Under the leadership of Zhang Mingqi, after fifteen Suzhou Xiang guards entered Qiongzhou from Wujincheng, an important town in the north of Suzhou, there was no need to attack the cities of Qiongzhou, and the defenders and officials of these cities had already surrendered.

After all, the predecessor of the Suzhou Xiang Army, the Red Turban Army, controlled the entire Qiongzhou not long ago, although the Red Turban Army later withdrew from all areas of Qiongzhou because of the recruitment conditions of the imperial court, but in Qiongzhou, the influence of the Red Turban Army is still very great.

At present, the vast majority of officials in various parts of Qiongzhou are under the rule of the Red Turban Army, and the imperial court has not had time to purge these Qiongzhou officials promoted by the Red Turban Army.

Zhang Mingqi was of course overjoyed with such a result, and at the suggestion of several strategists and generals under his command, Zhang Mingqi was transferred from the three Suzhou Xiang guards directly under his command, and the seventh guard of the Suzhou Xiang Army was transferred to stay in Qiongzhou.

In addition, Zhang Mingqi also sent people to send an order to Zhao Lianjin and Chen Hongxin, the leading generals who stayed in Suzhou, asking them to transfer some troops from the ten guards who stayed in Suzhou to capture Lianzhou.

At the beginning, Lianzhou was also all captured by the Red Turban Army, and the situation in Lianzhou was similar to that of Qiongzhou, since the defenders and officials of the cities in Qiongzhou would flee in despair, then it should not be too difficult for the Suzhou Xiang Army to take Lianzhou into the bag again.

After leaving a Suzhou Xiang military guard in Qiongzhou, Zhang Mingqi led the remaining fourteen Suzhou Xiang military guards, without any further delay, quickly crossed through the entire Qiongzhou and advanced into Suzhou.

The Red Turban Army also captured most of the cities and towns in Suzhou, but because Qinhuai City, the capital of Suzhou, did not fall, the power of the imperial court in Suzhou was not devastated.

The goal of Zhang Mingqi's army this time was to seize Canglong City in order to control the authority of the entire Great Jin Dynasty.

Canglong City has been the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty for more than 400 years, and the significance of Canglong City in the hearts of the people of the Great Jin Dynasty is extraordinary.

The Suzhou Xiang army was in Suzhou, and it was not entangled in those cities that did not have many defenders, but under Zhang Mingqi's order, they went straight to the direction of Canglong City, and even the Qinhuai City, where the imperial army was heavily assembled, did not pay attention to it, and directly chose to go around the city, not worrying at all that their back road was cut off by the imperial army of Qinhuai City.

On the city wall of Qinhuai City, Suzhou Prefecture Pastor Sun Dezhen looked at the Suzhou Xiang army outside the city that was constantly rushing to the direction of Canglong City, and sighed and said to the many commanders of the broken army around him: "It seems that our Qinhuai City is safe for the time being, but Canglong City can't avoid going through a war, alas——"

At this time, there were 12 counterinsurgency troops against the Red Turban Army, a total of 250,000 people had entered Qinhuai City, plus the army in the hands of Suzhou Prefecture Musun Dezhen, and the temporarily recruited young man, the strength of the city in Qinhuai City exceeded 400,000, but Suzhou Prefecture Musun Dezhen and other commanders of the counterinsurgency army still did not have the courage to send troops out of the city to intercept the Suzhou Xiang Army.

Zhao Ce, the Taishou of Geshan County, Anhui Prefecture, then said: "I heard that the thirteenth family in the capital has mobilized a large number of family members from each family to gather in the capital, plus the forbidden army in the capital and the soldiers and horses of the other 22 ways to quell the rebels, don't look at the strong soldiers and horses of the Suzhou Xiang army, it is still wishful thinking to capture Canglong City!" ”

Suzhou Prefecture Mu Sun Dezhen nodded and said: "I hope so, although the Suzhou Xiang army did not launch an attack on Qinhuai City, we still can't be careless, and we must be careful to guard against the other party's sneak attack." ”

Under the leadership of Zhang Mingqi, the fourteen Suzhou Xiang guards quickly passed through the whole of Suzhou, and arrived outside the Mengjin Pass, one of the eight passes of Canglong, on August 30, 428 of the Great Jin Dynasty.

At this time, in the capital area within the Canglong Eight Passes, in addition to the 700,000 troops of the forbidden army and the 550,000 troops of the 22nd Route Ping Rebel Army, the 720,000 families mobilized by the Thirteenth Family had also been put in place.

In addition, there was an extra army of soldiers and horses in the capital, that is, the 6,000 elites sent by Liu Ji to receive Zhou Qingyao, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and his family.

Originally, these 3,000 Tang Dynasty heavy-armored Mo sword soldiers and 3,000 Han Dynasty tiger soldiers, under the leadership of Wang Ben, Liu Meng, Chen Hao and Chen Zhong, had already arrived in Canglong City, and the thirteenth family learned that Liu Ji was going to take away the late emperor Liu Heng's uncle Zhou Qingyao, and they did not embarrass Zhou Qingyao anymore, and immediately released Zhou Qingyao from the prison, and also restored Zhou Qingyao's official position as a waiter in the Ministry of Rites.

This made Wang Ben, Liu Meng, Chen Hao and Chen Zhong's plan to give the Thirteenth Family a dismount failed.

However, Zhou Qingyao was frightened and frightened in prison, but he got a cold and his condition was quite serious, and he couldn't immediately set off to follow Wang Ben and others back to Chengyin City.

Wang Ben, Liu Meng, Chen Hao and Chen Zhong, for Zhou Qingyao to get the cold, there is some secret joy in their hearts, Suzhou Xiang army crusading against the army of the thirteenth family, is about to come to the capital, if they can stay in the capital, maybe they can show their skills in this battle.

After Liu Ji arrived at the Western Regions Protectorate with his puppet bodyguards, he put 15,000 Tang Dynasty heavy-armored Mo sword soldiers, 15,000 Han Dynasty tiger soldiers, 6,400 white horses Congyi and 6,400 tiger and leopard cavalry, all of them embodied, and directly in Pingxi City, the capital of the Western Regions Protectorate, all the war horses of the system cavalry were fully equipped, and each system cavalry was equipped with two war horses.

In order to hurry, even the 15,000 Tang Dynasty heavy-armored Mo sword soldiers were equipped with a horse, and then Liu Ji led the elite troops produced by the more than 40,000 systems all the way to Zhilisi City, and the main force of the Yu Po army converged together, preparing to meet the next wave of the offensive of the Western Regions Four-Nation Alliance.

After getting the news from Wang Ben through Heishuitai, Liu Ji asked Heishuitai to send Wang Ben an order to act cheaply, in the case of minimizing casualties, Wang Ben can toss around in the capital at will, even if he helps the thirteenth family to fight the Suzhou Xiang Army, Liu Ji is now considered a concubine of the Great Jin, of course, he does not want the capital of the Great Jin to fall into the hands of Zhang Mingqi's thief.

After Wang Ben, Liu Meng, Chen Hao and Chen Zhong received Liu Ji's order, they were immediately overjoyed, and they all prepared to teach the Suzhou Xiang Army a lesson.

On the evening of August 30, in the camp of the Suzhou Xiangjun outside Mengjin Pass, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of Suzhou, summoned his subordinates to his tent, Zhang Mingqi said in a deep voice: "Everyone, now the capital is in front of us, but the terrain of Mengjin Pass is dangerous, and according to intelligence, the thirteenth family has mobilized a large number of families to the capital area, the number is at least more than 500,000, and it should not be too easy for us to conquer Mengjin Pass." ”

Strategist Tang Yan said: "Lord, Canglong City has Hangu Pass, Baiyun Pass, Guangcheng Pass, Dagu Pass, Jinmen Pass, Xuanmen Pass, Mengjin Pass and Zhenyuan Pass, a total of eight passes, we can send a few partial troops to go around to several other passes in Canglong City, of course, it is best to take the pass, even if a few partial armies cannot make contributions, they can also contain a lot of troops of the imperial army." ”

After listening to the advice of the strategist Tang Yan, Zhang Mingqi nodded and said, "Then Wu Zan will lead the two guards under his command and be responsible for attacking the other passes of Canglong City!" ”

Wu Zan hurriedly took the order and said: "Don't worry, as long as there is a chance, your subordinates will definitely capture a pass and open the gate to Canglong City for your lord." ”

Zhang Mingqi told Wu Zhan: "You take two guards this time, the main task is to feint, don't be brutal, let your two guards lose too much, the main battlefield of our Suzhou Xiang army and the imperial army still has to be in Mengjin Pass." ”

Wu Zan nodded and said, "The subordinates must remember the lord's orders!" ”

Zhang Mingqi asked the strategist Tang Yan again: "Does Mr. Tang have any good ways to deal with Mengjin Pass?" ”

Tang Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Lord, except for a strong attack, my subordinates really can't think of any way. ”

Zhang Mingqi didn't mind and said: "If you want to capture the entire Canglong City, you still need strong strength in the end, let's let the Thirteenth Family and the people of the capital take a look at the strength of our Suzhou Xiang Army!" ”

On the morning of the second day when the Suzhou Xiang Army arrived outside Mengjin Pass, Zhang Mingqi personally went out and took many generals of the Suzhou Xiang Army under his command and two troops of the Suzhou Xiang Army to set up a position under Mengjin Pass.

At this time, the main general guarding Mengjin Pass was the hussar general Xiao Su, who saw the Suzhou Xiang Army set up a position outside Mengjin Pass, hesitated slightly, and then took the general of the forbidden army such as Dou Bing, the general of the chariot cavalry, and led 10,000 cavalry of the forbidden army and 10,000 cavalry of various families.

The hussar general Xiao Su thought that the Suzhou Xiang Army had just arrived at Mengjin Pass, and the imperial army was cowering in the pass, which inevitably fueled the arrogance of the Suzhou Xiang Army, not to mention that Xiao Su thought that the fierce generals under his command were like clouds, and the cavalry general Dou Bing, a peerless fierce general, Xiao Su was ready to give the Suzhou Xiang Army a dismount.

Zhang Mingqi saw the imperial army in Mengjin Pass, which sent about 20,000 cavalry, his eyes flashed, and he turned his head to the generals under his command and asked, "Which general is willing to take the jackpot for our Suzhou Xiang army?" ”

At this time, Zhang Mingqi's cousin Liu Fengbao shouted impatiently: "Lord, I am willing to go to war and get a good start for our Suzhou Xiang Army!" ”

Hearing that Liu Fengbao took the initiative to ask for battle, no one from the other generals of the Suzhou Xiang Army spoke out anymore.

Zhang Mingqi is very confident in his cousin Liu Fengbao's martial arts, "Fengbao, don't underestimate the enemy!" ”

Liu Fengbao was overjoyed and said: "Don't worry, my lord, I will not underestimate the enemy!" ”

Then Liu Fengbao urged the horse to come to the front of the two armies and shouted loudly: "Suzhou Liu Fengbao is here, who will be sent to death by the enemy on the opposite side!" ”

When the hussar general Xiao Su saw a general sent out from the opposite side, he turned his head and said to a guerrilla general under his command: "Cui Ji, go and get the head of the enemy general back to this general!" ”

"Yes, General!" Saying this, the general of the forbidden army named Cui Ji urged the horse to come to the front of the two armies.

"Anti-thief, remember, the person who beheaded you is the guerrilla general Cui Ji!" Cui Ji had a long knife in his hand and shouted at Liu Fengbao.

Liu Fengbao pointed at Cui Ji with the horse lance in his hand, and shouted angrily: "Today, I, Liu Fengbao, will behead your dog!" ”

Liu Fengbao and Cui Ji didn't talk for more than half a sentence, and soon fought together.

The martial arts of the guerrilla general Cui Ji definitely belong to the ranks of the top generals, and the force value is still very high, but unfortunately his opponent Liu Fengbao has the strength of a peerless general, and the two fought for only fifteen rounds, Cui Ji was stabbed off the horse by Liu Fengbao and died unexpectedly.

The more than 200,000 Suzhou soldiers of the two Suzhou Xiang Army guards couldn't help cheering when they saw Liu Fengbao, known as the first fierce general of the Suzhou Xiang Army, stabbing to death the generals sent by the imperial court.

Zhang Mingqi also smiled, and said to the other generals under his command with a relaxed face: "It seems that those wives and concubines in General Fengbao's family have not consumed General Fengbao's martial arts, and General Fengbao is still the number one fierce general under his command, haha——"

Liu Fengbao has a problem, he is very lustful, since Liu Fengbao followed Zhang Mingqi to raise troops, in the process of fighting all the way, he forcibly seized dozens of wives and concubines, and he had a fight with Liu Ji.

The hussar general Xiao Su saw that the guerrilla general Cui Ji was easily killed by the generals sent by the other party, and his face suddenly became gloomy, "Who is going to avenge General Cui?" ”

Next, two more forbidden army generals under the command of the hussar general Xiao Su urged the horses to come to the front of the two armies and fought with Liu Fengbao, but these two forbidden army generals were not as good as others, and no one could go through ten rounds under Liu Fengbao's hands, which made the hussar general Xiao Su's face gloomy as black charcoal.

Liu Fengbao won three battles in a row, and couldn't help but roar proudly: "Is there anyone else who has come to die?" ”

At this time, Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry who followed the hussar general Xiao Su on horseback, said in a deep voice: "General Xiao, this general of the Suzhou Xiang Army definitely has the strength to be on the list of peerless generals in the world's hero spectrum, let me come forward and compete with him!" ”

When the hussar general Xiao Su heard that the general of the Suzhou Xiang Army in front of the two armies had the strength of a peerless fierce general, he couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that there would be such a fierce general in the Suzhou Xiang Army, General Dou must be careful, fighting generals are just appetizers." ”

Dou Bing nodded and said: "General Xiao, don't worry, although Dou is not sure of victory, but this general of the Suzhou Xiang Army wants to keep Dou, it is also wishful thinking!" ”

Dou Bing urged the horse to come to the front of the two armies, and shouted at Liu Fengbao: "The anti-thief is rampant, and the general of the chariot and cavalry, Dou Bing, is here!" ”

Hearing Dou Bing's name, Liu Fengbao's face couldn't help but show ecstasy, "Haha! I have long wanted to have a discussion with General Dou, who is known as the first fierce general of the Great Jin, and today I finally have a chance! ”

After saying that, Liu Fengbao urged the horse to kill Dou Bing, and Dou Bing also greeted him without showing weakness and fought with Liu Fengbao.