On the walls of Xiangyang, Liu Qi and Liu Pan stood side by side, looking at the smoke and dust rising from afar.

Liu Pan's face was pale and a little nervous.

Although he was a warrior, he was brave and cruel, advocated the dream of eliminating all ugliness and clearing the world, but it was the first time he had experienced a large battle of more than 10,000 people.

He clenched his fists and whispered: "The Jiangxia clan actually gathered 10,000 people to come? If they really attacked the city, they would probably have a fierce battle!"

Liu Qi knew where the other party came from, so he was not nervous. He leaned forward with his palm and leaned forward on the battlements of the city wall, looking at the smoke and dust to see it in a daze.

"Are you scared by cousin?"

Liu Pan naturally couldn't lose his temper in front of his brothers.

"The military strategy is about: ten, surrounded it, five, attack it, and twice, fight it... Although there are more than ten thousand soldiers in the other side, compared with the other side, there are only a few more soldiers in my city, and they are guarding the city. What are you afraid of?"

Liu Qi was very satisfied with Liu Pan.

I started to join Jingzhou with me, and I felt that my cousin had grown a lot - my personality was less impetuous and more rational. Even if I was nervous, I would not be confused. I could analyze the current situation with calm inferences.

It's really much more stable.

He was about to praise Liu Pan, but he heard Liu Pan say again: "Although defending the city can be invincible, if you stay in seclusion for a long time, it will be too harmful to face. The army is tired from afar. Please lead a soldier and horse to rush forward before the enemy's army has not yet stood firm, and it will definitely kill the thief's head and hang it at the city gate."

Liu Qi decisively swallowed the words he was about to praise Liu Pan back to his stomach.

He was misunderstood - he still had the same virtue in his bones.

At the moment, the army leader is not clear, the purpose is not clear, and the combat power is not clear, so you are going out to fight with others?

It's better to sharpen it.

Not long after, Huang Zhong strode and said to Liu Qi: "Shaojun, the defense preparations on the city and the city gate are all ready, stones, wood, arrows, and gold juice are all ready. If the army attacks the city, it will never be easy."

Liu Qi said with satisfaction: "Thank you for your hard work in Sima Huang, please send orders to the three armies. If the army arrives, don't take action at will. You need to have my orders. If you violate the order, you will be executed immediately!"

Huang Zhong was a little disagreeable after hearing this.

"Young Master, if the other side is really an enemy, the last one will suggest that when they stand outside the city and set up a formation, they will shoot them with arrows. One way, they can judge the strength of their combat and the shape of the enemy's formation. The other way, they can also kill and injure the other army appropriately to boost their military power."

Liu Qi smiled faintly: "No."

Huang Zhong didn’t understand, how could Shaojun be so calm?

Liu Qi was also helpless. He couldn't tell Huang Zhong that I asked you to arrange defenses on the city, just to show off the people in the city, because those ten thousand people are not our enemies at all...

The leader of that army is probably - it is my father!

My dad...

father……

Soon, the ten thousand Jiangxia private troops had arrived at the two arrows outside the city wall of Xiangyang.

The Jiangxia private army had fewer cavalry, most of which were infantrymen. Looking around, they were all spear soldiers, halberd soldiers, beryllium soldiers and crossbowmen. The other side was listed as square formations according to the types of troops.

Liu Qi turned around and asked Huang Zhong, "Sima, how do you see the formation?"

Huang Zhong looked at it carefully for a while, then shook his head and said, "The army is loose, the formation speed is slow, and although the combination of troops is following the rules, it lacks flexibility, which is very ordinary... And the most important thing is that the opponent is in the city, and our army does not attack the other side, but the opponent has no formation. It can be seen that all the soldiers in the queue are temporarily pieced together."

In ancient battlefields, there were many formations available, such as the fish scale formation, square and round formation, crane wing formation, crane moon formation, etc., which did have a very obvious effect on attacking difficulties.

But not every soldier can reach this level. The formation is simple, but if you do it in practice, one must have generals who can list similar formations, and the other must have the most elite soldiers who can fight while taking into account the flag orders and radical orders of the main formation, and follow the requirements, and the soldiers must also take into account each other, which requires extremely high quality of the soldiers.

The quality of the army below the county level and the country level is simply a dream. Most of the county-level soldiers are ambiguous when they go to the battlefield. Once they start fighting, they will basically swing their turtle punches indiscriminately. No one can take care of anyone else, so they don’t care about the formation.

Therefore, many people who know the troops can judge the enemy's combat power and the advantages and disadvantages of the opponent's generals by observing the formation.

Liu Qi sighed and continued to ask, "If you give you the same troops, can you win?"

Huang Zhong disdained: "Like this general who sets up a formation, if I confront him, don't say 10,000. Only three thousand soldiers can be strong, and you can destroy all the people! Don't worry, young master, the last general will definitely win this battle today!"

Although Huang Zhong's words were somewhat self-promoted, he explained a fact that the opponent's troops were vulnerable and his commander lacked military capabilities.

After hearing this, Liu Qi sighed in a very melancholy manner.

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong were quite puzzled.

Why did Liu Qi feel unhappy after hearing that the other party’s combat power is not strong?

At this moment, a cavalry rushed out from the opposite square formation and headed straight for Xiangyang.

The cavalry's horse was tying a bell, holding a high flag in his hand, with no word on the flag, but it was also full of bells. The sound of "ding bell" and "ding bell" sounds were heard between Mercedes-Benz.

No one shot arrows from the crossbowman in Xiangyang City, so he let him run over.

The bells ring in the sun and the fires are raised at night - it is for the messenger in front of the two armies. Unless the command is specially ordered by the chief general, they will not be shot and killed.

The messenger galloped down the city and shouted to the city tower: "Han, the governor of Jingzhou! Lead 27 soldiers from Jiangxia County and 10,000 soldiers to Xiangyang to take office. If the generals and schools guarding the city are heard, please report to the head of Xiangyang quickly. Zhuo Qi will lead the officials in Xiangyang City to open the city to welcome Liu Envoy into the city!"

The messenger's voice was very loud, and although there were many people in the city, no one was making noise. The sound drifted into the city with the wind and clearly reached everyone's ears.

There was an uproar on the city tower immediately.

Liu Pan's mouth could not close.

He stared at the messenger under the city in surprise and said in surprise: "Encourt Lord? Isn't my uncle still handing over the military affairs of the Northern Army in Luoyang? How did he come to Jingzhou? He brought so many troops from Jiangxia?"

He turned his head to look at Liu Qi, but saw Liu Qi's face calm.

"You knew it long ago?" Liu Pan felt a little aggrieved: "You and your uncle hide it together?"

"Of course I don't know. I just vaguely guessed it when I heard that Jiang Xia's army came to Xiangyang." Liu Qi replied slowly.

Huang Zhong said: "Shaojun, what should we do now?"

"Since the visitor said that Jun Yan had arrived, he must have brought the token. Sima sent someone to take his token to show me."

"promise!"

Huang Zhong immediately went to do this, but Liu Pan did not let Liu Qi go, chased him and asked, "What the hell is going on? Cousin, how did you guess the person is uncle?"

Liu Qi replied: "We are never tired of deceitful soldiers. Our envoy Liu was affected by the party and imprisonment when he was young. He had ups and downs in his life and had difficulty in falling. At this age, his mind became more and more refined. It took less than three months to hand over military affairs in Luoyang, but Yan Jun has always claimed that it was to confuse the people of Jingchu, including Yuan Shu and Sun Jian who might intercept him."

"But even I hid it... Later, I wrote a letter to Yan Jun and asked him to give him the important position of Cai and Kuai. He should have guessed that you and I were going to do a major event in Xiangyang, so he simply agreed to you and me and sealed all the five major families to help you and me. Then, taking advantage of the Yicheng Rebellion, he secretly went to Jiangxia County to deal with the local clans, either by calling or killing them, and I thought it had been a lot of tricks."

Liu Pan's brain hurts when he hears it.

"In other words, you and I have been dealing with the Xiangyang clan in the open, and my uncle took advantage of this gap to find a way to seize Jiangxia County?"

Liu Qi nodded and said, "The seven counties of Jingzhou, Nanyang County is in Yuan Shu's hands, and the four counties of Jingnan are too far away. If you want to gain a foothold in Jingzhou, you must pacify Nanjun and Jiangxia County in Jingbei. Now both counties are determined, so Jingbei is all in Yan Jun's hands."

Liu Pan listened to Liu Qi's words in amazement, and a huge wave appeared in his heart.

"It's so cunning..."

"Hmm?" Liu Qi frowned.

"Cough, cough!" Liu Pan quickly changed his words: "I mean, my uncle has a very meticulous mind..."

Liu Qi was so happy that he reached out and patted Liu Pan on the shoulder, and thought to himself: It’s all about being a praising him, this is obviously a waste!

But it's quite comfortable.

On the other hand, Huang Zhong sent someone to tie the basket with a rope and put it down from under the city wall. The messenger put Liu Biao's token into it, and the soldiers on the city pulled the basket up again.

The evidence is a bamboo slip, which contains Liu Biao's handwritten letters, plus Yan Mao whom he wore with him.

Liu Qi carefully checked the Yan Mao... the square column with a hole in the center, and the threaded red one is engraved with thirty-two characters Mao text, which is Liu Biao's close-up object.

"It's Yan Jun."

Liu Qi handed Yan Mao to Liu Panzheng. After Liu Pan also confirmed it, he said, "Cousin, please inform Cai Mao and the officials in the city on my behalf and ask them to come here to greet him quickly... Huang Sima, please quickly open the city gate and I will go out of the city to greet Yan Jun myself."

"promise!"

...

The gate of Xiangyang City slowly opened, Liu Qi led the crowd out of the city, and Huang Zhong followed closely behind him to protect himself.

The Jiangxia army formation in the distance slowly opened, and a team of guards protected a thin and tall elder towards the Xiangyang city gate.

When he arrived at the city, the elder turned over and dismounted and slowly moved to Liu Qi.

Liu Biao is tall, and is over 1.80 meters tall, with a thin face and angular edges. Even though he is nearly 50 years old, he can still see some beautiful appearance.

It is conceivable how much he was when he was young.

If I remember correctly, the three handsome guys recorded in the circle of princes at the end of the Han Dynasty should be Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, and Gongsun Zan.

The seal script circulated in later generations, the evaluation of the three princes is either gentle and magnificent, or the appearance is majestic, and it can be said to be the beauty among the princes.

As for the bosses from the Three Kingdoms and Jin Dynasties... Cao Cao was short and not good-looking.

Sun Quan had a big mouth, his bones were not constant, and he was somewhat different. To put it nicely, he was mixed-race, but to put it nicely, he was like a string.

As for Liu Bei, he could see his eyes and his arms were over his knees... he was just a monster.

Sima Yi not to mention... Eagle-looking and wolf-gu, pure beast-sect.
Chapter completed!