With Fancheng in hand, Wancheng naturally doesn't need too many military horses to stay behind.

Tong Guan then ordered a henchman Yu Hou to lead 3,000 people to the town guard, and transferred the former guard Zhou Xin, the capital of Songzhou, and more than 10,000 Song troops rescued before to Fancheng.

On June 2, the Song army gathered more than 80,000 people, crossed the Han River, and stormed Xiangyang.

The thieves who defended the city knew that the army had been defeated, and their mentality was panicked, and there were sneakers every night, and the guards could not catch them all.

On the morning of the fourth day, Han Shizhong personally held the sword and shield, climbed the city first, and pulled it out in one fell swoop.

There were 5,000 thieves in Xiangyang City, more than 500 were killed in battle, more than 1,000 surrendered, and the others were scattered into the nearby mountains.

Xiangyang this city of Antarctic Lake Xiang, the north control of Guanluo, is the throat of Chu and Shu, since ancient times for the soldiers to fight, Xiangyang, Nanfeng, Jingnan, Yun'an three states, are under the Song army, for a time, the group of thieves is terrified.

Wang Qing never expected that Duan Erbing was strong and strong, and he lost Xiangfan so quickly, he only hated to point to the sky and the earth, and scolded Duan Er, Duan Sanniang heard that his brother was captured by Tong Guan, and scolded and scolded Wang Qing to send troops to rescue, but Wang Qing robbed a few words, and the husband and wife fought a lot, Wang Qing was drunk on wine, and his combat power declined a lot, and his wife only fought a hand-to-hand draw, and each of them was injured.

Later, it was "Mr. Jin Jian" Li Zhu who offered advice, transferred two troops and horses to attack Xiangyang, all the way from Fangzhou, and led 30,000 soldiers and horses by Du Po (Yinxue), who came from west to east; All the way from Jingnan, Li Huai, the nephew of Li Zhu and the Xuanfu envoy, led seven generals, raised 30,000 Jingnan soldiers, and fought from the south to the north, vowing to retake Xiangyang.

He also sent Pegasus to send a message to Duan Wu, urging him to break through Xijing quickly and coerce Bianliang.

Tong Guan's side, naturally, did not know the plans of the Huaixi Army, and after repairing for a few days, he sent Wang Yi, the governor of Dengzhou, as the vanguard, and led 50,000 people as the Chinese army, and waved his troops to Fangzhou, wanting to break the enemy's lair in one fell swoop.

In his opinion, if the thief captures the king first, as long as Wang Qing is caught, the culprit is caught, and other states and counties will naturally be decided.

Fangzhou, the ancient Fangling also, the Three Kingdoms Meng Da occupied the three counties of Shangyong, that is, this place.

Its place is connected to Hanzhong in the west, Xiangfan in the east, surrounded by Qinling, Wudang Mountain, Bashan, Wushan on all sides, the terrain is treacherous, fortunately, there is Han water through, connecting several waterways, can reach Xiangyang directly.

Although the waterway was relatively smooth, Tong Guan did not have a water army, and it was inconvenient for him to cross from the downstream to the upstream, so he still trekked through mountains and rivers and took the land route.

This road is embedded in the mountains and the Han River, one side of the mountains are majestic, the other side of the clear water is wide, but the road itself is very narrow, the Song army set off less than two days, and the Du Yan army along the road collided.

The two armies fought chaotically, the thief Du Bai made a snake spear, the horse was vertical and horizontal, invincible, the chaotic army was killed in front of the vanguard Wang Yi, a spear will be picked and killed, the Song army was defeated, and Du Bao was killed all the way.

Pity that the mountain road is narrow, and there is nowhere to hide, the Chinese army has not yet unfolded, it was defeated by the former army, Du Yan chased all the way for twenty miles, and then collected the troops.

In this battle, the Song army lost five or six thousand people, Tong Guan left the dead bodies all over the mountains, hurriedly retreated to Xiangyang, rectified the city defense, and waited for the thieves to fight.

In fact, if you talk about the shape of Xiangyang, it is really rare in the world, and it is inherently easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The mighty Han River, around Xiangyang turned a big bend, its city north, east, south three sides, all surrounded by Han water, the west is a lot of mountains, east and west direction of Wanshan, and north and south direction of the Xian Mountain, together to build an arrow shape, the tip of the arrow points to Xiangyang.

Therefore, there are only two land routes to Xiangyang, which can be regarded as the outer edge of both sides of the arrow: one is between Wanshan and Hanshui, the left is connected to the land of Shangyong, and the other is between Da Xian Mountain and Han Shui, and the land of Jingxiang.

But he said that Du Bao, after killing the Song army, did not kill from the path between the mountains and the Han River as Tong Guan thought. Instead, he led his troops over Wanshan, passed through Longzhong, bypassed Da Xian Mountain, and joined Li Huaijun, who had been killed in Jingnan, and set up a company camp in the open tidal flat southeast of the city.

After the two armies and horses of Huaixi converged, the morale was greatly boosted, and Tong Guan wanted to rob the camp at night, but the thieves were heavily defended, so they had to return in vain.

The next day, the thieves went out of the camp and formed a formation under the city, and several generals showed off their might in front of the battle, galloping back and forth, and only going out of the city for a decisive battle.

Tong Guan saw it at the head of the city and sneered: "A stupid thief, the art of war: ten rules surround it; Looking at the number of them now, there are only fifty or sixty thousand people, not as many as Ben Shuai, and Ben Shuai has a strong city to rely on, he is brave, what can I do? ”

Wang Yu frowned on the side and said: "The words of the cardinal, although it is very good, but we are here to suppress the thieves, if the stalemate with the thieves here lasts for a long time, and the remaining thieves attack the city and plunder the land, will the court have no objection?" ”

Tong Guan's face sank when he heard this, and he said, "If you say this, you must have a good plan." ”

Wang Yu thought for a while and said: "In the opinion of the last general, I still have to meet him for a few battles, and if I have an opportunity to exterminate this group of thieves, it will be difficult for the Huaixi thieves to have another strength." ”

Tong Guan nodded and said, "In that case, you should lead the people of the headquarters to meet him for a while." ”

Wang Yu smiled bitterly when he heard this, stretched out his hand and pointed: "Privy Secret, please see, the two thieves who fled from Fancheng are also among them, and the last general can only block one of them, but there is no one to help." ”

Tong Guan said: "Not only these two people, the one who killed Wang Yi with a snake spear is also a brave general...... Wu Zhi, your lieutenant generals are all very good at fighting and can stand for Wang Yu. ”

Wang Yu was overjoyed, hugged his fists and said: "If General Wu helps, I don't have to worry about it." ”

Lao Cao replied with a smile: "They are all contributing to the country, and they are not separated from each other." ”

At that moment, several people each dressed themselves in a halt, led a thousand troops, opened the city gate, and formed a formation under the city.

When the thief general Du Bai saw the Song army coming out of the city, he rushed to the front of the battle on his horse and shouted: "I am the governor under the command of the king of Chu, 'Sai Zhang Fei' Du Bai, if there is a brave one in the Song army, come and fight!" ”

Cao Cao looked at this person, black helmet, black armor and black horse, full of beard, with a snake spear in his hand, gasped, and instructed everyone: "This person is really extraordinary, we should be careful to deal with it." ”

Lu Junyi smiled when he heard this: "The little brother is asking him to be extraordinary, otherwise what's the fun of killing?" ”

At that moment, he rushed out and shouted, "Do you recognize the jade unicorn Lu Junyi?" ”

Du Yan had also heard of his name, and sneered: "You are a rich man, I think you spend money to make people brag about your name, and you know what to fight?" Since you don't want to be rich and rich, but you come here to die, so you can fulfill it! ”

Lu Junyi was furious when he heard this, and the two spears were raised at the same time, and he was immediately killed in one place.

These two people fought, and the end was wonderful, and the two of them -

One is a natural rui beast jade unicorn, white horse steel gun armor bright silver; Fast as the wind, slow as a willow, scattered as stars, dense as scales.

One is the fierce general in the world, Sai Zhang Fei, with a black armored snake spear like ash; If the thunder comes, if the lightning goes, the movement is domineering and quiet.

One is with a peerless and earth-shattering art, with a sassy gun like a crane; There is no opponent in the rivers and lakes, and no one can be seen in the field.

One is that the warrior sharpens his knife with a high murderous spirit, and his bones are like gold and iron, and it is difficult to bend his waist; But he is born proud with courage, and he is even more arrogant if he does not believe in princes.

These two, a hero in the mixed official army, and a heroic man in the reckless, fought for one or two decades, and they both saw that the other party was by no means general, and they couldn't help but get more and more hearty the more they fought, and gradually took out their life's skills, and beat more than 100,000 people in the city and under the city, all of them stared straight and grew up, just staring at each other.

Another battle of one or twenty times, one of the thieves is not angry, this person is born nine feet long and short body, red skin, scorched yellow beard, a curly black horse on the crotch, wearing a cooked copper helmet, draped in black oil inlaid armor, each holding a water-milled steel, the left hand weighs fifteen catties, the right hand weighs sixteen catties, wow wow shouted: "This jade unicorn, but it is extravagant!" I just don't believe that the Song army has extravagance besides him, if there is, come out and fight with you Master Yuan! ”

As he spoke, he patted his crotch and dismounted, and the horse jumped onto the battlefield like a puff of black smoke.

There are teachings: Mokua Hebei, Shandong, Han, must see Jiangnan Huai Youxiong. Yuan Du is brave and fierce, and Mr. Jin Jian Zhan is cold.

(End of chapter)