The Standing Army has developed rapidly, but the pressure on the logistics department is also extremely great.

The steelworks, carpentry factories, and alchemy factories not only had to meet the needs of the 50,000 horses of the Changding army, but also needed to provide a large amount of equipment to the Southern Barbarian Army.

If it weren't for the fact that Chu He bought millions of young men from the Southern Barbarian Army, and a large number of people replenished the mineral deposits in various factories, it would definitely not be able to meet such a huge demand.

The geometric progression of the combat power of the Changding Army, whether it is Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Long Ji, Jiang Wei, etc., all feel that it is time to form an air cavalry.

Just as Chu He was discussing with the main generals how to send troops to the Huya Ridge Abyss to capture the Scorpion-tailed Winged Tiger, two unexpected people suddenly arrived at the land of Tianshui County.

Chu He also couldn't imagine that Jing Xiong and Guo Pu, who had disappeared for more than two years, would suddenly appear in Tianshui County.

More than 1,000 horses followed.

Although Guo Pu was born in a poor family, he was able to sit in the position of Qinzhou Prefecture Pastor and be in charge of Qinzhou for a few years, and he had a bit of a family background.

He was unwilling, and struggled from a mere son of a poor family to a state chief, and the bitterness and sweat were not enough for outsiders.

Therefore, Guo Pu did not die with the city, and when the city was broken, he took a group of henchmen and hundreds of generals and soldiers to leave Qinzhou City in the chaos.

Guo Pu knew that his actions were tantamount to defecting to the enemy and treason, and it would be impossible to defect to Shu in the future.

In this troubled era, military strength is crucial, before leaving the city, Guo Pu has repeatedly tried and hinted at the previous generals and subordinates who threw themselves under him, especially those who are strong from the Hanmen Shu clan, Jing Xiong is one of them.

As for those wealthy families, the various gate valve forces have too many scruples, and it is impossible for them to escape from Qinzhou with him.

The Hanmen Shu clan, in the eyes of those in power, is actually similar to a slave, even if Jing Xiong is like this, he should not be taken seriously, if it weren't for the fact that Guo Pu was also from a poor family and fully supported Jing Xiong, Jing Xiong would not be able to sit in the position of vice president of Shuangxi Academy.

The Hanmen Shu clan does not have a strong sense of belonging to Shu, and there are still many people who are willing to leave with Kuang Pu to see if they can fight for a background in this troubled world.

Needless to say, the generals and private soldiers are all responsible for their food and lodging expenses, and only the head of the family is the head of the family who is treasonous, and they can only follow this road.

Therefore, although the chief officer abandoned the city and fled, he still led a team of more than 3,000 people to leave, including some family slaves and the like.

These soldiers and horses are basically the personal subordinates of the leaders, and their strength is naturally not much worse, and after paying a heavy price, they finally killed the encirclement of the Southern Barbarian Army and the Yellow Turban Army for Guo Pu, and escaped into the Birdsong County.

Although the Yellow Turban Army and the Southern Barbarian Army had more than one million soldiers and horses, the main force was on the side of Qinzhou City, and it was not a simple matter to find two or three thousand men and horses in a million square kilometers of Kuangpu, but it gave Kuang Pu and others a chance to breathe.

Guo Pu also recruited some of the resistance forces in Birdsong County, and the number of soldiers and horses expanded to more than 10,000 people, hiding in a hidden mountain.

It's just that there are more people and more consumption, so they have to attack the strongholds of the Southern Barbarian Army many times to get supplies, and they barely supported it.

When the Southern Barbarian Army completely pacified Qinzhou City, formed an alliance with the Chu River, and relieved their worries, they naturally would not let these rebel forces continue to wreak havoc in the hinterland of Qinzhou.

The Southern Barbarian Army sent a number of elite cavalry of 1,000 men to hunt down and hunt down the rebels in the territory, and the situation of this group of people and horses immediately became difficult.

After a number of battles, Guo Pu's soldiers and horses were greatly reduced, it was less than 5,000, and the range of activities was also limited to less than a hundred miles.

After abandoning the city, the luck of the official seal dissipated, and Guo Pu was just an ordinary four-grade bachelor, so in such a military battle, it was difficult to exert combat power, and if it was blocked by two cavalry of the Southern Barbarian Army, there would definitely be only one way to die.

Jing Xiong's strength was even more unbearable, if it wasn't for Brother Chu buying him insurance, he would have been killed by the Southern Barbarian Army.

Speaking of which, it is also for this reason that the situation is so difficult.

The Southern Barbarian Army recognized Jing Xiong and knew that Jing Xiong was worth twenty sets of steel soldiers, so the Southern Barbarian Army naturally would not let this mobile silver mountain escape.

Several elite cavalry detachments were desperately eyeing this target, and fought hard with Kuang Pu's men and horses several times in a row, if they hadn't captured Jing Xiong alive and had some fear, they wouldn't have let Kuang Pu and the others escape alive many times.

Jing Xiong is now a mourning dog, it is not too much, he is chased and beaten by the cavalry of the Southern Barbarian Army who come and go like the wind, so it is naturally difficult to know the news from the outside world, and he does not know that Chu He has formed an alliance with the Southern Barbarian Army.

He was somewhat righteous, and he never planned to take refuge in the Chu River, so as not to contaminate the war to Changding Township.

Now there is really no way, he can ignore his own life, but with his wife and children, Jing Xiong really can't bear to let them die under the blade of the Southern Barbarian Army, and seeing that Guo Pu is unimaginable, he finally found Guo Pu and said that Chu He has a certain amount of power in Changding Township.

Maybe the Southern Barbarian Army can't take care of Datong County, which is thousands of miles away, and they can go to Datong County to see the situation and make plans again.

Guo Pu felt that it was unreliable, no matter how talented Chu He was, that is, a strong bone realm martial artist, how powerful could he be, but a drowning person, even if he saw a straw, he would be hugging him.

After arriving in Datong County, I really can't, and I can also escape to Huyaling, and at worst, it will not be worse than staying in Birdsong County.

The two called other core figures, and after some discussion, they finally decided to take all the men and horses to forcibly break through the blockade of the Southern Barbarian Army and escape from Tianshui County.

Nearly 3,000 men and horses were lost, and finally a large amount of gold and silver materials were sprinkled on the ground, delaying the pursuers, and finally let them take the remnants of the defeated generals and struggle into Tianshui County.

It was very strange that they had just entered the range of Tianshui County, why did the two beast cavalry that were originally chasing them suddenly stop, as if they were very hesitant, and finally led the troops away with hatred.

However, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, the more than 1,000 soldiers and their families were blocked by an army that looked even more powerful, numbering 5,000.

Guo Pu and Jing Xiong were instantly dumbfounded.

They had also thought that Tianshui County had fallen into the hands of the Southern Barbarian Army.

But he never expected that now the main forces of the Southern Barbarian Army are concentrated in the area of Wangzhou and Tongtianhe, making every effort to resist the counterinsurgency army of Shu, and there is such an incomparably elite, armored army, with a number of five or six thousand people left on the side of Tianshui County.

Even Jing Xiong would never have thought that this army of soldiers and horses would be controlled by a strong bone realm martial artist in the Chu River.

The Changding Army formed an alliance with the Southern Barbarian Army, and there was no war crisis in Tianshui County, Xiang Xiong also thought that this army was a mountain bandit army, and he was going to send troops to attack, kill the bandit leader, and capture ordinary soldiers and horses for the labor use of Tianshui County.

Fortunately, although Jiang Wuwei is composed of the young and strong of Jiangwu Village, Jiang Wuwei is also a henchman sent by Chu He to carry out loyalty education.

They used to be the elite of Qianyuanwei, and they had seen Jing Xiong in Qinghe Village, recognized Jing Xiong, and found Xiang Xiong and said so, so that Guo Pu and the others escaped.

However, Xiang Xiong is a steady person, and he will not let more than 1,000 people enter Tianshui County like this, wave his army to force him into a valley, and then ask the Wupin University Scholar in the army to send a summons to inform Chu He, who is sitting in Changding Township.

At this time, Pu was completely unclear about what was going on.

When he was blocked by Jiang Wuwei, Guo Pu's heart fell to the bottom, he was a person who knew the soldiers, and when he saw the military appearance of this army, he knew that Jiang Wuwei's combat power was extremely terrifying, and it was definitely not something that he could compete with with the defeated generals of more than a thousand remnants.

Although they still have 17,800 people, more than 800 are women, children, and children, and the rest are basically all wounded, their armor is damaged, and there is not much combat strength left, and there are not many materials left, so they have no combat effectiveness at all.

Guo Pu originally thought that it was impossible to escape, but he finally broke through the blockade of the Southern Barbarian Army, escaped their pursuit, and saw that he had a glimmer of life, but it turned out that it was just a mirror

With such a blow, if it weren't for the fact that Guo Pu's will was tenacious enough, I am afraid that he would have completely collapsed.

What made it strange to Guo Pu was that the other party did not attack, but kept leading the army to advance, and finally forced them into this valley, and did not make another move.

"What's going on around?"

In such a desperate situation, Guo Pu still looked extremely calm and resolute, although the stationery robe on his body had been damaged in many places and had lost his protective power, but it was very clean and tidy.

"I have seen it myself, and there are steep rocks on all sides, and I am afraid that except for a few thirty or fifty people, it is impossible for anyone else to leave from the cliffs, and the only way out is the valley passage blocked by the other party. ”

The man who spoke was a stout man in black iron armor with a short chin, who looked to be in his mid-thirties, but if you looked closely, you could see that he was in his early twenties at most.

Guo Pu shook his head: "Since the other party has forced us into this place, naturally there will be no such flaws, and there must be strong people guarding the mountains and rocks." ”

"Even if there is really no one to guard them, we can't leave them alone. ”

Although Pu did not die for the Shu Kingdom, it does not mean that he is cold-blooded and ruthless, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are now only this little bit left, but there are more than 800 women and children, so they know his character.

If it were a selfish person, these women and children who had no combat effectiveness would have been left behind.

Another young man with a thin figure but extremely sharp eyes frowned and said, "What is the origin of this army outside, looking at the appearance and dress, but it doesn't look like a person from the Southern Barbarian race." ”

"Now that Qinzhou has fallen into the hands of the Nanban, apart from the Nanban soldiers and horses, who can form such an elite in Tianshui County?"

If Chu He was present, he could find that the person who spoke was Huang Cheng of Changhe Academy, who had gone to Xiaobi, a school in Qinzhou!

Huang Cheng and Guo Pu are together, but the reason is a little tortuous.

Chen Shu of Changhe Academy is a side line of the Chen family in Yizhou, Yizhou is anti-Shu, and the Chen family is also the main force, so when the Southern Barbarian army came to the city, Chen Shu and others secretly communicated with him, revealing a lot of Qinzhou secrets.

When the city of Qinzhou was broken, Chen Shu finally showed his face and persuaded the students of Changhe Academy to join the Yellow Turban Army.

Although Huang Cheng did not give up his life for Shu, he was also unwilling to surrender to the thief, after all, in the war, many of his friends and relatives died on the battlefield, so he took the initiative to find Guo Pu and tell Chen Shu about collaborating with the enemy, but the situation was irretrievable, and finally left Qinzhou with Guo Pu.

Guo Pu shook his head: "This old man doesn't understand either, but the alliance between the Southern Barbarian Army and the rebels over there in Yizhou and Yongzhou may be soldiers and horses from Yizhou and Yongzhou." ”

The black-armored man shook his head: "I don't think it's possible! Yizhou and Yongzhou are also facing the pressure of my Dashu counterinsurgency army, how can such an elite army be stationed on the side of Tianshui County." ”

Another Chinese face, with a majestic appearance, shrouded in evil energy, a pair of old men with huge bronze bells and bright eyes, looked at Jing Xiong with frowns: "Brother Jing, you know a little about the situation in Tianshui County, do you know the origin of this soldier and horse?"

It was Jing Xiong who proposed that everyone come to Tianshui County, and as soon as the old man said this, everyone's eyes were focused on Jing Xiong.

Jing Xiong's appearance is much haggard now, and he looks like he is ten years old, and he smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Jing has actually been to Tianshui County twice, and he is not very familiar with the situation in Tianshui County. ”

He hesitated slightly: "But...... Jing felt ......"

Guo Pu said in a deep voice: "Brother Jing has anything to say, just say it. At this point, there is nothing that can not be said. ”

A middle-aged man with a pale face and a somewhat gloomy gaze sneered: "I think Jing Xiong must know the origin of this army. ”

Jing Xiong's face sank: "Brother Zou, what do you mean by this?"

The middle-aged man said coldly: "Don't you understand what I mean by this!"

"My lord, General Gongyi, don't you think it's strange, Birdsong County is so big, and we are hiding in the mountains and forests, why is the Southern Barbarian Army so clear about our whereabouts, and several beast cavalry are chasing and besieging us, and they don't let go?"

Jing Xiong suddenly changed color, and said in an accentuated tone: "Zou Kuanru, do you think it was Jing's secret?"

The middle-aged man said coldly: "If this is not the case, then Jing Xiong, you explain, several times those Southern Barbarian Army can shoot you to death, and many brothers who are with you have died under the sharp arrows of the Southern Barbarian Army, why did you escape with your life?"

He looked at Jing Xiong coldly: "Don't tell Zou that in the military battle, your strength is even more powerful than the two martial arts sects of Guan Shanjue and Yan Hai!"

"You proposed to go to Tianshui County, and now you have just arrived in Tianshui County, and you are surrounded by thousands of elite troops, so think for yourself!"

Jing Xiong's voice suddenly froze, he really couldn't answer this question, in fact, he was also very confused, and only said in a deep voice after a while: "Jing has nothing to explain, Jing has a clear conscience!"

Guo Pu waved his hand: "Kuanru, the old man believes that Brother Jing is not such a person! If Brother Jing really defects to the enemy, he will not let his family come here with us." ”

The old man with the copper bell eyes also nodded and said, "The old man also believes in Brother Jing's character. It's just a coincidence. ”

The middle-aged man snorted, but did not speak again.

The old man with bronze bell eyes said again: "Listening to Brother Jing's tone, it seems that you have a guess about the origin of this army?"