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Zhao Ming immediately asked: "What about Qiu Wu?"

Everyone was silent.

Zhao Ming immediately sent people to find Qiu Wu to inquire about Taobao's situation, and at the same time sent a vanguard army to Mengxian County.

Qiu Wu has led the remaining army to approach the county seat of Meng County.

That night Zhao Ming sent out many scouts, and because of his careful investigation, he discovered Shi Jun when he was still twenty miles away.

Qiu Wu immediately left the camp quietly with 8,000 people, and he didn't know what happened to the rest of the camp.

Halfway through, they hid in the dense forests on both sides to avoid the night attack of Shi's army. They continued to move forward. When they reached the ambush point pointed out, he left two thousand people behind and handed them over to Ping Zhong.

He led the remaining men to attack the Stone Army camp at night.

They sent out troops for a night attack tonight. There were fewer people in the army, and there seemed to be a misunderstanding. They approached the Stone Army all the way, but were mistaken for the Stone Army returning from the attack, and successfully approached the camp.

Qiu Wu killed indiscriminately, destroyed the opponent's camp and left. On the way, he happened to run into Taobao who was having a good fight.

Taobao seriously injured Xun Xiu, but did not severely damage Zhao Jun. Zhao Jun seemed to be prepared, and his losses were not small. Therefore, although Zhao Jun broke camp and retreated, he did not pursue him.

He felt that the opponent's general was injured and could not launch another attack on Meng County in a short period of time. He could just safely help Zhixiong repel Zhao Hanzhang.

As a result, he was ambushed halfway back.

Because they were unprepared and had just gone through a fierce battle, Taobao and his party were unable to escape for a while.

But Jiehu's ferocity is here. Even if he can't win for a while, Pingzhong will not get a favor. Everyone basically trades their lives for lives and it's a draw.

The situation reversed when Qiu Wu arrived. The two armies fought hard until morning. The Zhao army almost wiped out all the Shi army. When the loot was finally counted, Taobao was found among the corpses.

Qiu Wu was so happy that he cut off Taobao's head and went back to report it happily. As a result, they only saw an empty camp in a mess, and even scattered food and baggage.

The smiles on the faces of the soldiers fell. They looked at the camp with shocked and confused faces, and then turned to look at Qiu Wu.

Qiu Wu was also flustered, but his face was steady. He said calmly: "Taobao is dead, and the remaining Shi army has nothing to fear unless Zhi Xiong comes out of the city, so we don't have to worry about the army and pack up the baggage." , let’s go to the county seat.”

He said: "The governor is still waiting for us on the other side."

At the mention of the governor, everyone's spirits perked up, and their hearts gradually calmed down.

After a night of fierce fighting, Qiu Wu only had more than 5,000 men left, and more than 1,000 wounded soldiers. With these few men and the baggage used to attack the city, it was impossible to storm the county seat of Meng County.

I remembered what the envoy said: When the enemy is strong and we are weak, we can move and fight in a roundabout way, that is, hit and run. The purpose is to protect ourselves and wear down the opponent.

Qiu Wu lowered his eyes and thought. There was Commander Zhao in the army. He believed that he would be able to bring the army back.

If even Governor Zhao cannot bring back the army, then he will have to wait for the envoy to come back. All he can do is to clean up the enemies on this side of Meng County, regain the lost territory, and then go to the south gate of Meng County to attract a group of troops.

Qiu Wu marched all the way north and cleared many villages. He only encountered the Shi army twice. They were all small groups. He won both of them and gained many new soldiers.

They were all common people in hiding, as well as bandits who ran down the mountain after seeing the Zhao Jiajun flag.

None of them can be called bandits. After Meng County was occupied by the Stone Army, the fled Xun Army and some common people went up the mountain to weed the grass. After all, this bandit only served as a bandit for less than half a month.

Qiu Wu did not reject anyone who came, and organized them into a new military camp. By the time he arrived at the southern gate of Meng County, his army already numbered nearly ten thousand people.

There was no siege equipment for the time being, so they stayed far away from the city and cursed.

Many heads popped up on the city tower at the south gate of Meng County to look around. When they saw the army lined up not far away, they couldn't help but panic, "Zhao Jun is going to attack the south gate."

At this time, their north gate had been lost, and Zhao Hanzhang had captured half of the street. The two sides engaged in street fighting. In this regard, Shi Jun's combat experience was far less than Zhao Jun's, and Zhi Xiong became increasingly irritable.

Although he was irritated, Zhixiong also knew that the most important thing for him at this time was to guard the south gate and not allow Zhao Jun to attack from the south gate, otherwise he would really become a turtle in the urn.

Therefore, while he sent troops to guard the south gate, he did not allow them to open the gate to respond to the enemy to avoid accidents.

After setting up the south city gate, Zhi Xiong devoted himself to dealing with Zhao Hanzhang.

They fought fiercely in the city, and Zhao Hanzhang was a little restrained. After all, Meng County was her Meng County, but Zhi Xiong had a premonition that he could not defend Meng County.

So he set fire to the house and pushed the civilians forward to block knives and arrows without any psychological burden. He especially liked to see Zhao Hanzhang restrained because of worries.

Zhixiong was very happy. After another small victory, he happily returned to the general's mansion and asked about the South City Gate.

He frowned slightly after hearing this, "Are you saying that the Zhao army outside the south gate only scolded and did not attack the city in the past two days?"

"Yes, it has never been attacked even once."

Zhixiong became thoughtful and asked, "Is there no news about General Taobao yet?"

"No, there has been no news from General Taobao since he led his men out for a night attack that night."

Zhi Xiong's eyes flashed and his fists clenched, "No news but the best news. The Qiu Wu who came from Zhao Jun was once a personal guard around Zhao Hanzhang, but their leader along the way was Xun Xiu."

"Xun Xiu, one of the defeated generals, no one familiar with him was seen this time. Either they were afraid that we would not even show their heads, or their army was not there at all, and Qiu Wu had nothing to attack even if he wanted to. "

Thinking this way, Zhi Xiong became more and more confident. After turning around in a circle, he said: "Send someone out tomorrow to test and find out their strength. If their army is really not there, kill this Zhao army and throw their heads at Zhao Hanzhang." This time, I will make it impossible for her to come back!"

The left and right agreed, and the next day they volunteered to fight.

It was too frustrating to fight in the city with Zhao Hanzhang. The horses couldn't even run. It would be better to go out of the city to fight.

Zhi Xiong couldn't go to watch the battle. He had to go to the front line to keep an eye on Zhao Hanzhang, so he just let them go and warned: "Be careful and don't step on their trap."

Left and right should be down.

They didn't know that the Xun family's army, which was approaching the south city gate last night, bumped into Qiu Wu's scouts.

Qiu Wu went to see Zhao Ming overnight, so the Zhao Jun of today is no longer the Zhao Jun of yesterday.

Zhao Hanzhang in the city was restricted everywhere, and her patience reached its limit.

When Zhixiong's head appeared in the telescope and she saw him mounting his horse and heading north, she put down the telescope and turned to ask Zhao Ze, "How are you preparing?"

Zhao Zedao: "According to your instructions, we have contacted the people in the enemy-occupied areas. They are also willing to help, but there are few young people and most are old, weak, women and children."

Young people were either captured and used as cannon fodder or killed.

Zhao Hanzhang nodded and said: "Don't underestimate the old, weak, women and children, they can do as much as us."