Qu Lingchen stared at the sword handed over by Shi Chang, and the cold light on the sword seemed to show scenes of Dongting Lake drawing with a sword, the people of Xiangjiang returning to the city, the victims of Xiangjiang receiving relief food, and the unbearable night in Guiyang.

Liu Zhang sat on the stone two meters away from him, as long as he picked up the sword handed by Shi Chang, as long as he took a sword, he could kill Liu Zhang's life and avenge his own destruction, he should be happy, why did his heart beat so fast.

"I must be too nervous, don't be nervous, Ling Chen, don't be nervous, you can take revenge right away, after revenge, you haven't thought about continuing to live, there's nothing to be nervous about, don't be nervous."

"He kills innocents indiscriminately, he is by no means a good person, he is a butcher."

Qu Lingchen tried to convince himself, the jade hand slowly stretched out to the sword, Shi Chang raised the sword higher, Qu Lingchen's slender fingers stretched out to the hilt of the sword, and at the moment of touching, suddenly a female voice came.

"Slow."

Fan Lixiang walked over in three or two steps, grabbed Qu Lingchen's sword, picked it up and looked up and down, and praised it casually: "Good sword, really good sword." ”

After speaking, he pulled out the sword and admired the cold light above, Qu Lingchen was slightly stunned when he saw Fan Lixiang's charming face.

With a "swish", the sword was returned to the sheath, Fan Lixiang handed the sword to Qu Lingchen, and her body blocked in front of Liu Zhang without a trace.

"Since the girl still has important business, let's take the sword and leave."

Qu Lingchen's demeanor on the island of Dongting Lake and his demeanor in the Guiyang tent, judging the two of them, Liu Zhang would never have thought that the two were the same person, but Fan Lixiang had only heard Qu Lingchen's words once, and his brain thinking would not be interfered with.

Fan Lixiang handed Qu Lingchen a meaningful look, at this time, Fan Lixiang had already guessed that this woman was the woman who stabbed Liu Zhang at night, just with Qu Lingchen's sword, Liu Zhang didn't know, he wouldn't not know, but he waited for them for an hour with this sword.

Moreover, Qu Lingchen's action of holding the sword just now, not with the scabbard but with the hilt, has already explained everything.

But the relationship between the two Fan Lixiang is still unpredictable, even if Fan Lixiang is smart, she can't guess why one must be killed, and the other seems to be still grateful.

Before figuring it out, Fan Lixiang didn't want to expose Qu Lingchen, maybe it wouldn't be good for herself, looking at Liu Zhang's smiling appearance that had never appeared, she would even be thankless, Fan Lixiang was not so stupid, and she resolutely didn't do anything that was not good for herself.

saved Liu Zhang, but he was just afraid that Liu Zhang would die and his official position would be gone.

Qu Lingchen took the sword, Fan Lixiang guarded against himself, and then he wanted to sneak attack Liu Zhang in front of everyone, it was almost impossible, Qu Lingchen glanced at Fan Lixiang, the corners of Fan Lixiang's mouth hooked a little playful smile, Qu Lingchen turned around and left with a cold face.

"Girl." Liu Zhang got up from the stone, and said goodbye to Qu Lingchen a little strangely, remembering that on the small island of Dongting Lake, the two of them did not break up unhappily, why did this woman suddenly become very cold.

Maybe it's a relationship of revenge and unavenged.

Liu Zhang thought about it, looking at Qu Lingchen's departing back a little stunned, in fact, Liu Zhang has always thought that when the war in Jingzhou is over, he will go to Dongting Lake again to listen to Qu Lingchen's qin music, that kind of comfortable feeling, he longs for it, but it has not been a long time.

But now it seems that this is also impossible.

At this time, Fan Lixiang walked over, glanced at Qu Lingchen on the mountain path, and said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, don't look at it, has the lord forgotten what he came to do today?" ”

………… The city defense of ancient Xiangyang and Xiangyang has been inspected, Xiangyang is the state of Jingzhou, Liu Biao has been operating for many years, and he has not found any loopholes, and the ancient Xiangyang guarded by Xu Shu has no other good way except for the broken road that Fa Zheng said.

On the same day, Liu Zhang ordered Zhang Ren's army to raid Yongdao, and the Jingzhou soldiers in Yongdao seemed to have been prepared for the Sichuan army's attack.

If they stay, they will only be sent to death.

Zhang Ren left Gao Pei Town to guard Yongdao, and in the first few days, Cai Mao of Xiangyang City sent troops out to attack Yongdao, and was beaten to the ground, those Jingzhou recruits were not opponents of the Sichuan army at all, and the corpses were everywhere, and the Jingzhou generals fled back to the city with the remnants of the remaining horses.

The Sichuan army concentrated the main army of 50,000 people, divided into ten echelons, five echelons every day to take turns to attack the ancient Xiangyang East City, the Sichuan army in order to fight quickly before the grain and grass were cut off, the offensive was fierce, as the city wall gradually dried, the pressure on Gu Xiangyang became more and more great, Xu Shu in order to deal with the Sichuan army attack, also divided the city defense troops into three echelons, took turns to defend the city, and the rest of the echelons hid in the Tibetan cave to rest.

Ancient Xiangyang since Liu Biao moved to rule, is used as a military base, the Tibetan soldiers are evenly distributed in all parts of the city wall, if the war on the city wall is urgent, the soldiers of the Tibetan soldiers can be quickly reinforced.

Xu Shu installed hundreds of single-shot hard crossbows on the city wall, the most important thing for the Jingzhou naval army is the arrows, and the all-iron arrows used in the hard crossbow were also transferred to the city by Xu Shu in large quantities, whenever the Sichuan army attacked the city, hundreds of crossbow machines fired a salvo, each all-iron arrow can shoot several enemy soldiers within half a range, whenever the Sichuan army attacked the city, the crossbow arrows harvested human lives like poisonous snakes, and each time it could repel the attack of the Sichuan army at a critical moment.

Eight days after the battle, the scorching sun was in the sky, the Sichuan army suffered heavy losses, and failed to take Gu Xiangyang, watching the Jingzhou soldiers on the city wall clean up the corpses of their companions, Liu Zhang turned around silently, waved his hand, and once again withdrew from the shuai platform with his own soldiers.

Fa Zheng said it well, after the Yongdao was broken, the siege of the city was indeed much smoother, but the ancient Xiangyang troops and the weapons to defend the city were almost perfect under the deployment of Xu Shu, and the Sichuan army could not advance an inch for a while, and both sides were suffering in the scorching sun and heavy casualties.

Liu Zhang opened a military discussion, but did not discuss the result, except for the strong attack, there was no other way, the generals withdrew silently, only Fa Zheng was left, Fa Zheng hesitated for a long time, and said to Liu Zhang: "Lord, go find Pang Tong, he should be able to have a way." ”

"Pang Tong? What are you looking for that kid to do, lord, I will personally go up tomorrow and promise to take down the city for you, otherwise, you will cut off my head. "It's so powerful, I get angry when I hear the name Pang Tong.

"Don't interject." Liu Zhang scolded, with the invulnerable flesh armor, if there were a hundred, maybe he could really capture the city, but unfortunately he was alone, a can of fire oil could be solved, imagine the scene where the rough muscles of the powerful body were ignited...... Liu Zhang shook his head and said to Fa Zheng: "Go to Pang Tong at this time, will he offer a plan?" ”

"Since Pang Tong really wants to serve the Sichuan army, he won't keep pulling his face, but I just hope that the lord will be able to endure it, I think Pang Tong will definitely refuse a few times, make a show, don't take the lord to heart, so, Pang Tong should be able to sincerely contribute."

"With such heavy casualties among soldiers, what is my face." Liu Zhang sighed, and after a while, he said to Fa Zheng: "Actually, I already looked for him last night. ”

"What did Pang Tong say?" Fa Zheng didn't expect Liu Zhang to take the initiative to find Pang Tong, and after that night, Fa Zheng never mentioned Pang Tong's matter, just because he was afraid that Liu Zhang would not be able to open his mouth.

Liu Zhang said lightly: "Pang Tongyi didn't refuse, saying that as long as I promised him three conditions, I would promise to be a military advisor of the Sichuan Army, Pang Tong said that he didn't know how to go to Xiangyang now, but as long as I appointed him as a military advisor, within a month, I would definitely take the city, otherwise I would behead him." ”

"What are the three conditions?"

"First, let Rong'er return to Chengdu, second, relieve Fan Lixiang of his official and military positions, he is responsible for appeasing the 20,000 peasant army, and third, give up disaster relief to Liangjiang."

"The lord didn't agree?"

Liu Zhang's eyes looked at the ground, "Pang Tong also gave me an idea, recently in the Yiling area, the Jingzhou stragglers who don't want to take refuge in us are based on the mountains as bandits, we can pretend to transport a batch of grain to Jiangling, the escort is lax, and the Yiling bandits will inevitably come to rob it, and then we can shirk and say that our grain was robbed by the Jingzhou soldiers, and we can also frame it for Liu Biao."

In this way, we can not only avoid disaster relief, but also arouse the hatred of the victims of the disaster against Liu Biao and win the hearts of the people of Liangjiang. ”

"What a plan." Fa Zheng exclaimed, and his admiration for Pang Tong deepened in his heart, but he immediately fell silent, he knew that Liu Zhang must not agree.

"The lord didn't agree, did he?"

Liu Zhang stood up, looked at the dazzling sunshine outside, and smiled lonely, "Yes, half of the promise, I have already ordered Yubei Guan to transport a batch of fake grain to Jiangling, and pretended to be robbed by Yiling bandits on the way."

Then let Huang Zhong publicize that our grain and grass were robbed by the Jingzhou rebels, and Jiangling only had one month's military rations left, but even so, Jiangling continued to provide disaster relief, preferring to starve the soldiers to death, and the soup kitchen and shelter alley would not be closed, so that the people could be relieved. ”

Since Fan Lixiang used "art" twice to win the hearts of the people in Jingnan and Xiangjiang, Liu Zhang has unconsciously become accustomed to this method.

"The lord is wise." Fa Zheng praised it, but there was no excitement on his face, he sat in front of the desk and said in a deep voice: "With this incident, the expectations of the disaster victims for disaster relief efforts will be lowered a lot, which will help maintain the stability of the disaster area, the people's will will be there, and the rear will be considered stable, but we still have less than a month left." ”

Liu Zhang nodded, eight days have passed, there are still twenty days, and I have to hope that it will not rain during this period, and the hope of capturing Xiangyang is getting slimmer and slimmer, Liu Zhang seems to be a little hesitant at this moment, for the sake of those disaster victims, is it really worth giving up Xiangyang?

Or, for the sake of the great cause, should the hundreds of thousands of victims be sacrificed?

The first condition that Pang Tong said, Liu Zhang can agree, and the second condition can also find a way to reluctantly agree, but the third, although Liu Zhang knows that Pang Tong is right, he still can't make a decision.

"With the will of the people, even if we can't capture Xiangyang, after retreating to Jiangling, the situation should be better." Fa Zheng said, in fact, he didn't believe his own words in his own heart, in this era when the world clan controlled everything, without the support of the world, it was useless to have any popular support, this is the real reason why the mighty Red Eyebrow Green Forest Army did not succeed Liu Xiu back then.

Just when the two of them were at a loss and Fa was about to leave, a soldier suddenly came to report: "Report to the lord that two dead pigs were found in the well in the backyard." ”

(To be continued)