Like the fall of Sumeru, even though Zhao Zhihai had already ordered Lingzhou to strengthen the garrison of each pass to prevent internal chaos, how could the defense of each pass be changed in a moment and a half.

Just a few days after Zhao Zhihai left Yuxiao Pass, Qin Lan's five passes opened the gate in a few days to welcome the Rong soldiers into the pass.

Except for the Muqian Pass and the Huoqian Pass, the defenders of the other three passes did not react at all, so they became prisoners of the Rong people.

The Muqian Pass and Huoqian Pass were close to Lingzhou and changed their defenses in time, and after several battles, they barely defended them.

But for the Rong people, holding the remaining three levels has already achieved the predetermined purpose.

In just three days after breaking the pass, 80,000 troops swept eastward from Sanguan, and the troops were divided into two routes, 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Shan Yu Xiao Jinxing personally led the troops to the north to attack Lingzhou and Bingyan County to the north, and the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses attacked the remaining six counties under the leadership of Zhezhe.

In the Zhezhe army that captured the six counties, more than 10,000 Qin troops once again performed the strategy of capturing Xiaoguan.

Often after the Rong people besieged the counties for a day or two, they falsely claimed that they were reinforcements from Yuanzhou or Lingzhou, and induced the soldiers and horses defending the city to open the city gates, and then seized the county seat with the soldiers outside the city.

Therefore, none of the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the six counties had fought a field battle outside the city with the Rong people, and they were lost one after another in less than ten days.

At this time, Zhao Zhihai got the news that the Rong people were advancing eastward from Qin Lan Zhuguan.

A few days later, the scouts sent by Zhao Zhihai to Lingzhou to inquire about the news actually met the Rong people's southbound Tanma at the junction of Lingyuan and Lingyuan. At this time, Zhao Zhihai and Fang Yuanheng of Wenshui City really realized the seriousness of the situation.

Among them, Zhao Zhihai of Yuanzhou, located south of Lingzhou counties, could no longer care about the whereabouts of the 100,000 soldiers and horses in Lingzhou, and all his attention was focused on the position where the Rong soldiers were heading.

Fortunately, at this time, the scouts sent out continued to bring back the situation on the northern front: Zhezhe's 40,000 soldiers had no intention of continuing to attack south after Qingshui County, the southernmost part of Chen Bingling Prefecture.

In this way, he confronted Zhao Zhihai's Yuanzhou military horses across the Qingshui River.

The 40,000 cavalry who successively attacked Bingyan County and Lingzhou captured the 13th county of Qinlan and Suibei City, where the county seat was located, in less than ten days along the thousand-mile road when Qinlan County was unguarded and the soldiers and horses were empty.

At this time, it was the twentieth day that Fang Yuanheng's army was stationed in Wenshui City.

In the past two days, Fang Yuanheng has successively received military reports from the guards of the Yushan Tianqian Pass at the boundary between Qinlan County and Xiazhong County, saying that tens of thousands of people in Qinlan County want to enter the Yushan Pass to flee to the south.

Xiazhong County is located in the southernmost part of the Qin State, the southernmost county of Yigi, with Shubei County on the left and Gyeonggi on the right. The yellow water flows out in the north of the county, and the summer water is in the southernmost part of the county, which is the border with the Shu Kingdom.

The county seat of Wenshui is in the northwest of Xiazhong County, and the yellow water flows eastward from ten miles north of the city. Less than 100 miles north after crossing the Yellow Water, there is a jade mountain between Xiazhong County and Qinlan County.

This place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the summer water and yellow water pass through the county, the commercial trade is quite developed, and it is known as the Great Qin Qian Cang, so Fang Yuanheng chose to garrison here and wait for news from the north.

After hearing the news that the people of Qinlan County could not escape, Fang Yuanheng ignored Zheng Lu's persuasion and ordered the people of Qinlan County to be allowed to enter the customs, but at the same time ordered that after the refugees entered the customs, they could only be limited to Dongyang County, northeast of Wenshui City.

Zheng Lu is afraid that there are Rong people among the people.

However, Fang Yuanheng took into account that although the Jade Mountain was steep, it was far inferior to Qin Lan and Sumeru. Moreover, if the Rong people want to attack, they can bypass Yushan and do not have to force the checkpoints of Yushan, so it is not very likely that the refugees will be mixed with internal responses.

The most important thing is that these people are all fellow villagers of Zhao Zhihai, and although he is not afraid of that middle-aged person with a gloomy personality, he doesn't want to get into trouble, not to mention that the letter written by Zhao Zhihai to him is still on his desk at the moment.

After receiving Zhao Zhihai's letter a few days ago, Fang Yuanheng also made several plans to march into Qinlan County, but after discussing with Zheng Lu and Edo several times, he finally came to the conclusion that once he entered Qinlan County, it would be very likely to be surrounded by the Rong people, unless he relied on some small hills in the north and south of Qinlan County to block the pace of the Rong people's attack.

But Fang Yuanheng knew that his soldiers and horses were the last mobile force of Great Qin, if they were surrounded or confronted by the Rong people in those hills, then the strategic initiative would fall into the hands of the Rong people, and when the time came, I was afraid that there would be no third army to rescue him, so he would be very passive.

What Fang Yuanheng was most afraid of was passivity, because he had never been passive.

Today, Fang Yuanheng finally waited for the news that he had been waiting for a month, and he heard the news from the "Swallow", saying that the main force of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses was gathering in Haiwu County, the southernmost part of Qinlan County, to confront the defenders of Yushan.

Fang Yuanheng, who had been waiting for a month, decisively ordered that the whole army should be prepared today, and early tomorrow morning, he would lead 70,000 soldiers under his command to send troops to Yushan, leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard Wenshui City, and then escort the army's grain and grass to Yushan safely.

In the year 589 of the Great Zhou calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival, early September, Suibei City.

Zhongchang Mansion, inside the Wenhua Palace.

Qin Dan Yu Xiao Jinxing sat on the top of the middle hall, at this moment he had mixed feelings in his heart, although in the eyes of everyone standing in the hall, he was still full of mystery, still unsmiling, still his face was like stagnant water, but only he understood that today was the most beautiful day in more than ten years.

Sixteen years ago, in this Suibei City, in this Wenhua Palace, he met his unforgettable lover in his life, the beautiful woman who was dressed in green clothes and argued with himself about whether the fish on the jade screen in the hall were happy.

"Dare to ask Childe, why have you been staring at the fish on this screen in my house?"

"Ah, I just watched the fish swim happily, and I was so envious that it made the girl smile."

"Childe, you are really interesting, you are not a fish, how do you know that this fish is happy?"

"Then you're not me, how can you assume that I don't know if the fish is happy?"

"Hmph, you're really boring, so you're angry? I'm not you, so I don't know you. But you are not a fish either, you will not know the joy of fish, what is there to argue about this? A dignified eight-foot man, if he can't lift a knife and leap on the horse, then he will have a splendid belly, but I am a big Qin man, but here I am nervous against a screen and a woman. Ignore you. ”

After saying that, he stuck out his tongue at Xiao Jinxing, who was stunned, and ran out of the hall.

That year, Xiao Jinxing was 18 years old, and Zhao Qingnu, who met him for the first time, was 16 years old.

"Young girl, do you see, I'm back again.

This is just the first step, waiting for me, waiting for me. ”

After saying this, Xiao Jinxing raised his head, and in his originally gloomy and sad eyes, only coldness and profundity remained in the moment he raised his head.

"Alu, Ahuanu, Bemur, Bortu, the four of you led the troops in less than twenty days to first Keling Prefecture, and then to capture the thirteen counties of Qinlan and Suibei City, and made miraculous contributions for my Great Xia, today I will order, until the time of the world, allow your four tribes to move into Qinlan County."

As soon as these words fell, Alu, Ahuanu, Bemur, and Bortu "pounced" and knelt down in front of Xiao Jinxing.

These four people are all typical Rong people, who can fight well and are fierce and abnormal.

But at this moment, the four of them looked like Huangkou children with sincere fear, and kept kowtowing to Xiao Jinxing.

Looking at the leaders of the small tribes around them, most of them existed as commanders in the Rong army, and at this moment it was like seeing the dawn, and there was envy and hope in the eyes of Shan Yu and the four of them.

For more than 500 years, the Rong people have been fighting against the harsh living environment outside the Guanwai all the time, and they have been working hard all the time to return to China.

And now, they were finally able to lead their people back into this rich and peaceful land, how could they not be excited.

The four kneeling kowtowers had been immersed in sudden joy, like birds that had learned to fly soaring in the boundless sky for the first time, ignoring the danger in front of them, and only looking at the vast world.

"Alright, get up." Xiao Jinxing said softly.

At the same time, he looked around at the leaders of the Rong people who had infinite longing in their eyes.

"At present, we have only captured Lingzhou and Qin Lan, Qin still has one state and four counties, and there are Qi, Shu, and Chu in the world.

There is a place for our people to live. Don't rush, let's take our time. ”

After hearing Shan Yu's words, everyone in the hall cheered in unison, as if the world was already in their hands.

The four people who had been kneeling also stood up and cheered involuntarily with the others.

Xiao Jinxing looked at the cheering crowd in the hall, until everyone found the silent Shan Yu, and then gradually subsided the joyful and moving carnival.

Gradually, the hall became silent again.

Xiao Jinxing said slowly: "Zhezhe has led the Qin army to confront Yuanzhou on the bank of the Qingshui River, and Yuanzhou has the Mo Nanhu in the direction of Xiaoguan to respond, thinking that with Zhezhe's ability, he should be able to stabilize the situation."

However, the reinforcements of the Qin people are looking at our way, and at this moment, their commander Fang Yuanheng is in Nanwenshui City, Haiwu County, where our army is stationed. In my estimation, his army will be deployed in the north of Yushan, and they will seek out us for a decisive battle in the next two days. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Jinxing paused and looked around the hall.

Sure enough, the people below were all taken aback when they heard Fang Yuanheng's three words.

The slightly older leaders, including the four of Alu, had all learned Fang Yuanheng's power, and they clearly remembered that the last time they knocked on the pass, it was the 100,000 army led by Fang Yuanheng who surrounded the 40,000 Rong troops who entered the country in Chen'er Mountain, fifty miles west of Yuanzhou, and all of them were annihilated, and there was not one person who could escape.

In that year, after Fang Yuanheng cut off the heads of more than 30,000 Rong people, he cast a Jingguan in Xiao Guanxi, which caused Shan Yu Xin Muhe to be furious at that time, regardless of dissuasion, led the remaining 60,000 Rong people to fight with Fang Yuanheng in Xiao Pass, and after the ten-day battle, Fang Yuanheng's general Fang Hengxin led 10,000 Xuanjia cavalry to enter the Chinese army from the rear of the Rong army, killing Shan Yu Xin Muhe, which led to the rout of the Rong army.

In that war nine years ago, 100,000 soldiers invaded the pass, but less than 10,000 were able to return.

Among the dozens of people in the hall, eight or nine out of ten have also experienced the last war, and when they heard that Fang Yuanheng was stationed in the south of Qinlan County, which one would dare to shout in the hall again?

As if Fang Yuanheng was approaching, everyone in the hall lowered their heads and didn't say a word.