Pang De's 3,000 pioneers went straight to Anding, crossed the Yellow River in Shicheng, Shicheng is also a small county in Anding County, and the people in the county were scarce at this time. Small counties like this in northern Xinjiang have always been a place where the Hu and Qiang people often harassed them, even when the Han Dynasty was strong, there were very few people in such places. What's more, now that the princes are fighting and taking care of their own affairs, it would be better if most of the county towns in northern Xinjiang were protected by powerful princes, but if not, it would be really miserable.

In order to ease the relationship with Ma Teng, Han Sui gave the poor county of Anding to Ma Teng very generously, and Han Sui's soldiers and horses withdrew from Anding, but there were still many officials and scholars in Anding who were unwilling to go, and at this time there was a group of well-dressed old men at the gate of Anding City waiting for the arrival of Ma Teng's army under the scorching sun. One of them was really annoyed, and couldn't help but say: "I said, when will this General Ma come, who got the news, saying that General Ma will come soon, isn't this a fun time for us." ”

The other didn't seem to be on good terms with this person, and sneered: "Oh, Master Li doesn't like it, but I don't know if the Li Cloth Village will be able to open at that time." When Master Li heard this, he also fought back and laughed: "Oh, even if Li's cloth doesn't make it, I'm afraid it won't be a hillbilly's turn to do it, then Wang's cloth village is not a big place for chicken nests." "It seems that both of them are bitter enemies in the cloth business.

The Wang family was still fighting, but he heard a shout: "Presumptuous, if General Ma sees that you are comfortable, this official will not be able to protect you." "It turns out that this is a stable prefectural order. After a while, I saw wolf smoke rising all the way ahead, smoke and dust billowing out, and the crowd shouted: "It's coming, it's coming." "But seeing the three thousand iron horsemen rolling like a torrent, the black clouds crushed the city. But this is the northern frontier after all, even ordinary people are used to cavalry of this scale, and the one who came was the three thousand pioneers of Pang De.

When Pang De saw that there was a group of people gathered at the gate of Anding City, he was overjoyed when he thought about it, and knew that it must be the magnates in the city who welcomed Ma Teng. With a finger of Pound's spear, the three thousand iron horsemen suddenly slowed down, and they couldn't run twenty paces and stopped in unison. Pang De was very satisfied with this effect, took a few steps forward on his horse, and shouted loudly: "Pang Lingming, the vanguard general under the command of General Tianwei, who of you is the commander?" "General Tianwei is not the title of the imperial court, but the honorific title of the Qiang people on the ground of Xiliang at the beginning of Ma Teng, and then slowly called it away, but it is much more powerful than that of the imperial court.

The county commander hurriedly stepped forward: "The lower official settled the county order Liu Dai, and when he heard that General Tianwei was coming, he led the representatives of the whole city out of the city to greet General Tianwei and present the official seal, but I don't know when General Tianwei will arrive?" When Pang De heard it, the county order turned out to be the largest, and it seemed that Han Sui had taken away all the officials above the county government, but Pang De heard that it was a sacrifice of the city. Pang De didn't dare to take it personally, and hurriedly said: "General Tianwei will be here in an hour, just wait here with you." ”

The scorching sun of an hour is no joke, but at this time, everyone will Pang De and the three thousand tiger and wolf army are standing motionless in front of the city gate, and no one dares to say anything. Time passed little by little, Ma Teng finally came, Ma Teng saw that Pang De did not enter the city, Pang De hurriedly came over and explained: "Lord, stabilize the officials to dedicate the city, De has to wait for the lord to come." "Everything is smooth and natural, what kind of official should be or what kind of official, Ma Teng hires all those who surrender to Cheng.

It was getting late, and Pound came out of the county government with a few guards from the city and was about to walk to the barracks. When he was halfway there, five or six people were riding on horses, and Pound was suddenly startled in his heart, and a natural sense of crisis hit him. Pound instinctively rolled down the horse, and at the same time shouted, smack, ah, and screamed, but saw an arrow stuck in the chest of a guard behind Pound.

"Assassin, protect the general." The remaining guards hurriedly shouted and gathered around Pound, who was angry and quickly mounted his horse, but saw a black shadow jumping on the roof a hundred steps ahead, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Pound's heart was cold, is it really incompatible. The guards were about to chase after him, and Pang De shouted: "Hugh go, don't fall for the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain." The guards' shouting alarmed the soldiers on the night patrol, and soon a group of soldiers rushed over and shouted: "What man? ”

Pound naturally didn't have to be afraid, the soldiers on the night patrol saw that it was Pound, and when they heard that Pound had been assassinated, they were taken aback, and hurriedly reported back to Ma Dai, who was in charge of the night patrol tonight. Pound returned to the barracks in a daze, thinking of that familiar figure, and couldn't let go for a long time.

Seeing Huang Zhong's three thousand soldiers busy carrying things out, Han Sui didn't feel good in his heart, but he actually had a smile on his face: "Mr. Yan, say goodbye today, I don't know when we will be able to meet, Han is very talented for Mr., but he admires him tightly, if Mr. is unsatisfactory in Yizhou one day, he can come to Jincheng, and Han will welcome Mr. into the city." "Huang Zhong wants to return to Longxi, and Yan Wen can be regarded as having completed the mission of forming an alliance with Han Sui, and he also has to return to Ji County to report to Chen Lin. Han Sui took the opportunity to dig into the corner, Yan Wen was full of contempt in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Oh, thank you to the general, Wen must remember it." ”

Huang Zhong's army, Yan Wen: "General, there is such a harvest this time, I don't know what arrangements the general will make?" Huang Zhong was obviously in a very good mood, and said with a smile: "This is the heavens and the lord, this time our army is fighting in Tianshui, the grain and grass are far away in Hanzhong, and the transportation is very inconvenient." Earlier, the lord also ordered to contact the Qiang people, hoping to buy cattle and sheep from the Qiang people for military funds, this time a lot of grain was seized, Ji County war, a certain person was ordered to transport grain to Ji County, in order to help the lord, just Mr. Yan with him. ”

When Yan Wen heard this, Huang Zhong understood the righteousness, no wonder the lord reused it, and said with great joy: "The general is righteous, and when he arrives in Ji County, he must tell the lord the truth about what the general has done." "It's been half a month, and the most brilliant one this time is Huang Zhong, Longxi, Song Jian, and now Di Dao, and now Di Dao, and he has prepared so much food for Chen Lin, it is difficult for Huang Zhong to think of the limelight this time.

Huang Zhong: "Wei Yan." Wei Yan suddenly heard Huang Zhong's call during the march and hurriedly rushed over: "The last general." Huang Zhong smiled and said: "Wen Chang, this time our army has captured a lot of grain, Longxi is afraid that there is no chance of a big war, you have the talent of a general, and it will be unlimited in the future." Now you will lead 500 soldiers and horses to escort grain and grass to Ji County, and then you will listen to the orders under the main account, and protect Mr. Yan to return to Ji County safely along the way. Wen Chang, this time, what you can do is up to you. ”

Wei Yan's heart was full of emotion, how could Wei Yan not know that this was simply Huang Zhong who raised himself, let himself go of Ji County, and made contributions. Wei Yan was moved in his heart, but he couldn't stop this big opportunity, gritted his teeth, and knelt down on one knee: "General, the last general will definitely live up to the general's expectations." Yan Wen over there saw this, but he sneered in his heart, Huang Hansheng, what a means, hum. Since then, Yan Wen has always been lukewarm to Wei Yan.

Ji County, Chen Lin was overjoyed: "What? Zhongzhi defeated the enemy vanguard at the site of the ancient city? The scout on the ground hurriedly replied: "Exactly, my lord, the second general first attacked the enemy in the narrow place of the ancient road, and the enemy suffered heavy casualties, but our army did not lose a single soldier. Then the second general took advantage of the night to rob the camp, almost completely annihilated the rest of the enemy's forward, within one day the three thousand pioneers could escape less than 200, the second general also captured more than 200 war horses, and then lost the trace of the second general. ”

When Chen Lin and the others heard this, they laughed loudly, and Fa Zheng at this time: "My lord, the second general is brave, and he has won the victory, which has frustrated the prestige of the enemy army, and now the enemy army is very likely to have two reactions, one is to march quickly and attack with revenge." The other is to suspend the march and come slowly, in order to eliminate the gloom of the defeat of the vanguard, and now I don't know which one Guo and Li will choose. ”

Chen Lin nodded and said, "Not only that, Han Sheng has already sent a letter, and Bojian has also sent a letter, saying that Han Wenyue has already broken through Di Dao, and he is already on his way south, so Guo Li and the others will definitely come up with a countermeasure." I just don't know if the two will divide their troops or concentrate their forces to break the family first. ”

Fa Zheng: "My lord, with Zheng's understanding of these Dong Zhongying's old departments, Guo and Li are most likely able to divide their troops, and according to intelligence, Guo Aduo's troops are less than Li Zhiran, these two must be defending the Korean army and attacking our army as a strategy, that is to say, the enemy who will eventually confront our army is very likely to be Li Zhiran." ”

When Chen Lin heard this, he laughed: "I can't imagine it, a year ago, I was beaten by this person in Huayin, and today I have to fight on the battlefield again, hahahaha." Seeing Chen Lin so refreshing, everyone bluntly said that there was no abnormality in the failure of the year, and they couldn't help but admire Chen Lin's pride and temperament. Seeing that Chen Lin was so confident, everyone was suddenly full of confidence, and the sorrow of Guo and Li's army was swept away.

As Chen Lin Fazheng expected, now Li Wei and Guo Yan are discussing how to divide the troops, only to see Guo Yan shouting: "Although this time it is just to prevent Lao Han from going south, but you must know that now Ma Shoucheng has also sent troops, these two people are not easy to mess with, the Chen family boy only has a few short horses to pass on the credit, why do you leave so many cavalry?" If so-and-so doesn't have cavalry, so-and-so doesn't go, he wants to go to you, Ma Han and the two guys don't have 30,000 cavalry, who will believe it? If you don't go, you go, and you'd rather deal with that Chen family kid. ”

In the land of Xiliang, it is quite a loss if there is no cavalry, especially in the face of a fierce cavalry army like Han Sui's eight generals and Ma Jiajun, Guo Yan insisted that at least 30,000 cavalry would be taken away. How can Li Dao agree, you must know that this is the most elite cavalry, now Li Dao and Guo Yan are not as good as a year ago, and their strength has shrunk a lot, and the strength of the army is king. So the two kept arguing about it, and even stopped marching in the same place for three whole days, just for this question. Chen Lin in Ji County was puzzled. In the end, Li Dao relented and agreed to let Guo Yan take 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers.

Guo Li began to divide his troops and left, Li Wei looked at Tianshui City in the distance, and muttered: "Old enemy." ”