It's no problem to raise the army, and it's no problem to kill Guangchang, but it may not be a big problem to be able to cut Xu Shiyang with a thousand knives.

Fan Yongdou groaned, turned his head to the Mugwu nobleman who had not spoken, and said, "Can Lord Batu be the vanguard of our army?" ”

Batu is the leader of this group of Mughal mercenaries, although he was invited for a lot of money, but he is indeed a thousand households canonized by Zamuhe, and he can afford to call the lord.

"1,000 catties of salt, 3,000 catties of tea, 30,000 stone of grain, 100,000 yuan, and 300 women." Batu said unceremoniously: "Give half first, and Lao Tzu will help you catch that Xu Shiyang and then give the other half." ”

"Yes!" Fan Yongdou agreed.

Batu's asking price is not low, but compared to Xu Shiyang's threat to his net worth, this is nothing.

"Sir! It's a big deal, sir! ”

At this time, a housekeeper broke into the lobby in a panic and knelt down in front of Fan Yongdou with a thud.

"What's the matter?" Fan Yongdou asked with a headache - is the big thing bad? During this time, he could hear bad news about big things every day.

"Xu Shiyang occupies Guangchang!"

"Hey, what's the matter?" One of the eighth marquis, Liang Guest, said in an indifferent tone: "I have long known that Guangchang can't hold it. ”

The Qi army is down in one drum to the four forts in front, although Guangchang has a city wall, and the defenders are a little more, but the essence is not much enhanced, not to mention that the contradiction between the township soldiers and the core of the marquis is very deep, when the ninety mile post is lost, the eight marquis have actually given up on Guangchang in their hearts.

If you lose a place where there is no hope to hold, you will not be disappointed.

"And Lin Chong occupies Lingqiu!"

This matter was even earlier, because Lin Chong did not take care of the captives and invite people to buy people's hearts like Xu Shiyang, and after he occupied Lingqiu, he still had nearly 30,000 captives in his hands.

However, he didn't kill much people, one reason was that Lin Chong's character was not murderous, and the other reason was that Xu Shiyang told him before the war that he was fighting his own people this time, and he should not kill a group of prisoners Liwei at every turn like he used to fight Tartars.

Therefore, Lin Chong planned to wait for Xu Shiyang to come from Guangchang to meet him, and then hand over the prisoners to Xu Shiyang for disposal.

"It's not unexpected." Fan Yongdou said in a tired tone: "It's normal that you can't stop Lin Chong. ”

The world believes that after Xu Shiyang, the world's first general, the ten division commanders of the Qi Army are also detached from ordinary people, famous generals among famous generals.

Among the ten division commanders, Lin Chong belongs to the relatively high grade.

By the way, among the current folk evaluations of the world's famous generals (the media group secretly controlled by Qi Guo is constantly fueling the flames), Xu Shiyang is the only one who stands apart from all others; Next, the ten division commanders of the Qi Army are in the second gear; The third level is the senior generals of the Jurchen, Mengwu, and the party, and several famous generals of the Great Zhou (Xu Shisong counts, Xu Shiliu does not count, because Xu Shiliu is a civil official).

Among the ten division commanders, Xu Ning Lin Chong, who was born in Jiangnan, was deliberately raised by the media group and became the first of the second gear, in order to give people the impression that there are talents in Jiangnan but the imperial court will not use them, and only in Qi can they get ahead.

However, no matter how they are ranked, the people of the Eight Great Shihou families will definitely not be on the list, coupled with the progress of the battle a few days ago, even the Shihou himself does not feel that it is normal for them to be unable to stop Lin Chong.

"Master, there is still ......"

"What else?" Fan Yongdou asked.

The housekeeper replied with a sad face: "...... news came from Pingyang Mansion, that ......, the Shaanxi army is attacking Pingyang Mansion!" ”

"What!?" Le Liangyu, one of the Eight Great Marquises, immediately exclaimed-his old nest was in Pingyang Mansion.

The eight prefectures of Jin Province: Datong, Taiyuan, Liaozhou, Fenzhou, Qinzhou, Lu'an, Zezhou, and Pingyang, were divided into eight princes by the very irresponsible family of the Mughurs more than ten years ago.

Therefore, the eight princes all regarded the provinces of Jin Province as their own private property, and of course they had to call twice if they were stabbed in the back and copied the old nest.

"Those dogs from Qindi! Lao Tzu said a long time ago that they will never be able to raise! Le Liangyu shouted: "Wait until Xu Shiyang is defeated, see how Lao Tzu cleans them up!" ”

Although the Marquis of Shanxi and Shaanxi secretly do not deal with each other, they are all oppressed by others, and they have supported each other back to back for warmth as much as possible in the past ten years.

Among them, the marquis of Shaanxi Province because most of them came from the official army before the Great Zhou Dynasty and had strong combat power, which can be regarded as the military guarantee of the Marquis of Shanxi Province, while the Marquis of Jin Province because of his early surrender and control the extraoral trade of the grassland, so he became the economic pillar of the marquis.

In the past, if Jin Province encountered an event that could not be suppressed by their own force (such as the popular uprising), they would go to Shaanxi Province to borrow troops, and if Shaanxi Province could not support it economically, they would also ask Jin Province for some money and food support.

The current situation is equivalent to a rebellion by the princes of Jin Province in the eyes of the princes of Jin Province.

"Also...... And ......" The housekeeper still didn't stop, and he wanted to say something.

"Shut up." Fan Yongdou looked at the housekeeper and said coldly.

The butler buried his head low on the ground, not daring to say a word.

"No matter what happens, then Xu Shiyang is the source of trouble!"

Fan Yongdou snorted coldly:

"Defeat Xu Shiyang, everything can be solved!"

"Master Batu, please leave immediately! The old man will raise an army of 100,000 as backup! ”

"Lord Shihou." Batu's eyes narrowed into slits, and the big pie said with a strange smile on his face: "Now the situation is different, you have to give more, double the things I just said." ”

“……”

The princes were speechless for a while, what Batu had just promised to do, the reward was doubled in a blink of an eye!

Sure enough, he is a cunning and changeable Tartar who has no faith in his words.

"Yes." Fan Yongdou still agreed: "As long as you can defeat Xu Shiyang, it's easy to say how much food you have." ”

"Huh." Batu sneered inexplicably, got up and walked away with his men.

After a while, there was a neighing of war horses outside the courtyard.

Fan Yongdou raised his head slightly, and waited for a moment before asking, "Say, what other bad news?" ”

The eight great princes all looked at the Fan family's housekeeper who was kneeling on the ground.

I don't dare to say that I can guess all the previous three news, but they are all expected, but then I don't know what else bad happened.

This is also the reason why Fan Yongdou is in a hurry to let Batu set off - if there is any bad news for him to know, then the Tartar may not be able to raise the price to a certain extent.

The housekeeper kowtowed to Fan Yongdou and said with a crying voice: "According to the wall, the fort is occupied by the Qi army!" ”

According to the wall fort?!

The Eight Great Marquis were completely stunned by this sudden news.

According to the walled fort, it was only a small fort, and the princes only left more than 100 village soldiers to guard it, which didn't sound very important.

However, according to the location of the fort on the side wall to the north of Datong Province, it is actually part of the Great Wall!

Out of the Fort of the Rejection Wall, and then to the north is the grassland, the territory of the Mughal people!

The Fort was conquered by the Qi army, which means that in addition to the two roads of people from Ji Province, Xu Shiyang also had a large army that directly detoured through the grassland and attacked Jin Province from the northern border!