Thank you for your support, and the two updates will be resumed from today. At noon on this day, there was a horse exploration report, and a horse team of more than 300 horses escorted a large number of goods from the northeast to the south, straight to Qinglong Mountain. Zhuang Yi was overjoyed when he got the news, and then sent Gao Baonu's people to investigate in person, and finally confirmed that it was Xiao Bald who came back.

So he ordered Gao Baonu to bring people down the mountain to meet him, and he led his soldiers and horses and ambushed them in the village. After waiting for half an hour, Gao Baonu and Xiao Vulyu returned to the village. Zhuang Yi led the troops out at the right time, Xiao Bald was caught off guard, and was immediately surrounded by Zhuang Yi's soldiers.

"Gao Baonu! How dare you rebel against me! Xiao Bald was stunned to find that there were so many unfamiliar faces in his village. When he found that Gao Baonu didn't know when to beat his horse and leave, he couldn't help but yell.

"Bald! Do you still recognize me? Xia Yue shouted with a knife.

"It's you...... How are you staying? Xiao Bald was taken aback, he had known Xia Yue in his early years, and when he saw that there were all Xi soldiers around, he suddenly turned his head to look at the gate of the village in shock, but found that the main gate was blocked.

Die or die! Drop or drop! Fall? How is that possible......

"Sons! Capsized in the gutter today! Kill me! Xiao Bald looked up to the sky and roared, quickly calculated it in his heart, and then decided to break through, immediately picked up a pair of octagonal copper hammers from the horse, beat the horse and turned around and rushed to the gate of the village.

"Where to run...... Look at the guns! Zhuang Yi had already noticed this Xiao Bald, and sure enough, he was as his name suggested, and he was actually a bald and strong man in his forties. How could Zhuang Yi let him escape, he made a move with his spear "Phoenix nodded", and stabbed Xiao Bald's throat like the wind.

Xiao Bald was really good at martial arts, and slammed a hammer seven inches below Zhuang Yi's spear head, and immediately broke the spear, followed by a big bend, and made a flicking hammer, bombarding Zhuang Yi's waist and ribs. This hammer is powerful and heavy, Zhuang Yi's wrist is numb, Zhuang Yi shook his whole body to remove the force, and suddenly saw a black shadow swooping down, it was already in front of him, at this time it was too late to block the gun, and in a hurry, the figure rolled over on the horse's back, which happened to be avoided.

Xiao Bald didn't entangle, suddenly hit the horse and turned around, rushed past him like the wind, and rushed straight to the surrounding soldiers, the big copper hammer in his hand flew up and down, instantly killing a bloody road, and rushed towards Dazhai.

"What a cunning fellow!" Zhuang Yi couldn't help but catch up, took off his bow and arrow from the horse, took a little aim, and shot an arrow, hitting Xiao Bald's waist. Xiao Bald snorted in pain and rushed into the village regardless of it.

Zhuang Yi had to lead the soldiers to chase after him, and when he got to the inside, he couldn't ride a horse, so he had to get off the horse and chase on foot, and saw Xiao Bald Guy galloping in front from a distance, rushing through a corner, and suddenly saw Xiao Bald Guy standing in front, Zhuang Yi almost hit him head-on, and immediately avoided it only to find that Gao Baonu was holding a spear to block the way.

"Xiao Bald! If you don't die, we won't live in peace, will you cut it yourself, or will you wait for us to do it? Zhuang Yi said with a cruel smile.

"Kill!" Xiao Vuld shouted, and pounced on Gao Baonu with a double hammer in his hand. This Gao Baonu is not weak, his body is evasive, but the spear in his hand is like a poisonous snake spitting letters, so that Xiao Bald cannot attack in close quarters.

Zhuang Yi was about to step forward to fight Gao Baonu, but Xiao Bald shook a few hammers violently, and suddenly turned around and rushed to a broken wall on the side. As long as you turn over, you will go out of the cottage and enter the mountain forest behind the village.

Zhuang Yi shouted, the spear in his hand rotated with his body, and after dancing a spear flower, he threw it away violently, and the heavy iron spear snorted to the ground, piercing Xiao Bald's back like a sharp arrow and nailing it to the broken wall.

Seeing that Xiao Bald was still not dead, lying on the broken wall and convulsing and spasmodic, Zhuang Yi put his hands behind his back, looked at Gao Baonu and said with a smile: "Your arm strength is good, but this spear is a little worse, in the future, I will ask Fu Tieshou to make you a new one." ”

Gao Baonu nodded, but he was silent, slowly walked over to take down Xiao Balqi's body, pulled out a scimitar from his waist, cut off Xiao Ballu's head, and took out the dragon spear and handed it to Zhuang Yi together. When Gao Baonu did this, he still lowered his head and said nothing, even if he accepted the vote, he felt a little awkward.

"Go and pack up your belongings, let's go to Yingzhou with me! At least a thousand people will be indispensable for your ......" Zhuang Yi understood his thoughts, slowly took the dragon spear, turned around and strode away.

With the assistance of Gao Baonu, Zhuang Yi found the cave where Xiao Guanqian stored money and goods, and cleared out more than 5,000 copper coins, more than 30 catties of gold, two boxes of jewelry, precious leather goods, medicinal materials and cloth, etc., including more than 100 pairs of fine iron armor and horse harness, and hundreds of knives, guns and weapons.

Zhuang Yi laughed happily, let the soldiers use war horses to load and withdraw from the cottage, and collected more than 400 prisoners, and ordered people to burn the cottage with a fire, and then led the soldiers to go with goods and chase after the brigade led by Duan Zhongzhong.

Zhuang Yi didn't come back, Duan Zhongzhong naturally didn't dare to lead the troops to go fast, and stopped and stopped all the way, until four days later, Zhuang Yi came to meet, but at this time, there was only one day left from Liucheng, the seat of Yingzhou Governor.

It happened that this night, Shagu also sent people back to report on the city defense and the distribution of troops in Liucheng. After listening to the report, Zhuang Yi convened a group of officers overnight for a pre-war meeting, reiterated once again the purpose of taking Yingzhou, as well as the matters that should be paid attention to when attacking the city, and assigned combat tasks. He also felt that it was difficult for Shagu to play a role with only 100 people, so he asked Xia Yue to lead another 100 people to meet Shagu in advance, so that he could seize the city at that time.

The next day, Zhuang Yi led 3,000 troops first, and let Duan Zhongzhong lead the logistics baggage, the old and weak, to come later.

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Yingzhou, located on the north bank of the White Wolf River (i.e., the Liao River), governs Liucheng, and is the throat of all parts of Liaodong leading to the Guannei. The former Yan called Longcheng, the Northern Wei Dynasty was called Yingzhou, Sui placed the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion, the Tang Dynasty set up the Yingzhou Shangdu Governor's Mansion after many reforms, and managed the Yingying, Liao Erzhou, and then managed the Xi, Khitan, Yao, Murwei and other ethnic chiefs for the lower capital of the Governor's Prefecture, once subordinated to the Youzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and then placed the Pinglu Jiedu.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the remnants of the Anshi rebels were based in the three towns of Heshuo, nominally anyway, but in fact they supported the army and respected themselves, and they rebelled and surrendered. Due to the repeated rebellions of the Khitan, Yingzhou moved to Yuyang twice. Since the second year of Suzong, Yingzhou was basically out of control, during the great calendar of Daizong, Hou Xiyi and Li Zhengji led more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians of Pinglu to move south to Ziqing, Yingzhou was once abandoned, and then it was under the rule of Youzhou.

However, due to the mixed characteristics of many Hu people in Yingzhou, the successive Youzhou Jiedu was unwilling to garrison troops, and Yingzhou changed from actual rule to fetter rule, and was finally encroached upon by the Bohai State, but it was still nominally subordinate to Youzhou. Because the Bohai State and the Tang Dynasty have always maintained a suzerain-vassal relationship, the chaotic Yingzhou is in such an awkward position.

Today's Yingzhou soldiers and horses are from the Bohai clan Wu, named Wu Chongli, more than 40 years old, stationed in Yingzhou for more than ten years. Since this summer, the Khitan and Xi tribes have been mobilizing, and they will fight after the autumn.

This made Wu Chongli nervous for a while, because he lived a very nourishing life here, and every year in the early spring, a caravan from the Central Plains would come from the Guannai with silk, cloth and fine porcelain, and bring them back to the Guannai in exchange for precious furs, medicinal herbs, and jewelry.

Soon news came that the Khitan Khan's personal expedition was repelled by the Xi people, which made him feel incredible. But this is the best, he can continue to live a stable life, the victorious side must have a lot of loot in their hands, and business will come to the door soon.

However, he did not wait for the caravan to arrive as he imagined, but for an army of thousands of men. And this army is also strange, waving a big banner with the words "Pingliao Army", but the soldiers are basically composed of Xi people.