Qin Jin issued the command as the head of Hongnong County, and promised to exempt these people from the crime of desertion, but from this moment on, he must obey all his dispatch commands. Although there were five or six thousand people at the scene, there were few voices from the respondents.

Wu Hu Huaizhong shouted angrily: "Are you all deaf? Who didn't hear cut off his head!"

The blood on the corpses of those brigade leaders and captains had not yet coagulated, and the ground was dark red, shocking. In addition, this sturdy beard shouted violently, and after the fugitives were frightened one by one, they all said, "We are willing to listen to Chang Shijun's orders!"

Soon, the shouts of the sparse cheers gradually evolved into the chorus of five or six thousand people.

Qin Jin had a cold face, and he didn't take these people's insincere words seriously at all. If the promise of such a knife holder on the neck is reliable, things in the world will be much simpler.

"Go back, go back to Shaanxi County, this Changshi will take you back!" After a pause, Qin Jin still encouraged people's hearts, "The Son of Heaven has already worshiped Ge Shuhan as the prime minister, and the old minister is now raising troops out of Tongguan, this Changshi has just burned Cui Qianyou's grain and grass, and the Hongnong rebels are almost exhausted!"

"The Tang Army is mighty!"

"Changshi Jun is mighty!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and everyone shouted in unison, falling into Qin Jin's ears and feeling intuitively ridiculous. He didn't continue to talk nonsense, everything that should have been said had already been said thoroughly, now he should go to Shaanzhou as soon as possible, if he can catch up with Gao Xianzhi, maybe he can persuade him to return to Shaanzhou.

Cui Qianyou's department lost grain and grass, and he was bound to leave Hongnong, which was surrounded by Tang Dynasty territories, and return to Mianchi. Naturally, the nearest road is the post road through Shaanxi County. If Gao Xianzhi can take the opportunity to block him between Shaanxi County and Tongguan, and the Tang Ting sends troops to attack him on both sides, even if he uses the soldiers of the market, he may not be able to fight.

Is it just too late?

On this day, Qin Jin's heart always swayed back and forth between hope and disappointment. After just learning that Gao Xianzhi had burned all the materials in Taiyuan Cang as in history, a deep sense of powerlessness came to his heart in an instant, but in the blink of an eye, he regained his strength, even if he burned Taiyuan Cang, things may not necessarily develop towards an uncontrollable situation.

Inadvertently, Qin Jin's eyes swept over the southwest, but he suddenly found that the distant mountain sky was actually filled with billowing smoke and dust, which was devouring the gray-white sky at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye.

Qin Jin's actions were watched by everyone, and the thousands of people present also forgot about the past together, and some of the fleeing soldiers shouted in horror: "Mountain, mountain fire!"

Wildfires often break out in spring and summer, when the snow melts away in the mountains and forests, and the dry and dead leaves exposed on the dense forest floor can ignite a single spark, and then with the help of spring winds, the entire woodland can be ignited in half a day. However, wildfires of this magnitude are extremely rare in winter.

Many people in Henan Province still remember the big mountain fire in Bear's Ears Mountain a few years ago, which burned so fiercely that the fire burned for seven days and seven nights, and finally it was a belated heavy rain that extinguished the flames all over the mountain.

When it comes to the big wildfire in Bears Ears Mountain, those who witnessed it still have lingering palpitations, how many people did not have time to escape from the forest and countryside and were instantly engulfed by the fire, and their houses and lifelong continuum were also burned, and in the end, there was nothing left except the whole scorched and bare land.

At this moment, the billowing black smoke in the southwestern sky is the same as the momentum of the Bears Ears Mountain fire when it first broke out.

Most of these fugitives were requisitioned in Henan Province, and they have indelible memories of the Bears Ears Mountain fire, knowing that once the fire spreads, people's two legs will never escape the claws of the fire.

"The mountain fire is coming, and the mountain god fire god is angry and wants to burn Cui Qianyou......"

"Run, the wildfire is burning, no one can escape......"

The fugitives gathered in one place began to stir, and if these men lost their minds and collapsed, a few hundred cavalry might not be able to control the situation. Qin Jin was also secretly frightened, what he was afraid of was not the horror of the mountain fire, but the fact that the mountain fire caused by burning grain last night had spread to such a scale, and it could be seen clearly from dozens of miles away.

Faintly, Qin Jin suddenly felt that he had grasped something, but he couldn't figure it out for a while. Looking at the thousands of fugitives who were about to move, he knew that this place was not suitable for a long time, and he had to rush to Shaanzhou City immediately.

After an order was given, the Hu soldiers who were blocking the post road with Luo dodged away, and the fugitives rushed in the direction of Shaanzhou City. This situation was far beyond Qin Jin's expectations, he had never seen a mountain fire, and he didn't know how terrible it was, but from the empty and numb eyes of these fugitives, he keenly noticed the fear and palpitations revealed in it.

In this way, it also saved their strength, and the hundreds of cavalry were like herdsmen driving away sheep, dozens of herds roamed around the periphery of the fugitives, and when they encountered those who broke away from the crowd, they drove them back.

Along the way, he collected the Tang soldiers who escaped from the direction of Shaanzhou one after another. When these people heard that there was a big mountain fire in the direction of Da Xian Mountain, they all turned around and rushed towards the northeast of Shaanzhou City. I don't care if I just escaped from there.

At about dusk, the head of Shaanzhou City was already in sight, and so far, the Qin and Jin departments had gathered and driven more than 10,000 fugitives. Zheng Xianli drove his horse to Qin Jin's side, and wondered: "If Doctor Gao gave up Shaanzhou, why didn't he burn the city?"

Qin Jin also wondered in his heart, this is indeed a bit unreasonable, since even the Taiyuan warehouse was burned, is it still necessary to keep the city of Shaanzhou? Could it be that it is still intact and left to the rebels? But in any case, it is a good thing that the city of Shaanzhou has not been burned down in time, and it is a pity that a big city will be burned in vain after I don't know how many years it will take to build it?

"Let's go! When you get to the city, you'll know why!"

Wu Hu Huaizhong led the Tongluo tribe to drive the fugitives, and guided them to the direction of the open space to the west of the city, where there was a large area of farmland, which was just enough to temporarily settle these people.

However, the idea is good, it is not easy to guide these tens of thousands of fugitives in the direction with only a few hundred people, and if you want them to stop, it is a fantasy. Wuhu Huaizhong could only lead his troops to continue to cruise around the fugitives, and then turned all the way to the Yellow River in the north of Shaanzhou.

The fugitives obviously wanted to cross the river north, and the broken Qin Jin soon discovered this sign, so he immediately ordered someone to wave the flag to signal Wuhu Huaizhong not to pay attention to the whereabouts of the fugitives, as long as they did not join the rebels, it didn't matter where they went, and let them cross the Yellow River if they wanted to cross it.

However, the development of events was often unexpected, just when Qin Jin was about to give up control of these fugitives, this disorderly army of fugitives was unexpectedly stopped on the bank of the Yellow River north of Shaanzhou.

It wasn't until Qin Jin also came to the Yellow River that he suddenly realized. It turned out that the frozen Yellow River had already been chiseled open, and huge pieces of ice floes were floating on the turbid soup water, which was very terrifying. The fugitives at the front, because the people behind were still crowding forward, fell into the water like dumplings.

There is only a narrow pontoon bridge across the north and south on the wide Yellow River, and a very small number of lucky fugitives squeeze onto the pontoon bridge and run to the north bank of the Yellow River without their lives, as if they would escape after crossing the Yellow River. Qin Jin sighed with disdain, since this is the case, why did he go to the southwest as a fugitive in the first place?

Outside the city of Shaanzhou is full of farmland vacated after the autumn harvest, there are no dense forests and patches of artemisia grass, even if the big mountain fires are fierce, they can't burn, I really don't know what these people are afraid of!

Suddenly, Wu Hu Huaizhong came on horseback, carrying a blue-robed official in his hand, and when he got closer, he left him on the ground.

"Say it!"

The green-robed officer got up from the snow, he was already in a state of embarrassment, the official hat on his head was lost, and the robe on his body was torn out, but his face was full of stiff and flattering smiles.

"The lower official is ordered by General Du to greet the envoy of the heavenly soldiers!"

Qin Jin was stunned, he didn't know what this green-robed official meant, but when he saw a teasing smile in Wuhu Huaizhong's eyes, he calmed his mind again and waited for the green-robed official to explain his intentions.

"General Du has admired Dr. An for many years, and now the Yan soldiers have relieved the people and turned to the light, abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, which is the right time to ......"

Hearing this, Qin Jin smiled bitterly, no wonder Wuhu Huaizhong had that kind of teasing smile, it turned out that he was regarded as Cui Qianyou's rebel again.

……

After the Mingwei general Du Qianyun was left behind by Gao Xianzhi, he only waited for everything to be done, set fire to the city, and then went north to cross the river and burn the pontoon bridge to cut off the northward passage of Cui Qianyou's rebels.

However, Du Qianyun had other plans, seeing that the eastern capital had fallen and famous generals had been defeated one after another, and this was not exactly the precursor to defeat? On the other hand, An Lushan's army of Fan Hu in the north was like a bamboo, and it was not necessarily impossible to take the eastern capital in one month, even if he went to Chang'an in two months. Yan Yun flew separately when the catastrophe came, if he was still clinging to the thigh of the Tang Dynasty at this time, sooner or later he would have to take his life into it.

Because of this, this unlucky errand after staying and breaking off, it was a pie that fell from the sky before Du Qianyun, and it was suffering from no reason to work, and now it is not possible to sacrifice the city and the bridge?

Du Qianyun didn't expect the rebels in Hongnong County to come so quickly, and he didn't even have time to gather his subordinates to find out, and the other side had already come to the city. Standing at the head of the city, Du Qianyun only glanced in the direction of Xin'an, and was almost frightened to the point of cramps in his legs, and an army of tens of thousands of people swept over like a tsunami. Soon, these "anti-Hu rebels" went straight to the pontoon bridge on the Yellow River. Du Qianyun, who was at the head of the city, saw it very clearly, and General Hu, who led the troops in the secret way, was really unusual, and went straight to the vital place, he was now cut off from the back road, even if he wanted to, it was too late.

Du Qianyun did not dare to delay, and hurriedly arranged for the cronies and scribes accompanying the army to go out of the city to find the rebel general who led the army to discuss surrender. Even if you surrender, you have to negotiate the price first, otherwise you will sacrifice the city in a daze, and who will you find to reason with the other party in case of repentance?

After the scribe was ordered, he went out of the city and met the fierce and vicious Wuhu Huaizhong, who had just indicated that his master would intend to serve An Lushan, but who knew that the other party couldn't help but say that he would be lifted and left.

After getting up from the snow, the trusted scribe realized that this bookish young man on the war horse was the commander of the army!

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