"The Ninth Battalion of the Ghost Guards is the 1st Elite Battalion of Shen Lindong, the 2nd Jianshi Battalion of Hu Li, the 3rd Dead Battalion of Zugongmao, the 4th Armor Battalion of Cao Li, the 5th Cavalry Battalion of Li Yuan, the 6th Heavy Battalion of Wen Ruyu, the 7th Security Battalion of Li Chuncheng, the 8th Guards Battalion of Guancheng, and the 9th Confidential Battalion of Hu Sanwan. The battalion flags of each battalion are guarded under the banner and there are other handwritings such as the Rui Shi Battalion, the Jian Shi Battalion, and the Dead Soldier Battalion. Zhang Xiaowu commanded.

Wen Ruyu listened carefully, recorded it in the book, and immediately sent people to make the handsome flag and the battalion flag when he returned to the baggage camp, the ghost guard flag was only black and white, which was extremely easy to sew, Wen Ruyu took three days to make more than 500 flags, and distributed them separately. The soldiers and civilians in the city also learned the news of the formation of the ghost guard early, and the city celebrated, and the establishment of the ghost guard in the north announced that this improvised patchwork team was finally recognized by the empire, and it will never be disbanded again, and no one will worry about the future again.

But the sergeants were just happy on the front foot, and they heard that the ghost guard only had 10,000 military positions, and now there are 34,000 soldiers in Mucheng, including 16,000 Mucheng defenders, 3,000 Qingzi Battalion soldiers of the Qinglong Army commanded by Chen Qing, another 13,000 wounded soldiers of the Qinglong Army who were temporarily recruited, and 2,000 righteous soldiers. Zhang Xiaowu needed to select 10,000 people from the 16,000 Mucheng defenders, while the rest had to return to their hometowns for the people. The front foot had just won a series of victories over Inuyi, and the back foot dismissed the person and returned to his hometown, thinking about it, it was a bit of a cross the river and demolishing the bridge, so the sergeants protested one after another.

Zhang Xiaowu immediately ordered: "The number of 10,000 is a rule of the imperial court, but the general will not be subject to the order of the foreign monarch, once you enter the ghost guard for a lifetime, as long as you do not leave the ghost guard, the ghost guard will be your brother for a day." ”

The armies were moved, but Ruan Qingwen was worried that someone would impeach him, after all, the soldiers of the Weifu could only be decided by the Ministry of War, and the decision made by the following privately was a major crime of rebellion. Zhang Xiaowu said then you will report to me that the ghost guard is special, in addition to the 10,000 ghost guards, there are 6,000 people, as for the internal everyone is the same, the military salary is evenly shared, and everyone is less together.

On September 18 of the first year of Dade, the ghost guard of Saibei was officially formed into an army, and Zhang Xiaowu led all the troops to worship the capital Emperor Dade first, and then gave the officials ribbons and armor in turn. There are a total of 36 generals above the ghost guard school, all of them are beaming, and the three major joys in life are promotions, getting rich and dying wives, and now they account for the second.

Looking at Zhang Xiaowu who was in the midst of the uprising from afar, all the righteous soldiers were also beaming and sympathetic, but only the poisonous lady Tao Zhiruo was sad, she sighed and turned to leave. Seeing this, Zhu Wushuang chased after her and asked her why she was sad, Tao Zhiruo hurriedly said: "Where am I sad, I think the sun is too hot, go back to escape the heat." ”

Zhu Wushuang pinched his waist and said: "Sister, don't think I'm easy to deceive when I'm young, you say, is it the general who took advantage of you, but didn't admit it?" Hum! is such a Chen Shimei, I will definitely spare him! ”

Tao Zhiruo hurriedly stopped him and said, "That's not the case, sister, don't talk nonsense." ”

Zhu Wushuang said: "Sister, if you and the general are alone in the same room for three days and three nights, it is okay and fine, how can he be irresponsible?" ”

Tao Zhiruo said: "The general saved me, it's too late for me to thank you, how can there be such a statement?" How can our children in the rivers and lakes be so hypocritical, but it's nothing to be alone in a room, why are you still hypocritical? ”

Zhu Wushuang pouted in disbelief, and said with a forbidden nose: "I must ask clearly, what is going on here, why can you two not see each other from that day on." ”

Tao Zhiruo knew that she had always been reckless, so he hurriedly stopped her and prevented her from asking the general about the story that happened in those three days and three nights. The two of them saw from a distance a military general galloping on a horse, this person was wounded, holding high the green flag and shouting: "Report!" Jincheng is broken! The Wuhuan army has come south, and has now passed the ruins of Roland, and has arrived in Mucheng in seven days! With that, he fell down from his horse.

The joy of the Ghost Guard's army immediately subsided with the news of the destruction of Jincheng and the southward movement of Wuhuan, and everyone was terrified and wept for the 30,000 soldiers in Jincheng. Among the 50,000 soldiers and civilians in Mucheng, 20,000 were originally the defenders of Jincheng, but now that Jincheng is gone, they don't know where to go. Zhang Xiaowu was also shocked, and immediately ordered all the troops to return to the camp to find out the reason.

This fainted scout was Li Yuan's men, one of the cavalry sent by Li Yuan to Roland City as a scout sentry, and now he is the only one who has fled back, which means that the others have sacrificed their lives to die for their country.

Although Zhang Xiaowu was anxious, he did not forcibly shake this person awake, but he woke up naturally after sleeping peacefully for two hours.

The scout woke up and reported truthfully, it turned out that they had encountered the Wuhuan scout, and after a fight between the two sides, the Wuhuan cavalry appeared, and the ghost guard scout was either killed or captured, and this person was also captured by them. That night, this person was locked up, but he saw tens of thousands of Han soldiers tied together, one by one, like walking corpses, their eyes had long been lifeless, and they were all numb waiting for death. He immediately stepped forward to inquire, only to learn that since the Jialan River opened in May this year, after the weather warmed up, a plague began to break out in Jincheng, and this plague greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Jincheng defenders. The Inuyi army attacked several times without success, so they stopped besieging it.

By June, hundreds of people had died of the plague, and in July more than 1,000 soldiers had died of the plague, and in mid-August, 10,000 people had died of the plague in Jincheng, so that in early September, almost everyone in Jincheng was sick, and many soldiers even escaped overnight.

Wuhuan originally waited for the princess of Shenghan to marry and marry, and then justifiably sent away the Jincheng defenders to occupy the Yajin granary, but when it came to August, it began to change and find that the Jincheng soldiers had fled. The Wuhuan people did not stop them, they just needed the crow-gold granary, and they did not need to bother to slaughter the Han soldiers, and they thought that they had reached an agreement with the Shenghan Empire, and they were bent on dealing with the vassal states, so they let the Jincheng soldiers flee at will.

However, at the beginning of September, the Wuhuan people accidentally caught a few Han deserters, and only then did they know that there was a great plague in Jincheng, and there were only 30,000 defenders in Jincheng.

The Wuhuan people never expected a huge pie to fall from the sky, which directly stunned the uncle and nephew of Wuri Ralai and Wu Li, and they only sent 10,000 slave soldiers to successfully attack Jincheng and completely occupy Jincheng.

And there are only a few hundred people who can resist in Jincheng, and the rest of them have seen the Wuhuan slave soldiers, not to mention the battle, it is difficult to stand up, and even the first warrior of the Holy Han Li Cunyi led five hundred cavalry to protect the first army division of the Holy Han Gu Yong and fled eastward. Unable to hunt down this bereaved dog, they occupied Jincheng before the rest of the people, and took full control of the Ravenjin granary as soon as possible. Seeing this, the other tribes were furious and left without saying goodbye, and by the way, Uri Ralai completely controlled the central part of the Saibei Wasteland.

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