Dingfangjun Liekou City. Gongsun Dan, who had been patrolling the city, was about to go down to the city to return to his house to rest, but heard some soldiers from the defenders start to exclaim: "A boat is coming on the sea!"

Gongsun Dan was shocked and thought that it must be the Wei army. He turned his head and looked at the sea southwest. Sure enough, dozens of masts appeared on the sea level, and then layers of sails appeared.

"The enemy is coming, prepare to fight!" Gongsun Dan shouted loudly. More than a thousand soldiers rushed to the city in a hurry and crouched behind the wall of the battlement. Gongsun Dan, like them, hid most of his body behind the wall of the battlement, and only poked his head out, and stared nervously at the fleet that was getting closer and closer on the sea.

Half an hour later, the warships began to break down, but because the coast outside Liekou City was of beach type, these warships could not sail to the shore. Their anchorage was still nearly 200 battles away from Liekou City. At this distance, Gongsun Dan still could not see the flag on the other side's warship.

The people on the warship had successively put down their sampans to carry their troops to land. On the boats closer to the coast, some soldiers even jumped into the waist-deep sea water and waded on the water. After another half an hour, the beach near the city wall was full of various soldiers and horses. Some of them were infantry wearing armor with metallic luster similar to lobster shells and holding large shields and spears. Some were riding giant armored war horses with shoulder heights of six feet up to Zhaoyu, and knights wearing excellent armor.

Gongsun Dan secretly wondered why the Wei army, who was beaten to exile by the Liang army, could still be so good? He had lived in this side county for a long time, so naturally he didn't know that the Liang army's infantry and cavalry came. Soon, shouts came from the city: "The defenders on the city, we are the Liang army who came across the sea from Qingzhou. Your Gongsun Prefect has already lowered the order to descend to my Daliang. Quickly open the city gate and let us enter the city."

Gongsun Dan then poked his head out and shouted, "Is it Gongsun Dan, where are you? How can you prove that you are indeed Liang's army? It's not that you are too suspicious, but that the remnants of the Wei army are in Nanxin City hundreds of miles away, so it's hard to guarantee that they don't have to trick the city."

At this moment, a loud laugh came from the city, and then a familiar voice of Gongsun Dan floated up to the top of the city: "Gongsun Dan, do you still remember me?" Gongsun Dan quickly looked at it, and indeed saw a face that felt very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he knew this person.

The man continued to say in a Liaodong accent: "It's Xu Rong. You and I studied in a private school. Don't you remember?" The other party's reminder made Gongsun Dan remember immediately. Xu Rong was his early classmate. However, Xu Rong left his hometown and went to another place when he was a teenager, and he hadn't seen each other for more than ten years.

But Gongsun Dan had heard of Xu Rong's later betrayal of Dong Zhuo and surrendering to Zhuyang Hou and the current Emperor Feng Yu of Daliang. Now, compared with the equipment number of these soldiers, he knew that it was impossible for the Wei army to cheat. Now he felt relieved and immediately ordered the soldiers to open the city gate and let Xu Rong's soldiers enter the city.

Gongsun Dan and Xu Rong, two elementary school classmates who had not met for more than ten years, naturally greeted for a long time after meeting, and then talked about the main business. Gongsun Dan then realized that Xu Rong and his army were just standing in front of the battle, with the real main force behind. And that was also a Wei army, led by Cao Chong and Guo Jia.

During the reception banquet, after three rounds of wine, Gongsun Dan gave Xu Rong a first rank and said, "Brother Xu Rong, you came this time very well. Now, this is the governor of the county magistrate of the county magistrate is almost in name only. If you lose this city of Liekou, you can only cross the sea to Qingzhou and lead this county magistrate from afar."

Xu Rong held a piece of beef into his mouth and asked, "How can I explain this?" In fact, he already knew some of the situation of the leader, but he still pretended to ask this question.

"Brother Xu doesn't know anything. Brother Xu, although I am still in charge of the position of the prefect of the Belting, I am actually in charge of this city and one place. The Sanhan in the south has long disobeyed the orders and the Hu cavalry who went south... Well, this is not the Hu cavalry under the command of the Northern Prefecture Army of Daliang, but refers to the wild Hu cavalry of the Dongyi who went south and occupied a large area of ​​land as their ranch. Now the puppet Wei remnants have occupied Nanxin City again. Fortunately, the Daliang Tianjun will soon gather in the Belting. When Cao Chong Guo Jia's troops arrive, Daliang can sweep the Belting, and then attack Lelang and recover the two counties of Haidong."

Xu Rong took a sip of wine, cleared his throat and said, "Brother Gongsun misunderstood. Cao Chong and Guo Jia came not to accept the people who led the party. They just came to wipe out the remnants of the pseudo-Western Wei. Moreover, Cao Pi did not come here to bring Fang Lelang."

Gongsun Dan said in surprise: "It's not to lead Fang Lelang? Is Cao Pi want to occupy the three Han areas? No wonder a few days ago, the scouts came to report that they were robbed everywhere, but also sent ships to the south repeatedly."

Xu Rong shook his head and said, "They are not going to Sanhan, but to Yingzhou."

"What Yingzhou?" Gongsun Dan certainly didn't know that within Daliang, he had unified the place where the Japanese gathered were called Yingzhou.

"It's the big island in the southeast, the gathering place for the Japanese people!"

After Xu Rong said this, Gongsun Dan immediately understood and said hurriedly: "It would be better to take advantage of Cao Pi's future and escape, surrounded Nanxincheng and wiped them out in one fell swoop. It would save the trouble of running so far to pursue them. In this way, you can use this army to pacify the leader."

Xu Rong sighed again: "Cao Pi must have been there for more than a few months. Their main force should have left Dai Fang long ago and headed to Yingzhou along the coastline. So Cao Pi would not stay in Dai Fang to quell the chaos. The emperor did not give him this task."

Looking at Gongsun Dan's disappointed expression, Xu Rong said again: "Although Cao Pi's army will not stay here, the emperor still sent troops to help Lelang and lead the two counties to quell the rebellion."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Gongsun Dan's expression became even more complicated. He said whispered: "Can you... do you want the Northern Prefecture Army stationed in Liaodong and Xuantu County now to come..."

Xu Rong immediately knew what he was worried about. Gongsun Dan must be afraid that the Hu cavalry under the Northern Prefecture Army would burn, kill and loot according to traditional customs after they attacked the county.

Xu Rong waved his hands repeatedly to dispel his concerns and said, "Brother Gongsun, don't worry. The emperor knows what will happen to the Northern Prefecture Army going south. So he will not only not use the Northern Prefecture Army to accept the Punishing Dingfang, Lelang County. Even in Liaodong, the Xuantu County will soon take over from the Northern Prefecture Army and let the Northern Prefecture Army retreat north of the Heishui River. The emperor will send another legion to the Northern Prefecture Army to pacify the Second Prefecture Army with a certain number of counties. In addition to the two counties, the Three Hans in the south will also be included in my Daliang territory."

Gongsun Dan felt relieved and asked again: "Dare you ask me, how many troops are there in this legion?"
Chapter completed!