Chapter 237: The Change of Dongjun

Jiujiang County, Liyang City.

The general guarding the city was Pan Zhang. He led 5,000 soldiers from the Dongjun camp to fight to the death to resist the siege of Yuan Shu's 20,000 troops. The Liyang city wall was not high or thick, just because all the soldiers of the Dongjun camp were united and the entire army was willing to use their lives to protect the city.

After Deng Li led 10,000 Lujiang military troops to Liyang, Zhang Xun saw that the enemy reinforcements had arrived and there was no hope of attacking the city, so he ordered the siege to withdraw and gather all his troops at the city of Hefei, and launched a fierce attack day and night.

Pan Zhang and Deng Li joined forces. Seeing that the enemy was very anxious to attack Hefei, they thought about sending their main force to the periphery of Hefei City to restrain the enemy. At this moment, Pan Zhang suddenly received a secret letter. After reading the letter, Pan Zhang suddenly cried, knelt down to the north, and kowtowed three times "bangbang".

Deng Li took the secret letter and opened it. The person who wrote the letter was Pang Tai, the general of the prefect of Dongjun Qiao Mao. This person should have a close relationship with Pan Zhang. This can be seen from the title in the letter. In the letter, Pang Tai called Pan Zhang the eldest brother and said that the situation was urgent. Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, has always been incompatible with Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun. This time, he used the excuse that Qiao Mao was unable to destroy the Yellow Turban and sent a large army to attack Dongjun. There were not many soldiers in Dongjun, so where was Liu Dai's opponent? He was soon sent to more than ten counties. Only the county governor Puyang has not been compromised yet, but looking at Liu Dai's aggressive appearance, he would not stop until he wiped out Dongjun. The prefect Qiao Mao was depressed and saw that the city was about to break up, so he was ready to commit suicide to avoid being humiliated by Liu Dai. Fortunately, everyone around him looked closely and Qiao Mao did not die.

In the letter, Pang Tai begged Pan Zhang to lead the soldiers of Dongjun back to Puyang to rescue them. Pang Tai also said that if the movements are slow, the day when the city is broken will be the time when they are separated by life and death.

Deng Li saw the end of the letter and saw that Pang Tai wrote the letter half a month ago. It was thought that it was delayed because Liyang City was surrounded and the sender could not enter the city. According to the content of the letter, I was afraid that Puyang had been broken by Liu Dai at this moment, while Qiao Mao, Pang Tai and others were unpredictable for their life and death...

After kowtowed, Pan Zhang stood up suddenly, with tears in his eyes, and said to Deng Li: "General Deng, Lord Qiao treats me as a kind of kindness. Now that he is in trouble, I must not stand by. I will leave Liyang City to you!"

After saying that, Pan Zhang raised his foot and left. Deng Li hurriedly grabbed him and advised: "It's hundreds of miles to Puyang, and you have to pass by Yuan Shu's territory. How can you lead the army through?"

Pan Zhang was stunned when he heard this, and then replied: "What's the difficulty? If you can fight, you can fight. If you can't fight, you can go around. Anyway, Yuan Shu's army has gathered in Hefei City."

Deng Li advised again: "General is such a bad word~ Yuan Shu is strong, and now he has no less than 200,000 troops under his command. You must be extremely difficult to go there. I am afraid that before you arrive in Puyang, you will be completely killed. Besides, the war in Hefei is at a critical moment, and our army can restrain the enemy from the side. If you lead the troops away, this battle will be difficult to fight."

Pan Zhang paused and said, "Well~~ I will only take my two thousand soldiers from the East County. Even if we die on the road, our heads will be heading towards our hometown!"

Seeing that Pan Zhang did not listen to the advice, Deng Li couldn't help but turn black. He didn't care that his position was lower than that of Pan Zhang. He was slightly angry in his tone and asked, "My lord treats you and me well, why do the general want to betray him? In recent years, Jiangdong has seen a prosperous scene, which is what you and I want to see? Then again, this letter was written half a month ago, and the general immediately put on his wings and flew over. I am afraid that it will be the result of the city being destroyed! Please think twice! Don't act recklessly!"

Deng Li dragged Pan Zhang down and saw that Pan Zhang was a little calmer and was about to continue persuasion, but suddenly heard someone at the door report: "Someone sent an urgent letter to General Pan!"

"Is it another urgent letter?" Pan Zhang and Deng Li immediately stared at the messenger at the door with four eyes, especially Pan Zhang, who was very nervous, afraid that the news of Qiao Mao's death would come, so he said to Deng Li: "General Deng~~ Please, please help me read this letter. I feel that my heart hurts a little~~"

Deng Li took the secret letter from the commander's hand, opened it and saw the heavy face disappeared. He smiled and said to Pan Zhang: "General Pan, good news! Good news!"

Seeing Deng Li's expression, Pan Zhang stood up quickly, grabbed the secret letter with a quick look, and then smiled happily.

This letter was also written by Pang Tai, and the content was: "Brother Wen Gui, the thief of Dai is constantly attacking. Three days after the letter was sent, Puyang City was unfortunately destroyed. I and the prefect were all imprisoned in prison. I later wanted to transport us to Chenliu and deal with it. Fortunately, I was helped by a group of masked heroes to disperse the thieves and rescue us. After asking, I found out that it was a secret person arranged by the governor of Yangzhou, Lord Zhou Yu. Then Cao Cao's army used the excuse of rescuing Dongjun and fought against the thieves. The thieves were defeated. Cao's army had occupied most counties and counties in Yanzhou. We were placed in a secluded mountain village, which was quite safe and had no worries about food. We came to Yangzhou again in the future. Brother Pang Tai was on the way."

A huge rock in Pan Zhang's heart finally fell to the ground, and he couldn't help but say happily: "Who are these brothers? They actually saved Lord Qiao Mao. It's so amazing!"

Deng Li stretched out his hand and punched Pan Zhang, and said with a smile: "It's probably the people of Jingwuwei. They have very powerful magical powers. Now you won't cry and shout to save your adults anymore, right?"

Pan Zhang laughed and begged Deng Li, "Good brother, don't tell me what happened just now, it's a shame! Let's go, I'll invite you to drink!" After that, he pulled Deng Li and was about to walk out.

Deng Li stopped him with his hands and said seriously: "Let's drink this wine when we have lifted the siege of Hefei. Just now, we get the news that General Lu Dai's troops are about to arrive in Liyang. We will quickly rectify the troops and join forces with them to fight to Hefei!"

Pan Zhang laughed and said, "Good brother! Listen to you! Let's order the troops now!"

On the second day, under the city of Liyang, various flags were roaring and war drums were rumbling. Lu Dai led 30,000 military troops from Wu County to join Pan Zhang and Deng Li's army successfully.

Lu Dai rode on a red horse. The long-distance march did not make him look haggard, but became more energetic. Lu Dai saw Pan Zhang and Deng Li, who were all dressed in an orderly manner, and quickly turned over and dismounted the horse, handed the reins of the horse to the personal soldiers behind him, and then quickly walked to Pan Zhang and Deng Li, holding the six hands tightly together.

The three of them exchanged a few simple greetings and discussed how to rescue Hefei.
Chapter completed!