Specially known as Yizhou Mu, to Xiongzhen Zitong, and worship the former general. Liuxue, known as the general, Yizhou pastor, governs Picheng. In the west mountain Fan Changsheng Rock dwelling cave, seeking the Tao to cultivate the people, the male wants to welcome the king and the minister. Changsheng Gu said: "Push the step of Dayuan, the Five Elements Conference Jiazi, Zuo Zhong Yu Li, not my festival." "In March of the first year of Yan Ping, Fan Changsheng took advantage of the public opinion in Chengdu, greeted the gate majestically, and sat on the board. Changsheng invited the male to sit opposite him, that is, to worship the prime minister, and respected Fan Xian. In October, Prime Minister Fan Changsheng was named the master of heaven and earth, and he was named the Marquis of Xishan. In April of the eighth year of Yuheng, Fan Changsheng died, and his son Zhongben was the prime minister. Immortality is good at astronomy, there are magic numbers, and the people worship him like a god.

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When the fast horse rushed into Jiangzhou City, it was already a quarter of the hour (half past three in the morning). And about two miles west of Jiangzhou, the Changshui Army, under Zeng Hua's order, rested in place.

After nearly two hours of non-stop rapid marching, the Changshui Army had marched fifty miles and successfully arrived at the city of Jiangzhou. Both sergeants and officers stood still, took out the dry rations they had brought with them, replenished them with water and food with the sheepskin water bags passed to each other, and then checked each other's armor and equipment for final preparations.

At this time, Xu Hu, the pseudo-Shu Jingzhou assassin who received the Jiangnan military report, was depressed in his own mansion. Xu Hu is the contemporary head of the Xu clan in Fuling County (now Pengshui, Chongqing), when the Li family first entered the Shu land, the indigenous surnames in various places did not support him, so that the nascent Ba Yu regime was in jeopardy. In the end, it was the Xu family of Fuling and the Fan family of Qingcheng who took the lead in annexing, which made the Li regime turn from crisis to safety.

But in the days that followed, because Fan Changsheng of the Fan family was the leader of the Heavenly Master Dao and had a far-reaching influence in Shuzhong, he was worshiped by Li Xiong as the prime minister, and was given the title of "Four Hours and Eight Festivals", and was named the Marquis of Xishan. At the same time, the Xu family, who was the founder of the country, was thrown aside by the Li family, who had a firm foothold, and was sent to Bajun with the official title of Jingzhou Assassin to guard the east gate for Cheng Han.

Xu Hu knew that with the more than 10,000 soldiers under him, if the Jin army really went west, he would definitely be the first cannon fodder. Therefore, Xu Hu withdrew all the troops east of Jiangzhou to Jiangzhou, and then hoarded grain and grass, preparing to hold on to it by risk, if he really couldn't hold it, he would return to the west along Fushui by boat, and flee back to Deyang and Guanghan.

This time, Huan Wen suddenly went west, which really scared Xu Hu a lot, and he only cared about reporting to Chengdu in an emergency, while strengthening the city defense, preparing to roll stones and grain and grass, and he didn't have the slightest intention of going out of the city to meet the Jin army. He also ordered the Jiangzhou Navy to patrol the upper and lower rivers for more than 100 miles day and night to prevent the Jin army from crossing the river. You must know that Fushui and the Yangtze River are the biggest barriers in Jiangzhou, and if the Jin army breaks through, half of Jiangzhou's city defense will be broken. Due to the small number of naval vessels, they can only inspect the river section of more than 100 miles in two hours, but Xu Hu is not afraid, all the boats within a radius of hundreds of miles are concentrated in the north of the river, and how many people can be carried across the river by a few fishing boats that have escaped the net? Swim here? Just those Jin troops composed of northland refugees? Xu Hu would not believe that those landlubbers could swim across the Yangtze River several miles wide in two hours.

Fortunately, the Jin army only went west along the south of the Yangtze River, and let Jiangzhou not go, it seems that the generals of the Jin army knew that Jiangzhou, which is separated by the mountains across the river, is a hard bone, and it is not so easy to gnaw down. Just as Xu Hu was about to burn incense to return to his senses, General Zhengdong and Bajun Taishou Mu Ce proposed to send troops to follow the Jin army.

This Mou Ce has a special identity, not so much Xu Hu's deputy, but a "commissioner" sent by the Chengdu Imperial Court to Jiangzhou to monitor Xu Hu. This time, the Jin army invaded the east, and there was no courage to lead the troops to attack the enemy, but it still had to be pretended. Since the Jin army let the city not go, it means that the Jin army is not so fierce, and there is no "other meaning" to Jiangzhou, Mu Ce feels that it is still necessary to chase after the tail, if he is lucky, pick up the knives, guns and guns that fell in the back, and then catch a few fallen Jin army sergeants, and then kill hundreds of people, and finally report to Chengdu to chase after the tail, and win a big victory, which is also a great achievement.

Xu Hu really had no excuse to stop Mu Ce's move, so he had to order three thousand old and weak sergeants to gather Mu Ce's troops, a total of five thousand, and in the early morning the Jiangzhou Navy responded to it, crossed the river, and entered the sunshine.

Xu Hu knew that Mu Ce was greedy and stupid, but he didn't expect that Mu Ce would be greedy and stupid to such an extent. Before the Jin army had started, he dared to lead the army to approach twenty miles, and only ten miles away from the rear army of the Jin army stopped and camped. Why doesn't he have to think about it with his ass, does Huan Wen really make you so arrogant? Now it's people who are crusading against you, not you who are crusading against others!

Yuan Qiao, the Jin army's rear guard, was also unceremonious when he saw that the Jiangzhou Shu army was so cooperative. First secretly ordered the whole army to have dinner early, and then pretended to raise the smoke in the rear army camp, after confusing the spies of the Mu Ce army, Yuan Qiao led the rear army to quietly take the path to the west, more than ten miles around, and finally took advantage of the night to break the Mu Ce army who already felt safe and sound.

Xu Hu received the defeat report sent by the fast horse and the boat, first of all, he would not be sad for Mu Ce, who was whimpering for his life, and he would not feel sorry for the three thousand old and weak soldiers, he was just worried that the Jin army would follow closely to capture Yangguan and begin to forcibly cross the Yangtze River and besiege Jiangzhou? If this is the case, Xu Hu feels that his good days are over.

Fortunately, when it was almost dawn, Kuaima finally delivered good news, and the Jin army stopped outside the Yangguan ferry, apparently not planning to attack. Xu Hu could finally breathe a sigh of relief, the Jin army knew that the heavy troops of the Shu army were concentrated in the east, even if they captured a Jiangzhou, as well as Deyang and Guanghan, they would all need corpses to fill in.

Looking up from the courtyard of the Thorn Mansion, the sky was still so dark, and the moon had long since sunk in the west, and the morning star in the east was already hanging in the sky, ready to stand for the last shift. Xu Hu felt a thick tiredness quickly surging up, and he couldn't help stretching deeply and yawning long. After tossing all night, it was the most sleepy time when it was almost dawn.

Xu Hu staggered into the bedroom, let the two maids take off their coats, and burrowed into the warm quilt in a daze, and then did not forget to touch the plump and pink breasts of the sleeping concubine next to him, and finally rolled up the satin quilt and soon fell asleep.

Taking advantage of the darkest moment before dawn, the second building of the Changshui Army quickly sneaked to the city of Jiangzhou under the leadership of Zhang Qu. At the front was a hundred warrior death squads led by Zhang Qu. They wore no armor, only tight jackets. Each of them held a long knife in his right hand and the front end of a long-haired bamboo in his left arm, and the back end of each bamboo was held tightly by more than a dozen people on both sides.

Seeing Zhang Qu raise the long knife in his right hand, all the people moved at the same time. More than a dozen people in the back ran in unison, pushing Mao Zhu and the warriors in front of them to rush towards the Jiangzhou city wall. The speed is getting faster and faster, seeing that the warriors who are also running in front are about to be pushed by the bamboo behind to hit the city wall, saying that it was fast and saying that it was too late, the warriors in front suddenly jumped, and their bodies soared upward, and the horizontal forward force of the bamboo suddenly changed a direction, becoming oblique upward, and from pushing forward to lifting upward.

The warriors were still clinging to the bamboo, and with the thrust generated by the more than ten people who continued to run forward behind, they stepped on the city wall and ran up quickly, just like the eaves walking on the wall, and stepped on the women's wall in a blink of an eye. The warrior's left shoulder sank, and with a sudden force, his whole body flew over the wall with the help of the power of the bamboo, and landed steadily on the tower of Jiangzhou City.

The length of the bamboo is more than the height of the Jiangzhou city wall, so more than 100 of the most fierce warriors of the Changshui Army were sent to the Jiangzhou city wall in an instant. At this time, the few Jiangzhou guards on the city tower were awakened from the fatigue of a night of tossing.

Zhang Qu was the first to make a move, he turned around, took a step forward and walked to the two guards who were sleeping against the wall, raised his hand and stabbed twice, and the guards who were still asleep were suddenly awakened by the severe pain. They opened their eyes but couldn't see clearly, only to hear a sizzling sound of wind coming from their necks below, and it became more and more difficult to breathe, and finally the two guards could only lean against the wall with difficulty, and slowly fell to the ground.

At this time, they finally saw clearly, they saw a group of Jin troops flying up at some point, these Jin troops who had taken the lead in the whistle of the person in front, while converging from both sides to the middle, while easily cutting down their companions who had opened their eyes in a daze.

What's going on? The two guards, like their companions not far away, had the same problem on their minds before they died.

After grabbing a section of the city wall, the hundred-man team immediately divided into several teams to guard both sides of the city wall and the corridors inside the city wall. At the same time, the second building of the Changshui Army, which had been crawling on the ground, suddenly appeared under the city of Jiangzhou, erected dozens of cloud ladders on the city wall that had been cleared, and then quickly climbed up in turn.

There was still no shouting of killing, only the occasional clash of weapons, and the creaking of the ladder made of bamboo as it worked. These voices set off the silence of Jiangzhou City, but it made people feel strange and frightened.

"Ahh Finally, a guard screamed before he died, and the screams spread quickly in the silent Jiangzhou city wall, and finally someone came out to check the movement, but what they saw was a scene that made them afraid.

Two hundred, five hundred, one thousand, the long water army on the city wall grew like a snowball. "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The defenders of the West Gate finally panicked, and the sound of shouts, gongs, and discordant sounds passed through the silent sky over the city of Jiangzhou, and suddenly everyone woke up from their sleep, and perhaps at last they would have thought how good it would have been if they had not woken up at that time, because they had woken up from their sleep and fell directly into a nightmare.

The second building of the 1,000-strong water army attacked down along the Yongdao when Jiangzhou began to panic, killing the Shu army that was already panicked, and controlled the west gate in an instant.

When the west gate was suddenly opened, Zeng Hua took the lead with a long knife, and his voice was exceptionally clear in the panic of Jiangzhou City, "Forward!" Invincible Legion! Suddenly, the response was like thunder, and the cry was like a tide, and the shock swept through the entire Jiangzhou City.

Immediately behind was the Red Star Banner, and the 1,000 First Sergeants who shouted that they would win, like a flood that burst the embankment, and like a rolling thunder at midnight, they rushed unstoppably into Jiangzhou City. The whole city of Jiangzhou was completely boiling and panicked, and the first building of the Changshui Army directly took the Assassin Shi Mansion, and the second building directly took the granary of the treasury. Along the way, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the flames were everywhere. The panicked Jiangzhou soldiers and civilians couldn't figure out what was going on, but they announced from the shouts that they were everywhere that the Jin army had entered the city, and Jiangzhou had fallen.

When Xu Hu was woken up by his entourage's sleep, Zeng Hua was commanding the first building to surround the Assassin's Mansion while concentrating his forces to storm the gate of the mansion.

"Someone! Come! Xu Hu dressed in a panic while calling his entourage to pass on his leading generals. He lifted the satin quilt, ignored the fact that the concubine who was cowering in the corner of the bed had already exposed her naked body, jumped out of bed in one step, dressed haphazardly, and walked out of the door suddenly. As soon as I arrived at the door, I felt uneasy, so I turned back and walked to the bed.

The concubine thought that Xu Hu was here to pick her up, so she hurriedly ignored the turbulent waves covering her chest, stretched out her arm to Xu Hu, and shouted repeatedly: "Master save me, master save me!" ”

Xu Hu was indifferent, walked to the wall at the head of the bed, took off the sword of suppressing evil spirits hanging there, pulled it out with a bang, held it in his hand, ignored the coquettish call of the concubine next to him, turned around and walked towards the door again.

Xu Hu walked into the courtyard, but found that the shouting and killing were so close! At this time, the entourage who had just been called by himself to summon the leading general ran in from the front yard in a panic. As he ran, he shouted: "Master, it's not good!" The Assassin's Mansion is surrounded by the Jin army! ”

Xu Hu was stunned for a moment, grabbed the entourage, and shouted, "What did you say? ”

The entourage was frightened by Xu Hu's hideous appearance and the bright sword in his hand, and replied in a trembling voice: "Master, the Assassin's Mansion is surrounded by thousands of Jin troops, and there are thousands of people attacking the front door, and the guards can't stand it anymore and are retreating to the back." ”

As if to confirm the words of the entourage, hundreds of people suddenly poured in from the front yard, all of them extremely embarrassed. The leader of Xu Hu's guards took the lead, and while he ran this way, he cried and howled to Xu Hu: "My lord, the enemy army is too powerful, all of them are as brave as tigers, as fierce as wolves, and most of the brothers were cut down by them as soon as they looked at each other. ”

When Xu Hu heard this, he couldn't help but let go of his hand, and let his entourage collapse on the ground like a puddle of mud. He listened to the shouting and killing sound that was getting closer and closer, and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Is this Jin army flying from the sky!" ”

Just when Zeng Hua led the first building to take over the puppet Shu Jingzhou Thorn History Mansion, and at the same time took over the Pseudo Shu Jingzhou Thorn Shi Xu Hu, the second building under the leadership of Zhang Qu had already taken over the treasury and granary.

When the fire in Jiangzhou, Xu Dang led the third building of 500 people to suddenly attack the Jiangzhou water army camp a few miles south of the city, after a while, the fire here began to echo with the fire of Jiangzhou, the two places of the sky-high fire converged, suddenly reflected half of the sky, like the rising sun.

The firelight in the north of the river made the Yangguan defenders in the south of the Yangtze River very confused, and also let Yuan Qiao, who was miles away, know what he should do. In less than an hour, under the onslaught of the three thousand Jin troops, the defenders of Yangguan Ferry surrendered, and Yuan Qiao was able to look at Jiangbei in the dense fog of the early morning.

When the day dawned, a dense fog appeared on the surface of the Yangtze River, not only could the morning sun not be seen, but even the northern half of the sky that was still burning just now was covered in it. In addition to hearing the sound of the river waves that were still flowing, Yuan Qiao could hardly see the surface of the river ten zhang away.

What happened to Jiangbei? Did that audacious Zeng Xuping succeed? Or have you already died in the Jiangbei rebellion? Everything was hidden in this thick morning mist, just like the future of the Western Expedition and the Jin Dynasty. For the first time, Yuan Qiao felt powerless, and now all he could do was pray.

"My lord, there's movement! It's the sound of a ship moving! The sergeant with pointed ears cried. It was already two o'clock in the morning (ten o'clock in the morning), and the morning fog was getting lighter and lighter as the sun was getting stronger and stronger, and the river could already be seen half a mile away.

Yuan Qiao and the others looked into the distance when they heard the sound, only to see a warship coming out of the fog in the distance, followed by the second and third.

"It's the battle boat of the Jiangzhou Water Army!" The Yangguan army, who knew the goods, shouted, which immediately caused a burst of uproar, but was quickly suppressed by Yuan Qiao with a stern look. The armies began to move in silence, and the shieldmen and pikemen stepped forward to form a defensive line, while the archers, with their bows in hand, stood behind, and all looked nervously at the river and the ships that were getting closer and closer.

At this time, the mast of the warboat that finally broke free from the dense fog was finally displayed in front of everyone, and a flag fluttering in the river breeze was particularly eye-catching-"Jinxi Expeditionary Army Protects the Front Army".

Yuan Qiao was overjoyed in his heart, and suddenly felt half relieved. At this time, there was a person standing in front of the speeding warship, and he could already see his face clearly.

"Xu Dang, the former protector, pays a visit to Lord Yuan, the rear protector!" The big man shouted.

It was Xu Dang under Zeng Hua, Yuan Qiao saw the familiar person, and finally knew the mystery, and his worried and nervous mood suddenly disappeared without a trace. But after a short period of ecstasy, Yuan Qiao felt a little empty in his heart, and an inexplicable loss welled up in his heart.

At this time, Xu Dang's loud voice continued to sound: "Xu came to greet Lord Yuan on the orders of my family. My lord said that he was waiting for Lord Yuan in Jiangzhou City! ”

1. Fan Changsheng, also known as Yanjiu, Jiuzhong, or Mingwen (Yizuozhi), the character yuan. A native of Danxing, Fuling (now Qianjiang, Sichuan). In the eleventh year of Liu Chan Yanxi, the lord of Shu (248 AD), Fuling County (the county is governed in Yushan Town, Pengshui County) was strong and powerful Xu Ju rebelled, and the general Deng Zhi led the army to conscript, after the pacification, the imperial court moved to avoid rebirth incidents, Zhuge Liang moved the local wealthy Xu Lin Xie Fan 5,000 family to Shu County (Chengdu) according to Qingcheng Mountain, to cultivate as a thing, including Fan Changsheng's family.