Nibu still maintained the reputation of the Turkic cavalry, and when the remaining 2,000 cavalry were concentrated, they took advantage of the change of formation to repeatedly repel the attacks of the Hexi army, and protected the Liang division and his party to retreat smoothly to Yan'an County. The price paid was painful, all the 11,000 immortal infantry soldiers were taken prisoner, and the Liang division had its own 4,000 cavalry, and only more than 1,000 people returned to Yan'an County; Jiang Duo then captured the four counties of Changze and Weiping with the momentum of wind and clouds.

Nearly 3,000 of the more than 8,000 captives joined the Hexi Army, and the rest were all released. Nibu Shi sighed even more, unless Shibi Khan sent a large army, otherwise the results of Liang Shidu and himself in Hetao were destined to be bad.

Shangxian did not stop the pace of Han Shige's tiger and leopard battalion, and the Hexi army besieged the city for three days without attacking the city, cutting off the water source, igniting the water of the moat, and burning the moat to dry up; From the top of the city, there is also a busy building ladder. On the fourth day, the Hexi army began to attack the city from three sides; Xin Fang'er, who defended the city, was the first fierce general under the Liang Division, and he had expected the fierceness of the offensive and defensive battles, and the walls on all sides were full of soldiers, bows and arrows rained down, and the cavalry below were shooting.

Seeing the Hexi army wandering back and forth, there was no desperate siege posture, and the soldiers of the Liang army on the city tower laughed. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden loud noise, a shock under his feet, the gravel pierced through the air, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and nearly a thousand people up and down the city wall were either killed or injured in the blink of an eye. There is a big gap left on the three city walls, Xiang Shanzhi, Jing Pantuo, Yang Yanshi took the lead, and the Hexi army marched forward with all their might, and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and they had already entered the city from three directions

There has never been such a thing in Shangxian, and all the soldiers and civilians in the city are in a mess, and after grabbing the city gate from Xiang Shanzhi, he lowered the drawbridge and opened the door to let the cavalry enter the city. Tianjian looked at it from a high place, and said with relief: "When I arrived in the Central Plains, the moat was very annoying, but fortunately this is the Loess Plateau, which is convenient for digging holes; Shangxian is an old city of nearly 1,000 years, the moat is rarely dredged, and it is not more than three meters deep by the accumulation of river sand and loess, if it is in the south of the Yangtze River, this method is not used. ”

Han Shige patted Tianjian on the shoulder and said: "Work hard, I believe that you will have a way when the time comes, this siege method will kill thousands of people, I can understand why Yang Chong and Jiang Duo have to go back to Helan Mountain, just to train us in these Hexi army combat methods, and it really works." ”

Xin Fang'er ran away from the east gate, the Liang army put down their weapons and surrendered, Han Shige captured Shangxian with a population of 20,000 at the cost of less than 1,000 casualties, and was busy repairing the city for a few days after entering the city. After Yang Chong moved to Shangxian, he sent Wuweier to take Yanfu County, and Han Shige took Kaijiang and Funing counties, and the three counties all knew about the Tianlei in Shangxian County, and they didn't dare to resist at all, and the Liang army defending the city either fled or surrendered.

In less than a month, the Liang Kingdom of Liang Shidu had been divided into two halves, and to the south were the five counties of Fenglin, Yan'an, Linzhen, Fushi, and Jinming in Yan'an County; In the north, only Shuofang County Tongwancheng, Dejing County and Diaoyin County Rulin, Zhenxiang, Kaiguang and Yincheng counties remain. The most fatal thing is that Yang Chong's army forcibly stood in the middle, the north-south road was blocked, and the Liang army was not able to communicate; The combat effectiveness of the Hexi Army is too amazing, and we can only hope that the Hexi Army will make mistakes.

Yang Chong was not gluttonous, and did not rush to expand the results of the war, but began to digest the occupied counties, recruit troops, and raise food; Although the population of the Hetao is small, it is much better than that of Hexi. Shangxian, Funing, and Dabin are all county seats with tens of thousands of people, or even tens of thousands of people, plus the villages, castles, and Jihu in the jurisdiction, and the four counties and ten counties occupied by Yang Chong have a population of more than 100,000, and they soon recruited 6,000 new troops, plus more than 10,000 troops left in the ten counties, and Yang Chong increased by 20,000 people.

What caught the counties off guard was that Yang Chong's first knife was on the grain, and seeing that the autumn harvest was imminent, Yang Chong asked all localities to hand over all the unoccupied fields to the government for harvest; Some people's fields are to be paid in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Great Sui. Because Hexi has been transporting displaced people through Daodaoyin County, Yang Chong's reputation among the people is not ordinarily high, and Liu Harizi and other Jihu warriors who came back from Hexi have gone around saying that the ordinary people are obedient.

There are also big households who are unwilling, but thinking of the rumors that Yang Chong specializes in big households in the Western Regions and Hexi, they still bow their heads one by one; Yang Chong also opened a branch of the Hexi Commercial Bank in Shangxian County, using the goods of the Hexi Commercial Bank, the salt of Yanchuan County, the captured war horses, and the surrounding counties to trade and buy grain.

Yang Chong's actions were so swift that he not only frightened Liang Shidu, but also frightened Zhang Shilong, the guard of Diaoyin County, which has eleven counties, Yang Chong actually stood five, and Zhang Shilong only governed two counties. According to Zhang Shilong's estimate, the counties of Rulin will also be Yang Chong's sooner or later; There is news from Chang'an that Yang Chong is going to crusade against Liang Shidu and Liu Miaowang, the question is that Yang Chong has destroyed Liang Shidu, will he go to Hexi to fight Luliang Mountain?

Looking at Yang Chong's posture, it is to gain a firm foothold in this area, Yang Chong reported to Chang'an's recital Zhang Shilong has seen it, Yang Chong is ready to carve out the six counties originally occupied by Liang Shidu from Diaoyin County, and establish a separate Funing County. This is a slap in the face, if the county of Diaoyin County is returned to Funing County, how can Zhang Shilong, the county of Diaoyin, be embarrassed, Zhang Shilong is so anxious that it is a lawsuit.

Chang'an's reply was very simple, asking Zhang Shilong not to worry about this issue, and he would not give Yang Chong any reply now, everything would be said after Yang Chong destroyed Liang Shidu; Once Yang Chong crossed the river and went to Luliang Mountain, everything would be easy to do. Wei Xuan sent a secret letter to Zhang Shilong, asking Zhang Shilong to contact Duan Decao.

Duan Decao gave an idea, everything was done according to what Chang'an said, just when Yang Chong crossed the river, to see if there was a chance to attack halfway. Yang Chong should stay in the rear army for safety, Yang Chong will only move after the front army occupies the other side of the river, Zhang Shilong may be able to take advantage of the Hexi army's attention in the east to do it, if Yang Chong can be captured or killed alive, Zhang Shilong is a great achievement, even if he is retaliated by the Hexi army and loses the entire territory of Diaoyin County, it is worth it.

Zhang Shilong didn't dare to reply, he knew the risks, no matter how remote Yanfu County was, his own people and horses were miserable, and it was not a random thing to attack the Hexi Army. However, Zhang Shilong soon found that the merchants and large households in his jurisdiction were sending grain and cloth to Shuofang County, and most of them actually came back with white strips. Zhang Shilong couldn't help but be very curious, the county didn't sell it when they purchased from them, could it be that Yang Chong had something special there, hidden cats?

(End of chapter)