Lingbao led two thousand soldiers to pursue him all the way north. It was not that he wanted to intercept the ox cart and make a fortune, but he was holding a sigh of relief in his heart. He wanted to make a great contribution, intercept this logistics convoy, and deal a heavy blow to the Jingzhou Army.

, so that Wu Yi can know that he is not the one who can suppress him if he wants to, and let Zhang Ren support him and give Wu Yi a loud slap in the face.

Eager to achieve meritorious service, Lingbao forgot about the danger and focused on chasing the Jingzhou Army's logistics convoy. He was dazzled by the desire to achieve meritorious service and completely forgot about Huang Zhong's army.

After passing Wuyang County, we entered the rolling hills and mountains. This mountain range is called Pengshan. Legend has it that it is the burial place of Peng Zu. The mountains are dozens of miles wide. When you step out of the hilly areas, you will see the endless Sichuan in front of you.

In the central plains, the mountains are criss-crossed with ravines and there are many huge canyons.

Ling Baobao led the army to rush along the official road in the rolling hills. This is an abandoned official road. Although it is overgrown with weeds, oxcarts can still be walked on it. On both sides are low hills and dense forests.

, looking particularly cold and lonely under the moonlight.

The team chased for more than twenty miles. Gradually, under the moonlight, they saw the ox cart in front of them. It was rumbling northward with dust flying. Lingbao was overjoyed and shouted: "Catch up with the ox cart!"

The soldiers rushed to catch up and got closer and closer to the bullock cart. At this moment, there was a bang in the woods on both sides, and dense arrows were shot out from the woods. Lingbao's army was caught off guard, and they fell to the ground screaming in agony. It only took a moment

A large piece fell down in an instant. At this time, fire broke out, and an army rushed out from the woods. The leader was Huang Zhong. He shouted: "Thieves, take your life!"

Lingbao was so frightened that he turned around and fled. Their soldiers were also frightened by the cold arrows fired from the sneak attack. Without waiting for his order, they scrambled to flee back. At this time, the ambush soldiers came from both sides and cut off the escape route.

, the Yizhou army had no intention of resisting, and they all knelt down and surrendered, shouting and begging loudly.

Lingbao's horse was fast and he took the lead to break through the ambush and fled towards Wuyang City with hundreds of people. However, less than two miles away, fire broke out in front of him and another army blocked the way. Lingbao reined in his horse.

, looking around for an escape route, he found that ambush troops rushed out not only in front, but also on the front, back, left and right, and thousands of people surrounded them.

At this time, Yan Yan came out of the team and shouted to him: "General Ling, even I have surrendered to Jingzhou. If you don't surrender now, how long will you wait?"

Lingbao was desperate and thought about Wu Yi's cruel treatment of him, so he dismounted from his horse and crawled on the side of the road to surrender. After the general surrendered, the soldiers also discarded their weapons and surrendered. In this ambush, Huang Zhong effortlessly defeated the enemy general Lingbao.

Bao captured and surrendered.

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Lingbao led his army to catch up with the Jingzhou army's baggage. Deng Xian was restless in the city. Although he hated Lingbao for not obeying his orders, after all, Lingbao was Zhang Ren's general. If something happened to him, he would not be able to explain to Zhang Ren.

, Deng Xian sent people to inquire for information outside the city, but found no information about a large group of enemy troops heading north, which made him feel slightly relieved.

At the third watch, Deng Xian had just fallen asleep when he was awakened by a knock on the door. A soldier reported outside: "General Qi, General Ling is back, and countless oxcarts have arrived!"

Deng Xian was overjoyed and hurriedly put on his armor and ran to the north city. He ran up to the city and looked down. He saw brightly lit lights under the city. Soldiers held torches and drove thousands of ox carts. The leader was Lingbao.

When Lingbao saw Deng Xian coming out, he laughed proudly and said, "General Deng, I'm returning with a load of good stuff. You and I can make a big fortune."

After saying that, he lifted up the oilcloth on an oxcart, and the soldiers at the top of the city suddenly exclaimed. Under the firelight, they saw that the oxcart was loaded with yellow copper coins, and each copper coin shone with a dazzling metallic luster.

Deng Xian secretly despised Lingbao, but with so many copper coins, he could just use them to reward the soldiers, so he immediately ordered: "Open the city!"

The city gate creaked open and the suspension bridge was lowered. Lingbao ordered the soldiers and ox carts to advance into the city. Groups of soldiers escorted the ox carts towards the city.

When there were still more than a hundred bullock carts, it suddenly stopped. Deng Xian frowned, leaned out and shouted: "Why don't you go into the city? What are you waiting for?"

Suddenly a soldier pointed not far away and shouted: "General, there is enemy situation!"

He saw dense soldiers appearing in the darkness, the sound of horse hoofbeats, and a general leading countless soldiers towards the city gate. Deng Xian was shocked and shouted: "Close the city gate quickly! Close the city gate!"

The city gate was blocked by bullock carts, the suspension bridge could not be pulled up, and the city gate could not be closed. At this moment, there was a sudden cry of killing in the city. Deng Xian turned around suddenly and heard a soldier shouting: "Ling

The general rebelled, and his soldiers rebelled."

Deng Xian's mind was 'buzzing!' He suddenly understood that when Lingbao went to chase the ox cart, something must have happened. Lingbao surrendered to the Jingzhou army and then came to deceive the city. All his thoughts were in vain, Wuyang City was over.

This was Sima Yi's plan to deceive the city. He was sure that Wu Yi would not place heavy troops in Wuyang County. As soon as Wu Yi's army left, they could implement the plan to deceive the city and lure the defenders in the city to chase the ox cart.

One of the plans, if this plan

If unsuccessful, Sima Yi had a second plan, which was to leave hundreds of ox carts by the roadside. When the city defenders drove the ox carts into the city, an ambush attack would occur. At this time, the ox carts would inevitably block the city gate, making it impossible to advance or retreat.

The ambushes can take the opportunity to seize the city.

However, Lingbao was so eager to achieve his goals that he did not need to use the second plan. He succeeded in the first plan and led the Jingzhou army to defraud Wuyang City.

There was no suspense in the battle, and Yizhou soldiers surrendered one after another. Deng Xian tried to escape from the west gate, but was caught by the west gate defenders and escorted to show his merit.

In the temporary camp, Huang Zhong ordered his men to reward the soldiers who captured Deng Xian. Then he smiled at Deng Xian and said, "General Deng, are you willing to surrender?"

Deng Xian bowed his head and said nothing, and Huang Zhong persuaded again: "General Deng is also a Ba people. How could he not know that Liu Zhoumu killed all the barbarian soldiers to protect the Ba people, and even General Deng's parents and relatives were protected. As the saying goes, birds choose good trees.

And Qi, even if General Deng is not out of gratitude, he should know that surrendering to Liu Zhoumu is a wise move. Why should he sacrifice his life for Liu Xun, who is killing his brothers, and defend Chengdu, which is about to be destroyed?"

Every sentence struck a chord in Deng Xian's heart. He thought about the Ba people's gratitude to Liu Jing and how he could not be moved. He also thought about Liu Xunming's unjust words and the fact that the enemy was currently killing brothers. Such a lord was really unworthy.

Worthy of his loyalty.

Deng Xian sighed, knelt down on one knee, held his fist high and said, "Deng Xian is willing to surrender to Jingzhou and serve Liu Jingzhou!"

Huang Zhong was overjoyed and quickly helped Deng Xian up, "I knew General Deng was an upright man. I promise the general that Liu Zhoumu will never neglect the general."

Deng Xian saluted again, "Thank you, General Huang."

At this time, a soldier came into the tent and whispered a few words to Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was startled, "How could this happen?"

"Excuse me, old general, what happened?" Deng Xian asked uneasily.

Huang Zhong sighed, "Prefect Jiang refused to surrender, so his whole family committed suicide by taking poison!"

Deng Xian felt sad and said after a while: "I have a long-standing friendship with Prefect Jiang. I would like to ask the old general to allow me to bury them."

Huang Zhong nodded, "You can be buried with the honors of a prefect!"

Huang Zhong reorganized and surrendered his troops for two days, and then in accordance with Liu Jing's order, he appointed Deng Zhi as the governor of Qianwei and gave him two thousand soldiers. Then he and Yan Yan led the army to continue northward.

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In Chengdu, Liu Jing led the 60,000 main Jingzhou army to the largest city in Bashu. The warships were parked all over the Minjiang River. The Jingzhou army built a military camp in the wilderness two miles west of the city. The Jingzhou army was not in a hurry to attack the city.

, Liu Jing hoped to use huge pressure to force Liu Xun to surrender.

Just when Liu Jing led his army to arrive, Xu Jing, the Prime Minister of Shu County, surrendered to Liu Jing first. Not far from the city, Liu Jing patrolled along the city, escorted by hundreds of personal guards and more than a dozen generals.

Chengdu is worthy of being the first city in Bashu. The city wall is tall and strong, the city head is wide, and horses can be raced. There are perforations, inspection holes and slings. It also has a horse face and a moat around it. It is about four feet wide. It was designed by Liu Jing.

The widest moat I have ever seen, it cannot be built with ordinary wooden boards.

However, this did not trouble Liu Jing, because the moat was connected to the outer river, and ships could sail into the moat and quickly build a pontoon bridge. Moreover, the moat was built very wide, leaving a loophole.

"How deep is the moat?" Liu Jing asked Xu Jingdao with a smile.

Xu Jing said quickly: "The mud was only cleaned this spring, and it was about one foot deep."

"One foot!"

This answer made Liu Jing quite satisfied. He raised his riding whip and pointed at another natural river not far away that connected to the moat and asked: "Excuse me, Jun Cheng, what is the name of that river?"

Xu Jing quickly stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "This river is called Jinhe. It runs through the whole city and leads directly to the Minjiang River. There is a water gate built at the entrance to the city."

Liu Jing nodded, urged his horse to come to the Jin River, and carefully looked at the river. Like the moat, it was about four to five feet wide. It should flow northward into the Minjiang River. He immediately ordered his soldiers to say: "Test the water depth!"

Several soldiers used spears to test the depth of the water and reported: "The water is more than one foot deep, about one foot and twenty-three."

Liu Jing smiled and asked Xu Jing: "Is there a water gate at the entrance at the other end?"

"Reporting to Zhou Mu, this is the north of the city, and there is also a water gate in the east of the city."

Liu Jing knew Shuimen very well. He knew Shuimen's weaknesses. He leaned forward and squinted his eyes to look inside Shuimen. Through the iron gate, he could faintly see the Wengcheng inside. The structure was exactly the same as that of Chaisang Water City. He couldn't help but laugh.

, “Did the same person build this and Chaisang?”

On the top of the city, Liu Xun was holding the head of the city and looking at Liu Jing in the distance. He was only a hundred steps away. He was observing the city as he pleased, pointing east and west, provoking him so unscrupulously, which made Liu Xun's face livid. He turned around and asked:

"Can I shoot him with an arrow?"

The guards all shook their heads and said, "Master, he is just outside the range of the crossbow. I'm afraid it will be difficult to shoot."

At this time, Zhang Ren said coldly: "Others can't do it, but I can!"

He took off his three-stone hard bow, took out an arrow from the quiver on his back, stretched the bow and nocked the arrow, and suddenly pulled the string. The bowstring was like a full moon. He squinted and aimed at Liu Jing. When the string loosened, a powerful arrow came out.
Chapter completed!