In the first battle of Minzhou Fortress, although the number of seriously injured and lightly injured in the literary and artistic army was quite large, and even Li Yilin, Fu Chaozan and other town generals were seriously wounded, but only more than 3,000 people were really killed, which were mainly concentrated in the Yanhu Army and the Cold Iron Army that withstood the charge of the Dajin Iron Cavalry.

Fortunately, although Dawen has always maintained a policy of elite soldiers, the number of reserve troops has continued to expand, and long before they set out, the reserve army has expanded to nearly twelve battalions, all of which are scattered in the prefectures and counties near Chengdu for training.

So under Song Kai's order, the reserve soldiers of the three battalions had already set off for Minzhou.

At the same time, Yao Ruoyu controlled the eight surrendered Jin Kingdom Wujing with trickery, and under Song Kai's arrangement, they collected 24,000 Jin soldiers among the captives and set up the Wanyan Army, which was temporarily led by Xu Xuanrong, and was stationed in the Minzhou fortress with the beast god and other three armies.

As for the remaining 10,000 golden soldiers, they were either reduced to slavery or incorporated into death squads.

At the same time, the news that the literary and artistic army had broken through the fortress of Minzhou and was sweeping the rest of the cities in the Longnan defense line had reached Lanzhou.

When the Golden Emperor Wanyan heard about this, he was furious, and several ministers who recommended Wanyan Flame as the commander of the fortress were almost killed directly by him in the palace.

However, before the princes and nobles of the Jin Kingdom could react to the fall of Minzhou, an even more intense message came from the 100,000 people of Jingzhao Mansion in Shaanxi, and it was a distress letter sent by Wanyan Jifeng, the commander of Shaanxi.

Yesterday evening, the elite guards of the Yanggu Army, the Tiger Army, the Liehong Army, and the Hengshan and Zhennan armies suddenly joined forces to break through the border defense line between Shaanxi and Chongqing overnight, and then invaded the territory of Shaanxi on a large scale, breaking through several cities in succession.

Although Wanyan Jifeng and Wanyan II led the army to meet the attack in time, according to the current situation, it may be difficult to stop the offensive of the Song army with their Shaanxi Dao forces alone.

After all, unlike at the beginning, most of the territory of the Jin State was in the northwest, and the cultivated land was insufficient.

If Shaanxi Province is captured by the Song army, then even if Song Wen stops, Dajin, who is about to face the problem of food shortage, will inevitably be greatly damaged, and even endanger the foundation of a country.

Therefore, after a heated discussion, the national teacher Ding Yanzhi made a final decision, and he and Wanyan fierce and Wanyan led the army to reinforce Shaanxi Province, and the general Wanyan dared to lead the army south.

The former naturally met with Wanyan and Wanyan to meet the Song army, but the latter did not need to start a war with the literary army, but only needed to be stationed in Lixian County north of Minzhou, so that the literary and artistic army could not continue to go north, and wait for the war in Shaanxi to end, and then draw out their hands to deal with the literary and artistic army.

Just when Wanyan fierce, Wanyan Fierce, Wanyan Dare and others successively led the army to leave Lanzhou City, the Longnan defense line went east from the Minzhou fortress, and the cities of Anhua, Ganquan, Longfeng and other cities were broken by the dark night dragoons, and the garrisons surrendered, died, and fled, and several cities were also taken over by the eight Jin generals who followed behind.

At the same time, in the Minzhou Fortress, the one hundred and eighty-seven Black Lotus Sect Spirit Masters who surrendered, under the leadership of Hou Jingru, spent nearly 20,000 top-grade spirit stones, and finally arranged a spirit array that enveloped the entire fortress.

When the spirit array began to operate, in the depths of the heavenly dome, the huge galaxy covered by the sun suddenly gushed down a vast star power, which was led by the spirit array through the void, surging down from the depths of the heavenly canopy, turning into a stream of pure vitality and submerging into the bodies of everyone in the fortress.

[Life Star Boundary]!

The spirit array in the "Secret Book of Stars and Moon" is specially used to attract the power of the stars, if it is arranged by the spirit master of the Seven Realms, the star power that is attracted is enough to flood the entire Longnan area, rejuvenate the dead wood, and increase the flesh of the bones.

With the establishment of the magic circle, the injuries of the wounded soldiers in the city slowly healed, and the atmosphere in the fortress that was originally solemn due to too many wounded soldiers gradually relaxed.

Twenty-two days later, Yao Ruoyu, who had swept away all the defensive lines in the eastern part of Longnan, led the army back to the fortress and immediately summoned the generals to discuss the next arrangements.

According to the plan, Xu Xuanrong and the five Six Realms Keqing who were in charge of the sword array, as well as the Beast God Army, the Cold Iron Army, and the Condor Army would stay in the Minzhou Fortress, and the Jin State Army would be responsible for the defense line in the Longnan area.

The five town armies of the Night Dragoon, the Thunder God Army, the Rock Tiger Army, the Red Shirt Army, and the Mandarin Duck Army, as well as Song Kai, Zou Buyi, Cai Xudong and others will advance west along the Shugan border and capture the border towns of the Jin Kingdom along the way.

However, at this time, there were still some wounded soldiers who had not healed, and the night dragoons were exhausted after twenty-two days of continuous fighting, so everyone rested for seven days, and when the red mad army led by Wan Yan Dare had crossed the Wei River and arrived in Lixian, Yao Ruoyu and others led the army from the Minzhou fortress and rushed towards Zhouqu City in the west.

Soon after departure, Yao Ruoyu took the night dragoon to leave first, and rushed to Zhouqu first, although the speed of the Xichu Lei cavalry was not inferior to the night dragoon, but because he had to act with the infantry army, Yang Renjie had no choice but to give up the plan of his peers.

Seven days later, the four armies of the Thunder God Army, the Rock Tiger Army, the Sequoia, and the Mandarin Duck Army finally arrived in Zhouqu City, but they didn't expect that they had just arrived, and they were about to set up a formation to start attacking the city, when a white flag was raised in the city, and more than a dozen disabled old soldiers opened the city gate, staggered out and shouted surrender.

Seeing this scene, Yang Renjie and Fu Feng in front of the battle were stunned, Yu Jieyi, Jiang Siyu and others were also inexplicable, only Song Kai and Zou Buyi had an understanding, and the former directly bowed his head and said: "Most likely Brother Yao has broken the city." ”

"It's already broken down, what are they going to do with surrender?" Han Yiqi's baby fat little round face was full of confusion and surprise.

Jiang Siyu's autumn eyes flashed slightly, and he said softly: "Brother Yao should have just broken the city, not occupied the city." ”

Cai Xudong touched his chin and muttered: "So, either the troops in the city have been almost killed by the Night Dragoons, or their courage has been killed, so they will surrender so simply, but will there be fraud?"

"Just go in and see. Li Huan smiled lightly, she didn't pull up her ponytail, she walked out, swept straight to the city gate, walked through the old soldiers and walked into the city, and after a while, she was already standing at the head of the city, beckoning here again and again.

"No problem, let's go into the city," Fu Feng smiled when he saw this, waved his hand, and took the lead in pouring into the city with the Iron Tiger Armor, Yang Renjie's command was all cavalry, so he didn't fight, and waited silently.

After entering the city, the Mandarin Duck Army and the Red Shirt Army quickly took over the three city gates and various guard towers and main roads in the city, and as for the officials of the two departments of Huli and several students who came with the army, they were accompanied by Jiang Siyu and Yu Jieyi and settled in the city lord's mansion and began to prepare for the work of pacifying the people.

Because Zhouqu City surrendered without spending a single soldier, Fu Feng and the others decided to continue to set off to the next city in the afternoon of the same day.

stayed with the Mandarin Duck Army and the Red Shirt Army, as well as Zou Buyi, Han Yiqi, Hou Jingru, and Hu Xian, the four daughters, who stayed purely as guest secretaries, Zou Buyi not only had to serve as a military advisor, but also was responsible for a series of government affairs after taking over the city.

After sending Yang Renjie and the others away, Yu Jieyi had just returned to the City Lord's Mansion when she saw Zou Buyi and a man in a robe discussing something, and there was a circle of people around her, all listening carefully.

With a blink of beautiful eyes, Yu Jieyi strode across the threshold and said with a smile: "What did you say?"

"General Yu," seeing her come in, Zou Buyi handed over a file and said with a smile, "There is a mountain range in the southwest of Zhouqu City, the terrain is dangerous, and there is a group of thieves in it, the Song people, the Jin people, the Mongolian people, and the barbarians, who have been plundering in Zhouqu all year round. ”

"Oh?" Yu Jieyi took the file and flipped through it twice, seeing that it was all regular script, she returned it directly, "Since it is a thief, why not just kill it?"

"Where is it so easy?" The man who had been talking to Zou Buyi before shook his head and said in a deep voice, "That mountain terrain is dangerous, even with the blessing of the Black Lotus Sect's spells, the original city lord here has failed to suppress bandits several times. ”

"That's them, not us," Yu Jieyi pursed her lips, walked to the side and picked up the teapot and poured it into her mouth, and said with a smile, "They are not good at mountain warfare, we are not afraid of mandarin duck swordsmen, when we defeated Ganzi, we didn't fight in the mountains, right, Sister Jiang?"

Jiang Siyu had been listening just now, and when he saw her asking at this moment, he had to smile gently, and nodded lightly: "Yes." ”

"Look!" After Jiang Siyu's cross-waist, Yu Jieyi became more and more excited, and said with a smile, "Leave this group of thieves to me, does the intelligence say how many of them are?"

"There are about 2,000 people, and they come and go without a trace, and it's hard to find them. The Boguan man said helplessly.

This man in a long robe with a beard like a sword, with a majestic face, is Mu Jing, the director of the Minrong Hall of the Ministry of Rites, this person is a Confucian background, a friend made by Bai Junru when he was young, and this time he entered Shu and went out of the office, and he was also invited by Bai Junru after the hundred pulpits.

"If you want to find them, it's actually not troublesome," Zou Buyi shook his feather fan and said with a smile, "It's just that you have thought about it, after finding them, is it better to exterminate them, or to recruit peace?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, Hu Xian frowned and said, "Do you want to recruit them?"

"Miss Hu really understands me!" A joke provoked a roll of Hu Xian's eyes, Zou Buyi smiled and explained, "According to intelligence, this group of people has been climbing mountains and mountains all year round, that is to say, whether it is a long-distance march or crossing dangerous terrain, they are very good. ”

"The foundation of our Dawen lies in Sichuan and Shu, if such a group of people are held in their hands, as long as they can use it well, they can always play an unexpected effect at a critical moment," looked at everyone, Zou Buyi smiled, "What do you think?"

Mu Jing pondered for a moment, then bowed his head and said, "What the Zou Mansion Lord said is true. ”

Zou Buyi smiled and looked at Yu Jieyi, who blinked and smiled happily: "Look at what I'm doing?