Although Zhou Gan is a mediocre person in Guan Zhong's eyes, this person has been a guard of Zhongwu for many years, and he still has influence in Zhongwu.

Although the Qi army had completely controlled Zhong Wu's Vietnamese army, it would still be possible if Zhou Gan wanted to do something in Zhong Wu, so Guan Zhong designed to let Zhou Gan leave Zhong Wu.

As for Zhou Gan's return to Zhongwu again, it is basically impossible......

Three days later, Zhang Heng led 50,000 vanguard troops to Zhu Fang, which was not a city, but a place.

Zhu Fang does not have a city wall, but there are some Vietnamese troops stationed here, and there are some fields here, and the rest are the rural Yue people and their houses.

And this place is the place that must be taken to attack Gusu City, because the Qi army marching into Gusu City must garrison troops in this place called Zhu Fang.

Gusu City can be said to be the largest city in the Yue Kingdom, once it was the capital of the Wu Kingdom, and later after the destruction of Wu, the Gusu City gradually withered, but in recent years, the Gusu City has gradually developed and become the largest city in the Yue Kingdom.

However, the national policy of the Yue country is to invade, and the city of Gusu is not on the border of any country, so although it is prosperous, there are few garrisons, and there is no city defense, and the terrain has no natural dangers, but a flat river.

For Gusu City, the only line of defense is that there are many rivers in the city, and the moat is large, so it takes many soldiers who are proficient in water to enter Gusu City.

Because there were many rivers, the cavalry was not so important, so Tian Dan and the others planned to blockade Gusu City, and then let Zhang Heng's cavalry go south to Huiji.

And Tian Dan and others are ready to be stationed in Zhufang, select soldiers who know water, and participate in the attack on Gusu City......

And Zhu Fang's general Yue Guo saw a force of Qi troops coming, and immediately blew the horn......

Gusu City County Guard, Xie Fu sat on the Taishi chair and looked at the county guard Liu Fang: "Liu County Shou, do you have a way to retreat from the enemy?" ”

"Although Gusu City is the largest city in the Yue Kingdom, it has no elite soldiers and no natural dangers, and the only advantage is that there are many ......," Liu Fang said to Xie Fu.

"In this Gusu City, how many soldiers can fight now?" Xie Fu looked at Liu Fang and asked.

"Less than 100,000 people!" Xie Fu replied.

"How many people are there in the standing army?" Xie Fu asked again.

"Twenty thousand!" Liu Fang replied.

If it weren't for the fact that Gusu City was the largest city in the Yue Kingdom, perhaps this Gusu City would not have a standing army of 20,000 at all.

Generally, ordinary cities will not be stationed with a standing army, and the standing army will only be stationed in the capital and military fortresses, as well as military points, borders, and garrisons.

Because Gusu City is the largest city in the Yue Kingdom, it was stationed in the standing army, which was originally only a symbolic station, but I didn't expect it to play a role at a critical moment.

The combat effectiveness of the reserve force is far from being comparable with the combat effectiveness of the standing army, because after all, the standing army has received military training all year round, and its military quality and combat effectiveness are much stronger than those of the reserve army.

Although the main force of the Qi army attacking Yue this time was the reserve, after the Battle of Pengcheng, the combat effectiveness of this army was more or less improved, and it was not much weaker than the general standing army.

At this time, a soldier ran in: "It's a big deal, the cavalry of the Qi army has attacked Zhu Fang, and Zhu Fang's guard will ask for support here!"

"I'll bring someone to help!" Wang Tianli said to Xie Fu.

"How sure are you?" Xie Fu looked at Wang Tianli and asked.

"This time the cavalry is the main force, there are tens of thousands of cavalry!" The soldier reported.

"Zhu Fang in Xia Jue can give up, we can't hold Zhu Fang at all, why waste troops there?" It was Liu Fang who spoke, and he watched Xie Fu say it.

Liu Fang said what Xie Fu didn't like to hear, but he also had to accept people, even if all the troops in Gusu City were transferred, they might not be able to hold this Zhu Fang, it was better to arrange the troops in Gusu City and defend Gusu City.

"Soldiers are extremely precious to us now, we can't make meaningless sacrifices, once Gusu City is lost, the Qi army can go to Huiji with peace of mind!" Liu Fang said to Xie Fu.

Gusu City is the last northern line of defense of Huiji, and once it is lost, the Qi army will arrive in Huiji.

However, on the Qi side, they wanted to besiege Gusu City and let the cavalry troops arrive at Huiji first.

However, this is a very risky act, because once the siege of Gusu City is unsuccessful, or if the siege is broken, then this cavalry unit will be isolated and trapped in the middle of Gusu City and Huiji.

When the cavalry troops charge into the army, they cannot carry a large amount of military rations, at most a month's worth of food, and once they fall into a state of lack of food, they are isolated and helpless, and what they are waiting for is destruction.

However, the reason why they had to do such a risky act was because Tian Dan and others had learned that the main force of the Yue State was pinned down by the Chu State, and the troops led by Li Shou of the Yue State had also been annihilated, and the current Yue State had no effective fighting force except for Xuancheng.

And now there are only more than 10,000 people guarding the standing army......

Without an army, even if there are powerful generals in the Yue Kingdom, they are basically powerless......

The annihilation of Li Shou's army can basically declare the destruction of the Yue Kingdom, and the current Yue Kingdom is also the glimmer of life in Xuancheng, so it can be said that they are now dying and struggling, waiting for a miracle to come.

"Then give up Zhu Fang!" Xie Fu sighed deeply and said, giving up Zhu Fang was a helpless move.

With insufficient troops, he could only give up Zhu Fang, reduce casualties, and make Gusu City more solid.

He looked at the soldier who was delivering the message and said, "Go and tell the guards of the Zhu side that the reinforcements will arrive, let them hold on, and they must wait until the reinforcements arrive!" ”

The herald nodded and walked out, while Xie Fu sighed, "I'm sorry......"

The news reached the ears of Zhu Fang's guards, and Zhu Fang's guards shouted, telling the soldiers to fight desperately and be sure to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

This group of defenders is very strong, they fought desperately and fought with the Qi army all night, the guard general Wu Hanning looked at the direction of Gusu City with a confused face, he waited for reinforcements, but all night, the reinforcements did not come, and the soldiers who lived and died with him fell one after another.

At this time, it was already dawn, Zhang Heng rode a colt and looked at Wu Hanning, who was confused: "Surrender, surrender without killing ......"

At this time, there were less than 100 people left in the Yue people of the Zhu side, and they were surrounded by the Qi army, and after a night of fighting, only these people remained......

In this battle, not only the defenders of the Yue country fought, but also the Vietnamese people here participated.

"Reinforcements?" The reinforcements they were waiting for did not arrive, and if the Vietnamese army really wanted to support them overnight, the reinforcements would have already arrived.

Wu Hanning knew that he had been deceived and had no reinforcements, he just wanted them to fight to the death here and consume some of the Qi army's combat power......