Early the next morning, Zhou Nan got up early and walked to the street with a few pro-soldiers. He was going to send Yang Keshi and Wang Sanmad out of the city, but he saw that the lights on the street were colorful, the cleaning was clean, the people on the slate street were beaming, the shops on the street had also opened their doors to welcome customers, and various styles of colored lanterns were hung outside the doors of each shop and household, and even the sky above the street was hung with colored flags and lanterns with strings.

  Zhou Nan was a little puzzled, even if he had defeated the Pingzhou army besieging the city, he would not be so celebrated, he didn't see this scene when he came out yesterday, but the people in the city hurriedly hung it up.

  Some of the people in the city knew Zhou Nan, and when they saw Zhou Nan walking on the street with people, they were busy calling the people next to them and saluted Zhou Nan together, "The little people give the horses a salute." ”

  Zhou Nan stopped and asked, "Why is there a lot of lights in the city?" ”

  Seeing Zhou Nan's strange question, several people smiled and said, "The horse is working hard, it's not to blame the horse for not knowing." Today is the Shangyuan Festival, and the rebellious army has been beaten away, so it is natural to celebrate. ”

  Zhou Nan suddenly realized that he rushed to Yanjing City on the fifth day of the first month, originally because the princess wanted to accompany his uncle Xiao Laoliu to celebrate the Shangyuan Festival, but who knew that the next day he received an urgent report that the Pingzhou army besieged Zunhua City, and he rushed to Zunhua non-stop, and was busy dealing with the Pingzhou army for several days, and forgot that today was the Shangyuan Festival.

  Zhou Nan turned to a pro-soldier beside him and said, "You go and tell Li Hanlin, just say that today's Shangyuan Festival, reward the army, all soldiers will be given a consistent amount of money, half a catty of wine, and the generals will be doubled." The wounded horses that were captured were killed and stewed outside the county yamen. All the soldiers inside and outside the city, and everyone in the people! Go ahead. ”

  The people surrounding these people heard Zhou Nan say that they wanted to stew meat, and even the people could go over to eat it, although it was just a mouthful of meat, but where had they ever seen officials and soldiers give meat to the people in the past? One by one, they all ran away to deliver the news to their relatives and friends.

  As soon as the pro-army who went to deliver the message to Li Shi left, a soldier came from the north, who looked like he was on duty on the city wall, and still held an iron spear in his hand, hurriedly walked in front of Zhou Nan, gave a salute, and then said, "A large group of people came from the north of the city, all of them were not good, they did not wear armor, they did not take weapons, and the leader was called Agu Zhe, and he said that he wanted to enter the city." ”

  These soldiers defending the city are not all the people who followed Zhou Nan to recover the Xi soldiers, and even if they knew Agu Zhe, they could only come first to tell Zhou Nan or Gao Yuan and Yang Keshi, and they didn't dare to let them in first.

  Zhou Nan even forgot about Shangyuan Festival, and of course he forgot about Gao Yuan's request for these selected elite soldiers of the Xi clan to rush to Zunhua City on Shangyuan Festival. At this time, I heard that Agu Zhe came on time with the elite soldiers of the Xi tribe, and now there are enough troops to enter Pingzhou in the east. Zhou Nan hurriedly said to the soldiers who reported the news: "Let Agu Zhe come in to see me, and the Xi soldiers can camp and rest in the camp left by the Pingzhou army outside the city." ”

  Aguzhe rode into the city alone and met Zhou Nan on the street. Although they haven't seen each other for half a month, Aguzhe looks more energetic, and when he sees Zhou Nan, he has a smile on his face, and he is no longer as calm as before. Agu Zhe dismounted first and saluted Zhou Nan, and then said, "Agu Zhe has already told his father about following the horse, and his father is very happy. From now on, Aguzhe can always follow the horse, if there is something but please command, Aguzhe will also be done in heaven and earth! ”

  Zhou Nan said with a smile: "You came on time." ”

  "A few years ago, General Gao selected more than 20,000 elite soldiers, and kindly allowed them to go home for the New Year, and sent them food to bring back. As soon as the Chinese New Year passed, they came to me and shouted that they should return to Zunhua as soon as possible. I didn't agree, I just said that I would leave for Zunhua on the tenth day of the first month. Therefore it is too late, so please punish the horses. Aguzhe thought that Zhou Nan was blaming him, and hurriedly explained.

  "Where's late?" Zhou Nan walked towards the Black Iron Army garrison as he spoke, "Tell me, why did you not leave until the tenth day of the first month?" Why didn't you come earlier? ”

  "Agu Zhe knows that the grain and grass in Zunhua City is not enough, and he gave us some, if we rush back as soon as we finish New Year's Day, then the grain and grass in the city will be even more insufficient. That's why I didn't come as soon as the New Year was over. The war horses and armor of our people have stayed in Zunhua, and we walked over, Agu Zhe calculated the mileage, and set off on the tenth day of the first month, and we could arrive in Zunhua on the morning of the fifteenth. Aguzhe said calmly.

  Agu Zhe's uprightness, Zhou Nan knows. Unexpectedly, Agu Zhe was so coarse and fine, and he also considered the problem of grain and grass for Wanshengjun, so he deliberately pressed it, and waited in the clan until the tenth day of the first month to rush to Zunhua City, in order not to cause trouble for Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan.

  "Did you get food years ago?" Listening to Aguzhe talk about grain and grass, Zhou Nan asked again. A few years ago, he arranged for Yu Zhongwen and others to organize vendors to go to Jizhou, barter with Xi people, and take what they need, and I don't know if they have changed.

  "Changed! Changed! And it didn't put us too much on the price this time. Aguzhe couldn't hide the joy on his face, and said, "Father, and the patriarchs of several other clans, they also said that they must rush to Yanjing City to pay respects to the concubine and the princess. said that there are saints like horses and princesses, and the Xi people will have a good life in the future. ”

  "It's good that nothing went wrong." Zhou Nan said to Agu Zhe, "You go with me to send Brother Yang, they will lead troops to chase down the rebellious army in Pingzhou today." ”

  "Where to go after it?" Aguzhe asked briefly.

  "Most likely to go to the vicinity of Jizhou. The direction of escape is Shimen Town. Zhou Nan replied.

  Agu Zhe turned around violently and stopped in front of Zhou Nan, stopped Zhou Nan from moving forward, and said loudly, "Agu Zhe is willing to take the elite soldiers of the Xi tribe to chase and suppress the rebellious army, and I implore the horse to allow Agu Zhe to take the elite soldiers of the Xi tribe to replace General Yang and the Wansheng army." ”

  Zhou Nan asked suspiciously, "Why do you want to replace Brother Yang?" ”

  Agu Zhe first blushed and said, "Xi people have grown up in the mountains since childhood, hunting, farming, and nomadic herding in the mountains, all in the mountains, and they are the best at fighting in the mountains. When I fought against the horse, it was really a clever horse, and if I talked about mountain warfare, I might not have lost so badly - if the horse didn't need to blow up arrows or chariots. ”

  Zhou Nanxin said, this Agu Zhe is still self-aware, and he knows where he can't beat the Wansheng army with explosive arrows and magic cars. However, it can also be seen that Aguzhe is very confident in Xi Bing's mountain operations.

  Looking at Agu Zhe's longing eyes, Zhou Nan couldn't help but hesitate. If Aguzhe is allowed to take Xi Bing there, Yang Datou will definitely not do it; Don't let Aguzhe and Xi Bing go, Aguzhe is indeed right.

  After thinking about it, Zhou Nan said to Agu Zhe, "Then take two thousand elite soldiers, go to the arsenal to get the armor, go to the horse prison to get the horse, and go with Brother Yang." "I like Song Chungui, please collect x Song Chungui.