Volume XII, Chapter 3
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli under the city also seemed to get the news, no longer attacked, began to lead the troops to retreat, 120,000 troops, began to slowly backwards, Xiang Cone heard the report, immediately ordered out of the city to pursue, and at this moment, Langya City's Du Biao and Yongju Pass's Sun Khotan has arrived, they seem to be a step late, they saw Xiang Cone, they ordered the troops to chase with all their might, Xiang Cone saw this, afraid that Du Biao and Sun Khotan would lose, but also led troops to chase Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin and others.
Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin and others dropped a lot of weapons, Xiang Cone saw this, knew that they had been scattered, and decided to take this opportunity to eliminate Zeng Zhaoli and others, so he urgently ordered to continue the pursuit, and suddenly Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin's army scattered into two deserters, and Du Biao, who was chasing in the front, seemed to be shot by a stray arrow, and his subordinates hurriedly rescued him, and hundreds of people protected him and sent him to Jiexiu City.
Du Biao was protected by hundreds of people and rushed to Jiexiu City, and here Zeng Zhaoli and others also fled farther and farther, while Xiang Cone and others chased farther and farther, Du Biao and others suddenly ran towards the city after entering the city, and the soldiers guarding the city were wondering, just now he had been injured and fell to the ground, why did he seem to be fine. But without Du Biao's sudden attack, hundreds of his men also quickly attacked, the city gate was immediately charged by them, mutated elbows, the troops in the city have been taken out to the cone, there were not many soldiers defending the city, and now by Du Biao's sudden attack, they were suddenly panicked, lost their will to fight, and fled or surrendered, and at this time, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo actually turned out with their troops from the side. Entered the castle and closed the gates. Quickly occupy the castle tower and clean up the city. Surrender the surrendered army.
What is going on, it turns out that Wang Zhuo and Yingxue set off early in the morning to Langya City and Yongju Pass, Wang Zhuo entered Langya Pass alone, recruited Du Biao, saw Wang Zhuo came in person, admired Wang Zhuo's courage and sincerity Du Biao, Wang Zhuo analyzed the current shape to Du Biao, this defeat of the cone is inevitable. And Wang Zhuo promised to be able to save Du Biao's family, and still let Du Biao be the commander, command his own troops, and told Du Biao all of Yingxue's plans, feeling Wang Zhuo's sincerity, Du Biao decided to surrender to Wang Zhuo, he has been forced to this step, Wang Zhuo is now imperative, and Xiang Cone is the end of the crossbow. It is impossible to compete with Wang Zhuo, and more importantly, Wang Zhuo has always given preferential treatment to the army, which Du Biao has heard of for a long time.
And the situation of Yingxue to Yongju Pass is the same, Sun Khotan heard that Yingxue is Wang Zhuo's envoy. admired Yingxue's courage, and when he heard that Wang Zhuo had personally gone to Langya Pass to surrender, he knew that Xiang Cone had gone. And Wang Zhuo still named himself the commander of the army, which also moved him. More importantly, Yingxue told the whole army's plan of action to ensure that he could rescue Sun Khotan's family. Sun Khotan knew that he had no choice, if he didn't surrender, he would only be defeated, and his family would be affected.
After Yingxue asked Zheng Ti's troops to change into the clothes of Sun Khotan's troops, as Sun Khotan went to support Jiexiu City, and he arranged the defenders of Yongju Pass with Zheng Ti, he quietly followed Sun Tian's troops to Jiexiu City with his troops, and when Du Biao controlled the city gate, he immediately led the army to respond, and without resistance, Jiexiu City was already in hand, and after controlling Jiexiu City, Yingxue immediately emitted a huge magical flame, which could be seen from several miles away.
Poor Xiang Cone is now chasing Zeng Zhaoli and the others with great interest, thinking that he has won a complete victory, however, he did not realize that his troops were simply running behind the troops of Zeng Zhaoli and others, and so far, they have not encountered a battle, but they have picked up a lot of weapons dropped by Zeng Zhaoli and others.
Suddenly, from the side to kill two ambush soldiers, towards Xiang Cone and others rushed over, Xiang Cone's troops are running with Zeng Zhaoli and others' troops, very sense of achievement, where would you expect to kill an ambush from the side, at this time, to the cone of the troops in Langya City and Yongju Pass reinforcements also suddenly attacked, Xiang Cone's troops were suddenly in chaos, fell a large piece, countless casualties, Xiang Cone now found that he had been calculated, the siege of this force deliberately showed weakness, dropped weapons, let him chase, in fact, he was teasing him, pity himself is still in the dark, complacent!
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli and others also turned around, towards the cone troops to kill, to the cone of the urgent order to return to the city, leave the troops, in the support of the henchmen to flee to the city of Jiexiu, Zeng Zhaoli and others will be Xiang Cone of the rest of the surrounding, by Sun Khotan stood up to surrender to them, these soldiers saw that the commander actually left them alone to flee for their lives, thinking that they would be in a big situation, they would definitely be killed, did not expect that someone would come to surrender, of course these soldiers immediately dropped their weapons and were willing to surrender. Tang Bin and the others decided to let Ma He's troops escort some troops back to Tianguan, and the rest of the troops immediately continued to surround Xiang Cone.
Before Xiang Cone went back to Jiexiu City, he urgently ordered the soldiers to open the door, he was already scared out of a cold sweat, and he was still secretly glad in his heart, fortunately, the enemy army did not take the opportunity to capture Jiexiu City, otherwise with these forces of Jiexiu City, it must have been captured by the enemy, and he was thinking about it, and a rain of arrows mixed with a large number of magic attacks on the head of the city was cold, and the troops of Xiang Cone had already run with Zeng Zhaoli and others all morning, and they were exhausted, and now they were defenseless, and they suddenly screamed continuously, and they were put down by the sudden attack for a while. Xiang Cone ordered the troops to retreat outward, and only then did he realize that he had even occupied the lair, and this time it was a complete failure, and he turned around and looked at the soldiers around him, there were less than 20,000 people, such a force was no longer enough to fight against anyone, only to be slaughtered, and a feeling of despair came over his heart.
At this time, Wang Zhuo's figure appeared on the head of the city, and he said to Xiang Cong: "Xiang Cong, surrender quickly, otherwise you will not have another chance." ”
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli and others had already arrived and surrounded Xiang Cone and the others, and Sun Khotan stood up from the crowd again, and said to Xiang Cone's troops: "Everyone put down their weapons and surrender!" Seeing that there was no movement, Sun Khotan immediately ordered: "The people of the Third Brigade and the Fourth Brigade will come over to me immediately." ”
When the soldiers of the original Khotanese troops heard this, they put down their weapons one after another and ran towards Zeng Zhaoli's troops. When the rest of the soldiers saw this, they also put down their weapons and ran over. Xiang Cone wanted to stop it at first, but where could he stop it. After a while, there were only one or two thousand people left around him, and it seemed that these were all his henchmen.
Yingxue at the head of the city discussed with Wang Zhuoyi and decided not to hesitate anymore, these people are Xiang Zun's henchmen, even if they surrender, they are not willing, but there will be chaos, so Wang Zhuo's hand waved. An order was issued to the troops.
Xiang Cone was thinking about whether to surrender or not, he couldn't pull it off, he was also a dragoon general, how could he surrender, but Wang Zhuo no longer gave him time to think about it, and in a sudden situation, Xiang Cone took the majesty of his dragoon general, and drowned in the rain of arrows and magic attacks of more than 100,000 troops with his henchmen.
As soon as Qiē was a foregone conclusion, Ying Xue and Wang Zhuo ordered Du Biao and Sun Tian to take his troops with them. Go back to Tianguan with them, and then, order Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin to guard Jiexiu City, and Zhang Luozhen to guard Yongju Pass. Li Li, on the other hand, guarded Langya Pass and asked them to immediately stabilize their respective stations and settle down the local affairs. First implement military management, and act on the orders of Yingxue and Wang Zhuo and others. The rest of the people immediately rushed back to their respective stations in case anything changed.
After arranging a qiē. Yingxue and Wang Zhuo took Du Biao and Sun Khotan back to Tianguan, Yingxue gathered all the troops and counted them, these soldiers were less than 50,000, but Yingxue and Wang Zhuo did not break their promises, and still appointed the two of them as army commanders, that is, the commanders of the Eighth and Ninth Army, the insufficient troops were supplemented by the new army recruited in the future, Du Biao and Sun Khotan, I didn't expect Wang Zhuo to be so trustworthy, Du Biao and Sun Khotan were grateful to Dade, where can such a tolerant general be found, and the two swore to be loyal to Wang Zhuo.
Next is some trivial things, under the strong promotion of Yingxue, Wang Zhuo had to take the position of marshal, according to Yingxue's arrangement, Wang Zhuo promoted Tang Bin to the general staff to fully assist him, and the nine army commanders under him were all promoted to generals, and the nine armies were set up as a corps, known as the Northern Corps, in this way, these nine armies are not only a whole, but also independent of each other, both under the orders of Wang Zhuo to act in unison, and can act alone. Since Wang Zhuo's experiment in selecting civilian officials in the northern capital had been successful, the selection of civilian officials in the entire three northern provinces was carried out in an all-round way, and Wang Zhuo had already ordered that all armies should be changed to a garrison system, and that the troops should be stationed independently, not to interfere in the affairs of local officials, and to assist local officials in quelling the rebellion.
After the local officials were elected, Wang Zhuo ordered that all the personnel in each city be verified, registered, and resettled, and at the same time all the land in the three northern provinces was divided into the three northern provinces, and all the land was under military management, and then it was evenly distributed, with one mu of land per person, no taxes were collected for the first three years, and all land could not be bought and sold freely, but could be subleased, and the land was not allocated to officials and military personnel, and the three northern provinces would pay Fenglu and military salaries. Due to the small number of people on the land, the surplus land is managed by local officials and can be subleased to the common people for farming. Wang Zhuo's policy of course caused a lot of dissatisfaction among wealthy people, they were all in line with the yang and yin, deliberately obstructing the local officials to do things, Wang Zhuo was furious when he found out, and immediately beheaded those who did not obey, seeing Wang Zhuo's attitude was so tough, the rest of the people did not dare to speak up, however, to their delight, Wang Zhuo did not check their family background, and these people had to obey. Wang Zhuo's policy of course has been warmly welcomed by the majority of the people, and at the same time posted a notice of peace for the people, all thieves, as long as they put down their knives and guns, return to their respective villages to settle down in their duties, they are not considered thieves, after the notice was posted, some thieves in the mobilization of their families, all returned home, local officials in accordance with Wang Zhuo's orders, it was divided into land, and some other thieves saw that this was really the case, they were forced to be helpless to be thieves, now there is land and land, where are they willing to be thieves, so they put down their knives and guns and returned home, of course, there are some people who do not know the times, Wang Zhuo did not show mercy to his subordinates, and quickly sent troops to destroy them, so as not to endanger hài place, The officials and people of the entire three northern provinces were also relieved to see Wang Zhuo acting so vigorously and resolutely.
After the preliminary completion of this qiē, three months had passed, and the season had changed from winter to spring, and Wang Zhuo and Yingxue still ordered Zhou Ming and other army commanders to step up the training of the army and prepare to go out at any time.
And now the entire border country is also shocked, Wang Zhuo was able to unify the three northern provinces in such a short period of time, and wiped out the three strong enemies of Lai Rong, Xiang Cone and Zhu Xiaochun, and now his army is already the most powerful force in the entire border country, and now there is no one who can compete with him. The current king of the frontier state also sent a secret envoy to ask for peace talks with Wang Zhuo, in an attempt to keep half of his southern country. Other generals also wanted to make peace with Wang Zhuo, at least they could be close to Wang Zhuo. They now hope that Wang Zhuo does not have the intention of unifying the border countries, so that Wang Zhuo's ambitions are limited to the three northern provinces, otherwise they may not be able to escape the bad luck.
And Wang Zhuo is still the same old look, he didn't agree to anyone's request, nor did he refuse, everyone saw Wang Zhuo's attitude, and they couldn't figure out what he was thinking, who dared to stand out at this time. Everyone is watching, Wang Zhuo is really calm, accompanying everyone to watch, the current border country, except for Wang Zhuo's three northern provinces, can be said to be everyone in danger, stormy, turbulent.
Almost all the large and small forces in the border countries are waiting, watching, and making their own wishful thinking. The smaller forces are watching how the big ones will act, and they will fall to the superior side, while the big forces are thinking about how to destroy their opponents in order to achieve the ultimate victory. At present, the two largest forces in the border country are only the Kyoto area south of the original border country and the three northern provinces unified by Wang Zhuo, Kyoto now has 300,000 troops, and Wang Zhuo's army also has more than 300,000. Both sides are facing each other, although the current king of the border country wants to negotiate peace with Wang Zhuo. But Wang Zhuo was still quiet, and the court couldn't figure out the details of Wang Zhuo. Because when Wang Zhuo was in the three northern provinces, he was the same as now, quiet and silent for a long time, and when everyone thought that he was waiting for the price to sell, he suddenly acted, and in a very short period of time, he eliminated the three strongest enemies in the three northern provinces, and quickly unified the three northern provinces. Now the imperial court is also worried that Wang Zhuo will not show his attitude, what kind of conspiracy is being planned, and it will be like the unification of the three northern provinces, and it will be preemptive, but the imperial court does not dare to take the initiative to provoke a war, after all, it is not wise to provoke a person like Wang Zhuo, and the imperial court is also happy to be in a corner, and all of them are mainly defensive, and it is enough to keep their existing territory. However, the court was really exhausted, and the king only cared about his own pleasure at such a time of life and death, and did not worry about the current precarious situation at all, but listened to the rumors and was quite suspicious of the border generals, which made the border generals panic. And the forbidden army in Kyoto also has its own faction, although they support the current king, but the king also has no way to take these forbidden army generals, in the helpless situation, in order to prevent the forbidden army from rebellion, the imperial court can only accommodate the forbidden army and stabilize them.
Not only are the people in the border country watching, but the Tianfeng country is also watching now, they have their own plans, after Yingxue destroyed the magicians of their big country, although they have now recovered their vitality, but the Tianfeng country has lost many opportunities because of this, therefore, the king of the Tianfeng country has already given birth to the heart of the border country, he is just a little hesitant now, even if the entire border country is destroyed, it is not difficult, however, the border country is indeed a burden, the Tianfeng country is considering whether to destroy the country or accept it as a vassal country, so they are also waiting and waiting, the Tianfeng country does not recognize the current king, but it is not clear that it is not express, they are just waiting for the final result, to see who can finally unify the border country, and then, send troops to conquer, destroy the border country, or turn the border country into their own vassal state,
People from all walks of life are waiting, Wait and see, and there is one person who is busy non-stop, that is Ying Xue, in these three months, he is busy enough, not only to help Wang Zhuo stabilize the three northern provinces, but also in accordance with the method of intercepting the sky, trained a large number of spies, into the power of the imperial court, with the guidance and full support of the interception of the sky, if Ying Xue has a guiding light, of course it will get twice the result with half the effort, in these three months, Ying Xue has obtained a lot of information, a qiē intelligence is showing that the southward expansion has been prepared, and the unification of the border country is just around the corner.
Not to mention the matters of the border country, the Heavenly Demon Gate's master is very happy now, after nearly three months of pranayama, he has completely recovered his heyday of power, that is to say, his current Yuan Shen has completely fused with his stand-in, through the help of the Netherworld Holy Stone, the soul of the stand-in has been completely removed, after these three months of pranayama, Cultivation, the evil spirit felt that it was time to realize his plan, but with the appearance of the Hades now, he decided to use the power of the Hades to help him do something, and he didn't dare to offend the Hades now, because of his ' Dark Spirit Xuangong 'only practiced to the seventh level, the last three, and the most critical threefold, he also wants to use the power of the Hades to help him succeed in his cultivation, otherwise, if the Hades King is released from the seal, it is not a joke, and his strength is not enough to deal with the Hades, because his Hades's comprehension and use of the Dark Demon is not something that he can balance with the evil spirit, and there is a more important thing, that is, the one-year covenant between the Interception Heaven and him, and now the Alien Evil has been completed, and he wants to abide by the one-year covenant with the Interception of the Heavens at all, however, the cultivation of the Interception Heaven, the alien evil is very clear, although he doesn't want to let Ying Xue and the Interception Heaven live again, but it is not easy to destroy the Interception Heaven, so this is the most important reason why the alien evil is eager to refine the 'Dark Spirit Xuangong'.
Just as the evil was about to walk out of the room, suddenly, the 'ghost mirror' of the underworld appeared in the room, and the face of the evil king of the underworld appeared in the sight of the evil spirit.
"Strange evil, what's the matter, did you forget what I had entrusted you with as soon as you achieved your goal?" Last time, I forcibly used my energy for you to eliminate the soul extraction, and I was almost discovered by the Heavenly Realm about our Hades intentions, now that your purpose has been achieved, it is time for you to fulfill your promise!"
"Where is the Hades King, what I said will definitely count, don't worry, you give me a few more days, I will take care of the affairs of the Heavenly Demon Gate, and I will understand your wishes for many years. I think that during my days of retreat, those unsuccessful subordinates must have caused a lot of trouble, and the evil king, rest assured, as soon as the matter is done, I will come to help you remove the lock of the Demon Crystal. I and the evil king complement each other, and both are indispensable, and if I deceive the evil king, won't it harm me. The strange evil said with a smiling face, after all, it was he who had to ask for others now, and he had to lower his posture. (To be continued......)