Longxi, Lintao.

In the cool autumn breeze, since the pacification of Longxi, the people ushered in the first bumper harvest, the farmland was full of busy figures, and the local officials commanded the county soldiers to help harvest, and at the same time collect taxes.

The year of the harvest is also the year of disaster, on this day, when Zhang Liao was about to escort a large amount of grain and grass back to Longxian County to report on his work, suddenly a scout came to report, seventy or eighty miles northwest of the fire, it seems that there is a war.

"Oh? Where is the northwest? What the hell is going on, find out. Zhang Liao muttered, spread out the cowhide map, and after reading it for a while, he immediately sent someone to summon the generals to immediately put down the things in their hands and go to the tent to discuss overnight.

Wei Xu held the hilt of the sword in his hand, climbed up and looked at it for a moment, then returned to the shuai tent and said: "The place where the fire started seems to be the direction where Suo Xi is located, but I don't know why the beacon fire is so big, and I will know when the scouts come to report!" ”

"Suoxi, Suoxi, Wenyuan, do you think it will be a bandit?" Song Xian muttered a few times and immediately put forward his own opinions, because every year at this time, some villagers will go into the mountains to intercept and kill passers-by, and even more fierce will attack the town and rob the granary warehouse, so Song Xian's words also have a certain truth.

Zhang Liao frowned, pointed at Suo Xi Zhengse and said: "It's okay to say that the thieves don't need to wait for half a month to be pacified, I'm worried that it's the Qiang people." ”

Since the death of Oh He Yaoge, the burning of Qiang in the west of Longxi has stopped a lot, but this year's temperature is much colder than before, maybe the Qiang people are worried that the food for the winter is not enough, so they led a large army into Kou Longxi, plundered the border grain and grass back to the Qiang border for the winter.

The more Zhang Liao thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility, and immediately hurriedly asked Song Xian and Wei Xu to gather the soldiers, ready to go out at any time to drive the Qiang soldiers back to the Qiang realm. Song Xian and Wei Xu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately walked out of the big tent. Let the herald blow the horn of the rally.

"Whew!" "Whew!" "Whew!"

The sound of whimpering horns instantly tore through the faint ink sky, and then the whole camp heard the shouts of generals and colonels at all levels, and after half a pillar of incense, 10,000 troops were neatly assembled in the school field, dark armor, swords and guns. The banner of the exhibition, the vigorous spirit, just wait for Zhang Liao's order, the army can go out at any time.

About half an hour later. The scout came to report again: "General Qiyu, I met a refugee who escaped from Longsang on the road, saying that the day before yesterday, eight Qiang tribes such as Burning He, Dangfang, and Sister Le gathered more than 10,000 people to besiege Longsang, and they have succeeded, and Longsang County Order was captured, and now the Qiang Hao chief Fuletu led 5,000 Qiang thieves. The county seat of Suoxi is being attacked, and the situation is critical. ”

"Probe!"

Zhang Liao waved his hand to signal the scout to continue to investigate, and at the same time made a decision to rescue Suoxi: "Longxi is newly determined, and the alien race will lead troops to attack, which simply does not take our state army in the eyes, I mean to rescue Suoxi first, and then report back to Longxian County, what do you think?" ”

Song Xian and Wei continued to listen. glanced at each other, and then Qi Qi bowed his hand to Zhang Liao and shouted: "But by the general's orders!" ”

In the state army. There has always been a tradition that in private, the deputy general can call the name of the commander-in-chief, and even bow to the commander, but when it comes to the battlefield, it must be respectful and orderly. A general is a general, and a soldier is a soldier, except for Lu Bu, of course. When Lu Bu had not yet become the commander of the Bingzhou Army, Zhang Liao and the others were all called first, and now Lu Bu has become the lord of Zhang Liao and others. It's been a long time since they've called this Fengxian.

"In this way, we can send troops to support Suoxi and Kronsang, and drive the Qiang people out of the territory of the Great Han!"

Zhang Liao didn't expect that the Qiang people would take advantage of their attack on Wudu to enter the Kou Han realm, this is intolerable, Zhang Liao grew up in Bingzhou since he was a child, and he still vividly remembers the tragic scene when the alien race entered the Kou, most of the generals who came out of Bingzhou and Youzhou have an irrepressible anger towards the alien race, and the anger in Zhang Liao's heart suddenly burned, and he made a decision by patting the table.

After a military discussion, a decision was made, Wei Xu led 2,000 cavalry from the headquarters as the vanguard, Zhang Liao led the headquarters with 2,000 follow, and then rushed to Suoxi due north in the starry night, leaving Song Xian with 6,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Lintao. Second, in order to prevent the Qiang people from taking advantage of the army to move north, Lintao is not better than Suoxi, but a real big county, with a population of more than 20,000, a large land, fertile land, in Longxi County, except for Di Dao, it is the largest in Lintao, and it is the base of grain production in Longxi County.

And Lintao is adjacent to the Qiang people, it is an important military town, you can attack the Qiang people, you can defend Lintao when you retreat, for such an important place, Zhang Liao does not dare to be careless, even if he goes out on the expedition, he does not dare to pour out of the nest.

In order to prevent the grass from startling the snakes, the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Liao and Wei Xu all changed into Qiang costumes, so that they could relax the vigilance of the Qiang thieves to the greatest extent and catch them off guard.

At the moment, Wei Xu's 2,000 people were in front, and Zhang Liao led 2,000 people in the rear, all of them were hard-armed arrows, only brought three days of dry food, and marched quickly towards Suoxi, 800 miles to the northwest, hoping to arrive before the Qiang people broke Suoxi.

"Kill!"

"Grab the food!"

"Snatch a woman!"

Just when Wei Xu's forward troops arrived at the foot of Suoxi City, the county seat had just been broken by the Qiang people for more than half an hour, and thousands of Qiang people shouted the natively muttering Qiang language, swarming into the city.

Although Suoxi has a dangerous geographical location, with Taoshui as a natural moat, it is still only a county town in the end, and there are only 300 old and weak soldiers in the city, facing the strong attack of 5,000 Qiang bandits, after stubbornly resisting all night, it was finally broken by the Qiang soldiers in the early morning.

At this moment, it is the moment when the sky is dawning and the dawn has not yet arrived, the chaos between heaven and earth, and it is also the darkest time of the day.

The city of Suosi was on fire, countless houses were set on fire by thieves, and innocent people who had been driven out of their homes fled in panic all over the streets. Countless Qiang thieves laughed insolently, brandished spears in their hands, and did killing, plundering, and adultery.

The barbaric Qiang soldiers shamelessly raped the women they caught, and the excited roars of the Qiang people, the screams of the old and weak before they died, and the wails of women when they were raped floated over the entire county town of Suoxi. At this moment, the once beautiful county town of Chaisang has become a purgatory on earth!

"Kill, grab food, rob women!"

Wei Xu took the lead. Shouting slogans in the Qiang language he had just learned, he followed the Qiang thieves and rushed into the county seat. Two thousand hardcover foot soldiers followed, sweeping into the city. In order to paralyze the Qiang thieves to the greatest extent, Wei Xu took great pains to find a few soldiers from his subordinates who were slightly fluent in Qiang to teach the whole army simple Qiang spoken language, and what he just shouted was learned on the way to Suoxi.

After a rapid march, Wei Xu's vanguard troops quickly caught up with a group of Qiang soldiers who were setting fire to and looting. But because of the strange accent, they attracted the attention of this group of thieves, and they stopped their movements, and looked at Wei Xujun in surprise, and for a while they couldn't figure out where this was a man and a horse, whether it was friend or foe?

A Qiang soldier leader crossed his horse and asked Wei Xu: "Which tribe is here, and why does he speak with a different accent from us?" ”

Wei Xu didn't answer, and rode forward, slashing out with a simple knife in his hand. A skull suddenly rolled off the horse.

Yang Tian laughed and said: "Lao Tzu is from the tribe of Bingzhou, sons, kill these Qiang soldiers fiercely, my Han territory, how can I allow such foreign races to wreak havoc?" ”

With Wei Xu's order, the soldiers behind him raised their weapons one after another and pounced on the stunned Qiang thief army, slashing and axe, killing hundreds of people in an instant. The rest of the thieves broke out. I went to find Qu Shuai Fu Lertu to report.

The military discipline of the Qiang thieves has always been chaotic, except that the tribal leader's personal soldiers are well-equipped. The equipment of the rest of the tribes was quite backward, and there were not a few who used simple knives, guns, hoes, and kitchen knives as weapons, and they had no armor to protect themselves.

Thereupon. There was a funny scene in Suoxi City, the unwitting Qiang thieves in the center of the city were still looting and raping/adulterous, and the Qiang soldiers near the city gate were killed by the officers and soldiers who suddenly appeared and cried for their mothers, and retreated to the center of the city in a mess.

Just as Wei Xu's vanguard troops were following the Qiang soldiers in pursuit, Zhang Liao also led two thousand rear troops to rush into Suoxi City. Witnessing the tragic scene of the city's beacon fires and people's corpses strewn across the streets and alleys, Zhang Liao couldn't help but be angry and gritted his teeth.

"Where are the scouts?"

"The little one is here to obey!" The scout surrendered his command.

Zhang Liao's eyes were red, his fists were clenched, and he said: "Give me an order, let Wei Xu block all the city gates, and not let go of a foreign race, no matter how you resist and surrender, you will be killed!" The widow wants to use the heads of these five thousand Qiang dogs to pay tribute to the innocent people who died in Suoxi! ”

"No!"

The scout agreed, waved his hand, and beckoned a few brothers to give orders to the ministries.

Seeing the Qiang army burning, killing and looting in the city, Zhang Liao's soldiers were already filled with righteous indignation, eager to kill these alien dogs. After getting Zhang Liao's slaughter order, he tore off the thief uniforms covered outside one by one, revealing the uniform armor of officers and soldiers, and launched a ruthless slaughter of the Qiang bandits who had been defeated all the way. Regardless of whether the other party resisted stubbornly or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, they all greeted with steel knives, and it didn't take much effort, and Suosi's streets became full of corpses, and the smell of blood was disgusting.

In despair, the people of Suoxi suddenly saw a group of officers and soldiers descending from the sky, and the Qiang thieves they killed were overjoyed, and they knelt down and kowtowed, muttering in their mouths to thank the court, thank Lu Bu and the like.

Although the Qiang thieves near the city gate have been slaughtered, the frightened Suoxi people still fled in panic, back and forth, the sound of calling for children and daughters came and went, and the fire in the city was still chaotic.

"This old man, do you know where the Zhou family is in Chaisang City?"

Zhang Liao saw a white-haired old man running around in the crowd, and ordered the soldiers to come forward and call people over for questioning, the Zhou family has always been very supportive of Lu Bu, if the Zhou family has any mistakes, I am afraid that Longxi Shilin will be dissatisfied in his heart, they will say, okay, we support Lu Bu to be the Taishou of Longxi, he only knows how to ask for food, he doesn't know how to protect them, he won't give Lu Bu food in the future, and he won't send people from the family to Lu Bu as officials.

The old man wiped the blood on his head, which was bruised when he hit the bridge while running, and replied: "Back to the general, there are only three families surnamed Zhou in this city, all of whom live in the east of the city. ”

"Thank you, boss!"

Zhang Liao thanked the old man, stuffed him with a string of copper coins, expressed his gratitude, and asked how to go clearly, then led his guards to find the Zhou family.

Zhang Liao carried a knife and rushed to the front of the team, his pace was very urgent, he had to find out the whereabouts of the Zhou family as soon as possible before he could settle down. (To be continued......)