Ye Luo knew that autumn was coming, before the arrival of winter, Xiang Qing finally conquered the entire Xiping County, and the soldiers fought three counties in succession, and they were already exhausted after thousands of miles, so he decided that this winter, he would take a temporary rest, and in the spring of the next year, he would attack the largest county in Liangzhou: Wuwei.

After Xiang Qing pacified Xiping County, he got the information that there were also rebels in Bingzhou, and the imperial court also sent an envoy to specially recruit Zhang Huan, who had performed extremely well in the Xiliang Rebellion, and appointed him as the general of the counterinsurgency to go out to conquer the state.

The original Zhang Huan's subordinate army Sima Dong Zhuo held Zhang Huan's position and was promoted to Zhonglang General, even Liu Hu Shan Fu and others were promoted to one level, but Xiang Qing, there was no sentence in the edict mentioning Xiang Qing with the greatest credit.

The imperial envoy read out the edict, not only Xiang Qing's retainers were not satisfied, but even the soldiers were unhappy for Xiang Qing, as the general of the expedition to the west, every battle must be the first, if it is about the number of enemies killed, Xiang Qing is the undisputed first, the rebel generals who died under him are already countless, the elite army like the Han army worships the strong the most, so they were completely impressed by Xiang Qing's bravery.

Xiang Qing himself doesn't care much about these things, after experiencing these wars, he hates war from the bottom of his heart, and the people who ate with him yesterday will die on the battlefield tomorrow, which makes Xiang Qing's heart extremely uncomfortable and self-blaming.

saw too many people whose families were ruined, so Xiang Qing could persevere, he wanted to pacify Liangzhou, but not to get promoted and make a fortune, but to let the people live, not how noble he was, a modern person, the basic sympathy was infinitely magnified in Xiang Qing.

In the large playground of the barracks, there is a martial arts competition, which is also the traditional program of the Han army, after all, everyone is the most heroic and heroic hero, so it is normal for each other to disagree with each other, and this kind of competition is also to let the soldiers increase their understanding of each other, and it is also the best time to show personal bravery.

Xiang Qing personally designed the rules of this martial arts competition, a total of five rings, each ring has a champion, as long as you can defeat the champion, you can become the next champion, the champion who has successfully defended five times, you can get the right to drink at night, you know, a good wine can make a good man completely crazy, this period of drunkards is especially many.

The three rings are all familiar people, Dong Zhuo, Hua Xiong, Qin Yi, these three people have made great contributions to the Liangzhou counterinsurgency, the martial arts of the three of them have been tested by war, and the soldiers do not expect to defeat these three strong men, everyone's eyes are on the other two rings.

In the other two rings, it was none other than Li Dao and Guo Yan who had secretly left the kingdom.

When Xiang Qing attacked Xiping, Li Dao and Guo Yan took the initiative to become Xiang Qing's internal response, and Xiang Qing should cooperate with each other, and all cities changed hands inexplicably, and even some cities were taken without blood, and Li Dao and Guo Yan also became a model of abandoning darkness and turning to the light.

Because of personality reasons or other reasons, after Li Dao and Guo Yan defected, they got very close to Dong Zhuo and the three of them, and Li Dao and Guo Yan had a lot of prestige among the rebels, and many rebels surrendered one after another when they heard the names of Li Guo and Guo Liang.

The Han army itself is a complete collective, Xiang Qing does not want to forcibly integrate these remnants of the defeated army with the Han army, so these surrendered troops are all under the command of Dong Zhuo, and his strength is also getting stronger and stronger, the Han army has always been a strength of 5,000 people, but after the war, the number of people has only decreased, not increased, Dong Zhuo's soldiers are more and more, it is more than twice the Han army, full of 10,000 people.

You must know that there are many cavalry in Liangzhou, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is even more famous in the world, and in the first battle of Jincheng County, countless Xiliang war horses, grain, grass and ordnance were captured, and they were replaced with brand-new banners.

Li Wei's Guo Yan stood on the field, the two of them had won ten games each, and the pride on their faces was already overflowing, even if the autumn was getting stronger, the wind was a little cold, and the two were still barearmed, and their muscles were exposed to the air, which looked extraordinarily brave.

Even if the two of them were full of people in the ring, no one dared to step forward for a while looking at the defeated men who fell in front of Li Guo and the others.

Xiang Qing was sitting on a chair, cross-legged Erlang, holding a piece of grass in his mouth, humming and singing, Xiang Xu was sitting next to him, Liu Hu was standing behind him, and Shan Fu was counting the wins and losses in the ring.

"Huzi, do you think it's good-looking?" Xiang Qing suddenly pursed his lips and said: "I thought they could fight back and forth, and the fight was more exciting, but I didn't expect it to be one-sided crushing, what does this mean?" ”

Liu Hu also sighed: "Second master, I also feel bored." ”

Xiang Qing suddenly turned his head, his eyes stared at Liu Hu, and Liu Hu was hairy, but you asked Liu Hu if he dared to move? He didn't dare to move, so he could only raise his head to avoid Xiang Qing's gaze.

"Did you say you learned everything I taught you? That's not a short time, isn't it? Xiang Qing squinted his eyes, stared at Liu Hu with a smile and said, "You go up, go and fight that Li Dao, if you win, I will make you braised pork at night, if you lose, then you don't want to be the captain of this personal guard, I'm ashamed." ”

Liu Hu clasped his fists with both hands, shouted a promise, and then stepped into the ring with confidence.

Xiang Qing said to Xiang Xu, who was distracted: "Xiao Xu, there is a good show to watch, watch it quickly." ”

Xiang Xu said expressionlessly: "Brother, it's boring, they can't beat me." ”

This kid is good at everything, he just likes to tell the truth, Xiang Qing touched his head helplessly, and said with a smile: "That's for sure, Xiao Xu is the most powerful." ”

In the ring, Li Wei saw Liu Hu walking towards him comfortably, everyone is familiar with it these days, he knows that Liu Hu is General Xiang Qing's personal guard, and he has been personally taught by General Xiang Qing, and his strength is definitely not weak, so he doesn't dare to be careless.

Liu Hu took off his halberd from his back, stuck it on the ground, and said to Li Wei: "Lao Li, let's not play with some fists and embroidered legs, the general is tired of looking at it, let's fight with real knives and guns, do you dare?" ”

Li Wei snorted coldly: "Why don't you dare? ”

has taken a weapon, it is a spear, these days he has also figured out the temper of Xiang Qing and others, there is not so much intrigue, even if he really defeats Liu Hu, it will not be good.

The two didn't talk nonsense, the double halberd and the spear had already collided together, and the surrounding soldiers saw that the captains of the general's personal guards had already gone into battle in person, and they ran over to watch, and for a while the other rings disappeared.

Dong Zhuo and others also ran out of the ring, each found a good position to watch the battle, this is a rare scene, this Liu Hu is by Xiang Qing's side all the time, not leaving an inch, dutifully protecting Xiang Qing, even if he sleeps, who is next to Xiang Qing's tent, so few people see him make a move, his shot is against Li Dao, can you not be interested?

"Hey, Xiao Xu, which of the two do you think can win?" Xiang Qing asked with interest.

Xiang Xu thought for a while: "Li Wei's marksmanship is a wild way, it is a life-and-death killing move studied on the battlefield, it is very good in practicality, straight to the point, neat, Liu Hu's words, his halberd was learned from his brother, but he only learned three points, but with these three points, it is not a problem to deal with a wild way." ”

Xiang Qing touched his head and said gently: "Xiao Xu really rarely says so much, you have to talk more in the future, don't always be speechless by yourself, how unhappy it is, if you don't want to talk to others, then tell me, I love to hear whatever you say." ”

Xiang Xu lowered his head and said in a mosquito-like voice: "Got it." ”

"Okay, look at the ring, they're fighting."

Xiang Qing didn't look like a general at all, stood on the table, cheered Liu Hu loudly, and said, if you lose, don't come back, go do two thousand push-ups, two thousand sit-ups, don't embarrass me, hurry up and take it!

Originally, the first few moves were fought back and forth, but Liu Hu heard Xiang Qing speak, especially when he heard the words push-ups and sit-ups, his hands trembled, others didn't know what these two words meant, but he knew too well, it was simply not a human thing.

The spear swept under his feet, Liu Hu jumped up directly, the double halberd had already slashed at Li Dao's head with the momentum of Mount Tai's pressure, Li Dao squatted on the ground and turned his back, the spear was on his head, and when the double halberd just came into contact with the gun, Li Dao suddenly turned around, pulled out the spear, and the double halberd split in the air.

The spear and the double halberd are not allowed to give way to each other, the two of you come and go, the fight is not lively, between the dangers, the onlookers are all loudly applauding, the two are inseparable, for a while it is difficult to separate, the two of them use all their strength, all kinds of means come out, and they will not be able to take each other for a while.

After nearly a hundred moves, Li Wei's strength was suddenly a little weak, but fortunately, Liu Hu's endurance was "polished" by Xiang Qing himself, and now he has completely gained the upper hand.

This is not to blame Li Dao, after all, he is not a fighting general, and he is not good at fighting with enemy generals, these jobs are done by Xiang Qing and Xiang Xu brothers, Li Dao's skills are all within a few moves, can cause effective damage, and he has done his best to fight a hundred moves.

Li Dao took the initiative to jump out of the standing circle, hugged his fists and said, "It's really amazing, I lost." ”

The battle is over, Xiang Qing is still unsatisfied, these two people are indeed much more exciting than just now, at this time, Wang Shu quietly came to Xiang Qing's side, and Xiang Qing also noticed Wang Shu's arrival.

"How's it going?" Xiang Qing asked Wang Shu: "In addition to us, there is another army in Liangzhou that is fighting with the rebels, and its strength is not inferior to ours at all, who are they?" ”

Wang Shu replied: "General, according to my information, this army is not the army of the imperial court, nor is it a county soldier, I have heard that there are two leaders of this group, one is called Ma Teng, and the other is called Han Sui. ”