The spy troops set up by the first emperor in various post stations were only a prototype, and by the time the current emperor Chu Rui arrived, it had developed to at least one dark spot every eighty miles.

All intelligence officers directly under the emperor have a gold medal from the emperor, and in the process of sending the letter back to Beijing, they can exchange the best horses for the post, and those who are blocked on the road can also be killed immediately by the knife, without paying for their lives.

Li Mao himself used this group of people to deliver letters, and it only took a few days from Fenzhou to the capital. These well-trained post officers were of excellent physical fitness, and were trained to stay awake for days and nights, and to be unmoved when they were bumpy on their horses.

Li Mao had thought that this expedited officer might have gone south to deliver the news of Fan Yang's city break, after all, the scouts who came out of Fan Yang were hurrying along the post road, and there must have been warnings at the post stations along the way. But Li Mao never expected that not only Fanyang City was broken, but Zhuo County, which was not far from Fanyang, was also besieged.

How bold are these thieves to do this? After all, Fan Yang is a big city, after taking Fan Yang, even if the reckless general is the first thing to do, it is to stabilize the situation and accommodate the remnants, otherwise Fan Yang's loss will only be a matter of an instant.

At this time, the troops were divided and then went south, unless they were completely sure to take Zhuo County, otherwise once these people were lost here, the strength of Fan Yang's group would be weakened.

Is there something hidden inside, or is the Lord going to be stupid? Or maybe you get carried away?

Li Mao and Yuan Xi both thought of this, and their eyes lit up.

At this time, if you rescue Zhuo County and eat this batch of anti-thieves, then Fan Yang City can be profitable!

"May I ask this post officer, the sky is high and the sea is wide, how many fish do you have in the sea?" What Li Mao said was the incision of the dark post.

The postman was shaken, and immediately returned: "There are four." Divided into south, east and west. ”

"The wind is high and the waves are high, so be careful."

"Lord Xie cares."

Li Mao asked the post officer a lot of questions, and he was relieved to know that he had obtained the information from Zhang Ning and Zhang Zhi's brothers. At least the Zhang brothers in Zhuo County are fine at this time, and they can still give a warning, indicating that they have been prepared for a long time.

When he asked what he wanted to ask, he immediately called the general to give up a good horse, let the post officer change the ride, and then sent him away.

"Master Li, now do you want to go straight to Juyong Pass, or do you divide your troops and go to Zhuo County?" Yuan Xi was reinstated by the official and returned to the north in order for him to receive all the remnants of the Dingbei Army and guard Fanyang after reorganization, in order to march north.

As a result, half of Fan Yang was gone, some of the remaining soldiers of the Dingbei Army were still resisting the thieves in Youzhou, and some of them were alive and dead in Fanyang City, and there were at least tens of thousands of well-equipped men and horses in Pinglu City and Hua Peng, who were transferred from the mountain, but the road was blocked and could not communicate, and Fan Yang cut off the passage on both sides, and even supplies became a problem.

Fan Yang! Fan Yang!

Fan Yang Lu should be killed!

Yuan Xi himself did not lead the troops, the 30,000 Chinese troops were allocated to Li Mao by the emperor, one to maneuver, the second to protect safety, and the third to meet the backlash when Fan Yang uprooted the spies, and the 30,000 Chinese troops had to suppress the uprising.

So at this moment, Yuan Xi, who has no soldiers and no generals, wants to ask Li Mao to decide the itinerary.

"Master Li, if you want to go to Juyongguan or Zhuo County, please let me go north first." Qin Gang, who came with the army to collect his deceased father's corpse, arched his hand to the two adults. "My father was unfortunately killed, and I am going to Fanyang to find my father's body."

"At this time, Fanyang City has been occupied by anti-thieves, and Brother Qin is still better to walk with us. If there is the right time, we will recapture Fanyang and welcome back the coffin of the old general Qin. ”

Qin Gang was born in Jiangmen, and naturally knew that once the city was broken, the body of the commander of the first army would definitely be more than lucky, but he really didn't want to accept this fact in his heart, and he just wanted to go to Fanyang City to see the situation, and wanted to find out if his father's body was still there.

Li Mao and Yuan Xi both knew that his hope was slim, so they tried their best to stop it, but Qin Gang's personality was stubborn and rigid, and he insisted on leaving the team and going north on his own.

He was only with the army, and he was not assigned any official position, and Li Mao couldn't control him. But the Qin family and the Li family also have a friendship now, and Li Mao couldn't bear to watch him go to death, so he ordered his own soldiers to tie him up and prevent him from making rash moves.

It is naturally impossible for the generals of the Qin family to watch their masters being controlled, but the Chinese army brought by Li Mao is not an ornament, and they can only be subdued one by one, and continue to move forward with the army.

When camping at noon, Li Mao and Mr. Chen Yi discussed it and decided to go to Juyong Pass first, and then let the guards of Juyong Pass send troops to Zhuo County to rescue Zhuo County.

There are many people in Zhuoxian County, and the brave and strong people in the township are all locals, and they must fight to protect the city. There is a city wall to block, and Zhang Ning Zhang Zhi is in command, it is expected that there are only 20,000 cavalry, if you don't bring siege equipment, you can still hold it for a few days.

Yuan Xi is the general of Zhenbei and can't lead the Chinese army, and Li Mao is only a superintendent of the army, so he doesn't know the war, and he personally leads the Chinese army to the front line, which may add chaos and lose troops, so it is better to hand it over to a professional.

If Zhang Zhi was here, he wouldn't be so embarrassed.

Just when Li Mao and his entourage rushed to Juyong Pass, Zhuoxian ushered in a team of anti-thieves.

The general is under the banner of "Yin", but behind him is a group of Hu people with strange hairstyles and leather clothes.

When the thieves came, the people around who received the news helped the old and the young, and were pouring into the city, they were about to finish, suddenly saw the dust in the distance, the city tower beat the drum and blow the trumpet, the people at the city gate hurriedly rushed forward, the crowd behind them rushed forward, and for a while, Zhuo County outside the city cried and screamed, and it became a mess.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Zhi immediately rushed down to the city, leading a team of generals to personally command the order. I don't know how many small countries in the border of the Western Regions, Xihu has repeatedly committed border crimes, he has been guarding the city for a long time, has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and is a regular general, once commanded, the city gate immediately has the backbone, the people quickly poured into the city, the soldiers who defended the city closed the city gate, and guarded the palace after the invisible battlements.

Fan Yangcheng divided his troops and attacked Yanzhou's more than 20,000 troops, which were the direct troops of Yin Tianyi, the crown prince of the Yin Dynasty. This anti-thief army is not the same command within the army, this time to the south, with the descendants of the King of Qiyang and the general Wang Taihe more than 10,000 troops, supplemented by more than 8,000 horses of the Yin Dynasty.

Yin Dynasty Yu sin in the early years of the Guanwai discovered copper mines, the financial resources are amazing, the King of Qiyang has been relying on the Yin Dynasty descendants to fund, the two sides with a huge amount of money to raise strong horses, Wang Taihe is in the name of improving the armament of the acquisition of a large number of advanced weapons in the Great Chu, including the Great Chu artifact "Shenji crossbow".

Now that they are marching south, most of them are using the original layout of the Yin Dynasty in the north, and the scouts, assassins and Neiying are all working together, and Youzhou is very easy to take, which is simply beyond Wang Taihe's expectations.

Now it is easy to fight, the descendants of the Yin Dynasty want to take Youzhou as the foundation and gradually operate, in order to map the Central Plains, but the son of the king of Qiyang wants to avenge his father, all the way to the capital Luoyang, and cut off the head of Chu Rui's family to sacrifice the flag.

Wang Taihe used to go out of the customs every year through military training, and he had a good relationship with the largest tribe, the Toth Department, in the customs department, so he went to the Toth department first in a hurry. The descendants of the Yin Dynasty opened mines in the north of Youzhou, mostly relying on Wang Taihe's way to enter the pass, and as soon as Wang Taihe came out of the customs, the money and grain were not able to be helped, so there was Zhang Taishi who returned to the capital, and then took the opportunity to start an incident.

If you don't fight back, so many soldiers and horses raised have no supplies, and the first one will mutiny and kill the boss first.

Now Wang Taihe is bent on going south directly, and he can fight as much territory as he can, and it is best to enter the capital. Yin Tianyi wanted to advance gradually, with the help of the influence of the Yin Dynasty in the north, slowly encroaching on Youzhou and Yanzhou, and then pointing directly to the Central Plains.

It is also easy to understand that the remnants of the Yin Dynasty rebelled to fight for the world, while the King of Qiyang rebelled later to take revenge, the goals of the two are different, and of course the actions and thoughts are also different.

But the Hu people outside the gate came to the Central Plains to rob, and when they heard that the Han people of the Yin Dynasty had conquered Youzhou, they didn't want to move, so of course they didn't do it. The Central Plains is vast, and they can't wait to grab it clean and then return to Guanwai, so they almost didn't listen to the command and went south without permission.

Hu Ren, who was very friendly at the beginning, suddenly showed a hideous face, and Chu Wei and Yin Tianyi, the sons of King Qiyang, were also very worried in their hearts. The non-U-tribes have different hearts, and they have gradually discovered the danger of the tail.

But the Hu people have far more soldiers and horses than them, and at this time they went south together, and they just saw a little result, and it was not the time to turn their faces. Now they have Fanyang and Youzhou many clans to take refuge, about to have soldiers, people, money, and money, when they are full-fledged, and then trick the Hu people to attack the difficult town checkpoints, and wait for them to lose heavy losses and kill donkeys.

It's just that at this time, they need to continue to taste the sweetness.

Yin Tianyi thought of several important towns in the north of Yanzhou that had been infiltrated by Mrs. Zhang, and it was just right to take it at this time, which could not only rely on Fan Yang but also appease the restless emotions of the Hu people, so he ordered his henchmen to take the Hu people to Zhuo County and Huaishuo in Yanzhou.

The Hu people of the Hanhai Ten Divisions had been rejected by Yuan Xi's Dingbei army in the early years, and the Han people were strong and strong, and they had sharp arrows and blades to defend the city, and these Hu people easily did not dare to offend. Now they have the weapons and assistance of the Han people to follow all the way south, but they easily destroyed most of the cities in Youzhou like a devastating deterioration, robbed countless gold, silver and jewelry, and slaughtered the Han people like slaughtering cattle and sheep.

Archery is not as good as their Hu people, and it is not good to fight alone. If you want to talk about conspiracy and trickery, they are indeed inferior to the Han people, but now that there are Han people who fight their own people, they don't even have to care about these conspiracies and tricks, they just need to bury their heads and rush to kill.

It turns out that it is much easier to kill Han people than wolves!

Just as Li Mao once feared, once the Hu people are bloodthirsty, they will be like tigers out of the gate, and they will become an eternal nightmare for the Central Plains.

When Youzhou is lost, it is not only the people of the country who are lost, but also the awe of the Han people of the northern Guanwai tribes.

They felt that they should help each other, and besides, it was too smooth to fight all the way, so they didn't even bring siege equipment, only 20,000 elite soldiers rushed south, and arrived around Zhuo County in less than two days.

This team of Hu and Han mixed formations arrived at the city of Zhuoxian, because they thought that someone must be answering inside, so they drove their horses very close, and waited for the north gate of Lu to open the city gate to welcome them into the city.

Then as before, the people who resisted could be killed, and Nei Ying could take over the officials of Dachu to defend the city, and then drive the people of Zhuo County to continue to attack the city in the south.

But Yin Tianyi's henchmen and Hu Ren had already arrived very close, and they didn't hear the sound of fighting in the city gate, and the city gate didn't move at all, so he felt a little bad in his heart.

Zhang Zhi stood at the head of the city, and when the generals reported that the enemy general and most of the Hu people had entered the firing range, he shouted, "Shoot the arrow!" ”

In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired, and the Han generals and Hu people led by them were hit by countless arrows in front of the city gate, like hedgehogs.

Although Zhuo County is not as dangerous as before, the folk customs in the north are far more fierce than in the south, and the young people in the city can make bows and arrows, and the city is urgently called, hundreds of bows, and thousands of arrows are available. At this time, Zhang Zhi commanded the battle at the head of the city, but the blacksmith shop in the city did not stop the fire, building weapons and arrows day and night, and there were headhunters in the city with strong men to dismantle the stone masonry and stone walls, just so that there would be something to defend the city in the future.

Now there is a tense atmosphere in the whole city, everyone is in danger, and everyone is gnashing their teeth at this anti-thief. Da Chu Chengping has been peaceful for a long time, and he has already won the hearts of countless people, at this time, there are anti-thieves who are in trouble, how can they not hate?

Besides, the defenders of Zhuoxian County were hit by a blow, and the army's heart was suddenly shaken, and thunderous cheers and cheers erupted on the wall.

Zhang Ning stood at the head of the city and scolded at the frightened thieves under the city:

"Since ancient times, emperors have ruled the world, and they have all lived in the Central Plains to control Yidi, and Yidi has lived outside to serve the country of the Son of Heaven. Xihu ruled the world by living in China, resulting in the destruction of the people's livelihood, the abolition of the Gangchang, the great Chu was born in response to the fortune of heaven, the expulsion of Hulu, the restoration of rivers and mountains, the establishment of the Chen Ji, the relief of the people, the rescue of the people, the restoration of the prestige of the Han officials, only now there is the rule of the world. ”

"As a former dynasty and a queen, when you know that Yidi is a wolf with ambitions, now you actually lure wolves into the house, so that the liver and brain of the dead in my Central Plains are smeared, and the flesh and blood of the living are not guaranteed, you simply forgot the surname of your ancestors, but went to the name of the beast!"

"You have succeeded through Yidi, and you have used many intrigues and tricks to lose the hearts of the people first, and then to lose benevolence and righteousness, and you will surely turn away from the people. Although it can be used for a while, it will be abandoned if it is disgusted with its virtue! ”

"Now I, the Zhang family of Yanzhou and the 100,000 people of Zhuoxian County, swear to defend the city to the death, if you want to break the city, take your life to resist!"

"If you are unkind and unjust, heaven will abandon it!"

"Swear to protect the city, you will take your life to resist!"

"The remnants of the previous dynasty, the beasts!"

Everyone on the city wall spat one after another, and even more angry people made all kinds of insults to the Han people below, causing the Han soldiers under the city to turn blue and purple, and almost angry.

This group of Hu people has been relying on the command of the Han generals to fight, at this time the leader of the general has died, there are a large number of people in the city, and they have already come to the city to deal with it. The general who commanded was killed, and the adjutant general could only take over the command.

At this time, the morale was low, and they were tired soldiers from afar, and it was impossible to use 20,000 people to attack such a well-prepared town, so they could only lead the Hu people to retreat, temporarily withdrawing from the range of bows and arrows to watch the battle.

Zhang Zhi secretly hated that there were no soldiers and horses in the city, this was the best time to raid, their bows and arrows defending the city caught the other party off guard, and the enemy general died, if there were soldiers and horses in the city, he led the army out of the city at this time, and he would definitely be able to make a miraculous feat.

It's just that the thieves are all cavalry, and the soldiers in the city are all infantry, and now they can only think about it, there is no blood on the knife, but they can take advantage of it.

For a while, all the village warriors who had been ready to defend the city desperately used their mouths as knives and scolding words as arrows to scold the thieves under the city.

They originally had a string in their heads, and whoever suddenly told them that there was a thief coming to attack the city in a half-dream, and the Hu people were cruel, and the city must be broken by chickens and dogs, as long as there is some blood, they must be sworn to stick to it. At this time, when they saw that Master Zhang scolded away the anti-thieves with a few words, their morale was even greater, and they felt that these anti-thieves were nothing more than that, and they vented their inner tension and fear by scolding people one by one.

Zhang Zhizhi asked, why did these young men scold so red-faced and thick-necked, and why did some people scold and suddenly cry.

Zhuo County is adjacent to Youzhou, at this time there are thieves coming to Zhuo County, it must be that the north has been lost, these people have many relatives and friends in Youzhou, as long as they think of how this batch of thieves came from, the heart is sad.

More people are actually very afraid in their hearts, and they just endure the weakness in their hearts for the sake of the homeland behind them, and take up arms and stand on the head of the city. Zhuoxian County has not been a border pass for a long time, and the people have not been armed with swords for a long time, and it is normal to be afraid in their hearts.

Zhang Zhi remembered that in Liangzhou, the Hu people in Guannei were friendly with the Han people, and when they fought, they often came to the aid of the Hu people in Guannei, and the Han people were not afraid of Xihu, and they could distinguish between different ethnic groups.

But the Hu people in the north have been resisted to the north of Youzhou since the Jin Dynasty was rejected from the country, and the first appearance of hideousness made these Central Plains people who had almost forgotten what the Hu people looked like to be frightened, forgetting that they also had flesh and blood, and they would die if they were shot.

Youzhou has been an important town since ancient times, and the countryside behind the border pass is sparsely populated, and there is no decent defense. Youzhou is a bitter cold place, there are few people outside the Seychelles, and there are not many people in the Guan, the anti-thief army went south, opened the door by fraud, and entered Youzhou as if it was a no-man's land, although there are reasons for internal chaos, I am afraid that there are also reasons why the people of Youzhou have relied too much on the border army for so many years, and they have no fighting spirit.

Youzhou has completely fallen, and these people have no way to escape, no danger to take, so they will wake up and fight desperately to survive.

What a Youzhou clan.

Zhang Zhi snorted disdainfully in his heart.

It's just some losers who are scared and panicked when they lose their home grange.

On the other side, the Han general, who retreated with the Hu people, heard the insults from the city and almost crushed a mouthful of teeth.

These people thought that the man surnamed Zhang had scolded them and ran away!

And it's a shameful escape!

Which of their eyes hears that they are being scolded and run? They were so far away that the surname Zhang couldn't hear what he said!

Why don't you step back and stay there waiting for the arrows to fire?

They fled with arrows, what does it have to do with the mouth surnamed Zhang?

And shame! Look at the soldiers behind him......

Well, it seems like a little ashamed.

But the Hu people can't understand Chinese, and they're ashamed of a big-headed ghost!

This can't work, this will be spread in the future, and you still have to be a man in the army!

What 20,000 elite soldiers were scolded by one person and fled with a dirty face, and what was scolded could only be stiffened by the neck!

He didn't want to be called "the general who was scolded and ran away" in the future.

When this man thought of this, he wanted to turn around and scold.

But after all, he is a Han Chinese, and most of the scolding of those people is right, and he really has no position.

And he didn't have enough courage to run to the nearest place to scold, so he could only stare dryly.

This Han general has a Hu leader beside him, and his name sounds like a bald in Chinese, and this person heard the excitement of the crowd in the city, and the scolding was continuous, and the liver fire in his belly was also moved, and he even asked the Han general what the city head was talking about.

Although this Han general is one of Yin Tianyi's henchmen, and he was ordered to attack Zhuo County with this group of Hu people, he actually looks down on Hu people in his heart, and he is also aggrieved that he can only rely on Hu people for his own family.

He didn't say that most of the soldiers in the city scolded were them thieves, but he just recounted the part that scolded Yidi.

His voice was quite loud, and as soon as these Hu people heard it, they immediately became angry, and suddenly dozens of Hu people young people stepped forward and scolded them from the other side.

"Whoa, Grandma Sabruth, Grandma Slandy!" (The Han people are all weak chickens that are inferior to cattle and sheep!) ）

"Si'an Ci'en sang to the four-volume type Hua Feng to go to Oh De die!" (When we kill you, we will make your life worse than death!) ）

The Hu people have a very loud voice, and these grassland people love to sing in the wilderness, and at first glance, the Han people in the city are stunned.

What a loud voice!

But......

What exactly do they say?

No matter what you say, scold back first!

Kyocaka.

The military reports of Yanzhou 800 miles of expedited and Youzhou military stations are almost the front and back feet to the capital.

The people of Beijing have not seen the urgent documents at the border for nearly ten years, and when they saw the colorful flags coming, they still took a rare look at them and talked about them everywhere.

However, soon, the news of the destruction of Fanyang City spread throughout the capital like a virus, and the people were panicked. The displaced people who fled south from the north gathered outside the city, and after learning the news, they were full of sorrow, and the people around the capital could not help but feel bitter in their hearts when they met people who wept bitterly, and scolded the border army for being incompetent.

The destruction of Fanyang City gave Chu Rui a huge blow, and also gave Da Chu a huge blow.

Without the Duke of Jin and the Duke of Xinguo, the dynasty is like a whirlpool, and as soon as anyone speaks, they can fall into endless quarrels.

At this time, Li Mao's recital was also sent to the capital along with the post station, and after Chu Rui opened it, he found that there were only eight words written on the paper.

"Therefore, follow the power, please take the favor."