Three Kingdoms King of the North

Seeing Li Jue running outside, the soldiers quickly followed, and asked stupidly, "Sima, do we need to inform General Guo?"

Hearing this question from the soldiers, Li Jue wished he could chop him to the ground with a single knife. When is the time, you still have the heart to ask Guo Bang to escape together.But if you want to escape from the city, you need as many people around you as possible, so Li Jue can only suppress the anger in his heart and run out with his head buried.He didn't know that he fought back and forth with his own soldiers at the gate of the ghost gate, but he still followed Li Jue every step of the way.

And shortly after Guo Si opened the city gate, he heard someone shouting outside: "Hu Cai colluded with Jizhou soldiers and horses and rebelled! Hu Cai colluded with Jizhou soldiers and horses!"

Hearing the repeated shouts outside, Guo Si's face turned livid, and he thought in his heart: Hu Zhen is such a daring dog, he dared to collude with Jizhou soldiers in private, and even beat him back, saying that Wu Xi had secretly communicated with Jizhou.If he allowed himself to see Hu Zhen, he would definitely be torn to pieces.

After receiving Zhao Yun's military order, Meng Dai from the east gate, Cheng Yi and Hou Cheng from the west gate all began to dispatch troops to seal the city gate and prevent the defenders from escaping.

Only Zhang Chong found Huangfu Li who was staying in the camp after receiving the military order, and asked curiously: "Mr. Huangfu, tell me, what is this Zhao Zilong going to do?"

Hearing what Zhang Chong said, Huangfu Li couldn't help asking curiously: "Why did Captain Zhang say that?"

"Early this morning, our school captain went to see General Zhao and asked him when he would attack Meiwu. Zhang was willing to lead the army to act as a forward." Zhang Chong said displeasedly: "Who knows, he told our school captain that because The army lacked enough siege equipment to attack Meiwu for the time being. Unexpectedly, after only a few hours, he changed his mind and planned to attack the city overnight."

Huangfu Li and warriors like Zhang Chong have different ways of thinking about problems. After hearing what Zhang Chong said, he pondered for a long time, and finally said: "Lieutenant Zhang, I think you have misunderstood."

"Misunderstood?" Hearing what Huangfu Li said, Zhang Chong asked with a puzzled face, "What did you misunderstand?"

"In my opinion, General Zhao and Mr. Guo must have an internal response in Meiwu City." Huangfu Li twisted his beard and said, "The reason why I didn't mention the attack on Meiwu during the day must be waiting for the internal response in the city to contact them. Now that there should be news in the interior, breaking the city is easy, and they will naturally attack the city overnight."

Knowing that there might be Zhao Yun and others in the city of Meiwu, Zhang Chong couldn't help panicking.He originally thought that he had surrendered to the Jizhou Army and followed Zhao Yun to attack Meiwu. people.Thinking of this, he anxiously asked Huangfu Li: "Mr. Huangfu, if there is really an internal response in the city, then our trip to Meiwu will be in vain."

"If Captain Zhang wants to make contributions, it's not hopeless." Huangfu Li also knew in his heart that as long as Nei Ying opened the city gate, the first contribution to breaking the city would be secured, and his trip to Meiwu would be someone else's. As a foil, thinking of this, he said to Zhang Chong: "If Captain Zhang can lead his troops to attack the city when the city is on fire, as long as he can break through the north gate and enter the city, it will be a great achievement."

"Since Mr. said so, the captain of the school will start to make preparations." After Zhang Chong finished speaking, he called a few confidantes in from the outside and asked them to prepare the bamboo ladder immediately so that they could use it to attack the city later.

At three o'clock, Feng Er led Zhao Yun's troops to the south gate.Looking at the dark part of the city wall, Zhao Yun felt a little uneasy in his heart. He turned his head and asked Feng Er beside him: "Feng Er, is your general really on top of the city tower?"

Seeing that there was no movement on the city wall, Feng Er felt uneasy. He was worried that Wu Xi would change his mind again during the time he was away, so he replied with a guilty conscience: "It should be here." After a moment's pause, he Then he said, "General Zhao, please wait here for a while, and wait for me to call to open the city gate."

Feng Er held a torch and came to the side of the moat, looked up at the city wall, raised the torch above his head, and shook it back and forth a few times.However, there was no movement on the city wall.Unwilling to be reconciled, Feng Er shook it a few more times. This time the city wall finally responded. The same torch protruded from a crenel and shook it downwards a few times.

Then Feng Er heard a familiar voice: "Is this Brother Feng Er?"

Feng Er felt that the voice was a bit like that of Hate Zi, so he asked tentatively: "Is the upper level Hate Zi?"

"That's right, Second Brother Feng, you're really a little brother." After confirming that it was Feng Er, the Henzi on the city wall immediately ordered the soldiers around him: "Quickly put down the suspension bridge and open the city gate!"

A moment later, the drawbridge rattled down and the city gates swung open.Seeing that the city gate was brightly illuminated by torches, Feng Er rode his horse across the suspension bridge first and entered the gate.Seeing Henzi approaching, he hastily reined in his horse and asked, "Henzi, where is the general?"

"Second brother Feng," Henzi replied quickly when he heard Feng Er's question, "The general led his men to capture Li Jue and Guo Si, and ordered my younger brother to stay on the tower to welcome the Jizhou army into the city!"

Knowing that Wu Xi led the troops to capture Li Jue and Guo Si, Feng Er hurriedly turned his horse's head and came outside the city gate, raised the torch in his hand again, and swung it a few times into the distance.Seeing the signal from Feng Er, Zhao Yun immediately shouted loudly: "Enter the city!"

Following Zhao Yun's order, the Jizhou army poured into the city from the open city gate, and under the guidance of Wu Xi's soldiers and horses, they quickly seized various strategic points.Li Jue and Guo Si's soldiers and horses found that after the Jizhou army entered the city, they fell into chaos immediately. Some ran around like headless chickens, and some fought desperately.

Zhang Chong, who was outside the north gate, saw the fire in the city and heard the shouts of killing inside, so he ordered people to attack the city.On the city wall at the north gate, there were not many defenders. Seeing countless bamboo ladders erected on the city wall, hordes of soldiers climbed up the bamboo ladders. How could they dare to stay? They scattered and fled.

After Zhang Chong's soldiers occupied the city wall, they immediately lowered the drawbridge and opened the city gate.As soon as the city gate opened, Zhang Chong immediately waved the weapon in his hand forward, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, come in with our captain."

Not long after the scuffle in the city started, some soldiers reported to Li Jue: "Report to Da Sima, the city is broken, run away!"

"What, the city is broken?" Li Jue was dumbfounded when he heard the report from the soldiers.Because in his mind, although Meiwu does not have the tall city walls and wide moats like Chang'an and Luoyang, it is not easy for the Jizhou army who lacks siege equipment to capture this city, he asked quickly : "How was the city breached?"

Regarding the city's destruction, the soldier who came to report the news also listened to a soldier who had fled into the mansion from the outside. He didn't know the specific situation, so he hesitated for a long time, but he didn't say anything.

Chapter 311

After Zhao Yun stopped Zhang Chong and Feng Er who were killing each other, he called them to the front.First, he asked Feng Er: "Feng Er, have you found your general?"

"No," Feng Er shook his head and replied bluntly, "We are only focusing on chasing deserters, and we have never seen my general." He turned his head and asked Henzi who was standing behind him, "Henzi, do you know where the general is? ?"

"It should be in Guo Bang's mansion." Henzi said in an uncertain tone: "After he ordered me to open the city gate to welcome the army into the city, he took people to Guo Bang's mansion. It must have been done."

Zhao Yun waited for Henzi to finish speaking, and immediately ordered Feng Er: "Feng Er, take someone to Guo Si's mansion to have a look, General Wu Xi is there."

"Here!" Feng Er agreed, turned around and shouted at the soldiers and horses behind him: "Everyone follow me!"

After Feng Er and Henzi left with their people, Zhao Yun asked Zhang Chong in a stern tone: "Lieutenant Zhang, the general's order to you is to guard the north gate and not let anyone in the city escape. Why did you lead your troops into the city without authorization? Are you still fighting with your allies?"

Zhang Chong hurriedly knelt down on the ground, and said to Zhao Yun: "General Zhao, the last general returned to Jizhou not long ago, and he has not made an inch of merit. He wants to take advantage of the city to capture and kill Li Jue and Guo Si as a token of honor. I don't want to enter the city. But he fought with the friendly army, please forgive me, the general."

"Have all your soldiers and horses entered the city?" Zhao Yun listened to the shouts of killing nearby, and asked coldly, "How many soldiers and horses are left guarding outside the city?"

"The last general left five thousand soldiers and horses in the camp, and Mr. Huangfu will command them." Zhang Chong thought for a while, and said with luck: "It's just that there are fewer defenders near the city gate, and there are only a dozen or so people guarding them." The final general thinks that the city is in such chaos, Li Jue, Guo Si and others want to escape, but they don't know where to go, so there is no need to send too many people to guard the city."

"Confused, simply confused." Zhao Yun waited for Zhang Chong to finish speaking, and immediately said with a straight face: "You think Li Jue, Guo Si and others don't know where to escape, so they take it lightly. When we were in Chang'an last time, we Set up an ambush everywhere, but Li Jue escaped. Hurry up and send people to strengthen the defense of the city gate, otherwise Li Jue and others will take advantage of the chaos and escape out of the city again."

Hearing what Zhao Yun said, Zhang Chong was startled into a cold sweat. He quickly called two of his confidants and ordered them to rush to the north of the city with a thousand soldiers to strengthen the defense of the city gate.

Although Zhang Chong dispatched manpower in time, he rushed to the north gate to strengthen the defense.But when Zhang Chong's two confidants arrived with their men, they only saw a dozen corpses lying near the city gate. Looking closer, they were all soldiers left by Zhang Chong to guard the city gate.The two of them were shocked when they saw this, and one of the military lords quickly ordered his subordinates: "Look around quickly, is there any survivors?"

The soldiers who followed them to the city gate immediately dispersed and began to check the corpses lying on the ground to see if there were still people who had not died.Soon, a soldier was heard exclaiming: "Marquis, there is still one alive here."

The two military marquises hurriedly followed the sound and ran over, only to see the shouting soldier squatting on the ground, holding a bloody soldier in his arms.Seeing the two military lords approaching, he hurriedly said, "Report to the military lord, he hasn't died yet."

The two military marquises were eager to know what happened here, and they didn't ask anyone to invite the doctor in the army, so they couldn't wait to ask the wounded soldier: "Tell me, what happened?"

The dying wounded soldier opened his eyes and saw two military lords squatting beside him, so he had to say intermittently: "Li Da Sima led people to kill him." Before he could finish his sentence, he tilted his head and died completely.

Although the wounded soldier didn't finish his sentence, the two military lords knew in their hearts that Li Jue had already led his men out from the city gate.Regarding whether to go after the matter, the opinions of the two diverged.One advocated to pursue immediately, while the other said that he didn't know how many soldiers Li Jue had under his command, so if he rushed to chase rashly, once he was ambushed, not only would he not be able to do any merit, but he might even risk his life.

The two argued for a long time, and when they were about to send someone to report to Zhang Chong, Zhang Chong had already rushed to the north gate with his people.Seeing a pile of corpses lying on the ground, Zhang Chong felt an ominous premonition, and he quickly asked the two military lords, "Have you ever seen Li Jue?"

"Returning to the school captain," the two military marquises quickly replied, "According to a wounded soldier, Li Jue led people to kill the guards at the city gate and escaped from Meiwu."

"How many people are under Li Jue?" Zhang Chong asked with a straight face, "Where did they go?"

The two military marquises shook their heads at the same time, and said, "I don't know. The wounded soldier died before he finished speaking, so I don't know how many people under Li Jue's subordinates, and where they went after leaving the city."

Zhang Chong raised his horsewhip and beat the two military marquises head-on and face-to-face: "You two bastards, how many people are left around Li Jue at this moment, so hurry up and catch up. If Li Jue leaves, you will Come see me."

Seeing that Zhang Chong was angry, the two military marquises did not dare to neglect, and hurriedly led their men out of the north gate.But outside the city, looking at the darkness all around, it was impossible to tell where Li Jue had fled to.One of the military marquises said: "I said brother, if Li Jue leaves, I will definitely be beheaded by the captain when I go back. Why don't we take the opportunity to escape."

"Escape?" Hearing what his companion said, another military marquis asked curiously, "Where are we going to escape?"

"It's better to go to Hongnong and vote for Zhang Ji." The military marquis said: "He has no grievances with Jizhou soldiers and horses in the past and has no hatred in recent days. I think even if we escape, Jizhou soldiers and horses will not go to Hongnong for important people."

After the other military marquis weighed his strengths, he nodded and said: "What you said is very true. If we go back to the city, we will definitely be beheaded by Captain Zhang. It is better to go to Hongnong to vote for General Zhang Ji. Not only can we Save your life, maybe he can arrange an official job for me and other brothers." After the two made an agreement, they immediately led their subordinates to Hongnong's direction and voted for Zhang Ji.

While Zhang Chong was waiting for his subordinates to chase Li Jue in the city, Feng Er, Hen Zi and others rushed to Guo Si's mansion with soldiers and horses, and found that there was a scuffle here, so they rushed into the battle.

Feng Er brandished the weapon in his hand, constantly beheading Guo Bang's men standing in front of him, and at the same time shouting loudly: "General, General, where are you?"

Although there are less than a hundred of Guo Bang's men left, they are all Guo Bang's confidantes, because their lord was killed by Wu Xi, they would rather risk their lives than get rid of Wu Xi.Therefore, although Wu Xi had many people, they fought in the mansion for nearly an hour, but there was still no winner.

But as the new force of Feng Er and Hen Zidai arrived, the resistance of Guo Si's subordinates became weaker and weaker, and within less than a stick of incense, they all fell into a pool of blood.After Feng Er and Hen Zi reunited, they both asked each other, "Have you ever seen the general?" Seeing that the other party shook his head to show that he didn't know, they grabbed other soldiers and asked, "Have you ever seen the general?"