"Open the city gate quickly. We were ambushed by Jin soldiers outside the city. General Jing was seriously injured. Open the city gate quickly!" A soldier shouted in panic outside Xinye City.
"What's going on!" After hearing the movement, Ma Xuan strode over and asked.
In Xinye County, Jing Dan is undoubtedly the commander-in-chief, responsible for the defense of Xinye City, and Ma Xuan is the magistrate of Xinye County. He is responsible for both civil and military affairs and presides over many affairs of Xinye County.
Ma Xuan, also known as Bo Chang, may not be very famous himself, but he has two younger brothers who will be extremely famous in the future. One of them is Ma Liang, who is known as "the five constants of the Ma family, the white eyebrow is the best", and the other is Ma Su who lost his street pavilion.
Of course, both Ma Liang and Ma Su were still young at this time, and even the youngest Ma Su was only ten years old this year.
Among the five brothers of the Ma family, Ma Bochang is the eldest.
The Ma family, where the five permanent members of the Ma family are located, can be considered to be on a certain stage in Jingbei. Among the five members of the Ma family, the older eldest and second child have already entered the official service, while the remaining three, including Ma Liang and Ma Su, are still thriving.
"We were ambushed by the Jin army outside the city. Our brothers suffered heavy losses and General Jing was seriously injured. Please open the city gate quickly!" the soldier shouted again.
Ma Xuan glanced towards the bottom of the city, but he couldn't see anything clearly in this pitch black area. However, for some reason, Ma Xuan always felt that there was something wrong with this matter.
"Vice General Wang Tian, where is Vice General Wang Tian?" Ma Xuan asked loudly looking down.
"Vice General Wang has died on the battlefield, please open the city gate quickly!" The soldier didn't think too deeply, but replied loudly. If you pause for too long at this time, it will also make the other party feel suspicious.
"That's it!" Ma Xuan continued to shout loudly downwards, but at the same time his face changed and he whispered to the surrounding soldiers, "The enemy troops are below, shoot arrows quickly, don't let them go!"
"咻咻咻……"
The Xinye soldiers who received Ma Xuan's order bent their bows and set up arrows. However, due to the number of people, the arrow rain always felt sparse.
Scattered bows and arrows kept shooting downwards, and when the opponent was caught off guard, they did cause a lot of casualties to the opponent.
It turned out that there was no lieutenant named Wang Tian around Jing Dan. It was just Ma Xuan who was deceiving them. Sure enough, the other party fell into Ma Xuan's fraud scheme, allowing Ma Xuan to distinguish the true from the false in time.
"Retreat, retreat!" Outside the city, these people also knew that the opponent had seen through them, and hurriedly retreated back, at least they had to leave the opponent's attack range first.
Outside the city, looking at the already alert Xinye County, Yue Yun's eyes were full of unwillingness. This was the first time he personally led an attack, but this time the action was obviously messed up by him.
Although there are only 500 defenders left in Xinye, he only has a thousand men under his command. Yue Fei's ability to bring out these men this time was already the limit.
On the one hand, if there are too many people, Huang Feihu will not be able to pretend. On the other hand, if too many soldiers and horses pass by, even if they have put on Chu army armor, they will definitely arouse suspicion in the counties and cities along the way.
After all, at this time, the troops and horses should normally move towards Wancheng, not towards Fancheng. In fact, even these troops and horses were gathered near Fancheng by Yue Fei in batches or even in several directions without anyone noticing.
Moreover, the most troublesome thing is that this time they did not carry any attack equipment, not even a ladder beside them. Once they didn't cheat to open the city gate, there was nothing he could do against them.
"Retreat!" Yue Yun ordered reluctantly.
Although he did not inherit too many military skills from Yue Fei, he could still judge that with his small number of people, he could not take this kind of city, so he could only retreat temporarily.
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After a night of fighting, among the three large and small battlefields opened by Yue Fei, except for Yue Yun who returned without success, there were gains in several other places.
Zhang Liao and Xu Huang worked together to kill more than a thousand of the opponent's troops. After feeling that time was almost up, they began to take the initiative to withdraw. After all, the opponent has many people, so if they continue to fight to the death, they don't have much chance of winning.
Where Yue Fei himself was, the harvest was the biggest. Fancheng's 15,000 troops captured 6,000 alive, killed 7,000, and only more than 2,000 fled in panic.
Among the generals in Fancheng, Wu Yiwen, Kou Xun and Kou Zhun, were captured alive by Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong. Zhu Chaoshi, a superb figure, was killed by Li Cunxiao with two spears. As a civil servant, Liu Anshi finally surrendered when the situation was over and there was no way to escape. He chose to draw his sword and kill himself rather than live in this world.
Liu Anshi's identity implanted after his birth was that of a clan member of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, compared to other generals, he had far fewer choices.
Only Zhang Yun lost all his courage after Kou Xun was captured by Yuchi Gong, so he continued to stay in Fancheng for a long time, and took advantage of the chaos to escape from Fancheng.
Zhang Yun's active escape was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, defeating the remaining resistance of the Chu army in the city, which could be regarded as a great favor to Yue Fei.
However, what Zhang Yun didn't know was that although he escaped from Fancheng, he would eventually die after returning to Xiangyang.
Zhang Yun paid himself that he was Liu Biao's nephew and was related to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu might punish him for this, but he would not kill him! Being able to save one life is enough for him!
However, he never expected that Liu Xiu was not Liu Biao, and the two men had completely different behavior styles. If such a thing happened, Liu Biao might leave Zhang Yun alive in the end, but it was impossible for Liu Xiu to have such a womanly kindness.
The fall of Fancheng was a big shock to Jingbei. For such a major event, someone must stand up and take responsibility, and Zhang Yun is one of them. Therefore, although he can escape now, in fact, his outcome has already been determined.
As for the battle in Nanyang, after Su Dingfang's consecutive victories in Liangzhou, Bai Qi became famous in the Yongliang Battle, and the battle in Nanyang became Yue Fei's real battle to become famous.
As soon as the war began, Yue Fei took the initiative and launched a surprise attack on Nanyang with Chang Yuchun. Then, when Yue Fei ostensibly marched towards Wancheng, he secretly had already separated an army wearing Chu army armor and lightly attacked them along the way. Going to Fancheng, Fancheng was decided in one battle, and Xiangyang was choked by the throat, putting Liu Xiu in a completely unfavorable situation at the beginning.
