Yan Xing and Xi Zhicai were talking in the city, and at this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps from the city wall class on the side.

Xi Zhicai listened to it and smiled slightly.

"It should be the military report from the east!"

Not long after Xi Zhicai's words fell, Zhou Liang's panting figure on the city wall emerged from the class.

"Captain, the military report from the east, Niu Zhonglang will defeat Li Su in Shaanxi County, and the soldiers who have been recruited have retreated!"

Zhou Liang's words could not suppress his excitement, he was also in the core of Yan Xing's Western Liang Army, and naturally knew that Yan Xing's Western Liang Army now seemed to have recovered the northeastern border of Hedong and was prestigious, but in fact, because of the Chang'an Incident, it had fallen into the embarrassing situation of having the Chang'an Imperial Court in front and the Hedong County Government in the back.

And now, the soldiers of Li Su, the cavalry captain, have been defeated by Niu Fu in Shaanxi County, and under the influence of this, this original dilemma situation has been revived in an instant.

The greater the prestige caused by the Western Liang Army in Shaanxi County, the more pressure from the Chang'an Imperial Court will be shared by Yan Xing, a Western Liang army in Hedong.

Even, in order to weaken the momentum of the Xiliang Army in Shaanxi County, the Chang'an Imperial Court will instead win over Yan Xing, a Western Liang Army located in the east of the river.

In Zhou Liang's view, this is a very good situation, and he can contact either side of Chang'an and Shaanxi County, and retreat can consolidate the northeastern border of Hedong and sit and watch the battle between the two sides.

He suggested to Yan Xing with some excitement:

"Captain, do we want to send an envoy immediately to contact the people of Chang'an or Shaanxi County?"

"Don't worry, I'll have to wait and see for a while."

Unexpectedly, Yan Xing shook his head.

Zhou Liang's heart was suddenly a little anxious, in his opinion, taking advantage of this opportunity of the defeat of the state soldiers, their troops and horses in Hedong will become the object of active competition between the two sides, if the opportunity is missed, and when Chang'an and Shaanxi County really decide the victory, then their troops and horses will once again fall into the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy.

"Captain, when you decide, you will decide, please think twice!"

Zhou Liang persuaded anxiously, and at the same time looked at Xi Zhicai, who usually boasted that he was Yan Xing's think tank, and he was involved in Yan Xing's military and political planning, so why did he not say anything in the face of Yan Xing's hesitation today.

In fact, Xi Zhicai originally supported Zhou Liang's approach of seizing the opportunity to resolve the dilemma, but Yan Xing's current calm and steady performance, as well as the fact that Yan Xing had just pacified the northeast border of Hedong, Yan Xing immediately decisively sent troops and seized the big city of Pishi, a big city in the northeast of Hedong, to seize the opportunity for his next series of actions, so that Xi Zhicai chose to be silent for a while.

He also wanted to hear what Yan Xing was waiting for in his heart.

The city wall fell into a short silence for a while, Zhou Liang, who was impatient, Xi Zhicai, who was secretly observing, and Yan Xing, who was silent, stood on the city wall, and they all had some thoughts about the current situation.

"It's not that I don't know the current good time, but now I have to choose between Chang'an and Shaanxi County, and in my opinion, after all, I am still a little anxious. Yuan Shan may have tried to persuade me to take the opportunity to join the imperial court and consolidate the northern border, but the situation has been unpredictable in the past few months, and who knows that the reversal of the situation is not the recent. ”

Zhou Liang choked for a while, although Li Su, the commander of the cavalry, was defeated, but this was not all the strength of the Chang'an Imperial Court, the Chang'an Imperial Court is now Wang Yun in power, and there are famous generals like Huangfu Song and Lu Bu as supplements, and the strength is extraordinary.

On the other hand, on the side of Shaanxi County, although Niu Fu's soldiers and horses repelled Li Su, the Xiliang Army on the Chang'an side had collapsed, and the soldiers and horses of Li, Guo and other captains who were conscripting the Kwantung were far away in the counties of the Central Plains.

At this time, he should take the opportunity of Li Su's defeat to write to Chang'an, beg for pardon, and then ask for an official title, retreat to the northeast border of Hedong, and protect himself. But listening to Yan Xing's tone, it seemed that he felt that Shaanxi County still had the ability to reverse the situation.

"What does the captain mean is that he thinks that Niu Zhonglang in Shaanxi County will have the power to counterattack?"

Zhou Liang asked in surprise, Xi Zhicai also looked at Yan Xing, and he was also very interested in Yan Xing's judgment.

"Calculating the time, the soldiers and horses of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others must have received an urgent report from Shaanxi County at this time, and rushed to the direction of Shaanxi County. The soldiers and horses in Shaanxi County should rise sharply in recent days, and see how the Chang'an Imperial Court responds next, let's wait for the opportunity to act! ”

"What about Hedong?"

"Didn't Wang Yi already transport 100,000 stone corn to the north, and the cities in the north could last another month. "Liutao" said, "The soldiers do not win twice, nor do they lose twice." If the soldiers go out of the border, within ten days, there will be no country, and there will be broken troops and killed generals. 'Sit and watch the situation of Sanfu, the period of January is enough! We will also put our flag down for the time being, press the soldiers, and watch Mount Tai collapse in front of us! ”

Yan Xing's words were loud, and his choice was very bold and decisive, which made Xi Zhicai even have an illusion that after Dong Zhuo's death, Yan Xing's judgment of the current situation became more and more keen.

It's just that he still has worries in his heart.

It is true that after Wang Yun, who was upright in governance, was indeed not meticulous and tactful enough in handling things, but Niu Fu, who was stationed in Shaanxi County and had just repelled Li Su, could be seen from the previous use of troops that his generals were somewhat mediocre, and at this time, he may not be able to take on the heavy task of reversing the situation and counterattacking Chang'an.

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Hongnong Shaanxi County

Hu Chi'er with a team of soldiers to the city gate tower to inspect, a few days ago they just here to repel the menacing Bingzhou soldiers, won a victory, but although the Bingzhou soldiers were defeated, but the main general Li Su saw that the situation was not good, escaped in time, and had retreated to the direction of Huayin with the defeated soldiers.

What's even worse is that Duan Xuan, who was originally stationed in Huayin, did not respond to Niu Fu's movement to raise troops, which put the Niu Auxiliary Army in Shaanxi County in a situation of fighting alone, although it won the victory, but did not dare to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and the morale of the army has not been high because of Dong Zhuo's death and a series of upheavals in Chang'an.

The current situation is very severe, in addition to sending knights to quickly recall the soldiers and horses of Li, Guo, and Zhang, Niu Fu has sprouted solidly, and has been staying in the rooms of those witches, practicing witchcraft in order to curse and defeat the state soldiers, and bless his side with consecutive victories.

The credit of the ghost-obsessed Niu Fu and even the generals and soldiers who retreated from the enemy in bloody battles is attributed to the witchcraft performed by the shrine maiden.

Although Hu Chi'er was born in Yue's Hu and is quite superstitious about wizards, he doesn't agree with Niu Fu's behavior of indulging in witches every day.

Niu Fu, who was addicted to witchcraft, became moody, and just a few days ago, because of a word of fortune from those witches, he killed Dong Yue, who came to defect after defeat.

After this incident, no one in the army dared to talk about the witch in front of Niu Fu, and even Hu Chi'er, who was Niu Fu's confidant, had to be cautious and did not dare to cross the thunder pond by half a step, and the status of that group of witches in the army seemed to be only under Niu Fu, the general of Zhonglang.

With so many worries around him, Hu Chi'er was naturally in a bad mood, after he finished inspecting the city defense here, he turned around and walked down the city wall, at this time, a military official rushed to take a superstitious letter, and rode his horse to the city wall.

"What's the alarm now?"

"The cavalry patrolling has a secret letter from the captured battalion, and it must be handed over to General Zhonglang!"

In the face of Hu Chi'er's inquiry, the military official just hurriedly answered and was about to pat his horse and leave, but Hu Chi'er, who heard the content of the words, moved in his heart and asked directly:

"What camp secret letter?"

The soldier's face was embarrassed, but it was not easy to answer in public, and he bowed apologetically, and was about to leave, but this only aroused Hu Chi'er's curiosity even more, and he hurried over to stop the officer's mount, and said:

"General Zhonglang is now in the master's house, and if you are not afraid of death, you can just go and ask to see him!"

Hu Chi'er's words really frightened the officer, he hesitated for a moment, so he could only dismount carefully, and whispered beside Hu Chi'er:

"It's Gansima's secret letter."

When Hu Chi'er heard that there was something about Ganling, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he pulled the military official to the corner of the city wall quickly, and asked hurriedly:

"Where's MeSign?"

The military officer looked at Hu Chi'er's eager face, hesitated for a moment, and finally took out the secret letter in his arms.

"This morning, the patrol cavalry sent another shot a spy who wanted to swim across the river, and found Gan Sima's secret letter from him."

Hu Chi'er hurriedly snatched the dense in the hands of the generals, he glanced at the soldiers, and said solemnly:

"It's an eventful time now, this matter is extraordinary, I will find an opportunity to report it to General Zhonglang, you don't have to worry about this matter, take the cavalry to patrol the defense area under your jurisdiction, don't leak this matter!"

After finishing speaking, Hu Chi'er didn't care about the military official, turned around and joined the group of soldiers he brought, and walked in the direction of the city.

When the team came to a deserted street corner, Hu Chi'er hurriedly took out the secret letter again, ordered a literate henchman, and asked him to quickly see what was written on the secret letter.

"What is written on this secret letter, is it that Ganling and Li Su's soldiers have secretly colluded?"

Hu Chi'er asked eagerly, now the future of the Xiliang Army is worrying, and even Hu Chi'er has a sense of urgency to harm Chiyu, so as soon as he heard that it was a secret letter from Ganling, who had a gap with him before, Hu Chi'er subconsciously thought that it must be Ganling who had colluded with the soldiers and horses of Bingzhou who came to recruit Niu Fu.

"This is not a secret letter from collusion with the state soldiers, but written by Gan Sima to Captain Yan of Hedong."

After reading the letter, the soldier who read the letter explained to Hu Chi'er.

"What did that say?"

"Roughly speaking, although the Shaanxi County side has repelled the enemy army, but the situation is worrying, if Captain Yan has a plan, please make a decision as soon as possible, send an envoy to tell him, and then Gan Sima will lead the troops to the rendezvous."

"Gone?"

"It's gone."

"Didn't you say anything?"

"Nope."

Seeing that the soldier who read the letter shook his head firmly, Hu Chi'er suddenly clapped his fist with pity, and he said to himself:

"This Yan and Gan, I saw early on that they were both treacherous people, but the lord blindly valued the military strategy of these two people, entrusted them with important tasks, and granted military power. Now that Shaanxi County is poor, these two people, one south and one north, echo each other, and they must be plotting against us and taking the opportunity to descend to the Chang'an court. ”

Listening to Hu Chi'er's words, the soldier who read the letter was also frightened, and he said in horror:

"This matter is very important, and what is said in the letter is obscure, and the villain does not dare to make a judgment, after all, he must report it to the lord to know, and then make a decision."

"The lord is still in the master's house, aren't you afraid of death, dare to disturb him. This matter cannot be delayed, and it is necessary to strike preemptively, so as to prevent the two thieves Gan and Yan from plotting to steal and harm the whole army. ”

Hu Chi'er glared at his subordinates, and directly rejected his subordinates' suggestions in a word, he had long been jealous of Gan Ling, who had a gap in the past, and wanted to get rid of it quickly, but now that he has grasped the handle, how can he bear it anymore.

On the one hand, he put away the secret letter again, and on the other hand, he also thought about how to deal with Ganling in his heart.