"Snort......"

The two knives intersected, splashing countless sparks. The battle of the two also collided fiercely together at this moment. With his tall strength and deep fighting strength, Bao Chu obviously occupied the advantage of the fight. He was unforgiving, the steel knife in his hand slashed out again and again, and with each knife, he took a step forward, killing the opponent and retreating again and again!

The fifth knife is cut out, and Bao's opponent is already powerless. Seeing that this knife is going down, the middle-aged knife hand will have two heads on his body, and the companion of the knife hand naturally cannot sit idly by. The man hurriedly abandoned his opponent, turned around, and smashed an iron whip at Bao Chu. If Bao Chu doesn't stop in time, he will inevitably be hit like this.

- Siege Wei to save Zhao!

It's just that among the martial arts that Bao Zhu practiced under Wang Yue, the best thing is the "Thousand Troops Biyi" knife technique. This martial art requires fearless courage to exert the lethality of the sword. Therefore, Bao's knife momentum remained unchanged at all, but the shield in his left hand was raised upward, and he was forced to resist the enemy's heavy whip, and he was stunned to risk being injured, and cut off the head of the middle-aged knife hand first!

Next, Bao Zhu didn't care about his left arm that was half numb by the iron whip, and slashed the enemy with the iron whip with a backhand. The man was caught off guard and immediately lost an arm by the knife.

However, Bao's strong attack did not come without a price. The flaw revealed when he forcibly unveiled the knife allowed an enemy in the back row to take the opportunity to stab a shot, leaving a wound at least three inches deep in Bao's thigh. However, this wound did not make Bao Chu flinch, but instead brought out the ferocity that lurked in him. The gunman wanted to shoot again, but Bao Chu roared wildly, threw out his left shield and smashed it in the face, and immediately screamed and fell from the city.

In the face of Bao's fierce style of play, his opponents were inevitably terrified. Bao Chu lunged again. At the cost of being wounded everywhere, three more people were killed. As a result, more than half of the elite of this defender has been lost, and the morale has plummeted. So much so that when Bao retreated back to his own soldiers' formation, the enemy did not have the courage to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

Fighting to such a point, the victory or defeat is actually clear. When Bao Chu breathed back. Carrying a steel knife, he rushed forward again and killed one person, and the enemy army finally collapsed. Immediately afterwards, more than ten Taihang soldiers who climbed to the head of the city cut down the military flag of the defenders, and planted the battle flag of the Taixing army at the head of the city, announcing that the first arrival was achieved!

The Tai marching army successfully reached the first place, which was a great blow to the morale of the defenders at the head of the city. Although Du Feng once again organized the powerful private soldiers under the city to go to the city to counterattack, they were firmly blocked by Bao Chu and his subordinates. Followed by. Another ladder broke through the defenders' defenses and ascended to the top of the city, showing that the Tai marching army had taken advantage of the entire battle.

Seeing that the number of Tai marching troops at the head of the city was increasing, Du Feng's hand was on the hilt of the sword, and his roots were exposed. It's just that although he has the heart to kill the enemy, he is powerless to return to the sky. No matter how many powerful private soldiers were dispatched from under the city to fill the battle line, the Pingtao defenders were still killed and retreated.

Especially Dian Wei, Guan Yu, and Xu Huang. Taking advantage of the good opportunity of the defenders' attention to be attracted by Bao Chu, they all went to the head of the city. The Pingtao garrison is truly gone. The three "10,000 enemies" who were full of depression in their hearts joined forces and quickly conquered the city gate tower and put the main force of the Taixing army outside the city in. The situation has developed to this point, and the morale of the Pingtao defenders has finally collapsed completely!

The siege of the city was only one day, and the county town of Pingtao had 3,000 defenders. It was occupied by the Taixing army. In this battle, the Taixing army beheaded 500 people and captured more than 2,000 people, and the heroes in the county were almost wiped out, and the county commander Du Feng was also captured when he fell into the city.

Only the county soldier Cao Peng Li Xuan. When Pingtao fell, he also took 100 cronies to find a way in the mountains and forests of the remaining veins of Luliang Mountain in the north. Hearing the news of the loss of Pingtao, Li Yan immediately changed his direction and fled directly from the mountains, thus escaping this catastrophe.

After the first battle of Pingtao, the entire Taiyuan County was shaken!

Although Pingtao City is not a well-known big city, in terms of defense, due to the help of the terrain, it can be called the top three in Taiyuan County. The number of defenders in the city was considerable. The number of enemy troops besieging the city is actually relatively small. It was in such a favorable situation that the Taixing army forcibly broke the city in one day. With this comparison, few of the other counties in Taiyuan County still have the confidence to stick to the end.

Even the confidence to defend the city is insufficient, what else can Taiyuan County rely on to resist the arrogant and fierce strategy?

Under the arrogant prestige of the army, many local heroes who were originally preparing to confront the Taixing army put away this thought and sent envoys to show goodwill to the Taixing army. This will undoubtedly reduce the obstacles to the advance of the Tai marching army by half. It's not that he has to kill the other party. As long as the other party is willing to give in, he is still willing to accept it.

Of course, in the future, if those heroes and strongmen still have something that does not go with their arrogance, they will never be merciful when they deal with it.

Two days later, Zhang Mad led the army to rest for a while, and once again advanced all the way to the northeast. All the way to the county city of Jinyang, the Taixing army was not subjected to any resistance and harassment.

Even if the Tai marching army did not attack immediately after arriving at Jinyang City, Jinyang City was also in chaos. Cao Peng, the soldier who was originally in charge of the army, was not there, and the rest of the officials in the county also followed Taishou, and many of them fled. In the entire Jinyang City, there is not a single confidential official who can stand up.

If it weren't for Wang An, the superintendent of the post who was born in the Wang clan of Qi County, who stepped forward at the critical moment and gathered the guards with his servants and guests, he was afraid that Jinyang City, which had strong city defenses, would have become an empty city without defense before the Tai Xing army could kill the city.

However, the political life of the late Han Dynasty was mainly controlled by the powerful of the family. The panic in the early stage of Jinyang City was because Taishou had no intention of guarding it, and only wanted to escape. However, after the Wang clan of Qi County took over the city defense and ascended to the heights, the wealthy clans in the city responded one after another, sending troops and money to support Wang An's garrison activities. When Zhou Cang, the vanguard of the Taixing Army, arrived at the foot of Jinyang City, Wang An already had 5,000 strong men under his command, and the grain and grass collected in the city was enough to support the guards of the whole city for a month and a half.

Of course, the five thousand poorly trained strong men were not enough to defend the city, and it was not enough to force back the invading Taixing army. If you want to repel the enemy fundamentally, Taiyuan County is powerless anyway. For this reason, after a short discussion, the Wang family and other powerful families jointly invited the Yanmen defenders in the north and the Shangdang garrison in the south to enter Taiyuan County and attack the Taixing army together.

In order to make the Taishou of the northern and southern counties tempted, the Taiyuan heroes were dripping with blood in their hearts and promised a lot of benefits, and even the position of Taiyuan County Keeper was generously promised by the Wang family. Wang and other powerful and powerful people promised that any military general who could defeat the Taixing army and protect the safety of Taiyuan County could be unanimously recommended by the entire Taiyuan County to serve as the Taiyuan County Guard.

With this promise, Wang is not worried, there will be people who are not tempted!

Yanmen was too guarded and unmoved, Zhang Yang didn't know. However, Zhang Yang knew that he was really tempted.

The post of Taiyuan County Keeper is still very tempting for Zhang Yang. Although he has a Shangdang County in his hands, whether it is population or wealth, Shangdang County is far inferior to Taiyuan County. Moreover, after getting the territory of Taiyuan County, Zhang Yang will not give up the territory of Shangdang. He would follow the most popular method of the Kwantung princes at present, and recommend a close confidant of his own to serve as the Taishou. In this way, the territory of the party will not be left to others from Zhang Yang's hands.

Such a method that did not conform to the laws of the imperial court was first used from Yuan Shu in the south. The first time Yuan Shu used such a technique, he relied on Sun Jian's recklessness.

Sun Jian, known as the "Jiangdong Tiger", resolutely decided to raise troops from the south to crusade against the "Han thief" Dong Zhuo when it was not his own business. When he led his troops into Jingzhou, under the secret instruction of the later general Yuan Shu, Sun Jian first forced Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, to commit suicide, and later killed Zhang Zhi, the Taishou of Nanyang, who was also a 2,000-stone official.

Even if it is the imperial court, for a dignitary at the level of a county's Taishou, it cannot be said that it will be killed, and it must go through strict legal procedures before the state and county officials can be punished. Sun Jian acted like this, but because of Yuan Shu's interference, not only was he not punished in any way, but was appointed as a Zhonglang general by Yuan Shu.

At the same time, Yuan Shu, the later general who did not have a fixed territory, also took advantage of Sun Jian's evil deeds to successfully bring Nanyang County into his hands. The alliance between the most famous "10,000 enemies" general of the Han Dynasty and one of the most prestigious Yuan sisters-in-law of the Han Dynasty can be said to be complementing each other's strengths. The news spread to the north, so that Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Chang'an, couldn't help but complain to the people around him:

"Sun Jian is a little man, quite able to use people, and when he speaks to the generals, he knows it."

- Sun Jian, this guy is a stupid bird, but he can convince his subordinates. Let Niu Fu and Hu Zhen know that if they meet this guy, they must be careful!

Well, the topic is off the hook. Let's put Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, and Yuan Shu aside, and continue to talk about Zhang Yang.

In fact, the position of Taiyuan Taishou is not the only territory that Zhang Yang can seek. In addition to Nguyen Nguyen, there is also a Hanoi county, which seems to look good as well.

Zhang Yang is a descendant of the general He Jin and the ruling Jin Wu Ding Yuan. Ding Yuan's death at the hands of Dong Zhuo determined Zhang Yang's anti-Dong stance. Although he did not openly join the ranks of the Kwantung princes, Zhang Yang often had some correspondence with Yuan Shao, who was stationed in Hanoi.

In Hanoi, Yuan Shao and Wang Kuang faced the threat of Dong Zhuo's subordinate Hua Xiong, and they had a headache. They sent troops out of the city several times to fight in the field, but they were all defeated by Huaxiong. Although the loss did not hurt the muscles and bones, it was also a blow to the morale of Dong Dajun.

Obviously, the newly recruited Kwantung recruits are difficult to compare with the battle-hardened Liangzhou Army. Therefore, Yuan Shao very much hoped that Zhang Yang could take his famous soldiers to the south and join the battle against Huaxiong.

For this reason, Yuan Shao specially wrote to Zhang Yang, expressing his willingness to promote Zhang Yang as the Taishou of Hanoi after the Kwantung Coalition Army occupied Luoyang. (To be continued......)