Shu Chen

Chapter 408
Will be outside, the king's life will not be affected.

Liu Zan made an invitation to fight with the name of breaking Hefei to serve the country and fame, and the result can be imagined.

After all, breaking the city of Hefei is the hope of Jiangdong's monarchs and ministers, and it is even more a shame to return home countless times.

Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan, and Gu Cheng, who were still young, immediately agreed to the promise, and they were all willing to fight to the death to accompany them.

As for attacking Hefei City, it was the responsibility of Zhu Huan's department. They didn't care about whether rashly intervening would lead to strategic mistakes or something.

They are all descendants of important ministers, and Liuzan is the overseer, so why worry about being held accountable after the fact for the benefit of the country?
Furthermore, there is one emperor and one courtier.

As the assistant of the prince Sun Deng, Zhu Huan would not dare to go beyond the emperor to deal with them even if he intervened.

In particular, they feel that the strategy of leaving praise has a high success rate.

After carefully interrogating the captives of the Wei army, Liuzan learned that the food and fodder here would be transported to Hefei City, so he planned to select more than [-] people who dared to die from the army. The food team entered Hefei.

But Gu Zhang and the others were day and night, quietly leading the army to lurk outside the city of Hefei first, and then killing them all when Liuzan fraudulently opened the gate of Hefei and seized the city violently, and fell into the city in one fell swoop!
The three of Gu and Zhang didn't think that Wei Jun would see through the strategy of fraudulently opening the city gate.

The reason is naturally that Wei Jun never expected that Jiangdong would send troops to attack twice a year, let alone Wu Jun would come to defraud the city so boldly.

Besides, Liuzan left a way out.

Most of the soldiers and horses of Wei State stationed in Huainan were stationed in Shouchun.

However, Hefei New Town is an outpost. Manchong chose the location of the watershed (Jiangjun Mountain) in front of the Feishui River and the source of the Nanfeishui River (the site is still there today and has been built into a park).

The city is small and majestic, about a hundred feet from north to south, and more than sixty feet from east to west, with a moat.

With such a small size, the city naturally cannot accommodate many soldiers and horses.

According to previous estimates, there are roughly [-] permanent residents.

Therefore, even if Liuzan's fraudulent city is found out, they can retreat calmly and go to Yinling County to carry out the previous dispatch.

Because the Wei army with too few soldiers and horses dared not go out of the city to pursue them.

In fact, they bet right.

There are many overlaps between Wei State's garrison law and the Shibing system, such as the family members of the soldiers in the garrison also stayed in the garrison.

Wu Jun seized the family members of the chief officer in the field, and asked Liuzan and other dead soldiers to Hefei City, who dared not violate half a point, on the grounds of life as a threat and a generous reward after the event was completed.

Just at this time, the farmer Sima from other farming sites in Wei State also transferred grain and fodder to Hefei, and one of them arrived almost every one or two days.It also made Hefei's city gate governors and soldiers slack off.

There was not too much strict investigation on the grain team, but after verifying that the order was given to Sima himself, he ordered the city gate to be opened to allow the grain team to enter.

However, it's not their fault.

There is no one else in sight, just sending a food team of more than a hundred people into the city, what threat can it pose to them?

Therefore, they also paid the price for negligence.

When the heavy city gate was slowly pushed inward, and the food team barely passed the city wall, dressed in ragged clothes, Qiao pretended to be Li Shu's praise, then tore off the hair bandana, pulled out the short blade tied on the outside of his legs, Singing with a sharp voice.

Immediately, the dead soldiers of the Eastern Wu who were hiding in the grain team's carriage also rose up and rushed out suddenly.

Wei Jun, who was caught off guard, was unable to resist for a while.

In an instant, Wu soldiers rushed into the city, climbed to the top of the city and hacked to death the city gate governor with knives, and cut off the ropes of the pontoon bridge on the moat.
Hefei guard Zhang Ying heard the commotion and led the vanguard to come, just in time to hear several mournful and high-pitched blares piercing the sky; she also heard shouts of killing coming from far outside the city.

He has been stationed in Hefei for many years, and he immediately understood what happened.

"Don't go to the top of the city! Close the door first! Close the door first!"

He made the dispatch at the first time, which is also the most appropriate dispatch at the moment: first take back the city gate and close it to prevent the Wu army outside the city from entering, and then use the superior force to kill the dead soldiers of the Wu army who poured into the city one by one.

However, it is a pity.

He has no chance.

In a hurry, the soldiers staying in the barracks were unable to come; in the chaos, the soldiers who were killed and retreated around the city gate couldn't hear his roar at all, let alone march forward bravely to regain the city gate.

Moreover, Zhang Ying herself was helpless.

He came with only dozens of guards, but was attacked by the defeated soldiers, and his formation was in chaos.

And Liu Zan, who was always paying attention to the situation of the battle, also heard his roar, and Dang Lian led dozens of personal guards to huddle behind the rout and sneak towards him.

Due to the chaotic situation, Zhang Ying has been trying to appease the panic of the soldiers, and organized the troops to return to the battle, without noticing that the danger was quietly approaching.

Especially the dead soldiers like Liu Zan all had disheveled hair and wore the clothes of Wei Jun or Li Shu.

Therefore, when Liuzan and other dead soldiers approached and violently attacked, his guards could not resist at all, and he could not escape from the tight siege.

In less than ten breaths, he suffered several wounds and died of hatred.

"The thief general has been killed!"

Liu Zan chopped off his head, held it high above his head, and screamed loudly.

"mighty!"

"The thief general has been killed!"

All the dead soldiers of the Wu army should shout loudly together, and their morale is like a rainbow.

This made the Hefei soldiers of the Wei army even less willing to fight, and even the follow-up soldiers who arrived from the barracks in the city were all in mourning, and their morale collapsed.

After Zhang Xiu, Gu Tan, and Gu Cheng's three supervisors poured into the city, there was no suspense about the battle situation.

However, Liu Zan and others didn't stay in Hefei City for long, and they were driven to Yinling County before dawn the next day to carry out the previous deployment.

Because Governor Zhu Huan arrived.

Zhu Huan is not lacking in general, but his temperament has always been arrogant, and he is ashamed to be inferior to others.

When he knew that his original responsibility, the important task of breaking Hefei City, was snatched by a partial division from Liuzan, he almost couldn't hold back the right to act cheaply during the war, and beheaded him according to military law!

Later, the Ministry of Economics persuaded Quanxu, Zhu Ji (Shi Ji) and others, and seeing that Liu Zan and Gu Zhang were all under the control of Prince Sun Deng, they suppressed their anger and only expelled them. Give up when you leave Hefei.

Yes, both Zhu Ran and Quan Cong's son served under Zhu Huan's command.

Just like Zhu Huan's younger brother Zhu Ju served under Lu Xun's command, and his son Zhu Yi served under Zhu Ran's command.

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However, the departure of Liuzan and other ministries did not change the inexorable achievement of breaking Hefei (for the state of Wu) that had already been achieved first.

Zhu Huan, who had been dormant for two years, could not accept that he was doing nothing in this battle.

Nai ordered Quanxu to guard the city of Hefei, while Zhu Ji led his troops to camp outside the city, waiting for the arrival of Lu Xun and Quan Cong's army;

(End of this chapter)