In a blink of an eye, the three-day period had arrived. The Jingzhou army, led by Liu Qi, Cai Mao, Kuai brothers, etc., went to the south gate of Xiangyang City to be surrendered to Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng at the agreed time.

Xiangyang City is an important town in Nanjun, with a developed economy, surrounded by water on three sides and backing on one side. It is an important economic pass between north and south, and it is also the largest military ferry north of Jingzhou.

In just three days after opening the city, the flow of people from the four gates of Xiangyang City was like a tide, and the prosperous opening scene was soon restored from the war. The reason was that Xiangyang's geographical location was superior, and the second was because of the special nature of this era.

During the Zhongping period, the economy was recession and wars were frequent. Because the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the north lingered in many counties, prices north of the Han River soared. However, due to the relatively stable situation in the south, prices in the north and south were huge, which prompted many Central Plains merchants to start to make the difference in southern materials.

Even the taxation in counties and counties in various parts of the Han Dynasty was extremely high.

Even if the bandits come from south to north, they are everywhere.

But at the moment of huge profits, many businessmen are still going into the market and bravely join the hard road to getting rich.

But unfortunately, their current efforts will eventually be useless.

Because in the near future, Dong Zhuo will start to produce small coins in large quantities, and these small coins will flow into the market at an extremely fast speed through channels such as official salt and iron, resulting in serious currency depreciation and will cut all the wealth gathered by merchants who have taken the risk of getting rich in the past two or three years.

In history, this terrifying economic crisis lasted for decades. Even after the founding of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, the private economy still declined, and it was once popular to barter.

But now, the commercial circulation in Xiangyang City is still very smooth.

The city walls of Xiangyang City appear on the horizon. From a distance, the migrant population outside the South Gate has not decreased due to the surrender today. On the contrary, the stranded people are a few percent more than usual.

If others know that something is happening today, they may disperse the people. One is afraid that too many people will affect the plan, and the other is that they may hurt the innocent.

But in the minds of the two bandits Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, there is no concept of "injuring innocent people".

On the contrary, there are more people watching in Xiangyang City. If the chaos is later, it will help them succeed!

For these two people, even if the people in the entire Nanjun are dead, they will never feel guilty.

This is thief.

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The third battalion of the Jingzhou Army stopped at a distance of 100 arrows from Xiangyang City. The third battalion was divided into three formations to display, facing Xiangyang from afar.

In the opposite formation, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, one holding a white silk and the other holding the green seal and silver ribbon of the Xiangyang Order, walked towards the Jingzhou army step by step.

This is the standard process for surrendering. Holding the blue seal and silver ribbon means to return to the army and hand over the government to the city, and white silk or ropes and thorns means to be willing to be punished by the other party, even if it is to hand over his life.

Around the moat, the people watching the fun saw this scene and whispered to each other, commenting on the surrender. Some even gritted their teeth and glared at the two of them.

After all, during the period when these two people were in Xiangyang, they were in trouble. The bandits under their command raped and plundered, robbed money and grain, and did everything they could do, and treated the people of Xiangyang like cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

Many people hope that the generals of the Jingzhou Army could use the white silk to strangle Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng to calm the public's anger.

Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng stopped when they walked to the two armies fifty arrows apart.

Seeing that the two stopped their pace, Cai Maofang said to Liu Qi: "Young Master, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng have arrived, and you can go and receive surrender."

Liu Qi did not move.

He smiled at Cai Mao and said, "It's better for General Cai to go to take surrender on behalf of Jun Yan."

"I?"

Cai Mao didn't expect Liu Qi to give up the show of his face to himself, and hesitated: "Cai went to surrender, but Yu Li seemed to be incompatible."

"Otherwise." Liu Qi said: "In the last time that Jun Yan sent, Yan Ming had submitted a memorial to the court to express the general as the commander of the Nanjun County, and the Xiangyang defense of Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, who was directly under the command of the general, and the general went to receive surrender. It was legitimate."

The county magistrate's salary is 2,000 shi, and is slightly equal to the prefect's status. He is in charge of military affairs in the county. The imperial edicts of the court generally cannot reach the county magistrate directly, and must be transferred from the county magistrate. Therefore, the two are called "dare to speak out" and "dare to report" to each other. Moreover, the Nanjun magistrate has his own set of subordinates, and the palace can set up chiefs, sacrificial officials, officials, historical officials, dependents, books, etc.

This position is like the county magistrate of a certain county, and is the ultimate goal of life that many children of prominent families in the world have always dreamed of.

Cai Mao felt very comfortable after hearing Liu Qi's praise. He was ruthless and a sense of arrogance wandered through his chest and reached Tianling through the hundreds of nerves.

He smiled and waved his hand and said, "How can you be so embarrassed? Please ask the young master to surrender on behalf of his father to be the right way."

"General Cai, don't be polite. I've prepared for the general." After Liu Qi said that, he winked at Liu Pan behind him.

Liu Pan turned around and shouted: "Hold the flag!"

A flag guard raised a soap flag that had been prepared long ago. The flag danced with the wind, and the black flag was embroidered with gold stitches on the five words "Nanjun Duwei Cai".

The power of raising the flag completely lifted Cai Mao away, and his vanity and arrogance reached the critical point in an instant.

"Hahaha, okay, since that's the case, Mao is so disrespectful!" Cai Mao bowed to Liu Qi, then greeted several personal guards, and followed him to ride a horse to Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng standing in the field.

At this time, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng were holding white silk and Xiangyang Order's seal and ribbon, bowing their heads and motionless.

But in their eyes, they secretly glanced at Cai Mao, there was a strong hatred and a surge of murderous intent.

Liu Qi looked at Cai Mao's departure back, sighed and muttered to himself: "The wind is slight and slight and Yi Shuihan... What is the next sentence?"

After a moment, Cai Mao rode a horse in front of Zhang and Chen.

Cai Mao looked down at the two men standing under the horse and said with satisfaction: "The two generals are those who know the current affairs. The achievements of your two men to offer the city today will be passed down in history in the future and will be passed down to future generations."

Zhang Hu raised his head and looked at Cai Mao with a proud look on his face. He couldn't say anything in his heart...

Cai Mao's smile becomes more annoying in his eyes, and the more he looks, the more annoying it becomes.

His teeth made a "crying" friction sound.

"General Cai, I have something to ask for inquiries, so I would like to ask the general to help us and the two of you."

"What's the matter?"

"Since we have sincerely surrendered, why do we still have to be surrendered here? Did we deliberately humiliate us?" Zhang Hu stepped forward and handed the white silk. While sending the white silk to his hands, his palms secretly touched his waist.

Cai Mao was proud of his spring breeze and could not hear the meaning of Zhang Hu's words.

"Hey, it's just a trivial matter, why bother with it? Since you let you go out of the city to surrender, that's the reason for surrendering. What do you do so much?"

At this moment, a sound suddenly came from behind.

"The general doesn't move at this time, but when will he stay?"

This sentence has different meanings when different people listen to it.

To Cai Mao's opinion, it was to let him be surrendered quickly, and to lead everyone into Xiangyang City, no big deal.

But to Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng, it doesn’t taste that way at all!

move?

It’s not certain who touches whom!

Just as Cai Mao was distracted, Zhang Hu suddenly pulled out a dagger from his waist and pointed it at Cai Mao on the horse and suddenly stabbed him fiercely.

The incident happened too urgently, and even the guards beside Cai Mao did not react in time.

Fortunately, one of them shouted: "Be careful, General!"

After hearing this voice, Cai Mao subconsciously pulled the reins and flashed behind him.

It was this subconscious action that saved his life. Zhang Hu's dagger did not stab Cai Mao, but accidentally stabbed him on the neck of the war horse.

Blood gushed out from the horse's neck. The war horse was in pain and whistled loudly. The two hooves in front suddenly lifted up and jumped around on the spot, overturning Cai Mao off the horse's back.

Cai Mao was caught off guard, his back faced down and fell heavily on the earthen road.

"General!"

"Protect General Cai!"

"How dare you?"

"Protect Mr. Cai quickly!"

The guards behind Cai Mao drew out wide-handed swords, rode forward, and wrapped Cai Mao on the ground, showing a strong guard against Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng to harm Cai Mao.

Seeing that Zhang Hu missed the attack, he stomped his feet hard, turned around and ran towards the city.

The bandit army also sent elite troops to help.

At the same time, two cavalrymen rushed out from Xiangyang City.

This is all the cavalry owned by Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng as vanguards.

These two thieves used all the equipment of Xiangyang Arsenal, covered with armor, and held a horse spear in their hands, which was extremely exquisite.

They lifted all the horses and spears high, and under the command of the two Simas, they rushed straight towards the Jingzhou army like a sharp arrow that broke through the air with awesome power.

Cai Mao was just now standing up in pain with the help of the guards.

He looked at Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng's escaped backs, and shouted in anger: "Jiangxia thief! How dare you plot against me? I and you will never stop... Ouch!"

Two thieves and cavalrymen rushed out of the city, and dozens of people were assigned to cover Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng in the field, while the rest rushed straight to the Jingzhou army with horse spears.

The thieves are about to start fighting with their own side!

Although Cai Mao cursed, he did not prepare in advance, so he did not dare to face the well-prepared thieves and fled to the formation under the protection of his own guards.

The people watching the fun outside the city were also frightened by the situation.

Naturally, the people did not want to be involved, and they all scattered and left in all screams. The city of Xiangyang was in chaos for a while.

In the Jingzhou Army's main formation, Kuai Liang and others' expressions suddenly changed.

"How is this happening?"

Kuai Liang's face turned pale and he said tremblingly: "How dare the two thieves Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng rebel?"

Liu Qi said helplessly: "The two were originally thieves and were fickle villains. What's so strange about rebellion? They said that these two thieves were not trustworthy, but General Cai just refused to listen..."

Kuai Liang sighed: "It's a pity that Degui did not listen to good words and forced surrender, which caused such a disaster."

Liu Qi looked at Kuai Yue again, but found that he didn't say anything, just looked forward with a little confusion, as if thinking about something.

Sure enough... my little Jiujiu still didn't hide it from Kuai Yue, a smart man.

Liu Qi said: "Duke Yidu, Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng rebelled. Please ask the Duke to quickly order the soldiers to line up against the enemy... Why are they stunned?"

Kuai Yue was puzzled at this moment, but he couldn't figure it out for a while. And the matter was urgent and we couldn't wait, so we didn't think about it anymore.

Kuai Yue immediately ordered his generals to let his troops and horses line up to meet the enemy.

The Jingzhou Army began to change its formation in a hurry.

Taking advantage of this moment, Liu Qi looked at Huang Zhong: "This battle cannot be delayed much. Can Hansheng eliminate Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng?"
Chapter completed!