At this moment, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Wen Ping all led their respective armies and stationed near Xiazhi County in Jiangxia County, which is the only place to enter Jingzhou by waterway, and from here to go up the river by boat, you can reach Changsha, Nanjun, Xiangyang and other places by waterway, so it is also known as the east gate of Jingzhou.

Whether it was Zhang Liao, Gan Ning, Lü Meng and other Han troops stationed in Xunyang, or Zhou Yu's Jiangdong army stationed in Chaisang, they all had their eyes on Jiangxia, and it was because of this that Sima Yi would arrange Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Wen Ping in Xiazhi County for heavy defense.

The three of them have been stationed here for almost a while, and although Xunyang and Chaisang give them the feeling that they are tense, but in comparison, it seems that Chaisang is more deadly threatening. Because the Han army stationed in Xunyang is actively training the water army, their water army is weak, and on the contrary is Zhou Yu stationed in Chaisang, his water army often cruises in Poyang Lake, and often approaches the waters of Xiazhi County, or the army is in the Xunyang River, which is very aggressive.

Not only that, Zhou Yu's navy can be said to be a trump card army in this triangle, before this, the Jingzhou navy was famous all over the world, but since Liu Biao's crusade against Zhang Yan ended in failure, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun, Cai Zhong, Cai He and other naval generals were all killed, and 30,000 naval officers and soldiers were captured by Zhang Yan, and since then Jingzhou's naval army has plummeted.

Although Wen Ping reorganized a naval army under the orders of Liu Qi and Sima Yi, how could it be completed overnight to train into an elite division?

For this reason, the naval army led by Wen Ping had to jointly guard the east gate of Jingzhou with the assistance of the army led by Huang Zhong and Wei Yan.

Now. Wen Ping led the naval army to guard the waters of Xia Zhi County. Huang Zhong led an army of 20,000 troops to garrison the south bank of the Yangtze River in Xiazhi County. And Wei Yan was on the north bank, with an army of 60,000 guarding the east gate of Jingzhou, even if Zhou Yu was ready to move, he didn't dare to approach here.

On this day, Huang Zhong was leading a cavalry team of 500 people, running in circles around the school field in the barracks, only to see each holding a big bow in his hand. Pull the bowstring and shoot the arrows from the bowstring to the bullseye erected in the middle of the school field.

A cluster of arrows flew out of the air, but less than half of the arrows hit the bull's-eye.

Huang Zhong's archery skills are outstanding, and he is naturally a hundred shots, but when he saw that the archers he had trained these days were so bad, he was still angry.

"Stop!" Huang Zhong grabbed the reins of the horse, stopped in place in an instant, turned around and shouted at the cavalry behind.

The cavalry behind was caught off guard and hurriedly reined in the reins of the horses. Although the front one stood still, the one behind didn't have time to stand firm. Directly hit the front one, and in an instant made people turn on their backs, and a loud cry of whining and mourning.

Seeing this, Huang Zhong shook his head helplessly, sighed softly, and said, "The south boat and the north horse, are southerners really not suitable for horseback riding?" ”

Huang Zhong himself is a native of Nanyang County, although he belongs to the boundary of Jingzhou, he is the northernmost person in Jingzhou, and the customs and folklore of Nanyang County are biased towards the north, so in the eyes of Jingzhou people, the people of Nanyang County are all northerners.

Jingzhou's division of the south and the north is roughly bounded by the Han River, the north of the Han River is the northerners, the south of the Han River is the southerners, and the Jingzhou people usually call the area south of the southern county Jingnan, because there are wild and unrelenting, and there are many barbarians, so the people of Jingzhou have always taken Xiangyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia as the pure Jingzhou people, this area is rich in water sources, the waters are vast, and only by boat, you can reach in all directions, so the boat is the most commonly used tool in this area. Moreover, Jingzhou does not produce horses, and horses need to be purchased from the north, so there are not many horses in Jingzhou, and even the figure of horse-drawn carriages is difficult to see on the official road.

Occasionally see a carriage, then the person who rides the carriage must be either rich or expensive, because Jingzhou horses are very expensive, and the money to buy an ordinary horse is enough for ordinary people to live for two years, so in Jingzhou's army, there are very few cavalry.

When Liu Biao was alive, there were 300,000 armored soldiers in Jingzhou, but all the cavalry together was only 10,000. In other words, only one out of thirty people is a cavalryman. Moreover, among the 10,000 cavalry in Jingzhou, 5,000 were brought out by Zhang Xiu, the Taishou of Nanyang, when he took refuge in Guanzhong, and belonged to Zhang Xiu's subordinates. On average, only one out of every sixty men is a cavalryman.

Huang Zhong may have been skilled in arching and horses since he was a child because of his location in the north, so he always wanted to lead a cavalry team built by him himself to gallop on the battlefield.

It's a pity that the 500 cavalry trained by Huang Zhong can't meet the standard he wants, and after two months, they have only been trained on how to control horses, but it seems that they are not very proficient in driving, otherwise no one will turn over on their backs now.

These five hundred cavalrymen were all worried, and they saw that Huang Zhong's face showed some displeasure, and it was estimated that they would be scolded again in a while.

To be honest, Huang Zhong didn't bother to scold them, maybe he had already guessed that there would be such a result, or Huang Zhong had already stopped reporting any hope for them, this time, Huang Zhong didn't say anything, just turned the horse's head, rode his horse wildly, circled around the school field, and from time to time put his arrows on the bowstring, as soon as he pulled the bowstring, an arrow was shot out quickly.

With a "whoosh", the arrow was like a meteor, quickly piercing the sky, whistling towards the bullseye on the target.

"Zheng!"

With a muffled sound, the arrow was nailed to the bullseye of the arrow target at once, and then, Huang Zhong opened the bow three times in a row, each movement was as fast as lightning, as if as soon as he pulled the bowstring, the arrow shot out, and it seemed that he did not aim, but in fact, he had already calculated the bull's-eye of the next arrow in his heart.

Huang Zhong fired five arrows in a row, each arrow hit the bull's-eye, and he also shot the bull's-eye in a fast horse and high-speed movement, this kind of action is simply easy for him, but for these beginners, it is simply a miraculous skill.

"The general is mighty! The general is mighty! The general is mighty......"

Soon, the onlookers all cheered and shouted when they saw Huang Zhong's magic skill, not to mention how happy they were.

However, the five hundred cavalry were all as earth-colored.

Huang Zhong rode his horse around and returned to the side of the five hundred cavalry, at this time, the five hundred cavalry had already gathered together, Huang Zhong rode his horse and arrived, and the five hundred people shouted in unison: "See the general!" ”

Huang Zhong just wanted to open his mouth to reprimand the five hundred cavalrymen, but before he could speak, he heard a fast horse driving out behind him, and he glanced back, it was actually a scout.

The scout quickly whipped his horse, rode his horse and galloped, came to Huang Zhong's face, immediately turned over and dismounted, then knelt on one knee, took out a letter from his arms, handed it directly to Huang Zhong, and said loudly: "General Qiqi, the urgent letter of the military division." ”

Huang Zhong didn't dare to slack off, he immediately received it in his hand, and after reading it in a hurry, he only felt that his head was like an explosion, and the content of the letter was actually the news that Liu Qi was accidentally killed and killed, and Sima Yi also deliberately hurried to let Huang Zhong return to Xiangyang City.

Huang Zhong immediately did as Sima Yi said, put down the work at hand, entrusted everything to his lieutenant, and then rode a fast horse and returned to Xiangyang City with the scouts.

Huang Zhong left inexplicably, leaving only one sentence when he left, let the deputy general take full charge of the affairs here, and then let the cavalry training in the training factory go back to their respective barracks, and did not say where they were going or how long they were going, anyway, they disappeared directly on the school ground.

People who had the same experience as Huang Zhong, as well as Wei Yan and Wen Ping, the three of them followed the three scouts respectively, and they met on a road leading to Xiangyang, and after the three of them saw each other, they all glanced at each other, and then immediately regained their composure, they seemed to be able to guess that they must have been summoned at the same time.

The three of them rushed to Xiangyang all the way non-stop, and when they arrived in Xiangyang, it was already two days later in the evening, just when the three of them were about to enter the city, they suddenly bumped into Li Tong, and the four of them entered the city side by side, and then went to the governor's mansion.

Sima Yi was guarding Liu Qi's spirit in the mourning hall, when suddenly a henchman walked in from outside and muttered a few words in Sima Yi's ear.

When Sima Yi came to the gate of the mansion, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong happened to be standing side by side at the gate of the mansion. ”

Sima Yi brought Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Wen Ping, and Li Tong into the mansion, and then came to the place where Liu Qi's coffin was visited.

"Has the murderer been caught?" Huang Zhong asked.

Sima Yi said: "The murderer had already killed them on the night of the assassination of the lord, and it can be regarded as avenging the lord." ”

"What kind of person is so bold that he dares to assassinate the lord?" Wei Yan asked sharply.

Sima Yi then told all the things that night, and after speaking, Sima Yi sighed heavily, and said: "It's all my fault, if it wasn't for my birthday and what kind of banquet was set up, the lord wouldn't have ......."

Before he finished speaking, Sima Yi was already choked, and then burst into tears, and anyone who saw it felt that Sima Yi was a loyal person. (To be continued......)