The night of the steppe was clear and clear, and the Datou Khan rode up the hill to look at the towering city wall in the distance, and the torches at the head of the city reflected the figure of the patrolling sergeant on the city wall, "You said that none of the people sent came back?" Datou Khan asked.

"Yes."

"Is there any news from the Great Khan?" Datou Khan already had a bad premonition in his heart, and he told the Great Khan very early on that he would first attack Anbei and go straight to Chang'an, why did the Great Khan's reinforcements not come so far.

"I haven't heard anything." The subordinate said.

Datou Khan's face twitched, "Send someone again!" Add more people! ”

The subordinate responded to the call.

Datou Khan looked at the city wall with gloomy eyes, he had fought with Jiang Jing almost all his life, his three sons and two grandsons all died under Jiang Jing's hands, and now Jiang Jing's two sons are also dead.

"Khan!" The panicked voices of the subordinates came.

"What's the matter?" Datou Khan asked coldly.

"One of the scouts we sent out has returned." The subordinate felt his mouth dry, "He didn't hear the news from the Great Khan, but he found three tribes, and inside—all the people inside were dead." The subordinate shuddered at the thought of the scout's return, and he said that the tribe had been completely destroyed, all the people had died, and all the cattle and sheep had been killed, and these were the three tribes closest to them, and they were quietly destroyed.

"Did you meet a rogue?" Datou Khan asked suddenly.

"No, the scout said that the men had only burned down all the people, livestock, and tents, and had not taken a penny of supplies, not like they had encountered a rogue." The subordinate said.

"Immediately order the police to be strengthened—" Before Datou Khan could speak, he heard an earth-shattering sound.

"Phew—" The rest of the horses were all startled.

"What's going on?" The Turks are a people who grew up on horseback, and their riding skills were excellent, and they quickly calmed down the frightened horses, but before the horses could be completely quiet, deafening voices rang out one after another.

"It's—" Datou Khan suddenly looked up and saw a fire in the barracks not far from him, "Go back to camp at once!" He roared. But the horses under him galloped wildly without his control, and at this time, the originally closed city gate of the Qin people was slowly opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and countless armored cavalry galloped out of the city.

"It's the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder!" One person suddenly shouted in panic, Daqin has an artifact that can kill people They have heard of it before, but it is not clear how powerful it is to reach the head of the Khan, he has never been in contact with the Great Khan, and it is only hearsay about the weapons of the Qin people.

"Nine Heavens Divine Thunder! It must be the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder! Everyone screamed.

"Grain and grass! The grain and grass camp is burning! "There was another shout in the barracks, and everyone turned white, and if there was no food and grass in wartime, there would be no war.

Lin Xi rode on a horse and looked at the Turkic barracks that bombed the camp, he rushed all the way from Anxi to Anbei, day and night, in order to conceal his whereabouts along the way, he did not leave chickens and dogs everywhere he went, and he fought for nearly a month, he was not tired at all, but had endless excitement, Ah Zhi's cousin died at the hands of Datou Khan, right? Would he be happier if he captured Datou Khan alive?

"General, aren't we going to go up?" Several of Lin Xi's personal guards couldn't bear it anymore, and instead of exhausting them, the continuous killing made them crave blood even more.

"Wait." Lin Xi said in a deep voice, he was waiting for Jiang Jing's soldiers. He rode all the way, he didn't carry much gunpowder with him, the Turkic camp had 300,000 people, and they only had 5,000 people, which was not suitable for attacking, and he came to capture Datou not to send him to death.

"Da-da-" came the faint sound of horses' hooves.

The scout, who had been lying on the ground, jumped up all of a sudden, "General, people are coming!" ”

The corners of Lin Xi's mouth twitched slightly, "Up." With his faint order, he rushed out of the city first, and the guards followed closely.

The strength of the Turks is mounted archery, but the sudden explosion alarmed countless horses, followed by a rain of fire and arrows that made it impossible to ride horses at all, and the dark night blocked the ability of the Turks to shoot arrows, and the people who could aim at the target in the dark were a minority. The unheard-of weapon suppressed the morale of most of the Turkic soldiers at once, and even the bravest man would be terrified at the sight of a weapon that could blow him to pieces. And Lin Xi's soldiers were used to gunpowder and even more accustomed to killing, and with the cooperation of the heavy cavalry sent by Jiang Jing, everyone was red-eyed.

Datou Khan calculated that Anbei's defense line was weaker than Anxi's, and he also calculated that Qin would definitely send people to negotiate peace to delay time, the only thing he didn't calculate was that Qin destroyed the Turkic army of nearly 500,000 at once with gunpowder and sharp weapons, and he didn't calculate that Lin Xi, who was the protector of Anxi, would personally lead the team to come day and night.

"General, what do we do now?" A strong man slashed at the besieging Turkic soldier with a knife and asked with a handful of bloody faces.

"Go and make peace with General Lin and General Jiang." Pei Er's spear shook like a spiritual snake, and he harvested two Turkic soldiers in an instant, he was the leader of the third team of soldiers who ambushed Datou today, and he was also the least numerous, and their task was to blow up the Turkic grain with gunpowder.

"Hey! I can't imagine this little black ball is so powerful! Just a dozen things can blow up hundreds of bags of rice! Another big man took out a small black ball that was lit and threw it vigorously towards the dense place of the Turkic soldiers, and with a "boom", a huge wave of air overturned more than a dozen people at once, "Cool!" It's so cool! After holding it for so many days, I can finally breathe! ”

"Run! This is the Nine Heavens Divine Thunder! We can't beat it! Run! A sergeant beside Pei Er shouted in skilled Turkic at the top of his voice.

"Run! Run! A lot of people chimed in.

In this chaotic time, no one can tell who is stirring up the waters, and the Turkic officers can kill one deserter, but they can't kill two or three...... Countless deserters, especially when an officer was killed by a violent subordinate, the morale of the entire barracks was completely destroyed. Countless Turkic soldiers rushed out desperately, but they were greeted by a dense rain of arrows.

"Uncle, you're fine." Jiang Liu looked at Jiang Jing with a pale face worriedly, his injuries didn't come out again at all, and it would not be good if the wound cracked.

"It's fine." Jiang Jing said lightly, although he went out of the city with the sergeant, he did not really go to the battlefield, and his injuries were not yet healed, so he could not exercise vigorously.

"Uncle, don't worry, the second brother and the third brother will definitely catch the Datou Khan." Jiang Liu thought of the eldest brother and fifth brother who died in the war, a flash of water flashed in his eyes, he was the same age as Jiang Xu, and the two grew up together and had a very good relationship, thinking that Ah Xu was leaving like this, he felt uncomfortable, and hated himself even more for not being by Ah Xu's side that day.

"Rokuro, life and death on the battlefield are common, don't worry too much." Jiang Jing looked at his nephew's gloomy expression and whispered, "At least they didn't lose the reputation of the Jiang family." Jiang Jing only has two sons, and the others are all from his brothers-in-law, and he has always been with him and his own son.

"But—"

Jiang Jing handed a knife to Jiang Liu, "If Liulang is uncomfortable, you don't have to accompany me." Jiang Jing is not sad about his son's death, but since he chose to take over Anbei, he has long put life and death aside, at least they died in a vigorous war with the Turks.

"What should I do if I'm gone, uncle?" Jiang Liu asked.

"You're a furnishing to be so much a personal guard?" Jiang Jing looked at his immature nephew, his facial features were still somewhat similar to his young son, and he grabbed the reins tightly with his hand, "Go, go see the blood." "Kitty eaglets only grow when they are sharpened.

"Yes!" Jiang Liu took the knife handed by his uncle and galloped out of the horse.

Jiang Jing motioned to the guards to follow up and protect, as long as the Jiang family stayed in Anbei for one day, Liulang had to go through the wind and rain.

Just when the smoke of gunpowder was lifted in Anbei, the Annan region was also in turmoil, and the war in Jiaozhi County not only spread to Jiaozhi but also affected Yunnan County, and in a small county town at the junction of Yunnan County and Jiaozhi County, a small group of displaced people was attacking the county seat.

However, the gates of the county town were closed, and the homeless people did not know how to shoot arrows at the city wall, but they were soon beaten away by the flame bombs dropped from the city wall. The strong men in the city are stepping up the time to build the city wall, and from time to time someone is bringing them food, these strong men who have not seen before have a bit of an iron-blooded soldier temperament after more than a month of baptism of war.

"Mingfu, you're tired for a day, let's go back and rest first." A handful of sergeants in the county followed behind a handsome man in green clothes and said.

"Nothing." The man stood on the city wall and looked at the retreating homeless people and said, "Ali, the reinforcements from the imperial court are coming soon. ”

"That's great!" Everyone who heard the man's words cried out in surprise, and no one doubted whether the young man's words were correct, and the man had proved his judgment countless times these days.

Jiang Lu looked at the happy crowd and smiled slightly, "You guys guard the wall well, there won't be too many rogues attacking the city in the past few days, don't fall short after the most recklessness." ”

"Respectfully." Although everyone didn't understand what it meant to fall short, the man still knew the way to let them tighten up their guard at the city gate.

Jiang Lu appeased everyone a few words and then went down the city wall, along the way from time to time there were people to greet him, Jiang Lu smiled at them one by one, although he was not like the cousins of the capital protection mansion grew up in the capital barracks, but as the descendants of the Jiang family, the book of soldiers and the way of transporting troops is a compulsory course, as soon as he noticed the rebellion in Jiaozhi County, he intensively transported food and weapons to the city, and sent the Jiang family to protect his personal guards to inquire about the news, and also sent people to make a batch of incendiary bombs, as soon as he noticed that there were rogues attacking, he closed the city gate, led the strong men of the county to repel the rogues again and again. Jiang Lu's actions were undoubtedly very correct, as far as he could tell the news he had received these days, the nearby villages and counties had been wiped out by the scattered rebels, all the officials had been killed, the grain had been robbed, and it was said that several counties had been burned.

"It's still too small." Jiang Lu sighed lightly, if it weren't for the lack of manpower, why would he only send one person to deliver the letter.

"Husband, you're back." Xiao Xie stood at the door and looked at Jiang Lu with a smile, holding a half-sewn cotton jacket in her hand, in the past month, she put down the reserve of everyone's noble daughters, and helped the soldiers guarding the city to sew clothes with the families of civilians and low-level officials who could not have appeared in front of her in her life, and led everyone to grow vegetables together, encouraging morale...... After a month, her whole person is almost completely different from before, and her personality is much more cheerful than before.

Jiang Lu looked at his wife gently, "Is the child still obedient today?" ”

Xiao Xie touched his still flat abdomen and smiled: "Very obedient, Zhilu said that he is annoying, don't trouble us." ”

Jiang Lu chuckled and put his hand on his wife's stomach, "What a good boy." ”

Xiao Xie's cheeks were red by his undisguised actions, and the female dependents on the side left with a snicker, they are not uninteresting people, although everyone does not know the true identity of the husband and wife of the Daoming Mansion, but from their usual words and deeds, it can be seen that their background is definitely not ordinary.

"There are others." Xiao Xie quietly blamed Jiang Lu.

The corners of Jiang Lu's lips curled slightly, and he also whispered: "They are all gone." ”

Xiao Xie's face turned even redder, Jiang Lu held her hand and was about to speak, but suddenly heard a thunderous cheer, "Ming Mansion, the reinforcements from the imperial court are here!" ”

These words made Jiang Lu and Xiao Xie happy at the same time.

The author has something to say: the Ming Mansion was another name for the county order in the Tang Dynasty