Holding the will from Emperor Liang tightly in his hand, Dai Chao's eyes were sprayed with anger, making the body of the courtier in front of him who came to deliver the decree tremble slightly. Before the decree was announced, he was a chaplain, but after the decree was announced, he was a humble petty official in front of Dai Chao.

"Why!" Dai Chao's voice was very low, but the anger contained in it made the heart of this courtier tremble, if the person in front of him slashed him to vent his anger, His Majesty the Emperor would have no possibility of justice for him. "I'm about to march into Gangneung, everything is under my control, at this time, what are the soldiers and horses of the third brother coming over? Picking peaches? ”

"The lower officials don't know, the lower officials don't know!" Chao Fenglang's voice trembled.

Dai Chao finally did not lose his mind, threw his will on the desk, and yelled at Chao Fenglang: "Get out." ”

Chao Fenglang breathed a sigh of relief, gave a salute, and almost crawled out of the hall, until the moment he saw the sun, he straightened up, wiped a handful of cold sweat, and had a feeling of escaping death. He decided to be here right away, as soon as possible.

Although the official is not big, as a person who has been staying in the center, he is naturally very clear about the increasingly fierce battle for the throne between His Royal Highness and the Third Highness. For unknown reasons, the emperor has refused to formally establish the throne. Regardless of the voices of the court calling on the emperor to quickly establish the throne to avoid unnecessary internal friction, the emperor has never stopped talking, but the emperor has not paid attention to this.

Or, the emperor wants to use this position to tempt the two highnesses to die!

Is that good?

Or useful.

Because His Royal Highness has laid a large territory in the south for more than a year, which has greatly alleviated the crisis in the rear of Daliang. On the other hand, His Royal Highness's side also had to do his best in Jingnan, so as not to be compared to the Third Highness.

Chao Fenglang quickly left Xiangyang, and Dai Chao's anger did not subside.

"Herald He Zhang, Cai Wen, within three days, if you can't take Xinye and Dangyang, you will cut off your own skull and send it to me!" Dai Chao slapped the table angrily and yelled.

"Pass my order, the whole army will assemble, and three days later, the troops will be sent to Jiangling Mansion."

Xiangyang, as the base camp of the Gunnavy, with Dai Chao's order, immediately mobilized all of them, if Dai Chao still had the intention of slowly laying down Jingnan and avoiding too many casualties, this time, he had to do his best.

Once Zhu Youzhen's soldiers and horses arrived in Jingnan and took Jiangling Mansion before him, then it would be a joke for him to replace Chao. I have worked hard for a few months, and I have almost grinded the main force of Jingnan, but I have made His Royal Highness's biggest political enemy easily pick peaches, and no one can swallow this breath.

Zhu Youzhen sent Tian Guofeng, who is famous for fighting tough battles, this guy from a mountain bandit is not afraid of death, and a strong city like Ezhou was defeated by him. Although Jiangling is more difficult to fight than Ezhou, in front of this madman, no one dares to say that he can't beat him. Once Gangneung falls into the hands of this person, it will be difficult to get it back.

He wanted to take Jingnan completely before Tian Guofeng arrived.

The 20,000 army and 50,000 people were mobilized extremely quickly and set off in the direction of Gangneung Province. And in Xinye, Dangyang, the battle also became unprecedentedly fierce with the arrival of Dai Chao's order.

Xinye, He Zhang stared at the broken city wall of Xinye in front of him with red eyes for a long time, retracted his gaze, looked at a group of generals and colonels in front of him, and said coldly: "You all know the order of the acting marshal, if you can't take Xinye in three days, I will lose my head, but before I lose my head, I will cut off your head first." Two days, I will only give you two days, and I will take Xinye. ”

"Yes!" A group of generals responded with a bang, then turned and walked away quickly.

The rumbling sound of war drums sounded, and a team of soldiers, pushing large ladders, siege towers, and simple ladders, rushed to Xinye Castle like madmen.

On the top of the city tower, Ding Wei wiped the blood and sweat on his face, and said to Ding Xiong, who came up to replace him: "The Gon Navy is crazy. ”

"Then let's be a little crazier than them." Ding Xiong choked and pulled out his knife, "You go down and rest for a while." ”

There were 5,000 defenders in Xinye, of which 3,000 were Ding's private troops. This is a stronger team than the Jingnan Army, for many years, the Ding family has been fed with silver money, and even the generals, almost all of them are the sons of the Ding family, there is no way out, except for a desperate battle, they have no way out.

Death in battle and escape are completely two heavens of ice and fire for them.

If they die in battle, their families can also receive a generous pension, and their children can continue to become Ding's private soldiers, but once they escape, their families will be immediately expelled from Ding, their fields will be recovered, and their family property will be confiscated, and they will be reduced to a group of people who are worse than tenants.

The other army led by Bai Qian who stubbornly defended Dangyang was the private army of the Bai family, probably the same situation as the private army of the Ding family, these two private armies were also the Ding family, and the Bai family controlled the capital of the entire Jingnan.

If it weren't for Ding Jian's special identity, these two would never have put themselves into such a cruel battlefield by pressing the things at the bottom of the box. Ding Jian is the eldest son of the Ding family and the son-in-law of the Bai family. Under his crazy request, the Ding Bai family finally bet all their capital on Li Ze's gambling table.

They don't have any choice but to win.

"Kill them all!" Ding Xiong roared and rushed forward with his sword, grabbed an oncoming spear, and slashed head-on with the horizontal knife in his hand, cutting off the head of an enemy until only a little tendon was left. With a kick that flew the corpse away, he poked the spear out with his backhand, and the tail of the spear pressed against the chest of another soldier who climbed up, and stabbed him from the top of the city.

Picking up the spear, he swept out again, sweeping another enemy next to him off the city wall, Ding Xiong stood next to the battlement, slashed left and right, and knocked down several opponents around him in an instant.

A private soldier of the Ding clan lifted a stone and threw it to the side of the battlement, and was about to throw the stone down, when a spear poked from below, and pierced his chest with a thud, and in the midst of a long cry, the private soldier threw the stone in his hand and smashed it squarely on the opponent's head. The opponent fell off the city wall with an upside-down onion, and the private soldier also fell forward, and his upper body hung on the city wall, completely out of breath.

Ding Wei said that Gon Haijun was crazy, and he was not wrong. The battle became more fierce than ever, and the first wave of attacks was repelled at the head of the city, and the Gon navy, who fled in disarray, waited for the rain of feathered arrows of the warlords behind them.

"Forward, forward, backward death!" The roar of the Overseer made these Gon Navy, who had been retreating, pounce again with red eyes.

When the last rays of sunlight flickered a few times in the sky, and finally his light was removed, the Chinese army of the Gon Navy finally sounded the gong of Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

Whether it's the attacking side or the defensive side, it's exhausted at the moment. Looking at the retreating Gun Navy, Ding Xiong and Ding Wei, who had been rotated several times, also collapsed on the city wall with weak hands and feet.

"What the hell is going on?" Ding Wei threw aside the jagged horizontal knife in his hand, took a kettle from his own soldier, and drank most of it in one gulp.

Ding Xiong snatched the kettle, drank the rest of the water in one go, and said, "Something must have happened, but such an accident must be a good thing for us, otherwise, they wouldn't go crazy." ”

"Even if it's a good thing for us, if we continue to fight like this, we're just afraid that we won't be able to hold it." Ding Wei looked at the soldiers lying on the city wall and said, "In today's battle, we have suffered one-third of the casualties. We have less than three thousand troops at our disposal. I don't know what the situation is on Dangyang's side, but if you think about it, I'm afraid it's similar to ours. Our elites are all here, if they are all lost, what will happen to Gangneung Mansion? ”

"I don't know, Childe wants to have a plan!" Ding Xiong said: "We just have to fight, and we will keep it until the last moment." ”

Standing on the top of the city, you can clearly see that the enemy on the opposite side is actually rushing to make all kinds of siege equipment overnight to make up for today's losses, and it seems that tomorrow will never be easier than today.

"What, retreat?" Ding Xiong looked at the sweat-stained messenger from Jiangling Mansion, "What about Dangyang?" ”

"There are also messengers who have passed, and when Yang and Xinye have all given up." The messenger said: "Ding Xianggong said that the decisive battle will be fought under Jiangling Mansion. ”

Ding Xiong and Ding Wei glanced at each other, Xinye and Dangyang are the gateways of Jiangling Mansion, once these two places are completely abandoned, the enemy will go straight to the core of Jingnan, which is equivalent to giving up most of Jingnan.

Ding Xianggong said, save strength and fight a decisive battle in Gangneung. As for the rest, when the two generals returned to Gangneung Mansion, they would naturally know. The messenger said.

"Got it!" The two nodded.

That night, Ding Xiong and Ding Wei gave up the seriously injured in the city and quietly evacuated Xinye.

The fierce battle during the day also made Gon Haiwhip Cai Quan never expect that the opponent would leave like this. By the time dawn he attacked again, Shinno had become an empty city.

Although it was a little inexplicable, for Cai Quan, it was also a sigh of relief. Yesterday's battle, to be honest, also made him tremble in his heart. If you continue to fight like this, the enemy may not be able to hold it, but your own subordinates are afraid that they will also suffer heavy losses.

In this way, it is a happy ending, when he arrived at Gangneung Mansion, the festival commander himself came, but he didn't have to bear such a big responsibility anymore, and he always felt that his head was dangling on his shoulders.

And what he felt the same as Cai Quan was He Zhang, who attacked Dangyang, because Bai Qian, who was opposite him, was really at night and ran away.