After Zong Jingcheng took over the defense of the county, he sent sentinels to reconnoiter the hills and valleys around Baiyu Mountain in the west every day, and at the same time sent people to Huai'an, Gyeongju to inquire about the news.

I heard that Zhang Yue failed to lure the enemy and was ready to enter the mountain to attack, which means that the robber turtle has retreated into the village, and Zong Jingcheng has relaxed, so that the robbers will not run around, and Luziguan will be fine.

In the afternoon of this day, Zong Jingcheng went to Luziguan as usual to inspect a circle, and the one stationed here was the former Yanzhou Zhangwu Army Capital, named Feng Zhenwu, who is currently the commander of the Zhangwu Army; The deputy envoy was originally promoted by a capital head, named Wu Xingfa, these two are old officers in Yanzhou, they know the importance of Luzi Pass, and the defense is well arranged, so Zong Jingcheng did not stay here for a long time and returned to Bajiao County.

Shi Yunlei and Zhou Quangui, the deputy envoy, were both young people in their twenties and thirties, and they generally stayed in the barracks after arranging daily patrols and patrols. After all, they have nothing to do with each other, and they were finally promoted, relying on their own personal ability and knowledge, and now they have errands, so they are naturally dedicated, and they are afraid that they will change their commanders in the future, and this position will be squeezed out by related households.

In the morning, when the sky was about to be bright, Zong Jingcheng was awakened by a burst of military drums, and when he got up and looked, he saw that the two commanders were already leading the soldiers to train in formation.

"It's a pity that these good soldiers, I don't know who will pick up the cheap in the future." Zong Jingcheng stood in front of the barracks and watched, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

At this moment, several fast horses rushed into the school yard like a gust of wind, and finally stopped after two turns, and immediately the soldiers had crooked helmets, arrows stuck in their backs, and light leather armor with dark red blood stains, looking very embarrassed.

Zong Jingcheng was shocked, realized that something was wrong, walked over quickly and asked, "But what happened to Luzi Guan?" ”

"In the middle of the night today, a large number of thieves came from the Guannei and attacked the Guancheng after touching the sentry. Commander Feng was caught off guard, and is still leading his troops to resist, but he was surrounded on the corner tower of the wall under the Baishan cliff, and it was difficult to rush down. The soldier was also slightly wounded, but he spoke smoothly.

"How could the thieves come from the gate, but from Bai Yu Mountain?" Zong Jingcheng looked puzzled.

"At that time, it was not yet dark, and I couldn't see it clearly, and the brigade of thieves climbed the wall before they were discovered by the patrol post, but the number was about two or three thousand, and the brothers couldn't stop it!"

"Two or three thousand? All horse teams? Zong Jingcheng grinned, if there are so many thieves, there will be danger in the county, and if they rescue a bird, they can only ask for more blessings.

"Yes! Some of them have two horses! ”

"This Feng Zhenwu, what is he eating?" Zong Jingcheng was immediately very annoyed, it was dangerous to go to the rescue, but it was impossible to say that he didn't save it.

Zong Jingcheng went crazy for a while, but quickly calmed down, and sent ten horsemen to report Zhang Yue quickly, and the other ten horsemen returned to Xue Wenqian, and he had these twenty horses in his hands. After doing this, he arranged for Zhou Quangui to lead the soldiers of Sandu to stay and garrison, and led two hundred people out of the city with Shi Yunlei, went north along Luoshui, and slowly marched to Luziguan outside Saimen Town.

The county seat to Luzi Pass is only ten miles, only halfway to the thief army sentry, Zong Jingcheng ordered two hundred soldiers to line up in battle formation, continue to advance. The thieves rode more than a dozen horses, and soon they ran close to their horses, and tried to attack, but when they saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, they hung on both sides and kept harassing them with arrows.

In this way, Zong Jingcheng wanted to command the soldiers to shoot arrows and shoot back, and walked very slowly all the way, driving away a ranger and soon pulling another horse, and the number gradually increased, reaching seventy or eighty horsemen, which should have been gathered by the nearby hearing the news.

At this time, it was already four or five miles out of the north city gate, and such a little infantry was not enough for the thief army to plug the gaps, so Zong Jingcheng chose a relatively high slope to stop, and waited for the men and horses to retreat, so as to prepare to respond.

The sentry of the hundreds of thieves under the slope did not attack again, wandering nearby, and when the two sides confronted each other for about a moment, there was finally movement in the mountains in the north, smoke and dust were everywhere, and the sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder, which was a large group of thieves going south.

Zong Jingcheng didn't dare to stay any longer, and ordered the soldiers to retreat downhill, but at this time, those fly-like rangers bit up again. After Zong Jingcheng personally broke off, he was very arrogant when he saw that the thief army had support, and he couldn't help but be furious, took the bow in his hand, rode his horse back and forth, and shot at the thief army. Taking advantage of their unpreparedness, they rushed down a gentle slope, slashed at the enemy formation with a simple knife in hand, instantly cut down several horses, and immediately galloped away while they were in confusion.

Although the thief army was still following behind, it was no longer so close, Zong Jingcheng caught up with the headquarters, ordered the soldiers to run forward quickly, and as soon as the front foot entered the city, the thief army brigade arrived behind.

Zong Jingcheng couldn't help but secretly rejoice, if he went farther, even if he could come back, he would not dare to enter the city, he would be chased and killed by the thief army, and then he would rush into the city, and the game would be over. But as soon as he went to the top of the city and looked at it, his heart was full of sorrow, and his face became ugly.

The thief army below did not have a strict formation, mainly divided into two large piles, and the formation was very scattered, but it was indeed all horse teams, and carefully counted the appearance of about 2,000 people. Although there were no 3,000 cavalry, it was not something that his infantry could handle. I only hope that Xue Wenqian will be on guard, and Zhang Yue can lead his troops back as soon as possible.

"It must be Zhang Kuangtu who leaked the news! He's dead! Zong Jingcheng slapped the city wall fiercely and said with a gloomy face.

"I dare to guarantee that it was the good things that Zhang Lao'er did, many people in Yanzhou were suspicious, saying that he and Li Yiyin in Xiazhou were eyebrow-to-eye, but no one saw him, and Gao Yunquan was always guarding against him before. Now in this situation, I am afraid that the people under Command Feng will be more auspicious. Shi Yunlei also agreed.

The thief army under the city waved the banner of chaos, and did not seem to have any interest in attacking the city, more than 100 horsemen surrounded several leaders around the city a few times, and soon came back to give the order to assemble, the whole process was very fast, both like an army but very different, because they had no discipline, people shouted and neighed, wah, wow, wow, wow,

After forming a formation, the long team of horses slowly moved south, and soon disappeared from the end of sight, and the thieves did not leave any troops to garrison the rear road nearby. Zong Jingcheng felt that this thief army was very strange, and personally drove his horse out of the city for a turn, and found that this was indeed the case, so he remembered Luzi Pass, where some troops should be left, Feng Zhenwu and Wu Xingfa may have been captured, and they have to send someone to see the situation. At the same time, it is necessary to send people to follow the thieves south, so that they can keep track of their whereabouts at any time.