Outside Xinfeng City, Hu Zhen garrisoned his troops in a large camp.

"Haha, it's so great. Li Zhiran personally replied to me. This is really a face. I'll make an appointment to surrender on the third night? There's no problem. Pei Qing, Pei Qing, you have not had many good days. After capturing you, I will definitely curb you well to repay you for your hatred of humiliating me in the past!"

After receiving Li Jue's reply, Hu Zhen was so happy that he danced and reported the good news to Zang Ba himself.

"Brother Xuan Gao, Li Zhiran has personally written a reply to me and asked us to surrender to them on the third night. You must prepare carefully. In three days, we will not only surrender, but also offer a great gift to the Xiliang army. As long as this great gift is presented, no one can shake our position in the Xiliang army."

"Oh? I don't know what kind of gift it is?" Zang Ba sneered in his heart, but on the surface he pretended to be confused and asked Hu Zhen.

Hu Zhen smiled mysteriously and said, "You will naturally know that at that time. Anyway, it is a good thing that is enough to guarantee that we will be honored. Just wait for the celebration bar."

Zang Ba was displeased and said unhappy: "Brother Hu, we have reached this point now. I didn't expect that you have not regarded me, Zang Ba as my own. It seems that everything is my wishful thinking. But thinking about it is true that you are a general of Xiliang and are your own people with them. After all, I Zang Ba is an outsider and it is worth not trusting."

"Haha, Brother Xuan Gao, look at what you said. Although you are not from Liangzhou, Brother Wei has never regarded you as an outsider, but has always regarded you as my good brother. What you said just now is really wronged me. Well, since you want to know, then I will tell you that I made an agreement with Li Zhiran that on the day we surrender, I will trick Pei Qing out of the city. Then we will attack Pei Qing together with Li Zhiran. Compared to our sudden joint attack, Pei Qing will definitely be in chaos. In this way, even if he does not die, he will never be able to defend Xinfeng. At the same time, Guo Si also led his army to take the opportunity to attack Xinfeng County. If nothing unexpected happens, we will not only hurt this battle, capture or kill Pei Qing alive, but also capture Xinfeng City. As long as Xinfeng is taken down, will Chang'an be far away?"

"What?" After hearing Hu Zhen's words, Zang Ba couldn't help but shuddered. Unexpectedly, the other party had made such a vicious plan. Fortunately, he found out in advance, otherwise this time would be really dangerous.

So Zang Ba dealt with Hu Zhen with sweet words. After Hu Zhen left, he immediately wrote a letter to Pei Qing, shot into the city with a bow and arrow, and informed Pei Qing of the news.

Pei Qing was actually paying attention to outside the city, especially when he was waiting for news from Zang Ba, so he got the letter as soon as Zang Ba shot into the secret letter.

After reading it, Pei Qing nodded and said silently: "In order to get the news in time, Xuan Gao pretended to be in conjunction with Hu Zhen. Fortunately, we can find the accurate news."

Pei Qing then ordered the soldiers of the army to rest for two days in batches, strengthen the city defense at the same time, prepare for the upcoming war.

In order to ensure that Xinfeng can be saved, Pei Qing also ordered Li Su's army to stay in the city to assist Xu Rong in defending the city together, and specifically emphasized that with Xu Rong as the main general, Li Su must obey Xu Rong's order.

After everything was ready, Pei Qing received a letter from Hu Zhen, saying that he had heard that Li Jue and Guo Si's army had already set up camp twenty miles away from Xinfeng City. He had already surrendered to Li Jue and invited Li Jue to a dense forest ten miles outside the city tonight to receive surrender. At that time, both sides attack Pei Qing together and they would definitely win.

Pei Qing sneered in confidence, but was very surprised on the surface and said to Hu Zhen’s envoy: “I didn’t expect General Hu to do this. If Li Jue can be defeated, I will definitely ask General Hu for me personally. Go back and tell General Hu that I will definitely go out of the city on time.”

"What? Pei Qing really said that? Haha, it seems that this guy is just like that, he will be fooled so easily. Pei Qing, Pei Qing, I will definitely make you unable to fly at this time!"

Hu Zhen was very happy after receiving the news. He immediately forwarded Pei Qing’s letter to Zang Ba and said with a smile: “Brother Xuan Gao, Pei Qing has agreed to come. This time we will definitely win great merits. It depends on your performance tonight.”

"No problem, Ba is willing to repay the general's kindness with death." Zang Ba sneered secretly. He really didn't know where Hu Zhen got his confidence? He was so stupid that he dared to learn from others to play conspiracies.

That night, the troops of both sides merged into one place, and Hu Zhen formed an early formation outside the dense forest, waiting for the arrival of Pei Qing and Li Jue's army.

The first one to come was of course Pei Qing. In fact, Pei Qing's army arrived one hour earlier than the agreed time. He led the crowd to ambush in the dense forest as agreed, quietly waiting for the arrival of Li Jue's army. Not long after, Li Jue's army had arrived. Li Jue was eagerly waiting for Hu Zhen to surrender.

However, as soon as Hu Zhen came to him, he saw Zang Ba on the side immediately drew his sword from the side and stabbed him, shouting loudly: "The Grand Governor and General Hu have an order to kill Li Jue, and be granted a title of Marquis of Guannei, and rewarded a thousand pieces of silk and 10 million yuan. Brothers, kill me."

Li Jue was not prepared at this time. Fortunately, his personal soldiers stepped forward to block Zang Ba in time. Li Jue was not injured. However, he was also very embarrassed. He stood behind the personal soldiers with a heavy breath and said coldly: "Hu Zhen, what's going on?"

Hu Zhen was also stunned when he heard this and shouted at Zang Ba: "Zang Xuangao, what's going on? Are you going crazy?"

Zang Ba was shocked when he heard this and said in surprise: "General Hu, isn't this your order? Let the general suddenly assassinate Li Jue when we were pretending to surrender. Why do you say that now?"

At the same time, someone suddenly fired a cold arrow behind Hu Zhen. Li Jue saw this and hurriedly avoided it. Although he successfully avoided the sneak attack, he was also very embarrassed. At this time, he no longer cared about anything else. He shouted at Hu Zhen: "Hmph, what a Hu Zhen, I still think you are a good person. I didn't expect that he would dare to treat me like this. Today I will let you die without a burial place. Come and kill me!"

Hu Zhen was panicked when he saw this. He explained repeatedly: "General, don't listen to his nonsense. I have a true love for the Xiliang Army."

However, another cold arrow flew over, and this time it went straight to Li Jue's throat. Fortunately, one of his personal soldiers killed him and threw him down, so he was not shot.

Li Jue got up in a panic, furious and said sternly: "Hu Zhen, at this time, do you think I will trust you? You shot cold arrows at me twice and twice, and today I will ask you to taste it!"

Then he took out the bow and arrow and shot Hu Zhen with an arrow. Hu Zhen was in a panic and had no defense at all, and was actually shot to death by an arrow.

"What, why is this happening?" Hu Zhen widened his eyes and died with his eyes open. He never thought that things would come to this point.

Zang Ba, who was standing beside him, immediately shouted: "Brothers, come together to avenge General Hu!"

After saying that, Zang Ba led his army to kill him immediately.

Because they became restrained, the soldiers under Hu Zhen had no idea what happened. Seeing that their leader was dead, Zang Ba led them to attack, claiming to avenge the leader, and they all followed them to kill them. Of course, there were actually a few of them who knew the root of the matter. However, before they could react, they were killed by Zang Ba's men in chaos. Of course, the accounts were also settled on the head of the Xiliang Army.

At the same time, there was a sudden earth-shaking cry of killing sound from behind Li Juejun. It turned out that Pei Qing had some idea that he had gone around the back of the Xiliang Army and killed them at the same time.
Chapter completed!