What are the origins of these two groups of soldiers and horses outside the city?
One of the routes was naturally Li Gang's King Qin's army, with He Yuanqing as the vanguard, fighting bravely, but the other route was Liu Lin, Liu Yu's son!
When Liu Yu was defeated and died, Liu Lin surrendered to Wanyan Yanxi. In the battle of Rongyang, Cao Cao used his plan to defeat the Liao Dynasty. Liu Lin saw the opportunity and led several sworn brothers to escape and traveled to Huaixi as thieves. Later, he Zhao Gou learned that the old official who offered advice to recruit his group was now killing King Qin and had been lying in wait outside the city for a long time just for today's decisive battle.
Fang La was killed unexpectedly, and the dragons were without a leader, and the chaos became more and more chaotic. Fortunately, the generals all had extraordinary skills, and they led the troops to fight in all directions. Because the Song army was unwilling to fight to the death, they let it go. They fled.
Li Ying and Yu Hualong kept Fang La safe and headed straight to Maoshan without stopping to meet up with Shi Jin who was recovering from his injuries here.
Yu Wupo, who was guarding here, was shocked when she learned of the defeat. She quickly led her troops out of the mountain and gathered the defeated soldiers one after another. A total of more than 30,000 people were gathered, and the rest fled without a trace.
Dai Zong and Shi Qian found out the details and reported back to Cao Cao. Cao Cao shook his head and said: "Although this kind of false surrender strategy is simple, it is the most likely to seduce people's hearts..."
He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, thinking of the Battle of Puyang, when the Tian family faked a surrender, and he almost lost his life in the city due to his greed; and later in the Battle of Chibi, Huang Gai faked a surrender, and he lost the best opportunity to unify the world.
After sighing, he cheered up and said: "Although the Song Dynasty has such a victory, the general trend will never change. It only seems that he has been trapped in the dangerous city for a long time. However, two troops came to serve the king, which showed the hearts of the people in the world. We only focused on fighting steadily and defeated Yangzhou first." Two troops from Luzhou and Luzhou crossed the river again to fight Zhao Ji."
Another day later, Wang Xie arrived at the foot of Chuzhou City, set up his position, and shouted: "Rebels against Wu Da, come out and die!"
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Let's go out of the city and have a fight with him to see how good this army is."
Then he ordered three thousand soldiers and led the generals out of the city. In front of the opposite army formation, they saw five generals showing off their power. One in the middle was in his thirties. He was holding a snake spear eight feet long and had a beard all over his face. He was the commander of Yangzhou in front of the imperial camp. Wang Xie controlled the military.
When Wang Xie saw the imperial flag waving behind Cao Cao, he felt frightened. He looked up and down, suddenly burst out laughing, pointed at Cao Cao and said, "I treat you like a traitor! I forgive you for being less than five feet tall and not looking like a king. How dare you claim to be so arrogant? Aren't you afraid of the ridicule of the world?"
Cao Cao was angry in his heart, but with a faint smile on his face he said: "Although I am short in stature, I am very courageous! In the past few years, I have conquered the south and the north and defeated all the enemies. The emperor of Jin, Liao and Xixia bowed his head when he saw that I was fearless. Who dares to Are you laughing at me?"
Wang Xie had nothing to say after hearing this. He rolled his eyes and said again: "What you said is nothing more than the actions of a general. How can an emperor rely solely on martial arts?"
Cao Cao laughed even more: "If I didn't have martial arts, how could it be the turn of Taizu Taizu of the Song Dynasty to wear that yellow robe? Besides, although my martial arts are great, my martial arts is not inferior to others. Don't you see that in today's world, only Shandong can be called a paradise? I govern the world. Yes, it’s evident.”
Wang Xie said that he could not do anything, so he became angry, pointed his snake spear, and shouted: "Who will help me capture this traitor!"
Fan Qiong, the general of the pirates under his command, shouted: "I'm going to capture this little thief!" He galloped out with his sword in the air.
Cao Cao pointed out: "This beast is disrespectful, who will kill it for me?"
It was rare for Su Ding to accompany Lao Cao in the battle, and he wanted to make a contribution, so he loudly said: "The last general will kill him!"
He slapped his horse and wielded his knife, and went straight to capture Fan Qiong. The two generals were killed in a group in front of the formation. The generals on both sides watched the battle intently. Seeing that the two of them fought until they were close to twenty, Fan Qiong was gradually losing. Wang Xie said anxiously: "Who is going? Help each other?"
A young general under his command came out in response and shouted: "Thanks to the Lord for taking me in, I'm going to pay you back today!" He held a big stick and galloped out.
Zhu Jing saw that he was coming with a fierceness, and shouted: "One against another, you are a good man. This is the general Zhu Jing, so the generals who come here can share their names!"
The young Song general shouted: "I am Yang Kebi of the Western Army!" The stick was knocked down on his head, and Zhu Jing swung his ax to meet him, and the two clanged together.
Lao Cao said in surprise: "It turns out that this person is Yang Kebi! Didn't I hear that he followed his brother Nai and led Bai Zhu to ride into the formation and died in Hejian Mansion?"
It turns out that in the battle of Hejianfu in the past, the fierce general Yang Keshi died in the battle. His general Ling Shuihan carried his body and charged to the death. He stabbed Yang Kebi's horse with a short knife to cover his escape.
Yang Kebi stumbled into the mountains and was lost for a few days before he came out. Tong Guan's army had retreated, and Yang Kebi could not return to the army. On the way, he encountered a small group of soldiers from the Liao State who were encircling and suppressing the remnants of the Song army. He finally escaped in a bloody battle, and another incident occurred. He was seriously ill and took several months to recover.
After returning to Bianliang, Bianliang had already fallen, and it was difficult to tell the truth of various rumors. He heard that Zhao Ji was in Runzhou, so he ran south indiscriminately. When he met Wang Xie's troops withdrawing from Huaiyou, he learned what happened to him. I felt very sorry for him, so I stayed in front of my tent to listen to him.
The four generals were fighting against each other in the field, and they fought each other. Su Ding gave a loud shout, and used his unique skill with a flower sword. He deceived the door with a false move, and chopped off Fan Qiong's horse with one blow.
Wang Xie was shocked and quickly raised money to withdraw his troops. Yang Kebi had no choice but to return to his horse. When he saw Yang Kebi in the camp, he said angrily: "Although Fan Qiong is defeated, I am about to kill Zhu Jing to save the situation. Why will the general withdraw his troops?"
Wang Xie said unhappily: "I have my own reasons for using troops, how can you, a child, not predict it? I don't see warrior thieves and soldiers with good generals and bravery. If I fight too hard with him, I will let Du Chong achieve great success."
The next day, Du Chong's troops arrived and formed a company camp with Wang Xie, with a total of more than 50,000 soldiers and horses, and set out to challenge again.
Before the battle, Wang Xiebei mentioned the bravery of Lao Cao's generals. Du Chong dismissed it and said: "Everyone in the world fears military thieves as much as tigers. I only want to use their heads to climb the clouds."
Seeing the Song army's challenge, Lao Cao still led 3,000 troops out of the city to fight. Du Chong pointed at Cao Cao and said: "He is the biggest thief in this country, and the one who takes his head should be the Marquis of Ten Thousand Houses!" After saying this, the four commanders under his command all killed him. It was Qi Fang, Chen Que, Zhai Xing, and Dong Xian who came out!
Cao Cao smiled and said: "Go and block him with four brothers."
Fang Jie, Shi Xiu, Liu Yuan, and Kong Ming all rushed out, each fighting against one person.
After fighting for seven or eight times, Fang Jie shouted loudly and stabbed Qi Fang to death with a halberd. Just as he was about to return to the formation, he suddenly saw Kong Ming in a hurry. He quickly turned his horse's head, replaced Kong Ming, and fought Dong Xian himself.
Dong Xian was a thief in Jiugong Mountain and was known as the "Iron-faced King". He wielded a tiger-headed crescent shovel and was brave enough that no one could match him. Later, when the Liao army came, he was recruited by the veteran general Zhai Xing and became his subordinate. Fight and achieve more military exploits.
It's just that although his martial arts is high, how can he compare to Fang Jie? After two battles of thirty or forty, Fang Jie summoned up his power, shouted with a halberd, and chopped off Mr. Dong's crescent shovel, and then stabbed him under the horse with another halberd.
Chen Que and Zhai Xing fought with Shi Xiu and Liu Yuan for fifty rounds, with neither victory nor defeat. However, seeing Fang Jie kill two generals in a row, they couldn't help but feel frightened. They each used feints and were defeated back to their own formation.
Song Jiangyuan opened his strange eyes and shouted: "Your Majesty, the enemy has been defeated for two days in a row and must be discouraged. Now is the time to defeat the enemy!"
Cao Cao smiled and agreed, and Song Jiang personally drew a spear and waved it: "Brothers, follow Song to kill the enemy!"
With 3,000 Han troops, they rushed over in one fell swoop. As expected, the Song troops were in chaos. Song Jiang, holding a spear in his hand, Song Qing on the left and Kong Liang on the right, killed seven or eight Song troops in a row. He was really majestic and brave.
The Song army retreated all the way back to the camp, and the defenders in the camp fired arrows one after another. Only then did Song Jiang feel proud and lead his troops back.
In the evening, Dai Zong's envoy Shen Xingfa rushed outside the Song army camp, opened his hand and shot a headless arrow, turned around and left.
The Song army picked up the arrow and saw that it was wrapped with a brocade silk. They did not dare to neglect it and quickly sent it to Du Chong and Wang Xie. The second general opened it and saw that it was a letter urging surrender. The two generals looked at each other for a long time. Du Chong Throwing the letter of persuasion to surrender, he laughed and said: "What a good Wu Dalang, you really think that you are the leader of the world, and you just want to persuade me to surrender. How can you not even mention the conditions? Do you want loyal ministers like you and me to surrender for no reason?" "
At the third watch of the night, Lao Cao mobilized his three armies, opened the city gate, and attacked the Song camp with great force.
Du Chong and Wang Xie never expected that Lao Cao, who had been trying to persuade them to surrender a few hours ago, would attack the camp in a blink of an eye. They were instantly defeated. When they were about to escape in the dark, two cavalrymen, Lin Chong and Hua Rong, captured them with fan bread. Later, after a massive killing, as fate would have it, more than 50,000 Song troops escaped, but less than 3,000 escaped. Du Chong and Wang Xie were captured, and the regiment training envoys Zhang Yu and Yang Qing died in the chaos. Shi Xiu , Liu Yuan captured Chen Que alive, Fan Rui captured Zhai Xing alone, Yang Kebi rushed left and right, and met Lin Chong. The two fought for dozens of times, but Lin Chong forced his weapon and captured him on horseback.
At this point, the two armies of the Song Dynasty were in vain. Lao Cao marched his army forward, drank his horse in the Yangtze River, and sent people to Taihu Lake to contact the navy to ferry him across the river.
The news spread to Jinling, and the whole city was shocked.
This is exactly:
The dragon flies on the river and the waves hit the sky, and the horse steps on the city and the soul goes crazy. Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are raising the banner of the Han Dynasty, and the lofty sentiments are boundless.
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