Xiguan governs the land of four states, the largest area is naturally Yuezhou where Shuoquan City is located, and the smallest area is Jinzhou in the north, Jinzhou is the northernmost state in the northwest, Hezhou in the south, Yanmen Pass in the north, after the iron hooves of Xiliang stepped through the Yanmen Pass, the deepest victim is Jinzhou.

When the Western Liang army broke through the Yanmen Pass, it set foot on the ground of Jinzhou in Daqin for the first time, and immediately burned and looted, and destroyed the lives of the people, and Jinzhou suffered a catastrophe, especially Huangsha County in Jinzhou, where ten people were slaughtered and nine were slaughtered.

Jinzhou area is not large, under the jurisdiction of three counties, of which Huangsha County is located in the northernmost, Yanmen Pass is actually in the territory of Huangsha County, the first entry into the Xiliang soldiers indulged in slaughter, although in the Yanmen Pass is in danger, the officials and people of Huangsha County retreated wantonly, but the people who have not had time to evacuate, but they are wailing under the iron hooves of Xiliang.

After the war, Huangsha County, corpses are everywhere, mourning everywhere, sparsely populated, this miserable land, but it has become a blessed land for vulture coyotes, corpses everywhere, so that these beasts feast.

At that time, the smell of corpses was disgusting.

After the retreat of the Western Liang soldiers, although many people returned to their homeland, and a large number of people returned to the capitals and counties of Jinzhou, but the people who returned to Huangsha County were only 12/10, and a large number of fields were barren.

A large number of bones were buried, and the Northwest Army built 36 dock forts near Yanmen Pass in Huangsha County, and opened pits and barren fields, planted troops, and allocated military rations to the Northwest Army, of which a large number were used as grain seeds, and the rations of the officers and men of the Northwest Army were very low, and they could barely support it, and in the wind and sand of the border pass, the conditions of the Northwest Army were even worse than before the war.

In the three counties of Jinzhou, because Huangsha County is sparsely populated, there are not even a few people in the official yamen, and the Northwest Army is stationed in Tuntian, Huangsha County, and the actual control of Huangsha County is actually in the hands of the Northwest Army.

Compared with Hezhou City, the defense of Lanyi City in Jinzhou is naturally much inferior, but Lanyi City is located in the most dangerous place in Jinzhou, there are many Gobi, the road is rugged, if you want to get close to Lanyi City, you must pass through the Wolf Tooth Valley, the road in the Wolf Tooth Valley is narrow, you want to pass through the Wolf Tooth Valley, the road in the Wolf Tooth Valley is rugged, and it is not easy to pass through it at ordinary times, not to mention that the Wolf Tooth Valley at this time has been garrisoned by Zhang Shuyan's soldiers and horses.

Zhang Shuyan is over fifty years old, old and strong, he and Dongfang Xin is in-law relationship, his son married Dongfang Xin's niece, after the two families got married, the relationship is naturally very close, Dongfang Xin handed over the Genzi camp to Zhang Shuyan, so that he guarded Jinzhou, this is of course to put Jinzhou under the control of the Zhu Party, but there is another important reason, let Dongfang Xin decide to hand over Jinzhou to Zhang Shuyan to guard.

Jinzhou is the smallest state in Xiguan, mostly sandy land, the area of farming is very small, the grain here is mainly supplied from the outside, and all kinds of resources are actually very scarce.

However, in the territory of Golden State, there is a large sandy area of large area, and since very early times, there has been a tradition of panning for sand gold.

Sand gold deposits are formed in low-lying places, and are gold deposits formed by gold veins or gold deposits in upstream rocks through blooming, denudation, transportation and sedimentation.

This is a long process, but it is undeniable that the sand gold contained in the yellow sand has become the most desirable thing since it was discovered.

Shajin is naturally owned by the government, and the most important means of livelihood for the people of Jinzhou is to pan for sand gold for the government, get paid, and make a living.

Panning for sand gold is to manually dig out the topsoil, dig to the gravel layer, and then take the gold panning basin to the water to wash, because the gold proportion is large, will precipitate at the bottom, those glittering things are sand gold, this method is mainly by manpower, on the individual, in fact, the efficiency is not high, but if you form a large gold panning team, specializing in such gold panning, the sand gold obtained is not a small amount.

For a long time, the government of Jinzhou did not put criminals in prisons, but sent them to the sand panning field, so that they could pan for gold for the government, and ordinary people were employed by the government, and the gold panning would have corresponding remuneration, and the criminals could only pan for gold for the government for free.

After the war in the northwest, the imperial court has also issued an order, the northwest is exempt from taxation for three years, after the Zhu party retreated from the Western Liang people, once controlled Xiguan, although the land in Jinzhou is barren, but as an important production area of Jinsha, Dongfang Xin naturally wants to send his own in-law Zhang Shuyan to guard Jinzhou, and Zhang Shuyan's meaning to Dongfang Xin is naturally very clear, after being stationed in Jinzhou, he immediately organized people to start panning for gold, these Jinsha, of course, can not be handed over to the imperial court.

It's just that he didn't expect that after the imperial court sent a new governor, the situation in Xiguan completely changed in a short period of time, and his biggest backer, Dongfang Xin, suddenly collapsed, and the new governor was really resolute, and he threw a heavy punch to almost wipe out the Zhu Party officials in Shuoquan.

Hezhou and Jinzhou raised troops at the same time, Zhang Shuyan also thought for a while that Chu Huan must have sent troops to recruit, he has been thinking, Chu Huan's first target, is Hu Zongmao or him Zhang Shuyan?

When he learned that Chu Huan had attacked Hezhou, Zhang Shuyan breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he and Hu Zongmao raised troops before and after, both under the banner of resisting Chu Huan, the personal relationship between the two was really ordinary, and Chu Huan's attack on Hezhou was not necessarily bad news for Zhang Shuyan.

Although he doesn't look down on Hu Zongmao's character, Zhang Shuyan still has a little appreciation for Hu Zongmao's ability to defend the city, both of them have served under Zhu Lingyue, and both sides also know each other's advantages.

Chu Huan's grain and straw can't actually last too long, and Zhang Shuyan knows very well that Hezhou City is not alone, as long as he persists long enough, then there will be many forces dispatched, and when Chu Huan faces definitely not only the Xunzi battalion in Hezhou, even if he takes 10,000 steps back, Hezhou City is really lost in the end, and the Chu army at that time is already seriously injured, and it is already very difficult to attack Jinzhou again.

Zhang Shuyan understands better that if Hezhou really falls into the hands of Chu Huan, the person who is anxious is definitely not himself, someone will be more anxious than himself, and when Chu Huan attacks Jinzhou, he will encounter much more resistance than attacking Hezhou.

Moreover, Dongfang Xin asked him to guard Jinzhou, and the Genzi battalion equipped with him was the sharpest of the eight battalions of the Pingxi Army, and Dongfang Xin would take care of his own in-laws, of course, so the cavalry of the Genzi battalion occupied the first place among the eight battalions, with more than 800 cavalry, although compared with the tens of thousands of cavalry in Xiliang, the number of 800 cavalry seemed very ridiculous, but among the armies in the northwest, 800 cavalry was not a small number.

Therefore, although Lanyi City is not as high as the thick city wall of Hezhou, but with the Wolf's Tooth Valley as a barrier, with 800 cavalry and thousands of Jingrui warriors, Zhang Shuyan is still full of confidence in holding Jinzhou.

He didn't have much fear of Chu Huan, but was full of jealousy of the Northwest Army behind him.

It is also strange to say that this wolf's tooth valley is located in the south of Lanyi City, although it goes to Yanmen Pass through Jinzhou, it does not have to pass through Lanyi City, you can bypass from other places, but if you want to reach Lanyi City from the south, you must pass through the Langya Valley, although in addition to the road of the Langya Valley, you can also go to Lanyi City from the Shigouzi River in the east, but the Shigouzi River is wide and deep, and you must have boats to cross the river, and the boats on the river have long been dragged to the west bank by Zhang Shuyan, and ordered that boats are prohibited on the river, if there is disobedience, you will be killed.

Chu Huan marched, it was impossible to carry a large number of ships, so he could only pass through the Wolf's Tooth Valley, he had already sent a garrison in the Wolf's Tooth Valley, although he knew that with Chu Huan's strength, he would force his way through, and he would eventually break through the Wolf's Tooth Valley, but he was also sure that as long as the Wolf's Tooth Valley fought, it would be able to make the Chu army suffer a great injury, and finally arrive at the foot of Lanyi City, it was just a scarred army.

Almost every day, he would go to the north of Lanyi City to take a look at the situation in the north, he was not afraid that the Chu army would come to the city, but he was afraid that the northwest army in the north would suddenly appear.

The Northwest Army no longer has the majesty of the original Feng Hanxiao command, the Northwest Army at that time, the military discipline was strict, the Jing soldiers were 100,000, the fierce generals were like clouds, and the 13th Taibao was even more famous all over the world.

Now stationed in the Yanmen Pass of the Northwest Army, but tens of thousands, and the equipment and morale have long been inferior to the original, more importantly, although the current commander of the Northwest Army was a fierce general under Feng Hanxiao, but Feng Hanxiao will always be Feng Hanxiao, as one of the four generals of the Great Qin Empire, Feng Hanxiao's departure is irreplaceable.

The current commander of the Northwest Army, who is nicknamed "Dumb General", is a title that Feng Hanxiao has received when he was alive, not that this commander is really dumb, but that this person has always been taciturn, and he cherishes words like gold, which makes it difficult for people to see through his mind.

When Feng Hanxiao commanded the 100,000 Northwest Army, the twelve commanders under his command were all brave and good at fighting, and when Feng Hanxiao was killed, almost everyone knew that the power of the Northwest Commander must be promoted among the twelve commanders, so there was no shortage of people in the twelve commanders who formed a party and fought openly and secretly for the position of the Northwest General.

The Northwest Army in the era of Feng Hanxiao may not have no partisan disputes, but it was suppressed by Feng Hanxiao, and the top and bottom were still united, and when Feng Hanxiao left, the factions of the Northwest Army were immediately distinct, the infighting was serious, and the power declined, and the 100,000 iron hooves of the West Liang suddenly came over, and the Northwest Army, which was deeply involved in infighting, fell apart for a while, and it can even be said that when resisting the iron hooves of the West Liang, the Northwest Army did not have a general with a real unified command, and each army fought separately, which was also one of the reasons for the rout of the Northwest Army.

The commander of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China died in more than half of the territory, and the "dumb general" Liu Fengjun's department was the best one of the Northwest Army units when resisting the Western Liang soldiers, and even won several battles, which was very commendable under the environment of the Northwest Army's retreat on the whole line at that time, and this low-key general was widely known, and his prestige among the soldiers became even higher.

The Northwest Army returned to Yanmen Pass, and at the last moment, Yu Buqu recommended Liu Fengjun to the imperial court as the commander of the Northwest Army, and Liu Fengjun led the remaining tens of thousands of Northwest Army to return to Yanmen, open the land and Tuntian, build 36 dock forts, and garrison the border pass.

Zhang Shuyan naturally heard of Liu Fengjun's fame, but he really didn't know about Liu Fengjun's feelings, although someone assured him that the Northwest Army would never take action, but from the day the troops were raised, Zhang Shuyan was not worried for a moment that the Northwest Army would appear on the back, and the fear of the Northwest Army was far above Chu Huan.