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Chapter 594 Zhang's Liang Country... is gone

The thick fog on the north bank of the Yellow River disperses earlier than on the south bank. In fact, the Zhang family's Liang army stationed on the north bank has someone responsible for paying attention to the movements of Jincheng at all times.

Before dawn, the south bank was full of killing sounds. At that time, Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi were awakened by the guards one after another. The two ignored the danger of the thick fog and went to the riverside. Because the sky was too dark and the fog was too thick, there was no I couldn't see what happened on the north bank of the Yellow River, not even a glimmer of light.

The two brothers and cats stayed by the river for about two quarters of an hour. The air in the mist was too humid, and the riverside was really too cold at night. Since they couldn't observe anything with their eyes, they returned to the camp.

The south bank of the Yellow River must be a war. Everyone, including Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi, has their own guesses. It is generally believed that Zhang Chong used the dense fog to attack the camp of the Han army. During the period, Zhang Tianxi exaggerated Zhang Chong, saying that It is Zhang Chong who is really familiar with military books and the like.

They found that it was wrong that the south bank of the Yellow River did not calm down after more than half an hour. On the contrary, the sound of fierce fighting became louder.

Taking advantage of the weather and night to attack the camp should not be like this. It should explode in a hurry and then subside in a very short period of time. It should not last for such a long time.

A few optimistic people speculated that Zhang Chong's attack on the camp was absolutely successful. He opened the gap first, and then Zhang Chong took advantage of the opportunity to launch a large-scale attack, so the fighting did not subside.

Unable to see the south bank of the Yellow River, and the sound of fierce battle showed no signs of diminishing, Zhang Zuo decided to send someone to venture across the river.

If there is an order from above, the people below will execute it, but the current of the Yellow River is still extremely fast, and there is no one who is selected to cross the river by boat without the despair of "my life will be reimbursed". He didn't dare to disobey the military order issued by Zhang Zuo himself, and only hoped that he could cross the river by luck.

There are thirteen boats crossing the river, and each boat is filled with ten people. They sailed out with various moods. People on the shore soon couldn’t see their figures through the thick fog. They only knew that the wooden boat had just left. On the shore, I heard the sound of falling water and exclamation.

In fact, two of the thirteen canoes capsized the moment they left the shore. After twenty people fell into the water, only three people jumped ashore, and the rest were swept away by the water.

For the remaining eleven, the farthest they sailed was about six feet away from the river, and then all of them were buried in the river, but it took a little longer.The time is long and not far from the shore. That is when the current is too fast. No matter how hard the people on the boat paddle, the current will still push the boat downstream, and the forward momentum will be seriously disturbed. Therefore, the sailing distance is not short, but the forward position will be very limited.

The sound of the water in the Yellow River was very loud, and the sound of fighting on the other side was even louder. Until the last small boat capsized, the people on the bank didn't know that those people had fallen into the water or where they were swept up. They still waited and waited and waited so faithfully. Those who are destined not to return.

The Yellow River that engulfed 120 seven people in a blink of an eye, its water is still extremely clear, the rolling river flows from west to east, and the Taotao River flows through thousands of twists and turns, and the water from the melting ice on the plateau flows into the East China Sea.

But I wonder if those Zhang family Liangjun who were buried in the river were also carried out of the sea?Probably not. After all, Liangzhou is thousands of miles away from the East China Sea. They would have been rolled to the shore somewhere downstream and turned into bloated corpses wearing Zhang's Liangjun military uniforms.

Tonight, on both sides of the Yellow River near Jincheng, people are doomed to sleepless nights.

The south bank shouted and killed, and there were people bleeding all the time. After falling to the ground, they slowly turned into corpses that lost their body temperature. There were also people sweating profusely and brandishing weapons to show their blood. The only constant was that the killing remained the same. continue.

Most of the Zhang's Liangjun on the north bank were awakened by the start. Those who woke up woke up those who were still sleeping, and then the whole battalion heard the sound of fighting from the south bank. All kinds of guesses would come from Different people come out of their mouths, either worrying or expecting, and they carry out all kinds of unsubstantiated imaginations far away.

Judging from the movement of the fighting, the deafening sound of horseshoes and the unstoppable shouts of killing have continued all the time, and one should know how intense the fighting situation is without too much brainstorming.

No one wants to sleep, Xiao Bingbing wakes up hungry and sounds loud, but those who have the conditions are thinking about how to fill their stomachs.

Zhang Zuo is the commander-in-chief of the entire army, and the people gathered in the military account are also from the privileged class. It is meaningless to just sit and talk to each other, and an impromptu banquet began.

The current Yellow River is not suitable for swimming, and there is no worry about being killed by the Han army crossing the river. Although Zhang Zuo, who is in a very hesitant mood, knows it is wrong, he still feels that he can drink properly. Without drinking, he really can't suppress his inner anxiety.

Yes, it was uneasiness. Zhang Zuo would be a complete fool if he hadn't noticed the abnormality on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Although he felt something was wrong, Zhang Zuo still never thought that Zhang Chong would go all out and do something like that, if he failed to defeat the Han army at once, he would suffer heavy losses to the army and then fall to Jincheng.

According to Zhang Zuo's thinking, if Zhang Chong felt that Zhang's Liang Kingdom had no future, he would have to surrender at the worst, but Zhang Chong did not offer the city to surrender at the beginning. It was believed that Zhang Chong would not surrender to the Han army.

What Zhang Zuo is worried about now is that Zhang Chong is playing too big and playing off. The Han army has long been prepared for Zhang Chong’s night attack, and it is planning or something, making Zhang Chong unable to stop after launching. He is still guessing how many troops Jincheng will lose, and then It is Zhang Chong's ability to defend Jincheng after losing many troops.

Jincheng is extremely important to Zhang's Liangguo. It is an undisputed military town to the east of Zhang's Liangguo. It used to hold off the invading enemy army more than once, frustrate the vigor of the invading enemy army, and make the invading enemy army Bury a large number of soldiers and the city.

Today's Jincheng is even more important. Zhang Zuo also hoped that Zhang Chong would be able to persist until Zhang's Liang army on the north bank of the Yellow River crossed the river, relying on the defenders of Jincheng to cooperate with the army crossing the river, and annihilate or defeat Xie An's army in one fell swoop. The Han army had seriously damaged the spirit of the Han country, and the Han army was so frightened that it did not dare to invade again.

[If the Han army can be defeated in Jincheng, Gu can send someone to meet the King of Han...] Zhang Zuo seemed very optimistic at the beginning of the banquet. 【If you can stop fighting on both sides... No, the King of Han will never give up destroying Great Liang just because of one failure...】

Zhang Zuo, who had the highest status, calmed down to think, and Zhang Tianxi behind him also looked like a ghost, causing everyone in the tent to become silent no matter how many words they had.

The atmosphere of silence will appear embarrassing. If you want to cover up the embarrassment, you have to toast frequently if you want to eat vegetables, and there are only sounds of various tableware colliding with each other in the tent.

Unless it is a special case, the garrison in the field will start a fire at the hour of Yinshi, and the fire will be passed down again and again. During this period, all kinds of food will also be processed. All kinds of food are just mixed together and thrown in, and come to a mixed pot of ingredients.

The weather is dense fog, and the wood placed in the open air is moistened by water vapor. People with common sense know that wet wood will produce a lot of smoke when burned.

The smoke from the firewood and the mist of nature filled the camp, and coughs began to appear frequently. Fortunately, the place where the pots were buried and cooked was never a place where the army camp was set up, and it was not so foolish to be placed there. In the limelight, it was only the cooks who were targeted.

The army is across the river, the south bank is slaughtered bloody, and the north bank is sleepless at night. It seems that this scene has happened more than once. The most recent time appeared in the battle between the Han army and the Jin army. Cross the river and fight.

"Misters..." Zhang Zuo finally got out of his thinking, and he didn't know if he had thought about something clearly. He seemed to be in good spirits: "Raise the lamp!"

The boss spoke up, and those who belonged to this faction raised their wine cups immediately, while those who did not belong to Zhang Zuo raised their wine cups after Zhang Tianxi made a move.

Zhang Zuo's next sentence should be "drink together", but just as he opened his mouth, there were panicked shouts from outside.

"General... General..., Jin City's banner has been replaced, it has fallen, it has already fallen!"

In other words, from waking up to observe in person, to coming back for a while to discuss, and then to the banquet being set up, time passed unconsciously, and the sky was already bright.

During this period, it wasn't that there was no information gathered from the outside, but it was reported again and again that they couldn't see what was going on on the south bank, and they were waiting to see the other bank, but this news came.

With a sound of "clang", the wine bar in Zhang Zuo's hand fell onto the desk table unsteadily, and came into intimate contact with the plate with the large piece of meat on it.

It's a wine jue. Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi used bronze jue cups, while the others used pottery jue cups.The tools you use represent your status, just like the princes who are qualified to eat with the cauldron, so there is the saying "If you can't eat with five cauldrons, you will steam with five cauldrons." The tools used are used to show status and identity.

Zhang Zuo was not the only one who dropped the tools in his hand, even Zhang Tianxi was so frightened that he missed them. Those who lost their hands without holding them firmly contributed to the crisp sound of pottery breaking into the tent.

"Zhang Chong... Zhang Chong is a bastard who has done more than succeed and failed!" Zhang Zuo was trembling all over, his eyes widened in an instant, with an expression of wanting to choose someone to eat: "If you don't have that ability, learn from others." What kind of night attack is it that let Xie An take the opportunity to enter Jincheng!"

The person who received the report was frightened and paralyzed on the ground, his limbs were weak and his face was at a loss, fearing that the next sentence he heard would be "pull it out and cut it" or something like that, and he would die.

"Investigate, investigate again!" Zhang Zuo stared fiercely at the messenger: "If Zhang Chong doesn't organize to take back the city, you will jump into the river!"

The messenger, whose whole body was weakening, almost used his last strength in this life to crawl out of the big tent.

"Calm down, General." Zhao Chang was one of the few people in the tent who dared to speak in Zhang Zuo's rage.He was also very flustered in his heart, but he was able to pretend to be calm, and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "There are more than [-] defenders in Jincheng, and there are nearly [-] civilians. If the county soldiers cannot afford a tough fight, Governor Zhang will definitely be able to take back the city."

"Gu is now worried about how many traitors there are!" Zhang Zuo roared angrily, "There must be traitors cooperating inside and outside, so that the Han army can enter the city. Gu should arrest their family members before they come. Gai Yi and their three clans!"

It is not uncommon for people to defect to the enemy when the country is in crisis. Such people will appear in any country, and it is impossible to eliminate them.

Of course, Zhang Zuo knew that many people thought that Zhang's Liang Kingdom was about to end, and they were looking for a way out early.He really did a lot of ransacking and exterminating the family, but it was just to deter those people and do it more secretly, and even made some people who were originally depending on the direction of the wind start doing that, and then changed it to appease.

It seems that soothing is more useful than killing?At least it seems that most of the aristocratic families have expressed that they will at least give it a try.Now it seems to Zhang Zuo... Whether it is the words or the promises made by the aristocratic family, they are not as effective as farts.

Zhang Tianxi was stunned for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he took a few glances at Zhang Zuo, then picked up the jug on the table and poured it fiercely, wiped his mouth at the end, and walked out of the military tent without saying a word.

There were quite a few people walking out of the military tent following Zhang Tianxi, and they quickly caught up after they came out.

"Lord..." Zhang Guan asked with a look of fear, "What should we do?"

Zhang Tianxi walked forward with a muffled voice, and walked faster and faster. After walking a certain distance, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the big tent where Zhang Zuo was. From a distance, he could see Zhang Zuo standing outside the tent and watching him from afar.

"Wait..." Zhang Tianxi realized that his voice was very hoarse, swallowed his saliva and adjusted it a little, and then said: "Everyone returns to the headquarters to organize the army, come and report when you are ready."

Zhang Guan opened his mouth in a daze and asked, "Reorganize the army? My lord wants to..."

"In addition, send someone to hurry back to Guzang. You must take Yaoling out of the city and escort him to Jiuquan first." Zhang Tianxi looked away from Zhang Zuo, looked at Zhang Guan who was a little at a loss, and then glanced at those who were also at a loss. Subordinate: "Let's go to Jiuquan first, and then head to the Western Regions."

Zhang Guan was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhang Zuo subconsciously, and asked, "Over there..."

"He knows." Zhang Tianxi looked up at the sky, without any emotion in his voice: "This matter is agreed in advance."

What is Jincheng?It is an important military town of Zhang's Liang State. In the hands of Zhang's Liang army, it is the eastern fortress against the invading enemy. Once captured by the enemy, it will become the bridgehead of the intruder.

Once the golden city is lost, the only natural barrier to the east of Zhang's Liang Kingdom is the Yellow River, but Zhang's Liang Kingdom does not have a large-scale navy. Facing a country with a large fleet like Han, the Yellow River is not a natural danger.

Without Jincheng's Zhang's Liangguo, the Han army has a huge fleet that can send troops across the river in a short period of time.Fight the Han army next to the water system?Shi Jie Zhao Guo has given too many examples, whoever doesn't accept the lesson is stupid enough to kill himself.

"The general will surrender to the great man at the right time..." Zhang Tianxi smiled miserably, then grinned and said: "We go to the Western Regions, if the king of Han accepts the general's surrender and treats us well, we will soon...become the king of Han servants of the

(End of this chapter)