Just as Liu Xie was hesitating, he suddenly felt someone pulling the corner of his clothes. He looked down and found that it was Fu Shou's sister Fu Ruoxin. He had no intention of playing with her. He lowered his head and patted her shoulder and said softly:

"Ruo Xin, go to my sister's place first. I have something urgent to deal with now."

But Fu Ruoxin did not leave, spread out his other hand, and a yellow satin brocade appeared in his palm. Everyone felt strange when they saw this. Liu Xie took the brocade bag from Ruoxin's hand and asked with doubt:

"Who gave this to you?"

Fu Ruoxin replied, "It was given to me by the elder brother before. He said that if there were bad people chasing us after we crossed the river, I would give this to you. This is a way to drive away bad people."

After hearing this, Liu Xie stood up and suddenly realized: "Zhongda, you have done this to protect me..."

After taking the secret bag and reading it, everyone asked about the way to break the enemy in the letter. Everyone seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, and their dim eyes instantly shone. On the contrary, Dong Cheng seemed a little doubtful and did not have a very surprised expression.

After circulating the secret, everyone nodded and praised it. This was a good way. Although it was a bit risky, it was worth a try at this moment. After a little thought, Dong Cheng had to agree, so Zhang Yang immediately arranged the formation according to the secret method.

Everything will be revealed when night falls.

According to Sima Yi's prediction, in order to prevent Liu Xie from returning to Luoyang after crossing the river, he would definitely be in the lower defense line along the coast. Yongzhou was completely under the control of Li Jue and Guo Si. Although the prefect of Hanoi Zhang Yang was very likely to be loyal to the Han Dynasty, he was weak. Moreover, Yuan Shao, who basically occupied most of the territory of Qingyou and Hebei at this moment, was very happy and fond of merit. He must only think about eliminating Gongsun Zan and unifying Hebei, and had no time to come to visit. Cao Cao, who had recently geography, had just quelled the Lu Bu Rebellion, and Yanzhou's vitality had not recovered. In order to prevent Liu Bei, who had just replaced Tao Qian to command Xuzhou and was staring at him, was unable to do anything. In summary, the possibility of relying on foreign aid was very slim.

However, the enemy will definitely find this after analyzing the situation. Anyway, the king's army cannot escape the extremely fast-moving cavalry of the Western Liang. For this reason, they will definitely not be in a hurry to attack and try to persuade them to surrender, so they will not be charged with a traitor.

After the order was issued, Zhang Yang immediately sent a thousand soldiers to Shouyang Mountain to wait for the opportunity to act according to the plan. After nightfall, the sky gradually turned dark, and thousands of torches were lit in Zhang Xiu's camp. The coast looked like a fire dragon entrenched on the Yellow River, and could snatch the king's army at any time. The soldiers thought that the king's army would surrender within a few days and did not warn of the enemy situation around them.

When the hour of Hai arrived, a violent shout of killing woke up the sentry who was already sleeping beside the pillar. He immediately wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and stared straight ahead. He found that there was a clear enemy situation in the direction of Wangwu Mountain, so he immediately notified Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu climbed up to the heights and looked into the distance and found that Zhongtiao Mountain near Jiguan was full of torches and shouting and killing sounds were everywhere. There were thousands of vanguard troops coming from Jiguan, moving towards his camp.

According to his experience, there are at least 20,000 to 30,000 people stationed on Zhongtiao Mountain. Although he has more than 10,000 cavalry in his hands, he guards the river bank and has no reinforcements. Once he is pressed on himself, he will be extremely passive.

However, Zhang Xiu was also a general who had experienced many battles. He decided to send troops to test first, so he ordered Hu Cheer to lead more than a thousand cavalry to fight. Hu Cheer led his horse to the front of the formation and saw the invading enemy horses holding the apricot yellow flag of the character "Yuan". Especially next to the vanguard general was Ju Yi's general flag, one of the "Seven Dragon Spears of Hebei".

Seeing this, Hu Cheer immediately swung his gun forward. Ju Yi was not afraid at all and raised his gun to meet him. After dozens of rounds of battle between the two, Hu Cheer could not stand it. He quickly broke his horse and retreated. When Zhang Xiu returned to the camp, he asked who came. Hu Cheer told the truth. Zhang Xiu was shocked:

"Why did Yuan Shao suddenly raise his troops to go south?"

"General, the last general has tested the skills of the visitor. The man is skillful in shooting skills. If I hadn't retreated in time, he would have been beaten by his gun for more than a dozen rounds. It can be seen that he must be Ju Yi."

After hearing this, Zhang Xiu thought that he could force Hu Cheer to such a situation, it should not be a fake. If this were the case, with his current strength, he would definitely not be able to fight against Yuan Shao's military horses who had two or three times more than him.

At this moment, the sentry urgently reported: "There is a large-scale enemy situation on Mount Shouyang in the West!"

"What did you say!" Zhang Xiu saw it with his own eyes and was sure that what the sentry said was not false. Judging from the torches and shouts of killing on Yangshan, there were nearly 5,000 people. In desperation, they ordered the soldiers to hurry up and retreat south.

When Ju Yi chased the river bank, he found that Zhang Xiujun had lost a lot of food and supplies due to his retreat. He smiled and said:

"Brother Zhongda really has you. I didn't expect that Ju Yi's name could scare the famous Beidi Gun King..."

When Liu Xie and the ministers heard the news of Zhang Xiu's retreat, they were all happy to celebrate, and Liu Xie burst into tears several times.

Soon Sima Fang led a bearded general in and saluted Liu Xie and said:

"Your Majesty, this young general who has made great contributions to retreating to the enemy this time!"

Liu Xie looked at the man who was born in the face, looked up and down and asked, "This one is..."

The general took off his tassel helmet, took off his beard that stuck to his face, revealing his handsome and heroic face. Everyone was shocked:

"It's just that he pretended that Ju Yi retreated and could fight Hu Cheer who was accustomed to fighting!"

The general knelt on one knee and saluted: "Last general Hao Zhao of Taiyuan, pay homage to Your Majesty!"

Liu Xie, who was grateful to him, stepped forward and surrendered to the nobles and helped him up: "The general is extremely brave. If you hadn't repelled Hu Che'er, Zhang Xiu believed that it was really Yuan Shao's army's invasion, and Zhongda's plan would not be successful."

While speaking, Yang Feng and Zhang Yang also returned to the camp. They reported to Liu Xie that they had nailed four or five torches onto the horizontal wood according to Sima Yi's plan, and ordered the two soldiers to move and shout. In this way, four or five times more people were added. In addition, the echoes generated by the shouting between the valleys disrupted Zhang Xiu's judgment and could not detect the real number of people. Only then could the plan be realized.

"I didn't expect that our army, with a total of more than 4,000 people, would scare away the famous Zhang Xiu and Li Jue and Guo Si, the Western Liang Iron Cavalry who was intimidating Yongliang!"

Everyone laughed, but Sima Fang reminded Liu Xie at this time that he should take the next plan quickly, and Liu Xiezhi laughed and responded.

After returning to Hongnong, Zhang Xiu informed Zhang Ji and Li Ju Guo Si about the reason for his retreat. They were shocked and fell into deep thought: Now that Yuan Shao has expressed his position to support the emperor, the troops in his hands are not enough to compete with Yuan Shao, who is now at the peak of his life, and they are likely to be regarded as a rebel and be surrounded by the princes taking advantage of the fire.

At this moment, the soldiers outside the tent reported: "Your Majesty's special envoy to the Grand Master Han Rong arrives!"

The three of them didn't understand what Liu Xie sent Han Rong to come at this time, but in order to leave a way out for themselves, they still came out to greet him in person. Han Rong expressed Liu Xie's meaning:

"Your Majesty thinks that all the ministers are Han officials and have no intention of fighting with you." He said this and coughed deliberately, and continued in a slightly higher tone: "So, after discussing with General Yuan, your Majesty decided to plead with the generals to withdraw their troops and release the ministers and concubines imprisoned by you, and your Majesty will not pursue all the past."

Li Jue and Guo Si, who had no idea of ​​the details, were afraid of fighting with Yuan Shao. They were waiting for this step, so they immediately took advantage of the situation and were grateful for the emperor's kindness. They immediately ordered the army occupying the south bank of the Yellow River to retreat immediately, and released the captured royal army and retreated obediently.
Chapter completed!