Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Gan Ning yelled at Tai Shici knowingly asking, "Who is sitting down?!"

Tai Shici snorted coldly and twisted his neck.But he was kicked to the crook of the leg by the soldiers of the Liang Army behind him, and fell to his knees with a plop. "Tai Shici. If you cooperate with us and reveal some of the situation, when we kill you to sacrifice the flag, we can leave you with a whole body."

Tai Shici spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm and said: "If it wasn't for the fact that my king was assassinated and someone rushed to Huipu, how could we be defeated today?"

Dian Wei jumped on the pony in anger, grabbed Tai Shici's messy hair, and shouted: "You are a defeated general, how dare you pretend to be strong here" and pretended to slap Tai Shici, But Gan Ning stopped him by grabbing his wrist.

Gan Ning continued to ask Tai Shici: "Why, did someone kill Sun Ce?" Tai Shici knew that he had slipped his tongue, snorted coldly, and said no more.

Gan Ning waved his hand and told the soldiers to escort Tai Shici down first.Then those captured Wu soldiers were interrogated one by one.Only then did I know that a few days ago, Wu Jun's supplies were repeatedly robbed by unidentified bandits, and Sun Ce and Cheng Pu went to suppress the bandits, but they were killed.Gan Ning and Dian Wei suddenly realized why the Wu army was short of food and grass a few days ago, and why the Wu army was so easily defeated.It's just that they still don't know why Sun Ce, the king of Wu, died in humiliation at the hands of bandits?Then why was Hepu City taken by Liu Bei's Linjiang Army?

Gan Ning thought about it for a long time, and said to himself: "Could it be so? ... But it's unlikely!"

Dian Wei said anxiously at the side: "Brother, what are you muttering about, just say it out loud, otherwise Dian Wei will be anxious!"

Gan Ning said with a smile: "A Linjiang army suspected to be Liu Bei pretended to be a bandit and robbed the Wu army's grain and grass. Sun Ce Chengpu was also designed to be ambushed by them. Then they deceived or captured Hepu City."

Dian Wei asked suspiciously: "If Liu Bei wants to capture Hepu, he can take advantage of Hepu City's emptiness and take advantage of it. Why does he pretend to be a bandit and rob the Wu army's food and grass?"

"Of course, this is for us to defeat the Wu army from the front, and then they enter Hepu to control the whole county in the name of resisting our army. But they didn't expect that Sun Ce would come to suppress the bandits in person, so they temporarily changed their plan and ambushed Sun Ce, and then cheated Or take the city of Hepu by storm."

Dian Wei nodded thoughtfully, and continued to ask: "This inference is plausible. Then why did you mutter that it was impossible just now?"

Gan Ning said solemnly: "Who is Liu Bei? He prides himself on establishing the world with righteousness and convincing the world with virtue. Back then Tao Qian of Xuzhou handed over the state shepherd's position, and Liu Qi, the former king of Linjiang, also voluntarily abdicated the throne to him. It can be seen How can his character be convincing to others, even if this character is pretended, it is rare. So he will not use the means of planting evil to attack and kill the lord of the allies for the sake of the little Hepu County."

Dian Wei slapped his thigh and laughed loudly, and said: "Xingba, thanks to you being a Jinfan thief back then. You really believe in Liu Bei's benevolence. When a certain person followed Cao Cao back then, he knew about Liu Bei's stay in Xuzhou. He It is true that he won the hearts of the people, but Tao Qian did not give him the state shepherd willingly, but was forced to do so. The reason is precisely that he won the hearts of Xuzhou officials and people. Although the incident in Jingzhou was not early in the morning, the changes in Jiangling that year were well known to the world , the Cai family and her son were rescued by our king, and the rest of the relatives were killed. Of course, this was not done in the name of Liu Qi's edict, but it is not much different from Liu Bei's personal order. So Xingba, you Don’t take others for granted. We must see is believing.”

Chapter 525 Soldiers Arrive at Hepu City

After listening to Dian Wei's words, Gan Ning nodded and said, "That's right. We don't care about the affairs between Liu Bei and Wu now. We only need to complete the task assigned to us by the king, which is to capture Hepu County. Then we will take the three counties of Jiaozhi to the south as income. As for this Tai Shici, we can’t really kill him, we send people to escort him to the king, and wait for the king to personally deal with him.”

In Hepu City, Liu Bei was drafting a letter in his own handwriting in the study of the government office. At this time, a personal guard ordered soldiers to enter the room to report: "Report to the king, the guards at the top of the city and the various ministries outside the city have discovered that in the past few days, there have been constant attacks from the Liang army. The scouts came to investigate."

Liu Bei said indifferently: "Got it." The soldier was about to turn around and leave when Liu Bei called out: "Wait a minute, arrange for the courier to deliver this letter written by Gu and Sun Ce's body to Wu as quickly as possible. country."

After the personal guard ordered the soldiers to go out, Liu Bei paced with his hands behind his back again, thinking about the strategy to repel the Liang army. Only by completely repelling the Liang army can he completely and firmly occupy Hepu County.

After walking a few steps, he ordered his soldiers to summon Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei to discuss how to defeat the enemy.Liu Bei, who had been lurking in Hepu County for many days, had already found out the strength of the Liang army. There were seven to eight thousand infantry and chariots in total. As many as half.

Although Liu Bei's army has an advantage in terms of strength, Liu Bei knows the strength of the opponent's war cavalry.If it is a field duel on the plain terrain around Hepu City, it is difficult to be Liang Jun's opponent.But now Liu Bei has his own strategy to defeat the enemy.

As soon as Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei came, Liu Bei talked about the comparison of the strength of the enemy and us, and then he said his strategy: "Our army is hard to match the Liang army in the plains and wilderness outside Hepu City, but Laoyin Mountain has been taken by the Liang army. Conquer. It is difficult to find a mountain in the vicinity that can decisively fight the Liang army. Therefore, we can only rely on the city to hold on. So Xin, according to the situation reported by the detective horse, the Liang army has not much food and grass left, and it can last for five days at most. And we However, there are as many as two months of food and grass needs. In addition, no matter whether it is from Yunnan County or Jiaozhi County to Hepu, it is a difficult road among thousands of rivers and mountains. Therefore, we only need to guard Hepu City and use small He sent the dead soldiers to the mountainous area behind Liang Jun and attacked their grain roads, and after a long time, Liang Jun will retreat."

Liu Bei paused when he said this, and then said: "But we can't defend the isolated city of Hepu alone, or we will be surrounded by Liang Jun. Although Liang Jun can't consume us, we can't take the risk and let them lock us up. Died in the city. So Gu decided to set up two large camps outside the city, one in the south and one in the north, guarded by the two of you respectively, echoing the trend of Hepu City as horns, so that the enemy cannot encircle us."

Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong promised in unison: "I take orders." After the arrangement, they were about to leave the hall.Liu Bei suddenly thought of something again, and asked, "What happened to Cheng Pu? Is he willing to surrender to us?"

Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, this man is a man. We have exhausted all means of coercion and lure. He still refuses to enter. He has no intention of surrendering to us at all."

Liu Bei nodded calmly, and Zhang Fei went on to say, "Eh... Your Majesty, I don't know if there is something I should say or not." Liu Bei blinked, indicating that Zhang Fei should go on.

"Your Majesty, even if we surrender Cheng Pu, can we really use it? Aren't we afraid that he will pretend to surrender, and after he fled back to Wu Kingdom, tell Wu Guoxin the truth about it?"

Liu Bei laughed and said: "For this kind of people, if they surrendered, they really surrendered. How could they surrender and then rebel? Besides, this country of Wu, Guozuo is not long. As long as the Liang army is defeated, Stay firmly in Hepu, and after a little preparation, we will advance by land and water and attack Wu. Now they want no king, no general, and no generals. Isn’t it easy for us to attack it?”

Liu Bei put away his smile again and said, "However, I am afraid that he will find an opportunity to escape during the war, and that would be a big trouble. So now we have to appoint capable people to escort him to our rear Changsha County in advance. As for how to persuade him to surrender He, we'll figure it out later."

Soon, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong built a big camp in the north and south of Hepu City, and they were still strengthening day and night.Liu Bei also continued to strengthen the defense of Hepu City.

They are still dreaming that within five or six days, at most ten days later, Liang's army ran out of food and automatically retreated from Hepu.While the "special attack team" of the Linjiang Army was still feeding mosquitoes in the mountains, Liang Jun had already picked up the Lin Tao Fleet on the coast, unloaded tens of thousands of tons of supplies, and loaded them with equipment that had been reduced in number for days. wounded soldiers, and at the same time supplemented a small number of troops.

The time soon came to the fourth day, and that night, Zhang Fei was drunk again in his camp until midnight before falling asleep.When he was awakened by the loud noise, there was already a lot of killing outside, and the flames were soaring into the sky.Just as Zhang Fei yelled: "What's the matter?", a rocket broke through the tent and shot right into the unfinished wine jar. With a loud bang, a column of blue flames rose up. .The fragments of the wine jar cut a big gash in Zhang Fei's cheek, causing his face to bleed and grin his teeth.

At this time, a soldier came in and hurriedly said: "General, it's not good, the Liang army has attacked the camp!"

"It's just in time, take Lao Zhang's spear." When Zhang Fei put on his armor and stepped out of the tent drunkenly holding the snake spear, he saw Liang Jun's warriors shuttle back and forth in the camp, and rows of spear and shield soldiers swept around and suppressed. Soldiers of the Linjiang Army, one regiment to the east and one regiment to the west.Hundreds of tents were ablaze, illuminating the entire camp like daylight.

"Those who are afraid of the enemy and don't fight will be killed without mercy. Let me charge!" Zhang Fei raised his spear into the air and roared.Before he finished speaking, a general galloped towards him on horseback. It was Dian Wei, General of the Liang Army.Zhang Fei was still drunk, he staggered and straightened his spear, but it was obviously impossible for him to withstand Dian Wei's blow, and he would be killed by Dian Wei's halberd.

At this critical moment, more than a dozen cavalry rushed to this side, and it was Zhang Fei's own cavalry school lieutenant.One of them blocked Dianwei's halberd with his body, and was knocked off his horse by a halberd. The other was about to stab Dianwei with his lance, but was shot through the chest by a heavy arrow.Dian Wei pulled out the halberd, swiped it three times, and chopped down the two of them again.

At this time, Zhang Fei was dragged under the saddle by one of his own soldiers, and fled towards the back door of the camp.After Dian Wei and Liang Jun around him killed more than a dozen of Zhang Fei's soldiers, when he looked up again, Zhang Fei had disappeared, but the Linjiang Army in the camp had already begun to be defeated.Crowds ran around in a panic.

Gan Ning also brought light and heavy cavalry battalions to hide and kill them, and after a while he retreated.Looking at Zhang Fei's battalion that had been burned to the ground, Gan Ning said to Dian Wei, "I didn't expect this battalion to be so easy to fight. We eliminated one of the two supporting camps in Hepu, so we can attack Hepu directly."

Chapter 526

Zhang Fei, whose face was covered in blood, was taken to the foot of Hepu City by his own soldiers, and the defenders at the top of the city almost didn't even recognize Zhang Fei.Seeing these defeated soldiers in their own uniforms coming on horseback, they hesitated and did not dare to open the door.It wasn't until Zhang Fei yelled a few times that the soldiers at the head of the city confirmed that it was Zhang Fei. They quickly lowered the suspension bridge and opened the city gate to let them in.

Liu Bei has learned the news that Zhang Fei's camp was attacked, and hastily asked a series of questions. "Yide, what's wrong with you? How many troops did Liang Jun send to attack your camp? Why didn't you ask for help from the city?"

Originally, the mutual horns of the two battalions and one city meant that when any area was attacked or was intended to be surrounded by the enemy, it should immediately notify the other two areas to send reinforcements to attack the attacking enemy from the rear and disrupt the enemy's movement. intention.However, Zhang Fei's battalion never sent any information about the attack to Hepu City, and retreated so suddenly, which confused Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei said with tears, "Brother, Yide is sorry for you. I don't know why. When I woke up, I found that the camp was full of bandits. The camp was lost in such a muddle." Liu Bei heard this. , I immediately understood a little bit in my heart, and said in a deep voice: "Third brother, did you get together and get drunk again last night?"

Liu Bei's words were not serious, but Zhang Fei's heart trembled, and he muttered: "I waited for more than [-] generals to drink just a few jars..."

"Hi!" Liu Bei tossed his sleeves angrily and said, "How many times have I told you that you can't get drunk during the march and fight? Why can't you hold it back? You don't need to drink yourself. You still like it." Pulling the generals to gather people to drink. Isn't this giving your head to the enemy to chop off?"

Zhang Fei knelt down on the ground with a thud, weeping uncontrollably.Liu Bei had no choice but to wave his hand and said, "Forget it, that's all. Fortunately, we still have Huang Zhong's camp. Liang Jun can't take Hepu City for a while. If we delay for a few days, they will run out of food and retreat."

At this time, the soldiers came to report: "My lord, a large number of enemy troops are gathering under the city of Hepu."

Liu Bei was surprised and said: "The action is so fast. Not long after they laid down Yide's camp, they came to attack Hepu City? Hurry! Send out soldiers quickly and send an order to Huang Zhong to prepare him to support us. Once the Liang army starts To attack the city, attack from behind the Liang army."

Wait for Liu Bei and Zhang Fei, who is wrapped in bandages, to climb to the top of the city.Liang Jun has lined up under the city.As far as the eye could see, it was covered in darkness, surrounding the entire Hepu City on three sides, leaving only one exit on the north side.Liu Bei sneered and said, "The encirclement is short of one, which proves that they want to fight quickly, and indirectly shows that their food and grass are really not enough. It's a pity that they want to capture this Hepu City, let alone two or three days, two or three months I'm afraid I can't do it."

Liu Bei guessed right, Gan Ning Dianwei really wanted to make a quick decision, but it was not because of insufficient food and grass.Moreover, the speed Liang Jun wanted to achieve was far beyond Liu Bei's imagination.

Liu Bei looked at Liang Jun under the city very strangely.Because the other party didn't set up camp, it meant that they didn't plan to stay under Hepu City for long.But they kept busy, as if they were building something.In fact, Liang Jun is assembling a counterweight catapult.

By noon, Liang Jun's catapults had formed a circle in front of the three city walls.Standing at the top of the city, Liu Bei wondered again, the catapult is so far away from the city, can it hit the city wall?Just as he was having this thought, he heard a loud bang.Even though he had experienced many battles, he couldn't help being shocked, and a huge crack appeared on a pile of walls not far from him.

Liang Jun's counterweight catapults started bombarding one after another, and net bags filled with stones were thrown into the urban area one after another.The whole city of Hepu began to shake.Liu Bei had already been pulled by Zhang Fei behind him to hide behind the wall, surrounded by more than ten soldiers.There was another muffled bang, Liu Bei felt a lump of mud-like object on his face, and when he looked closely, it turned out that two soldiers beside him happened to be hit by a stone pocket, one of them was turned into a pulp, and one of them was hit by a stone pocket. A large piece splashed on Liu Bei's face.

Liu Bei couldn't help being shocked, he didn't expect that the opponent's trebuchet could really throw it so far, and it was so powerful.Zhang Fei shouted beside him: "Your Majesty, what should we do? If we continue to be bombarded like this, the city wall will collapse sooner or later. Why don't you let Lao Zhang take a fine cavalry and kill them all? destruction."

Liu Bei nodded and said, "You go down and prepare, but you still need to wait before you can attack. We have to wait for Huang Zhong to attack from behind them."

As soon as he finished speaking, a commanding soldier ran up from the bottom of the city in three steps and two steps, and hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, from the direction of Ximen, it should be General Huang's soldiers and horses coming!" Liu Bei hurriedly told Zhang Fei went down the city, walked to the west gate by himself, climbed to the top of the city, hid behind the wall and looked around, and sure enough, a cloud of dust rose on the western horizon behind him.

"Hurry up and give Zhang Fei an order to attack!" Liu Bei ordered the soldiers calmly.After a while, Zhang Fei led more than a thousand fine riders and rode out from the west city gate that suddenly opened wide.

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After Huang Zhong received Liu Bei's military order, he immediately brought all the war cavalry in the whole battalion to dare.When approaching Hepu City, they did not immediately launch an attack on Liang Jun's formation.Instead, he hid in a forest far away. He had to wait until Liang Jun launched a general attack on Hepu City before delivering a fatal blow to Liang Jun's back.

But he finally found out that Liang Jun just used their powerful catapults to bombard the Hepu city wall, and did not send troops to climb the city, so he knew in his heart that if this continued, the Hepu city wall would be completely destroyed sooner or later.So he launched an attack ahead of time.

When he could already see Liang Jun's formation with his naked eyes, the two rows of soldiers at the back of the formation turned around in unison amidst the sound of passwords.The shield walls are arranged in one or two columns.Huang Zhong sneered in his heart, this kind of shield wall without the cover of dense spears could be pierced by a cavalry charge.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Huang Zhong suddenly heard the sound of arrows piercing through the air, and then the screams of his soldiers after being shot by the arrows and the neighing of horses continued to come from behind.He looked left and right, and it turned out that Liang Jun's two battalions of light cavalry came from left and right, but they were not close to Huang Zhong's cavalry, but kept shooting in a parallel direction.

Only then did Huang Zhong realize that the opponent was already prepared, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "The whole army accelerates to charge! As long as they charge into the opponent's formation, their bows and horses will be useless to us."

Huang Zhong's thousands of cavalry suddenly increased their speed, and attacked Liang Jun's formation like a dark cloud.In a short distance of dozens of battles, [-]% of the soldiers were shot down.But paying such a heavy price, Huang Zhong really felt it was worth it, because his war cavalry was getting closer and closer to the opponent, only less than thirty battles away...

Chapter 527 Lightning Siege

Huang Zhong looked at Liang Jun's shield wall that was getting closer, raised the bow in his hand, bent the bow and set the arrow.He found that Liang Jun's spear and shield soldiers did not hold a spear in their other hand, but seemed to be pulling something behind the shield.He immediately thought that Liang Jun would use their shields equipped with special "crossbows" to shoot projectiles.Before he could think about it, he had released an arrow in his hand.

Huang Zhong is worthy of being a master archer who pierces Yang with a hundred steps. This arrow actually passed through the gap of less than an inch between the two shields, and hit the left chest of a Liang soldier.The latter fell to the ground with a scream, leaving a small gap in the shield wall.But at this moment, thousands of lead bullets were shot out densely, and the cavalry on Huang Zhong's left and right fell off his horse like autumn leaves.

Huang Zhong himself seemed to be pushed violently, and at the same time, he heard a crisp sound in his ears, and then fell off the horse.He was about to be trampled by the horse's hooves behind him, but fortunately he still had the spear in his hand, so he threw the point of the spear to the ground and flew into the air, stepping on a war horse that had lost its owner again.

At this moment, Huang Zhongfang felt a surge of pain in his chest, as if his entire heart and lungs were about to be spit out.Look around again, there are rows of soldiers who have fallen down.Then he heard another crackling sound, and the horse under his crotch let out a long howling and neighing suddenly, and rushed forward like crazy.No matter how Huang Zhong reined in, he couldn't control the horse.There is already a bloody hole in the horse's buttocks of this mount, shot by lead bullets.

When Huang Zhong ran like this, all the soldiers thought he was wounded and fled. In addition, Liang Jun's slingshots shot wave after wave, and Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu on both sides did not relax in the slightest.

The remaining soldiers and horses had no choice but to flee backward in a swarm.Qingqi Feiyu chased after them, and didn't stop the pursuit until he was sure that they were broken up.

Zhang Fei, who rushed out of the Hepu city gate, led his cavalry in a line to throw stones at Liang Jun.When he approached, he found that Huang Zhong, who was attacking Liang Jun's back, had been defeated.Although the plan to attack the Liang army together has failed, Zhang Fei has no intention of withdrawing his troops.He raised the snake spear in his hand and shouted: "Follow me!"

Zhang Fei was annoyed at losing his battalion, so he had to destroy some of Liang Jun's catapults in this attack, and put them away to report to Liu Bei.

The soldiers of the Liang army manipulating the catapults had long since retreated, replaced by rows of spear and shield soldiers. They also used the slingshots on their shields to shoot at Zhang Fei's cavalry in a dense manner, and the rain of such bullets became more and more intense. The denser it is.It turned out that the spear and shield soldiers who were attacking Huang Zhong from the rear also turned around and shot at Zhang Fei's cavalry.

Looking at the soldiers who fell off their horses, Zhang Fei couldn't stand it anymore.Those projectiles are almost invisible to the naked eye, and no matter how fast the snake spear dances in the hand, it cannot be stopped.For a short while, Zhang Fei was hit by two lead bullets, one of which got stuck in the armor, and the other shot into his shoulder socket, causing him to grin his teeth in pain.At this time, he was only two battles away from the nearest Liang Jun spear and shield soldier.The helpless pain made it difficult for him to lift the snake spear.I had no choice but to turn the horse's head and run backwards.As soon as he ran, the rest of Linjiang warriors followed him and retreated.Fortunately, Liang Jun did not catch up.

Zhang Fei ran back to the city, came to Liu Bei with a pale face, and said nothing dejectedly.At this time, the Liang Jun trebuchets outside the city started bombarding again.

Liu Bei comforted Zhang Fei: "Yide, I just saw it from the top of the city alone. It was Huang Zhong who was defeated first, so I don't blame you. You should go down and treat the wound first. Gu estimated that Liang Jun's bombardment in such a continuous Our city walls can be knocked down in two days, so there is still a fierce battle waiting for us."

Not long after Zhang Fei went down, Liang Jun's trebuchet bombardment suddenly stopped.This made Liu Bei very surprised, because he estimated that Liang Jun would launch a strong attack after the city wall collapsed. Although Hepu City has been shot countless times, most of the walls have been destroyed. intact.

Liu Bei poked his head out and looked at Liang Jun's army formation, and found that they were pushing new objects forward and lined up in front of the army formation.It was Liang Jun's ballista.It's a pity that the distance between these ballistas and Hepu City is still beyond the range of the crossbowmen at the head of the city.A moment later, a fireball hit Hepu City.At first they were not accurate, but as time went by, these fireballs fell more and more accurately, and every time they fell, flames rose several feet high.In the end, the entire city was a sea of ​​flames.Liu Bei and the rest of the soldiers at the top of the city had long been forced to retreat to the city stairs and corridors.

This is the first time Liu Bei has personally verified the power of the Liang Jun ballista's explosive bombs, and he is already shocked.He was afraid that the Liang army would take advantage of the top of the city and no one would go up to the top of the city, so the fire at the top of the city was slightly smaller, so he immediately took the soldiers to the top of the city again.Then, he found that the foot of the city was full of soldiers from the Liang army. They had rushed through the filled moat with ladders and various utensils of unknown purpose.

With a scream and then a scream, the soldiers beside Liu Bei collapsed to the ground clutching the heavy arrow that passed through their stomachs.The arrows of hundreds of longbowmen of the Liang Army kept shooting at the top of the city. Without the cover of the walls, the soldiers of the Linjiang Army at the top of the city were shot like living targets.

"My lord, be careful," a soldier yelled and stood in front of Liu Bei, whose back had been pierced by two heavy arrows.Although the longbow and heavy arrows kept coming, Liu Bei knew that the soldiers could no longer retreat to the stairs, otherwise no one could resist the attacking Liang army.He could only yell and let the sword and shield go forward, and use the shield to block the heavy arrows under the city from sniping.

Several of Liu Bei's personal soldiers stood in front of Liu Bei holding a tiger-headed shield, but for some reason, a short, dark figure suddenly flashed in front of them.Before they could react, two of them had their hamstrings severed by the opponent with a sharp dagger, and they screamed and collapsed on the ground.The short black figure rolled forward, and the dagger in its palm stabbed at Liu Bei's abdomen again.Liu Bei hastily retreated to the stairway behind him with two big strides, and let the dagger go through the air, but he was covered in cold sweat.

This short black figure is Liang Jun's Pegmi ejector, who was shot to the top of the city by the rubber ballista. Of course, he was not the only one. In just a few tens of breaths, fifty or sixty ejectors climbed to the top of the city. .They used their short and flexible bodies to quickly attack and kill more than a hundred Linjiang troops.The infantry of the Liang army who followed the ladder ant attached to the city also stood on the top of the city one after another.At this time, the bow shooting under the city also stopped, and the sounds of weapons clashing and fighting on the city began to grow louder and louder.

Liu Bei never dreamed that the other party would climb the top of the city so easily, and hurriedly turned and ran down the city, shouting as he ran: "Quick, hurry up and mobilize troops to the west gate." Soldiers of the Linjiang Army have already climbed to the top of the city, and the reserve troops in the city have gone to support them, and there are no extra troops to adjust.

Soon, the west gate was captured by Liang Jun, and a large number of Liang Jun's heavy cavalry poured into Hepu City from the gate.At this time, it was less than three hours before Liang Jun's catapults began to bombard them.

Chapter 528

Surrounded by his own soldiers, Liu Bei rushed from left to right in Hepu City. From a distance, it seemed that the streets were full of fast-moving Liang Army cavalry, and Liang Army infantry slowly advancing along the street in simple formations holding shields.The whole city is filled with the sound of weapons clashing, people shouting, and horses neighing.

In front of Liu Bei came the sound of galloping hooves of war horses again, and several tall Liang Jun heavy cavalry were galloping towards Liu Bei.Liu Bei turned his horse's head and fled to the side street.A dozen or so soldiers and cavalry around him mustered up their courage to meet him, to cut off his heir.

The two riders who rushed to the front cut each other's shoulders with a knife from the left. If they were replaced with ordinary armor, an arm would have to be removed with this knife.But the opponent was Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, wearing fine iron armor, and the first knife cut through a seam in the shoulder armor, and the strength was exhausted.Before Liu Bei's personal soldiers had time to withdraw their knives, their heads were smashed by the opponent's mace and fell off the horse.The man on the right collided directly with the opponent's horse, and his horse, which was much shorter than the opponent's, immediately rolled over on the ground. Before he could get up, he was kicked in the head by another Liang Jun heavy horse that charged .

These Liu Bei cavalry who intercepted Liang Jun were quickly wiped out by Liang Jun.Those heavy cavalry continued to chase Liu Bei.Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.The archer Liang Jun, who was hiding in some corner, shot Liu Bei secretly.

As soon as Liu Bei got up, he heard a few screams behind him. The last few soldiers around him were either shot by bows and arrows, or killed by spears thrown by more than a dozen Liang Army spear and shield soldiers who caught up. , There are a few armored heavy cavalry behind those spear and shield soldiers are also coming.

Rao even if Liu Bei boasted that the Taishan Mountain collapsed in the front and his face remained unchanged, and the tiger tended to the back without being alarmed, his face was pale and his eyes were full of despair.He drew out his double sword, determined to make the last fight in the world.At this critical moment, a voice rang in Liu Bei's ear: "Brother, get on the horse!" Liu Bei looked up and saw that Zhang Fei, who was bandaged and shirtless, had already rode his horse to him, and he was holding a horse behind him. A well-saddled war horse.

Without further ado, Liu Bei turned over and jumped on the mount Zhang Fei had prepared for him, and headed for the only north gate that was not blocked by Liang Jun.Behind Zhang Fei, the soldiers and cavalry headed towards Liang Jun...

At sunset, Liang Jun had completely controlled Hepu City.Liu Bei and Zhang Fei also fled into Huang Zhong's camp. They successively collected the Linjiang rout soldiers who escaped from Hepu City. After counting, they found that more than half of all the soldiers and horses had been lost so far.More importantly, the grain and grass hoarded in Hepu City were "left" to Liang Jun.

The dejected Liu Bei and the equally ashamed Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong discussed how to advance and retreat.

At present, the Linjiang army has suffered heavy losses, and has lost most of the food and grass as well as the fortified city. It is even more difficult to send people from a small number of people to transport food and grass all the way here.

Besides, it is not easy for so many people to hold the camp, and it is undoubtedly a dream to drive Liang Jun out of Hepu.Liu Bei quickly made a decision to withdraw from Hepu completely.

At dawn on the second day, when Liang Jun Qingqi, who launched a tentative attack, galloped into the camp of the Linjiang Army, there was no one in the camp.They left in a hurry, they didn't take away the camp tents, and they didn't even have time to burn them.

Dian Wei said to Gan Ning: "Brother, it seems that Liu Bei has only retreated not long ago. Should we divide our forces and pursue him? If we can capture him, it will be a great contribution."

Gan Ning was also moved by Dianwei's suggestion, but finally shook his head and said, "Four to five hundred miles to the north is Yulin County. Liu Bei has occupied this county for some time, and I don't know how many troops he has deployed in it." Troop strength. Moreover, Liu Bei I was a hero, and it is hard for us to pursue him alone. The key is that our troops are too small, and we have to complete the task of occupying the three counties of Jiaozhi. The remaining troops of this division are not enough."

Dian Wei nodded in conviction and said: "So, Xingba, then we will continue to act according to the previous plan. Sweep the three counties of Jiaozhi, Rinan, and Jiuzhen."

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In the autumn of the second year of Xiuwu, Dianwei's army stationed in Hepu, Gan Ning's army returned to Jiaozhi, joined forces with Menghuo's army who stayed in Jiaozhi, and captured the important town of Longbian City in just three days.

Then, with the cooperation of Lin Tao's fleet, thousands of war elephants and four thousand cavalry set off from the mouth of Pushui River, and marched along the coast by land and water, sweeping Jiuzhen and Ninan counties.Only a few battles actually took place, and most of the defenders surrendered.In the deep winter of the second year of Xiuwu, the scouts and warships of Liang State appeared on the border and coastline of Linyi State respectively.

The king of Linyi personally led the army, carried sheep and wine to reward Liang Jun, and made a gesture of surrender to Liang Guo.Before that, Lin Yiguo had very little contact with Liangguo.Therefore, this battle not only allowed the Liang State to capture most of the territory of the original Nanyue State, but also subdued all the Fan Kingdoms on the land between the Western Ocean and the South China Sea as Fan vassals.The Maritime Silk Road commercial road is almost completely under the control of Liang Jun, and there is no need to worry about being cut off and harassed.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in the third year of Xiuwu, Gan Ning and Dian Wei returned triumphantly. Feng Yu personally led the officials and went out to accompany Du Zhuyang to welcome them.

After exchanging pleasantries among the three monarchs and ministers, Gan Ning suddenly thought of Tai Shici again, and asked Feng Yu, "Your Majesty, I wonder what happened to the Tai Shici I captured on the Hepu battlefield half a year ago? Has this stubborn fellow surrendered?"

Feng Yu smiled without saying a word, and a voice came from behind Gan Ning: "Unexpectedly, General Gan Ning still misses XX so much." He turned around and saw that it was Tai Shici.Gan Ning grinned and said, "Brother, after all, you're still serving my Daliang. How did you figure it out?"

Tai Shici seemed embarrassed to tell the past, bowed his head and remained silent.Feng Yu laughed at the side and said: "It's a long story, so I don't want to go into details here. Our monarchs and ministers will talk slowly at the banquet."

After speaking, the officials had already entered the main hall, each took their seats, and the maids and servants brought dishes and drinks one after another, and the banquet began.Only then did Gan Ning and Dian Wei know what happened in Zhuyang and Nanyang during the period when Liang Jun conquered the three counties of Jiaozhi...

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In the area of ​​Nanyang, since Wei Jun Xu Huang, Zhang He, and Xu You tried to attack Dankouwubao and Zhuyang but failed, they focused on reclaiming Nanyang.Cao Cao, who was reported by Xu Huang, recalled Xu Huang and Xu You, leaving only Zhang Yun and more than ten thousand troops to stay in Nanyang.

Before Xu Huang left, Zhang Yun asked him to write to Cao Cao on his behalf, asking Cao Cao to continue to send people to Nanyang for reclamation.Zhang Xi's original words are Nanyang's fertile fields are thousands of miles away, and one map is flat.On such terrain, it is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is thousands of miles away from the hinterland of Wei State.If a large number of people can be implanted, not only can the city defenses of each city be strengthened, but also when Liang Guo is attacked in the future, food and grass can be replenished nearby, so there is no need to transport food for thousands of miles.

Cao Cao, who received Zhang He's report, appreciated Zhang He's strategy of gathering troops in the fields.Immediately issued an imperial edict ordering the officials of Yanyu and Yuzhou to recruit refugees and provide reclamation materials.