Outside the city, the drums and horns are in the sky, and the city is in panic all day long, in the dead Ganquan County Ya, the Ganquan County Zun and Zhang Yuan sit face to face with a bitter face, and there is no longer the original spirit, and now there is only the helplessness of sitting in the troubled city.

Yesterday's battle, a few opportunities, a few misses, and finally a fiasco, who is to blame? The location is favorable, so don't let yourself wait for a full place? I can only blame myself for not waiting for the time, or is there any other reason? I really can't find it.

As soon as he saw that the general trend had gone, Zhang Yuan also wanted to go out of the city overnight and run back to Yan'an, clean up the mess and regroup, but it took a lot of time to sort out the baggage of the team, not to mention that now the army's spirit has been dispersed, if you go out of the city at night, one bad one must be a flight of countless people, and the strength that he has worked hard to accumulate is to disappear, and it will be difficult to clean up.

But this waiting, but it is a missed opportunity, when the sky is bright, it is even more difficult to get out of the city, not to mention the south of the city, it is the power of the hateful thieves, to the west of the city is the sphere of influence of a group of thieves allies, and at the same time there is the Luohe River blocking, the east of the city, a gust of wind two thousand tigers eyeing and recuperating poles there to block the door, and even more fatal is the Yan'an shortcut to the north, but it is blocked by the most powerful thief cavalry. Now, Zhang Yuanzhen has the personal experience of the turtle in the urn, and now the morale of this military spirit seems to be a dead end everywhere, how can this be handled?

Zhang Yuan also visited Lord Qianhu several times overnight to ask for a solution, but Lord Qianhu was closed to him, and it was his last move that burned the jade, which completely chilled this upright military household, and he didn't want to mix with him anymore, and he didn't give himself a chance at all.

sighed and rushed to the county office, but the county lord greeted him from afar, showing the compliment of the military generals from a civil official who had never been there, but when he spoke, Zhang Yuan collapsed.

Now Ganquan has done his best to pay without a penny, but now this Ganquan county needs Zhang Yuan, the savior, to preserve, as the so-called two masters who don't bother with anything, since you Zhang Yuan can stir up things, then you have to be Brother Zhang Yuan to settle it, and now the thieves outside the city are rising, and it is not something that this small Ganquan hundreds of guards can resist, so the heavy responsibility of sticking to the aid can only be hard General Zhang.

There is also a layer of consciousness in and out of the words, when I was in Ganquan, there was Fuxian in front of me, and that was a safe rear. Even if the thieves roar outside the city, it is just that the river water does not interfere with the well water, everyone is convenient, and the world is peaceful and peaceful.

It's not that you, Zhang Yuan, have to fight hard with the thieves here, but the result is that you stabbed the hornet's nest and provoked this gang of vicious bandits, so that my safe and stable rear has become a war-torn front line, so that there is this unwarranted disaster? Then now because of your relationship, this mess is up to you Zhang Yuan to clean up, as for the money and things looted in this name at that time, and the idea of relying on Zhang Yuan to make some war exploits, of course it is completely forgotten.

Zhang Yuan could only politely appease on the one hand, hoping that everyone would come up with some ideas together, and on the other hand, he would rectify his brothers' subordinates and rush to the four cities to defend them strictly, hoping that Yan'an would get the news and send rescue troops to relieve the siege as soon as possible.

Now the thieves are besieged on all sides, and they don't have a way to escape if they want to, but now Ganquan Qianhu and the county are going to get rid of their own top cylinders, in fact, you don't need me to top the post, I also have to defend a battle, I have formed an indissoluble enmity with the thieves, that is the ending of the endless death, there is no room for maneuver, where is the thief still let himself escape back to Yan'an to slowly recover his strength?

This time, it seems that this Ganquan is his burial place, but he is indeed unwilling, and his revenge has not been avenged, how can he die so easily?

But now I don't see Li Yuanhao's army appear, so I can only wait for God to have a miracle and save myself.

In the county office, I don't know how much inferior tea I drank, and I went back and forth with the county honor, but it was the last result, waiting for reinforcements, or a miracle of God.

Don't count on reinforcements, Zhang Yuan knows the current situation in Yan'an best, if there are reinforcements, then why bother to come out yourself? Don't expect the border army, the border army is now fighting fires in the backyard of the border army in northern Shaanxi, then compared with Gao Yingxiang and Wang Jiayin and the mutinous border army, then they are insignificant at all, and it is not good to say, as long as the court takes out a bunch of officials and goes to a Zhang Yuan, there will be Li Yuan and Zhao Yuan.

As for counting on miracles? That would be even more discouraging, it is obvious that God is on the side of the thieves, or he would not have let his army of 7,000 against 500 thieves, and he was helpless after trying his best, and finally ended up in this end.

It seems that the only way to defend with this county lord is to the end.

Seeing that he really couldn't think of a way, Zhang Yuan had no choice but to stand up and say goodbye, and said: "Don't worry, boss, Zhang Yuan can't leave even if he wants to, let's be loyal to the emperor together." After that, without waiting for the county lord to return the salute, he walked out of the lobby in despair and returned to his Zhongjun Hall.

Just when he was in a panic, Xiao Qi, a child of the Chen family, came to ask for a meeting, saying that there was a way to withdraw the army safely, and Zhang Yuanru got a life-saving straw and immediately met him.

The Chen family's Xiaoqi hurriedly came up to the hall and said to Zhang Yuanshili: "Brother, why are you still hesitating here at this time?" Now that the sky is just dawning, we still have 2,000 strong troops in our hands who have gone through the bloody battle, and it is when the thieves are not adjusted properly, they take advantage of the situation to kill, retain our most basic vitality, and return to Yan'an Mansion to bargain with the governor, brother, if you can't make a decision like this, won't it kill your brother and your own future? He was also anxious, and he didn't know the severity of his speech, but Zhang Yuan didn't have the heart to blame.

Zhang Yuan just sighed and said to the brother: "I also want to, but the situation really doesn't allow it, now seeing the thieves besieged on all sides, we are exhausted, not to mention that Qianhu and the county are not cooperative, so we can only wait for the whole army to be annihilated." ”

"Not really." When the Chen family Xiaoqi heard this, he knew that his brother also wanted to break through, instead of coexisting with the county honor, so he hurriedly said.

"How to say" Zhang Yuan immediately came to his senses, like a drowning man grasping a straw.

"Actually, the elder brother was too busy and forgot to make a comprehensive observation, but in fact, the younger brother carefully observed the surrounding poles besieging Ganquan."

"How's it going?" Zhang Yuan immediately asked.

"Near the west of the city along the river is the ally of the Black Tiger Village, the defense of several pole horse bandits, the east of the city is the defense area of the newly formed gust of wind, and the north, that is, the direction of Yan'an where we are going to return to the army, is the most elite cavalry of the thieves. We have no hope and strength to rush out of the southeast, north and south, but the west is the weakest place for thieves, not to mention that the thieves think that there is a natural danger of the Luohe River, we will never choose to break through in that direction, so that the guard is lax and paralyzed, and it is the people who defend over there, because of this reason, a few pole horse bandits who are not subordinate to each other are arranged, but it is the so-called rabble, as long as we are surprised, we will be able to succeed in one fell swoop. “

"That's right. This seems to be the most unlikely place to the most likely place to fight your way out, why didn't I think of it for a while? Zhang Yuan was overjoyed, but when he thought about it, he became depressed again, "The Naluo River is frozen and passable, but if we slip when we run on it, we must be on our backs, so that if the thief releases arrows on the shore, then we will be a live target." ”

"Brother, don't worry, I have a way to solve this matter."

"What can you do? Hurry up, if the method is feasible, it can allow our last elite to escape from the death of Ganquan and return to Yan'an, I will have a big reward" Zhang Yuan grabbed the back of Xiao Qi's hand and held on to it, for fear that as soon as he let go, the good idea would run away.

Xiao Qi didn't take care of it at this time, and hurriedly said his thoughts: "I saw that the war horse hit the iron palm, and walking on the ice will not slide, so I thought of a way, that is, to gather the blacksmiths of the whole city to build a half-inch iron nail, and then collect all the iron nails in the city, and nail them in our shoes from the inside out, so that the tips of the iron nails are facing outward, so that we will not slip when we run on the ice, once the thief chases on the ice, we can kill him on the ice and turn his horse on his back." ”

That Zhang Yuan was stunned, suddenly applauded and laughed, even called the clever plan, and patted the Chen family Xiaoqi and said: "If this plan is successful, brother, you are the great hero of our Zhang Jiajun, and when I return to Yan'an Mansion, I will recommend the governor and the capital division to give you an official and a knight, and I will definitely reuse my brother with you." ”

"Thank you brother for lifting up, as long as I follow my brother in front of the saddle and do my best, I will be satisfied." Xiao Qi hurriedly expressed his humility and politeness, and at the same time expressed his loyalty a little, how can a loyal subordinate with an idea not be valued by the main family?

"Okay, good, your heart brother write it down." Zhang Yuan praised it, but the matter was urgent, and he couldn't be too polite, Zhang Yuan directly took out a piece of letterhead on the table, and according to Xiao Qi's meaning, he urgently drafted an official document, stamped it with his own seal, and didn't wait for the ink to dry, he stuffed it directly into Xiao Qi's hand, and said with a solemn expression: "Now you take my warrant and inform all our brothers to start collecting and building iron nails and preparing to break through." ”

"Yes." Xiao Qi promised to turn around and leave, but Zhang Yuan suddenly stopped him and said, "You come back." ”

"What else does my brother command?"

"You immediately order Chen Qiang to take his brothers and sisters to patrol the city, strictly guard the four gates, and don't let any news leak out."

"Little brother obeys." Looking at Zhang Yuan, who seemed to have something to say, Xiao Qi cautiously asked, "What else does my brother have to say?" ”

Zhang Yuan immediately lowered his voice, and whispered in the ear of this sensible little brother: "At the same time, don't sort out our baggage, I'll arrange for my cronies to only bring the gold, silver and jewelry they got along the way this time, and don't make a noise." Just wait for all preparations to stop, and then we will gather our troops and break through the siege at the West Gate by surprise. ”

When the brother heard this, he immediately understood the reason, and Shi Li said, "The younger brother understands, I'll arrange it." ”

Zhang Yuan nodded with satisfaction, let him go down, thought about it and ordered his own soldiers to prepare horses, and went to the county government again to stabilize the county and thousands of households.