Soldiers come to the world

At the beginning Liu Jing didn't let Liao Hua follow him, mainly to give him a chance to think about it. In history, Liao Hua followed Guan Yu, and he didn't want Liao Hua to be confused by Liu Bei again after following him, so he asked Liao Hua to think about it. , Think clearly and come to find yourself again.

In fact, in the final analysis, it was because Liao Hua was not Wei Yan. If Wei Yan had been, he would not have given him any chance to think about it at all. The so-called leadership airs, at some point, Liu Jing would also put it on.

Liu Jing ordered the city gates to be opened, and Liao Hua led a group of men into the city. In fact, Liao Hua had repeatedly considered whether to seek refuge with Liu Bei or Liu Jing?

Liu Bei's subordinates are related to Zhang Zhaoyun. If he goes to work, his status may not be as good as that of Zhou Cang. It is better to follow Liu Jing and become the veteran of his power building and assist him in fighting for Jingzhou.

Liao Hua figured this out and rushed to Jiangxia resolutely. Liao Hua dismounted from his horse, knelt down with a knife on one knee, and said in a deep voice, "The wild man Liao Hua came to seek refuge with Young Master Jing, and is willing to work for Young Master Jing!"

Liu Jing hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "General Liao, please get up, Jiangdong is in a hurry to attack the city. It's time to employ people. General Liao's arrival is like a timely rain from heaven."

Liu Jing's words are not exaggerating. What he needs most now is a general in charge of the army. Although Wang Tai is loyal to him, his martial arts are not good enough, and he was almost killed by Xu Sheng. Liao Hua is also a famous general after all, and he will guard him for him. City, he felt much more stable.

Liao Hua was grateful in his heart, bowed and said, "Liao Hua is willing to do his best to serve you like a dog."

Liu Jing looked at the dozens of soldiers behind him again, and Liao Hua quickly explained, "These are old brothers, and I really don't want to let them go. I just need to bring them here, and I hope you will take them in."

Fearing that Liu Jing would not accept him, he hastily waved his hands, "Hurry up and meet Mr. Jing!"

Dozens of soldiers knelt down together and said in unison: "I implore Mr. Jing to record it!"

Liu Jing was in a bit of a dilemma. In fact, he didn't want to take so many Yellow Turbans under his command. It wasn't discrimination. The main reason was that these people had been bandits for a long time, were used to looting, and had extremely poor military discipline. He hoped that Liao Hua would come alone.

But now that he has come, he has to give Liao Hua this face. Thinking of this, Liu Jing agreed, "Okay! As long as the military discipline is restrained, they can stay and continue to be your subordinates."

Liao Hua was overjoyed, the thing he was most worried about along the way was finally resolved, he quickly cupped his fists in gratitude, "Thank you for your success, my lord."

Liu Jing patted him on the shoulder again and said with a smile: "It stands to reason that I should let you get used to it first, but the situation is critical now, come with me, and I will arrange a position for you to defend the city."

Liu Jing led Liao Hua and dozens of people, and walked quickly towards the north city wall.

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Although after two bloody battles in the middle of the night and early in the morning, the Jiangdong Army's soldiers suppressed the border, but unexpectedly quieted down in the next two days, and the Jiangdong Army never attacked the city again.

On the one hand, this is because the Jiangdong army is short of troops and it is difficult to attack the city, so they can only wait for reinforcements;

The beacon fire in Chaisang City has been lit, and Jiang Xia's reinforcements will arrive from Wuchang City in at most three days.

For the Chaisang defenders, they also seized the most precious two days to strengthen the defense in a busy and orderly manner. They installed more than a hundred trebuchets and stone cannons on the city wall, operated by three thousand trained civilians.

It was the appearance of these trebuchets and stone cannons that greatly strengthened the defense of Chaisang City and greatly boosted the morale of the Chaisang defenders.

This morning, Liu Jing inspected the city as usual. After two days of active preparation and careful deployment, the defense of Chaisang City has taken on a new look. A heavy iron gate, and hundreds of barbed steel points were installed at the bottom of the water, making it impossible for soldiers outside to enter, completely blocking the way for the Jiangdong Army to enter through the water gate.

Two hundred stone cannons and fifty trebuchets were installed on the top of the city. The stone cannons were operated by three people and could shoot twenty catties of talc seventy steps away with high accuracy, while the trebuchets were operated by 50 people. , can throw more than a hundred catties of boulders three hundred steps away, with great power.

There are about 300 regular defenders on the city, commanded by Liu Jing himself, and Liao Hua and Wang Tai as the left and right lieutenant generals. Xu Shu is in charge of logistics support.

Tens of thousands of people were mobilized in almost the entire Chaisang City. Those who had the money contributed money and those who were able to contribute. The elderly cooked, women participated in carrying supplies, and even children were not idle. Groups of them wandered around the city, looking for spies from the Jiangdong Army , strive to get a high reward.

Under the influence of the atmosphere of sincerity and solidarity, Chaisang City united as one to fight against Jiangdong. This is a grand event that Chaisangcheng has not seen in decades. The case is extremely rare.

Just as Liu Jing walked over the water gate, suddenly a rapid alarm bell sounded from the East City Observation Tower, 'Boom!Boom!Boom! 'The alarm bell rang throughout the city, and all the soldiers became nervous, and rushed to the edge of the city one after another, looking at the distant river together.

I saw a huge fleet appeared on the river in the northwest of the Yangtze River. There were hundreds of warships, and the flags were waving in a magnificent manner. On the leading ship, a red and yellow flag was fluttering. flag.

The defenders at the top of the city erupted in joy, cheers resounded through the sky, and the reinforcements from the Jingzhou Army arrived, but Liu Jing did not show joy at all. He silently looked at the distant fleet with complicated expressions in his eyes.

At this time, Xu Shu walked slowly to Liu Jing's side, and said in a deep voice, "Your Master, do you feel anything unusual about Jiangdong Army?"

Liu Jing shook his head, "It's surprisingly quiet."

"It's this strange quietness that makes me feel something is wrong. I'm afraid the Jiangdong Army has already prepared."

Liu Jing was silent for a while, then sneered and said, "Frankly speaking, I don't want the Jiangdong Army to fail right now."

Xu Shu laughed, "In the eyes of Young Master, this reinforcement of Huang Zu is also an enemy."

"It's best for both sides to lose, and I, the fisherman, will gain in the end."

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the Jiangdong Army fleet and shouted: "Look! The Jiangdong Army has begun to withdraw."

Liu Jing also saw it, and saw that the Jiangdong army fleet began to sail, left Caohekou, and retreated eastward in a little panic, Xu Shu frowned, "As expected, this is Xu Sheng's plan. "

Liao Hua asked next to him, "How did you see that Jiangdong's army was using tricks?"

"It's very simple. There are many sentry ships in the Jiangdong Army fleet. Jiangxia Army is coming to help. How could they not know? If they want to retreat, they will have retreated long ago. They will never retreat when the enemy is in front of them. This must be theirs." A trick to lure troops."

Liao Hua heard that Xu Shu's analysis made sense, and he felt a little anxious. He quickly asked Liu Jing, "My lord, should we notify the reinforcements?"

Liu Jing stared at the warship of the Jiangdong Army, and said coldly after a long time: "Wait and see!"

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For Huang's father and son, Jiangxia has always been the private property of the Huang family, and Chaisang is more important in this family property. Therefore, after receiving the fire alarm from Chaisang, Huang She personally led five thousand, three hundred More than warships came to rescue Chaisang.

At this time, Huang She didn't know that Zhou Ling was dead, and Chaisang City had changed owners. The information he got was that the Jiangdong Army had failed in attacking the city and suffered heavy losses. This made Huang She more confident that he would defeat the Jiangdong Army in the first battle. .

Under the Lie Lie Zhan Banner, Huang She stared at the distant river indifferently. He seemed to have a lot of preoccupations. This preoccupation came from Liu Cong's serious injury and the disappearance of his brother Huang Yong.

Liu Cong was wounded by his brother, this cannot be questioned, he knew very well in his heart that his brother was such a person, fierce and reckless, countless people died at his hands, Liu Cong was lucky that he did not die.

However, there are two problems in this matter that he doesn't know how to deal with. One is how will they explain to Liu Biao?Secondly, where did brother Huang Yong go? Did he abscond in fear of crime, or did something happen to him?

In addition, there is Liu Jing, he did not withdraw to Wuchang with Liu Cong, but stayed in Chaisang City, what is his purpose?Does Chaisangcheng still control Zhou Ling now?

Huang She couldn't help looking up at Chaisang City in the distance, he had an ominous premonition in his heart, Liu Jing was not willing to be lonely, something must have happened to Chaisang City?no!The defense of Chaisang City must be recovered.

At this moment, on the mast, a watching soldier pointed at the river in the distance and shouted, "General Huang, Jiangdong navy is found ahead!"

Huang She suddenly woke up from her contemplation, walked quickly to the bow of the ship, and looked into the distance.

At Caohekou two or three miles away, a fleet of more than a hundred warships was leaving in a hurry. It was obvious that the Jiangdong Army was about to evacuate.

How could Huang She let the Jiangdong army run away? He immediately ordered, "Zhong Shun leads his troops into the city, and the rest of the warships follow me to chase the fleeing army!"

The [-] warships of the Jiangxia Army were divided into two groups. Huang She led more than [-] warships to pursue the Jiangdong Army, and his lieutenant general Zhong Shun led dozens of warships to Caohekou.

On the top of the city, Liu Jing watched with piercing eyes more than fifty warships of the Jiangxia Army sailing into the Caohe River. It was obvious that this fleet was here to support Chaisang City, or to take back Chaisang City.

Liu Jing clenched his fists tightly, Chaisang City has already belonged to Liu Jing, how could he give it up again.

"Without my order, no one is allowed to open the city!"

Huang She's ships chasing the Jiangdong Army had gone away, and more than [-] large ships, [-] of them had sailed into the Caohe River.

Suddenly, two or three hundred Jiangdong soldiers appeared in the lush grass on the shore. They held bows and arrows and shot rockets at the sails of the Jiangxia Army's warships. The Jiangxia Army's warships were caught off guard. In an instant, more than a dozen warships caught fire. The fire took advantage of the wind to engulf the sails and masts, and then ignited the entire ship, with thick smoke billowing and flames soaring into the sky.

There was chaos on the Cao River. Dozens of large ships were close together, unable to turn around. Soldiers jumped off the large ships to flee for their lives, crying and screaming.

At this time, the soldiers on the top of the city looked at Liu Jing one after another. Liu Jing stared at a forest outside the city. Although this was an opportunity to gather defeated soldiers, he was a little worried that this was a trick of the Jiangdong Army to lure soldiers. Lead your own army out of Chaisang City.

But after thinking about it, they felt that it was impossible. Even if they wiped out their own army, they would not be able to deal with Jiang Xia's reinforcements, and their army might not be wiped out in a short time.

Liu Jing only pondered for a moment, then beckoned, Liao Hua stepped forward quickly, Liu Jing whispered to him, Liao Hua nodded, "I obey!"

Liu Jing resolutely issued an order, "Kaicheng attack, and the soldiers of Jiang Xia's army entered the city."