Zhou Nan did not rush to Zunhua to relieve Yang Keshi and Gao Yuan.

This time, it was not like Xiao Gan leading the people to make a rebellion, but Zhang Jue, the deputy envoy of Pingzhou who was already training soldiers and horses and preparing to divide one side, and his men and horses were not a ragtag army, but a regular cavalry army with neat armor. Not to mention the fact that there are also golden soldiers to help.

With 20,000 horses and horses in Pingzhou, plus 5,000 gold soldiers, looking at this posture, it is not only to get rid of Gao Yuan, Yang Keshi and the cavalry under the two men, but it is very likely that they will attack on a large scale. I have been avoiding the fact that Jin Bing went south, and it finally happened.

Zhou Nan led his troops to fight, and he always only relied on elite soldiers to win, relying on accurate opportunity grasp and the use of explosive arrows that shocked the opponent. Even in the face of 20,000 Song troops, it was only with a few thousand men. Therefore, Zhou Nan went to relieve the siege of Zun this time, and only brought Tao Gu and Wang Maniac under Xiao Laoliu, as well as a thousand black iron troops. In addition, he wrote a letter and sent someone to Yizhou to transfer his own pro-army over.

Xiao Laoliu has several generals, Zhang Yuanzhen guards Juyong Pass, Zhao Laosan guards Gubeikou, and Tao Gu and Wang Sanmad accompany Xiao Laoliu to guard Yanjing City. This thousand black iron army is already the last mobile cavalry army in Yanjing City.

It is precisely because of Zhou Nan's strategy of using troops that after more than half a year of fighting, the grain and grass in the counties and towns of various states and counties are sufficient, and the consumption of grain and straw for soldiers and horses is not large.

There were Yu Liyan and Xiao Laoliu in Yanjing City, and Zhou Nan didn't have to make any more arrangements by himself, so he took Tao Gu, Wang Sanmad and the 1,000 black iron army on the road the next day. Tao Gu is a sturdy man in his thirties, calm and introverted, he doesn't speak much, but when Zhou Nan tells him what he wants to do, Tao Gu always does a good job according to Zhou Nan's requirements, and he is the kind of person who follows the rules and rarely makes mistakes, loyal and reliable. And Wang Sanmad is just the opposite, informal, but when it comes to charging into battle, he will charge forward, he is the kind of person who can cause trouble, but can also succeed at critical moments. is worthy of the strange name of "Wang San Crazy", when I heard this name for the first time, I couldn't help but think of the ancestor who carried forward Taoist martial arts.

Along the way, the marching and stationing were all arranged by Tao Gu, and Wang Sanmad couldn't stay idle, and said some jokes among the soldiers, which boosted the morale of these soldiers a lot. It is no wonder that Xiao Lao Liu himself said that he wanted these two people to follow him, with such a capable subordinate, Zhou Nan naturally saved a lot of trouble.

In fact, there is no need for Xiao Lao Liu to advance, and this time he will bring more generals to Zhounan in the east. This time, there must be an end to the matter of Pingzhou - of course, the ending is to recover Pingzhou by himself! If Pingzhou falls into the hands of others, the terrain advantages that he has worked so hard to build for more than half a year will be gone. So I must win this battle!

When Pingzhou is recovered, a large number of prefectures and counties need garrisons, and the main general of the garrison will be the boss of the gap, so Zhou Nan simply took these generals who will guard one state and one county in the future on the road together.

Not only Tao Gu and Wang Sanmad, but Shi Yue, the guard general of Yizhou, was the head of Yang Keshi's pro-army, and when Zhou Nan sent someone to send a letter to his pro-army, he had already transferred Shi Yue to Xianghe City.

Fortunately, the snow in Yanjing is not large, and the road is shallow and shallow with snow, and after a few days of pedestrians' trampling, it has melted, but in the morning and evening, the road is a little frozen and slippery. Looking at the melting snow on the road, Zhou Nan estimated that Yizhou could barely go north, and when he arrived at Xianghe City, he would meet them there.

Although he still had to wait for his pro-army after he arrived, Zhou Nan still led people to Xianghe non-stop. Xianghe City is now on alert for the whole city. There are also a thousand black iron troops in the city, which were left behind by Yang Keshi when he rushed to Zunhua.

Zhou Nan didn't care about resting, so he took Tao Gu and Wang Sanmad to inspect the city. The Xianghe defender is also a person of the Black Iron Army, without the main general, with a thousand black iron troops, he actually guarded Xianghe City like an iron bucket, Zhou Nanda was satisfied, and immediately promoted this person to the chief general of the Xianghe Defenders, and his official position was also raised to a level.

Zhou Nan asked about the situation in the surrounding prefectures and counties, and learned that Gao Shouzhong led 10 million victorious troops to garrison Jizhou, and the rest of the counties such as Guoyin, Sanhe, and Anci were garrisoned by people selected and trained by Yang Keshi; The Pingzhou army besieging Zunhua did not bother to march westward, probably because it was worried that if it divided its troops, it would be led by Gao Yuan and others in Zunhua City to lead the cavalry to counterattack the back road, so it only sent a small group of cavalry to patrol the northeast of Jizhou every day to prevent reinforcements from attacking.

After listening to the general's report, Zhou Nan was a little relieved. He also summoned the members of the Eagle Guards who remained in Xianghe City and arranged them for a while, and then rested.

These Eagle Guard members, Zhou Nan did not plan to stay here, or to inquire about the situation of the Pingzhou Army. The two armies fought against each other, and a few people alone could not get close to the enemy's camp in any case. Zhou Nan sent these Eagle Guards for the later period. This time, the Pingzhou army led the Jin soldiers to attack Zunhua, and he was careless, thinking that in the New Year, Pingzhou would also die down.

If he had scattered the Eagle Guards to Pingzhou a day earlier, he would have been able to take precautions here a day earlier.

It seems that the more he fights, the more confused he becomes, putting his own advantages alone, but comparing brute force with the enemy.

Early the next morning, Zhou Nan led Tao Gu, Wang Sanmad, and a thousand black iron troops to Jizhou. Jizhou is the closest big city to Zunhua, if the Pingzhou army and the Jin soldiers want to attack the state city in the west, they must first capture Jizhou. Otherwise, they will risk being attacked on the back road, or even cut off the back road and die here.

As long as Jizhou is here, it will always be a deterrent to the westward expansion.

Gao Shouzhong was transferred from Xincheng when Zhou Nan pacified the Xi rebellion, and with Zhou Nan's magic car, Gao Shouzhong has always been stationed in the city, and he didn't even have a chance to attack.

Now that the Pingzhou army is besieging Zunhua, Gao Shouzhong is very anxious, but he does not dare to rush to send troops. At this time, seeing Zhou Nan personally leading the troops to arrive, he was very happy, and was busy arranging a place for Zhou Nan, and told Zhou Nan in detail about the situation of Jizhou's defense of the city, and was anxious to ask Zhou Nan when he would send troops and rescue Brother Gao.

Zhou Nan smiled and said, "No hurry. Let me ask you first, how many days has the Pingzhou army besieged Zunhua? ”

"It's been four days since Big Brother Gao retreated to Zunhua on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year." Gao Shouzhong replied.

"With 25,000 men and horses, you can't capture a mere earthen city in four days? What's more, there are no more explosive arrows in Brother Gao's hands. With only three or four thousand people, how many days can it be held? Zhou Nan asked rhetorically.

"This ...... But Da Lang thinks there is fraud in it? ”

"Brother Gao released the god car, the Pingzhou army should have expected that we would have reinforcements arriving, why didn't they capture Zunhua as soon as possible?" Zhou Nan looked at Gao Shouzhong, and then said, "That Zhang Jue and his subordinate strategist Li Shi, the two champions, do they only know how to rush and kill like reckless men?" ”