Luye City, Jiannan Road has been slightly envoyed to the Yamen, but now it has been renamed Jiannan Palace. After the temporary reconstruction, the cow sat all over the ground and drank in the warm pavilion of the side hall of the palace, which was formerly called the grass tree hall. There is no change in the grass tree hall, there are still bacon and other foods piled up in all corners, even if you become a prince, one day you will be the emperor, you don't want to let Niu Mandi get rid of the habit of storing food, when I was young, I was really hungry.

Niu Man sat facing a person, the injuries on this person's body have not healed, his name is Cheng'er, he has just fled from Songshan County to Luye City, Cheng'er brought a news that makes Niu Mandi feel desperate, Songshan County has changed hands, the county guard Xiao Cheng has committed suicide, and the Songshan reinforcements he was looking forward to will not come in this life.

More than ten days ago, Niu Mandi received a message from the undercover flying pigeon of the Yamen of Jianzhou County, knowing that the 20,000 soldiers and horses sent by himself outside Jianzhou City had been defeated, Lin Guanqin only fled with more than 3,000 military horses, and more than 10,000 people of Hao Zhengtong, a subordinate of Yin Quan in Southwest Province, had also been wiped out under Jianzhou City, and Ye Tengjiao and others had already surrendered to the law. When Niu Mandi read these news, it was like falling into an ice hole, and he was chilled.

Before, he could only hope that Lin Guanqin could bring more than 3,000 soldiers and horses back to help, and that the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Songshan County could miraculously appear under Luye City, as long as he could defeat the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Jiangzhou Captain Cheng Rugao, there was still a great hope of turning the tables, after all, there were still two big cottages willing to listen to his orders, and these two cottages together still had a team of more than 10,000 people.

Niu Mandi thought that the poor army at hand in Tang Jiusheng must be a tired army after the Battle of Jianzhou, and he still wanted to have a vigorous decisive battle with Tang Jiusheng. After the spies guarding the yamen of Jianzhou County sent him the last message, he has not been heard from since. Niu Mandi had already guessed that the spies must have been killed by Tang Jiusheng's guards after finding out. Lu'er is a lesson from the past.

But after Cheng'er's arrival today, Niu Mandi knew that he had to lose 5,000 soldiers and horses from Songshan in his hole cards, and Niu Mandi was very anxious, so why didn't Lin Guanqin come back? In order to prevent accidents, Niu Mandi had already sent people to the two neighboring counties to transfer troops.

Finally, more than 1,700 people entered the city, and Niu Mandi thought that he finally had the capital to wrestle with Cheng Rugao, the captain of Jiangzhou, but he did not expect that Su Changlin, the guard of Huzhou County, would send 2,000 reinforcements to Cheng Rugao, and also brought Cheng Rugao extremely scarce grain and grass.

Fortunately, Cheng Rugao was not in a hurry to attack, which made Niu Mandi feel relieved. Cheng Rugao is not stupid, if he really fights, he can't take any advantage, although he has nearly 5,000 people now, but there are also nearly 5,000 people on the side of Niu Mandi, and there is a guard of hundreds of people in the puppet palace of Niu Mandi, and it is said that the combat effectiveness of that guard is far beyond that of ordinary soldiers.

Cheng Rugao is waiting for news from Jianzhou, and at the same time waiting for news from Anshu, as long as the situation in Anshu is stable, after the Weiwangfu knows the situation in Luye, he will never sit idly by. Cheng Rugao only led his troops to defend Luye Nancheng, and he could only fight against the cattle all over the land, and he firmly believed that King Wei's army could defeat Niu Mandi's soldiers and horses who went to attack Jianzhou.

Since Wang Chibi followed Cheng Rugao to capture Luye South City, Wang Chibi was highly nervous, Mr. Qi sent him as a special envoy of the palace to assist Cheng Rugao to seize Luye, and now because of the troops, only half of the city was captured, and the feeling of defending half of the court made him feel that since it was thrilling and exciting, Wang Chibi couldn't sleep well every day, for fear that the reinforcements from all over the ground would arrive.

A few days ago, the palace guards sent a great news, the prince defeated the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Niu Mandi and the Southwest Road outside Jianzhou City, Wang Chibi breathed a sigh of relief, this is not afraid, the main force of Niu Mandi is gone. After Wang Chibi told Cheng Rugao the news, Cheng Rugao was also overjoyed, and scolded with a smile: "Damn, the end of the cattle is here!

Outside the south gate of Luye City, there was an army of about 500 people, this army was mixed, there were cavalry and infantry, and the infantry was also divided into sword soldiers, shield soldiers, spearmen and crossbow soldiers. This army came from the west of the city, shouting outside the south city gate, please open the city gate, the city gate tower Cheng Ru master with a halberd long Tao Datou stood at the head of the city, his hand pressed the handle of the waist knife, and asked loudly: "Where are you soldiers and horses?"

Cheng Zifei shouted loudly under the city, "We are the soldiers and horses of the Wei Wang's Mansion, my name is Cheng Zifei, I am the captain of the guard of the Wei Wang, we are here to help Cheng Xiaowei, please open the city gate and let us enter the city!"

This kind of major event of opening the city gate is not something that Tao Datou can call the shots, Tao Datou immediately replied loudly: "You have to wait, I will send someone to inform Captain Cheng, this matter can only be decided by Captain Cheng!" Tao Datou immediately asked his subordinates to rush to the Nancheng Regiment Training Office to inform Cheng Rugao that since the defeat of Luye Nancheng, Cheng Rugao led his own soldiers and Wang Chibi and other Wei Wangfu people to be stationed in the regimental training office, in case something happened, they also had a discussion with each other.

The pawn rode an inferior horse, ran to the regimental training office in a panic, and reported to Cheng Rugao's personal soldiers at the door, saying that he asked to see the captain of Jiangzhou, and a reinforcement from the palace outside the city had arrived. Cheng Rugao and Wang Chibi were overjoyed, and immediately rode on horseback and led twenty soldiers to the south city gate, Wang Chibi stood on the city gate tower and asked loudly: "Which part of the palace are you from?"

Cheng Zifei took off his helmet, raised his head and shouted loudly to Cheng Rugao and Wang Chibi at the head of the city: "I am Cheng Zifei, the captain of the guard of the king, on the order of the king of Wei, with five hundred men and horses to support the captain of Jiangzhou, please open the door and let us in!"

Wang Chibi looked embarrassed: "Cheng Guard, I'm sorry, I can't just let you into the city! Although I am also from the Wei Wangfu, but I am not familiar with you, now the war is being scorched, the two sides are evenly matched, we are afraid that the enemy will be deceitful, so please also ask Cheng Guard's understanding!" Hearing that the other party did not dare to open the city gate, Cheng Zifei was not angry, if this army was brought by him, he did not dare to open the door rashly when he did not find out the identity of the other party, who is not afraid of the enemy's deception, and then the inside and outside should be combined after deceiving the city gate, then the city gate has lost the momentum?

Cheng Zifei asked loudly again: "Then how can you open the city gate? We can't stand outside the city gate all the time, right?

Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao hurriedly summoned their officers and decided to let only two representatives come in first, and it would not be too late to open the city gate after confirming their identities. Wang Chibi poked his head out on the city tower again, "Escort Cheng, I'm sorry, we can only let two or three people come in first, enter the city, and after verifying their identities, let the rest of them enter the city, what do you think?"

Cheng Zifei turned his head and looked at Tang Jiusheng in golden helmets and armor, Tang Jiusheng nodded, and said to Cheng Zifei from afar: "Promise him, I'll go into the city with you!" Tang Jiusheng turned back to Ning Chenggang and said: "General Ning, you will wait outside the city with five hundred soldiers and horses, wait for this king and Cheng Zifei to enter the city, and then let you enter the city after figuring out the situation, you will soon face your old club, I don't know if you are a little helpless in your heart?"

Ning Chenggang smiled bitterly, and arched his hand: "Lord Wang, now we are already the subordinates of the prince, Niu Mandi is my old master, of course I don't want to face him, I don't take the lead without special circumstances!" Tang Jiusheng smiled and nodded, he didn't want to embarrass Ning Chenggang, if he changed positions with Ning Chenggang, it would be difficult for him to do it, why not leave Ning Chenggang some room to turn around?

Cheng Zifei got the permission of the prince, put his heart at ease, and shouted loudly to the city: "Please open the city gate, the two of us will enter the city first!" Wang Chibi in the city got Cheng Zifei's reply, which made people put down the drawbridge and open the city gate. Cheng Zifei and Tang Jiusheng entered Luye City one after the other. At this time, Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao had already walked down from the city gate tower to greet Cheng Zifei and Tang Jiusheng.

Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao saw that Tang Jiusheng was a middle-aged man with golden helmets and golden armor, and Cheng Zifei followed closely behind him like a guard, thinking that this person must be a big official from the palace, otherwise how could they explain that Cheng Zifei was so nervous? Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao gave up their hands together, and Wang Chibi smiled and said: "Cheng Guard, down is Wang Chibi, a disciple of Mr. Qi Siyuan of the Wei Wangfu, who is rude! This is Lord Cheng Rugao, the captain of Jiangzhou!"

Cheng Zifei nodded with a smile, and suddenly raised his voice and said, "King Wei Chitose has arrived!" Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao were stunned for a moment, no one would have imagined that King Wei would only bring five hundred soldiers and horses to Luye in person. But King Wei is a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, although this middle-aged man in golden helmet and armor is very imposing, he can never be King Wei!

Cheng Rugao was furious, pulled out his waist knife in his hand, and asked: "Who are you? You dare to pretend to be the king of a thousand years old! It must be a spy sent by Niu Mandi, come here, tie me up, tie me back, and then torture slowly!" Cheng Ru's twenty personal soldiers agreed together, and they were about to step forward to take someone. Wang Chibi hurriedly stopped them, he was afraid that Cheng Rugao would be reckless. If it was really a spy sent by Niu Mandi, did these two people eat the bear's heart and leopard gall, and the two of them dared to enter the city?

Cheng Zifei was furious, stretched out his hand and took out the waist card of the Wei Wangfu Guards from his arms, threw it to Cheng Rugao, and shouted angrily, "Blind your dog eyes, you dare not kneel when you see the prince!" Cheng Rugao was scolded by Cheng Zifei, and he was stunned when he took the waist card, he didn't know the waist card of Wei Wangfu, so he had to hand the waist card to Wang Chibi, and then looked at Wang Chibi suspiciously. Wang Chibi is a person from the palace, and it is impossible not to know the waist card of the palace.

Wang Chibi took the waist card, looked at the sandalwood material and the gold characters on it, it was absolutely wrong, and there was also Cheng Zifei's position and name on the waist card, he knew that the captain of the prince's guard was Cheng Zifei, but he was not very familiar with it, and he had only seen it once or twice from afar. Wang Chibi nodded and said, "The waist card is real, but it's ......."

Tang Jiusheng saw them arguing, so he had to reach out and remove the face from his face, and said with a smile: "Is it possible to recognize it now?" When Wang Chibi was in the palace, he had seen the prince a few times, although he was not close, but the young and handsome image of the prince could not be wrong.

Wang Chibi hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "Student Wang Chibi has seen Wei Wang Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!" Cheng Rugao saw Wang Chibi like this, his head buzzed big, this is the end, he offended Wei Wang in front of King Wei, and asked his subordinates to tie up these two people, King Wei was angry and had to slaughter me? Although Cheng Rugao became the captain of Jiangzhou, the biggest official he had ever seen was the county guard, how could he ever see the prince?

Cheng Rugao hurriedly returned the knife to the sheath, fell to the ground with a pop, and kept kowtowing, "The prince forgives the sin, the lowly Jiangzhou captain Cheng Rugao, see the prince!" Cheng Rugao turned his head, looked at the pro-soldiers who were still stunned, and shouted: "You fools, don't kowtow to the prince soon!" Those pro-soldiers finally reacted now, and quickly knelt down together, kowtowed to the prince, and saw the prince in unison.

Cheng Zifei smiled bitterly and said: "You don't want to see the true face of the prince, the prince is afraid that he will be recognized on the road and leak the news, so he wears a face, our main force has escorted the gold and silver treasure back to Anshu!" Tang Jiusheng turned his head and glared at Cheng Zifei, thinking that he was talking too much. Cheng Zifei stuck out his tongue in fright and quickly shut up.

Tang Jiusheng bent down, picked up Wang Chibi and Cheng Rugao, and said with a smile: "Don't kneel, get up! This king came all the way day and night, just because he was afraid that he would leak the news, so he wore a dough, and it is no wonder that you guys." You have been able to take Luye Nancheng down and hold on for so long, it is already a great achievement, and this king will reward you! Tell this king about the current situation in the city!"

Cheng Rugao saw that Tang Jiusheng didn't blame them, and said excitedly: "Lord Wang, we are looking forward to the stars and the moon, oh my mother, Lord Wang, I can be regarded as looking forward to you! Oh Mom, what are you still standing there stupidly! Hurry up and open the city gate and welcome the prince's soldiers and horses into the city!" The soldiers next to him agreed, and hurriedly went to call the city gate guards to open the door. Cheng Ru happily led the way in front of him, "Lord Wang, quickly go to the regimental training office with the lowly position, and the lowly position will report to you in detail about the situation in the city!"