Chapter Eighty-Three: Farewell

Half a moon passed quickly, and Chengzhi's army was about to start, and outside Jinling City, Shangguan Yunguan took Liu Chengzhi's hand and said goodbye.

Shangguan Yun said: "Brother Chengzhi, I don't know how long it will take to see you today, I hope you will take care of your body!"

Liu Chengzhi said: "Thank you Your Highness for your concern, Chengzhi will definitely live up to the trust and defeat Geshu Wuji!"

Shangguan Yunquan sent it again and again, and finally walked more than 30 miles away from Jinling before returning to the city.

This time, Liu Chengzhi went on the expedition with the deputy generals Xiang Wuji and Li Xiuqi, and the strategist Liu Yuhu, and the rest stayed in Jinling and had other appointments.

Yangjiang Province is adjacent to Jiangnan Province, and it is less than 300 miles from Jinling City to Anyang Province in Yangjiang. Liu Chengzhi marched for less than two days and arrived at the city of Anyang.

At this time, in the military camp of the Geshu Army in Yangjiang Province, the military general Norton Hu Qi and the strategist Zhang Shuwen were planning. It turned out that Geshu Wuji attached great importance to the direction of the Chengzhi army's advance, and had already transferred his most elite generals and strategists here, while he stayed in Karasuma Province to fight Liu Jinnan alone.

Norton Hu Qi said: "Since the establishment of the Chengzhi Army, it has rarely encountered defeats. This time the soldiers are pointing to Yangjiang, which should not be underestimated, what are your opinions?"

Zhang Shuwen said: "Within the four states of Yangjiang, Anyang City is the strongest. I always thought he would attack from a weakly defended city, but we underestimated his determination!"

Deputy General Liu Chuan said: "Liu Chengzhi led his troops to attack us, and the rear must be empty. According to the Celestial Elephant Officer's speculation, Yangjiang will flood again in the near future, and we can take this opportunity to attack his rear for a long time and force him to come back!"

Zhang Shuwen said: "This plan is very good, but the key is to block the first wave of attacks of the Chengzhi army and hold out for more than twenty days!"

After saying that, his eyes lit up again, and said: "But now there is a good opportunity, I heard that the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty, Shangguan Lao'er, sent his third son to Jinling City, and in the eyes of the internal friction of the Chengzhi Army, at this time, I am afraid that they will not send any famous generals to fight!"

Norton Hu Qi laughed and said, "Xiao Zhang Liang is worthy of being Xiao Zhang Liang, what are your plans, come quickly!"

Under the city of Anyang, Liu Chengzhi is studying the next way to attack the city. Xiang Wuji came in and said, "Young Master, after the spies have investigated, this Anyang City is indeed quite strong, and the main force of the Geshu army has begun to march here, and it is expected to arrive within five days!"

Liu Chengzhi said softly: "Brother Xiang, I have been reminded many times, and you must not call me the word young master again on any occasion in the future!"

Xiang Wuji smiled and said, "Look at me, I forgot again!"

Liu Chengzhi said: "This Anyang City is indeed quite strong, but it is not impossible to take it within five days!"

Then, he began to explain something to Xiang Wuji in a low voice.

That night, Xiang Wuji fired a bow and arrow into Anyang City, and only returned to the camp after seeing a soldier pick it up.

In the early morning of the next day, a team of dozens of people, riding fast horses, rushed to the north of the city, where the Chengzhi army was weakest. Because the siege of Yunli adopted the method of encircling three ques, there were no soldiers surrounding the northern city wall, and the Chengzhi army could only shoot arrows at this unit, and even so, there were still people in the army who were hit by arrows and fell to the ground. After a while, this army came to the north gate, and the soldiers of Anyang City had already been prepared, and hurriedly opened the north gate to receive the only seven troops into the city.

After entering the city, the city lord Qian Xun was already waiting there, and hurriedly ran over, saying as he walked: "General Norton doesn't know what information to bring, when will he be able to get to Anyang City?"

"In five days, we can get there!"

Qian Xun breathed a sigh of relief and said, "There should be no problem in guarding Anyang City for five days!"

Who knows, at this time, the face of the person who came changed, and he hit Qian Xun on the chest with a palm, Qian Xun was shocked and wanted to retreat, but found that all his retreats had been locked, so he had to watch this palm grab himself, and at the same time feel the internal force of his whole body gushing out, his whole body was weak, and he fell to the ground.

It turned out that the person who came was Li Xiuqi, Li Xiuqi said: "Lord Qian, offended, there is no malice in the bottom, as long as you can ask someone to open this north gate, I will not embarrass you!"

Qian Xun was a hard bone, and snorted: "Don't you think about it!"

Li Xiuqi saw that he couldn't make sense, and he didn't answer, knowing that he couldn't be a woman's kindness at this time, he pierced Qian Xun's throat with an arrow, Qian Xun screamed, and collapsed on the ground.

It turned out that Liu Chengzhi had already obtained a full set of seals of Ge Shujun through the intelligence system. The night before, the news that a team had sent a message had been faked, so Anyang City had been preparing to welcome them into the city since the morning.

Li Xiuqi released a signal into the air, and then fought with the other seven people at the north gate, and after a while, they opened a bloody road. At this time, the large army of Chengzhi Army received a signal and began to erect a ladder at the north gate to ascend the city.

Liu Chengzhi and Li Xiuqi and others climbed the north city wall, saw one by one at the north city gate, those soldiers saw Liu Chengzhi and others brave, one after another, one after another, after a stick of incense, Chengzhi army has thousands of people on the north city wall.

Xiang Wuji also took advantage of the lack of command in Anyang City, made a mess, ascended the city on the south city wall, and attacked the city. There were not many defenders in Anyang City, and they had no fighting spirit for a long time, so they surrendered one after another.

Liu Chengzhi obtained the first state capital of Yangjiang Province at a relatively small cost!

After obtaining Anyang City, Liu Chengzhi called Xiang Wuji, Li Xiuqi and Liu Yuhu to discuss ways to fight against Geshu's army.

Liu Chengzhi said: "The strength of the Geshu army is above me, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to win all this time!"

Liu Yuhu said: "The art of war has a cloud, 'those who are good at fighting, cause people but not people', defeat the strong with the weak, and plan this method!"

Xiang Wuji's eyes lit up, and he said: "Mr. Yuhu is talented, inspired by Mr., the last general has a plan in his heart!"

Liu Chengzhi was overjoyed and said, "Brother Xiang, come quickly!"

Xiang Wuji said: "I will lead 50,000 soldiers to defend Anyang City, and the second prince will lead the main force of our army to ambush its side, and when the Geshu army is tired, it will be a miracle to attack it in one fell swoop!"

Three days later, Norton Huqi led 800,000 troops to the city of Anyang. Xiang Wuji hid in the city and did not come out, not fighting him head-on. Norton Hu Qi couldn't, so he had to surround Anyang City.

Liu Chengzhi took the remaining Chengzhi with enough dry food and ambushed in the nearby mountains, because the Chengzhi army was well-trained and strictly disciplined, Norton did not notice it for a while.

Because the city of Anyang City was extremely strong, Norton Hu Qi was beaten back several times, and his heart was extremely depressed.

After five days, Liu Chengzhi sent several groups of spies to find out where the grain route of the Geshu army was, but it was in Ruoyang Town, thirty miles outside Anyang City, where there was no city, but it was defended by a wooden fence, and there were only more than 50,000 guards and horses, which were guarded by Norton's lieutenant Han Qi. Because Norton Hu Qi thought that the main force of the Chengzhi army had been surrounded in Anyang City, he relaxed his defense here.