Just as the county magistrate Wang and Yan Pu were talking, Feng Yu had noticed that the last ghost soldier had entered Chenggu City. The steel knife in his hand was still coming out and he started attacking without saying a word. The scouts also took action together at almost the same time.

With a "ah", a ghost soldier let out the first scream. Yan Pu saw that the soldiers around him were suddenly attacked by someone, and he knew it was not good. However, he was extremely alert and reacted instantly. County Magistrate Wang was slow to react. He could not retreat and was grabbed by Yan Pu.

Yan Pu put the steel knife around the neck of the county magistrate Wang and shouted: "Put down your weapons, otherwise the order of the general is slaughtered!"

He still thought that it was Wang County Magistrate who had surrendered, so he took Wang County Magistrate first. At the city, there were nearly 200 soldiers, and the other party looked like fifty or sixty, and he held the "thief leader" hostage. So he was confident that he could turn the situation around.

At this time, Feng Yu, Zhao Song, and the personal scouts had already been attacking for a long time. Around Yan Pu, there were sixty or seventy ghost soldiers, caught off guard, and were stabbed to the ground by the chaotic weapons and spears. Feng Yu himself killed three people in a row.

No one paid attention to Yan Pu's threat at all. Yan Pu realized something was wrong. As soon as he was distracted, Feng Yu had already stabbed into his temple with a knife.

County Magistrate Wang, whose eyes were closed, was covered with Yan Pu's blood and brain matter. He was so scared that he collapsed like a sieve.

The total of about 200 ghost soldiers and Yan Pu's personal soldiers came up on the top of the city, and most of them were killed in an instant. Seeing that Yan Pu was also killed, the remaining ghost soldiers either shouted and ran down to the city or knelt down to beg for mercy. The suspension bridge of Chenggucheng was immediately pulled up by scouts.

The scouts kept throwing straw bales stained with vegetable oil and pine resin down the city tower. The fire burned between the suspension bridge and the city gate, and finally burned the suspension bridge. Then, except for twenty scouts who stayed here, Feng Yu and the rest of the people rushed to the city.

In the city, the ghosts walking in the front had discovered a large number of roadblocks that blocked their way. Thousands of black shadows appeared on the roofs on both sides of the street.

The sound of killing was everywhere, and rockets kept shooting towards the street like flying fire meteors. The pre-placed fire-burning objects on the street burned wildly, igniting the clothes of some ghost soldiers, and also brightly illuminated the entire street.

Two hundred county crossbowmen kept shooting densely at the ghosts on the street, covering small blocks. In each area covered, the ghosts here would be shot into hedgehogs.

The panicked ghosts shouted, breaking through the four sides under the leadership of various generals, but they immediately found in despair that the alleys on both sides of the street were also full of roadblocks and resisting horses. Behind were densely packed with guns and swords, and those who were approaching were all killed on the spot.

A small group of ghosts tried to climb up the roof on the ladder. As soon as the head was exposed on the roof, several spear guns would attack and the skull would be pierced by one of them.

Dian Qing stood in an attic, shooting heavy arrows one after another. He specialized in killing generals with higher grades in ghost strokes. More than thirty black shadows also jumped into the street, constantly killing ghost strokes in chaos, and also specialized in selecting leaders to intercept them. They were Chen Diao's disciples and rangers.

The urn city was even more terrible. The entire urn city had burned into a sea of ​​fire. The ghost soldiers behind Yan Pu's team were all trapped in the sea of ​​fire without exception...

In the early morning, the fire gradually faded away. The shouts of killing in the city became much smaller, and were replaced by ghosts and wolves crying all night long. It was the ghost soldiers who were wailing shrillly. Feng Yu ordered to end their pain with one knife for the wounded soldiers who were too seriously injured.

At dawn, the fire was basically extinguished, but a thin layer of haze was filled with the sky above Chenggu City. From time to time, you could see wisps of blue smoke rising from a corner of the city.

Except for the more than 500 captured ghost soldiers, all of the other ghost soldiers brought by Yan Pu were annihilated. The city defenders suffered more than 200 casualties, and Feng Yu's scouts suffered more than ten casualties.

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Three days later, Feng Yu's army entered the Hanzhong Plain one after another. The first batch of Xu Rong's army was organized by three battalions. In addition, there were 3,000 reclaimed troops drawn in Xicheng, Shangyong and Fangling. The original county soldiers from Anguo, Pingyang and Chenggu counties in the eastern Hanzhong Plain were combined with a total force of 6,500.

The total number of Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lujun, who occupied Nanzheng and Mianyang counties in the western Hanzhong Plain, had more than 10,000 people.

The two sides quickly deployed troops everywhere on the Hanzhong Plain, arranged troops to set up formations, and set up their postures. The east and west confronted each other.

Feng Yu hopes that this battle can be decided quickly. In addition to the difficulty of relying on Mianshui waterways and Viking ships to supply food and supplies, Feng Yu is also worried that the long-term war will lead to food and population loss in Hanzhong.

Another important factor is that Feng Yu is worried that he would be dragged by Zhang Xiu in Hanzhong for too long, and he would have many dreams. Now the main cavalry of Zhao Yun's army has also been transferred to Xicheng as a reserve team. Zhuyang's troops are empty. If it is Shang County, Wuyang's two points will be attacked, and there will be no soldiers to support them.

Feng Yu hopes to fight quickly, but Zhang Xiu is not the same as this. It is thousands of times more difficult for him to transport supplies from Shu Road to replenish supplies than Feng Yu.

In addition, he tried to quickly gain a foothold in the Hanzhong Plain so that he could break free from Liu Yan's control and become independent. If Hanzhong had a large population loss due to long-term wars, then he would not be able to compete with Liu Yan based on Hanzhong.

Both sides of the war have the desire to make a quick decision, which means that the war will soon enter the decisive stage.

Both sides use the Hanzhong Plain as a chessboard, and they go back and forth to test each other's weak links, waiting for the other to make mistakes.

Zhang Xiu tried to send a partial army to the eastern part of the Hanzhong Plain and stationed troops in the Mianshui River in Anguo County into the gorge in the mountainous area, but was ambushed by Feng Yu's army. Ten thousand and three of them fled back were left behind.

Feng Yu's army led the Xu Rong army with two thousand settlement troops to the southern suburbs of Mianyang County, and made an attitude of blocking the exit of Shu Road. He tried to lure the defenders of Mianyang County out of the city to fight a decisive battle, but the other party was not deceived. Instead, Zhang Lu's army stationed in Nanzheng moved behind Xu Rong's army. Xu Rong's army was forced to evacuate.

Feng Yu tried to lure the enemy into the depths and lured Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lujun to Chenggu and Pingyang and Anguo to the decisive battle, but it was unsuccessful.

In this way, after many attempts to cut each other's food channels, assault the opponent's weak links, lure the enemy into deep, and other battles, they all found that no one could afford to waste this.

In the end, the two sides began to form a large camp in a place called Liulin 24 miles west of Chenggu, 26 miles northeast of the south Zheng, and confronted each other in close proximity. They continued to gather troops here. Obviously, this location became a decisive battle between the two sides. This place was only seven miles away from the north bank of Mianshui.

Both sides believe that this is a place of decisive battle that is most beneficial to them when the other party is willing to accept it.
Chapter completed!