After several hours of continuous attacks, after paying a lot of losses, Yang Guo and the army under Yang Jun withdrew to the camp one after another.

In the siege battle on this day, the losses of all three sides were not small, the total number of dead reached the scale of a thousand, and the number of wounded was innumerable.

Although it paid a lot of casualties, it still did not break through the city, but it greatly damaged the city defense facilities of the lower city, and the losses of the defending royal forest army were not small, so the siege operation of the rebel army was relatively successful.

After the army withdrew to the camp, Yang Jun and Yang Guo informed each other of their respective achievements and losses, and in the face of the large losses of both sides, neither of them suspected that the other party was trying not to do their best.

After some discussion, Yang Guo and Yang Jun agreed to continue to storm the city on the second day, so as not to give the Imperial Forest Army defending the city a chance to breathe.

After resting for the night, early the next morning, Yang Guo and Yang Jun once again led all the soldiers and horses under their command to launch a strong attack on the city of Xiabian.

The attack on the second day was as tragic as the first, and both sides paid great losses, but neither of them would give up and gritted their teeth and persisted.

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In the direction of Nanzheng City, after two consecutive days and one night of rapid marching, Huang Fuming and five or six smart soldiers under his command returned to the city smoothly, and went to the Assassin's Mansion to report to Hua'an as soon as possible.

At this time, it was already afternoon, Hua An had just finished his meal and was taking a walk in the front yard when he saw Huang Fuming, who had returned.

"General, the task of the last general has been completed smoothly, and I have come to return to my life." Huang Fuming walked to Hua An's side and saluted Hua An with his fists. The five or six wise men behind him also saluted.

Hua An smiled slightly, stepped forward to help Huang Fuming, and said softly: "This time, it's really hard for you, get up quickly, you don't have to salute." After speaking, he made a small gesture to the Satoshi in the back.

Huang Fuming stood up straight, looked at Hua An, and said with his fists clenched: "General, the battle in Xiabiancheng has begun, and the fifteen thousand troops of Yang Guo and Yang Jun." Storms have been launched on the North Gate and the West Gate, respectively. It is estimated that the 5,000 Imperial Forest troops defending the city will not be able to resist for a few days. ”

"Haha! All right! The civil war in Qiu Chi has finally broken out. When Hua An heard this, he was very excited.

This situation was completely expected by Huaan. The situation in Qiu Chi has been developing downward according to Hua'an's thinking. It won't be long. The entire Qiuchi Kingdom will be incorporated into the territory of the Great Jin.

Huang Fuming then clenched his fists and said: "The situation in Qiu Chi is like this, what is the general's plan next?" ”

Hua An thought for a moment and said softly: "The battle in the city." I'm afraid that it will last for a few days, and the general can use these few days to gather a large army and march towards the border of Qiuchi, waiting for the opportunity to enter Qiuchi. ”

When Huangfu heard this, he seemed to have a premonition, he hesitated for a moment, and asked: "General, Hu Hou didn't return together, he said that there is a more important task, I don't know what important task it is?" After speaking, he looked at Hua'an expectantly.

Seeing Huang Fuming asking, Hua An thought for a while, and Zhengse replied: "This task is more dangerous, Ben Jiang was originally going to hand it over to you, but after thinking about it carefully, you are Ben General's right and left hand, how can you lose, so I handed over this task to Hu Hou." ”

After listening to Hua An's explanation, Huang Fuming could already guess that this so-called important task must be to assassinate an important person in Qiu Chiguo, the more high-level people and the more guards around him, the more difficult and dangerous it will be to assassinate.

Seeing that Hua An didn't want to say what the task was, Huang Fuming didn't ask, and after making a careful report on what he knew about the situation in Xiafen City, he left the Assassin's Mansion and went to the Deaf and Dumb Pavilion to select and train a new batch of smart people.

After Huang Fuming left, five or six smart men stayed by Hua'an's side, and these smart men and the five smart men led by Hu Hou were the strongest in the first batch of smart warriors, and they were also Hua'an's personal guards, responsible for protecting Hua'an's safety.

"Big brother, big brother." Not long after Huang Fuming left the Assassin's Mansion, Wang San strode in.

"What's the matter?" Hua An asked softly.

Wang San replied: "Big brother, according to the news sent back by the thunderstorm, in recent days, more and more merchants and people in Qiuchi have poured into my Liangzhou, among them, most of them are well-dressed rich people, and the thunderstorm has placed them all in temporary tents on the border, and these tents are almost unaccommodating. ”

"Oh, there are so many rich people who want to come to my Liangzhou." Hua An was slightly surprised.

"The merchants and people of Qiuchi gathered more and more, and Thunderstorm asked whether to let them enter Liangzhou or forcibly drive them back." Wang San then asked.

Hua An smiled slightly, and said happily: "It is a good thing for us that there are a large number of people pouring into Liangzhou, sue sù thunderstorm, as long as there are people from Qiu Chi entering Liangzhou, they will be allowed to pass, and there must be no obstruction." ”

"Yes, big brother." Wang San hurriedly replied.

Hua An paused, and then said: "In the past few days, the scale of the influx of the people of Qiuchi into Liangzhou will become larger and larger, and we must settle these fleeing people and let them stay on the land of Liangzhou with peace of mind. ”

"Big brother, the task of settling the people of Qiu Chi will be handed over to Zhang Yu and Xie Siming, they are the best at dealing with this kind of thing." Wang Sanjian said.

Hua An nodded in agreement, paused, and asked, "How is the training of Chen Ting's army, and have the weapons and armor of the recruits been distributed to each soldier?" ”

"Big brother, I just came back from the Liangzhou Army camp, the weapons and armor of the recruits are complete, the training effect is also very good, and the combat effectiveness has been initially formed." Wang San replied truthfully.

"Okay, it's really good, you go and give the order immediately, so that Chen Ting's army is ready to pull out the camp, and tomorrow morning, the whole army will march to the border of Qiuchi." Hua An looked at Wang San and ordered softly.

Wang San nodded and said, "Don't worry, big brother, I'll go and pass the order." After speaking, he turned around and left the Assassin's Mansion.

With a move, Hua'an led a few close guards to walk towards the north gate of Nanzhengcheng, where are the construction sites of various workshops, and Hua'an will start from there and gradually inspect the entire Nanzheng City.

At the construction site of the workshop, Hua'an met Zhang Yu, who was supervising and guiding here, and told him about the influx of the people of Qiuchi into Liangzhou, and asked him to take time out to settle these Qiuchi people who were about to enter Liangzhou.

Zhang Yu naturally accepted the order happily, and said that he would definitely live well with these people from Qiuchi, so that Hua'an could rest assured that he would lead the army to the border area.

After receiving Zhang Yu's promise, Hua'an was relieved, and then took a few smart people to inspect the Literature Museum and the Medical Museum successively, and check the specific situation there.

In the armory hall, Hua'an asked Pu Tie to continue to build all kinds of weapons and armor, although there is no shortage of weapons in the army for the time being, but there is a large-scale expansion plan for the next year, and then build weapons, I am afraid it will be too late.

Pu Tie said that he will definitely make every effort to build various types of weapons, and he will definitely prepare enough weapons and armor before Hua'an expands his troops in the coming year.

Finally, Hua An came to the Liangzhou army camp to check the preparations of Chen Ting's army.

Chen Ting, who was training soldiers, saw Hua An striding into the barracks, hurriedly stepped forward, hugged his fists and said, "The last general will meet the general." ”

Hua An hurriedly stretched out his hand and said softly: "You don't have to salute, the general please get up." ”

Chen Ting stood up straight, pointed to the soldiers who were training, and said softly: "General, the officers and men of the Liangzhou Army are training day and night, and now, they have begun to have combat power, and in a few years, they will be an elite division!" ”

"Very good, General Chen has worked hard, this general now has a combat mission, presumably General Chen already knows, can the Liangzhou army really fight? Can you win the battle? Hua An looked at Chen Ting and asked.

Chen Ting hurriedly replied: "General Wang has come to give an order just now, and the last general believes that the Liangzhou army can fight and win the war, and as long as the general needs it, the Liangzhou army can go to the battlefield at any time." ”

"Okay, very good, the camp will be pulled out early tomorrow morning, let the soldiers stop training and save some body!" Hua An ordered softly.

"Yes, General." Chen Ting responded and gestured to the generals behind him.

The general instructed all the officers and men of the army to immediately stop training and return to the camp to rest, so as to preserve the body of the next day's march.

After learning more about the situation of the Liangzhou army, Hua An left the Liangzhou army camp and returned to the Assassin's Mansion with a few bright soldiers.

In the evening, Ma Dang, Xie Siming, Zhang Yu and other civil officials and Wang San, Chen Ting, Zhao Wu and other military attaches all gathered in the main hall of the Assassin's Mansion, Hua An will lead the main army to leave Nanzheng on the second day, once again informed everyone, and arranged that when he is no longer in Nanzheng, all kinds of things in Liangzhou are all in charge of Ma Dang and Zhao Wu and others.

After arranging a qiē, Hua An waved his hand and asked everyone to return, and then, Hua An also left the main hall and returned to the backyard, but there were his two ladies in the backyard? The expedition is imminent, Hua'an doesn't want to snub them, and it is necessary to take good care of them.

Early the next morning, Hua An got up early, said goodbye to the delicate ladies on both sides of the bed, and then led the army to the border of Qiuchi.

In this army, in addition to the 10,000 Liangzhou troops under Chen Ting, there are also Hua'an's pro-military battalion and Wudang Fei Army, as well as 1,000 heavy battalions in charge of logistics.

Hua An led the pro-military battalion and the Wudang Fei army to the front of the team, followed by the Liangzhou army under Chen Ting's command, and the 1,000 heavy battalion men and horses in logistics were at the back of the team.

Nanzheng is less than 100 miles away from the border of Qiuchi, and if the army walks faster, it will only take two days to reach the border area and join the 10,000 Northern Expeditionary Army under the Thunderstorm.

Along the way, Hua'an continued to receive all kinds of information from the direction of Qiu Chi, and analyzed the information transmitted back by the scouts with Wang San and other subordinates beside him, so as to judge where the situation in Qiu Chi had developed, and adjust his deployment at any time to make himself always invincible. (To be continued......)