Ji County is the former county of Tianshui County, of course, such as today's water county, the county has naturally become Datong County.

However, Ji County can be the former county of Tianshui County, which has natural advantages.

Ji County is located in a dangerous place, east of southern Xinjiang, north of Hongdong County, west to the south are relatively gentle fertile fields, there are millions of acres of fertile land, enough to feed 200,000 people.

It can be said that Ji County is the gateway of Tianshui County, once invaded by foreign enemies, the first to bear the brunt is Ji County, after occupying Ji County, it will hold the throat of Tianshui County, which can isolate the connection between Tianshui County and Hongdong County.

At the beginning, the mountain tiger was the first to capture Ji County, and then slowly attacked other counties, and finally became a general trend, and joined forces with the Southern Barbarian Army to capture Qinzhou City.

In the end, the mountain tiger led 200,000 Yellow Turban troops to attack Fenglai County, and almost succeeded, but was defeated by the Chu River that was driven back.

If it weren't for Chu He, a time-space butterfly, it would be difficult to say where the mountain tiger would go.

Flying Leopard and others put the target on Ji County for the first time, it does have a bit of vision and strategy, once Ji County is captured, the Changding army will come to the rescue, and the mountain bandit troops can escape in several directions, so as not to be blocked by the Changding army in Tianshui County.

The two major officials of Ji County, Xiang Xiong and Chen Tong, both went out with the army, and the affairs of the county were handled by Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie.

Zhao Yilong's main book has a lot of origins, his father is Zhao Sanke, his mother is Zhao Shishi, his parents are from ordinary people, but he also has an older sister named Zhao Muqiu.

To put it simply, Zhao Yilong is Chu He's brother-in-law!

The Chu family is not what it used to be, and Zhao Muqiu's mother's family naturally soared to the sky, and became a large family in Tianshui County, many relatives and friends took refuge, bought many real estate, increased the number of slaves and maids, and even Zhao Shi's relatives in Shishan Village were taken care of.

Of course, the concept of the Chuhe clan is somewhat weak, and what is more important is talent.

Anyway, the Zhao family is just a small family, and they used to open a small restaurant in Datong County, and there is nothing that Chu He needs to make special arrangements.

Only Zhao Yilong, the younger brother-in-law, was promoted by Chu He to be the chief secretary of Ji County, and his ability is certainly not weak.

Although Zhao Yilong had not practiced literature and martial arts before, he had qualifications and a more flexible brain.

After the development of Chu River, Zhao Yilong, who was over thirty years old, began to practice literature and martial arts, showed his talents, and received special care from Chu He, demon honey, strong bones and strong blood pills, and even deer blood spirit snake pills were not lacking, and his strength improved rapidly, and his official position slowly climbed, and finally sat in this position.

Hearing that tens of thousands of bandit troops were approaching Ji County, Zhao Yilong was shocked, so he immediately asked Dian Wu to discuss with Fan Lie.

Fan Lie was able to become a martial artist in Ji County, in addition to his own ability, but also because he had a grandfather Fan Shang who was a scholar of Wupin.

Fan Shang is the patriarch of Jiangwu Village, Jiangwu Village's foreign surnames are basically headed by Fan Shang, today's Ji County is the base camp of Jiangwu Village, in order to balance the relationship between Xiang's family and people with foreign surnames, Xiang Xiong personally invited Chu He, and appointed Fan Shang's eldest grandson as the Dianwu of Ji County.

After the two quickly met and discussed, Zhao Yilong immediately sent a message to inform other counties of the news of the attack of the mountain bandits, and asked for assistance.

Fan Shang also quickly mobilized troops and horses, gathered the guards together, and finally formed a temporary army of 5,500 people, ready to resist the mountain bandit troops.

At the same time, the young Zhuang of Ji County were also temporarily recruited, with a total of 3,000 people.

Although everyone in Jiangwu Village practiced literature and martial arts in the past, most of the young and strong people had already joined Jiang Wuwei and went out with the army, and now Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie only had 300 regular troops and more than 5,000 militiamen at hand, plus 3,000 young people.

Both Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie knew that even if other counties received their requests for help, it would be impossible to send many soldiers and horses to help.

For example, the strength of the regular army in various parts of Shui County today is at most about 5,000 people, and it must be stationed in various important places to ensure the stability of the more than 2 million people in Tianshui County.

Once all the troops are transferred to Ji County, once the mountain bandit troops receive the news and move to attack other places, other cities will definitely not be able to resist.

The territory is large, it also means that there are loopholes everywhere, when the 40,000 Changding army was still there, the problem was not big, and now the vast majority of the troops are going to meet the Yongzhou army, 5,000 soldiers and horses, to guard eight counties, stretching for thousands of miles, you can imagine how weak it is.

Not to mention that the transportation in this world is basically by walking, even if it is a cavalry unit, it will take two or three hours to support other county seats.

The mountain bandit army has tens of thousands of horses, occupying an absolute advantage, and Zhao Yilong and Fan Shang have no choice but to gather troops in the county town of Ji, preparing to rely on the city wall and the ordnance to defend the city to resist the attack of the mountain bandits.

At the same time, try to move the nearby people into the city, on the one hand, you can increase the protection force in the city, and on the other hand, you will not be wantonly killed by the mountain bandit troops.

Don't look at the strength of the Changding Army, which is already extremely powerful, but the 30,000 mountain bandits of the Flying Leopard, the Snake Mountain King and the Juli King, are all ruthless and good at fighting, basically they are all young and strong, and there are very few women, children and old people, among them, the strong ones who have not been issued three or four grades are by no means easy to deal with.

Otherwise, Chu He would not have thought of using the hole card of the Scorpion Tail Wing Tiger Air Cavalry to deal with them.

It can be said that Long He deliberately let the mountain bandit troops force into Tianshui County, which will definitely bring great threat and killing to the people of Tianshui County.

At this time, the flying leopard and others did not know that the Yongzhou army had discussed the truce with Chu River again, and the mountain bandit troops forced into Tianshui County, led by thousands of elite mountain bandits who repelled several waves of harassing attacks by Yongzhou army scouts in a row, and even killed more than a dozen soldiers of the Standing Army, and obtained five sets of steel armor and nearly ten sets of iron-inlaid armor.

Now the three bandit leaders of the Flying Leopard have all changed into all-steel battle armor, carrying a Mo knife, and the Flying Leopard even carries a steel bow and more than a dozen steel arrows behind his back, and he is full of confidence in the next battle.

In their eyes, the Changding army that blocked them was indeed extremely brave, but the number was too small to resist the pace of the mountain bandit army.

They didn't know that most of the scout soldiers of the Standing Army who stayed behind were just the reserve troops of the Standing Army, and they were only a little stronger than the guards.

Only those steel-armored soldiers are the regular army of the Changding Army, but they are not elite, and if they are not responsible for guarding Tianshui County, they are not even qualified to wear steel armor.

Of course, the flying leopard understands the truth of the soldiers' speed, especially their mountain bandit troops, the best thing is to grab a handful and leave, and when they arrive outside Ji County, they don't hesitate without any hesitation, and they don't have a whole army or anything, so they directly divide 20,000 mountain bandits to besiege Ji County.

The other 10,000 mountain bandits slaughtered all over Ji County, on the one hand, they looted rice, grain, money and silver, and on the other hand, they also prevented the reinforcements sent by the other seven counties of Tianshui County.

Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie both looked at the dense mountain bandit troops with blue faces, although there were more than 200,000 people in the city, and more than 5,000 soldiers and horses temporarily formed, but the sharp weapons to defend the city, the eight ox armor-piercing crossbows were all taken away by Chu He, and the rest were mostly catapults.

Relying only on 100 steel archers and 200 regular troops, plus more than 5,000 guards and militiamen, it was quite difficult to hold Ji County, and it was self-defeating to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the mountain bandit troops.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the mountain bandit troops, Zhao Yilong and Fan Shang even had to invite those clan elders from Jiangwu Village, with the help of these martial arts masters of the four or five realms, Ji County barely resisted several waves of attacks by the mountain bandits.

Don't look at the mountain bandit troops are not as disciplined as the army, but there are still a lot of capable people among them, and the strength is definitely there, otherwise Wang Yan would not have reached an agreement with these mountain bandits to deal with the Changding army together.

There are many tricks for the mountain bandits to attack the city, such as strong bows and crossbows, throwing spears and spears, flying knives and hidden weapons, stone throwing, etc., or the attacks of flying cavalry, etc., which are difficult to guard, and many of the Changding army and guard soldiers have been killed by the strong men in the mountain bandits by long-range means.

If Fan Lie hadn't suppressed it with the Standing Army, the militia and young men who were responsible for defending the city would have been unable to withstand the pressure of the mountain bandits and collapsed.

It was difficult to defend the city, and Zhao Yilong and others could only watch a large number of mountain bandits wreak havoc all over Ji County, slaughtering the people, capturing the Zhuanghu compound, and wantonly burning and looting.

Chu He asked Gan Ning to take over the position of the chief general of the Dragon Blood Guard, but he had actually thought that Ji County would suffer such a calamity.

Although it is inhumane to do this, it cannot be denied that it is very necessary, and it must be known to the people that no matter what their background is and where they come from, now that they have come to Tianshui County and become the people of Tianshui County, the only people they can rely on are Chu He and Changding Army.

After this bloody lesson, in order to protect their lives and wealth, they could only unite more closely around the Chu River.

However, Chu He was somewhat soft-hearted, although he did not dispatch the Scorpion Tail Tiger Air Cavalry, he still ordered the thousands of soldiers and horses who escorted Lu Kai's department to speed up and return, and all the mountain bandits such as the Flying Leopard must be left in Ji County!

The Flying Leopard and the others were also a little anxious at this time.

They also couldn't imagine that Ji County would be able to resist their offensive, and even several fourth-grade martial arts powerhouses appeared on the city wall, causing great damage to the mountain bandit troops besieging the city.

In just half an hour, the mountain bandit troops had already suffered more than 3,000 casualties, including those who were stoned to death by catapults, shot by steel bows, and scalded to death by rolling stones and hot oil with gold juice.

Even in the end, even the two four-rank martial arts sects, the Snake Mountain King and the Juli King, joined the battle and attacked the city several times, they were still stubbornly defeated by the defenders of Ji County.

If he didn't wait for the Flying Leopard, he knew that he was now occupying the top because he was caught off guard by Tianshui County.

The 20,000 bandits could not even defeat a Ji county defended by only more than 5,000 militiamen, and it was conceivable that once the Yongzhou army returned to help, these mountain bandits would definitely be defeated in an instant, and they had no power to resist.

The mountain bandits who plundered around had a lot of harvests, the rice grain was estimated to be more than 100,000 stones, and the silver was as much as 50,000 or 60,000 taels.

If Ji County cannot be captured, these rice, grain, money and silver will not be of much use, and will even become a drag, and it is impossible for the mountain bandit troops to evade the pursuit of the Changding army with so much rice, grain, money and silver!

In a hurry, the mountain tiger discussed with the king of the snake mountain and the king of Juli, and decided to recruit all the 10,000 mountain bandits who went out to plunder, gather all the strength, and attack the county town of Ji with all their might, and the county town of Ji must be defeated within one day!

No matter what Zhao Yilong said, he was Chu He's brother-in-law, and no matter how weak the troops of other counties were, it was impossible to watch Ji County being besieged by 30,000 mountain bandits and ignore it.

At this time, a group of soldiers and horses, 20,000 or 30,000 militiamen, under the leadership of the left-behind generals, quickly supported Ji County.

However, Yuanshui can't save the near fire, you must know that Baoshan County, which is the closest to Ji County, is also more than 200 miles away, and under the condition of ensuring the safety of Baoshan County, it will take at least one day and one night to mobilize the militia of the guard to come to the aid of Ji County.

And even if they really arrived in Ji County, it would be impossible to fight hard against the murderous mountain bandits with these two thousand guards, at most they could only share part of the pressure of Ji County with harassment tactics, waiting for the soldiers and horses from other counties to come.

Seeing that there are more and more mountain bandits, the offensive is becoming more and more fierce every time, the casualties of the militia guarding the city are more than thirty percent, and the auxiliary militia is also suffering heavy casualties, and the morale is completely lost, Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie are extremely dignified, knowing that I am afraid that Ji County will not be able to support it for long.

At this time, among the mountain bandit troops, dozens of pitch-black giant apes suddenly came out, as well as hundreds of flying cavalry.

In addition, thousands of red-eyed mountain bandits also crossed the big formation with great momentum, and there were hundreds of giant men hugging a huge crashing log, obviously preparing to break open the city gate and enter the county seat.

Fan Lie knew that these giant apes were second-grade demon beasts, with thick skin and flesh, good at climbing, great strength, and their combat power could be compared with that of third-grade martial artists.

This time, dozens of giant apes appeared, and even rode a number of Pijiashan bandit leaders on their backs, clearly intending to take Ji County in one fell swoop.

Here in Ji County, although the armor is excellent, there are hundreds of steel archers and two hundred steel armor elites, but the number is too small, and the strength is also ordinary, basically all of them are Qi Induction Realm martial artists, if you want to compete with these fierce mountain bandits, it is quite difficult.

Thousands of mountain bandit elites took the lead in attacking, and they didn't have many siege equipment, but they just made a huge shield against them, let out a huge strange scream, and rushed towards the city wall.

Because there was no moat in Ji County, the giant man who was holding the wood also rushed up and rushed to the city gate with amazing momentum.

The morale of these mountain bandit troops is there, because they all know that if they can't take Ji County, they won't get the real battle gains, and they can't let them escape the pursuit of the Changding army with 100,000 stone of rice grain.

The Flying Leopard and the others have already said that once they enter the city, they can loot freely, and all the proceeds belong to everyone.

As long as you grab the steel armor of the steel soldiers, it is the harvest of tens of thousands of silver, which is not only easy to carry, but also improves your protection and combat power, and it is much easier to wear the armor to avoid the pursuit of the Changding army.

Then find a place to hide, avoid the limelight, sell the steel soldiers to others, you can become a rich man, live a good life, buy land and real estate, drink wine and eat meat every day, and play beautiful women, who knows that they once attacked Ji County.

The vanguard attracted the firepower of the Ji County army, and the flying leopards and others glanced at each other, and finally did not hesitate, and drove the giant apes under the seat, holding Mo knives and steel guns, and rushed towards the Ji County city wall with extremely fierce momentum.

Ten feet high city walls, these giant apes only need to climb a few times to climb the city!

Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie's faces were pale, they hated, if there were one hundred and eight oxen armor-breaking crossbows in Ji County, which could shoot the bandit leader, this battle would definitely not be so difficult.

They all secretly thought that if they could escape the catastrophe, no matter what happened in the future, even if they pulled down their faces and relied on the relationship with Chu He, they must fight for more than 100 Eight Niu Armor-Breaking Crossbows for Ji County!

Just as the two of them raised their blades and led their own soldiers to prepare to join the battle, suddenly, there was a loud killing sound in the distance, and smoke and dust billowed from it.

A female general wearing fiery red armor and riding a silver-horned sword took the lead, leading thousands of strangely dressed and colorful brute soldiers to kill the rear of the mountain bandits!

Zhao Yilong and Fan Lie were stunned, they didn't know why some barbarian soldiers suddenly entered Ji County, looking at their appearance, it was obvious that they were here to help Ji County kill bandits! Could it be that the Southern Barbarian Army failed?