The occupation of Chang'an is only the first to occupy Guanzhong, of course, it is not necessary for every county town to send troops to occupy it, as long as the strategic place in Guanzhong is occupied.

Among the various strategic points at present, Shangzhou is the most important, and after Li Bing occupied Lantian Pass, he received an urgent order from Guo Song to intercept the bronze artifacts of Shangluo County.

Li Bing immediately led 7,000 cavalry to the south and entered Shangzhou, they were not in a hurry to attack Shangluo County, but went directly south to Wuguan.

Wuguan was previously captured by Yao Jin's sneak attack, Zhu Zhu in order to prevent the second capture, once put heavy troops here to defend, the strength of 8,000 people, but after Zhu Zhu moved the capital, strengthen the defense of Dengzhou, Wuguan both ends are their own territory, it gradually lost its strategic significance, the defenders continue to decrease, reduced to 1,000 people today.

The guard of Wuguan is called Wang Lun, is Zhu Jinqing's cronies, this person won the fat difference of guarding Wuguan by boasting about patting horses, he immediately squeezed Wuguan's financial resources to the extreme, all the caravans that passed Wuguan had to pay fifty percent of the tax according to the tax bill, which was called the security tax, if there was no tax bill, then Wang Lun could only be allowed to make a wanton offer.

In just half a year, basically no caravan dared to go to Wuguan, and would rather take Tongguan to Luoyang and then turn south, although it was a ten-day journey, but also willingly.

The caravan money can not be earned, this time, greedy Wang Lun hit the idea of the soldier again, just last month, he changed the new money issued by Zhu Zhu for the small money issued by the Hebei Domain, although Zhu Zhu's new money is also very low in copper, but it is a little better than small money, and the new money can always be exchanged for 1,500 small money, as a result, each soldier was deducted by him in this way 30% of the military salary.

This incident almost provoked a mutiny, and after Zhu Jianqing scolded him severely, he relented a little.

At noon, Wang Lun ate in the big tent as usual, their camp tent was in Wuguan, Wuguan was dangerous in the south, flat in the north, mainly to deal with the enemy army coming from the south, if there were enemy troops in the pass, then Wuguan would basically have no defensive significance.

At this time, the food on the table shook, Wang Lun had experience, he stood up quickly, grabbed his war knife and rushed out of the big tent, and it was really dusty in the distance.

"Get back to the pass!"

Wang Lun roared, this is at least more than 5,000 cavalry, but Chang'an has no cavalry, it can't be his own army, you don't need to think about it to know where the army is coming.

A thousand soldiers panicked and fled back to the city, closing the gates, and a thousand soldiers stood by the bow and arrows at the head of the city.

Seven thousand cavalry came at a gallop, but slowed down two miles away, Li Bing was not worried about the enemy defending the city, and there was no need to take any means of sneak attack, they knew Wuguan very well, and it was easy to take Wuguan.

"Cavalry archers!"

Li Bing gave an order, and the three thousand cavalry rushed forward like a long snake formation, they shot arrows in a gallop, and the dense arrows shot at the head of the city, suppressing the defenders at the head of the city to death, and the defenders at the head of the city could only use the method of blind shooting, half-squatting on the head of the city, shooting arrows without a target under the city.

This kind of blind shooting was effective against the dense siege soldiers, but it was basically ineffective against the running long snake cavalry, and the siege cavalry firmly suppressed the soldiers at the head of the city, and immediately several soldiers rushed forward with a large iron fire mine.

They pressed the iron fire thunder against the gate with a wooden frame, and at this time, Wang Lun discovered the enemy's attempt from the observation hole, and he shouted: "With fire oil! With fire oil! ”

Immediately, a soldier threw down more than a dozen jars of fire oil, and the soldiers below dodged one after another, and one soldier couldn't dodge, and was hit in the shoulder by a pot of fire oil, the pottery altar shattered, and the black fire oil poured him all over.

"Not good! It's fire oil. ”

Several of the firearms battalion soldiers were taken aback, and once the oil was used, the arquebus was likely to be ignited from the roots, and they turned around and ran wildly towards the group, shouting as they ran: "Get out!" They used fire oil! ”

The cavalry also turned around and galloped northward, quickly away from the city wall, when seven or eight torches were thrown down from the city, and the fire oil in front of the city gate burst into flames, and almost in an instant, the iron fire and thunder exploded earth-shatteringly.

Not only the rotten city gate was blown to smithereens, but also the very old city head was also blown down, the Jin army found that the city wall of Wuguan had fallen into disrepair for a long time, and it could not support the explosion of a large iron fire thunder, they had already formulated a plan to seize Wuguan, rough, simple and effective.

The entire city tower collapsed along with the surrounding city wall dozens of zhang wide, and the dust was flying, and the hundreds of soldiers on the head of the city and the lord Wang Lun were crushed under the collapsed city bricks and towers.

Li Bing waved his sword and shouted, "Kill!" ”

"Kill—"

The cavalry shouted and rushed towards the city, and the soldiers at the head of the city turned around and ran wildly in fright, directly opened the south city gate, and escaped from Wuguan........

The soldiers dug the enemy commander out of the rubble, and he had been dead for a long time, not crushed to death, but by the shock wave of iron and thunder, and the other soldiers basically died like this, and their internal organs were shattered.

But Li Bing still had an important task, he left 500 soldiers to defend the city, and he led more than 6,000 cavalry to Shangluo County to kill.

Shangluo County is the second largest county in Shangzhou, and the state is Shangluo County.

Shangluo County is actually a small county, with a circumference of only fifteen miles and a population of less than 2,000 households, because it is relatively close to Wuguan, the general caravan or traveler will be provided and rested here, making the business of Shangluo County relatively prosperous, but in the past six months, Wuguan Shou Wang Lun desperately extorted and exploited the caravan, almost making the caravan extinct, and Shangluo County has also received a great impact, and the business has withered.

But ten days ago, a team of 2,000 people came here, escorting thousands of carts, and stopped in Shangluo County, which made Shangluo County's business boom all at once.

Although these soldiers also have the bad habit of stealing chickens and touching dogs, but in general it is not bad, they spend money generously, drink and eat meat every day and visit brothels, so that the large and small restaurants in Shangluo County are profitable, and there are thousands of coachmen who drive cars, they also have to eat and drink.

This team is responsible for transporting the bronze to Luoyang's convoy, there is no copper ingot, the copper ingots have been transported to Luoyang when the capital was moved, which is basically bronze, copper tripods, copper bells, bronze statues, copper lamps and bronze utensils for daily life, etc., a total of more than 10,000 pieces, including all the bronzes in the Daying Library and Daming Palace, the bronzes of more than a dozen temples in Chang'an, weighing tens of millions of catties.

According to the usual calculation of three catties of copper, these bronze vessels can mint more than 3.5 million yuan, which can support the military expenses of Zhu Zhu's 300,000 army for a year.

This was actually the first step for Zhu Zhu to acquire the wealth of Guanzhong, and then the 120,000 wealthy households in Guanzhong, and the grain, cloth, silk, gold, silver and bronze utensils they brought would be more considerable, at least enough to support Zhu Jun's military spending for ten years.

In the end, he exchanged a clean Guanzhong with Li Shi for the rich Yangzhou, which was really a very cost-effective deal.

As for Guo Song, Zhu Jun can't take care of it for the time being.

The reason why this team transporting bronze artifacts stayed in Shangluo County was because Zhu Zhu suddenly wanted to transport the jade artifacts in the Daying Treasury to Luoyang as well.

The batch of jade in the Daying Treasury is extremely valuable, and it can be sold to the rich people in Luoyang to make a lot of money, Zhu Jun originally wanted to leave it to Guo Song according to the agreement, but he regretted it again, and took advantage of the opportunity to transport the bronze artifacts to Luoyang together.

Shangluo County is very uneasy, last night, seven thousand Jin cavalry galloped past from the side of the county, to Wuguan, they all know, at noon, there was a muffled thunderous sound in the direction of Wuguan, you must know that Shangluo County and Wuguan are sixty miles apart, they can still hear the explosion.

Maybe the soldiers don't know yet, but Zhu Jun's generals basically know that the Jin army has a very powerful fire and thunder weapon in his hands, which can blow up the entire city wall, and the main general Zou Xing is no exception.

Zou Xing's heart was extremely anxious, what should he do?

Of course, he knew that they would definitely not be able to hold Shangluo County, the city walls were too short, the city gates were dilapidated, and they had not been repaired for nearly fifty years, and there were still a few city walls that had collapsed due to disrepair, and a single fire and thunder could directly blow them down.

Zou Xing paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, distraught, when the soldiers shouted at the door: "What are you going to do?" ”

"We want to see the general!"

There seemed to be a lot of people outside, Zou Xing was surprised, and when he walked out of the room, he saw twenty or thirty people standing in the courtyard in the dark, all of whom were middle and low-level generals.

"Is there anything you guys are up to?" Zou Xing asked.

The first lieutenant said: "General, we all know that Wuguan may have been lost, and now the cavalry of the Hedong Army is killing us, what should we do?" ”

"This ..... I'm also thinking about whether to withdraw to Chang'an? Zou Xing said to everyone.

Another lieutenant said, "Does the general think Chang'an still belongs to us?" ”

Zou Xing was speechless for a while, since Guo Song's army had entered the pass, there was a chance that Chang'an would not be able to hold it, which was common sense that even ordinary soldiers knew.

"What about you?"

Zou Xing suddenly understood that when these generals came to him, they must have reached a consensus.

After a moment of silence, the first lieutenant said: "Everyone thinks, either disband and go home, or surrender, and ask the general to decide." ”

Zou Xing looked at a pair of eyes staring at him, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, his family is still in Luoyang, it is impossible for him to surrender, his family will be affected, but if he resists and dies, what will happen to his wife and children?

Thinking about it, there is only one way to retreat, and if it is said to be retreating, it is actually fleeing.

He sighed and said, "Let the brothers gather immediately, we will evacuate Shangluo, and after returning to Guanzhong, everyone can choose where to go." ”