In March, the spring flowers bloomed, and Xie Shence, who had been in the Taihang Mountains for more than half a year, was now carrying out intense and regular military training in Huaxia City, which has now grown to more than 30,000 people.

The Iron Banner Army formed by Huaxia City is not many in number, but not more than 10,000 people. Cavalry, infantry and archers are proportionate, and the combination of advance and retreat is quite orderly.

In the northwest corner of Huaxia City, there is a fully enclosed workshop, the handle is extremely strict, the intruder without a warning did not exit, he will be killed, some people guess what kind of alchemy place is here, some people say that there are countless gold and silver treasures piled up here, in short, people guess thousands, this must be a very important thing.

What outsiders don't know is that there are almost half of the research results of the Xie family when they were in Yangzhou City, as well as nearly forty percent of the improved new explosives and more than ten copper cannons after the artillery battalion was moved to the northwest.

The copper cannons, which weighed thousands of catties, were not transported from the far northwest by relying on human and animal power, but from secret channels to transport materials and cast them on the spot. Because it didn't arouse anyone's awareness, Ti Qi wouldn't know about it, even the vast majority of people in Huaxia City didn't know either.

"We are soldiers, and they are also soldiers, how can they eat and drink spicy food every day without training?"

"Who knows? This is what the lord meant, and who knows what the lord is thinking? ”

"I'm afraid it's a pro-soldier, the lord is a hero, and it's understandable to want some good ones"

"Xiong Sanhou Wu, what are you muttering about! No matter how sneaky it is, pull it out of the pit sweeping! ”

"Hey, Battalion Commander"

Xie Shence, who had already taken off his jacket, sat in front of the sunny window at this time, checking the information.

"The 100,000 army of the Yan people has almost no losses, the combat power is complete, and the more than 100,000 rebels in the hands of Sima Bi, the elite combat power has not suffered much damage to Jizhou, so it can't be defended."

Since the heavy rains of the rainy season last year, Yan Ren and Sima Bi have launched several powerful offensives, but the results have not been satisfactory. Not only has Jizhou, the nail nailed to the backs of Sima Bi and Yanren, not only has Jizhou not been able to pull it out, but because of Jizhou, the speed of the attack has been greatly slowed down. The feather flower pavilion under the city of Jizhou and thousands of white horse spirits were not allowed to ride south, which really restricted the play of the rebels of the Northern Army.

On the other hand, although the Yan people have been using this to raise and train troops, after all, the time is too long, the waste of money and food, the loss is huge, and there are internal disagreements. The Youzhou Fanyang Iron Cavalry, led by the eldest prince Murong Cheng, thought that it was the best policy to bypass Jizhou and attack Handan first, but they were obstructed by the opposition that "it should cooperate with Sima Bi to go down to Jizhou first and then attack Liaocheng", so they were unable to act.

Sima Bi is really anxious. Taking the opportunity of last year's rainy season floods, the internal rebels of the Northern Army were well rectified, and at this time they were quite unified, and a very few occasionally wrong-eyed bigwigs would not pick thorns at this time.

Among the various reasons that annoyed Sima Bi, Yan Guolai's officials who shirked their responsibilities and took the opportunity to ask for benefits harassed him day and night, which also made him feel extremely bad.

At present, he can't leave Yanren, and Sima Bi is angry in his heart, and he won't show it on his face. It's just that in this way, he is obviously angry, but he still has to smile at each other, which makes General Sima, who is used to pointing at the country and scolding Fang Xuan, feel even more aggrieved.

At the same time, Jizhou City, which is still struggling to support, is like a small strong that can't be killed, seeing that it seems that the next wave of attacks can drown it, but it can always survive to the end, every time it is a tragic victory, but it is not dead every time.

It has been a year since the fortification, and the population of Jizhou City has plummeted to less than 50,000, a figure that is not comparable to the number of people who drowned in the rainy season during the last Jinyan War.

Nearly forty percent of the city's masonry has been demolished, some of which was used as stone bullets for trebuchets and others as materials for repairing the walls. Even wooden houses have been demolished for heating in winter. At this time, there were not many intact buildings left in the south of the city, or because of the large decrease in population, it was not possible to house the homeless people.

Fortunately, the food in the city was barely sustainable, and there were no cases of eating human flesh and changing children in the city, and about 150 war horses were still preserved.

Guo Fei has lost a whole circle of weight, and the armor that he wore on his body a year ago was quite heroic and upright, but after many repairs at this time, it was like hanging on his body, a little empty.

Jizhou was surrounded, but Guo Fei knew that the rebels on the opposite side and the Yan people did not do their best. At least if the blockade is enough to die, not a single grain of grain will come in from outside the city. Don't look at Jizhou, there is still the strength of a war, but the serious shortage of troops will become the most important factor that seriously weakens their combat power in the next period of time.

There are more than 10,000 people in Guo Fei's hands who can fight, but how many of these 10,000 people are not injured? 10,000 people died, and there was no way to replenish it.

Guo Fei didn't want to catch Ding from the people, but it was not yet the most dangerous time at this time, and such a move was done early, and people's hearts were unstable. Second, he doesn't fully trust the people who have no combat ability or experience. handed over the last barrier of Jizhou, the city wall, to them, Guo Fei had no confidence at all. He didn't dare to take any chances.

Guo Fei, who knew very well in his heart, knew that it was not the most difficult time in Jizhou, so he could only make careful calculations while absorbing tall and powerful young people among the people, forming reserve soldiers, distributing a certain amount of food as subsidies, and doing some simple military training regularly.

In this case, appeasing the people's hearts and arranging the battle plan became Guo Fei's own. These two things will be crushed to death by ordinary people.

Signal Guo Fei is not alone, he only needs to be responsible for the deployment of troops, and there are people who come in from outside the city to help deal with the logistics and trivial chores.

In the evening, the sky that has just rained is blue, and I believe that it will not be long before there will be a starry sky, which is the only magnificent scene in Jizhou City.

Guo Fei likes this kind of evening very much, on the city wall here, he can know that the day is coming to an end, and he can also immerse himself in the sea of stars at night, maybe he can have a good dream, and at the same time, he may be able to look forward to tomorrow.

Isn't it good to have expectations?

Yes, Guo Fei is a rough person, and he can understand the good.

It's just that

Jizhou can indeed keep a day is a day.

If you can't keep it, run if you can.

After all, there are still more than 100 war horses in the city that Guo Fei has tried his best to preserve. It's just that it's impossible to be willing, do you really want to run away if you can't beat it, and go to him to accommodate yourself when the time comes?

Guo Fei smiled, if you can't win the battle and don't die, wouldn't it be better to go out and go to Shandong Road when the time comes? Although the reward of the Jin capital cannot be directly transmitted to Jizhou, Guo Fei also heard the rumors, it is said that as long as Guo Fei can hold Jizhou, then the rebellion will retreat, he will be the marquis of ten thousand households, even if it does not work, as long as he can come back, it will also be a thousand households.

What is Thousand Households? In addition to the small number of households, there are many titles. The Xie family is a marquis, the former first-class lord of the Great Jin Dynasty, didn't he also eat Yangzhou City, and enjoy 6,000 households?

At the end of March, the Northern Army, which had been the main force of the siege, began to withdraw, and the White Horse Elite Cavalry and Iron Harrier withdrew from the battlefield, and the infantry commander Bao Xiaohe, who replaced Liu Shunren, stayed behind to cooperate with the Yan army. By the beginning of April, 8,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry appeared under the city, led by 500 black robes and black armor in the Black Floating Capital.

I don't know what agreement the Yan people reached with the Northern Army, Sima Bi withdrew, the Yan people took over, and Murong Cheng came over in person.

Then, there were real black clouds pressing down on the city.

In late April, the city of Jizhou fell on all sides during the almost frantic attack of Murong City.

At the end of April, the city of Jizhou was broken.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers were killed, tens of thousands of people were cut by soldiers, Guo Fei's family was beheaded, and only a ten-year-old son was taken away by Guo Fei. Subsequently, Jizhou City was burned to ashes by a fire from Murong City.

In mid-May, Xie Shence stood on the hill, looking at Guo Fei under the leadership of more than ten Xie family guards, his face was heavy.

At the same time, tens of thousands of Youzhou iron horsemen roared down, straight down to Qinghe, Linqing, half a month to march 700 miles, the front of the army to Handan, Liaocheng.

When the military report flew to the capital of Jin like snowflakes, Murong Cheng had just captured Handan.

So the world was shocked.

Xie Shence sat in the study, looking at Guo Fei, who was still bandaged but could walk freely, smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed to the chair, and said, "General Guo, please take a seat." ”

Guo Fei sat down, looked at Xie Shence expressionlessly, and did not speak, looking extremely arrogant. An iron guard behind Xie Shence was about to scold, but was stopped by Xie Shence with a look.

"If three years ago, I said that General Guo would be like a stranger to General Sima, I wouldn't believe it, not to mention that now the swords and soldiers are not sharing the sky, if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I would be coughing, General Guo, can I understand it as a cunning rabbit and a dead lackey?"

Guo Fei snorted and said, "Each other." ”

Xie Shence looked at Guo Fei and laughed. He naturally understood what Guo Fei meant, but between him and Emperor Jin, there was already an antagonism, and Guo Fei said that the truth of freedom was not completely correct.

Xie Shence said: "As far as I know, the price offered to General Guo by the Jindu is better than my mountain where I have no promises, can General Guo explain why he came to me instead of the mountain?" ”

Guo Fei pondered for a moment and said: "I know that if I go back, I will be sent to Jindu, protected as a plaque, and sealed as a great official with the ultimate glory and descendants, and then die of old age in Jindu." Of course, it is also possible that when the Jin capital is breached, it will be killed. ”

"However, no matter what the result is, I will not appear on the battlefield in my life, if that is the case, the revenge of the Guo family, I Guo Fei, will not be able to avenge it in my life."

"I'm selfish. Otherwise, there would not have been a gap with Da Sima Bi at the beginning, and there would not have been the end of now. I regard him as a Bole and respect him as a father, but there is such a result, I am unwilling, I want revenge. ”

"Jin can give me glory and wealth, and can also give me a silent death, which is not what I want. That's why I'm here. ”

Xie Shence asked, "Are you sure I have what you want here?" "Thank you

"It can't get any worse."

"In that case," Xie Shence said, "General Guo, Huaxia City, welcome to you." ”

(PS: Iron Banner Army, because the name of the book was called Iron Banner at the beginning, and it was later changed.) The original setting was that there would be an army called Iron Banner, and then it would be continued. ）