The general of the soldiers immediately came down from the tower and went to inquire.

After a while, someone was escorted.

The man knelt down with a plop and cried: "General, the river water is freezing cold in winter. Many people froze to death in the river. Even when they went ashore, they suffered serious illnesses."

"How come there are so many reasons?" Huang Biao flipped him over with one foot and said, "Behead him!"

Just as the man was about to scream, the handle of the knife hit him in the mouth, causing several of his teeth to fall out.

The soldiers dragged the man down like a dead dog.

"Send people and invite the bandits to fight." Huang Biao issued another order.

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The two sides in the east faced each other in the capital and county areas, while on another front in the west, Jiang Ke's troops advanced rapidly with light troops.

The two thousand cavalrymen of the Yi Congjun set out first, together with the three thousand miscellaneous light cavalry assigned to them, and more than a thousand Fu soldiers on horseback from the Zuo Jinwu Guards, carrying seven days of food and water, they headed south along the Zhang River and headed straight for Dangyang.

Along the way, we occasionally encountered fortresses and forts. The two sides only faced each other from a distance and did not fight.

Only a few times, country tycoons took advantage of their familiarity with the geography to block the bridges of the only way to fight with the cavalry going south.

When encountering these people, the only option is to fight.

The deputy governor of the Yi Cong Army, Ju Qu Chong, who was in charge of the command, mobilized Zuo Jinwu's guardsmen to come forward, and often defeated the enemy troops with a single charge.

Well, what should I do if I can’t open it once? Then do it a second time or a third time.

There is no enemy that cannot be defeated without three charges!

By the fifth day of November, they arrived not far north of Dangyang City.

At the critical moment when the county magistrate simply abandoned the city and fled, the county lieutenant raised his arms and shouted, gathering his men and determined to defend to the death.

However, before he could summon many men, the people in the city fled out one after another.

In fact, they were mainly wealthy people who fled back to the countryside under the protection of their child servants and gathered in clans to protect themselves.

Juquchong led his cavalry to charge and disperse these people. Then he rushed in along the city gate, killed the county captain under his horse, and captured the city without any bloodshed.

At this point, what Tao Kan had been worried about happened.

The more than 10,000 defenders in Xiangyang are completely hostages!
Chapter completed!