Lu Xun led his army to retreat to Houqiu, and the first thing he did to enter the city was to massacre Roman slaves in the city.

Slaves are always slaves. If they keep their own composure, they will naturally treat each other sincerely. But now they dare to backfire their masters. Who can tolerate them?

As for which slave in Guangling City had a bad intention, whether he had taken the initiative to contact the Han army or was bewitched by the Han army, or had never contacted the Han army at all, but it happened to be a riot and was hit by the Han army. These are no longer important. What is important is that such a thing must not happen again in the future. The most thorough way is to get rid of all the Roman slaves in the city. I believe Hu Zhi will do this.

The only ones who rioted were Guangling's slaves. Slaves in other places did not do anything out of line. Are they wronged when they were treated like this? Of course, wronged, but so what?

The murder of Roman slaves did not cause any turmoil in Lu Xun's mind. After he asked briefly, he devoted his energy to the subsequent war. While strengthening the city defense, he sent scouts to inquire about the news about the Han army.

At dusk that day, Houqiu welcomed a guest, the deputy admiral of the Navy and Gan Ning's cousin Gan Meng. Lu Xun hurried out of the city to greet him when he learned about it.

The two met outside the city. After the salute, Lu Xun said excitedly: "Deputy Admiral Gan is finally here. I thought Uncle Xingba was going to break his promise."

Gan Meng smiled bitterly and said, "Boyan's nephew doesn't know anything. In recent days, Taishi Ci is like crazy, clamoring for artillery outside the port all day long. The war has been delayed for a while. I hope my nephew will not mind."

When will I become your nephew? I really don’t know how long the donkey is. Lu Xun rolled his eyes and said, “I wonder how many soldiers and horses Deputy Admiral Gan brought?”

Gan Meng smiled and said, "Eight thousand, the admiral learned that Liu Feng led the navy to the north and immediately pulled out eight thousand elite troops from each ship and asked me to bring them here to obey your command."

Lu Xun was overjoyed and grabbed Gan Meng's hand and said excitedly: "Uncle Meng, you are so timely. It's a big deal to have Ma Chao in the market."

The elite navy is not a false reputation. These guys are carefully selected from coastal counties. The best food is the best and the best military salary is the highest, and the training intensity is naturally the highest. When they go into the water, they are real dragons and tigers, and they are the best. In addition, they become red, and they are good at fighting the wind and waves at sea, with firm will and brave fighting. The elite level is not as good as Gao Shun's camp. Such eight thousand elite soldiers are in hand, how can the Han army be?

Unexpectedly, Gan Ning was so generous that he directly assigned eight thousand people to him. For the sake of these eight thousand elite soldiers, he would be willing to call him Uncle Gan Meng, not to mention calling him uncle.

Gan Meng patted his chest and said, "How do you hit you? I haven't had any trouble with anyone in many years. This time I just happened to exercise my muscles and bones. At least I can't let Ma Chao, the Xiliang thief, underestimate us."

Lu Xun smiled and said, "Of course, I still have three thousand war horses in my hand, I will give you all. I will also give you some more to you. I don't believe that the eight thousand elite cavalry can't destroy Ma Chao's group of baby soldiers. Let's go and enter the city."

With the 8,000 reinforcements from Gan Meng, Lu Xun was greatly confident and began to think about how to fight back. It was not a solution to drag it on like this. Who knew how many people would be drawn from the rear? If he did it again and again, he would be in tears and move the people of Guangling to Jiangnan.

Lu Xun was busy until late at night before returning to the county government office. He got up again before dawn. He was busy until noon and was about to go for dinner. Chen Zhang took a blood-filled soldier to him and said, "Military, the scout is back."

Lu Xun looked happy and hurriedly looked at the seriously injured scout.

The scout replied without waiting for the inquiry: "Military captain, subordinates found out that Liu Feng ordered He Qi to lead 8,000 indigenous soldiers to establish a defense line in Lingxian and Quyang, and he personally led 20,000 main forces to run away. If nothing unexpected happens, he should be attacking Xia Pi. In addition, Ma Chao and Jiang Wei and 3,000 cavalry were rushing to the way, and the scouts of Beizhi accidentally bumped into each other. There were more than 30 people in the team, Beizhi, who fled back."

Lu Xun frowned and said, "Go down and bandage and rest first. Staff Chen will summon the generals to discuss matters."

"I'll go now."

Chen Zhang clasped his fists and bowed quickly, and Lu Xun hurried to the county government office.

Shortly after arriving at the county government, Chen Zhang Gan Meng, Yan Hua, commander of the first division of the new recruits, and Zhao Lu, commander of the second division, all arrived, saluted and sat down. Lu Xun said straight to the point: "The Han army moved, and did not dare to pay attention to us, but ran away. It is obvious that he wanted to pay attention to Xia Pi. Although Xia Pi is high and thick, the walls are only 30,000 new recruits are defending. Moreover, Fa Zheng is a man with many tricks. I am afraid there will be trouble there, so we must return to defend Xia Pi as soon as possible, but we must kill Ma Chao first before this. What are you thinking?"

All the generals learned the details of the matter from Chen Zhang, and were a little scared when facing Ma Chao, so they did not dare to speak easily. The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.

Seeing that even Gan Meng was silent, Lu Xun was speechless. The name of General Shenweitian was still very useful. At the moment, even Gan Meng, the most fierce clamoring, was silent. Who could still count on him?

Lu Xun had no choice but to continue speaking: "No matter how powerful Ma Chao is, there are only 3,000 people. We have a 30,000 army that is ten times more than the enemy. Each person drowned them with one mouthful of spit. What are you afraid of? Deputy Admiral Gan, what do you think?"

Gan Meng wanted to pat his chest to express his courage. When he thought of the legend about Ma Chao, he really couldn't raise his courage. He smiled and said, "You are the head coach. You can hit me whatever you say. Don't look for me if you use your brain."

Well, this guy is completely out of reach.

Lu Xun smiled bitterly and continued, "Ma Chao has only three thousand people. The purpose of going north is definitely not to attack the city and plunder the land, but to prevent us from supporting Xia Pi. Since this is the case, we will defeat Ma Chao and defeat He Qi's Quyang defense line to recover Guangling. The main force of the Han army went to Xiaxiang. Guangling was not difficult to recover in emptiness. Defeat Ma Chao and recover Guangling, cut off Liu Feng's retreat route. The siege of Xia Pi was relieved. All the generals obeyed the order..." "Report..." Lu Xun was about to order to take the initiative, and a loud shout directly interrupted his words. Everyone turned their heads and looked out of the hall. One soldier rushed into the hall, knelt on one knee and bowed to one knee and said, "Military seat, two cavalry appeared outside the city, one was the Han army led by Ma Chao, and the other was wearing the big banner of Cao and Ying. I don't know who it was, they were about to fight."

The big banner of the word "Ying"?

Could it be that Cao Anmin has arrived?

Lu Xun stood up suddenly and said, "Let's go and have a look."

Houqiu is just a small county, with a small city. After leaving the county government, he quickly rushed to the city wall. Lu Xun took the telescope and saw that two armies were confronting each other several miles away from the west of the city. One side was Ma Chao who had only seen a while ago. As for the other side, he was wearing the big banner of Cao and Ying, and his troops were as high as 10,000. The leader was thirty-six or seven years old, and he was seriously fat. He was wearing armor on his body. Look at the soldiers behind him, all of whom were short and stubborn. The war horses under his crotch seemed to be malnourished, with four hooves short. Although there were many people, they were not as good as the Han army led by Ma Chao on the opposite side.

Lu Xun had never seen Cao Anmin, but judging from the flags he was slapped and the army's appearance, he should be. After all, this honor is so easy to identify.

The two sides did not fight, but confronted each other across Lix. After a while, after confirming that neither side had long-range artillery, Ma Chao rushed out and stopped between the two armies and shouted.

The distance was too far to hear clearly, Lu Xun said anxiously: "Who can speak lip, translate it for everyone."
Chapter completed!