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"I am Zhang Chao, the commander of the Jiefan Army."

One person knelt directly in front of Lu Xun.

After hearing this person's identity, Lu Xun realized that these were the people Sun Jian was talking about.

"How many of you are there?"

"To answer the general's question, here we have the Jiefan Army, the Wunan Army, the Tiger Soldiers under the Chariots, and the Tiger Cavalry of the Royal Guards, totaling three thousand people."

Lu Xun didn't expect that Sun Jian had hidden three thousand people here, and they were all special troops.

"Come with me to rescue the young master."

After Lu Xun finished speaking, he found that none of the three people moved.

"What are you doing? Going?"

"General, the lord has ordered that only those with a token can command us. Do you have the token?"

Only then did Lu Xun remember the token that Sun Jian had given him before he left, and immediately took it out.

Zhang Chao took the token, then took out an identical token from his arms. After comparing them, he handed the token to Lu Xun.

"General, I will go and organize the troops now."

At this time, Danyang County was already engulfed in war.

Pang De's army arrived in the early morning of that day.

After a brief rest, Zhang Liao eagerly began the siege.

Although Sun Quan did not have any famous generals, he was surrounded by the White Feather Guards.

Even with the support of the Bailing Guards and the help of 30,000 others, it would be very difficult for Zhang Liao and his men to break into the city quickly.

Throughout the whole day, Zhang Liao and his men had been knocked off the city wall three times.

Even the Taishan tiger bandits lost two thousand people.

Sun Quan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that Zhang Liao and his men had finally stopped attacking.

"Young Master, we still have 10,000 men left. At this rate of attack, I'm afraid we won't survive until the next day."

"Okay, I understand. Let the soldiers have a good rest."

After the deputy general left, Sun Quan stood up and found that his legs were a little weak.

I have sent out the message for help for a long time, but no reinforcements have arrived so far. I will definitely not be able to defend the city tomorrow. Now the four city gates are surrounded, and all I can do is break out.

The commander of the Bailing Guards walked up to Sun Quan.

"Young Master, we can break out overnight. Danyang County is definitely undefendable. There is no need for us to linger here. We can go to Kuaiji County."

Sun Quan nodded.

However, just as they were organizing their soldiers and preparing to break out, shouts of killing suddenly rang out outside the city.

A captain of a thousand men ran over.

"Young Master, something bad has happened. The enemy is attacking the city."

"Again?"

Sun Quan hurriedly led everyone to the East Gate, which was also the gate through which they had decided to break out.

However, at this time, with the help of the firelight, Sun Quan could only see the black heads of people and had no idea how many people there were.

Sun Quan had only 10,000 men, scattered across the city gates. There were less than 3,000 men at each gate, and they could not withstand a charge from Zhang Liao and his men.

Just as Sun Quan was considering what to do, a captain covered in blood ran up to him.

"Young Master, the South Gate has been breached."

Then another captain came running over.

"Young Master, the west gate has been breached."

After two city gates were breached in succession, Sun Quan immediately had to find a way to break out.

The people besieging the East Gate were led by Surena of the Anluo Empire.

Their original mission was not to attack the city, but to prevent Sun Quan from escaping.

Soon, the gate of the East City Gate opened.

Sun Quan rushed out with several thousand men and the Bailing Guards.

Seeing this, Surena immediately ordered the Anluo army to block the city gate.

However, although the Anluo army had a large number of people, their combat effectiveness was not at the same level as the Yangzhou army, and soon a gap was opened in their formation by the Yangzhou army.

Surena had no choice but to ask his famous general to take action to plug the gap.

However, at this moment, Surena suddenly felt some commotion not far behind him.

When I turned around and looked behind me, a cold light flashed.

As a famous general, Surena sensed the danger from the cold light and immediately leaned over his horse, thus barely avoiding the fatal blow.

Then he heard a voice.

“Lu Xun and Lu Boyan are here, who can stop me?”

Surena stood up and looked behind him, and found that a group of people had appeared behind him at some point, and these people were like heavenly soldiers, and his army formation was torn into pieces in an instant. The speed was so fast that he didn't even have time to issue an order.

Being attacked from both sides made Surena a little confused, and finally allowed Sun Quan and others to escape successfully.

With Sun Quan's departure, there was no one left in the city to resist.

Zhang Liao and his men entered the city smoothly.

After entering the city, Zhang Liao began to search for Sun Quan.

This time, Zhang Liao's siege did not follow the previous practice of surrounding the city on three sides and leaving one side open. His purpose was to target Sun Quan.

As long as we can capture Sun Quan and exchange Yangzhou with Sun Jian, we can avoid a lot of trouble.

However, after searching for a while, there was no trace of Sun Quan.

After asking the captives, they learned that Sun Quan went to the East Gate, and the place where the East Gate led to was Kuaiji County.

However, Zhang Liao was not in a panic. He had left 20,000 Anluo troops and eight famous generals there. In Zhang Liao's view, if Sun Quan dared to go through that place, he would undoubtedly be seeking his own death.

Even Pang De, who had long known what the Anluo army was like, agreed with this point. After all, Sun Quan had only a few thousand people at most, and Surena had famous generals around him, so how could he not be able to control several thousand people?

But soon, reality slapped them in the face.

Sun Quan ran away.

Not only did they run away, but the Anluo army also lost nearly 10,000 people.

Zhang Liao was completely bewildered after receiving this battle report. He even doubted whether this was really a victory achieved by a talented commander. A random captain under his command would not have achieved a worse victory than him.

Zhuge Liang and Gu Rubing had both said at the beginning that Surena was not an ordinary person. Is he really that extraordinary?

Just when Zhang Liao was confused, Surena came over with the Anluo army.

"Sorry, generals, the man has escaped."

"Well, we all know it. I'm just a little curious. How come you 20,000 people can't stop the remnants of a few thousand people? You still have eight famous generals. What are you doing? Even with 20,000 corpses, you can completely block the city gate, right?"

"Thousands of people? We were attacked from both sides by nearly 10,000 people, and they are extremely powerful. Not to mention us, even you can't stop them."

"Bullshit, where did Sun Quan get those 10,000 elite soldiers? If they really had them, would we have been able to attack the city so smoothly?"

Pang De and others watched the quarrel between Zhang Liao and Surena, and they were completely unable to get a word in.

At this time, a centurion came over holding a suit of armor, but he stood far away because he was afraid that the quarrel between the two men would affect him.

Seeing this, Pound, who was standing by, waved at him.

"what happened?"

"General, we were just cleaning up the place, and we found a different kind of armor at the east gate."

Upon hearing this, Pang De looked at the armor in the centurion's hand, then took out a dagger and stabbed at the armor.

Pang De didn't expect that the dagger didn't penetrate the armor at once.

Pound's voice startled the two people who were cursing.

They both looked at Pound at the same time.

"Stop scolding and come and take a look."

The two men immediately surrounded them upon seeing this, and even Wei Yan, who was standing nearby, walked over out of curiosity.

Pound stabbed the armor again with his dagger.

It turned out that the dagger still did not penetrate the armor.

Zhang Liao swung the yellow dragon hook sickle in his hand and chopped at the armor.

The armor shattered directly.

"Where did you get this armor?"

"General, this was found at the East City Gate. We have never seen it before, so we brought it here."

"East City Gate?"

Zhang Liao then remembered Surena's words and realized that what Surena said might be true.

Sun Quan might really have an elite force that has never appeared.

"Forget it. Now is not the time to argue about this. Let's tell the news here to the lord. We are also going to Kuaiji County. If Sun Quan really has elite troops, they can only be in Kuaiji County. We will fight them soon."

With Pang De mediating, Zhang Liao hurriedly nodded and gave Surena a kind smile.

But Surena obviously didn't appreciate it and turned and left.

Gu Rubing soon received Zhang Liao's report.

He didn't expect that even when Yangzhou was about to fall, Sun Quan still had elite troops in his hands.

Zhuge Liang, who was standing aside, understood something.

"My lord, according to the previous situation, Sun Jian should have several special troops in his hands, but they have never appeared and have been hidden by Sun Jian. This time, I'm afraid Sun Jian brought these people out. This also means that Sun Jian has already played his last trump card."

"That's a good thing."

After Zhuge Liang's reminder, Gu Rubing also reacted.

"Immediately send a message to Zhang Liao to take over Kuaiji County as soon as possible, and also guard against the entire Yangzhou to prevent anyone from causing trouble."

"Yes!"

After the messenger left, Zhuge Liang looked at Gu Rubing.

"My Lord, are you worried about this big family in Yangzhou?"

Gu Rubing nodded. Yangzhou has always been the world of aristocratic families. Although Sun Jian has taken action to govern the city, and even used iron-blooded methods, there are still some unstable factors in Yangzhou. He has just entered Yangzhou, and these people will definitely cause trouble for him.

Sun Jian breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that Sun Quan had returned to Kuaiji County.

At this time, Zhou Yu also arrived with Gan Ning, and brought nearly 20,000 people.

With Gan Ning around, Sun Jian immediately felt more confident.

Sun Jian immediately led his men to fight against Gu Rubing.

When Gu Rubing saw Gan Ning in front of the formation, his face did not look very good. He was afraid that neither Zhang He nor Zhang Ren, the only ones left in his hands, could be Gan Ning's opponent.

"King Lie, please get out of the way."

"Sun Zhou Mu, you don't have to think about going there. I won't let you go there. Isn't Jiaozhou enough? Why do you need to care about Yangzhou?"

"You fart, that's all my territory."

Sun Jian waved his hand after he finished speaking.

Gan Ning and Huang Gai went into battle immediately.

"Gan Ning and Gan Xingba are here, who dares to fight?"

"I come!"

As soon as the voice fell, Zhang He rushed out directly.

Zhang Ren then went to find Huang Gai.

The moment Zhang He and Gan Ning fought, Gan Ning summoned eighteen shadows.

Gan Ning hid behind the shadow and watched quietly.

Zhang He kept defending himself, and the eighteen shadows surrounded him tightly. He had no way to break out of the encirclement and reach Gan Ning.

Sun Jian could see that it was impossible to determine the winner in such a short period of time, so he directly ordered Meng Huo and Miao Moqing to take action.

Countless poisonous insects rushed out from underground, and before the battle even started, Gu Rubing's army was already in a state of panic.

"set fire."

Gu Rubing had already been prepared for this.

As a circle of fire appeared, all the poisonous insects could only wander around the periphery of the flames and had no way of entering the army.

Then the poison gas followed.

Looking at the green poisonous gas floating from a distance, Gu Rubing waved his hand.

Everyone took out a pill from their pockets and swallowed it directly. No one was an exception, even Gu Rubing.

Seeing that neither the poisonous insects nor the poisonous gas had any effect on Gu Rubing, Sun Jian suddenly became a little anxious.

After all, Kuaiji County cannot be delayed for too long.

"kill."

Following Sun Jian's order, the Yangzhou army began to charge at Gu Rubing.

As soon as the two sides fought, the problem of Yangzhou army's combat effectiveness became apparent.

Zhou Yu was observing from behind and found that it took two Yangzhou soldiers to exchange for the life of one soldier of Liu Bei's army, so he immediately came to Sun Jian's side.

"My lord, we can't fight like this. If we continue like this, even if we can get through, I'm afraid there won't be many of us left, and we won't be able to provide much help to the young master."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

Zhou Yu looked at the scene in front of him, and he knew in his heart that the reason Gu Rubing dared to remain so calm was that he must have made the most thorough preparations. Even if they sent out legendary generals, Gu Rubing would probably have sufficient ways to deal with it.

In this case, it would be better not to rescue Yangzhou.

In the end, Zhou Yu told Sun Jian what he was thinking.

"What did you say? Give up Yangzhou. Gongjin, you should know what Yangzhou means to us. Look at these soldiers. They are all from Yangzhou. If Yangzhou is really lost, will they still be willing to fight for us?"

Zhou Yu certainly knew this, but given the current situation, he really couldn't rescue Yangzhou by force. After all, the combat effectiveness of both sides was there.

In the end, Zhou Yu actually thought of a neutral solution.

"My lord, please order a retreat first. Perhaps I have a better solution."

"Do you have any idea?"

"Yes, my lord, please believe me."

Sun Jian looked at Zhou Yu, and finally decided to trust Zhou Yu and immediately sounded the horn to call back his troops.

After Gan Ning saw and heard the sound, he waved his hand and all the shadows disappeared.

Zhang He stayed where he was, breathing heavily, looking at Gan Ning in front of him.

After the fight just now, he had several wounds on his body. Although they were not serious, they had affected his combat effectiveness to some extent.

"You're lucky. I won't let you go next time."

Gan Ning snorted coldly and turned away.

In contrast, Huang Gai was just the opposite.

After fighting with Zhang Ren, he finally understood how powerful this Northwest Spear King was. His dual-spear skills made him completely at a loss as to how to defend himself. (End of this chapter)