In early autumn in July, the sun is shining in the afternoon, and the autumn breeze is coming, bringing a little coolness to the hot summer and autumn social season.

There is a jungle along the road of the pavilion in the east of Dingying City, the trees have not yet turned yellow and withered, and the dense branches are hanging down, swaying in the breeze, making a rustling sound.

On the small slope in the east of the pavilion, several horses stand. When the horses came galloping in the distance, they went down the slope and waited quietly by the side of the road from which they came.

Soon the team had already approached, and what caught Shen Chen's eyes was a middle-aged man with broad shoulders and back, he was dusty and smiling, like the most generous gentleman in the world, looking at him with a smile.

"Little sir."

He said, "You've grown taller, and you've grown up!" ”

Looking at the man's still gentle words, Shen Chen couldn't hold back any longer, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, turned over and dismounted and bowed on one knee: "Morning, meet Xuande Gong." ”

The worship is worth it.

Not only because he is Shen Chen's life-saving benefactor, but also because of his ideal of benevolence and love for the people, but also because of Shen Chen's lifelong career!

"I haven't seen him for six years, Mr. Xiao is already an adult, don't be a child anymore."

Liu Bei dismounted and gently helped Shen Chen up, he grabbed Shen Chen's shoulders with both hands, up and down, and looked carefully.

He no longer saw an eight-year-old child, but a mighty and robust teenager.

The young man was fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a battle armor suit, revealing muscle knots, bronzed arms, a ring-headed sword pinned to his waist, his face was resolute, and his eyes were full of strength.

This moment reminded Liu Bei of another child who had grown up with him.

Tian Yu.

It's just that Tian Yu was raised by him, but he left him in the end.

But Shen Chen only had a few contacts in Xuzhou back then, but now he still keeps a concern for him, even if time flies, in the blink of an eye for six years, the friendship seems to have never decreased.

But Liu Bei would not be angry that he raised Tian Yu and Tian Yu left him.

Because he knew that Tian Yu wanted to support his mother, just like he would leave his hometown to create a career after his mother died of illness.

Mr. Little has also grown up.

Liu Bei sighed in his heart that he had been able to establish a foundation by himself, and he had personally killed Cao Ren, the enemy who had killed his relatives, and he was no longer the immature boy who was hiding in the sea of fire and trembling.

"The kindness of Xuande Gong will never be forgotten by Chenyong."

Shen Chen said seriously: "If it weren't for the public back then, the thousands of people in the Chenhuangmen Pavilion would have been reduced to bones like the hundreds of thousands of dead people in Xuzhou. ”

Liu Bei sighed: "At that time, I was outnumbered, and I couldn't resist Cao Cao's attack in Xuzhou, and I took pity on tens of thousands of people in Xuzhou. originally thought that he could do something in front of His Majesty, but Cao Cao pretended to be the Son of Heaven, but in fact he wielded power, bullied the emperor, and arbitrarily ruled the government. I tried to crusade against Cao Cao, but I was repeatedly defeated by him. After a few years of wasted years, nothing was accomplished, but now it is not as good as Mr. Xiao in Nanyang, killing Cao Ren and Lejin, and playing a prestige. ”

Shen Chen encouraged: "It doesn't matter how many times a person is knocked down, what matters is whether they have the courage to get up again after each knockdown." Although Gong can't defeat the Cao thief, he has always had the courage to constantly attack the Cao thief, and this courage is already precious, so what can be discouraged? ”

"The little gentleman is right."

Liu Bei also has a strong tenacity, and he will not be lazy and slack when he encounters setbacks, so he nodded seriously and said: "So this time I am about to contact the old department, recruit a new army, crusade against Cao Cao, and welcome the Son of Heaven!" ”

Shen Chen pointed to Dingying City in the west and said, "Since this is the case, let's make a start today with a full of favored heads." ”

"Good!"

Liu Bei said happily: "It's exactly what I want." ”

Shen Chen arched his hand and said: "Please surround the south gate and the east gate, and then send a standard of men and horses to ambush in the west city, I will attack from the north gate, I expect to be full of favored enemies, and it is very likely that I will defect to Li Tong from the west gate." ”

"Good!"

Liu Bei said: "I'll arrange it." ”

At the moment, the two separated, Shen Chen turned back to the north, and at this moment his men and horses had also arrived outside Dingying City.

Back in the camp, Shen Chen immediately gave the order to start cutting down trees and building simple ladders outside the city, and then immediately began to attack Dingying City.

The same was true for Liu Bei's side, he didn't bring large siege equipment, and could only use rudimentary ladders, but this did not prevent them from having the confidence to take down this city, because the defenders in Dingying City were too few.

At this time, the city was full of favors on the gate tower of Dingying South, there were too many enemies from the south of the city, and there were tens of thousands of people, almost filling the entire official road, giving him great pressure.

His face was cloudy, because the news that an enemy had suddenly appeared in the north of the city had just arrived, and he originally considered that although Liu Bei had tens of thousands of people, most of them were temporarily recruited rabble, and there were very few elites, so he used the city to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

But he didn't expect another enemy to come from the north, and according to the scout's reconnaissance, the banner was "Shen", obviously Shen Chen from Kunyang.

Kunyang is very close to Xiangcheng, only more than 40 kilometers, but it is very far away from Dingying. Therefore, when Xiahou Yuan got the news, Man Zhong didn't know about it yet.

After running for more than 300 miles in three days, who would have thought that this would be the case?

Now that he has been surrounded by regiments, in addition to the five hundred elite soldiers he personally selected and recruited, the rest of the old Yuan protégés who surrendered before are quite turbulent internally, and the morale of the army is very unstable.

Holding on to the city under such internal and external troubles is tantamount to a dead end.

So Manpet must find a way to escape.

Dingying is surrounded by a plain, and the view from the top of the city is very good.

He watched the south city gate and saw that Liu Bei had divided his troops early to surround the east city gate, and at the same time, a large number of soldiers were cutting down trees in the surrounding forests and building siege equipment.

Man Chong even vaguely saw some black spots going south, so he immediately said: "Liu Bei has not even built a camp, I am afraid that the city will be attacked soon, and I look at it as if there are cavalry going south, it must be to send people to detour, to the west of the city to send an ambush, this is to surround the three que, if we break through from the west of the city, I am afraid of being ambushed." ”

Left and right said: "Fu Jun, what should I do now?" ”

"Let's break through."

He sighed.

If you wait, you will die, and if you rebel in the city, you will die even faster. It is better to take advantage of Liu Beijun's siege offensive to choose to leave immediately.

After that, he ordered to gather 500 soldiers at once, and the rest of the soldiers who had surrendered were not reliable, and there was a danger of rebellion, so he ordered them to defend the city, and at the same time transferred his 500 henchmen to the west gate on the pretext of garrisoning the west gate.

It's just that the more than 2,000 soldiers in the city who surrendered from the old Yuan clan are not stupid, after getting the order of full favor, they went to the city to take a look, the three city gates in the southeast and north were besieged, only the west city gate was no one, and you were full of favors but took 500 men and horses to the west city gate, isn't this clearly abandoning them to escape alone?

At the moment, almost when Man Pet led five hundred henchmen to Xicheng, there was a rebellion at the south gate first, someone opened the city gate, Liu Bei was still preparing to attack the city at this time, and when he saw the city gate opened, he did not hesitate at the moment, and immediately sent people into the city, and learned that Man Pet was in Xicheng, so he immediately pursued.

After the southern city was broken, it didn't take long for the northern city and the eastern city to be broken, but when he saw the gate of the eastern city open, Shen Chen immediately realized that there must have been a rebellion within the full favor, and there was a high probability that others would break through to the western city, so he personally led the scout cavalry and killed them towards the western city gate.

Shen Chenjun actually didn't have many cavalry, only about a hundred people, these horses were given to him after helping Zhang Xiu break Cao's army, and then after repeated battles, the cavalry as scouts suffered great casualties, and now there are less than forty people left.

It's just that there are not many cavalry on his side, and there are even fewer full favors, a total of seven or eight cavalry, and the rest are foot soldiers. At this moment, the gate of the West City was wide open, and everyone quickly ran to the west, wanting to evacuate in the direction of Xiping.

But not long after he left Xicheng, the cavalry galloped behind him.

Man Pet turned around and saw that it was an enemy from the north of the city.

Unexpectedly, although Liu Bei was a slow beat, Shen Chen reacted quickly, and he was the first to lead the cavalry to come over to pursue.

is worthy of being able to fight Cao Gong several times without winning or losing.

His face was already condensed like frost, and his eyes seemed to be about to erupt with fire, and he shouted: "Formation! ”

"Formation!"

The mournful voices on the left and right resounded in the sky.

The five hundred soldiers under the command of Man Pet immediately began to arrange the team in a nervous and orderly manner, although there were not many people, but the troops were complete, and there were immediately dozens of halberds in front of the front row holding halberds, and dozens of crossbowmen were ready to attack behind them.

He looked around, his eyes were torn, and he shouted angrily: "If you don't fight to the death now, you will be destroyed." Fight to the death, repel them, and we can return to Xiping! ”

"Survive to the death!"

Shouting left and right.

"Survive to the death!"

The surrounding soldiers suddenly erupted into an earth-shattering roar, and their morale was magnificent.

Seeing this, Shen Chen in the distance immediately reined in the horses and shouted, "Stop the horses!" ”

"Phew!"

The knights such as Gan Ning and the left immediately reined in their horses.

Shen Chen said: "Man Pet is not an incompetent person, he will actually form a formation on the spot, which is quite tricky, and he will wait for Xuande Gong's soldiers and horses to arrive." ”

Then they stopped, and looked at each other about half a mile away.

"Retreat in turn!"

Seeing him stop, Man Chong immediately raised the sword in his hand and shouted.

At this moment, it was a bit like when Shen Chen retreated from Xiangcheng to Kunyang, and Cao Cao's cavalry was pursuing.

Because the formation of infantry was extremely lethal to the cavalry, Cao Cao did not dare to take the initiative to attack, and just wanted to delay time and wait for the infantry in the rear to come up.

The same is true now.

If Man Pet ran all the way west in a mess, Shen Chen would attack without hesitation. But this person is from the bottom, not a child of a family, but in the end, he was able to become the third prince of Cao Wei, which shows that his talent is extraordinary.

It's just that there is a problem that Shen Chen retreated one day in advance of Ziyun Mountain, Cao Cao's cavalry chased after him overnight, and the infantry and baggage were one day behind, no matter how much time was delayed, it was impossible for Cao's army to arrive in a short time.

And now Liu Beijun's main force is in the south of the city, only three or four miles away from the west of the city, and it can be reached in an instant.

Although most of his troops were indeed rabble, the elite only had the five hundred troops that Zhao Yun had recruited in Yecheng and the two or three thousand men and horses that Yuan Shao had given him before he set off.

But the huge difference in numbers between the enemy and us is not something that can be changed by being elite or not, not to mention Liu Bei Shang, Zhang Zhao, Taishi, Chen Zhi and other fierce generals.

Soon, in this tense and exciting confrontation, the favored team didn't go far at all, and the cavalry sent by Liu Bei had already rounded the post road less than ten miles away from Dingying City to stop him.

At the same time, Liu Bei's main infantry force had already approached.

At this time, Man Pet was already surrounded, and he was still riding on horseback, his face was like frost, and he watched quietly.

At first, if he had abandoned the five hundred parts and fled directly from the West City Gate on horseback, he might still be able to go, but it was already too late, and he had already been surrounded.

But full of favor does not regret doing this, Taishi Gong said: People are inherently dead, or die in Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather. At least even if he dies in battle today, it is for the court and for the Duke of Cao!

"Full of favors, surrender."

Liu Bei wore battle armor, rode forward, and said loudly: "Cao Cao is not worth your life. ”

Man Zhong replied coldly: "Liu Bei, Duke Cao treats you well, but you have repeatedly rebelled, and such a disloyal and unrighteous person as Er is also worthy of persuading me to surrender?" ”

"Cao Cao treats me well?"

Liu Bei's eyes were red at that time, and he scolded angrily: "Yes, he treats me well." But do you know how he treated the Son of Heaven? killed the uncle, tyrannized the concubine, and didn't even let go of the prince in his belly. I watched the Son of Heaven plead bitterly and begged Cao Cao not to blame the imperial concubine, but he still ordered the imperial concubine to be strangled. Let's ask whether this big man is his Cao Cao's big man, or His Majesty's big man? In the name of the Son of Heaven, I am edicting to crusade against this traitor, what is wrong? On the contrary, it is a rebel and thief, who disregards the king's life in vain and aids in abuse, and his heart can be punished! ”

"Hmph."

Man Chong snorted coldly: "Uncle Guo and concubine conspired to make trouble, and she is innocent of death. ”

Liu Bei pointed at him and said angrily: "Shut up, you shameless thief, this is the Son of Heaven's edict to order Uncle Guo and I to secretly get rid of Cao Cao and other national thieves, Your Majesty's imperial order, but you are also worthy of being a scholar?" ”

"Xuande Gong, there is no need to reason with such a kingless and fatherless man."

Shen Chen pulled out the ring head knife on his waist, looked at Man Zhong coldly and said: "Even a respected old minister of the Three Dynasties like Wen Xiangong has tortured and bullied, this thief's temperament can be said to be the same as Cao Cao, and he is a brutal person without human nature. The Son of Heaven is still waiting for us to rescue us in Xudu, and the Manchu Dynasty is still waiting for us, kill him. ”

"Kill!"

Liu Bei raised the sword in his hand and pointed at Manzhong.

"Kill!"

The army led by Guan Zhang Taishi and others surrounded the Manchu army layer by layer.

Bows and crossbows and arrows are constantly firing, but there are too few people who are full of favors, and there are only dozens of crossbowmen, and their lethality is limited.

On the contrary, it was Shen Chenjun and Liu Beijun who pressed forward, their shields stopped in front, and the crossbowmen kept firing, and their arrows were too many, covering the full favor army overwhelmingly, and a third of them were killed and wounded in an instant.

The next moment, Shen Chen, Gan Ning, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yuntai, Shi Ci and others had already led their foot soldiers into the Manchu army, and his troops were directly dispersed.

In the midst of the chaos, Man's pet mount was shot with an arrow, and he raced wildly, throwing him off his horse and smashing heavily into the field of the nearby post road.

He struggled to get to his feet and looked up, only to see a blade reflecting the cold light swinging towards his neck in the afternoon sun.

"Poof!"

Blood splattered, and under the tremendous force, the human head fell from the shoulder, and to death, the eyes of the full pet were wide open.

Shen Chen kicked his body down and wiped the blood on the knife with his clothes.

This later Cao Wei Ku official died like this.

On the side, Gan Ning said regretfully: "Ah Chen, you started too fast." ”

"When dealing with the enemy, you should strike like lightning."

Shen Chen turned around, at this time, the battlefield had basically been calmed, fifteen thousand people fought five hundred, there was no suspense, as soon as the favor died, the rest of the people naturally surrendered.

The soldiers cleaned up the battlefield under the command of officers at all levels, and Shen Chen took Gan Ning to meet Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was on a small hillside, and when the two of them came over, he had already instructed the soldiers to escort the prisoners and pick up the weapons and equipment that had fallen on the ground.

Although Yuan Shao gave him a lot of supplies and men, for Liu Bei, he couldn't bring a large number of baggage when he went deep behind enemy lines, so weapons and equipment were in short supply. Among these more than 10,000 people, and even thousands of people, the weapons are very crude and inferior, so he can't waste every knife and halberd.

"Xuande Gong."

Shen Chen came over and saluted Liu Bei and said, "Is the public soldier still physically strong?" ”

Liu Bei was surprised: "What's the matter?" ”

Shen Chen said: "Man Chong stayed until now and didn't leave, it must be because he didn't know that we were here, thinking that the soldiers recruited by the public were not elite soldiers, and he could rely on the city to hold on and wait for Li Tong to reinforce the army." Fleeing now is to see the arrival of our army, so he fled out of the city, but it was too late. And this shows that Li Tong is very likely on the way to come, and we should immediately go to Xiping and set up an ambush on the post road. ”

Liu Bei still had Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu Mi Fang and others around him, and when he heard his words, Mi Zhu said in surprise: "Since we are going to fight Li Tong, why don't we wait for work in the city?" ”

"Zi Zhonggong!"

Shen Chen saw Mi Zhu in the crowd, and respectfully bowed his hand and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, Mr. is fine." ”

"Living is okay."

Mi Zhu looked at this young man and sighed in his heart.

At that time, he still helped deal with the fields of Huangmen Pavilion, but now the two of them are no longer what they used to be.

Mi Zhu is no longer a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou, but a general Zuo who runs around with Liu Bei and wanders around.

And Shen Chen is no longer the country boy he was back then, but now he has become a general under Liu Biao, and even defeated Cao Cao in Nanyang, killing Cao Ren and Le Jin, and his reputation is far and wide.

"Sir is fine."

Shen Chen explained: "The reason why the post road is ambushed is because Li Tong is afraid that he will lose his favor, and he will march at full speed, and he will not send scouts to investigate the surrounding situation all the time. But after arriving at Dingying, he will be vigilant and send scouts to reconnoiter on a large scale, if he can see the clues, know that the city is broken, full of favor is dead, and it will be even more difficult to defeat him. ”

Man Zhong is now besieged by Liu Bei, Li Tong must be anxious, so he instinctively thinks that the enemy is in Dingying, and the surrounding area of Xiping is very safe, so he marches quickly, and when he is twenty or thirty miles away from Dingying, he will stop and send scouts to investigate. m.81ZW.?? m

This is the standard way of playing to encircle the point of reinforcement, the later generations of my founding general Xu liked this set of tactics the most, every time he besieged a certain place, he immediately rushed to the vicinity of the enemy's reinforcements to find a dangerous place to set up an ambush, and then when the enemy hurried to the besieged place to reinforce, he was attacked head-on not long after leaving home.

Therefore, in such a matter as fighting, it is very important to grasp the psychology of the enemy.

Hearing Shen Chen's words, Mi Zhu thought seriously for a moment and sighed: "No wonder the lord wants to call you Mr. Xiao, this kind of intelligence is indeed far superior to me." ”

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.