Soon, under the escort of Lu Shengyuan, Chen Ziqian successfully walked out of the mountains and returned to Luyunzhai.

Zhao Qinglin, Xuan Bai and the others were so anxious that they were afraid that something would happen again, but when they saw Chen Ziqian return safely, their hanging hearts were completely let go.

"Lord, are you alright?" Xiong Ji was most worried about Chen Ziqian's safety, and came over to inquire about the situation as soon as possible.

Chen Ziqian waved his hand, and he didn't bother to explain the twists and turns, but simply explained the follow-up deployment.

Two subordinates were drawn from the Shadow Guard, and Chen Ziqian specially sent them to escort the survivors of Lu Yunzhai back to Anyi, and the Shadow Guard had identity certificates on them, and when they arrived in Anyi, they could hand over the villagers to Fan Zhong to settle down.

At the same time, two horses were freed up for Lu Shengyuan and Qi Shishi, one of whom had learned to ride and shoot since childhood, and the other was from a hunter, and riding a horse was not a problem for them.

Soon after these arrangements were made, Qi Shishi took more than 80 villagers out of the mountains, most of them were old and weak, women and children, and there were only eight young and strong people.

Chen Ziqian didn't care about these villagers, and without further ado, he sent the villagers away and set off directly with the team.

After a delay of half a day in Luyunzhai, there are still more than 100 miles along the way, and if nothing else, it will be dark when you enter the territory of Baoyuan.

And while riding horses all the way here, the situation on the Bashan side is also changing.

In accordance with Chen Ziqian's strategic policy and Luo Taibai's strategic deployment, Chen Tong led 15,000 soldiers and horses to go straight to control the water, drove more than 100 miles overnight, and arrived successfully in the afternoon of the next day.

Chen Tong implemented the battle plan deployed by Luo Taibai, and after arriving at Zhishui, the army did not stop for a moment, and directly attacked the city head-on with 10,000 troops, and the other 5,000 soldiers and horses went around to the left and right sides of the city to attack.

Only 3,000 soldiers defending the city, facing this army of tigers and wolves, only blocked one charge, and as the defending general was killed, the city defense completely collapsed.

This battle lasted only one hour before it was successfully concluded, and Chen Tong's troops lost more than 800 horses and horses, and at the same time recruited more than 1,000 soldiers, and the results were remarkable.

On the other side of the battlefield, Luo Taibai took Zhuang Wei as the vanguard and personally led the team to Huaihua.

Zhang Jiangke, who was ready to face the battle as early as the fall of Bashan, did not dare to slack off in the face of the menacing Yong'an army, and gathered 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city to launch a defensive deployment.

Zhang Jiangke attached great importance to this battle, although he only had 5,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but out of prudence, he specially summoned the 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Rongwei.

In order to buy enough time for the 20,000 soldiers and horses, he even sent the few soldiers and horses in the city out of the city to set up an ambush on the road to Bashan.

A veteran on the battlefield and experienced in using soldiers, he successfully dragged the Yongan army for half a day through these small means.

It wasn't until nightfall that Yong'an's more than 10,000 horses arrived outside Huaihua County in a state of exhaustion.

Zhang Jiangke thought that it was getting late, and the enemy was tired, and it was impossible to risk attacking the city today, but Luo Taibai's use of troops was completely unreasonable.

Exhaustion?

The warriors were tired, but neither were the fierce fire oil and catapults under his command.

The army lined up one mile outside the city of Huaihua County, and more than 30 catapults lined up, and in front of Zhang Jiangke, they directly threw the ignited fire oil into the city.

There were thirty carts of fierce fire oil, and Luo Taibai, in accordance with Chen Ziqian's strategic policy, pressed all the fierce fire oil carried by Huaihua this time.

Under the spread of the fire, the city defense was useless.

Zhang Jiangke, who was caught off guard, was completely stunned, and watched the county town that had been in power for many years burn down, and fled out of the city with the remnants without even waiting for the reinforcements to arrive.

Luo Taibai was not in a hurry to recover Huaihua County, so the army camped outside the city and let the fire in the county burn.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced from their homes and moved to the governor's mausoleum, while many more innocent people have died in the fire.

War has always been cruel, although Luo Taibai is not a brutal and murderous person, but for the sake of the overall situation, even if this fire hurts the heavens and the peace, he will not hesitate to start.

Once it will be successful, this is the bloody reality.

And for the next ten days, the raging fire will continue to burn.

The soldiers and horses led by Luo Taibai camped outside the city, and there was no intention of sending people to extinguish the fire.

Zhang Jiangke, who escaped from the city, soon joined up with the 20,000 soldiers and horses who came to help, at first he tried to extinguish the fire and remedy, but the fire had spread throughout the city, even if the fire could be extinguished, Huaihua County was already in ruins.

What's more, there is also the Yongan army camped outside the city, and they can't do these actions at all, so they can only give up Huaihua and retreat from the army to stand by.

This battle was completely started in the name of Yong'an.

Luo Taibai not only showed Yong'an muscles to Zhang Jiangke and the Quanzhou Thorn History, but also let the princes of the world see the power of fierce fire oil.

Who can resist such a siege weapon?

The Yong'an army not only relied on this battle to shock the world, but also firmly pinned down the 250,000 troops rushed from all over the state in Rongwei County.

They didn't know how much fierce fire oil the Yong'an army had in their hands, and seeing that the army led by Luo Taibai was calmly camped outside Huaihua County, they didn't dare to rashly lead their troops to recapture the city.

The enemy and us took Huaihua County as the border, and they confronted each other for half a month.

Luo Taibai also became famous for burning the county town with a fire and holding back the enemy's 250,000 troops with 15,000 soldiers and horses.

Of course, these are all afterwords, and all the strategic arrangements made by Chen Ziqian when he left Bashan that night were realized.

The 250,000 troops in Quanzhou were blocked, and they could not threaten the counties of Huaihua in the short term, and the intention of Quanzhou to recover the nine counties of Tongzhou could only wait for the fire in Huaihua to be extinguished.

At the same time, Chen Ziqian himself also led the team into the territory of Baoyuan.

Without the threat of the 250,000 Quanzhou army, in the next half a month, Chen Ziqian would be able to let go of his hands and feet, and he could toss vigorously in the territory of Baoyuan.

But if you want to toss, you have to have enough strength, just with the three hundred shadow guards under your command, you may not be able to make any waves here in Baoyuan.

Of course, Chen Ziqian also came prepared.

Originally, he planned to directly lead the Shadow Guard to seize the county seat of Baoyuan, and then use the county seat as the foundation to recruit troops and horses to rapidly expand his strength.

But I heard Zhao Qinglin say before that the Zhao family and the Baoyuan Zhou family have an in-law relationship, and the plan to seize the county seat has changed slightly.

In a wilderness on the border between Baoyuan and Bashan, Chen Ziqian and his team are setting up a temporary camp.

When you get here, there is a real danger, and if you are not careful, you may be wiped out by the rogue forces that suddenly appeared.

Chen Ziqian didn't dare to be careless, the task of arming was very important, so he naturally didn't dare to hand it over to Crepe Bai to practice.

Crepe Bai is also self-aware, and the task of arming is handed over to Xiong Ji, and he is close to Chen Ziqian's side to make sure that everything is perfect.

In the humble makeshift camp, Chen Ziqian sat by a campfire, studying the intelligence map sent back by the scouts with a focused face.

A dozen miles away from here is a village called Xingning, which has been occupied by a gang of rogue forces.

Those who can escape have fled, and most of those who can't have been murdered by the gangsters, and some miserable daughters-in-law and little daughters-in-law have become the indulgent tools of those rogues.

Baoyuan's rebellion was far more brutal than imagined.

Chen Ziqian doesn't know much about the situation in Baoyuan, he only knows that there are more than 30 groups of forces in the territory, and the only families that are still standing in the local area are the Zhou family and the Tian family.

The county seat was not captured by the rogues, and there were 1,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city, but judging from the current chaotic scene of Baoyuan, its system must also be corrupt.

Moreover, according to intelligence, the Zhou clan has developed quite well in recent months, and there are 2,000 private soldiers in its Wu fort, which is not much stronger than the county seat.

Whether to go to the city or go directly to the Zhou family.

This question, Chen Ziqian and Zhao Qinglin briefly discussed it for a while, and then came to a decision!