After Liu Qi won the victory of the army, he responded to Ma Chao's cavalry out of the treasure bottle, and then ordered Ma Chao's cavalry to rush to Lintao City immediately, capture Lintao as quickly as possible, and solemnly confessed: "There is a wrong, there is a debtor, remember to kill innocents indiscriminately, this is our first battle in Liangzhou, and we must make a good start." ”

"No." Seeing that Liu Qi was so solemn, Ma Chao did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the cavalry under his command to Lintao.

At the same time, Liu Qi ordered Huo Jun to lead 5,000 soldiers to quickly go to capture Xiangwu, which is 160 miles away, and because this is the only way from Ji County to Didao, as long as he occupies this place, he can block the connection between Yan Xing's army and Longxi County, so Huo Jun not only has to rush to Xiangwu within two days, but also lead the army to defend this place for at least half a month.

Although it was in a strange place, with Huo Jun's outstanding talent, there was no big problem if he wanted to complete the task.

Because Liangzhou was already very poor, coupled with the cut off of the Silk Road, even the tax revenue was very scarce, but here there were 70,000 or 80,000 Xiliang cavalry and 50,000 or 60,000 infantry, in order to meet the military problem, the ruler had to levy and expropriate, so the people's lives were very difficult, for Han Sui and the other nine warlords all dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, now Huo Jun led the army to capture Xiangwu, as long as he was benevolent, he would definitely be able to win the hearts of the people soon.

Despite this, Huo Jun knew that if he wanted to capture Xiangwu, he had to rush before the reinforcements under Yan Xing's command arrived, and once the reinforcements passed Xiangwu, the strategic significance of capturing the city would be lost.

Therefore. After receiving the order, Huo Jun did not dare to slack off, and immediately led the army in the direction of Xiangwu.

Fortunately, the spies of Liu Qi's army had already discovered Xiangwu's location and were under their guidance. Even if he advanced at full speed, he didn't take the wrong direction, and Huo Jun's army finally arrived at the foot of Xiangwu City after a day and night of rapid marching.

There are only 2,000 old and weak soldiers in Xiangwu City, and Huo Jun ordered the soldiers to set up more banners and drums in order to build momentum, which made Xiangwu Chang Yanhong look as if 20,000 people were coming, plus Yanhong didn't expect that there would be a large army coming to the city, so when he saw Huo Jun's army under the city. was already frightened in his heart, and he didn't wait for Huo Jun to order the siege of the city before he directly opened the city and surrendered.

Huo Jun knew that Yan Hong's official reputation was not bad. Therefore, after leading the army into the city, Ming Yanhong still served as the commander of the Xiangwu Army, responsible for settling the people, except for immediately ordering that no one should disturb the people. Otherwise, in addition to killing all of them, he also took over the defense of the city, and ordered the sergeants to dig a deep trench overnight, and at the same time made all kinds of simple and effective tools for defending the city, such as rolling wood, stones and other equipment, plus there were also some equipment for defending the city in the treasury, although most of them were in disrepair, but they could barely be used after simple processing.

Besides. The repeater he received from Liu Qi became the most effective defensive tool against the enemy, and he was now ready to meet the enemy.

Early in the morning of the second day after Huo Jun entered the city, Cheng Yin and Liang Xing led 10,000 Xiliang cavalry to Xiangwu City. At that time, Cheng Yin saw that the city was replaced with a banner, and only then did he know that Xiangwu had fallen into the hands of Liu Qi's army, and he couldn't help but be shocked, but he thought that Yan Xing's order did not dare to delay, so he ordered the army to go around the city to Di Dao, but Liang Xing did not agree. Because Liang Xing judged according to the density of the defenders at the head of the city, the defenders in the city were only 3,000 at most. So I think that since I have arrived here this time, I will simply take Xiangwu City first and then rush to Di Dao.

At this time, Huo Jun already knew about the arrival of Cheng Yin's army, and he heard the spies report that the other party only brought 10,000 troops this time, and he couldn't help but feel relieved, but although the number was small, Huo Jun would never let them pass through here, so he immediately insulted Cheng Yin at the head of the city, so as to provoke Cheng Yin to attack the city and firmly drag this army down.

Unexpectedly, before Cheng Yin got angry, Liang Xing couldn't help it, he felt that Cheng Yin was too cowardly, and he didn't dare to do anything when he was insulted, and he didn't even dare to fight back, such a character was also worthy of becoming one of the eight strong generals under Han Sui in Liangzhou, it was really blind to God.

Cheng Yin was already difficult to restrain Liang Qiu, but now the other party thought that he was angry and led the crowd to attack the city, and it was even more difficult to dissuade him, so he had no choice but to agree to Liang Xing's plan to attack Xiangwu, and ordered his soldiers to attack Xiangwu.

In his opinion, there are not many Xiangwu now, even if they attack the city, it will definitely be easy to capture, and it will not waste too much time at all, and it will be completely too late to reinforce Di Dao.

But it didn't take long for Cheng Yin to be surprised to find that he seemed to have underestimated his opponent before, because the defenders in this city seemed to be still a hard bone, and after the first round of attacks, the soldiers under his command were killed by the crossbows on the city, but they didn't even set foot on the city.

At this time, he saw the guards on the head of the city laughing, and at the same time said sarcastically: "It turns out that this is the so-called Xiliang Iron Cavalry, your combat effectiveness is really invisible, in a certain opinion, even a monkey is probably a lot stronger than you, right?" It turns out that the reason why you are crisscrossing Xiliang is probably because there is no other power here, right? Hehe, there are no tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king, isn't that what you're talking about? But you're not useless, at least the walls you've built are pretty good, and if others can stop them, at least you can block the attacks of your own people. ”

Liang Xing, who was on the side, suddenly shouted angrily after hearing this, and roared in a low voice: "Who is this kid?" It's really hurtful to speak, I'm Liang Xing in Xiliang for more than ten years, and I've really never been laughed at so shamefully, I must break through Xiangwu City today, and twist this kid's head off as a urinal. ”

After finishing speaking, Liang Xing once again ordered the army to prepare for the siege.

Cheng Yin hesitated again, he originally thought that Xiangwu City should be easy to break, so he let Liang Xing attack the city, but now that he saw that it was difficult to break through in his eagerness, he retreated, feeling that it was best to go to Di Dao now, and there was no need to spend it here.

Therefore, Cheng Yin pondered a little, and then decided to withdraw his troops.

And Liang Xing led the army to the city wall at that time, and suddenly heard the voice of Mingjin from behind, and couldn't help but be shocked, but he had to retreat because of the military order, and then said to Cheng Yin with a gloomy face: "Brother Cheng, what are you doing?" ”

"The general feels that this is a trick deliberately set up by the enemy, provoking us to attack Xiangwu and depleting our troops, we can't be led by the nose by the enemy, we should quickly rush to Didao to support Chengyi." Cheng Yin sighed and said slowly.

But unexpectedly, Liang Xing said sharply: "Xiangwu is the only way from Ji County to Di Dao, if we give this place to the other party, I am afraid that the supply of Hanyang County will be cut off, so that the entire Hanyang County will no longer be owned by me, we have just lost Anding County, and now we will give up Hanyang County like this, how can we see General Han in the future?" Besides, where will you leave General Yan Xing with if you do this? What's more, now that Xiangwu has just been obtained by the enemy, the people's feelings are not attached, and there is still hope for us to attack, once the people's hearts are converted, I am afraid that it will be difficult for us to capture this city with 20,000 more horses. Also, the boy at the head of the city spoke so harshly and harshly, comparing us to monkeys, even a man can't stand it, how can we swallow this breath? ”

"What do you say? We can't afford to spend all the time here, can we? In case Di Dao loses and Liu Qi's army enters Jincheng, how many heads do we have enough to cut off General Han? Cheng Yin couldn't help but smile wryly and said helplessly.

As soon as Cheng Yin's words landed, Liang Xing didn't care about saying anything more, he heard a burst of laughter from the city, and then heard the annoying general from before saying: "This general has long heard that among the bandit leaders of Xiliang Zhulu, Cheng Yin is cowardly, and Liang Xing is stupid and incompetent, in fact, they can't be blamed, because their ancestors were born stupid thieves, how can such a character cultivate excellent descendants?" Unless they are not born to their parents, otherwise these two fools will never be able to succeed, the two generals have been in Liangzhou for a long time, and they are also familiar with the bandit leaders in Liangzhou, I wonder if the general's evaluation of these two is pertinent? ”

That will naturally be Huo Jun, this time in order to be able to drag Cheng Yin, it can be said that he has thought of all the tricks he can think of, only by insulting in this way can the other party launch an attack regardless of a qiē, and only in this way can he hold back the strength of the enemy army, so all the insults today are some of the most bitter and mean words, and even he can't help but feel a little embarrassed after hearing it.

Even a calm person like Huo Jun felt that his words were unbearable, how could Cheng Yin and Liang Xing stand it? Sure enough, Huo Jun, as soon as these words came out, even Cheng Yin couldn't help but feel angry in his heart: "Your kid's mouth is really bad, even our ancestors and ancestors insulted it, is it tolerable?" If I can even tolerate this, am I still a man? How am I going to behave in front of everyone in the future? ”

Therefore, Cheng Yin, who was furious in his heart, pointed at Huo Jun on the head of the city and shouted: "You damned enemy general, you dare to speak disrespectfully and insult the ancestors, after I, Cheng Yin, broke through the city today, I will definitely twist off your head, and then make your head into a night pot." ”

When he turned around, he shouted and ordered: "Soldiers, give it to me, whoever ascends to the top of the city first will be rewarded with a hundred gold, and the official will be promoted to the third rank, and whoever captures that hateful enemy general alive will be rewarded twice." ”

Speaking of this, Cheng Yin couldn't help but feel a little sad, because he knew that he didn't know who the bitter guy in the city was when he fell to the ground, so he could only helplessly replace it with the word "that hateful enemy general". (To be continued)