At the same time that Lu Chen saw the Luzhou City in the distance, several scouts in the woods not far away also discovered Lu Chen. Ran Wen is small? Say??.? The scouts were all the soldiers that Lu Chen had recovered here before, and they were later handed over to Lian Feng to train as scouts. Therefore, they all know Lu Chen. When they saw Lu Chen coming from afar, they immediately sent people back to the city to inform the managers.

By the time Lu Chen came to the city gate, the old patriarch, Luo Gong and others had already rushed over. Seeing that these people had already known about his arrival, a smile appeared on the corner of Lu Chen's mouth, and he said, "It seems that the scout trained by that kid Lian Feng is quite qualified."

Hearing Lu Chen's words, the old patriarch also smiled with satisfaction, and agreed, "Lian Feng, this kid has not been idle since he came to Luzhou City. It took him a long time to train a group of scouts for the city. Then he went to the surrounding cities alone to collect all kinds of information. This kid has a lot of credit for the development of our city to this point."

After Lu Chen came to Luzhou City, he was not in a hurry to leave, and I first reminisced with these old acquaintances.

Before you know it, it's getting dark. It was only at this time that Lu Chen said the purpose of his visit this time.

These people were naturally very shocked by Lu Chen's plan, but they quickly came back to their senses. Because of the fact that before, they had already vaguely seen that Lu Chen did not have much awe for the imperial court, and now that he wanted to establish his own power, it was expected.

Subsequently, after a long period of discussion, they finally decided to leave 5,000 elite soldiers in the city to defend the city. In today's Luzhou City, all kinds of defensive measures are already very sound, so only five or six thousand troops are needed to defend Luzhou City. Of course, the premise is that An Lushan's main army does not come to attack. Otherwise, in the face of hundreds of thousands of troops, no matter how strong their defense system is, it is impossible to hold it.

On the second day, Lu Chen went to the mansion of the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and visited this powerful hero. After all, Luzhou City is on other people's territory, and it maintains a good relationship with the other party, which is beneficial and harmless to both Lu Chen and Luzhou City.

In two or three days, after dealing with the matter here, Lu Chen asked Luo Gong to lead more than 15,000 elite soldiers stationed in the city to join the soldiers that Lu Chen brought from Hezhou City.

Afterwards, Lu Chen had another conversation with the old patriarch. Regarding Lu Chen's plan to go to the east for development, the old patriarch was a little worried. According to the words handed down by the old patriarch and their ancestors, there is an immortal island on the seaside in the east, and the immortals live on the immortal island. If a mortal accidentally offends it, it will bear the wrath of the gods.

Hearing the solemn admonition on the old patriarch's face, Lu Chen also nodded very 'seriously', and said, "Don't worry, we will go to the east this time and will not get close to those islands." Our target is only a few cities along the coast. ”

Hearing Lu Chen's assurance, the old patriarch breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. When Lu Chen left, the old patriarch was still a little uneasy and told Lu Chen again, asking him not to offend those seaside immortal islands.

Regarding the old patriarch's so-called immortal island, Lu Chen secretly guessed in his heart that it should be a place like Penglai Island. After all, the ancient records that Lu Chen saw in his previous life had all kinds of mysterious colors on Penglai and other islands a long time ago. It's just that Lu Chen, as a traverser, naturally doesn't believe in these things.

After Lu Chen left Luzhou City, he immediately went to join his army. Finding the previous garrison of the army, Lu Chen immediately led more than 30,000 elite soldiers and headed towards the east.

Most of the paths taken by Lu Chen are at the junction of various forces. Otherwise, he led such a huge team and rashly entered a force, which would easily cause friction with the other party. Lu Chen didn't want to cause a big war because of some small frictions on the way.

It may be because the current situation in Datang is too tense, or it may be that Lu Chen's troops are too many. Along the way, Lu Chen did not encounter any forces that deliberately embarrassed him, at least so far, Lu Chen has never encountered anyone who has troubled him.

And in these days when Lu Chen was on the road. The decisive battle between the Tang Dynasty and An Lushan's rebels finally broke out.

According to the information obtained by Lu Chen, the hussar general made a preemptive strike. Late one night a few days ago, the hussar general suddenly sent 20,000 troops to attack the flank camp of the An Lushan rebels. Immediately afterwards, more than 100,000 Tang troops rushed out of Tongguan and rushed to the military camp of An Lushan outside Tongguan with an unstoppable momentum.

The battle lasted all night, and it was not until after dawn that both sides withdrew their troops.

Although the hussar general struck first, he also achieved a certain advantage. But after all, An Lushan's military camp had already been prepared, so the attack of the hussar general did not take much advantage.

After this great battle, the hussar general was quiet again. And Lu Yi's army rushed from northern Xinjiang. Now it is blocked by the combined forces of Tibet and the Turks. made it impossible for Lu Yi's army to come to this area of Chang'an City at all.

In the next few days, more and more Tibetan and Turkic troops came to Tongguan. Tang Xuanzong finally issued three holy decrees to the hussar generals and Lu Yi one after another under the persuasion of Yang Guozhong, urging them to continue to attack the enemy forces outside.

The helpless two could only continue to fight against An Lushan and several other powerful rebel armies, large and small. Although at the beginning, Datang never suffered much loss. However, with more and more enemy troops, they entered the Central Plains. The tide of the battle has also begun to show some minor changes.

At the same time, after Lu Chen and the others had passed through several local forces, they finally came to the first destination he had already chosen, Yingzhou City.

Yingzhou City is not too big, it can only be regarded as a medium-sized and large city. And the reason why Lu Chen chose to occupy this city first is only because of its unique geographical location.

This city is adjacent to Huaishui in the south and Qinling in the west. It can be said that as long as he occupies this city, Lu Chen does not need to worry that the southern and Central Plains forces will covet him. In this way, Lu Chen would have the energy to attack those cities in the north.

When Lu Chen came to Yingzhou City, he saw that the city had already been closed. In addition, you can see the crowds on the city walls. Obviously, the garrison in the city thought they were going to invade the enemy.

(To be continued.) )