The distance of twenty miles is not very far, and it can be reached within an hour on horseback, and Li Guang's henchmen carried the letter and rode to Zitong City as fast as possible.

After informing his identity, Li Guang's henchmen rode into the city and handed over the letter of persuasion written by Li Guang himself to the county guard of Zitong County.

The relationship between the county guard of Zitong County and Li Guang has always been very good, seeing Li Guang sending a handwritten letter, he hurriedly opened it to check, when he saw the beginning, Li Guang scolded Li Shi for being mediocre, he subconsciously thought that Li Guang was going to rebel, and he couldn't help but be surprised, but after looking down carefully, he knew that it turned out that this Li Guang had surrendered to the Jin State, and persuaded himself to also return to the Jin State.

It is naturally impossible to let Zitong County guard and surrender to the Jin State for no reason, he has five thousand male soldiers in his hands, at least in Zitong, no one can do anything to him.

But when he saw that Hua An led an army of nearly 20,000 and had arrived at a position twenty miles north of Zitong City, his legs involuntarily weakened, you must know that the 5,000 men and horses under his command could not resist the 20,000 horses of the Jin army, and these 5,000 men and horses were still stationed in various parts of Zitong County, and there were only 3,000 men and horses left in Zitong City.

This small 3,000 men and horses will be even more difficult to fight against Hua'an's nearly 20,000 troops, and once he chooses to fight, the day Zitong loses will be his death day.

The county guard of Zitong County did not dare to slack off, and convened his subordinates to discuss overnight, wanting to see what his subordinates meant, after a whole hour of deliberation, most of the officials and generals in Zitong City supported the return to the Jin Kingdom, and only a few people opposed it.

With the full support of his subordinates. The county guard of Zitong County took a reassuring pill, he first removed all his subordinates who opposed the surrender, and sent people to strictly guard them, and at the same time, he immediately ordered his entourage to prepare paper and ink, wrote a letter of surrender overnight, and ordered his henchmen to send them to the Northern Expeditionary Army camp twenty miles outside the city.

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Early the next morning, Hua An had just gotten up and walked out of the tent when he saw a few magpies chirping in the big tree outside the tent.

The magpie is an auspicious bird. There were magpies barking outside the tent. It seemed to indicate that something good was about to come to the door, and Hua'an couldn't help but think of the persuasion letter written by Li Guang last night.

"There must be good news from Zitong County." Hua An breathed in the fresh air of the wilderness and said to himself.

"Big brother. There is good news for Zitong County. Wang San also just got up. See Huaan said there is good news. Hurriedly asked.

Hua An smiled, pointed to a few magpies on the big tree next to him, and said softly, "Wang San." You see, a few magpies in this tree are chirping non-stop, and they are telling me that there is going to be a happy event, believe it or not. ”

"Haha! The eldest brother can understand the language of birds, but I believe that as long as the eldest brother says that there is good news, there will be good news. Wang San replied with a smile.

Seeing Wang San complimenting himself like this, Hua An smiled and looked up into the distance, but happened to see a Shu cavalry under the protection of several entourage, running in the direction of the camp.

Hua An'an had a hunch that this must be the county guard of Zitong County who had sent someone to ask for surrender, so he strode towards the gate, and Wang San followed closely behind.

When the envoy of the Shu army arrived in front of the gate of the Northern Expeditionary Army, he immediately turned over and dismounted, and reported his identity, asking to go to the camp to meet Hua'an.

The soldiers guarding the door asked the Shu army envoy to leave their weapons, and then opened the gate to let them go, and the Shu army envoy did not take a few steps into the door before being stopped by Hua An.

Hua An declared his identity, took the letter from the envoy of the Shu army, and immediately opened the letter and read it silently.

In the letter, the county guard of Zitong County expressed his willingness to obey the will of heaven and return to the Great Jin Dynasty, and said that he would personally meet the Northern Expedition at the gate of Zitong City.

Seeing that the county guard of Zitong County was willing to lead the soldiers and people of the whole county to surrender to him, Hua Antou was very happy, and hurriedly ordered the envoy of the Shu army to go back and report to the officials of Zitong County that the Great Jin Dynasty would not treat them badly.

The envoy of the Shu army accepted Hua'an's order and galloped back.

"Big brother, there is really good news from Zitong County! It seems that the call of this magpie is really effective! Wang San said happily.

Hua An couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, smiled, and said, "This is all the credit of that 'Han King'!" If it weren't for the surrender letter he wrote, the county guard of Zitong County would not have surrendered so lightly, and we should really thank him! Haha" laughed after speaking.

"Oh, it turned out that he wrote a letter to persuade him to surrender, no wonder our army just came, and the county guard of Zitong County was about to surrender." Wang San nodded in realization.

Hua An looked at Wang San, and then said: "The reason why the county guard of Zitong County surrendered so lightly is that in addition to Li Guang's letter of persuasion, the merits of our soldiers cannot be erased!" If it weren't for the nearly 20,000 soldiers of our army approaching Zitong, the county guard would not have surrendered so happily.

Hearing this, Wang San nodded approvingly.

Half an hour later, the Northern Expeditionary soldiers and horses all finished eating, Hua An led the main force and began to march towards Zitong City, and the follow-up baggage battalion men and horses were also busy pulling out the camp, and then they could set off.

The distance of twenty miles is not far away, but it is not close to say that it is not close, and when the advance of Hua'an's Northern Expeditionary Army arrived at Zitong City, it was already noon.

The county guard of Zitong County, and all his subordinates went out of the city, and on the road to Zitong City, Hua An and his generals rode their horses until they dismounted in front of the county guard.

After Hua'an and the county guard of Zitong County were polite, they officially surrendered, and then led the main army into Zitong City, and incorporated the Shu army in Zitong City and put it under his command.

With the recovery of Zitong City, the capital of Zitong County, almost all of Zitong County is under the control of Hua'an, and only Fucheng in the south is still under the control of the Shu army.

And the defender of Fucheng is the proud protégé of the county guard of Zitong County, and he obeys the words of the county guard, besides, there are only a thousand defenders there, and he will definitely not be able to hold it.

After Hua'an entered Zitong City, the county guard of Zitong County had already written a letter, sending his henchmen to his protégé, asking him to immediately lead the officials of Fucheng to submit to the Great Jin.

Due to the long march, the soldiers were very tired, Hua An asked the soldiers under his command to recuperate in Zitong City for two days, and then marched to Fucheng, which was more than 50 miles to the south.

Zitong City is the largest city in the whole Zitong County, the infrastructure here is relatively perfect, all kinds of yamen and workshops are complete, the environment in the city is also quite good, compared with the splendid scenery of the south of the Yangtze River, it seems to have a unique flavor.

Hua An took several generals, accompanied by Li Guang and other Shu generals, and inspected the streets of Zitong City.

Looking at the neat and well-organized streets, Hua'an gave a thumbs up to the officials of Zitong County, praising them for their good governance, and they were able to govern the city so orderly.

The officials of Zitong County were praised by Hua'an, and their hearts were naturally very happy, and their sense of trust in Hua'an was also strengthened a lot, and some officials took the initiative to explain the history of Zitong County to Hua'an, and even told some interesting things that happened in Zitong County.

Hearing the funny part, Hua An couldn't help laughing, and from time to time he added two sentences to show his closeness to the generals of the Shu army.

While passing by a tofu factory, an official from Zitong County pointed to a middle-aged woman who was selling tofu and told Hua'an that she was a famous tofu Shih Tzu in Zitong County twenty years ago, and she was a beauty that all the men in the city fell in love with.

Hearing this, Hua An looked curiously at the so-called Tofu Shih, and was stunned to find that the ruthlessness of time, today's Tofu Shih Tzu can not give people a beautiful feeling at all, she can only be regarded as an ordinary woman, maybe it is the heavy labor that has changed her appearance, but between the eyebrows, you can still see a trace of beauty, which is enough to prove that she was once beautiful.

Hua An nodded at Tofu Shih Tzu and continued to walk forward, in front of a blacksmith shop, Hua An was attracted by the blacksmith who was making a large knife.

"General, this is the best blacksmith shop in the city, and the swords of the generals in the city are all made here, so the general might as well fight too!" The county guard of Zitong County built a soft voice.

Hua An smiled, shook his head and said, "No need, the sword that Ben Jiang is wearing is many times better than all the swords here combined." ”

When the county guard of Zitong County heard this, he didn't believe it, he looked at the blacksmith who was making the big sword, and said with a smile: "Blacksmith Li, General Hua said that the swords you built are all not as good as his one, and you don't show your hands yet, let General Hua see and understand." ”

Hearing this, Blacksmith Li agreed, turned around and took out a sword with purple light from the room, and said softly: "That's it, the general will see if it's sharp." As he spoke, he handed the sword to Hua An.

Hua An saw that the sword in front of him was emitting purple light, and he knew that it was a sword, and he was a little reluctant to damage it, but the officials of Zitong County were all here, if he showed weakness, wouldn't it make people laugh, and how could his prestige be established.

So, Hua An smiled at the corner of his mouth, pulled out the Qingyu Sword he was carrying, and slashed at the purple light sword in front of him.

A crisp sound of "click...... made everyone's hearts rise to their throats.

This is the sound of the sword breaking, blacksmith Li, who is used to hearing this sound, still has a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, he doesn't even look at it, he takes it for granted that the sword on Hua An's body is broken, so he still calmly builds the big knife in his hand.

"Awesome! Awesome, this is really a sword! Seeing the purple light sword being split in two, everyone screamed in surprise.

Hearing everyone's praise, Blacksmith Li felt even more proud, and once again took it for granted that everyone was praising his sword.

"Blacksmith Li, how much is your sword worth, I will pay for it in full." Hua An smashed other people's swords, and naturally felt a little unhappy, and hurriedly said that he wanted compensation. (To be continued......)