Under the response of Neiying, Peng Cao smoothly attacked from Dongzhai, with the guidance of several traitors, Peng Cao was supposed to directly guide Nanzhai to capture Zhang Jian, but he saw the fire in the west from afar, and secretly screamed in his heart, the west is a place where grain, grass and ordnance are gathered, and he has spent so much effort to lay out the layout, isn't it just to kill and injure the officers and soldiers and loot the baggage by the way.

So Peng Cao immediately ordered to go to Xizhai to put out the fire first, which gave Zhang Jian and others a chance to escape, and Zhang Jian retreated along the mountain stream in the south to the newly established Min County. After walking for a while, seeing that there were no chasing soldiers behind, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, Zhang Jian stopped and looked back, only to see that the fire in the camp reflected half of the sky, and he was so far away that he could faintly hear the sound of shouting and killing.

"This defeat is also my fault, and I am ashamed of the martyrs."

Seeing this, the guards around him couldn't help but persuade: "It is common sense that I am outnumbered by the enemy, why should my lord blame himself." If there is a traitor in the camp, how can you blame the lord alone, this is something that no one can imagine. ”

Zhang Jian didn't say anything more but sighed, no matter how much he blamed himself now, it would be useless, and the most important thing now was to spread the military information in Zhuang County. But now that I have escaped through the mountains, if I rely on people, I will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month.

"You send a few people to Min County to find Ji Kuang for help, and then you want to come to the horses and then urgently report to Feng County and Cheng County about the military situation here."

"My lord, what should I do if I refuse to rescue the new people?"

Wake up the dreamer with a word, Zhang Jian couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, whether he was too idealistic in this chaotic situation.

"What you said makes sense, so don't mention the matter here when you go to Min County, just borrow the horse and go to Feng County as soon as possible."

Wu Yue is leading the army to confront the enemy on this side of Chengxian, he estimated the time Wu Jian's soldiers and horses should also arrive today, if they can defeat this group of mountain bandits outside the mountain before and after, it will undoubtedly solve a big problem for the subsequent entry into the mountain to clear and suppress.

At this time, the outpost reported that the enemy's position was suddenly chaotic, and it seemed that there was a tendency to retreat.

Wu Yue frowned when he heard the report, this kind of opportunity for field warfare is too rare, if these people are let into the mountain and then want to gather and annihilate, it will be difficult. But there is no news from Wu Jian's side, if he rashly attacks, although the chance of victory is very high, it is also difficult to gather and annihilate, and Wu Yue at this time can't help but fall into a dilemma.

"Look, General! The enemy front is retreating. ”

When Wu Yue heard this, he hurriedly climbed the wooden tower, only to see that more than 10,000 enemy troops not far away were retreating in echelons, and it seemed that the outpost reported the truth.

"It's too late, give the order to go down, and the battalions will move forward in strict formation, so as not to let them run."

As soon as the military order was given, the sound of war drums suddenly rose, and Wu Yue personally pressed the formation and launched an attack on the retreating enemy army. I don't know if it's the courage of the official army or some other reason, seeing that the official army began to charge and attack, the people and horses on the opposite side scattered directly and fled backwards, Wu Yue led the troops to chase all the way until the foot of Yanshan before giving up and collecting the troops.

This battle went smoothly beyond Wu Yue's expectations, and three or four thousand prisoners were captured alone, but the information that came in one after another made him cry out badly.

After interrogating these captives, Wu Yue learned that the men and horses who were chased to the mountains by himself just now were not Peng Cao's men and horses, but a group of people named Yan Zhi, this Yan Zhi usually had four or five thousand people under his hands along the Rakshasa River, and this time he arrived at Yanshan at Peng Cao's invitation, and half of the nearly 10,000 horses who confronted him were old and weak or even women and children, no wonder this battle was fought so smoothly.

"Peng Cao is not here, but he is so strict that he confronts me here, and even in order to make the illusion of pouring out of the nest, he does not hesitate to take these thousands of old and weak women and children."

"Not good! Hit the trick! ”

Wu Yue seemed to realize something, and hurriedly called the herald sergeant over.

"You go along the road to find Wu Jian's department, let him quickly return to Zhuang County, there is no mistake, go quickly!"

Then Wu Yue transferred all the cavalry in the camp to go together, and ordered that once he saw Wu Jian, these cavalry would be handed over to Wu Jian's command.

Zhuang County

Since Wu Jian and others were transferred, Peng Cao originally wanted to sneak attack the county seat, but he didn't expect the county seat to be immediately under martial law, so he had no choice but to retreat and attack the camp in the east of the city. After the raid the night before, the people of the four fields were afraid that the mountain bandits were all rushing into the county seat, and the city of Zhuang County was not large, and it was crowded to the brim.

The top of the city looked gloomily at the black and oppressive thief army outside the city, and last night the east of the city was full of fire, and he knew that the big thing was not good, but he was more than willing and not enough. The city sergeant and the government patrol are only two or three hundred people, and the city is still overstretched, not to mention going out of the city to rescue, and Zhang Zhushu clearly ordered: must strictly guard the city, and in the end he can only watch the east of the city and the camp lost.

As soon as dawn Peng Cao led his army to surround the east gate, but did not immediately attack the city. Compared with Zhang Jian's humanitarianism, Fang Zhi was not so easy to speak, and before Peng Cao's persuasion envoy approached the city gate, he was killed by an arrow from Fang Zhi on the city wall.

This move of the square system temporarily boosted the low morale of the defenders in the city, but it also made Peng Cao under the city furious, if it wasn't for the siege equipment not finished, he would like to raze the city to the ground right now.

"Soldiers! Although our Zhuangxian city is small, as long as you defend with all your heart, they will not be able to enter, and we can let them return last time, and this time we can do the same. The county has asked Wu Sima of Chengxian for help, and the reinforcements will arrive in less than two days. ”

Fang put away the longbow and started the pre-war mobilization at the head of the city, the morale of the city was already low last night, and if it was not encouraged, the day of the city should not be far away.

But in the final analysis, I am afraid that only he knows the actual situation, and what he asks for help and what reinforcements will arrive within two days is just nonsense he is talking about to boost morale. This time the siege of the thief army is not as good as last time, this time Peng Cao is prepared, and it is inevitable that he will be able to withstand it for a few days.

From the city tower down the square system came to the south gate, Zhuang County Chengchi has four city gates, east, west, north and south, but Peng Cao only stationed troops at the east gate, the reason is that the north gate and the west gate direction is Yanshan and Yishan direction, as for the south gate, the square system guessed that Peng Cao wanted to gather troops to attack a point or surround the three Que one, but no matter what kind of possible system can not be taken lightly.

On the one hand, he collected gold juice and oil in the city, and on the other hand, he ordered all the people in the city to go home and not go out without an order, and gathered all the people who entered the city in the past few days and circled them in the city to take care of them.

The county lieutenant Wang Yuan followed behind Fang Zhi with a heavy heart and asked worriedly: "County order, the thieves outside the city are rushing to make siege equipment, once it is completed, how should this city be defended?" ”

Fang Zhi was stunned when he heard this, turned around and glared at Wang Yuan coldly, and shouted, "Are you afraid?" We are waiting for the king to be loyal to the king, and the city is broken and there is death, so why be afraid? As a county lieutenant, you don't want to kill the enemy to serve the country, but you are cowardly here, what crime should you be guilty of? ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Yuan was so frightened that he bowed down and begged for mercy, "The county order forgives the sin, and the subordinate ghosts are confused and talk nonsense, I hope that the adults will forgive." ”

Fang Zhi helped Wang Yuan up and sighed: "Wang Yuan, you are also an old man in Zhuang County, and I also know that you are unintentional, but if you mess up the army's heart at this time of crisis, I will regret it too late."

Wang Yuan said ashamedly: "Thank you for your understanding, my subordinates are just worried about the current situation, and the loss of the camp in the east of the city is ...... Zhang's master book."

This time, without waiting for Wang Yuan to finish speaking, Fang Zhi interrupted him in a cold voice: "You do your duty, what do you have to do with other things?" Don't say anything more, go to the city to patrol and beware of civil unrest, go. ”