Outside the city of Handan.

On the second day after the four battalions of the Taishan Army cut off the Julu Army under the city, Zhang Chong rushed to the outside of the Julu City with more than 10,000 elite soldiers.

Zhang Chong did not decide to immediately launch an attack on the Julu Army. Instead, according to the marching regulations of the Taishan Army, they camped five miles away from the southeast of the Julu Army.

In addition to setting up two hard barricades, the Taishan army camped in Congtai, outside the northeast of Handan. This place was set up as a grain platform by Guan Yu before, although it was small but strong, and it was not able to go down for several sieges by the Julu Army before.

As soon as the reinforcements of the Taishan Army arrived this time, the Julu Army had no choice but to shrink its forces and give up the siege of Congtai.

The Taishan army here is not in a hurry, step by step, step by step.

The Han troops behind the Yongdao did not have this kind of leisure, and there was an anxious and restless atmosphere throughout the whole army. The change in the situation gave them the feeling that it was not that they were surrounding Handan inside, but that they were surrounded by the Taishan army.

It was also under such a restless military atmosphere that Zhao Fu, Cheng Lian, Wei Liang, Guo Xun, and Gao Lan military generals jointly saw Guo Dian and wanted to ask about the strategy of defending the war.

Surprisingly, in this case, Guo Dian was still calm, on the one hand, he asked about the reserves in the camp, and on the other hand, he kept patrolling the camp to stabilize the military atmosphere.

Seeing the manager so determined, everyone knew that he must have a backhand.

Indeed, Guo Dian is not stupid, who knows if he will die and go inside? He did have reinforcements. But Guo Dian's composure was also a bit forceful, because he was not sure when reinforcements would arrive.

When he led his army south, he consulted with the minister of Zhongshan in the north and the minister of Qinghe in the south, asking for reinforcements, attacking Handan City together, and besieging Wei to save Zhao.

For the reinforcements of Zhongshan Prime Minister Zang Min, Guo Dian is very confident.

Guo Dian and Zang Min have worked together before, and they have some friendship and know each other's roots. But this is not Guo Dian's confidence, his biggest confidence is the alliance between the two families.

After he broke the western expedition of the Yellow Turbans in Hebei Province in Julu, he sent 3,000 Yellow Turban prisoners to Zang Min, and the two families formed an alliance. In order to show the sincerity of the alliance, both families exchanged children with each other. Guo Dian sent his younger brother Guo Wei to Zhongshan, and Zang Min also sent his son Zang Hong.

Zang Hong, who was twenty-five years old at the time, was burly and heroic, and Guo Dian was happy when he saw it. What made Guo Dian even happier was that Zang Hongnian was under the shadow of his father to worship Tong Zilang in the fifteenth year, and entered Beijing with a book, and then he was released as a county order, even in the family circle, he was also an elite.

Zang Min can put such an excellent son here here, which shows his sincerity to the covenant. So Guo Dian made an alliance with him, agreeing that the two offensive and defensive alliances would not lose each other.

This time, when Guo Dian went south, he took Zang Hong with him and stayed in the shogunate as a staff counselor. So even for the sake of his son, Zang Min will lead his troops south.

And Liu Yu, the minister of Qinghe, another ally of Guo Dian, is also very confident in him.

He had dealt with this man and was a decent gentleman.

This person has a story that spreads all over Hebei officialdom.

It is said that when Liu Yu first took office, Qinghe had just had a drought and died of hunger in the ravines. At that time, after Liu Yu arrived, he not only exempted this year's taxes, but even helped him with Tai Shoutian rice, which shows his benevolence.

And Liu Hong, the country at that time, did not blame Liu Yu, who made them his own family?

After that, Liu Yu was able to follow a county in the Yellow Turban Chaos and make the Shishu peaceful, and it cannot be said that there was this reason.

So he Guo Dian and Liu Yu are allied, what else is there to worry about? But there are two things to worry about, one is that Liu Yu is not good at doing things in the end, and the soldiers and horses under his rule are not prosperous. The second is that the road from Qinghe to Handan has to pass through the jurisdiction of the Yellow Turban in Hebei, which is not easy.

Therefore, Guo Dian still put his hope for reinforcements on Zhongshan Kingdom.

In this way, in the Yongdao, Guo Dian ordered half of the troops of each part to defend the Yongdao, and the rest continued to attack Handan.

Guo Dian faced the northeast and looked forward to the arrival of the Zhongshan national soldiers.

At the same time, he was also ashamed, he was originally to save Zhao for Xiangguo's siege of Wei, but now he is also surrounded, and Xiangguo seems to be unable to hold it.

Xiangguo City, broken.

() Actually,

The city of Xiangguo was broken on the day of heavy rain on the night of March 25.

That night, Taishan's army took the outer gate of Xiangwai and did not intend to continue to attack inward.

The reason for this is not complicated, that is, it is dark and not conducive to attacking. It is better to calm down and eat this Xiangguo City with peace of mind after dawn.

But the change was too fast, and soon a Han soldier with a red scarf head who was not afraid of death rushed out of the urn city, in a vain attempt to retake the city gate. What else is there to say, he was directly attacked by Dian Wei, who had just led the army into the city from the city gate.

At the time of the fourth watch, after only a fierce battle for less than a moment, the Han army of 1,000 people collapsed, crying and crying, shouting and shouting, and some fled backwards, because there was no way behind them but to abandon their weapons and surrender.

And the Han soldiers who watched the battle below on the urn city, after the defeat of the red army, actually extinguished the lights on the urn city, and then turned down the city in the dark night, took off their military clothes, and fled home.

And once someone runs, the soldiers of the various families in the city will also follow the city, and the order of the entire urn city will be in chaos. Even if there are one or two loyal and brave people, they are still lonely and unable to help.

Dian Wei was in the corridor under the urn city at that time, and he was overjoyed when he saw the chaos above. ordered Chen Guang to take people to the first place, so he took down the urn city like this.

It's full of drama, but it's full of humanity.

When everyone knew that the city would not be able to hold on the second day, no one would be so stupid as to wait until the next day to flee for their lives. As the proverb goes:

"When they see a wild boar rushing towards them, everyone will jump to the side."

As soon as the Taishan army broke through the urn city, they immediately killed the shogunate in the city.

At that time, he had already learned of the frustration of the destruction of the city, and knew that the great event had gone, so he would kill himself with a saber. But there were three people standing on the left and right, namely Liu Gu, Li Ding, and Zhao Rong.

At this time, the shogunate was already in chaos, and everyone went their separate ways. But these three people put their lives on Fu Zhi.

The three of them snatched away the saber of the frustrated award, among which Liu Guzhi took the left shoulder, Zhao Rongzhu took the right shoulder, and Li Ding put the frustration on his back and was about to run outside the shogunate.

As soon as he saw the behavior of the three people, he knew that the meaning of the three people was unknown, and angrily scolded the three of them for being unfaithful and unjust, and then he bit Li Ding's right ear with one bite, and then directly bit off his ear.

Li Ding's neck was dripping with blood, and he was so painful that he fell to the ground. He was about to beat Frustration, and when he saw Frustration, he was shocked.

Ignoring anything else, Li Ding stuffed his fist into Fu Zhi's mouth, and it turned out that Fu Zhu was about to bite his tongue and commit suicide.

Frustrated with how much bite force it took to bite his tongue, he directly bit off a piece of meat from Li Ding's left fist. At this moment, the pain was so painful that Li Ding couldn't hold back any longer, and a punch smashed on the frustrated chin, directly dislocating him.

On the side, Liu Gu and Zhao Rong also reacted, and hurriedly took off their socks and stuffed them into the frustrated mouth.

In the end, Liu Gu still had a lot of heart, he never expected the prime minister to be so strong. He couldn't help but say:

"True martyrs!"

Chen Rong is also related, this kind of bent on death can often give people such a shock, and also give you a different kind of personality charm.

But Liu Gu's words annoyed Li Ding, he was bandaging his wounds, and when he heard this, he scolded angrily:

"Do you want to die with him?"

At this moment, Liu Gu and Chen Rong stopped talking.

Yes, who wants to die if they can live? They all have identities, not to mention that they have been disease-free for decades, but compared with those mud-legged people who have been in a hurry for less than ten years, there is still too much beauty.

At this time, it was not only Li Ding and the three of them who were also thinking about the life, after the city was broken, many so-called people of integrity hung a white silk and wanted to hang themselves, but they were either rescued by the servants and subordinates, or the white silk cracked itself. In short, death cannot be achieved for various reasons, and all of them are "providential".

Since it is the will of heaven, it is natural that it cannot be violated, and it can only be "lived" against the will.

So who can blame Li Ding and the others? Who can be nobler than them?

In this way, the three of them carried the living frustration on their backs to find the Taishan army that entered the city, and they ran for a way to live.

As for the frustration, he looked at the night sky above his head silently, and the old tears were rampant. "Well, at least."

I can see the hooves again."

After the city was broken, Liu Hui hugged the frustrated hu entrusted to him in his arms, and then went straight to the outside of the mansion.

He didn't take the frustrated Hu directly to find the Taishan army who entered the city.

On the one hand, this is his usual caution, on the other hand, he is new to the Taishan army, and he doesn't understand all kinds of human feelings.

Therefore, even if he had heard of the military discipline of the Taishan army, Liu Hui still planned to find a place to hide first, and then go to find the military officials who entered the city at dawn.

In a panic, Liu Hui came to a mansion with a frightened frustration, and when he saw that the lights were dark, he decided to stay at this house.

So Liu Hui kept banging on the door and shouted:

"Anyone? The soldiers are in chaos, and if you want to take refuge here with your younger brother, if you can open the door, you will be grateful."

Liu Hui patted the door a few times, but no one paid attention.

But Liu Hui knew that there must be someone here, and he could hear the wheezing sound through the door panel.

Knowing that the owner of this house was unwilling to open the door, Liu Hui was ashamed, and he threatened:

"If you don't open the door, I'm going to shout, and I'll say that there is a Han official here. When the time comes, you will attract the Taishan army, don't blame me."

This sentence really worked, and the breath behind the door was really rough.

Then someone shouted:

"Where did the son come and threaten us? Believe it or not, I'm going to kill you now?"

Hearing this, Liu Hui smiled, pulled out the ring head knife and poked at the crack in the door, and the knife will stop less than three inches on the forehead of the person behind the door.

The servant was so frightened by this knife that he urinated directly, and he didn't care about saying cruel words, so he was about to go to his own lord with a roll.

But you say that it is not a coincidence, it is no one else who is hiding here, it is our old acquaintance, the big grain merchant Zhen Ku.

At this time, he was pacing in the hall, listening to the shouts and killings outside, and said in a panic:

"The Tarzan Army is mighty, the Tarzan Army is mighty. ……」

He changed several words in a row, but he always felt that he couldn't perfectly describe the Taishan Army. Obviously, Zhen Ku was thinking about how to flatter the Taishan Army when he met the Taishan Army on the second day in order to find a way to live.

Just when he had no master, his servants crawled in and shouted:

"Oh no, a ranger came outside to block the door, saying that he wouldn't let him in and hide, so he attracted the Tarzan thief."

Zhen was distressed, and he said viciously:

"Is it really a mud man? In the city before, who of us hasn't killed anyone? Fear of him, let him in, and kill him."

But when the servants over there heard this, their faces fell, and they snorted:

"But we really haven't killed them."

It turned out that Zhen Ku was in the city, and he could hide if he could, so there was no chance to kill.

Zhen Ku, who was vicious and vicious, listened to this, stagnated, and collapsed:

"What are you afraid of, there are so many of us, and we beat this person up."

Then Zhen Ku took the lead and emboldened the servants. And with Zhen Ku taking the lead, more than a dozen servants really got momentum.

Over there, Liu Hui was hiding himself in the corner, not attracting the attention of passers-by.

Then I saw a crack in the door, and then I heard an uncertain voice:

"Is it Liu Jun in person?"

It was Zhen Ku who spoke, and he was the one who shook Liu Hui up in the city that day.

Zhen Ku's heroic posture towards Liu Hui is too profound, it can be said that Liu Hui's feat of charging into battle with horses in this life is imprinted in his mind, so even if Liu Hui is hidden in the dark, Zhen Ku still recognizes him.

And once he knew Liu Hui's identity, Zhen Ku was no longer as vicious as before, and hurriedly welcomed Liu Hui and the frustrated Hu in his arms into the house, and then secretly closed the door.

The night was too long for too many people.

First the streets were filled with the sound of knives and screams, and then quickly fell silent.

Then the Taishan army rode horses, banged the gong and shouted, let the households guard their homes.

At this time, everyone in the city knows that from now on, Xiangguo has fallen into the hands of the Taishan army.

After spending a long night in fear, Zhen Ku and the others did not encounter the so-called chaotic soldiers burning and killing. Finally, at noon on the second day, outside the door of Zhen Ku's house, two Taishan sergeants came.

Both of them were very young, one spoke Yanzhou's local dialect, the other spoke Zhaodi's dialect, they gently knocked on the door, and said softly:

"Is there anyone in this family, we are from the Taishan Army, and we are here to check the situation. If there is anyone who harbors the military officials in the city, they can hand it over to us, and they will not correct it. And once discovered, they will be punished."

Hearing this, Zhen Ku and the others trembled, but looking at Liu Hui, Zhen Ku gritted his teeth and said:

"General, you go and hide in the wall, and I'll deal with them."

But Liu Hui smiled and said:

"I, Liu Hui, remember that you will be rewarded for this kindness, but you don't need to be like this."

As he spoke, he shouted in Zhen Ku's shock and incomprehension:

"I'm Changshan Liu Changle, and I'm Captain Guan's spy in the city, so I'll find you as a regular quickly."

When the two Taishan sergeants outside the city heard this, they didn't dare to slack off, because they were really ordered from above after entering the city, saying that there were their own family members in the city.

So one of the two ran to find the patrolling officer, and the other stayed here, both for surveillance and protection.

Soon, a team of Taishan soldiers rushed over, and then welcomed Liu Hui away in the house.

Only the sluggish Zhen Ku and a group of servants were left.

Suddenly, Zhen Ku slapped his thigh and said happily:

"This one, our old Zhen is stable."