"Hold on, hold on!"
Shijie shouted from inside the courtyard wall.
In fact, he had three to four hundred servants and guards under his command. The opponent was obviously smaller in number than them, and they were still on the defensive side, but Ke Shijie felt that the opponent seemed to have a thousand people attacking.
Shi Xie was neatly dressed, and although his eyes were bright and sparkling, he was old after all and could not help at all, so he could only worry here.
Jiang Wan doesn't know how to fight. Even if there is a conflict between hundreds of people, he doesn't know where to start.
But what surprised Jiang Wan was that Mu Manchong of Jiaozhou actually took on the responsibility of command. Under his assignment, these servants and guards were mobilized to the maximum extent.
Jiang Wan then remembered the information about Man Chong obtained from Beifu. Man Chong was actually an old minister who defected to Cao Cao when he was in Yanzhou. Although he had not entered the core level, he had been promoted step by step and soon became the leader of Henan Yin who controlled the lifeblood of the world in Luoyang. However, after he was promoted to the prefect of Runan, he has not been promoted for several years.
It is said that he offended many old Luoyang aristocrats during his tenure as Yin of Henan. Jiang Wan did not know whether it was true or not, but he suddenly realized that without Cao Wu's sudden recommendation, this man might have stayed in the post of governor of Runan for another ten years. .
"Could it be that General Beifu knew about his abilities and asked him to come?"
While Jiang Wan frowned, Man Chong had already commanded the guards to block a broken wall.
"Young man, don't be stunned!"
Man Chong spoke coldly. Jiang Wan was startled and hurriedly moved things behind.
This was the first time since he went south that he felt powerless. In a mere battle of hundreds of people, a scholar was useless.
What if there is a battle involving tens of thousands of people?
…
"Crossing the river at dawn."
A general order was passed to the various camps of Cao's army in front of the Baiteng River.
Xing Daorong was the first to be unable to sit still and entered Yulin County. He opened the way as a vanguard and finally defeated three county towns. He was about to capture Yulin County, but Cao Wu sent him to the border of Yulin and Jiaozhi.
Xing Daorong rushed over in a hurry, but as soon as he set up camp, he received the order to cross the river. It only took half a night to set up the camp, which was equivalent to wasting his work.
He opened the curtain of the Chinese army and was about to question Cao Wu, but he saw that the stronghold was filled with generals.
Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Li Dian, Zhang He, Huang Zhong...,
Almost all the generals gathered here, listening to the narrative of the military advisor beside Cao Wu.
"There is no main enemy force anywhere, so the most unlikely place is where he is."
Lu Xun simply concluded that there were not many people in the world who knew Zhou Yu better than him. Just because he knew Zhou Yu, he believed that Zhou Yu's strategy would never be so simple.
In order to respond, there can be no waiting any longer.
The torches flickered in the camp. Cao Wu looked at the torches and smiled calmly.
This is what happens to a handsome man. Every move he makes can determine the life or death of tens of thousands of people.
Since Zhou Yu can't come out, let's lure him out.
At dawn, the entire army crossed the Bai Dang River.
From beginning to end, Cao Wu never gave Xing Daorong a chance to speak.
…
"Tap tap tap!"
The sound of footsteps came from outside the Jiaozhi Prefecture.
Li Zhang, the deputy general guarding the west gate, was the third to arrive. Soon, more than a thousand guards from the four gates gathered at the door.
Li Zhang drew his sword and shouted: "Kill the warriors and rebels! Rescue Suinan Zhonglang General!"
Most of the other soldiers were coerced here, but when they saw that the gate of the prefect's mansion was destroyed, everyone knew that something was indeed wrong.
Li Zhang said a few more words of confusion, and many soldiers rushed to the place in the prefect's mansion where the shouts of killing were the loudest.
Gan Ning was gritting his teeth and attacking the courtyard. Even though he was a veteran of more than a hundred battles, he was still unable to break through. It seemed that the opponent had a master commander who blocked him out.
His initial goal was to defeat Shi Xie, but later he thought it would be good if he could rescue the three Shi Xie brothers. In the end, he just wanted to rescue Bu Zhi and retreat.
But more than half an hour passed, and he failed to rescue anyone. Instead, many of the old soldiers were killed or injured.
Just at this time, Gan Ning heard footsteps outside and turned around in shock.
A sharp arrow from Li Zhang has been shot.
Gan Ning gritted his teeth, which was missing a front tooth, and took a few steps back to avoid the arrows. He saw that there were thousands of people approaching, and knowing that there would be no chance tonight, he had to say angrily: "Get out!"
When the soldiers heard his words, they gathered around him one after another. Gan Ning looked around and found that more than a thousand people had come and surrounded them.
Gan Ning had received a face-to-face instruction from Zhou Yu before and said in a deep voice: "The upper echelons of the scholar family are fighting for power. What do you have to do with it!"
These four guards didn't know the truth to begin with, so they looked at each other in shock at these words.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Zhang wanted to continue talking, but he saw something flying out of the courtyard in front of him.
Everyone looked at it together. After the thing fell to the ground and rolled around a few times, they realized that it was actually a human head.
At the same time, an angry voice came from the courtyard: "My disciple Shiwu even rebelled, put me under house arrest, and sold Jiaozhi to Jiangdong. Now that the culprit has been killed, the rest are working hard to hunt down the Jiangdong dog thief, and let bygones be bygones!"
In the crowd, Huang Qi stared at the human head on the ground with wide eyes.
He was a city gate guard and had been seen by everyone who came and went. He naturally knew that this was the head of Shiwu, the prefect of Nanhai.
Huang Qi looked at the courtyard wall in front of him in disbelief. Shi Xie's younger brother was dead. He was killed by Shi Xie's personal order...
Just half a month ago, weren't they still brothers and sisters? What happened? What happened to Jiaozhi?
Brother kills brother, brother kills brother, chaos is like hell.
Huang Qi didn't know that this kind of thing had happened too much in the north in the past twenty years. It was Shi Xie who blocked the northern forces for them, so they had never seen such a thing.
Faced with this scene, many soldiers hesitated.
Li Zhang had no time to care about the confusion of these soldiers. He followed Shi Xie's words and shouted loudly: "Kill the Jiangdong bandits and let bygones be bygones!"
Among the soldiers, those who had surrendered to the soldiers before were trembling. When he woke them up, they immediately started shouting.
More than a thousand people rushed towards Gan Ning's more than 100 old soldiers.
Gan Ning shouted: "Withdraw, withdraw!"
He picked up the ringing arrow in his hand again and shot into the sky.
A sharp "whoosh" sound shot straight into the sky, but there was still no response.
Gan Ning had no choice but to hold a gun in one hand and a knife in the other to fight his way through the crowd.
Half an hour later, Gan Ning fought and retreated, and finally reached the base of the city wall from the prefect's mansion.
During this bloody battle, he was covered in blood, and there were never less than a dozen enemies in front of him. Fortunately, the old soldier was very capable and protected him here.
But among the hundreds of old soldiers, less than ten can survive to this point.
Fortunately, some of the fifty old soldiers who came out to kill the horses were still alive, so they gathered more than twenty people and headed towards the city to kill.
To his surprise, there were almost no guards at the top of the city. It seemed that they had all gone to the prefect's mansion.
He stood at the head of the dragon-made city and saw that there was no longer a big flag with the word Zhou on the city. He angrily cut off a flag with the word "Shi" with his knife, and shouted to the moat: "Where is the boat? Where is my boat?"
He has two large sea ships in his hands. Cochin is full of water and has crisscrossed waterways. Unlike Guangxin, Cochin is surrounded by a moat. In order to cope with the situation, the big ships wander around the nearby waters at any time.
Especially at night, they will definitely stay in the water connected to the moat. As long as they are called by Gan Ning's whistle arrow, they will come to support.
Gan Ning scratched his scalp fiercely, but the river water outside gave him no answer.
The two ships and the more than a thousand soldiers on board just disappeared.
"General, what should I do?"
The old soldier next to him asked.
Gan Ning recognized this man. It is said that he was in the army when Sun Jian, the former lord of Jiangdong, crossed the river to attack Liu Biao. More than ten years later, he was selected by Zhou Yu as the most elite soldier.
Zhou Yu had a total of 500 such subordinates, and he had consumed more than 100 today.
Gan Ning looked up to the sky and sighed, then looked back at Longbian City.
In tonight's battle, he lost all the Jiangdong Army's interests in Longbian and even in Jiaozhi and other places. It would be even more difficult to regain them.
Zhou Yu did not underestimate Shi Xie. With him in the city and ships outside the city, his combat strength was enough to serve as two thousand soldiers.
Unexpectedly, they were caught off guard by Shi Xie.
This old man who dared to throw away his brother's head was able to separate the South for more than twenty years. After all, he was still powerful.
In confusion, Gan Ning shouted to retreat and jumped into the moat first.
…
Ling Tong licked his lips and lowered his body.
Where he stayed, he couldn't see what the weather was like, but he just had to wait for the signal and he would rush out.
Behind him, there were a hundred old soldiers, all of them brave.
Ling Tong believed that when he appeared, he would be able to catch Le Jin off guard and capture Guangxin City in one fell swoop.
Everything is just waiting for dawn.
