Seeing Xiguancheng, about to leave the mouth of the Saohe Valley, the tight and narrow river surface began to relax again, Qin Jin suddenly stopped and pointed to the frozen river.

"Gather Ding Zhuang and cut a ten-step-wide opening in the wide river here!"

Zheng Xianli said worriedly: "If the spy goes over Nanshan to explore the road and finds that we have dug the surface of the river, wouldn't it be a surprise to the snake?"

Chen Qianli immediately replied: "This is simple, we can send spies against Hu Neng, we can also send sentry spies, scatter them on the mountain, and kill one if they come!"

The Nanshan mountain wall on which the Soo River is located is almost parallel to the Nanguan city wall in Xin'an, steep and steep, and there are only a few places that can accommodate people to climb up and down, and Chen Qianli's suggestion is a good way.

Qin Jin waved his hand, "There is no need to be like this, the ice was chiseled before this evening, and it will freeze again tomorrow morning, and then ask someone to sprinkle a layer of snow on it, and no one can see it if it is kept!

Everyone suddenly forgot about this stubble! Didn't the water surface of the Jianhe River outside the wall in the east of the city also have to be chiseled with ice every day to prevent it from freezing and becoming strong?

The waiting time was long and anxious, and two days later, a large army could not be sent from the direction of Luoyang to attack the city, and then a rumor spread from the hidden channels in Luoyang City to Xin'an City.

An Lushan was suffering from an extremely serious eye disease, and was begging for medicine from immortals everywhere, and some people even directly said that Reverse Hu was already blind! For this news, everyone in Xin'an will be suspicious, in their eyes, An Lushan is wide and fat, how could he have suffered from an eye disease after taking Luoyang sooner or later?

But Qin Jin suddenly remembered a description of An Lushan on Baidu Encyclopedia, "The body is obese, he has boils all year round, and his vision gradually blurs after the rebellion, until he is completely blind"! This is a typical chronic complication of diabetes, and it has reached an extremely serious point, so the rumor that An Lushan suffers from eye disease at this moment may not be groundless!

Perhaps this is the reason why the rebels have not moved westward in a big way.

In fact, as long as you spread out the map of Henan Province in Dugi Province, you can also understand one or two from it, Luoyang to the east is Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other important places, to the south is Huainan Province's grain, rice and wealth land, to the west is the place where Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Empire, is located. What's more, the twenty-four counties of Hebei Province returned to the Tang Dynasty overnight, and the back road of the anti-Hu rebels was in danger of being cut off at any time.

An Lushan occupied Luoyang, the land of the four wars, which was actually equivalent to roasting himself on the fire. It is necessary to send troops to Hebei Province to quell the chaos, but also to attack Qingyan, Huainan and other places, and the available troops may naturally be overstretched, and the same Luo Department is the same name as An Lushan's personal guard Luohe Tibetan army, and no one may have thought that it would be under the small city of Xin'an, broken halberds and sunk sand, and defeated under the hands of a little-known county lieutenant.

The longer he waited, the more pressure on Qin Jin's heart became, and he didn't know which of the rebels would eventually be dispatched to attack Xin'an?

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Thirty miles west of Luoyang, the eastern capital, there is a small city named Cijian on the north bank of the valley, and the rebel general Sun Xiaozhe led 50,000 troops here. Sun Xiaozhe had just received an order from An Lushan, and all the people and horses west of Dugi Province were controlled by him, including the Tongluo tribe who had just fled back from defeat.

The leader of the Tongluo tribe, Du Mo, was blinded in his right eye by the Tang army with a heavy crossbow, and the wound affected the whole head, and he was irritable, "Bring that old man to Lao Tzu!" If it weren't for the iron armor mask blocking most of the strength of the crossbow arrows, he would have been pierced through his brain by a heavy crossbow arrow. Du Mo was holding back a bad breath and had nowhere to vent, not wanting that old man to throw his clan to the east and be bumped into by his generals.

An iron guard came to the military tent and replied indignantly: "The old man was taken away by Sun Xiaozhe's people......"

Du Mo was blind in one eye, hated the old husband, and wanted to concoct it well and let out a bad breath, but now he was preempted by Sun Xiaozhe again, and he couldn't help but scold.

"What kind of thing is the woman, and now she is riding on Lao Tzu's head to and pee!"

Sun Xiaozhe's mother had an affair with An Lushan, and he himself was deeply trusted and reused by An Lushan, which made many unruly brave and fierce people jealous, and they insulted him in private.

If someone else robbed his prisoner, Du Mo would definitely bring someone to the door, not only to take the person back, but also to beat the other party to kneel and beg for mercy. But he was afraid of An Lushan, so he didn't dare to touch Sun Xiaozhe, who was deeply favored by him, and could only sulk alone with hatred.

Fan Changming, a townsman, was flattered by Sun Xiaozhe's high courtesy, with tears in his old eyes, choked up and told about the enmity he couldn't get rid of with the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

"The revenge of killing the son is not shared, God is fortunate to have Dr. An to hang the people and fight against the traitors, otherwise the old decay will not know who to tell the grievances that are deeper than the sea, General Wanwang will uphold justice and return the world to a bright future!"

Fan Changming's words were conclusive, and he said that the rebellion was full of righteousness, although Sun Xiaozhe felt funny when he heard it, he was also very useful, and even echoed a few words, but he was a Khitan, and his stomach was limited, and what he said was some foul words that could not be put on the table.

"The old decay is here to help the general take Xin'an!"

Fan Changming's triangular eyes flashed with a faint light, as long as he could avenge his two sons, he would even do anything. However, one of his hot faces was firmly attached to the cold ass.

"Let's talk about this matter later! Let's talk about the attitude and views of the local township towards our Northern Army......

Obviously, Sun Xiaozhe's interest was not in attacking Xin'an, but more about the nearby customs, he picked up important questions, and praised a few words, then waved his hand to send the old man away, and did not give Fan Changming a chance to express his siege strategy. Sun Xiaozhe, as a close confidant of An Lushan, has received definite news that An Lushan will officially ascend the throne as emperor in the first month of the next year, and the country will be named Dayan.

Understanding the views of the people in the village on Yan Jun is also one of Sun Xiaozhe's tasks. In other words, buying people's hearts has become the first problem, and the Yan army can no longer burn and loot as it did when it just started its army. Therefore, for Fan Changming, a local old man from the countryside, Li Zheng is the object of his efforts.

As for the inability to attack Xin'an City, Sun Xiaozhe believes that Dumo's arrogance and incompetence are the main reasons. As long as the city is attacked in a down-to-earth manner, the Yan army has raised troops to attack the Tang Dynasty until now, and there is no city that cannot be attacked! Of course, Yan Zhenqing's Pingyuan County is an exception.

Before he was ordered to go on the expedition, Sun Xiaozhe had already made sufficient preparations, and even knew the history of Xin'an hundreds of years ago. To put it bluntly, this is just a Guancheng that has been abandoned since the Han Dynasty, and according to the description of the locals, the current Xin'an Tucheng has long ceased to be the majestic and dangerous Hanhan Valley Pass of the year, and the city wall is only two zhang high, and Ding Zhuangman, who can defend the city in Xin'an County, will not exceed seven or eight thousand people.

I heard that the idiot killed a lot of people outside Xin'an City, and now the defenders in the city have long been exhausted and have become the end of the crossbow. In Sun Xiaozhe's view, he took advantage of the situation with a large army at this time, which was equivalent to picking up a cheap advantage in vain.

It's a shame that the old man was ashamed to say that he could help the Yan army capture Xin'an, and he wanted to laugh when he thought of Sun Xiaozhe.

In the early morning of the next day, Sun Xiaozhe issued a military order, and the army was divided into three armies, the front, the middle and the rear, and marched out in order to attack Xin'an. Tongluo was also among the armies that were opened, but it was arranged by Sun Xiaozhe at the bottom of the rear army. He didn't want this Tiele man, who couldn't control his emotions, to ruin his marching plan.

Cijian was only a day's journey from Xin'an, and after a night's march, Sun Xiaozhe's former army finally arrived in Xin'an after noon, but the scene in front of him was something he had never seen before.

The rammed earth city wall of Xin'an is indeed no more than two zhang high, but there are actually two ice walls at a distance of dozens of steps away from the rammed earth city wall.

"Beat the drums, siege the city!"

The sound of drums shook the earth in an instant, and thousands of foot soldiers carried the ladder and held the shield mountain and roared towards Xin'an.

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At the head of Xin'an City, Captain Qi Bihe looked around, only to see the flags waving in front of him, and the people and horses were winding endlessly, as if they were endless. Sure enough, Shaofujun was right, and the rebels against Hu would send tens of thousands of troops to attack the city again, and they were determined to win.

He coldly watched the first group of siege rebels swarming up, and a rather strange expression suddenly appeared on his face.

Just as the besieging rebels were about to reach the first ice wall, they collapsed more than a dozen paces away. The thin surface of the ice shattered, and the river below rushed out, engulfing the rebels who rushed to the front in an instant.

Because it was winter, the water volume of the river dropped sharply, and the adult man could only reach his waist in the middle of the river, but suddenly the northerners were not accustomed to water, and fell into the icy river water in the cold winter, the rebels panicked and shouted, kicked and struggled in the water, and many people lost consciousness after choking a few mouthfuls of cold river water, and were drowned alive in waist-deep water.

The soldiers who caught up with them stopped their footsteps, no longer charged forward, and crowded on the bank of the river to be in a dilemma, and the people behind did not know the situation and continued to advance, so that the rebels on the bank of the river were like dumplings, and were squeezed into the cold and biting river.

Sun Xiaozhe saw that he had fallen into the trap of the Tang army, and knew that his morale had fallen, so he urged the attack to increase casualties, even if he captured Xin'an, it would not be beautiful, so he decisively ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and fought again tomorrow after resting!

The sound of the clash of gold and iron echoed over the battlefield, and the Tang army at the head of Xin'an City broke out into bursts of cheers, and the momentum penetrated the sky.

After losing the first battle, Sun Xiaozhe was also very calm, and ordered to camp two miles outside the city of Xin'an Dongguan, and at the same time ordered someone to invite Fan Changming, a townsman who came with the army!

Du Mo followed the rear army to arrive outside Xin'an City in the evening of the same day, and when he heard that Sun Xiaozhe had suffered a loss in the first battle, he had such an expression and felt a bad breath in his chest!

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