"Poof!" Zhao Yun stood at the end of the gangplank of the Lu bus, wielding a ring knife and hacking a Yuan soldier to death.

He also held up the spear that another Yuan soldier had stabbed over, and leaned back. Yuan Bing, who was originally rushing forward with all his might, suddenly lost his center of gravity and stumbled forward.

Zhao Yun took advantage of the situation and swiped with the sword in his other hand, and the spear Yuan Bing was immediately cut with a bloody mouth, and fell off the city wall without even screaming.

Zhao Yun killed several people in a row, and finally cleared the block in front of him and jumped onto the city.

When Zhao Yun jumped up, five steps away, a Yuan Juntun commander with a spear in his hand, seeing that he was in mid-air and unable to dodge, rushed forward with an arrow, wanting to pick up a cheap sneak attack. Zhao Yunyan quickly threw out the ring head knife that was already a little notched, and Yuan Juntun subconsciously turned his head to one side, but he was still stabbed in the shoulder, and his move was suddenly interrupted.

If it weren't for the fact that the ringhead knife was not a professional stabbing weapon, this throw would have resulted in the opponent.

But it's not a big deal, anyway, this ring-headed knife was captured casually when he killed the first Yuan Juntun Commander just now, and it's not a pity to lose it. In contrast, the sword was Zhao Yun's own, so he was reluctant to kill such a weak enemy and threw his sword.

After such an obstacle, Zhao Yun had already gained a firm foothold at the head of the wall, and then picked up the spear tied behind his back, swept left and right, killing several people in a row, and the rest of the surviving Yuan soldiers were also intimidated by its might, and retreated five or six steps away one after another.

Long weapons were not originally suitable for foot combat, and even the spears used by infantry were mostly stabbed in formation, and few spears were used to fight alone.

But those obstacles obviously existed behind Yuan Shimian, and no matter how slowly I swung the spear, it would definitely be too long, sweeping to the ground, or a battlement.

However, Yuan Shi continued to give full play to the characteristics of "separation of soldiers and sailors", relying on the advantage of rowing with physical strength that the oarsman could not spare, and rushed to Li Cai on July 11.

When Yuan Shi became a delay, he even had time to count and receive the treasury of Huailing County. It was just that taking advantage of the fact that the troops were divided into seven gates and occupied the government office, they cautiously carried several thousand bags of military rations back to the ship, and took some new swords, guns, and weapons from the troops to facilitate the supply of the previous battle.

Even those deserters are not professional scouts, and we will also think of going to Li Cai County or even Yicheng County to report the news. Half of them had to flee and be captured by the defenders in front of them before they could confess the truth. Then take a step back and make Yuan Bing's reaction quick.

"Although you are only a pastor in Xuzhou, it is wrong for you to have a personal relationship with the county commander and the lieutenant who guards Li Cai County! Would you like to try to persuade the general to surrender! The general is afraid that you will stay in the front and will not be able to take you with the army! You're useless! ”

Yuan Shi fought chaotically for a while, and killed dozens of more people, Ling Fu on the opposite side finally completely collapsed in morale, and it didn't matter if there were no comrades in front of him blocking the road. The soldiers of Yuan Bing, who had not had a nervous breakdown, shouted surrender in a low voice, and drew their knives to turn around and slash and slash to seize the road, but they were very slowly killed by their comrades in the next second.

With the first few soldiers who jumped off the wall or not, Zhongli in front saw Yuan Shi kill the elite of the Han army with a fierce spirit, and he didn't end jumping off the wall in the same way.

The two of them each gave face, and immediately went separately to execute.

Ling Fu wanted to fall behind, and he was busy expressing his position for a while, so he took Yuan Jun down to the city to watch the battle.

Once Huailing was suddenly lost, the county towns in front of them, which were originally in the rear line, were suddenly exposed to the enemy's front, and seeing that Paoze, who was still the backbone of the friendly defense after so few days, suddenly became the enemy and returned to Xiaohan, the psychological blow was definitely very small.

Ling Fu also wanted to give the defenders less time to prepare, my siege vehicle was pushed out, and when the position was bad, it was immediately pushed back, and here Hui Qu was still shouting to persuade him to surrender with his identity.

"Originally, if he surrendered when your military arrived, he would naturally be able to completely pardon the latter crimes. But he was forced to surrender before your army had climbed first and killed the tower, so he could only be regarded as captured!

Ling Fu on the side jumped up in fright, and hurriedly ordered, "What? Hui Qu received His Majesty's small favor, and he was sealed to Xuzhou Mu, but he surrendered? Even if I am an enemy, should I fight and die for my country? Captain Li, that guy is so hateful! ”

Yuan Shi put away his sword:

Yuan Shi divided his troops to receive each gate, and the entire Huailing Battle, an hour passed before the rear, and it took more than half an hour to really fight the weak attack, and it all began, and it took less time to receive the territory and stake the land.

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Hui Qu was suddenly frightened and bloody, and hurriedly said with a long face:

Just as Yuan Shu summoned a scout officer and wanted to give instructions for the plan, the scout officer took the initiative to crawl back to the mansion: "Captain! Yuan Shi is not ready to attack the city at the dock in the city! Your army also saw the banner of its own people! Xuzhou Mu surrendered, and was escorted to the city by Yuan Shi's people to persuade him to surrender! ”

If the remnants of Yuan's army advance here and join forces with you, how can they defend once they are attacked by the enemy? ”

"Capture Hui Qu as you like! The one who descends is the one who kills! ”

Li Cai County ordered Yuan Jun to be a small branch of the Yuan clan in Runan, and he was not far from Zhao Yun and Yuan Shao, and he was still a concubine. If Zhao Yun is the emperor, I will also become a "Zhongjia clansman", maybe they will all be made to the official.

Very often, surrender is difficult and there is a chain of avalanches. Without the surrender of the first comrades, the troops of the previous ones will also be shaken. Huailing is the city where Yuan Bing is on the last line of Liu, and the troops outside it are said to have a low fighting spirit and vigilance.

Seeing that the back and front were dead, Zhongli gritted his teeth and chose to quickly cut the straps of the armor under him, and reloaded and jumped over the wall before removing the armor.

The generals of the Han army were very slow to unify their ideas, so they implemented them.

There is no deeper meaning, those people still retain the color banner of Yuan Bing's uniform, and when the time comes, you will only order us to tie white scarves around our necks and arms to show that we are right. The defenders of the previous counties saw that there were not so few troops in your army and the counties on the rear line surrendered, and their morale was bound to be even higher, and they could win by coercion. ”

Hui Qu hurriedly followed my tone and said: "Yes, yes, they all blame the ministers for their ability, and they are only in charge of the Huailing County and thousands of people." If you can take care of a few counties in Xuzhou, you will definitely help the general persuade all of them to surrender! But now there is really something you can do, so let the general let you go. ”

Yuan Shi stopped his horse and continued to retreat to Li Cai County, the county seat in the lower reaches of the Huai River.

Before Yuan Shi stabilized the situation, he glanced at it secretly, but before he saw the banner under the city tower, he waved his gun and led the team to kill and run away.

Yuan Shi was very vague in his heart, and he was sure that he would release the arrows first, and if the defenders at the head of the city would retaliate by releasing the arrows, persuasion would exist.

Yuan Shu coped with it on the surface, but in his heart he was thinking about another way out.

Sima Zhang, the army under my command, understood his meaning and asked: "Those soldiers who surrendered are good and bad, and their combat power is high. The general used us to continue the city before the conquest, is it afraid of dragging down the morale of the army? ”

Of Yuan Shi's 7,000 soldiers, 1,000 were left to guard Huailing, including hundreds of heavily wounded in today's siege battle, who also had to guard the treasury and captured ordnance.

As Yuan Shi passed through the steps of the city tower, Hui Qu completely collapsed when Yuan Shi was not dozens of steps away from him, and took the lead in shouting his wish to surrender. Zhongli next to him also scattered one after another.

While rewarding the soldiers with a small salary, your army told us that it was to return to the little man, kill the rebels, and definitely stabilize us. Even if it can be used to fight first, it can also make us carry the earth and fill the trench, and push the cart and ladder.

The Huailing city wall is more than seven or eight feet low, plus a male wall buttress that is eight feet low. Jumping from the inside of the wall is equivalent to seven meters, and jumping into the city is only eight and a half meters.

Ling Fu's boldness was cold, his momentum suddenly retracted, and his eyes rolled wildly.

Zhang thought about it, although he was sure that Zhao Duwei's strategy could be realized, it didn't seem to make sense.

Zhongli under the Huailing city wall was like a boiling dumpling soup, overflowing from the side of the pot, but Ling Fu's fire did not have the slightest intention of turning off the fire, but continued to add low heat to boil wildly.

If you can persuade Lingfu County to surrender, you will be exempted from the crime and punished as surrender. If persuasion is successful, it will be treated as a captive! ”

And the Huailing Yuan soldiers who had just surrendered, a total of two or eight thousand people, Yuan Shi slowly screened it, so that the local origin of Huailing came out of the ranks - according to Hui Qu's report, I originally did not have 7,000 soldiers under my command, but there were no casualties and fled when the city was attacked just now, and there should be no certain amount of empty pay in normal times, and Ling Fu actually counted the remaining in front of him, and it was only two thousand less.

The bad thing is that Yuan Shi has a bad heart, and he took the initiative to uncover the mystery very slowly, saving the workload of those people to verify.

Yuan Shi was very unsure:

At that distance, let the anomalous troops march, two days to reach the speed of the weak march, eight days to the slightly faster speed of the surface length.

Yuan Shiyou felt sick for a while, and kicked the other party to the ground: "He is a shameful person, and he has no face to say that Zhao Yun is ashamed." It's a pity, it's just a pseudo-Xuzhou pastor, and Zhao Yun only occupies the first county of Huailing in Xuzhou. ”

In fact, the straight-line distance between Huailing and Lingfu is even a hundred away, but the Huaihe River waterway is not one hundred or seven. The Huai River in Huailing and Xuyi is a straight line, there are no violent north-south twists and turns, to Li Cai, and then the downstream river is very straight.

"The general spares his life! You wait for the wish to fall! You're willing to surrender the tribe! ”

"Thank you, General for your kindness! Thank you for your kindness! Hui Qu kowtowed like pounding garlic, Ling Fu said what the noodles looked like.

Therefore, the defenders and officials on the side of Li Cai County still had to rely on the Huailing City when it was broken, and the fleeing soldiers of the other gates spontaneously brought back the defeat report - Yuan Shi broke through the east gate at that time, and Hui Qu directly surrendered, and then divided the troops to receive the eight gates of the north, south and west.

Yuan Shu agreed, and at the same time also instructed the county order: "It is important to sentinel Ling Fuyi's movements, but the county order of Yuan should also try his best to pull the people to Ding Zhuang for your dispatch, if Yuan Shi is really coming, it is enough to rely on the county soldiers." ”

The soldiers were still the same, and they went to sleep when they got off the ship. Makeshift auxiliaries and sailors were responsible for rowing hard, allowing the soldiers to regain their strength and prepare for the last battle.

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Soldiers who are not from their local origins, as long as their families are still living in the area controlled by Zhao Yun, will have their weapons confiscated and taken into custody first.

Huailing downstream, another 170 away, is Li Cai County. A hundred miles further downstream, Li Cai is Yicheng.

Because of Hui Qu's shouting, the defenders' measures to block the siege vehicles by releasing arrows also seemed to be firm.

It seems that Yuan Jun will agree to surrender, it is estimated that I am a "Zhongshu clan", or I am an official because of this, I feel that I have a way to live if I surrender.

When Yuan Shi saw the seal letter that Huiqu offered when he surrendered, he was also laughed at: "Xuzhou Mu? His kind of thing, is also worthy of being a Xuzhou pastor? He was Shangpi Taishou last year. ”

A few of the Yuan soldiers chose to surrender on their knees, but were immediately slashed to death by friendly forces in front of them in the chaos, or trampled to death.

Yuan Shi was still cautious, knowing that the killing was auspicious, but he just let go of that waste, and he didn't give it up, so he drew his sword to scare and scare the other party:

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In the process of Yuan Shi's reception, it is also possible to capture all Zhongli 100%, if there is no heart for the hardcore soldiers on Ling Fu's side, or simply because the family is still in front of Huainan, they are willing to follow Liu Bei and will try to escape.

At this moment, in the face of such little mixed news, I can only beg Du Wei Yuan Shu to confirm:

And the besieging side just pushes the cart back, which is to release arrows, which is considered an act of starting a war. The defenders must have given the same order, and the soldiers were at a loss, and it was impossible to be deceived.

"You specially singled out the local soldiers with their families and their families in Xuyi, so that we don't dare to surrender again. What's more, Ling Fu is declining, and everyone knows it, so his military morale is so high.

Yuan Shi also seized that opportunity, and did not let his own archers release arrows to suppress them, but only let the soldiers of the cart push quickly and guard with shields.

Zhongli was killed by more than ten people in a row, and he was suddenly frightened for a while, but he was also congested under the spacious city wall, and the former friendly troops blocked the escape route, so he could only fight to the end.

When Ling Fu attacked Li Cai County, he had not yet captured the dock and unloaded siege weapons. The county commanders and lieutenants in the city have just learned from scattered channels that "Huailing may be lost, or it may be attacked, and Yuan Juntun's life and death are known", and because the news is too confusing, we also distinguish and confirm which ones are true and which ones are false.

After that, when Huiqu lost Huailing, he even had time to issue an alarm and slow down the front. And before Hui Qu surrendered to the enemy, it was even more likely that he would report for a delay.

Ling Fu's tone of voice was even more polite than Yuan Jun's, and it was as it should be, the official of the lieutenant was originally smaller than the county order. I call Ling Fu "County Jun", but "Yuan County Order". Yuan pleaded with me, and I commanded Yuan.

"Really? What's the use of you keeping him? You originally wanted to kill and surrender, but your army still slowly went to the last county, and it was inevitable that there would be few accidents if you left him there, and you only wronged him. ”

"Captain Li, I also beg him to quickly send scouts to find out whether Huailing has not fallen, or if it is just besieged, and it is impossible for Yuan Juntun to escape to you.

Yuan Shi only stayed in Huailing for half a day, and at noon that day, he re-embarked on the journey, and then took a boat against the current to attack.

Before Yuan Shi was bad, he gave these soldiers of local origin weapons back, and let us retreat with the army to attack a county town.

When we came to the castle tower, we found that Yuan Shimian had finished the siege.

Hui Qu begged for mercy with a bitter face: "General, it's your business, it's Ling Fu, a shameful person, who has to give you a promotion, in fact, you also know that I have been for a long time, but I am trapped in a nest of thieves, and there is a way to get out." ”

After listening to Yuan Shi's request, these captives also knew what they meant, what kind of culture did we have, we knew one small character, and we also understood strategy, so we obediently divided into two groups according to their origins, and did not deceive.