Lan County, the subordinate county seat of Lan Prefecture, at this moment Taiyuan Zuowei reinforcements of about seven or eight hundred people, arrived here, but from the mouth of the Jiehe River came a shocking news, the thieves about four or five hundred people, waving the banner, along the river to the west, obviously towards Xing County, and then also found that there was a large group of thieves directly into the Lan River, has blocked their own way, cut off the connection with Lan Zhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Taiyuan Left Guards and Horses, at this time, in accordance with the military order, converged with the reinforcements drawn from various passes and forts, there were about 1,500 soldiers and horses, but I heard the news that there were no less than four or five thousand thieves in the south to cut off the back road of Qilan, and they also carried artillery.

After only waiting for one day, I heard that Lanzhou had fallen, and there were less than thirty or forty officers and soldiers running out of the whole state, and the rest were all called thieves to hold it.

Now, no one mentions going north anymore, but they are preparing for the retreat, what are you kidding, the state city guarded by two or three thousand people is broken, and the wall is no more than two or three zhang high, and the army is no more than a thousand soldiers, what to resist? It is better to save yourself, retreat to Jingle, and wait for Taiyuan to send reinforcements again.

Therefore, Lanxian County, while reporting to Taiyuan, packed up and prepared to retreat......

"What? General Zheng has actually captured Qilan? "Li Mao led the army to the south bank of the Lan River, only five miles away from the city, met Zheng Renbao's scouts to inspect, saw that it was his own soldiers and horses, so he came forward to report, just wait for that, to make Li Mao surprised, Lan Lan is not better than Baode, not to mention the city wall is thick, there is a whole guard and horses guarded, how can it be so easy to take?

However, although he was puzzled, the army could not be delayed, so he ordered more than 3,000 people under his command to rely on the city to be stationed, and led a hundred personal soldiers to the city.

Just waited for the city, saw the closed doors of the left and right households, the soldiers everywhere on the street, some of the transcripted documents in their hands were being posted, and occasionally a few bold people, around watching, at this moment saw that his men and horses were riding into the city, and immediately retreated to the side in awe, bowed his head and said nothing, Li Mao didn't care, just patted the horse and walked by, and went straight to the yamen of the state capital.

"Uncle Fugui, I said that you guys were too fast, I meant to come to help, who knew that I would come for nothing." Li Fugui, who got the news and went out, happened to meet Li Mao who was about to get off the horse, and he just laughed when he saw him, and he didn't care, and went up directly to look at his body, and saw that there were no injuries, so he was relieved.

At this moment, he praised himself quite complacently, "What's the matter, Maoen, uncle is still successful, this huge city, two days' work, it will be called to take it!" ”

"Uncle is very good, and my nephew is convinced." Li Mao is sincerely convinced, his own family is fighting the city passes without heavy soldiers, which is naturally easy, and Li Fugui and Zheng Renbao have really eliminated the entire guard of the imperial court and defeated the state city, which really makes him admire.

"Come so late, you haven't eaten yet, quick, follow me in, and I'll talk about eating first." Li Fugui was also happy, secretly thinking that his family would finally be able to surrender one day, so he had the intention to show off, and hurriedly pulled him into the door.

"Brother Li Mao, how did you lead the troops here?" Zheng Renbao was beckoning a few lieutenants below at the moment, crawling on the table to study the next move, this one said to fight Xing County, and that said to go down to Lan County first, he thought hard for a while, and listened to the previous scout report, a reinforcement from the imperial court has arrived in Lan County, about a thousand people, this is another difficult bone to gnaw.

Suddenly saw Li Fugui leading someone in, and was immediately surprised, didn't Li Mao lead the troops to Baode? How did you get here? Looking at his eyes again, there was nothing unusual, and he immediately relaxed.

Li Mao was in a very good mood at the moment, and couldn't help but quip, "I originally wanted to lead the troops to help in the battle, but I didn't want my uncle and Brother Compal to have already captured the city, so I came to congratulate and ask for a glass of water and wine, Brother Compal won't mind." ”

Saying that, his own family and everyone present laughed, and the boredom of the past few days was swept away with the breakthrough of the city, especially the annihilation of the official army and the relief of the henchmen, which was really happy.

"Don't say a glass of water and wine, even if you come with the whole army, it's also called a full meal for three days." Zheng Renbao couldn't help laughing, thinking that this Lanzhou Prefecture, the soldiers were unpaid, and the road was poor, how could he want to enter the state city treasury, and actually confiscated no less than 10,000 stones of grain, more than 7,000 taels of silver, and 100 taels of gold, which really opened his eyes.

It's also a fear, this is the local three salaries and agricultural taxes up and down the state of Lan Prefecture this year, has been registered, just waiting to be sent to Taiyuan, but unfortunately the thieves are in a hurry, and they have not yet left the city to call the blockade back, and it is not that the Lan Lan is unwilling to pay, but they can't afford this responsibility, if they lose the food, even if they repel the thieves, they have to ask for the guilt, why bother, it is better to let the thieves besiege the city, anyway, they can't break the city, who knows that the city should be in the city, the city is broken, but all of them are cheap Zheng Renbao.

"Grain pattern silver, I have everything under my command, if Brother Compal speaks, I can support several months of grain and grass, haha!" Li Mao is not short of this, Baode Prefecture and the nearby military tun land, the grain produced is 100,000, his army marched westward, did not make a big effort, and took a lot of grain storage, the grain has long been piled up, where is there still a shortage of this.

"Oh? You've seized a lot of them lately, too. Zheng Renbao smiled and patted his arm, to show affection, for the clansmen around Li Jing, he always has no lack of kindness, just take Li Fugui to snatch his own credit, the people below reported it, he also smiled, although he was unhappy in his heart, but he still said that it was okay, but Li Fugui was a little hot-skinned, quite embarrassed.

"By the way, I am preparing to report to the lord, and at the same time arrange the next step of the march plan, you came just in time, originally our troops were insufficient, and we could not take advantage of the situation to occupy more areas, you and think about it, I want to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the official army reinforcements, and lead the troops to capture Jingle, Lan County, and Xing County at the same time, what do you think?!"

Zheng Renbao knew that the iron was hot, and he saw that Li Mao had arrived, and he had enough troops at hand, so he was afraid that he would not be able to reach tens of thousands of people, so why not hurry up and pull him together to consult the military aircraft...... (To be continued.) )