Taiyuan Mansion further north is the boundary of Xinzhou and Daizhou, and is surrounded by mountains on the south, west and north sides, and the terrain of eighty or ninety percent is the highland plateau, and the area of Sichuan only accounts for more than one percent. When Xiao Tang led the army to be advanced, Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, and Peng Xi led a thousand serial heavy cavalry and 2,000 horse army strong cavalry to patrol and cruise between Taiyuan Mansion and Xinzhou and Daizhou.

The rest of the officers and troops and the thieves under Tian Hu's command have clashed with each other in Xinzhou Shiling Pass and Xinxian County, but the thieves often flee by touch, there is no big scene of fighting, but small-scale encounters often occur, it seems that the desperate thief army that is gradually forced by the official army also wants to use the criss-crossing mountain terrain to maneuver with the official army, they do not wait for the official army to encircle and immediately flee, but the donkey skills are poor, and the movements are all known to Xiao Tang, Xiao Jiasui and others Tian Hu can only use this method to survive, Strive to seize the opportunity to flee west and join the party.

Previously, Tian Hu was afraid that Xiao Tang led his troops to be brave, so even if he broke the big cities of Dafu in Hedong, he did not dare to defend the city, after all, although the city danger could be relied on, but it allowed the officers and troops to clarify the target of the strategic attack, so most of the time he only dared to order the strongman leaders under his command to wander around the small counties and towns in various military states, and use the mountainous terrain of Hedong to drag down the officers and troops who came to conquer.

However, although the cottages in the green forest can also rely on the dangerous terrain, most of the villages are inferior to ordinary military states in terms of materials, money and grain reserves, and military key locations, and the thieves are fighting less and less, but the officers and troops dispatched by Xiao Tang are gathering more and more, and now Tian Hu wants to occupy a corner of the military town and resist stubbornly, according to Xiao Tang's current way of playing, he will not give him time to attack the city at all.

Before encountering the main thief army of Tian Hu's headquarters, he ordered his troops to patrol the mountains to hunt down the wandering thieves, and on the other hand, he ordered Yao Pingzhong, Guan Sheng and other officials to recuperate, and immediately bite after encountering a large number of thieves, even if the thief army wants to escape, it must be dragged down alive.

At this time, Tian Hu finally moved, but he didn't dare to wave his army south to fight to the death with Xiao Tang, so he could only run in the rugged mountain road, because the thief army now has no ability and time to capture the Junzhou city that collects a large amount of grain and grass, and the supply is not available. Tian Hu had no choice but to lead the army to Dingxiang County, intending to break the city and then kill all the officials and people in the county, seize the grain and grass stored in the warehouse, and then find a path in the mountains to flee to the northwest of Hedong Road......

The deafening shouts of killing were heard from the dawn of dawn, and the inside and outside of the humble city walls of Dingxiang County were full of bloody corpses. Although the thieves in Hedong lack well-made siege equipment, but Dingxiang County is not a military town, the city wall here is low, and the bricks and stones of the city wall are even more dilapidated, as long as Tian Hu is given another day or two of effort, it is difficult for the soldiers and civilians in the county to resist the crazy attack of the Hedong thieves.

But seeing the rain of arrows up and down the city wall, shuttling all over the sky, a group of thieves and bandits poured arrows towards the wall, and the officers and soldiers above the county seat, the townspeople also pushed down the city wall with rolling logs and stones, and from time to time there were thieves who let out a heart-rending howl, or were smashed into a puddle of flesh and mud when they landed, but although the stones and logs thrown down from a high place were very deterrent and lethal, the county's troops were limited, and the equipment for defending the city was also very simple. Not only are there not many rolling logs and stones left, but even the arrows equipped by the Command Department and the Inspection Department are only a thousand or so left, and I am afraid that the officers and soldiers and villagers who are defending the city will soon have to use their blades and flesh and blood to resist the thieves who are swarming on the city wall.

The thieves in Hedong still organized a wave of attacks with hook ladders and rudimentary collisions, and under the cover of the thieves' archers, dozens of thieves had climbed to the top of the city and engaged in white-knuckle battles with the officers and troops on the city walls. Although the first battalion of the forbidden army, the third battalion of the Xiang army and the five or six hundred township brave and strong people in Dingxiang County, Xinzhou are not brave and good at fighting, but now there is no way to avoid it, and as long as the thieves break the city, they will be slaughtered. Even honest and cowardly people dare to be ruthless when they are forced to do their jobs, not to mention that now is the time of life and death related to their own lives? It's not that they don't want to escape, but they have nowhere to escape in the current situation.

There were even more strongman leaders who led their minions to rush to the bottom of the city walls, and they slammed the walls with crashes, even hammers and pickaxes, and the dilapidated city walls smashed so loudly that the bricks and stones began to crumble and fall off...... I'm afraid that in just another hour or two, the thieves in Hedong will be able to break the city wall and rush to the city of Dingxiang County.

At this time, among the thieves, Tian Biao also personally led several leaders to lead the crowd to attack the city, Tian Hu held a sharp knife in his hand and paced in front of the battle, and his face became more and more hideous and vicious.

The walls of this bird county town are almost pierced and smashed, and the officers and soldiers can't survive for an hour!

Tian Hu gritted his teeth and laughed, he thought in his heart: As long as he looted and looted some food supplies, he would fight with the officers and troops under the command of Xiao Tang in the mountains. Stay in the green mountains and don't worry about running out of firewood, as long as I still have these soldiers and horses in my hands to avoid the officers and soldiers who are being searched and arrested, and then I will go to the Xia Kingdom to surrender to Cheng...... Do you know that one day my Tianhu will not be able to make a comeback, and then claim the king and hegemony on this Hedong Road?

Tian Hu was thinking about the next step in his heart, when a burst of cheers sounded in Dingxiang County, followed by a few loud rumbling noises, billowing dust and smoke, which seemed to cover half of the sky in an instant. Hordes of thieves screamed with joy and waved their blades viciously towards the county!

The city wall on the south side of the county finally collapsed completely, and at this time, Tian Biao, who was not far from the city wall, smiled fiercely, he raised the steel knife in his hand again, and shouted: "The city wall has collapsed!" The children will follow me into the city, slaughter all the dog officials in the county, and slaughter all the men and women in the city, to avenge the brothers who died in battle! ”

Under Tian Biao's order, the thieves in Hedong roared and swarmed into the city towards the collapsed position of the city wall, and the officials and soldiers in the city and the village warriors temporarily formed by the men in the city also swooped over, and thousands of soldiers crowded the dusty city wall and fought bloody battles, and the sound of gold and iron intersecting frequently and fiercely sounded suddenly, which was about to break the eardrums of others!

Tian Biao viciously brandished a steel knife and rushed to the front, shattering the flesh and blood of more than a dozen officers and soldiers and Xiangyong everywhere he went, but seeing the flesh and blood splashed, the terrified county officials and soldiers could not resist the enemy, and they had already begun to collapse and flee towards the city.

A county lieutenant in the Dingxiang County Ya roared angrily with his sword, his voice was already very hoarse, but he was almost knocked to the ground several times by the defeated officers and soldiers. Seeing that the county seat could no longer be defended, the only remaining resistance of the county lieutenant was suddenly gone, and he was about to flee to a secluded place in the county to avoid the slaughter of the thieves, when suddenly a big man whose clothes and armor had already been stained red with blood had rushed in front of him!

Tian Biao's face was hideous like a devouring ghost, he roared and raised the steel knife full of bright red blood stains in his hand to slash hard, the head of the county lieutenant flew up, and the corpse fell straight backwards and fell to the ground!

"Hahaha! Who dares to stop me?! Who would dare to kill me!? Come to find grandpa and beg for death! Kill!! ”

Tian Biao was able to kill, he raised his sword and roared, like a mad beast. Tian Hu saw from afar that his head seemed to be missing tendons, but the fierce and fierce brother who fought was very competitive, and he also smiled cruelly and was about to lead the thieves under his command to kill into the city, when suddenly a small leader of the thieves stumbled over, and reported to Tian Hu as if he had seen a ghost: "Leader Tian, the big thing is not good!" A large number of officers and soldiers came to help! ”

Tian Hu chuckled in his heart when he heard this, he immediately jumped up with an arrow, and grabbed the little leader's shirt and shouted: "What officer!? Where did it come from!? Which dog officer is in charge!? ”

The little leader was afraid that he would not have time to escape if he spoke slowly, so he hurriedly said: "The strongman of Heiyunzhai all the way to rob the town in Nanshan, Dingxiang County, according to the orders of the big leader, met the officers and soldiers of the brigade and suddenly killed, and several leaders also died in the chaos. ”