When Shangguan Xiu woke up from meditation and opened his eyes, a light flashed in his eyes, and at that moment, his eyes lit up terrifyingly, and after a while, the light gradually dissipated from his eyes. He closed his eyes again and felt the changes in his body.

In his body, it was as if he was pregnant with endless power, as if he could fly into the air with a little force.

He tilted his head to the side and listened, not only could he hear the wheezing of everyone in the lobby, but even outside the hall, he could hear the wheezing of the soldiers standing in the courtyard.

This is the Spirit God Realm, a realm that most spiritual cultivators can't cultivate in their entire lives! Shangguan Xiu stood up, he felt that he didn't use much force, but his body flew into the air, and his head almost hit the beam.

He hurriedly sank the aura in his body, and the figure that had jumped into the air slowly floated back to the ground.

It was such a strange feeling that he felt that now with the slightest gust of wind blowing, he could drift away with the wind. He stayed in the inner chamber for a long time, and only after he slowly got used to the changes in his body did he come out of the inner chamber.

Wu Nian and Chang Feng were still waiting outside, and Luo Ren and Li Qiu, who had gone out to supervise and behead before, had returned.

Seeing that Shangguan Xiu finally came out, everyone subconsciously looked into the inner room, and they saw Pan Yingxiang's body lying on the ground at the same time. Chang Feng swallowed his saliva and asked cautiously, "My lord, ...... Pan Yingxiang?"

"She's dead. ”

"Huh?!" Chang Feng blinked dumbly, a little unable to react. Shangguan Xiu shook his head and said, "Carry her body out and bury it along with the executed rebels!"

"Yes! Brother Xiu!" Chang Feng waved outside the lobby, and two soldiers ran in and carried Pan Yingxiang's body out of the inner room.

Shangguan Xiu moved his muscles and bones a few times, and the joints of his body erupted into a series of crisp sounds. He asked, "Have all the rebels in the city been encircled and suppressed?"

Luo Ren replied, "Now, the city, the north of the city, and the east of the city have been searched, and the brothers are searching the west and south of the city. ”

"Hmm. Shangguan Xiu nodded.

Luo Ren continued: "Brother Xiu, there are two thousand brothers in the Dexing Army who want to join our Jinchuan Army!"

Shangguan Xiu smiled and said, "This is a good thing, take it all as it is!"

Luo Ren smiled: "Now Jincheng and Dexing City are in our hands, and the north of Zhangshui County is already our territory, Brother Xiu, should we take advantage of the victory to pursue and take down the remaining five cities in Zhangshui County." ”

According to the division of the administrative area of the Wind Country, there are about ten prefectures in a county, and there are seven to ten castles of various sizes in a county.

Shangguan Xiu waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, let's see how the other cities react first." ”

After the Jinchuan army led by Shangguanxiu entered Zhangshui County, it didn't take half a month, first to take Dexing City, and then to destroy the Feihuage rebels in one fell swoop, take Jincheng, and take two cities in a row.

The Jinchuan army repaired in Jincheng for two days, and then left a battalion of troops to garrison, and the rest of the soldiers followed Shangguanxiu to Dexing City to pacify the people of Dexing. Shangguan Xiu did not punish the Dexing army for defecting to the rebels, and also included them in the Jinchuan army, which made the people of Dexing grateful to him, in addition, Shangguan Xiu was holding high the banner of the imperial court, and the people of Zhenxi were also very supportive of the imperial court in their hearts, these two reasons made the Jinchuan army enter Dexing City, and was welcomed by the people in the city.

In Dexing, the Jinchuan Army further absorbed the Dexing Army, and recruited troops on a large scale, and the soldiers absorbed from Dexing, plus the Dexing Army that had defected before, totaled nearly 5,000 people.

Others are fighting more and less, while Shangguanxiu's forces are fighting more and more. When marching into Zhangshui County, the Jinchuan army had 6,000 people, and after taking Jincheng and Dexing, the strength of the Jinchuan army suddenly expanded to more than 10,000 people.

There was no need for the Jinchuan army to send a single soldier, and the towns near Dexing came to vote. The first to vote was Hakurojo Castle. In order to show their sincerity, the city lord and the city lieutenant of Bailu City came to Dexing in person to meet with Shangguan Xiu.

Shangguan Xiu treated the city lord and city captain of Bailu City with courtesy, and promised him that as long as Bailu City was willing to join him, there would be no change in the official positions of the two of them. The two of them were full of joy, and proposed that Shangguan Xiu should serve as the county guard and county lieutenant of Zhangshui County, and as for the former county guard and county lieutenant of Zhangshui County, the two of them occupied the county seat of Zhangzhou, supported the army and respected themselves, and did not care about other cities, which was no different from the rebels.

Bailucheng made a good start, and then, Zhangshui County's Luyang, Qingcheng, and Yingcheng also came to vote one after another, and with Bailucheng, Luyang, Qingcheng, and Yingcheng all took refuge under Shangguanxiu's command, Zhangshui County only left the county seat Zhangzhou did not belong to Shangguanxiu's sphere of influence.

Zhangzhou is the county seat and the largest city in Zhangshui County, with a population of more than 200,000, which is second to none in the entire Zhenxi. There are a large number of county troops in Zhangshui County hoarded in Zhangzhou City, with a total strength of about 10,000 troops, and among these 10,000 troops, it is rare that there are three battalions of cavalry.

At that time, horses were very valuable, especially war horses, especially expensive, to raise a cavalry, it was very expensive, but the power of cavalry on the battlefield was also obvious, equivalent to modern mechanized troops.

The county lieutenant of Zhangshui County is named Qin Mo, although all the cities in Zhangshui County have now taken refuge in Shangguanxiu, but Qin Mo has no intention of taking refuge in Shangguanxiu. He has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands, and occupies a city as big as Zhangzhou, he has done a good job as the king of the city, and there is no reason to surrender his identity and switch to Shangguanxiu.

To the left of his opinion is the county guard Liu Xu. Liu Xu thought that with the land of Zhangzhou alone, he would not be able to resist the forces of Shangguanxiu no matter what. Now that Shangguanxiu has occupied most of Jinchuan County, Beiqiu County and Zhangshui County, how can he win against three counties with the strength of one city.

In private, Liu Xu persuaded Qin Mo that he would take Zhangzhou to take refuge in Shangguanxiu, and what Shangguanxiu did in Zhangshui County would definitely not depose himself and Qin Mo's official positions, and the two of them could continue to be county lieutenants, so why not?

Qin Mo didn't think much of Liu Xu's opinion, who dared to guarantee that after they took refuge in Shangguan Xiu, the latter would definitely continue to let the two of them be the county guards and county lieutenants of Zhangshui County? Besides, now that they are the soil emperors of Zhangzhou, they don't care about the sky or the earth, so why do they have to put a top boss on their heads?

If it was in peacetime, Liu Xu, the county guard, would still have a little weight in Qin Mo's words, but now the world is in chaos, whoever is in charge of the soldiers will have the final say, Qin Mo is the county lieutenant and is in charge of all the military power, he insists on not listening to Liu Xu's advice, and the latter is helpless.

When Shangguan Xiu led the army into Zhangshui County, he didn't have much ambition, he just wanted to destroy the Feihua Pavilion rebels and avenge his seriously injured brothers, but as the cities of Zhangshui County came to vote one after another, it was like a torrent, pushing him to continue to move forward.

Now, Shangguanxiu's attention has fallen to Zhangzhou, and at present, only Zhangzhou is still in charge of the entire Zhangshui County. Shangguan Xiuyou sent a messenger to Zhangzhou and invited Qin Mo and Liu Xu to join forces with him to conspire for a great cause. However, the messenger only saw Qin Mo, and he didn't have a chance to see Liu Xu.

After hearing the messenger's intention, Qin Mo immediately ordered someone to drag the messenger out and behead the public, and also hung the messenger's head on the city gate tower in Zhangzhou to show his determination. When Liu Xu heard about this disappearance, it was too late to stop Qin Mo.

Liu Xu was anxious and angry, he couldn't help but stomp his feet again and again, the two armies were fighting, and he didn't kill the envoy, and now Qin Mo killed Shangguan Xiu's messenger, this is tantamount to directly declaring war on Shangguan Xiu, how can this matter be good in the end?

Sure enough, when they heard that their messenger to Zhangzhou had been killed, and their heads were still hanging on the city gate tower in Zhangzhou, the generals under Shangguan Xiu's command were all furious.

Now there are quite a few generals under Shangguan Xiu. Some of them were the generals of the Jinchuan Army headed by Luo Ren, Ding Leng, and Jia Caixuan, some of them were the generals of the White Shirt Army led by Li Qiu and Chang Feng, and some of them were the generals of the Dexing Army.

The number of generals in the Dexing Army is the largest, in addition to the original generals, Shangguan Xiu also absorbed the students of the Lingwu Academy in Dexing City into the army, regardless of the status, as long as they are strong in Lingwu, they can be generals in the army.

Looking around, most of the generals under Shangguan Xiu's command are Dexing army generals.

In the county governor's mansion in Dexing City, a burly young general stepped out of the ranks, intervened in Shangguanxiu's salute, and said: "My lord, Qin Mo's husband dares to kill our messenger, is it tolerable or unbearable, my lord immediately sent troops to Zhangzhou and fought to the death with Qin Mo!"

This young general is from one of the Dexing Lingwu Academy, named Ziao, who has not served in the army before, has been idle at home, when the Jinchuan Army recruited troops in Dexing, Ziao brought several like-minded friends to take refuge, and they were all promoted to partial generals.

Shangguan Xiu rubbed his chin and didn't answer immediately. Luo Ren said: "Brother Xiu, there are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Zhangzhou City, and even if our army has joined the Bailu Army, the Luyang Army, the Qingcheng Army, and the Yingcheng Army, the total strength is only close to 20,000, and the city army that joined later is negligent in training, and the combat power is not strong.

Zhao Chen said: "Brother Xiu, Zhangzhou City is not monolithic, first of all, the morale of the Zhangzhou army is not high, and they are not willing to fight with our army, secondly, the county guard Liu Xu advocates taking refuge in our army, but the county lieutenant Qin Mo opposes, I think Liu Xu can be used by our side." ”

"Oh?" Shangguan Xiu's heart moved, and he asked, "Liu Xu is willing to sacrifice Zhangzhou?"

Zhao Chen nodded and said: "Liu Xu has this intention, but he is only a county guard, not in charge of the army, Qin Mo does not agree, and he can't help it." ”

"In this way, there is only one person in Zhangzhou's problem, and that is Qin Mo. Shangguan Xiu rubbed his chin and muttered.

Pen Fun Pavilion