After Gao Yuan received the news of his sentry, he hurriedly sent someone to Guoyin City to tell Zhou Nan the news that the 3,000 men and horses of Xianghe City had fled north to Jizhou. It happened that Yang Keshi also came to see Zhou Nan, saying that there were also three or four thousand men and horses who went to Anci City in the south.

  Zhou Nan said to Yang Keshi, "Brother Yang, it seems that the Xi army in Xianghe City is gone. ”

  Yang Keshi stretched out his thumb to Zhou Nan and said, "Da Lang, it's still your clever strategy." If it was in the Great Song Dynasty, it would be starving to death, and the defenders would not dare to flee. ”

  Zhou Nan said with a smile, "To escape or not to escape, it is all an ending." If he doesn't run away, he can't stand up from hunger, how can he fight? Won't Xianghe City still be ours at that time? ”

  Yang Keshi said with emotion, "Although this Xi man is not strict in military law, and the defenders flee at will, he is also open-minded and knows how to pick up a life and leave." ”

  Zhou Nan flicked the lid of the bowl on the table with his fingers, and said, "The people here are different from the Southern Dynasty, they are not bound by those laws and texts, and they are straightforward, so they were scared away by me when I burned down the grain depot." If it was in the Southern Dynasty, I was afraid that those foolish and pedantic officials would lead the soldiers to swear to the death, and would rather starve to death than open the city gates. ”

  Yang Keshi slapped the table vigorously and said loudly, "Exactly!" Speaking of those who were officials in the Great Song Dynasty, Da Lang, you are not bad at all! is obviously a foolish loyalty that harms people, but he claims to be loyal to the monarch and the country; is obviously pedantic and doesn't know how to advance or retreat, but he thinks he is the right way. Obviously, he doesn't know soldiers and wars, but he wants to point fingers, and he doesn't hesitate to kill his soldiers, so that we, rough people, can fight hard! Alas, just because he has studied for a few years, he won the Jinshi in the imperial examination, and he has been famous in Donghuamen! ”

  Zhou Nan knew that what Yang Keshi said was motivated, in fact, not only Yang Keshi, but also a military general born in the Song Dynasty, no matter how much merit you have, how much official position, how much ability, as long as you are a military general, you can't compete for those civil officials. Moreover, in the Song Dynasty, advocating literature and suppressing military force has almost become an insurmountable bottom line for civil officials, as long as a military attache comes forward, he will be beaten by civilian officials.

  "Civil officials are important, but when it comes to marching and fighting, it is still a matter of military generals. For more than 100 years in the Great Song Dynasty, with such a strong national strength, even a small Western Xia Kingdom could not be subdued, didn't it just not let the generals fight by themselves, but to listen to the emperor and listen to the blind command of Wenchen? Zhou Nan said disdainfully.

  Zhou Nan said a few words, Yang Keshi was so excited, and said, "Da Lang values the rough man who is a soldier so much, I Yang Keshi can meet Da Lang you, it is also God's grace, I left the Great Song Dynasty, and I can make contributions in Da Liao, and it is not in vain in this life." ”

  Zhou Nan knew that Yang Keshi regarded the Great Song Dynasty as orthodox in his heart after all, so he said with a grin, "Maybe, one day, Brother Yang, you will return to the Great Song Dynasty and rank in the imperial class." ”

  Yang Keshi didn't express and said, "Since I Yang Keshi promised you, I will never return to the Great Song Dynasty." Dalang, why do you play with me like this? ”

  Zhou Nan didn't explain, and changed the topic and said, "Now that the Xi army of Xianghe City has been evacuated, we can enter Xianghe." The little fourth brother has been pestering me for several days, asking when he will attack Anci City, and he is not in a hurry to drive the god car to burn the grain depot of Anci City? ”

  Speaking of the god car, everyone now knows the name of the Eagle Guard. The Wansheng Army has explosive arrows, and the Eagle Guards have magic cars. Walking in Guoyin City, as long as you tell people that you are from Wanshengjun, others will look up to you.

  Even the Black Iron Army, now outside has begun to say that it is the Wansheng Army. And those soldiers in the Wansheng Army, everyone thought that they could enter Zhou Nan's pro-army guards, or they could join the Eagle Guards. But these two teams have a limited number of people, and even if they recruit people, they are one out of a hundred.

  I don't know who revealed the drill standards of the Sanssouci Guardian Society, which attracted these people who hoped to be selected into the pro-army guards or eagle guards to consciously practice every day, and soon this drill became a common practice among all the Wansheng Army and the Black Iron Army. For a time, the appearance of the Wansheng army was even better than in the past.

  Yang Keshi took 20 million victorious cavalry, Zhou Nan took his own guards and pro-army, and three teams of eagle guards, and came to Xianghe City on the same day. Xianghe City is already a withered place, especially around the courtyard of the granary, the houses have been burned down, and even the walls are blackened with smoke. The shops in the city have long lost their popularity, and they are all half-covered, and there is not even a single shop in the entire Xianghe City. The people of the city could barely survive on what little food they had hidden. The grain was not scavenged by Xi Jun because there was so little food left, so little that Xi Jun could not find the inconspicuous places where the grain was hidden.

  Fortunately, in addition to the burning of the grain depot in Xianghe City, the rest of the city gates and city walls are intact. He also sent soldiers to clean up the remnants of the Xi soldiers from door to door to prevent the Xi soldiers from making trouble in Xianghe City.

  After some rectification, the atmosphere in Xianghe City is new, and it is no longer like the chaos and disorder when Xi Bing was there. The people in the city were worried at home for a day, thinking that a new group of soldiers and horses would be raided again. But who knows that these soldiers who are known as the Wansheng Army did not go to their homes to check Xi Bing, but did not search for goods and food, let alone kill innocents indiscriminately.

  Not only that, but the next day, the people in the city were also told to go to the county government gate to receive a bag of grain and rice from each household. At first, no people believed it, but some people tried to go to the county government to receive grain, and then they knew that they were really distributing grain to each household.

  In less than half a day, the people in the city received grain and rice. Although it is not much, but in this cold winter, it is not so cold and hungry. What's more, the people who helped the soldiers defend the city were given some rations every day. For a time, the young men in the city came to help defend the city. Not to mention the daily rations, it is for the sack of grain and rice, without the Wansheng army, only these people in the city can beat away those who want to attack the city.

  Zhou Nan took Yang Keshi to inspect the city wall, and saw that although the people who helped defend the city had dishes on their faces, they were all in good spirits, and they couldn't help but be very satisfied.

  Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the east and said, "Look there! Xi Jun! ”

  Zhou Nan raised his eyes, and sure enough, the Xi army, which had two or three thousand people, was rushing south. Although he didn't have a banner, looking at the clothes, it was the Xi soldier who escaped from Xianghe City a few days ago.

  Yang Keshi looked at it for a while, and said suspiciously, "These people fled from the city to the north, why did they go south again?" ”

  Zhou Nan also couldn't figure it out, if Xiao Gan was going to attack Xianghe City with Agu Zhe from the north and south, there was no need to send this team of two or three thousand people!

  Yang Keshi asked Zhou Nandao, "Do you want to send someone to intercept it and interrogate it clearly?" ”

  Zhou Nan looked at those Xi soldiers, shook his head and said, "Regardless of him, tomorrow we will burn the Ancicheng grain depot, he just goes to these thousands more, in addition to two or three thousand more people to eat, what else can he do?" "I like Song Chungui, please collect x Song Chungui.