Before dawn the next day, Xin Er sent an order to the troops, telling all the departments to get up and prepare for war.

Because if you light a fire, there will inevitably be smoke, which may be discovered by the scouts of the Qin soldiers, so since the ambush of the soldiers here yesterday, the Xin Er army has not made any food, and the soldiers only eat cold food, such as buttermilk, Hu cakes and the like.

With buttermilk, the five thousand soldiers each ate their own cakes, and in a short time, they were satisfied.

With the "tun" as the unit, under the leadership of the commanders of each tun, the soldiers did some simple warm-up exercises and moved their bodies. Xin Er went down to each tun and personally inspected, and as far as he could see, the soldiers were all in high spirits and high morale.

Xin Er said to Tang Ai and Guo Daoqing who were entourage: "Qianli, Zishan, Qing and the two civil officials, when you attack the Qin Array later, you two don't have to fight." I will leave you two with a hundred soldiers, and I will take care of the wounded and baggage for me. ”

This time through Minshan, although Xin Er did not bring too much grain and ordnance, but more or less brought some, so there is a "baggage" saying; As for the "wounded", this "wounded" was not a combat injury, but a small number of soldiers who either slipped and fell and were injured by frostbite on their hands and feet when they climbed the Min Mountain and passed through the steep snow-covered area.

Tang Ai promised, waved a fan and said with a smile: "Ai is here, waiting for Ming Gong's Jieyin!" ”

Guo Daoqing was not very happy, he held his head high, and said: "Ming Gong, although Daoqing is currently a civil servant of the Governor's Office, Daoqing is skilled in bows and horses, but he is not just a civil official. Beg for the Ming Gong not to just look at the scribe as a celebrity! Daoqing dares to ask from Ming Gong to fight! ”

Guo Daoqing's equestrian and archery skills, in the process of crossing the Minshan Mountain, Xin Er has seen it, and he is indeed able to bear the word "skilled", but he is the former official of Lu Shuang, Xin Er hesitated, and said in his heart: "There are no eyes on the battlefield, in case he dies in battle, when he returns to Guyin, I can't explain to Lu Shuang." ”

Koji Shuang was blocked by Linghu Yan before, scolded a bit, forced to fear the pressure of public opinion, and finally had to fight back, leaning to Xin Er's side, but it is expected that in his heart, he must be dissatisfied with grievances, if Guo Daoqing dies in this battle again, Koji Shuang can't say, he will be more resentful of Xin Er, Fang decided that the overall situation of the West Dynasty has been decided, although Xin Er is not afraid of his resentment, but more things are better than less things, thinking of this, he still did not allow Guo Daoqing to fight, euphemistically rejected him, and said with a smile, "Although Qing is skilled in bowing and horses, he has no power to bind chickens for thousands of miles." In case of accidents, Qing should stay here and be a partner with Chisa! ”

Guo Daoqing had no choice but to agree.

Xin Er sent dozens of scouts to the north to investigate the movements of the Qin soldiers outside Yinping County.

Soon after the horse went, he turned back to the report.

"Qin Yu has just come out of the camp and lined up."

"The Qin captives in the north, west, and east of the city are all lined up and ready to attack the city."

"Qin Yu has begun to siege the city on three sides."

Xin Er drove to the high place immediately, looking at the Yinping County more than 20 miles away, too far away, I couldn't see anything, listened carefully, seemed to hear the war drums, shouting and killing, looked at the sky, it was not yet the hour.

Guo Daoqing asked: "Ming Gong, the captives have attacked the city, when will our troops enter the battle?" ”

"Let them attack for a while, and wait until noon, when their soldiers are hungry and thirsty, and it is not too late for our troops to attack again."

Tanma is still in return.

Other information was also gone, and one of the reports of the horse probe attracted the attention of Xin Er.

Na Tanma said: "Qin Yu's offensive against Yinping County seems to be less fierce than yesterday. ”

Xin Er asked Tang Ai, Guo Daoqing and the others, and said: "The offensive of the Qin soldiers is not as good as yesterday, Qing and the others think, but are the Qin troops tired?" ”

Tang Ai pondered for a while, and said: "Qin Yu attacked Yinping County, and it was seven or eight days now, and common sense estimates that it should not be the time to be exhausted. ”

Xin Er also judged this way, and he asked, "Then why is the offensive of the Qin soldiers not as good as yesterday?" ”

Tang Ai shook his fan, thought for a while, and replied, "Maybe it's showing weakness in the city?" …… But it's a siege, and it's not a field battle with General Koji and Beigong Taishou, it's a show of weakness, and it's useless, is it possible, General Koji will go out of the city to invite war because of its weakness? ”

There are many speculations, and there is no definite opinion for a while.

But no matter whether it is weak or not, this anomaly does not affect the overall situation, and of course today's general offensive cannot be canceled because of this.

……

In the west of Yinping County, in the main formation of the same hoof beam.

Standing under the banner of the general, he looked at the soldiers of the headquarters who were besieging the city.

Although the sound of war drums in the formation was excited, the Qin soldiers who were besieging the city in front of them were quite weak, shields, boat-shaped canopies and other defensive equipment were all on board, and all kinds of ordnance to cover the attack were used, and the momentum was not small for a long time, but not even a cloud ladder was set up under the city, compared with the onslaught a few days ago, it was simply a world of difference.

Suddenly, a team of soldiers supervising the battle dragged out more than ten people from the soldiers besieging the city, forced them to kneel, and beheaded them, but this act of supervising the battle, the dozen or so bloody human heads, but it seemed that they were useless, and the Qin soldiers on the battlefield were still passive and sluggish.

Seeing this scene, Tonghu Liang did not look angry, stroked his beard and smiled, but he was quite satisfied.

A general beside him said: "Seeing that our army's offensive is slacking today, Koji Qiu and Beigong Yue will mistakenly think that this is because our army has been attacking Yin for a long time, and he was even successful in a surprise attack the day before yesterday, so that the morale of our army is weakened by it." In this way, when our army is 'night terrorist' tonight, Kojiqiu and Beigong Yue will not be suspicious. The general is thoughtful, what a brilliant plan! ”

Koji Qiu is a wise general, if Qin Jun appears "camp roaring" for no reason, maybe he will be suspicious, once he is suspicious, Tonghuliang's strategy will naturally not work.

Because of this, today's situation of the Qin soldiers' ineffective siege of the city was actually deliberately done by Pu Badger Sun and Tonghuliang.

The generals and colonels who have led the troops for a long time know that the "night terrors" and "camp howls" usually occur when the morale of the troops is low, and with this layer of foreshadowing for today's siege, when the night terrors in the Qin camp are tonight, they will believe it when they want to come to Kojiqiu and Beigong Yueying.

——The more than ten "soldiers" who were killed at the right time were not soldiers of the Qin army, but villagers captured from the neighborhood. At present, the inhabitants of Wudu and Yinping counties are mostly Qiang, and in terms of hairstyles and other physical characteristics, there is no difference between the local indigenous villagers and the Qiang warriors of the Qin soldiers.

Tonghu Liang was a little complacent, and said: "Aren't there hundreds of villagers who have been captured? ”

The general replied, "Yes." ”

"Kill another batch later, you can kill a few more; The rest will be killed in the afternoon. ”

The general replied, "No." ”

But he couldn't wait for the afternoon, and soon after noon, Tonghuliang was about to recall the soldiers who were attacking the city on the front line, and asked them to eat with the soldiers of the formation, when he suddenly heard a rapid drum sound in the north of the city.

Listening to the sound of the drum, it was not from the Pu Badger Sun array, but from a few miles north of the city.

Tonghuliang raised his head in wonder and looked far away at the place where the drum sound came, but saw nothing else but the overwhelming smoke and dust.

"What's going on?"

The generals and colonels on the left and right of the same hoof beam, like the same hoof beam, were in a hurry, and they were completely ignorant of the origin of the drum sound and smoke.

Everyone stared at each other, you look at me, I look at you, and they looked at each other for a moment.

A clever one, guessing something, shouted: "Isn't it the same hoof Haoping, and Qu Yuanguang failed to block the Long soldiers in Hanzhong?" ”

Tonghuliang's mood became nervous, and he hurriedly ran to the watchtower, trying his best to look, this time he no longer only saw the smoke and dust, from the smoke and dust, he saw a big red flag, behind the big banner was a little four or five thousand red armor soldiers. As this army approached quickly, Tonghuliang saw clearly the words embroidered on the big banner, and there were simply only six: General Tang Zheng.

Tonghu Liang suddenly lost color, and exclaimed: "It's Xin Er!" He, he, how did he ......" was so shocked that he was so incoherent that he couldn't even finish his words.

Xin'er's troops came too suddenly, and the speed of the march was too fast, and Tonghuliang had no chance to react at all, and the same was true of Pu Badger Sun in the north of the city. Tong Hoi Liang watched as this Dingxi Armor soldier barely formed a formation, so he directly entered the Pu Badger Sun Division, which was just about to recall the front-line soldiers and organize the soldiers' lunch.

Pu Badger Sun led the troops to attack Yinping County, a total of more than 10,000 people, although the main force in the north of the city, but less than 5,000 people, both caught off guard, and the number of soldiers is not as good as the Dingxi soldiers killed, in an instant, its array was in chaos.

Tongho Liang was dumbfounded.

Among the generals on the left and right, the general who praised him for his "clever strategy" earlier said urgently: "General, the Pugong array is in danger!" Our ministry should go to the aid immediately! ”

Tonghuliang settled down and said, "You're right! I'll give you a thousand soldiers, and you go to support Dangong immediately! ”

The general was ordered to be in danger, Fang showed his heroic nature, answered the order loudly, ran and jumped, went down the watchtower, urgently gathered thousands of soldiers, and led him to the north of the city to help Pu Badger Sun. After leaving, Tonghuliang also went down to the watchtower and instructed his soldiers: "Prepare a horse for me!" ”

The leader of the pro-soldiers was the clan of the same hoof beam, grabbed the clothes and armor of the same hoof beam, knelt on the ground, and said bitterly: "Uncle! The Long soldiers suddenly arrived, Pugong was defenseless, I am afraid that he could not support it for a long time, and the Long soldiers in the city saw the opportunity, and they were bound to go out of the city to attack the Pugong array! The Dangong Ministry will be defeated! Even if my uncle goes to help, I'm afraid that it won't only help, and my uncle will be in danger. Uncle! Don't go to support in person! ”

Tonghu Liang said in surprise: "What did I say that I was going to support?" ”

"And who is Uncle?"

"Once the Dangong Department is defeated, our department will also be defeated! When the Dangong Formation has not yet collapsed, let's retreat quickly! ”

The pro-soldier team suddenly woke up and said, "Uncle was going to ......," so dangerous, swallowed the word "escape" back.

"Why don't you hurry up and prepare a horse with me!"

The pro-soldier team happily agreed, and replied, "Yes!" ”

Waiting for the mount to come, the same hoof beam quickly turned over on the horse, raised the whip to whip the horse's buttocks, paused, looked back at Yinping County, and said regretfully: "It's a pity! ”

The pro-soldier team asked, "Uncle, what is the pity?" ”

"It's a pity that my clever plan didn't work!" After saying this, he whipped his horse with the hoof beam, ran westward, ran out of more than ten miles, and then turned to the north, but he didn't even care about his own soldiers, and only took more than 100 personal soldiers to Wudu County.

……

The same hoof beam has escaped, there is no need to mention more, and it is said that in the west of Yinping County, Zhao Xing is in the array.

At about the same time as Tonghuliang, Zhao Xing also saw the Xin Erbu who was killed, and he had already prepared for this, but he was not as flustered as Tongholiang and Pu Badger Sun, and immediately issued an order, ordering that under the pretext of "Longyu sneak attack, our department should quickly help Pugong", summon Wu Luokui to meet.

Wu Luokui hurried to it.

Surrounded by Jin Sufu, Marquis of Qi Nu and other cronies, Zhao Xing put on his helmet and armor, pressed his knife and said to Wu Luokui: "Looking at the enemy's banner, it is the army led by the captured general Xin Er in Dingxi, Wu Luokui, what do you say my department should do?" ”

The arrival of the Xin Er Department was without warning, Wu Luokui panicked, not noticing that Zhao Xing changed the title of "General Wu" to calling him by his first name, and said angrily: "How could the Xin Er Department suddenly kill from the north? In all likelihood, we have to go to the aid of Dangong immediately! ”

Zhao Xing nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave this task to you!" ”

Jin Sufu, Qi Nuhou and other generals drew their swords and swarmed together, first killing more than a dozen personal soldiers that Wu Luo Kui was carrying, and then pressing Wu Luo Kui to the ground.

While struggling, Wu Luokui shouted in shock: "Dashou, what are you doing? ”

Zhao Xing is not a person who drags mud and water, so he is too lazy to talk to him, so he just bows to the ground in the direction of Tianshui County, cries bitterly, and says, "Father! Your heroic spirit in the sky will not disperse, watch your son avenge you! Kill this dog today, and then kill Lu Ming and Ji He the next day! ”

He got up, took the knife to Wu Luokui, stepped on his shoulder blade, pulled his pigtail with the other, straightened his head, and swung the knife at his neck. But Zhao Xing had never cut off a person's head before, and he had no experience, so he went down three times in a row, and he was stuck in the bone gap of the cervical vertebrae, and it was not until the fourth knife that Wu Luokui's head was cut off. Wu Luokui's screams came to an abrupt end.

Zhao Xing threw his head to Jin Sufu and ordered: "Put it away, wait for me to use this to sacrifice my father, and then make it into a wine vessel!" ”

Jin Sufu agreed, and casually put Wu Luo Kui's round-eyed head into a leather bag and tied it to the belt around his waist.

The Marquis of Qi Nu is under Zhao Xing, second only to Jin Sufu's useful general. Kim Sou Fu is resourceful, and this man is known for his bravery. Wu Luo Kui is also a fierce general among the Tiefu Huns, with extraordinary strength, when Zhao Xing killed Wu Luo Kui, thanks to the Marquis of Qi Nu firmly holding down Wu Luo Kui's waist, Zhao Xing was able to kill so easily. At this time, he kicked Wu Luokui's headless corpse to the side and asked, "Da Yuan, what are we doing now?" ”

Zhao Xing looked to the north of the city, where he was shouting to kill the heavens.

To the west and north of the city, not far away, it can be seen relatively clearly that the red-armored Longbing soldiers have broken through to the main formation of the white-uniformed Qin soldiers. The drums were urging, the north gate of Yinping County was opened, and the guards also shouted to kill, forming a flanking attack on the Pu Badger Sun Formation.

Zhao Xing said: "Now? Now, of course, it's time to fight the badger sun! Looking at Jin Sufu, the Marquis of Qinu, etc., he said, "This battle is over, we are the courtiers of Dingxi." You and I are outsiders, and if we want to gain a foothold in the Dingxi Dynasty, we have to make great contributions. Now there is a great merit in front of us, do you know what this great merit is? ”

Jin Sufu replied: "Pu badger sun! ”

Zhao Xing said: "Exactly! If any of you can capture the badger for me, I will divide five hundred of his people!" ”

Zhao Xing and the Tiefu Huns soldiers with him, there are only more than 2,000 people left in total, and the families of more than 2,000 people are in the camp, serving as logistics and other matters, plus the families of those soldiers who died before, that is to say, there are only two or three thousand Tiefu Huns in his hands now, and he takes out one-sixth of it as a reward, which is really a generous generous gesture.

When Jin Sufu and the Marquis of Qi Nu heard this, their eyes lit up, and after they agreed to the promise, they all rushed back to their headquarters, fought bravely, and led their soldiers to kill the east flank of the Pu Badger Sun Formation.

……

The north side was attacked by the enemy, and the guards of the city in the south came out to flank it; Although thousands of reinforcements came from the west, they immediately heard the news and fled with the hoof; Immediately, Zhao Xingbu in the east rebelled and joined the ranks of the enemy, which was equivalent to being attacked on three sides of the formation.

Pu Badger Sun knew that the general trend had gone, and he, who had always been cautious and rarely spoke ill of him, scolded Zhao Xing and Tonghuliang a few words, and he was the same as Tonghuliang, and he also brought some personal soldiers, hurriedly broke away from the formation, and fled to the northeast.

After escaping for three or four miles, the shouts of killing behind him gradually faded.

Yesterday was also full of confidence, adopted the strategy of the same hoof beam, thought that the defeat of Yinping County was only a matter of three or two days, but unexpectedly the defeat in a blink of an eye was like a mountain, Pu Badger Sun Le Ma reviewed, looked at the chaotic battlefield under the city, the heart was sad, wanted to make a speech or two, suddenly saw dozens of Longqi wearing red armor, chased from the south, the first person, tall and strong, shouted: "Pu Badger Sun Hugh go!" ”

Pu Badger Sun was shocked, and he didn't have time to sigh anymore, so he whipped the horse and left.

The dozens of horsemen were in hot pursuit.

The war horses that can be taken over the mountains and mountains and brought to Yinping are all first-class good horses, and the knights on the horses are also first-class elites, all of whom are good at controlling horses.

The badger turned his head sharply to see how far the pursuers were from him, and found that he was less than a stone's throw away, and was surprised to see the strong man who took the lead in the pursuers, although he had a small braid, his eyes were green, his nose was high, and he looked like a Sogdian Hu.

Pu Badger Sun originally thought that it was Koji Qiu, Beigong Yue, Wang Shuwang or someone else who was chasing him, but when he saw that the leader was actually a Sogdian, he couldn't help but be surprised even though he was fleeing for his life, and said in his heart: "Where did you come from, Sogdian Hu, who is desperately chasing me!" ”

The Sogdian Hu who chased him was none other than An Chong.

An Chong has been under the tent of Xin Er since he threw himself in, although he has now obtained an official position, but compared with the bald Boye and other generals who lead the army, and even compared to the beggar Dali, his status and power are much worse. An Chong is also an ambitious person, because he has always been eager to go further, so in today's battle, from the beginning of the war, he was looking for the location of Pu Badger Sun, and because of this, at the moment when Pu Badger Sun escaped, he was the first to find out, and thus, he was also the first to lead the horse to chase.

Thinking that An Chong, in the past, by capturing Hu Mu, selling as a slave for the industry, living on horseback all the year round, his equestrian skills are undoubted, even in the entire Dingxi, and even Pu Qin, are also leaders, seeing that Pu Badger Sun is close at hand, and Pu Badger Sun's personal soldiers have been shot down by him and his chasing horse, just before Pu Badger Sun fled, suddenly appeared more than 100 Qin horses.

A general galloped in front of this more than 100 Qin horses, and shouted loudly: "Don't be surprised, the last general will be too late to rescue!" ”

Pu Badger Sun was overjoyed and exclaimed, "I'm here!" I am here! ”

The more than 100 pro-riders on the opposite side were not expected by An Chong in advance, he looked at it and saw that the shouting general was short and looked like a monkey, but it was Qu Yuanguang. An Chongxin said: "Where did this monkey cub come from?" ”

An Chong was not in Xin Er's core decision-making circle, so he didn't know that just yesterday, Xin Er got in touch with the troops sent by Yin Luo and Zhang Jingwei to aid Yinping with Yan Raid as the main general, and learned that they were blocked by Tonghu Haoping and Qu Yuanguang in the east of Yinping County. If he knew, he would be able to guess that Qu Yuanguang and these more than 100 Qin cavalry must have come from the east of the county.

And Qu Yuanguang is also in a hurry.

In order to be able to participate in the battle of the joint attack on Pu Badger Sun in time, Yan Raid was very anxious to block the Qin soldiers led by the same hoof Haoping and Qu Yuanguang, and the two were struggling to resist, so Yuanguang came back to find Pu Badger Sun, originally intended to ask for reinforcements, but he did not expect to encounter the defeat of Pu Badger Sun, and just met Pu Badger Sun halfway.

Yuanguang caught Pu Badger Sun, and when he saw Pu Badger Sun's embarrassed appearance, he didn't need to ask more, and he knew that Pu Badger Sun must have been defeated. He knew An Chong, and asked An Chong to appear here, and roughly guessed that it should be a surprise attack by reinforcements from Dingxi.

Now is not the place to speak, Yuanguang turned his horse, and the more than 100 Qin horses guarded Pu Badger Sun, according to Pu Badger Sun's original route, turned around and fled to the northeast, while seeing An Chong and others chasing after him, for fear of being caught up by them, if he fell into a melee, there would be more Dingxi soldiers to arrive, at that time, Pu Badger Sun as Pu Qin's clan, Pu Mao's cousin, strange goods, probably not dead, but he was a rebel general, and killed his uncle with his own hands, the end must not be good, he had a plan, thought: "An Chong may not know my reality, I will deceive him and prevent him from pursuing him. Viciously rushed back and scolded, "Green-eyed beard, have the courage to chase!" ”

But he didn't know that An Chong was an outlaw, and the great merit was in front of him, so how could he give up because of his deceit?

An Chong urged the horse to gallop, and said with a smile: "I was thinking that only one Pu Badger Sun is not enough credit, you traitor threw yourself to the door, and captured your monkey cub, but you can win the favor of the captives more than taking down the Pu Badger Sun!" Don't worry, I won't let you escape! ”

Several arrows landed on Yuanguang's armor.

A good Yuanguang, if one plan fails, he will change his life to two plans, and urgently call his younger brother Nancheng to come over, and say: "Brother, I will divide your cavalry fifty, and you will stay to block An Chong's Zahu first!" Wait for me to send Pugong to the front, and then I will turn back to meet you! ”

The man is a simple person, he didn't say a word, and immediately responded to the order.

Leaving fifty horsemen including Nancheng to intercept An Chong and others, Yuanguang followed closely on the side of Pu Badger Sun's horse and continued to run. Pu Badger Sun heard him choking and crying, turned his face to look, saw him in tears, and asked, "Yuanguang, what's wrong with you?" ”

Yuan Guang sobbed and said: "Ming Gong, the general who chases Ming Gong is named An Chong, he has the courage of ten thousand people, my brother is not his opponent, and he will die today!" My brother and I grew up together, and it hurts to think that we won't be able to see him again. ”

Pu Badger Sun said movingly: "You gave up your brother in order to save me, Yuanguang, I will not forget your loyalty!" ”

Yuanguang cried and said: "Xiaohu is not loyal to Ming Gong. ”

Pu Badger Sun was surprised and said, "What? ”

"Xiao Hu has only one heart for Ming Gong."

"What's the reason?"

Yuan Guang wiped his tears and said: "For example, in order to save Ming Gong now, and I have the same birth as my brother, this is Xiaohu's 'heart', because this is Xiaohu's heart." ”

Pu Badger Sun understood the meaning of Yuanguang's "from the heart", and was even more moved, and said: "Yuanguang, I will definitely treat you well!" ”

Yuan Guang looked back at the male Cheng and other cavalry that had fallen two or three miles away, they had already engaged An Chong and other Dingxi cavalry, and it was obvious that the male Cheng and others were indeed as he expected, not An Chong's opponents, and from time to time Qin cavalry was killed and fell off the horse. However, due to the obstruction of the male Cheng and others, Yuanguang and Pu Badger Sun were able to escape unharmed.

Yuan Guang found Nan Cheng, who was struggling to fight, his eyes stopped on him for a moment, and he said in his heart: "Nan Cheng!" You deserved to die! After I have achieved fame and saved our people from fire and water, I will scatter your name all over the banks of the Lushui River! "Turn your head, no longer look back, face the strong wind ahead, and hurry up.