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Soon, the main generals on duty at the east and west city gates were brought into the yamen by soldiers. They stepped forward and bowed and waited for Mi Fang's questioning. They had gained a lot in the past two days. I wonder if this matter made Mi Fang dissatisfied.

"I'll ask you if there are any suspicious people entering the city these two days?"

The on-duty officer in charge of the Xicheng Gate was also a garrison commander. He first replied: "Report to General Mi, no suspicious situation was found yet, everything was the same as usual."

Mi Fang nodded and turned to the officer on duty in the East Gate, "Matun Chief, what's going on with you?"

"It's normal for Beizhi to go, and the flow of merchants has not decreased at all."

Mi Fang was more concerned about the situation in the East Gate, and he asked again: "Does anyone talk about the situation in Xinling County?"

Matun Chief thought for a while and said, "There are fewer merchants coming from Xinling County these two days. Today, there is only one merchant, the Jiangling Wu family caravan, driving a group of cattle to Bashu, and the famous Yang Jianshi is also in the team."

"who"

Mi Fang frowned and asked, "Which Sword Yang?"

"It's Yang Jin, a specialist in Huarong County."

"Nonsense" Mi Fang shouted angrily: "Yang Jin took his mother to Jiangdong to avoid the war long ago before Cao's army headed south. How could he appear in Zigui again?"

Chief Ma Tun was so scared that he said tremblingly: "I have seen this person before, and it seems that it is him."

"What does it mean, where are others?" Mi Fang slammed the table and asked angrily.

"It should...it should be in Wu's Trading Company."

If it were the usual, Mi Fang would not care. Now that Liu Bei's letter of conscience was revealed, he became uneasy. He had to find out any suspicious situations. Mi Fang immediately stood up and ordered: "Follow me to Wu's business."

...........

Although the Wu Family Trading Company is only the largest commercial bank in Jingzhou, it has the most shops and the largest warehouses in Zigui County. It has a large warehouse covering an area of ​​more than ten acres in the north of the city, which is also the location of the commercial bank.

At noon, several soldiers appeared outside the warehouse and surrounded the warehouse. The business manager was called Wu Song, who was the nephew of the Wu family. He was about ten years old and very smart and capable. When he heard that several soldiers were coming outside, he hurriedly met Mi Fang and led people to come here with murderous aura.

Wu Song hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "Is there anything wrong with General Mi?"

Mi Fang's family has been doing business for generations. He has no prejudice against merchants and is usually very polite, but today he is in another posture. He pointed at Wu Song with a horse whip and shouted sternly: "Yang Jinke, a swordsman in the Nanjun, is in the business."

Wu Song was stunned for a while and said, "Report to Jiangxia, this person has been here in the morning, but he has gone to Bashu with the caravan."

Mi Fang was not willing to believe his words, and snorted coldly and shouted: "Give it thoroughly."

A fully armed soldier rushed into the business and began to investigate the business. At this time, Mi Fang remembered the Tao business again. If he was not here, he would definitely be at the Tao business. At the same time, he said to a military Hou Ling: "Take a brother to check the Tao business for me, and give me some carefulness."

...........

The Dow Trading Company is located in the south of the city and is also a large warehouse, but the warehouse looks very dirty. This is because the Dow Trading Company's main business in Bashu is carbide, followed by grain. Behind the warehouse is a house covering an area of ​​two acres, which is also the industry of the Dow Trading Company.

At this time, in a room in the inner house, Xiang Chongzheng and an officer who came first discussed the attack on the city. Li Yan used the method of multiple batches of small people to send troops to Ziguicheng, and had sent more than 150 soldiers, basically all dressed up as clerks from the Jingzhou Great Trading Company.

Today, Xiang Chong entered the city and led these fifty people as internal supporters. In fact, the Jiangxia army had silently captured Xinling County and was preparing to launch an attack on Zigui County. This time they could not fail at all.

The officer who arrived early was named Li Zong, who was the younger brother of the Li Yan clan. He was a general who was brave in combat and suitable for assault, but he lacked response and strategy, so Xiang Chong commanded the inner responders.

Li Zong reported: "The brothers all arranged well in the business of the family. The weapons were hidden in the Dow business and could act at any time."

Xiang Chong nodded and said, "The action time is at the two updates tonight. We must concentrate on the first update and grab the East City Gate during the second update. This action is of great importance. We can only succeed, not fail."

"Unclear job"

Suddenly, the manager of the Dow Business Bank hurried in and said anxiously: "A lot of soldiers came outside. I want to investigate the business bank. It seems that I want to capture Yang Jin, a swordsman in Nanjun. General Xiang hurried to the cellar to hide."

Xiang Chong was a little surprised. Did Liu Bei's defenders get any news? He immediately said to the manager: "Don't hide, just make me a set of clothes for a friend."

Xiang Chong pulled out his long beard, washed off his browned face and thick eyebrows, and put on the coolie porter's short clothes. It was very different from what he looked when he entered the city, but he was worried about the weapons, so he asked the Taoist manager again: "General Li said that the weapons are hidden in the business, are they hidden secretly?"

"Please rest assured to the general, the weapons are hidden in mud holes under the pond in the backyard. Even if you dive, it will be difficult to find them, and it will be foolproof."

Xiang Chong was relieved and hurried to the front yard and mixed in with more than fifty mates. Judging from his appearance, he was exactly the same as these mates and could not see any abnormalities at all.

At this time, the soldiers had already rushed into the business. They were not interested in the shabby guys, and they rushed into the accounting room and the inner room separately, searching through boxes and cabinets to check the suspects. The soldiers knew very well how could they let go of such an opportunity to make money.

...........

The investigation of Wu's Trading Company was over, and nothing was found. Soon, the military marquis who went to investigate the Tao Trading Company also came back to report that "no suspects were found"

Mi Fang had already received news from the Ximen Guardian at this time that the people from the Wu clan merchants did rush the Niu Qun out of the city gate in the morning and headed to Ba County. The soldiers guarding the city did not pay attention to the people who left the city.

Mi Fang thought to herself, is she really suspicious?

He could not find evidence or line, and did not want to offend several large commercial banks too much, so he ordered: "The two gates of the east and west should be strengthened, especially at night, and there should be no carelessness."

...........

The night gradually became deeper, and thick dark clouds covered the moonlight and starlight. The Zigui County Town was pitch black and very quiet. As the oil lamps of the last family were blown out, the entire county town fell asleep, and only wild cats and wild dogs passed by the streets by chance. There were only two torches lit in front of the military camp in the whole city, like two eyes of the county town.

In the carbide warehouse of the Dow Trading Company, one or fifty elite soldiers lined up in neat order. They all put on the armor of the Jingnan Army, with only white feathers inserted in the helmets as the difference. They held spears, swords and crossbows in their hands, and listened quietly to the arrangements of the Leader Xiangpeng.

"There are about two defenders in Dongcheng. We were surprised by the fact that people could deal with it. But the key is that the barracks are only steps away from the East Gate, and the rescue will be very fast, so we must block the rescue of the barracks."

Xiang Chong said to Li Zong again: "General Li can lead fifty crossbowmen to block the soldiers in the military camp for rescue, and he must do his best to delay the time."

Li Zong hurriedly bowed and said, "Abide by the orders of humble duties"

He waved his hand to the fifty crossbowmen on the left, "Follow me."

Fifty people followed Li Zong hurriedly. Xiang Chong saw that Shi Chen was almost two updates, so he said to the soldier: "Let's go."

He turned over his horse and led a soldier to line up to the west city.

Generally, only soldiers in the West City are on duty, but today Mi Fang ordered to strengthen defense, so two more soldiers were added to tighten the defenses on the city and under the city.

The defense under the city was still Ma Tun Chief during the day. He was scolded by Mi Fang and did not dare to be lazy anymore. He forced himself to patrol the city gate. At this time, soldiers beside him shouted, "Tun Chief, there is a team of soldiers coming in front of him. Will they come to change the guard?"

Ma Tunchang was a little surprised. He didn't hear that there would be a change of duty tonight. Could it be that General Mi wanted to increase his defense? He felt that the latter possibility was greater. The two of them were not enough. Add a team of soldiers to ensure that everything was foolproof.

Thinking of this, Matun quickly came up and asked loudly: "But the brothers who are here to reinforce."

"That's right," Xiang Chong replied casually.

When he approached the enemy, he shot the ground at Chong. The gun was as fast as lightning and stabbed the opponent's throat. Ma Tunchang just found something was wrong, but before he could react, he felt a chill in his neck and his eyes were pitch black. The spear had pierced his throat. Tunchang was killed immediately.

Xiang Chong took out his spear, threw away the enemy general's corpse, roared, "kill"

A soldier swarmed up and rushed towards the defenders like a pack of wolves. The city gate suddenly became in chaos. The defenders rushed to fight and were defeated by the Jiangxia army. After the defenders were killed, the soldiers under the city were all over the city. Soon they had no intention of fighting and fled in all directions.

At this time, the sound of the bell on the top of the city rang, resounding throughout the city. The defenders on the top of the city shouted: "The enemy has entered the city."

Xiang Chong snatched a shield, held a gun with one hand, "Follow me," he shouted, and grabbed a war horse with his legs, leading a dozen people to rush into the corridor. Dozens of defenders above his head fired arrows together. The arrows came like rain. The soldiers of Jiangxia were caught off guard, and they were all caught in arrows, screaming and rolling down the city.

Xiang Chong was furious and rushed to the top of the city, threw away his shield, waved his spear and rushed to the defenders at the city. He assassinated five people in a row. The defenders retreated one after another. Jiang Xia soldiers behind seized the opportunity of arrows to ease the arrows at this moment and rushed to the top of the city.

...........

The sound of the bell on the top of the city woke Mi Fang up. He jumped up from the bed and was wearing armor in a hurry. He knew that his guess during the day was actually correct, but in the end he was careless. Thinking that the city was about to lose, Mi Fang was anxious and shouted repeatedly: "Don't gather, go to support the East City Gate immediately."

Several Jingnan Army rushed to the camp gate before they could complete the whole team. However, as soon as they arrived at the camp gate, dense arrows shot towards them like storms. Dozens of soldiers screamed and fell to the ground. The Jingnan Army was not prepared and was so scared that they retreated back to the camp.

In the darkness, in the woods dozens of steps opposite the barracks, Li Zong led fifty crossbowmen, after the first round of arrows was shot, he quickly set off his bow and pulled the crossbow and aimed at the gate of the barracks.

Li Zong knew in his heart that he had just caught the enemy off guard. Once the enemy found that there were not many arrows, he would raise his shield to rush out.

He looked back at the east city head. There was still no agreed fire on the city head. Li Zong couldn't help but feel anxious. Why didn't General Xiang take down the city? Isn't it going to be fine?

At this moment, the soldiers beside him shouted: "General, come out again."

In the night, a large group of black shadows rushed out of the camp gate, and there were war horses behind the battle. The enemy was prepared, and Li Zong shouted, "Shoot"

Fifty arrows roared at the enemy group again. This time, the sword and shield army led the way in front of them, holding up the shield, and dense arrows shot on the shield. Only a few soldiers were caught in arrows and fell to the ground. The crossbow had lost its deterrence, and a large group of enemy soldiers rushed up.

Li Zong held the iron rod in his hand and shouted, "Brothers, kill with me."

Fifty soldiers threw away their bows and crossbows, picked up their spears and followed Li Zong to kill the enemy.

...........

The battle for the gate hub on the top of the city has reached a heightened momentum. Two Liu Bei soldiers guarded the east city. Faced with the fierce attacks of the enemy general and more than 60 Jiangxia soldiers, they fought to the death and held the city gate winch. They were also anxious. Why didn't the reinforcements from the military camp come yet? They were almost unable to withstand it.

At this time, the shouts of killing outside the city were shocking. Li Yan led 5,000 Jiangxia troops to the outside of Yu Bu. Xiang Chong's eyes were almost red when he was anxious. Once the two thousand reinforcements from the enemy's military camp arrived and controlled the city wall, the Jiangxia army had no hope of seizing Zigui. Zigui could not take it down, and Jiangxia army was tripped by Jiangdong Army in Wuchang again, which would damage the entire battle situation.

At this time, Xiang Chong finally discovered the general who was commanding the Jingnan Army to fight to the death. He should also be a tooth general. He stood in front of the city gate winch and shouted loudly. Xiang Chong took off his bow, pulled out an arrow from the quiver on his back, and suddenly set off his bow and shot an arrow from the gap in the crowd at the enemy tooth general.

The arrow hit the enemy general's neck, and the general screamed and fell on his back. The Jingnan army suddenly became in chaos. At the same time, the reinforcements of the Jingnan army had already rushed out of the barracks and came to the east gate under the leadership of Mi Fang.

Seeing that the situation was extremely critical, Xiang Chong shouted loudly, urged the horse to rush forward, waved the guns and beat them around. The Jiangxia army acted in anger and drove the enemy back more than ten steps, and finally grabbed the city gate winch.

"Open the city gate quickly"

Xiang Chong shouted, and the five soldiers worked hard to push the winch together. The heavy city gate finally opened. Thousands of Jiangxia troops waiting outside the city rushed forward and entered Zigui City.

Mi Fang was only twenty steps away from the city gate. In the last twenty steps, Liu Bei's military defense failed and Zigui missed the opportunity, which would change the overall situation.

Looking at countless Jiangxia soldiers rushing into the county town, Mi Fang knew that the situation was hopeless, and he couldn't help but sigh to the sky, "How can I go and send it to the lord?"
Chapter completed!