regrets. After speaking, Chang Lin's expression was resolute and his eyes were firm. Obviously, it is not a coy gesture, but a heartfelt statement, loyal to duty, and awe-inspiring.

Sima Yi was stunned when he saw it. My heart was quite unsettled, and I was faintly ashamed. As Chang Lin said, if you can't do anything. The city couldn't be defended, and Sima Yi really had the idea of leading the army to retreat. But at this moment, after seeing Chang Lin's righteous and awe-inspiring demeanor. Sima Yi changed his attention in an instant, and he was determined to defend the city. Even if you don't do your best for Li Li, you have to do your best for the friends you really have made.

"Although Brother Tai can rest assured, the younger brother will hold on to this city for three days no matter what, waiting for Zhou Yu to lead the troops to help. But the ugly words are ahead, if General Zhou Yu has not led the army to arrive three days later, even if the younger brother has the heart to garrison this city, he is afraid that he will not be able to do anything. In this section, please also ask my brother to know clearly. ”

Sima Yi's frank words made Chang Linwen very moved: "It's enough to have a virtuous brother." The foolish brother is a scholar, even if he climbs the city tower, he can't help, so I brought a group of subordinates from the county government to recruit young men to assist the soldiers in defending the city overnight, and let out this old face, I will definitely gather 30,000 young men for the virtuous brother before noon tomorrow. The foolish brother is gone, and the virtuous brother takes care. After Chang Lin finished speaking, he turned around and walked into the lobby, and soon the originally silent county guard mansion became noisy, and all the subordinates under the county government rushed to the lobby one after another.

Seeing this scene, Sima Yi's heart was hot, and he secretly admired, "Chang Bohuai is really talented!" ”

Chang Lin, the word Bohuai, a native of Wen County, Hanoi, was poor when he was young, studious and intelligent, and Sima Yi is a fellow villager, the elder Sima Yi is three years old, the two have known each other for many years, and have a good personal relationship. In order to avoid the war, Chang Lin had avoided the disaster in the state, reclaimed the mountains by himself, self-sufficient, after the war of Si Li, he was valued by Shi Lusu, and then he was promoted to filial piety, and served as the county commander in Shangdang County, and three years later transferred to Hedong Taishou. Because of his outstanding performance in the battle of Jizhou, he was valued by Li Li, and two years later he was appointed as the commander of Yuzhou, and also led the Yingchuan Taishou, and now his term of office is about to expire, and it is said that he will soon go to Chang'an to serve and become a court.

It is worth mentioning that Sima Yi had been hiding in Hedong County for half a year. During this period, he lived in Chang Lin's mansion, and then he insisted on going to Bingzhou to seek refuge with Cui Yan, Chang Lin was worried that he would have an accident along the way, so he personally sent him to Bingzhou Thorn Mansion. This is the unknown personal relationship between Sima Yi and Chang Lin, which can definitely be called a fateful friendship.

It was precisely because Sima Yi and Chang Lin had a close personal relationship and were like brothers, so when he found out that Yingchuan County was very likely to be the meeting point between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty, he took the initiative to ask Zhuge Liang to come and support Yingchuan Taishou Changlin. Sure enough, Sima Yi's judgment was extremely accurate, and on the way to Yangzhai City, he met the Jingzhou army who had disguised themselves and mixed into the city, and the thick Jingxiang accent was for the well-informed Sima Yi, as long as he heard these people speak, he could immediately know their origins.

It is gratifying to discover the enemy's whereabouts, but whether he can hold Yangzhai City or not, Sima Yi has no bottom in his heart. So, after finalizing the plan to defend the city, he followed Guan Yu's army and quickly rushed to the west gate.

?????? Yang Zhai West Gate.

"Kill!" When the men in black moved the antler barricade with all their hands, but saw their leader, the big man in black throwing away the short knife in his hand, grabbed the spear on the ground and shouted loudly, while jumping over the barricade and going straight to the city gate to kill the general. This burly and sturdy black-clothed leader is Xu Shu's brave generals Jiujiang Zhou Tai and Zhou Youping.

It was precisely because Zhou Tai was ordered to sneak into the city to respond internally that Jiang Qin, who was outside the city, was willing to lead his troops to cross the river first and attack the city gate as soon as possible. He and Zhou Tai are brothers who share hardships and hardships, and they have been born and died together since they were water thieves, fighting side by side, and then leading their troops to join Sun Ce, and it has been more than ten years.

Since learning the news of the marriage between Liu Biao and the Sun family in Jiangdong in Jingzhou, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin have held their breath, feeling depressed, depressed and uncomfortable, and have been under the fence for a long time. This made the Jiangdong generals in the Jingzhou army feel confused about their future and Jiangdong's future for the first time, and an indescribable sense of loss filled their hearts, and there was a faint sense of loneliness that was greater than the death of their hearts.

As the second batch of 50,000 Jiangdong troops crossed the river and went north and were once again included in the Jingzhou army sequence, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin clearly realized that the Jiangdong army was really going to be finished, and they were completely reduced to the vassals of Liu Biao in Jingzhou. As long as the Nanyang War is over, no matter what the result is, Jiangdong will be annexed by Liu Biao of Jingzhou, and the foundation of the Sun family in Jiangdong will be passed on to Sun Shao. This is because the Jiangdong army has gathered a total of 120,000 horses, and now it has sent 80,000 troops north to participate in the war twice, and there are only more than 30,000 troops left behind in Jiangdong itself. With this alone, how can the men and horses stabilize Jiangdong, how can they resist the hundreds of thousands of troops under Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and how can they not die?

It was based on this aggrieved status quo that when Xu Shu sent Zhou Tai to lead the army to infiltrate Yangzhai City in disguise, he agreed without thinking about it. Because he has no choice, he can't and doesn't dare to refuse, and he must have the consciousness of obeying and driving under the fence. Although he couldn't accept the fact that Jiangdong was annexed by Liu Biao, he was just a military general who led troops to fight, and even though he had the heart to turn the tide, he had no ability to change the world. What can I do?

It is this unprecedented confusion that makes Zhou Tai not know who he is fighting for, who he is fighting for, and he doesn't know what he can win for Jiangdong after winning this war, and what he can get. But the reality of the situation forced him to take one step at a time, and rush forward because he knew that taking a step back was hell, but he didn't know that a step forward was an abyss.

"Take the gates, kill me!" Jumping over the barricade, Zhou Tai raised his spear and shouted loudly to order the three hundred soldiers behind him to rush into the Yongdao in an attempt to open the city gate. However, at the moment when he stepped into the Yongdao, the intuition of the perennial battle forced him to pause, and an unprecedented sense of crisis came to his heart, prompting him to stop the pace of the charge, and a pair of tiger eyes were as sharp as an eagle falcon to look around the Yongdao. At this moment, he saw a dense honeycomb-shaped hole in the wall of the corridor, and there was a bright light in the gap??????

"Not good! There is an ambush?????? Shout! At the same time that Zhou Tai lost his voice, the originally bright honeycomb hole suddenly dimmed, followed by a screaming sound of breaking the air: "Whoosh - whoosh!" ”

"Bang--puff!" Bursts of bowstrings, thunderbolts, dense arrows shot out from the walls on both sides of the corridor, instantly piercing the body of the black-clothed samurai. At this moment, the nearly 100 black-clothed men who rushed to the front didn't even scream, and they were pierced into hedgehogs by dense arrows like locusts, but when they saw that the arrows that shot out were all straight towards the front door, the black-clothed warrior was caught off guard and hit the arrows head-on, and he didn't have time to dodge at all, and he didn't even have time to wield his weapons to resist, so he was hit by an arrow in the head and died instantly.

If the hidden arrows shot from these honeycomb holes are blood-sealing, then the crossbow arrows that burst out from the sides of the walls are the killing weapons for chasing souls and asking for their lives. But seeing that the crossbow arrow, which was about four feet long and as thick as a javelin, crossed the road, the powerful and domineering force of the crossbow arrow caused the crossbow arrow to shoot out of the left wall, and then pierced through a qiē obstacle in the way ahead until it was inserted into the right wall. The same is true for the bolts in the hole in the wall on the right, only in a different direction.

So, when the crossbow arrows suddenly appeared in the corridor, all the black-clothed people who entered the corridor never stood again. In the blink of an eye, the nearly 200 black-clothed men who rushed into the city gate were all killed by arrows, and as many as 50 of them were pierced through the chest by crossbow arrows, nailed to the wall like meat skewers.

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