The blood spilled is the regret of the hero's unpaid ambition, the fallen body, the promise that the hero cannot keep, the blurred vision in front of him, the distant shouting and killing in his ears, the last breath in his mouth and nose, and the unfinished hegemonic ambition of his life, all turned into green smoke and dissipated tactfully in the wind.

Xiao Lan quietly watched Sun Jian fall, sighed in his mouth, and said: "This Sun Jian can be regarded as a generation of heroes, let's bury his bones alive!" ”

"No!" The surrounding soldiers hurriedly responded.

"If he hadn't fallen for the master's strategy, he would have been injured in the front and exhausted in the back, enough to fight me, but it's a pity that he is a good opponent!" Dian Wei also sighed, and immediately followed Xiao Lan away.

Leaving the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, Xiao Lan did not stop for a moment, and led 10,000 elite horsemen to Xiangyang, and only halfway there, there was good news.

With the help of Gan Ning, a fierce general who had newly surrendered, Wei Yan broke the defense of Xiangyang with the help of Xun You's strategy and had already taken Xiangyang City.

By the time Xiao Lan arrived in Xiangyang, almost all of the nine counties of Jingzhou had been brought under the control of the Taiping army, and Wen Ping, who had been captured for a long time, finally surrendered and annexed.

In Jizhou, there are also frequent good news, the two armies have more than 300,000 troops, and they are loyal to the strategy, plus Huang Zhong, Chen Zhi, Zhou Tai, Xu Sheng, Zang Ba, Yu Ban, Geng Ling and many other generals, they have won most of Jizhou, and there are more generals such as Tai Shici, Zhang He, and Gao Ran.

Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, with Lu Su presiding over the overall situation, plus there is no shortage of elite generals, the same smooth performance, all in all, the current situation of the Taiping Army, a very good.

However, Xiao Lan was not satisfied with this, and never stopped the pace of marching troops, and transferred Xu He, Zhang He, and Yu Yu to Xiangyang from Jizhou. Go to capture Hanzhong.

At this time, Hanzhong was too guarded by Sugu, because he did not go all the way with Liu Yan, so Liu Yan was crusading against Zhang Lu and was in the midst of war. With such a great opportunity to seize Hanzhong, Xiao Lan naturally will not let it go.

However, his main purpose was to get the whole of Yizhou, so at the same time as he ordered to march into Hanzhong. At the same time, he ordered Wei Yan and Gan Ning to lead 30,000 troops from Jianping to attack Badong City, as the vanguard of the march into Yizhou, and Xiao Lan and Dian Wei led 50,000 troops behind.

Badong City can only be regarded as a small city, and the defenders are only more than a thousand people, how can they resist Wei Yan's 30,000 army, and they don't even have the intention of setting up camp. It only took half an hour before and after, and the city was forcibly taken!

After capturing Badong City, Wei Yan and the others just took a short rest, and that day they were advancing non-stop towards the next goal, which was the first fortress to defend the east of Yizhou, Ba County!

Since Liu Yan entered Sichuan, Yizhou has pursued a retreat policy, so in several border towns in Yizhou, Liu Yan has deployed heavy guards. The Badong that Wei Yan won before was on the edge of the area. There was no danger to defend, so it was abandoned, but Ba County was a fortress in the border city of Yizhou, so Liu Yan arranged a large number of soldiers and horses here. And the person in charge of guarding Ba County is Yan Yan, the general who has been famous in Yizhou for many years!

Yan Yan's age is about the same as Huang Zhong, but when it comes to reputation, it is too much worse, more than a year. Huang Zhong joined the Taiping Army and followed Xiao Lan to conquer the world, and he had already gained a great reputation, although in the eyes of those scholars, this reputation was not very good.

In contrast, Yan Yan Ke is much more low-key, as a military general from a small family in Yizhou, Yan Yan has always been guarding his hometown of Ba County. With a little ability of his family, Yan Yan slowly climbed to the position of captain. It's just that there are few wars in Yizhou, and Yan Yan, as a military general, has no room to wield it at all, so this credit naturally can't go up!

Therefore, except for the locals of Ba County who know that Yan Yan is an extraordinary warrior, Yan Yan's name is not even very famous in Yizhou.

Fortunately, all this has changed since the Ma Xiang Rebellion a few years ago, and the Yan family where Yan Yan is located has been attached to the Jia family who has been engaged in Jia Long in Yizhou. In order to quell the rebellion, by the way, in front of the newly arrived Yizhou Assassin Shi to show his power, Jia Long called on the big and small families of Yizhou to start suppressing the rebels!

It was in these battles that Yan Yan greatly revealed his strength, and the two major leaders of the rebels, Ma Xiang and Zhao Yan, all died under Yan Yan's sword!

After Liu Yan entered Yizhou, because of Yan Yan's prestige, Liu Yan also began to reuse Yan Yan, and once transferred Yan Yan to Chengdu to listen to orders. However, since last year, the Yizhou family faction of Jia Long's faction has gradually gained the upper hand in the battle with the Yizhou family faction of Dong Fu and Zhao Wei. And Yan Yan was attached to Jia Long, and he began to be slowly rejected by the upper echelons of Yizhou, and finally Zhao Wei slandered Liu Yanjin and transferred Yan Yan back to Bajun to guard.

Wei Yan and Gan Ning, as the pioneers, opened the road in the mountains and built bridges in the water, and soon arrived at the city of Bajun, and the army rested for one night, and early the next morning, the two led the army to call the battle.

In the city of Ba County, Yan Yan, the defender who had already learned that the enemy was coming, had already led 20,000 defenders to tighten the defense on the city, and when he saw the enemy coming, he couldn't help frowning.

There are very few wars in Yizhou, even if there is an occasional dispute with the Nanban, or a rebellion, it will definitely not be able to make up such a lineup, 30,000 troops, the military strength is rigorous and heroic, and it is extraordinary. He thought to himself, I was afraid that this time Yizhou would encounter an unprecedented terrible enemy!

Similarly, seeing that the defenders of Bajun City were rigorous, Wei Yan and Gan Ning did not dare to underestimate them, but along the way, after the battles of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and Jingzhou, Wei Yan had already matured, even Gan Ning, and he was not an ordinary person. ”

The heavy war drums of "dong dong dong ......." thundered, shaking the mountains and rivers, and the 30,000 Taiping soldiers shouted in unison, and their morale was like a rainbow, disturbing the wind and clouds and changing color.

"Who's coming? Why did you violate my Yizhou border! Yan Yan took a deep breath, stabilized his mind, and immediately leaned against the city wall and asked loudly.

Wei Yan waved his hand to stop the drumming, looked up at Yan Yan in the city, and immediately shouted in a deep voice: "I am Wei Yan, the vanguard general under the account of the generalissimo of the Taiping Army, the Han family has no way, and the people are in turmoil, so that the people are not happy, and the world is in chaos, with my Taiping Army rising up to overthrow the tyranny of the Han Dynasty, now Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Sizhou and even Jingzhou have all been included in the Taiping Army. ”

"The Taipings? Wei Yan? Hearing this, Yan Yan couldn't help frowning, although Yizhou was closed, but he had already heard that when the Eighteenth Route Princes allied forces to attack Dong Zhuo, there was a group of anti-thieves who made a lot of trouble, that is, the Taiping thieves headed by Na Xiao Lan, who were so powerful that they were almost not under the original Yellow Turban Thieves.

Only he never expected that it had only been a long time, and most of the Han Dynasty had fallen into the hands of the Taiping thieves, and now, the Taiping thieves had waved their troops to Yizhou, which was really shocking and inexplicable.

"Taiping Army, it's a Taiping thief, right?" Behind Yan Yan, a middle-aged bearded general suddenly asked, this person's surname is Li Mingping, and like Yan Yan, he is a child of the Yizhou family who is attached to Jia Long's side.

However, this Li Ping is far more valued by Jia Long than Yan Yan, Jia Long is suspicious and jealous, and he is not completely at ease with Yan Yan, so he arranged such a henchman as Li Ping by Yan Yan's side, and this Li Ping is also a bit brute force, arrogant, and extremely hostile to Yan Yan.

Hearing Li Ping's unceremonious words, although Yan Yan was a little annoyed in his heart, he still couldn't help but not show it, just nodded, and said in a deep voice: "It should be that they are right, but I didn't expect them to develop so fast, as Wei Yan said, half of the Han Dynasty is afraid that it has already fallen into the hands of thieves." ”

"Hahahaha......." Hearing Yan Yan's words, Li Pingdang laughed loudly, and shouted: "General Yan, you are really going back the older you get, just a Taiping thief, but a role like the original Yellow Turban thief, they don't come to attack me Yizhou, it's okay, now that I'm here, I will definitely let them go around without eating, come on, order all the soldiers and horses, and follow me out of the customs to face the battle!" (To be continued.) )