Wang Baichuan, a veteran of the Three Qins, was born in the end of the micro and was reckless, and he was an out-and-out market man. The ancestors of the Wang family have been in the past few generations, and they have not been able to produce a decent person who "enters the house". But at the last moment of Wang Baichuan's life, he really died as a "tragic hero"!

However, from beginning to end, Pang Qingshan did not take him, the "Temporary Northwest General", as a serious opponent; Now listening to the vicious curse issued by Wang Baichuan before he died, he only twitched the corners of his mouth and left a sentence coldly:

"Pathetic! Thou hast died at my hands even while thou lived; Even if you can turn into a ghost after death, what can you do with me? ”

Wang Baichuan, who has been successful and failed, wants to be ashamed, and there is no chance in this life; And Pang Qingshan's ploughing of Xingzhou City into ruins was only his first step.

For the Relief Army whose retreat has been cut off, the situation is already very clear: if Nankang is defeated, the Relief Army will die; Nan Kangsheng may not be able to survive the worry relief army; But at least they will be placed in the position of heroes, and their immortal souls will be hung by future generations! In terms of the actual price of the pension, it is also far more than one level higher.

Human nature is complex, but it's actually very simple. Most of them are profit-seeking during their lifetime and their names after death; As for those hermits and sages who claim to be "indifferent to fame and fortune and have no intention of entering the WTO", most of them are just pretending to be sold at a price.

Judging from the topographic map, between Xingtai and Yanjing City, there is a distance of about 800 miles. The Relief Army is assisted by a baggage truck produced by the Tianji Workshop, which can greatly increase the speed of the march; But counting the heavy burden of siege equipment, they had enough strength to catch up. He can only march a hundred miles a day.

However, fortunately, after the Northwest Army invaded Jizhou, it immediately divided its troops into three ways and swept Jizhou devastatingly. At that time, the Northwest Army was like a bamboo, and almost scattered all the Northern Yan soldiers in Jizhou in one fell swoop; As for the villages and towns along the way, they have long been slaughtered by this group of northwest tigers and wolves, and the road ahead is naturally a smooth road.

Due to Cai Ning's old subordinates who stubbornly defended the Huajiang moat, the transmission of news between the north and the south was not very accessible; Under the unclear situation in the Nankang court, Pang Qingshan could only choose to make a desperate bet and give it a go. He put all his chips on Yanjing City, the capital of Northern Yanguo.

What he thought was that as long as Yanjing City couldn't resist the siege equipment of the Tianji Workshop; Then Emperor Tianyou and the prince have no way to retreat, either they will be captured, or they will die in battle, there is no third way at all.

And Wang Baichuan is right about one thing: except for the 80,000 troops from the northwest in Xingzhou City, the current Northern Yan Dynasty has no troops that can quickly rush to the aid of Yanjing City.

First of all, Cai Ning's Zhongzhou veterans who have been trained for many years have been holding on to each other with the Nankang Navy all year round, and they have been nailed to each other along the coast of Huizhou and Jingchu, unable to move; And Xiang Qing, the real young master of the Zhu family of Bashu Dao, was all new in his hands, and his troops were not abundant, and he was also strangled to death on the border between Ludong and Jiangnan Province to defend against the enemy.

In other words, if there were no these two forces to protect the southern border of Northern Yan; Then the 40,000 worry-relieving troops in Pang Qingshan's hands will not be cut off from supplies, reinforcements, and retreat to the south.

As for the Tianyou and Sanjin coalition armies that have just entered the land of Sanqin, they are indeed under the control of the fourth prince Zhou Chang'an. However, not to mention that the northwest border cannot afford to be lost, nor whether the willingness of the four princes with outstanding military achievements to lead the army back to Yanjing is strong enough; Just said that he led the army to attack Yanjing City, but it only took eight to ten days; And even if Zhou Changan has the heart, he doesn't have time to hurry!

I'm afraid that before the war, no one would have thought that everyone had gone around in such a big circle, but it could affect the key points of the war, and it turned back!

And the key point of this life-and-death battle is that there are three main factors. First, whether the city defense facilities in Yanjing City can withstand the new siege equipment of the Tianji Workshop; Both, whether Zhou Changan is willing to risk the loss of the Three Qin and the smooth succession of the crown prince to lead the army back to Yanjing; The three are the speed and offensive of the Worry Relief Army, whether it is fast enough to attack Yanjing City, which is weak in the city's air defense, before Zhou Chang'an returns to help!

In the early morning of the next day, the Worry Relief Army set up camp and attacked Yanjing, the capital of Northern Yan State, at full speed!

At the same time, in the city of Chang'an in Sanqin, there is a handsome young man who slowly pushes open the door of the Huangjia Mash Liquor Shop "Ruins" located in the alley of Changle Fang. He lazily stretched his waist and yawned. Seeing this, the shopkeeper of the inn opposite hurriedly brought tables, chairs and benches, and the young man also put a basket of bread and a bowl of steaming soybean milk on the table in due time.

"Young master, you use it slowly, just put it away after eating, and I'll call someone to clean it up."

Shen Gui nodded, took out a silver ticket of fifty taels from his arms, and put it on the table:

"Thank you for taking care of the shopkeeper in the past few days, I am leaving Chang'an today, and I will say goodbye to you in advance."

"Young Master...... Don't blame the villain for being too talkative! Now there is chaos outside, and where you go is not as safe as our Chang'an City! In the villain's opinion, you should wait ......"

"Thank you for the shopkeeper's kindness, but there are still people waiting at home, I'm in a hurry, so it's not good to delay any longer......"

When the kind-hearted shopkeeper heard this, he also sighed, said 'slow use', and took his leave. Shen Gui, on the other hand, picked up a bun and blew it twice, biting out a crescent. The sweet and elastic beef filling, under the pressure of the teeth, "rose up to resist", and the gravy with the scent of green onions instantly overflowed the mouth, which is really a supreme delicacy that is difficult to find in this troubled world......

Just when Shen Gui drank a sip of soy milk and slightly relieved the greasy, a middle-aged man wearing a Bashu brocade robe in the distance walked into Changle Fang. He looked at Shen Gui, who was feasting, and didn't say hello, just walked over with straight eyebrows. When he got closer, he walked unceremoniously into the front hall of the inn, dragged a bench with his hand, and sat opposite Shen Gui; Then he glanced at the food on the table, and beckoned to the shopkeeper with a look of disgust:

"That's it, give me a copy too!"

The shopkeeper didn't move when he heard this, but just glanced at Shen Gui with his spare eyes; And Shen Gui waved his hand casually, and while eating seriously, he said to the man:

"This is a beef bun, how do you know how to break the law......?"

"Joke! I've asked you to dig up your ancestral grave, and you still care about the sin of killing the ploughing cows! How? Are you leaving? ”

"Well, let's leave when we're done."

Zhou Changan tilted his head and thought for a while, then reached out and stroked his short beard under his chin, and said to him in a low voice:

"In order to invite out the bones of the Venerable Master, you completely destroyed the dragon veins of the Zhou family! This matter is too big for me to stand up, and my father will inevitably pursue it to the end. So according to my expectations, if you leave, you shouldn't appear in Beiyan...... What about me...... What are you going to do about it? ”

"You're done. If you are still not at ease, then find a credible person, go to the study of the prince's mansion, find a goldfish embroidered sachet, set it on fire, and destroy the last physical evidence. But I advise you not to commit this stupidity, the sachet contains a shamanic secret medicine, and there is no fourth person in the world who knows the stakes; To others, it's just an ordinary sachet, and you don't have to draw snakes. ”

Shen Gui raised his head and drank the warm soybean milk, and then smeared the oil soup on his fingers on Zhou Changan's new Shu embroidered brocade robe. Then he stood up, stepped on the burden of the long chair, and left a sentence:

"In the same way, you don't have to beat the mind of the loyal uncle; Prepare to be a good emperor in a down-to-earth manner, Huayu Continent needs long-term stability. ”

After finishing speaking, Shen Gui turned around and left Changle Fang; And the innkeeper also brought a basket of beef buns and a bowl of soy milk with a bad face; I didn't say a word to him about the rest.

Zhou Changan finished the breakfast that "violated the king's law" slowly and methodically while thinking about it; When he got up and wanted to leave, a little fat man with a round figure came from the mouth of the alley of Changle Fang.

They are a group of four, two middle-aged men and women are very close to each other, and it seems that they should be husband and wife; There is also a middle-aged man with a roe deer's eye, chattering and a striking copper coin logo tattooed on the cuff. This sign has no special meaning, but it is a rule established by the Qin Wangfu in the early years, and it is a status symbol: the cuff is tattooed with copper coins, and it is the inner tooth person who serves the Huayu people; And the tooth man with a silver ingot tattoo on his cuff has the ability to communicate in multiple languages, and is a foreign tooth man who serves foreign merchants!

The little fat man who walked first, with an indifferent expression, walked ahead to lead the way by himself; He played with a large key repeatedly in his hand, and looked very leisurely; And the inner tooth of Chang'an City in the back kept talking to the middle-aged couple:

"Two, what else do you pick for the location of Changle House! After this village, there is no such shop, you can inquire casually in the Manhuayu Mainland, who still has such a good shop in his hand? The front shop and the back house, the prime location, even the wine cellar and the pot, are all given away! It's so cheap, tsk...... You can't find a lantern anywhere......"

“…… Good is good...... Can...... But it's too expensive! ”

"You get what you pay for......

Listening to the other party's chatter, Zhou Changan also understood: it was the tooth man who brought the buyer to see the store. But just as he was about to leave, he saw these four people and stopped in front of the Huang Jiamio tavern; And the little fat man handed the key to the tooth man, and sat down in the place he had just placed:

"Hundred palms, the river can't smash the pulp, drag the pestle, and don't plane. (Eight hundred taels, I won't reduce the price here, you have to earn as much as you want to raise yourself, no one will demolish you). ”

The zygote handed it over, beat the drum and smashed the plate. (Brother help make a game, let's have a fight)"

The two whispered a word, and the little fat man slapped the table and "quarreled" with the toothed man with the sharp-beaked monkey's cheeks:

"I said Leather Monkey, let you help find a buyer, you bring people to trouble me every day! You know about this shop, if it weren't for the chaos outside, and I was anxious to wait for the money, could it be this price? Come on, I don't have time to rub around with you here, just plug in the lock when you go!