Jurong is forty miles to the southwest.

The early morning wind still brought the cold of spring, and several bonfires burned in the dimness, surrounded by soldiers sleeping on the ground in their clothes, and the figures patrolling by.

With his back to the temporary camp on the hills, Zhu Huan handed the wine bag to Quan Zong, who came back from patrolling, picked up a dead branch on the ground and threw it into the fire, "How is it outside?" Old General Cheng fell asleep? ”

"Fell asleep." Quan Zong took a sip of wine, sat down next to him, and untied the ring knife around his waist and put it at his feet, "However, it seems that it is also a fake sleep, who can really sleep at this time." ”

There was a slight crackling sound in the fire, and a few wisps of sparks jumped up to the sky, reflecting the faces of the two of them, Zhu Huan took back the wine bag, and after listening to the other party's words, he smiled: "How can you blame anyone, just be kind enough to hand over the power of the army, if you have to go to Dantu to find out, these old generals are stubborn, and the lord can endure it until now He is already broad-minded." ”

"Hugh Mu, what do you think Huang Gai's death ......?"

Zhu Huan turned his face, his eyes reflected a flickering flame, and a strange emotion flashed in it, "What does General Quan want to say?" Do you wonder if there's something wrong with this? Or is it true that the person on the other side is Sun Ce? ”

"Don't you have doubts?"

There was silence around the bonfire for a while, Zhu Huan looked at the fire, and threw another dry branch inside, "But what, you and I are both generals promoted by the lord, and we are not Sun Ce's old ministers, so naturally we can only stand on the lord's side, do you think that the generals of the two battlefields of Dantu and Peng Ze are fools, and they can't see it?" In fact, he didn't say anything, and shouting to avenge General Huang was nothing more than to motivate the soldiers below. ”

The spark splattered from the dead branches, and he added, "...... no one here is stupid." ”

"But the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom in the north is about to call......." Quan Zong rubbed his face, put his hands behind his head and walked on the soft ground, looking at the night sky without stars and moons, "....... How many of them do you think they will surrender after fighting? More than 300,000 soldiers and horses came in two ways, among which there were many generals and soldiers who could fight in the water, and it was no longer the same as the Chibi of the year, and it was almost impossible to use the burning chain boats, and the land in Jiangdong was afraid that it really changed hands. ”

"You can't sit still, and the lord will never surrender easily."

"That's right..... as long as Jiangshang stops the Jin army, it's ......okay to drag it out for a year" Quan Zong, who was lying on the ground, stopped abruptly, sat up suddenly, and Zhu Huan next to him asked when he saw this: "What's wrong?" At the same time, he suddenly felt something, and quickly stood up from the ground, and the soldiers who had been sleeping around the campfire or patrolling looked towards the east, grabbed the weapons at his feet, pulled out his blade and roared: "There are cavalry coming, be on guard—"

Zhu Huan lifted the big gun and turned over on his horse: "This is only a hundred miles away from Jianye, where are the soldiers and horses?" ”

"The most recent ..... is only Qu'a."

Suddenly, in the distant night, the sound of horses' hooves from far and near, the earth instantly roared, in the dark color, the light of the winding torch was like a fire dragon winding coming, led by the silhouette of a double halberd and a heavy spear, was riding a horse to this side, in the flickering firelight, the man had a beautiful beard, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, and the two people on the side of the bonfire from a distance pulled up the longbow.

"Leave people behind—"

- It was Tai Shici who came from Qu'a!

………

The clammy and cold spring cold circulated in the night, Cheng Pu shrunk around a pile of extinguished bonfires in thin clothes, even though there was a little warmth, but the coldness still hit his whole body, and in his closed eyes, he did not really sleep.

The past came to mind from time to time on the way to be escorted, he was a native of Beiping, speaking of which was still a close neighbor of the Jin Emperor who had been a horse thief, when he was young, his appearance and demeanor were also considered to be a talent, he was a county official, after following Sun Jian, he went to Xiliang, and also fought Dong Zhuo, after Sun Jian's death, he followed his son Sun Ce to pacify Jiangdong, and went through hundreds of battles large and small, and was stubborn...... But to track down the death of his brother Huang Gai, he felt that it was right, and he never regretted it, but unfortunately he didn't find anything, and he finally had to stop here, but he couldn't bury it in his hometown in the future, which made him somewhat regretful.

When the weapons collided and the sound of fighting faintly came, Cheng Pu's thoughts were interrupted, he opened his eyes and sat up, and several soldiers guarding the sides were holding their weapons, already drenched in cold sweat.

The direction of the vision extended to the past, the torch light illuminated this field camp, five hundred cavalry spread across the field, and crashed in, Quan Zong swung his sword to shoot an arrow, and the surrounding guards had already pounced, and then a few bangs, the body flew out upside down with a blood line, and the oncoming war horse neighed high-pitched, and kept rushing over, Zhu Huan rode up to meet it, raised the gun and stabbed it, the two war horses staggered for a moment, Tai Shi Ci avoided the spear head stabbed by the other party, and the heavy gun in his hand swept over the gap, The iron and iron crackles erupted from the armor leaves on the other party's body, hitting Zhu Huan's whole person like a cannonball, and on the other side, Quan Zong ran quickly, holding the blade with both arms, and slashed down according to the horse's legs-

The sprinting war horse let out a mournful roar, fell forward with a bang, and collided with Zhu Huan's mount and rolled on the ground, Tai Shici on the war horse was thrown into the air in an instant, abandoned the gun, pulled out the double halberd on his back with his backhand, and threw it over there.

Phew-

The blade of the knife smashed into the single halberd, and Quan Zong roared "Come on-", in his eyes, Tai Shici's figure rushed to the front, the halberd blade hung on the opponent's knife edge in an instant, and the metal exchange scraped out sparks, jumping between the two, "Don't surrender yet!" He roared angrily, his arm pulled violently, the halberd buckled the blade, and fell directly from the opponent's hand, the hem suddenly lifted, and when he lifted it, he kicked it in the abdomen.

Quan Zong Wow spurted out a mouthful of blood, the tiger's mouth was in severe pain, his body stumbled back a few steps, his knees fell sharply, he threw himself forward, and lay on the ground motionless.

Not far away, a soldier came over, wanting to snatch the main general, but was slashed over by Tai Shici's halberd, he rubbed the somewhat painful abdomen that had just landed, walked to the front of Quan Zong's body, turned the other party over, blood was still gushing out between his mouth and nose, and his eyes were half closed and he had lost his lustre.

"I'm sorry." Tai Shi Ci put him down, picked up the single halberd he threw before, and searched for Zhu Huan around, that person had already been escorted by his personal guards and ran away on horseback, and the fighting near him was still continuing, and in the farther direction, his follow-up Qu'a infantry had already rushed to the battlefield, surrounded the surrounding groups, and gradually shrunk here in formation.

The scene of the fight was brought under control.

At this scene, Cheng Pu didn't make any other moves, just watched quietly, he raised his hand to tell the soldiers guarding him not to resist, and then walked towards the figure holding the double halberd over there.

"Old General Cheng!" After Tai Shi Ci took the halberd, he arched his hand towards the old man who came over: "Ci rushed over immediately after receiving the news, but fortunately he caught up." ”

The old man nodded, squatted down to look at Quan Zong, who had died, and sighed: "It's a pity that I'm a Jiangdong son, and I'm a fool when I die." He gently closed the corpse's eyes, and then got up: "How did General Taishi know that the old man was captured?" ”

"Someone arraigned."

"Who is it?"

"A woman..... unfortunately didn't know her name, and she didn't see her appearance clearly, so she sent the letter and left, listening to the scout say that she was going to Jianye ......"

Cheng Pu frowned, and his eyes suddenly opened.

"Oh no, this person is secretive, most likely to assassinate! Although the lord is unkind, as a subordinate, I can't do such unrighteous things, and everything in the future will be handed over to Bo Fu to decide, not an outsider. ”

"Old general, do you think the general of the water army in Guangling Pavilion is Bo Fu?" Tai Shici asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, set up the camp tent, turned back to the old man and said: "But right now, you and I are so soldiers and horses, I'm afraid I will be powerless to go to Jianye." ”

Cheng Pu looked at the corpse of Quan Zong on the ground, and had to nod: "That's it, wait for the dawn to discuss this matter first." ”

The wind passed through the field, the forest shook slightly, and when the night gradually passed, in this field where the battle was fought in the middle of the night, between some ridges, and beside the road, the residual blood could be seen everywhere, and after the rout was collected, Tai Shici and Cheng Pu now have 15,000 men and horses in their hands, but for Jianye, it still seems small.

“.…… I hope Bo Fu can come back soon. The old man rode on horseback, looked at Jiangdong eroded by the beacon fire, and sighed sincerely.

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Under the same sky, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, a fleet of more than 2,000 ships in total engaged in a confrontation on the river, white sails spreading to obscure the flowing water, and a moment later, the war drums sounded, and the warships fiercely pounced on each other.

The arrows flew densely across the sky like locusts, mixed with stone cannons and smashed at each other, splashing a wave of water three feet high.