The God of Wealth Festival is a big festival in the Western Regions, at this time of year, the Cheng Zhou Kingdom will fall into a celebration of the whole country, but this year is different, the Jin army is coming, in the territory of the Cheng Zhou Kingdom, for the God of Wealth Festival, compared with the enthusiasm of previous years, the enthusiasm has been reduced a lot, but the Cheng Zhou Kingdom is the same as in previous years, the whole city celebrates.

Zhan Bai's troops exceeded 150,000, while the Jin army was only 50,000, and the strength of the two sides was completely incomparable.

Hou Quan walked back and forth, his teeth clenched, and his mood was extremely nervous, tonight was the scheduled time for the raid on Xingcheng.

Hou Quan looked up at the sky, it was about to be the time of the Emperor, this time is the most important part of the God of Wealth Festival, the people of the Western Regions will kill chickens and cattle, sacrifice to the God of Wealth, and the vast majority of the people and nobles in the city will gather in the palace square to meet this moment.

"They haven't come yet?"

Hou Quan shouted left and right and asked.

"Haven't come back yet."

Getting the soldier's answer, Hou Quan's face became darker, now most of the people are going to the palace to celebrate, this time is the best time to raid Xingcheng, but two days ago, their whereabouts were discovered by a caravan, Hou Quan was soft-hearted at that time, and did not kill people, causing this caravan to report the situation to the government.

Liu Xie's spy force has developed to Xingcheng, but the strength is not strong, only five people, its Xingcheng spy captain Chen Peng accidentally learned the news, shocked, immediately out of the city, found Hou Quan, and urgently informed the news, Hou Quan immediately led a thousand soldiers to move north for thirty miles, which escaped the search sent by the government.

Fortunately, although the government sent people to search around, they did not think of the Jin army here, but after all, it aroused their vigilance, and it was close to the arrival of the God of Wealth Festival, the king of Cheng Zhou ordered to strengthen the city defense force, and the city defense guards increased from the previous 2,000 to 4,000.

But Chen Peng suggested that the big businessman Wang Suyi is currently in Xingcheng, and he may be able to get help through him.

Hou Quan immediately wrote a letter and asked Chen Peng to bring it to Wang Suyi.

Hou Quan has no way out, although Li Xun treats people kindly, but also rewards and punishments are clear, Li Xun's order is only to harass the northern countries of the Western Regions, before the arrival of Zhan Bai's army, immediately return to the base camp of Zhenshi City.

Hou Quan violated the military order, led the army and did not return, so that the whole army fell into an extremely dangerous situation, if the plan really succeeded, capture Xingcheng, and make this great achievement, not to mention the merit or not, at least there will be no problem in saving the small life, once the plan fails, even if he escapes back to Zhenshi City, Li Xun will definitely be dealt with by military law, and Hou Quan will definitely be unable to escape death at that time.

Zhou Pingyun walked over and said with a hippie smile: "I said boss, you seem to be very nervous." ”

Hou Quan had a cold face, and said angrily: "If you have a fart, let it go quickly." ”

Zhou Pingyun said with a smile: "Now is the best time to raid, it's not a way for us to wait, it's better to do this, we are waiting for half an hour at most, if Chen Peng doesn't come, we won't wait, launch an attack immediately, if it doesn't succeed, it depends on whether God can bless us." ”

Zhou Pingyun always has a smiling face, this is his character, in fact, Zhou Pingyun's mood at this time is also extremely heavy and nervous, if the plan fails, Hou Quan's life will not be guaranteed, and his own fate may not be much better.

Hou Quan pretended to be calm and said: "Don't worry, we will win this battle." ”

Zhou Pingyun rolled his eyes: "If you fight this legal person, you still have to tell the brothers below to listen, there are old and young in my family, before the expedition, my daughter-in-law is about to give birth, this is my fourth child, the first three are daughters, this may be a son, I can't die here, I want to ......"

Without waiting for Zhou Pingyun to finish speaking, Hou Quan punched him and yelled viciously: "Shut up your shitty mouth." ”

Zhou Pingyun rubbed the swollen left side of his face, and didn't get up, just lay on the ground, silently looking at the dark starry sky, just a little out of shape, and was punched by Hou Quan, and his thoughts calmed down a lot.

Hou Quan looked at Zhou Pingyun and didn't care about him, just stood there quietly.

Half an hour passed quickly, and Hou Quan's patience had reached its limit, and just as he was about to order the soldiers to gather, his own soldiers ran over as fast as they could, and shouted: "Boss, Chen Peng is here." ”

Hou Quan's spirit was shocked, Chen Peng was finally here, he now urgently needed to know the specific situation of Xingcheng, even if the city defense was strengthened to 4,000 people, he still felt that there was a chance, but the situation was unknown, a smear, nothing was clear, there was no bottom in his heart, Hou Quan was most afraid of this, Chen Peng is here now, no matter whether it is good news or bad news, at least let Hou Quan know the specific situation, know himself and the enemy, and he can make a decision.

Zhou Pingyun, who was lying on the ground, heard Chen Peng coming, turned over and jumped up, and ran with Hou Quan in stride.

Chen Peng brought the news that the guards of Xingcheng were still four thousand, and there was no reduction, but the main generals of the city defense were invited by Wang Suyi to leave, and the city defense of Xingcheng is now a soldier but no general, so many soldiers deserted and left without authorization, either to visit the palace to visit the sacrificial ceremony, or to have fun by themselves.

Listening to Chen Peng's words, Hou Quan's spirit was shocked, and he immediately ordered the whole army to mount and go straight to Xingcheng.

A fire swept through the entire Xingcheng, and the Earthquake Stone City, which was more than six hundred miles away, suddenly broke out into a fierce battle at this moment.

The two armies of Zhan Bai and Li Xun have been facing each other for more than ten days, Li Xun is to respond to all changes and wait for changes, while Zhan Bai is secretly planning, and almost all the remaining troops in the entire Western Regions are gathered in Giant Rock City, which makes the number of troops in his hands reach nearly 200,000.

Zhan Bai stood on the chariot, coldly watching the siege battle ahead, after more than ten days of preparation, the layout has been completed, Zhan Bai suddenly marched in the middle of the night, poured into the nest, led nearly 200,000 troops, surrounded the rock city, and the soldiers immediately launched a fierce attack.

After attacking more than ten times before and after, fiercely besieging the city for two hours, after losing nearly 10,000 soldiers and Zhenshi City was still unbreakable, Zhan Bai stopped the siege and besieged Zhenshi City with an army of 150,000, and divided 30,000 troops to Zhesha, so that he could bypass Zhenshi City and go straight to Xizhou, intending to capture Moyang City and cut off Li Xun's grain and grass back road.

Li Xun got Zhan Bai's military movements as soon as possible, and immediately convened all the generals to discuss the matter.

First, Li Xun listened to Shan Qiu's suggestion, strengthened the rear military force in advance, gathered more than 10,000 scattered troops stationed in the seven eastern countries of the Western Regions, and returned to defend Moyang City with 5,000 soldiers and horses, plus 5,000 soldiers and horses in Zheng Chun's hands, a total of 10,000 defenders, and the other 6,000 soldiers were Zhao Zhang as the main general, and Li Zhaodi was the deputy general, stationed in He Guo, two hundred miles east of Zhenshi City and three hundred and fifty miles north of Moyang City.