Originally, even if Zhang Fei Zhuge Jin hadn't happened, Liu Bei was almost ready to fight back against Guangling.

Now you can travel lightly, and you don't need to bring more food, so naturally the response is faster.

With Liu Bei's order, the troops almost left the city and headed straight for Guangling.

There are a total of 260 miles, and normal infantry can walk for at least five days, but if you take a boat along the canal, you can do it day and night, and anyway, half of the people can sleep and half drive the boat when it gets dark at night.

And Liu Xun's defeated army definitely has no ships to use, and the speed back to Guangling should be slower than theirs.

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Liu Bei is a hundred miles away from Guangling County than Zhang Fei, after all,

And one is cavalry, the other is infantry,

Finally rushed to Guangling City, it is estimated that the time difference can be opened at least one and a half days, and it may be two days if it is slow.

At the same time that Liu Bei began to march forcibly, Zhang Fei had already set off, and he didn't dare to rest his horsepower too much along the way and walk slowly.

Although he didn't have to rush too much, before attacking, Zhuge Jin explained to him a bottom line: he had to make sure that he ran faster than Chen Lan in Liu Xun's rout.

Because Chen Lan's department is also a cavalry, Zhang Fei wants to disguise himself as Chen Lan's defeated cavalry and go to Guangling to deceive the door.

If the real Chen Lan arrived before him, the fake Chen Lan, then everything would be over, and it would become Li Ghost beating Li Kui.

Zhang Fei maintained the rhythm of traveling 100 miles a day, rested normally at night, and appropriately left time for soldiers to eat and take a lunch break during the day to ensure that the war horses would not be too tired.

After a day and a half of marching and half an afternoon of rest, on the evening of the 10th day of the first month of August, Zhang Fei's 1,000 horsemen finally arrived at the northeast of Guangling County and headed south along the west bank of the Hangou Canal.

The clothes of the troops were deliberately tattered, but at least they were all the color of Yuan Shujun's clothes, and there were no flaws in the appearance.

In order to ensure that there would be no distinction between the enemy and the enemy after the start of the battle, Zhuge Jin also taught Zhang Fei to do some pre-treatment and let all the soldiers carry two strips of white cloth with them.

Once the fight starts, wrap the white cloth around the forehead and arms, as long as there is a white cloth, it is your own person, do not kill each other.

Taking two pieces is also for insurance, in case one piece is dropped and one piece is left, it will not be accidentally injured.

Moreover, the scheduled start time of the battle should be dusk, considering that it will be night soon, and the dark colors in the dark night are not clear, so they specially use white cloth.

At this moment, seeing that the city wall of Guangling County had appeared on the horizon, Zhang Fei stroked the white cloth in his arms, and felt in a good mood.

Ziyu is really a god, these details have been thought of, and no one doubted their identities in the more than 100 miles along the way, so they came here safely, it can be seen that this battle will be able to overcome all the achievements!

Zhang Fei finally made up his mind, controlled the speed, and let the cavalry approach the Guangling city wall at high speed in the posture that a deserter should have.

The team can't be too neat, and it can't be assembled as a group,

To be scattered, the vanguard can only have dozens of rides. It must be small enough to make the defenders let their guard down and create the illusion that "it's okay to let such a few people in". After the first dozens of people entered the city, it was still too late for the follow-up scattered people to rush up again.

And the first dozens of rides, of course, had to be led by Zhang Fei himself. In this team, there are also more than a dozen Yuan Jun prisoners of war who have just been reformed and won over, who were originally officers and soldiers under Lei Bo, and some of them are quite familiar with the officers left behind in Guangling.

These people will play an important role in the city today.

Let the transformed prisoners of war answer the deception city, this idea was also Zhuge Jin's seven days ago.

At first glance, it sounded very risky, and Zhang Fei himself felt very risky at that time, but Zhuge Jin taught him the specific operation method: he must pick out those soldiers whose fathers, sons and brothers were in the army and were captured together among the prisoners of the old Yuan army under Lei Bo as the focus of development and struggle.

The proportion of such people is very small, but that day Zhang Fei arrested more than 600 officers and soldiers of the Lei Bo Army, and finally spent a lot of energy to pick out a dozen, including three officers.

Yuan Shu claimed to have enough soldiers and food, and had more than 100,000 troops in Huainan, and there were also cases where fathers, sons, and brothers were forcibly arrested and conscripted. Especially as an officer, if he can cover his son's safety, he likes to take his son with him.

To prevent these people from turning back again, the measures are nothing more than a multi-pronged approach. First of all, it is best to make sure that there is nothing to worry about behind them, and choose those who are not worried.

If they really can't choose, they will feed these captives with gold and silver rewards, and at the same time promise to retain their original positions, and even promise promotions and appointments.

The last one, that is, if the father and son are captured together, the father is detained, and the brother is also captive in the same way-

Unless the father is an officer, then the son can be detained, after all, the value of the officer's face to deceive the city is greater.

So much homework and meticulous work have been done, and if you don't enter the door, you are too sorry for Zhuge Jin's mental effort.

Zhang Fei saw that the city wall was already a hundred steps away, so he settled down and asked Yuan Juntun, who had just been completely transformed by the gold and silver reward and whose only son was still detained in Haixi County, to answer the door at the front.

And Zhang Fei himself tightened his weapon and guarded behind the opponent, as long as the opponent moved, he could definitely kill him immediately.

Not to mention, this guy is quite lucky, he is the one who took the initiative to confess after Lei Bo was destroyed eight days ago, when Zhang Fei found out that Shiren was killed when he was cleaning the battlefield and wanted to ask the murderer, and his only son was also a soldier in Lei Bo's army.

At that time, because of his confession, Zhang Fei killed Shiren's murderer Lei Junhou with one knife. In this way, he has no way out.

The robes all saw that his confession led to the killing of Shangguan, and if this kind of person wanted to go back to Yuan Shu's camp, it would be like looking for death, and he could only follow Zhang Fei to the dark.

It can be said that the scarcity of this kind of one-in-a-million traitor candidate is already the same as that of Chen Peisi, which is very rare.

Zhang Fei's group of "fleeing cavalry" approached the north gate of Guangling East City, of course, it had already attracted the attention of the defenders of Guangling County. The gates of the city had begun to close, and the archers at the head of the city were on guard.

"Who's coming! Stop quickly and do not enter the city without permission. A Qu military marquis at the head of the city shouted loudly.

"Xu Junhou, don't you recognize me? Captain Lei died in battle a few days ago, and now we are all transferred to Captain Chen! The traitor stepped forward to answer, and immediately called out the identity of the other party, and then said,

"The prince was robbed by Liu Bei, Chen Duwei couldn't save him, he was defeated and returned, I am afraid that Guangling will be lost, so I will wait for two days to come back to report the news, what are you doing to embarrass us? Captain Chen will be here soon! ”

Zhang Fei listened to it next to him, the traitor Tun Chang's talent was not bad, and he vividly showed a fox fake tiger officer who "was transferred to another subordinate after the main general died in battle".

I almost said to Xu Junhou, "At the beginning, under the account of Lei Duwei, you had a high status, and now everyone has changed to Chen Duwei, if you offend Chen Duwei as soon as you come up, you may not have good fruits to eat in the future."

And most of the military attaches under Yuan Shu's command are in such a tone, so Xu Junhou heard that the late lord Lei Bo died and his troops were transferred, if he didn't prepare some wine and food to catch the wind, Chen Lan arrived after a while, and his face was hungry and thirsty, wouldn't he blame them for not responding effectively?

Thinking like this, Xu Junhou also gave up the attempt to close the city gate immediately, and instead asked to reopen some and let these cavalry into the city, so as to ask more about the situation.

However, just as this answer was delayed, two more small groups of routed troops rushed in scattered, and the number of cavalry at the city gate exceeded 100 in the season.

General Xu Junhou had already preconceived, but he was not alerted to this change in numbers.

Zhang Fei, who was mixed in the crowd, already felt that he was sweating slightly, but the city gate was in front of him, and he finally let them in without danger.

After the first dozens of horsemen entered the city, Xu Junhou sent people down to block the road and ask the traitor Tun Chang to go up to the wall to answer.

Zhang Fei leaned over and covered himself in a torn robe, making himself look as inconspicuous as possible, and also led more than a dozen people to follow the traitor to the city wall.

When he arrived at the wall, Zhang Fei raised his eyes and noticed a relatively well-armored officer in the crowd, who was none other than Xu Junhou, who he had seen through the battlements just now.

Xu Junhou didn't know that his death was approaching, so he beckoned the traitor Tun Chang to step forward and answer: "Where is Captain Chen?" He's doing well lately, do you need to send him food and medicine? ”

When asked about this, the traitor tun chief couldn't make up a statement, but just anxiously peeked at Zhang Feigan's eyes.

Fortunately, Zhang Fei did not disappoint, and he could quickly make Xu Junhou stop asking more questions.

"Chen Lan's head is here! He's been killed! ”

Zhang Fei shouted, taking advantage of the other party's horror, he took out his spear and stabbed him violently, stabbing Xu Junhou directly.

"Don't do it yet!"

Zhang Fei brought more than 100 horsemen into the city, and immediately began to slash indiscriminately, seize doors and buildings, and try to snatch torches and throw them around.

Yuan Jun didn't know what was going on, and was immediately killed by surprise, many soldiers didn't even have weapons in their hands, and more than 100 people were killed in an instant.

Zhang Fei's subordinates, who came one after another outside the city, "cavalry rout", also accelerated frantically after hearing the movement, and rushed straight to the city gate, trying to grab time to enter as much as possible.

By the time Yuan's army had completely reacted, at least two or three hundred horsemen had already entered the city.

"Cut the noose! Put the jack brake! ”

The defenders of the Yuan army were not too stupid, and several tun chiefs in charge of the city gate resisted desperately, and briefly guarded the stone chamber that controlled the noose, and chopped it with an axe, and finally cut the thick cable of the bowl mouth of the hanging gate, and the gate of thousands of catties fell in response, blocking the enemy outside the city.

Just now, Xu Junhou dared to hold on to it like this, and this gate of Guangling City Gate is also their main psychological support. Normal people would not think that they could succeed in sneaking up on the city without controlling the gate stone chamber.

Seeing the gate falling, the originally chaotic Yuan army's heart finally calmed down a little, and organized resistance under the sharp shouts of the officers, and tried to push Zhang Fei's troops off the city wall with a small number of people.

However, they didn't notice that although the follow-up Zhang Feijun couldn't enter the city directly because the gate fell, they got flying ladders and bumping wood, and even many barrels of tung oil in just one or two teas......

Outside the northeast gate, by the Hangou River, some passing merchant ships came at some point, and then forcibly rushed to the beach and docked in a place where there was no berth. Some of the white-clothed merchant servants carried ladders and hit the mouton oil to the shore and were taken away by Zhang Fei's cavalry.

Some ladders were erected directly on the section of the wall at the head of the city controlled by Zhang Feijun, so that the rear army outside could directly climb the wall and go to the city.

In addition, because Zhang Fei captured the city tower, no defenders could throw rolling wood and stones into the door openings below to kill and injure the soldiers who destroyed the city gates.

The soldiers of Zhang Feijun, who was transporting tung oil, were able to splash all the barrels of tung oil on the falling jack gate in a good time, and then set it on fire, and then slammed the iron sluice gate against the burning wooden gate with their heads wrapped in iron.

Seven or eight miles downstream of the battlefield, on the east bank of the confluence of the ditch and the Yangtze River, there were several merchant ships docked there.

In the largest boat, a scribe with a fan scarf eight feet tall was Zhuge Jin.

At this moment, he was covering his eyebrows with a pu fan to block the sunset, watching the fire across the bank of Guangling City on the west bank.

"It seems that Zhang Fei is quite teachable, especially when he has eaten trenches. This fire should have been successful, and it was not in vain that I personally supervised the tung oil and siege weapons, so it was time to consider the next step. ”