Immediately, after explaining that Lin Yi would be the overseer, Liu Rang led 50,000 reserves to set up an ambush in the Zaozhuang area to block the reinforcements of the Northern Alliance, and then he could be taken by Xiao Yu with confidence and flew to the battlefield near the Sama Naga River. At this time, it happened to be the time when the Hu brothers rushed to Hekou Village

Just when the main force of Black Cloud City was in a mess with the Northern Route Army, the Middle Route Army, which was closest to them and composed of Black Cloud City troops, under the strict supervision of the new commander of the coalition army, General Avrenz, Zhao Qi, formed a rescue force with 100,000 light cavalry and 50,000 heavy cavalry, and rushed north.

The troops had just passed Ranzhuang and were ambushed by the Black Cloud City army in Qingshan Gorge. In order to block the advance of the enemy army, the troops of the Blue Dragon Kingdom blocked the intersection with countless felled trees and boulders pushed down from the mountain. When the enemy arrived, drums sounded on both sides of the canyon, and the ambushes were everywhere, condescending, striking the enemy with rolling stones, skulls, bows, arrows, and crossbows.

The leader of the Northern Alliance to lead the reinforcements was Ma Gui, the chief soldier of the Northern Stream, a very strong and brave guy. After encountering the ambush, he did not panic, and immediately ordered the cavalry to dismount, launch a counterattack lightly, and kill the high ground on both sides of the canyon. Under Ma Gui's strict supervision, the Xuanwu Kingdom showed a strong fighting spirit, and they braved the rain of arrows, arrows, wood and stones, and climbed to the top of the mountain to fight fiercely with the ambush soldiers. Because before leaving, Wang Jinqian, the commander of the Northern Alliance, gave a death order: "If we can't rescue the group of rice buckets in the Qilin Kingdom, Zhao Qi, the governor of the coalition army, will definitely make us look good." Therefore, Ben Shuai ordered you to rush there and rescue them. At least drag Han Zhenlin's pig back to me. Otherwise, be prepared to come to me. ”

Magui is not afraid of death. He was originally a character who didn't want to die in a fight. At this time, when he encountered an ambush, he took the lead, and with just one charge, he took the Chongyang Ridge, a high ground at the western end of the canyon, repelled the defenders of Black Cloud City there, and seized a commanding height to break through.

Now Liu Rang was anxious. He has always been a fierce general of the Xuanwu Kingdom, and he is famous in the confrontation with the Qilin Kingdom. In the last war, he and a group of his senior generals were captured. He knew that even if he went back, he would not be able to have good fruit to eat, so he surrendered to Black Cloud City. A few days later, Gu Zhongxun, the king of the Northern Alliance, ordered the beheading of all his family members who were still in the Northern Alliance. This news made him so angry that he was about to crush his teeth, and since then he has broken off all old ties with the Northern Alliance.

He knew Ma Gui, who used to be a general soldier under him, and although he didn't have much friendship, he still knew him. This time, he took the initiative to ask Ying to ambush Ma Gui, just to give the Northern Alliance a good look and let the Black Cloud City know how powerful he is. If the first battle after returning to Black Cloud City was like this, it really made him feel faceless. He immediately organized a death squad of 1,000 people, all of whom took off their shirts and were shirtless, each holding a machete in both hands, and under the cover of bows and arrows, rushed into the Northern Alliance formation, which had no firm foothold, and the Northern Alliance army drove down the mountain.

Although Ma Gui is brave and tenacious, he will not retreat from the fight. But he was soon beaten by the officers and soldiers of Black Cloud City who swarmed up, and his head was broken and bruised, and he was dragged by his soldiers and fled down the mountain.

When he reached the bottom of the mountain, he was so angry that he jumped to his feet and cursed angrily, and organized an attack again. Fighting until the sun set in the west, the two sides of Chongyangling changed hands several times, leaving countless corpses. Liu Rang has almost exhausted the reserves left in his hands, and only the last thousand people remain. The deputy general Liu Gao asked him what to do, and Liu Rang shouted with red eyes: "What else can I do? Can I just go back and tell the marshal that I, Liu Rang, am incompetent and can't even hold a mountain?"

Despite his old age, he personally led the last reserve to rush forward, and the officers and men marched forward bravely under his inspiration. Liu Rang saw Wang Jinqian, who had just climbed to the top of the slope with blood-stained strips of cloth wrapped around his head and body with the support of the soldiers. So he rushed towards him first, shouting as he went: "That guy with rags tied around his body and still breathing is their chief soldier Ma Gui, kill him, and they will be leaderless! Brothers, follow me to kill the commander!" The other soldiers followed him and rushed forward together. Poor Ma Gui was quickly separated from his soldiers, and then he was dismembered by the officers and soldiers of Black Cloud City.

Liu Rang ordered the soldiers to find a flagpole, pick up Ma Gui's golden helmet with three tall feathers, and swagger down the mountain. The officers and soldiers kept shouting in unison: "Your chief soldier Magui is dead here!" The soldiers of Black Cloud City on the other hills also shouted. The sound echoed in the valley.

This news obviously boosted the morale of the Black Cloud City army and greatly damaged the morale of the Xuanwu Army. Liu Rang personally waved his handsome flag, the drummers beat the war drums and blew the horns, and the officers and soldiers on the mountains on all sides fought bravely down the mountain. Although the Northern Alliance army under the mountain was still quite numerous, due to the killing of the lord and low morale, it quickly collapsed and fled in all directions. Those who did not have time to escape dropped their weapons and fell to their knees in large areas in surrender.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Southern Route Army led by Wang Jinqian, the general of the Northern Alliance Kingdom, finally arrived near Fuyang County. Looking at the city from afar, the army was temporarily stationed first.

In the last war, Wang Jinqian, who was still a general, came to Fuyang County with the army. Looking at the city from afar, Fuyang County is closed in four cities as before, standing alone in the wilderness. Nothing has changed, except that the moat is a bit wider than before.

The battle flags fluttered above the city, but it was quiet, and only a few people were curiously stretching their necks out to look. Outside the city, it can be seen that the work of clearing the walls has been completed, and all the houses are empty, and every house is surrounded by walls. The inhabitants were moved into the city, food was collected, and the wells were discarded with rotting animal carcasses and livestock dung, and the stench was terrible.

Wang Jinqian was assigning offensive tasks in the tent of the Chinese army that had been temporarily erected, when suddenly a soldier came in and reported that he had caught a few deserters who had escaped from Fuhua County. Wang Jinqian ordered it to be brought in.

There were a total of five people who came, and they looked embarrassed with ordinary people's clothes on their military uniforms. They said that they were originally natives of Fuhua County, and they had always been dissatisfied with Luo Ming's repressive rule and the wolf's den and the blackshirts' behavior of arresting people and killing innocents indiscriminately. In addition, this time the coalition forces marched south, and they and most of their comrades-in-arms believed that Black Cloud City would be defeated, and everyone was eager to return to the rule of the Northern Alliance. Before the army withdrew into the city, several of them laid an ambush in the empty houses of the common people in advance, in order to report to the commander: their comrades-in-arms in the city were willing to respond to the army of the Northern Alliance.

Wang Jinqian asked how to do internal response. Several soldiers looked at each other and greedily asked the marshal if he could give everyone a little reward. Wang Jinqian pondered for a moment and said, "As long as you can help us break the city, this marshal will promise each of you a gold coin." Several soldiers were overjoyed when they heard this, and immediately said, "Thank you for your reward, as long as it is midnight, we will use torches to go to the west gate and make a secret signal to the city." When the brothers in the city saw this, they were relieved to open the door to us. When the time comes, the commander commands the army to rush in, and he can completely crush all resistance in the city. ”