(The third update!) ）

Liu Yefei shot the arrow off the horse, howling in pain, the left and right servants were covered by the rain of arrows, and no one had the heart to save him. The horse's hooves trampled indiscriminately, and Liu Yefei listened to the click of his sternum, and rolled his body into the shallow ditch on the side of the road, so as to avoid being trampled to death on the spot, but the right rib and chest of the arrow were in severe pain.

Even if he doesn't die for the time being, half his life is also here, the ambush soldiers are killing from all sides, there is no escape, he closes his eyes in despair.

Chi Yuanji, the son of Chi Guan, who led the troops to ambush at the southern foot of Jigong Mountain, did not wait for the large army that had withdrawn from Daoyu Village, and saw that this group of cavalry fled to Dengzhou City in the dark, and decisively ordered an attack, and attacked Liu Yefei - random arrows were shot, and when he saw that this cavalry was defeated without resistance, he lit a torch to capture the prisoner.

Chen Zhihu's division attacked, Liu Yefei transferred the only three battalions of defenders in Dengzhou City to two battalions to Daoyu Village, the city was a mess, and they all knew that Chen Zhihu's department had the bad habit of plundering the city, and many people were clamoring to escape from the city.

After Liu Yefei left Dengzhou City, it was Yuan Zhixing who stayed in the city to preside over affairs.

At present, the great enemy is coming, and the defenders are already seriously insufficient, so Liu Yefei took two-thirds of the defenders to Daoyu Village. said that he was greeting Jiangning's envoy, but Yuan Zhixing decided that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he fled to Daoyu Village first. As a city, the swordfish village is easier to defend than Dengzhou City, and more importantly, from the swordfish village can escape south by sea boat at any time.

Yuan Zhixing is still a little backbone, he didn't think about doing things to surrender to the enemy, he wrote a good article, and the government was reluctant, but he had no experience in defending the city, and he didn't have the courage to panic in the face of great difficulties.

Some officials who were active first thought of escaping from the city to take refuge, and some officials thought of surrendering, but they couldn't find a chance to speak - a battalion of soldiers who stayed in Dengzhou City felt abandoned because they were not Liu Yefei's confidants. From the generals to the soldiers, they all had no intention of defending the city, and even the soldiers deserted.

The defenders did not disperse in a hurry, not because of anything else, because Zhao Zhen led the main force of Dengzhou Town to retreat to Pingdu, and had not yet been annihilated, leaving them a line of hope to hold Dengzhou, and they were afraid of being questioned in advance.

In this case, the defenders of Dengzhou City did not notice the Haidong soldiers and horses that landed from Tangzi Bay in the northeast corner, which is really not a surprise.

Chi Yuanji led his troops to launch an ambush at the western foot of Jigong Mountain, and Zhao Hu led his troops to approach the north gate of Dengzhou City, and at this time, the gate of Dengzhou City was opened, and countless chariots and horses rushed out of the city gate, and they went out of the city to take refuge at this time.

The lurking sentry then went out of the city to report the situation in Dengzhou City, and Zhao Hu couldn't laugh when he heard it:

Before the enemy army came, the city of Dengzhou was in chaos, and in the middle of the night, the city gate was opened and people were allowed to flee, and I don't know how many soldiers were mixed in and fled.

People can't do it, they can't use it, even if there is an impregnable city, they can't hold it, and the so-called collapse of a thousand miles is nothing more than that.

Whether you can fight, whether it is elite or not, the key lies in the people - think about the tattered belongings of the exile army back then, and still be able to fight for thousands of miles, attack the city and plunder the land, and make a large area of the hinterland of the Central Plains fall, Liu Miaozhen relied on the old and weak soldiers to guard Huaiyang, so Chen Zhihu did not dare to attack, these are not lucky, in addition to the limited elite, the degree of military equipment in ordinary places is too deep.

Huaidong has 100,000 elites available, and the Gongcha battalion also has 1230,000 reserve soldiers, almost supporting half of South Vietnam, Zhao Hu felt that Huaidong's strength was still weak, and his ambitions should not be exposed prematurely, but seeing that Dengzhou City was facing the enemy in this situation, it was so unbearable, thinking that in the past few years, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court seemed to be only responsible for losing troops and abandoning armor, losing cities and abandoning land, Zhao Hu felt that Huaidong no longer had to look at the face of the imperial court.

Zhao Hu had a headache before how to persuade the defenders to open the city gate and let them in, but there was no need to worry about this matter at this time - Zhao Hu ordered left and right: "Light the torch and ......"

The people in the city begged the defenders to open the city gate and let them escape, and even blocked the sight of Jigong Mountain, not caring that Liu Yefei and Hu Cong were ambushed at the western foot of Jigong Mountain, and they were in a mess to escape out of the city - at this time, they saw that in the dark north of the city, countless torches suddenly lit up, reflecting countless hideous faces of soldiers coming out of the mountain col, only when the enemy soldiers attacked, it was as if a scoop of cold water was poured into the hot oil pot, and they panicked to the extreme.

The people who fled out of the city fled in all directions, and the defenders of the city gate were already unsettled and dispersed in a hurry.

Zhao Hu looked at the open city gate, looked at the fallen carriages and horses, looked at the shoes, socks, hats and clothes that were stepped on, looked at the frightened faces of the people who broke their feet or were trampled on, and looked at the bows and knives that were discarded by the defenders.

Thinking of the Koubian in the ninth year of Chongguan, the Donghu army swept through Yannan, and captured more than 30 cities in Yannan in just one month.

At this time, the city was a little chaotic, and there was a team of more than 100 soldiers, rushing to this side to kill - thinking that in this situation, there were still people in the city who thought of fighting back to recapture the northern city, Zhao Hu was relieved, and let people come forward to shout, don't add any casualties for no reason.

After a while, his subordinates brought two people, one was dressed as a servant and wore a leather armor indiscriminately, and the other was a general of the defending army, and he only looked like a small colonel at the city gate.

"The little Liang Shou is the leader of the third shift of the Fucheng Prison," Liang Shou's mouth was more relaxed, and he came to him and saluted to describe his identity, "His name is Shi Anjin, he is the deputy lieutenant of the South Gate, listening to the enemy attack in the north city, Shi Anjin led his men to help, and the small one was also dizzy, and rushed over with the official on duty, but he didn't know that the general came to aid Dengzhou with the Huaidong Army......"

Zhao Hu looked at Liang Shou and Shi Anjin: Liang Shou has a fat head and big ears, a wide waist and broad shoulders, and he has a lot of strength when he looks at it, and what is even more rare is that he does not escape at this time, and can bring more than ten officials to follow the defenders to counterattack Beicheng, and he thinks that he should also be very prestigious in the government on weekdays, so that he can ask others to follow him desperately; Anjin is quite young, tall and thin, with a black face, and looks strong and powerful.

"Liu Yefei, the prefect of Dengzhou, has surrendered to the enemy, do you know?" Zhao Hu asked Liang Shou and Shi Anjin with a calm face.

At this moment, Chen Enze walked over and heard Zhao Hu questioning Liang Shou and Shi Anjin.

Zhao Hu was quite surprised, first asked Liang Shou and Shi Anjin to retreat, and asked Chen Enze: "Is the matter of Daoyu Village done?" ”

"Mr. Gao has already entered the city, Hu Yu'er is really trustworthy, and he didn't make a mess at a critical time...... Chen Enze said.

"You kid is going to do this, so I sweat a handful; If Hu Yu'er is unreliable, I really won't be able to explain when I go back," Zhao Hu sighed, "It seems that you teenagers have grown up, no wonder adults can trust you." ”

Not only can the young man of Chongzhou Meat Ticket be appointed to important positions, Zhao Hu's two younger brothers, Zhao Bao is now a battalion general under Zhou Pu, and Zhao Mengxiong is also over eighteen years old, and he is organized as Lin Lian's personal guard - Chen Enze smiled and continued: "Mr. Gao expected that Liu Yefei's more than 1,000 miscellaneous soldiers would be defeated in front of the tiger master, so he asked me to come by boat to talk about other arrangements......

"Originally, I only wanted to occupy one of the Daoyu Village and Dengzhou City, but at this time, it is really good to occupy both places," Zhao Hu said, "What arrangements does Mr. Gao have to instruct?" ”

"Mr. Gao intends to ambush Chen Zhihu's partial cavalry in the south of the harbor!" Chen Enze said, "And Mr. Gao said, don't track down who in the city colluded with Liu Yefei, at this time, it is important to calm people's hearts!" ”

"Well, that's what I mean!" Zhao Hu said excitedly, "It's best for you to rush over, I'll lead the troops to Qijia, and I'll leave this matter to you first......" and thought of Chen Enze's situation just now when he saw him questioning Liang Shou, Shi and Jin, and explained, "We suddenly approached the North City Gate, and the defenders of Beicheng dispersed in a hurry, and the two of them had the courage to gather some miscellaneous soldiers from others to seize Beicheng - the others don't care, the two of them have to inquire clearly that they have nothing to do with Liu Yefei, and they can be reused for Huaidong!" ”

Zhao Hu handed over everything to Chen Enze, leaving him with a battalion of troops to settle the situation in Dengzhou City and restore the defense of the city in the shortest possible time. In addition to Chi Yuanji's department who ambushed and cleaned up the mess on the side of Jigong Mountain, Zhao Hu led the four battalions of foot soldiers, in the clear skylight, to Qijia at the southern foot of the Buling Mountains, maybe after arriving at Qijia, the generals can rest a little and then engage the enemy.

By dawn, Chi Yuanji sent someone to escort Liu Yefei and Liu Zhiyong, who were seriously injured, over, and he was ordered to lead his troops to Qijia for reinforcements.

The partial division sent by Chen Zhihu to attack Dengzhou had 2,000 soldiers and horses; Zhao Hu only had four or five battalions of foot soldiers in his hands, and they were made up of a mixture of various armies, all of which were not the most elite combat forces in Huaidong, and if the blocking battle did not go well, the casualties would inevitably be heavy, so the more troops that could be gathered to Qijia, the better.

The battle of Qijia must also be fought, and repelling or even defeating Chen Zhihu's partial division will greatly delay the speed of Chen Zhihu's main force crossing the Jiaolai River into Dengzhou, win more time for evacuating as many people and materials as possible from Dengzhou, and even bring back the troops of Zhao Zhen who were stranded in Pingdu and withdraw together.