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Chapter 5 The Change of the Wind and Clouds Section 5

A trace of white fish suddenly appeared between heaven and earth, and the dark curtain quietly pulled away, and the morning slowly came.

Niuyin Ferry is thirty miles away from Wangyuan City. At this time, Xian Yufu was commanding the army to cross the river at Niuyin Ferry.

Four floating bridges were built on the river surface. People and horses passed through the two bridges in the east, and supplies passed through the two bridges in the west. Fully armed soldiers lined up in an orderly manner, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, they walked up the floating bridge in an orderly manner and passed quickly. Truces of weapons and equipment, food and supplies, and under the efforts of the officers and soldiers of the military camp, were also quickly sent to the other side.

Jian Shuo, Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Liu He were all the first time they followed the army to the battlefield, both novel and excited. They stood by the river, watching the bustling crowds, listening to the noisy sounds, and constantly pointing and talking.

"After first, after I came to the battlefield, I realized that this marching and war was very knowledgeable. I would never be able to plan and command it with a certain degree by sitting in the study and studying military books." Liu Biao pointed to the baggage convoy on the other side and said, "If it weren't for what I saw with my own eyes, it would be difficult for us to resemble. In order to ensure that these materials can be transported to the battlefield in time, how much preparations the army needs to do, how much manpower, material and financial resources it needs to be put into. It's completely different from doing it."

Liu He smiled and said, "Brother Benchu ​​and Brother Jingsheng kept asking Lord Xianyu for tips on marching and fighting. Do you have any experience?"

"It's not just about having experience." Yuan Shao smiled, "This trip to Xiliang has achieved great results, which is definitely not something you and I can see. We worked behind closed doors at home and talked a lot, thinking that we knew everything, but when we got here, we realized that we actually didn't understand anything."

He pointed at the army that was crossing the river with the horse whip in his hand and asked, "Zi'an, do you know what to do to speed up the army's crossing the river?"

Liu He asked in surprise: "Brother Benchu, does this soldier have any tricks to cross the river?"

"Of course." Yuan Shao said proudly: "So many troops are concentrated on both sides of the Weishui River. You must first consider the security of the army and be prepared for defense and counterattack. Therefore, you must reasonably arrange which army to cross the river first and which army to cross the river later. Only when you are sure that both sides of the river are safe can you consider the speed of crossing the river. At this time, you must first consider whether the cavalry cross the river first or infantry cross the river first. When the infantry cross the river, should the archers cross the river first or spearmen cross the river first..."

"Okay, okay, Brother Benchu, don't say it..." Liu He bowed and begged, "If you have time, please keep it and think about it slowly. I know that it's too complicated to fight. Anyway, I won't lead the army in my life. What about Brother Jingsheng? Do you also want to lead thousands of troops and gallop across the battlefield like Brother Benchu ​​in the future?"

Liu Biao smiled and shook his hand, saying, "I don't have that chance anymore." He pointed at Yuan Shao and said, "Brother Benchu ​​is very talented in fighting and will definitely be a general in the future."

Liu He smiled and echoed repeatedly. Suddenly he pointed to Jian Shuo who was standing next to Xian Yufu and said, "Mr. Jian is also very interested in fighting. I heard that his martial arts are good, is it true?"

Yuan Shao mocked, "That's just in the palace. Do you want him to try here? Just find a military marquis and you can beat him up."

The three of them smiled maliciously.

Jian Shuo was asking Xian Yufu about Li Hong. Xian Yufu and Li Hong met very early, and they fought together since Li Hong returned to Lu Longsai. Xian Yufu understood Jian Shuo's thoughts, and he introduced Li Hong a lot and praised him. He heard a more detailed story than the legend, Jian Shuo became more and more curious about this leopard who had never appeared.

"Where is Lord Li now?"

"Yesterday he had already crossed the river with Black Panther Yi, and is now hunting the enemy's scouts. There are still fifty miles from here to Yicheng. If we want to ensure that the army arrives at Yicheng secretly, we must eliminate the enemy's eyes and ears. If nothing unexpected happens, the adults will be able to meet Li Zhonglang on the battlefield of Yicheng this afternoon."

Jian Shuo nodded with a smile and asked, "Why is the cavalry army missing? Did they cross the river in advance?"

Xian Yufu replied casually: "The cavalry army crossed the river from another ferry. After they met with Li Zhonglang's army, they will arrive at the battlefield in the afternoon."

Zheng Xin rushed over with his horse.

"Sir, I have an order to order the army to advance quickly and must arrive at Yicheng at noon."

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When the sun rose, the kingdom commanded the rebels of Xiliang and launched a fierce siege.

Wudu and Ma Teng commanded 30,000 troops to attack the South Gate continuously. Teams of soldiers rushed across the moat, climbed up the ladder, roared forward, and rushed forward bravely. The bodies of the rebel soldiers lay among the stones and pounding trees, piled up the narrow area under the city, and blood stained the water of the moat red.

Fu Xie and the Sima Ju Wu of the army on the city swore to persevere. The soldiers guarding the city suffered heavy casualties, the number of troops was getting smaller and smaller, and the situation was very tense.

In order to open the breakthrough as soon as possible and occupy the city wall, Ma Teng prepared to take his men to kill him. He ordered his men to give up the siege for the time being and clean up the corpses and stones under the city first to free up a place for the subsequent army to settle down. Ma Teng's subordinate Ma Chun commanded his men to quickly throw the corpses and debris piled up under the city into the moat.

With a command, the bow and arrow camp shot a dense round of long arrows above the city wall. The horses roared wildly from the city and rushed forward with more than a thousand swords and axemen.

Ju Wu was guarding the left side of the city wall. His defensive area was first broken by the rebels. Ju Wu killed three people in a row, and then met Ma Teng. Ma Teng's sword was slashed down with great force. Ju Wu couldn't resist it and was cut into two pieces by the man and the knife. The old tripod in the distance was angry. He was Ju Wu's subordinate. Seeing Shangguan being killed, he was so angry that he was furious that he roared. He shot five arrows at Ma Teng. Ma Teng waved his sword and blocked two arrows in a row, and then he was in a hurry. In desperation, he yelled.

With one sound, he grabbed a soldier in the city and blocked him. Three long arrows that were roaring suddenly pierced the bodies of the soldiers guarding the city. Ma Teng, who was embarrassed, opened his eyes and howled. Then he raised the body of the soldier who was shot by the old tripod and ran towards the old tripod. Lao Ding was stunned by hatred, and was not afraid, and shot three more arrows. Ma Teng's sword came to his death. As the call came, Lao Ding's head flew up, blood burst out, splattering Ma Teng's face.

Ma Teng grinned, threw down the body in his hand hatefully, and spitted blood into his mouth at Lao Ding's head.

"Brothers, kill..."

Ma Yu and Li Xiao, one on the left and one on the right, fought one after another. More and more rebel soldiers gathered on the city wall. Under the leadership of Ma Teng, they stubbornly advanced. The defense of the left city wall was about to collapse.

Fu Xie, who was commanding the battle on the right side of the city wall, was calm in the face of danger. He pointed at Yang Hui and shouted loudly: "Order the crossbow team to shoot, shoot..."

Chairman Yang waved his spear and raised a rebel soldier who was killed high, then roared and threw him out of the city wall. Then he rushed to the vicinity of the corridor in a few steps and shouted at the more than 100 archers lying in the corridor: "Shoot..., shoot to the left..., shoot them to death..."

Ma Teng and a group of subordinates were fighting happily, thinking that they were sure to win, but unexpectedly, a group of sharp arrows fell from the sky and suddenly fell down. Ma Yu hurriedly picked up a shield, protected Ma Teng, and shouted: "Let's go, let's retreat first, withdraw..."

Ma Teng ignored him at all, kicked off the long shield, raised his knife and shouted: "Brothers, let me kill..."

Fu Xie rushed over with dozens of attendants.

Ma Teng saw a dazzling sword flying from the air. Facing the sunshine, he was shot by the light of the opponent's sword, and he couldn't open his eyes for a moment. In a shock, he took two steps back and danced wildly. "When..." a loud bang, the tiger's mouth shattered.

Ma Teng felt cold when he saw the murderous Fu Xie.

"Kill..." Fu Xie roared, holding the knife in both hands, and slashed again. Ma Teng had no time to change his moves, and in a hurry, he hurriedly sealed the knife. "When..." sounded, the sword shattered. Ma Teng's horror suddenly reached its peak, and he opened his mouth and let out a desperate roar.

Fu Xie was so angry that he was about to explode. His sword was cut into Ma Teng's body and was shot by a long arrow. The sword that had been damaged suddenly burst out. One end of the knife handle was chopped on Ma Teng's armor, and a string of sparks were drawn. Ma Teng picked up a life and flew back with lingering fear. Fu Xie took the opportunity to kick a sword with one foot, and as he jumped, he held a knife in one hand and clenched his fist in the other, and attacked Ma Teng again.

Ma Yu flocked to him with three or four people, and everyone rushed over and immediately wrapped Ma Teng into the crowd. Fu Xie punched Pegasus Yu's round shield, and at the same time slashed down with his right hand, chopping one of Ma Teng's servants and the shield to death on the ground. Fu Xie flew up and kicked Ma Yu down, and rushed towards the crowd guarding Ma Teng like a tiger.

"Ma Teng, I want to kill you..." Fu Xie shouted wildly, screaming wildly at the top of his lungs.

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It was already noon, and June Jinglei led his Qiang army to the East City Gate to form a formation.

Although Beigong Boyu is his good brother, June Jinglei hopes that he will die soon. This man and his tribe have been stationed in Huangzhong, hindering the migration of the Baima Qiang, Ganlang Qiang and other Qiang tribes. Beigong Boyu was a Qiang man who grew up in Huangzhong. He lived with Han people since he was a child and learned a lot of Han things, but he has not made any progress at all. He is concerned about his work, and June Jinglei does not like him.

In June, Jinglei joined forces with other Qiang tribes to send troops to Xiliang to help the rebels attack the official army. In addition to taking the opportunity to plunder money, he mainly wanted to migrate to the Han Dynasty. Lao Bian, Han Sui, Beigong Boyu and others invited him to send troops to help, and that was what he agreed to. Now that Beigong Boyu is dead, the Qiang tribe in Huangzhong has lost its big leader, and a group of small Qu generals in the clan have to compete for the position of this big leader. It will be difficult for the Qiang tribe in Huangzhong to unite and unite to the outside world in the short term. This gives other Qiang tribes outside the frontier the opportunity to move to Huangzhong. Xiyu is already planning to migrate to Han next year. Now Beigong Boyu is dead, and the Qiang people in Huangzhong have greatly lost their strength. Who dares to stop the Qiang people outside the frontier from moving to the inside?

The rebellion of Xiliang is good. If this continues every year, in a few years, the Qiang people outside the frontier can move to the Xiliang counties one after another.

"Master, have we started the attack?" Leiva asked. Leiva was one of his several capable subordinates, Xiaoqu coach in the clan.

June Jinglei looked at the city guards who were waiting for battle on the city tower, shook his head and asked, "Ganlang, let's go, how many big clans' troops are coming up?"

"The army of Shaohe clan has not been following. It is estimated that Tianlang is still having dinner in the camp." Leiva smiled.

June Jinglei cursed quietly while shook his head.

"Master, Mr. Wang, Mr. Han, and Ma Daren are all attacking the city. Are we doing the same?" Leiva whispered, "It's a bit..."

June Jinglei glanced at him and smiled and said, "How many women did Mr. Wang give you yesterday?"

"Two?" Reva said, "Like the Grandmaster, two. What are you asking about this?"

"You're just giving you two women, are you working hard like this?" June Jinglei smiled, "You're too boring."

"Hehe..." Leiva smiled dryly, "The Grand Marshal is telling a joke. This Mr. Wang is much more generous than Mr. Bian and Mr. Han."

June Jinglei glanced at him dissatisfiedly, cursed a few words, and then said, "Old man Wang is very stingy and looks down on us Qiang people. Do you know?"

Reva shook her head in confusion.

"After he became the commander, I asked him when my tribe members could move to Longxi or to Wudu County? He didn't answer at all, and kept talking nonsense with me. He didn't want to. This is not as good as Mr. Bian and Mr. Han. They strongly advocated that we move inward and hoped that we move inward as soon as possible, and talked about a lot of benefits of the Qiang people moving inward."

June Jinglei looked at Leiva and said, "Mr. Bian asked me back then, do you want to be rich or to be rich for generations? Do you want to be well-fed and well-dressed by yourself or to be well-fed and warm in the whole tribe?" June Jinglei paused, sighed, and said, "It's a pity that Mr. Bian is dead. Now, you should know who is generous and stingy, right?"

Reva nodded and cursed a few hatefully.

The ox horns and horses galloped from a distance.

"Master, the people from the Wolf Clan asked you when will you start the attack?"

"What's the rain in the northwest?" June Jinglei frowned and said, "How many women did Old Man Wang give him yesterday?"

Niujiao shook his head in confusion and said, "Last year, several brothers from Xibeiyu were killed in Yicheng by Huangfu Song, so he was anxious to take revenge this time. Xibeiyu was worried that once the city was captured by Ma Dazi and Mr. Han first, he would have no chance to massacre the city."

Reva sneered and said, "I think he is a false revenge, and it is true to go to the city to grab money and women."

"Ignore him." June Jinglei waved his hand and said, "If he wants to attack, he will attack him. Let's shoot a few rounds of arrows and cooperate with him."

=

Han Sui hoped that the army could capture the Xicheng Gate in the afternoon.

He ordered Li Kan and Zhang Heng to lead their troops to launch a feint attack on the left wing of the city gate, and asked Yang Qiu and Cheng Yin to lead the main army to launch a strong attack on the right wing of the city gate.

Han Sui personally supervised the battle under the city. The rebels launched a fierce offensive.

Although Huangfu Zheng's subordinates fought hard, the enemy launched an attack on the entire city wall, with many attack points and scattered. The soldiers were running back and forth to defend the city wall. By noon, the number of casualties was increasing, and the defensive power was seriously insufficient. The soldiers were exhausted and gradually could not support them.

The right wing wall was broken through by the rebels again. Huang Fei led the last dozen people to rush up. Everyone was immediately surrounded by the rebels who were swarming in. They slashed wildly.

Huang Fei slashed the three men in a row, and they were unstoppable and fought fiercely. The soldiers following him could not resist the enemy's siege and fell down one after another. Huang Fei's blood was rushing and filled with anger. He stared at his blood-red eyeballs, shouting, and chopping and killing them wantonly, completely ignoring his life and death. Blood was flowing on his body, broken branches and broken arms were flying in front of his eyes, roaring in his ears, and anger burned in his heart. He rushed forward. He chopped down the last enemy in front of him and saw the blood-stained blue city wall. He thought he had killed all the enemies. He excitedly raised his sword, stood in the middle of the bloody corpse, and shouted at the rebels outside the city: "Kill them all, I'll kill them all..."

"Puchi...Puchi..." The sound of the spear poking into the body was dull and harsh. Huang Fei saw more than a dozen cold spears rushing out of his body from different directions. Blood burst out.

The defense of the right wing wall collapsed instantly.

Han Sui saw the battle flag flying on the city wall and heard the excited cheers of the soldiers. A smile finally appeared on his cold face.

"The candidate for orders, Cheng Yi, lead another five hundred people to attack the left wing wall for the last time."

"Beat the drum... prepare to enter the city..."

Huangfu Zheng and a dozen soldiers were surrounded by the enemy. Huangfu Zheng was fighting, shouting, and fighting for his life. He saw Junhou Wucheng falling down, and saw several battle knives still chopping his body fiercely, and saw Wucheng's flesh and blood flying in the air. Huangfu Zheng felt ache in his heart, and the battle knives slashed on the enemy's head with anger of hatred. Warm blood spurted out, splashing on his face that was extremely distorted because of hatred. Huangfu Zheng whistled wildly and shouted vigorously: "Brothers, kill..."

The crossbow soldiers rushed up to the city wall. The candidate pointed at Huangfu Zheng who was like a madman and slashed in the crowd. He shouted loudly: "Call him to death... Shoot him to death..."

The rebel soldiers surrounding Huangfu Zheng heard the shouts of the candidates and retreated quickly as if they were to be pardoned. More than a dozen crossbowmen picked up short crossbows and shot crossbow arrows at Huangfu Zheng who was running with their swords. Huangfu Zheng's body shook violently while running, and then stopped. Then the sword and spear on the hands of the rebel soldiers shot at Huangfu Zheng who was covered in blood like raindrops.

The candidate let out a long sigh, then turned his face proudly and looked into the city. He saw a pair of thick eyebrows and a familiar face, and his heart suddenly contracted.

Hua Xiong appeared on the city wall.
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