The sudden army of the Southern Dynasty suddenly caused chaos in Xichuan, although the Cui family secretly made a lot of preparations, but Xichuan is an important place in the north after all, and a sudden change of flag will definitely break out a lot of chaos.

On the fourth day of the fifth month of the seventeenth year of Hongwei, that is, on the same day as the dedication of the city of New Chang'an, the deputy commander-in-chief of Xichuan, who was stationed one hundred and thirty miles east of New Chang'an, received news that he denounced the four major families for betraying the country and announced that he would lead 15,000 men and horses in his headquarters to swear to fight the thieves.

On the second day, General Guang'an, 40 miles away, led the 3,000 garrisons of his headquarters to respond, and joined the 5,000 officers and troops of the Changmen Commander, who had fled from the camp on the New Chang'an West Road, to form a rebel army.

At the same time, people with lofty ideals from all over the country immediately organized the rebel army to save themselves after hearing that the four major families had surrendered, and these rebels occupied various strategic passes to the northeast of New Chang'an, and converged in the direction of New Chang'an, which was quite impressive.

However, after a short period of repair, Lu Dongqing immediately led the Rhino Horn Army eastward, and met with the main force of the rebel army during the day on the 6th day of the first month of May.

The night before, Guang'an general Liao Zhong was poisoned by the Cui family's spies, Fang Xingtong, the chief soldier of Changmen, was poisoned and fell into a coma, and the leaderless rebel army collapsed at the touch of a button, and Lu Dongqing only took half an hour to break through the rebel camp and annihilate more than 5,000 enemies.

The remnants of the rebels were terrified and fled in all directions, and the stragglers fled in droves into the mountains, unable to stir up any more waves.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Dongqing did not make repairs, continued to advance eastward, set up an ambush in Guang'an, defeated the reinforcements of the rebels from all over the country, and annihilated 3,000 enemies.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, the Rhino Horn Army broke through the camp in the east of Xichuan in only half a day, and Liang Dehai, the deputy commander of Xichuan, was defeated and killed himself, and 36 of his generals were killed or committed suicide, and only a few chose to surrender.

After that, Lu Dongqing's troops divided into eight routes, advancing by waterway, like a spider web, quickly stretched out their tentacles to various important places in Xichuan, in an attempt to firmly control the entire Xichuan transportation network.

Since then, Nishikawa's large-scale rebellion has been almost completely wiped out.

After the change of flag, the control of the original local government fell sharply, and after a series of wars, except for the core cities such as the new Chang'an, the original ruling foundation and local powerful order were almost completely destroyed.

After all, the Southern Korean army was small in numbers, and they did not have the time and energy to slowly restore order in Xichuan, and they only controlled some important strategic points to lay the foundation for the subsequent offensive.

Outside the occupied territories, the defeated stragglers have become ferocious beasts, and the fleeing outcasts and the unscrupulous ruffians have become the source of evil.

They are like lonely ghosts pouring out of the underworld, burning and looting everywhere for all resources, sometimes slaughtering entire villages just because of a single bag of food.

For a time, the rich Xichuan turned into a human purgatory with wailing and screaming everywhere.

On an official road forty miles away from the Gonghe Mansion, more than a dozen carts slowly moved forward, smoke and dust rising behind them, and a Southern Dynasty cavalry had just left them and rushed to the frontline battlefield in the northeast.

An Ge was wearing a steward's clothes, and his face was sinking like water, pulling the head car silently, he didn't expect this to happen suddenly when he came to New Chang'an this time, and he only had six Xu Rui's personal guards by his side.

Fortunately, Ye Shi's long-term workers didn't see the boss come back, and they didn't leave without permission, and An Ge took out Ye Shi's voucher before receiving this caravan, otherwise even if the forty or so carts of grain reached his hands, no one would come to transport them.

However, the risk of rushing with so much grain is also extremely great, and along the way, he encountered defeated soldiers and robberies, and also encountered interrogations such as the cavalry of the Southern Dynasty just now.

In the face of the defeated soldiers, it is natural to fight back strongly.

Although there were only six guards around him, they were all equipped with repeating crossbows and grenades, and the number of those stragglers who had already been frightened was not much, let alone the will to fight.

The most thrilling thing is to deal with the puppet army in various places, as well as the iron cavalry of the Southern Dynasty, as soon as they see this team, they will definitely not let go, and they will immediately come up to check it.

An Ge ordered people to hide the weapons in the grain, Qiao Zhuang dressed up as a merchant, and then lied that he was a member of the Lu family, responsible for transporting grain to Zhuangzi in other places.

Fortunately, Ye Shi's grain was originally purchased from the Lu family, and there was a letter of guarantee issued by the Lu family, plus An Ge and many stewards of the Lu family had been pulling the skin for several days for cooperation, and they also knew some of the Lu family's inside story and style of acting, and no matter who asked, they could answer it fluently.

The Southern Dynasty Iron Cavalry seems to have received the order from the upper peak, trying not to embarrass the four major families, and An Ge took the opposite route to the battlefield, but the Southern Dynasty people did not embarrass them, but the puppet army that surrendered to the past was extremely difficult.

When encountering these people, An Ge had to follow the example, using Xu Rui's money to open the way, bribing the guards in charge of the investigation with a large amount of money, and smashing out as much as 60,000 or 70,000 taels in just a few days, and finally spared a big circle from the west, and came to the vicinity of Gonghe Mansion safely.

This has to be said to be a miracle, but the closer he got to the palace, the more uneasy An Ge's heart became.

Although he has not been in the army, but under Xu Rui's ears, An Ge is not ignorant of military politics, judging from the situation near Gonghe Mansion, there should be no war here, and even if there is, it has long stopped.

The army of the Southern Dynasty came very suddenly, and since he left the camp of the Heavenly Apocalypse Guard, Xu Rui had not been prepared at all, and when the enemy suddenly came, there was absolutely no possibility of leaving calmly.

However, if the Apocalypse Guard still insisted, then this place would be a battlefield, and it would definitely be rumored, and a large number of elites of the Southern Dynasties would gather here, and it would never be so calm.

Could it be that the young master has already been defeated?

An Ge felt a chill in his heart, and hurriedly threw these ominous thoughts out of his mind.

"Shopkeeper, there's a situation here!"

A twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old man dressed as a man quietly approached An Ge and whispered.

This person's name is Tang Xin, who was originally a fierce soldier in the northwest, and was picked by Xu Rui from the border army to Tianqiwei.

Xu Rui admired his outstanding martial arts and calm work style, so he kept him by his side and became his own personal guard.

Don't look at Tang Xin's age, but he has extremely rich combat experience, along the way, if he wasn't afraid of death, killing more than a dozen stragglers one after another, An Ge was afraid that it would be impossible to get here.

Hearing Tang Xin's solemn words, An Ge suddenly became nervous, raised his right arm, stopped the convoy, and then called the other two guards and followed Tang Xin forward.

There were dense woods on both sides of the official road, and in the ditch under the trees lay a corpse, the head of the corpse was missing, but the incision was very clean, and it was obvious that the murderer was a veteran.

And the most important thing is that the blood of the corpse has just turned dark red, indicating that the corpse has just died.

"The head is the evidence of merit in the army, so beheading is a compulsory course for every soldier, and it looks like it was done by those defeated soldiers in terms of technique, and this corpse has thick calluses on its hands, and it seems that it is also a person who holds a knife all year round, and nine times out of ten it is also a member of the rout."

Tang Xin pointed to the corpse and said solemnly.

An Ge raised his head and looked ahead, only to see a 180-degree sharp bend 100 meters ahead, and he couldn't see the situation on the other side of the curve from the place where he stopped.

"Is it cannibalism? It seems that there is likely to be an ambush in the bend ahead, so let's turn our heads and go another way. ”

An Ge pondered for a moment and said solemnly.

At this moment, Tang Xin's face suddenly changed greatly, and before he could say "be careful", a figure suddenly burst out from the bushes behind him, kicked him in the back, kicked him out a few meters, and the other two soldiers around him also suddenly rolled their eyes and slowly fell softly.

Then a cold blade came around the back of An Ge's neck and pressed against his throat, and a cold voice blew into his eardrums like a cold wind.

"We are here to beg for food, if you dare to make a noise, you will die!"

It all came very suddenly, and it wasn't until he heard this sentence that An Ge reacted.

But as soon as he heard this voice, he was suddenly shocked, and said, "It's you!" He blurted out, completely ignoring the voice's warning.

As soon as he heard An Ge speak, the blade against his throat was immediately cut off, and he didn't seem to have the slightest intention of leaving his hand.