Eight thousand Zhu Jun troops marched all the way, they were still more than 100 miles away from the confluence of the Yellow River in Fengzhou, it was already afternoon, at this moment, the front army suddenly sounded an earth-shattering explosion, 'Boom! ’

The flames burst out, and black smoke rose into the air, a small iron fire mine without a stinger, which exploded in the ranks.

The front army was suddenly in a big chaos, the soldiers were frightened, the war horses neighed, and the chaos became a mess, and a cavalry was killed from the col next to it, about thousands of people, and killed into the ranks of the front army, at the same time, the middle army and the rear army also sounded earth-shattering explosions one after another, and the Zhu Jun army was seriously disturbed, and there was chaos, and the two Hexi cavalry took advantage of the chaos of the enemy army to kill the middle army and the rear army.

Li Huanshan had recovered from the initial chaos, and when he knew that he had encountered an ambush, he shouted urgently: "Resist in formation!" ”

Someone next to him laughed, "It's too late, either surrender or die!" ”

As soon as Li Huanshan turned around, he saw a general coming from the oblique stab, and he was already more than ten steps away from him, he saw that the other party was wearing a golden helmet, and asked in shock: "Who are you?" ”

"Hexi Guo Song!"

After Guo Song finished speaking, with a wave of his arms, Fang Tian's painting halberd swept over, the strength was strong and unstoppable, Li Huanshan's eyes widened, it turned out to be Guo Song of the Hexi Army?

He hurriedly raised his big knife to block, 'Dang! With a loud bang, Li Huanshan's big knife flew out of his hand, and his arms were about to be broken, Li Huanshan shouted, urging the horse to flee, but it was still a step too late, he only felt that his vest was cold, his body rose into the air, and the tip of the halberd had come out of his chest.

Li Huanshan screamed heartbreakingly and died on the spot.

Guo Song threw his body on the ground, and shouted left and right: "Provoke his head and drink the enemy, surrender and avoid death, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

Several of his own soldiers cut off Li Huanshan's head, picked it up in the air with their spears, galloped and shouted: "The commander is dead, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will not be killed!" ”

The soldiers shouted all the way, and when Zhu Zhu's army saw that the main general was killed, they had no intention of resisting anymore, and they all dismounted and knelt down and raised their hands in surrender.

The battle ended after half an hour, with more than 1,000 soldiers killed and hundreds fled, all of whom surrendered to the Hexi army.......

At the same time, the news of the extermination of the Hexi army and the occupation of Shuofang also reached Chang'an, and Zhu Zhu was greatly frightened and immediately ordered to block the news. The news is not allowed to get out.

Zhu Jun didn't take Guo Song to heart before, Guo Song wanted to be the king of the Western Regions, he didn't object, he even supported the development of the Hexi Army to the west, until he drove more than 600,000 displaced people to the Hexi Corridor and stabbed Guo Song hard, but in the end, the problem of the displaced people was resolved, and they lost Longyou instead.

Only then did Zhu Jun begin to pay attention to Guo Song, but Guo Song wanted to seize the opportunity of Li Sheng's demotion and take Shannan Dongdao, so he did not pay attention to Guo Song.

It was not until Shuofang was taken by the Hexi Army that Zhu Zhu suddenly realized the strength of the Hexi Army, and actually unified the three Jiedu Mansions of Shuofang, Hexi and Longyou.

Zhu Jun was flustered and urgently convened several confidant ministers to discuss countermeasures.

In the lobby, Zhu Jun said to everyone worriedly: "We always thought that Guo Song only had 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and after dividing the troops to defend Beiting and Anxi, there was not much left, but now it seems that we are all wrong, the Hexi army is seriously underestimated by us, they have at least 100,000 troops, I want to know now, where is our intelligence?" ”

Everyone looked at Yan Wenda, the deputy military division, Yan Wenda was relatively low-key, and he had been responsible for collecting intelligence from all over the country.

Under the forced gaze of everyone, Yan Wenda perked up and said: "Our intelligence should be very good, very comprehensive and timely, including Chengdu, Luoyang, Jiangnan, Ziqing, Hebei ....... before"

"I don't want to hear your praises, I'm asking Hexi!"

Zhu Jun couldn't help but roar: "Why is there no information about Hexi?" ”

Yan Wenda smiled bitterly and said: "I sent several intelligence spies to Hexi, and the businessmen who went to Hexi are also asking for information, but the internal affairs camp in Hexi is very powerful, and our people have lost contact one after another. ”

"Then you know that it is the Hexi Internal Affairs Battalion!"

"What the humble officials learned when they exchanged information with the King of Ji that their spies in Hexi eventually lost contact."

Zhu Jun shook his head, "Even if the other party is very powerful, it's not a reason why you can't get information." ”

Yan Wenda owed: "It's a dereliction of duty!" ”

"Now I don't want to hold anyone responsible, but from now on, you must mobilize elite soldiers and strong generals to go all out to find out the intelligence of Hexi, Shuofang, and Longyou, and its importance is equal to that of Chengdu, do you understand?"

Yan Wenda wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "I understand the humble position!" ”

"I'll add one more thing!"

Liu Sigu raised his hand and said: "I took a look at the narrative of the soldiers who fled back from Fengzhou, and they all mentioned that Hexi used a weapon that could make a loud noise, causing our army to fall into chaos, I think this detail is very important, I am afraid that the Hexi army swept the Western Regions so quickly It is also related to it, and we must let the intelligence spies find out what this is." ”

"Liu Junjun said quickly, this matter is indeed very important, and it must be investigated." Zhu Jun added.

Yan Wenda nodded, "The humble position has been recorded." ”

Zhu Jun's gaze turned to Liu Sigu again, and his gaze became relaxed, "The current situation, I want to hear the opinions of the military advisor." ”

Liu Sigu smiled slightly: "I'm afraid I don't want to hear my opinion!" ”

"How so? Strategist, please speak up. ”

"The humble opinion is very simple, negotiate peace with the Hexi army, buy us time to seize Huaixi and Yangzhou, and then turn around to deal with the Hexi army."

Zhu Jun was stunned, it was actually a peace, he hesitated for a while and said, "Will they agree?" ”

"I think Guo Song will agree, he also needs time to integrate the three places, and he will not attack us for the time being, the key is that we also need time to sweep the Jianghuai, so that we can get financial support."

Yuan Xiu also said: "The proposal of the military advisor is still reasonable, we need time, Guo Song also needs time, and he supports peace with the Hexi army." ”

Zhu Jun took two steps with his hands in his hand, and then turned back to Liu Sigu and said, "It's okay to negotiate peace, then who do we send to negotiate peace with Guo Song?" ”

Liu Sigu's gaze looked at Zhang Guangsheng.......

In Fengzhou City, Guo Song did not go to the three surrendered cities, he stayed in Fengzhou for three days and then prepared to return to Lingzhou.

Before leaving, Guo Song once again summoned the generals and said to everyone: "I have already talked with Xue Tingshi, abolish the Fengzhou Economic Strategy Division, Xue Tingshi no longer cares about the army, and only serves as the post of Fengzhou Assassin, responsible for the government affairs, finance and taxation of Fengzhou and the West Surrender City, Fengzhou set up two soldiers and horses, which are Fengzhou soldiers and horses and Yulin soldiers and horses, Fengzhou soldiers and horses are served by Li Ji, and Yulin soldiers and horses are served by Zhao Sen. ”

Li Ji and Zhao Sen immediately got up and saluted, Guo Song smiled and waved his hand and said: "The two soldiers and horses will each command 4,000 troops, and the insufficient 3,000 people will be made up by Xue Tingshi." ”

Guo Song said again: "I have finished what I should say, I will come again in Fengzhou, but it mainly depends on you, I will leave a firearms battalion of soldiers, they carry sharp weapons to defend the city, even if the Hui people attack, they can also defend Jiuyuan City, everyone work together!" ”

Everyone bowed and saluted, "Obey the king's orders!" ”

.........

Three days later, Guo Song led his army back to Lingzhou, and Liang Wu came to meet him outside Lingzhou, and Liang Wu briefly reported to Guo Song about the resettlement of party members and children.

"There are more than 32,000 women, children and old people, according to the previous order of the envoy, they have been escorted to Hexi by the army, we have seized a large amount of money, grain and materials from the party members, and they are currently in the warehouse in Lingzhou.

According to the regulations of the Hexi Army, only a small amount of materials were left in the warehouses in various places, and the rest of the materials had to be transported to Zhangye Cangcheng.

Guo Song nodded and said, "You write a list of supplies and send it to Hexi, and Pan Changshi will arrange it!" Anyway, just follow the rules. ”

"The humble duty understands, and there is another important matter, the humble duty must be reported to the envoy."

"What's the matter?"

"Do you remember Liang Ju'er?"

Guo Song smiled: "Of course I remember, what's wrong with him?" ”

"He is currently serving as a lieutenant in Xiao Guan."

Guo Song was stunned, "Isn't he in Fengzhou?" ”

"This matter is a long story, he was originally in Fengzhou as a captain, and then his father died of illness, Liang Juer went home to guard filial piety, and then Zhang Feng held a competition in Yuanzhou to recruit generals, Liang Juer ran to participate, was appreciated by Zhang Feng, appointed him as a captain, participated in the town of Xiao Pass, and later Zhang Feng entered Beijing to surrender Zhu Zhu, and then went to Longyou, but Liang Juer has been in Xiao Pass, two days ago he specially wrote a letter, introducing the situation of Xiao Pass, and expressed his willingness to assist the king to seize Xiao Pass."

Guo Song's eyes lit up, this is a good thing, if they can seize Xiao Pass, the initiative is in their hands.