Li Tiezhu deliberately selected twenty veterans of the Navy Division who were born in Danyang. Let them lead a thousand Danyang troops who have just been captured, in fact, to perform a big show for the four thousand defenders on the other side of the Huai River.

That night, there were several veterans with a few Yuan Shu who were determined to defect to the Jin State, including Xie Xiaosan, who was crying before the battle, crossed the Huai River and quietly touched the front of the Yuan Shu military camp stationed in the Huai River. Several soldiers stepped forward to negotiate with the guards guarding the camp gate, telling them that they had come to see the guards with very important information.

As soon as the guards saw that it was their own people, they hurried forward to report the situation to Song Zhongyu, the general who stayed behind. Not long after, Song Zhong asked the guards to invite these Danyang soldiers who risked their lives to report the news into his big tent.

After entering the big tent, Xie Xiaosan first spoke: "General Qiqi Song, the younger one is from Xiejia Village, Jurong County, Danyang County, this time I was ordered to intercept the Flying Tiger Army that came to chase us in the Xiaqiu area, although the Flying Tiger Army was finally scattered by the formation and defeated for a while, but there are still many brothers who escaped, and now they have lurked to the north of the Huai River!"

When Song Zhong heard that there were still many soldiers alive, his heart moved, so he said: "Brother Xie, I don't know how many brothers are left on the north bank now, and how many soldiers have been captured by the Flying Tiger Army?"

Xie Xiaosan replied: "There are about a thousand brothers lurking on the north shore, as for the specific number of brothers captured by the Flying Tiger Army, you have to ask this brother who came from the Flying Tiger Army!"

As soon as Song Zhong heard Xie Xiaosan say that the veteran beside him was actually touched from the Flying Tiger Army, he hurriedly took out the long sword hanging from his waist and stopped it on his chest, and then said viciously: "This brother is so bold, he actually dares to visit the camp alone, can it be said that your neck is stronger than the long sword in my hand!"

The veteran who came to act did not panic, but said with a sincere face: "General Song, please allow me to finish my words, and it will not be too late to do it when the time comes!"

Xie Xiaosan, who was in charge of "praising him" on the side, immediately said: "General Song, don't hurt my brother's life, his name is Xu Erchang, the son of the Xu blacksmith family in our village, who Yuan Zhoumu went north to ask for Zhao a few years ago, but was arrested by the Jin people, and finally forced into the Flying Tiger Army." Along the way, I heard Second Brother Xu say that he had suffered a lot in the Jin State Navy Division over the years, so he was thinking about how to return to Yangzhou, and this time he saw his brother in his hometown, so he sneaked out to report to the general!"

Song Zhong heard Xie Xiaosan say this, so he dispelled some doubts a little, and said, "Okay, let you talk about it, if you can't say what I'm interested in, don't blame me for being ruthless under the sword!"

Although Xu Erchang had the urge to rush forward and beat this straw bag general severely, he still showed enough deference and obedience, and said in a low voice: "General Song, I am the guard next to the leader named Li Tiezhu who came to pursue you, I know that this time they have captured a total of nearly 1,000 Danyang's brothers, and the rest of the more than 1,000 people have unfortunately died in battle, but the Flying Tiger cavalry also paid a heavy price, when they came out of Xiapi, there were 5,000 people, and now there are only nearly 4,000 people left. ”

Song Zhong heard that the numbers Xu Erchang said were basically the same as the numbers Xie Xiaosan said just now, so he nodded and said, "The brothers who are responsible for intercepting the Flying Tiger Cavalry are all good! But you sneaked out and broke into my camp this time, wouldn't you just tell me about this?"

Xu Erchang immediately sent a sycophant in a very timely manner, saying: "General Song is really wise, I came here at the risk of death this time, in fact, I want to tell the general that the Flying Tiger Army on the other side is now waiting for follow-up reinforcements, I heard that it is tens of thousands of dragoons, once they arrive, General Song and these thousands of Danyang brothers will be in danger!"

As soon as Song Zhong heard this, he immediately revealed his weak and incompetent nature, and asked Xu Erchang with some lack of confidence: "Do the Xu family brothers know that the Flying Tiger cavalry reinforcements on the opposite side will arrive in a few days?"

"Listen to Li Tiezhu, you can arrive at noon the day after tomorrow at the earliest!" Xu Erchang continued to talk nonsense with his eyes open.

"Oh, how is this good! When General Zhang was leaving, he told me that I would hold on to the river for seven days, and only three days had passed!" Song Zhong threw away the long sword in his hand and crossed his feet back and forth in the big tent, and he was at a loss for a moment.

Looking at Song Zhong who was spinning around in front of him, Xu Erchang finally entered the critical stage of this flickering, he said: "General Song, there is a plan here, which can not only make the brothers retreat, but maybe also wipe out the four thousand Flying Tiger Cavalry on the other side!"

"Oh, that's true!" Song Zhong grabbed Xu Erchang's hand and said with some excitement.

"If the general doesn't believe it, Xu is willing to stay in the camp and wait for the fate at any time!" Xu Erchang still had a loyal and reliable expression.

Song Zhong patted Xu Erchang on the shoulder vigorously and said, "Okay, then tell me about your plan! If this plan can be used, you will be my military advisor in the future!"

"My plan is to cooperate with the outside and the inside, General Song led the army to cross the river at night, and suddenly launched an attack on the Flying Tiger Cavalry, when the time comes, the thousand brothers who were captured by them and the other thousand brothers lurking nearby can just be used as internal responses, and under careful calculation, they will definitely be able to break Li Tiezhu!" Xu Erchang did not deviate from the words that Li Tiezhu had specially confessed in the future.

After listening to Xu Erchang's idea, Song Zhong was silent in contemplation. In fact, he has already begun to be tempted by this plan, but he is afraid of the peerless prestige of the Flying Tiger/Cavalry, so he still has some confidence and guts. But it didn't matter, Xu Erchang said a few words next, completely dispelling his doubts.

Xu Erchang said: "I know where some of the gunpowder carried by the Flying Tiger Cavalry is stored, as long as I ignite the gunpowder while I am on duty at night, it will definitely make the Flying Tiger Cavalry in chaos." At that time, General Song will just outflank the enemy with a large army, and if he defeats the enemy army in a battle, he can make a great contribution!"

"Well, that's a great plan. Tomorrow night, I will lead four thousand brothers to quietly cross the river, and once I see you lighting the powder magazine in the dragoon battalion, I will unite my inner and outer brothers to launch a fierce attack!" Song Zhong finally adopted Xu Erchang's seemingly easy strategy.

On the night of the next day, Song Zhong led 4,000 soldiers to secretly cross the river from the river beach a little upstream, and quietly approached the temporary camp where the Flying Tiger Cavalry was stationed. On the second watch, a fire suddenly broke out in the camp of the Jin army, and then a violent explosion sounded, and many soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army rushed out in a panic in the firelight, and it seemed that Xu Erchang had really succeeded.

Not long after, nearly a thousand infantry were killed from the downstream direction of the river beach, and listening to the words shouted from their mouths, all of them turned out to be Danyang accents. Xie Xiaosan, who had been by Song Zhong's side, immediately whispered: "General Song, this group of soldiers is our thousand brothers lurking outside the Flying Tiger Cavalry camp!" While the two were talking, there was another fierce fighting sound in the Flying Tiger Army camp not far away, and it sounded like the 1,000 Danyang soldiers who were imprisoned began to resist.

At this time, Song Zhong no longer doubted him, and led his four thousand soldiers to swoop towards the Jin army camp not far away.

"Kill!" Song Zhong, who was rarely brave, quickly rushed into the camp of the Jin army with his soldiers. To his surprise, when he really rushed into the camp, he found that there were not many people in the camp where there was still shouting and shouting and killing just now, and the 1,000 rebellious Danyang prisoners and 1,000 lost soldiers who came in from the outside were nowhere to be seen.

"It's not good, we've been tricked!" Song Zhong finally began to suspect Xu Erchang and Xie Xiaosan, but unfortunately Xie Xiaosan, who had been following him at this time, was no longer visible. Without waiting for Song Zhong to lead his troops out of the camp, the four thousand dragoon soldiers who had already been ready, holding a blazing torch in their left hand and a miniature thunderbolt in their right hand, compressed the four thousand people led by Song Zhong who came to steal the camp in the camp and did not dare to move at all.

At this time, the annoying Grand Lama began to voice Li Tiezhu again: "Brothers of Danyang, you have been surrounded by us, hurry up and put down the weapons in your hands, don't make meaningless sacrifices!"

As soon as Li Tiezhu's words fell, many Danyang soldiers who had been assigned the task of shouting exerted their strength at the same time, and shouted at Song Zhong's subordinates. The meaning of their shouting was nothing more than to tell their former accomplices about the happy treatment they received after being captured, and the preferential treatment of prisoners specially formulated by the Jin State for surrendered soldiers.

Under the huge threat of life and death and the persuasion of many Danyang soldiers, the four thousand Danyang soldiers led by Song Zhong began to waver and become uneasy. Among the soldiers, there were recalcitrant rebels who were not afraid of death, trying to risk their lives to break out, but they were all sent to the west by a burst of arrows from the Flying Tiger Army.

Li Tiezhu shouted loudly to Song Zhong: "The surname Song, if you don't surrender again, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being you're welcome! Let these soldiers under your command who are unwilling to surrender die for you tonight and accompany you to heaven!"

After a while, Li Tiezhu directly ordered his brothers: "Brothers, prepare to thunder the sky, listen to me count to three, and send Song Zhong to the end!"

Seeing that the Flying Tiger Army was about to move seriously, Song Zhong could no longer care about his face and dignity, and hurriedly shouted: "General Li on the other side is angry, I surrender!"

After Song Zhong finished shouting a word, he found that the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Army had really stopped moving, so he hurriedly turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, people go to high places, water flows to low places, now that the Jin Kingdom is in full swing, why don't we make a fortune together! Everyone listen to my advice, and now put down the weapons in their hands, lest you lose your lives in vain!"

Although Song Zhong's soldiers were already planning to surrender, seeing their own generals helping people to surrender so disregardlessly, the awkwardness in their hearts was really not to mention!

Since even General Song Zhong has surrendered, what are the ordinary soldiers still tossing? Then let's surrender together, it seems that the brothers who have already surrendered are doing well......

So, Li Tiezhu once again earned back 4,000 Danyang soldiers without much effort, and this business was really profitable!