In the Baishuigou camp, Xu Shu and Ma Yan stood on the battlements of the camp with serious faces.

To the south of Baishuigou, the cavalry swarmed all over the mountains, seemingly covering the entire field of vision.

The whole thing of the cavalry itself occupies a large space, and when it is spread out horizontally, the billowing smoke and dust obscure the soldiers behind it, making the figure of the cavalry appear in the smoke and dust, and it is not easy to distinguish.

"To make such a noise, there should be more than two thousand ......," Ma Yan frowned, carefully identified and said, "Do you want to send some more scouts to investigate?" ”

It's not that the scouts haven't been released, but the cavalry on the opposite side is very scattered, and then they are more closely guarded with each other, so they can't get close, and the south of Baishuigou has entered the Guanzhong Plain, and the scouts want to hide their bodies very closely, and it is not easy to detect the real number.

A good scout, not only to be superb in horsemanship, bow and arrow, but also to have courage, brains, often more than ten cavalry can pick out one to become a scout, so this kind of elite light cavalry, can not be wasted at will without scruples, after all, once the experienced scout is exhausted, then the battlefield is equivalent to being completely suppressed by the other party, falling into darkness.

The armies of the two sides are far away, so it is natural to scout and detect, like now that they are close, the scouts should be more careful, because the scout is a class of troops, which has always been full of taunts, and once it is discovered, it will be set on fire by everyone on the other side......

Xu Shu thought for a moment, then shook his head.

Since it is here, then whether it is the two thousand cavalry from the opposite side, or the twenty thousand soldiers, it must be guarded here, as for the number of enemy troops on the opposite side, it only determines how long they can hold on, but the position of Baishuigou is destined to be impossible for the other party to surround and attack, so now wait for the opposite side to play the cards first, scouts, and then send out to reconnoiter at night.

Closer, the sound of the enemy's horses' hooves roared like thunder, rumbling into a loud sound, and the wind in the pass brought up smoke and dust in the sky, enveloping the entire camp of Baishuigou!

And Ma Teng, who led the army, also had a bit of a headache.

In the face of such a large battalion, no matter who it is, there will be some headaches.

This was originally an open land of a horse and a flat river, and the large battalion of Fei Qian was stuck between this Baishui and the Nameless Mountain, the infantry camp was forward, and the guard was tight, and the cavalry camp was placed behind, although it did not have the strong defense facilities of the infantry camp, but it spanned the entire open space between Baishui and the Nameless Mountain.

If you want to attack the infantry camp, then the two flanks may be attacked by the cavalry from the rear at any time, and if you directly attack the cavalry camp behind, you will also suffer from the nuisance of the infantry camp.

But if you don't fight, you can't do it......

This time, so many soldiers and horses were dispatched, if it was just a false pass, it would inevitably make the people in the opposite camp see what was wrong, and when he and Li Dao came out, Ma Teng's task was to drag all the Fei Qian soldiers in the Baishuigou camp and not let them have a chance to retreat or rescue, so it was necessary to maintain enough pressure on the Baishuigou camp.

Ma Teng frowned, if according to his previous experience, a camp like this could definitely only drive ordinary people to fill it at the beginning, and wait until it was almost consumed before finally attacking, but it would take a lot of time......

Even if you go to the surrounding area to collect people, it takes time to come and go.

Ma Teng waved his hand and ordered: "Come on, invite to fight!" ”

Immediately, a few soldiers with loud voices came forward, cruising in front of the Baishuigou camp, shouting to the camp. For a while, Xiliang slang, Chang'an dialect, and all kinds of shouts were endless, so that the soldiers in the camp turned their heads to look at Xu Shu and Ma Yan.

Xu Shu listened to the soldier shouting Xiliang in his voice, and couldn't help but smile, let go of the complete repair of the camp fortifications, and then go out to fight in formation?

"Don't be impatient!" Xu Shu said loudly, "The camp we have worked so hard to cultivate these days, how can we give up in a few words?" Haha, we have to see some flesh and blood to be worthy of our hard work! ”

However, as Ma Teng walked into the field of vision, Xu Shu paid attention to him, looked at it, and suddenly his heart moved, as if he had sensed the key point on the battlefield......

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In Chang'an City, at this time, the news of the approaching soldiers of Xiliang was also received, but it was not Li Dao and Ma Teng's troops in the east, but Han Sui, Fan Chou and others from Wuzhangyuan in the west.

Because the war horses were concentrated and deployed to Ma Teng, Han Sui, Fan Chou and others came all the way, and the speed of the march was not fast, but the officials in the surrounding counties sent the situation along the way to Chang'an City quickly.

Such news, no matter when it is obtained, it is natural to send it to the hands of the seed shao as soon as possible.

A few days ago, after obtaining the addition of an official to the knighthood, the people of Shaofu asked the people of the Shao Mansion to move from the Lingyi side to Chang'an City, after all, it is now one of the Jiuqing, and also supervises the Shangshutai, it can be said that all the documents up and down the Han Dynasty, all personnel appointments, need the nod of the Shao to be effective and published, so living in Chang'an City is also the proper meaning.

Shaofu has been working day and night in the past few days, and finally cleaned up the mansion of the seed shao when the seed shao was relocated, and arranged it according to Jiuqing's specifications, but after all, it is still not very convenient now, the Xiliang thieves are still around, and some goods and utensils can only be handed down, which can be regarded as letting the seed shao bear the grievances......

In the Shao Mansion, the utensils are slightly insufficient because of objective factors, but the attendants or something, naturally they have to be sufficient, and it can be said that when the new leader of the dynasty is hotly baked, it is natural that the people who visit the door of the mansion gather to block the open space at the door, and the newly appointed Chongfu concierge is busy with a big man with honor.

In the process of accepting the visit of the local gentry of officials at all levels, there are still orders that all counties and townships in Sanfu must be strengthened on duty to ensure that everything is perfect, and the city defense must be re-recruited and strengthened, and coordinated defense......

This order, of course, has the right side, but for the squires everywhere, it is a little unhappy, and there are some complaints between each other, and even begin to disobey the yang and the yin. It's not that these squires have any personal grievances against the planting of sage, it's just that now is the time when the tenants of each dock and fort need to trim the ridges, remove weeds, and add fertilizer, and draw the population into the county town to do some defense, so do these squires want their own families, men, women, and children to go to the fields to cultivate?

So basically, it means that everyone just turns a blind eye and forgets it.

At this stage, not only the squires who are still in Guanzhong, but also the vast majority of these squires who are still in Guanzhong, actually do not realize that the catastrophe is coming.

In the dark waves surging in these three auxiliary places that Chang'an City can manage more or less now, living in the new mansion of Chang'an, being surrounded and served by a number of trained attendants, and coping with the planting of a day of entertainment for officials at all levels, it can be regarded as a lot of hardship, so after dark, in the arms of the little maid, enjoying the beating and massage of the fists, it is also a good sleep......

However, the military situation has always been delivered day and night, and when it comes to it, it must be delivered, so the emergency military reports delivered are sent to the government office layer by layer.

In the middle of a good dream, the seed shao was suddenly awakened by the sound outside the house, and after suddenly opening his eyes and calming down, he suddenly felt a nameless fire coming up.

The age of the seed is not young, and after reaching his age, it is basically very difficult to fall asleep, and it is even more difficult to get a good night's sleep. During the day, he worked hard with all kinds of gods and goddesses, and his brain nerves, which had been working all day, had just relaxed and entered a deep sleep, but his subordinates were so blind, they actually woke him up!

The little maid who turned his head to look at the burning lamp on the side, and the candle shrouded in the gauze did not burn much, indicating that at most it was the middle of the night, curled up at the foot of the bed, and the little maid who put the foot of the seed shao in her arms to warm it also woke up, and quickly got up, and lay down to the side at a loss.

How much Annai breathed into the bed for a while, and said in a deep voice: "What's the matter? ”

"Seed male! Urgent military report! ”

At this moment, Chang'an City is still in the night ban, and the street patrol patrols ensure as much as possible that when there are no lights in the Han Dynasty, there will be no chaos at night.

However, the cavalry who delivered military information from the long street of Chang'an had already woken up a lot of people, and some people also got up from their sleep, although they were limited by the night ban and were not allowed to go out, but they still turned on the lights, looked at the dark night outside the courtyard outside the window, and were worried.

At this time, the only people who could gather together were talking to each other about this matter, and the ones who were making a loud noise were the subordinates who had defected to the sect.

In the side hall, almost all the people were talking, coming together in twos and threes, expressing their opinions as much as possible:

"Damn, shit! The imperial court has raised soldiers for many years, and it is so useless! Now that he is disturbed by some Xiliang thieves, he is so flustered! The imperial court spends military expenses every year, and I don't know where it is used! ”

"There should be at least 2,000 soldiers in Wugong County, and General Xia leading the army to support him, but he can't stop it! Could it be that the Xiliang thieves couldn't find other troops? In this way, it will be a scourge! ”

"General Xia is old and old, and he has been a general, and now the integration of Chang'an soldiers has been completed, and there are bows and crossbows and ordnance are also available, so it should be ...... to be pacified."

"Can you calm down? If it can be pacified, how can an emergency military situation be issued? From Wuzhang Yuan to here, the road is flat, if the martial arts are trapped, there is no danger to defend this radius of 100 miles! ”

"The Xiliang thief is so urgent, and the end of the strong crossbow is also powerless! As long as they exhaust the existing food and grass in their army, they will be free from worry! Soldiers without food can do nothing! ”

"When its food is exhausted, although it is undoubtedly right, who among the Xiliang thief army knows the geometry of its grain and grass? If the Xiliang thief soldiers enter with the heart of death, they will be fierce and undoubted, and if they are not careful, it will be an erosive situation! ”

"What else to say now, emergency and then help martial arts!"

"Reinforcements? Soldiers' equipment, grain, grass and arrows, which one does not need to be prepared for one or two, to be transferred to, if it is not guarded, wouldn't it be cheaper Xiliang thief? ”

The large and small staff in the side hall, the officials and officials of all kinds of staggers, one by one, were in a hurry, saying everything, and it was extremely noisy for a while, but there was no conclusion for a long time.

At this time, I heard a deep voice in the back of the hall: "What is the mess! The thieves are still martial arts! ”

Everyone in the side hall hurriedly turned their heads to look, only to see that the seed was neatly dressed, a brocade robe, and a tall beam crown were not messy at all, although the complexion was inevitably a little different, but compared to the people in the hall, it was still a lot calmer.

Chong Shao walked to the top, flicked his sleeves and sat down, looked around, and then said slowly: "If it weren't for Fei Ziyuan's disobedience and disobedience, leading the army north and taking away the cavalry, how could the army of the imperial court be insufficient, so that the Xiliang thieves approached the martial arts before they noticed?" This is the reason why Fei Ziyuan is not able to help! ”

This one......

The people in the side hall looked at each other.

Everyone actually understands that Fei Qian led the cavalry north, and it is not wrong to say that it is wrong, but in the current situation, it is true that if there are some experienced cavalry as the leading scouts, it will naturally be much better, but ......

In fact, don't look at the calm appearance of the seed, in fact, he was a little panicked in his heart, after all, the matter of war is not what he is good at, but now he has to show a calm posture, otherwise the people under his hands will definitely be even more chaotic, so he first found an excuse, regardless of whether the reason for this excuse is reasonable or not, at least it shows that the reason why the situation has become bad is not himself.

What's more, two days ago, Chong Shao learned from the palace that Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty actually gave a Zhongxing sword to Fei Qian!

Does this mean that Liu Xie values Fei Qian more?

Therefore, Chong Shao was also holding back his anger, and he couldn't help but use the topic to play when he encountered this matter, but he also knew that it was okay to talk about it, and it was not necessarily feasible to really leave this pot on Fei Qian.

Knowing that the situation was urgent, he couldn't help but look west. Although the county seat of Wugong is small, it is related to the stability of Chang'an, whether Xia Mu can withstand the attack of the Xiliang thief soldiers, and then drag the Xiliang thief soldiers to the point where there is no food to use and the soldiers are disheartened, it has become the key now, so now it can only give more assistance to Wugong as much as possible......

After thinking about it, Chong Shao issued an order again, gathering some of the forces that could be mobilized near Chang'an again, and then transferring them to Wugong, and then sending someone to get in touch with Liu Fan, so that he could strengthen the patrol in Chang'an and the attached tombs.

In the current situation, everyone is competing for time, and everyone wants to solve the opponent as soon as possible, but who can survive in the end and who can have the last laugh is still unknown......