In the face of the 360,000 menacing conquest army, Ma Furong felt despair for the first time, he may be old at the moment, and he does not have the same ambition as before, at this moment he is desperate and does not know how to resist these swarming Qi army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Ma'an's Xijun changed hands in an instant, and Linsong County also looked at the wind and surrendered to the past, leaving only a lonely city in Zhangye, at this moment, the defenders in the city plus the stragglers who fled back from several other cities There are more than 30,000 people in total, and these people are enough to resist the army of more than 300,000 for a while.

The 30,000 combined forces of Shao Long and Zhang Jun had arrived thirty miles outside Zhangye, and because they were mainly cavalry-based troops, and their weapons and equipment were refined by the Han Chinese, they had strong combat effectiveness. Chai Yanping's 15,000 horse infantry troops landed on the west bank of the Heishui River, and Li Yuan's 10,000 infantry troops and Yang Jian's 10,000 horse troops were stationed on the south bank of the Heishui River. He Batsheng's army marched along the weak water river towards Zhangye City.

When Chai Yanping fought with the Guanzhong Army before, he felt that his horse infantry army combat effectiveness was still very strong, but Shao Long and Zhang Jun's surprise attack let him know the power of the Turkic cavalry, because these two warlords followed the formation and tactics of the Turkic army, and came to cover up the sneak attack at night, although Chai Yanping had been prepared, but in the face of the strong impact of the cavalry, he was still quickly defeated, it turned out that the cavalry could really be strong to this point, and the whole army of 15,000 was defeated to the side of the Heishui River, Fortunately, Li Yuan and Yang Jian from the south bank led their headquarters to support.

Shao Long and Zhang Jun returned triumphantly and successfully camped in the west of Zhangye City. The grain and grass transported from Jiuquan City were continuously sent into the camp, although he and Ma Furong were mortal enemies, but at this moment he also knew the meaning of cold lips and teeth. Originally, He Batsheng wanted to read it out to Ma Furong, Zhang Jun, Shao Long and others in person with the holy decree, asking them to all disarm and surrender obediently and cooperate. But Zhang Jun and Shao Long took the initiative to attack Wang Shi, which made both sides passive.

Ma Furong stood on the tower of the city, and Shao Long and Zhang Jun under the city went into battle with horizontal swords. Ma'an led 20,000 men out of the city and lined up on the flanks. Ma Hansheng was sent out by He Batsheng to shout. He had no choice but to come to the front of the battle and bow his hand and said: "Two Taishou, how to come here today to stop the royal division, the general Heba behind me came to tell you to give up resistance and enter the court with peace of mind." The cooked copper stick in Zhang Jun's hand pointed at him and scolded: "Traitor, you still have the face to speak, as a child of the Ma family, you actually defected to the enemy, I will clean the door for your uncle today." ”

After that, he slapped his horse and came to fight. Ma Hansheng is also very good at kung fu, how could he be injured by him, when he saw Zhang Jun killing, he also carried the big scimitar and took two steps forward to take a posture, and said: "Zhang Taishou don't be impulsive, we have something to say." Zhang Jun took it to care about him, and handed over the stick in his hand directly. As soon as the two weapons were delivered, only a clanging sound could be heard, and the big scimitar in Ma Hansheng's hand was almost knocked out.

Before he could react, he only heard the sound of whirring wind on his head, and he knew that something was wrong and immediately turned his head away, and the seventy or eighty pounds of cooked copper rod with the force of pressing down was one or two hundred catties, and it hit his shoulder helmet at once, and he was shocked and felt that his shoulder was about to be broken. Ma Hansheng felt a chill in his heart, but the instinct to survive made him carry this blow and struggled to carry it up, and the big scimitar in his hand slashed directly at Zhang Jun's face, Zhang Jun hurriedly leaned back, but due to the sudden incident, he used too much force backwards and actually fell off the horse.

Seeing Ma Hansheng's big scimitar cut over again, at this time, Shao Long led people to shout to stop, saying that it was too late, and a flying feather arrow on the city tower shot down and directly hit Ma Hansheng's wrist, he was shocked all of a sudden, and looked up at the place where the arrow was shot on the city tower, only to see Ma Furong looking at him with disdain and saying nothing, Ma Hansheng lowered his head and looked very embarrassed. Behind him, He Batsheng urged the army to press directly to attack the city.

Shao Long sent people to snatch Zhang Jun back all the way back to his own position, and the two sides fought fiercely under the city, but after all, He Basheng was outnumbered, and soon they occupied the initiative on the battlefield, Zhang Jun and Shao Long had to retreat to their own camp with the remnants, and Ma An's 10,000 people also retreated into the city. He Batsheng was not in a hurry to attack the city, so he set up camp ten miles outside the city and put it in order.

He Batsheng summoned all the generals in the barracks to arrange the deployment of the siege, even Chai Yanping and Li Yuan returned from the front line, and Yang Jian was the most vanguard battalion general who stayed in the camp. He Batsheng asked: "Do you have any good plans for this siege, please offer them quickly, so that we can return to Beijing as soon as possible to resign and resume our lives." Dugu Xin was the first to speak when he heard this: "General, the last general has a plan, this city is very close to the weak water river, and the water intakes are on the side of the river, we only need to poison the river water upstream, to ensure that in a few days, the dead bodies in his city will be everywhere, and it will be disrupted, and then our army will be able to easily take this city without blood." Dou Luguang and Chai Yanping, who were present, nodded one after another. Although this plan is a bit vicious, it is the safest and most effective for the self-army.

Others, such as the junior general Li Yuan, suggested that the forces of Zhang Jun and Shao Long outside the city should be eliminated first, so as to give the enemy troops in the city a deterrent, so that they themselves felt desperate and lost their combat effectiveness. Yang Kun, Sun Fengzhen and others all felt that this plan was also feasible. So He Batsheng decided: "Since you all think that these two strategies are feasible, then let's do it, General Dou Luguang is in charge of the patrol of the camp under the city, General Dugu is responsible for the affairs of the upper reaches of the river, General Chai Yanping, General Li Yuan, General Yang Kun and Sun Fengzhen, He Batzhong and others each led their headquarters to challenge Zhang Jun and Shao Long. This official sits in the big tent of the Chinese army to answer all roads. The crowd was ordered.

At this time, the guards outside came in and reported: "General, there is a messenger outside who claims to be Jinchang Taishou He Jiulian and asks to see him." When everyone heard this, they were curious, and He Batsheng said, "Let him in." After a while, a Fanbang man came in from outside, wearing a Fanbang hat, a leather jacket and leather pants, and a Fanbang dress. He Batsheng asked curiously, "I don't know what the guests from afar are doing here?" The Fanbang man bent down at him and saluted: "In Xia Nai, a Khotanese merchant ah civil engineering, this time I asked to see the general was entrusted by Jinchang Taishou He Jiulian, and there are important matters to discuss." ”

When He Batsheng heard this, he said, "What about the so-called official or private affairs of the gentleman? If it is a private matter, it will not be accepted, and I have not paid it to him He Jiulian. If it is official business, invite him He Jiulian to come to see me in person, and I will be in an orderly manner with him. Ah Tumu took out a secret letter from his bosom and said: "What you do is both a public and private matter, and here is a secret letter for the general to look at first." As he spoke, he handed over the secret letter.

Sun Fengzhen stepped forward to take his secret letter, to be honest, He Batsheng was not interested in He Jiulian's secret letter at all, for He Jiulian's wall-to-wall grass, he had only one way to deal with it: military suppression, at this moment he did not use the road but sent an irrelevant businessman to deliver the news, which undoubtedly made people very angry, He Batsheng opened the secret letter, which was nothing more than some content that He Jiulian bargained with him, wanting to fight for as many benefits as possible. (To be continued.) )