After Pan Jun captured and killed Fan Zhou, he did not start a massacre.

He joined forces with Tan Xiong and tried his best to recruit Fan Zhou's defeated soldiers. After reorganization, his total strength was almost 10,000.

After Pan Jun won the victory, his generals and officers believed that the army was very fast. Pan Jun would set up all his troops and go to Lingling to attack Xi Zhen. Tan Xiong even asked himself to be the vanguard.

But Pan Jun did not greedy for merit and made great progress, but led his troops to scramble into Wuling City to rest and hold a banquet to reward the soldiers of the army.

Xi Zhen was very shocked after receiving the information about Pan Jun capturing and killing Fan Zhou.

Although Xi Zhen was not optimistic about Fan Zhou, he could not have expected that he would be defeated so quickly, which completely disrupted his plan.

Xi Zhen knew that the current situation was very unfavorable to him!

Before he could gain a firm foothold in Lingling, he was facing the attacks of Pan Jun and Huang Gai, and quickly asked for advice from his younger brother Xi Hong.

Xi Hong also believes that soldiers are very fast, and Pan Jun will definitely lead his troops to come soon, which gives Xi Zhen the opportunity to defeat them.

Therefore, Xi Hong suggested that Xi Zhen gather his troops and go to Wuling to take the initiative to fight Pan Jun, and strive to defeat Pan Jun's reinforcements before Huang Gai sent troops.

Pan Jun is famous and Xi Hong is also a rising star in the Xi family. It is inevitable that he is dissatisfied with Pan Jun. In the past, because he was a colleague, he could only be kept in his heart.

Since Pan Jun surrendered to Sun Quan, Xi Hong has long wanted to decide on the battlefield with him.

Xi Zhen raised an army in Jingnan. Xi Hong believed that Pan Jun betrayed his lord and might not have the face to come to Jingnan to quell the rebellion. He felt a little regretful.

But Pan Jun came, and defeated Fan Zhou with lightning speed, which made Xi Hong very afraid.

At this time, Xi Zhen was not small. After he advanced to Lingling from Wuling, he fought steadily, occupying seven counties in the north of Lingling and nearly half of Lingling County.

Xi Zhen entered Lingling because the troops were short of food.

He used Xi Hong's strategy to cooperate with the inside and outside, first occupied a county town as a foothold, solving the food shortage crisis, but it also attracted the attention of Huang Gai, the prefect of Lingling.

Huang Gai, whose courtesy name is Gonglu, was from Lingling. He was a famous general in Jiangdong. His age and qualifications were also above the general Huang Zhong under Liu Bei.

Huang Gai followed the three lords of Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Sun Quan to fight and made many contributions.

He is serious and good at training soldiers. Whenever he conquers, his troops are brave and good at fighting.

Huang Gai followed Zhou Yu to participate in the Battle of Chibi. The two armies confronted each other. Huang Gai proposed the fire attack tactic and personally went to commit suicide and set fire.

On the day of the battle, Huang Gai took the lead and rushed into Cao Cao's water camp by boat, ignited firewood, and fire rode the wind to the camp on the shore of Cao's army.

During the war, the yellow gua wearing heavy armor was unfortunately fallen into the water by arrows.

Fortunately, Huang Gaishui was so arrogant that he was saved by Han Dang and saved his life.

However, due to the soaking of the river, the wounds of the yellow arrow sores and the martial arts can no longer be restored to their old views.

After the war, Huang Gai was rewarded for his merits and was appointed as the General of the Wufeng General by Sun Quan. Due to his physical reasons, he served in the army and had been recuperating at home.

Sun Quan used Lu Meng's plan to capture Guan Yu and seize Jingzhou, and sent Zhang Cheng to recover the entire Jingnan, requiring reliable personnel to be dispatched as the prefect.

Huang Gai missed the Battle of Jingzhou due to his old age and health.

Huang Gai was from Lingling. After knowing that Sun Quan recovered Lingling, he wrote a letter to ask to go back to his hometown to retire.

Sun Quan remembered Huang Gai's contributions and wanted to let him return home in glory, so he appointed him as the prefect of Lingling and led a thousand troops from his subordinates to guard Lingling City.

Huang Gai was a county official in his early years, and the position of Lingling Prefect cannot help him. After he took office, the situation quickly stabilized.

Although Huang Gai was born as a general, he was not reckless.

He knew that after Xi Zhen started a rebellion, he did not rush to lead troops to quell the rebellion. Instead, he reduced his troops, saved the county city first, and sent envoys to seek help.

At the beginning, Xi Zhen had less than 3,000 troops, and it was not difficult to attack the county town where hundreds of people were stationed, but it was hard to say that he would seize Lingling City from the famous Jiangdong general Huang Gai.

Xi Zhen did not want to lose his troops, so he adopted Xi Hong's strategy to avoid the real and go against the virtual, and attacked the county towns in the northern part of Lingling. Now he has captured seven county towns, and the momentum has been greatly boosted.

Because of the sufficient food and supplies, the Xi family has a great reputation in Jingzhou and has recruited many people and has now recruited six or seven thousand people.

Xi Zhen publicly posed the banner of Liu Bei, calling himself the prefect of Shaoling, and competing with Huang Gai.

Although Xi Zhen's momentum was getting louder and louder, Huang Gai was calm and stood firm in Lingling City and waited for the arrival of reinforcements.

Although the number of Xi Zhen brothers gathered was not smaller than that of Pan Jun, he had no intention of fighting hard. He set up an ambush where Pan Jun must pass.

To Xi Hong's surprise, he waited for Pan Jun to arrive. Instead of waiting for Ma Yun, he waited for Fan Zhou's subordinate Ma Yun and led hundreds of defeated soldiers to join him.

I heard that Pan Jun was not in a hurry to advance, but Xi Zhen failed to ambush it, so he was a little confused.

Xi Zhen and Fan Zhou raised an army in Jingnan at the same time, originally responding to Liu Bei's attack on Jingzhou.

Now Fan Zhou has been defeated, and the news of Liu Bei's attack on Jingzhou has not been heard for a long time.

Xi Zhen and Xi Hong discussed that Xi Hong believed that if he retreated and waited for news from Liu Bei, he had to divide his troops to station in seven counties, and it would be easy to be defeated by Pan Jun one by one. Only by taking the initiative to fight Pan Jun was the best strategy.

So Xi Zhen did not retreat. Because he suffered from food shortage, he strengthened the defense of the county town to protect the stored food and grass. The defeated soldiers brought by Ma Yun were afraid of affecting the morale of the army, so he was arranged by Xi Hong to rest in the county town.

Half a month later, Pan Jun finally led his troops to fight against each other.

Pan Jun personally persuaded surrender in front of the battle, but Xi Zhen sternly refused.

Pan Jun sent Tan Xiong to fight against the generals, and Xi Hong went to fight in person.

The two fought for dozens of rounds, and it was difficult to distinguish, but because Tan Xiong had rich experience in the battlefield and had higher skills, he gained the upper hand.

Xi Hong was unable to win for a long time. Xi Zhen was afraid that his younger brother would be in trouble, so he called out the gold to withdraw his troops.

Pan Jun didn't want to fight with Xi Zhen either. Both sides retreated and began a confrontation.

In general, Xi Zhen has no stable rear and is in a very unfavorable position.

The spy heard news that Huang Gai, who had been unable to stand, also led thousands of troops out of the city.

Although Huang Gai did not come to attack Xi Zhen, he also rushed to the nearest county town, obviously trying to recover the lost territory first and seize Xi Zhen's retreat.

Once Huang Gai recovers several lost counties and forms a two-way attack with Pan Jun, it will be the day when Xi Zhen is defeated.

Therefore, if Xi Zhen does not want to lose, he can only win by defeating Pan Jun.

But Pan Jun's number of troops is still above Xi Zhen, and even if the two armies fight in a melee, the outcome is unpredictable.

If Fan Zhou had not been defeated, or if the Barbarian King Shamoke was still in Wuling, Xi Zhen would have a way out.

He could fight and retreat, retreat to the barbarian territory, and give Pan Jun another courage, he would not dare to go deep into the mountains.

The current situation is very beneficial to Pan Jun. Xi Hong is worried that Pan Jun may not be willing to fight, and he can choose to drag Xi Zhen down.
Chapter completed!