That night, a Nanman army of five to six thousand troops retreated southward from Suqi County under the cover of darkness and returned to Qiongdu.

The first general is nine feet tall, with broad shoulders and a round waist, like a hill, and stands out among the crowd.

This person was one of the two personal guards around Gao Ding, known as the Elephant King. The other was his sworn brother, the Bear King, who died with Gao Ding in the Yanniu Department.

The Elephant King's face was gloomy, and he was obviously very unhappy. He walked with heavy steps all the way to the meeting hall. The place was brightly lit, and more than ten barbarian chiefs gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

The leader is an extremely thin man with a wretched appearance. His name is Dong Feng, and he is the chief of the Panmu tribe. He knows Chinese characters, has read Chinese military books, is resourceful, and is regarded as a military advisor by the chiefs.

The so-called resourcefulness is also a relative term. To use an analogy from the Three Kingdoms game of later generations, his intelligence is around 60 at best. It is a bit difficult for him to be a strategist, but compared with the reckless men around him who only have 10-30 intelligence, this winter

When it comes to nature, he appears to be outstanding and resourceful.

As soon as the Elephant King came in, he slammed the table and said angrily: "Dong Feng, you don't know how well I fought in Suqi County. Huang Yuan was already very impatient because he couldn't attack for a long time. Just give me three more days."

, I will find an opportunity, lead people to fight out, and I will definitely capture him alive, chop him into minced meat, and avenge the commander-in-chief and my brother."

"But you are urging me to come back like a ghost!"

Dong Feng smiled and said: "King Xiang, don't be angry. The Han army has broken through Beishui and moved over from the south. It is now thirty miles outside the city. It is estimated that they will approach the city and set up camp soon. If you

If you don’t come back, the road will be cut off and you will never be able to come back. We have more than a dozen chiefs in Qiongdu, but we all rely on you, King Xiang.”

"Didn't you say that Li Meng from Beishui has five thousand troops and horses, which is enough to resist the Han army on the east route? How could he be defeated so quickly?"

"Don't be angry, King Elephant. I'm not a god. Who knew that Li Meng was such a fool?"

The Elephant King glanced at the chiefs with a look of disdain on his face: "There are so many of you, are they all trash? Can't you just hold on for a few days and wait for me to destroy Huang Yuan?"

Hu Peng, the leader of the Lao Qin tribe, sneered: "King Xiang is indeed a great fighter. He even admitted to calling us trash. But it's not because you transferred all the main forces and left some old and weak soldiers. How can we hold on? Qiong didn't even defend it.

No matter how good you are at Su Qi, it’s useless!”

The elephant king stared at the fox pelt, and his eyes could spit fire.

Dong Feng said hurriedly: "Don't be angry, don't be angry. We are facing a formidable enemy. It is difficult for everyone to unite and deal with the outside world. We must not allow internal strife to resume."

The Elephant King was breathing heavily, and his reason finally suppressed his anger, and said: "For the sake of the military advisor, I will let you go first. The top priority right now is to repel this wave of Han people first, and then kill Huang Yuan."<

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"Yes, kill Huang Yuan first."

"Whoever wants to kill Huang Yuan, I'll give you ten pounds of gold, just for a bite of meat!"

As soon as Huang Yuan was mentioned, all the chiefs had a common topic and became very angry.

Huang Yuan was originally the culprit who colluded with the Yanniu barbarians to murder Gaoding, the king of Yi. But now Huang Yuan's army is heading south. Wherever it goes, the soldiers are even more lawless and slaughtered, and many tribes have suffered greatly.

Therefore, everyone hates him deeply and wants to kill him quickly.

It can be said that it was the common hatred for Huang Yuan that united these seemingly unrelated chiefs.

Dong Feng saw that the Elephant King had finally calmed down, and he breathed a sigh of relief, but he thought to himself: "You are a common man, if I hadn't given you some advice, you would have died long ago. How could you have so many soldiers today?"

Horse?"

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North of Suqi County, Huangyuan Department.

After a night's rest, Huang Yuan and Langlu's coalition forces planned to attack again at dawn. However, before dawn, a sentinel came to report that the battles and drums at the head of Suqi County had ceased and no one was seen.

Huang Yuan was afraid of being deceived, so he sent a suicide squad and entered the city. He found that the city was indeed deserted. He captured a few people and asked about it, only to find out that the Nanman soldiers had withdrawn to Qiongdu under the cover of darkness last night.<

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Lang Lu said: "It seems that my brother-in-law's army has arrived in Qiongdu. That's why the Su Qi barbarians retreated overnight."

Huang Yuandao: "Yes, without further delay, let's hurry south to join them."

The two discussed and decided to leave only a hundred soldiers and the sick and wounded in Suqi County, while the rest immediately set off southward.

Not far away, the army encountered a messenger sent by Zhou Mo. The letter said that the army had set up camp and was about to launch an attack. Please come to join the Huang and Lang coalition forces as soon as possible. Don't miss the first celebration banquet in Qiongdu City.

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Lang Lu asked: "Does my brother-in-law always speak so arrogantly?"

Huang Yuan chuckled and said: "This Zhou Siqian is teasing us for being slower than him. Attacking Qiongdu is a tough battle. No matter how good Zhou Siqian is, he can't do without me as a pioneer general. He can't take away the credit I have gained."

In the afternoon of the same day, Huang and Lang's coalition forces rushed to the foot of Qiongdu City. When they saw that several large camps had been set up in dangerous places in the west and south of the city, and many were under construction, they ordered people to join them and expected to be able to move in that night.

The two armies merged, with a total of more than 13,000 people, and the momentum was huge. The army blocked all the only roads outside Qiongdu City, and sent people to watch the mountain passes throughout the Sunshui Valley to prevent other surrounding tribes from rushing in.

Come support.

Huang Yuan and Lang Lu came to see Zhou Mo at the Central Army Camp. Zhou Mo had not seen the two of them for more than a year since the Yanniu Hongmen Banquet incident. Now that they met, they were like old friends, and they were chatting happily.<

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Zhou Mo anxiously asked his brother-in-law for news about Lang Xing. He calculated that his wife would give birth within a few days. He learned that everything was fine with Lang Xing and his mother in the Yanniu Department. The fetus was stable and he was with Lang Lu often.

When we write letters to each other to tell each other that we are safe, we feel a little more at ease.

After talking about family matters, Zhou Mo immediately summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of attacking the city.

Qiongdu is a large city under the jurisdiction of the county. The terrain is dangerous and the city is solid. It is a hard nut to crack. It is far from humble. It can be compared with small counties such as Suqi. And there is no way to know the actual situation in the city for the time being.

Therefore, everyone is very cautious, saying that they will set up camp first, fight steadily, and wait and see what happens.

After all, it took three months for Zhou Mo to establish the military order to capture Qiongdu. It has only been one month now, and he still has plenty of time.

Only Huang Yuan repeatedly asked Zhou Mo to send him as a vanguard to attack the city today and catch them off guard.

Considering that Huang Yuan had fought against the general Xiang King several times in the city and was familiar with the enemy's situation, Zhou Mo agreed to Huang Yuan's request and led his army to attack the city tentatively early tomorrow morning to first test the enemy's strength.

He also sent a thousand men from Zhang Yi's tribe to support Huang Yuan's troops, and a thousand men from Fu Shu's tribe to the south of Qionghai, along the lakeside path, to pretend to attack its rear as a containment.

The rest of the armies continued to build forts and were on standby at any time.
Chapter completed!