Yuan Tan couldn't help but regain some confidence when he heard his words. In fact, although what Xin Ping said made sense, it was exaggerating. Qingzhou's reserves were abundant, and Qingzhou was indeed densely populated, with 200,000 households and 700,000 to 800,000 people. However, it would be too natural to say that a large army of 200,000 can be assembled in a short period of time. First of all, most of the young and middle-aged people in Qingzhou have been transferred to join the Yuan army to serve the Yuan army, and it would be good to gather a civilian army of 70,000 to 80,000 at most; secondly, the hasty people organized are at such a critical moment. Not to mention that they do not have the qualities of being soldiers at all, I'm afraid that this morale is a huge problem. Faced with the fierce Lu Bu army, it is probably quite valuable that they can escape without turning around immediately!

However, after hearing Xin Ping's analysis, Yuan Tan seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and nodded repeatedly: "What Mr. Sir is saying is very true!" Then he said: "This matter is left to Mr. Sir. In addition, sir, please send someone to Guandu to ask for help from your father." Xin Ping held his fist and hurried away.

Yuan Tan thought of Yuan Xi. At this critical moment, he no longer cared about jealousy of his second brother. He thought that if his troops could come to the city to defend, his confidence in defending Qingzhou would be a little more. As soon as he thought of this, he quickly asked Guo Tu: "Mr. Gongze, where is my second brother now?"

Guo Tu clasped his fists and said, "I just received a scout report. The second young master led more than 20,000 remaining troops back to Linji on the west bank of the Ji River."

Yuan Tan hurriedly said, "I'll send you a trip to Linji and ask my second brother to come and help defend Linji!"

Guo Tu agreed with his fists and hurried away.

A few days later, Ailang led a large army to the city. This time, Ailang's army was much stronger than the previous one. More than 100,000 troops formed a large formation under Qingzhou City. The shouts of shouting made Linzi City shake the ground. The Yuan army officers and soldiers on the city were quite good, and the civilian army that had temporarily gathered together were frightened to death when they saw the Lu Bu army's momentum. Before the war started, they were afraid that they would collapse.

Ailang asked the generals around him: "Who are you going to challenge?"

All the generals wanted to ask for a fight, but Huang Zhong took the lead: "Lord, the veteran is willing to go!" Ailang laughed and said, "Okay! Go!"

Huang Zhong rode his horse and rushed out of the military formation with a sword, went straight to the city gate, tied the war horses, and shouted loudly: "I am the general Huang Zhong, who dares to come out to die in the city?"

Yuan Jun only knew the reputation of Lu Bu, Dian Wei, Zang Ba, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, but he never heard of a person named Huang Zhong. Everyone was eager to try it out. General Liu Xun excitedly clasped his fists and said, "Grand Prince, I will present the head of the thief to the eldest prince!" Yuan Tan was overjoyed and said, "If you can kill this general, I will give you ten thousand taels of gold!" Liu Xun was overjoyed and thanked him immediately, and ran down the city wall with a big knife. Seeing that Liu Xun had picked up such a big advantage, he couldn't help but feel jealous and secretly blamed himself for not getting this opportunity?

The city gate opened wide, and Liu Xun rushed out of the city gate with his sword and knew that Huang Zhong had strangled the war horses more than ten steps in front of him. He shouted majestic: "I am Yuan Tan, the general under the command of the eldest son, and I will kill you with a dog head!"

Huang Zhong smiled coldly and didn't say anything. He waved his sword to the side, raised his left hand and hooked the other party. He learned this from Ailang, and he looked very despised by the other party.

Liu Xun was furious and scolded, "An old man who doesn't know how to die!" At the same time, he activated the war horse under his crotch and rushed towards Huang Zhong, holding up his sword high, and screaming strangely. Huang Zhong immediately did not move. At this time, the sound of war drums on the city gate tower rumbled, and Yuan soldiers made waves of shouts. The civilian soldiers who were originally panicked could not help but temporarily get rid of the panic in their hearts, and followed the Yuan soldiers shouting, and their blood surged in everyone's hearts.

Liu Xun rushed to Huang Zhong with a strange cry, and was about to slash at Huang Zhong with his hands. However, at this moment, Liu Xun saw in horror that the other party's big knife had already slashed to his neck! Liu Xun had no time to react, and only heard a click, Liu Xun turned back and fell off his horse, his head rolled aside from the distance, and the headless corpse was lying on the ground but raised his buttocks high!

Yuan Jun's shouts stopped abruptly, and the morale that had originally been raised fell to the bottom in an instant, especially those civilians. When they saw the war between generals for the first time, the generals on their side were killed by their opponents. The scene was so bloody and cruel! The military spirit of the civilians was shaken, and everyone was at a loss. The generals who had originally regretted that they did not get this opportunity could not help but feel for their gratitude, and were glad that they did not get the opportunity to fight at that time, otherwise it would not be Liu Xun who died tragically outside the city at this moment, but himself.

Huang Zhong continued to shout for a challenge, but no one on the Yuan army dared to fight this time. After the battle just now, everyone was shocked to find that this unknown veteran was definitely not a soft persimmon that could take advantage of it. On the contrary, his bravery and strongness were probably not inferior to Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun and others. If he went to fight him alone, it would be clear that he would be looking for death!

Huang Zhong shouted for a while, seeing that no one dared to fight again. He simply took out his old yellow bow, pulled out a wolf-toothed arrow, and aimed at the "Yuan" flag picked out from the city gate tower. When his fingers were loosened, everyone heard the sound of the bow string. Before he could react, the "Yuan" flag fell down and fell straight from the city gate tower to the ground outside the city. Yuan soldiers were shocked. Seeing Huang Zhong bent his bow and arrow again, the people on the city wall pointed at by his bow and arrow could not help but be frightened. He hurriedly lowered his body and hid behind the wall. Another trembling sound was heard, and a signal flag with a red-bottomed white tiger standing on the city wall broke and fell on the city wall. The officers and soldiers around him were in a state of turmoil.

Huang Zhong fired ten arrows in a row, and the arrows were shot down the ten flags of Yuan's army. The Yuan army officers and soldiers were frightened and no one dared to show their heads; while the Lu Bu army officers and soldiers were motivated and shouted loudly.

Huang Zhong rode his horse back to Ailang and smiled and said, "The enemy general refused to come out."

Zhao Yun couldn't help but praise: "General Huang's arrow book is amazing, it's really amazing!" Huang Zhong laughed, "Zilong has been awarded too much!"

Ailang said: "Yuan Jun must be scared now! Let's take advantage of the situation to attack his mother!" Then he ordered the siege.

The sound of trumpets rang out loud, and the five thousand Lu Bu infantry carried a simple cloud ladder and rushed towards the city wall like a tide to launch a fierce attack. Although there were only five thousand people, Linzi was shaking and dangerous, and the gap was almost torn open by Lu Bu's army several times. Whenever Ailang saw his officers and soldiers, he was about to succeed, but the gap was blocked by the other party regardless of casualties. He couldn't help but sigh loudly and screamed, "It's a pity."

Chen Gong said: "The morale of the enemy is low, and it can only be barely persisted by the strong and tall city walls. Our army suffered a loss because it lacked siege equipment. It would be better to suspend the attack and rush to build the siege equipment and attack again. At that time, it would be possible to go down in one go!" Ailang and his team led the army to the city walls, and they only had the few simple ladders that had just been rushed out, so Chen Gong said this.

Although Ai Lang was eager to capture Linzi, he also felt that what Chen Gong said was very reasonable. He did not want his officers and soldiers to die in vain. He immediately ordered the army to stop attacking, and then led the army back several miles and set up camp. The Yuan army officers and soldiers in the city and the numerous civilians couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that Lu Bu's army finally retreated.

After Lu Bu's army set up the camp, Ailang ordered the Yuan army officers and soldiers who surrendered Zang Ba to cut down trees and rush to make siege equipment. As for the elite troops under his command, they would accumulate their energy and prepare to capture Linzi in one fell swoop tomorrow morning.

Ailang held Huang Wudie's hand in the big tent and said, "Wudie, I'll tell you a riddle and see if you guessed it."

Huang Wudie became interested and said, "You tell me. But if you can't guess, you are not allowed to laugh at me."

Ailang nodded and smiled, "Don't laugh!" Huang Wudie said angrily, "I still say I don't laugh. What do you think of this?"

Ailang laughed and said, "Your husband, I am born to look so kind, so I can't blame me!" Huang Wudie burst out laughing and gave Ailang a look.

Ailang said: "I'm talking riddles now, listen well. On wedding night, call a place name."

Huang Wudie was stunned, frowned and thought hard, but after scorching her stomach for a long time, she still couldn't think of any place name related to the wedding night. Then she thought of a place name and asked, "Is it called Xinxiang?"

Ailang asked, "Why is Xinxiang?"

Huang Wudie said gently: "Because we formed a new family after we get married, isn't that Xinxiang?"

Ailang shook his head and said, "No, right! This is too forced! It's like you, married me, I am your "Xinxiang", but for me, it should be more suitable for a bride!"

Huang Wudie gave Ailang a charming and joyful look, then frowned and said, "No. What is that?" Ailang looked at Huang Wudie with a serious and distressed expression, and held back his smile.

Huang Wudie couldn't think of it and said angrily: "I can't think of it, my avatar has come. Tell me the answer quickly."

Ailang smiled and said, "This is too easy. On the wedding night, it's not a difference, like you, from a girl to a young woman?"

Huang Wudie shook her head blankly.

Ailang held back his smile and said, "Because the difference between young women and girls, the answer to this riddle is Kaifeng."

Huang Wudie was stunned and then understood. Suddenly, Xia Fei flew her cheeks and punched Ailang in anger, and said angrily: "I've been making trouble for a long time, but you want to tease me! How can you have such a place name? Brother, you are so hateful!!"

Just as the two were having a big fight, the sound of rapid footsteps and speaking suddenly came outside the tent. Huang Wudie realized that someone was coming, so she quickly left Ailang's arms, tidied up her clothes and stood aside. After a while, Ju Yi walked in and said, "I will pay homage to the lord!"
Chapter completed!