appeased the attached Longxi cavalry, and incorporated them into the army, formed a group independently, and then returned to the team of cavalry that he was also the commander of a hundred people. Tao Heng, who was originally a hundred people, is now the hundred-man leader who acts as the eighty or ninety horseman. The leaders of the Guangwu Army, although they had misgivings, did not speak out against them.

Then, Li Yanzhao sent Shao Lei to escort the horsemen of the cart and send the remains of the dead robes to the county seat. At this time, after this night of back and forth, the sky is already twilight. The two teams of horsemen took turns pushing the cart, and at the end of the day, the bodies of these loyal martyrs were finally sent to the martyrs' shrine outside the city.

Guarding the ancestral hall is a group of old soldiers in the Guangwu army. At this time, they were shocked to see the front-line soldiers pushing back the bodies of the dead children in their county. Under the command of one of the chiefs, the soldiers hurriedly lifted the robed bodies from the cart and arranged them neatly in the ancestral hall.

The chief sent a cavalryman to the county hall and asked the officials in charge of the martyrs' shrine to come. Seeing that the mission had been completed, Shao Lei handed over the list of fallen soldiers to the chief of Nashi, and then led a group of subordinates to bow three times to the body of the dead robe before leaving the Martyrs' Shrine with a heavy heart.

On the way back to the camp in Jincheng, Shao Lei saw a long line pushing carts, slowly heading towards Guangwu County. On the cart is also the robe of the dead. Presumably it was a soldier in the army or a dead robe of the shooting battalion. The two teams of people staggered by, Shao Lei looked at the hideous robed corpses on the carts, and was silent for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

After returning to the camp, Shao Lei and his subordinates were also in low spirits. Li Yanzhao knew that he had finished fighting and transporting the body of the robe, and he was already exhausted. In addition, after witnessing the tragic death of many robes, his psychological mood fluctuated frequently, so he asked Shao Lei to lead his subordinates to rest in the arranged camp.

In the large camp, the tents arranged for the horsemen were near the south side, and not far from these tents were the stables. Originally, when the elite of the state government was stationed here, this stable was built to accommodate more than 2,000 horses. However, Han Pu led the army south according to the order, taking away almost all the cavalry in Jincheng and the state administration, and at this time there were only a few hundred horses in the horse camp of the Guangwu Army in the stables, so it seemed to be quite scarce.

After settling Shao Lei's troops into the camp to rest, Li Yanzhao thought about sending sentry cavalry to reconnoitre, so he called Song Qing, who had returned to the camp last night and entered the tent to rest, and sent one or two cavalry soldiers to cross the river and reconnoiter and guard to the south. Song Qing had rested for two hours at this time. However, when he was suddenly called up by Li Yanzhao, he still felt sleepy. He went to inspect the tents with all his might, and then found out two chiefs and asked them to lead their troops to reconnoiter and guard.

After settling down with all these things, Li Yanzhao was about to go back to the camp to rest for a while, but he saw Tao Heng coming out of the tent on the side and handing Li Yanzhao several pieces of paper full of dense small characters.

Li Yanzhao took a look, but saw that it was full of names. couldn't help but be surprised: "Tao Bairenchang, what is this?" ”

Tao Heng's face was slightly sad, and he replied: "This is the list of fallen soldiers in my Longxi cavalry camp. A hundred people asked their subordinates to record it last night, and I did as ordered. ”

Li Yanzhao saw that Tao Heng's eyes were bloodshot, and he obviously didn't sleep well. I also felt a lot of emotion in my heart. He said that he would be able to keep it for a good life, and in the future, he would carve tablets for these Longxi generals and incorporate them into the Guangwu County Martyrs' Shrine. Tao Heng was excited when he heard this, and thanked himself.

Li Yanzhao's previous arrangement had also been told to the rest of the generals in the Longxi Army. He was instructed to make a list of the fallen soldiers in the army, and after it was sorted out, no matter where he was, he would send someone to report to him. He would have settled these fallen soldiers in a good home. When everyone heard this, they hugged their fists and took their lives, and they all admired it.

After settling down all the things in the army, Li Yanzhao also turned back to the tent, planning to take a nap. Yesterday fought all night, no matter how strong a person is, he will definitely not be able to bear it. However, when the straw mat was put on the mat in the tent, it affected the back wound and couldn't help grinning.

When he rushed into battle yesterday, Li Yanzhao was hit by two arrows in the back and ribs, and the arrow on his back shot through the gap in the leaves of the armor of the sleeve, but because Li Yanzhao was also wearing a leather armor inside, under the protection of the double armor, the arrow did not penetrate into the flesh, and it was only half an inch. And the arrow in the side is deeper. Almost all of the arrows have entered the flesh.

When the battle array was rushing, he was nervous, and Li Yanzhao didn't feel any different. However, when he returned to the division to clean up the battlefield, he felt that these two arrow wounds were faintly painful. As soon as he returned to the camp and arranged everything, he immediately went to the military doctor's office, pulled out the two arrows, and applied medicine to the wounds.

Although these two places were faintly painful, Li Yanzhao still tried his best to lie down, and the fatigue brought by the busy night made him quickly fall asleep.

In the next few days, the left side of Jincheng was calm. The camp of the Zhao army, which was stationed about 100 miles away from Jincheng, did not move for several days. And after their cavalry crossed the Zhao army's front, the defenders of Jicheng and Sangbi were still fighting to hold the city.

In Jicheng and Sangbi, the resolute resistance of the Liangzhou army not only made these two cities never change hands, but also became the biggest hidden danger for the Zhao army to force Liangzhou.

Therefore, under the strict orders of Shangguan, the Zhao army stormed the two cities for more than ten days, and the corpses were like mountains but they still could not advance an inch. As a result, the Zhao army had to give up the assault on the two cities, change their strategy, turn the attack into a trap, and instead hope to force the defenders of the two cities to surrender by besieging and starving the food.

However, in the first month of the fifth year of Jianxing and the war with the people of Longxi, Han Pu had already tasted the pain of running out of grain, so this expedition to Longxi was to transport countless grains and grass. It is enough to make Liangzhou enter the elite of the two cities of Longxi for more than half a year. Therefore, under the elite insistence of Sangbi and Jicheng, the Zhao army could not succeed. had to continue the blockade and siege of the two cities.

By mid to late July. Liu Yao poured the strength of Zhao Juguo into cobbling together a large army and slowly marched westward, and the situation in Longxi and Liangzhou became tense again.

Liu Yao still besieged Jicheng with Liu Xian's soldiers, while Huyanwei surrounded Sangbi. Although the two sides have been holding each other for a long time, neither of them can retreat a little. The long-term attack made these two generals no longer dare to act rashly. However, in the hot weather at this time, the corpses of the soldiers of Zhao who had previously attacked the second city were not buried, so they were piled up under the city and left to rot. For a time, the stench under the two cities also made the morale of the soldiers in the city sluggish, and they suffered a lot of blows.

On 20 July, Cao Jianbu, who had previously mounted on the sentry, finally returned to the camp, and this time they went deep into Longxi for more than 200 miles, and saw Liu Zhao's company camp with their own eyes, which was more than dozens of miles. Hearing this news, dozens of Liangzhou army generals in the Jincheng battalion did not change color.

On July 25, 30,000 Liu Zhao pioneers had arrived in Jincheng County. He camped near the left side of the valley where the Liangzhou armies fought with Liu Zhao's outpost.

On the battlefield not long ago, there were still dark red blood stains all over the ground, and mosquitoes and flies attached to it from time to time, which was shocking to watch. The pioneer this time is Liu Yao's nephew, Liu Yue, the king of Zhongshan. When Liu Yue arrived here, he also knew that this place was the place where the vanguard of thousands of people fought with the Liangzhou army before, and he was full of emotion when he saw the scarlet blood all over the ground.

The defeat in the outpost battle has made the Zhao army up and down, and no one dares to despise Liangzhou. Liu Yue's troops were approaching Jincheng County at this time, and he was also cautious every step. When the logging is set up in the camp, three villages are erected, in each village, there are several layers of camp fences, countless horses are rejected, and they are strictly guarded, for fear that the Liangzhou army will be in danger again and win by surprise.

Jincheng camp and Liu Zhao camp village, at this time the straight-line distance is only five or six hundred steps, can already look across the river. Li Yanzhao boarded the arrow tower and spied on the Zhao military camp. I saw the banner hunting, and the soldiers of Zhao were strong and strong, going back and forth in and out of the camp, in an orderly manner. The layout of the camp is also in line with military law, and there are many sentry towers and arrow towers, and there is almost no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhao had to sigh. He deeply understood in his heart that such a powerful battle of the Zhao army was approaching step by step, and he was afraid that the real crisis in Liangzhou would come immediately.