Hua Xiuyan saw Xu Ruyu's panic in her eyes, but she was not surprised: the momentum of the striker's iron horse was the most shocking. He glanced at Yan Lang and secretly thought: The scheduled battle plan was launched in advance?

As if unintentionally, Xu Ruyu took a step closer to Hua Xiuyan. Hua Xiuyan looked back awe-inspiringly, but saw Fan Wenlong's figure without a trace, snorted, and took a step forward.

Fan Wenlong was like a ghost, grabbed Qin Zhongshu's shoulder, and took it into his arms, Qin Zhongshu's body couldn't help but spin back to the left, but Fan Wenlong was like a spirit snake wrapped around his right side, punched Hua Xiuyan's right palm, kicked his shins, took a step forward, and reached out to grab Xu Ruyu.

Yan Lang's right hand reached out like a dragon, grabbed Xu Ruyu's waist, spun around, lifted Xu Ruyu up and threw it into the distance, and shouted in his mouth: "Protect this person." ”

More than a dozen figures jumped out of more than a dozen iron horses, one took Xu Ruyu and fell back into the saddle, and the rest rushed towards Fan Wenlong together.

Fan Wenlong smiled, took a step horizontally, bent his fingers, and struck towards Hua Xiuyan, when he was about to merge, he retracted his strength and stepped back, and the change between the momentum and the convergence was just an instant, such as a breath and a breath, yin and yang reversed. Hua Xiuyan saw that when he retreated, he grabbed Qin Zhongshu's shoulders and lifted Tengyue in one go, and in an instant, he was already on top of the cliff. Fan Wenlong stepped on the gap between the stones with one foot, stepped with one foot, and wanted to rush down, more than ten Hulan warriors surrounded the cliff, and no one dared to rush up.

"Let me come." One person shouted, stood out from the crowd, raised his halberd up, and shot towards Fan Wenlong, who was holding Qin Zhongshu in one hand and had nowhere to dodge.

Fan Wenlong's body suddenly grew, and the long halberd would hit the shins, and everyone under the wall realized that it was just an afterimage left by Fan Wenlong's extremely fast leap. Fan Wenlong stepped on the tip of the halberd on tiptoe, and the two forces combined to have the sound of gold and stone, and then with a "sonorous" sound, the halberd pierced into the stone wall, and only one of the stalks was exposed, stirring up a piece of stone chips to sprinkle down one after another.

Fan Wenlong took advantage of his strength to jump, took a few steps in a row, and suddenly rose forty zhang.

Fan Wenlong laughed loudly: "Thank you for sending it off." Ignoring the longbow and arrows drawn by the Hulan warriors under the cliff, the ape climbed.

Hua Xiuyan waved his hand and shot forty feet back, but the arrow might not be able to break his momentum. looked back at Xu Ruyu, who was hiding behind everyone, and asked, "Are you okay?" ”

Xu Ruyu looked at the top of the cliff, there was no trace of Fan Wenlong, and stood up and said: "When Yan Lao grabbed me and threw me back, I couldn't help but scream, and before I could scream, I had let this brother catch it, but I felt that the wind blew my ears a little sore, but there was no other big problem. ”

The Hulan people are martial and light-hearted, and when they saw Xu Ruyu like this, most of them had disdain in their eyes. The man who shot out the halberd snorted, walked up to Hua Xiuyan, knelt down on one knee, and said, "The forward sentry general Helian Zhang has seen the county lord. ”

Xu Ruyu looked at Hua Xiuyan in surprise, but he didn't expect Hulan to act so brazenly, at such a moment, and send such an important person to the Northern Tang Dynasty to spy on the military situation, if it wasn't for Zhao Jingyun to block the road ahead, Hua Xiuyan was afraid that he would not be able to join the Hulan Striker Iron Cavalry, and would continue to march south to east.

Yaoguang Hall should know Hua Xiuyan's identity, probably Li Sixun will think that Hulan will launch an offensive after Hua Xiuyan returns to Pingcheng.

Hua Xiuyan smiled and said, "I am the county lord of Hulan Yulin, you can call Master Chu Xiuyan." ”

Xu Ruyu's lips closed a few times, but he couldn't speak. Hua Xiuyan smiled again, looked at Helian Zhang, and said, "The main general of the striker is my third brother?" Seeing that Helian Zhang's gaze stopped on Xu Ruyu's face, he said, "But it's okay to say it." ”

"Gongzi Ze is the coach of the middle lane army, and Gongzi Ji is the forward coach, and he is controlled by the middle lane."

Xu Ruyu secretly thought: Chu Shiji is the second son of Chu Shimi, guarding Wuyuan City, commanding 120,000 elite soldiers in Hulan, and at this time, he was sent to this road to unify the main general of the forward general under Chu Shize's control, it seems that Pingcheng is really the strategic focus of Hulan.

Chu Shixiu said happily: "Father really listened to Mr. Helan's advice and let the third brother be the head of the Middle Route Army. ”

Helian leaned against the gap in the stone, the ape body went up, smacked a few times, quickly climbed to the cliff where the halberd was inserted, held the halberd in his right hand, and pulled it, gurgling a few times, boron under a few pieces of gravel, but the halberd inserted in the rock did not move. Holding the halberd handle with both hands, and pressing his feet against the stone wall, he exerted his breath and shouted: "Get up." The halberd still hasn't come out, and everyone under the cliff laughed, Helian Zhang's old face turned red, and he secretly thought: If you use brute force again, you are afraid of destroying this good weapon. If this continues, the laughter under the cliff will only be even worse.

Chu Shixiu Yan looked at it and said, "Helian Zhang, come down, I'm afraid this halberd can only be pulled out when the second brother comes over." ”

Everyone stopped laughing when they heard Chu Shixiu say this. Although Fan Wenlong did not hurt anyone, but the few styles before leaving left an indelible impression in the eyes of everyone, and the long halberd could pierce the stone wall so deeply, but it was his work.

It's not as good as Chu Shiji, but it's not a shameful thing, Helian Zhang will come down. While he was talking, a group of rangers flew in, took a look at Helian Zhang, and galloped southward, and only after the past five teams of hundreds of rangers galloped past, the Hulan forward army arrived non-stop.

I heard the hooves of horses ringing in my ears like rolling thunder, and the steep post road was crowded with knights in leather armor, scimitars hanging from their waists, and carrying longbows. The strict killing aura penetrated his heart, and Xu Ruyu's heart was filled with despair, staring blankly at the Hulan army rolling like a torrent.

Nearly 10,000 cavalry passed, and there were still cavalry rushing in at the turn of the post road, and dozens of Mingguang armored warriors slowly galloped here with one person in their arms. The man was dressed in ink-colored Xuanjing armor, with a broad face and red skin, and Chu Shize was three points apart, but he was much more bold, and he saw Qingjun standing against the cliff at a glance, and said: "This is not the horse that Wen Xianyong gave to Xu Ruyu?" Unintentionally, he glanced at Xu Ruyu, his eyes flashed like electricity, and he was awe-inspiring.

Chu Shixiuyan roughly stated what had happened in the past few days, and said: "Mr. Li is highly knowledgeable and has great ambitions, so Xiuyan wants to recommend it to his father. ”

Chu Shiji glanced at Xu Ruyu up and down a few times, then looked up at the cliff, pointed to the halberd inserted in the stone wall, and said: "Fan Wenlong is known as the first military general in Yue County, and he is really extraordinary. Before the words fell, the person had jumped up the cliff, his left hand held the halberd handle, and his right hand hit the cliff with one palm, and the cliff shook with a crisp sound, and the cliff shook for a while. Everyone around cheered in unison.

Chu Shiji handed the halberd to Helian Zhang and said, "Fan Wenlong didn't forget to kidnap Qin Zhongshu before leaving, it seems that the Central Plains family has a lot of bad feelings towards me Hulan. ”

A person beside him said: "Second son, the Central Plains family divides the place, fights with each other, and has a grudge against each other, although they have a bad opinion of my Hulan, but there are also those who are willing to use my Hulan army to suppress dissidents, the Han family is an example; On this expedition, Mr. Helan told Ziyi to persuade the second son to support a few families that belonged to my Hulan, so as to alleviate the resistance of our forward army in southern Hebei. ”

Chu Shiji laughed and said, "Obviously, my third brother persuaded you like this, and you borrowed Helan Xiang's mouth, aren't you afraid that this will divide the power of your Boyan family?" ”

The man said: "In order to let the Hulan Iron Horse smash every inch of the mountains and rivers of the Han Dynasty, the men of the Boyan family are willing to spill every drop of blood, how dare they have such selfish intentions." ”

Chu Shiji laughed loudly, pressed the man's shoulder, and said, "Okay, Boyan Ziyi, I will accept your words." Suddenly, he shouted loudly: "Break the mountains and rivers." ”

"Treading on the mountains and rivers." Everyone shouted in unison, and then the thousands of troops shouted together.

"Treading on the mountains and rivers, stepping on the mountains and rivers......"

The valley cliffs are shaking endlessly, and it is shocking.

In addition to the Chu Shi line as the royal family in Hulan, there are still Helan, Boyan, Shannan, Helian four major clans, the main generals in the Hulan army are mostly from the four sects, and the four sects and the Chu Shi line constitute the top core of Hulan society.

Xu Ruyu glanced at the person named Boyan Ziyi, although the armor was sharp, but in the bright light helmet was a white-skinned face with eyebrows, and a long sword with fine wisps hanging from his waist, but he glanced at Chu Shixiu a few times in a few words.

Xu Ruyu saw that they were pulling out their halberds and talking loudly, and they were not lively, as if they had forgotten his existence, snorted lightly, and walked to the side alone. His heart was tense, and he knew that Chu Shiji was looking at him, and turned around.

Chu Shiji was slightly surprised and said, "Can you have induction? ”

Xu Ruyu smiled and said, "The general's eyes are like a moment, and the back of the three friends is like fire, where can't you feel it?" Seeing Chu Shiji's face showing suspicion, he said with a smile, "The harvest of reading, the most afraid of foreign objects disturbing the heart, lost the quiet, most of the scholars in the Central Plains will have a kind of meditation skills, although they can't fly like a warrior, but they can also make their ears and eyes smart, so the three friends can know that the general looks at me." Seeing the look of disbelief on Chu Shiji's face, he knew that most of his suspicions were gone, smiled, and continued, "The trick is just a song, and I think the general has heard it before. "Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed with manifolds." The lower is the river, and the upper is the star. Yu people say Haoran, full of gloom. Huanglu when Qingyi, Han and Tu Mingting ......" Yin said, "When you are upset, meditate several times, it has its own effect of calming the mind, and the general can give it a try." ”

Chu Shiji meditated for a moment and said slowly: "The Heavenly Master once said that the Central Plains Shilin once spread a kind of miraculous skill as a righteous qi formula, and I didn't expect that the scholars of the new dynasty would only regard it as an ordinary meditation skill, but seeing that Mr. Li just silently reciting a small piece of song recipe has such an effect, and if he finds the method of singing Liao and resting, I am afraid that it will be included in the list of miraculous skills in the world." After that, he looked at Chu Shixiuyan and said: "There is Wen Xianyong there is the third brother, if Mr. Li goes to the middle route army, there is no way out, there is a lack of a scribe in my account, you will leave Mr. Li behind." ”

"But it depends on what Mr. Li means?"

Xu Ruyu looked at Rui'er, but secretly thought to himself in his heart: At this time, he couldn't get out, so he had to stay in the Hulan army to see the opportunity to act, Chu Shize and Mr. Wen were in the middle route army, maybe Wu Mengli and Meng Tu were also there, and they would definitely not be able to hide their identities when they went to the middle route army. If Chu Shixiu Yan told Chu Shize the details, with Chu Shize's eyesight, he might be able to see the doubts. Hesitantly said: "The eldest husband should make meritorious contributions...... but his eyes stared at Rui'er, and his face was clear at a glance.

When Boyan Ziyi first heard that Xiuyan admired the talents of Qin Zhongshu and Xu Ruyu, and spent nine thousand and two tigers to leave Xu Ruyu behind, he was a little worried. Gongzize wants the forward battalion to contact the family in order to weaken the resistance of our army, and the county lord is the best to do this. ”

Chu Shixiu Yan agreed without hesitation.

Xu Ruyu didn't expect it to be so smooth, so the letter in the army would only recruit a scribe slightly in advance, and no one would guess that Xu Ruyu would hide in the Hulan army unless they met. The joy on his face didn't need to be deliberately pretended, he made a gesture to Boyan Ziyi and a gesture to Chu Shiji.

Chu Shiji saw that he was polite to Yan Ziyi, but he didn't think it was wrong, and thought: In his heart, it is more important for women to be famous than fame, but he does not lose his true colors as men. Haha laughed and said: "There is no civilian service in the army, you are my scribe, and the general will pay the moon according to the flag." ”

The Hulan cavalry military system, with 300 people as a small flag, six small flags as a flag, six flags as a partial flag, a total of more than 10,800 people, set up a partial flag general, for the main general of an army. Several armies are a town, and the flag is set up. Xu Ruyu estimated that the forward battalion led by Chu Shiji had 20,000 cavalry and 40,000 servant banners.

The flag-mounted general is slightly lower than the rank of captain in the Jiangning military system, but it is higher than the battalion captain.

Although Xu Ruyu did not give real power to the army at the beginning of his arrival, he received monthly gold according to the flag general, and if he said that he would talk about his military duties in the future, he would also take this as a starting point.

Xu Ruyu secretly wondered: Chu Shiji seems to be rude, but his mind is not ordinary, and the Central Plains scholars are only afraid that few can resist such temptations. Hulan has been dormant for a hundred years and is full of talents, but unfortunately the Central Plains knows very little about it. Thinking about it like this, I can't help but worry about Kou Zitoad's safety.

The vanguard army will not cross the Taihang Mountain until the southwest foot of the Taihang Mountain to enter the territory of Youji, and the cliff road to the east of Taiyuan is the most dangerous one. It only took a day for the Hulan Forward Battalion to pass here. The defenders of the Xun family stationed in the Northern Tang City were blocked by the wandering army, but Hulan Iron rode to the suburbs to find out, and feared that the wandering army took advantage of the chaos to seize the city, so Xun Da defended the city and did not come out.

When the 20,000 cavalry of the Hulan Forward Battalion crossed the border, no one knew what Weihou Xunda was thinking, perhaps he held on to the city in view of the previous dynasty's war examples. There were countless examples of wars in the previous dynasties, as long as the Northern Tang Dynasty was not lost, the Hulan iron cavalry inserted into the Central Plains could not stand, and could only plunder, and then fled back to Yinshan from other roads. Maybe he thought that when the Hulan Iron Cavalry passed, he would send troops to block the back road, and trap the Hulan Iron Cavalry, so that it would be impossible to build miraculous feats.

He never expected that Hulan Tude would be another city in the north with the same strategic significance and status as the Northern Tang Dynasty.

20,000 iron horsemen passed, and after a while, another 40,000 foot battalions crossed the border. At this time, the news that the Han family raised troops in Daiyi, captured Daicheng and established itself in Yanmen reached the Northern Tang Dynasty.

The Liumin army was rampant, avoided the important towns of the Northern Tang Dynasty, and wantonly attacked and plundered in the territory of Daiyi and Ningwu, gradually threatening the interests of the Xun family in Daiyi, Ningwu and Loufu Zhuyi.

Ningwu Pass outside has always been a place where horse thieves are raging, there are often thousands of horse thieves rushing outside the pass to shout, these horse thieves and Hulan are inextricably linked, Ningwu Guan Town naturally did not dare to send troops to suppress the Liumin Army, at that time Sanguan and the North Tang Xin Road has been cut off, Sanguan Town took into account that Yanmen still has Ma Yi as the outer screen, so he transferred troops from Yanmen Pass Town to exterminate the thieves.

At that time, the Han family's horse team passed through the city, with more than 400 horses, more than 300 carts, and more than 800 people. The transit of Han's goods is not the largest this time, and Yanmen Guanzhen has not been vigilant, has checked the documents, and opened and closed for release. But when they passed through the gate, the Han family gang suddenly launched, surrounded the car and formed a formation, occupying a hundred steps of the gate. At this time, the Yanmen Beacon Sentry found countless cavalry surging towards Yanmen from the direction of the Great Black Mountain. However, the 4,000 defenders of Yanmen failed to drive the Han family gang out of the city within half an hour, and Yanmen was lost. After a while, the Han family raised more than 10,000 troops and the Hulan iron cavalry pretending to be a horse thief fell into Daicheng.

Ning Wu and Lou Fu gathered more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, galloped to the aid of Yanmen, met an ambush halfway, collapsed in a battle, and the dead were full of corpses. The Han family has more than 10,000 soldiers, and borrowed 4,000 iron cavalry from Hulan, trapped in the building, Ning Wu guarded the general Zong Xiao saw that Ning Wu was the enemy before and after, and the retreat was also trapped by the Han family, and led 3,000 defenders to surrender to the Han family.

At the same time, the 20,000 cavalry and 40,000 infantry of the Hulan Forward Army successively crossed the Yanmen Gate and galloped south along the western foot of Taihang Mountain.

The defenders of Loufu City, which was besieged by the heavy troops of the Han family, were less than 3,000, and after holding on for half a month, they also surrendered the city.

After several years of careful layout, the three towns of Fen County (Mayi, Daiyi, Loufuyi, Yanmen Pass, and Ningwu Pass) all fell in less than a month, and at this time the Xun family had 50,000 soldiers stationed in the Northern Tang City.

Hulan and the Han family launched an offensive without warning, which caught Yaoguangdian off guard, and in the early stage of the Hulan Great Roundabout Campaign, Yaoguangdian's exiled army did not have any substantial gains. Hulan sent troops to the towns of Mayi and Yanmen, and Daiyi, Loufu, and Ningwu were all assigned to the Han family, and Hulan also invested 4,000 iron horses. With the help of Hulan's iron cavalry, the Han family quickly gained a foothold in Xinzhou, expanded its armaments, and raised 30,000 soldiers and horses, becoming an important force in Hulan to contain the elite soldiers of the Xunjia Northern Tang Dynasty.

Subsequently, Liu Gui gathered more than 60,000 displaced people, and nearly 200,000 displaced people with the army, withdrew from the Northern Tang Dynasty and Loufu area, entered the northwest Linhu area, and seized the important land of the partial head. Although Liu Gui belongs to the power of Yaoguang Palace, but the jurisdiction borders on the Yulin City of Hulan, and has to rely on the snort of Hulan.

Because of the existence of the two forces of the Han family and Liu Gui, the 50,000 elite soldiers of the Xun family stationed in the Northern Tang Dynasty City who have been tempered by a hundred battles have never dared to leave the city for a hundred miles in the great roundabout battle launched by Hulan.

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