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At the beginning, Liu Jing did not let Liao Hua follow him, mainly to give him a chance to consider. In history, Liao Hua followed Guan Yu. He did not want Liao Hua to be deceived by Liu Bei after following him, so he asked Liao Hua to think about it carefully and then come to him after he thought it through.

In fact, after all, it is because Liao Hua is not Wei Yan. If it were Wei Yan, he would not have given him any chance to consider. What is the so-called leadership battle? At some point, Liu Jing would also make a move.

Liu Jing ordered the city gate to open, and Liao Hua brought a group of subordinates into the city. In fact, Liao Hua had repeatedly considered whether to surrender to Liu Bei or Liu Jing.

If Liu Bei's subordinates had Zhang Zhaoyun, if he had worked hard, his status would probably be worse than Zhou Cang. It would be better to follow Liu Jing and become his veteran in establishing power and assist him in fighting for Jingzhou.

It was precisely because Liao Hua understood this and resolutely rushed to Jiangxia. Liao Hua turned over and got off the horse, knelt down with one knee, and said in a deep voice: "The rash man Liao Hua from the mountains and fields came to surrender to Duke Jing, and was willing to serve Duke Jing."

Liu Jing hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up, and said with a smile: "General Liao asked him to get up. Jiangdong is very anxious to attack the city now. It is the time to use people. General Liao's arrival is like raining in time."

Liu Jing's words are not exaggerated. What he needs most now is the general of commanding troops. Although Wang Tai is loyal to him, his martial arts skills are slightly inferior and he is almost killed by Xu Sheng. Liao Hua is also a famous general after all. With him defending the city for him, he feels much more stable.

Liao Hua was grateful and bowed and said, "Liao Hua is willing to do his best to serve the public."

Liu Jing looked at the dozens of soldiers behind him again, and Liao Hua quickly explained, "These are all old brothers, and I really can't bear to dismiss them. As long as I bring them, I will include them."

He was afraid that Liu Jing would not accept it, so he waved his hand to his opponent, "Why don't you pay a visit to Gong Jing?"

Dozens of soldiers knelt down together and said in unison: "Please ask Duke Jing to include it."

Liu Jing was a little embarrassed. In fact, he was not willing to include so many Yellow Turban thieves as his subordinates. It was not discrimination. The main reason was that these people had been bandits for a long time and were used to looting and had poor military discipline. He hoped that Liao Hua would come alone.

But since he has arrived, he has to give Liao Hua this respect. Thinking of this, Liu Jing agreed, "Okay, as long as the military discipline is constrained, they can stay and continue to be your subordinates."

Liao Hua was overjoyed. The thing he was most worried about was finally resolved as soon as he got up. He quickly clasped his fists and was grateful, "Thank you for your commitment."

Liu Jing patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "Realistically, I should let you adapt first, but the situation is critical now. Come with me and I will arrange a place to defend the city for you."

Liu Jing led dozens of people including Liao Hua and others to quickly walk towards the north city wall.

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Although the Jiangdong Army troops were approaching after two bloody battles in the middle of the night and early morning, they unexpectedly became quiet in the following two days, and the Jiangdong Army never sieges the city again.

On the one hand, this is because the Jiangdong army lacks troops and is difficult to attack the city, so they can only wait for reinforcements. On the other hand, they are also besieging the city to fight reinforcements, waiting for the reinforcements to ambush the Jiangxia army.

The beacon in Chaisang City has been lit. At most days, Jiangxia reinforcements will come from Wuchang City.

For the Chaisang defenders, they also seized the most precious two days and strengthened their defenses in a busy and orderly manner. They installed Yujiacai and stone cannons on the city walls, which were operated by trained thousands of civilians.

It was the emergence of these trenchers and stone cannons that greatly strengthened the defense of Chaisang City and the earth inspired the morale of Chaisang defenders.

On that morning, Liu Jing inspected the city as usual. After two days of preparation and careful deployment, the defense of Chaisang City was completely renewed. The water gate was increased from two iron gates to roads, with an iron gate weighing thousands of pounds in the middle, and several steel tips with barbed steel were installed at the bottom of the water, making it impossible for the soldiers outside to enter, completely blocking the Jiangdong army's way into the water gate.

Two stone cannons and fifty catapults were installed on the top of the city. The stone cannons were operated by humans and could shoot twenty kilograms of talc for seventy steps, which was accurate and high. The catapult was operated by fifty people, which could throw the remaining kilograms of big stones out of till far, which was extremely powerful.

There were about a thousand regular defenders on the city, led by Liu Jing himself, Liao Hua and Wang Tai were the subordinate generals, among which Wang Tai was responsible for commanding the civilians to operate stone cannons and catapults, Liao Hua was the defensive commander of the front army, and Xu Shu was responsible for the entire logistics support.

Almost tens of thousands of people in the entire Chaisang City were mobilized, and they had money and made great efforts. The elderly cooked, women participated in transporting supplies, and even children were not idle. They wandered around the city in groups, looking for the Jiangdong Army's exploration, and strived to obtain high rewards.

Under the influence of the atmosphere of sincerity and unity, Chaisang City was united and fought against Jiangdong together. This was a grand occasion that Chaisang City had not seen for decades. As a big city that has been sandwiched between Jingzhou and Jiangdong for a long time, this situation of completely tilting to the side is rare.

As soon as Liu Jing walked above the water gate, a hurrying alarm bell came from the East City View Tower. The alarm bell rang throughout the city. All the soldiers became nervous and rushed to the edge of the city, looking at the river in the distance.

I saw a huge fleet of ships appearing on the river northwest of the Yangtze River, with several warships, with flags waving and spectacular. On the large ship of Wei, a red and yellow flag was waving. This is the battle flag of the Jingzhou Army.

The defenders on the city were suddenly filled with joy, and cheers resounded throughout the sky. The reinforcements of the Jingzhou army arrived, but Liu Jing did not show any joy at all. He looked at the fleet in the distance silently, with a very complicated expression in his eyes.

At this time, Xu Shu slowly walked to Liu Jing and said in a deep voice: "Do you feel something abnormal about the Jiangdong Army?"

Liu Jing shook his head, "It's surprisingly quiet."

"It is this surprisingly quiet that I feel something is wrong. I'm afraid the Jiangdong Army has prepared for it."

Liu Jing was silent for a while and sneered: "Frankly speaking, I don't want the Jiangdong Army to fail now."

Xu Shu laughed, "In the eyes of the public, this Huang Zu's reinforcements are also enemies."

"It's better to lose both sides and end up with me as the fisherman."

At this moment, a soldier pointed at the Jiangdong Army fleet and shouted: "Look at the Jiangdong Army, the Jiangdong Army, begins to withdraw."

Liu Jing also saw it, and saw the Jiangdong army fleet starting to pull sails, leaving Caohekou, and evacuated eastward with a little fear. Xu Shu frowned, "It was indeed not as expected, Xu Sheng was using the plan."

Liao Hua next to him asked: "How can you see that the Jiangdong Army is using a plan?"

"It's very simple. There are many urnon ships in the Jiangdong army fleet. The Jiangxia army came to help. How could they have retreated long ago if they wanted to retreat. They would never wait until the enemy came to their sight before retreating. This must be their strategy to lure troops."

Liao Hua heard Xu Shu's analysis make sense, and suddenly became a little anxious. He hurriedly asked Liu Jing, "People, do we want to notify reinforcements?"

Liu Jing looked at the Jiangdong Army warships and said coldly after a long time: "Let's wait and see"

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For Huang's father, Jiangxia has always been the private property of the Huang family, and Chaisang is more important in this property. Therefore, after receiving the alarm from Chaisang, Huang She personally led 5,000 troops and other warships rushed to rescue Chaisang.

At this time, Huang She didn't know that Zhou Ling was dead, and Chaisang City had changed its master. The information he received was that the Jiangdong Army failed to siege the city and suffered heavy losses, which made Huang She more confident and he would defeat the Jiangdong Army in one battle.

Under the flag of the battle, Huang She looked at the distant river with cold eyes. He seemed a little worried. This concern came from Liu Cong's serious injury and the disappearance of his brother Huang Yong.

Liu Cong was injured by his brother, and this is not questionable. He knew very well that his brother was such a person, fierce and reckless. I don’t know how many people died at his hands. It was a blessing that Liu Cong would not die.

However, there were two troubles about this matter, he didn't know how to deal with it. One was how they explained to Liu Biao where his brother Huang Yong went, was he fled for fear of guilt, or was he something happened to him?

There is also Liu Jing. He did not withdraw back to Wuchang with Liu Cong and stayed in Chaisang City. What is his purpose? Is Chaisang City still controlling Zhou Ling's hands now?

Huang She couldn't help but look up at the distance of Chaisang City. He had an ominous premonition in his heart. Liu Jing was definitely not willing to be lonely. Something happened to Chaisang City and must take back the defense of Chaisang City.

At this moment, on the mast, a lookout soldier pointed to the distant river and shouted, "General Huang, Jiangdong Navy appears in front of him."

Huang She suddenly woke up from her contemplation, took two steps to the bow of the boat, and looked into the distance.

At Caohekou two miles away, a fleet of ships composed of Yu Zhan was leaving hastily, and it was obvious that the Jiangdong army was preparing to evacuate.

How could Huang She let the Jiangdong Army run away? He immediately ordered, "Zhong Shun leads his troops into the city, and the other warships follow me to pursue the fugitive army."

The Jiangxia army's warships were divided into two. Huang Xi led more than two warships to pursue the Jiangdong army, and his subordinate Zhong Shun led dozens of warships toward Caohekou.

On the top of the city, Liu Jing stared at more than fifty Jiangxia army warships sailing into the Caohe River. It was obvious that this fleet was here to support Chaisang City, or to take back Chaisang City.

Liu Jing's fist was clenched tightly, and Chaisang City had already belonged to him, Liu Jing, how could he give up again?

"No one can open a city without my orders"

Huang Shi's ships chasing the Jiangdong Army had gone far away, and more than fifty large ships had already sailed into the Caohe River.

The accident was born at this time. Two Jiangdong soldiers suddenly appeared in the lush grass on the shore. They held bows and arrows in their hands and shot rockets at the sails of the Jiangxia army warships. The Jiangxia army warships were caught off guard, and more than a dozen warships caught fire in an instant. The fire took advantage of the wind to swallow the sails and masts, and then lit the entire ship, with thick smoke rolling and flames soaring into the sky.

There was chaos on the Caohe River, with dozens of large ships standing close together and unable to turn around. The soldiers cried and jumped off the ship to escape.

At this time, the soldiers on the top of the city looked at Liu Jing, who was staring at the woods outside the city. Although this was an opportunity to gather defeated soldiers, he was a little worried that this was the Jiangdong Army's plan to lure his troops out of Chaisang City.

But when they think about it carefully, they find it impossible. Even if they annihilate their own army, they will not be able to deal with the reinforcements of Jiangxia, and their own army may not be able to be annihilated in a short period of time.

Liu Jing only pondered for a moment, waved his hand, Liao Hua quickly stepped forward, Liu Jing whispered a few words to him, Liao Hua nodded, "Abide by the order of humble duty"
Chapter completed!