Shan Yu suddenly announced that he would march to Xijing, and within two days, everyone had to leave the camp and go on the road, including many craftsmen, and all items that were inconvenient to carry were left in Kasaka.

To everyone's surprise, Shan Yu didn't even leave a single soldier in Sususaka, and he said to the puzzled people: "How big is the Central Plains?" How many cavalry did He Rong have? If you occupy a place, you will leave people to guard it, too little will not work, and too much will divide the effort. He Rong people must be brought together. ”

Shan Yu has been implementing the strategy of dividing troops and plundering in Qinzhou, and suddenly changed to concentrating troops, although the adults did not dare to oppose it in person, they were somewhat dissatisfied in their hearts, and felt that Shan Yu should not repeat.

"What about staying in the Central Plains to defend the city?" Suggestions were made.

Shan Yu shook his head, "The Central Plains people are lazy and cowardly, and their strengths are only in the number of people and equipment, which can only be driven and used, and cannot be entrusted with important tasks." ”

Without giving the adults much time to think about it, he led his troops out of the camp first, and at the same time sent messengers to send an order to the various He Rongjun who were outside, asking them to stop whatever they were doing and immediately come to meet the army at the designated place.

Xu Ji set off relatively late, and saw a large number of Jizhou soldiers urging the people of Jizhou to go faster - Shan Yu's trick was quite effective, the people of Jizhou were happy to enjoy their status, and the people of Jizhou were eager to enter the war, capturing the Qinzhou people to take their place.

The first two cities have been captured, the third city refused to surrender, Shan Yu left the Central Plains army behind, he led his troops to bypass, set off for only a few days, every day He Rong people rushed to converge, his strength swelled rapidly.

The people of Bingzhou immediately took action, cut down the nearest wood and stones, completed one day, and then set up equipment one day, and on the third day they attacked the city, and before dark, the small city surrendered before the wall was broken.

Eager to take the city, in addition to using equipment, they also sent a large number of soldiers to climb the ladder to attack the city, and suffered many casualties, so they turned their anger to the soldiers and civilians in the city, and carried out a spontaneous massacre of the city without asking for instructions, and the generals tried to stop it at first, and soon participated in it themselves.

Xu Ji had already caught up with Shan Yu, and did not see the scene of siege and slaughter, when the news came, it was said that there was no living mouth in the city except for a small number of women and children.

Shan Yu was furious, punished the people of the state to attack another city, and sent people back to tell the general of the state in person: "There are no prisoners, who will attack the city instead of you?" ”

Although the news of the massacre spread quickly, most of the cities in Qinzhou still chose to surrender.

Years of famine and military famine have already tormented Qinzhou to exhaustion, and the soldiers in the city, whether they are the remaining officers and soldiers, or the bandits who took advantage of the weakness, are unwilling to defend the abandoned city, and would rather surrender, not caring who the enemy is.

He Rong's cavalry had almost arrived, and the number of prisoners was increasing day by day, and they could already be used to attack the city, but there was not much joy on his face.

There were two things that displeased him.

Emperor Zhang Shiyu personally went out, but only brought back less than 10,000 Jizhou soldiers, and many more refused to receive the holy decree, claiming that they had never heard of the new emperor's accession to the throne, but they also refused to be enemies of He Rongren, and voluntarily retreated to the northwest, giving up many cities.

Zhang Shiyu was filled with indignation, and put all the blame on Yin Fu, "It's a shame that he is still a scholar and an old minister in the court, when he was in Yecheng, he pretended to be indisputable with the world, and deceived all the people in the court, it turned out that he had the ambition to stand on his own!" said that he did not dare to fight with the imperial court, so he retreated to Sanzhou and watched the situation in Kyushu, and when the world was one, he would return his troops to the court...... Old slippery head, what an old slippery head. ”

"Sanzhou to the west of Qinzhou is Liangzhou, right?" Shan Yu asked.

Zhang Shiyu nodded, "Yes, the people of Liangzhou are fierce, and they have never been too obedient to the imperial court, and the imperial court is only restrained to them, and the Emperor of All Things has made a plan, ......etc. Wait to go to Pingliang again, but I didn't have time. "Zhang Shiyu stopped it in time, the Emperor of All Things originally planned to break He Rong first, and then clean up the semi-self-reliant Sanzhou one by one, "Yin Fu is a civil servant, with a group of Jizhou soldiers, he will be slaughtered when he arrives in Liangzhou." ”

It's not this that Shan Yu cares about, "Liangzhou is very close to the grassland, and it stands to reason that the people of Liangzhou don't have the courage to do so, but they can't be unguarded, and they have to send someone to warn them that they are not allowed to accept outsiders into the country." ”

Shan Yu looked at Kou Daogu first.

"Persuasion is not my strength, I am willing to stay by Shan Yu's side, ready to be an advisor at any time."

Shan Yu nodded with a smile and looked at Xu Ji again.

"I'm willing to go, if I'm not mistaken, the Lou family once had a daughter married over there, maybe ......"

"You can't go." Shan Yu didn't want to let Xu Ji out, "The people of Liangzhou bully the soft and are afraid of the hard, and they want them to obey the order, and they can't send scholars, I have my own candidates." ”

This matter is temporarily resolved, seeing that Shan Yu is not angry with himself, Zhang Shiyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, as for the use of the Jizhou soldiers, his enthusiasm has long disappeared, and he still pushes the responsibility to Yin Fu, and said to himself: "Yin Fu will take the main force away, and it is useless to win over the rest of the people, but it will cause trouble." ”

There was another thing that made Shan Yu feel uneasy, he asked the emperor to step back and said to Xu Ji: "Can the Descending Army have a banner and an official position?" ”

"Of course, especially after the Eastern Capital, unless they return to Qinzhou and change back to the way they were, otherwise, the banner should be stricter."

"This is strange, the defenders of several cities claim to be the Incarnation Army, but the banners are scarce, and the official positions are all kings and two kings, not like the real Incarnation Army."

"The Incarnation Army is a general term, and those who rise in various places, if they do not have a fixed leader, often call themselves the Incarnation Army. There is only one true army of the Incarnation, which is under the command of the Incarnation King. ”

"It is said that the incarnation king was still a baby, and the one who commanded the army was his sister."

"The Golden Saintess."

"Hmm." Shan Yu knew the relationship between Xu Ji and the Golden Holy Maiden, but he didn't mention it, "She has occupied Qinzhou for a long time, why don't you send her own people to guard the city?" ”

"It's just been a year since the Descendant Army returned to Qinzhou, during which it clashed with another Descendant Army, and was attacked by the Zhuzhou Army, probably because it couldn't spare troops to occupy the cities."

Shan Yu shook his head slightly, "The Descending Army is shrinking into Xijing, because I don't want to divide the troops, and I want to fight a decisive battle with my He Rong cavalry." ”

Xu Ji smiled: "What you say alone makes more sense. ”

Shan Yu looked at Kou Daogu: "You're right, once a woman is involved, Xu Ji is even more reluctant to tell the truth." ”

Kou Daogu nodded.

"Just want to hear the truth?" Xu Ji asked.

"Could it be that I'm still willing to listen to lies?"

"If you are alone in your heart and hear falsehoods, you will be indifferent and will fall into a dilemma when you hear the truth: should you stick to your own opinions, or will you change your mind temporarily?"

"Haha, your kung fu to defend yourself is always first-rate. Let's be honest and see if I'm going to have a 'dilemma'. ”

"If I am the commander of the Descending Army, I will never fight He Rong's cavalry in Xijing."

"Why?"

"Just in the power of the grassland, the front is unstoppable, this is an unbeatable."

"Well, a little bit self-aware."

"He Rong is a foreigner, even if he is lucky enough to lose, he is far away, he is not close to his people, he is just empty, and he can't fight."

"Hey." Shan Yu sneered, "Stay until the world is unified, and then there will be no distinction between inside and outside." ”

"The Central Plains stands side by side, the big swallows the small, the strong bully the weak, everyone wants to blame others, sit and watch the two strong fight, and profit from it. Even if the Descendant Army defeated He Rong's cavalry, its own strength would be greatly damaged, and it would be an opportunity for others to take advantage of. These are the three non-combatables. ”

"I see what you mean, will the Descending Army surrender?"

Xu Ji shook his head.

"Fight and not fight, surrender and not surrender, descend to the world...... Want to learn from the Jizhou Army and flee to Liangzhou? ”

"It's not necessarily Liangzhou, there are many places to go."

Shan Yu laughed and said to Kou Daogu: "Does Mr. Kou think Xu Ji is telling the truth this time?" ”

"Xijing is not far away, and the result will be known soon."

Shan Yu thought for a while, and said to Xu Ji: "There is one thing you said wrong, for me, there is no so-called dilemma: whether the descending army escapes or not, I will capture Xijing and open up the passage between Qinzhou and the grassland, and from now on, He Rong's cavalry will pass unimpeded!" ”

The next day, Shan Yu sent an adult with hundreds of cavalry to Liangzhou, announcing Shan Yu's will with the emperor, forbidding them to accept any foreign army, and at the same time observing the movements of the Jizhou army led by Yin Fu.

The vanguard had already reached Xijing, and fought a battle with the Descendant Army, winning a great victory.

After Shan Yu learned the news, he specially summoned Xu Ji and said with a smile: "The Descending Army did not escape, your three cannot be fought, and none of them are allowed." ”

"I said that if I were the commander of the Birth Army, I would have such thoughts, but I am not."

"Of course you're not, you can't be the commander of any army with a mind like yours."

Shan Yu accelerated the march and rushed to Xijing in only one day, leaving others to supervise the establishment of the camp, and he brought a small number of retinues to check the enemy's situation.

The first time Xu Ji came to Xijing, when others set up tents, he looked at the city from afar, vaguely saw the dense flags, and couldn't help but think, even if the Golden Holy Maiden had to fight a decisive battle, Cao Shenxi should also understand the difficulties of this battle, maybe like before, Cao Shenxi thought about it, but he couldn't convince others.

Xijing is a big city, the scale is similar to the eastern capital, He Rong people can not be completely surrounded for a while, this day and the next day, there are frequently a small group of descending troops to come out to challenge, the two sides have fought more than a dozen Yang, the descending army is defeated and won less, and so on He Rongren is surrounded, the gate of Xijing City is closed, and no one comes out.

The army behind arrived one after another, Shan Yu paired Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Qinzhou in pairs, and supervised the Jizhou people with the Jizhou people, the Jizhou people supervised the Qinzhou people, and the Qinzhou people supervised the Bingzhou people, and then the He Rong cavalry, each of the three states attacked a city wall, leaving one side not to fight.

All the soldiers who had previously besieged the city became the rear "overseers", but they were allowed to voluntarily participate in the forward siege, and they could receive twice the reward after meritorious service.

The cities attacked before were relatively small, and Shan Yu regarded the attack on Xijing as a large-scale exercise, giving enough time and not being overly pressed.

The war is becoming more and more tense, but Xu Ji has more and more nothing to do, and even the opportunity to see Shan Yu is less, and he repeatedly calculates in the tent every day: How will the descending army defend the city? The heroes just watched He Rongren dominate the world, and none of them dared to intercept their back roads?

On the third day of the siege, Shan Yu sent Kou Daogu to inform Xu Ji: "Good news, there is news about the whereabouts of Princess Tiancheng, and it is actually in this Xijing City." Heaven has a feeling, knows my heart, and sends the princess to me, and on the day the city is broken, I will give the princess to Pingshan. ”