I'm afraid that the three arsonists did not think of it in advance. This mischievous fire burned continuously for three days and three nights, turning the entire village at the southern foot of the Five Elements Mountains into ashes; Hundreds of thousands of people, men, women, and children who have lived here for generations, have also been smothered in this purgatory, reduced to a dry and charred corpse......

The "cow boy", who is already over half a hundred years old, and dozens of village warriors, have done all their best before they were engulfed by the flames; However, among the victims, there were still 374 villagers gathered in Niuxingou; Except for the young man who followed Cai Ning, no one was able to escape.

When the Qin army, which numbered nearly 100,000 people, assembled in the west of Huaiqing Mansion; Cai Ning also returned to Huaiqing Mansion a long time ago. At this time, he had already told the officers and men of the whole army about the heinous crimes committed by Chen Ziling's subordinates in Yaojiadian.

Cai Ning was originally the governor of Zhongzhou Road, and after being a soldier here for twenty years, he can already be regarded as half of Zhongzhou; And most of the 20,000 recruits he led on this trip were young people recruited locally on Zhongzhou Road. These fellow villagers, looking at the crying young man on the handsome platform, had already hated the Qin army who was inferior to the beasts to the core.

When the crowd was angry, a city gate guard came to the stage to report that Chen Ziling's department was gathering the army more than ten miles outside the city; This group of Zhongzhou soldiers, who were already furious, immediately craned their necks and shouted loudly, scrambling to ask Cai Ning for battle.

They planned to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and take them by surprise, severely defeat the enemy's spirit, and by the way, also take revenge for the blood sea in the Five Elements Mountain Range, and first recover some interest; There are also many lieutenants and lieutenants of the brave martial arts faction, and even patted their chests and made a military order on the spot, vowing to mention Chen Ziling's Liuyang Leader to comfort the villagers who died tragically in the fire!

Judging from Cai Ning's past records, his style of using soldiers has always been steady, which is also in line with his upright and peaceful character. However, at this moment, Cai Ning's monstrous anger ignited in his chest was also uncontrollable......

"Soldiers, brothers, calm down for the time being, Cai has something to say!"

Cai Ning pulled out the flying sword given by his waist in his right hand and held it high in his hand, temporarily suppressing the voices of everyone in the audience asking for battle.

"All brothers who hold the rank of captain or above in the army shall be listed!"

After a burst of footsteps, more than 800 officers with strong bodies and resolute eyes stood in front of the handsome platform with their heads held high.

"Since all of you Brother Pao Ze have the intention of going out of the city to attack the enemy, then Cai will conspire with you to fight happily! I think that since we are serving as generals and commanders, at this moment, we should also set an example for all soldiers and take the lead! The longbowmen of the Suzaku battalion, who ascended to the west city and defended it; If we wait for our triumphant return, and the enemy is following us, we will shoot them with arrows; The sword and shield soldiers of the Xuanwu battalion, changing the long shield, are dead at the west gate to prevent the enemy from following us into the city......"

After arranging the defense of the city, Chen Ziling put the general's helmet on his left arm and put his backhand on his head, pointed at the west gate of Huaiqing Mansion, and shouted:

"Brothers, go out of the city with the murder and defeat the Qin army rats in one fell swoop!"

"Kill!"

With a clang, the city gate sounded, and nearly a thousand Zhongzhou vanguard officers slowly stepped onto the battlefield under the gaze of the soldiers and civilians of Huaiqing Mansion.

Zhongzhou Road is extremely densely populated, and there are countless and inexhaustible young people of appropriate age. However, at present, the Huayu Continent is full of wolf smoke and the Northern Yan Imperial Court is also crumbling in the turmoil of the war, which is the perfect moment for large-scale conscription! However, Cai Ning, the governor of Zhongzhou, has been deeply cultivated here for many years, and both his personal ability and civil prestige are far from being comparable to other feudal officials with heavy troops.

However, even under such favorable conditions, he only recruited 20,000 new soldiers more than nothing. His abnormal behavior made even Emperor Zhou Yuanqing and his father Cai Xi a little confused, and they didn't know whether to say that he was too cautious or derelict in his duties.

But in fact, the 20,000 new dings in Cai Ning's hands were not recruited at one time.

is the so-called Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet; Since the Mobei steppe fell into civil strife in order to compete for the ownership of the Golden Horde of the Khan, Governor Cai, who knew the affairs of the soldiers, had already begun to recruit new soldiers. And until the war gradually escalated, and Zhou Changfeng of Xin'an Hou unexpectedly pulled up the anti-flag, he had already repeatedly screened the seventh round!

So the 20,000 new dings in Cai Ning's hands, although he has never seen blood on his hands; But as long as they accumulate some actual combat experience in the future, they will immediately transform into an unstoppable army of tigers and wolves.

But then again, Cai Ning, who is sitting in the hinterland of the Central Plains, refined the elite of this elite, and it was not prepared to deal with the Qin army.

Because of the banner of these 20,000 elite soldiers, it is called "Capture the River".

As the so-called strong general has no weak soldiers under him, although the number of people on this trip to the Jiang Capture Battalion is not large, not even a thousand people; And in addition to a few of Cai Ning's absolute henchmen, even those Wu Changshi are all newcomers who have never seen blood on their hands; But they have already been in the rigorous and arduous training, and unconsciously boiled out a pair of "copper skin and iron bones"; And the killing intent in their hearts was also accused by the blood and tears of the orphans in the Five Elements Mountain, and they were burning hot.

Cai Ning, who had not been in battle in person for a long time, had already put away the symbolic "flying sword"; At this time, he slowly walked at the forefront of the team with a fine iron dragon spear in his hand; The rest of the hundreds of officers who captured the river each held their own swords and followed behind Cai Ning in echelons, forming the most common front arrow formation when charging.

When Cai Ning's vision ended, the figure of Qin Jun appeared; He suddenly increased the length of his stride, and gradually increased the speed of his stride; And the stormtroopers of the river capture battalion behind him, who were as calm as mountains, also adjusted their pace to the extent that the main general Cai Ning was one.

As a result, the footsteps, which were originally a little chaotic, gradually became uniform......

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the 100,000 Qin troops had just arrived outside the west gate of Huaiqing Mansion. Chen Ziling plans to distribute the last bit of food after dawn tomorrow morning, so that the whole army will eat and drink enough, and then fight a siege battle that breaks the cauldron and sinks the ship.

In fact, if Chen Ziling knew that there were 20,000 soldiers led by Cai Ning, the general of Zhongzhou, stationed in Huaiqing Mansion, he would never be so rash and reckless, let alone dare to sleep outside the city in a grand manner.

At this time, Chen Ziling was counting the remaining grain and grass in the rear of the army with the two sticky women's families; He heard a noisy shouting sound in front of the formation, but he only frowned and didn't care.

Chen Ziling is not a cold-blooded and ruthless executioner, he was born in the Qinling Mountains since he was a child, and he also knows very well what the fire in Yaojiadian will bring. At present, the threshold in his heart has not yet passed, not only does he hate and dislike the three ruthless veterans who set fire to the mountain; Even those insensitive ordinary soldiers were hated by him.

Once this person makes an awkward mistake, many things will naturally be ignored......

The surviving veterans of the Northern Army have always been at the forefront of the front. This is the glory they have exchanged for blood and military exploits; Therefore, even though the number of reinforcements from the second route is large, after all, they do not dare to compete with them.

Since the team stopped, these veterans have collapsed on the ground half-lying and half-lying. They took off their stinky shoes, which had been steamed and sticky by their feet, grabbed the fine sand on the ground, and rubbed the soles of their feet repeatedly to relieve the fatigue accumulated from the rapid march all the way; There are also some stuffy gourds that don't talk much on weekdays, and they have also chosen a dry and sheltered place, and now they are snoring slightly......

Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock......

I heard a dull sound from the east, like someone smashing the earth, like a simple and heavy war drum, and like the footsteps of giants advancing. And those veterans who were sitting around and exchanging their looting experience also kept silent at this time and looked back......

I saw a tall, sturdy general with a golden tiger helmet on his head, holding this big gun upside down, like the god of war who came out of the ancient legend! Because it was dark now, I couldn't see the general's facial features clearly; I could only see that he was walking unhurriedly and moving towards his side......

One of the three "arsonists" smashed his mouth in confusion:

"Tut-tut, look, our Chen Shuai has changed shotguns!"

"Hey, what kind of eyes are you! Judging from the size of this old brother, at least he is more than half a leg longer than our Chen Dashuai! ”

"Hahaha, I see that you kid is still holding a grudge, Chen Shuai wanted to cut off your head yesterday! But when you say that, it seems to be a bit different...... This person is thinner than our Chen Shuai......"

"No, brothers! This man is from the east! If it weren't for Chen Shuai...... Thief, your mother, he's still followed by people, enemy attack! There is an enemy attack! ”

Cai Ning, who led a team of less than 1,000 people, rushed out of Huaiqing Mansion, not because he didn't know the truth of the speed of the soldiers. It's just that the reason why he deliberately suppressed the speed of his advance and prolonged the time of confrontation with the enemy as much as possible was to compress the belligerence in the hearts of the soldiers to the extreme.

After his careful arrangement, the officers of the Capture River Battalion, who were full of desire to taste the killing desire, were already filled with bloodthirsty desires at this time. Their eyes were red with murderous intent; The back of the hand that clenched the weapon also stretched out blue-blue veins; However, the steps under his feet had to follow Cai Ning's small steps and squirm forward slowly!

It's so uncomfortable!

In fact, this is just like the thirst for food of the soldiers of the Qin army, which must be satisfied; The more ruthlessly human desires are suppressed, the more powerful they will rebound.

Now the blood-red eyes and bulging chests of the officers of the Capture River Battalion yearn for a bloody battle, just like the river that swells after the autumn rain! When the embankment collapses, the monstrous water will inevitably pour into the city, destroying the ancient era......

And as the main general in the army, General Cai, who captured the soul of the river, was responsible for the huge wave that broke the river embankment!