It turned out that after Deng Ai received Liu Changsheng's secret letter, he sent Xizuo Dao Xihe two months ago to investigate the military situation, but found that Xihe-Zhizhi had never been taken seriously by Cao Wei, and after Cao Cao moved the Huns inward, most of the areas north of Xihe were mixed with Han and Hu, and it was very chaotic.

Deng Ai thought that in this case, the Wei State would not be heavily guarded, nor could he have imagined that the Shu army would cross the Yellow River from the northwest to attack, and everyone's attention was just like everyone was staring at the deployment of the Chang'an belt.

Deng Ai left a letter, and asked Liu Changsheng to wait for news along the river in Xie County Port, and he first brought a thousand people to investigate the truth.

"Alas, someone has taken the lead again!" Xu Ling smiled helplessly after reading the letter, and said, "We all made a mistake that we shouldn't have made."

"That's right," Liu Changsheng nodded, and said, "This is called the authorities' fans, Shi Zai is much more sober than a few of us, it's because we pay too much attention to Xihe, and there are some small problems."

"What then? Let's hurry up and keep up!" Zhang Bao rubbed her hands and stood up, originally thinking of showing off her skills, but she was about to run away again.

"Your Highness, why don't I advance in equal parts, and when General Deng has news, go to support in turn, otherwise there are too many people and they will be discovered by the sentinels!" Huo Jun said on the side.

"What General Huo said is very true!" Liu Changsheng also realized that the goal of nearly 10,000 people was too big, so he immediately ordered, "General Huo, Zhao Guang, and Ling Huyu will each lead 2,000 people, and Li Yu and Sha Moke will lead the Wudang Flying Army.

After the distribution, Liu Changsheng ordered Anding Taishou to mobilize crossbows and craftsmen from all over Hanzhong and Liangzhou for the defense of the Xihe River, and he and Zhang Bao took two thousand horsemen and table tennis to Xie County first.

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The mountains are stacked, and the mist gradually dissipates in the morning sun, revealing a lush forest, birds flying and frolicking among the dense foliage, and the fragrance of grass in the mountains.

The tall undulating mountains enclose this place, and in the open place to the south, a clear stream flows through, which is a paradise and a forgotten place, although the scenery is beautiful, but no one visits. Among the trees, a cultivated wasteland is full of vegetables, a large green wheat seedling is more than three feet long, surrounded by a simple thorny fence, and a dozen houses made of wooden stakes, covered with wheat straw and thatch, like a withered village, more like a large hermitage

Surname family.

A few simple and dilapidated buildings around it are still confirming that this is a sentry post, the thatched roof on the arrow building has only a few sparse straw ropes, the top has broken a few large holes, and the mottled and moth-eaten staircase has rotted, apparently no one has been on it for a long time.

"Old Zhangtou, so early?" A middle-aged man in a shabby cloth shirt came out of a large straw hut. The man had a beard, his hair was tied back in a mess, his eyes were rubbed wistfully, and he was leading two horses behind him, which were obviously war horses from the marks on the horses' P shares, but the fluffy mane and dark front teeth confirmed that the two war horses were already unusable, but here they were also grassy

Plenty of water and not too skinny.

"Alas-" In the vegetable field, a rickety old man raised his head and waved the half-cut halberd in his hand to weed and loosen the ground, "I'm old, I can't sleep!"

"You better rest for a while, just let Li Si and the others do these jobs," the middle-aged man said with a smile, "There will be someone to replace us in half a year, and you can also go home when the old man is there!"

"Hehe, yes!" The old man also raised his head and smiled, his cloudy eyes finally became bright, and he sighed, "This is ten years, and the boss won't forget me, right?"

"How so?" The man laughed and said, "Didn't I send this a few years ago?" Although the food and salary are used up, this ghost money can't be spent, so I just save up my military salary and go back to buy clothes for my daughter-in-law and children, hahaha!"

The old man looked at the table tennis who was gradually walking away, shook his head and smiled bitterly, what is the use of planting a sentry in this isolated place? Half a cup of tea, a dozen people came out of the other thatched houses, all of them in their forties, with simple patches on their clothes, yawning and stretching their waists, and when they came out, they sat on the trunk of the tree in the open space and basked in the sun

It's over.

"Old Zhangtou, hurry!" Just as these people were gathering in threes and threes, talking and laughing, suddenly, a rapid voice came from a distance!

The old man in the vegetable field straightened up, rubbed his waist and looked into the distance, and the scattered table tennis also stood up, looking at the place where the sound came.

It was Li Si, who had just gone to drink horses, who came running, only to see him stumbling over on the old and unbearable war horse.

Poof!

Li Si slipped off the war horse, stumbled through the vegetable patch to the courtyard, and shouted breathlessly, "Quick...... Get ready!"

"What are you going to do?" —A big man asked strangely, "If you are in such a hurry, is it another pack of wolves?"

Wolves are usually seen at night, but in the middle of the day.

"It's not!" Li Si wiped his sweat, gasped a few breaths and shouted, "Someone has been sent from above, this time it's a fine ping-pong, more than a thousand people!"

"What?" The halberd in Lao Zhang's hand fell to the ground, and he asked tremblingly, "—more than a thousand fine pings?" How is this possible?"

"That's it, this place has sent less than 100 people every time, and they are still eliminated from training!"

"If I had known that I would be assigned to this place, I would have gone home."

"Who's to say it's not? If it weren't for the deep mountains and ravines, and the number of wild beasts, I would have run away a long time ago."

"Stop arguing!" Li Si suddenly shouted violently, and when he saw that everyone was calm, he said, "What I said is the truth, the person sent is west of the riverbank, I went to drink horses just now, and the general asked me to report the news first."

Seeing that Li Si's expression didn't look like a joke, the helper returned to the hut in disbelief, found the tattered armor on his body, and stood in a fairly neat queue under the command of the old man. As soon as they were ready, they saw in the distance—a large group of men and horses approaching at great speed, bright armor shining in the sunlight, and the rumbling of horses' hooves like thunder.

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347 Ping Pong is not bloody

At the head of the man—the man rode a tall horse, wore a hat, held a large sword, and the men and horses behind him were also full of energy,—not at all like in previous years, all the foot soldiers sent were some small foot soldiers, and there was not even decent armor.

In the bewildered eyes of the helper, the man waved his hand to stop the troops behind him, lifted the hat on his head, and under his thick eyebrows showed a pair of shining eyes, and under his jaw - a wisp of a goatee.

"Who's Captain Wu?" The man's voice was slow, but it was majestic and steady.

Old Zhang walked out tremblingly, "General Hui, subordinate Zhang Lie, Naixi River Port Taishou."

Zhang Lie looked back at the queue of less than 100 people standing, and sighed in his heart, these horses, no wonder the other party thought it was just a team!

"Hmm!" The man nodded, "I am the general Yang Yi, and I have been ordered to take over Xihe, how many people are under Zhang Taishou?"

"General Hui, there are ninety-four in total." Zhang Lie replied.

"Oh?" Yang Yi's thick eyebrows furrowed, and he glanced at the queue, "Although this place is remote, it is also prepared for the county guard, why are ping pong horses so rare?"

"The general doesn't know anything," Zhang Lie replied, "because of the remoteness of the terrain, it took five years to change, and there were many wild beasts in the mountains, and there were many people who escaped and died." Hmm-" Yang Yi pursed his lips and nodded, turned over and got off his horse, walked to the front of the queue and glanced at the crowd, before he said, "I'm afraid you don't know, now the new emperor has ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world; Cao Yu was ordered to be the new general, and all military posts were to strengthen their defense, and the general was ordered to come and pick him up

For Er and others, Nian Zaier and others have been defending here for many years, and each person will be rewarded with 3,000 money, and they will be able to return to their hometowns from now on, and they will not have to go back to the barracks."