After hearing the news of the Tang Army's sneak attack, Cai Xide calmed down instead, and he tried his best to think about how to deal with it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info really underestimated Qin Jin again, this person always seems to be good at surviving in desperate situations, it is better to avoid this person and let the Shenwu Army scourge Sun Xiaozhe.

Thinking of Sun Xiaozhe, Cai Xide couldn't help but feel a little hateful, he sent someone to persuade Sun Xiaozhe to fight with him in the north and south before the troops entered Jiangxian County, but after a few days of hard work, there was still no news, I was afraid that the other party would not send troops to cooperate with him.

While thinking about it, the general kept urging him from the side, informing him that ** was fighting with the men and horses on the left wing of the Yan army, and asked him to make a decision immediately. But Cai Xide was caught in an ideological struggle at this time, and turned a deaf ear to the urging of his generals. After a while, he finally reacted, and his face changed from due to resoluteness.

"How many sneak attacks did the Tang army have?"

"General Hui, roughly around 5,000 people!"

Cai Xide's face was as usual, and he didn't say much, but said reproachfully: "Panic, 5,000 people can't beat the **, it's better to go home and raise a child for your mother-in-law!"

In fact, it was also a failure to storm Jiangxian County, and then it was immediately attacked by **, and it is understandable that people are panicked. At this moment, when he was rebuked by the Lord, he immediately felt ashamed of himself. If it was the Khitans who fought against them, then there would be no shame in winning or losing each other, and now they have lost to the ** with extremely low combat effectiveness, it would be too much to say. Although they had also fought under the banner of the Tang Army, now that the Qizi above their heads had changed their surname to An, they naturally had nothing to do with the Tang Army since then.

The adjutant general who asked for help left with interest, and the left flank had nearly 10,000 elites, and if even the 5,000-strong Tang army could not be defeated, I am afraid that it would be really as Cai Xide said, and it was time to go home and raise the children for his mother-in-law.

The left-wing Yan army really easily drove away the Tang army that attacked them, but they were just a little distracted by the tragic situation of the failed attack, and at this time, under the oppression of the main general, they regained their previous barbarism and self-confidence.

Cai Xide immediately decided to build siege equipment again, and he would never stop until the goal of this advance was achieved, and even if he was besieged for three and a half months, he must not withdraw his troops halfway. After having this decision, Cai Xide felt that relying only on the 30,000 elites around him was far from enough, so he sent people back to Zezhou, recruited the local newly attached army, and crossed the high mountains to besiege the city with him. From Zezhou to Jiangxian, even if he walked slowly, three or five days of hard work was enough, and he could take advantage of this time to rebuild the siege equipment.

In addition to sending reinforcements, in order to besiege Jiangxian for a long time, Cai Xide made a difficult decision, he wanted to clear the wilderness here and capture the local people to be used as strong men.

However, when the township clearing team sent by Cai Xide entered the nearby townships, they were surprised to find that they did not need to clear the township at all, because the local people had already gone to empty houses, not to mention the shadows of people, not even the shadows of chickens, ducks and geese. Moreover, it is now the autumn harvest season, and I originally wanted to loot the people's grain stocks as military food, but when I saw the dry crops in the fields, I could imagine that Jiangxian County was out of harvest this year.

Cai Xide felt that this was really a strange thing, even if he fled in a disaster year, he would not escape cleanly, and there would be no one left, right? If he dies because he has nothing to eat, there should be a body left behind when he dies. But the Qingxiang team did not find the slightest suspicious sign in the nearby ten miles and eight townships, as if the people near Jiangxian County had evaporated.

This unexpected episode made Cai Xide as disgusted as a fly, and he found out that as long as he was close to Qin Jin, no matter how strange it was people or things.

Cai Xide felt as if something was missing from his side, and looked left and right only to find that Min Guangjie, who led the team out of Qingxiang, had not returned.

"Where's Min Guangjie, are you back?"

"General Yu, I went out early in the morning, and there is no news so far!"

A cadre ridiculed Min Guangjie for being incompetent and cowardly.

"Isn't it true that Gorinu has lost his way and can't find his way back to the barracks......

"Maybe Gao Linu went to vote for the Tang Army......"

"Shut up!"

The more Cai Xide listened, the more impatient he became, even if Min Guangjie was a Korean, he would not curse him like this, in case he really voted for the Tang Army, but he was so tired that he lost five hundred elites in vain, as well as war horses! Thinking of this, Cai Xide couldn't wait to slap his mouth, because since he came to Jiangxian, as long as he had a little bad thoughts, it would always become a fact.

"Quick, dodge, Vice General Min is back, Vice General Min is back!"

Hearing that Min Guangjie was back, Cai Xide was overjoyed, and the ominous premonition finally did not come true, and this psychological barrier may be broken.

However, when Min Guangjie appeared in front of him, Cai Xide was dumbfounded, only to see Min Guangjie lying on a door panel, carried in by two soldiers, if he hadn't told him in advance that this person covered in blood was Min Guangjie, he would never have recognized it.

"This, this, this, what's wrong with him?"

"Vice Admiral Min just rode alone to the gate and fell to the ground, probably ambushed by **......"

Cai Xide suddenly felt that his head was dizzy, his body shook twice, and the ominous premonition was still fulfilled, although it was not Min Guangjie who defected to the Tang Army, but the five hundred elites must have been ambushed and killed, but only escaped back with a waste!

"Carry it down, carry it down, heal his wounds......"

He suppressed the disgust in his heart so that he would not show it, and waved his hand for the two soldiers who carried Min Guangjie in to carry him out again.

Everyone couldn't help but laugh at Min Guangjie again, everyone went out and came back with all beards and tails, but only Gao Linu was so sad.

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The battle for the defense of Jiangxian County got off to a good start, the first battle destroyed more than 20 siege vehicles of the Yan army, and killed and injured thousands of Yan soldiers, since then the "fear of Yan" mood in the city has been swept away, and even some people have been clamoring to go out of the city to steal the camp, or a decisive battle with the Yan army. Although Qin Jin did not agree with their arrogant and underestimated enemy ideas, he did not stop it, and it was more precious than anything else to get rid of the fear of the Yan army mentally, and if he could restore the self-confidence of the elite of the Tang Dynasty to the soldiers under his command, he would not mind letting this arrogant remarks circulate among the army. Anyway, it is he who makes the final decision, not by public opinion.

Wang Ji and the former army of the Shenwu Army, which has been operating outside the city, have attacked the Yan army several times, and have also achieved good results, and today he also annihilated the Yan army's 500 Qingxiang team, and captured more than 300 horses, and the war horses were sent back to the city of Jiangxian with the good news, which is rejoicing again.

The decapitation of five hundred levels is no longer enough to attract attention compared to the more than three hundred war horses captured. The preciousness of the war horses in the Tang army was far more expensive than that of ten foot soldiers, and more than 300 war horses were replenished at one time, which was really an unexpected windfall.

It's just that Qin Jin's nerves still can't relax, with his judgment of Cai Xide, this person will definitely not stop until he achieves his goal, so to completely solve the current predicament, he can only defeat this person. However, the Yan army is brave and far from being comparable, although the pear flower gun and the thunderbolt cannon are good, they can only be the icing on the cake, and they can't reach the level of being so perverted to occupy the left and right.

Qin Jin was bored, and unconsciously walked into the back garden, and suddenly heard the sound of his sleeves flicking, but saw that it was the old Taoist Qingxuzi who was practicing boxing slowly, but his posture was very weird, and it was by no means as beautiful as the Tai Chi in later generations.

Since this Qingxuzi entered the Fuhuo Fang, he has been reused by Qin and Jin, and has been respected as an immortal in the city, and many people who don't know the truth even bow to him, thinking that he is an immortal invited back by Qin Envoy.

Qin Jin also didn't explain to the outside world, in this kind of situation of no internal and external help, how extravagant it was to be able to let the soldiers have a trace of false and convinced hope!

"If you have something on your mind, it's better to tell the poor Daodao! Say it and it will be much easier!"

Qin Jin rubbed his temples tiredly and sighed: "Yan Bing doesn't retreat, how can I be relaxed!"

"It turns out that the envoy is worried about military affairs, and the poor road can't help, please forgive me!"

Qin Jin glanced at Qing Xuzi angrily, he really regarded himself as an immortal, and he didn't expect to rely on this bull-nosed veteran with an unknown background to retreat.

Thinking of this, Qin Jin suddenly asked, "Are you really a clear void?"

This question actually made Qing Xuzi stunned, and after a while, Qing Xuzi smiled and asked: "Why did the envoy say this? If the poor Dao is not Qing Xuzi, how can there be this secret fire prescription of the Taiqing Palace?"

Qin Jin nodded, he originally asked casually with a bad taste, but when he heard him mention that the Fuhuo formula was actually a secret recipe, he suddenly felt a little funny, and he didn't expect that this gunpowder ratio recipe had actually become a treasure that could be passed down to the world.

Of course, the Taoist priest did not use this fire recipe for the purpose of making gunpowder, but for the purpose of alchemy, in order to burn the immortal elixir with real fire. It's just ridiculous that those who ask for immortals and ask in order to live forever end up being poisoned by heavy metals because of taking the elixir, and they damage their bodies prematurely, but they become short-lived ghosts.

"Have real people ever practiced pills?"

Qing Xuzi raised his flabby eyelids and looked at Qin Jin with some playfulness.

"How, the envoy also wants to ask for the elixir? No wonder the poor are so talkative, and the elixir is more sincere and effective. Although the poor Dao is clumsy, he can also see that the king has the aura of killing blood, and the pills and other things are only disadvantageous to the envoy, not beneficial!"

Qin Jin smiled, although this Qingxuzi said that the clouds and mountains were foggy, but after all, he tactfully told him that it was not good to eat the elixir, and he was not the kind of person who pretended to be a god and deceived him. If Qing Xuzi had the slightest intention of tricking him into taking pills just now, Qin Jin would never keep this person in the army.

Since the words talked about the good and bad of the pill, Qin Jin changed his words and talked about the ingredients of the pill with Qing Xuzi.

"I've often heard of the Tantra Pill and the Three Immortal Pills before, but I wonder if the real person has ever taken them?"

Qing Xuzi stared at Qin Jin for a while before saying, "Poor Dao only alchemy pills, not pills!"

Hearing this answer, Qin Jin looked Qing Xuzi up and down for a while, and said playfully: "I'm afraid that if a real person takes these two pills all year round, he won't live so long!"

Although the words are abused and abused, the implicit meaning is that the elixir not only cannot prolong people's life, but will be suspected of breaking life.

Qing Xuzi was so smart that he couldn't see the meaning of Qin Jin's words, and immediately said with a smile:

"The number of longevity is determined by heaven, people have good and evil, and taking the elixir will naturally have different profits and losses. The first emperor only took the elixir for a lifetime of fifty, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also took the elixir, but he had a lifespan of seventy, how much of it was the power of the elixir, who in the world can tell clearly?"

The old way is to love to make a fuss, saying that the popular point is nothing more than that the foundation of the individual body is different, and the heavy metals of the elixir are mostly oxides, which are not enough to be acute and fatal, and the accumulation of disease will also go through a long-term process. Maybe Qin Shi Huang could live to fifty-five without eating the elixir, and it is unknown if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could live to seventy-nine without eating the elixir!

"When I was a child, I once read a medical book that said that the three elixirs use cinnabar as an auxiliary material, and cinnabar is actually an abnormal thing of mercury, and the poison of mercury must be known to real people. Tantra pills use lead as an excipient, and lead is the most poisonous thing, and if you take too much, you can make people lose their heirs......"

Before Qin Jin's words were finished, Qing Xuzi's complexion had already changed several times. Cinnabar and lead are indeed essential materials for alchemy, but these two things have become harmful poisons in Qin Jin's mouth.

"This, this, the poor road has no malice towards the envoy, the heart of the poor road can be shown every day, and there is no deception!"

In the final analysis, Qin Jin didn't believe his set of nonsense about the Fuhuo Fang, a Taoist priest in Laojun Mountain did not go to attach the prince of heaven to the princes and ministers, but came to Jiangxian County, a place where birds don't, looking for a county guard to take refuge, who can believe it? Anyway, he doesn't believe it!

In the past, Qin Jin needed to use him to configure gunpowder, so he couldn't bear it for the time being. But on that day, there was a dangerous situation that Yan Bing went straight to the office, and the prisoner confessed that there were indeed spies in the city, so it is no wonder that he pointed the finger of suspicion at Qing Xuozi.