Amway Qi had no idea. He tried hard to move forward and wanted to make contributions and stabilize the situation, but he was quickly killed, which led to the situation even more chaotic. Many soldiers were deeply shocked by his death and dared not resist any more. They turned around and ran away.

However, they did not expect, or when they subconsciously escaped, they forgot that behind them was the Han army's city. When their army came to the city wall, they realized this. However, it was too late. The city gate was wide open, and Xu Rong personally led three thousand soldiers to massacre them.

"Kill! Brothers, now the Central Army is invincible, and we cannot fall behind. Now is the time to show our bravery." Seeing the Central Army's rapid progress, Zang Ba was not willing to fall behind. He roared, led the way and charged forward in person. For a moment, the morale of the entire army rose sharply. The soldiers bravely stepped forward, killing the enemy, fearing that they dared not fight again, and turned around and fled backward.

At the same time, Zhang Chao also led his army to launch a fierce attack. Although Zhang Chao's own combat power was not strong, his command was all Zhu Jun's elite, which was not bad compared to the Xiliang Army. In addition, the Central Army had already gained an overwhelming advantage, and the enemy was no longer interested in fighting, so their progress was not slower than Zang Ba's left-wing army. It can be said that they were advancing in unison.

Originally, the Western Liang army could no longer support it under Pei Qing and others' fierce attack, but Xu Rong led his army out of the city, so the imperial army launched a front and back attack. The Western Liang army had no intention of fighting, suffered heavy losses and fled one after another. Those who were unable to escape were able to throw away their weapons and surrender.

This time, the general of the Xiliang army in charge of siege was named Wang Fang. He led a 10,000 troops to come. His original intention was to restrain Xu Rong in the city even if he could not capture Xinfeng City and continue to consume his military strength. Once the main army arrived, Xu Rong would soon be defeated. However, he did not expect that the reinforcements from the court would come so quickly. Almost Wang Fang arrived, and Pei Qing's reinforcements arrived. As soon as Wang Fang launched the siege, he was immediately attacked by reinforcements from behind, and then attacked by Pei Qing and Xu Rong from both sides.

Under such circumstances, the 10,000 troops suffered heavy losses and the soldiers rushed to escape. Wang Fang knew that things were not done, so he had no choice but to sigh secretly and ordered the entire army to break through.

Fortunately, Wang Fang's personal soldiers were loyal enough to protect him and finally broke through.

However, after he was safe, he counted the number of people. Only a few hundred people were followed, and the 10,000 troops were either killed, surrendered, or dispersed, and they were gone.

Wang Fang fled back dejectedly, and happened to meet Li Jue, the chief general of the army, on the way, so he leaned on the ground to apologize and report the news of his defeat to Li Jue.

When Li Jue heard the news, he was furious and said, "When you asked you to attack the city, you said you would definitely take down Xinfeng and kill the rebel Xu Rong, but how can you explain now? You were defeated in the first battle of the army, which seriously disturbed our morale and reduced our morale. What's the use of keeping such a waste like you?"

Then he ordered his orders: "Drag this guy out for me and behead him and show him the public!"

At this time, a middle-aged scholar stopped him and said, "Let's go. General, now it is time to use people, it is not appropriate to kill the general. What we should do most is the reason for General Wang's defeat. Who is the chief general of the reinforcements? How many soldiers have he brought? Only in this way can he be targeted and not defeated again. Otherwise, although we may not be defeated, once Chang'an cannot conquer for a long time, the morale of the army will inevitably collapse. At that time, we will have to be slaughtered."

After hearing this, Li Jue thought for a moment and said with admiration: "Wenhe's words are reasonable. Since the military advisor pleads with mercy, let's spare his life."

Then Li Jue looked at Wang Fang and asked slowly: "How many reinforcements have come? Who is the chief general? You have fought a war with them at least, so you can't even know this, right?"

Seeing this, Wang Fang hurriedly thanked him and then said, "Report to the general, the general has investigated this point clearly. The enemy's chief general is named Pei Qing, and there are estimated to be more than 20,000 people under his command."

"Pei Qing? Who is this? Why haven't I heard of it?" Li Jue asked in surprise after hearing this.

But the middle-aged scholar said, "Pei Qing was originally a bandit leader. Later, he was named Maocai for poetry and prose and was appointed as the prefect of Nanyang by the Grand Tutor. Because Nanyang could not take office, he was welcomed by Yingchuan scholars for some reason and temporarily became the prefect of Yingchuan. Later, he was invited by Zhu Jun to lead his army to Zhongmu. However, at that time, he only brought five hundred people, and seemed to be invincible to the Grand Tutor. However, after the Grand Tutor was killed, he actually came to Chang'an again. On this way, he led his army to capture General Dong Yue. Even General Niu Fu's death was related to his expedition. Moreover, after he arrived in Chang'an, he seemed to have some friendship with Lu Bu, so the other Xu was not very clear."

When Li Jue heard the middle-aged scholar Jia Xu say this, he immediately said angrily: "This Pei Qing was originally the best guard because of the Grand Master, but he didn't expect that he would betray the Grand Master in the blink of an eye. Such a traitor should be killed. Wenhe, think of a way to get rid of this thief and shock the unrighteous people in the world."

Jia Xu immediately smiled bitterly and said, "This Pei Qing is also a resourceful person. It is not an easy thing to defeat him. We must find the right opportunity."

Then Jia Xu asked again: "General Wang, who else is there in addition to Pei Qing's headquarters?"

Wang Fang thought for a while and said, "The last general also saw the banner of Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, and the banner of Li Su and Hu Zhen. However, Li Su hid behind the formation, but Hu Zhen led his army to kill our brothers with Pei Qing."

"What? Hu Zhen? Is he looking for death?" Li Jue was furious when he heard this, "Aren't he afraid that I will take revenge on his tribe?"

However, Jia Xu said, "Don't get angry first, this matter is not that simple. General Wang, think carefully, what was Hu Zhen's troops doing when they launched the attack? Did they always follow Pei Qing?"

Wang Fang was only more than a hundred steps away from Pei Qing and Hu Zhen at that time, so he saw it clearly, so he said without hesitation: "It's true. Hu Zhen was surrounded by Pei Qing and his personal soldiers. It can be seen that he was a little uncomfortable at that time."

"That's right." Jia Xu nodded and said to Li Jue: "General, this is our opportunity. Xu dared to predict that Hu Zhen must have been coerced by Pei Qing, so he launched an attack on us. He is different from Li Su. This Li Su personally participated in the assassination of the Grand Tutor, and was not from Liangzhou, so there is no possibility of reconciliation between us, but Hu Zhen is different. He was forced to surrender. I believe that as long as the time comes, we can still fight for it."
Chapter completed!