Volume XI, Chapter 43
The next day, Zeng Zhaoli and others with the troops, slowly rushed to Jiexiu City, they were not in a hurry to attack the city this time, but by Tang Bin and Xiang Cone talked about the surrender, Tang Bin stood under the city, and Xiang Cone was standing on the city tower, the two of them talked about Xila for most of the hour, of course Xiang Cone would not sell Tang Bin's account, Tang Bin was furious, that is, Zeng Zhaoli and others immediately attacked the city, Xiang Cone where did they expect them to turn their faces so quickly, and were caught off guard by Zeng Zhaoli and others, especially Tang Bin and Zeng Zhaoli's water and fire double dragon such a high-level magic, so that the soldiers defending the city were frightened, and Xiang Cone hurriedly sent a signal for helpThis time, Langya City and Yongju Guan two cities did not send the same signal again, Xiang Cone heard the report, under the great joy, urgently ordered the troops to prepare for battle, in order to meet the reinforcements of Langya City and Yongju Guan two cities, to meet the outside of the city, Zeng Zhaoli and others were eliminated under the city, in order to wash the nest of many days, these days he was played by Zeng Zhaoli and others, and now it is finally his turn to take revenge on the cone, Xiang Cone stood on the head of the city and looked at Zeng Zhaoli and others who were dancing and constantly showing off to others, and thought hatefully.
Xiang Cone received the news of Du Biao of Langya City and Sun Khotan of Yongju Pass, they each came to the rescue with 15,000 people, Xiang Cone was overjoyed, ordered the whole army, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they went out of the city to meet the enemy, and then attacked from three sides, and wiped out Wang Zhuo's troops under the city of Jiexiu, with the shame of snow for many days.
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli under the city also seemed to get the news, no longer attacked, and began to lead troops to retreat, and the troops of 120,000 people began to slowly retreat, and after Xiang Cone heard the report, he immediately ordered to go out of the city to pursue, and at this moment. Du Biao of Langya City and Sun Khotan of Yongju Pass had already arrived, and they seemed to be a step too late. When they saw Xiang Cone, they ordered their troops to pursue them with all their might. Seeing this, Xiang Cone was afraid that Du Biao and Sun Khotan would lose, so he also led troops to chase Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin and others.
Zeng Zhaoli, Tang Bin and others dropped a lot of weapons, Xiang Cone saw this, knew that they were scattered, and decided to take this opportunity to eliminate Zeng Zhaoli and others, so they urgently ordered to continue the pursuit, and suddenly Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin's army dispersed into two deserters. And Du Biao, who was chasing at 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 the others also fled farther and farther, while Xiang Cone and the others chased farther and farther, Du Biao and the others suddenly ran towards the city after entering the city. The soldiers defending the city were wondering why he seemed to be okay when he had fallen to the ground with injuries just now. But he didn't prevent Du Biao from suddenly making a move. The hundreds of men under his command also attacked quickly, and the city gate was immediately blocked by them. The mutant elbow was born, and the troops in the city had been taken out of the cone. There were not many soldiers defending the city, and now they were suddenly attacked by Du Biao, and they were suddenly panicked, lost their will to fight, and fled or surrendered one after another, and at this time, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo actually turned out with their troops from the side, entered Jiexiu City, and then closed the city gate, quickly occupied the city tower, cleaned up Jiexiu City, and received 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 Xiang Cone defeat 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 tell Du Biao all the plans of Yingxue to Du Biao, 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, he admired Yingxue's courage, and he heard that Wang Zhuo had personally gone to Langya Pass to surrender, he knew that Xiang Cone was gone, and Wang Zhuo still named himself the commander, which also moved him, and 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 did not surrender, there would be only one way to lose, and it would also affect his family。
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 escort some troops back to Tianguan by Ma Or's troops. The rest of the troops immediately continued to encircle the cone.
Before Xiang Cone returned to Jiexiu City, he urgently ordered the soldiers to open the door. He was already scared into 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 just thinking about it, a rain of arrows mixed with a large number of magic attacks on the head of the city was cold, and the troops to the cone had already run with Zeng Zhaoli and others all morning, they were already exhausted, and now they were defenseless, and they suddenly screamed continuously. was 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 city. He said to Xiang Chong, "Xiang Chong, surrender quickly, or you will not have another chance." ”
At this time, Zeng Zhaoli and others had already arrived. Surrounding Xiang Cone and the others, Sun Khotan stood up from the crowd again and said to Xiang Cone's troops: "Everyone put down their weapons. Surrender!" Seeing that there was no movement, Sun Khotan immediately ordered: "The people of the third and fourth brigades will come to me immediately." ”
After the soldiers of the original Khotanese troops heard it. They all put down their weapons and ran towards Zeng Zhaoli's troops, and the rest of the soldiers saw it. They all put down their weapons and ran over, and Xiang Cone wanted to stop it, but where could he stop it, and after a while, there were only one or two thousand people left around, and it seemed that these were his henchmen.
Yingxue at the head of the city discussed with Wang Zhuoyi and decided not to hesitate any longer, these people are Xiang Zun's henchmen, even if they surrender, they are not willing, but there will be chaos, so Wang Zhuo waved his hand and gave a killing order 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.
One qiē was a foregone conclusion, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo ordered Du Biao and Sun Khotan to take his troops and return to Tianguan with them, and then, ordered Zeng Zhaoli and Tang Bin to guard Jiexiu City, Zhang Luozhen to guard Yongju Pass, and Li Li to guard Langya Pass, asking them to immediately stabilize their respective stations, and implement military management first, and wait for the orders of Yingxue and Wang Zhuo and others, while the rest of the people immediately rushed back to their respective stations in case there was a change.
After arranging a qiē, Yingxue and Wang Zhuo returned to Tianguan with Du Biao and Sun Khotan, Yingxue gathered all the surrendered troops, and counted them, these surrendered troops were less than 50,000, but Yingxue and Wang Zhuo did not break their promises, and still appointed the two of them as military commanders, that is, the eighth, The commander of the Ninth Army, the insufficient troops, made up for it from 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 that they must 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 has of course aroused the dissatisfaction of many wealthy people, who are deliberately obstructing local officials from doing things. Wang Zhuo was furious when he found out about it, and immediately beheaded those who refused to accept it. Seeing that Wang Zhuo's attitude was so tough, the rest of the people didn't dare to speak up. However, to their delight, Wang Zhuo did not check their family background, and these people had no choice but to obey. Of course, Wang Zhuo's policy was warmly welcomed by the majority of the people, and at the same time, a notice was posted that all thieves and thieves would not be considered thieves as long as they put down their swords and guns and return to their respective villages to settle down in their duties. Some of the thieves returned home under the mobilization of their families, and the local officials divided the land according to Wang Zhuo's order, and some of the other thieves saw that this was really the case, they were forced to be helpless to be thieves, and now they have 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 still some people who don't know the times, and Wang Zhuo didn't show mercy to his subordinates, and quickly sent an army to destroy them, so as not to endanger the hài place. The officials and people of the entire three northern provinces were also relieved to see Wang Zhuo acting so vigorously and resolutely.
This qiē is preliminarily completed. It's been three months, and the season has changed from winter to spring. Wang Zhuo and Ying Xue 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 Xiang Cone and Zhu Xiaochun The three strong enemies were all wiped out, and now his strength is already the most powerful force in the entire border country, and now there is no one who can compete with him, and the current king of the border country has also sent a secret envoy to ask for peace talks with Wang Zhuo, trying to keep half of his southern country, and other generals also want to make peace with Wang Zhuo, at least they can be close to Wang Zhuo, they now hope that Wang Zhuo does not have the heart to unify the border country, so that Wang Zhuo's ambition is only 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, for anyone's request, he did not agree, nor refused, everyone saw Wang Zhuo's attitude, and couldn't figure out what he was thinking, at this time, who dared to come out, everyone was waiting, Wang Zhuo was really calm, accompanied by everyone in the wait-and-see, 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, Watch, with their own wishful thinking, those small forces are waiting to see how the big forces act, they are good to the dominant side, and those big forces are thinking about how to eliminate their opponents, in order to achieve the final victory, now the two largest forces in the border country are only left in the original border country south of the Kyoto zone and Wang Zhuo's unified three northern provinces, Kyoto now has 300,000 troops, and Wang Zhuo's army also has more than 300,000, both sides are confronting, although the current king of the border country wants to find Wang Zhuo to negotiate peace, but Wang Zhuo is still quiet, the court can not figure out the details of Wang Zhuo, because Wang Zhuo in the three northern provinces, the same as now, quiet, silent for a long time, when everyone thought that he was waiting for the price to sell, but he suddenly acted, and in a very short period of time, he eliminated the three strongest enemies of 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. (To be continued......)