The news of the destruction of the city of Yicheng, it took only two days of effort, it spread to Jiezhou, hundreds of miles away, the person who reported the news was a rebel army riding a lame horse, he was rescued by Wang Huan from the Yicheng County Ya dungeon, the last time the rebels withdrew from the foot of Yicheng, this guy moved slowly, fell behind, was followed by the Mongolian rangers and caught, as the head of the person who asked for merit in the future was placed in the Yicheng dungeon.

This person carried a few steamed buns and a few taels of broken silver given by Wang Huan in his arms, and went straight to Jiezhou all the way without stopping, asking to see Han Zhaoxuan, and passed Wang Huan's message.

"What? Did Ping Lianghou really say that? Han Zhaoxuan stood up from his chair abruptly and asked with a face full of disbelief, as if he had heard something impossible.

"It's true, my lord, how dare the little one lie to you?" The righteous army swore an oath, patted his chest and said: "Pingliang Hou said, please start your army immediately and rush to Pingyang, if you are slow, you will not be able to catch up with the great achievement of conquering Taiyuan!" ”

"Also, Ping Lianghou also said." He licked his lips, full of fatigue, after all, it was very laborious to run for two days and one night, and it was not enough to rely on a few steamed buns: "Yicheng is now watched by a few small officials of the original Ming Dynasty, and no one is in charge, so we have to quickly send someone who can control it to take over, in case the Tartars come back." ”

Han Zhaoxuan and his subordinates looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

The thief-eyed scribe smashed his tongue and said suspiciously: "From Jiezhou to Yicheng, the road is more than 100 miles, and the army will take at least two days to move, and from Pinglianghou to lead the Shaanxi soldiers to say goodbye to today, it has only been four days, just enough time to come and go, and it took less than a day to conquer Yicheng with the Shaanxi soldiers?" It's incredible! ”

Han Zhaoxuan frowned and thought about it, thinking that what he said was good, so he glared at the righteous army, and shouted: "Say! Did you kid betray the righteousness, pretending to be a Tartar, trying to get us out of the city, secretly laying an ambush, and annihilating us in one fell swoop? ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the hall was disgusted, and the sound of "dang dang dang" sounded, and the generals drew their knives in their hands, and they were about to behead the pawn of the righteous army.

The man was so frightened that his face was pale, his hands shook wildly, and he sat on the ground and cried out, "No, no! My lord, how could I betray my lord! Just now I took out all the heads of the Yicheng County Order and gave it to the adults for the purpose, how can there be fraud? My lord! ”

Hearing him say this, Han Zhaoxuan remembered that as soon as this little pawn entered the door, he took out the head of the Yicheng County Order from a cloth bag as a token.

Han Zhaoxuan patted his head, there have been too many strange things recently, and his IQ has dropped a little, how can anyone design to use his head as bait, Yicheng County is here, how can there be fraud?

He breathed a sigh of relief, signaled to the people with the knife to put away the knife, and then changed his calm expression, and said gently: "Don't panic, in this way, it really only took one day for Shaanxi Pingliang to conquer Yicheng?" ”

The little pawn sat down on the ground, frightened too much, and couldn't get up, so he sat on the ground and replied respectfully: "Yes, the little one was locked up in the dungeon, and early that morning, I heard the outside jail guards talk about the siege of the city, and then after a meal, I heard the ground outside shake the mountains, and the sound was like thunder, and the prison guards scattered in a hurry, and no one cared about me, and then after a while, some white armor soldiers came in and let me out." ”

"An hour?" Han Zhaoxuan and the others were even more surprised, and said in surprise: "It only took a few hours for Ping Lianghou to capture Yicheng County? ”

"It should be, when those prison guards talked in the morning, their tone was still very calm, it was the city that had not yet been broken, and when there was a big movement outside, they ran away, and then the white-armored soldiers came in." The pawn said as he recalled.

Han Zhaoxuan sat down on the chair with a butt, his face was full of shock, a sense of powerlessness completely shattered his self-esteem, his staff, also looked at each other, this is simply appalling, tens of thousands of righteous troops attacked Yicheng County, which was not fought for half a month, and the Shaanxi soldiers only took an hour to conquer it, this kind of efficiency, this speed, unheard of.

"It turns out that they didn't say goodbye, they went to Wing City." Han Zhaoxuan muttered to himself, his eyes were dull, his face was full of bitterness, and this slap was really loud in his face: "We still think about calculating and cooling, but in fact, he doesn't take us seriously at all, in his eyes, maybe we are not as good as laying soldiers and people." ”

None of the staff dared to speak, cowering in shame, and the monkey-like guy with a sharp beak and cheeks hid behind people, covering his face and not daring to show his head.

"Well, my lord, are we going to Binh Duong?" After a long silence, a calm staff member finally remembered what was going on and asked cautiously.

Han Zhaoxuan woke up suddenly, his eyes flashed, he slapped the table, stood up suddenly, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Go!" A must go! I want to see with my own eyes, how brave the Shaanxi soldiers brought by Pingliang Hou, Pingyang Jiancheng, many generals, General Yu Yin besieged the city for a long time, and they couldn't advance an inch, what kind of means did they have, boasting of the troops entering Taiyuan's Haikou! ”

He took two steps in the hall, and when he saw that several staff members were still standing in place and looking at him stupidly, he couldn't help but get angry in his heart and kicked over: "What are you doing in a daze?" Let's go and gather some troops! If you can't get out after two hours, I'll leave you all! ”

All the staff members were frightened by him, and they dispersed in a hurry, and the chickens and dogs jumped and went to get busy.

However, it was said that it was two hours, and the movement of the miscellaneous army was not so fast, and it was not until the afternoon that the gate of Jiezhou City was opened, and a group of rebels in chaotic clothes and armor hugged Han Zhaoxuan, flocked out of the city, looked at the direction of Pingyang, and rushed away.

From Jiezhou to Pingyang Fucheng, the official road is spacious, about two hundred miles away, most of Han Zhaoxuan's righteous army are farmers and civilians, although they can endure hardships, but they are not good at marching, the first section of the run is fast, the distance is a little farther, and the endurance is not enough, plus the establishment is chaotic, the officers and soldiers are not familiar, the chaos along the way is incomparable, the team of more than 10,000 people dragged the elder, the forward has been out of the city for ten miles, and the guard is still rubbing at the city gate.

Han Zhaoxuan led a cavalry of more than 1,000 people, running ahead regardless of it, and the strong desire in his heart to see the battle scene of the Kuizhou army with his own eyes stimulated him as eager as a chicken blood. The foot soldiers behind were left to fend for themselves, the fewer people ran, the more sparse the team ran away, and when they arrived outside the city of Pingyang Mansion three days later, there were less than 5,000 people left in the righteous army of more than 15,000 people, and the rest were scattered on the way from Jiezhou to Pingyang, scattered like wandering spirits.

Han Zhaoxuan wanted to go to Yu Yin's camp first, but he met Yu Yin's personal soldiers who came to pick him up halfway through, and the personal soldiers told him that Yu Yin was now in the city.

Han Zhaoxuan almost fell off his horse, grabbed the reins to hold on, and then asked with a white face, trembling, "In the city?" When will the city be broken? ”

He didn't bother to ask who broke the city, Yu Yin spent nearly a month under the city doing nothing, could it be that he suddenly opened his mind in the past two days, and he could conquer Pingyang City? Breaking through Pingyang in a short period of time must be Wang Huan's merit.

Sure enough, the pro-soldier showed an expression of admiration, his eyes lit up and he said excitedly in a very admiring tone: "The city was broken three days ago, and all the soldiers who came in Pingliang were white-armored soldiers, the military appearance, the formation, praise, and no one!" The Shaanxi soldiers came that day, not even the camp was erected, they met with General Yu, and immediately set up a formation to attack the city, their artillery was a lot, lined up under the city, and the gunpowder bags were shot far away, and they blew up a long section of the city wall, and then pushed the copper cannon on the cart closer, and there was a fierce bombardment on the low section, basically there were no living people in that area, and then the bird commander stepped forward and stood on the section, and the pikemen and sword and shield hands behind went up in a row, and it took an hour or two of kung fu, and Pingyang was taken, It's a pity that you didn't see that thunderous action! ”

He said so much, in the language of a storytelling, that he almost said that he wanted to hear what happened next, and he would break it down next time.

Although Han Zhaoxuan had been mentally prepared for a long time, he was still uncertain, he grabbed the collar of his own soldier, and said in a hurry: "Where is Pinglianghou now?" ”

The soldiers were stunned for a moment, and said: "Yesterday, I pulled out the camp and went to the direction of Fenzhou, saying that I was going to convene a gathering of the righteous army in the southwest of the mountain in Fenzhou to discuss the plan. ”

"Fenzhou? Isn't that Jiang Jianxun's territory? Han Zhaoxuan gasped, and his brain immediately reacted: "Pinglianghou, is this to unify the Shanxi Righteous Army and become the co-leader of Shanxi?" ”

(End of chapter)