Tokyo Guzi Gate, the three riding finished glyphs galloped from the avenue, and as soon as they rode far away, they shouted: "Dodge, dodge!" "It's rare to see such an arrogant battle on the streets of Tokyo.

One of them was dressed in armor and had three red flags on his back, and this word was written on each face, which together were: Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! As he ran, the man shouted, "Good news, good news!" Guo Shao, the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army, captured 10,000 Shu troops on the 10th...... Good news......"

Countless people and passers-by stopped to watch and listen to the news. The so-called militaristic affairs are now known to passers-by in the blink of an eye. Of course, there is no harm in knowing this good news.

Prime Minister Wang Pu was on the way up to the straight, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, he also asked someone to give up the official sedan chair to the side of the road. With this kind of urgent report, it is rare for the prime minister to be high or low, and he is not in the mood to deal with a few sergeants. On the contrary, he was in a good mood, and walked out of the sedan chair, looking at the galloping horse with great interest, with a calm and comfortable face.

Xiang Xun and Guo Shao were both recommended by Wang Pu. To be the prime minister, to recommend talents, to recommend the right talents, that is a matter of duty.

……

Outside the mighty city, Guo Shao was looking northeast in front of the big tent of the Chinese army, and there was a large cloud of yellow dust in the air. Feng Xiangjun is about to arrive.

The general of the second army, Du Yuhou, rode to the tent, turned over and dismounted, glanced at Guo Shao's gaze, and came over and said: "Wang Laojie Shuai is really sure to win, and when we are almost done, we will pick up the mighty city." There are not many defenders left in this city, and there are no reinforcements outside, and the siege of the attack on all sides can also consume the Shu army. The merit of capturing the mighty city is already a sure thing. ”

Guo Shao said casually: "Let's finish gnawing the meat outside, and don't leave a few bones?" ”

"There's oil in the bones." The ministry said.

Guo Shao pondered the words of his generals for a while, and felt that the most valuable oil and water in Weiwu City was grain, and a military town like this would definitely hoard grain and grass for more than half a year in order to avoid being besieged and self-defeating.

He said, "How much grain can one person carry?" Can everyone carry it back to Tokyo, and some of them will be fine if they eat? ”

At this moment, Li Chuyun also walked towards the big tent, and when he heard what the two said, he smiled and said, "Now Wang Jieshuai will not say that the lord has taken the enemy lightly. ”

Guo Shaoxin said: It's just luck, whether you can quickly get rid of the garrison in Tangcang Town, whether you can save 20,000 grains, there are countless possibilities in these two links.

He said quietly: "Wang Jieshuai seeks stability, but the overall situation of the battle is still very sophisticated. He doesn't know how to draw like me, but he knows the situation of the mountains and rivers, and let's march into Guzhen, which is a bloody trick. ”

From Weiwu City along Chencang Road to the south, the southwest direction is Fengzhou. Fengzhou to the west, is no longer in the main mountain range of the Qinling Mountains, the road is flat, and dozens of miles to the west is Guzhen; Further west is Chengzhou.

Among them, Guzhen is a military important place, because forty miles to the south is Qingniling; Qingniling is a key point for the Shu army to reinforce the north from the hinterland, and it is the throat of the Shu Road. If you occupy Guzhen, you can easily threaten reinforcements from Qingniling; Choked Shu Dao's throat, Qin and Feng had no hope of reinforcing the army.

Guo Shao turned back to his generals and said: "The First Army handed over the defense in Tangcang Town, and this time the Second Army took the lead. As soon as the Fengxiang army arrives, they can set off, and the whole army is approaching Fengzhou City! If the Shu army is found to be out of the city, it will form a formation first and wait for the first army to follow...... Watch out for multiple scouts. ”

The general hugged his fists and said: "Get the order." ”

Guo Shao looked at the mighty city tower for a while, and remembered that he didn't let himself shoot his mighty festival envoy Wang Huan a few days ago. At this time, the mighty city was full of Zhou troops, swaggering under their noses, I don't know how Wang Huan felt when he saw such a situation?

Feng Xiangjun will lead the line to the forward camp and hand over the defense. Guo Shao handed over the siege fortifications of Weiwu City to the hands of Feng Xiangjun...... When the large army behind him came from the main road, Guo Shao saw many ladders with his own eyes, and said in his heart: It turns out that the veteran Wang Jing attacked the city by climbing the wall.

In the afternoon, Wang Zhang and Luo Yanhuan also came from the northeast valley, and Guo Shao and most of the First Army continued to march along the Shu Road.

When I arrived in Fengzhou, I saw that the city was bigger than the mighty city, but the Shu army was closed, and it seemed that it was going to defend it. According to Li Chuyun's suggestion, Guo Shao left more than 2,000 people of the Second Army and a group of people who followed, and also built a layer of earthen walls and fences outside Fengzhou, so that the Shu army could not come out inside. Since he led the first army and seven commanders, he did not stop and approached Guzhen.

Before the army arrived, the scouts of the Zhou army had just arrived near Guzhen when they saw a team of more than a dozen horsemen coming from the direction of Chengzhou.

The scouts of Zhou Jun didn't figure it out, and of course they didn't know that there were big people in that small team. One of them is none other than Han Jixun, the envoy of Qinzhou's Xiongwu Festival! Control and choke Longyou, which may threaten the Xiongwu army in Guanzhong at any time, and the main general will only lead ten horsemen to run wildly at this time.

The Qin Fengshu army originally surrendered from the Central Plains Dynasty, and the armor was not much different from the Zhou army. However, the armor of the Zhou army's forbidden soldiers is not so bloated, and the helmets are not the same, which can still be distinguished by a little closer observation.

Han Jixun recognized it as a scout of Zhou Jun, and couldn't help sighing: "If we leave a little late, we won't be able to leave!" Zhou Jun is too fast, this has already hit Guzhen? ”

The entourage scolded: "Fengzhou's mighty martial arts festival made Wang Huan so straw, and he lost most of the mighty army in ten days!" Fengzhou Guzhen is lost, the road is gone, who do we rely on in Qinzhou to save it? ”

Han Jixun said: "The main thing is to lose the garrison of Tangcang Town. I heard that the forward of Zhou Jun is called Guo Shao, this person is extraordinary...... The army of Tangcang Town came out of Huanghua Valley, and Guo Shao was able to take a detour to Tangcang Town to set up an ambush first? Mother|Yes, not only is the soldier fast, but the timing is too good! ”

The group galloped to Qingniling, then breathed a sigh of relief, changed horses at the post house, and then went straight to Chengdu.

…… Faster than Han Jixun was Zhao Jiza, and it didn't take long for him to arrive in Chengdu. The Shu army that escorted him fled halfway, he ran too fast, and the staff around him also scattered. Zhao Jizha rode to Chengdu alone.

With no one to take care of him, he was covered in dirty clothes and embarrassed. Such a man rode on horseback, and was questioned at the inns and at the gates of the city. Officials everywhere knew that it was the emperor's personal supervisor who had returned to ride alone, and rumors spread for a while, and people thought that the Zhou army was about to reach Chengdu. Zhao Jizha walked all the way, which made the officials and people along the way panic.

As soon as he reached the city gate, he saw a eunuch and a company of soldiers waiting there. The eunuch said, "The emperor wants to see you, come with us." ”

Zhao Jizha said: "It's too rude to face the saint like this, let the official go home and change his clothes." ”

The eunuch said coldly: "You are in a hurry like this, and sometimes you change your clothes?" Is it a military affair that matters, or is it the number of etiquette that matters? Let's go! ”

Zhao Jizha had no choice but to go to the palace in embarrassment, and when he walked to the front of the main hall, he saw the guards and the ministers and palace people inside looking sideways. He drooped his head, walked in dejectedly, and hurriedly fell down on His Highness, and there was a man sitting on the throne in the distance, how dare he look?

"Aiqing, what happened ahead of you that made you look like this?" A voice said urgently.

Zhao Jiza's mind was blank, lying on the floor tiles without saying a word, and he really didn't know how to speak. A minister said angrily: "Zhao Envoy, the emperor asks you!" ”

"I ......," Zhao Jizha said hurriedly, "The ministers and micro-ministers don't know." ”

The person who was still calling Aiqing just now suddenly changed his tone: "I sent you to inspect Qin and Feng, but you didn't go?" ”

"Go...... Wechen went. Zhao Jiza felt the emperor's anger, and his body began to tremble under fear.

The majestic voice said again: "Then you ran back like this, Qin and Feng have been lost?" ”

"I don't know, Weichen really doesn't know!" Zhao Jizha cried.

"Rubbish!" The voice yelled, "Someone......"

At this moment, a minister hurriedly knelt down and asked: "The emperor is angry, Zhao Envoy Jun has insulted the mission, but he only went to inspect the defense, and did not command the northern army, so the crime will not lead to death...... The emperor is benevolent. ”

"Get out! Get lost! The voice cursed, and lost all the previous majesty and calm tone.

Zhao Jizha knelt on the ground after hearing this, and moved backwards and quickly towards the palace gate. This movement is simply difficult, it is not easy to walk on knees and knees, he can still move backwards, and very quickly.

He was secretly glad in his heart, when he was in Fengzhou and Qinzhou, he saw Han Jixun and Wang Huan's soldiers and generals, and he was planning to return to Chengdu, so Mao Sui recommended himself and wanted to be the coach again! Fortunately, Zhou Jun came quickly, otherwise he really became the boss, and he would still be able to keep his head after being defeated?

At this moment, behind the curtain door on the side of the throne, a graceful shadow gently walked away from the doorway.

…… A few days later, Wang Zhaoyuan, a privy council official who was deploying troops in Shannan West Road, urgently reported to Chengdu, and the emperor of Shu probably knew what was happening in front of him.

Wang Zhaoyuan, who calls himself Wolong, often tells people that he is today's Zhuge Kongming, and he has always been ambitious. He probably made Qin Feng's matter clear in the report, and with this point, he was many times stronger than Zhao Jiza, who didn't know anything.

The Zhou army moved south along the Tangcang Road and had consolidated the town, but the Qin and Fengzhong towns were not lost. Wang Zhaoyuan didn't think this was a bad thing, but felt that it was a good opportunity for a counterattack. He asked Chengdu to increase troops and asked to be the leader of the Northern Route Army.

The strategy lies in encircling and annihilating the lone Zhou army first, and then dividing the troops into two routes, attacking the pass from both sides of Qinzhou and Sanguan, first taking Fengxiang, then occupying the pass and forcing Tongguan, and then advancing to attack and retreat and defend; About the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Northern Han Dynasty attacked from three sides, and divided the Central Plains first......

At this moment, I suddenly heard that the envoys of Nanping Kingdom came to see me. First go to the national letter, and the envoys of Nanping persuaded the emperor of Shu to give up the title of emperor and proclaim himself to the Zhou Dynasty, and then the crisis can be resolved.

Wang Zhaoyuan's view is very optimistic; But the attitude of Nanping Kingdom was as if the Shu Kingdom was about to perish. The two sides have diametrically opposed attitudes.

The emperor was angry and said to the ministers in the main hall: "When my father and son led the troops into Shu to claim the emperor and establish the foundation, the people of the Guo family were still wandering around like lost dogs!" ”