Xun Qi opened the window to greet Zhao Li, went out to check the medicine pot, and then hurriedly sent more than a small box of information from Zhou Cang to the entrance of the courtyard into the house.

He knelt on the desk and spread out the bamboo slips that had been marked with emergency military information, and Zhao Qian outside the door was also talking about the information in a heavy tone: "Han Xian was defeated too quickly, no one can accept the military information we waited for the day before yesterday, and it was also mentioned that Guo Xian led an army of 20,000 to cross the river from Hongnong County to Wushan Yucheng, but he didn't expect them to take a break and lead 10,000 cavalry to attack thousands of miles, and join forces with the Niu Auxiliary Army in Anyi County, and break Han Xian's army." Judging from the report I got today, Han Xian's troops were all defeated, and 30,000 people were killed and wounded."

Since the beginning of the year, Guo Tai raised troops in Baibo Valley and swept through the two counties of Hedong and Taiyuan with a force of 30,000 people, and his troops have been expanding since then. After all, Dong Zhuo was in power, Hedong County was constantly harsh on taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and Dong Zhuo often had iron cavalry copying strategies, and the people were forced to be helpless.

More than half of the four months have passed, although the Baibo army has suffered some setbacks, but it is still like a snowball, and now the strength has been smoothly expanded to 100,000 under the strategy of Zhang Yang, Yu Fuluo, Xun You Guan Yu and others, and most of the northern part of Hedong County has also been captured.

Of course, this situation is also mixed with some moisture. Most of the Bai Bo army were born in poor people, and they could still stir up the storm by attacking the city with their large number of people, but they could govern the city, sweep away Dong Zhuo's remnants and many other matters, and these people could not do it so meticulously.

Except for a few officials who sincerely rebelled against Dong Zhuo, they were willing to contribute to the governance of the city, and cooperated to resist Dong Zhuo, most of the cities were actually forced to surrender to the forces of the Bai Bo Army.

Such a situation is not uncommon, after all, most of the uprisings based on the people have ended in failure in history, and now most of the officials are from families, so they are not optimistic about the white wave thieves, and they do not even have a good impression, and there are still deep contradictions between the two sides.

The Bai Bojun uprising was actually not in a hurry, Guo Tai, Han Xian and others had been planning for a long time, but the expansion was really unexpected by everyone, so there were not many policies to deal with properly in terms of management, and it was not all smooth sailing. As a result, after many people get the city, they will always do some impulsive things for their own selfish desires, and the gentry and officials often become the targets of their anger.

As soon as the officials saw that these unorganized, undisciplined and far-sighted people were doing mischief, and that the White Wave Army killed the officials themselves and replaced them from time to time, they were naturally worried about their own troubles, so in order to protect themselves, they often preferred to fight to the death with the White Wave Army to the end rather than be captured.

On the other hand, although Dong Zhuo is brutal, but the iron cavalry under his command is really brave, most people don't think that Guo Tai can succeed, so after Niu Fu's attack, these people have already foreseen the scene of Niu Fu's pacification of Hedong County, for the sake of their lives, they will not defect to the Bai Bo Army, occasionally there are a few neutral ones, and most of them will fake surrender to carry out various booby-traps, discord and other strategies.

In this regard, although Xun You, Xun Qi and others had the intention of taking refuge in Dong Zhuo, they did not want Guo Tai, Hu Cai and others to waste their efforts, and several people also put forward their opinions, so that Guo Tai and them could fight steadily, slowly regain people's hearts, govern the city, and slowly train and cultivate elites to facilitate long-term battles with Dong Zhuo's troops.

However, it is not that there are no capable people in the Niu Fu army, or Niu Fu can't afford to lose face, so he does not allow the Bai Bo army to recuperate, and the 10,000 Liangzhou iron cavalry combined with many local armies have been constantly attacking the Bai Bo army since two months ago.

After that, the two sides carried out a long secession war, you come and go, but the battle situation is probably controlled in the south of the central part of Hedong County near Anyi County, the administrative place of Anyi County, occasionally the Baibo army is defeated and retreated, but it can not retreat to the Baibo Valley, only in the middle of Hedong County, fifty miles south of the Baibo Valley near Linfen County for a protracted battle.

Of course, in the past two months, although the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry led by Niu Fu seemed very passive, the strength of the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, which had been only rumored before, was also shown for the first time in front of many people in Guanzhong.

They are brave and fearless, unstoppable, even a hundred cavalry, can charge and kill thousands of cavalry infantry, five or six thousand infantry, and every battle will cause more than double the blow to the enemy, and even, Niu Fu account under the two hundred Flying Bear Army, there is a great tendency to swallow mountains and rivers, just two hundred people, every time they charge, they can cut the flag and float away, even Guo Tai, Li Le, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Hu Cai, the five leaders of the White Wave Army, almost died in the charge of the Flying Bear Army.

Half a month ago, Niu Fu's troops had already captured Wenxi County, north of Anyi County, and the southeast of Anyi County, and also inflicted heavy losses on the defenders of the Baibo Army in Linfen County in the north and more than ten miles southeast of Linfen County.

Originally, Xun You had already sent someone to inform Mrs. Guo to take a break there, but Han Xian and the others did not agree, probably because they were beaten hard by Niu Fu, so they also chased and beat hard, and then the attack was unexpectedly smooth, all the way to the south for a hundred miles, not only recaptured Wenxi County, but also launched an offensive towards Anyi County.

Now it seems that Niu Fu's defeat and retreat may still be suspected of luring the enemy to go deep in order to flank Guo Yan's army before and after.

Xun You wiped the hot sweat, felt a slight pain in his lower abdomen, and said with a bitter face: "Boqi, you see if there is any military situation in Wenxi County, if it is not bad as I expected, Wenxi County may be hit hard." It doesn't have to be taken away. Bu Ji and Bai Que are there, and Yang Feng and Xu Huang under him are here, but don't let anything happen."

"So fast? Guo Yan ran thousands of miles, Niu Fu was tired after a long retreat, so don't you really want to rest? Xun Qi put down the bamboo slips in his hand to introduce the war situation in Anyi County, rummaged in the box for a while, and then picked out a few pieces of information from Wenxi that were not in a hurry, spread them out and looked at them a few times, "Pei Yuanshao wrote in the letter, Han Xian fled towards Wenxi County. It's time to get out of the way. 30,000 people are not one in ten, 3,000 people arrive in Wenxi, and then there are Bu Ji and Yang Feng, Guo Yan and they will still mess around? ”

"That's Jia Xu, the overseer and military advisor, the lord is bound to win, and the person who is bound to win it also said that he is not inconspicuous on weekdays, and once he is called, it is an urgent matter. This person is good at scheming and decisive, and he is definitely a rare strategist today. Help me go to the toilet! There was a cramping pain in his abdomen, Xun You hurriedly stretched out his hand, and Xun Qi picked up Xun You and ran wildly.

Outside the courtyard, Zhao Qian and Zhou Cang looked at this scene, glanced at each other, and looked unbearable, but they also continued the topic, "Now that Commander Guan has taken Brother Gongtao and Brother Zhao Yu to gather 5,000 people to send troops, and Guo Qushuai of the Baibo Army has also raised 30,000 troops to prepare to rescue Wenxi County, what does Mr. have to add?" And Zhao said a little more, is the time I am waiting for? ”

They are now in Jiangyi County, and Guo Taicheng in Linfen County is in a fight, Xun You calculated the time for the two counties to send troops to Wenxi, as well as the time when Niu Fu sent troops to Wenxi, while holding Xun Qi's arm, while enduring abdominal pain and the stench of the thatched house, and said weakly: "The news of the lord's arrival in Yingchuan arrived yesterday, right?" Counting the days, it may have arrived at the sour dates, and the time to wait for me is almost up. ”

"The time is coming!" Xun Qi pinched his nose and repeated Xun You's words to Zhao Qi Zhou Cang, Xun You pondered for a while, waited until his intestines were more comfortable, relieved himself, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "I look at Mrs. Guo's style, and I have already concluded that I will not agree to surrender together." However, our plan may have taken a lot of time, and with someone like Jia Xu who can speak in front of Dong Zhuo, I may be able to do it. ”

"Acting according to the plan?" Xun Qi's face was grim, and he was faintly nervous.

"Nope." Xun You shook his head, "Grandfather Ciming should go to Luoyang, and Jia Xu is here, so you can't be the only one in this matter." It's better for you and me to go together. ”

Xun Qi was stunned and said angrily: "You look like this"

"It's because I'm like this that I can surrender as a matter of course, so that Zhao Qian can prepare. From now on, Zhou Cang will take care of the Guan family and be ready to leave at any time. I'll leave later, you can prepare a few more pairs of calf pants for me, and prepare a reliable doctor" Xun Yu's whole person was a little spasmodic, his anger was like a gossamer, Xun Qi couldn't bear it, persuaded a few words, and succumbed to Xun You's stern gaze, which was almost prostration.

Soon after, the crowd dispersed, and a wagon with more than twenty people galloped south.

From the sky, a team of more than 20 horses galloped on the plain, like a small dot, and further south, two large and small military formations, sometimes converging and sometimes separating in the huge basin terrain, stopping and stopping, like two long lines constantly moving south.

At the same time, located in the south of Wenxi County, there are also countless black spots like a black spot approaching from Anyi County.

Then the black spot split, with a fast and slow, one east and one west two directions towards the camp outside the south gate of Wenxi County, the south of Wenxi County by the camp tent into a huge white spot in the first batch of black spots from the southeast soon gushed out a large number of colorful dots into a variegated large spot to meet the past, and to the southwest also soon after a black spot approached, that represents the white spot in the camp and scattered some black and yellow spots to hit the past, but the white spots left around began to dim, There are also many small variegated dots that converge into a line and rush into the south gate of the county and disappear.

The large number of variegated spots that met the black spots in the southeast collided with the black spots, and many scattered spots were knocked out, as if they had been smashed out of powder crumbs. Then, when the two black spots in the southwest collided together, the white spots representing the camp actually sent a few black spots to pour into the back of the variegated spots, and soon after, the back of the variegated spots split into a spot and retreated towards the white spots, and the variegated spots that connected with the black spots quickly split apart, like water droplets.

A little more time passed, and some spots split out of the variegated spots and bypassed the city towards the north, and the rest of them all poured into the white spots, among which the variegated spots continued to split and chase towards the southeast to block them, and then, most of the white spots disappeared, and the variegated spots also merged into the county seat.

On the other side, the black and yellow spots in the southwest collided with the black spots, but they merged into larger black spots and continued to deform, split, merge, and continue to deform until the whole spot retreated some distance to the south, half of which split out of the black and yellow spots again and went towards the south of Wenxi County, and then each of them was beaten with the black spots that pursued from the southeast, and after a large number of variegated spots gushed out from the south gate of Wenxi County, the black spots pursued from the southeast retreated to the south.

It didn't take long for the sky to get dark, and two black spots from the south converged a hundred miles south of Wenxi County, and then converged with a huge black spot from Anyi County, which turned into white and yellow alternating light after dark.

On the other side, the black and yellow spots blend into the white spots, and those variegated spots separate from the county and also merge into the white spots

The sky was dark and bright, bright and dark, and all the spots collided, separated, detoured, continued to collide, and continued to separate from time to time in the south of Wenxi.

And the small point that started from Jiangyi County had already made a detour, approaching quickly from the east towards the camp where Guo Yan and Niu Fujun were located

On the night of April 26, a middle-aged man named Jia Xu returned to the camp after planning for tomorrow's battle.

The camp was lonely, after a few days of attacking and defending, coupled with the long journey in the previous days, the troops brought by Guo Yan had already been exhausted, and they were all resting at this time, and even the elite troops assigned by Xu Rong who were the most noisy on weekdays, except for those who had been buried on the battlefield, most of them also lost their energy.

Jia Xu knew that the army had a lot of complaints about him, after all, most of the plans to attack instead defend and advance quickly came from him, but compared to Dong Zhuo's relocation of the capital, so that all of them had the notoriety of cutting off the Great Han Dynasty, he would rather sacrifice some people here and pacify Hedong County.

Fortunately, on their own side, plus the Niu Auxiliary Army and the local army, they fought all the way up from Anyi County, although the 40,000 or 50,000 people were reduced by nearly 10,000, but the other side also lost more than 40,000 or 50,000 men and horses.

Originally, a day ago, their strong attack was almost about to hit the bottom line of the Baibo army, causing the Baibo army to rout and flee, and they could also take down the camp near Wenxi County, but suddenly a red-faced and long-bearded man led the troops to insert a bar, and then the man's troops merged with the Buji tribe, turned the tide, and repelled them.

This incident made Guo Yan and Niu Fu extremely shocked. Even Jia Xu, the first day Niu Auxiliary Army was defeated under Bu Ji's command, he was still a little unbelievable, and at this time, he also understood that the strength of these troops who were born in the Yellow Turban and belonged to Guan Yu was on par with the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry, and the strength shown afterwards was a little worse, but the number of people was enough to make up for it.

Guan Yu, Bu Ji, Youzhou Liangma, Yellow Turban Elite

Now, Jia Xu naturally knows the origin of the other party's name, I heard that those people were still driven out of Youzhou by Lu Zhi, and then he was disheartened, so he followed Guan Yu back to his hometown, but he just happened to encounter the Baibo Army, so he also joined it and remembered that Bu Ji was born and died for several days in a row, and yesterday Guan Yu was in the chaos of the army, and the three generals of Guo Yan retreated, Jia Xu was stunned.

If Guan Yu was arranged by Liu Yu, Lu Zhi and Liu Zheng, he was ready to attack Luoyang with the Bai Bo army, and even cut off their way to Chang'an

There has been news from Luoyang recently, but no matter how fast the news from the sour jujube side is, it is impossible to reach him within a few days, and it can also be passed on with flying pigeons, but the information about the sour jujube is extremely important, if it is discovered, or it will be a bad thing to make an obstacle from it, so in the case of not being able to grasp the overall situation, Jia Xu is also a little uneasy.

Judging from the fact that Bu Ji has consumed a lot of elites with him for several days, coupled with the fact that Guan Yu's troops are even better equipped and not afraid of death, Jia Xu vaguely felt that something was wrong with the whole thing, and always felt that Guan Yu was too well prepared

Although he also listened to the explanations of those captives, saying that the Yellow Turban Army had gone through several battles and trained Guan Yu, it was no longer what it used to be, but he still felt that there were invisible silk threads connecting Guan Yu with Youzhou, Sujujube, and even Luoyang.

Jia Xu pondered the possibilities, and when he returned to the camp, he saw his eldest son, Jia Mu, who was twenty-five years old, pacing back and forth in the camp.

"Father!" When Jamu saw him, he hurriedly greeted him.

Seeing that Jia Mu cautiously opened the curtain and looked at it a few times, Jia Xu asked, "Something?" ”

Jia Mu whispered a few words, Jia Xu was expressionless, only his eyes were lowered, and the light and darkness were different in the candlelight.

After a while, he walked to the desk and knelt down, dipped in water and drew a few strokes on the table, and looked at it for a long time before he spoke, "Did anyone find it?" ”

"Nope. I haven't said anything about the news they have passed through the army, and I'm waiting for you to decide. You can rest assured, everything is safe, and I haven't even revealed any flaws in my dealings with that meticulous work. ”

Jia Xu nodded and took a deep breath, "Okay, you find a doctor, go and have a look, and then take him to Anyi, or take him over to meet first." Remember, you must be secretive and treat them well, and if anyone neglects them, they will be dealt with by military law. ”

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