With the countermeasure, Pei Xiaoer didn't stop for a long time. After saying goodbye to Liu Xianchun, he returned to his study. In an instant, he repaired a letter, put it in an envelope, and handed it to Song Meng who had just called, and told him.

: "Song Meng, this matter is extremely critical. You personally take the cavalry battalion to Linjin quickly and hand this letter to Zhang Zhiyuan. At the same time, you will stay by Zhang Zhiyuan's side and assist him. Be sure to hold back Hong Chengchou and remember."

Song Meng nodded, took the letter, and said to Pei Xiaoer: "Don't worry, General, my subordinates understand."

At the same time, four or five days ago, Zhang Zhiyuan had already captured Lin Jin with a sneak attack. Because the days were still short, the big families in the city were still relatively resistant to the Pei family army. Although they did not object on the surface, these people had some specific things.

The non-violent and uncooperated situation made Zhang Zhiyuan very angry. Just when Zhang Zhiyuan was busy dealing with the wealthy families in Linjin City, he received an order from Pei Xiaoer, asking him to lead a large army to attack Puzhou and make sure to siege Jiezhou

Hong Chengchou's 50,000 troops were attracted to rescue Liu Zhizu's side.

Zhang Zhiyuan was in a dilemma after receiving the order. He now has only eight thousand people under his command, and another thousand people were left by him in Yi's garrison. If he only led these eight thousand people to feint attack Puzhou, Hong Chengchou would not be a fool.

It is naturally unique that people can create a great reputation in just a few years.

Some things cannot be true or false. When Hong Chengchou learned that there were only 8,000 people invading Puzhou, how could he give up the Jiezhou that was about to be obtained for the sake of these 8,000 people? He can do it.

He divided more than 10,000 troops back to defend Puzhou, and after breaking Jiezhou, he was making plans. If Hong Chengchou really did this, how could he complete the threat of General Pei to Puzhou and rescue Liu Zhizu who was surrounded?

While thinking, Zhang Zhiyuan unconsciously walked on the city of Linjin. He looked up and saw a group of soldiers patrolling the city. The streets were filled with displaced refugees, dressed in rags, and there were broken small bowls in front of him, and he was humbly passing by.

The pedestrians beg for the beg. Outside the city, a large number of refugees slowly gathered towards Linjin.

These refugees all heard that Linjin was occupied by the Pei family army to ask for food. According to the usual style of the Pei family army, every time they occupy a place, they would open a warehouse and use part of the food as military rations, and the remaining grain would be opened to provide porridge factories to provide relief to all parties.

Refugees. So much time has passed, and it has long been formed and is known to the people from all directions. Therefore, when I heard that the Pei family army occupied it, the refugees around me were moved and thought that they would gather in Linjin. The scale would be as large as 40,000 or 50,000. In two days, it might be

It will increase to 50,000 or 60,000.

Zhang Zhiyuan looked at these refugees and felt a move in his heart. A vicious plan appeared in his mind. Since there were so many refugees in Linjin, why not take one to strengthen his momentum? As long as it was large in scale, it would be afraid of Hong Chengchou.

Only then can he let his entire army retreat to protect Puzhou and thus rescue Liu Zhizu, Jiezhou.

However, since the founding of the Pei family army, it has experienced several battles, but never once had any wars that have taken refuge in the enemy. If Zhang Zhiyuan did it, it would be a precedent for the Pei family army, and good fortune would be unpredictable.

After hesitating for a while, Zhang Zhiyuan decided to give it a try. He immediately ordered his army to search the entire Linjin and carry all the refugees over, resulting in a total of 48,000 refugees. Zhang Zhiyuan still felt that it was not enough and was about to be in Jincheng.

The people all pulled out, and cooperated with the eight thousand elites he already had and the one thousand cavalry of Song Meng, and they gathered a total of 100,000 troops before they stopped.

Then, Zhang Zhiyuan ordered the army to be outside, and the civilians pretended to be a mighty army that had been strong on the battlefield for a long time. He also ordered Song Meng to lead the cavalry to be on the side of the army, and to rob the officers and soldiers to investigate the night before they came to investigate, so they must not let the officials go.

The army found out its own reality and when everything was done, Zhang Zhiyuan immediately led the 100,000 troops to fight towards Puzhou in a mighty manner.

Hong Chengchou has surrounded Jiezhou for more than two days, and during this period, he has attacked the city no less than dozens of times. The soldiers who died in battle have filled the gullies below the city. The blood is stained with blood on the city. The Pei family army on the top of the city, although

Everyone is injured and scars everywhere, but their will is unexpectedly tough, as if they are in the reefs of the sea, and they remain unmoved by the waves.

Hong Chengchou still underestimated the will to resist in the city. Although there were not many soldiers in the city, everyone dared to die. As the saying goes, one man fights for life but not a hundred men. It is precisely because of so many heroes that Jiezhou is as stable as a rock.

Although the officers and soldiers had even captured the city head several times, they were about to rush down the city and when they opened the city gate, they were still killed.

In Hong Chengchou's impression, although the number of people in the northwest was large, most of them were threatening, and both young and old were present and had no combat power. A truly strong person would be just one or two. If you hit his head, you would be able to defeat him.

Among them, only a few hundred people could be beaten. After killing these hundreds of veteran bandits who could be beaten and dared to kill, most of the rest dispersed.

However, when he faced the Pei family army, the performance of the Pei family army was far beyond Hong Chengchou's perception, which made him feel like he was head-on collision with the enemy army. If this so-called Pei family army was like this enemy in the city, everyone would be like this enemy in the city.

Like the army, the result of the bandit suppression this time was unpredictable. Thinking of this, Hong Chengchou suddenly shivered.

However, this weak posture was then covered up by him and looked at the not-far-distance city wall again. Hong Chengchou said coldly: "Organize troops and continue to attack. You must take down Jiezhou within two days."

At this moment, a quick horse ran over and came to Hong Chengchou, turned over and dismounted, and knelt down to report: "Sir. I received the news that Zhang Zhiyuan, the thief in Linjin County, led 100,000 troops to kill him.

After Puzhou, it is less than fifty miles away from Puzhou.”

"What?" Hong Chengchou was shocked, his face immediately became darker, and he asked, "Are you sure there are 100,000 bandits? What is the appearance of the other party's military?"

"Sir Hui. The bandit army is accompanied by a large group of cavalry. Our army cannot approach the close-up investigation without taking it at night. We can only see the opponent's army from afar, with a neat appearance and full morale. The high-fanged flags cover the sky, and the advance and retreat between the troops are orderly, which is quite positive.

An elite force is beyond the reach of ordinary bandits.”

Hong Chengchou's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He didn't understand. In just a few months, how could the bandits raise up hundreds of thousands of elite troops? What are the local officials in Shanxi doing for food? How can they let bandits sit on the greater than their servants? It's really

Everyone deserves to be killed.

Looking at the new attack from afar, Hong Chengchou had a premonition that although the Pei family army in the city resisted tenaciously, they were too few. Although they consumed a lot in the past two days, they also killed a large number of live forces in the city. According to this progress

Continue to attack and you can take over Jiezhou in less than two days.

Just continuing to attack means giving up Puzhou. Puzhou is the key land for its own food and grass, and it is also the retreat of its own army. Once Puzhou is lost, the 50,000 troops under his command will become rootless grass and are at risk of being destroyed at any time.

Hong Chengchou was in a dilemma. Not only did he need to vomit out half of Jiezhou, but the soldiers who died in the city of Jiezhou were killed in vain. However, if he did not withdraw his troops, Puzhou would inevitably be captured by the Pei family army. Perhaps he could take Jiezhou himself.

Then he returned to the army and brought Puzhou back. But Hong Chengchou dared to bet that he would definitely take Jiezhou? Obviously, Hong Chengchou did not dare, so he chose to withdraw his troops. He was confident that once the situation in Puzhou was restored, Jiezhou would be at his fingertips.

After Hong Chengchou withdrew his troops, he was immediately learned by the Pei family army in Jiezhou City that Liu Zhizu came to the city to check. After seeing the officers and soldiers withdrawing, he opened a gap in the city gate. Several fast horses quickly drove through Jiezhou City Gate.

He went out and chased towards the direction of the officers and soldiers' retreat, and was far behind the officers and soldiers, and sent the officers and soldiers for more than ten miles before returning.

After learning that the officers and soldiers were away, Liu Zhizu guessed that it might be that he had asked the general for help. At this time, only Zhang Zhiyuan, who was far away in Jin, was left.

Hesitated and ordered the army to retreat and retreat to Anyi, and at the same time sent a scout cavalry to inform Zhang Zhiyuan's troops of the movements of the officers and soldiers, so that they could react as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!