In the low and sparse woods, densely packed with soldiers and horses, the hooves of the war horses gently digging the soil, and from time to time a suspected sneeze sound came out of the nose. The spring breeze in March, but the treetop branches are still full of dead branches left over from the previous year, and only the tender green spring buds are faintly shrouded in a trace of vitality and green.

At this moment, a war horse with a fat belly came from the north, and the knight on the horse shouted "report the ......" before he arrived at the ground, and when he approached, he skillfully jumped down from the horse, and knelt down on one knee in front of the Chinese army: "Lord Wang, General Yin waved the white flag after entering the city." ”

"Got it." Xue Chongxun responded.

Suddenly a chaotic sound of speech sounded in all directions, and the tension of the army tensed up and prepared for war relaxed. Xue Chongxun looked back and sighed: "Zhang Ren is willing to accumulate heavy troops here as a gateway land, but we didn't need to kill an arrow or a stone...... It's really helpless to have no opponent. ”

The generals looked at each other.

"Let's go into town." Xue Chongxun gave an order. The troops then started their horses' hooves and marched slowly, and after a while, the beating of small leather drums and the shouts of the generals also sounded, and the infantry marched together.

After walking for a while, Zhang Jiuling immediately stepped forward and said: "Shenmu guards and surrenders, and the prince should treat it well, thinking that it will be an example for other towns and will be of great benefit to alleviating the resistance of our army to counterinsurgency." ”

"What Zishou said is true, I should follow the advice." Xue Chongxun generously agreed.

Zhang Jiuling has been reluctant since the power struggle in the past few years, and has gone home to build the road for several years, and now he is really enterprising when he comes back, and he is finally performing his duties as a staff advisor from time to time. Unless it is too unreliable, Xue Chongxun will probably humbly accept and encourage him.

The Chinese army and his party are all very young, and Xue Chongxun has a lot of young Zhuang faction. Zhang Wulang, Yin Ci, Bao Cheng, Li Kuiyong and other generals are all people under the age of 30, Xue Chongxun is only about to turn 30 this year, people in their thirties like Zhang Jiuling are considered to be older, and even teenagers like Wang Changling are often ranked left and right and are highly used.

These people from scholarly families or families have a good material life and look old, and they are still very young at the age of thirty. In this era, only the toiling masses at the bottom said that the food was usually only eaten by corn or brown rice every day, and it was difficult to swallow and nutritious, and they grew old quickly after heavy labor, and many people in their thirties were like people in their forties and fifties.

Seeing that the sideburns were black one by one, and there were not many traces of time, Xue Chongxun's heart was also brightened a lot, and he was in a good mood. Looking up, the weather is beautiful today, the sun is already hanging in the air radiating thousands of rays, reflecting the blue sky, and the world is full of sunshine.

"You have to make a career as soon as possible." Xue Chongxun let out a thoughtless sigh.

A civil official beside him echoed: "The prince is prosperous in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the great cause is still at the beginning, and he will definitely be admired by all generations." ”

"Haha!" Xue Chongxun laughed, and sang as soon as he was in a good mood, "The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes." Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, how many things in ancient and modern times are all laughed and talked about......"

Although the tune will sound strange to the public, this song is sung slowly, and the lyrics are probably understood by everyone. Singing such twilight lyrics in this situation and this scene is obviously a little speechless.

However, Xue Chongxun didn't care, turned his eyes to the left and right and said: "When we wait for the day of success, seeing the world Chengping Quartet and the people living and working in peace and contentment, Datong is prosperous, at that time, the mountains and forests will be retreated, and all the princes will gather together and enjoy a pot of turbid wine to enjoy leisure, it is probably very interesting, right?" ”

Everyone was moved when they heard it, and Xue Chongxun said lightly that he was willing to grow old with everyone, and his sincere feelings did not have the slightest false expression, so that the civil and military generals were a little moved. There are many hurdles in the world, and what a great friendship it should be to be able to work together until old age......

Everyone talked and laughed all the way to the front of Shenmu Town, only to see that the city gate was wide open, and the city wall was full of clothes and armor of the Guanzhong army, which was the former military horses of Yin Ci. With such a look, this town has been easily taken.

The Chinese infantry marched into the city in turn, and then the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Regiment in bright armor escorted Xue Chongxun and his staff to ride over. When I entered the city gate, I saw a group of generals and scribes kneeling beside the avenue in the city gate, and I saw that the person in front of him was wearing sackcloth, holding a folded suit of armor and official hats and official seals in both hands.

Xue Chongxun rode his horse to the person dressed differently and stopped, because the other people kneeling beside the road were either generals in Tang army armor or civil servants in official uniforms, and he was the only one dressed like this.

Seeing Xue Chongxun stop, the man lifted up the clothes, armor, hats and other things in his arms, although he didn't know Xue Chongxun, but when he saw many officials in official uniforms and high-grade generals around him, he guessed that it was the boss.

"Yang Mo, the garrison of Shenmu Town, was coerced by the traitor Zhang Renyuan, failed to kill himself, and was ashamed of the imperial court, and he did not dare to resist the king of Jin, knowing that the death penalty was inevitable, he had to kneel in front of the horse and return the official uniform and seal the letter, and he ...... bow his head and wait to be killed."

Xue Chongxun sat on a horse in heavy armor and looked at the person kneeling below quietly, and saw that he was shivering with cold in a single coat, so he said: "The weather in early spring has not completely warmed up, are you dressed like this?" ”

Yang Mo still held his armor and hung his head, not daring to look up, and hurriedly replied: "The clothes that the ministers usually wear are all the clothes given by the imperial court, and it is really ashamed to serve them again, so they have reached the point where they have no clothes to wear." ”

At this time, Xue Chongxun jumped off the horse, only to hear a heavy loud sound of "bang", which startled Yang Mo, and his body fell even lower.

Xue Chongxun picked up a robe he was holding, put it on his back with his own hands, held his arm and said, "I have to thank you." ”

"Huh?" Yang Mo finally raised his head and looked at Xue Chongxun in surprise, but found that his face was sincere, and there was no intention of being sarcastic. The subordinates and staff members around him didn't speak, sitting on the horse and watching which play Xue Chongxun was going to play.

"Not only Xue wants to thank you, but also my Tang soldiers want to thank you, it is precisely because you put the righteousness of the Han family first that the tragedy of the Han soldiers killing each other was avoided." Xue Chongxun stood up straight again, and said loudly to the soldiers of Shenmu Town who were kneeling on the side of the road, "I am waiting for the fat of the Han people to live, so I should do everything I can to protect my family and the people of the country and the outside world, how can I fight against each other and fight for internal friction?" Those who have the courage should be outside the pass, raise the prestige of my Han family, and let the Hu cavalry dare not peep when he hears the wind|Desire Kyushu! ”

Xue Chongxun casually said a few words of incitement, and the troops were moved, and they stood in place in a daze. He noticed that many people's waists were also much straighter, and he was very satisfied at the moment.

He raised his hand and shouted, "Get up and disperse, what you used to do, do what you do now." ”

The armies shouted hooray, and a bloody crisis quickly turned into a rush to celebrate. Zhang Jiuling whispered next to Xue Chongxun: "The prince accepted the heart of the army in just a few words, he is really a hero in the world, and Zishou has to obey." ”

Yang Mo was still kneeling there, Xue Chongxun bent down and really supported his arm and pulled it up, brushed up his back and said: "You are still in charge of the armaments of Shenmu Town, and the official has been reinstated, but this time you can't listen to the traitors' encouragement and coercion." ”

Yang Mo choked up and said: "The ministers should defend the land to the death!" ”

Xue Chongxun nodded, turned around to get on the horse, and a guard stepped forward to help him, but he pushed him away, and although the armor was heavy, he still managed to turn it over at once. The sword wound he suffered in Huaqing Palace was already healed, and there was no pressure at this time. As soon as he caught his horse's belly, he galloped north from the side of the army ranks.

The staff soon heard a high song: "The spring breeze is proud, and you can see Shenmu Town in one day." ”

…… Zhang Jiuling's advice to treat the generals of the Shenmu army was undoubtedly very reasonable, and Yang Moguan was reinstated, and the fact that An Minqiu had not committed anything in the official army soon spread throughout the Jinzuo area.

Not long after the army was stationed in Shenmu Town, many county bureaucrats and generals sent envoys or personally ran to the army to surrender.

Xue Chongxun led his army north for many days, and without spending a single soldier, a sword, or a shot, he collected most of the cities and military towns in the Guanbei and Anbei regions.

In such a shape, I am afraid that even a blind person can see the trend of the times.

However, the three cities were still in the hands of Zhang Renyuan and his military group, and the soldiers and horses in these three places were very strong and fortified, which was the real problem.

Although the people of the three cities also claimed to surrender, and the secret discussion should be mutually agreed, it is still uncertain what is going on. But in any case, Xue Chongxun was determined to put down the Anbei rebellion this time.

One day, when he and the civil and military gathered together to discuss the next military action, he unfolded the map and looked at it, and immediately scolded the general: "Are the generals of the three cities completely blind? ”

Everyone was busy asking why. Xue Chongxun pointed to the rough map in front of him and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the letter brought by the secret envoy says that we should attack the East Surrender City, and then the inside and the outside should be combined to launch a secret plan from the action of the East Surrender City...... But you see, the eastern surrender city is so far away (Hohhot), but it is the closest to the middle surrender city (Baotou), why do we have to go all the way to fight the eastern surrender city? ”

Wang Changling thought for a while and said, "The plan on the secret letter is indeed to attack the East Surrender City, this is ......"

Zhang Wulang frowned and said: "If our army is willing to attack Dongcheng near and far, in the case that Zhongcheng has not been recovered, it will definitely affect the supply line, in case the battle to attack Dongcheng is delayed, and the grain route is exposed to the threat of the rebels, it is not a long-term way, and it has to be guarded against." ”

I don't know who said coldly: "It can't be a trick deliberately arranged by them, right?" ”

The crowd fell silent. This thing is really strange, the secret plan is a big deal, could it be that the other party's military generals are not thoughtful and negligent in this kind of matter?

When the staff were thinking hard about various plans, Xue Chongxun said happily: "Directly do Zhongcheng, don't care about them." ”G