Chapter 734: Defrauding Lou County

Xia Houshang shouted angrily, while Zhu Zhi frowned.

"How can a certain veteran recognize Cao Jun's puppy?" Zhu Zhi snorted coldly.

"Hmph, I'll let you know how powerful I am right now!"

Xia Houshang was angry in his heart, but he snorted coldly. Without saying a word, he rushed forward with the long knife in his hand. According to the sword skills taught to him by Xia Houyuan, he suddenly stepped forward and jumped out. The long knife in his hand picked out a cold light and slashed straight. Xiang Zhuzhi.

Zhu Zhi was surprised. He originally saw Xiahou Shang being so young, so he felt contempt in his heart. He originally thought that Xiahou Shang had no ability, but he did not expect that he would be so menacing.

Xia Houshang's sword attack made Zhu Zhi feel irresistible.

"Captain, be careful!"

A loyal soldier nearby had no time to think and rushed forward to block the sword.

Poof! The Jiangdong soldier was split into two halves with one knife, splattering Zhu Zhi's blood.

“Old thief Zhu Zhi shall die!”

Xiahou Shang roared angrily and slashed out with his sword again, while the Cao army behind him also surged up and charged into Zhu Zhi's army.

"kill!"

"ah!"

Cao Jun's momentum was fierce, but Jiangdong's army was originally small in number, and its momentum was also at a disadvantage, so it was naturally unable to resist Cao Jun. The weak formation was broken through by Cao Jun in an instant, and Jiangdong Army was immediately cut into several pieces by Cao Jun, fighting each other.

Xia Houshang roared angrily and slashed out the long sword in his hand one after another, killing Zhu Zhi until he could only parry but not fight back.

Zhu Zhi blocked Xiahou Shang's move, and his forehead was covered with a thin layer of cold sweat. If it weren't for his years of battle experience, he might have died by Xiahou Shang's sword at this moment.

"kill!"

Xia Houshang slashed thirteen times in a row, and the last one directly broke through Zhu Zhi's sword. The bright blade continued to expand in Zhu Zhi's eyes, and Zhu Zhi opened his eyes in disbelief.

Seeing that Zhu Zhi was about to be beheaded, Xia Houshang suddenly thought: "This man is a veteran of the Jiangdong Army. If we can capture this man alive, wouldn't it be a greater achievement?"

As soon as the sword was about to turn, Xia Houshang struck Zhu Zhi on the neck with the back of the sword. Zhu Zhi felt his eyes go dark and fainted.

Xia Houshang's eyes lit up, he rushed forward to grab Zhu Zhi, chopped down the general's flag, and shouted loudly.

"The enemy general Zhu Zhi has been captured alive. Why didn't you surrender earlier?"

The sound spread far away, and the morale of the surrounding Jiangdong Army was greatly weakened. They couldn't believe it.

"Captain Zhu was caught?"

"The flag was cut down?"

"It's over. Let's go?"

The morale of Jiangdong's army was weakened, while the morale of Cao's army was greatly boosted and they were besieged on all sides.

"Catch the enemy troops and don't let any of them escape!"

Countless Cao troops surrounded them. Xia Houyuan brought a total of 15,000 soldiers and horses from Xiapi this time, while Zhu Zhi's river patrol camp only had 2,000 soldiers in total. Cao Jun was besieging the Jiangdong Army on all sides. Surrounded.

When Jiangdong soldiers were attacked by Cao Jun, half of them were killed. The rest were surrounded and killed many more. Now there are only four to five hundred people left on the high ground. Half of them didn't even have time to put on their clothes and armor. Almost everyone was covered with injuries and was surrounded by Cao's army from all sides.

"Uncle!" Xia Houshang rushed forward excitedly, behind him were several Cao soldiers holding the tied up Zhu Zhi.

Xia Houshang happily claimed the credit and said: "Uncle, I captured the enemy general Zhu Zhi."

"Well, you are worthy of being a member of the Xiahou clan." Xiahou Yuan stroked his beard with satisfaction and praised, then looked at Jiangdong soldiers who were still resisting in Qiulingshan.

Xia Houshang then asked: "Uncle gives an order, and I will kill all these Jiangdong soldiers immediately!"

Xia Houyuan shook his head: "Bring Zhu Zhi up."

He stepped out of the way, and several Cao soldiers escorted Zhu Zhi and followed Xia Houyuan. The group walked forward together. When the surrounding Cao soldiers saw Xia Houyuan approaching, they all moved out of the way.

Xia Houyuan stepped forward, with Zhu Zhi standing next to him with an angry look on his face. When the besieged Jiangdong soldiers saw this, they all showed signs of despair.

"It's over. Lieutenant Zhu was arrested."

"What should we do?"

".I don't know, ugh."

The trapped Jiangdong Army saw Zhu Zhi being arrested, and its morale suddenly dropped.

Xia Houyuan said loudly: "Jiangdong soldiers, listen up. This general is Xia Houyuan, the former general of the imperial court. He led an army of 30,000 people (he deliberately falsely reported the number of people to scare them) to attack Jiangdong. The small Jiangdong was leveled with one blow. You are the best. Surrender quickly or it will be too late."

"What? Xia Houyuan? He is Cao Cao's number one general."

"I heard that Cao Cao led an army of 50,000 to confront the Governor of Zhou in Lujiang. Now that we have no troops in the east of the river, how can we stop an army of 30,000?"

"How about surrendering?"

There was a lot of discussion among the Jiangdong army, and finally a military commander stood up and said loudly: "General Xiahou, if we surrender, can we spare our lives, and let my Captain Zhu go?"

Xia Houyuan replied loudly: "Don't worry, I, Xia Houyuan, keep my word!"

"Okay, in that case, I'll surrender."

After that, hundreds of Jiangdong soldiers dropped their weapons in despair and sat on the ground.

"Bo Ren, take good care of these Jiangdong soldiers and clean up the battlefield." Xia Houyuan turned to Xia Houshang and ordered.

"No, uncle."

Xia Houshang raised his head and asked, "What will uncle do?"

Xia Houyuan smiled slightly and did not answer. Instead, he turned around and said, "Take Zhu Zhi and let's go!"

Lou County.

It was late at night, and because of the curfew, the gates of Lou County were closed. Except for the occasional footsteps of patrol soldiers, it was very quiet.

"Why hasn't the replacement guy come yet? I'm so sleepy."

A patrolman on the top of the city frowned and yawned.

Because there were two thousand river patrol battalions led by Zhu Zhi stationed in the east, Lou County's city defense was not cautious.

At this moment, torches suddenly lit up in the distance, and hundreds of people were seen rushing toward the Lou County wall, seemingly in a hurry.

The patrolmen were surprised. As the torch gradually approached, they saw so many people running over and hurriedly stepped forward.

"Who are you?"

The soldiers below the city shouted back: "Open the city gate quickly! We are from the river patrol camp. Cao Jun attacked the river patrol camp at night, and Captain Zhu Du was injured."

"Wait a minute, I can't make the decision on this matter, I have to ask the prince for instructions!"

Hearing this, the patrolman naturally did not dare to be careless and hurriedly ran all the way to the bottom of the city tower to wake up the gatekeeper.

"Damn it, you don't let anyone sleep at night, are you looking for death?" Menhou sat up sleepily and cursed.

"Monarch, it seems that there are brothers from the river patrol camp outside the city. They say that Cao Jun is attacking and Captain Zhu seems to be injured."

"What?" Menhou suddenly became energetic.