The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

He observed the situation and found that Zhu Fu had once again gathered 5 soldiers and horses in this short period of half a month. In addition to the previously defeated and remnant soldiers, the number of soldiers and horses in Hepu City now seems to exceed [-] people.

These 5 people are probably the limit that Zhu Fu can recruit in Jiaozhou.

Hepu City, which has nearly 5 people stationed, has already made Liu Zheng feel tricky. Although he brought 2 people here, Liu Zheng is still not very sure about the battle between 2 people and 5 people, let alone The siege battle is extremely detrimental to Liu Zheng's troops.

So although Liu Zheng came here, he didn't think about attacking the city at all. He just stationed outside Hepu City, set up camp, and tried his best to defend.

Under the city of Hepu, because of the arrival of Liu Zheng's army.

At this time, Zhu Fu no longer had the arrogant ambition he had at the beginning, and now he only had worries.

"What to do, what to do, that bastard Liu Zheng is coming, can our people hold on!"

Zhu Fu did not have the bravery of his father Zhu Jun, nor did Zhu Jun have the style of a general. After realizing his own shortcomings, Zhu Fu only wanted to survive and how to block Liu Zheng's attack.

Under the city, Liu Zheng, led by Xu Huang and Gan Ning, stood outside the city and looked at the Jiaozhou soldiers on the city wall.

"Inspector Zhufu, I've heard about your name for a long time, and I finally saw you today."

Although Liu Zheng didn't know which Zhu Fu was, but seeing a group of generals and civil officials on the tower, he guessed that the Zhu Fu must be on the tower.

Zhu Fu on the tower was losing his temper at his subordinates, but when he heard Liu Zheng outside the city speak suddenly, he also stood up immediately, looking at Liu Zheng below, the hatred of killing his father immediately surged up again heart.

"Rebel, you still have the face to come to see me, the hatred of killing your father is irreconcilable, I will definitely kill you with my own hands, and eliminate harm for the people!"

Standing on the city tower, Zhu Fu looked at Liu Zheng who was under the city, and couldn't help but cursed angrily.

Liu Zheng naturally understood the hatred between him and Zhu Fu, and the reason why he came to Jiaozhou was precisely because of the hatred between Zhu Fu and his father Zhu Jun.

"What is the revenge of killing your father? Your father Zhu Jun is a pillar of the imperial court and one of the three major generals of Zhonglang. I am the commander of the Yellow Turban Army Runan Daqu. Each is the master. Fighting on the battlefield naturally has life and death. One General, it is an honor to die on the battlefield. Thanks to you being from a famous family, I really feel ashamed for your father. As the governor of Jiaozhou, he couldn’t even beat a small bandit like me, and he was besieged in the city by me. among."

"Want to avenge your father? Come here. I, Liu Zheng, are waiting for you outside Hepu City. I have only [-] troops. If you have the courage, go out of the city and fight with me!"

Liu Zheng rants for a while, the purpose is actually to anger Zhu Fu, so that Zhu Fu can go out of the city to fight him.

But Zhu Fu was indeed so angry by Liu Zheng's scolding that his face turned blue, but he was still not fooled.

"Hmph, Liu Zheng is a dog thief, come and attack the city if you have the guts, you want to let me out, think too much."

After Zhu Fu finished speaking, he ignored Liu Zheng. He knew that he couldn't scold Liu Zheng. If he continued to argue with Liu Zheng here, he would only humiliate himself, so he simply ignored him.

Chapter 221 In the Next County

three days in a row.

Liu Zheng kept sending people to fight, trying to lure Zhu Fu's people out of the city to fight him, but Zhu Fu was not fooled at all.

The gates of the city were closed tightly, and Liu Zheng's cry was ignored, which made Liu Zheng even more anxious.

"It's not very beneficial for us to delay the time."

Although the Han court is now in crisis, internal and external troubles.And Jiaozhou is located in a remote area. Liu Zheng attacked the city here, and the news would definitely not reach the court for a while.

But if time drags on for a long time, the news of Liu Zheng's tossing in Jiaozhou will definitely not be covered up, and it will definitely be known by the court, and the court will definitely send people to suppress him at that time.

Although the imperial court is now attracted by the rebellion of Wang Fen of Jizhou and Han Sui of Liangzhou and others, it has been less than half a year since the implementation of the prefectural pastor system. Resolve to rebellion everywhere.

At that time, it is not impossible for the imperial court to deal with him.

Of course, it will take a few months at the fastest, and the time left for Liu Zheng is just these few months.

Although a few months is not short, if Zhu Fu stays behind closed doors and does not fight, hiding in Hepu City and not coming out, Liu Zheng can only attack Hepu City by force.

"My lord, I have a plan!"

Seeing that Liu Zheng was in a dilemma, Xu Huang immediately opened his mouth to make a suggestion to Liu Zheng.

Letting Liu Zheng ponder how to deal with Zhu Fu's face, he immediately raised his head and looked at Xu Huang.

"Brother Xu Huang, if there is any way, just say it."

"My lord, since Zhu Fu is trapped in Hepu City and has mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers and horses here in a short period of time, the soldiers and horses in the surrounding counties must be empty. Why don't we shift our target and set our targets in other counties outside of Hepu City? ?”

As soon as Xu Huang spoke, Liu Zheng immediately slapped his head.

"Yeah, why didn't I think of that."

Liu Zheng was preoccupied with dealing with Zhu Fu, how to attract Zhu Fu's attention in the siege battle, and completely forgot that he could ignore Zhu Fu at all and target other counties instead.

Zhu Fu relies on the soldiers and horses in these counties and counties. If Liu Zheng takes down Hepu and even other counties and counties in Jiaozhou, at that time, he will lose the control of those counties and counties. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

He also had no way to fight Liu Zheng.

In that way, the longer the delay, the more beneficial it will be for Liu Zheng.

"Okay, great plan, start preparations immediately, start with Hepu County first, Gan Ning, order you and Zhou Cang to lead five thousand troops each, and start attacking the city below Hepu County. If you are a stubborn resister, kill the officials, release the prisoners in the city, and then you don’t need to manage the county, and then attack the next county.”

"Our goal is not to occupy, but to make these places out of control, so that Zhufu can't control them."

Liu Zheng issued an order to Gan Ning and Zhou Cang, asking them to lead [-] soldiers and horses to attack other counties in Hepu County.

But Liu Zheng's order to them was not to occupy, but to leave after breaking through the city and continue to the next county.

It's not that Liu Zheng doesn't want to occupy these cities. He lacks troops and territory at this time, and it's the time when he wants to occupy the cities. However, Liu Zheng doesn't have enough troops. If he wants to occupy these cities, he must not have enough troops.

Three or five cities may still be possible, but Liu Zheng now only has 1 soldiers and horses, and he has to take care of defending Hepu City. The number of troops he can send to attack other counties does not exceed [-].

These 1 people still think too much if they want to occupy a few cities. Instead of occupying those cities, it is better to liberate the people in those cities. As long as the Zhu Fu cannot govern those cities, the people in those cities will be Riots, when the time comes, the entire Jiaozhou will be on fire.

Zhu Fu was unable to govern, so Liu Zheng could recruit those rebel rebels while dealing with Zhu Fu.

Over time, Liu Zheng's power will only become stronger and stronger.

After Liu Zheng's order was spoken, Gan Ning and Zhou Cang immediately took the order and left.At the same time, in order to get rid of these counties in Hepu County as soon as possible, Liu Zheng also sent an order to Huang Zhongjun in Cangwu County to also send a small team to sweep up the counties in Hepu County.

There are three troops of 5000 troops sweeping all the counties and counties. In less than half a month, the city of Hepu County will be wiped out by Liu Zheng's troops. ,

At that time, without the support of the surrounding counties and counties, Zhu Fu will not be able to make any big waves for a mere Hepu county town.

Outside Hepu City, Liu Zheng's troops were reduced, but Zhu Fu in the city was closed and the news was not well informed. In addition, even if he knew that Liu Zheng's troops stationed outside the city had decreased, he would not dare to come out to fight Liu Zheng. I can only think that this is Liu Zheng's suspicious strategy.

In addition, Liu Zheng's troops attacked other counties and counties in Hepu County, and this news could not spread to Hepu City, so after half a month passed, the entire city of Hepu County was liberated by Liu Zheng's troops, After that, the Zhu Fu in Hepu City is still unclear.

He has been waiting, waiting for his envoy to Yangzhou to find reinforcements from Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, so that Liu Yao can join him in dealing with Liu Zheng.

But what he waited for was news from his cronies who risked their lives to break through and enter the city.

After all, Zhu Fu is the governor, and there are still some cronies under him. In Jiaozhou, there are several counties with soldiers and horses who are still loyal to Zhu Fu. When Liu Zheng's army swept the entire Hepu County, several counties gave up resistance. However, these people gave up resistance, but it does not mean that they are willing to take refuge in Liu Zheng.

It was just a temporary delay. After Liu Zheng's army left, these people immediately organized a 3000-man army and came outside Hepu City, intending to join Zhu Fu and report the news.

Who knew that Hepu City had already been surrounded by Liu Zheng's men. Although Liu Zheng had only 3000 people and surrounded Hepu City in four directions, there were no more than two to [-] troops stationed at a city gate.

These people seemed to make an assault, and fought Liu Zheng's army in one of the weaker places, which attracted the attention of Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses in Hepu City.

Zhu Fu passed through the city tower and saw that the people fighting under the city were his cronies, so he sent people out of the city to meet them.

Liu Zheng was short of soldiers and horses, unable to resist, so he could only temporarily avoid the edge, so that Zhu Fu in the city, after half a month, finally learned of Liu Zheng's plan to besiege the city and not attack it.

At this time, Zhu Fu's expression changed drastically, and he realized that he had been tricked again.

Cangwu County was lost, and now Hepu County was also lost.

Chapter 222 The Battle Is Coming

In Hepu City, Zhu Fu sat slumped on a chair with a cold expression and dull eyes.

He never imagined that Liu Zheng was so bold that he dared to take down the county towns of other counties in Hepu County with just over [-] troops.

Moreover, if only the city is attacked but not occupied, the captured city immediately becomes a land without owner. This Jiaozhou area is not the Central Plains area. Without the jurisdiction of the government, those indigenous forces and the village owners of various ethnic minorities will rise up and fight on their own. Occupy the county seat.

Zhu Fu could have suppressed it with soldiers and horses, but without Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses to suppress them, those Shanyue people, local aboriginal forces, and barbarian leaders would all take advantage of the situation.

This time, even if he was able to repel Liu Zheng's attack, it would take a long time to conquest if he wanted to regain the entire Hepu County.

"My lord, now is a great opportunity to go out of the city and fight that Liu Zheng!"

At this time, Zhu Fu's general Liu Yan stood up and proposed to Zhu Fu.

"Then Liu Zheng's troops are not many at all. Although there are nearly 2 people, we originally thought that his troops were setting up a suspicious formation, but we didn't expect that he really left here and went to other counties. Without those troops, we relied on Of the more than [-] people outside the city, we have nearly [-] soldiers and horses, five times the enemy army, even if Liu Zheng's strength is really strong, it is impossible to fight against our [-] army!"

Liu Yan is still full of confidence in dealing with Liu Zheng this time. He is the captain of cavalry under Zhu Fu, and he can be regarded as a general with some strength. As for the soldiers and horses under his command, most of them are under the command of Liu Yan. It's just an assassin on the bright side.

Liu Yan went out of the city to meet the main battle, but the other chief shi Yu Bao immediately had a different opinion.

"General Liu, go out of the city to face Liu Zheng. It is absolutely impossible at this time. Although Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses only have [-] people left to besiege the city here, Liu Zheng's strength is strong. We are not unaware. At that time, but as you saw with your own eyes, the opponent was only a mere ten thousand people, and he beat our [-] army to pieces, and it was wiped out in the blink of an eye."

As soon as Liu Yan saw Yu Bao's words, his face immediately became a little displeased, but he still patiently explained something to Yu Bao.

"Mr. Yu Bao, the battle of Wuyangling was indeed our negligence, but today is different from the past. That day Liu Zheng was ambushing in front and had the advantage of the terrain. Now we are going to deal with Liu Zheng. Ambushed, I don't think we'd be at a disadvantage in a normal engagement."

"Besides, Liu Zheng has no more than 2 soldiers at this time. If we don't seize the opportunity, when Liu Zheng's army is assembled, when the force exceeds [-], we will have no chance."

As a general, Liu Yan still has some insights, knowing that opportunities don't come often, and if they don't grasp them, it will be a great disadvantage to them.

At this time, Yu Bao was still reluctant to go out of the city to fight.

"Although what you said is very reasonable, who can guarantee that this time it's not Liu Zheng's trick. If his soldiers and horses are outside the city, he expects us to go out of the city to fight him. Wouldn't we be hit again? His plan, we will lose Hepu City by then."

"This"

After all, Liu Yan was not good at talking, and Yu Bao debated for a while, saying that he had nothing to say.

I can only look at Zhu Fu, hoping that Zhu Fu can make up his mind. After all, Zhu Fu is the governor and the one who can make the decision.

Not only Liu Yan, but Yu Bao and other civil and military officials were all looking at Zhu Fu at this time.

Shi Xie's son Shi Hui and younger brother Shi Wu stood silently in the hall, daring not to make a sound. Although they had hundreds of people following Zhu Fu, they didn't have much right to speak in front of Zhu Fu and could only let it go.

Zhu Fu had already been scared by Liu Zheng's men during the Battle of Wuyangling, but he was not a fool. At this time, knowing that Liu Zheng was constantly attacking the counties around Hepu County, he understood Liu Zheng's attack. It is to destroy the counties around Hepu City and turn Hepu City into a lonely and helpless city.

If Liu Zheng's plan is really successful, then Zhu Fu is really just a lonely family, and the sky should not be called the earth.

So knowing that it would be dangerous to go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng, Zhu Fu still decided to go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng.

Even if you can't defeat Liu Zheng, you have to leave Hepu at this time.

Otherwise, when Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses settle the Hepu matter and regroup in Hepu City, Zhu Fu's isolated city will not be Liu Zheng's opponent. Liu Zheng's men and horses gradually faded away and died.

"Let's go out of the city. This time is indeed an opportunity. If we can't grasp it, we really can't be his opponent when Liu Zheng's bastard gathers. Now there is no news from Yangzhou, we can only rely on ourselves , if Liu Zheng cannot be repelled, we can still retreat from Hepu County and defend Jiaozhi County, if not, it will be very bad to be besieged in Hepu."

Zhu Fu finally made a decision, and Liu Yan, who was standing below, immediately beamed with joy.

The reason why he proposed Zhu Fu to go out of the city to meet him was precisely because he was planning to break out from Hepu and retreat to Jiaozhi County if he really couldn't fight. retreat.

It's better than staying in this lonely city of Hepu County and waiting to die.

"Okay, my lord, since we have decided to leave the city, there is no time to delay. We should act as soon as possible, otherwise, when Liu Zheng's men react and gather from the surrounding counties, we will not be able to deal with Liu Zheng again." Easy."

After Liu Yan finished speaking, Zhu Fu had no objection, and quickly agreed, and the group began to break out and deal with Liu Zheng.

As for Liu Zheng outside the city, after being attacked and killed in the city not long ago, he knew that his plan could not be concealed.

Zhu Fu in the city must have known that his soldiers and horses had left the city, and only a part of them were left behind. Liu Zheng guessed that Zhu Fu might break out of the siege, so he immediately dispatched the soldiers and horses scattered around the city walls. Most of the soldiers and horses hit one place.

"Xu Huang, let all the horses immediately, most of them hit the south gate, and only three to five hundred people are left in the other cities to garrison, and tell them that once someone in the city leaves the city, they will retreat without fighting and come to the south gate. Assemble, I suspect that Zhu Fu may choose to go out of the city to fight us at this time."

"By the way, let the scouts inform Zhou Cang and Gan Ning immediately, tell them not to sweep the city, and gather here."

Chapter 223 Breakout Battle

After Liu Zheng's order was passed on by Xu Huang, Liu Zheng's army in the vicinity of Hepu City quickly gathered towards the south gate.

Liu Zheng knew that Zhu Fu in the city would not fight him in the first place. If Zhu Fu had the courage to go out of the city to fight, he would have come out a few days ago, and he would not wait until now.

This is why Liu Zheng was able to let half of his soldiers and horses sweep up various counties and counties.

Liu Zheng was at a disadvantage. He surrounded Hepu City. Zhu Fu in Hepu City didn't know the situation outside the city. Now someone broke through and broke into the city to report, so that Zhu Fu understood Liu Zheng's reality and Liu Zheng's strength. There should be a battle.

In this way, Liu Zheng continued to disperse his few troops to the four cities, which would only increase Zhu Fu's combat power. Zhu Fu still had [-] troops in Hepu City.

Although the 1 army is nothing in Liu Zheng's eyes, Liu Zheng only has 3000 people after all. If they are still scattered, there will be less than [-] people. Three thousand soldiers and horses will deal with Zhu Fu's [-], which is more than ten times the enemy. However, even if the battalion under Liu Zheng's command is the most elite soldiers and horses under his command, he dare not say that he can defeat Zhu Fu steadily.

Only when these soldiers and horses are regrouped in one place, with tens of thousands of people, can Liu Zheng have some confidence to use these soldiers and horses to fight against Zhu Fu's manpower.

He used [-] elite troops, the elite battalion after the reformation of the new army, to fight against the [-] troops that Zhu Fu improvised.

Still have a lot of confidence.

Not long after Liu Zheng gathered his soldiers and horses at the South City Gate.Sure enough, there was movement in Hepu City.

In the direction of the east city gate, Zhu Fu gathered most of the soldiers and horses in the city, opened the city gate from the east city gate, and killed them directly from the city.