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The county is located in the hinterland of Jingzhou. It has no defensive function. The city wall is simple, only two meters high, with a circumference of less than twenty miles, and there is no moat. The city is narrow and cannot accommodate large defensive weapons.

However, in order to be careful, Cao Ren specially arranged a thousand people to patrol the city to strictly prevent Jiangxia's military probe from climbing over the wall and entering the city. However, the road is one foot high, and the devil is one foot high. Although Jiangxia's military probe could not climb over the wall from above, he dug a hole from the bottom of the city.

“Where”

Liu Zheng pointed to the northwest corner of the city and whispered to Deng Ai: "We found a thief hole under the base of the wall. Although it has been backfilled, it can be used as long as it is slightly unblocked."

Speaking of this, Liu Zheng smiled and asked, "Do you know what the hole is stolen?"

Deng Ai scratched his head and said, "It's related to thieves."

"That's right, it's just that when you steal something at night, you'll leave the city, there are almost every city, and only experienced people can find it."

At this time, when Liu Zheng saw the patrol at the top of the city, he waved his hand and said, "Come with me."

He jumped into the darkness, Deng Ai followed him closely, and the two rushed to the base of the city wall. Soon, they rushed to the side of the city wall, and Liu Zheng jumped down a tunnel and crawled deep into the ground.

Deng Ai was tall and it was very difficult to get up. He finally climbed to a spacious place. He sat on a large piece of wood and was so tired that he was breathing.

At this time, Liu Zheng had already lit half a candle. Deng Ai couldn't help but look around. He saw that the dome was about one meter in size and five feet high. The dome was round and arched, and the surrounding walls were covered with blue bricks. Deng Ai couldn't help but wonder, where are these?

At this time, he turned around and was startled. He leaned against a coffin. Liu Zheng grinned, "This is a tomb, and it is also a tomb of nobles. Look at this coffin, it is actually a good nanmu, how strong."

He patted the coffin, and made a bang, and Liu Zheng sighed with regret: "It's probably been burial for a year, but unfortunately it has been stolen. All the valuable burials have been washed away, leaving only some broken cans."

At this time, two people crawled out of the hole in front, holding a shovel in their hands, both of whom were short and fat, like two moles. They saluted Liu Zheng at the same time, "Qi reported to him, and he had already dug it up, and there was a dilapidated vegetable garden."

Liu Zheng was overjoyed, "So quickly, didn't it mean that it would take one update?"

One of them smiled and said, "The main reason is that there is a ready-made tomb here, which saves a lot of effort."

Liu Zheng nodded, introduced Deng Ai to them, and then introduced him to Deng Ai: "These two are new brothers who joined us after the Battle of Chibi, one is Yan and the other is Yan Si. It turns out that they are famous Jinshi Captains in Cao's army, and they are unparalleled in the world in digging holes and digging through the city."

The two of them quickly saluted, "See General Deng"

Deng Ai smiled and said, "Can the two talents take me up and have a look?"

"General Deng asked"

Several people slowly crawled into the city from the excavated tunnel. The city was indeed a dilapidated vegetable garden. Judging from the soil overturned, it should not have been abandoned. However, the owner fled and built two thatched huts close to the city wall. The exit was in the thatched hut.

Several people were resting in the hut for a while, but Liu Zheng went out. About a quarter of an hour later, Liu Zheng actually brought someone and smiled at Deng Ai and introduced: "This is the chief clerk of the county, and our Jingzhou official is willing to help us."

He said to Xin Zhi again: "This is General Deng Xiaojun, Xinyeren, a student of Jiangxia Academy, who joins the army."

Xin Zhi was stunned, and looked at Deng Ai carefully in the faint moonlight, and asked, "Sinye Deng Zhi, who is Deng Wu you?"

Deng Ai hurriedly said: "Deng Zhi is my brother. As for Deng Long, he is his father. I really don't dare to call him his name."

"I'm rude"

Xin Zhi laughed, "Then we are not outsiders anymore, Deng Zhi is my wife's brother."

Deng Ai was overjoyed and saw Li again. Then Xin Zhi said to everyone: "Cao's army is stationed in the area of ​​Beicheng, with very strict defenses. People in this city are not allowed to enter their residence. According to their wishes, they will set off at the fifth day of the day."

Deng Ai pondered for a moment and asked Liu Zheng: "I don't know what their command tonight's patrol is."

Liu Zheng shook his head, "We only know the orders of patrols in the outer city, but we don't know the orders of the inner city, but we can catch someone and ask."

Xin Zhi smiled and said, "I know that the command is to return to the north. Cao Jun patrol told me specifically, otherwise I would be injured by accident."

Deng Ai laughed, "There is a way if this happens."

He whispered a few words to Liu Zheng, and Liu Zheng was shocked and happy, "How did General Deng know that I like to do this kind of thing?"

Deng Ai touched his nose, "Because I like it too."

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At the first update, a team of Cao army patrols composed of ten people were patrolling neatly on the open streets. At this time, a group of soldiers came towards him, and the patrol team shouted: "Command"

"Returning to the North"

The command was correct, and both sides were chatting for a while. The topic was nothing more than that there was no woman in the city who looked pleasing to the eye. The two laughed a few times, and the two teams of soldiers went to patrol each other.

Soon, a ten-person patrol team entered a small alley. A hole was dug at the end of the alley, and bags of turmeric oil were handed in from outside the hole. Each of the patrol team took the turmeric oil bag and left separately. After a moment, they came back and then sprayed turmeric oil separately.

Seeing that the time was almost the same, Liu Zheng waved his hand and ordered everyone to evacuate quickly. He stayed alone in the Cao Jun camping area, as agile as a monkey, climbing over the wall and walking on flat ground, and constantly lit tinders of turmeric oil splashed in front and behind the house.

Soon, dozens of fire points ignited at the north area of ​​the city. The fire ignited rapidly with the wind. In a moment, the entire north area of ​​the city was shrouded in a thick smoke.

The sleeping Cao army was awakened by the fire and was so scared that they were scattered. They did not wear armor or shoes or socks, and they all ran barefoot to grab the door barefoot. The street was filled with the escaped Cao army soldiers, all of whom were terrified and shouted.

Cao Ren rode out on a horse and ran away. At this time, the general Niu Jin ran over and said, "General, there is also a fire on the south side, we can escape from the north gate."

At this time, the fire was swept away the sky, and the soldiers surrounded by the fire cried and shouted Liantian, which made Cao Ren panic. He ignored Chen Jiao and fled to the north gate. The soldiers rushed to escape and trampled on each other, and countless dead were dead.

Cao Ren rushed out of the county town in one breath, followed by thousands of soldiers, fleeing north in panic. After running less than a mile, suddenly drums sounded loudly in front of him, and fires rose everywhere. Jiangxia ambushed soldiers came from all sides. For a general, he pointed a spear and shouted to Cao Ren: "I am Zhao Long, Changshan, and the enemy generals are here to take their orders."

Cao Ren was so scared that he was scattered when he heard that the other party was Zhao Yun. He fell to the ground with a big knife in his hand. He turned his horse's head and fled west. At this time, Niu Jin came from behind and shouted, "Zhao Yun took me a knife."

He urged the horse to rush towards Zhao Yun, and then slashed with a knife. Zhao Yun sneered, turned around and stabbed it flat. The gun was as fast as lightning, and the tip of the gun instantly pierced Niu Jin's throat. Zhao Yun waved his spear and picked Niu Jin under the horse. He turned his head but saw that Cao Ren had already rushed for dozens of steps.

Zhao Yun was furious and urged the horse to chase him quickly. His original war horse was trapped in Cao's army. The war horse under his crotch was a thousand-mile horse selected by Liu Jing from thousands of war horses. The horse was fast and he caught up with Cao Ren in a moment.

"The thief will take his life"

Zhao Yun shouted loudly, like a thunderbolt blew in Cao Ren's ear. Cao Ren was so shocked that he was panicked. He pulled out the sword from his waist, turned around and slashed at Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun waved his gun and set off his sword, relaxed his left arm, grabbed Cao Ren, threw it into the ground, and ordered: "Tie it for me."

Several Jiangxia soldiers next to him rushed forward and tied Cao Ren firmly.

At this time, Zhao Yun saw Cao soldiers running desperately in the wilderness, and a large number of Cao soldiers escaped from the city and cried and begged. Everyone was extremely scared. Zhao Yun couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart, and ordered: "Surrenderers can avoid death, and the escaped soldiers should not chase after them."

Jiangxia soldiers surrounded them from all sides, and the Cao army had already lost all their fighting spirit and just survived. No one who escaped from the fire in the city had the will to resist and knelt down and surrendered.

A fire destroyed all the elite troops of the Cao army, and most of them surrendered. The chief Chen Jiao was also captured alive by Liu Zheng. The chief general Cao Ren was captured, the deputy general Niu Jin was killed, and Zhao Yunci went to the battle and achieved a brilliant record.

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Two days later, Liu Jing led a 10,000 troops to the county. The army set up a camp outside the county town. Liu Jing immediately inspected the prisoner-of-war camp accompanied by Zhao Yun.

"This time, the county was burned to form a county and captured a total of 7,924 people and killed more than a thousand people. The rest of the Cao army either died in the sea of ​​fire or broke through and fled. The biggest gain was the capture of Cao Ren."

Speaking of this, Zhao Yun showed a look of relief on his face. Although Cao Ren escaped for several miles, he still failed to escape his pursuit, which made him quite proud.

Liu Jing smiled, "Cao Ren has been fighting for many years and has become a spirit. It is not easy to catch him. However, the matter of catching Cao Ren must be concealed for the time being, and warns the soldiers not to spread it. It will be of great use to keep him in the future."

Zhao Yun clasped his fists and said: "Abide by the order"

Liu Jing praised again: "Eighty thousand prisoners of war were captured, but there were not enough casualties. This is a good fighter, without any great achievements. This battle was very exciting."

Zhao Yun shook his head, "This battle is actually the credit of the Eagle Strike Army. I am just the last gain and I dare not claim it."

Liu Jing laughed, "You are the chief general, and the Eagle Strike Army is just your subordinate. There is no such thing as the chief general who is ineffective, but the subordinates are outstanding in their achievements."

Zhao Yun was still a little hesitant because Liu Zheng was obviously not his subordinate, but his army, and he wanted to return the credit to Liu Zheng.

But Liu Jing didn't want him to be humble anymore. He needed to make Zhao Yun achieve meritorious service as soon as possible so that he could give me an excuse to reward. This is the rule he set. He would not be granted without merit, and he would not be rewarded without merit. Because of this rule, Zhao Yun is still in vain now.

Liu Jing said, "You don't need to say anything more, I know it in my heart."

Zhao Yunran no longer argued with Liu Jing. Since he had decided to follow Liu Jing, he needed to change his identity and mentality first. He could no longer regard himself as Liu Jing's brother, could no longer be special, and could not leave an impression of being arrogant in the hearts of Jiangxia soldiers.

Liu Hu did a good job in this regard. Although he was Liu Jing's cousin, he never put on a squad against his elder brother and got along with the soldiers.

Zhao Yun also believed that the reason why Liu Jing was able to get to where he is today was not accidental, but that he had extraordinary talents and no longer had to argue with him. It is natural that Liu Jing’s decision will be his reason.

At this time, Deng Ai brought Xin Zhi over and introduced to Liu Jing: "This is the county chief clerk, who has helped us a lot."

Xin Zhi knelt down and bowed to Liu Jing, "The county chief Xin Zhi paid a visit to the prefectural governor"

Liu Jing quickly helped him up and said with a smile: "Master Xin doesn't have to give a big gift anymore, please get up quickly."

Liu Jing asked again: "Are there any other officials in the county besides the chief clerk?"

"There is only one person with a low position."

Liu Jing nodded, "How many people are there in the county? There will be casualties when the county town is burned."

"Reporting to the provincial governor, there are still more families in the county who are farming outside the city during the day and returning to the city at night. In the fire the day before yesterday, everyone hid in the east of the city and was not affected by the fire. Only two old people died due to fright, and there were no more casualties and injuries."

“Good, that’s a good result.”

Liu Jing highly praised the official in front of him for being able to not abandon his own people and share weal and woe. Such an official deserves praise.

"From now on, you will be the county magistrate. The escaped people will return home soon. Thank you for your hard work."

Xin Zhi was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed and said, "Xiezhou Governor's Reward"

At this time, Deng Ai next to him said again: "Last time, the governor of the state asked about my brother Deng Zhi, who is the wife of the magistrate Xin."

Liu Jing was stunned and asked Xin Zhi: "I don't know if County Magistrate Xin still had contact with Deng Zhi."

Xin Zhi knew that Liu Jing wanted to win over Deng Zhi, so he bowed quickly and said, "We often have letters. Not long ago, he wrote to me about the situation in Jingzhou. If the provincial governor wants Deng Zhi to join Jingzhou, I would like to write to persuade him, or I will go to Badong County in person."

Deng Zhi is of course a talented person, but at this time Deng Zhi was the confidant of Badong Shou Pang Xi, and his meaning is extraordinary.

Liu Jing pondered for a moment, then whispered a few words to Xin Zhi, and finally said with a smile: "If you can accomplish this, I will remember your great achievements and promote you to the magistrate of Nanjun County."
Chapter completed!