Sigh:

Thousands of delicate flowers are red-faced, and the grass is like green pothos.

The short bamboo blows horizontally on the spring evening, and the long poplar dances and the willow branches are low.

Who talks about the old things, and which villager remembers the legend?

Pointing out the country used to be, and there was a fierce war here back then.

At that time, Xu Wenhu, the Murong sisters who dressed as men, and Murong Liang all disguised themselves and mixed in Murong Gui's nearly 100 relatives, and followed Murong Gui to the north gate.

Xu Wenhu knew that Li Shijun was ambushing outside the north gate, and said to Murong and Murong at that time: "Do it!"

Murong Gui ordered the guards to open the north gate. How can the gatekeepers give in?

The commander of the North Gate, seeing that Murong Gui was about to open the North City Gate, immediately realized that the situation was not good: Murong Gui had rebelled!

This general knew that he was not Murong Gui's opponent, but he couldn't be afraid of battle! This general immediately led the men and horses guarding the north gate to meet Murong Gui.

The sisters of the Murong family had already stepped forward. The embroidered knife in Murong Chan's hand flashed like a flash of lightning, cutting off the front hooves of the general's war horse, Murong Juan stepped forward to make up for it, and the knife fell over his head, and the general whined!

When the defeated soldiers fled in all directions, Murong Guizhi's personal guards had already opened the north gate, and Li Shijun's army was lying in wait outside the city, waiting for this moment for a long time.

At that time, Li Shijun took the lead and entered the city, and the generals followed. This is not the north gate of the county, but in a few minutes, it was firmly controlled by the Taiping army.

Li Shijun's army arrived, and the defenders in the county woke up in a dream, the defenders in the north of the city surrendered one after another, Murong Juan and Murong Liang followed Li Shijun to attack, and Murong Gui Murong Chan's father and daughter led the troops along the city wall to clear the defenders on the city wall.

Li Shijun led the troops to assault and rushed straight to the county and county offices, where Zhong Junli and Ha Junbao's Chinese army were located.

Zhong Junli and Ha Junbao are two of them, they are determined, but they are Jintang City, where did they think that Murong would rebel against Daxi and vote for the Taiping Khanate?

After the Taiping army took control of the north gate and captured nearly half of the city, Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli received the news of the defeat.

The two, who were drinking under the lamp, sat opposite each other and talked about the war. Ha Junbao said: "Dudu, we defend the city like this, we really don't seek merit, first seek no fault, first be invincible, and then we can defeat the enemy." ”

Zhong Junli said: "Yes." He Li Shijun, after all, is young, young is vigorous, and when we drag it out until he can't bear it, it will be the day when he defeats him Li Shijun.

I heard that this Li Shijun has never lost a battle so far! Haha, this time, we want to let him taste the taste of defeat!"

Speaking of this, Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli laughed, picked up their wine glasses, gestured to each other, and drank them all.

Before the two of them had put down their wine glasses, some guards ran in in panic and reported: "The big thing is not good! The Taiping army has come to the city!"

When Zhong Junli heard this, his hand trembled, the wine glass fell to the ground, and he roared: "What are you talking about? How could the Taiping army come into my county seat?"

Ha Junbao's reaction was extremely quick, and he shouted at the time: "There must be a traitor!, isn't it?"

The guard said: "I don't know, little one! Adult, hurry up and find a way!"

Ha Junbao saluted Zhong Jun and said: "Governor, quickly transfer the Chinese army and horses, guard the county office, block both ends of the street in front of the house, and we will retreat to the east gate while fighting!"

Zhong Junli said, "Why do you want to retreat to the east gate?"

"Outside the east gate was Li Shijun's camp, but now that the Taiping army has entered from the north gate, then the defense of the east gate must be weak!"

Zhong Junli hurriedly ordered the Chinese army to gather and listen to the order - at this time, it is time to grab time, and whoever grabs the time will have hope. Zhong Junli and Ha Junbao only wanted to assemble the troops in the blink of an eye.

However, how could Li Shijun of the Taiping Army not know the preciousness of time at this time? He was also racing against time. Here, Zhongjunli's army has only gathered about one-third of the men and horses, and on the long street in front of the house, the shouts of the Taiping army can be heard at both ends!

Seeing this situation, Ha Junbao knew that this time was the end, so he saluted Zhong Jun: "Governor, the situation is very bad, why don't we abscond in disguise! As long as we escape from this county, we will have a comeback!"

Zhong Junli naturally obeyed Ha Junbao's words, Zhong Junli sent the troops, hoping to resist for a while and buy a little time, but he and Ha Junbao both changed into small soldier clothes, sneaked out of the county government in the dark, followed behind the rout, and touched the east gate.

Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli came to the east gate with the defeated soldiers, and saw that the Taiping army had already killed them at the east gate, and the defeated soldiers all turned around and fled to the west.

However, to the west, there were also Taiping troops who were killed head-on, and the rout turned eastward. However, there are Taiping troops at both ends, where can they flee?

I heard the two Taiping soldiers shouting: "Lay down your arms! Surrender on the spot!"

Sure enough, the routs surrendered one after another. As soon as Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli saw each other, they found a small alley next to the house on the street, and the two of them quietly went into the alley, and walked quickly with one foot deep and one foot shallow. The houses on both sides are closed, and the dogs in the courtyard are barking.

Ha Junbao and Zhong Junli, one in front of the other, anxious, looked at the end of the alley, only to see the fire bright, a general led the Taiping soldiers and horses to chase the defeated soldiers, to the east of the horse crossed.

When Zhong Junbao saw it, he hated and said: "Who is the traitor in my Dao, it turns out that it is Murong Gui, the old horseman!"

Ha Junbao also said: "Hateful! It's not that he, a traitor, sacrificed the city gate, who can take down me and take the county seat?

The two stopped while talking, and only waited for the Taiping army to pass over, and then fled. Unexpectedly, this group of soldiers had just passed, and another group of soldiers came, leading a general, very young and extraordinary, but when the young general arrived here, he stopped and said to his subordinates:

"Our army has not caught Zhong Junli and Ha Junbao in the county government, so it is imperative to strengthen the search! Every street must not be spared, and every alley must be checked! General Meng Ping, you lead the men and horses of the headquarters to search this alley! The rest of the men and horses, go with the commander!"

So he saw a general, leading the men and horses, and came into the alley.

When Zhong Junli and Ha Junbao saw each other, they were cold from their heads to their heels! Zhong Junli was in a hurry, so he wanted to climb over the wall and climb into the house. However, Ha Junbao is a civil servant, and he is in a hurry at this time, and his feet are soft, and he can't climb the wall.

It was true that Zhong Junli was able to climb the wall, but this movement also made the dog in the courtyard bark even more fiercely!

Some soldiers of the Taiping Army have already said: "The dog barks badly over there, go over and take a look!"

So when the torches were bright, I saw a man, dressed as soldiers, hiding at the foot of the wall, trembling!

The soldiers of the Taiping Army didn't know that this person was Ha Junbao, and they all said at the time: "Arrest it first and send it to the prisoner camp!"

However, at this time, the dog barking in the courtyard was still violent.

The family had already been awakened, and the Taiping army called the door, and the family opened the door, and then the Taiping army entered the courtyard and found that the dog was barking in the direction of the mill road. The soldiers of the Taiping Army surrounded him, and saw a person squatting in the dark shadow on the backlit side of the mill road.

The soldiers raised their torches and shone them, and saw that this person was also in soldier's attire, clinging to the stone mill of the house, squatting and not moving.

At this time, the torch shone brightly, and the soldier stood up "poof", and came to fight with the soldiers, and wanted to rush out.

For a time, in this private house, the army made a big noise, attracting more people, including Murong Gui.

When Murong Gui saw it, he said, "This person is Zhong Junli, the left capital of the Great Western Khanate!"

Zhong Junli said hatefully: "Murong Gui! I am impregnable in the county, and I don't want you, an old horseman, to secretly join the enemy army and sacrifice my city!"

Zhong Junli said, raised his waist knife, and pounced on Murong Gui!

Murong Gui said: "Zhongdu Governor, although you are the general of the Great Western Khanate, my Murong Gui may not be inferior to you!"

So Murong Gui dismounted, drew his sword, and was about to fight with Zhong Junli.

A soldier had already reported to Li Shijun, saying that he had found Zhong Junli in the alley, and he wanted to fight with General Murong!

When Li Shijun heard this, he suddenly came and saw two people in the courtyard, illuminated by torches, each dancing with a sword.

As soon as Li Shijun saw it, he knew that this Zhongjun was stronger in martial arts, and his old Taishan was not an opponent. It seems that Murong Gui will not be defeated for a while, but it is definitely difficult to survive beyond a hundred moves. Li Shijun said in his heart:

-- Where can he succeed in his courtesy and cut the face of my old father-in-law! Murong Gui is my old Taishan, commonly known as my father-in-law; at this time, if I don't go up, who will?

So Li Shijun shouted: "Zhong Junli! Don't be arrogant, watch me Li Shijun clean you up!"

Murong returned to see Li Shijun to replace him, and of course he retreated. Zhong Junli took the opportunity to say: "Li Shijun, you are the commander of the three armies, and I am also the commander of the three armies, I want to fight with you alone! I win, you have to let me go!"

It turns out that this Zhong Junli knows that he can't beat Li Shijun, and the purpose of his saying this is to squeeze Li Shijun, and take advantage of the opportunity to fight alone, and fight hard with Li Shijun in order to break the jade!

Li Shijun laughed: "It's a shame that you're still the marshal of the three armies, and you actually said such an ignorant thing! Do you want me to let you go? Then you have to wait until you win—it's just that I ask you, Zhong Junli, what if you are defeated?"

"What if you lose? There is no fiasco in life except death, and it is better to die than to fail fiasco today. Li Shijun, are you greedy for life and afraid of death when I am Zhongjunli?"

Li Shijun said: "It's good if you are not greedy for life and afraid of death!

At that time, the two were fighting together, and Li Shijun secretly admired in his heart: This Zhongjunli has been famous for a long time, and he really deserves to be the person who has won the national martial arts examination among the elders!

At this time, Zhong Junli used a set of knife moves called "Wind Knife", and the knife technique was stable, accurate and fast. The word stable and accurate, people who have been practicing for a long time can do it, but it is not easy to do a fast word.

The wind knife is connected with each other, and Zhong Junli is determined to fight to the death, naturally he is brave and ruthless, and he is mostly fighting with life for life.

When Li Shijun saw it, he said in his heart that he couldn't go on like this, I had to block his knife path first and suppress his knife momentum, otherwise, it would be difficult to defeat him.

Zhong Junli opened and closed a waist knife, and after a while, he made more than ten moves, Li Shijun was not in a hurry to fight back, a few moves passed, and he figured out the way of the opponent's knife, jumped up, and used an inverted willow body method, with a high attack, the sword in his hand Huo Ran swung out, this sword, straight to the top door of Zhong Junli.

At that time, the waist knife swept across and used a style of "dark clouds to cover the top" to turn it into "flowers on the tree" to block Li Shijun.

Who knew that Li Shijun was faster than him, where the sword fell, avoided the blade of the waist knife, and hit the thick back of the waist knife, with a strong force, he swung the waist knife away at that time. Zhong Junli's tree blossomed and was sealed after only half a move!

Zhong Junli hurriedly changed his steps and changed his shape, not wanting Li Shijun's figure to fall, a strange reckless turned over, and his left hand was printed with a palm, covering Zhong Junli's back. With this palm, Zhong Junli couldn't help but fall forward, and coughed up blood in his mouth.

Li Shijun shouted: "Someone! Tie him up for me, escort him back to the prisoner camp, and deal with it when I take Pang County!"

- At this time, the two of them fought each other, no more than 20 moves, and the time before and after was only a few minutes.

Li Shijian sent someone to summon the military advisor Xu Xing to defend the city, so he counted the prisoners and made sure to catch that Ha Junbao.

Li Shijun expected that Ha Junbao was only in the city, why?

It turned out that after Li Shijun attacked from the north gate, outside the east gate, south gate, and west gate, the sound of drums and shouts stopped. There are three people and horses ordered by Li Shijun to hide outside the city gate, only outside the city, responsible for quietly taking people, but there are rout soldiers who escaped from the county, no matter which of these three gates escaped, either fell into a trap, or encountered a tripline, and then became a prisoner, but no one escaped!

At that time, seeing that there was no enemy attack at the east and west south gates, and the rout wanted to escape, they naturally fled to the east and west south gates, but how did they know that people had already laid a net!

Li Shijun ordered all the soldiers and horses to continue to surround and annex the county seat, and searched for Ha Junbao in the city. He led 20,000 troops to help Tian Mengchang, Ma Rong, and Chang Sheng, who attacked Pang County.

At this time, before Xu Xing arrived in the county town, Li Shijun handed over the city to Murong to be managed by his father and daughter, waiting for Xu Xing to arrive.

Murong Juan was bent on following Li Shijun and attacking Pang County together - at this time, the sky was dark, and the fourth watch was about to end, and the five drums had not yet sounded.

Li Shijun said to Guo Renying, the general of the Ma Commander, "General Guo, according to the original plan, Senior Brother Tian, Ma Rong, and General Chang Sheng should rush to Pang County? General Guo wants to send more scouts to the commander to inquire about the battle situation in Pang County as soon as possible, and report it quickly!"

Guo Renying said "yes" and went to arrange manpower.

However, it was said that Tian Mengchang, Ma Rong and Chang Sheng, who led 20,000 troops, set off quietly that night, marched all the way, and when they arrived at the city of Pang County, they saw that the city wall of Pang County was tall and the moat was extremely wide.

Tian Mengchang said to Ma Rong and Chang Sheng: "This Pang County, like the county, is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Fortunately, our army was here, and the city did not notice it. You can make the craftsman battalion hurry up and assemble the catapult, and we will attack the city!"

Ma Rong and Chang Sheng both said: "Our army has traveled all the way here, it took two and a half hours, and now it is close to the fifth watch, and the craftsman battalion must speed up!"

Tian Mengchang said: "Isn't it exactly! The defenders of Pang County never expected that our army would steal and merge the county, and if they came here, if they found out and used that rope net to block our army from attacking the city, this Pang County would be difficult to fight!"

At this time, all the members of the Taiping military craftsman camp were busy, extremely nervous, and they were in a hurry to assemble the catapult before dawn. Ma Rong and Chang Sheng urged them tightly, and demanded that the craftsman battalion must complete the task in the shortest possible time before the enemy soldiers found out.

It took nearly half an hour for the craftsman to assemble the catapult. The slinger measures the distance and locates the catapult.

At this time, the sky is bright, and it is the time when the five watch chickens are singing.

The soldiers of the flying army boarded the car and climbed into the stone bucket, Tian Mengchang gave an order, Ma Rong and Chang Sheng, with more than 90 soldiers, as the first batch, with the launch of the catapult, flew onto the city wall of Pang County!