The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Sun Jian was also surprised by Liu Zheng's move.

Chapter 652 Deadlock

Although the battle is temporarily over.

But the affairs of Liu Zheng's people are not over yet.

The first is to clean the battlefield. After Fan Man and others left, the battlefield outside Linyi City was not cleaned.Fan Man simply took away some of the remains of the fallen soldiers on his side. A large number of remaining corpses, weapons and wreckage left over from attacking the city were still there.

Liu Zheng will naturally have to pick up the leftovers that can be used and continue to use them, and destroy those that cannot be used as soon as possible. For example, the bodies of those soldiers of the Funan Kingdom must be destroyed, otherwise they will be exposed here.The temperature here in Linyi County is hot, and it is easy to break out of diseases under the sun, and it may even be a new round of plague.

For the sake of safety, Liu Zheng still needs to organize people to clean up the battlefield and clean up the things left on the battlefield.

Of course, he didn't rush to clean up immediately, but only after confirming that Fan Man's people had really left here did he start to send people out of the city to clean up.

Although Fan Man said he had left the vicinity of Linyi City, he did not directly lead his troops back to Funan Kingdom.

Instead, he returned to some territories in Linyi County that he had conquered with Fan Yi before, and re-camped.

Fan Man lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Funan Kingdom to Linyi County this time, so it is naturally impossible to go back empty-handed like this.

Just happened to occupy some territory in Linyi County before, and these territories are also included in the sphere of influence of Funan Kingdom, and the territory from Funan Kingdom to Linyi County can be regarded as a new expansion of Funan Kingdom. dominion territory.

Fan Man did not retreat directly, but wanted to consolidate the territories he had just conquered.

After Liu Zheng learned the news.He didn't bother Fan Man immediately, because such a result was what Liu Zheng wanted.

After all, Liu Zheng's army hadn't arrived here at this time, and it wouldn't be any advantage to fight Fan Man now.

Only after Liu Zheng's army arrived in Linyi County would Liu Zheng and Fan Man officially declare war. It is also a good choice to keep the two sides peacefully coexisting these days.

At this time, Fan Man, who retreated back, did not know that he would soon accept revenge from Liu Zheng.

He occupied some land in Linyi County before, and set up camp there to recuperate.

Although he lost some soldiers and horses, after occupying the lands in Linyi County, he used the men and horses in these lands to recruit, but he was able to recruit some new soldiers and horses.

In Fan Man's camp, several of Fan Man's generals began to ask why Fan Man retreated from the battle in Linyi City.

"General, we obviously have the upper hand in terms of numbers, and we are about to break through Linyi City, why are we suddenly withdrawing our troops now?"

The people under Fan Man were very puzzled and wanted Fan Man to give them an explanation.

Normally, with Fan Man's character, there was no need to explain anything to them in this situation.But now that he has suffered a new defeat and has reached this point, if Fan Man doesn't give an explanation to these people under him, a reasonable explanation may not be able to convince the public.

So after Fan Man pondered for a while, she still opened her mouth to explain to these people under her command.

"Generals, it's not that I'm afraid of the people of the Han Dynasty. It's just that after the death of Fan Yi, it will not be easy for us to take down this city. Are you willing to lose tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to take down this mere city?"

"Is it appropriate to lose tens of thousands of soldiers and horses just to take down this city?"

"Instead of this, I might as well temporarily withdraw our troops to observe the situation. If the people in Linyi City flee back to the Han Dynasty's interior immediately, we will pursue them in depth. But if he stays behind closed doors, it means that they have enough strength to hold the city. , I will rest temporarily to rest and recuperate, and when we recruit enough big men, then use these big men to attack the city for us, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Naturally, Fan Man didn't want to withdraw his troops. He just wanted to use the tactic of delaying his troops to recruit enough Han people in various cities, and then use the Han people to form some slave soldiers and use these slave soldiers to attack the city for them.

At the same time, he also wants to take advantage of the current period of time to pay close attention to Lin Yicheng's dynamics.

As he said to temporarily withdraw the troops, if the garrison soldiers in Linyi City escape from Linyi City and return to the Central Plains, then Fan Yi will know that he has been caught in the opponent's trick before, and he will raise his troops to pursue them again and attack more together. The territory of Linyi County.

And if the Han people in Linyi City did not act rashly and continued to garrison in the city, then Fan Man knew that the other party was confident and had enough strength to guard Linyi City.

After a few days, Fan Man dispatched spies near Linyi City to keep a close eye on Linyi City, but did not see any movement of soldiers and horses in Linyi City.

Fan Man felt a little surprised when he didn't see anyone in Linyi City escaping from here. He believed that the people inside were really capable of blocking his attack, so he felt relieved and continued to catch those big men. Han Zimin, continue with your own plan.

The Han people in Linyi City did not move, and Fan Man did not act rashly, so he could only stand still.

The two sides were deadlocked in the north and south of Linyi County.

And half a month later, the 3000 army led by Liu Zheng's Zhou Cang finally arrived near Linyi County, and had dispatched a vanguard of [-] people to gallop to Linyi City, telling Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng had been waiting here impatiently. Now that Zhou Cang sent the advance troops and reported that Zhou Cang's army was only one day away from here, Liu Zheng's mind immediately became active.

"Okay, that's great, the bastard Zhou Cang is finally here, I'm getting impatient with waiting!"

Realizing that Liu Zheng was finally going to fight Fan Man again, he immediately began to gather Sun Jian's troops to prepare.

He asked Sun Jian and others to meet and talk. After receiving the news, Sun Jian didn't dare to stop, and immediately brought his own people to meet Liu Zheng.

As soon as he saw Sun Jian coming, Liu Zheng asked immediately.

"Wentai, you are here. Recently, you have been asked to pay close attention to the dynamics of those Funan people. How are you doing now?"

Seeing Liu Zheng's expression, Sun Jian knew that the troops Liu Zheng had dispatched had arrived, so he didn't hesitate to be negligent, and casually told Liu Zheng about the news about the troops of the Funan Kingdom.

"My lord, the army of Funan Kingdom, in a small county not far from us, the [-] army is divided into three waves and stationed in three different places, but they have been arresting my big fellow's people for the past few days. Now those troops of Funan Kingdom are no longer [-] troops, but [-] soldiers!"

Chapter 653 Dasu City

"2 soldiers and horses, how is it possible that there are [-] more horses in just a short period of ten days?"

Liu Zheng was immediately surprised when he heard Sun Jian's words, showing disbelief on his face.

"It is indeed 2 soldiers and horses, but [-] of the [-] soldiers and horses are the big men they captured near Linyi County these days, forming a slave county. Although it is an army, it is a bit reluctant. Yes, but they are used as stormtroopers."

Liu Zheng wasn't too worried at first, but now he heard what Sun Jian said.Instead, there was some worry.

If it is to defeat the remnants of Funan Kingdom.To lose these 2 big men and people is still an unsatisfactory thing after all.

Those barbarians in Funan Kingdom deserved to die, but if these big men died, some of them would make Liu Zheng heartbroken.

Although these people used to be citizens of Lin Yiguo, they are now the citizens of the big man. Since they are the people of the big man, then Liu Zheng has the obligation and responsibility to protect their safety!

"This caught people by surprise. They captured 2 of us as a shield. They are cunning. But in this way, we should catch all these barbarians and kill them all!"

On Liu Zheng's originally peaceful face, there was a hint of sternness.

For these people from Funan Kingdom, Liu Zheng obviously didn't have any liking for them.

"My lord, the people of Funan Kingdom are nothing to worry about. As soon as your lord's troops arrive, we can eliminate them. But now that they occupy these big men, it's really easy for us to be afraid of them."

"It doesn't matter, there is always a way to deal with them, Wentai, first let your soldiers and horses pay close attention to the movements of these Funan people, and one day later, our army will immediately attack with all their strength and surround them! When our army arrives, in front of the same number of soldiers and horses, they will only perish."

Liu Zheng gave Sun Jian an order, and then he stopped asking. Of course, Liu Zheng didn't completely ignore these things.

After all, Sun Jian is still the prefect here, and Liu Zheng will handle most of the things directly, but Liu Zheng will still let the Jin Yiwei around him do some things.

This time he brought over hundreds of Jinyiwei. These Jinyiwei also have some secret posts in Linyi County, but these secret posts have not been established for a long time, and the actual effect is not great. Liu Zheng plans to come to Linyi County this time to increase Jinyiwei. The control of the county has increased the intelligence investigation and information control of the Anbu of Jinyiwei here.

Liu Zheng is to let Jinyiwei's news network spread throughout the whole big man, so that nothing in this world can escape his ears.

a day later.

Before Zhou Cang's army arrived, Liu Zheng and Sun Jian had already led more than [-] soldiers and horses out of the city, and went there after looking for Fan Man's army.

Dasu City.

This is a small county town, which is connected to the surrounding two counties, Danie and Pinghe. The three small towns are the most marginal places in Linyi County.

If it goes further south, it is the territory of some local aboriginal Zhan people. It is not that the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty are unwilling to continue to penetrate the south, but that those who continue to the south, the land is jungle and there is no arable land, which is not a suitable place to build a town.

There is only one village built by a Zhan tribe. There are as many as one or two thousand people in these villages, and as few as dozens of people. There is no need for the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty to expend their own army to conquer some newly civilized barbarians. Doesn't work at all.

Originally, Liu Zheng was not interested in the places occupied by these Cham people in the south, because Liu Zheng hadn't finished the battle in the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty, so he didn't have the heart to come to this marginal town to fight any foreigners.

But because of Fan Yi's rebellion, Liu Zheng had no choice but to leave the Central Plains battlefield and come to this borderland to deal with these rebellions.

In Dasu City, only Fan Man's [-] soldiers were stationed, and the other [-] soldiers were in other cities.

And in this city, apart from the [-] troops brought by Fan Man from Funan, there are also some big men captured by Fan Man and others from various places. They are all young and middle-aged. Killed, as for women, there is naturally only one result.

This kind of cruel and inhumane behavior has naturally been seen by Fan Yi a few years ago. These people are barbarians, so naturally they don't talk about civilization with the Han people.

Slaughter, the law of the jungle is the most basic rule in this dark forest.

When Liu Zheng and Sun Jian's [-] troops appeared here, Fan Man was even a little surprised and didn't react. He didn't expect that Liu Zheng and others would dare to take the initiative to attack.

When Fan Man's subordinates told Fan Man the news of Liu Zheng and others' attack, even though Fan Man dismissed it, he did not dare to neglect, and immediately led them to the tower.

When he looked at the darkness under the city, the number of soldiers and horses exceeded 2.Fan Man couldn't help but feel surprised.

He had learned from Fan Yi before that there were more than 2 Han soldiers stationed near Linyi County.Now [-] people suddenly appeared, similar to his soldiers and horses in Dasu City, which made Fan Man feel a little tricky.

However, it was tricky, but Fan Man was not afraid at all. After realizing that this was the result of all the big men coming out, Fan Man became even more excited.

He even thought that this might be a good moment for him to wipe out these big men in one fell swoop.

"Quickly send an order to the other two cities to let the troops over there quickly outflank the retreat of these big men and cut off the retreat of these people. We will wipe them out here in one fell swoop!"

Thinking that he could use troops far superior to the enemy's to completely siege and wipe them out of Dasu City, Fan Man became more excited, and even wanted to go out of the city to fight Liu Zheng and the others to delay them first, so as to prevent them from escaping. .

However, impulsiveness was impulsive, and Fan Man still didn't go out of the city directly. After all, Liu Zheng's army of 2 horses outside the city was not a vegetarian. After seeing the power of these big men, Fan Man still had a little understanding of his own strength.

If he left the city rashly, with the same force, he still wouldn't be able to take advantage of it.

"Fan Man, don't be a coward, I know you're going to die on the tower!"

Fan Man did not act rashly and took the initiative to attack, but Liu Zheng was different. Seeing the movement of heads on the tower, he knew that Fan Man should have gotten the news that they had appeared on the tower, so he stood up and shouted at the tower.

Fan Man also has a fiery temper, so naturally he couldn't stand the stimulation of Liu Zheng's words.Immediately poked his head out and responded to Liu Zheng.

Chapter 654 Is Your Death Coming?

"Liu Zheng, the last time I let you go in Linyi City, I didn't expect you to dare to come because you didn't know what to do. Did you come to die this time?"

Liu Zheng's mockery of Fan Man obviously made Fan Man very angry. Although Fan Man was angered by Liu Zheng, Fan Man did not fall into Liu Zheng's trick and went out of the city to fight Liu Zheng. Instead, he stood on the tower and fought with Liu Zheng. Zheng continued to argue a few words verbally.

"Death? Hahaha, Fan Man, you think too highly of yourself. You foolish people from a small country in the south dare to offend my big man Tianwei. A few days ago, I just asked you to dance for a few days to see what strength you have. I didn't expect that you bastards, tens of thousands of troops dare not even fight against my Linyi City, and now you have the face to say yes, let me go, and if you have the ability, go out of the city and fight to the death with me!"

"I also want to let you see whether it's me who is going to die, or you bastards who are going to die!"

With the power of words and the prestige of his mouth, Liu Zheng has never lost to others.

After facing Fan Man's ridicule, Liu Zheng naturally responded immediately, leaving Fan Man speechless.

Looking at Liu Zheng downstairs for a while, he didn't dare to continue talking nonsense with Liu Zheng.

"Hmph, you really have such a powerful mouth, I'll let you be proud for a while and wait for the soldiers and horses that I have deployed in the other two cities to come and cut off your retreat. I see why you will be so arrogant then!"

Fan Man, who didn't take advantage of her mouth, could only comfort herself like this.

Although he didn't continue to scold Liu Zheng, Fan Man ordered his men to shoot arrows from the tower to attack Liu Zheng's army outside the city in order to make Liu Zheng unaware of his plan.

Liu Zheng's army deliberately kept a safe distance when attacking the city gate.

People from Funan like Fan Man are not very good at making weapons, although they have some bows and arrows.And the handmade bows and arrows are not bad, but after all, they are just some wooden bows and arrows, not iron.

The shooting distance of wooden bows and arrows is limited, and the lethality is not strong. Relying on the advantage of geographical location from the tower to shoot arrows down the city, it cannot cause substantial damage to the troops like Liu Zheng.

Some of those arrows could not be shot into the battle formation of Liu Zheng's army at all. Even if some of them were shot farther and could barely reach the team of Liu Zheng's army, they had lost their lethality and could not cause fatal damage to the army. Injured, even easily blocked.

Not to mention that it caused harm to Liu Zheng's army.It's even difficult to stand next to Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, which became Liu Zheng's excuse to mock Fan Man again.

"Hahaha Fan Man is only at this level, if he comes out to shame you, let my people perform for you, what is real archery!"

Liu Zheng turned his head and glanced behind him.There are not a few generals with superb archery skills around him, but it is a pity that those who are good at archery are not around today.

However, this did not bother Liu Zheng. Zhou Tai, who was born as a water thief, also practiced good archery skills.With Zhou Tai's action, it is enough to deter these young people.

"Come to Zhou Tai, show Fan Man and these trash what real archery is!"

Liu Zheng glanced at Zhou Tai, and immediately asked Zhou Tai to come out and perform.

At this time, Zhou Tai led five thousand sailors and stood behind Liu Zheng. He didn't intend to come out to make a fool of himself, but since Liu Zheng said it, Zhou Tai couldn't refuse, so he came out in response.

"Okay, the last general takes orders."

Zhou Tai took a few steps forward, took the bow and arrow from his subordinates, and took a closer look at the tower of Dasu City. There were many figures on the tower, but Fan Man's figure was quite conspicuous. After all, he was from Funan Kingdom. Among the army, there are only a few people in armor.

Zhou Tai set his bow and arrow, and soon began to aim.

Fan Man on the top of the city tower glanced at Liu Zheng and the others below the city, but he didn't take it seriously, because he found that his side occupied a geographical location, and he couldn't shoot Liu Zheng's army with arrows.

Naturally, Fan Man would not think that people like Liu Zheng could shoot arrows up the tower outside the city.

So he was relieved that there were even some people who looked down on Liu Zheng.

Zhou Tai had a lot of self-confidence, he held the arrow in his hand, narrowed his eyes slightly, and then the arrow moved with the wind.

Whoosh.

The arrow disappeared into Zhou Tai's hands.