The soldiers marched on dangerous roads.

November 11th, early morning.

In the bad weather after the snow, Li Yuan unexpectedly marched for more than ten miles from Pingyin and arrived at the water gate of Xingyang before dawn. Afterwards, Li Yuan's fleet was guarding the city.

With the tacit consent of Liu Jun, they entered Xingyang City from the water channel. The process was fast and efficient, which stunned the soldiers of Liu Jun who were unable to react in time.

This time, Li Yuan caught Liu Bang off guard. Some time ago, Li Yuan's training in Pingyin confused Liu Bang and his advisers. He only took more than 300 soldiers with him, and after arriving in Pingyin, they scattered into the mountains and forests and stopped.

Liu Bang, Li Shiqi, Cao Shen and others judged that Li Yuan was just training soldiers in the Pingyin area, and at most he was just to harass Liu Jun's rear. However, they did not expect that Li Yuan would dare to take the risk of being surrounded and annihilated in the city.

Enter Xingyang City.

Night, ugly time.

With the support of Guan Yue, Hou Xi and others, Li Yuan joined forces with the anti-Zhao forces secretly gathered in the city. The combined strength reached more than 1,700 people. Among them, more than 360 of Li Yuan's personal soldiers were suspected of

As the main force, other troops, Ying Yushu gathered more than 200 guests and disciples of the Li family who were dormant in the city. These people dispersed voluntarily after Li Si was imprisoned and Li You died in the battle. It seemed that they had abandoned them.

The Li family is actually a hidden elite force of the Li family. Their overall combat ability may not be strong, but in terms of individual combat, they are all good at it.

In addition, some of the officials under Fan Jia and Guan Yue are barely useful. However, Zhao Bi is not excluded among these people. If they are responsible for important tasks, accidents are likely to occur.

After patient lobbying, Hou Xi, Hu Zhuang, and He Ping gathered a team of about a hundred young people among the people of Junyi. Although this team seemed a little insignificant, it was Li Yuan's most reliable team in the city.

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After preliminary integration, Li Yuan personally led 300 elite troops to attack the county and prefecture, and carried out a beheading operation. Another group of troops, led by Gu Yun, went to Mudanlou to capture Wang Ming, the other main target of arrest. The situation in Xingyang suddenly changed.

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County Lieutenant's Mansion.

The main force under Zhao Ben is garrisoned with more than 1,500 people. This force is well-equipped and fully equipped with weapons. It is Zhao Ben who controls Xingyang City. In the past few days, Zhao Ben has been constantly attacking in the name of resisting Liu Bang's attacks.

The men in the city were recruited to go to the city to help in the battle, but they were still unwilling to put these elite troops into the battlefield. This was one of the reasons why all parties in the city were alienated and lost confidence in Zhao Ben.

The style of the old Zhao family has always been to kill Taoist friends and not die poor Taoists. Zhao Gao was like this, and Zhao Ben was the same. Unfortunately, when Zhao Ben thought that others were cannon fodder, he never thought that cannon fodder also resists.

These days, Zhao Bi has not been sleeping well. During the day, he has to face Liu Bang's army waiting eagerly outside the city, and also has to deal with the county government, which is almost paralyzed and unable to work, which makes his whole person's mental state extremely poor. Even in the government,

Trying to find ways to adjust his diet was also the only way to make Zhao Ben feel relieved.

On this day, Zhao Ben had just returned from the study to his concubine's bedroom and lay down when he heard someone shouting outside. The voice sounded like an old official from the county captain's mansion.

"Old Wei, don't you see that the Lord Lieutenant has just gone to bed?" Zhao Bi's concubine had a pink face and reluctantly opened the door and muttered to the outside. She couldn't help but be unhappy. Just now, she just

With her slender hands, Zhao Ben stiffened the object under his straddle. He was about to lead the gun into the harbor, but was interrupted and lost his energy.

"Oh, Lord Lieutenant, something bad is going to happen. Big changes are going to happen in the city." Wei Capantou, the veteran anti-theft officer, held on to the doorpost and stumbled, crying with panic on his face.

Old Wei was greedy for money, and he was a spy arranged by Zhao Ben next to Fan Jia, the magistrate of Xingyang County. With such an informant, Zhao Ben took good care of Xingyang's three-acre land. This time, Fan Jia had just

If there was any movement, Lao Wei would rush over to report the news.

"What's the big change? The Liu bandits from outside have entered the city?" Zhao Ben got up and asked impatiently. Fan Jia didn't have an army under his command, so if he wanted to cause trouble, he wouldn't be able to achieve much success.

Lao Wei is very greedy for money. In the past few days, he often reported some untrue information. He would gamble after receiving the money, and then report it to Zhao Ben after he spent it. If Zhao Ben couldn't find the right person, this old man would

Wei Tou was afraid that he would have kicked him away.

"No, no. Yes, yes -!" Old Wei pretended to receive the reward several times. When he saw Zhao Ben, he felt guilty and stammered. He couldn't help but stare at the half-naked beauty behind Zhao Ben for a long time.

No more words.

"What's going on? Tell me quickly." Zhao Ben stared at Old Wei with disdain, grabbed his neck and shouted loudly. Ren Ren finally fell asleep and was about to hug his concubine when he was interrupted when he was having fun. He was in such a mood

What's better.

"There is a rebellion in the city, and it's Magistrate Fan." Old Wei was choked by Zhao Ben and almost couldn't breathe. It was with great difficulty that he managed to choke out such a life-saving sentence.

"What, Fan Jia rebelled, does he want to die?" Zhao Ben sneered. Others don't know how capable Fan Jia is, but he, Zhao Bi, knows it all. Fan Jia is just a literati and pen official, and he can do just small tricks.

, if he leads troops to fight, even ten Fan Jia are no match for Zhao Ben.

"There are others, Guan Gongcao, Chen Zongzheng, people from the Li Commandery, and many soldiers who appeared out of nowhere——!" Old Wei shouted anxiously.

Zhao Ben was stunned: "People from Li You's Mansion, as well as foreign soldiers, you are telling the truth!"

Old Wei nodded and said, "I don't dare to panic. It was a close official close to County Magistrate Fan who said this."

"In that case, come here, please join me and seize the county magistrate's house, Li You's house——" Zhao Ben's expression perked up. After waiting for so many days, he finally had such an upright excuse to seize Li You's house.

An operation has been performed in the Li Mansion, which is good news. As long as something can be found in the Li Mansion, or it doesn't matter if nothing is found, as long as there are witnesses and physical evidence, Prime Minister Xianyang's explanation will be completed by then.

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Xingyang Long Street.

Two teams with almost the same purpose met unexpectedly. The Zhao army was led by Zhao Xin, the military commander of the Junwei Mansion, a younger brother of Zhao Ben. However, the middle-aged Zhao Xin was promoted only once.

For many months, his original military position was just that of a commander in charge of transportation.

The strength of the baggage battalion has more fuel and water than the field troops, but the opposite is true in terms of combat capabilities.

This time, Xin Zhao faced an elite army that looked like wolves and tigers.

Li Yuan took the lead and rushed forward, holding a bronze long sword in his hand. As soon as Zhao Xin's brave soldiers got into position, they were scattered by Li Yuan's army. Infantry fighting was a more familiar type to Li Yuan than fighting on horseback.

War tactics, and leading an elite force to fight in the city are Li Yuan's strengths.

Like a flying boat breaking through the waves.
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