In Lintao, Longxi, after a spring rain, everything began to recover.

At this time, it has not yet reached the time to open the market, and there are already people coming and going under the city of Lintao, the peddlers and pawns carrying heavy burdens, and the villagers who have entered the city to catch the market, all of which are quietly waiting for the drum of the opening of the market at this time.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

After the two drums sounded, a county official with a drumstick shouted: "The market is open!" ”

With the shouting of the county official, whether it was a market or a seller of goods, they all walked into Lintao City.

After entering the city, the people who rushed to the market began to wander around, looking for goods that they were satisfied with, and the sellers immediately occupied a good piece of land, put their goods on the table, and began to shout and sell loudly, and for a while, the sky over the whole Lintao City was filled with the sound of selling, bargaining, and children's play.

There was also no shortage of Qiang people in this bustling crowd, they gathered in groups of three or five to exchange the goods they brought from the tribe with the Han people in the city, but these Qiang people wanted to enter the city, they had to go through strict inspections, because Lu Bu had already issued an order during the expedition, so that Huang Zhong must strictly guard against the burning of Dangqiang and Shenwolf Qiang in the west.

In front of the gate of Lintao City, several soldiers from Bingzhou were strictly carrying out Huang Zhong's military orders, but whenever any Qiang people wanted to enter the city, they would strictly check to see if they had hidden weapons in the goods.

Suddenly, a wave of Qiang people came to the attention of the sergeants, numbering about twenty or so, each carrying a camel carrying several heavy bags of goods on its back.

When the two groups of men and horses were only five meters apart, Sima of the city gate immediately shouted and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

One of the Qiang men immediately strode out of the crowd and said in stiff Chinese: "We are here to interact with each other, please make it convenient for the general!" ”

Sima of the city gate immediately raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Open the sack, we will check"

When the Qiang man heard this, a trace of killing intent flashed in his eyes, but it was fleeting and was not captured by Sima at the city gate.

Seeing that they were reluctant to open the sacks, Sima Hu at the city gate glanced at the big man suspiciously, and then beckoned the sergeant to come forward to inspect the goods, and the group of Qiang people immediately blocked in front of them, preventing them from getting close to the camels, and spoke a Qiang language in their mouths.

"Why, you can't rebel?"

Seeing that this group of Qiang people was not good, Sima of the city gate immediately opened his mouth and scolded angrily, and the spear in his hand was not ambiguous, and he stabbed a Qiang man in the abdomen.

The group of Qiang people was furious, and rushed forward to have a hand-to-hand fight with Sima at the city gate, and the leading man immediately drank them in Qiang language, and immediately stepped forward to check on the injured Qiang man, who was holding the wound on his abdomen to death, and was already sweating profusely in pain at this time, but he didn't say anything, and after a while, he saw that his pupils gradually dilated, and his breathing began to be short, and in less than half a sound, the hands covering his abdomen were also slumped to the ground.

The leading Qiang people took a deep breath and glanced at the group of Qiang people, and everyone understood, and took off the sacks from the camels, opened the mouth of the bags, and let the city gate Sima wait for inspection.

Taking advantage of the city gate Sima to check the goods, the leading man took the lead in attacking, a spear that snatched the city gate Sima, and ran to his throat is a spear, the city gate Sima was defenseless, only raised his throat cold, and the back of his neck suddenly swished into the wind, but his whole person had been picked up by the Qiang man, and his whole body was suspended in the air.

"Traitor... Rebel...! ”

This is the last sentence of Sima of the city gate before he died, he did not blink his eyes, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.

At the same time, several Bingzhou sergeants brought by Sima of the city gate were also knocked to the ground by this group of Qiang people, and the weapons in their hands were also taken away, and then they were pierced through the chest by their own weapons, and they were killed instantly.

"Woo~"

The whimpering horn instantly tore through the sky of Lintao City, after the horn, the rumbling sound suddenly sounded outside the city, the sound from far and near, short and urgent, and then, the earth began to tremble slightly, and I saw a black line surging on the plain outside Lintao City, gradually, the black line became unusually thick, as the distance of the black line became closer and closer, the captain of the city gate couldn't help but gasp, only to see a black curtain emerge a few hundred meters outside the city, that is the cavalry of the Qiang people, the number of about 10,000 people, They all wore crane feather hoods, wore lace white-haired armor, and held scimitars, like wolves and tigers.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves became heavier and heavier, and the city of Lintao seemed to tremble, and the rumbling horses' hooves not only stepped on the land of Lintao, but also stepped on the hearts of the people of Lintao, and the heavy horse's hooves began to suffocate their hearts.

"The Qiang people are coming, run!"

"Woo woo ~ Dad, mother, where are you"

"It's a war, run!"

All of a sudden, Lintao City was in chaos, with cries of terror everywhere, howls of despair, and howls of screaming everywhere.

"Close the gates!" The captain of the city gate immediately stretched his neck and screamed loudly towards the city tower, his face turned red, his eyes were cracked, and the green tendons on his forehead were clearly visible.

As soon as his words fell, the city suddenly erupted into an earth-shattering shout, those Qiang people who exchanged markets with the Han people did not know to pull out the machetes from it, and slashed at the people around them, accompanied by a heart-rending scream, in an instant, hundreds of Han people were cut to the ground by the Qiang people, and people shouted and ran in panic, but instead of winning the sympathy of the Qiang people, they aroused their animal nature, both old and young, all of them were hacked to death.

The captain of the city gate immediately pulled out the saber on his waist, while making people close the city gate, while beckoning the soldiers to kill the Qiang people who were making trouble, as long as they could buy half an hour, the reinforcements stationed outside the city would come, but before they could meet the Qiang people in short arms, hundreds of men armed with knives and guns poured out from the Han people, and the captain of the city gate and his party were cut down to the ground by those Han people in a hurry, and the captain grabbed the ankle of a big man at the moment of falling, and the big man turned around, Looking at the captain on the ground smiled coldly, with a wave of the steel knife in his hand, the captain's head rolled to the ground, and at the last moment of his life, he saw a gorgeously dressed man walking over, the captain knew that person, he was the head of a family in Lintao City, and the scholar clan rebelled.

Wangqu Valley, located in the border area of the Han and Qiang people, if the Qiang people want to attack Lintao, this Wangqu Valley is their only way, not only that, Wangqu Valley is only more than 30 miles away from Lintao, if the Qiang people attack Lintao City, and the state iron cavalry will arrive within half an hour, so Huang Zhong decided to build the camp here, in addition to training soldiers every day, he will take out three hours to inspect Lintao City, this is early, there is still a period of time before Huang Zhong goes out to inspect.

"General, I don't know why the post station outside the valley is on fire, should we go and take a look?" The deputy general rushed in in a hurry, and said to Huang Zhong, who was reading the military book on the case.

The inn is on fire? How could it catch fire for no reason, something was wrong, Huang Zhong, who felt that things were a little strange, immediately put down the military book in his hand, lifted the mountain pavilion knife on the landing platform, and stepped out of the big tent with the deputy general.

The post station outside Wangqu Valley is burning with flames at this time, the fire is raging, the fire is monstrous, and the fire can be seen in the canyon, Huang Zhong was stunned, and said secretly: "Under this broad daylight, someone actually burned the post station?" After rushing out of the valley, he saw about three or four hundred people around the post station from a distance, looking at the dress, it seemed to be Qiang soldiers, Huang Zhong was in his heart, and immediately shouted to the deputy general next to him: "You quickly return to the camp, order all the soldiers and horses, and gallop to help Lintao City." ”

The adjutant general immediately put forward a different opinion: "General, this is a group of Qiang thieves, we only need one charge, and we can turn them into powder in an instant, why do we mobilize the army to mobilize the army"

Huang Zhong scolded angrily: "We are stationed in Wangqu Valley, except for the garrison stationed in Lintao, no one else knows, and now this group of Qiang soldiers appeared here for no reason, which has proved that there are Qiang people into Kou Longxi, just imagine, how did this group of Qiang people avoid the scouts of our army?" ”

The adjutant general stared at Huang Zhong in disbelief and said, "What does the general mean that the Qiang soldiers did not enter from Wangqu Valley, but from Wudu?" ”

"Yes, the military advisor said when he left, be careful of the embankment Qiang and Liang Shuang, I never thought that they would be embarrassed and enter Kou Longxi"

Huang Zhong's lieutenant did not react until this time, and he did not dare to delay at the moment, so he immediately turned his horse's head and ran back to the Bingzhou camp in Wangqu Valley.

Huang Zhong looked at the elated Qiang soldiers at the foot of the mountain with a cold gaze, and immediately raised his sword and rode his horse, leading the accompanying guards to rush down the mountain.