At noon, dozens of Liu Xiu's subordinates, plus hundreds of people from the Qinglong Gang, fled to the boundary of Tangzi Township in one go, and joined Liu Xiu and others who fled back in defeat.

Fu Qingyun introduced the two masters of the Qinglong Gang to Liu Xiu, and the Liu Xuan brothers were grateful to the Qinglong Gang for saving their lives, and they praised Xuanxuan from the bottom of their hearts, and briefly talked about the defeat.

It turned out that Zhen Fu, the doctor of the Xinmang Nanyang front team, and Zhengliang Qiuci saw that the righteous army threatened their lair, and led an army of 100,000 to encircle and suppress the righteous army. Who knew that yesterday the fog locked the city, the Nanyang Mang Army was familiar with the local terrain, took advantage of the fog to lead the troops to raid, burned the coalition army camp and grain and grass, and fiercely counterattacked the Green Forest Army, beating the Green Forest Army to lose its armor and flee in embarrassment. Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu were scattered in the scuffle and fled for their lives. Liang Qiuci led an elite team to chase Liu Xiu and chased him until Qinglong Mountain in Wudang County, where he was rescued by Fu Qingyun and others.

In this battle, dozens of brothers of the same clan of the Liu family were killed, and more than half of the Han army was lost. However, the Liu Xuan brothers were not discouraged, and immediately reorganized the team, stabilized the morale of the army, and withdrew the army to Jianyang City to hold on.

Jia Fu and Zhou Ren were impressed by the heroism of the Liu Xuan brothers, and led the Qinglong Gang to serve the Han army and retreated to Jianyang City together. Those who retreated to Jianyang City, in addition to the Han army, there were also Pinglin soldiers and Xinshi soldiers in the Green Forest Alliance.

In the afternoon of the same day, the army had just retreated to Jianyang City, and Zhen Fu, the doctor of the front team of the Nanyang Mang Army, and Zhengliang Qiuci led the army across Chunshui and killed in Jianyang City, not giving the righteous army a chance to breathe.

Liu Zhuo, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, the leaders of the Xinshi soldiers, and Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin soldiers, quickly agreed that the Liu Xuan brothers would guard the east gate and the north gate of Jianyang City, the Xinshi soldiers would guard the south gate, and the Pinglin soldiers would guard the west gate.

The rebel army was newly defeated, the defenders in the city were less than 40,000, the Pinglin soldiers and the Xinshi soldiers were very afraid of battle, and the south gate and the west gate were not the main attack direction of the Mang army, and the two armies were of course happy.

Liu Xuan was dressed in a crimson battle robe, wearing a silver bronze helmet, holding a silver gun to climb the city tower, and the generals followed. Fu Qingyun carried an iron rod and followed behind Liu Xuan, wearing the silver helmet and silver armor specially prepared for him by Liu Xuan, looking like Erlang Xianjun descending to earth, Xuan Ang, handsome and magnificent, and extraordinary.

Xuan Xuan did not follow Fu Qingyun, since she entered the army camp, she stayed with Liu Xuan's female dependents and no longer showed her face.

As soon as the generals ascended the north gate tower, they saw a lot of dust rising from the north, and 100,000 elite soldiers of the reckless army rolled in. At a glance, the black pressure is overwhelming, winding for dozens of miles, and there is no end in sight.

Fu Qingyun looked at it in a blink of an eye, and saw that the city was already full of rolling logs, stones and other things, and on the side of each battlement, there were piles of human-high arrows.

While inspecting the fortifications, Liu Jiu explained the key points of defense to Liu Ji, Liu Jia, Li Tong and other soldiers beside him, and patted the shoulders of the rebels with guns and arrows on the battlements from time to time to show encouragement.

The sound of hooves shook, and the 20,000 light cavalry forwards of the Mang army rolled like a tide, all of them were neatly clothed and armored, with hard bows on their arms and short knives at their waists, and they set up a position on the half-mile road outside the city. 80,000 infantry then arrived, with flags like clouds, swords beating snow, and the sun shining brightly. The two generals in the middle, the golden helmet and golden armor, are the doctors of the Nanyang front team, Zhen Fu and Zhengliang Qiuci.

Zhen Fu drove forward immediately and ordered someone to shout: "Listen to the city, Liu Xuan, Wang Kuang, Chen Mu is guilty of rebellion, poisoning the villagers, and the crime should be exterminated." You will be bewitched by the abolition of Liu Zhu's thieves, create evil places, and deserve punishment for crimes. However, the Lord has mercy, forgiveness, and other rights and wrongs are not clear, and the past is not to blame. Wait for a moment, bind up and surrender the thieves, otherwise my heavenly power will come, and there will be no way back. ”

Liu Ji at the head of the city replied loudly: "Listen to the sons and daughters of the Han family in the city, the reckless thieves usurped the Han, poisoned the world, and the four seas were miserable. The descendants of Gaozu rose up to ask for the people's lives, and responded from all directions. Wang Mang's demise and revival of the Han dynasty are irreversible. When you wake up, turn the gun upside down, kill the traitor, destroy the jackal, and join the Han family. ”

The soldiers on both sides shouted in front of the formation, placing themselves on the moral high ground and being famous, which is a common strategy to stimulate morale in battlefield battles.

After shouting, Zhen Fu waved his horsewhip, and suddenly dozens of war drums thundered, resounding through the clouds.

But seeing the roar of the drums, groups of reckless troops came out in turn, lined up in formation and shouted and rushed towards Thorn Yang City.

A reckless army with shields in hand approached the walls first, and swooped arrows into the city. The Han army in the city was not afraid, and used the battlements to cover the arrows and shoot fiercely. Suddenly, arrows flew in all directions in the air, and they fell like mud and sand.

The rebels stood on the city wall, condescending, taking advantage of it, and in a few breaths, the first team of reckless troops who attacked them lost less than half. But there were many reckless soldiers, and the first team fell, followed by the second team to make up for it, and fired indiscriminately at the city wall.

Zhen Fu gave an order, and another team of reckless troops rushed out, under the cover of the rain of arrows, pushing the chong building cart, carrying the ladder to the city wall, and countless reckless soldiers climbed the building cart and the ladder like ants to kill the city wall.

Liu Xuan led the soldiers to calmly respond to the battle, and as soon as the reckless army approached the city wall, the wood and stones at the head of the city fell one after another like rolling waves, and countless reckless soldiers had no time to raise their heads, and they were already smashed to the ground by the rolling wooden boulders. Those who were lucky enough to climb the ladder and kill the city tower were stabbed by the soldiers and fell down the city again.

Fu Qingyun held an iron rod and flew the reckless army that attacked the generals like a fallen leaf. Seeing the fresh lives being slapped away by his cane, falling off the city wall and falling into flesh, he couldn't bear it at first, and didn't dare to open his eyes to see. But as more and more reckless troops attacked, and the rebel brothers who fought together around him fell one by one, his heart swelled with grief and indignation, and his attack became more swift and fierce, and no reckless soldier could climb from under his staff to the top of the city within a kilometer.

In his eyes, which reckless soldiers are no longer humans, but devils, bloodthirsty devils.

He didn't know how many Mang soldiers he had killed, but he saw that under the wall he was guarding, the corpses of the Mang soldiers were piled up in a thick layer.

Arrows rained down, stones rolled like waves, and the reckless army that rushed to the city was flicked one after another, and the corpses piled up one after another.

After a fierce battle for more than an hour, the reckless army left tens of thousands of corpses, Mingjin withdrew his troops, and retreated in embarrassment.

Fu Qingyun's eyes were blood-red, looking at the piles of corpses lying under the city, he couldn't help but feel a heap in his chest.

It is really an eternal truth.

However, some blood is decaying, exists by sucking the marrow of men, and is destined to be spurned by the people, while some blood is noble, shed for the common people of the world, and has made great achievements in history, and is admired by the people.

Human beings have always longed for freedom and resisted tyranny and oppression, and the history of mankind is a history of struggle from unfreedom to freedom.

Any regime that violates the way of heaven, rebels against human nature, and suppresses freedom will surely be destroyed by the torrent of history.

"Qingyun, how is it?" Liu Xuan walked over, saw Fu Qingyun looking at the piles of corpses under the city in a daze, patted him on the shoulder and asked with concern.

Fu Qingyun turned around and smiled, and said excitedly: "The reckless army has retreated." ”

Liu Xuan also nodded excitedly, looking at the new reckless army slowly retreating outside the city, his eyes revealing a strong confidence and calmness.

Liu Xiu walked over with a spear in his hand, his armor was stained with blood, and he laughed loudly: "Qingyun, I didn't expect that the first time our brothers killed the enemy side by side, they repelled 100,000 reckless troops. ”

Liu Ji, Li Tong and other generals also came over one after another to high-five and congratulate.

The next day, the Mang army shouted and swarmed to attack the city, but except for throwing down tens of thousands of corpses, they still could not get close to the city.

The reckless army had to give up the strong attack and retreat to camp three miles away, and the tents stretched for more than ten miles, and the fire reflected in the sky.

Zhen Fu, the chief general of the Mang army, is also a tiger general in Wang Mang's regime, brave and strategic, he saw that the 40,000 righteous army held on to the city fortress, and the Mang army suffered heavy casualties, so he quickly changed his strategy and set a strategy of encircling and not fighting, trapping and killing the righteous army.

This move is the weakness of the righteous army, and it cannot be said that it is not poisonous. The rebels were besieged in a small city in Thornyang, the last respite, and had to be trapped and fighting. Even the reckless teams such as the Pinglin soldiers and the Xinshi soldiers also aroused ferocity, and they fought bloodily one by one, resisting the 100,000 troops of the reckless army. However, once the reckless army is surrounded and not frozen, the 30,000 righteous troops in the city will eventually run out of ammunition and food, and at that time, the righteous army will have only two ways, either go out of the city and surrender, or abandon the city and leave.

This siege is a month has passed, and the Mang army has no signs of attacking, and the continuous camps have surrounded the city of Jianyang like an iron bucket, which makes people desperate.

The grain and grass in the city were about to run out, and the rebels held on for several decades, exhausted and demoralized.

What made the Liu Xuan brothers even more anxious was that they heard that Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin soldiers, Wang Kuang, and Wang Feng, the leaders of the Xinshi soldiers, were secretly discussing and planning to lead the troops to continue to flee south. The officers and men of the two armies have begun to pack their things and are ready to abandon the city and flee at any time.

Since the war with the Nanyang Mang Army, Liu Jiu has become the commander of the Green Forest Army, and the leaders of the two armies, such as Wang Kuang and Chen Mu, are only the leaders of Liu Jiu's horse and obey Liu Xuan's dispatch. But now that the Mang army is besieging the city, Wang Kuang and Chen Mu have set aside Liu Xuan and are ready to lead their subordinates to stand out, leaving the Han army alone to confront the Mang army.

If the Pinglin soldiers and Xinshi soldiers withdrew, there would be less than 10,000 Han troops in the city, how to fight against the 100,000 Xinmang army.

At present, the entire coalition army is less than 40,000 people, and although most of the soldiers in Pinglin and Xinshi are reckless, free and loose, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, they are indiscriminately filled with numbers, and they are always better than the Han army fighting alone.

The Liu Xuan brothers hurriedly went to the Xinshi barracks to pay homage to Wang Kuang, and Fu Qingyun also accompanied him all the way.

When he came to the Xinshi barracks, he saw that all the grain and grass in the camp had been loaded and ready to go, Liu Xuan was shocked and went straight to Wang Kuang's main tent to pay respects.

Entering the main tent, it happened that Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin soldiers, and others were also there. Liu Xuan asked directly: "Prince, the soldiers outside are packing their luggage, why is this?"

Wang Kuang was embarrassed and said, "General Liu, don't worry, please take a seat!"

Wang Kuang saw that Fu Qingyun was also among them, his face showed joy, and he nodded: "Little brother, let's meet again." ”

Fu Qingyun arched his hand and said, "General Wang, the kid is polite!"

Liu Xuan sat down angrily and said: "Prince, Duke Chen, now that Zhen Fu is besieging Jianyang, our three righteous armies, if they are united, they will be strong, and if they are separated, they will be scattered, if they are not united, they will inevitably be attacked by the reckless army, and they will fall into the dangerous situation of annihilation of the whole army." ”

Chen Mu roared: "General Liu, what you said is so, but the surplus food in the city is no longer enough to support it for ten years, and if you continue to be trapped like this, if you are not killed by the reckless army, you will starve to death sooner or later, what do you say?"

Wang Feng said: "General Liu, I agree with Gong Chen's opinion. Instead of being trapped in the city, it is better to abandon the city and rush out, and maybe there is some life. ”

Wang Kuang stretched out his hand and pressed it: "Brother Chen, nephew Wang Xian, don't panic first, if you want to escape, you have to discuss an escape method, and listen to General Liu's good plan." ”

Liu Xiu and Liu Xiu were stunned in their hearts, daring to love that the two armies had already made up their minds to escape, this was not to discuss the strategy to deal with the enemy, but to discuss how to escape.

Liu Xuan suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Wang Gong, Chen Gong, there is no good plan for Zhu now. However, the Mang army is strong, and there are elite cavalry, and the only thing we can rely on now is nothing more than the wall of Thorn Yang City. Once the city is abandoned, the 20,000 elite cavalry and 80,000 troops of the Mang army will surround and intercept it, and it will be difficult to return to the city. ”

Wang Kuang said: "General Liu, if you have no good strategy, then you can't sit and wait for death." Everyone rushed out with their lives, there was always a glimmer of life, and there was only one way to die in the city. ”

Liu Xiu said anxiously: "Wang Gong, Chen Gong, our Green Forest Army has 40,000 people, but there are only 1,000 war horses, and no more than 800 ox carts, even if you rush out with your life, how can you withstand Zhen Fu's 100,000 army?"

Wang Feng said solemnly: "The big deal is death! Lao Tzu would rather die in battle than starve to death in the city." ”

Chen Mu said: "Yes, we are all reckless heroes, just to beg for a bite to eat, the sons and daughters should eat and drink, even if they die in battle, the sons have nothing to say." ”

Liu Zhuo said gloomily: "As the saying goes, it's better to die than to live, and don't say anything sad before the mountains and rivers are exhausted." Now that there is still food and grass in the city, we might as well spend it with the reckless army first, and if it really doesn't work, let's think of another way. ”

Chen Mu said: "What else can I do, it's nothing more than to kill out of the city, it's better to leave early than to leave late." When the grain and grass in the city are exhausted, there is no strength to leave, so I can only lead the neck to be cut. ”

Wang Kuang pondered for a long time, bowed his hand to Brother Liu Xuan, and said apologetically: "Brother Liu, it's not that we don't want to help you, it's really poor at the moment, and we have a long heart and a short heart. We're going to rush out of the south tonight in the dark, and we're going to get out of it one by one. ”

Liu Xuan was shocked when he heard this, the two rebel armies may have already decided to leave tonight, and now what they say is in vain. Liu Xuan hurriedly said: "Brothers, this is absolutely unacceptable, the tens of thousands of troops of the reckless army are not muddy, and they are laying a net and waiting!"

Fu Qingyun stood behind Liu Xuan, and when he saw that Pinglin Bing and Xinshi Bing were determined to leave, Zhizhu said in his hand: "Wang Gong, Chen Gong, if you want to rush out, the kid is willing to take the lead." ”

Liu Xuan looked back at Fu Qingyun in surprise, he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd, how could Huo Burning Eyebrows come to help at this time.

Wang Kuang said happily: "The little brother is strong in martial arts, if he can open the way to kill, the chance of the big guy to survive will increase by one percent." ”

Fu Qingyun smiled slightly and said, "Trapping and defending the besieged city is certainly not a way, but it may not be too hasty to kill it tonight." I see that the starlight is like water in recent days, which is a sign of great fog, and I am afraid that in less than three days, there will be great fog. Moreover, now that the New Year is approaching, the reckless army is bound to slack, it is better to wait for two more days, just on the first day of the first month, while the fog is full and the reckless army is lax, we will be full of strength to hit him by surprise, and the hope of escaping is greater. ”

This starlight contains water, there must be a fog, Fu Qingyun still learned astronomical common sense from his father.

Wang Kuang pondered for a moment and said worriedly: "Even if we take advantage of the fog to sneak attack, the 100,000 army of the Mang army is not grass and trees, and it is not something that our 40,000 righteous army can bear." ”

Fu Qingyun smiled and said: "Prince, although the Mang army has many advantages, it is precisely because of the large number of people that it loses its geographical advantage, and if you grasp this, you will take Zhen Fu's life." ”

"Oh, Qingyun, come and listen!" Liu Xuan said happily.

Wang Kuang, Wang Feng and Chen Mu looked at Fu Qingyun suspiciously, but Liu Xiu looked at Fu Qingyun with confidence and expectation.

Fu Qingyun hugged his fists and bowed, and said slowly: "Soldiers have a saying, all those who fight, win with the right combination." The reckless army is too strong to be defeated, but it can be won by surprise. ”

When Fu Qingyun said this, he looked around and saw that the generals of the three armies were holding their breath and waiting for the following. Of course, Fu Qingyun didn't dare to sell Guanzi, and hurriedly continued: "I watched the 100,000 troops of the Mang Army camped between Huang Chunshui and Huangshui, and the camp tents were lined up one after another, endlessly. ”

"Okay!" Liu Xiu first applauded: "Instead of running for his life, it is better to give him a counterattack, kill him without leaving a piece of armor, and eliminate the threat of Zhen Fu." ”

"Qingyun's plan is very good!" Liu Xuan jumped up from his seat and said in ecstasy: "In this autumn and winter wax moon, the grass and yellow leaves between Huang Chunshui and Yushui are withered, and Zhen Fu's 100,000 troops are camped here, and if they lose their geographical advantages, it is equivalent to entering the ghost gate." ”

All the soldiers also changed their depressed expressions, and their eyebrows were stretched out, and they all said that they were good.

Chen Mu was still relieved, and said: "If there is no fog in the past few days, we have not yet approached the Xinmang army to be discovered, how should this strategy of burning the company camp be implemented?"

All the soldiers turned their heads to look at Fu Qingyun, Fu Qingyun smiled faintly and said: "If the weather is unfavorable, we will give him a salary from the bottom of the kettle, so that the reckless army can retreat without a fight." ”

"What's the bottom of the kettle?" asked Chen Mu.

Fu Qingyun said: "The army has not moved, the grain and grass go first, and the importance of grain and grass is self-evident. As long as we send out a surprise soldier and burn the grain and grass of the reckless army, the reckless army will inevitably be in chaos without a fight, and the siege of the city will be relieved by itself. ”

"Good plan!" Liu Xiu clapped his hands and exclaimed: "Ten miles to the north, it is the place where the Mang army is hoarding grain in Lanxiang, and the last general is willing to lead two thousand troops to burn the grain and grass of the Mang army." ”

When everyone heard this, they became more and more excited, and they all gave thumbs up. Chen Mu also gave Fu Qingyunshu a thumbs up and said, "Little brother's plan is simply a stroke of genius." Even if he can't beat Zhen Fu to lose his armor, he will definitely let him retreat in embarrassment. ”

Wang Kuang said happily: "Now I have taken a reassuring pill, if we don't leave, we must beat Zhen Fu, the old thief, to a croaking to relieve the hatred in my heart." ”