On the fifth day, Yuan Yao led Lu Dai and Huang Zhong to arrive near Shangliao.
When Liu Pan heard this, he quickly gathered the Jingzhou army, but did not retreat. Instead, he formed a formation on the north bank to meet Yuan Yao's main force.
The two armies set up their battle formations, with more than 6,000 soldiers under Yuan Yao's command carrying banners and banners, and the troops were in good order.
However, Liu Pan's 4,000 Jingzhou army showed signs of fatigue and its military formation was loose.
Liu Pan stepped out on horseback and looked for Yuan Yao's figure in Yuan's army formation: "Yuan Yao, you and I still have a martial arts battle without a competition. Do you remember it?"
"Yuan Yao, don't pretend to be deaf and dumb. If you are a man, come out and fight me!"
Liu Pan screamed loudly, but he had other plans in his heart.
Lu Dai: "This man's troops are exhausted and exhausted. He is trying to provoke the general. My young master must not accept the challenge!"
Yuan Yao waved his hand: "I know this is a way to provoke the general, but since he wants to show off his courage, I will help him once!"
After saying that, Yuan Yao went straight into battle and replied to Liu Pan: "What martial arts you are talking about, I don't remember!"
Liu Pan twitched the corner of his mouth, showed his shining sword, pointed at Yuan Yao and said: "Don't pretend to be stupid. In the prefect's mansion, in front of dozens of people, you personally promised to compete with me!"
"Oh..." Yuan Yao touched his head: "When you said that, I remembered..."
"Is it the time when Zhuge Xuan invited me to a banquet, and you competed with me in literary talent first, and then asked for a martial arts contest after losing?"
Liu Pan: "Yes, that was it!"
Yuan Yao: "But, weren't you afraid of my general during the competition that night, and ended up running away without a fight?"
Liu Pan said angrily: "Why are you running away without fighting? I, the general, have something important to do that night..."
"My defeated general, I have no interest in you!" Yuan Yao interrupted directly: "Old Huang, take care of him for me!"
"No!" Huang Zhong responded, patted the horse and got on.
Seeing his former subordinates rushing toward him, Liu Pan was stunned for a moment, and then said angrily: "Yuan Yao, what do you mean?"
"You can say so if you don't want to compete with me, but there is no need to send an old soldier to humiliate me!"
"Let's talk about it after you can defeat him!"
Yuan Yao just smiled and said: "If you can defeat Huang Zhong, I, the general, will fight you alone!"
Hum, if you can really defeat Huang Zhong, I, Yuan Yao, will stand on my head and wash my hair for a month!
Looking at Huang Zhong rushing towards him, Liu Pan didn't have much fighting spirit. Instead, he persuaded him: "Huang Zhong, considering that you have worked hard for me in the past, if you surrender at this time, I will surrender." I’ll spare your life!”
Huang Zhong's expression changed after hearing this, and he said angrily: "How dare you talk nonsense to me, you idiot!"
Huang Zhong was a strong man. From the moment Liu Pan exchanged him for food, he no longer had any feelings for Liu Pan. Moreover, apart from the communication between superiors and subordinates, there is no personal relationship between the two people.
"I will let you see today whether I am old or not!"
Being scolded by his former subordinates as a "straight boy", Liu Pan also became angry. He immediately clamped his horse's belly and raised his knife to confront him.
"General, don't forget Kuai Gong's plan!" the deputy general behind Liu Pan quickly reminded him.
The two met quickly and used all their strength as soon as they met. Knife to knife, a round of head-to-head confrontation.
The two of them had never competed before, and when they came together, they were both secretly surprised.
Huang Zhong had a pair of unicorn arms and thought he had extraordinary arm strength. However, although Liu Pan was half a head shorter than him, he was no less powerful than him.
Liu Pan was also surprised by Huang Zhong. He had never thought that this veteran, who was as old as his father, could actually compete with him.
The two interacted for several more rounds, and then Liu Pan realized that he was wrong again.
This old Huang Zhong's courage is far superior to his own!
Not only is his strength majestic, his skills with the sword are even more amazing!
Every swing of his sword was as sharp as a strong wind, making people feel extremely oppressive.
After the three combinations, Liu Pan only had the ability to parry, but not the ability to fight back.
If it weren't for his extraordinary strength and quick reflexes at a young age, I would have been killed by old Huang Zhong!
Damn old thing, he was hiding it before!
Finally, after the eighth round, Liu Pan did not dare to continue the battle and fled directly back to his own formation.
"Retreat! All troops retreat!"
The lieutenant general was shocked: "General, is it too early to withdraw now?"
"If we withdraw now, will the enemy take the bait?"
Liu Pan blushed, his neck thickened, and he didn't know whether he was embarrassed or annoyed: "If you don't withdraw, I will be chopped alive!"
"Quickly retreat!"
Almost at the same time, Yuan Yao also ordered: "Liu Pan has been defeated, the whole army attacks!"
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In a melee, Yuan Jun won a small victory and beheaded more than 300 people.
At the critical moment, Liu Pan decisively sent his deputy general to the rear with a thousand soldiers and horses, so that he would not be bitten to death by Huang Zhong from behind.
But the deputy general was unlucky. Although Liu Pan told him to be careful about Huang Zhong, he didn't say much.
He also wanted to get close to Huang Zhong. When he saw that Huang Zhong ignored him and just sent troops to kill him, he yelled:
"Huang Zhong, you are such an old man, don't you care about the kindness of your colleagues in the past?"
"I know you, old thief Huang, are an ungrateful person. Do you dare to fight me?"
The answer was Huang Zhong's sword. With one face to face, Huang Zhong made the deputy general shut his mouth forever.
Then Yuan Jun pursued for a while, but Liu Pan had no choice but to fight Yuan Jun again.
Huang Zhong took the lead and suppressed Liu Pan. Lu Dai sent his troops to cover up the attack, but Liu Pan could not resist it. He was defeated for a while and suffered many casualties.
Yuan Jun didn't stop until they reached the border of Liling County.
Counting the results of the battle, a total of more than 800 people were beheaded in the two battles and more than a thousand people were captured.
If we include Liu Pan's losses at Shangliao City, Liu Pan should have less than 2,000 men left.
Good things come in pairs. As soon as Yuan Yao entered Haihun County, a messenger came from Nanchang and brought good news.
Huang Yi put down the rebellions of the Xu family and the Mo family, and the Nanchang Rebellion ended.
Yuan Yao was very curious, how could the Xu family and the Mo family rebel against themselves?
From Huang Yi's letter, we learned that Mo had always supported Zhu Hao, but was superficially submissive to the former prefect Zhuge Xuan.
After Zhu Hao was defeated and killed and Zhuge Xuan was deposed, although the Mo family still obeyed Yuan Yao, they established contact with Liu Yao and have been secretly contacting the major clans in Yuzhang to plan against Yuan Yao.
In short, Mr. Mo has always been a rebel.
The reason why the Xu family, who was originally on good terms with Yuan Yao, rebelled was because Huang Yi and Xu Zong were at odds with each other.
Under Yuan Yao's questioning, Xinqi also explained the whole story.
It turns out that Xu Zong claimed to be a famous scholar and a great Confucian, and he was always arrogant and absurd. When Yuan Yao was there, he was a little more restrained. After Yuan Yao led his army to the expedition, Xu Zong repeatedly attacked Huang Yi who stayed behind.
Every time there was a discussion, there was a lot of verbal abuse between the two people. Even though Chen Li and others were there to mediate, they often broke up unhappy.
Xu Zong had always been lenient and did not follow the laws. And Huang Yi was not a person who swallowed his anger. When one of Xu Zong's disciples got drunk and made trouble, he arrested all the troublemakers.
Xu Zong came to confront Huang Yi, and Huang Yi scolded Xu Zong for being the one behind the scenes. The conflict between the two intensified, but Mo took the opportunity to instigate him behind the scenes.
Xu Zong was so angry that he and Mo family gathered a crowd to start a rebellion.
