Huaiyuan city west of Helan Mountain, east of the Yellow River, Beiqiang, Xunyu, Xiongnu and so on have been active here, nomadic herding, Qin Shi Huang after the destruction of the six countries, so that Meng Tian led 300,000 troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north, take the river set land, began to defend the border here. During the Yangshuo period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, the Beidian Agricultural City was built; During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Great Xia Kingdom rebuilt the "Liziyuan" as an important town for the garrison and the grain; The Northern Zhou Dynasty began to place Huaiyuan County, and later changed to Huaiyuan County, and the merchants preferred to call him Huaiyuan City, on the boundless grassland, which is one of the few cities that are still inhabited.

The Hetao is now the world of the Turks, and the power of the Great Sui is only in every city, watching the Turkic cavalry come and go like the wind; It was the Hexi Army that dared to be as vertical and horizontal as the Turks, and the banners of Suo Yanshou and Zong Luohu were no worse than the deterrent power of the Turks. Lin Xingcang was not happy every time he heard these news, he was the master of Huaiyuan City for hundreds of miles, and it was the original county guard Li Duan who was too weak and incompetent.

Unlike Li Duan, Lin Xingcang chose the tiger approach, often leading his cavalry out to expel the Turks and Hexi soldiers, and even forcing the caravans and displaced people from the west to turn back. So today, as soon as he heard that the banner of Zong Luohu was fluttering in the south, Lin Xingcang immediately rushed out with a thousand cavalry, leaving 1,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to defend the city and maintain order.

When the leader is gone, the people below are always happy, the low-level officers on duty take the lead in finding a place to take refuge, and the non-commissioned officers who inspect the business brigade are not messing around, shouting at five and drinking six, wanting to squeeze more oil and water on the few businessmen. Suddenly, six fast horses came running, all wearing Mingguang armor, riding war horses with the brand of the army, and shouted urgently: "General Pan Changwen will arrive soon, inform your general, prepare barracks and forage." ”

The officer on duty who was chatting heard the news, ran over, took two letters from the black-faced officer led by the Sixth Cavalry, and asked, "Why didn't you notify me in advance?" ”

The black-faced officer shook his head and said: "How do we know this kind of thing, set off inexplicably, the cavalry is almost desperate to hurry, at most it will be half an hour's journey with us, the orders are in the envelope, you hurry up and send it to General Lin, don't delay the matter." ”

One was an open letter, and on it was an order from General Pan Changwen; The other letter, painted with fire paint, was a secret letter to Lin Xingcan, and the officer on duty could only send it to the county office. Fortunately, Huaiyuan City is a military town, and there has been a large battalion that can accommodate 5,000 cavalry, and the grain and grass have been stored for many years, which is basically enough for 5,000 people for a year. It would have been better if Lin Xingcang had come back a day or two late, and he would not have been dragged out on an errand by General Pan.

The secretary of the county government opened the secret letter, which was Pan Changwen's battle plan, detoured to Huaiyuan City, and sent troops together with Lin Xingcang to attack the anti-king Liu Jia of Yan'an County; Shuzuo conveniently hid the letter in the confidential room. When the officer on duty returned to his post, he had already seen two thousand cavalry emerging from the horizon and galloping towards Huaiyuan Town quickly, waving a large banner and a striking Pan character; The six horsemen who delivered the letter turned over and galloped to meet them.

The two thousand horsemen ran closer and closer, all the bright light armor, shaking in the sun, the main general was tall and burly, at first glance it was a fierce general, the six horsemen ran again, shouting to let the pedestrians pull aside, and the officers and soldiers got out of the way. The officer on duty smiled and asked, "Brother, which one is General Pan, can you help introduce me?" ”

The black-faced officer smiled: "My own brother, no problem. ”

While the two were laughing, the defenders got out of the way, the cavalry entered the city, and the black-faced officer brought the officer on duty to the main general and introduced: "This is General Han Shimo Han." ”

"Han Shimo." In the confusion of his mind, the officer on duty finally remembered who Han Shige was, the son of the founding general Han Baohu, and Yang Xuangan's rebellious comrade, and his eyes were suddenly in a daze; Han Shige smiled: "Are you going to stop me from entering the city, or do you want to escape?" ”

Preventing the entry into the city, Han Shimo is said to be the champion of the three armies, and he has never met an opponent during the rebellion. Escape, this vast grassland, can you still run faster than a horse? The officer on duty weakened his legs, knelt down and said, "General Han, the last general Zhang Ju is willing to surrender." ”

"Okay." Han Shige shouted: "Get up, go to the front to lead the way, and persuade all the garrisons to surrender." ”

The power of example is endless, with Zhang Ju taking the lead, after the surprise attack of Han Shimo's army, nearly half of the defenders surrendered without a fight, and Han Shige regrets that the nearly 700 men who surrendered were all infantry; For fear that the 500 Sui cavalry would get on their horses and fight, Han Shige's men almost rushed into the cavalry camp and killed people when they saw them, and only about 60 people were captured alive.

Zhang Ju's heart is up and down, the taste of a traitor is not comfortable, and other people's eyes can be ignored, but it is no wonder that his inner torment is very strange, while helping the rebels to show the way, Zhang Ju has thought more than once whether he should die in battle, or desperately give a warning to his colleagues. But more than an hour later, seeing more than 3,000 rebels coming on camels, bad horses, mules and donkeys, Zhang Ju's heart was somewhat balanced, even if he warned himself, he couldn't change the result of the fall of the city, surrendered, after all, hundreds of robes were killed.

The black-faced officer was Wei Chixiao, looked at Zhang Ju with a smile and said, "General Zhang, what people are most afraid of is swaying, once you take some roads, you can't turn back." ”

Zhang Ju's mind was seen through, and he couldn't help but be a little impressed, Han Shige persuaded and explained: "Zhang Ju, a manly man, when you are vigorous, you have been in the army for ten years, but Wu Shi is long, how can there be a way out if you don't change your way of living." Go and tell the brothers who surrendered that they should think about it tonight, and early tomorrow morning, those who are willing to stay will share the money, and those who remain are not far away and take the plate and take it away. ”

Lin Xingcang and Zong Luohu caught a day of hiding, and returned to Huaiyuan City with the team on the first watch, and his subordinates called to open the city gate, and the team drove into the city in a mighty way; Lin Xingcang didn't pay attention to it at first, but when he entered the city, he immediately found that the soldiers standing in the doorway looked relatively unfamiliar, as if he had never seen them before. Lin Xingcang was about to order his guards to bring those soldiers to interrogate, when he heard the sound of bangzi and the arrows rained down on him.

On the rooftops of the streets and on the towers of the city, countless people were shooting arrows, and more than 400 fell before a thousand horsemen could even return their hands; Because Lin Xingcang was trapped in the city, the cavalry outside the city still wanted to rush in to save people, and the wooden rolling stones on the city tower fell down, and more people died. When Lin Xingcang rushed out of the city, not only was he hit by two arrows, but there were only more than 100 people around him; The sound of hooves in the city was like thunder, and Han Shige led a thousand horsemen to chase it out, and the torches flashed like a dragon.

The two sides chased and fought in the wilderness, Lin Xingcang and others ran for a day, people were sleepy and tired, and panicked, killed until dawn, almost the whole army was wiped out, Lin Xingcang himself was shot through the heart by a carved arrow, fell off the horse and lay on the ground, and could no longer move.

(End of chapter)